Folklore on Screen

A 2-day international conference, with a hauntological music event.

Friday 13th– Saturday 14th September 2019,

Sheffield Hallam University, South Yorkshire, England, UK.

FOLKLORE ON SCREEN – FINAL PROGRAMME

FRIDAY MORNING (registration – 10:30 – 11:00)

11:00-11:30 INTRODUCTIONS

11:30-12:30 – OPENING KEYNOTE – MIKEL KOVEN

Return of the Living Slave: Jordan Peele’s Get Out as Zombie Film

12:30 – 13:30 – LUNCH

FRIDAY AFTERNOON

13:30-15:00 – FEATURED PANEL (A) – Monster Mash

  • Matthew Cheeseman (University of Derby) – Dracula’s Fangs
  • Craig Ian Mann  (Sheffield Hallam University) – Pack Mentality: A Cultural Approach to the Werewolf Film in the 1970s
  • Rebecca Bannon (Queens University Belfast) – Ghosts of the Past: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and liminality

15:00-15:30 – REFRESHMENTS

15:30-17:00 – PANEL (1a) – Ghosts in the Machine

  • Stella Gaynor (University of Salford) – Momo and the Simulation of the Real: A Digital Urban Legend
  • Joe Ondrak  (Sheffield Hallam University) – How to Kill a Ghost: The Hauntological Internet, Creepypasta and Online Misinformation

15:30-17:00 – PANEL (1b): I Want to Believe

  • Jake Edwards (University of Warwick) Alien Qualities: Unidentified Flying Objects and the Photographic Image
  • David Clarke (Sheffield Hallam University) Tears for Fears: Haunted Artwork on Screen
  • Lynn Brunet (Australia) A Sheffield Dreaming: The Art of Peter Booth.

FRIDAY EVENING

19:30 – THE HUBS (Sheffield Hallam University Student’s Union)

CCL & Heretics’ Folk Club present a hauntological music event featuring presentations from Sharron Kraus and Cath Tyler

SATURDAY MORNING (Registration from 9:30)

10:00-11:30 – FEATURED PANEL B: The Haunted Generation

  • David Southwell (Hookland) – Receiving the Ghost Transmissions: Factual Broadcasting as Cathode Terror
  • Andy Paciorek (Wyrd Harvest Press) – Urban Wyrd
  • Bob Fischer (Fortean Times) – The Haunted Generation

11:30-13:00 – PANEL (2a) : The Devil Rides Out

  • Tom Clark (University of Sheffield) – The Devil Made Me Do it: The Development of Satanic Narratives in Contemporary Culture
  • Timothy Jones (University of Stirling) – Imaginary Revivals: Folk Horror and Twentieth Century Occulture
  • Kerry Dodd (Lancaster University) – You Are Not in Control: Glitch Horror and User Agency in the Information Age

11:30-13:00 – PANEL (2b) – The Village of the Damned

  • Diane Rodgers – (Sheffield Hallam University) – Beasts, Monoliths & Witchcraft – the Unsung Nigel Kneale
  • Andrew Robinson (Sheffield Hallam University) – The Lord of Misrule: misbehaving badly in a Cornish town
  • Gail-Nina Anderson (Newcastle) – The Wicker Man and the misuses of Folklore

13:00-14:00 – LUNCH

SATURDAY AFTERNOON

14:00-15:30 – PANEL (3a) – Island of lost souls

  • Evelyn Koch (University of Bayreuth, Germany) – Cyclic Time in Folk Horror
  • Amy Harris (De Montfort University, Leicester) – Following the Wicca Man: Addressing the Invisible Women behind Contemporary British Folk Horror Cinema
  • Ceri Houlbrook (University of Hertfordshire) – Our Love Will Last Forever: The Love-Lock Motif on Screen

14:00-15:30 – Panel (3b) –  At the Mountains of Madness: (Hollywood and Beyond)

  • Sandy Hobbs (University of the West of Scotland) – Val Lewton at RKO: Horror or Folklore?
  • James Williamson (Goldsmiths, University of London) – Challenging Sight and Sense: Tracking the UFO in Science Fiction Cinema
  • Ekaterina Netchitailova (Sheffield Hallam University) – Holy-foolishness in Russian Culture, from Holy Fool to the Modern God-driven Eccentric

15:30-16:00 – REFRESHMENTS

16:00-17:00 – CLOSING KEYNOTE – HELEN WHEATLEY (University of Warwick)

Haunted Landscapes: Trauma and Grief in the Contemporary Television Ghost story

Hauntological music event featuring Sharron Kraus and Phil Tyler, 13th September 2019.

Visit the Heretic’s Folk Club Eventbright page HERE for tickets and their Facebook page HERE for further details.

New poster!

Poster designed by Diane A. Rodgers.

You can download a pdf of the draft programme HERE