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Myths and Fairy Tales in Film and Literature post- 1900
| Location: | United Kingdom |
| Conference Date: | 2011-03-25 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2011-01-26 |
| Announcement ID: |
182477 |
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FRIDAY 25th MARCH 2011
9:30 – 10:00
Registration and tea/coffee (BSB foyer)
10:00 - 10:10
Welcome and introductions (Bowland Auditorium)
10:15 – 11:30
Session 1 Panels
Rabbit-holes, paths of pins and the fabular portals of maturation
Venue: Bowland
Francesca Matteoni (Hertfordshire)
Alice’s Wonderlands. From the
Underground to Burton’s Fuderwhacking
Evita Lykou (York)
Coraline: From paper to screen, re-citing
an old story through new frameworks
Susanna Horng (NYU)
Red Riding Hood: A Menstruation
Tale Comes of Age
From within?:
the vampiric and the monstrous
Venue: Seminar Room 1
Dany van Dam (Leiden)
The Vampire in Young Adult Novels From
Bloodsucker to Boyfriend Material
Mikel Koven (Worcester)
‘A Fairy? How lame is that?’: True
Blood as folk narrative
Vincenzo Maggitti (Stockholm)
Frankenstein: on several re-mediated
transformations of the "otherness"
Meadhall mythos:
fantasy tales of the dark ages
Venue: Seminar Room 2
Kanishk Tharoor (Columbia)
The redemption of Grendel: Evil, guilt and
the “other” in retellings of Beowulf
Christine Chettle (Leeds)
Narrative Threads in Tolkien’s Éowyn:
From Narrative Outlaw to Outlaw Narrative
Rebecca Stamps (Leiden)
The popularity of the incoherent
fantastic in the BBC TV series Merlin
11:30 – 11:55
coffee and tea (BSB foyer)
12:00 - 12:55
Plenary 1 (Bowland Auditorium)
Diane Purkiss (Keble College, Oxford)
Folklore/fakelore/fairylore: where do Shakespeare's fairies come from (and where do they go)?
12:55 - 13:55
Lunch (upstairs in ‘The Treehouse’)
14:00 - 15:15
Session 2 Panels
Fairy tales in French cinema
Venue: The Bowland
Erica Sheen (York)
La belle et la bête: étrange
aventure, or Cautionary tale?
Anne Duggan (Wayne State University)
The Pied Piper in France: A Post-1968
Countercultural Tale
Christine Shojaei Kawan (Göttingen)
Sinful Sweets: two variations on a
common theme
Telling tales:
of Falls and Redemptions
Venue: Seminar Room 1
Amy Li Xiaofan (Cambridge)
Churning up the cosmogonic myth: blind
chance in Henri Michaux's Fables des origines
Jaime Robles (Exeter)
In the Shadow of the Ineffable: The Mythology
of John Burnside’s “Annunciations”
Stefanie Van De Peer (Stirling)
The Labyrinth of Halfaouine (Tunisia):
Storytelling and the 1001 Nights
Cryptic mourning and schoolyard joshing:
global ghost stories
Venue: Seminar Room 2
Graeme Pedlingham (Sussex)
T h e C r y p t o f t h e O n r yõ : ‘ J - H o r r o r’ a n d t h e
F i g u r e o f t h e A v e n g i n g G h o s t
Sarah Dodd (Leeds)
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
Duncan Fisher (Telford College, Edinburgh)
The Terror that Comes in the New Term:
Telling and Retelling the Schoolyard Ghost
15:15 - 15:40
coffee and tea (BSB foyer)
15:40 - 16:55
Session 3 Panels
Nation, myth, cinema
Venue: Bowland
Rob Burns (Warwick)
The Robber Bridegroom and His Pale
Mother: A Grim(m) Feminist Tale
Stephen Connor (Leeds)
Gender, Narrative and Identification in
Fritz Lang’s Die Nibelungen
Enrique Ajuria Ibarra (Lancaster)
Myth, Horror and the Fairy Tale in
Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth
Angela Carter
Venue: Seminar Room 1
Lili Sarnyai (York)
Appetitive Bodies: Angela Carter,
Folklore, and Narrative Psychology
Natalia Font (Exeter)
Angela Carter: Editor of the Americas.
Martine Hennard Dutheil (Lausanne)
Carter’s pre-Bloody Chamber translations
of Perrault
(Re-)acculturated tales
Venue: Seminar Room 2
Rosalind Green (Essex)
The Travellers’ Cinderella: a new history of
family relationships.
Amritesh Singh (York)
Of Pride, Prejudice, and Prince Charming:
Portable fairy tales and Gurinder Chadha's
Bride and Prejudice (2004)
Soledad Montañez (St. Andrews)
Rewriting [His]story: Isabel Allende’s Post-colonial
Zorro in El Zorro: Comienza la leyenda (2005)
17:05 - 18:00
Session 4 Panels
Flirtatious fairies (and their
temporal slippages)
Chair: Judith Buchanan
Venue: Bowland
Russell Jackson (Birmingham)
Reinhardt, Hall and the sexy fairy
tradition in Shakespeare
Stuart Sillars (Bergen, Norway)
Shakespeare and fable: reorganising
time in silent films of A Midsummer
Night’s Dream and The Tempest
Re-imaginings: critical-creative
approaches to fairy tales by poets
and novelists
Venue: Seminar Room 1
Danielle Wood (Tasmania)
Finding Bluebeard in 'The Wardrobe'
Abigail Parry (Goldsmiths, London)
Litter on The Landscape: The Mythic Poet
as Magpie
Escaping singularity: The Ice Puzzle
and The One Marvelous Thing
Venue: Seminar Room 2
Veronica Schanoes (Queens College-CUNY)
In Which the Snow Queen Encounters Herself:
Doubling and Multiplying the Self/Story in
Catherynne M. Valente’s The Ice Puzzle
Michelle Ryan-Sautour (Angers)
Text/Image Interplay in Rikki Ducornet’s
The One Marvelous Thing (2008)
19:30
Conference Dinner (venue tbc)
SATURDAY 26th MARCH 2011
8:45 – 9.15
Tea/coffee (and registration for Saturday arrivals) (BSB foyer)
9:15 – 10:25
Session 5 Panels
Eloquent hauntings:
Manderley’s narrative ghosts
Venue: Bowland
Sobia Quazi (Essex)
The Good, the Bad and the Dead
Mother: The Cinderella Story as a
Search for the Mother
Mark Padilla (CNU, Virginia)
“Amor and Psyche in
Hitchcock’s Rebecca”
Anti-tales
Venue: Seminar Room 1
Catriona McAra (Glasgow)
Surrealism and the (Anti-) Fairy tale
John Patrick Pazdziora (St. Andrews)
‘A Story Short’:
Towards a Critical Theory of Anti-tale
Emily Dezurick-Badran (unaffiliated)
Red as Blood: Snow White and the
Persistent Theme of Female Competition
Revising Classical Wives and
Mothers
Venue: Seminar Room 2
Jasmine Richards (Goldsmiths, London)
‘These stories are completely untrue’:
The Socio-Historical Contingency of
Myth in The Penelopiad
Isobel Hurst (Goldsmiths, London)
‘Love and blackmail’:
Demeter and Persephone
Gregory Wolmart (Drexel)
Between Martyrdom and Misogyny in
Lars Von Trier’s Medea
10:30 – 11:25
Plenary 2 (Bowland Auditorium)
Professor Ian Christie (Birkbeck)
Twentieth-century Girls on Screen: Three Case Studies in Modernizing Fairy Tales
11:30 – 11.55
Tea and coffee
12:00 – 12:50
Session 6 Panels
Mythicizing the C19th real
Venue: Bowland
Stephanie Miller (York)
The Alluring Myth of Historical Reference:
Versions of the “Legend” of Lizzie Borden
Jolyon Mitchell (Edinburgh)
The Making of a Martyr on Screen and
Beyond
The reified woman
Venue: Seminar Room 1
Scott Freer (Leicester)
The Pygmalion Cine-Myth
Carina Hart (UEA)
Glass Beauty: Coffins and Corpses in
A. S. Byatt’s Possession
Animals and allegory
Venue: Seminar Room 2
Jayne Steele (Lancaster)
‘Doggy’s Got Teeth…Lots of Teeth’: Decon-
structing Narratives of the Cultural Legacy
of the Children and their Canine Companions.
Rebecca Miller Asherie (NYU)
Animated Eco-Fables: Retelling Animal
Tales
12:50 - 13:40
Lunch (upstairs in ‘The Treehouse’)
13:45 – 14:40
Plenary 3 (Bowland Auditorium)
Professor Marina Warner (University of Essex)
Eastern Dreaming: Stealing, Flying, and Disappearing in 1920s Bagdad
14:45 – 15:35
Session 7 Panels
Capital(ist) tales for a post-Soviet
world
Venue: Bowland
Nicholas Dreyer (St. Andrews)
Post-Soviet Russian satirical fairy-tales for
grown-ups
Adam Whybray (York)
The Deliberately Diminishing Return of
Dr. Faustus in the Czech Republic
America’s changing fairy tales, and
fairy tales’ changing America
Venue: Seminar Room 1
Tracey Mollet (Leeds)
“With a smile and a song...”: Snow White
and the birth of the Disney fairy tale
Nicola Presley (Exeter)
‘Many are the deceivers’: Anne Sexton’s
Transformations and suburban popular
culture.
Follow the yellow brick road?:
tales of departure and return
Venue: Seminar Room 2
Kurt Taroff (Queen’s, Belfast)
Subjectivity, Self-Discovery, and Journey
Structure in the Modernist Fairy Tale
Tara Ghai (Exeter)
'There's no place like home': The Wizard of Oz
as Mythic Progenitor of 1980s Fantasy Films
15:35 – 16:05
coffee and tea (BSB foyer)
16:10 - 17:00
Session 8 Panels
Fey, funny, feminist Elfland
Venue: Bowland
Helen Pilinovsky (California State)
Puckishness: The Incongruous Enchantment of Fey Wit
Tiffani Angus (Middlesex)
A Subtle Revolution: Lord Dunsany’s The King of Elfland’s
Daughter as Utopian, Feminist Fairy Tale
Welsh Tales and Tales in Welsh
Venue: Seminar Room 1
Nicole Thomas (Cardiff)
Branwen’s Shame: Law-Breaking and Genre-Bending in Evangeline
Walton’s The Children of Llyr
Menna Wynn (Bangor)
“Troi chwedl yn ddadl” : Fairy tales retold in playlet form in 1920s and
1930s Wales
17.00 - 17.30
Plenary panel (Bowland Auditorium): Marina Warner, Ian Christie, Diane Purkiss
Chair: Judith Buchanan
Questions/comments to all plenary speakers
(on the transmission, perpetuation, transmediation, uses made of and historical adjustments made to core tales)
17:30 – 18:00
Tea and coffee and end of conference
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