1st Global Conference
Monday 15th March – Wednesday 17th March 2010
Salzburg, Austria
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 15th March 2010
from 12.30
Registration
13.30
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher and Stephen Morris
14.00
Session 1: Do Women Really Need Magic?
Chair: Hannah Priest
I am a Witch and I Like It! Black Magic and Witchcraft in Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita
Natalia Vid
Did Women Use Magic in Ancient Roman Society?
Linda McGuire
Angels of Death: Fatal Beauty in Victorian Art
Lois Drawmer
15:30
Tea
16:00
Session 2: Variations on Vampires
Chair: Linda McGuire
Why do Western Vampires Suck More Blood? A Chinese Perspective
Alice Chik
Marie de France’s Yonec: Sex, Blood, and Shapeshifting in 12th Century Verse
Hannah Priest
Popular Necromancy: Supernatural and True Blood
Margot McGovern
17:30
Notices and Announcements
Wine Reception with Evil and Human Wickedness delegates
Tuesday16th March 2010
09:00
Session 3: Early Modern Magic
Chair: Natalia Vid
Between Religion and Magic: Clerics and Common People in the Lier Witch Trials of 1589 and 1603
Vrajabhumi Vanderheyden
Spirit Possession and Exorcism in Serbia: The Ritual of the Rusalje
Danijel Sinani
Alchemy, Magic, and Science: An Analysis of the Ripley Scroll Mellon MS 41
Eliot Morrison
10:30
Coffee
11:00
Session 4: Magic Now
Chair: Scott Hendrix
Coming of Age Among Sasquatches and Tree Spirits: Supernatural Guides in Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach
Martina Rössler
Terry Pratchett’s Witches: Exploring the Magical Influence Of the Discworld’s Coven
Jacquelyn Brent and Helen Gavin
Fantasy and Myth in Pan’s Labyrinth: Analysis of Guillermo del Toro’s Symbolic Imagery
Maria Martinez-Ortiz
12:30
Lunch
14:00
Concurrent Session 5a: Magic in Narnia and Prydain
Chair: Peter Mario Kreuter
The Breath of Deep Magic: Christ-like figures in C. S. Lewis’ the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Iolanda Zorro
Deep or Deeper Magic? Towards a New Definition of Magic in C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia
Anna Bugajska
Jadis and Achren: Gendering Evil in Narnia and Prydain
Stephen Morris
Concurrent Session 5b: Magic and the Modern
Chair: Brian Feltham
What We Hath Wrought: Examining Science & Magic in 18th Century Britain and the Impact on Modernity
Robert Priddle
Surviving in the World of the Machines: Developmental Psychologists Account of Magical Belief in the Age of Science
Eugene Subbotsky
Characteristics of Modern Magic: Student Superstitions
Egle Savickaite
15:30
Tea
16:00
Joint Session with Evil and Human Wickedness
Session 6: Modes of Magic in Shakespeare
Chair: Dan North
Malevolent Magick in Macbeth
Cathy McNeese
Midsummer Magic, Mischief, and Mayhem
Elizabeth de la Torre
Sex, Magic, and Repression in The Tempest
Michelle Ashley
17:30
Sessions End
Wednesday 17th March 2010
09:00
Session 7: Magic Comes to the Americas
Chair: Lois Drawmer
Cryptic Iniquity: Nunnery Gothic in 19th Century North America
Michelle Gadpaille
Magic and the Blues
Victor Kennedy
Magic and the Temptation of the Infinite in Jorge Luis Borges’s The Disk
Nataly Tcherepashenets
10:30
Coffee
11:00
Session 8: Magical Renaissance Italian and German
Chair: Eliot Morrison
Art, Love, and Magic in Ficino’s De Amore
Juan Pablo Maggiotti
Rational Astrology and Empiricism From Pico to Galileo
Scott Hendrix
Paracelsus, A Magician? No, Paracelsus, the German!
Peter Mario Kreuter
12:30
Lunch
14:00
Session 9a: Supernatural Stagecraft
Chair: Alice Chik
A Cinema of Enchanted Puppets
Dan North
Magic and the Dramaturgy of Esiaba Irobi
Norbert Eze
Concurrent Session 9b: Magic Arabian and African
Chair: Iolanda Zorro
The Jinn: Equivalent to Evil in 20th Century Arabian Nights and Days
Orchida Ismail
The Juxtaposition of Miracle as Supernatural or Magic in Surah Ta Ha
Razieh Eslamieh
Witchcraft and Magic in African Context
Uchenna Benedict Okeja
15:30
Tea
16:00
Session 10: Is It All in Our Minds?
Chair: Anna Bugajska
Magic and Practical Agency
Brian Feltham
The Illusion of Invincibility: Preserving the Magic of the Mind
Ruxandra Eliza Todosi
17:00
Development Meeting
17.45
Conference Close
Contact Us