3rd Global Conference (2011)

3rd Global Conference

Friday 13th May 2011 – Sunday 15th May 2011
Warsaw, Poland

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

Friday 13th May 2011
from 12.30
Registration

13.30
Welcome and Opening Words
Sorcha Ní Fhlainn

14:00

Session 1: Political Women
Chair: Roger Davis

The Ultimate Cold War Monster: Exploring “Mother” in The Manchurian Candidate
Kathleen Starck

Long Hair and Lipstick: Looking for the Femme Fatale in the Retro Film Noir
Katherine Farrimond

Evil or Ordinary Women? Female Auxilleries of the Holocaust
Kimberley Partee

15:30
Tea

16:00

Session 2: Transgressive Bodies
Chair: Simon Bacon

“Watch Out Boy, She’ll Chew You Up:” Werewolf Mouths and the Vagina Dentata
Hannah Priest

A Wellspring of Contamination: The Transgressive Body of the Prostitute in 19th Century Medical Discourse
J. Shoshanna Ehrlich

A Smelly Body, The Fear of the Unclean Feminine Body: A Cultural Analysis of the Debate on Perversion in Roche’s Feuchtgebiete
Christina Lammer

17.30
Notices and Announcements
Wine Reception

Saturday 14th May 2011
09:00

Session 3a: Evil Portrayed
Chair: Helen Gavin

Mythological Evildoers in Rosetti’s Poetry and Painting
Marek Zasempa

Leonardo’s La Gioconda and the 19th Century Discourse on the Female Demonic
Per Faxneld

Myra: Portrait of a Portrait
Shelley Campbell

Session 3b: Between the Covers
Chair: Heath Mensher

Women: Good, Evil, and the Discourse of Power Analyzed Through Montero’s The Red of his Shadow
Teresa Rinaldi

Damaged Identities and the Women-Monsters of Palahnick’s Invisible Monsters
Dagmara Zajac

Binding Women: Challenging Heroic Archetypes in William Morris’s ‘The Water of the Wondrous Isles’
Lilla Smee

10:30
Coffee

11:00
Session 4a: “Double, double, toil and trouble!”
Chair: Anna Hamling

“This Whore That Aborted, She Was the Witch!”  The Stereotypic Attributes of Witches in Traditional Croatian Beliefs
Luka Šešo

To Help or to Harm: Female Practitioners of Pharmakia in Ancient Greece
Alison Innes

Women as Witches
Indira Nityanandam

Session 4b: Evil East Asian Women
Chair: Theresa Porter

Critiquing Misogynistic Discourse: The Trope of the “Poison Woman” in Early Meiji Popular Narratives
Tad Wellman

Evil and Abject Women of the Traditional Japanese Theatre Through the Reading of Enchi Fumiko’s Literary Works
Daniela Moro

Evil Woman in a Beautiful Body: Femininity and the Crisis of Modernity in Thai Society
Chutima Pragatwutisarn

12:30
Lunch

14:00

Session 5a: “Round About the Cauldron Go!”
Chair: Lenka Svobodova

The Bitch = The Witch = The Goddess?
Aleksandra Holubowicz

The Dangerous Outsider: Ritual Exclusion and Integration of Women in Maale, Southern Ethiopia
Sophia Thubauville

The Woman-as-Witch Stereotype in Early Modern England, Continental Europe, and New England
Ines Tadeu

Session 5b: Hybrid and Liminal Women
Chair: Dagmara Zajac

The Myth of Spanish Carmen
Anna Hamling

Feminine Malevolence in the Indian Context: Exploring Villainy of Women in Hindu Epics Nalini Shivkumar and Rema Mahalingam

Monstrous Machines and Alien Queens: The Conflagration of the Out-of-Control Robotic and Female Bodies
Simon Bacon

15:30
Tea

16:00
Session 6a: “Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble!”
Chair: Jennifer White

Witches or Bitches? An Examination of Two “Bitch” Female Characters of the Harry Potter Series
Grainne O’Brien

The Representation of the Evil Woman in Elizabethan Literature
Abdulaziz Mohd

Session 6b: Look Out! Here She Comes!
Chair: Natalia Kaloh Vid

“The revenant is going to come!” Sex and Rottenness in the Communities of Hilary Mantel and Nicola Barker
Eileen Pollard

Sugar and Spice, But Not Very Nice: Representations of Evil Little “Girls” in Cartoons and Comic Books/Strips
Jacquelyn Bent, Theresa Porter, Helen Gavin

17:30
Sessions End

Sunday 16th May 2011
09:00

Session 7: Wicked Wombs
Chair: Per Faxneld

The Tainted Birth in Lovecraft’s Fiction
Cecile Cristofari

Vile Transgressor of the Womb: Rebekah Chamblit’s Silence
Jennifer White

Conceptualizing Malinche in Discourse: An Analysis from a Sociocultural Perspective.
Alfredo Escandon, Jitka Crhova

10:30
Coffee

11:00
Session 8a: The Ever Popular Monstrous Mothers
Chair: Aleksandra Holubowicz

Mother Load: Literary Representations of Addiction and the “Monstrous” Mother
Nycole Prowse

Mother, Murder, and Matricide in China’s Uneven Modernity
Esther C.M. Yau

What Do “Their” Grotesque Dresses Hide? Beardsley’s Tangential Image of the Femme Fatale Within the Fin-de-Siecle Cultural Magazines
Marta Ferrer Gomez

Session 8b: Epic Women
Chair: Shelley Campbell

(De)centering Women in Rushdie’s Satanic Verses
Zubaidah Mohamed Shaburdin

Beyond the Boundaries with carter’s Fairy Daughters in the Magic Toyshop and Night at the Circus
Negar Taghizadeh, Mir Merhdad Mirsanjari

A Pact Between a Woman and the Devil in Russian Literature: “The devil, believe me, will arrange everything… Hurrah for the devil!”
Natalia Kaloh Vid

12:30
Lunch

14:00

Session 9a: Wailers and Killers and Terrorists: O, My!
Chair: Alison Innes

Educating Rita/Disciplining Dexter: Gender Difference as Serial Killing
Roger Davia

Re-Casting La Llorona: Slashers, Virgins, and Feminism in the Film The Wailer: La Llorona
Orquidea Morales

The Paradox of Evil: A Study of Elevation Through Oppression in Julian of Norwich and Marguerite Porete
April Anson

Session 9b: Renaissance and Early Modern Independent(?) Females
Chair: J. Shoshanna Ehrlich

A Breakthrough to Freedom: Portrait of Renaissance Femme Fatale
Senka Suman

The Act(who)ress: The Female Monster of the 17th Century English Stage
Katarzyna Bronk

Skins and the Rebellious Reclamation of Romantic Friendship, Or: Why Mini McGuinness Matters
Ann-Marie Cook

15:30
Tea

16:00

Session 10: Battle of the Sexes: Round One!
Chair: Marek Zasempa

“Possessed and Jinxed by Wanda Jane:” Destructive Femininty in Roth’s Operation Shylock (1993) and Beyond
Anna Linetsky

Deadlier Than the Male? An Examination of Representations of Female Aggression as Evil
Helen Gavin

Hit Like A Girl: Women Who Batter Their Partners
Theresa Porter

17:30
Development Meeting and Closing Remarks

18.00
Conference Ends