2nd Global Conference (2010)

2nd Global Conference

Monday 3rd May 2010 – Wednesday 5th May 2010
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

Monday 3rd May 2010
from 12.30
Registration

13.30
Welcome and Opening Words
Sorcha Ní Fhlainn

14.00
Session 1: Bad Mothers 1
Chair: Sorcha Ní Fhlainn

Cesarean Kidnapping: Maternal Instinct, Malingering, and Murder
Theresa Porter

Maternal Transformations of the Post-Feminist Dilemma: Can I Have My Violent Revenge and My Children Too?
Claire Henry

The Dilemma of Depicting Desire: Maternal Secret or Public Shame
Denise Ferris,

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 2: Representations and Responses
Chair: Ann-Marie Cook

Lampooning ‘The Queen of Mean:’ Representations of Leona Helmsley In Popular Culture
Tadeusz Lewandowski

Sanctioned Female Violence: The Photographic Portrayal of Israeli Women Soldiers
Eva Berger and Dorit Naaman

Internalizing the Taboo: Israeli Women Respond to Commercials For Feminine Hygiene Products
Sigal Barak Brandes

17.30
Notices and Announcements

17.40
Wine Reception

Tuesday 4th May
09:00
Session 3a: Serial and Systematic Killing
Chair: Theresa Porter

Aileen Wuornos: Sympathy For the Devil
Christine Rogers

Caretakers, Carnage, and Complicity: Evil Domesticity in South Africa’s Ubu and the Truth Commission
L. Bailey McDaniel

Phenomenology of the Witch: Belief, Representation, and Violence Faced By Those Accused of Witchcraft in South Africa
Yaseen Ally

Session 3b: Portrayals Now
Chair: Per Faxneld

The Perils of Her Pain: The Injustice of Being Labeled One of Canada’s Most Dangerous Women
Melanie Carrington

Neo-Victorian Sapphic Femme Fatales: Manipulation and Double Game in S. Waters’ Affinity
Malwina Degorska

Mother Against Daughter and Daughter Against Mother: Hostile Femininity In the Neo-Victorian Novel
Barbara Braid

10:30
Coffee

11:00
Session 4a: Were Things Ever Really The Way We Remember Them?
Chair: Maria Cristina Martins

Dangerous Whispers From the ‘Flower and the Willow World’
Senka Suman

The Monstrous Feminine of the South: Hypermodern Portrayals Of the Mythological Figure of the Maenad
Lucia Curras Nores

Sweet-Tongued Foes: Female Antagonists in Fantasy and Fiction For Children and Young Adults
Anne Klaus

Session 4b: Evil Women in the American South
Chair: Cynthia Jones

The Tarantula Arms! That’s Where I Brought My Victims! Blanche Dubois, or the Journey From Southern Belle to Evil Woman
Maika Aira Gallardo

I Don’t Ask For Things I Don’t Think I Can Get: Regina Giddens as Portrayal of a New Southern Evil in Wyler’s The Little Foxes (1941)
Monica Ledo Fernandez

From Jezabel to the Southern Belle: (mis)Representations of the Female in Classic Hollywood Film: Jezebel (Wyler, 1938) and Gone With the Wind (Fleming, 1939)
Patricia Fra-Lopez

12:30
Lunch

14.00
Session 5a: Authors Today
Chair: Barbara Braid

Hawthorne and Tolstoy: Views on the Problem of Women as Evil
Ekaterina Yasko

The ‘Beauty Myth’ as the Root of Feminine Evil in Marie Belloc Lowndes’ What Really Happened?
Elyssa Warkentin

Introspaces of Subversion vs. Ideological Spaces of Evil in Eavan Boland’s Anorexic
Adel Sliti

Session 5b: Medieval and Early Modern Echoes Today
Chair: Zoila Clark

Sculpting Wanton Vessels: Physiognomy, Medical Theory, and the Construction of the Evil Feminine in the Later Middle Ages
Brenda S. Gardenour

Female Imagination as Origin of Evil in Paracelsus (1493-1541) and Boehme (1575-1624)
Filips DeFoort

15.30
Tea

16:00
Session 6a: Up on the Screen
Chair: Simon Bacon

Look at Moiye! Monstrous Feminine as Social Rebellion in Kath and Kim
Ann-Marie Cook

The Evil Bisexual Woman: Jennifer’s Body as a Case Study
Megan Adams

Re/presenting Evil
Viv Chadder

Session 6b: Archetypes Arrive!
Chair: Ross Moore

Beyond the Femme Fatale: The Mythical Pandora as Cathartic, Transformative Force
Maree Macmillan

Looking Through the Mirror: Female Villains in Fairy Tales As Instances of Evil Feminine
Maria Cristina Martins

17:30
Sessions End

Wednesday 5th May
09:00
Session 7: Lilith and Her Sisters
Chair: Yaseen Ally

Judaic Evil Myths in Latin Women Writers
Zoila Clark

Xenogenesis: Lilith the ‘other’ and the Alien Origin Story in the Science Fiction Saga of O.E. Butler
Restituta Castiello

It Was Lilith He Longed For: Romanticism and the Legacies of Lolita
Brian Walter

10:30
Coffee

11:00
Session 8a: Bad Mothers 2
Chair: Eftychia Mikelli

Unnatural Mothers, Mothering Unnaturally: Technologies of Reproduction And the Politics of Maternity in H.Goto’s Hopeful Monsters
Andrea Ruthven

Monstrous Mothering from Boys ‘N’ the Hood to Precious: Damaged Black Mothers on Screen
Courtney C. Young

Monstrous Maternity as Colonial Device in Australian Modernism
Ross Moore

Session 8b: Sex Rears Its Ugly Head 1
Chair: Maree Macmillan

Prostitution and the Prostitute: Demonization or Sanctification, Vixen or Victim? The Belgian Experience
Evi Schroyen

Immoral Earnings: Portraying Prostitutes in Ottoman Turkey
Aytu Cakici

On the Evils of Wartime Sex: Moral Panic and Sexual Collaboration in the Soviet Union During World War II
Ann Livschiz

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Session 9a: Sex Rears Its Ugly Head 2
Chair: Filips DeFoorst

The Bitch: La Malinche and the Construct of the Deviant Female in Chicana Feminist Theory and Writing
Suryendu Chakraborty

The Problem of Representability: Lesbian Depiction in Horror Film and Contemporary Art
Jenny Keane

High-Flyers of the Restoration: Literary Attempts at Taming the (w)ho(r)rific
Katarzyna Bronk

Session 9b: Demons Exorcised?
Chair: Evi Schroyen

Fetishizing the Ethnic Female: Projections of the Demonic in Kerouac’s The Subterraneans
Eftychia Mikelli

Possessed Women: A Gendered View on Demonized Female Sexuality
Agnieszka Legutko

Demonized Images of Women in C. Bronte’s Jane Eyre:  A Feminist Approach
Toktam Hashemi

15.30
Tea

16:00
Session 10: Vampires and Werewolves Strike Back!
Chair: Jenny Keane

The Female Werewolf: The Wilder Side of Women
Cynthia Jones

Vampire Women and Female Emancipation
Per Faxneld

The Breast Bites Back: How the Projected ‘Bad’ Object of the Female Vampire Achieves Autonomy in L.Wiseman’s Underworld Evolution
Simon Bacon

17:30
Development Meeting for all delegates

Conference Close