Conference Programme, Abstracts and Papers

3rd Global Conference

Thursday 15th March – Saturday 17th March 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

Thursday, 15th March 2012
From 12.30
Conference Registration

13.30
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Stephen Morris

14.00
Session 1: Some Things Never Change?
Chair: Hannah Priest

Wicked Women and Magic: Accusations Among the Elite in the Roman Empire
Linda McGuire

Pornocracy: Sex, Lies, and Politics in 10th Century Rome
Robert Butler

Change Your Princess, Change Thyself
Alexandra Cheira

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 2: Constructing the Constructed
Chair: Peter Barry

Gilles de Rais and the Construction of Evil
Darren Oldridge

Necessary, Evil and Contagious: Execution and the Construction of the English Crowd, 1800- 1868
Stephen Banks

Multi-Mentioned, Multi-Dimensional, and Multiplied in the Tales of Despereaux: Understanding Human Concepts of Evil Through the Simple and the Simply Told
Phil Fitzsimmons and Edie Lanphar

17.30
Notices and Announcements

17.40
Wine Reception

Friday, 16th March 2012
09.00
Session 3: Imaginations Twisted and Twisting
Chair: Victor Ilievski

Writing as Evil
Nuno Amando

Dostoevsky on Will to Evil and Sadistic Sexuality
Dina Babushkina

The Pact with Satan in Eurpean Literature: Bulgakov’s Woland and Goethe’s Mephistopheles
Natalia Kaloh Vid

10.30

Coffee

11.00
Session 4: Time and Place
Chair: Mona Moussa

Harry Potter in Hong Kong, As Western Dominance Gives Way to Eastern Powers
Christina DeCoursey

THhe Function of Supra- Territoriality in Shahnameh
Razieh Eslamieh and Navid KomarejHajee

Babr- Bayan: Iranian Most wanted National Magical Herois Outfit
Maryam Dara

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 5a: Institutions and Ideology
Chair: Mikko Poutanen

Correctional Institutions: Structures of Cleansing or Vessels of Evil?
Valia Petraki

Oume, An Icon of the Meja Era: How  a Murderous Disrupts Gender Ideology
Yoshie Endo

Nation-State Artifacts: reflections About the Latest Breed
Karim Medjad

Session 5b: Borders Shifting and Eroding
Chair: Darren Oldridge

Healers, Heretics, and Witches: African Diviners and Pagan Witches Contest the Boundaries of African Religion and Magic
Dale Wallace

Ethnographic Emersion, Spatial Symmetry, and Material Agency: From Urban Fantasy to Cultural Reality
John Sabol

Concrete Labyrinth: Urban Inhabitants Need to Believe in Miracle
Eugenia Kuznetsova

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 6a: Us versus Them
Chair: Robert Butler

How Jonathan Edwards Unmasks Religious Hypocrisy
Bruce Davidson

Mortality Salience and the Rhetoric of Demonisation
Charlene Burns

We Do Not Tortue: American Exceptionalism and the Evil of Torture in Popular Culture
Mikko Poutanen

Session 6b: Then and Now, Now and ThenConcurrent
Chair: Stephen Banks

Urban Before Urban: Fantasies of Class in Middle English Romance
Hannah Priest

Use of Magic as a Medium of Communication: Testamony of the Mahavansa
Isha Gamlath

Not Brains, Just Voodoo: A Zombie in Disney’s Donald Duck Comics
Katja Kontturi

Saturday, 17th March 2012
09.00
Session 7: Why We Do What We Do
Chair: Charlene Burns

Breaking the Bond Between Evaluation and Motivation: Some Considerations Against the Impossibility of Desiring the Bad
Maria Lucia Rivera Sanin

Evil’s Role in Kayomart’s Life and Death
Maryam Dara

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 8: Thinking and Feeling it Through
Chair: Edie Lanphar

An Investigation of Lebanese Students Cognitive Processing,  Distress Responces, and Post- Traumatic Growth Perceptions Following the 2006 War
Mona Moussa

Reading Levinas on Justice: Existence as Evil, Ethics as Transcendent
Imge Oranli

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 9: Greek and Roman Experiences
Chair: John Sabol

Aristotle on Vice: An Analysis of Evil in De Virtutibus et Vitiis
Apostolos N. Stavelas

Plato’s Treatment of the Problem of Evil in Laws X
Victor Ilievski

Cicero’s Wickd Way With Words: In defense of Clodia Metelli
Linda McGuire

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 10: Yak! Yak! Yak!
Chair: Dale Wallace

Is There a Difference Between Being Moral and Being Polite?
Regan Lance Reitsma

How to Talk to Evil People
Peter Barry

Bullshit as Evil
Gary Thompson

17.30
Development meeting and closing remarks

18.00
Conference Ends