Another conference outside the US:
Why Frankenstein Matters at 200: Rethinking the Human through the Arts and Sciences, July 4-6, 2018
http://sites.nd.edu/operation-frankenstein/
This bicentennial conference on the persisting cultural and scientific impact of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein will take place July 4-6, 2018 at the University of Notre Dame’s Rome Global Gateway facility, adjacent to the Coliseum. The conference will bring together a group of distinguished scholars (30-35) from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds across the sciences, humanities, and arts to interact on the continuing urgency of Frankenstein—the most widely taught novel worldwide at the university level—for a broad spectrum of pressing concerns in such fields as bioethics, genetics, artificial intelligence, evolutionary theory, environmental studies, race relations and colonialism, literary and theater studies, human rights, refugee studies, gender studies, disability studies, philosophy, and religious studies.
The organizing theme of this event considers how Shelley’s gripping
novel, and its many theatrical and screen adaptations over the years,
have shaped or may shape our evolving comprehension of the human
experience, especially in relation to art, culture, science, technology,
ethics, and politics most broadly conceived.
The finalized conference line-up of speakers features, among other
leading writers, Joyce Carol Oates and includes the following speakers:
Stuart Curran, Anne Mellor, Jeffrey Cox, Timothy Morton, David Punter,
Mary Jacobus, James Chandler, Susan Wolfson, Serena Baiese, and Claire
Connolly (literary studies and Romanticism); Steven B. Smith, Nancy J.
Hirschmann, Marina Calloni, and David Archard (philosophy an
d political
theory); Monika Nalepa (political science); Franca Dellarosa
(comparative literature); Elizabeth Young, Ron Leavao, and Devi Snively
(film studies); Eben Kirksey, Jon Marks, and Tracey Betsinger
(anthropology); Charles Gross (neuroscience); Sylvana Tomaselli
(history); Lilla Maria Crisafulli (gender studies) and Holly Goodson
(molecular and cell biology).
Conference activities will also include a new feminist film adaptation of Frankenstein.
The University of Notre Dame conference organizational team
represents the interdisciplinary dynamic of this event: Eileen Hunt
Botting (Political Science); Agustin Fuentes (Anthropology); Anton Juan
(Film, Television, and Theater); Greg Kucich (English), and Devi Snively
(Independent Filmmaker/Anthropology).
Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein was published in 1818 and, over 200 years later, still remains a profound influence on modern culture. Frankenstein and the Fantastic, an outreach effort of the Northeast Alliance for the Study of the Fantastic and the Fantastic Areas (Fantasy & Science Fiction and Monsters & the Monstrous) of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association, is designed as a resource for celebrating the text and its legacy.
Counting down to 2024: The sixtieth anniversary of The Munsters, the fiftieth anniversary of Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder's Young Frankenstein, the fortieth anniversary of Tim Burton's original Frankenweenie, the thirtieth anniversary of Kenneth Branagh’s film Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Universal Studios’ television series Monster Force, the twentieth anniversary of Geof Darrow and Steve Skroce’s comic Doc Frankenstein and Stephen Sommers’s film Van Helsing, and the tenth anniversary of Stuart Beattie’s I, Frankenstein.
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