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 FrankenReads 

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Program

10:00am​
​Welcome & Opening (Stephanie Russo)
10:05–11:20am​​
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Session 1: Revisiting Frankenstein
​(chaired by Kirstin Mills)
 
“’My Beloved Sister’: The Other Family in Frankenstein” – Lee O’Brien
 
'Using “the living animal” to re-animate “lifeless clay”: The role of vivisection in the creation of Frankenstein's monster' – Libby King
 
“’The reflections of my hours of despondency and solitude’: Narrating Solitude in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein” – Geoffrey Payne ​
​11:20–11:45am
Morning Tea
11:45–1:00pm
​Session 2: New Perspectives on Frankenstein
​(chaired by Jimmy Van)
 
“The Tangled World of Frankenstein and Conflict of Laws” – Harry Melkonian ​ 
 
“Frankenstein in Hyperspace: The Return of Twenty-first-century Digital Technologies to the Origins of Virtual Space in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” – Kirstin Mills
1:00–2:00pm​
​Lunch​
2:00–3:00pm
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​Session 3: Frankenstein Goes to the Movies
​(chaired by Michelle Hamadache)
 
“’Yes Master, No Master’: The Cinematic Development of Igor in the Frankenstein Narrative” – Guy Webster (Macquarie University
 
​“Monstrous Scions: Frankenstein and Posthumanist Mythology” – Paul Sheehan
3:00–3:15pm
​Afternoon Tea​
​3:15–3:30pm​
Intro to film Frankenstein (1931) by John Mathews​
3:30–4:40pm
Screening of Film
For further information please contact Dr Stephanie Russo.
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