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6 April 2019
9:00 – 9:30 Registration, Coffee, and Pastries
9:30 – 9:45 Welcome
Dr Sam George
9:45 – 10:30 Tour of Keats House
10:30 – 11:00 The bloody horde of vampires in the Villa Diodati
Prof. Nick Groom (University of Exeter)
11:00 – 11:30 ‘In their nocturnal orgies’: Polidori’s The Vampyre and the many inventions of special effects
Dr Ivan Phillips (University of Hertfordshire)
11:30 – 11:55 Tea and Vampyre cupcakes
11:55 – 12:25 Rebellion, treachery, and glamour: Lady Caroline Lamb’s Glenarvon and the progress of the Byronic vampire
Dr Bill Hughes (OGOM)
12:25 – 12:55 Phantasmagoria and Spectriana: The legacy of Polidori’s vampyre from theatricals to vampire slaying kits
Dr Sam George (University of Hertfordshire)
12:55 – 13:50 Lunch
13:50 – 14:20 Sexual contagions: Vampirism and Tuberculosis Marcus Sedgwick (novelist and critic)
14:20 – 14:50 To fill my heart with deeper crimson’: Physiology and the fictional vampire
Prof. William Hughes (Bath Spa University)
14:50 – 15:20 From Polidori’s holiday escapes: Florence Marryatt’s The Blood of the Vampire, Sarah Smith’s ‘The Red Storm Comes’, and Moira Buffini/Neil Jordan’s Byzantium
Prof. Gina Wisker (University of Brighton)
15:20 – 15:50 ‘Now my clothes are right again’: Byronic vampires in the long 1960s
Prof. Catherine Spooner (Lancaster University)
15:50 – 16:15 Tea and Vampyre cupcakes
16:15 – 17:00 Special Guest: Polidori Revisited Sir Christopher Frayling Introduced by: Dr Sam George
7 April 2019
9:15 – 9:30 Assemble at Highgate (instructions here)
Dr Kaja Franck
9:30 – 11:30 Vampiric Excursion: Highgate Cemetery
11:30 – 12:00 Coach journey back to Keats House
12:00 – 12:55 Lunch at Keats House (and Day 2 registration)
12:55 – 13:25 I walk and the past walks with me’: Rewriting Polidori’s Vampyre in Byzantium
Dr Stacey Abbott (University of Roehampton)
13:25 – 13:55 The Vulgar Fictions of a demented Irishman’: Postmodern Vampirism and the cinema of Neil Jordan
Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn (MMU)
13:55 – 14:25 The legacy of Romanticism’s female fiends: Christabel, ‘Carmilla’, ‘Luella Miller’, and the psychic vampire
Daisy Butcher (University of Hertfordshire)
14:25 – 14:50 Tea and Vampyre cupcakes
14:50 – 15:20 Polidori and the postmillennial vampyre
Dr Sue Chaplin (Leeds Beckett University)
15:20 – 15:50 The deadly hue of his face’: The Genesis of the Vampiric Gentleman and his Deadly Beauty; Or, how Lord Ruthven became Edward Cullen
Dr Kaja Franck (University of Hertfordshire)
15:50 – 16:20 Vampenstein: Shori Matthews as conjunction of undead and reanimated in Octavia Butler’s Fledgling
Dr Jillian Wingfield (University of Hertfordshire)
16:20 – 16:50 Vampiros: On the Spanish vampire
Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes (MMU)
16:50 – 17:00 Closing Remarks
Dr Bill Hughes