CFP Spill Your Guts! A Graduate Student Work In Progress Symposium (9/16/2024; online event 11/2024)

Spill Your Guts! A Graduate Student Work In Progress Symposium

deadline for submissions:
September 16, 2024

full name / name of organization:
Horror Studies Scholarly Interest Group (SCMS)

contact email:
horrorstudiessig@gmail.com

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/08/05/spill-your-guts-a-graduate-student-work-in-progress-symposium

Calling all graduate students working in Horror Studies! This year, the SCMS Horror SIG will be convening a graduate student symposium, and we invite proposals from graduate students outlining their primary research topic.

The goal of the symposium is to offer a collegial forum for students to share work-in-progress and receive friendly feedback and advice from Horror SIG members. We welcome students at any stage of their academic journey, and strongly encourage Masters students and early year PhD students to participate. If you are at an early stage of a project, this is the perfect opportunity to work through ideas that are still in process and unpolished in a non-judgmental environment. There is no specific theme, as long as your project is related to horror in some way.

Potential presentation topics might include, but are not limited to:

• Teaching horror/horror studies in the university
• Researching the (historical-) industrial dimensions of horror films, tv, etc.
• Indie horror, fringe horror, and mainstream horror
• The contemporary landscapes of horror
• Queer and feminist horror
• Race and horror
• Labor practices, star systems, and taste discourses around working in horror
• Generic hybrids at the box office/tv screen
• Podcasting horror
• Streaming horror
• Licensing horror: IP, copyright, etc
• Horror and the archive
• Regulating horror (horror hosts as containment strategy, gatekeeping + power, TV code, etc)
• Horror and shifting exhibition strategies/technologies (3D, the William Castle approach)
• Transmedia approaches to horror (Universal Studios, Vegas attractions, haunted theme parks, fashion, etc.)

The presentations themselves will be shorter than a typical conference paper, with 5-10 minutes per person, depending on how many submissions we are able to include.

The symposium will take place online in November, 2024, date to be determined.

You do not have to be a member of SCMS or the Horror SIG to participate.

Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words along with a bio of no more than 100 words to horrorstudiessig@gmail.com by 16th September.




Last updated August 8, 2024