Program
10:00am |
Welcome & Opening (Stephanie Russo) |
10:05–11:20am |
Session 1: Revisiting Frankenstein (chaired by Kirstin Mills) |
“’My Beloved Sister’: The Other Family in Frankenstein” – Lee O’Brien |
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'Using “the living animal” to re-animate “lifeless clay”: The role of vivisection in the creation of Frankenstein's monster' – Libby King |
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“’The reflections of my hours of despondency and solitude’: Narrating Solitude in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein” – Geoffrey Payne |
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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 |
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“Frankenstein in Hyperspace: The Return of Twenty-first-century Digital Technologies to the Origins of Virtual Space in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” – Kirstin Mills |
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1:00–2:00pm |
Lunch |
2:00–3:00pm |
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 |
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“Monstrous Scions: Frankenstein and Posthumanist Mythology” – Paul Sheehan |
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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 |
| MQ Frankenreads Schedule.pdf |
