8:30 am-3:00 pm: Conference Registration Desk open

9:00-10:30 am: 4 concurrent sessions (1.5 hours)

12--Slavery, Gothicism and Intertextuality (20th c.)

Chair, Dana Luciano

12 (A) Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi (University of British Columbia) "Of Severed Heads"

12 (B) Shelley Kulperger (University of Queensland) "Going Over the River: Gothic Narratives of Slavery in Niagara Falls"

12 (C) Joseph Bodziock (Clarion University) "The Cage of Obscene Birds"

13--Locked Rooms: The Gothic in Criminology (2)

Chair, Margaret Jackson

13 (A) Simon Verdun-Jones (Simon Fraser University) "Labelled 'Monstrous': the Criminology of Frankenstein"

13 (B) Charmaine Perkins & Becky Godderis (Simon Fraser University) "Tasteful Terror: The Seductive Nature of Hannibal Lecter"

14--Legal Gothics: Prolepsis, Vampires, & Legitimating Texts

Chair, Robert Menzies

14 (A) Anne McGillivray (University of Manitoba) "The Lawyer and the Vampire"

14 (B) Lauren Fitzgerald (Yeshiva University) "Crime, Punishment, Criticism: The Monk as Prolepsis"

14 (C) Daniel Martin (University of Victoria) "The Proof is in the Pie: Documenting Cannibalism in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street"

15--Gothic Narratives of Cultural Dominance & Devastation

Chair, Judith Seaboyer

15 (A) Kathy Punches (Defiance College) "Louise Erdich's Tracks as a Gothic Novel"

15 (B) Helene Meyers (Southwestern University) "Jewish Agency, Jewish Gothic: Life is Beautiful"

15 (C) Claudia Marquis (University of Auckland) "The Bride of Lammermoor; Scott's 'frightful tragedy'"

10:30-10:45 am: Refreshment Break

10:45-12:15 pm: 3 concurrent sessions (1.5 hours)

16--Gothic Forensics

Chair, John Whatley

16 (A) Jodey Castricano (Wilfrid Laurier) "Much Ado About Handwriting: Countersigning with the Other Hand in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"

16 (B) Lisa Butler (Wilfrid Laurier University) "Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: A Not-So-Strange "Case" of Addiction and Criminality in Victorian England"

16 (C) Joel Faflak (Wilfrid Laurier University) "'the clearest light of reason'/A Mind of its Own: Making Sense of James Hogg's Body of Evidence in The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner"

17--Goths in the Media: Popular Cults and UnPopular Culture (1)

Chair, Fred Botting

17 (A) Joe Austin (Bowling Green State University) "In the Gothic Gaze: Utopia and Dystopia in Goth Photography"

17 (B) Catherine Spooner, (Goldsmiths College) " Undead Fashion: Nineties Style and the Perennial Return of Goth"

17 (C) Bruce Wyse (University of Northern British Columbia) "Gothic, Cultic and Filmic Jouissance and the Thing in 'Fight Club'"

18--Nightmères: Female Gothic Revisited

Chair, Noel Currie

18 (A) Sue Zlosnik (Liverpool Hope University College) and Avril Horner (University of Salford) "Agriculture, Body Sculpture, Gothic Culture"

18 (B) Ben Fisher (University of Mississippi) " The Gothicism of Mrs. J.H. Riddell"

12:15-1:15 pm: Lunch Break (on own)

1:15-2:15 pm: 2nd Plenary Address

Ken Gelder "Haitian Voodoo as a Postcolonial Symptom"

This paper notes that Haiti has been taken as a special place by a range of western intellectual commentators, from Levi Strauss to Andre Breton: an extraordinary place to which anthropologists, surrealists and many others were drawn. Voodoo has been understood as essential to Haiti's extraordinary character, tied to racial colour but also to an ability to adapt and mutate: as a simultaneous expression of pure blackness and cross-cultural hybridity. I shall look briefly at Zora Neale Hurston and Katherine Dunham, both of whom (as "noir" anthropologists) participated in this simultaneity in their accounts of voodoo. I shall argue that, during the mid-20th century at least, this simultaneity translated into a set of representations of voodoo as both sensational and real, irrational and perfectly sensible, alienating and socialising, resolutely local and yet culturally and geographically promiscuous.

2:15-2:30 pm: Break

2:30-4:00 pm: 4 Concurrent Sessions (1.5 hours)

19--Globalism, History, & Alterity in Stoker, Potocki & Barker

Chair, Robert Miles

19 (A) Julia M. Wright (University of Waterloo) "Figuring the Global in Stoker's Lady of the Shroud"

19 (B) Laurence Davies (Dartmouth University) Potocki's Saragossa Manuscript, Or the Scandal of Variety"

19 (C) Judith Seaboyer (University of Queensland) "'In the Shadow of Monstrosities': the Gothic in Pat Barker's Another World"

20--The Want of Terror: Popular Cults and UnPopular Cultures (2)

Chair, Joe Austin

20 (A) Fred Botting (Keele University) "'fcuk' Gothic"

20 (B) Ranita Chatterjee (California State University, Northridge) "Buff Girls and Teen Angels: Romantic Desire in Latter-Day Gothic"

20 (C) Karen Budra, (Langara College) "Anywhere USA: Canadian Gothic and the Cult of Emptiness"

21--Liminal Gothic: Dracula, Witchery & the Sacred

Chair, Dale Townshend

21 (A) Marilyn Orr (Laurentian University) "Violence and the Sacred: The Case of P.D. James"

21 (B) Patrick R. O'Malley (Georgetown University) "Crossing the Threshold: Dracula's Catholicism as Cult and Culture"

21 (C) Karen Simons (University of Alberta) "Acts of the Witching Imagination: Coleridge's Re-Visionary Gothic"

22--American Gothic: Alterity & Gothic Romance (1)

Chair, Christine Wooley

22 (A) Leonard Tennenhouse (Brown University) "The Specter of Endogamy in American Fiction"

22 (B) Dixie Durham (Chapman University) "Perpetual Gothic in Dixie Or From Fiction to the Factual: The Trials and Tribulations of Faulkner's Miss Emily and Berendt's Jim Williams"

22 (C) Phil Goldstein (University of Delaware) "Black Feminism and Gothic Romance: The Reception of Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom and Morrison's Beloved"

4:00-4:20 pm: Sessions end, Discussion break & refreshments

4:20-5:20 pm: IGA Executive Meeting

7:00-10:00 pm: Sunset Harbour Cruise with dinner (Optional Event)

FILM FESTIVAL BEGINS:

CULTS AND CONSPIRATORS: SOME FILM VERSIONS OF THE GOTHIC
presented in conjunction with the biannual conference of the International Gothic Association.

Conspiracy is a theme that connects the late eighteenth century with our own era. Subversive political activity characterizing revolutionary groups (such as the Jacobins) begins in secret, and the activities of secret societies form a significant aspect of the popular novels of the Enlightenment and beyond. Fictions in which even the scene itself symbolizes a veiled and alarming threat reveal the power of the imagination, which contributes to the terrors: we can't trust our friends; we can't trust our senses. The Gothic romances of two hundred years ago, which drew upon our fascination with the mythic and the inexplicable, have inspired film-makers in the areas of both content and form: our political thrillers are best when they play with the unsettling psychological dimensions of the charactersâ lives, and stories may be told as inset tales or from different points of view.

Venue: The PACIFIC CINAMETHEQUE Theatre
1131 Howe Street, Vancouver

Pacific CinŽmath�que website: www.cinematheque.bc.ca

Film festival schedule for Friday, June 15:

7:00 pm
Rosemary's Baby (USA 1968. Director: Roman Polanski)
Introduced by Karen Budra, English Department, Langara College

9:40 pm
The Front (USA 1976. Director: Martin Ritt)
Introduced by Robert Menzies, School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University