Conference Programme, Abstracts and Papers

4th Global Conference

Sunday 6th May – Tuesday 8th May 2012
Prague, Czech Republic

The programme for the conference is available below. Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts (where available) for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.

Final Conference Programme

Sunday 6th May 2012
From 12.30
Conference Registration

13.30
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Project Leader

14.00
Session 1: Bon Appétit! Evil on the Menu
Chair: Aleksandra Holubowicz

On Tonight’s Menu: Corporeality, Food and Female Monstrosity in Two True Crime Texts
Jay Daniel Thompson

The Evil Food
Sascha Qvortrup

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 2 : Female Evil in Verse and in Prose
Chair: Helen Gavin

Bats Flying off my Womb: Monstrous Maternity in Sylvia Plath’s Poetry
Elisabete Lopes

Evil or Not? – How Women Conventionally Deemed Evil Are De-eviled – An Analysis Based on Selected Works by Ana Castillo and Cristina Garcia
Aleksandra Holubowicz

“A Little Evil Butterfly”: Representation of Young Japanese Female Sex Workers in Popular Magazines
Reiko Yamagishi

17.30
Notices and Announcements

17.40
Wine Reception

Monday 7th May 2012
09.00
Session 3: The Dark Side of Politics
Chair: Hannah Priest

The Dark Goddess and the Nation: The Political Uses of Religious Symbolism
Meenakshi Malhotra

Spurned Women Crying Rape in Philippine Jurisprudence
Emmanuel Q. Fernando

The Gendered Discourse of Piercing Muslim Children’s Ears: Punishment or Adornment
Hadas Hirsch

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 4a: Let’s Talk About Fairy-Tales
Chair: Per Faxneld

The Wicked Stepmother: Fairy Tales, Child Abuse and Historical Epidemiology
Theresa Porter

The Damsel in Distress: Not as Sweet as She is Painted?
Helen Gavin and Jacquelyn Bent

Feminine Fairy-Tales and Oppression of the Female Sex: Identifying with Knowing “Your Place” in a “Male Gaze” World
Shirley J Pressler and Helen Gavin

Session 4b: Construction of Gender in a Different Space
Chair: Rebecca Louise

The Living Dead: Toxic Bodies on Toxic Lands
Esme Murdock

The Abode of Evil: The Female Body as a Symbol in Louise Erdrich’s Tracks
Fadwa Mahmoud Hassan Gad

Representing the Gendered Discourse of Power: Josefa Ordoñez and La Güera Rodríguez
Jitka Crhová, Alfredo Escandón and Rosío Molina

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 5a: Medieval
Chair: Jay Daniel Thompson

The Lady was Taken to Another Place: Hiding Punitive Violence against Women in Medieval Insular Romance
Hannah Priest

From the Street into the Brothel: Following the Go-Between
María Beatriz Hernández

Helen, Cressida and Cassandra: The Competing Value of Beauty and Honor and the Corruption of Society
Lilly J. Goren

Session 5b: Legends, Myths and Taboos
Chair: Alfredo Escandón

Rewriting Arab Women’s Sexuality between Demonisation and Empowerment
Mona Ibrahim Ali

Women’s Impurity, Menstrual Blood and the Creation of Taboo: Perspectives from the Field of Christian Feminist Theology
Nadja Furlan

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 6a: Female Murderess in Literature and in Life
Chair: Laini Burton

Impressions of Evil: The Public and Professional View of a Female Murderer
Adele Rainford and Helen Gavin

Lady of Cachtice – Bloody Erzsebet
Gabriela Madlo

Session 6b: From Lilith to Modern Evil Mothers
Chair: Theresa Porter

Mothers Who Kill: The Rhetoric of the Women’s Liberation Movement in 1970s Japan
Alessandro Castellini

Lilith: Repository for Masculine Shame
Mary Ayers

Tuesday 8th May 2012
09.00
Session 7: In Front and Behind the Camera
Chair: Zuzana Kovar

“The Lustful Twin, the Black Swan”: Feminine Monstrosity, Madness and Evil in Depictions of Bird-Women and Aronofsky’s Black Swan
Carys Crossen

Dead Girl Walking: Feminine Death and the Self-Portrait
Rebecca Louise

Our Monstrous Humanimality in Lucía Puenzo’s XXY and The Fish Child
Zoila Clark

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 8a: A Different Monstrous Mother
Chair: Sascha Qvortrup

Abject Appeal and the Monstrous Feminine in Lady Gaga’s Self-Fashioned Persona “Mother Monster”
Laini Burton

The Hermaphrodite Satanist: Madame Blavatsky’s Theosophical Subversion of Gender Categories and Christian Misogynist Mythology
Per Faxneld

Graphic, but not Comic: Lady Macbeth as Early Modern Mother
Esther Bendit Saltzman

Session 8 b: Sexuality, Motherhood, and The Feminine: Unearthing “Evil” Women in Literature
Chair: Esther Bendit Saltzman

(De)Constructing Evil: Bertha Mason’s Madness in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea.
Kirsti Cole

“I am Sure if I Saw Her Again it Would Kill Me”: Female Sexuality in Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan
Melissa Purdue

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 9: Evil Women and the Other
Chair: Fadwa Mahmoud Hassan Gad

Fatal Woman Forced to Present the “Other”: Woman and Evil in Turkish literature
Esra Dicle Başbuğ

The Construction of Gender and Music in Modern South India
Krishna Menon

Kaikeyi and Supernakha: Evil Women of the Ramayan
Vinita Dhondiyal Bhatnagar

15.30
Coffee

16:00
Session 10: Abjection
Chair: Nadja Furlan

Johannesburg Noir: Lauren Beukes’ Zoo City and its “Evil Woman”
Elsie Cloete

Abject(ion): The Feminine and the Masculine.
Zuzana Kovar

Running with Scissors: Abjection and the Archaic Mother in À l’intérieur (Inside)
Ashley Nunes

17.30
Development meeting and closing remarks

18.00
Conference Ends