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Transnational Monstrosity in Popular Culture: A One-Day Conference York St John University, Saturday 3rd June 2017 Invited speakers<http://blog.yorksj.ac.uk/transnationalmonsters/invited-speakers/>: Dr Colette Balmain (Kingston University) Dr Donna McCormack (University of Surrey) Professor Andrew Smith (University of Sheffield) Dr Johnny Walker (Northumbria University) Registration is now open: full delegate rate is £30, £15 for PG students To book your place, please visit our website: http://blog.yorksj.ac.uk/transnationalmonsters/registration/ Our full provisional programme is also available on our website: http://blog.yorksj.ac.uk/transnationalmonsters/programme/ This one-day conference will explore the figure of the monster in transnational popular culture, across cinema, television, games, comics and literature to consider how monstrosity is constructed, represented and disseminated in global popular culture. Since the popularisation of monster narratives in the nineteenth century, the monstrous figure has been a consistent border crosser, from Count Dracula's journey on the Demeter from Romania to Whitby, to the rampaging monsters of Godzilla movies across multiple global cities. In folklore, such narratives have long been subject to specific local and national cultures, such as the shape-shifting Aswang of Filipino folklore or the Norwegian forest Huldra, yet global mediacapes now circulate mediatised representations of such myths across borders, contributing to a transnational genre that spans multiple media. Aihwa Ong has referred to 'the transversal, the transactional, the translational, and the transgressive' in transnational 'human practices and cultural logics', and each of these categories can encompass the scope of transformations imagined within cross-border constructions of monstrosity. The conference will shed new light on the ways in which monsters and monstrosity have been shaped by and in transnational popular culture. Follow us on Twitter for more updates: @TNMonstrosity<https://twitter.com/TNMonstrosity> Cheers, Steve Dr. Steve Rawle Associate Professor Media Production/Film and TV Production School of Performance & Media Production York St John University Lord Mayor's Walk York Y031 7EX Tel: 01904 876584 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Need to book a tutorial? Go here<http://intranet.yorksj.ac.uk/tutorialbooker/ViewTutorSchedule.aspx?ID=s.rawle> [175 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE]<http://www.yorksj.ac.uk/175.aspx> This email and any files transmitted with it were intended solely for the addressee. If you have received this email in error please let the sender know by return. Please think before you print. -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid “engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list.” For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------