Thursday, 27 June 2019 at 9:00 am – Friday, 28 June 2019 at 6:00 pm
Absent Presences: Shifting the Core and Peripheries of the Gothic Mode
Two day conference organised by MA and PhD students studying the Gothic at Manchester Met
Date: Thursday 27th – Friday 28th June 2019
Time: 9am – 6pm both days
Location: Geoffrey Manton Building | Rosamond Street West | M15 6EB Manchester | United Kingdom
Tickets: Free - Available on Eventbrite
Absent Presences is a two day conference taking place on the 27th and 28th of June, inspired by current research being produced by Gothic researchers both with Manchester Metropolitan University and beyond.
The conference focuses on the neglected aspects of Gothic studies, from representation of marginalised groups both in text and in authorship, to underexplored media types such as new media and online video.
The conference aims to expand the ‘Gothic canon’ beyond the traditional texts and perspectives, and aims to establish a new, wider definition of what can be considered Gothic.
Absent Presences Draft Schedule
Geoffrey Manton Building, Manchester Metropolitan University
27th June
9:00 – 9:30 – Registration and Refreshments
9:30 – 9:45 – Opening Remarks - GM 327
9:45 – 11:00 – Keynote 1: Professor Maisha Wester - GM 327
11:00 – 11:15 – Break
11:15 – 12:45 – Concurrent panels 1
12:45 – 13:45 – Lunch (provided) – GM 303
13:45 – 15:15 – Concurrent panels 2
15:15 – 15:30 – Break
15:30 – 16:45 – Keynote 2: Professor Fred Botting – GM 327
16:45 – 17:00 – Day One Closing Remarks – GM 327
28th June
9:00 – 10:30 – Registration and refreshments
10:30 – 12:00 – Panel 3
12:00 – 12:15 – Break
12:15 – 13:15 – Workshop 1: Haunt and Impact – Room TBD
13:15 – 14:15 – Lunch (provided) – GM 303
14:15 – 15:15 – Workshop 2: Turning your conference paper into an article – Room TBD
15:15 – 15:30 – Break
15:30 – 17:00 – Gothic Roundtable with Professors Maisha Wester and Fred Botting, with MMU Gothic staff and Closing Remarks – GM 327
Panels
27th June | 11:15 – 12:45 | GM 301
Panel 1a: Reconfiguring the Canon
Chair: [TBD]
1. Castles, Orphans and Mysterious Warnings: A Spotlight on the Marginalised Career of Eliza Parsons – Katarzyna Kalosza (University of Chester)
2. Roman Gothic: Anatomy of an Oxymoron – Michal Lynn Shumate (Independent)
3. 5 – 2 = 3, ‘king’ – ‘man’ = ?: Letting Computational Word-Embeddings Define the Early Gothic Novel – Maartje Weenink (Manchester Metropolitan University)
27th June | 11:15 – 12:45 | GM 302
Panel 1b: Gothic on Location
Chair: Catherine Elkin
1. “It Cannot Be Called Our Mother, But Our Grave”: Genre, Welsh Gothic and the Female Experience – Ffion Davies (Bath Spa University)
2. Exhibiting the Macabre: The Convergence of Tourism and Victorian Gothic – Lauren Davies (Independent)
3. Monstrous Mountains, Vacant Villages: The Gothic Writing of North Wales – Caitlin Jauncey (Manchester Metropolitan University)
27th June | 13:45 – 15:15 | GM 301
Panel 2a: Gothic Institutions
Chair: Maartje Weenink
1. The Prince of Darkness: Peter Mandelson – Penny Andrews (University of Sheffield)
2. Shifting Spirits: Theology, the Contemporary Gothic and the Political Theology of Genre – Jon Greenaway (Manchester Metropolitan University)
3. London Kills Me: Embodying the Institutionalised Gothic in a KS5 Harrow Classroom – Tabitha Macintosh (Independent)
27th June | 13:45 – 15:15 | GM 302
Panel 2b: Pop Culture Gothic (Part One)
Chair: Hayley Louise Charlesworth
1. “I Don’t Say Blah Blah Blah”: My Family and Other Draculas – Matthew Crofts (University of Hull)
2. “The More It has, The More It’s Him”: Digital Doubles in Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror – Sandie Mills (University of Hull)
3. “I Hate That We’re a Procedural Cop Show”: The Gothic Mode, Police Procedurals and Supernatural – Mary Going (University of Sheffield)
28th June | 10:30 – 12:00 | GM 301
Panel 3: Pop Culture Gothic (Part Two – MMU Showcase)
Chair: [TBD]
1. “Fluff Ain’t Rules”: Absence, Presence and Haunting in Game Design – Jon Garrad (Manchester Metropolitan University)
2. Dark is Power: Merchandising “Pop Goth” Culture Through the Witch Figure in American Film and Television – Dounia Ouided (Manchester Metropolitan University)
3. “Our Beloved’s Potential Comes True”: Erotic Triangles and Killer Influence in NBC’s Hannibal – Hayley Louise Charlesworth (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Manchester Metropolitan University is committed to disability equality. If you have any access requirements, please let us know via 0161 247 6740 or email us at lucy.simpson@mmu.ac.uk before you arrive to help us to make sure that your visit to the event is as enjoyable as possible.