Programme

9.30-10.00     Registration and coffee

10.00-11.00   Keynote: Elizabeth Wilson – Can Women Be Camp?

11.00-11.15     Break

11.15-12.45     Panel 1: Performing Camp

Douglas McNaughton, University of Brighton
Camp, Performance and Excess in 1970s Telefantasy

Ruth Adams, King’s College London
‘It’s not a question of ignorance, Laurence, it’s a question of taste’: Abigail’s Party and the Kitschification of Camp

Ewan Kirkland, University of Brighton
Camp, Animation and the Disney Villain

12.45-1.45      Lunch

1.45 -3.15       Panel 2: Spaces of Camp

Deborah Philips
‘Oh! The Fairies’: The Players’ Theatre Club

Marie Josephine Bennett, University of Winchester
In the Eurovision Camp: the Eurovision Song Contest as Camp Space

Jay McCauley Bowstead, University of the Arts London
Fenella Hitchcock, Middlesex University
Camp from club to catwalk: Charles Jeffrey’s LOVERBOY and queer fashion practice

3.15-3.30       Break

3.30-4.30      Panel 3: Radical Camp

Stephane Azarian, University of Roehampton
Camp Queens on Rupaul’s Drag Race: The Systemic Disrupters we Need

Rijk Kistemaker, University of Amsterdam
(Ab)uses of camp

4.30-4.45      Break

4.45-5.45       Keynote: Richard Dyer – Is Camp Queer?

5.45-6.00       Closing remarks