Fifth Biannual Conference of the International Gothic Association
Gothic Cults and Gothic Cultures
Preliminary Program

June 14-17, 2001
Simon Fraser University at Harbour Centre
515 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada

Preliminary Program

(includes registration and lodging information)

Important Dates

Monday , May 14- Deadline for booking accommodation
Thursday, May 31 - Deadline for early registration fee (postmarked)
Wednesday, June 6 - Deadline for receiving registrations by mail/fax
Register on-site after this date

Hosted by

Department of English, Simon Fraser University

SFU Conference Committee:
John Whatley, Margaret Jackson, June Sturrock, Noel Currie, Mason Harris, Nancy Gillespie, Steven Bruhm

Bursaries

Robert Miles, Chair, English Department, Stirling University & President of the International Gothic Association

Aid & Funding

Office of the Academic Vice President, Simon Fraser University
The International Gothic Association

Program

This program is subject to change.

WEDNESDAY, June 13

All events take place at Simon Fraser University at Harbour Centre unless otherwise indicated.

2:30-5:30 pm: Early Registration

THURSDAY, June 14

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

9:00-9:15 am: Welcome Remarks

9:15-10:45 am: 3 Concurrent Sessions (1.5 hours)

1–Domestic Culture and Gothic Fiction

Chair, June Sturrock

1 (A) Kate Lawson (University of Northern British Columbia) "The Alien at Home: L.M. Montgomery and F.W. Myers"

1 (B) Ruth Anolik (Haverford College) "Gothic Murder: Containment of Horror in Charlotte Yonge's Chantry House"

1 (C) Rich Pascal (Australian National University) "Arsenic in the Sugar: Gothic Domesticity in Shirley Jackson's 'We have Always Lived in the Castle'"

2--Postcolonial Gothics: Old World

Chair, Noel Currie

2 (A) Andrew Smith (University of Glamorgan) "Colonising the Americans: Bram Stoker's Post Colonial Gothic"

2 (B) William Hughes (Bath-Spa University College) "'An angel satyr walks these hills': Imperial fantasies for a post-colonial world"

2 (C) Alan Lloyd-Smith (University of East Anglia) "This Thing of Darkness: Racial Discourse in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein"

3--American Gothic: Self-conscious Interventions in the 19th C. Literary

Chair, Evie Shockley

3 (A) Christine Wooley (University of Washington) "Hawthorne and His Readers"

3 (B) Amy Strand (University of Washington) "Gothic Women and Vocal Eruptions in Poe, Stowe, and Melville"

3 (D) Monique Allewaert (Duke University) "Gothic-Nation: Critical Investments in Nineteenth Century Nationalism"

10:45-11:00 am: Refreshment Break

11:00 am-12:00 pm: Opening Plenary Address

Nancy Armstrong, Chair, Department of English, Brown University

"The Malthusian Gothic"

This paper considers what gothic fiction does for a readership who enjoyed tormenting themselves with what Thomas Malthus called "the principle of population." I am especially interested in tracing the shift from the production-sided nightmare of biological reproduction that shapes Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) to the consumption-sided figure of the vampire that haunts late nineteenth-century gothic (e.g., Bram Stoker's Dracula, 1897) and imperial romance (e.g., H. Rider Haggard's She, 1887). The question is why, over the course of the century, Max Nordau's classic description of "degeneration" replaces overpopulation as the prevailing cultural phobia of Western Europe.

12:00-1:00 pm: Lunch (on own)

1:00-2:30 pm: 4 Concurrent Sessions (1.5 hours)

4--Domestic Culture and Gothic Fiction (2)

Chair, Kate Lawson

4 (A) June Sturrock (Simon Fraser University) "Mr. Sludge and Mrs. Oliphant: Victorian Negotiations with the Dead"

4 (B) Evie Shockley (Duke University) "Housebroken: Or, At Home with Haunting in Dicken's Bleak House and Morrison's Paradise"

4 (C) Elaine Hartnell (Liverpool Hope University College) "Predictions, Portents and Propriety: The Domestic Gothic of Mrs Henry Wood"

5--Postcolonial Gothics: New World

Chair, Andrew Smith

5 (A) Deborah Allen (University of Stirling) "Postcolonial Gothic and the Short Fiction of Rosario Ferre"

5 (B) Blanca Chester (Simon Fraser University) "Coyote Vampires: A .A. Carr's 'Eye Killers'"

5 (C) Noel Currie (Simon Fraser University) "Nation and Legitimation: The Gothic in Nineteenth-Century English-Canadian Fiction"

6--Darwinian Gothic

Chair, Paul Heyer

6 (A) Mason Harris (Simon Fraser University) "Mad Prohibitions: Demonic Memory, the Culture of Science, and the Religion of the Beast People in The Island of Doctor Moreau"

6 (B) Valerie de Courville Nicol (University of Ottawa) "The Deployment of Eugenic and Behaviourist Theories in Victorian Gothic"

6 (C) Mary Beth Neff (University of Memphis) "J.K. Huysmans' Against the Grain and the Inescapable Monstrosity of Nature"

7--Revisioning the Gothic: Djuna Barnes, Anne Marie MacDonald, and Toni Morrison

Chair, Christine Wooley

7 (A) Kathy Gentile (University of Missouri-St. Louis ) "Haunted Texts: The Cult of Damned Love in Brontë's Wuthering Heights and Djuna Barnes' Nightwood"

7 (B) Gabriella Parro (Wilfrid Laurier University) "The Gothic Tradition in Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees: A Study in Genre"

7 (C) Jennifer Agnew (St. Louis University) "'Anything Dead Coming Back to Life Hurts: 'Rememory' and the Ambiguous Nature of Storytelling in Toni Morrison's Beloved"

2:30-3:00 pm: Refreshment-Break

3:00-4:30 pm: 4 concurrent Sessions (1.5 hours)

8--Slavery, Gothicism and Intertextuality (19th c.)

Chair, Joseph Bodziock,

8 (A) Peter Coviello (Bowdoin College) "The American in Charity: Benito Cereno and Gothic Anti-Sentimentality"

8 (B) Monika Elbert (Montclair State) "The Ramifications of Slavery in New England Gothic"

8 (C) Dana Luciano (Hamilton College) "Is that Story True? Charles Chesnutt's Gothic Realism"

9--Print Culture & Gothic Technologies

Chair: Betty Schellenberg

9 (A) Margaret Linley (Simon Fraser University) "Keepsake Gothic: Books, Bodies and Parallel Doubleness"

9 (B) Christopher Keep (University of Western Ontario) "The Cyborg Activity of Writing: Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl as Gothic Hypertext"

9 (C) Miranda Burgess (University of British Columbia) "The Gothic Nation in Hyperspace"

10--Locked Rooms: The Gothic In Criminology & Popular Culture (1)

Chair, Charmaine Perkins

10 (A) Robert Menzies (Simon Fraser University) "Criminal Lunacy and Cultural Representations of Horror: The Case of The Colquitz Mental Home, British Columbia, 1919-1964"

10 (B) Margaret Jackson (Simon Fraser University) "Women on the Boundaries: Historic Gothic and Contemporary Criminal Images"

10 (C) Ognyan Kovachev (St. Kliment Okhridski University) "Locked Room Revisited: Gothic Crime and Punishment in Alfred Hitchcock and David Lynch"

11--Gothic Analysis: Freud's Dora, Hitchcock's Rebecca, & the Matrix

Chair, Catherine Spooner

11(A) Kim Wheatley (The College of William & Mary) "Gender Politics and the Gothic in Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca"

11(B) Kathleen O'Brien (University of California, Davis) " The Mysteries of Analysis: Exploring the Gothic Elements of Freud's 'Dora'"

4:30-6:00 pm: Conference Reception

6:30-9:00 pm: Sherlock Holmes and the Clocktower Mystery at the Vancouver Museum (Optional Event)

FRIDAY, June 15

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"

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, Jason Haslam

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

SATURDAY, June 16

8:30 am-12:30 pm: Conference Registration Desk open

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

23--At The Gothic Margins of Romanticism

Chair, Daniel Burgoyne

23 (A) David Baulch (University of West Florida) "The Gothic Sublime and the Picturesque in Chapter Thirteen of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Biographia Literaria"

23 (B) Robert Corbet (University of Washington) "History as Catastrophe: Godwin's Mandeville and the Gothic Borders of National Narratives"

23 (C) Claire Grogan (University of British Columbia) "Dangerous Cults in Elizabeth Hamilton's Memoirs of Modern Philosophers: New Philosophers, Hottentots, Politics and Sexuality"

24--Revisioning Gothic Women: Beldame, Eve, Venus, & Mediation

Chair, Angela Wright

24 (A) Laila Ferreira (Simon Fraser University) "Venus vs. Eve: Debating Cult(ure)s in Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Matthew Lewis's The Monk".

24 (B) Linda R. Walvoord & Debra Courtright-Nash (University of Cincinatti) "Miss Habersham, Gothic Woman: From Dickens to Faulkner"

24 (C) Juliet O'Keefe (Simon Fraser University) "'The Shape Which Shape Had None': Jane Eyre's Paintings, the Gothic, and the Mediated Image"

25--The Gothic Intertext in Webber, Polonsky, & Poulenc

Chair, Ben Fisher

25 (A) Marylin Yaquinto (Bowling Green State University) "Force of Evil: The Gothic in Film Noir"

25 (B) Irene Morra (University of Toronto) "Gothic Horror or Religious Fervour? Defining Les Dialogues des Carmelites"

25 (C) Jerrold Hogle (University of Arizona) "The Culture of Adolescence in Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera"

26--Gothic Down Under: Australian & unAustralian Gothic

Chair, Trevor Holmes

26 (A) Ken Gelder (University of Melbourne) "The unAustralian Goth: some notes towards a dislocated national subject"

26 (B) Melissa Iocco (University of Adelaide) "'Christ Kid, You're a Weirdo': The Contemporary Gothicism of Rolf de Heer's Bad Boy Bubby"

26 (C) Jenny Lawn (Massey University) "Gothic Down Under: The Southern(most) Gothic of Dunedin"

10:30-11:00 am: Refreshment Break and Discussion Period

11:00 am-12:00 pm: 3rd Plenary Address

Anne McGillivray, Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba

"Law, Modernity, and Professionalism in Stoker's Dracula"

Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula figured large in the 'corridor between the centuries' in Daniel Pick's evocative phrase, capturing fears about modernity and disease, Darwinism and degeneration. It has been investigated for its metaphors of blood, sexuality and sexually-transmitted disease, its themes of power and seduction, its allegories of colonialism and alterity, and its depictions of women, alienation and repression. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein carried the gothic into the nineteenth century. Dracula has borne it into the twenty-first. The attractive mysteries and irreconcilable dichotomies of the vampire seem inexhaustible. But Count Dracula has special talents. One, little investigated, is his command of the law. The immediate gratification of his vampiric desires is subjugated to his desire for legal services and an English identity in order to enter a new realm of predation. Stoker's vampire is read as the emblematic carrier of social dis-ease into the modern world. He is equally read as the carrier of the uncertain terrors of the gothic into the postmodern inquisition of rationality, modernity and professionalism.

12:00-1:00 pm Lunch (on own)

1:00-2:30 pm 4 concurrent sessions (1.5 hours)

27--Cult or Culture? Literary Value and Neo-Gothic Architecture

Chair, Ian Chunn

27 (A) Faye Ringel (U.S. Coast Guard Academy) "Building the Gothic Image in America: Changing Icons, Changing Times"

27 (B) Christine Bolus-Reichert (University of Toronto) "The End of the Tyranny of Style: Gothic Revival Architecture and the Problem of Eclecticism in Ruskin and Hardy"

27 (C) Jennifer Koopman (McGill University) "Literary Architecture in George MacDonald's Phantastes"

28--Gothic Influences: Intersections in the British & French Literary

Chair, William Hughes

28 (A) Terry Hale (Hull University) "Fergus Hume and the Rise of the Irrational Detective Story"

28 (B) Don LaCoss (University of Michigan) "The Dazzling Prince of Caesarian Sections: Surrealism's Gothic Reading of Les Chants de Maldoror"

28 (C) Chris Chapman (Simon Frasre University) "Bella Lugosi is Dead (Again)"

29--Recombinant Cults and Reproductive Cultures

Chair, Jodey Castricano

29 (A) Anne Quema (Acadia University) " Feminist Cyborg and Gothic Biomechanoid: A Comparison of Anti-Reproduction Discourses"

29 (B) Kathy McConnell (Mount St. Vincent University) "Dark Angel: Recombinant Prometheus and Pygmalion"

29 (C) Nancy Gillespie (Simon Fraser University) "'J'ai tue le ventre: Killing the womb and writing a 'feminine' jouissance on the maternal landscape of Nicole Brossard's Mauve Desert"

30--Beauty, Terror, & Contemporary Gothic Painting

Chair, Amanda Gilroy

30 (A) Nicole Demerin (New York) "Beauty is Just the Beginning of Terror: Creating a Contemporary Gothic Sensibility"

30 (B) Cynthia Henthorn (New York) "The Gothic Feminine: Perfections and Profanities in the Art of the Body"

2:30-3:00 pm: Refreshment Break

3:00- 4:30pm: 4 concurrent sessions (1.5 hours)

31--Gothic American Cults & Cultures (2)

Chair, Robert Carballo

31 (A) Jason Haslam (University of Waterloo) "'That Fatal Birthmark, This Horrible Stigma': Hawthorne's Gothic Allegory of Race and Miscegenation"

31 (B) Wil Verhoeven (Groningen) " Gothic Logic: Science and Sensationalism in Charles Brockden Brown"

32 --Conspiracy Film & Theatre, Gothic Blanc et Noir?

Chair, Kim Wheatley

32 (A) Ian Chunn (Simon Fraser University) "Cults and Conspirators: some film versions of the Gothic"

32 (B) Paul Heyer, (Wilfrid Laurier University) "Sinister Welles: Constructing the Gothic in American Theatre, Radio, and Film"

32 (C) Kelley Hurley (University of Colorado at Boulder) "Mimicry and Identity Formation: Becoming-Human and Becoming Not-Human in John Frankenheimer's The Island of Dr. Moreau and Guilermo del Toro's Mimic"

33--Cults of Redemption & Technology

Chair, Mason Harris

33 (A) Bruce Wyse (University of Northern British Columbia) "Mesmerism, Narrative, Technology and Agency in Bulwer-Lytton's 'The House and the Brain'"

33 (B) David S. Hogsette (New York Institute of Technology) "Cults of Redemption in Gothic SF: The Postmodern Messiahs of Blade Runner and The Matrix"

33 (C) Davin Heckman (Bowling Green State University, American Cultural Studies) "Pi, Chaos, and the Mathematical Gothic"

34--Gothic Subjects & Objects: Possession, Solipsism, or Escapism?

Chair, Don La Coss

34 (A) Dale Townshend (Keele University) " Cultures of Being, Cults of Becoming: History, Objectification and the Subject of Gothic Narrative"

34 (B) Peter Schwenger (Mount St. Vincent University) "Possessed Objects"

34 (C) Eric Henderson (Simon Fraser University) "Solipsism and Escapability in the Neo-Gothic Text: John Hawkes's Travesty, Patrick McGrath's Spider, and Eric McCormack's The Paradise Motel"

4:30-5:20 pm: IGA Biannual General Meeting

CULTS AND CONSPIRATORS FILM FESTIVAL continues

Festival details

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

35--Monsters, Gender, & Phantoms in the Romantic Gothic

Chair, Jerrold Hogle

35 (A) Dean Bethea (Western Oregon University) "Redefining Genres, Gender roles, and the Future: Mary Shelley's Valperga"

35 (B) John Whatley (Simon Fraser University) "Full and Empty Signs in Percy Bysshe Shelley's Gothic"

35 (C) Nicolle Jordan (G) (Brown University) "Charlotte Dacre and the 'Phantom' Private Sphere"

36--Medicine in Gothic Literature

Chair, June Sturrock

36 (A) Marjean Purinton (Texas Tech University) "Medical Cults and Gothic Culture: Popular Drama of the Early Nineteenth Century"

36 (B) Maile Chapman (Syracuse University) "Illness, Madness and the Voice of Medicine: Authority in the Short Fiction of Edgar Allen Poe"

36 (C) David Punter (University of Bristol) "'He called the ghost ... It had a queerish look': Francis Lathom and The Midnight Bell"

37--Gothic Terrorism: Systems, Conspiracies, & the Cult Leader

Chair, Faye Ringel

37 (A) Dr. Angela Wright (Sheffield-Hallam University) "The Terrorist System of Novel Writing: the anti-establishment of the Gothic genre in the periodical press of the 1790's"

37 (B) Robert Miles (Stirling University) "Systems of Terror: Conspiracy Fiction in the 1790's".

37 (C) Ed Cameron (George Washington University) "The Cult Leader and the Gothic Supernatural"

38--Canadian Dietary Gothic

Chair, Peter Schwenger

38 (A) Sandra Mornington-Abrathat (Liverpool Hope University College) "Something Hungry is Watching: Wendigo, Cannabilism, and Cultural Abjection in Ann Tracy's Winter Hunger and Mordecai Richler's Solomon Gursky Was Here"

38 (B) Sarah Rudrum (York University) "Meat is Murder: The Gothic and the Grotesque in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace"

38 (C) Dr. Faye Hammill (University of Liverpool) "Southern Ontario Gothic"

10:30-10:45 am Refreshment Break

10:45-12:15 -pm 4 Concurrent sessions (1.5 hours)

39--Gothic Gendering: Heroine, Anti-Hero, & Machine in Three Media

Chair, Margaret Linley

39 (A) Kerry Griffin (Simon Fraser University) "The Waiting Boy: Aphanisis and Stained Masculinity in Emily Brontë's Gondal Poetry"

39 (B) Stefani Forlini (Simon Fraser University) "The Machinic-Human Body and Charlotte Mew's Aesthetic of (Dis)Embodiment"

39 (C) Susan Anthony (DePauw University) "'Master of my Fate': Characterization of the Heroine in Gothic Plays"

40--Reading Gothic Culture as Rhizome, Information, & the Oedipal Complex

Chair, Eric Henderson

40 (A) Tomasz Michalak (Simon Fraser University) "Gothic Noise and the Random Distribution of Ghosts"

40 (B) Trevor Holmes (York University) "The Cult of Count Stenbock: A Gothic Rhizome"

40 (C) Colin Haines (Uppsala University) "Plucking Out the Offending 'I'. Policing Desire in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart'"

41--Nationalism & the Gothic in Brockden Brown, Hogg, & Melville

Chair, Paul Budra

41 (A) Carol Davison (University of Windsor) "Calvinist Covens: Protestant Paranoia in Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland, or the Transformation and James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner"

41 (B) Robert Carballo (Millersville University) "Shakespeare's Influence on Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland"

41 (C) Corey Thompson (University of Windsor) "Republican Gothic: Melville's 'The Bell-Tower' Reconsidered"

42--Questioning Gothic: Supernaturalism, Architectural Degeneracy, and the Anti-Technological Stance

Chair, Bruce Wyse

42 (B) Corina Wagner (Simon Fraser University) " 'The Consideration of Modern Degeneracy': Gothic Revivalism and the Architectural Design of A.W.N. Pugin"

42 (C) Robin A. Cryderman (University of Victoria) "Gothic Fictions/Alchemical Facts: Yonic Reversals and Revisionings in Theodore Roszak's The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein"

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

1:15-2:15 pm: 4th Plenary Address

Steven Bruhm, Mount St. Vincent University, Canada

"Only The Dead Can Dance: Gothic Choreographies of Mortality"

In the medieval French Danse Macabre, skeletons who represent death (or rather Death) present themselves to a wide range of people, from popes to farmers, and dance them into their graves. The bodies of these people are stolid, lumpen, enervated; the bodies of the skeletons - the dead - conversely, are agile, flexible, joyously expressive. In this tradition, which I want to suggest is foundational to contemporary gothic aesthetics, only the dead can dance: the pull toward death is paradoxically a seduction into movement and life where an imprisoning soul is destroyed in order to let the body move as an object of death. This talk will explore the ways in which the body in the Danse Macabre is echoed in various forms of 20th-century dance. In particular, I want to connect the Danse Macabre to the contemporary popular gothic of Michael Jackson's Thriller; through the postmodern dance practice of Japanese Butoh; to the film-turned-novel, The Red Shoes, which is shot through with gothic conventions. Ultimately, I want to discuss to role of the choreographed, stylized, posed body within an aesthetic that trades on the immediate, unmediated presence of graphic violence and somatic chaos for its artistic impact.

2:15-3:30 pm: Discussion period and refreshments

CULTS AND CONSPIRATORS FILM FESTIVAL final screening

Festival details

7:30 pm
The Saragossa Manuscript (Poland 1964. Director: Wojciech Has--in the restored, full-length, 35mm re-release)
Introduced by Ian Chunn, Centre for Distance Education, Simon Fraser University

DAY ENDS & Program ends

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Registrations will not be processed without fee payment.

Cancellations and Refunds

Full refunds, less a $25 processing fee, will be granted to cancellations received by Thursday, May 31, 2001. No refunds will be issued after that date. Refunds will be mailed after the conference. Substitutions are permitted.

Receipts

Receipts will be available for collection at the Conference Registration Desk. You will be sent an email as confirmation of your registration.

Social Activities

Thursday, June 14th through Sunday, June 17th

Gothic Conspiracy Film Festival at the Cinametheque Theatre
1131 Howe Street, Vancouver. Movie admission prices to be paid at the door.

Thursday, June 4th (evening)

Sherlock Holmes Exhibit at the Vancouver Museum

A crime has been committed, and your help is needed in Sherlock Holmes and the Clocktower Mystery. Make your way through eight "chapters" of this mystery, cleverly designed to resemble Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Victorian London.

Listen for horsedrawn hansom cabs, street vendors, foghorns as you visit the crime scene itself inside the Croyden Clock Tower. Then, it's on to a seedy dockside garret, the baroness' drawing room, Doyle's elegant study, and more.

But pay close attention! Clues are everywhere--some real, some merely a "red herring." Can you tell the difference? Even scents become telltale signs. An actor in period costume aids in the unraveling of this mystery. Put on your best deerstalker hat, your thinking cap, and polish up your detective skills, and join Sherlock Holmes today. It's elementary.

Cost of Cdn $10 or US$7 includes admission to the exhibit, Vancouver Museum and round trip bus transportation.

Sunset Harbour Cruise

On Friday, June 15th join your colleagues for a Sunset Dinner Cruise. Experience the wonder of Stanley Park as you sail underneath the Lions Gate Bridge and cruise through the waters of English Bay. Highlights include a three hour cruise, catered gourmet meal, onboard entertainment and Vancouver's best views. The cost is Cdn $68.15 or US$45.50 and includes bus transportation to and from the dock.

Conference Secretariat

Conference Services, Halpern Centre
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia Canada V5A 1S6

Telephone (604) 291-4910/3012 weekdays, 8:30 am - 4:00 pm PST
Fax (604) 291-3420, E-mail: Conference_Services@sfu.ca

Hotel Accommodation

You are responsible for booking your accommodation at the hotels listed below, The Delta Vancouver Suites and the Ramada Vancouver Downtown. To secure accommodation, either email, phone or fax the hotels and ask for the I.G.A.(International Gothic Assn.) room rate before Monday, May 14, 2001.

Reservations made after this date will be on a space available basis. The hotels require a deposit to cover the first night or credit card guarantee to hold the room(s) beyond 4 pm on your arrival date.

Please do not include hotel deposits with registration fees.

Delta Vancouver Suites
550 West Hastings
Vancouver, BC V6B 1L6

Central Reservations (Toronto) toll-free: 1-800-268-1133
Call the hotel direct at toll free 1-888-663-8811
or 604-689-8188; Reservations Fax: 604-605-8881

Email: vancouversuite@deltahotels.com
Website: http://www.deltahotels.com

Special Room Rate
Standard Suite $175 (1-2 persons)
Executive 1 Bedroom Suite $185 (1-2 persons)
Additional Person $20
Tax (10% hotel tax, 7% GST) 17%

Across the street from SFU's Harbour Centre campus, The Delta Vancouver Suites, is a luxury property located just minutes from Vancouver's Inner Harbour and Gastown.

Health and Fitness club facilities include indoor lap pool, sauna and fitness room. The hotel has data ports in their rooms, one restaurant, Spencer's Bar and a 24 hour Concierge Service.

Ramada Limited Downtown Vancouver
435 West Pender Street
Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6B 1V2

Reservations toll-free: 1-888-389-5888
Direct: 604-488-1088; Fax: 604-488-1090

Email: ramadalimiteddowntown@telus.net
Hotel Website: http://www.ramadalimited.org

Special Room Rate
Standard Room $125 Cdn (1-2 persons)
Tax (10% hotel tax, 7% GST) 17%

Located one and a half blocks from Simon Fraser University at Harbour Centre, the Ramada Downtown Vancouver is a small European-style hotel. The hotel (data ports in rooms) offers complimentary breakfast served from 6:30-9:30 a.m. The Ramada requires a deposit to cover the first night or credit card guarantee to hold the room(s) beyond 4 pm on your arrival date.

YWCA Hotel

Web site: http://www.ywcahotel.com

The YWCA offers air-conditioned single accommodation with your choice of hall, shared or private bathrooms with rates from as low as $56/night. This modern facility is located in the heart of Vancouver's theatre district and just steps away from the new Vancouver Public Library

The YWCA is a twenty minute walk from Simon Fraser University at Harbour Centre.

University Accommodation

Delegates or students on a budget may wish to stay at either the Simon Fraser University, Burnaby Mountain campus or at the University of British Columbia. Delegates with families may also wish to consider pre or post-conference stays at either university.

Please note that neither campus is close to the downtown Simon Fraser University, Harbour Centre campus at 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver. For instance, the travel time between SFU Burnaby Mountain and Harbour Centre is approximately fifty minutes by B.C. Transit (bus) or about thirty minutes by car.

Simon Fraser University
Conference and Guest Accommodations

Web site: http://www.sfu.ca/conference-accommodation

University of British Columbia
Reservations Office, UBC Conference Centre

Web site: http://www.conferences.ubc.ca

Travel Information

Travel into Vancouver

Vancouver's International Airport is served by a large number of domestic and international flights. We suggest that conference participants call their travel agent immediately and ask them to negotiate the best air fare for their trip to Vancouver.

Airport Bus Service and Taxis

Delegates may wish to take the Airporter bus from and to Vancouver International Airport.

Delegates staying at the YWCA may wish to take the Airporter Bus from and to Vancouver International Airport. This service is not available to the Delta Vancouver Suites or the Ramada. However, delegates can walk from the Waterfront Centre Hotel (opposite the Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre) which is a three block walk from the Delta Vancouver Suites Hotel.

Buses depart from the pick-up area outside level 2 at the Vancouver International Airport every 30 minutes. Tickets can be purchased from the driver.

These buses follow two routes. Check with the customer sales representative before you board the bus to ensure that you are on the correct bus for the Waterfront Hotel.

The cost is $12 one way or $18 return (good any time). Buses operate between 6:30 am and 10:30 pm.

Delegates can also take a taxi to their hotel. The current cost is approximately $24. Travel time from the airport to downtown Vancouver is 35-40 minutes.

Disclaimer

The Organizing Committee, the Society, and Simon Fraser University will accept no liability for personal injuries sustained by or for loss or damage to property belonging to conference participants either during or as a result of the conference.

General Information for our U.S. and International Visitors

Climate

Vancouver's weather in mid-June is generally good. Mild sunny days with temperatures in the low-twenties Celsius and cool evenings generally ranging from 11-13 Celsius. Bring a light coat in case of rain.

Currency

Our U.S. visitors can take advantage of the very attractive exchange rate and will find that their dollar goes a lot further in Canada. By using Canadian money or your credit card during your travels in British Columbia, you will avoid currency exchange problems. U.S. dollars can be exchanged at any bank or at the International Currency Exchange Service kiosk at Vancouver International Airport.

Customs/Entry Regulations

From the United States

American citizens do not require a passport or visa to enter Canada. However, native-born United States citizens should carry identity papers (birth or voter's certificate) establishing nationality. Naturalized citizens should carry documentary evidence of citizenship (e.g. green card). Permanent alien residents of the United States are advised to carry immigration documents.

From Countries other than the United States

A valid passport is required. Citizens of some countries also need a Visa to enter Canada. If in doubt, check with the Canadian Embassy or High Commission in your country.

Health Insurance

Canadian government health plans do not cover non-residents visiting Canada. We suggest that you purchase your own personal health and accident insurance.

Taxes

Non-Canadian residents can claim a refund of the Goods and Services Tax on hotel accommodation and on goods taken home. There is no refund for services (e.g. conference fees, transportation, meals, etc.) used in Canada. Refunds can be claimed at the Duty Free Stores at land points of departure; if you are flying out of Canada, you can claim your GST refund by mailing in a refund form together with your original sales receipts.

Time Zones

Vancouver is located in the Pacific Standard Time Zone. The time in Vancouver, for example, is the same as the time in San Francisco or Seattle, and is three hours behind Toronto or New York City.

Useful websites

Conference Website: http://www.sfu.ca/english/iga2001

Ministry of Small Business, Tourism and Culture: http://www.sbtc.gov.bc.ca/programs/tourism.html

Vancouver Attractions: http://www.travel.vancouver.bc.ca

Simon Fraser University: http://www.sfu.ca/

Harbour Centre

A map of the campus and surrounding areas is available at http://www.harbour.sfu.ca/maes/parking.htm