Friday 23 November
| Time | Session | Location |
| 8.45 – 9.45 | Registration & Coffee | Glass Room |
| 9.45 – 10.00 | Welcome | Glass Room |
| 10.00 – 11.00 | Panel 1: Gender
Chair: Emily Alder |
Glass Room |
| Megen de Bruin-Molé | The Time Traveller’s Mistress: Mary Shelley in Frankenstein adaptations, 1935-2018 | |
| Sarah Artt | Ten Thousand Times More Malignant: On Alice Lowe’s Prevenge | |
| 11.00 – 11.15 | Short break | |
| 11.15 – 12.45 | Panel 2: Legacies
Chair: Anna Gutowska |
Glass Room |
| Barbara Braid | Dr Frankenstein meets Inspector Marlott: hauntological appropriations in The Frankenstein Chronicles | |
| Stefania Antonioni | Frankenstein legacies in contemporary tv series: Penny Dreadful, The Frankenstein Chronicles and Second Chance | |
| Claudia Schaefer and Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández | Mary Shelley’s monster goes south: masculinity, the male gaze, and modern Mexican film | |
| 12.45 – 1.45 | Lunch | Glass Room |
| 1.45 – 3.15 | Panel 3: Frank-in-sound
Chair: Amanda Reyes |
Glass Room |
| James Wierzbicki | How Frankenstein’s monster became a music lover | |
| Marija Reiff | Frankenstein’s musical underworld: exploring monstrous divinity in the National Theatre’s 2011 production | |
| Anna Williams | Presenting ‘My Hideous Progeny’: a podcast dissertation on Frankenstein and the modern humanities | |
| 3.30 | Depart Merchiston | Quadrangle, taxis |
| 4.00-4.45 | Richard Hand: ‘every sound terrified me’: Frankenstein on live radio | Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Summerhall |
| 5.00-6.00 | Keynote lecture: ‘Frankenstein Begins; or, Mary Shelley’s Scotland’
Dr Daniel Cook, University of Dundee Chair: Emily Alder |
Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Summerhall |
| 6.00 – late | Drinks and dining opportunities | Summerhall, or locally |
Saturday 24 November
| Time | Session | Location |
| 8.30 – 9.00 | Registration | Glass Room |
| 9.00 – 10.30 | Panel 4: Fragments
Chair: Richard Hand |
Glass Room |
| Kathleen Denison | Fragmenting Frankenstein: inventing new monsters in new media | |
| Essi Varis | Creatures, made things: A Frankensteinian theory of fictional characters | |
| Lauren Christie | Monstrous legacies: literary adaptations of Frankenstein for young readers | |
| Panel 5: Recreations
Chair: Arin Keeble |
Room B2 | |
| Anna Gutowska | ‘Make me a mate’: the story arc of Brona/ Lily in Penny Dreadful as a case of re-righting of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein | |
| Amanda Reyes | When home is in the belly of the beast: Frankenstein’s influence on the made-for-television movie Crawlspace | |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Coffee break | Glass Room |
| 11.00 – 12.30 | Panel 6: Transgressions
Chair: Kate Simpson |
Glass Room |
| Craig Thomson | ‘What you call discovery, I call the rape of the natural world’: the ‘eco-monstrous’ legacy of Frankenstein within the Jurassic Park film franchise (1990-2018) | |
| Martine Mussies | Frankenstein and The Lure: border-crossing creatures through a feminist lens | |
| Annabel Frearson | Frankenstein2 | |
| Panel 7: Modifications
Chair: Daniel Cook |
Room B2 | |
| Bean Sharp | Resisting origins: Frankenstein and Feminist science fiction history-telling | |
| Amanda Pavani Fernandes | Contemporary creatures in literary sf: the cyborg, the AI, the genetically modified being | |
| Urshela Wiggins Atkins | The mechanics of being human: technology and post-humanism in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein | |
| 12.30 – 1.30 | Keynote lecture: ‘Fashioning Frankenstein’
Professor Catherine Spooner, Lancaster University Chair: Sarah Artt |
Glass Room |
| 1.30 – 1.45 | Closing remarks | Glass Room |
| 1.45 – 2.45 | Lunch | Glass Room |
| 2.45 | Depart Merchiston | Holy Corner, bus 23 |
| 3.45 – 4.45 | Tour | Mary King’s Close |
| 4.45 – 6.00 | Free time or join us in the pub | The Jolly Judge, Lawnmarket |
| 6.00 – 8.00 | Tour | Mercat ghost tour and Blair Street Underground Vaults |