OPEN GRAVES, OPEN MINDS & SUPERNATURAL CITIES PRESENT: THE URBAN WEIRD

Conference 6-7 April Schedule 2018 University of Hertfordshire

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Open Graves, GA17515_DS_03/18 Open Minds Conference Schedule

06 April 2018

Registration Coffee and Chair: Carina Hart 09:00 - 09:45 Atrium 4 China Mieville pastries Seminar Room M015 Dr Sam George, Dr Karl Bell, Dr Kaja The space out of joint: haunted urban 09:45 - 10:00 Welcome Lecture Hall 9 András Fodor (University of Szeged, Hungary) Franck spaces in China Miéville’s Un Lun Dun 10:00 - 11:00 Boggart Workshop Dr Ceri Houlbrook Lecture Hall N003 ‘Up’s no longer out of bounds, and down’s 11:00 - 12:20 Parallel Session 1 30 nothing to fear’: Verticality and Locomotion Sarah Neef (TU Dortmund University, Germany) in China Miéville’s Urban Fantasy

Chair: Ceri Houlbrook 1 Urban and Fairy Tales Chair: Kaja Franck Seminar Room M015 5 The Virtual Weird Seminar Room M021 Fairy Tales of the Neoliberal Gothic City: Dr Carina Hart (University of Nottingham Malaysia 14 Michael Cunningham’s The Snow Queen Campus) “Welcome Home, Good Hunter”: 17 The Gothic and Environmental Storytelling Dr Madelon Hoedt (University of South Wales) Mind the doors! Folk horror on the 35 David Powell (University of Birmingham) in From Software’s Underground Ghosts of the Shadow City: adventures in Finding Cabs Round Here: Taxi Rides 20 Debbie Kent (Goldsmiths, University of London) 36 Dr William Redwood (Supernatural Cities) the CGI dreamscapes of urban development through the Urban Weird “Everything is True” A Weird Tale: Urban 21 Gothic meets Urban in Multiplayer Prof. Tanya Krzywinska (Falmouth University) Chair: Karl Bell Online Game, The Secret World 2 Weird Victoriana Seminar Room M021

The Urban Turn: Gothic Cityscapes before Nineteenth-Century and the Chair: Andrew Maunder 5 Dr Joseph Crawford (University of Exeter) 6 The Mysteries of London Weird Seminar Room M031 Beyond the Text: The influence of George Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s ‘Spalatro’ (1843) Marine Galiné (University of Reims Champagne 11 23 MacDonald’s Robert Falconer upon the Rebecca Langworthy (University of Aberdeen) and the remapping of the Gothic mode Ardenne, France) urban spaces of Huntly The Esoteric Flâneur: Steps Towards a Dr Hannu Poutiainen (University of Tampere, 34 Big Bug in the Big City: Richard Marsh’s Theory of Initiatic Walking (and Reading) Finland) 24 Janette Leaf (Birkbeck, University of London) Beetle in Late Victorian London

14:40 - 15:00 Tea/Coffee Break with Urban Weird Iced Biscuits Atrium Chair: Sam George 3 Ghosts and Spectrality Seminar Room M031 Plenary: Dark City, Daemonic 15:00 - 16:00 Architectures: Towards a Cartography of Dr Karl Bell Lecture Hall N003 The City That Was Not There: Space in Dr Anastasia A. Lipinskaya (St Petersburg 26 the Urban Weird British Ghost Stories University, Russia) 16:00 - 16:20 Tea/Coffee Break Atrium The Urban Ghost: Spectres in Dr Charlotte-Rose Millar (University of Queens- 29 Early Modern London land, Australia) 16:20 - 17:40 Parallel Session 3 ‘That’s a hell of a lot of ghosts’: 33 Dr Ivan Phillips (University of Hertfordshire) the haunting of Doctor Who

12:20 - 13:20 Lunch Atrium

13:20 - 14:40 Parallel Session 2 07 April 2018

Chair: Sam George 7 Paranormal Romance 09:30 - 10:00 Tea/Coffee mini pastries Atrium Seminar Room M015 10:00 - 11:20 Parallel Session 4 Betwixt and Between: (Sub)Urban Space 8 Meghanne Flynn (University of Cambridge) in Young Adult Supernatural Romance The Troll in the City: Urban Fey, Chair: Bill Hughes 10 Dr Kaja Franck (University of Hertfordshire) 10 The East and the Weird Environmentalism and Holly Black’s Valiant Seminar Room M015 Behind Gilded Walls: The Islamic Gothic in Tales of two cities: heteroglossia, heter- 22 Meriem Lamara (University of Northampton) ogeneity, and decay in Aliette de Bodard S. A. Chakraborty’s The City of Brass 18 Dr Bill Hughes (OGOM) and Kate Griffin’s urban fantasies of Paris Tania de Rozario 37 Death Wears a Dress and London (Lasalle College Singapore of the Arts) The City-as-Hell: Horror, Dystopia and Chair: Charlotte Rose Millar 41 Orientalism in Anglo-American Literary Dr Tom Sykes (University of Portsmouth) 8 Killers of London Seminar Room M021 Constructions of Urban Manila 1852-2011 ‘Here he is again, in flesh’: the haunted city 2 Dr Barbara Braid (University of Szczecin, Poland) in the Whitechapel series Chair: Karl Bell 11 Weird London A Scottish Inspector in London: The Seminar Room M021 13 Dr Siân Harris (University of Bristol) uncanny city in Ian Rankin’s Tooth and Nail Jonathan Stroud’s The Golem’s Eye: Lookout in the Blackout: Spatiality and the 1 Magical class conflict in an alternative Alison Baker (University of East London) 40 Olivia Steen (University of Hertfordshire) serial killers of WWII London London ‘Funeral Theater’: The Whimsy and Weird 7 Helena Esser (Birkbeck, University of London) Foundations of Steampunk London Chair: Justin Sausman 9 The Politics of Horror Tracing the Supernatural City in E. F. Seminar Room M031 16 Dr Ruth Heholt (Falmouth University) Benson’s London Tales Rotten Borough: the biological reterritori- 6 alization of urban space in horror texts as Ralph Dorey (Northumbria University) counter hegemonic resistance Chair: Anna Tripp 12 The Urban Weird in Fantasy Tainted Cities: Adam Nevill’s Austerity Seminar Room M031 28 Dr Simon Marsden (University of Liverpool) Gothic Gothic silence and urban Welshness in 12 Dr Jessica George (Cardiff University) ‘Fucking yuppies are ruining my whole Mary Ann Constantine’s Star-Shot neighborhood’: the psychodynamic Misty Bruges: city that 44 Jillian Wingfield (University of Hertfordshire) 25 Pascal Lemaire (Independent Scholar) environment in Charlie Huston’s Already became a fantastic character Dead (2005) The spectral city, posthumanism and the 43 blurring of human boundaries in Gustav Adam Teall (University of Hertfordshire) 18:00 - 20:00 Bar meal and drinks Club de Havilland Meyrink’s The Golem Film Screening Haxan: Witchcraft 20:00 - 22:00 Dr Mikel Koven Lecture Hall N003 Through the Ages Plenary: City Demons: urban 11:20 - 12:20 manifestations of the Pied Piper and Dr Sam George Lecture Hall N003 Nosferatu Myths 12:20 - 13:40 Parallel Session 5 Chair: Jillian Wingfield OPEN GRAVES, OPEN MINDS & SUPERNATURAL CITIES PRESENT: 13 Weird Archaeology Seminar Room M015 ‘The Pharaoh-cious feminine’: 4 Archaeologists and princesses in the city Daisy Butcher (University of Hertfordshire) THE URBAN WEIRD in Universal’s The Mummy (2017) Cyclopean ruins and albino penguins – The weird urban archaeology of H.P. 27 Dr Ken Lymer (Wessex Archaeology ) Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of The Open Graves, Open Minds Project unearthed depictions of the Madness and the undead in literature, art, and other media, before Wolvesey, Winchester, and Wolves: embracing shapeshifting creatures (most recently, the werewolf) and Multi-Species Cosmopolitics, the John G. Sabol (Interpretive Performance 38 other supernatural beings and their worlds. OGOM opens up questions Unearthing of Urban Folklore, and Excavation Research Center) Archaeological Perspectivism concerning genre, gender, hybridity, cultural change, and other realms. The Project now extends to all narratives of the fantastic, the folkloric, Chair: Owen Davies 14 The Weird Resistance the fabulous, and the magical. Seminar Room M021 It’s an Animal City: Johannesburg as 15 Kate Harvey (University of Stirling) Gothic Space in Lauren Beukes’s Zoo City www.opengravesopenminds.com ‘Infernal Machine[s]’: Understanding 32 Diabolical Depictions of Incendiarism in Eilís Phillips (University of Portsmouth) Nineteenth-Century Britain Supernatural Cities is an interdisciplinary network of humanities and ‘Whispers of witchcraft and haunting’: 39 Haweswater, reservoir noir and the ghosts Dr Justin Sausman (University of Hertfordshire) social science scholars of urban environments and the supernatural. of Mardale We aim to encourage the conversation between historians, cultural geographers, folklorists, social psychologists, anthropologists, 13:40 - 14:40 Lunch Atrium sociologists, and literary scholars as they explore the representation Plenary: Supernatural beliefs in 14:40 - 15:40 Prof. Owen Davies Lecture Hall N003 of urban heterotopias, otherness, haunting, estranging, the uncanny, nineteenth-century asylums enchantment, affective geographies, communal memory and the urban 15:40 - 16:25 Travel to St Albans fantastical. We will share calls for papers, work on collaborative funding Dr Sam George, 16:25 - 18:25 Spectral St Albans Urban Weird Tour Dr Kaja Franck bids and promote relevant research. Spooky Drinks in St Albans & Closing 18:25 - 19:25 Remarks www.supernaturalcities.co.uk 19:25 - 20:55 Conference Dinner, St Albans www.opengravesopenminds.com www.supernaturalcities.co.uk