{"id":2004,"date":"2017-02-23T08:57:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T08:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/?p=2004"},"modified":"2017-02-23T18:19:17","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T18:19:17","slug":"keynote-by-phil-smith-at-supernatural-cities-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/2017\/02\/23\/keynote-by-phil-smith-at-supernatural-cities-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Keynote by Phil Smith at Supernatural Cities conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plymouth.ac.uk\/staff\/phil-smith\">Dr Phil Smith<\/a>, Reader in Theatre &amp; Performance at the University of Plymouth, is presenting a keynote lecture at the <a href=\"http:\/\/supernaturalcitiesgothiccities.weebly.com\/\">Supernatural Cities II: Gothic Cities<\/a> conference in Limerick, Ireland, in April 2017.\u00a0This conference offers \u00a0interdisciplinary conversations and activities for artists, folklorists, historians, geographers, literary, theatre and film scholars that explore urban Gothic and supernatural contexts.<\/p>\n<p>Phil&#8217;s lecture will address\u00a0a particular thematic finding from a series of journeys, almost all on foot, that he has\u00a0been taking around the towns and cities of South Devon (UK) and across the land between. During these walks, he has been\u00a0using various existing literary and cinematic sources \u2013 including William Beckford\u2019s <em>Vathek<\/em>, Dennis Wheatley\u2019s <em>The Haunting of Toby Jugg<\/em>, and the 2013 found-footage horror <em>The Borderlands<\/em> \u2013 as levers in the landscape.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/02\/phil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2005 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/02\/phil-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/02\/phil-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/02\/phil-260x173.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/02\/phil-160x107.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/02\/phil.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.triarchypress.net\/phil-smith.html\">Phil<\/a>\u00a0specialises in creating performances related to walking, mythogeographies and counter-tourism. As a member of site-based arts collective Wrights &amp; Sites, he is presently working on their new publication, <em>The Architect-Walker<\/em>. He is the company dramaturg of TNT Theatre (Munich), most recently co-adapting Bram Stoker\u2019s <em>Dracula<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN\">He has recently published a book chapter entitled &#8220;Using Zombies to Teach Theatre Students&#8221; in a collection entitled\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcfarlandbooks.com\/book-2.php?id=978-1-4766-6327-2\">Monsters In The Classroom: essays on teaching what scares us<\/a>, e<\/em>dited by Adam Golub and Heather Richardson Hayton (McFarland, 2017).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Phil Smith, Reader in Theatre &amp; Performance at the University of Plymouth, is presenting a keynote lecture at the Supernatural Cities II: Gothic Cities conference in Limerick, Ireland, in April 2017.\u00a0This conference offers \u00a0interdisciplinary conversations and activities for artists, folklorists, historians, geographers, literary, theatre and film scholars that explore urban Gothic and supernatural contexts.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/2017\/02\/23\/keynote-by-phil-smith-at-supernatural-cities-conference\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Keynote by Phil Smith at Supernatural Cities conference<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[659,22,675,676,14,21,194,165],"class_list":["post-2004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-news","tag-gothic","tag-keynote","tag-monsters","tag-pedagogy","tag-performance","tag-phil-smith","tag-urban-space","tag-walking","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2004"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2062,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions\/2062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}