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ALT The (Hi)stories within Lovecraft Country A Half-day Online Symposium May 20, 2021, 12.00-18.00 BST Hosted by the Centre for the History of the Gothic at the University of Sheffield Schedule 12.00-12.10 BST | 07.00-07.10 EDT | 04.00-04.10 PDT Welcome 12.10-12.30 BST | 07.10-07.30 EDT | 04.10-04.30 PDT ‘Watching Lovecraft Country’ Open Discussion 12.30-13.45 BST | 7.30-8.35 EDT | 04.30-05.45 PDT Panel One: Setting the Stage J. Simpson: "Speculative Fiction as Collective Imagination" Ashley Darrow: "That or Socialism--Take Your Choice: Politics and Legacy in the Per-Lovecraftian Weird" Alejandro Baptista: "Examining the Changes between Matt Ruff's Lovecraft Country and Misha Green's Adaptation for TV" Shane Miller: "Resolving the Ambiguities of Horror: Codes, Equivalencies and Kairos in Lovecraft Country" 13.45-14.00 BST | 8.45-9.00 EDT | 05.45-06.00 PDT Break
ALT 14.00-15.15 BST | 9.00-10.15 EDT | 06.00-07.15 PDT Panel Two: Unspeakable Histories Michael Werning: "The (Ex-)Slave as Agent of Change in Misha Green's Lovecraft Country" Chuck Caruso: "The Nineteenth-Century American Literary Roots of Magical White Privilege in HBO's Lovecraft Country" Helen Pinsent: "Hard Roads and Dead Ends: Lovecraft Country and the Myth of American Automobility" Ana Cristina Mendes: " 'Preposterous History', Emmett Til and Lovecraft Country" 15.15-15.30 | 10.15-10.30 EDT | 07.15-07.30 PDT Break 15.30-16.45 BST | 10.30-11.45 EDT | 07.30-08.45 PDT Panel Three: Challenging the Genre Ashley Tisdale: "Gothic Entanglements: Disability, Horror, and Mobility in Lovecraft Country" Xavier Aldana Reyes: "The Transformative Body Horror of 'Strange Case'" Fredrik Blanc: " 'We've Done Monstrous Things': Tentacularity and Becoming-with in Lovecraft Country (2020)" Lea Anderson: "Name Your Monsters: Topsy, Reimagined in Lovecraft Country" 16.45-17.00 BST Break
ALT Keynote Panel 17.00-18.00 BST | 12.00-13.00 EDT | 09.00-10.00 PDT Linda D. Addison “Cults & Monsters: How Real Life Horror Inspires Horror Fiction” Maria Hamilton Abegunde “ ‘Faith Made Flesh’ : Disrupting Death through the Practice of Sankofa" Kinitra Brooks and John Jennings “The Power of Black Horror in Popular Culture: A Conversation between Kinitra Brooks & John Jennings” Susana Morris “The Ethnogothic Imagination in HBO's Lovecraft Country” ———— For more details and to register please visit the Centre for the History of the Gothic website: www.sheffieldhistoryofthegothic.group.shef.ac.uk/index.php/histories-within-lovecraft-country/
