Schedule in Detail + Abstracts
Thursday 7 July
- 15.00-17.30 – Registration (Glass Staff Space, Ground Floor, Knights Park Building)
- 17.30-20.00 – Welcome to EuroSlayage & Wine Reception – Sponsored by the Kingston University School of Performance and Screen Studies' Popular Culture Research Unit (Glass Staff Space, Ground Floor, Knights Park Building)
Friday 8 July
- 9.00-9.30 – Registration & Refreshments (Glass Staff Space, Ground Floor, Knights Park Building)
- 9.30-9.45 – Welcome & Opening Address (KPTK 101)
- 9.45-11.00 – Keynote Speaker – Rebecca Williams, 'Immortal Fandom?: The Post-Object Afterlives of Joss Whedon's Television Shows' (KPTK 101)
- 11:10-12:40 – Parallel Sessions
1 Marvel Universe: Agents of Shield
(KPTK 402) Simon Brown, Chair
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2 Food and Tea Rituals and Narratives in Whedon
(KPTK 401) Tamy Burnett, Chair |
- 12.40-13.40 – Lunch (Provided) (Glass Staff Space, Ground Floor, Knights Park Building)
- 13.40-15.10 – Parallel Sessions
4 Marvel Universe: Age of Ultron
(KPTK 402) Janet K. Halfyard, Chair
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5 Whedon and Europe
(KPTK 401) Sharon Sutherland, Chair
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6 The Rising Tide: Anti-Colonialism, Social Justice, and Diversity in the Whedonverses
(KPTK 504) Evan Halyes Gledhill, Chair |
- 15.10-15.25 – Break
- 15:25-16:55 – Parallel Sessions
7 Whedon and Globalisation
(KPTK 401) Svetlana Seibel, Chair
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8 Body Politics
(KPTK 402) Lorna Jowett, Chair |
9 War in the Whedonverses
(KPTK 504) Kristopher Karl Woofter, Chair
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- 16.55-17.15 – Tea/Coffee Break ((Glass Staff Space, Ground Floor, Knights Park Building)
- 17:15-18:45 – Parallel Sessions
10 Posthuman/More than Human: Cyborgs, AI and Brainwashing
(KPTK 402) David Simmons, Chair |
11 Masculinity
(KPTK 401) Eve Bennett, Chair
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12 Empowerment or Empire?: Troubling the Whedon Trope of Fighting the Good Fight (Roundtable)
(KPTK 504) Samira Nadkarni, Chair
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- 7.30 – Conference Dinner (Reservation Required) (Strada, Kingston upon Thames, KT1 1JT)
Saturday 9 July
- 9.00-9.30 – Registration & Refreshments (Glass Staff Space, Ground Floor, Knights Park Building)
- 9.30-11.00 – Keynote Speaker – Marcus Recht, 'Undead Masculinities: Visual Gender Constructions of Angel and Spike' (KPTK 101)
- 11:00-12:30 – Parallel Sessions
13 Trauma and Mental Health
(KPTK 401) Louise Child, Chair
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14 Whedon and Science Fiction
(KPTK 402) Bronwen Calvert, Chair
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15 De la Estaca al Martillo: Un Viaje por los universos de Joss Whedon: The first Spanish Academic Book about the Author and His Artistic Career (Roundtable)
(KPTK 504) Irene Raya Bravo, Chair
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- 12.30-14.00 – Lunch (Provided) (Glass Staff Space, Ground Floor, Knights Park Building) + Whedon Studies Association Meeting (13.00-14.00, KPTK 101)
- 14:00-15:30 – Parallel Sessions
16 Up Close and Personal: Episodes under the Microscope
(KPTK 402) Jim Reynolds, Chair |
17 Uploading to the Cortex: Watcher Junior and the Process of Undergraduate Publication (Roundtable)
(KPTK 401) Meghan K. Winchell, Chair
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18 Communication, Education and University Fiction
(KPTK 504) AmiJo Comeford, Chair
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- 15.30-15.50 – Tea/Coffee Break (Glass Staff Space, Ground Floor, Knights Park Building)
- 15:50-17:20 – Parallel Sessions
19 The Development of Whedon’s Work in Spain: Reviews and Reception of His Artistic Career
(KPTK 504) Mary Alice Money, Chair
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20 Whedon and Family On and Off the Screen
(KPTK 402) Cynthia Burkhead, Chair |
21 Fandom and Audiences
(KPTK 401) Elizabeth Rambo, Chair
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- 17.20-17.30 – Break
- 17.30-19.00 – Parallel Sessions
22 Bringing Buffy Back: The Slayer as a Learning Teaching Solution (Roundtable)
(KPTK 504) Paula James, Chair
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23 Generations/History/Place
(KPTK 401) Mary Ellen Iatropoulos, Chair
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24 Identity Construction
(KPTK 402) Josefine Wälivaara
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Sunday 10 July
- 9.00-9.30 – Registration & Refreshments (Glass Staff Space, Ground Floor, Knights Park Building)
- 9.30-10.45 – Featured Speakers – Lewis Call, '"I Adore You . . . But I Need the Other Guy": Black Widow/Hulk as a Whedonesque Relationship of Dominance and Submission' & Stephanie Graves, '"What Other Choice Do We Have?": Agency and Autonomy in the Whedonverses' (KPTK 101)
- 10.45-11.00 – Tea/Coffee Break (Glass Staff Space, Ground Floor, Knights Park Building)
- 11:00-12:30 – Parallel Sessions
25 Teaching the Whedonverses (Roundtable)
(KPTK 402) James Zborowski, Chair
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26 Power and the Paranormal
(KPTK 401) Michael Starr, Chair
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3 (Rescheduled)
Watching Whedon: A Glimpse into One Family’s Prolific Consumption and Dynamic Discussion of the Whedonverse (A Multi-generational Roundtable) (KPTK 504) Dreama Pritt, Chair
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- 12.30-14.00 – Lunch Break (Own Arrangements)
- 14:00-15:30 – Parallel Sessions
- 15.30-15.45 – Tea/Coffee Break (Glass Staff Space, Ground Floor, Knights Park Building)
- 15:45-17:15 – Parallel Panels
30 Gothic and Horror
(KPTK 402) Simon Brown, Chair
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31 Gender Politics/Roles
(KPTK 401) Elizabeth Kate Switaj, Chair
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- 17.30-18.15 – Whedon Bookers: The Past, Present and Future of Whedon Studies + Closing Remarks (KPTK 101)
- Farewell