1/12/05
FYI
Elisabeth
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Research Centre for Religion, Film and Contemporary Culture, University of
Chester
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The Lure of the Dark Side:
Satan and Western Demonology in Popular Culture
10-12 March 2006
St. Deiniol’s Library
Church Lane, Hawarden, Flintshire, North Wales CH5 3DF, UK
Tel: + 44 (0)1244 532350
Fax: + 44 (0)1244 520643
Conference fee (including bed, dinner, and continental breakfast): £100
To book, please email Ms Karen Parry: [log in to unmask]
Website: http://www.st-deiniols.org/
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Personifications of evil in the form of demons, devils, spirits, vampires,
and other malign entities can be
found across the popular cultural spectrum. One only has to peruse the
shelves of music and
bookstores or view the content of some of the most successful films and
television series to discover
evidence for the phenomenal popular fascination with the demonic other. The
aim of this conference is
to examine the demonic foil within popular culture.
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Programme
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Friday 10 March 2006
5:30 Introductions and Welcome Drink
7:00 Dinner
8:00–9.00 Dr Crawford Gribben (University of Manchester) Demonism and the
Presbyterian Gothic in James Hogg’s Private Memoirs and Confessions of a
Justified Sinner
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Saturday 11 March 2006
8:30 Breakfast
9:30-10.15 Dr Titus Hjelm (University of Helsinki) Celluloid Vampires,
Technology, and the
Decline of Religion
10.15-11:00 Colin Duriez (independent researcher) Voldemort, Death Eaters,
Dementors,
and the Dark Arts: A Contemporary Theology of Spiritual Perversion in the
Harry
Potter Stories
11:00-11:30 Coffee
11:30-12.30 Professor George Aichele (Adrian College, Michigan) Demons of
the New
Polytheism
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:00 Professor Peter Mercer-Taylor (University of Minnesota) Between
Hymn and
Horror Film: How Do We Listen to the Cradle of Filth?
3:00-4:00 Dr Brian Baker (University of Chester) A Man of Wealth and Taste:
The Strange
Career of Hannibal Lecter
4:00-4:30 Coffee
4:30-5:30 Dr Keith Kahn-Harris (Open University) Transgression and Satanism
in Extreme
Metal
6:30-8:00 Dinner
8:00-9:00 Dr Larry Kreitzer (University of Oxford) Scriptural Dimensions of
Evil: Biblical
Text as Timepiece, Talisman, and Tatoo
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Sunday 12 March 2006
8:30 Breakfast
9:30-10.15 Revd. Chris Newlands (Chaplain to the Bishop of Chelmsford)
Exorcism: The
Fantasy and the Reality
10.15-11:00 Dr J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu (Trinity Theological Seminary,
Ghana) ‘Love
Brewed in the African Pot’: African Films and the Fascination with Evil
11:00-11:30 Coffee
11:30-12.30 Dr Bill Telford (University of Durham) Speak of the Devil: The
Portrayal of
Satan in the Christ Film
12:30-1:30 Lunch & Departure
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