Romancing the Gothic presents its fourth annual online conference over two days – 24th and 25th August. The conference celebrates 200 years of James Hogg’s Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner with a series of talks, events and workshops.
You can sign up here
The conference is designed to cover different timezones so the days are long. People are recommended to come for as long as they want. The talks and sessions are recorded so that you don’t miss anything even if you can’t be there in person for specific times/sessions.
Early Bird Tickets, Concessions and Free Tickets
There will be early bird discounts on tickets until 24th June 2024. Concession tickets are for students, the unwaged, retired people or anyone whose economic situation makes it necessary. We also offer a limited number of free tickets for those who cannot pay the ticket price, please email sam@romancingthegothic.com for more information. You can donate a ticket for those who are unable to afford to come.
Accessibility
We have live auto-generated captions. We provide slides and, where possible, scripts before the conference with alt-text for images. We have regular breaks and encourage people to take part in ways that are most comfortable for them. There is no forced participation.
If you have any accessibility needs, please get in touch at sam@romancingthegothic.com and I will do my best to make sure these accommodations are provided.
PROGRAMME
(All times are UK time, BST. Please check your local timezone so you don’t miss you chosen events)
Saturday 24th August
9am – Greetings and conference set up
9.30 – 10.30 – Writing Workshop with author CM Rosens – ‘Create a Hellscape: Using Theology in World-Building’
10.30 – 10.45 – BREAK
10.45 – 12.30 – Panel 1 – James Hogg: Work and Legacy
Nick Smith – I have since been induced to look to you as my guardian angel’: Hogg’s Highland Journeys and their influence on the Jusfitied Sinner
Mizuki Tsutsui – An analysis of Ian Rankin and James Mavor’s draft of the film script of James Hogg’sJustified Sinner:Demon, Union and Adaptation
Martina Jauch – Masculinities, Mania, and Modes of Religion – ETA Hoffman’s and Goethe’s impact on James Hogg’s The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Laila Sougri – The parallax of Evil: Phenomenological Encounters with the Uncanny in the Works of James Hogg, Daphne du Maurier, and Mark Z. Danielewski
12.30 – 13.00 – BREAK
13.00 – 14.00 – Cooking Workshop and lunch with Allie Pino (co-author of The Gothic Cookbook) – ‘Whistle While You Cook: Arepa-Making and Venezuelan Demonic Folklore with ‘El Silbón’ and the ‘Dancing Devils of Yare’
14.00 – 14.15 – BREAK
14.15 – 15.45 – Panel 2 – Demonic Politics
Javier Mosqueda – Building the devil: indigenous and Christian elements in Jeronimo de Mendieta’s concept of the demon
Jarrod DePrado – “A God is Not So Glorious As a King”: Religion as a Demonic Political Tool on Stage
Jan Marvin A. Goh – “holy mysteries/by the eyes of the dead’: Exploring the Gothic in Divine Concept in Nick Joaquin’s The Mass of St. Sylvester
Amy Coles – She has to be hammered into shape: Religion-Related Abuse and Female Suppression in Ray Russell’s The Case Against Satan
15.45 – 16.00 – BREAK
16.00 – 17.45 – Women and the Demonic
Maria Belén Caparrós – ‘I’m not going to kill you. I’ m going to sacrifice you’: Patriarchal Spectrality, expressive violence and structural demons in Argentinian Contemporary Representation of Femicide
Vale Prosper – WhatPuppet History didn’t tell you: Examing a Trio of 17th cent. Possession Cases and What Happened Thereafter
Brenda Tolian – Down Into the Darkness of Anne Bannerman’s “Prologue”
Pauline Suwanban – Contemporary Devil Romances and Female Confidence (2020-2024)
17.45 – 18.00 – BREAK
18.00 – 19.00 – First Keynote – Adam Kotsko – ‘Faust in the Anthropocene’
19.00 – 19.15 – Author Roundtable – The Modern Scottish Gothic
Anna Cheung, Helen Grant and further authors TBC
20.15 – 20.30 – BREAK
20.30 – 21.30 – Cocktail/Mocktail hours
SUNDAY 25th August
9.15 – Greeting
9.30 – 10.30 – Second Keynote – Martha McGill – “Evil Company”: Internal and External Demons in Early Modern Scotland
10.30 – 10.45 – BREAK
10.45 – 12.15 – Panel 4 – Demons, Duality and Doubles
Gina Lyle – Literary Hauntings in Helen McClory’s Bitterhall
Rowan McMonagle – ‘Thrawn Janet’
12.15 – 13.00 – LUNCH BREAK
13.00 – 14.45 – Panel 5 – The Modern Demonic Imagination
Abhishek Sarkar – Religious Obsession and Murderous Zeal: The Fanaticism of the Serial Killer in Four Indian Films
Efram Sera-Shriar – From Demon World Village to Ghosts ‘n Goblins: Popular Occulture, Videogame Censorship, and Satanic Panic in the 1980s
Máireéad Casey – Demon Possession, Sexual Grooming, and Resistance in We’re All Going to the World’s Fair(2021)
Kyria Van Gasse – I see his face but he’s not me: the mental and emotional effect of playing the demonic and the monstrous in Live Action Role Play
14.45 – 15.00 – BREAK
15.00 – 16.45 – Panel 6 – Vampires and the Demonic
Mary Going – I Will not Lie Below: Demons, Vampires, and Contemporary Iterations of Lilith
Madhuchhanda Ray – At the Crossroads of the Hindu Demon and the Western Undead: Reading Satyajit Ray’s Quirky Vampire
Anca Simina Martin – The first Romanian Vampire Novel: The Case of the Vampire-priest Antagonist
Hayley Smith – Welcome to God’s Army: Religion and Religious Extremism in Netflix’s Midnight Mass
16.45 – 17.00 – BREAK
17.00 – 18.30 – Writing Workshop – Samantha Miles – Playwriting as Ritual: Summoning Demons and Constructing Hellscapes
18.30 – 19.00 – BREAK
19.00 – 20.45 – Panel 7 – Imagining Hell
Susan Vanderborg – “Hell is only a word”: The Imperfect Demonic Translations of Event Horizon
Ruth-Anne walbank – This deep hell of ills: Hellscapes and the Gothic in Lancashire Cotton Famine Poetry (1861-5)
Morgan Daimler – Tenants of Hell: Fairies, the Devil, and Folk Belief in Early Modern Scotland
Rebecca Marks – Blotting and Blurring Demons: Blake’s Last Judgement
20.45 – 21.00 – FINAL REMARKS
As always, there is a code of conduct for our events. Please find it here. https://romancingthegothic.com/code-of-conduct/
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My apologies: for the early bird, do you mean July 24?
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Hi there! No, I’m afraid not. I copied the text over from the eventbrite as I wasn’t sure whether people were seeing it there. The discount tickets already sold but the prices are still low and there are concession tickets and free tickets can be applied for if they’re needed.
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