The Conference will take place in the Lecture Theatre of The Botany Building on Trinity College Campus. For the venue's exact location visit the map provided here. Please note the change in line up.
THURSDAY 15th MAY
6.00pm-7.30 DAVID J. SKAL - Paranoid Planet: Or, Take Me to Your Makeover
8.00pm Reception in The Stag's Head (upstairs) on Dame Lane
FRIDAY 16th MAY
9.30am-11.00am CYNDY HENDERSHOT - Comrade Romeos and Soviet Tootsie Rolls: Sexuality and American Anti-Communism in the 1950s
11.00am-11.30 Coffee Break
11.30am-1.00pm Panel Session I: Popular Culture
Chair - JENNY McDONNELL
STEPHEN MATTERSON - 'One day this is going to be a pitiful country.' 1955 in Black and White
BERNICE M. MURPHY - All that Zombies Allow: Re-Imagining the 1950s in Far From Heaven and Fido
ELIZABETH McCARTHY- Fast Cars and Bullet Bras: The Image of the Female Juvenile Delinquent in the 1950s
1.00pm-2.00pm Lunch
2.00pm-3.30pm WAYNE KINSEY - 'Don't Dare See it Alone! ': The Fifties Hammer Invasion
3.30pm-4.00pm Coffee Break
4.00pm-5.30pm Panel Session II: Popular Anxieties
Chair - JARLATH KILLEEN
KEVIN CORSTOPHINE - Masculinity and Fatherhood in the Short Stories of Robert Bloch
DARA DOWNEY - I Use Magic a Lot, of Course: Shirley Jackson & 1950s Anthropology
DARRYL JONES - 'It's in the trees! It's coming!' Night of the Demon and British Occultism in the 1950s
5.30pm-6.00pm Break
6.00pm-7.30pm KIM NEWMAN - 'Radioactive Mutants Are Attacking!'
