9:00am – 10:30am: "Every Decision You Make from Now On, Will Open Doors to The Future": Video Games and Gaming

Reading Immortality as Trans Body Horror
Cassandra Barkman

My Gay Goth Vampire Gunslinger: The Monstrous Other and Subversive Queer Reading of Final Fantasy VII
Hyerin Shin & Noora Abboud

Fragments of Identity: Queer Longing in the Horror of Signalis
Alina Astalus

10:45am – 12:15pm: “Go Then, There Are Other Worlds Than These": Examining Global Horror

Pink, Blue, and Giallo: The Enduring Trans Appeal of Italian Thrillers
Nic Levesque

Burmese Hauntings in Southeast Asian Horror
Charlotte Chadwick

Bakla Horror: The Levitating Polysemy of Queer Philippine Horror Cinema
Finley Freibert

Visceral Horror as an Allegory for Queer Activism: A Case Study of Yoshihiro Nishimura’s Anatomia Extinction
Pelin Çılgın

12:15pm – 1:30pm: "You Must Come with Me, Loving Me, to Death": Loving Vampires Through Death and After

Return to TRANSlyvania: Trans hauntings in Dracula and Carmilla
Harry Rooke-Kelly

Victorians and “Other” Monsters: Queer Femme Abhumans in fin de siècle British Horror
Katrina Millan

Queer Vampires in Two South Asian Adaptations of Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Ramit Samaddar

1:30pm – 2:30pm: Meal Break

2:30pm – 3:45pm: "I was not even of the same nature as man": Queer and Trans Theories of Horror

Queering the Text, or Destroying Creations
Ian Downes

Trans Horror as Method
Hayden Cuttone

Where the Monsters Live: Clive Barker’s Queer Biopower
Sasha Ravitch

Genderfuck Glam Rock: Transnormativity and Representation in The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Colin Pigeon Edwards

4:00pm – 5:30pm: Trans Bodies in Horror: Resistance, Rebellion, and the Question of Representation

Good | Body | Horror
Chelsea Thompto

Queer and Trans Bodies in Twentieth-Century Italian Genre Cinema
Tristan Venturi

Silence’s Violence
Cáel M. Keegan

Death Becomes Us: Experimenting with Trans and Death-Positive Approaches to Medical Horror
Dan Vena