{"id":2317,"date":"2019-04-18T18:13:17","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T17:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=2317"},"modified":"2019-05-22T13:47:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T12:47:47","slug":"booking-open-for-the-gothic-feminism-conference-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2019\/04\/18\/booking-open-for-the-gothic-feminism-conference-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Booking open for the Gothic Feminism conference 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/film.html\">Department of Film<\/a> and the Histories: Art, Drama and Film Research Cluster are delighted to be organising a conference on \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/gothicfeminism.com\/conference-programme-2019\/\">Technology, Women and Gothic-Horror On-Screen<\/a>\u2019, to be held at the University of Kent\u2019s Canterbury campus on Thursday 2 May to Friday 3 May 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The conference has been organised by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/assistant-and-associate-lecturers\/kamm.html\">Dr Frances Kamm<\/a>, Assistant Lecturer in Film and Media, \u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/academic-staff\/jeffers-mcdonald.html\">Dr Tamar Jeffers McDonald<\/a>, Reader in Film.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gothicfeminism.com\/\">Gothic Feminism<\/a> is a research project based at Kent which seeks to re-engage with theories of the Gothic and reflect specifically upon the depiction of the Gothic heroine in film. The project raises questions of representation, interpretation and feminist enquiry in relation to the Gothic heroine throughout film history including present day incarnations. This project illuminates the concerns, contradictions and challenges posed by the Gothic heroine on-screen.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s two day conference will consider the theme of technology in the woman-in-jeopardy strand of the Gothic and Gothic-horror film or television. The keynote speaker shall be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/ftt\/about\/staff\/l-v-purse.aspx\">Dr Lisa Purse<\/a> (University of Reading), and topics include \u2018Gothic Melodrama and Technicolour Design\u2019; \u2018Paranormal Investigations and their Implications for the Feminine Victorian Gothic\u2019; Being a Man, Being a Woman and Being a Monster in <em>Resident Evil: Biohazard<\/em>\u2019 and \u2018Gaze, Gender, and Gothically Haunted Humanoid Inventions\u2019. For the full programme, please see the page here: <a href=\"https:\/\/gothicfeminism.com\/conference-programme-2019\/\">https:\/\/gothicfeminism.com\/conference-programme-2019\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tickets cost \u00a350 waged \/ \u00a325 unwaged \/ \u00a35 for Kent students. Registration is open until Monday <b>22 April 2019<\/b>; to register for the event, please visit the page here: <a href=\"https:\/\/store.kent.ac.uk\/product-catalogue\/faculty-of-humanities\/school-of-arts\/arts-events\/gothic-feminism-2019\">https:\/\/store.kent.ac.uk\/product-catalogue\/faculty-of-humanities\/school-of-arts\/arts-events\/gothic-feminism-2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Film and the Histories: Art, Drama and Film Research Cluster are delighted to be organising a conference on \u2018Technology, Women and Gothic-Horror &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2019\/04\/18\/booking-open-for-the-gothic-feminism-conference-2019\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":2329,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[112,1123,168429,124,9112],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2317"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2332,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions\/2332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}