10 – 10.45 Registration, Coffee and Welcome
10.45 – 11 Official Welcome
Steve Green and Michael Harvey (Curator of Cinematography, National Media Museum, Bradford)
Panel 1: Gods and Creatures
11 – 11.30 Gods of the Silver Screen:
Reading Greek Divinities through Ray Harryhausen
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, University of Edinburgh
11.30 – 12 ‘Always Creatures, Never Monsters’: Harryhausen versus the Titans
Dunstan Lowe, University of Kent
12 – 12.30 The Look of Harryhausen’s Cyclops:
Human vs. Monster in the Eye of the Beholder
Eleanor OKell, University of Leeds
12.30 – 2 Lunch and Viewing of Harryhausen Collection
1.15 – 1.45 Tony Dalton book signing
1.15 – 1.45 Tony Dalton book signing
Panel 2: Classical Voyage and Landscape
2 – 2.30 Landmark or Port of Call? Harryhausen's Jason and the Argonauts in the tradition of the Argonautic myth
Helen Lovatt, University of Nottingham
2.30 – 3 Greek elements in the Sinbad movies of Ray Harryhausen:
A Lesson for Reception
Tony Keen, Open University
3 – 3.30 The Ruins of Harryhausen
Brock DeShane, writer and film-maker
3.30 – 4 Coffee
Panel 3: Clash of the Titans: Past and Present
4 – 4.30 Zeus as Animator in Harryhausen’s Clash of the Titans
Stephen Trzaskoma, University of New Hampshire
4.30 – 5 “The dragon-green, the luminous, the dark, the serpent-haunted sea”: Monsters, landscape and gender in Clash of the Titans (1981 and 2010)
Liz Gloyn, University of Birmingham
5 – 5.30 Perseus on the Psychiatrist's Couch in Leterrier’s Clash of the Titans (2010): Harryhausen Reloaded for 21st century
Steven J. Green, University of Leeds
5.30 – 6 Discussion
6.15 onwards new Harryhausen documentary followed by drinks reception to mark the opening of Bradford Animation Festival
