Programme
MONDAY, JUNE 6
Introduction - 10.00-10:30 (LR3)
Panel 1 - ORIGINS - 10.30-12.30 (LR3)
Moderator: Christopher L. Robinson (Institut Polytechnique-Paris, France)
Lawrence Ratna (St. Anne’s Hospital London, UK)
“Philip K. Dick - The Psychotic Prophet?”
Timothy Shanahan (Loyola Marymount University, US)
“Fiery the Angels Fell: Assessing Blade Runner's Origins and Legacies”
Amanda Potter (Open University, UK) and Hunter Gardner (University of South Carolina, US) )
“‘Let me tell you about my mother’: Patriarchy, pleasure models, and Greco-Roman myth in Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049” (virtual presentation)
Loraine Haywood (The University of Newcastle, Australia)
“Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049: Myth, Metaphor, and Mystery, ‘Who Keeps a Dead Tree?’” (virtual presentation)
Panel 2 MEMORIES 10.30-12.30 (LR5)
Moderator: Simon Spiegel (University of Zurich, Switzerland; University of Bayreuth, Germany)
Lars Schmeink (University of Leeds, UK / Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany)
“What makes a replicant? Memory, Trauma, Identity in Blade Runner: Black Lotus” (virtual presentation)
Nahida Kibria Choudhury (University of Essex, UK)
“2049: Intertextuality, Memory, and Identity”
J. Macgregor Wise (Arizona State University, US)
“Memory, Trauma, and the Territorialization of Subjectivity in Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049” (virtual presentation)
Neval Turhalli (Galatasaray University, Turkey)
“Implanted memory: the political, social, and psychological discourses related in the post-truth era” (virtual presentation)
Lunch 12.30-1.30
Panel 3 2019-2049 1.45-3.15 (LR3)
Moderator: Christopher L. Robinson (Institut Polytechnique-Paris, France)
Mariana Pintado Zurita (University of Glasgow, UK)
“Temporal intertextuality between Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049”
Carrie Lynn Evans (Université Laval Québec, Canada)
“Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049: Tracing Cyberpunk as a Literature of Resistance”
Jordan Byrne (Architectural Designer, UK)
“Blade Runner 2049: The Architecture of Post-Humanism” (virtual presentation)
Panel 4 HABITATS 1.45-3.15 (LR5)
Moderator: Christophe Gelly (Université Clermont Auvergne / Université Paul Valéry, France)
Ray Lucas (Manchester School of Architecture, UK)
“Replicants, Thresholds and Transgressions: a study of Blade Runner’s embodied architectonics” (virtual presentation)
David Charles Reat (University of Strathclyde, UK)
“Do they keep you in a little box? Cells. Interlinked” (virtual presentation)
Georges-Henry Laffont (Saint-Etienne National School of Architecture, France)
“The legacy of Blade Runner: Reloading our future's perspective; awakening our imaginaries; reconsidering our hegemonic narratives” (virtual presentation)
Break 3.15-3.30
Panel 5 BIPOLITICS 3.30-5.30 (LR3)
Moderator: Nicholas de Villiers (University of North Florida, US)
Joe Street (Northumbria University, UK)
“Reagan’s Replicants: Race and the unconscious in Blade Runner”
Blake Wilson (California State University, US)
“Rogue Cops: Policing the Future in the Blade Runner Films”
Petra Krpan and Jelena Vojković (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
“Transmediality and Corporeality in Blade Runner: Construction of the 'Clothed Body'”
Aman Agah (Oregon State University, US)
“Retiring the Other - Blade Runner, Eugenics, and Replicants as Other” (virtual presentation)
Panel 6 SPACES 3.30-5.30 (LR5)
Moderator: Frances Pheasant-Kelly (Wolverhampton University, UK)
Louis D’Arcy-Reed (York St John University, UK)
“Fake Empire - Lefebvre's logic of visualisation and architecture”
Milan Hain (Palacký University, Czech Republic)
“Architecture as Movie Star: Blade Runner, the Bradbury Building, and the Legacy of Film Noir”
Christophe Gelly (Université Clermont Auvergne / Université Paul Valéry, France)
“Cinematic Space and Subjectivity in Blade Runner 2049”
Tonguc Sezen (University of Teesside, UK)
“Verticality and the lack of vertical movement in the urban vision of Blade Runner and its sequels” (virtual presentation)
Supper 5.30-7.00 (Teras)
Q&A with Ivor Powell 7.00-8.00 (Pontio Cinema)
Moderator: Nathan Abrams (Bangor University, UK)
Screening of Blade Runner: The Final Cut 8.15 (Pontio Cinema)
TUESDAY, JUNE 7
Panel 7 RECEPTIONS 9.00-10.30 (LR3)
Moderator: Timothy Shanahan (Loyola Marymount University, US)
Simon Spiegel (University of Zurich, Switzerland; University of Bayreuth, Germany)
“The Spell of the Unicorn: on Blade Runner and Spoilers”
Piotr Sitarski (University of Łódź, Poland)
“Hunting replicants, androids and robots in late socialist Poland”
Isaac (Itsik) Rosen (Haifa University, Israel)
“Israeli and Western Dystopias” (virtual presentation)
Panel 8 CINEMA 9.00-10.30 (LR5)
Moderator: Carrie Lynn Evans (Université Laval Québec, Canada)
Ben Lamb (Teesside University, UK)
“Boy and Bicycle to Blade Runner: Reassessing Ridley Scott’s Authorial Signature as a Young Man”
Kim Walden (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
“'Backwards to go forwards': The challenge of Blade Runner 2049's legacy promotion campaign” (virtual presentation)
David Gill (San Francisco State University, US)
“Voight-Kampff and our relationship to cinema” (virtual presentation)
Break 10.30-11.00
Keynote 11.00-12.15 (LR3)
Moderator: Nathan Abrams (Bangor University, UK)
Dr. Sherryl Vint (University of California Riverside, US)
“Tears in Rain”
12.15-1.15 Lunch
Panel 9 POSTHUMANISMS 1.15-3.15 (LR3)
Moderator: Paul Smart (University of Southampton, UK)
Sam R.M. Geden (Independent Researcher, UK)
“Data Ghosts and Girlfriends: The Digital Humans of Blade Runner 2049”
Alexander R. E. Taylor (University of Essex, UK)
“The Digital Dark Age: Blade Runner and Data Loss”
Frances Pheasant-Kelly (Wolverhampton University, UK)
“Crossing the Science/Culture Divide: Posthumanism in Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049”
Jennifer Richards (Royal College of Art, UK)
“Material Afterlives: Fashioning AI in the Blade Runner Universe” (virtual presentation)
Panel 10 ALTERITIES 1.15-3.15 (LR5)
Moderator: Elizabeth Miller (Bangor University, UK)
Dylan Phelan (University College Cork, Ireland)
“Posthuman Othering and Relationships of Hierarchy in Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049”
Rebekah Brammer (Freelance writer, Australia)
“Futuristic Femmes Fatales: The Android Women of Blade Runner”
Nicholas de Villiers (University of North Florida, US)
“Basic Pleasure Models, Femmes Fatales, Techno-Orientalist Androids, and ‘Girlfriend Experiences’ from 2019 to 2049 via 2022 and 2046”
Karen A Ritzenhoff (Connecticut State University, US)
“Replicants and Procreation: How director Denis Villeneuve riffs on story ideas for Blade Runner 2049 in a new dystopian universe” (virtual presentation)
Break 3.15-3.45
Panel 11 IMAGES 3:45-5:45 (LR3)
Moderator: Christopher L. Robinson (Institut Polytechnique-Paris, France)
Paul Smart (University of Southampton, UK)
“Lovin' the Virtual: Holographic Elements in Blade Runner 2049”
Jessica Morgan-Davies (Florida State University, US)
“‘Tell Me About Your Mother’: The Mimetic Maternity and Memory of Blade Runner's Photographic Images” (virtual presentation)
Tom Allbeson (Cardiff University, UK)
“Sci-fi cinema and the philosophy of photography: The still image in Blade Runner” (virtual presentation)
Bernd Behr (University of the Arts London, UK)
“Esper Syndrome: Tracing Forensic Imaginaries and Spatial Pathologies in Blade Runner’s Photographic Apparatus” (virtual presentation)
Supper - 5:45-7:00 (Teras)
Interdisciplinary approaches panel 7.00-8.00 (Pontio Cinema)
Moderator: Nathan Abrams (Bangor University, UK)
Ian Davies Abbott (School of Medical and Health Sciences, Bangor University, UK)
Rachel Newey (School of Psychology, Bangor University, UK)
William Teahan (School of Computer Sciences), Bangor University, UK)
Screening: Blade Runner 2049 8.15 (Pontio Cinema)
Conference organisers:
Nathan Abrams and Elizabeth Miller (The Centre for Film, Television and Screen Studies, Bangor University, UK)
Christopher L. Robinson (Department of Humanities, Art, Literature and Languages, Institut Polytechnique-Paris, France)