4th Global Conference (2010)

4th Global Conference

Saturday 11th September 2010 – Monday 13th September 2010
Oriel College, Oxford

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

Saturday 11th September 2010
from 12.30
Registration

13.30
Welcome and Opening Words
Sorcha Ní Fhlainn and Colette Balmain

14.00
Session 1: FHT at the Boundaries
Chair: Dana Chalmers

Pleasures of Abjection?
Emma Robins

Scared or Sacred: Life, Death, and Binary Images
Shona Hill

Through a Glass Darkly: Defacement at the Interface
Carey Kaplan and Nathaniel Lewis

15.30
Tea

16.00
Session 2: First, Do No Harm: FHT in Medical Practice
Chair: Shona Hill

Medicalization of Nazi Ideology
Beverley Chalmers

Representations of Disease and Threat: Swine Flu in Greece and Cyprus
Vaia Doudaki

Social Workers’ Fears and the Risks for Safeguarding Vulnerable Children
Paula Brasescu

17.30
Notices/Announcements
Wine Reception (with Health, Illness, and Disease delegates)

Dinner

Sunday 12th September 2010
09.00
Session 3: Political Uses of FHT
Chair: Berbard Perron

Rule of Fear: Political Thinking in the Age of Terror
Bja,rn Yngve Tollefsen

Draconian Indian Law: Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act
Himanshu Suman and George Thomas

Militarization of Urban Space as Context of FHT
Fazal Malik

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 4: Cinematic and Literary Expressions of Fear
Chair: Laura-Jane Maher

Batman – The Dark Knight: The Joker’s Pursuit of Justice in an Unjust World
Lee Baxter

I Fear What I Hear: The Expression of Horror in Film Music
Marco Bellano

Technologies of Terror in Korean Horror Film
Colette Balmain

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Concurrent Session 5a: The FHT of Myself
Chair:  Marco Bellano

Fear, Terror, and the Cautionary Novels of Thomas Pynchon
Nick Prescott

Clive Barker – Secret Self
Russell Cherrington

The Stigma of Being Harry Potter
Jodie Brown

Concurrent Session 5b: FHT in the Pacific
Chair: Fazal Malik

Death and the Book Seller’s Son: Horrific Voices in Australian Holocaust Literature
Laura-Jane Maher

Fear Factors in Malaysian Slimming Advertisements
Kui Ling Lau and Zuraidah Mohd. Don

Tiger as Expression of Fear and Power in Russian and Japanese Literature
Aida Suleymenova

15.30
Tea

16.00
Session 6: FHT in Spaces Exterior and Interior
Chair: Beverley Chalmers

Condemned to be Scared in the Penumbra: Frightening Regime of Vision In 1^st-Person Horror Games
Bernard Perron

An Eco-limit Inhuman: Fear and Social-Spatial Segregation
Natalia De Carli

Pervading Moods of Fear and Terror
Celik Ekmekci

17.30
Session End

Monday 13th September 2010
09.00
Session 7: FHT in the ‘Real’ World
Chair: Lee Baxter

Ideologies of Fear
Dana Chalmers

Accounting for the Role of Fear in Performance Management Practices
Shilinka Smith

Genre and Gender: Horror Construction and the Intersections Between Glover’s Final Girl Idea and the Films Halloween, Friday the 13^th Part 2, and Nightmare on Elm Street
Raphael deBoer

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 8: FHT in Death and Birth
Chair: Nick Prescott

Living Death: The Horrors of Rupture or Totality?
Constance Goh

Very Unnatural  Ladies: Vampyres as Gothic Parody
Jay Daniel Thompson

Monstrous Mama: Confronting the Horror of Female Fecundity in Angela Carter’s Passion of New Eve
Elizabeth Welby

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 9: FHT in Art
Chair: Shilinka Smith

Representation of Fear and Terror: A Case Study of post-Khmer Rouge Cambodian Art
Utsav Mamoria

Art-Horror and Natural Horror: What’s the Difference?
Michelle Saint

Monster Aesthetics
James Marshall

15.30
Tea

16.00
Session 10: FHT in Short Stories
Chair: Elizabeth Welby

Antonin Artaud and Samuel Beckett: The Scream as ‘Fearful’ Response
Matthew Melia

A Vibrating Human Machine for the Production of Fear: Studying the Components of Horror in Kafka’s In the Penal Colony
Anat Danziger

Terrifying Absences, Horrifying Presences: Representations of Fear in The Modernist and post-Modernist English Short Story
Maria Casado Villanueva

17.30
Development Meeting

18.00
Conference Ends