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The second annual Haunted Futures Conference took place in the Department of Film and Screen Media from the 29th to the 30th of October 2024
In addition to the conferences sustained focus on hauntology and the ghost as symbol for radical social justice, this year鈥檚 conference welcomed papers on 鈥淭he Future of Folklore鈥� and asked delegates to consider how folklore can usefully combat and destabilise systemic injustice.
There were 22 research papers presented, as well as a creative showcase featuring poetry, prose and film. Keynote speaker Joan Passey (University of Bristol) delivered a paper entitled 鈥淨ueer Ecologies of the Maritime Gothic: Coasts, Ghosts and Vampiric Hosts鈥�. Creative Keynote Ailbhe Callanan (University of Brighton) considered the relationship between her printmaking work and the geography and folklore of her native North Cork.
The conference will return next year and following the success of the previous two years, conference organisers Ellen Scally and Rachel Gough have elected to create the Haunted Futures Network a dedicated research network for scholars whose work engages with themes of hauntology.
