Horrifying Children Conference, York St John University, April 2022
Convened by Dr Lauren Stephenson and Professor Robert Edgar
With keynotes from Dr Catherine Lester, Dr Diane Rodgers, Professor Abi Curtis and Richard Littler.
The Horrifying Children Conference programme:
10:00 – 10:15 Welcome
10:15 – 11:00 Keynote: Diane Rodgers
11:00 – 11:15 Break
11:15 – 12:15 Panel: Sam Pheby-McGarvey, Jon Towlson, Michael Schofield
12:15 – 1:00 Virtual Panel: Henry Jenkins & Merinda Staubli
1:00 – 1:45 Lunch
1:45 – 2:30 Keynote: Dr Cat Lester
2:30 – 3:30 Panel: Hollie Adams, Krista Calvo, Keith McDonald
3:30 – 3:45 Break
3:45 – 4:30 Richard Littler
4:30 – 5:30 Horrifying Stories: Reaper Press, with an introductory reading by Professor Abi Curtis
5:30 – 6:30 Screening: The Boy Who Turned Yellow
6:30 – 7:30 Break (including drinks reception at 7:15)
7:30 – 10:30 Scarred for Life hosted by Bob Fischer
The full programme can be downloaded from:
http://blog.yorksj.ac.uk/hauntology/files/2024/05/HC-Programme-2022-1.pdf
Conference Presentations:
Don’t Keep the Wicker Man Waiting Symposium, Dukes Theatre, Lancaster, 27th October 2023
Robert Edgar and Adam James Smith presented a paper outlining a new research project: Keeping the Wicker Man Waiting: 300 Years of Folk Horror
Don’t Keep The Wicker Man Waiting Symposium
Haunted Landscapes: Nature, Super-Nature, and Global Environments Conference: Falmouth University, 4-6 July 2023
Robert Edgar presented a paper entitled Unsuitable for Miners: Trauma in Contemporary British Mining Narratives.
Haunted Landscapes – Dark Economies
Hardy and Gothic Wessex, Thomas Hardy Society, Dorchester, 28th-30th October 2022
Alan G. Smith, Robert Edgar and John Marland presented on their book, Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition, at the Thomas Hardy Society: Gothic Wessex conference.
Hardy and Gothic Wessex – The Hardy Society