Please note that this is entirely provisional: events both global and local may involve people dropping out, and rearrangement of the schedule.
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OH1 |
OH2 |
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9.30 |
Registration upper ground floor foyer Owen Harris Building – Tea and coffee in OH1.10 |
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10.00 |
Welcome |
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10.10
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The Buffy Mythos and Beyond
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Film and Television Myths
Chair: |
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Lorna Jowett
(University College Northampton)
Happy Family/Horror Family: Parents and Family in Buffy the Vampire Slayer |
Lincoln Geraghty
(University of Nottingham)
Creating and Comparing Myth in Twentieth Century Science Fiction: Star Trek and Star Wars |
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Tanya Krzywinska
(Brunel University)
Playing Buffy: Interactivity, Remediation and Mythic Resonance in the videogame version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer |
Dene October
London Institute
The (becoming wo)Man Who Fell to Earth
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Caroline Ruddell
(Brunel University)
'Virility continually runs the risk of being seduced into vulnerability' (Shaviro, 1993)
Splitting, Masculinity, Gender and the Body in Fight Club (David Fincher, 1999) |
Sabine Thuerwaechter
(University of California, Riverside)
From July 4th to September 11th: Roland Emmerich's Independence Day – A Second-Order Semiological System? |
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11.45 |
Island Stories
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Monstrous Men?
Chair: Andrew M. Butler |
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Elizabeth Wells
(Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College)
George R Stewart's Earth Abides: A Return to Origins |
Anna Claydon
(Edge Hill College of HE)
The Projected Man: The B-movie and the Monstrous-masculine |
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Paul Kincaid
(Independent Scholar)
Islomania? Insularity? Exploring the Myth of the Island in British Science Fiction |
Colin Odell and Michelle Le Blanc
(Independent Scholars)
Long Live the New Flesh |
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Nick Hubble
(University of Sussex)
Virtual Histories and Counterfactual Myths: Christopher Priest's The Separation |
Chris West
(University of Brighton)
Yesterday's Myths Today and Tomorrow: Problems of Representation and Gay (In)Visibility |
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13.15 |
Lunch OH1.10 |
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14.00 |
Technology/Culture/Myth
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International Fantasies
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Greg Singh
(Birkbeck College)
CGI: A Future History of Assimilation in Audiovisual Media |
Michelle Reid
(Reading University)
Urban Myths and Urban Regeneration in Charles de Lint's Svaha and Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring |
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Gordon MacNeill
(University of Liverpool)
Science Fiction, the Media, and the Myth of Democracy |
Stefan Ekman
(Göteborg University, Sweden)
Carrying the Torch: Astrid Lindgren's Renewal of Myths |
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David Murray
(Independent Scholar)
Babylon 5 as the Dream Quest of Francis Fukuyama |
Maureen Kincaid Speller
(University of Kent at Canterbury)
Gwydion Redux: Rewriting the Mabinogion |
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15.30 |
Break – Tea and coffee (OH1.10) |
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15.50 |
Vampires
Chair: Greg Tuck |
Literary Myths
Chair: tbc |
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Mark Neocleous
(Brunel University)
The Horror of Capital: Marx's Vampires |
Tristram Hooley
(University of Leicester)
Visions of a New Jerusalem: Predictive fiction in the Second World War |
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Stacey Abbott
(University of Surrey, Roehampton)
Vampire Road Movie |
Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju
(University of Kent at Canterbury)
HP Lovecraft and the Demonic Numinous |
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16.50 |
Close – adjourn to Falcon pub |