Call for Presentations:
Researching Horror, Cult and Exploitation Cinema
A Workshop for PhD Students and Early Career Researchers
Friday 5 May 2017, Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon
Tyne
PhD students and Early Career Researchers working in the
field(s) of “horror, cult and exploitation cinema” are invited to submit
abstracts about their research to deliver at a workshop at Northumbria
University on Friday 5 May 2017. The workshop will take the format of a
mini-symposium and consist of three sessions, each made up of three speakers.
Speakers will each deliver a 5-10 minute talk about their research to their
peers and to a panel of academic experts from Northumbria’s Film and Television
Research Group, providing a short introduction to their current project and
identifying several questions for discussion. After each presentation, there
will be an opportunity for the academic panel and other workshop participants
to feedback to each speaker, and to ask follow-up questions.
The workshop is intended to be a small scale networking
opportunity for scholars with shared research interests, and to provide a
relatively informal, and supportive, opportunity for those newer to academia to
engage in dialogue with more established researchers.
The event will close with a short presentation from
Gillian Leslie <https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/books/subjects/film-studies>
, the Commissioning Editor for Film Studies at Edinburgh University Press, who
will give advice about academic publishing (including converting PhD theses
into monographs).
The academic panel will comprise:
· Professor
Peter Hutchings (Professor of Film Studies, author of The Horror Film and The
Historical Dictionary of Horror Cinema)
· Dr Russ
Hunter (Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies, co-editor of Italian
Horror Cinema, author of A History of European Horror Cinema)
· Dr Steve
Jones (Senior Lecturer in Media, author of Torture Porn: Popular Horror After
Saw, co-editor of Zombies and Sexuality)
· Dr James
Leggott (Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies, author of Contemporary
British Cinema: From Heritage to Horror)
· Dr Sarah
Ralph (Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies, co-author of Alien Audiences:
Remembering and Evaluating a Classic Movie)
· Dr Jamie
Sexton (Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies, co-author of Cult Film:
An Introduction, founding series co-editor of Cultographies)
· Dr Johnny
Walker (author of Contemporary British Horror Cinema: Industry, Genre and
Society and co-editor of the Global Exploitation Cinemas book series)
Applicants are reminded that there are only nine spaces
available.
Lunch and light refreshments will be provided throughout
the day.
Please submit a 250 word summary of your project, and a
50-100 word bio to the organiser, Dr Johnny Walker (johnny.walker@northumbria.ac.uk
<mailto:johnny.walker@northumbria.ac.uk>
), by Friday 31 March 2017. Applicants will be notified of the outcome the
following week.
