Schedule:

PROVISIONAL SCHEDULE

Thursday 18TH May Schedule
Location: The Harvard Film Archive

5.30pm Registration begins

6.30pm Welcome and opening remarks

6:45-7.30 Dr.Stephen Mitchell (Harvard University, Department of Folklore & Mythology) Keynote Address

7:45 pm Reception at Harvard Faculty Club

Friday 19TH May Schedule
Location: The Harvard Film Archive Room B04

8.30-9.30 Registration

9.30-10.15 Introduction

Dr. Tanya Krzywinska (Brunel University), Keynote Paper

10.15-10.30 Break

10.30-11.15 Dr. Mikel Koven (University of Wales, Aberystwyth), Keynote Paper

11.15-11.30 Break

11.30-12.45: PANEL 1:Black Books: Magical Languages and Literatures

Convenor: Helen Berger

Danielle Gurevitch (Bar-Ilan University, Israel): "Witchcraft as an Educational System: Paganism Deities as Pedagogy"

Christine Leja (Columbia University): How to Turn Your Boyfriend into a Toad: Publishing and Presenting Modern Witchcraft"

Christine Kraemer (Boston University): "Alan Moore's Promethea: Comics as Neo-Pagan Primer and Missionary Tool"

LUNCH 12.45-1.45pm

1.45-3.00 PANEL 2:Cult/Occult: Underground Aesthetics of Witchcraft and Paganism

Convenor: Tanya Krzywinska

 Mark Goodall (University of Bradford, UK): "Unspeakable Cults, Strange Rituals, Erotic Rites: Witchcraft in the Mondo Film"

Jose Hernandez Riwes-Cruz (Universidad Autónoma de Mexico) : "The Figure of the Witch in David Lynch's Lost Highway"

Diane Sallee (University of Newcastle, Australia): “Little Oberon: A Case Study”

3- 3.15 Break

3.15-5.00 PANEL 3:Burning Times and New Ages: Imagining Histories and Re-Membering the Present

Convenor: Aidan Johnson

Robin deRosa (Plymouth State University): "Back to Salem: Samantha, Sabrina and the Mock Trial"

Lisa Vetere (Monmouth University): "Witchcraft and History in Anne Rice's The Witching Hour"

Christine Maffuccio (University of Maryland): "Syncretism on Summerisle: The Wicker Man and Medieval Religious Culture"

5.00-5.15pm Break

5.15- 6pm Guest lecture and Q and A with Fiona Horne (followed by reception)

9.30pm Screening ‘The Wicker Man.’ At the Brattle Theatre

Saturday 20th May
Location: The Barker Center

8.30- Coffee and pastries

9.00-10.15 PANEL 4:  The Others: Outsiders, Subcultures and Discourses of Difference

Convenor: David Kociemba

 Jason Winslade (University of Chicago): “Occult Altar/Natives: Mad Mad House, Reality TV and Performance Initiations”

Helen Berger (West Chester University): “Teenage Witches Watching Teenage Witches on TV and in the Movies: A Transnational Study”

Martin Norden (UMASS Amherst): "Witchcraft and 'Otherness' in Tod Browning's The Devil Doll"

10.15-10.30 Break

10.30-11.45 PANEL 5: Enchanted Landscapes: Paganisms and ‘Place’

Convenor: Lisa Vetere

Kristina Sepe (University of Michigan): "'And If I Had Been There, I Should Not Now Be Here': Exile from Bradley's Avalon"

Jenny Butler (University College Cork, Ireland): "Irish Witchcraft and Paganism in Contemporary Media"

Linda Lee (University of Pennsylvania): “Reclaiming the Crone: Inversion and Iconography in Salem, Massachusetts”

11.45-12.00 Break

12.00-1.15 PANEL 6:The Glass Teat: Witchcraft, Gender and the Small Screen

Convenor: Jenny Butler

 Alissa Burger (Bowling Green State University): "'What Would Samantha Do?': Gender Representations in Two Versions of Bewitched"

David Kociemba (Emerson College): "'The Poster-child of Yuck': Masculinity and Witchcraft in BTVS"

Caroline Ruddell (Brunel University, UK): "'I am the Magics': The Fragile Identity of Willow in BTVS"

1.15-2.15 LUNCH

2.15-3.30 PANEL 7: Devouring Mothers, Absent Fathers: Family in Witchcraft Narratives

Convenor: Mark Goodall

Kathy Davis (Kent State University): "Nannies From Hell: Babes, Black Magic and Domestic Anxiety"

H. Louise Davis (Michigan State University): "The Power of Witchcraft: Three Phallic Mother(s), A Pregnant man, and the Boy-Child as Savior in Charmed"

Lindsay Coleman (University of Melbourne, Australia): “Genre, Absent Parents and the Transforming Femme Fatale”

 3.30-3.45 Break

3.45-5.00 PANEL 8:Crafting the Art of Magic: Philosophy, Modernity and Ritual

Convenor: Jason Winslade

Aidan Johnson (University of Chicago): "Modern Heaths: Witchcraft and Philosophical Modernity in Cinematic Representations of Macbeth"

Leonie Naughton (University of Melbourne, Australia): "Magic, Myth and Mayhem: Tribalization in the Digital Age"

Dinner Break

Harvard Film Archive, A Double Bill Screening

7.00 Day of Wrath

9.00 Häxan : Witchcraft through the Ages

Sunday 21st May
Location: Barker Center

8.30 Coffee and pastries

9.00-10.00 PANEL 9:Metal and Mayhem: Magic’s Soundtrack

Convenor: Peg Aloi

Ieuan Jones (University of York): "Hail, Horror Hail!: Assessing the Socio-Cultural Significance of Black Metal"

Erik Davis (independent scholar): “Led Zeppelin’s Mass Arcanum”

10.00-10.15 Break

10.15- 11.45 FILMMAKERS FORUM

12.00-12.45 ROUNDTABLE: Moderated by Peg Aloi, including Erik Davis, Mikel Koven, Tanya Krzywinska, Steven Mitchell, David Kociemba, Helen Berger.

12.45 Announcements and goodbye

1pm LUNCH at India Castle