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| Wednesday, August 19, 2015 |
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| 6:00 p.m. to 12:00 midnight – “Hiding Under the Covers” NecronomiCon welcome party (Aurora) |
| Thursday, August 20, 2015 |
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| 1:00 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. – Bus Tour 1 |
| 2:00 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. – Walking Tour (Matthew Paquin) |
| 2:30 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. – Bus Tour 2 |
| 5:00 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. – Opening Ceremony (First Baptist Church; video) |
| 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. – Ars Necronomica Art Exhibition, Opening Reception (Providence Art Club) |
| 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. – “The Sacrifice of Randolph Carter” performed by David Neilsen (Biltmore, Garden Room) |
| 7:00 p.m. to 12:00 midnight – A very special outdoor celebration of Lovecraft’s birthday and “125 Years of Weird” in Providence (Façade Lot) |
| 7:30 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. – “The Shadow over Innsmouth” by Dark Adventure Radio Theater (Biltmore, Garden Room) |
| 9:00 p.m. to Close – Black Lodge Party (Thee Red Fez) |
| Day of Friday, August 21, 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Omni, Narragansett Ballroom | Armitage Symposium – Human Subjects: Lovecraft and the Disciplines | Armitage Symposium – Pop Goes the Gent: Lovecraft in Popular Culture | Academic Talks – Monstrous Stories & Men and Monsters | Armitage Symposium – Space and Place in the Lovecraftian Milieu | Armitage Symposium – The Language of Lovecraft | Insanity Is a Sane Reaction (Haringa, Heard, Walters, Wynne, Zannella) |
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| Omni, Waterplace Ballroom | Mixing Metaphors (D’Ammassa, Goodfellow, Jones, Nickle, Rawlik, Schweitzer) |
Art in Lovecraft (Coulthart, Eckhardt, Eggleton, Gervais, Knox, Sardinha) |
The Annotations of Madness (Burke, Joshi, Klinger, Leman, Loucks) |
Ah-Cult! Magic in Prose and Practice (Gavin, Jones, Teth, Woodman, Wynne) |
Make a Sanity Roll (Glancy, Mason, Moeller, Rios) |
Occult Detectives (Gafford, Goodfellow, Langan, Olson, Price, Schweitzer) |
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| Biltmore, Garden Room | Lovecraft 101 (Cannon, Di Filippo, Klinger, Lockhart, Mariconda, Price) |
Eldritch Gaming (Fry, Glancy, Hite, Loucks, McInnes, Petersen; audio) |
Lovecraft: Family Man (Cannon, Connors, Di Filippo, Houstoun, Mariconda) |
Lovecraft: Man of Letters (Branney, Burke, Geissler, Joshi, Klinger, Leman, Mariconda) |
Mad Piping (Brock, Carson, Clark, Fifer, Jonathan Thomas, Wallach) |
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| Biltmore, Grand Ballroom | Ramsey Campbell Interview (Brock) |
Roots of Horror in H.P. Lovecraft (Connors, Klinger, Langan, Price, Pulver, Schweitzer; video) |
Non-Euclidian Science (Hobbs, Look, Lubnow, Moreno-Garcia, Rawlik, Shanks) |
Lovecraft Around the World (Andersson, Campbell, Jones, Kessler, Maclean, Moreno-Garcia, Navarro-Stefanón) |
New Weird (Gresh, Martin, Nicolay, O’Neil, Pulver, Jeffrey Thomas) |
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| Biltmore, L’Apogee | Author Readings (Carson, Jones, O’Neil, Welke) |
Miskatonic University Podcast | Author Readings (Brock, Langan, Price, Schweitzer) |
Author Readings (Griffin, Neilsen, Rawlik, Scott Thomas) |
Author Readings (Pulp Macabre: The Art of Lee Brown Coye) |
Author Readings (Hoade, Mills, Waugh) |
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| Various Locations | Walking Tour (Sarah Zurier) |
Walking Tour (Jason Eckhardt) |
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| Bus Tour 3 | Bus Tour 4 | |||||||||||||||||||
Details of above panels
- Armitage Symposium – Human Subjects: Lovecraft and the Disciplines
- A Lawyer Looks at a “Layman” Gentleman (Navarro-Stefanón)
- The Lovecraftian Cosmos: How the Tales of H.P. Lovecraft can be interpreted through the Concepts of Modern Science (Lubnow; video)
- Lovecraft and Folkloric Methodology (Van Wey; video)
- Darwin and the Deep Ones: Anthropological and Evolutionary Anxiety in Lovecraft’s “The Shadow over Innsmouth” and Other stories (Shanks; video)
- Armitage Symposium – Pop Goes the Gent: Lovecraft in Popular Culture
- Ripples from Carcosa: HP Lovecraft, True Detective, and the Artist-Investigator (Poirier)
- Lovecraft for the Little Ones: Paranorman, Plushies, and More (Ringel, Randall)
- “The Undying Leaders”: Ultraterrestrial Demonologies, Cthulhoid Conspiracies and the Rise of Lovecraftian Parapolitics (Woodman)
- Academic Talks
- Monstrous Stories: A History of Monsters (Ghadessi; video)
- Men and Monsters: Racism in the Time of Lovecraft (Grefe)
- Armitage Symposium – Space and Place in the Lovecraftian Milieu
- Tentacles in the Madhouse: The Role of the Asylum in the Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft (Rondinone; video)
- Resisting Cthulu: Milton and Lovecraft’s Errand in the Wilderness (Ricciardi; video)
- The Sombreness of Decay: Lovecraft in Wilbraham, Massachusetts (Haunton; video)
- “Save the Old Brick Row”: H.P. Lovecraft and the Modernization of Providence (Pitetti; video)
- Academics Talks: The Language of Lovecraft
- Insider, outsider – from the commonplace to the uncanny in Lovecraft’s narration and descriptions (Bourdages-Athanassiou)
- Half-Limitless in Starlit Night: H.P. Lovecraft’s Vision (Fritsch)
- Terrores innombrables: Lovecraft and the Hispanic World (Pérez)
- The Unspeakable Onomasticon: Divers Observations on H. P. Lovecraft’s Names and Name-Building (Walker)
| Evening of Friday, August 21, 2015 |
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| 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. – “The Call of Cthulhu” performed by David Neilsen (Biltmore, Garden Room) |
| 7:00 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. – “Dagon: War of Worlds” by Dark Adventure Radio Theater (Biltmore, Garden Room) |
| 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. – Guest Reception (Biltmore, L’Apogee) |
| 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. – QuizziQal Lovecraft and Yog Meet (Biltmore, Garden Room) |
| 9:00 p.m. to 12:00 midnight – Eldritch Ball (Biltmore, Grand Ballroom) |
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| Omni, Narragansett Ballroom | Armitage Symposium – (Re)Considering the Mythos | Armitage Symposium – In the dark manner of Others: Lovecraft in Literary Context | Academic Talks – Addicted to Fear & the Tlaloc-Venus Stela | Armitage Talks I – Lovecraft and Ancient Rome (Moreland, Nakamura, Quinn) |
Armitage Symposium – Lovecraft and the Aesthetic Experience | Sculpting the Indescribable (Broers, Knives, McKittrick, Pinque, Prentiss) |
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| Omni, Waterplace Ballroom | For the Small Are Large (Brock, Davis, Hussey, Lockhart, Lovecraft, Lynch, Olson) |
Oh! The Tentacles! (Bukowski, Coulthart, Eckhardt, Gervais, Knox, Koszowski, Panepinto) |
Forbidden Knowledge (Hoade, Price, Rawlik, Wynne) |
Visions of Terror (Boone, Branney, Finn, McTurk, O’Meara, Woodward) |
Mechanics of Fear (D’Ammassa, Gresh, Jones, Jonathan Thomas, Walters) |
Antarctica! (Bukowski, Cannon, Eckhardt, Haringa, Houstoun, Waugh) |
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| Biltmore, Garden Room | Only In Dreams (Gavin, Goodfellow, Langan, Mills, Strantzas, Thompson) |
Make Your Own Damn Movie (Branney, Gelatt, Homeworld, Lee, Leman, O’Meara) |
Lovecraft’s Narrators (Campbell, Houstoun, Langan, Mariconda, Jonathan Thomas, Waugh) |
Wayback Machine (Comtois, Knox, Price, Schweitzer, Zimmerman, Zone) |
Two-Gun Bob Rides Again! (Burke, Connors, Finn, Shanks; audio) |
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| Biltmore, Grand Ballroom | Lovecraft: A Critical History (Cannon, Di Filippo, Joshi, Mariconda, Price) |
Secondhand Mythos (Campbell, Di Filippo, Goodfellow, Jones, Price, Schweitzer) |
She Walks In Shadows No More (Gresh, Martin, Moreno-Garcia, Ringel, Schwader) |
Chambers and “The King in Yellow” (Houstoun, Lai, Lamssies, Lynch, Mills, Pulver; video) |
Lovecraft and Racism: Moving Past the Howies (Grefe, Hobbs, Leman, Moreno-Garcia, Nickle, Ringel; video) |
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| Biltmore, L’Apogee | Innsmouth Nightmares & Cult of the Dead Book Launch and Author Readings | Author Readings (Cannon, Nickle) |
H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast (Fifer, Lackey) |
Author Readings (Gavin, Lynch, Strantzas, Jeffrey Thomas) |
Author Readings (¡Lecturas en Español!) |
Author Readings (Aickman’s Heirs Book Launch and Author Readings) |
Author Readings (Martin, Nicolay, Pulver) |
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| Biltmore, Renaissance Salon | Ask Lovecraft (Kessler) |
Lovecraft’s New England, Part 1 (Loucks) |
Lovecraft’s New England, Part 2 (Loucks) |
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| Various Locations | Walking Tour (Donovan K. Loucks) |
Walking Tour (Rory Raven) |
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| Walking Tour (Matthew Paquin) |
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Details of above panels
- Armitage Symposium: (Re)Considering the Mythos
- Color out of Mind: Correlating the Cthulhu Mythos to the Autism Disorder Spectrum (Backstrom; video)
- From Crawling Chaos to Elder Things: Mythic Evolution in Weird Fiction (Chieffalo)
- Reordering the Universe: H.P. Lovecraft’s Subversion of the Biblical Divine (Weise)
- The Arcane and The Rational: Lovecraft’s Development of a Unique Mythos (Crowley)
- Armitage Symposium: In the dark manner of Others: Lovecraft in Literary Context
- Stylometry and Collaborative Authorship: Eddy, Lovecraft, and “The Loved Dead” (Gladwin)
- Rarebit Dreamers: the Poetics of Lovecraft, Poe, and Winsor McCay (Tittle)
- Searchers after Horror: H. P. Lovecraft contra M. R. James (Drake)
- H. P. Lovecraft and Georges Bataille: One Crawling Chaos Seen Emerging from Opposite Shores (Roy)
- Academic Talks
- Addicted to Fear: Why some of us love being scared (Zannella)
- “The Necronomicon Americanus” and the “Tlaloc-Venus Stela”: An Ancient Maya Divinatory Almanac; Descending Venus Monsters; and the Cult of Venus-regulated Warfare and Ritual Sacrifice in Mesoamerica (Carlson)
- Armitage Symposium: Lovecraft and the Aesthetic Experience
- “The Music of ‘Erich Zann’” (Chang)
- “The Inside” of H.P. Lovecraft”s Supernatural Horror in the Visual Arts (Wallace)
- The Suffering Intellect: HP Lovecraft’s Weird Epistemology (Holmes)
- Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth: An Aesthetics Analysis of the Construction of Fear (Nóbrega)
| Evening of Saturday, August 22, 2015 |
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| 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. – The Lovecraft Comedy Quiz Show (Biltmore, Garden Room) |
| 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. – Monstrous Invisible theatrical presentation hosted by Leeman Kessler (Providence Public Library) |
| 7:45 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. – RadioTheater NYC presentation of “The Horror at Red Hook”, “The Curse of Yig”, and “From Beyond” (Providence Public Library) |
| 9:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. – Lovecraftian Trivia Night (Biltmore, McCormick & Schmick’s) |
| 9:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. – Necronomicon TV show live script reading (Black Box Theater) |
| 9:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. – Earth, Elder, Assembly of Light Choir, and Owlfood (The Columbus Theater) |
| 10:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. – Innsmouth Sea Shanties! (Biltmore, McCormick & Schmick’s) |
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| Omni, Narragansett Ballroom | Armitage Symposium – Beyond the Lovecraft Circle | Armitage Symposium – Philosophical Aspects of Lovecraft’s Fiction | Armitage Talks II – The Bishop Letters (Branney, Leman) |
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| Omni, Waterplace Ballroom | Clark Ashton Smith (Connors, Gelatt, Haringa, Joshi, Murray; video) |
Lord Dunsany (Andersson, Di Filippo, Joshi, Ringel, Schweitzer, Thompson; video) |
Nameless Rhymes (Bolivar, Broadbent, Brock, Hussey, Lovecraft, Phillips, Schwader) |
Writing the Mythos (Campbell, Davis, Gresh, Pulver, Rawlik, Schwetzer) |
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| Biltmore, Garden Room | Make Your Own Madness (McInnes, Mason, Petersen, Thompson; audio) |
On Lovecraft and Philosophy (Cisco, Davis, Hoade, Houstoun, Wynne) |
The Little Terrors (Connors, Klinger, Lai, Murray, Schweitzer, Shanks) |
Lovecraft As Sci-Fi Writer (Brock, Callahan, Klinger, Nolan, Price, Schwader) |
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| Biltmore, Grand Ballroom | Cthulhu Prayer Breakfast (Goodfellow, Price, Schweitzer; video) |
Future of Weird Fiction (Bagley, Griffin, Moreno-Garcia, Pulver, Strantzas) |
Religion in Lovecraft (Di Filippo, Jones, Joshi, Lockhart, Price; video) |
New England Gothic (Broadbent, Hite, Langan, Raven, Ringel; video) |
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| Biltmore, L’Apogee | Special Young Lovecraftian Readers Section (Ciaramella, Murphy, Rodriguez) |
Author Readings (Gresh, Schwader) |
Poetry Circle (Bolivar, Broadbent, Schwader, Wizdom) |
Lovecraft eZinePodcast (video) | Author Readings (Campbell, Nolan) |
Author Readings (Jonathan Thomas) |
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| Various Locations | Walking Tour (Cheryl LeBeau) |
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Details of above panels
- Armitage Symposium: Beyond the Lovecraft Circle
- A Closet Quetzalcoatl: Intimations of HPL and Same Sex Desire in R.H. Barlow’s “The Wind That Is in the Grass” (Kobek)
- The Derleth Mythos: Literary Evidence of Weird Realism (Rottenberg)
- No Black Stone Unturned: A Critical Examination of Robert E. Howard’s Most Significant Cthulhu Mythos Story (Finn)
- “It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came”: Shared Authorship in the Discourse Community of the Lovecraft Circle (Emmelhainz)
- Armitage Symposium: Philosophical Aspects of Lovecraft’s Fiction
- “Shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles”: H.P. Lovecraft and the Plasticity of Users and Tools (Carney)
- H.P. Lovecraft and the Dimensions of Speculation (Camara)
- H.P. Lovecraft’s Optimism (Beach)
- Lovecraft, Rand and the Abyss of Opportunity (Maurer)
| Evening of Sunday, August 23, 2015 |
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| 8:00 p.m. to 12:00 midnight – NecronomiCon closing party (Aurora) |
| 9:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. – The Dunwich Horror Picture Show! (Columbus Theater) |
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