The complete program of the 2nd GFF annual conference

EUROFAN: New Directions in Post-Cold War European Fantastic

Complete program

September 29, 2011

8: 30–16: 00 pm
Registration (Churfürststraße 1, "Toskana-Trakt")

9: 30–12: 30 pm
Teacher Workshop: Fantastic Stories: Castles, Ghosts, and Secrets from the Past

10: 00–12: 00 pm
Young Researchers' Forum

Alexandra Neagu (Romania)
Night's monsters emerge into daylight in Euripide's The Bacchae

Attila Mocza (Hungary)
The Gothic Effect in Peake's Presumption, or, the Fate of Frankenstein and Byron's Manfred

Bridget Kies (Valparaiso)
"Life as an Angel Condom": Human Bodies as Vessels for Angels and Demons in the CW's Supernatural

Catherine Rein (Germany)
The Proletarian Ghost—Freddy Krueger as Other

13: 00–13: 30 pm
Conference opening

13: 30–14: 30 pm
Keynote: ROGER LUCKHURST: The Weird Rewired (Proceedings)

14: 30–15: 30 pm
Keynote: MARK BOULD: Specters Are Haunting Europe (Proceedings)

15: 30–16: 00 pm
Coffee break

16: 00–17: 00 pm
Keynote: EDWARD JAMES: The New Space Opera, 1991-2011: the European contribution (Proceedings)

17: 00–18: 00 pm
Keynote: FRANS MAYRA: The Global and Local in Fantastic New Media: The Case of Finland (Proceedings)

19:00 p.m.
Reception

September 30, 2011

9: 00–10: 30 pm
Shifts in Post Cold War Europe

Hannah Abdullah (London)
Post-1989 Leipzig Painting. Imagining an eastern collective consciousness

Kathryn Rountree (Auckland)
The Role of the Fantastic in Contemporary European Paganisms (Proceedings)

Agnieszka Jedrzejczyk (Middlesex)
The New (Old) Warrior Hero: "The Witcher" by Andrzej Sapkowski (Proceedings)

Films and New Media

Laura Muth (Casting)
Excited or in the maze? - The use of fantastical elements to depict violent dream processing in Guillermo Del Toro's films The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth

Frauke Bode (Wuppertal)
Trauma and fantasy: "El laberinto del fauno" (2006) and "La batalla del calentamiento" (2006) (Proceedings)

Benjamin Moldenhauer (Bremen)
The Uncool Pain: Trying to Understand Philip Ridley's "Heartless."

OpenTrack

Pascal Klenke (Casting)
Good and evil after the “class enemy”: breaking up the classic good-evil opposition in contemporary fantasy

Eva Mehrbrey (Regensburg)
The world of legends of medieval world chronicles and their reception in the fantastic literature of the 20th and 21st centuries

Peter Podrez (Erlangen)
Weirdly Alive: Haunted Houses on Film

Young Researchers' Forum

Sarah Jenischewski (Germany)
Gender in the "House of Night" series

Simone Broders (Germany)
The Heartbeat of Outsiders - Vampiric Otherness as Female Empowerment in PC and Kristen Cast's House of Night

Johanna Hoessl (Austria)
Vampires

Malgorzata Drewniok (Great Britain)
The Witch, the Tabby Cat and the Undead: the Language of the D'Artigo Sisters from Yasmine Galenorn's Sisters of the Moon series

10: 30–11: 00 pm
Coffee break

11: 00–12: 30 pm
Shifts in Post Cold War Europe

Ludmila Kostova (Veliko Turnovo)
Vampires, Despots and Secret Policemen: Mapping the Parameters of the Political-Fantastic in post-1989 US-American Gothic Narratives about South Eastern Europe

Maria-Ana Tupan (Bucharest)
Fantasy from East to West: A Generic Janus

Elena Croitoru (Galati)
Fairy Tales in Translation

Films and New Media

Lars Schmeink (Hamburg)
Dawn of the Posthuman - Mythopoesis, Mad Science and the End of the Human

Joe Grixti (Auckland)
The Intrigue of the Liminal: Fantastic Explorations of the Shadow Self (Proceedings)

Beatrix Hesse (Bamberg)
A New Variation on the Alien Invasion Theme - Neill Blomkamp's "District 9" (Proceedings)

OpenTrack

Friedhelm Schneiderwind
Live role-playing games (LARP): war, fight - and yet a way to tolerance?

Sonja Klimek (Fribourg)
Fantastic Storytelling: Immersion and Metalepse in Fantasy Roleplaying (Proceedings)

Robin Junicke (Bochum)
Story(s) play in role play

Young Researchers' Forum

Wafa Mezghani (Tunisia)
A woman of the night in Raja's Amari film "Red Satin"

David Corpuz (Philippines)
Visible Invisibility: The Comfort of the Closet and the Re-Appropriation of Gay Spaces in Philippine Independent Cinema

Aileen Pinkert (Germany)
The "Otherness" in Bekmambetov's so-called vampire films "The Night Watch" and "The Day Watch"

12: 30–13: 30 pm
Lunch, book tables

13: 30–14: 30 pm
Shifts in Post Cold War Europe

Audrey Taylor (Middlesex)
The Architecture of Past: Patricia McKillip's "Ombria in Shadow" as Built History

Britta Madeleine Woitschig (Kiel)
Millennium Studies 101: The Lisbeth Salander Saga

Films and New Media

Daniel Illger (Berlin)
The "New Wave" of francophone horror films

Ingo Cornils (Leeds)
The Matrix Preloaded: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "World on a Wire"

OpenTrack

Uwe Durst (Erlangen)
deformed history

Helmut W. Pesch (Cologne)
The fantastic thriller. The emergence of the "mystery" genre after the end of the Cold War

Young Researcher's Forum

Daniel Sander (USA)
Narcos, Necros, and Homos: On Queer Geographies and Phenomenologies in Film

Izmir Rexhepi (Kosovo)
"Gay" friendly environment school

14: 30–15: 30 pm
Shifts in Post Cold War Europe

Fani Paraforou (Munich)
Varieties of the fantastic: The legend of the beast of Rhodes and its revival in contemporary urban space

Maria Oikonomou (Vienna)
sexy beasts About the abnormal and unreal in a small literature

Films and New Media

Christian Knöppler (Mainz)
The Unexploded Bombs of the Cold War: Global Threats and Solutions in Warren Ellis' "Global Frequency" and "The Authority" (Proceedings)

Tim Lanzendorfer (Mainz)
Mark Millar's "Superman: Red Son". European-American Perspectives of the Post-Cold War Superhero

Young Researchers' Forum

Shima Imshir (Turkey)
Reality Hidden Within: The Representation of Gender and Politics in Women Writer's Gothic Literature

Maria Fischhoff (USA)
"I'm Not a Fag, I'm a Werewolf": Teen Wolf and 1980s Masculinity

15: 30–16: 00 pm
Coffee break

16: 00–17: 00 pm
Reading: MARK ORTHS

17: 30–18: 30 pm
Keynote: BRIAN STABLEFORD: The Misdiagnosis of Madness in Science and Science Fiction (Proceedings)
(House of nature)

18: 30–19: 30 pm
Break

19: 30–21: 00 pm
studio talk with Markus Orths
as part of the exhibition "role games" in the MUSEUM DER MODERNE

1 October 2011

9: 00–10: 00 pm
Keynote: MARLEEN S BARR: The Hills Are Alive With Fantastic Cultural Infrastructure: How "The Sound of Music" Portrays An Alternative Universe Salzburg and Reflects Post Cold War Trans-national Social Dialogue between Austria and the United States (Proceedings)

10: 00–11: 00 pm
SALZBURG MUSEUM – BEHIND THE SCENES

11: 30–13: 00 pm
Shifts in Post Cold War Europe

Seiji Hattori (Casting)
On the 'imaginary geography' in Thomas Stangl's “The Only Place”.

Johannes Pause (Trier)
"Time is a network of fine knots." Strategies and functions of the fantastic in the work of Helmut Krausser and Daniel Kehlmann

Stefanie Kreuzer (Hanover)
Constellations of a postmodern fantasy (Proceedings)

Films and New Media

Stefan Rabitsch (Klagenfurt)
Hornblower in Space. Star Trekkin' the Theme of 'Britannia, rule the waves!' across a continuum of histories and science fiction texts (Proceedings)

Leonard Dworschak (Vienna)
Barbaric, Backward, and Belligerent: residual Eastern European evil in post-1989 US-American and British cinema

OpenTrack

Holger Nielen (Bonn)
Metaphysical problems in the work of Philip K. Dick

Stefanie Giebert (Reutlingen)
With the rollator in the spaceship? Images of aging in science fiction and fantasy (Proceedings)

Christine Lotscher (Zurich)
The book becomes flesh: The resurrection of the letters in contemporary German-language fantasy for young people

Young Researchers' Forum

Martina Kress (Austria)
"Undead: Yes - Unperson: No" - Vampires, werewolves, zombies and other undead who just want to have a good life in Terry Pratchett's Discworld

Sabine Planka (Germany)
Vampires in detective novels for children

Bea Klusener (Germany)
Vampires as Criminal Others in the 19th Century British Novel

Natasha Sharpe (USA)
Becoming Woman, Becoming Windigo

13: 00–14: 00 pm
Lunch, book tables

14: 00–15: 30 pm
Shifts in Post Cold War Europe

Julia Gatermann (Hamburg)
Recalling Identity - Cultural Heritage in Margaret Atwood's Postapocalyptic Dystopia "Oryx and Crake"

Anya Heise von der Lippe (Berlin)
Re-framing the post-feminist freak show: "Nights at the Circus" reloaded

Kostoula Kaloudi (University of Peloponnese)
A cinematic ghost place

Films and New Media

Ink Frost (Viadrina)
"New Who" and the 21st Century - the Doctor after the (Cold) War (Proceedings)

Henning Kasbohm (Hamburg)
The Purgatory in Front of the Pub – Spaces and Media of the Fantastic in “Life On Mars” and “Ashes To Ashes”

René Schallegger (Klagenfurt)
Flamboyance - The birth of French Fantasy during the early 1990s

OpenTrack

Ralph Pordzik
Writing the Cold War: Crisis and Conflict in British Utopian and Science Fiction Poetry of the 1950s and 60s

Iveta Leitane
The interplay between Jewish theology, cognitive sciences, and political reflection in Jewish science fiction after WWII

Silke Walther (Karlsruhe)
Re-imagined communities in contemporary Holocaust exhibitions

Young Researchers' Forum

Catherine Nigl (Austria)
Creatures of the Night – a new tourist resource?

Vito Tigiani (Italy)
Furry Angst, Sexy Fangs and a Ghost Thrown in the Middle: Exploring the World of Being Human

Eva-Maria Kubin (Austria)
Creatures of the Mind or from Another World? Fantastic Characters between Otherworldliness and Insanity in Contemporary British and Irish Drama

Christa Agnes Tuczay (Austria)
The medieval revenant, protovampire

Bahadir Surelli (Turkey)
Strange Creatures in Ottoman/Turkish Literature

15: 30–16: 00 pm
Break, book tables

16: 00–16: 30 pm
Presentation: HANS BRITTNACHER: Fantastic: An Interdisciplinary Handbook

16: 30–17: 30 pm
termination of the conference

17: 00–19: 00 pm
General Assembly of the GFF
book tables

20: 00–21: 00 pm
Ghost Experience, Hohensalzberg Fortress