Zombie economics and the debt overhang (personal as well as corporate) has led to a collapse in house construction. It has also revived the Zombie fad....
....of course, academic Zombies are something different
Zombies: Walking, Eating and Performance Symposium
Plymouth University, UK
SCHEDULE
All events take place in or around the
Roland Levinsky Building
(RLB). Rooms starting with 3xx are on the 3
rd
floor.
DAY 1: 12 APRIL 2013
Image by Laura Wady (www.laurawady.co.uk)
When Where What2.30
–
3.30 pm
Crosspoint (groundfloor RLB)Registration (will be open until 6 pm for late-comers. If you arrive after 6, you can formally register tomorrowmorning)
3.30
–
4.20 pm
RLB 304 Welcome by Roberta Mock, followed by
Opening paper
by Phil Smith (Plymouth)
–
“Walking with Zombies”
4.30
–
6pm
RLB 304
PANEL 1: Zombidentities
(chaired by Prarthana Purkayastha, Plymouth)
Jenny Lawson (Northumbria)
–
“
Fantasies of the Undead: Eating Minds, Feeding on Humanity
”
Roberta Mock (Plymouth)
–
“‘This ain’t no love
-
in, this ain’t no happenin’: har
dcore zombies of Detroit
”
Victor Ramirez Ladron de Guevara (Plymouth)
–
“
´Once upon a time, Santos was reading about the Sahuayozombies when...´: A discussion of (post)modernity, nationalism and pe
rformativity in Mexican zombies”
6
–
7 pm
RLB 303 BUFFET DINNEROutside RLB (behindScott Building)
“Welcome to the I Scream Van”
(John Lee, Winchester)
–
delegates must sign up in advance due to limitedaudience capacityCrosspoint Zombie make-up and prosthetics by Smart-FX(www.smart-fx-uk.com)
7
–
10 pm
Jill Craigie Cinema(ground floor RLB)
Delegates must pick up tickets in advance from Peninsula Arts Box Office (ground floor RLB)ZOMBIE FILM NITE
(introduced by Kayla Parker, Plymouth):
Terror!
(UK, dir. Ben Rivers, 2006)
Otto; or, Up with Dead People
(Canada/Germany, dir. Bruce LaBruce, 2008)
KEYNOTE: Bruce LaBruce (by Skype)
2
DAY 2: 13 APRIL 2013When Where What8.30
–
9am
Crosspoint (ground floorRLB)Registration for late-comers
9
–
10.30am
RLB 308
PANEL 2A: Zombie bodies
(chaired by Lee Miller, Plymouth)
Lydia Towsey (independent poet and performer) and Scott Bridgewood (independent artist)
–
“ReadingZombies”
Joanne ‘Bob’ Whalley (Falmouth) –
“The Unborn Undead”
Irene Baena-Cuder (East Anglia)
–
“Zombies as Othered
: Disposable Bodies in the Spanish Film
REC
(2007)”
RLB 304
PANEL 2B: Shocks, Cracks, Flicks
(chaired by Victor Ladrón de Guevara, Plymouth)
Maurice O'Connell (independent performance-maker)
–
“Shell Shock: The Walking Dead”
Kayla Parker (Plymouth)
–
“
Trancing the white darkness: cinematic resurrection and animation
”
Deepthi Sebastian (Queens University Belfast)
–
“‘Let the cracks between things widen until they are nolonger cracks but the new places for things’: The pestilential State and the zombie antidote”
10.30
–
11 am
Crosspoint COFFEE (Use the voucher in your conference pack which includes the image at the top of this schedule.)Zombie make-up and prosthetics by Smart-FX(www.smart-fx-uk.com) Outside RLB (behind ScottBuilding)
“Welcome to the I Scream Van”
(John Lee, Winchester)
–
delegates must sign up in advance due to limitedaudience capacity
11
–
11.45 am
Theatre 1 (ground floor RLB)
A ticket is in your conference pack.
(This event can be attended by non-delegates, aged 8+. Tickets fromPeninsula Arts. It will also be streamed live online.)
WIRELESS ZOMBIES!
(Richard Hand, Glamorgan)A recreation of live 1940s style radio play, presented by Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries,plus talk back (chaired by Roberta Mock).
11.55 am
–
1.25 pm
RLB 304
PANEL 3A: Zombie walk, zombie run
(chaired by Phil Smith, Plymouth)
Grace Halden (Birkbeck)
–
“The ‘bare life’ of the human in conflict contexts: the static behaviour andgroup marching of the war zombie”
Kristofor Darby (Exeter)
–
“Zombies Run! Being Chased by the Undead”
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