It Came From the 1950s
News has reached me of a tremendously groovy conference being organised by the good people from The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies (a publication that fills a significant gap in Irish academic life).
Entitled "It Came from the 1950s: Popular Culture, Popular Anxieties" (and being held in Trinity College, Dublin on the 15th and 16th of May) it offers plenty to stir the blood of Horror/Sci-Fi enthusiasts.
Highlights include talks by David J. Skal1 & Kim Newman,2 discussions of "The Fifties Hammer Invasion" & "The Image of the Female Juvenile Delinquent in the 1950s", and (tying in with an early Dreadful Thoughts offering) a paper on "Night of the Demon and British Occultism in the 1950s".
Best of all, it costs not a penny. All you have to do (to ensure your spot) is send an email here confirming your attendance.
If that offer of free fun and stimulation doesn't move you, then I despair. You're probably a pod-person.
I'll be attending on both days – so 'twould be splendid to see any regular readers, Dreadful Thinkers, or pint-buying stalkers there. Let me know.
What: "It Came from the 1950s: Popular Culture, Popular Anxieties".
Where: Trinity College, Dublin (Botany Building).
When: Thursday 15th & Friday 16th of May (full schedule here).
- He of the indispensable The Monster Show. If you haven't read it, do so this instant. [back]
- Of…a million and one things, though I'll always be most grateful to him for his editing of my much-loved (and much-thumbed) BFI Companion to Horror. [back]
April 24, 2008
