Please note the schedule below may be subject to change. All those interested in attending please email the conveners at morrisonconference2012@gmail.com to be put on the conference mailing list.
Friday 14th September 2012
11.00-12.00 Registration (2nd Floor, Long Room Hub)
12.00-12.15 Welcome
12.15-1.45 PANEL 1: ‘Renaissance’
Arno Bogaerts: ‘From Superfolks to Supergods: Grant Morrison in the World of the Superhero’
Philip Bevin: ‘Superman Beyond Binaries: An Analysis of how the Distinction Between Morrison’s “Renaissance” Superman and his Work for the New 52 is Undermined by the Persistence of New Ideas’
Val Nolan: ‘“Superman Done Right”: Action Comics and the Reconstruction of the Original Superhero’
2.00-2.30 BREAK
2.30-3.30 PANEL 2: ‘Superworlds’
Keith Scott: ‘“Let me Slip into Someone more Comfortable”: Fiction Suits, Semantic Shamanism and Meta-linguistic Magic’
Schedel Luitjen: ‘Final Crisis, The Return of Bruce Wayne and Neoplatonic Demonology’
3.30-4.30 PANEL 3: ‘Symbolism’
Darragh Greene: ‘“The Jungian Stuff”: Symbols of Transformation and of Life in All-Star Superman’
Kate Roddy: ‘“Screw Symbolism and Let's Go Home”: Morrison and Bathos’
4.30-5.00 BREAK
5.00-6.00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Dr Chris Murray, University of Dundee [Title TBA]
6.00-8.00 WINE RECEPTION (Ideas Space, Long Room Hub)
Saturday 15th September
10.11.30 PANEL 4: ‘Good and Evil’
Muireann O’Sullivan: ‘God is Dead; Long Live Superman! Fan Culture and the Superhero as Messiah'
Nicholas Galante: ‘Our Father, Who Art in Gotham: Christian Symbols of Good and Evil in Arkham Asylum’
Will Brooker: ‘Batman Incorporated: Grant Morrison and the Dark Knight’s “Sci-Fi Closet”’
11.30-12.00 BREAK
12.00-1.00 PANEL 5: ‘Humanity and Superhumanity’
Jennifer Harwood Smith: ‘Killing a Hero: The Last Acts of Superman’
Shaun Treat: ‘Flirting with Fascism: The Utopian Mystification of All-Star Superman’
1.00-2.00 LUNCH
2.00-3.00 PANEL 6: ‘Masculine Identities’
Tim Pilcher: ‘Transvestism, Transgenderism and Transformative Personalities in the Life and Work of Grant Morrison’
David Coughlan: ‘From Shame into Glory in Grant Morrison’s The Filth’
3.00-4.30 PANEL 7: ‘Meta’
Charles Stephens: ‘Morrisonian Meta-Continuity Within the DC Universe: Creativity as the Ultimate Superpower’
Clare Pitkethly: ‘Alienated in the Pages of a Comic: The Self-Reflexivity of Grant Morrison’s Comic Book Characters’
Roy Cook: ‘The Writer and The Writer: The Death of the Author in Suicide Squad #58’
4.30-5.00 BREAK
5.00-6.00 CLOSING DISCUSSION
6.15 CONFERENCE DINNER
8.30 DRINKS AT THE DUKE PUB
8.30 DRINKS AT THE DUKE PUB
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