Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton
31 October 2023
Library Conference Room | Level 4 Hartley Library (Building 36, Room 4115)
Southampton University, University Road, Southampton, Hampshire SO17 1BJ
Please register for the event here!
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9.00-9.30 Registration/coffee
9.30-9.45 Welcome & opening remarks
9.45-11.45 Panel 1: Haunting and the haunted
Chair: Charlie Knight
Mary Going (University of Sheffield)
‘Demons and Holocaust Representation in 21st Century Horror’
Archie Wolfman (Queen Mary University of London)
‘Listening to Yiddish-speaking ghosts in Demon (2015)’
James Jordan (University of Southampton)
‘The Dybbuk and the BBC’
Sue Vice (University of Sheffield)
‘The Golem in Holocaust Fiction’
11.45-12.00 Break
12.00-13.00 Keynote
Libby Saxton (Queen Mary University of London)
‘Disfigured Memories: Les Yeux sans visage (Eyes Without a Face) and its
Afterlives’
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-16.00 Panel 2: Monsters and monstrosity
Chair: Katie Power
Kobi Kabalek (Penn State University)
‘“Fear Drew Pictures of Horror in My Imagination”: Fictional Horror in
Holocaust Victims’ Accounts’
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Stephan Gräfe (University of Hildesheim)
‘Playing Evil: The Fetishisation of Nazi Aesthetics between Eroticism and
Horror’
Emily-Rose Baker (University of Southampton)
‘Between camp and Surrealism: Nazi aesthetics in Czech New Wave cinema’
Dana Mihailescu (University of Bucharest)
‘Monsters, Sexuality, the Holocaust and 1960s American Culture in Emil
Ferris’s My Favorite Thing Is Monsters. Book I (2017)’
16.00-16.15 Coffee break
16.15-18.15 Film screening and discussion
The Deathless Woman (Roz Mortimer, 2019)
18.15-18.30 Closing remarks
19.00-20.30 Optional dinner
Brewhouse & Kitchen
47 Highfield Lane, Southampton SO17 1QD