TV Fangdom DRAFT Conference Programme 2013
Friday 7 June 2013
9.00: Registration
10.00: Opening Session: Welcome/Introduction/ Housekeeping
10.15: Keynote 1: Brigid Cherry (St Mary’s University College) ‘Blood and Yarns: Vampire Fan Narratives and Feminine Handicrafting’
11.15-12.45
1— V am pi r es a nd Ch il dr en’ s T V
2— V am pi r e Di al e cti c s
Karin Beeler (University of Northern British Columbia) ‘My Babysitter’s a
Vampire: Canadian Vampire Television for Children’
Matthew Patemen (Sheffield Hallam University) ‘Buffy versus Dracula – Television,
Modernity and Cultural Narrative’
Sarah Downes (Loughborough University) ‘Our Children Are Monsters: The
Vampire as Metaphor in Children’s Television’
Selma A Purac (Western University) ‘Authenticating the Contemporary Un-Dead:
Vampire Dialectics in The X-Files’
Leslie Ormandy (Clackamas Community College) ‘Metamorphosis of the Child
Michael Starr (University of Northampton) ‘ "Turn two, the rest is food": Political
Anthropology and the Buffyverse Vampire’
Vampires: The Transformation of an Archetype’
12.45-1.45 LUNCH
1.45-2.30 Featured Speaker 1: Marcus Recht (Justus-Liebig Universität Gießen) ‘Visual Gender of Buffy's Male Vampires’
TE A
2.45-4.15
3— Va mp ir e s and T V Ho rr or
4— D om est i c and S ympat het i c V amp i re s
Nadia Naili (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis) ‘Psychic Vampires in the Novels
Madelein Helme (University of Nottingham) ‘The Reluctant Vampire:
of Stephen King: Representation and Cinematographic Adaptations’
Domestication of the vampire in Dark Shadows’
Simon Brown (Kingston University) ‘Salem’s Lot: Vampire Kingdom’
Zhana Popova (University of Sofia) ‘Vampires among Housewives and Mothers in
Post-totalitarian Bulgaria’
Sorcha Ní Fhlainn (Manchester Metropolitan University ) ‘A Very Special
Vampire Episode: Gothic television, vampires, and postmodern turns in The X
Bill Hughes/Sam George ‘Through a glass darkly’: Reflection, Representation, and
Mortality in Angel’
Files (1993-2002) and Friday the 13th: The Series (1987-1990)’
4.15-5.15 Featured Speaker 2: Lisa Kerrigan (Television Curator, BFI National Archive) ‘Unearthing Rare Vampire TV’
5.45 Reception, book launch and giveaw ays: ‘W e’ll stay f or f ive minutes. Ten if they got dranks’ (Laf ayette, True Blood)
Saturday 8 June 2013
9.00-10.30
5— Th e V a mpi r e Di a r ie s
6— Am e r ic an C ultu r e / Am e r i can i sat ion
Antonio Sanna (Cagliari, Italy) ‘Familial Concerns and the Possession of Heirlooms in The
Vampire Diaries’
Joseph Crawford (Exeter University) ‘The Old Country: American TV Vampire
Dramas as Histories of Immigration’
Jo Ormond (Lancaster University) ‘ “Look at you, all retro”: Exploring Costume and
Doubling in The Vampire Diaries and Rebecca’
Christina Wilkins (University of Southampton) ‘Fighting Metaphorical Battles: The
Americanisation of the TV Vampire post 9/11’
Andra Bundgaard (Dublin City University) ‘The female heroine and the ‘new’ vampire on Mareike Jenner (Aberystwyth University) ‘Homophobia, Feminism and Civil Rights
– All Lazy Metaphors? On the Postmodernism of Alan Ball’s True Blood’
television: a comparison of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, True Blood and The Vampire
Diaries’
10.45-12.15
7— V am pi r e P ar odi e s and Va r iet y P ro gr a m me s
8— Ro man c e, Se x a nd S e xu al it y
Sarah Harman (Brunel University) and Clarissa Smith (University of Sunderland) ‘Tru – A
Janet K. Halfyard (Birmingham Conservatoire) ‘Cellos by moonlight: music and
the romanticization of the male vampire in television’
XXX Parody as Paratext’
Ian Dawe (Independent Scholar) ‘Count Blah: A Parody of a Pastiche, Wrapped in an
Homage’
Bethan Jones (Aberystwyth University) ‘Bad, Blonde and Bloody: Slashing Spike
and Eric’
Brad Middleton (Independent Scholar)’ From the Kitsch to the Creative: Vampires in
Rhianon Jones (Lancaster University) ‘ “We Fight Like Siblings but We Fuck Like
Variety Programming’
Champions”: Incest and True Blood’
12.15-1.15 LUNCH
1.15-2.00—Featured Speaker 3 : Catherine Spooner (Lancaster University) ‘The Shadow of a Vampire: Vampiric Adaptation and
the Case of Barnabas Collins’
2.00-3.30
9— I nte rn at ion al Va m pir e T V
10 — V a mpi r e L an gu a ge, L ife st yl e s and F a n Cu ltu r e
Stan Beeler (University of Northern British Columbia) ‘Nick Knight to Forever Knight:
Style versus Story’
Malgorzata Drewniok (Lancaster University) ‘Changing Identity on the small
screen: transformations, vampires and language in Buffy the Vampire Slayer’
Xavier Aldana Reyes (Manchester Metropolitan University) ‘ Teenagers and “Mestizos”:
The Strange Case of the Spanish Televisual Vampire’
Minja Blom (University of Helsinki) ‘Religious Dimensions of Television Vampire
Fandom’
Heidi Bickis (University of Alberta) ‘Ultraviolet: Televising Vampire-Human Relations’
Maria Mellins (St Mary’s University College) ‘Fangtasia London: The True Blood
Franchise and Vampire Lifestyle’
TE A
3.45-5.15
11 —T el ev i su al it y
Bronwen Calvert (Sunderland University/Open University) ‘Beyond “Monster of the Week”?: The Villainous Vampire in Serial Television’
Lorna Jowett (University of Northampton) ‘Horrible Histories? Vampire Television, Period Drama and Spectacle’
Stacey Abbott (University of Roehampton) ‘ “So Who’s Got a Case of Dark Prince Envy?”: The Televisual Dracula’
5.30-6.30
Keynote 2 and Close: W riting TV Vampires —Q&A with Simon J. Ashford (W riter for CBBC’s Young Dracula )