Welcome to the 2022 Haunted Shores Conference on the topic of Seaweed!
We are looking forward to the Seaweed Haunted Shores Reading Group on Thursday 19th May 1-2pm BST & a whole day of exciting talks on Friday 20th May 2022.
SEE SOME OF THE PRESENTATIONS ON OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL ON THIS PLAYLIST HERE.
“A darkness in the dark water”: En-tangled Approaches to Seaweed
Programme
Friday 20th May 2022
9.00: Welcome
(Please note that all times in this schedule are in BST (British Summer Time))
9.30–11.00: Panels 1 & 2
| EcoGothic #1: Contemporary Hauntings | Politicising Seaweed |
| Chair: Kristy Strange Frances Hallam, ‘Seaweed Posthumanism: Ecogothic Hybrids in Gaming Waterworlds’, available on Youtube here. Fredrik Blanc, ‘“We Remember”: Seaweed, the Oceanic Weird, and Transcorporeal Remembrance in Rivers Solomon’s The Deep (2019)’, available on Youtube here. | Chair: Roslyn Irving Susanne Ferwerda, ‘Kelp Encounters: Extinction and Resurgence in the Installation Art of Mandy Quadrio’ Liz Oakley-Brown, ‘Siting Seaweed in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England’ Alessandro Antonello, ‘Boom and Bust in South Australia’s Seagrass Meadows’ |
11.00–11.30: Break & chat ☕️
11.30–1.00: Panel 3
| Poetry & the Archive | |
| Chair: Madeline Potter Rachael Murray, ‘“On ocean and earth I’m a goodly thing”: The Ambiguous Lives of Eliza Cook’s Poeticising Plants’, available on Youtube here. Jimmy Packham, ‘Melville and the Oozy Weeds’, available on Youtube here. Chloé Duteil, ‘Algal Traces: Human-Seaweed Relations on the Breton and Welsh Coasts, 1900s–1930s’, available on Youtube here. |
1.00–2.00: Lunch 🌮
2.00–3.30: Panels 4 & 5
| EcoGothic #2: 19th & 20th Centuries | The Wrack Zone: Shipwrecks in the Anthropocene |
| Chair: Fredrik Blanc Jordan Welsh, ‘The Murderous Coast: Shorelines, Seaweed, and the Queens of Crime’ Madeline Potter, ‘Metaphors of Death Entangled in Seaweed in Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid”’ Emily Alder, ‘Seaweed and Cephalopods: Algal Horrors in H. G. Wells’ | Chair: Giulia Champion Sara Rich and students from Coastal Carolina University, available on Youtube here. |
3.30–4.00: Break & chat ☕️
4.00–5.30: Creative panel
| Chair: Sara Rich Rob Magnuson Smith, ‘The Future of British Seaweeds’ Sarah Godfrey, ‘Kelp, Non-linear Materiality, and the Non-Binary Body’, available on Youtube here. Caroline Millar, ‘Peninsula’ |
5.30–5.45: Break & chat ☕️
5.45–6.15: Screening
| Bryony Kate Gillard, Unctuous Between Fingers |
6.15– : Closing Remarks & Virtual Drink 🍾
