Philosophy of Horror - Schedule

Friday, April 26

8:30 – 9:00            Breakfast / Land Acknowledgement / Greetings

9: 00 – 9:50          Keynote:  Nandita Biswas Mellamphy & Dan Mellamphy (Western)

   The Obsolescence of The Human (TOOTH): A Flossoffical Investigation through the Horrorscope, Enacted on Reticulated Youth (A·FIT·THEORY)

9:50 – 10:00         Coffee Break

10:00 – 10:50       Panel One: Existential Approaches to Horror

              Noah Grossman (Independent Scholar)

                                Horror in the Common

                                Alex Carty (University of Guelph)

                                On Dying Every Day

10:50 – 11:00       Coffee Break

11:00 – 11:50       Panel Two: Performing Knowledges of the Inhuman                

              Thom Campbell (University of Guelph)

                                Poetics and Melancholia

                                Noah Travis Phillips (University of Denver / Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design)

                                Flies (in Space!)

11:50 – 12:50       Lunch Break

1:00 – 1:50           Panel Three:

               Aaron Service (Carleton)

                                On Worlds Unrealized: The Gnashing Teeth of Negation, Time and the Nothing

                                Nour Abuhsan (University of Guelph)

                                The Role of Myth in Horkheimer and Adorno’s Dialectic of the Enlightenment

1:50 – 2:00           Coffee Break

2:00 – 3:00           Roundtable: Feminism, Queerness and Interrogations of Horror

                           Moderator: Quinn McGlade-Ferentzy (University of Guelph)

4:00 – 6:30           Dinner @ Miijidaa Café & Bistro (37 Quebec St.)

TIME PENDING     Group Film Screening: “The Curse Of La Llorona” (Galaxy Cinemas – 485 Woodlawn Road West)

                                Please RSVP during the day to ensure we can coordinate transport

Saturday, April 27

8:30 – 9:00           Breakfast

9:00 – 9:50           Keynote: Dr. Patricia Sheridan (University of Guelph)

                                Title Pending

9:50 – 10:00         Coffee Break

10:00 – 10:50       Panel One: Knowledge and Divination

               Brent Ables (University of Guelph)

                                No Pain, No Gain: On the Practical Wisdom of Torture Porn

                                Josef Lewitzsky (Concordia)

                                Bergson and Divination

10:50 – 11:00       Coffee Break

11:00 – 11:50       Panel Two: Boundaries of the (In) Human

              Jack McCart (University of Guelph)

                                The Ontology of the Edge: Animalia, the Ordo Mundi, and the Undercurrents of Medieval Thought

              Hayley Malouin (Independent Scholar)

    “Gooble Gobble, One, or Several, of Us”: Becoming-Molecular, Becoming-Imperceptible in Tod Browning’s Freaks

11:50 – 12:50       Lunch Break

1:00 – 2:00           Roundtable: The Horror of David Cronenberg

                           Moderator: TBA

2:00 – 2:15           Coffee Break

2:15 – 3:00           Closing Presentation

                                Josh Grant-Young (University of Guelph)

                                Towards A Blackening of the Cosmos: A Provocation