Events

Jack the Ripper and Popular Culture

Saturday 13 September, 10am – 5.15pm

Chaired by historian and author Clive Bloom, this day conference will explore the reasons why Jack the Ripper has exercised such a strong and lasting hold on the popular imagination, inspiring hundreds of  books, films, plays and graphic novels. Speakers include Sir Christopher Frayling, showing his 1988 BBC documentary Shadow of the Ripper, Martin Willis (co–author of Jack the Ripper: Media Culture History) and Alexandra Warwick.

Study Day Programme

10.00-10.30am 

Registration and Coffee

10.30-10.35am    

Welcome
Carol Seigel, Museum in Docklands

10.35-11.25am  

Jack the Ripper, A Legacy in Pictures
Professor Clive Bloom, Notre Dame University

11.25-11.45am    

Coffee break

11.45-12.45pm    

Inventing the Serial Killer
Alex Warwick, Westminster University

12.45-1.45pm      

Lunch (not provided)

1.45-2.45pm       

Detecting Jack in Popular Fiction and Performance
Martin Willis, Glamorgan University

2.45-3.15pm        

Tea break

3.15-3.45pm       

Introduction to 'Shadow of the Ripper'. BBC 1988
Sir Christopher Frayling

3.45-4.45pm       

Showing of Shadow of the Ripper

4.45-5.15pm       

Questions and discussion

5.15pm                

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