Professors vs. Zombies, Day One
A number of our esteemed English department colleagues are presenting as well as several U of L faculty members from other departments…. Please let Aaron Jaffe, aaron.jaffe@louisville.edu, know if you’re interested in attending some or all of it.
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Apr 13, 2012 from 12:30 pm to 08:30 pm |
| Where | Room 139, Shumaker Research Bldg. |
| Contact Name | Steven Gonzales |
| Contact Phone | 502-852-0504 |
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12:30
WELCOME SESSION
ZOMBIE RESEARCH BUILDING SHUMAKER 139, University of Louisville
1‐2:30
Z. Traditions I
ZOMBIE RESEARCH BUILDING
- Andrew Rabin, “Zombies in Tights: The Unquiet Dead in Medieval English Literature”
- Jesse Molesworth and Sarah Hopfer, “Of Plagues, Cannibals, and Zombies: Daniel Defoe and the Origins of the Zombie Plot”
- Karen Hadley, “Jane Austen, Regency Zombies, and the “Monstrous Future” of Capitalism”
2:30
Coffee Break
2:45‐4:15
Z. Philosophy
FALL BACK POSITION (BINGHAM HUMANITIES 300)
- Guy Dove, “What, if anything, can we learn from the conceivability of philosophical zombies?”
- John Gibson, “The Zombie Sublime”
- Cynthia Burkhead, “‘We don’t shoot sick people’: Character Compassion and the New Zombie Narrative”
4:15
IMMEDIATE EVACUATION TO RYE, 900 EAST MARKET STREET (PLEASE GO UPSTAIRS AND STAY CALM)
5‐6:30
Z. Media
RYE ON MARKET, UPSTAIRS
- Tom Byers, “ Sign of the Zombie: An Anatomy of the Living Dead
- Erik Bohman, “A Suitable Failure: Media, Cinematic Form, and the Zombie Event in George Romero's ‘Diary of the Dead’”
- Jonny Eburne, “Ten‐Dollar Dreadfuls”
6:30‐8:30
Reception at Rye
