I will be giving a talk about “The Uncanny Valley”, free and open to the public, at Neumann University (near Philadelphia, PA) on the early evening of Oct 23rd. This event doubles as an early bird festivity for Raw Dog Screaming Press’ exciting conference, DogCon4. [Raw Dog is the parent company for Guide Dog Books, […]
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CFP: The Other Daemonic: Estranging the Uncanny
From cfp.english.upenn.edu… “The Other Daemonic: Estranging the Uncanny” Brown University Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference March 20-21, 2015 Keynote: Prof. Zachary Lesser, University of Pennsylvania contact email: browncomplitgradconference@yahoo.com Have we started to feel at home in the uncanny? A feeling so singular, yet so hard to define, the uncanny has become quite familiar to literary […]
AUDIO: China Mieville Keynote Address from ICFA 2012: On Monsters
In the following audio capture, author China Mieville delivers a keynote address entitled “On Monsters: Or, Nine or More (Monstrous) NOT Cannies.” It was presented at the 33rd Annual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts in Orlando, Florida, in Spring 2012. Mieville performs an entertaining and trenchant re-examination of the term “uncanny” and […]
The Transformative Power of Horror Film in Education
“The Transformative Power of Film” — online panel — 2pm est. TODAY — I’ll be discussing horror in the classroom:meridianuniversity.edu/index.php/comp… — Michael Arnzen, Ph.D (@arnzen) September 13, 2012 I’ll try to update this entry with the archives afterward, if you can’t attend. The panel, hosted by Christine Jarvis, and featuring Drs. Paul Armstrong, Michele Paule, […]
Call for Papers: Thinking After Dark – Horror Video Games
Ludicine has posted a call for papers to an intermedial conference focused on horror video games (and films and books and such), entitled “Thinking After Dark.” With a focus on such topics as “figures of interactivity specific to the survival horror subgenre” and a featured guest in Barry K. Grant as a keynote speaker, this […]
Uncanny Media 2008 Reflections
Conference reports and reflections from the Uncanny Media conference in Utrecht, Netherlands (2008) are starting to pop up online. Since it relates to my work on The Popular Uncanny, I was very interested in attending this event, but was unable to, so I’m seeking as many discussions and reports from the conference as possible online […]
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