• Assassination, Family and Fortune: the fate of JFK
  Jane Parish, University of Keele
• JFK and the Theatre of Conspiracy
  Todd Uhlmann, Rutgers.
• (Dis)Solving the Kennedy Assassination
  Jerry Goodenough, University of East Anglia
  

B) RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY?

• Postindustrial Society and the Psychology of the American Far Right
  Kendrick Oliver, University of Southampton
• Fusion Paranoia, Paradigm Collision and the American Patriot Movement,
  Martin Durham, Univ of Wolverhampton
• Conspiring with the Militias
  Darren Mulloy, University of East Anglia

C) CONSPIRACY LITERATURES

• Hysteria, Paranoia, and the Gendered Triad
  Tomasz Basiuk, University of Warsaw
• Poetry and Paranoia
  David Gewanter, Georgetown University
• Ethnic Conspiracy: Saul Bellow and Otto Rank, Two Paranoid Conspiracies
  Heide Elam, Williamsburg

11.00-12.30 SESSION 2

A) RACE AND CONSPIRACY

• The Black Panther Party's Theory of Genocidal Conspiracy
  Alondra R.Nelson, NYU
• Tupac Shakur and Conspiracy Culture
  Eithne Quinn, De Montfort University
• Mobilising the White Masses: Conspiracy and Social Revolution in The Turner Diaires and Hunter
  Ingrid Walker Fields, Transylvania University

B) PARANOID LITERATURES

• Holding it All Together: Conspiracy, Paranoia & Loss of Self in Postmodern American Literature
  Duncan Beard, Australian National University
• The Mighty Integral: Technological and Biological Fears in Thomas Pynchon and Tom Wolfe
  Inger Dalsgaard, Kings College, London

C) SECRET IDENTITIES

• Staving off Senseless Disaster: rubbing out and rubbing against the enemy in The Manchurian Candidate
  Kyle Smith, University of Birmingham
• Lee Harvey Oswald
  Dorian Hayes, University of East Anglia
• Unabom: Identity as a Self-Destructing Agent
  Ann Larabee, Michigan State University

2.00 - 3.30 SESSION 3

A) THE X-FILES CONSPIRACY

• Trust No-One: The X-Files and Conspiracy Culture
  Heidi Kaye, De Montfort University
• The X-Files and Producing Paranoia
  Erika Flesher, University of California, Irvine
• Believing the Lie: Meme Theory and the Conspiracy Virus in The X-Files
  Lynn Messina/Eleanor O'Rangers, SUNY
  

B) CONSPIRACY AND CULTURE

• Aliens and the Disney-Military Complex
  Roy Goldblatt, Joensuu University, Finland.
• The Rise of the Paranoir: Conspiracy Culture and the Logic of the Secret
  Jack Bratich, Univ of Illinois, Urbana
• Worst Case Scenarios: Hot Zones and Virus Hunters
  Nickianne Moody, John Moores University.
  

C) GENDER, SEXUALITY AND CONSPIRACY

• Godlessness-Communism-Homosexuality. Conspiracy Culture and Postwar Economics,
  Janet Jakobsen, Univ of Arizona
• Snuff Movies and Paranoia
  Philip Best, University of Durham
• What Have They Done to the Children of Ham: Gender, Race and Conspiracy in The Handmaid's Tale
  Megan Miranda, University of Southampton

4.00-5.30 SESSION 4

A) QUESTIONING CONSPIRACY

• The Denial of Conspiracy
  David Hinton, University of East London
• Just Because I'm Paranoid Doesn't Mean I'm Not Being Persecuted...
  Brian Nicol, Chicester Institute
• Forget Conspiracy: Pynchon, DeLillo Morrison, and the Thought of Conspiracy
  John McClure, Rutgers
  

B) CONSPIRACY: MYTH AND HISTORY

• The SAS Myth and Conspiracy
  John Newsinger, Bath College
• Conspiracy Unmasked: Salvation without God?
  Phil Melling, University of Swansea
• We Charge Genocide: Black Conspiracy Theory and Cold War Politics
  Hariloas Stecopolous, University of Virginia
  

C) FILM AND THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION

• Where Were You When JFK was Shot?
  Pat Cook, Brunel
• (Over)Killing Kennedy: Conspiratorial Documentaries on Conspiracy
  Paul Wells, De Montfort University
• Keep Them Guessing: Conspiracy Theories and Oliver Stone's JFK
  Batia Boe Stolar, Newfoundland University, Canada
  

6.15-7.15 PLENARY LECTURE
Elaine Showalter, Princeton University: "Slaying the Hydra"

9.00-10.30am SESSION 5

A) THE X-FILES CONSPIRACY 2

• Knocking on Nihilism's Door: Trust No-One and Nothing - A Popular Pedagogy of Postmodern Paranoia
  Karen Anijar, California SPU
• The Truth is Somewhere: Deconstructing Mulder's GUT Feelings
  Benjamin Mumby-Croft, King Alfred's College
• Enigma Variations: Conspiracy and Detection in The X-Files
  Matthew Hills, University of Sussex
  

B) DEFINING CONSPIRACY AND PARANOIA

• Paranoia, Politics, Poetics: the Textuality of Conspiracy
  David Crane, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Conspiracy as Alienation: a neo-Marxist Critique of the Politics of Conspiracy Culture in the Post War World
  Richard Moncrieff, University of Southampton
• Conspiracy: The Poor Man's Cognitive Mapping?
  Francis Mason, King Alfred's College
  

C) HOLLYWOOD FILM AND CONSPIRACY

• Paranoia and the Economy of Paranoia: From Film Noir to Film Beserk
  Glen Scott Allen, Towson University
• Revising Conspiracy Narratives in Hollywood Movies of the 1990s
  Steve Rachman, Michigan State University
• The End of Paranoia: Hollywood and the Cold War
  John Orr, Edinburgh University
  

11.00-12.30 SESSION 6

A) CELEBRITY CONSPIRACIES

• The Diana Conspiracies
  Ian Simmons, Fortean Times
• The Gospel According to John: The Beatles, the Passover Plot and Conspiratorial Narrativity
  Matthew Schneider, Chapman University
• Conspiracy and the Diana Myth
  Jude Davies, King Alfred's College
  

B) READING FOR CONSPIRACIES

• Everything is Subject to Change: Playing with Conspiracy in Mark Lawson's Idlewild
  Stephen Keane, Bretton Hall
• Conspiracy Theory as a Psychotic's Attempt to Read the Media Universe as a Detective Story
  Benjamin Maruis Schmidt, University of Zurich
• The Moral Truth of Paranoia in Peter Carey's Bliss
  Eduardo Bravo, University of Vigo, Spain
  

C) SPACES OF PARANOIA

• Paranoid Spaciality: Race, Ethnicity and the Postmodern City in American Literature
  Liam Kennedy, University of Birmingham
• View From Above, View From Below: Paranoid Perspectives on Urban Space
  Pascal Pinck, University of California, Irvine
• Tales of the Interconnected: the USENET and the propagation of Conspiracy on the Net
  Jamie King, King Alfred's College
  

2.00-3.00 PLENARY LECTURE
Teresa Brennan: "Conviction, Conspiracy, and Postmodernism"

3.30-5.00 SESSION 7

A) CONSPIRACY / THEORY

• What Deep Throat Never Revealed: The Secret of Secrets
  Clare Birchall, University of Sussex
• Paranoia as Literary-Cultural Logic
  Tony Elias, University of Melbourne
• The Edge of Anxiety
  Dale Carter, University of Aarhus
  

B) CONSPIRACY AND NARRATIVE

• Two Nights to Remember: Narrating the Titanic and the TWA 800 Disasters
  James Guimond, Rider University
• Men in Black and the American Conspiratorial Contemporary
  Jeffery MacIntyre, University of British Columbia
• The Truth is (there's n)out There: from Fifties to Nineties Paranoia in the novels of James Ellroy and Jim Thompson
  Andrew McCallum, Birkbeck
  

C) ALIEN CONSPIRACIES

• The Gaze of the Greys
  David Brottman, University of East London
• My Body is Not my Own: Personalising Disempowerment in Alien Abduction Narratives
  Bridget Brown, NYU
• An Exploration of the Conspiratorial and Ideological Technologies at Work in the Roswell Incident
  Mark Featherstone, Staffordshire University
  

5.15 FINAL SESSION: ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: A CONSPIRACY CULTURE?
Chairs: Alasdair Spark and Peter Knight