related symposium on zombies

Some of you who plan to attend the Performing Monstrosity symposium may also be interested to attend/send in abstracts for the following symposium on zombies:

http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/pages/view.asp?page=38990

Changes to the Catalan Panel

Due to unforeseen circumstances, there has been a change in our Catalan panel in the afternoon. 

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Laia Manonelles from the University of Barcelona to our panel, which will focus on the so-calledVampiress of the Raval, the notorious case of Enriqueta Martí, a woman who led a double life; prostitution and pimping out children by day and appearing in finery in the upper echelons of turn-of-the-century Barcelona society by night. Together with Merce Saumell, she will discuss the case of this grotesque 'social monster', and on the one hand bring a sociological analysis of her behaviour, whilst on the other Merce Saumell will discuss her reappearance in theatre in Barcelona on the centenary of her death.

This panel promises to be a fascinating insight into one of Spain's most grotesque characters; a true urban monster, and we are very grateful to Dr. Manonelles for agreeing to step in and complete this very promising panel.

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Performing Monstrosity in the City

1st September 2012

ArtsOne Building

Queen Mary, University of London

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We look forward to welcoming you to our event and thank you for your participation,

Anna Wilson and Charlie Allwood

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Performing Monstrosity in the City

Queen Mary, University of London

1st September 2012

9am – 10am                Registration

10am – 10:10am         Introduction

10:10 – 11:00              Keynote: Deborah Dixon and Carl Lavery (U. Aberystwyth)

                                    Sites of Contagion: Hashima Island

                                    Chair: Kim Solga

11:00 – 12:30              Panels:

                                   

Birthing Monsters	The Transnational Lens: Monsters on Film	Urban Zombies
Chair: Jonathan Marshall (U. Otago)	Chair: Debra Shaw (U. East London)	Chair: Paul Coulton
Emily Garside (Cardiff Metropolitan U.) ‘This is your universe Frankenstein’: the re-appropriation of the monstrous in Danny Boyle’s Frankenstein.	Maria d’Argenio (KCL) The Inner Monstrous in Latin American Cinema: the Inhumanity of War in Días de Santiago (Josué Méndez, 2004) and La sombra del caminante (Ciro Guerra, 2005)	Belén Martín-Lucas (U. Vigo) Utopian biocommunism among the ruins: Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring as anticapitalist dystopia
Katie Beswick (U. Leeds) The Brutalist Monstrosity of the Council Estate: Habitus, performance and the potential of place	Chris Perkins (U. Edinburgh) Kon Satoshi and the Dialectics of Monsters in post-bubble Japan	Andrea Ruthven (U. Barcelona) Globalized Zombies in the City
Charlotte Bell (QM, UoL) The Inner City and the Hoodie	Adam Scales (UEA) Identity in Crisis: Sexuality and the Slasher Film	Alba de Béjar (U.Vigo) Posthuman Apocalypse: Grotesque Bodies and Monstrous Cities in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl

12:30 - 12:45               Coffee Break

12:45 – 1:30                Keynote: Claire Hind (U. York St. John) and Gary Winters (Lone Twin)

                                    KONG LEAR

                                    Chair: Siddharta Bose

1:30 – 2:15                  Lunch (provided)

2:15 – 3:30                  Keynotes: Josep-Anton Fernàndez (Open U. of Catalonia) and Mercè Saumell (Institut del Teatre, Barcelona)

                                    La Vampira del Raval and Barcelona’s Grand Guinyol

                                    Chair: Helena Buffery (UCC)

3:30 – 5:00                  Panels:

                                   

Playing with Monsters	The Ephemeral Urban: From the real to the virtual	The Monstrous Politics of Fear
Chair: Chris Perkins (U. Edinburgh)	Chair: Charlotte Bell (QM, UoL)	Chair: Belén Martín-Lucas (U. Vigo)
Maggie Irving (U. Plymouth) Sedusa Medusa Clowning Revisions Clowning for Women	Richard Freeman (Centre for Fortean Zoology) The thing on the doorstep: In search of Urban Monsters	Jonathan Marshall (U. Otago) “Who will unchain the monsters?": Radical catharsis and neuropsychology at the Théâtre du Grand Guignol
Hannah Nicklin (U. Loughborough) Playing with the monstrous; restructuring the ‘other’ through loveliness, adventure, and curiosity.	Paul Coulton and Andrew Wilson (U.?) The Peoples Republic of Monsters	JD Taylor  “Sacrifice, monstrosity and negativity in the neoliberal era: thirteen theses on the damaged body”.
Phil Smith (U. Plymouth) Walking in Monstrous Cities	Garfield Benjamin (U. Wolverhampton) Virtual Monsters: Becoming Death and the Quantum Immortal	Debra Shaw (U. East London) Pirate Utopias and the New Politics of Space

5:00 – 5:20                  Coffee Break

5:20 – 6:30                  Round table

6:30                             Wine reception