A day of research papers and discussion at the Department of Film and TV, University of Bristol (image by Brooke Shaden).

9am - Coffee and registration

9.30-9.45 - Welcome

9.45-10.30 - Opening keynote: 'The importance of fiction, or To avoid fainting keep repeating "It's only a movie..."' Pete Falconer (University of Bristol)

10.30 - Break

10.45-12.15 - Panel 1 - Theorising Horror Affect in Screen Media - Chair: Laurence Kent

Laurence Kent (FATV) 'The Giggle and the Retch: Affective Forms in The Zone of Interest'

Will Price (FATV) 'The Suicidal Opportunity: Soul of Cinder as an Affective Encounter'

Nic Cheung (FATV) "The Numbers were Scary": Severance (2022) as Test Case for a Radically Formalist Theory of Horror

Yihui Wang (FATV) 'Romantic Hearing of Horror: From Coleridge to Deleuze'

12.15 - Lunch

13.00-14.30 - Panel 2 - Reading Affect in Screen Horror - Chair: Eduardo Gama

Andy Thatcher (FATV) 'You'd Have Felt it Too if You'd Have Been There: Melancholic Landscapes in the BBC'S A Ghost Story at Christmas'

Max Martin (FATV) 'Will God Forgive us for What We're Doing to His Creation": How the Horrors of the Internalised Psyche Challenges Reverend Toiler's Fundamental Principles of Life in First Reformed'

Sarah Street (FATV) 'Colour, Realism and the X-Rated Certificate: Horrors of the Black Museum (1959) and Peeping Tom (1960)'

Kate Teesdale (FATV) 'I think there might be something weird going on inside: sharing perspective through disgust in Teeth (2007)'

14.30 - Coffee Break

14.45-16.00 - Panel 3 - Asian Horror and Affect - Chair: Rayna Denison

Sidi Chen (FATV) 'Folklore, Nostalgia and the Fox Wedding Re-visualised on the Screen'

Cheocey Wang (FATV) 'Japanese and Korean Horror Films Featuring "Vengeful Female Ghosts": Deconstructing the Complicated Psychological States of Female Audiences'

Rayna Denison (FATV) "The Liminality of Animated Affect in Horror Anime'

16.00 - Break

16.15-17.30 - Closing Keynote - 'Sticky monsters: Kaiju as ecoGothic nightmares', Steve Rawle (York St. John University)

17.30 - Drinks reception

19.00 - Symposium dinner