Conference: Horror and the Gothic in Holocaust Representation Event
- Time:
- 9:00 - 18:30
- Date:
- 31 October 2023
- Venue:
- Library Conference Room (Hartley Library) & Online via Zoom University of Southampton Highfield Campus Southampton SO17 1BJ
Event details
Join the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish and non-Jewish Relations for a one day conference 'Horror and the Gothic in Holocaust Representation'.
This multidisciplinary one-day conference explores the use of formal and aesthetic tropes deriving from horror and the Gothic within diverse representations of the Holocaust across fiction and film.
Comprising research presentations and discussions, it seeks to respond to the following questions: how have the stylistic and political tenets of horror and the Gothic informed representations of the Holocaust and vice versa? To what degree are these modes well-suited to depicting genocide? How do literary, artistic, and other works of the Holocaust navigate the tension between the inherently transgressive yet at times gratuitously violent tendencies of horror and the Gothic as popular cultural genres?
Agenda
09:00 - 09:30 Registration/coffee
09:30 - 09:45 Welcome & opening remarks
09:45 - 11:45 Panel 1: Haunting and the haunted
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 Lecture
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
Kobi Kabalek (Penn State University) ‘“Fear Drew Pictures of Horror in My Imagination”: Fictional Horror in Holocaust Victims’ Accounts’ // 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