Programme
Monday, June 6th
9.00 - 10.30am |
PANEL 1: PK DICK/ DADOES | |
| ROOM 1 | Lawrence Ratna | Philip K. Dick - The Psychotic Prophet? |
| David Agranoff | Moon and Philip K. Dick | |
| Timothy Shanahan | The prophetic status of Blade Runner in question | |
9.00 - 10.30am |
PANEL 2: MEMORY & IDENTITY [I] | |
| ROOM 2 | Neval Turhalli (*) | Implanted memory: the political, social, and psychological discourses related in the post-truth era |
| Lars Schmeink | Memory construction and individual identity | |
| 10.30 - 10.45am | Break | |
10.45am - 12.15pm |
PANEL 3: MEMORY & IDENTITY [II] | |
| ROOM 1 | Mariana Pintado Zurita | The interplay between past and future in Blade Runner and its sequel |
| Nahida Kibria Choudhury | The textured intertextual relationship of memory and identity in Blade Runner (1992) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017) | |
| J. Macgregor Wise* | Memory, Trauma, and the Territorialization of Subjectivity in Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049 | |
10.45am - 12.15pm |
PANEL 4: RACE/ ORIENTALISM/ NEO-COLONIALISM | |
| ROOM 2 | Aman Agah | Eugenics and the Representation of the Other: Race, Gender, Disability |
| Fidelia Lam | Entanglements of architecture, technology, racialization, and ontology | |
| Joe Street | Deracinating while ‘othering’ the replicants | |
| 12.15 - 1.15pm | Lunch | |
1.15 - 3.15pm |
PANEL 5: URBANISM/ ECOCRITICISM/ CLIMATE STUDIES | |
| ROOM 1 | David Charles Reat* | Do they keep you in a little box? Cells. Interlinked. |
| Ray Lucas | Filmic Architecture | |
| Georges-Henry Laffont | The legacy of Blade Runner : Reloading our future's perspective; awakening our imaginaries ; reconsidering our hegemonic narratives. | |
| 1.15 - 3.15pm | PANEL 6: TRANSMEDIA/ INTER-ARTS/ COMPARATIVE MYTHOLOGY | |
| ROOM 2 | Loraine Haywood* | Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049: Myth, Metaphor, and Mystery, “Who Keeps a Dead Tree?” |
| Miguelángel Verde Garrido | “Things You People Wouldn’t Believe”: Discussing the Contributions of Comics and Animation to the Political, Environmental, and Representational Worldbuilding of ‘Blade Runner’ | |
| Amanda Potter (and Hunter Gardner?) | “Let me tell you about my mother”: Patriarchy, pleasure models, and Greco-Roman myth in Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049 | |
| Mateja Djedovic | Toiling Our Way Up the Hillside: The Religious Themes of "Blade Runner" | |
| 3.15 - 3.30pm | Break | |
| 3.30 - 5.30pm | PANEL 7: ARCHITECTURE/ SPATIALITY | |
| ROOM 1 | Tonguc Sezen | Verticality and the lack of vertical movement in the urban vision of Blade Runner and its sequels |
| Dr Louis D'Arcy-Reed | Lefebvre’s logic of visualisation and architectural extremes | |
| Christophe Gelly | Interior and exterior spatial configurations | |
| Jordan Byrne | Blade Runner 2049: The Architecture of Post-Humanism" | |
| 3.30 - 5.30pm | PANEL 8: GENRE HYBRIDITY: GOTHIC/ FILM NOIR/CYBERPUNK | |
| ROOM 2 | Carrie Lynn Evans | Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049: Cyberpunk’s “Second Wave”? |
| Milan Hain | Architecture as Movie Star: Blade Runner, the Bradbury Building, and the Legacy of Film Noir | |
| 5.30 - 7.00pm | Dinner - venue to be confirmed | |
| 7.00 - 8.15pm | Q&A with Ivor Powell (Pontio Cinema) | |
| Screening of Blade Runner: The Final Cut (Pontio Cinema) | ||
Tuesday, June 7th
| 9.00 - 10.30am | PANEL 9: CINEMA INDUSTRY/ INTERNATIONAL RECEPTION / AUTEUR [I] | |
| ROOM 1 | Simon Spiegel | Forensic fans |
| Piotr Sitarski | Hunting replicants, androids and robots in late socialist Poland | |
| Isaac [Itsik] Rosen | Israeli and Western Dystopias | |
| 9.00 - 10.30am | PANEL 10: CINEMA INDUSTRY/ INTERNATIONAL RECEPTION / AUTEUR [II] | |
| ROOM 2 | Ben Lamb | Boy and Bicycle to Blade Runner: Reassessing Ridley Scott’s Authorial Signature as a Young Man |
| David Gill | Voight-Kampff and our relationship to cinema | |
| Kim Walden | Backwards To Go Forwards: The Challenge of Blade Runner 2049's Legacy Promotion Campaign | |
| 10.30 - 11.00am | Break | |
| 11.00am - 12.15pm | KEYNOTE | |
| 12.15 - 1.00pm | Lunch | |
| 1.00 - 3.00pm | PANEL 11: AI/ ROBOTICS/ HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACE/ DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES | |
| ROOM 1 | Sam R.M. Geden | Data Ghosts and Girlfriends: The Digital Humans of Blade Runner 2049 (2017) as Companionship and Commodity |
| Jennifer Richards | Material Afterlives: Fashioning AI in the Bladerunner Universe | |
| Alexander R. E. Taylor | Blade Runner and the Digital Dark Age | |
| Frances Pheasant-Kelly | Crossing the Science/Culture Divide: Posthumanism in Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049 | |
| 1.00 - 3.00pm | PANEL 12: GENDER/ SEXUALITY/ALTERITY | |
| ROOM 2 | Dylan Phelan | Posthuman Othering and Relationships of Hierarchy in Blade Runner and Blade Runner 204 |
| Karen A Ritzenhoff | Replicants and Procreation: How director Denis Villeneuve riffs on story ideas for Blade Runner 2049 (2017) in a new dystopian universe | |
| Rebekah Brammer | Futuristic Femmes Fatales: The Android Women of Blade Runner | |
| Nicholas de Villiers | Basic Pleasure Models, Femmes Fatales, Techno-Orientalist Androids, and “Girlfriend Experiences” from 2019 to 2049 via 2022 and 2046 | |
| 3.00 - 3.30pm | Break | |
| 3.30 - 5.30pm | PANEL 13: PHOTOGRAPHY/HOLOGRAPHIC | |
| ROOM 1 | Jessica Morgan-Davies | The physical and narrative treatment of photographs in Blade Runner. |
| Tom Allbeson | "Sci-fi cinema and the philosophy of photography: The still image in Blade Runner" | |
| Bernd Behr | ‘Esper Syndrome’: The forensic imaginary in contemporary visual culture | |
| Paul Smart | The 'holographic' elements in Blade Runner 2049 and the Metaverse | |
| 3.30 - 5.30pm | PANEL 14: BIOPOLITICS | |
| ROOM 2 | Blake Wilson | Rogue Cops: Policing the Future in the Blade Runner Films |
| Seung-hoon Jeong | The existentialist reconfiguration of biopolitics and ethics | |
| Petra Krpan and Jelena Vojković | Transmediality and Corporeality in Blade Runner: Construction of the 'Clothed Body' | |
| 5.30 - 7.00pm | Dinner - venue to be confirmed | |
| 7.00pm | Interdisciplinary approaches panel (Pontio Cinema) | |
| 8.15pm | Screening (Pontio Cinema) | |