{"id":1910,"date":"2025-05-01T13:03:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T12:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/horrorstudies\/?p=1910"},"modified":"2025-05-29T13:06:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T12:06:18","slug":"horror-studies-now-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/horrorstudies\/?p=1910","title":{"rendered":"Horror Studies Now 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Taking place at City Campus East CCE-1: Number 5 on this map https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/5n99d2sn<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thursday 29 May<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

09.00 \u2013 10.00 | COFFEE \/ REGISTRATION<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10.00 \u2013 11.15 | WELCOME AND KEYNOTE 1<\/strong> [CCE1-401] (Chair: Johnny Walker)<\/td><\/tr>
C\u00fcneyt \u00c7ak\u0131rlar (Nottingham Trent University)<\/strong>,  \u201cCurating Folk Horror: In and Out of the Canon\u201d   <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
 11.30 \u2013 13.00 | SESSION A <\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Panel A1  [CCE1-409] (Chair: Russ Hunter)<\/td><\/tr>
Kellie Everton (University of Derby)<\/strong>,\u201cFrom Monstrous to Magnificent: Theatrical Makeup in 1920s Gothic Theatre with a Focus on Hamilton Deane in Derby\u201d\u00a0
Rebecca Wynne-Walsh (Edge Hill University)<\/strong>,\u201cStolen Bones and Bleeding Land: Reclaiming Basque-ness Through the Gothic\u201d\u00a0
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Panel A2 [CCE1-410] (Chair: Kate Egan)<\/td><\/tr>
Briony Kidd (Deakin University)<\/strong>,\u201cTime-Blindness as a Feminist Superpower: The Psychobiddy Horror Film Reconsidered\u201d\u00a0
Charlotte Elliot (Flinders University)<\/strong>,\u201cThe Unhinged Woman Trope and Merciless Murderess in Chelsea G. Summers\u2019 A Certain Hunger<\/em> (2020)\u201d\u00a0
Donna McRae (Deakin University)<\/strong>,\u201cSomething in the Water: The Rise of Adelaide Gothic in Australian Horror Films\u201d<\/td><\/tr>
Panel A3 [CCE1-418] (Chair: Damien Pollard)<\/td><\/tr>
Thomas Joseph Watson (Teesside University)<\/strong>,\u201cDeathbeds and Shadow Killers: Horror, Transgression and Contemporary Noise Music\u201d 
David Melbye (University of Huddersfield<\/strong>), \u201cHorror Jazz: Popular Music, Otherness, and Sympathetic Trauma in 1960s Cinema\u201d 
Larissa Barbosa Curi (Tallinn University)<\/strong>, \u201c<\/strong>Tell, Don\u2019t Show: Understanding Form, Function and Audience Affect of Verbal Account Scenes in Horror Films and Thrillers\u201d <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
 14.00 \u2013 15.30 | SESSION B <\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Panel B1 [CCE1-409] (Chair: Tom Watson)<\/td><\/tr>
Jennifer Cooke (Newcastle University)<\/strong>, \u201c\u2018Normality is Threatened by the Monster\u2019: Posthuman Entanglements with Monsters in Horror Gaming\u201d 
Kaytlin Blackmore (Northumbria University<\/strong>), \u201cTransgressing the Boundaries of Play: An Analysis of Virtual Reality Horror\u201d 
Meghan Hewitt (University College London)<\/strong>, \u201cDigital Doppelgangers: Unravelling the Uncanny in Indie Analog Gaming\u2019s No I\u2019m Not A Human<\/em> and That\u2019s Not My Neighbou<\/em>r\u201d <\/td><\/tr>
Panel B2 [CCE1-410] (Chair: Laura Mee)<\/td><\/tr>
GN Martin (Regent\u2019s University London)<\/strong>, \u201c(How) Can We Study Horror Better?\u201d 
Barnab\u00e1s B\u00e1cskai-Nagy (E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University)<\/strong>, \u201cA Computational Analysis of Stylistic Patterns of British and Italian Horror Films during the Postmodern Shift\u201d 
Pete Falconer (University of Bristol)<\/strong>, \u201cEvaluating Jump Scares\u201d <\/td><\/tr>
Panel B3 [CCE1-418] (Chair: Stacey Abbott)<\/td><\/tr>
Victoria Santamar\u00eda Ibor (University of Zaragoza)<\/strong>, \u201cThe Horror of Work: The Workplace as Site of Abjection in Post-2008 Horror Cinema\u201d 
Maz Jardon (University of Amsterdam)<\/strong>, \u201cCoal Exhaust, Extraction, and Spatialized Abjection in Post-Industrial Horror Media\u201d 
Ami Nisa (Swansea University)<\/strong>, \u201cRivers of Blood: Racial Capitalism and the Emergence of the British Asian Vampire\u201d <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
 16.00 \u2013 17.30 | SESSION C <\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Panel C1\u00a0[CCE1-409] (Chair: Bruna Foletto Lucas)<\/td><\/tr>
Laura Mee (University of Hertfordshire),<\/strong> \u201cDare to Go Back: Selling the Horror Legacy Sequel\u201d 
Reece Goodall (University of Warwick),<\/strong> \u201cSerial Scares: The State of Horror Franchise Studies\u201d 
Kieran Judge (Aberystwyth University),<\/strong> \u201cThe Neon-Slasher: Explorations In A Potential New Subgenre\u201d <\/td><\/tr>
Panel C2 [CCE1-410] (Chair: Austin Fisher)<\/td><\/tr>
Sam Mayne (University of Western Australia)<\/strong>, \u201cPeripheral Visions: Towards an Australian Weird\u201d 
Kev Bickerdike (Sheffield Hallam University)<\/strong>, \u201cPlace Attachment Theory and Horror Narratives\u201d 
Sophie Dungan (University of Warwick)<\/strong>, \u201cBulldozing the Environment: Jerry London\u2019s Killdozer!<\/em>\u201d <\/td><\/tr>
Panel C3 [CCE1-418] (Chair: Damien Pollard)<\/td><\/tr>
David Mart\u00ednez (University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison),<\/strong> \u201cModels of Perception: The Gypsy Curse in Horror\u201d 
Eli Dolliver (University of Cambridge),<\/strong> \u201cBeyond Folk Horror: Folklore Studies and Horror Cinema\u201d <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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6pm: CONFERENCE DINNER at The Magic Hat (fully booked) https:\/\/www.themagichatcafe.co.uk\/<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Friday 30 May<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

09.30 \u2013 10.30 | KEYNOTE 2<\/strong> [CCE1-401] (Chair: Stacey Abbott)<\/td><\/tr>
Maisha Wester (University of Sheffield)<\/strong>, \u201cCoded Black: Using Gaming to fight the RealHorror of Racial Necropolitics\u201d   <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
10.45 \u2013 12.15 | SESSION D <\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Panel D1 [CCE1-409] (Chair: Russ Hunter)<\/td><\/tr>
Giulio Olesen (Bournemouth University),<\/strong> \u201cBeyond Online: Transnational Practices and the International Distribution of Contemporary Italian Horror\u201d 
Xiaoxiang Ma (Queen\u2019s University),<\/strong> \u201cThe Impact of the 1988 Hong Kong Film Classification Ordinance on the Genre Hybridity and Market Transformation of Hong Kong Horror Cinema\u201d 
Marybec Griffin (Rutgers University),<\/strong> \u201cBloody Numbers: Quantitative Methods for Analyzing Distribution, Criticism and Content in Film\u201d <\/td><\/tr>
Panel D2 [CCE1-410] (Chair: Simon Brown)<\/td><\/tr>
Pete Turner (Oxford Brookes University),<\/strong> \u201cHorror Across Genres: How Children Remember Sexual Violence in Horror and Beyond\u201d 
Lynn Huggins-Cooper (Falmouth University),<\/strong> \u201cHarnessing Horror: Towards a Theory of the Phenomenology of Grief as Fear and the Use of Horror Narratives in Cinematic and Narrative Therapy in Bereavement Counselling\u201d 
Alessandra Pino (University of Westminster),<\/strong> \u201cFood, Fear and Film: How Horror Feeds Our Need to Confront Dark Pasts\u201d <\/td><\/tr>
Panel D3 [CCE1-418] (Chair: Stacey Abbott)<\/td><\/tr>
Darren Gray (Independent Scholar),<\/strong> \u201cBeyond Sight, Beyond Fear: Exploring Blindness and Visual Impairment in Modern Horror Cinema\u201d 
Katherine Lucia Prentice (University of Glasgow),<\/strong> \u201cCripping the Monstrous Feminine: Reading Disability in Recent Pregnancy Horror\u201d 
Catherine Pugh (Independent Scholar),<\/strong> \u201c\u2018Like a Care Bear with Fangs\u2019: The Benevolent Vampire as Disabled Other\u201d <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
13.15 \u2013 14.15 | KEYNOTE 3<\/strong> [CCE1-401] (Chair: Kate Egan)<\/td><\/tr>
Max Gee (Bournemouth University)<\/strong>, \u201cPossessed of Agency Not Possessed by the Agency of Others: Engaging in Creative Practice to Give Voice to Non-Human Perspectives Through Horror Scholarship\u201d   <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
14.45 \u2013 16.15 | SESSION E <\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Panel E1 [CCE1-409] (Chair: Simon Brown)<\/td><\/tr>
Bruna Foletto Lucas (University of Hertfordshire),<\/strong> \u201cFrom Coffin Joe to the Present: Subversion and Resistance in Brazilian Horror\u201d 
Julia P\u0142aczkiewicz (University of Warsaw),<\/strong> \u201cAffect, Anger, and Agency: New Perspectives in Contemporary Rape-Revenge Cinema\u201d 
Stephanie Farnsworth (University of Sunderland),<\/strong> \u201cAn Autoethnographic Approach to Running a Cult\u201d <\/td><\/tr>
Panel E2 [CCE1-410] (Chair: Kate Egan)<\/td><\/tr>
Abigail Hilton (Northumbria University),<\/strong> \u201cThe Ghosts of Queer Girlhood: South Korean Horror and Fractured Temporalities in Whispering Corridors<\/em> (1998) and Memento Mori <\/em>(1999)\u201d 
Chloe Gibson (Northumbria University),<\/strong> \u201cNosferatu Returns: Or how a love of Tim Burton highlights the cycle of influence in Horror Films\u201d 
Victoria Mummelthei (Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin),<\/strong> \u201cTides of Unknowing: Offshore-Eldritch Horror in Still Wakes the Deep<\/em>\u201d<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
16.30 \u2013 17.00 | CLOSING REMARKS & AWARDS PRESENTATION<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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