Conference Schedule

Conference Day 1: Wednesday 19 October 2022

10.00-10.30 Conference Opening Remarks (Zoom Stream A)

10.30-12.00 – Zoom Stream A (single panel)

Panel 1: Spatial Representation and Gothic Narrative in Modern Japanese Literature (Zoom Stream A)

Panel Chair: Jaejin Yu

Presenters: (panel starts in Korea at 11.30)

  1. Jeonghoon Ryu (Korea University, South Korea), “The Haunted House and Gothic Narrative in the Ghost Tower by Ruiko Kuroiwa”
  2. Jihu Park (Korea University, South Korea), “Elements of Western Gothic Novels Appearing in Cannibal Ghost Stories about Nanyo”
  3. Kahyun Lee (Korea University, South Korea), “Gothic in Mishima Yukio’s work: Relationship between Women and Home”

13.00-15.00 – Zoom Stream A and B (parallel panels)

Panel 2A: Folklore and Popular Culture (Zoom Stream A)

Panel Chair: Bibhuti Bhusan Biswas

Presenters: (panel starts in India at 10.30, in Thailand at 12.00, in the Philippines at 13.00)

  1. Debaditya Mukhopadhyay (Manikchak College, University of Gourbanga, India), “Definitely Not Just a Gentleman’s Game: Haunted Nature of Cricket in Indian Popular Imagination and its Representation in Urban Lores”
  2. Jan Marvin A. Goh (University of Santo Tomas, Philippines), “Entering the Gothicized Realm of Lagim: Towards a Ludological Exploration of Philippine Folkloric Materialization through a Trading Card Game”
  3. Suriyaporn Eamvijit (Thammasat University, Thailand), “Ong (องค์) as Idols: Redefining Guardian Spirits among Young Spiritual Practitioners in Thailand”
  4. Pimpawan Chaipanit (Prince of Songkla University, Thailand), “From Folk Horror to Urban Legend: A Case Study of Representation and Adaptation of Thai Ghostlore in the Contemporary Thai Popular Ghost Stories and Horror Fiction by Pongwut Rujirachakorn”

Panel 2B: Ghost Tales (Zoom Stream B)

Panel Chair: Aqsa Eram

Presenters: (panel starts in India at 10.30, in Thailand at 12.00)

  1. Megha Solanki (The English and Foreign Languages University, India), “Myth, Belief and Journey in the Afterlife: Tracing Freedom in Yangsze Choo’s The Ghost Bride”
  2. Abhishek Sarkar (Jadavpur University, India), “Bengali Ghosts and Demons in a Carrollian Dreamworld: Fantasy and Satire in Konkaboti”
  3. Isaraporn Pissa-ard (University of Chiang Mai, Thailand), “The Political Role of Oral Storytelling, Folklore, and the Gothic in the Thai novel Juti [Rebirth] (2015) by Uthis Haemamool”
  4. Soumyarup Bhattacharjee (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India), “Gothic Allegory and Postcolonial Malaysia in Beth Yahp’s The Crocodile Fury”

15.15-17.15 – Zoom Stream A and B (parallel panels)

Panel 3A: Shamanism, Mysticism, Animism (Zoom Stream A)

Panel Chair: Debaditya Mukhopadhyay

Presenters: (panel starts in the UK at 8.15, in Iran at 10.45, in India at 12.45)

  1. Haniyeh Asaadi, Ali Salami (University of Tehran, Iran), “Shamanistic Practices Among the Southerners of Iran as Depicted in Gholamhossein Saedi’s Ahle Hava”
  2. Elizabeth Cherian (English and Foreign Languages University, India), “Devotion to Deification: Act of Surrender in the Folk Art Form Theyyam”
  3. Leonie Rowland (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK), “‘A phone was found inside her’: Techno-Animism as Trauma in the Folklore of Ju-On: Origins (2020)”
  4. Katarzyna Ancuta (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand), “From Folklore to Folk Horror: Rang Zong (2021) as a Case for Asian Folk Horror”

Panel 3B: Ethnography and the Gothic (Zoom Stream B)

Panel Chair: Devaleena Kundu

Presenters: (panel starts in the UK at 8.15, in India at 12.45, in Thailand at 14.15)

  1. Ramakrishnan (Central University of Jharkhand, India), “Changing Perception on the Horror Stories of Deities and Ghosts in the Context of the Impact of Modernity in a South Indian Village – An Emic Perspective”
  2. Dipankar Dey, Bibhuti Bhusan Biswas (Central University of Jharkhand, India), “Horror Episode of Aboriginal Sentinelese Tribe in North Sentinel Island, Andaman Islands, India”
  3. Pokkasina Chathiphot, Pannawadee Srikhao, Nilobol Phuraya, Yanika Saensuriwong (Sakon Nakhon Rajabhat University, Thailand), “Woven Textiles in the Ritual of Spirit Worship of the Tai Ethnic Group in the Mekong Basin”
  4. Sean McHugh (Nanjing University of Information Science andTechnology, China), “Gothic Deception and Hindu Myth, The Wicker Man as Critique of Western Apollonian over Asian Dionysian Mind”

Conference Day 2: Thursday 20 October 2022

10.00-12.00 – Zoom Stream A and B (parallel panels)

Panel 4A: Spirits, Nature and the Gothic (Zoom Stream A)

Panel Chair: Jan Marvin A. Goh

Presenters: (panel starts in California on the previous day at 19.00, in Atlanta on the previous day at 22.00, in Thailand at 9.00)

  1. Sydney Van To (University of California, Berkeley, USA), “Possession as Critique: Southeast Asian Folk Horror”
  2. Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodriguez (Spelman College, USA), “Colombian Cinematic Transformations of Japanese and Korean Horror”
  3. Chairat Polmuk, Saowapark Khanman (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand), “Guts and Roots: Plant, Female Monstrosity, and Modernity in Thai Folklore and Cinema”
  4. Li-hsin Hsu (National Chengchi University, Taiwan), “The Goddess of Silkworms, Mulberry Trees, and the EcoGothic”

Panel 4B: Folklore and Crime Stories (Zoom Stream B)

Panel Chair: Chung-hsuan Huang/Chih-yi Cheng

Presenters: (panel starts in Pennsylvania on the previous day at 22.00, in Hong Kong at 10.00, in Japan/Korea at 11.00)

  1. Bohyun Kum (Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea), “Analyzing the Grotesque Elements of 1930’s Korea Detective Novels”
  2. Chiho Nakagawa (Nara Women’s University, Japan), “Japanese Island Folk Horror/Mystery in the Twenty-First Century”
  3. Shun-yu Wan Nicola Ulaan (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) “Schizophrenic Women in the Urban Gothic Hong Kong in A Very Short Life and Dream Home”
  4. Süleyman Bölükbaş (Penn State University, USA), “Theorizing Turkish Islamic Gothic: Religion, Rituals and Asia Minor”

13.00-14.30– Zoom Stream A and B (parallel panels)

Panel 5A: Myth and Urban Legend (Zoom Stream A)

Panel Chair: M. Ramakrishnan

Presenters: (panel starts in India at 10.30)

  1. Christie Rachel Saji (English and Foreign Languages University, India), “Kuttichathan in Popular culture: A Negotiation between Obedience and Agency”
  2. Ananya Roy (University of Delhi, India), “Forests and Fortresses: The Impenetrable Domain of Spiritual Force Associated with Nature in Indian Horror Culture”
  3. Samantha Landau (University of Tokyo, Japan), “Representations of Feminine Monstrosity and the Numinous in Japanese Folklore and 20th Century Fiction”

Panel 5B: Folklore and Education (Zoom Stream B)

Panel Chair: Chiho Nakagawa

Presenters: (panel starts in India at 10.30, in Japan at 14.00)

  1. Pulkita Anand (Govt PG Shahid Chandrashekar College, Jhabua, India), “Vikram and Betal: A Gothic Folklore”
  2. Sarah Olive (University of Bangor, UK), “Education, Asian Folklore, and the Gothic”
  3. Aqsa Eram (University of Lucknow, India), “Gothicized Colonial Encounters: Treatment of Indian Folklore in Flora Annie Steel’s Short Fiction”

14.45-16.15 – Zoom Stream A (single panel)

Panel 6: Fairy Tales and Folklore (Zoom Stream A)

Panel Chair: Katarzyna Ancuta

Presenters: (panel starts in Iran at 10.15, in India at 12.15, in Bangladesh at 12.45)

  1. Saeedeh Esmailzadeh, Maryam Soltan Beyad (University of Tehran, Iran), “Gothic Spaces, Fantastic Creatures and Individuals in One Thousand and One Nights”
  2. Aparajita Hazra (Diamond Harbour University, India), “Of Roopkatha and Itihasa: Reading the Nation in Fairytales of Bengal”
  3. Muhammed Shahriar Haque (East West University, Bangladesh), “Bhoot Legacy: Gothicizing folklore in Pett Kata Shaw”

16.30-18.00 – Zoom Stream A (single panel)

Panel 7: Monsters and Zombies (Zoom Stream A)

Panel Chair: Ananya Roy

Presenters: (panel starts in India at 14.00, in China at 16.30, in Japan at 17.30)

  1. Devaleena Kundu (UPES, Dehradun, India), “Lore of the ‘Chudail’: Analysing Notions of Evil and Monstrosity in Netflix’s Bulbbul”
  2. Shengyu Wang (Soochow University, China) “Haunted Mountain Abbey: The Oral and Textual Transmissions of a Zombie Story in Southern China, 1200-1800”
  3. Payel Dutta Chowdhury (REVA University, India), “‘My thirst is only for Khasi blood’: Contextualizing the Legend of the Serpent Monster ‘U Thlen’ in the Khasi Oral Tradition from India’s Northeast”

18.00-18.30 – Closing Remarks (Zoom Stream A)