Friday, November 8, 2019
2:30pm Welcoming Remarks (Sandy Alexandre & Sladja Blazan)
3:00pm Dawn Keetley (Lehigh University): Black Mold, White Extinction
4:00pm Elmar Schenkel (Universität Leipzig): The Haunter and the Haunted: science, nature and
fear around 1900
5:00pm Break
5:30pm Justin D. Edwards (University of Stirling): Herds and Hostels: Animals, Anthropocene, Gothic
6:30pm Sandy Alexandre (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
The Harmer in the Dell: Race, Place, & Belonging
7:30pm Reception
Saturday, November 9, 2019
9:30am Summary Remarks (Sandy Alexandre & Sladja Blazan)
10:00am Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet (University of Lausanne)
Haunting and Horror in the Eco-Gothic
11:00am Catrin Gersdorf (Universität Würzburg)
Haunting Modernity: The Forest in American Literature
12:00pm Break (Lunch)
1:00pm Johan Hoglund (Linnaeus University)
Alligators in the Livingroom: Horror and Terror in the Anthropocene
2:00pm Elizabeth Parker (University of Birmingham)
Spectral Natures: Heritage Noire and the EcoGothic
3:00pm Break
3:30pm Elisabeth Scherer (Universität Düsseldorf)
Japanese Ghosts and Nature—A Gendered Haunting?
4:30pm Alexandra Hauke (Universität Passau)
From the Blackwoods to the Moon: Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle and American Ecofeminist Gothic