2nd Global Conference
The Darkness at the Edges:
Dystopia, Global Horror, Monsters, Fairy Tales & Lovecraft
Saturday 18th March 2023 – Sunday 19th March 2023
Prague, Czech Republic
Saturday 18th March 2023
08:30 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 09:15 Welcome and Opening Words: Lorraine Rumson
09:15 – 10:30 Session 1: Monstrous Assemblages: Diverging Embodiments of Resistance and
Power
Chair: Lorraine Rumson
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Carlos Mario Mejía Suárez
Indigestion
Adriana Gordillo
10:30 – 11:00 Tea/Coffee
11:00 – 12:30 Session 2: Instruments of Death and Dystopia
Chair: Milo Miller
From Post-Truth to No Truth: Don’t Look Up and the Perverse Pleasures of Dystopian Apocalyptic Satire
Evy Varsam
Cinema As An Instrument Of Knowledge Of Architecture
Inês Laborinho dos Santos Alves
Death Worlds: from the Gothic to the Dystopic in Indigenous Fictions
Jade Jenkinson
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Session 3: PARALLEL SESSIONS
Session 3.1 Imaginations and Interrogations
Chair: Woodrow Hood
Non-humans and the Dystopic Imagination
Veena Hariharan
When Monsters Migrate: The Use of Fairy Tale Motives in Post-Shoah Fictions of Memory
Susanne Baackmann
Transformational Aspects of Fairy Tales as Observed in a Book Collection
Stacy Shirk
Session 3.2: This Is Creepy
Chair: Jemma Morgan
Workshop (30 mins): Using Public APIs to Analyse Horror Movies Globally
Harry Brisson
Hazelnuts, Crossbows and Lost Slippers: Comparative analysis of the Czechoslovakian and Norwegian adaptation of Three Wishes for Cinderella
Barbora Kaplánková
15:30 – 16:00 Tea/Coffee
16:00 – 17:30 Session 4: PARALLEL SESSIONS
4.1 Unnatural Women and Gender Tales
Chair: Jennie E. Owen
Interrogating Sex and Gender in Welty’s “Fairy Tales.”
Glenda Sacks
Three Unnatural Women: A Creative Exploration of the Female Man-Made Monster
Lucy Elizabeth Allan
Monstrification: Celebrity Self-Othering as Alternative Narratives of Empowerment
Kristyn Goldberg
4.2 European Enchantment
Workshop: Hiding in Animal Skin
Katharine Fry, Elizabeth Dearnley, Georgia Panteli
17:30 – 17:45 End of Opening Day Discussion and Consolidation
17:45 Wine and Drinks Reception
Sunday 19th March 2023
09:00 – 10:30 Session 5: Cursed Poetry, Haunted Toilets and Cosmic Terror
Chair: Lucy Elizabeth Allan
Cursed Poetry: An Exploration of Ekphrastic Poetry Inspired by Cursed Art.
Jennie E. Owen
Red or Blue? Haunted Toilets in Japanese Folklore and Contemporary Urban Legend.
Laura Mauro
Real-life Events as Sources of Cosmic Terror in the Literature of H. P. Lovecraft
Nathalia Sorgon Scotuzzi
10:30 – 11:00 Tea/Coffee
11:00 – 12:30 Session 6: PARALLEL SESSIONS
Session 6.1 Global Horror
Chair: Harry Brisson
The Incest Taboo and Sexual Trauma in Contemporary South Korean Cinema: Disentangling Shock and Meaning
Woodrow Hood
Representing Communal Consciousness: Fairy Tales and Myth as Political Commentary in Mythopoesis Practices
Monica Guerrasio
A “masculine” Retelling of Fairy Tales: The Case of Andrzej Sapkowski
Monika Wozniak
Session 6.2 The Real and the Dystopian
Chair: Jade Jenkinson
Revolutionary Love in Classic Dystopian Fiction
Maria Varsam
Dystopias in Popular Culture as Legal and Political Heuristic Devices
Quentin Pironnet
Cape as Red as Blood, Slipper as Pure as Gold: The Symbiotic Relationship Between Fairy Tales and Clothes
Stacy Shirk
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Session 8: PARALLEL SESSIONS
8.1 Lovecraft
Chair: Veena Hariharan
- P. Lovecraft’s Fragments of the Whole
Jan Capek
“These are the Silt Verses”: Reimagining a Queer Cosmic Horror
Milo Miller
“Fluid Memories of Horror: The Influence of Lovecraft’s Nautical Horror on Alan Parker’s film Angel Heart (1987) “
Antonio Alcala Gonzalez
Session 8.2 Origin Stories
Chair: Adriana Gordillo
Workshop: Beyond Fairy Tales: Reimagining Witches’ Origin Stories
Monica Guerrasio
15:30 – 16:00 Tea/Coffee
16:00 – 17:00 Session 9: Writing Monstrosity:
A Creative Workshop for Students of the Monstrous
Lucy Elizabeth Allan
17:00 – 17:30 Discussion and Day 2 Consolidation
17:30 – 18:00 Project Development
Closing Thoughts and Goodbyes