1st Global Conference (2009)

1st Global Conference

Friday 1st May 2009 – Sunday 3rd May 2009
Budapest, Hungary

Conference Programme, Abstracts and Papers

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 (v.1.3g)

Friday 1st May 2009
from 12.30
Registration

13.30
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Rob Fisher and Sorcha Ni Fhlainn

14.00
Session 1: Myth and the Evil Woman
Chair: Sorcha Ni Fhlainn

Cynthia Jones
Bad Girls: Fear of Women in the Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault

Linda Mostert
The Balloon Woman: Reinventing Mermaid Myths in Contemporary South Africa

Deborah Lea
Harlots and Whores – Witchcraft Libels in Seventeenth Century Cheshire

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 2: Menstruation
Chair: Vivienne Muller

Jazmina Cininas
Beware the Full Moon: Female Werewolves and that ‘time of the month’

Sarah Glover
The Vagina Dentata in Contemporary American Visual Culture

Aylin Dikmen Özarslan
Celebrating Menarche

17.30
Notices/Announcements

17.40
Wine Reception

Saturday 2nd May 2009
09.00
Session 3: The Feminine and the Sacred
Chair: Fiona Peters

Eliana Ionoaia
The Wickedness of Feminine Evil in the Harry Potter Series

Maria Barrett
Karen Matthews the heartbroken mother-come-cold hearted witch: News Discourses of Evil

Aysegul Kesirli: Monstrous Motherhood in David Cronenberg’s Spider

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 4a: Magical (D)evil Women!!!
Chair: Sarah Glover

Per Faxneld
Satan as the Liberator of Woman in Four Gothic Novels: William Beckford’s Vathek (1786), M. G. Lewis’ The Monk (1796), Charlotte Dacre’s Zofloya, or The Moor (1806), and Charles Maturin’s Melmoth the Wanderer (1820)

Neil Cochrane
Women as Exorcists of Evil within the South African Literary Context: Devil’s Valley (1998), The Rights of Desire (2000) and Praying Mantis (2005) by André P. Brink

Radhika Borde
Witchcraft in East-Central India: A Juxtaposition of Opposed Perspectives

Session 4b: Angels and Demons
Chair: Cynthia Jones

Patricia Tabarés Pérez
Carol Ann Duffy’s Female Myths or a Celebration of the Dark Shadows of the Soul

Barbara Braid
Now Slips the Crimson Petal, Now the White – Monster/Angel Dichotomy in the Representation of Women in Michel Faber’s The Crimson Petal and the White

12.30
Lunch

14.00  *Concurrent Sessions*
Session 5a: Incest and Abuse
Chair: Linda Mostert

Cathy Hunt
The Spotlight on Motherhood in Early Twentieth Century Britain

Helen Gavin
Mummy Wouldn’t Do That

Theresa Porter
Woman as Molester; Implications for Society

Session 5b: Undesirable Women & Social Outcasts
Chair: Barbara Kosta

Beata Zawadka
Sometimes the Mystery [is] Simply how to Tell the Story At All.” The Phenomenon of the Contemporary Southern “White Trash” Womanhood as Presented in Trash by Dorothy Allison

Judy Lattas
Sayena Robot, Brain Mother

Monika Gupta
Infanticide and Mother-Daughter Relationship in Toni Morrison’s Beloved

15.30
Coffee

16.00
*Concurrent Session*
Session 6a: The Bitch
Chair: Neil Cochraine

Jan Peterson Roddy
“Switchblade Romance”: Lesbian Predators and Rednecks

Pamela Cross & Donna-lee Iffla
The Vengeful Bitch Asked For It: The Construction of Woman as Evil in our Analysis of Violence against Women

Tuna Yilmaz
The Rebirth of Femme Fatale in Film Noir: Basic Instinct 2 and the Characteristics of the New Femme Fatale

Session 6b: Women and Power
Chair: Helen Gavin

Michelle Duran-McLure
Lust for Body, Lust for Power: Evil & the Feminine in the Medieval West

Babajide Ololajulo
Social Representation of Women: A Political Economy Approach

Ann-Marie Cook
Amateur Saboteurs and Khaki-Mad Dabblers: The Evil Face of Female Sexuality in Wartime Australia

17.30
Sessions End

Sunday 3rd May 2009
09.00
Session 7: Symbolic Monsters
Chair: Jan Peterson Roddy

Eva-Maria Broomer
The Demonization of Melusine: ‘Dame de tout le monde disoit bien’ or ‘tresfaulse serpente’?

Fiona Peters
What Women Want

June L Leishman & Cathy Di Domenico
Women: Madness, Witchcraft and the Evil Subjective

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 8: Cinescapes – Women Onscreen
Chair: Judy Lattas

Barbara Kosta
The Modern Woman and Weimar Cinema

Betty (Despoina) Kaklamanidou
The ‘Light’ Side of Feminine Evil: Film Comedies

Muriel Andrin
Seduction, Fascination, Medusation : Evil Women as Mythical Hybrids in 1940s Hollywood Melodramas

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 9: The Monstrous (Wo)man
Chair: Theresa Porter

Zuzana Kepplova
Tits & Bea(s)ts

Sigrid  Hackenberg
One Thousand and One Feminine(s)

Vivienne Muller
When he is a she is a he is a she is a…The case of the Pregnant Man

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Development Meeting

16.45
Conference Close