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, Rich Pascal

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"

31 (C) Dan Ceraldi (Simon Fraser Universty) "Poe: From Gothic Hoax to Romantic Nothingess"

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

Film festival schedule for Saturday, June 16:

7:15 pm
The Lady Vanishes (Great Britain1938. Director: Alfred Hitchcock)
Introduced by Gary McCarron, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University

9:20 pm
Capricorn One (USA 1977. Director: Peter Hyams)
Introduced by Jacqueline Faubert, School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University