Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies one day conference
Paranormal Cultures
Friday 4 June 2010 9.30AM-5PM
University of Sussex, Silverstone Building, room 309
| 9.30-10.00am | Coffees and registration |
| 10.00-10.15am | Professor Sally R Munt (Sussex) opens the conference |
| 10.15-11.15am |
Panel 1 Dr Jon Mitchell (Sussex): ‘A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Field: Anthropology, Psychology, Parapsychology’ Dr Angela Voss (Kent): ‘Imagination as Revelation: A Metaphysical Approach to the Paranormal’ |
| 11.15-11.30am |
Coffees |
| 11.30-12.30pm |
Keynote 1 Professor John Harvey (Aberystwyth): 'Bogus or Bogey: Anomalies and Entities in Spirit Photography' |
| 12.30-1.30 | Lunch |
| 1.30- 3.00pm |
Panel 2 Dr Tatiana Kontou (Sussex): ‘”This is not magic, it is spiritualism”; Florence Marryat’s Spiritualist Memoirs and Autobiography’ Dr Pam Thurschwell (Sussex): 'Ghost World's Spectral Mediations' Dr Olu Jenzen (Sussex): ‘Let the Right One In: Children, Vampires and Queers’ |
| 3.00-3.15pm | Short break |
| 3.15-4.30pm |
Keynote 2 Dr Anita Biressi and Professor Heather Nunn (Roehampton): ‘"There's something in my house": Television and the Politics of the Paranormal’ |
| 4.30-5pm | Workshop with the University of York Anomalous Experience Research Unit |
| 5pm | Wine reception |
| From 6.15pm | Ghost Walk in the Lanes, central Brighton (led by Scott Simpson) |
