Monsters
An Inclusive Interdisciplinary Project
Sunday 1st December 2019 – Monday 2nd December 2019
Prague, Czech Republic
FINAL CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Sunday 1st December 2019
08:30 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 09:30 Welcome, Opening Words, Expectations: Seán Moran, Event Leader
09:30 – 10:30 Session 1: Round Table: What do we mean by ‘Monsters’, ‘the Monstrous’ and ‘Monstrosity’?
Chair: Seán Moran
10:30 – 11:00 Tea/Coffee
11:00 – 12:30 Session 2: Child(hood) Monsters
Chair: Sarah D. Harris
The Monster Within: Self-Mutilation and Externalized Violence in Beast
Raelynn Gosse
With Love from Self to Self: Monstrous Doubling and an Ethics of Care in Adolescent Literature
Kathleen Kellett
Little Monsters: Anxiety, Austerity and the Monstrous Child in Contemporary Fiction
Lucy Arnold
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Session 3: Monstrous Females/Female Monsters
Chair: Woodrow Hood
The Physicality of Difference: Exploring the Monster and (Dis)ability in Anita Blake, the Vampire Hunter
Jennifer Dumoulin
“To All the Monster Girls,” When Power and Femininity Cannot Coexist: A Deconstruction of Gender in Mainstream and Independent Comic Books
Monica Guerrasio
Plugging Up Power: Menstruating Monsters in Horror Cinema
Frances Maranger
15:30 – 16:00 Tea/Coffee
16:00 – 17:00 Session 4: Cinematic Monsters 1
Chair: Frances Maranger
An Exploration of the Representation of Serial Killers in Cinema
Liselotte de Beer
Monsters Within the Cell: Cinematic Representations of Prison Within Film Horror
Katherine M. Ortiz
17:00 – 17:30 End of Opening Day Cross Panel Discussion and Consolidation
17:30 Wine and Drinks Reception
Monday 2nd December 2019
09:00 – 10:30 Session 5: Monstrous Bodies
Chair: Kathleen Kellett
Monstrosity Begets Monster: The Implications of Frankenstein’s Victor on Modern Bioethics
Christine Stevens
The Three-Legged Bird
Pê Feijó
“Bodies Strange, and Huge in Growth, and of Stupendious Makes”: Monstrous Races and Algonquians in the Reports of Capt. John Smith
Nicholas Kahn
10:30 – 11:00 Tea/Coffee
11:00 – 12:30 Session 6: There Be Zombies
Chair: Nicholas Kahn
Breaking Borders and Bodies: The Mutability of the Zombie Genre
Kayleigh Murphy
The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of the Monstrous Zombie Girl
Maria Quigley
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Session 7: Monsters and More Monsters
Chair: Pê Feijló
The Problem with Curing Monsters in Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz’s Bestselling Novel Dr. Müttter’s Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine
Rachel Piwarski
Looking Through the Glass: Monsterizing Technology and the Social Media Cyborg
Pamela Schmidt
15:30 – 16:00 Tea/Coffee
16:00 – 17:00 Session 8: Cinematic Monsters 2
Chair: Jennifer Dumoulin
Extra-Diegesis, Domesticity, and the Uncanny in the Transnational Films of Guillermo del Toro
Woodrow Hood
Your Monster, My Friend: State Propaganda and Monster Movies in Postwar Spain
Sarah D. Harris
17:00 – 17:30 Cross Panel Discussion and Day 2 Consolidation
17:30 – 18:00 Project Development, Closing Thoughts, Photographs and Goodbyes