2nd Global Conference (2011)

2nd Global Conference

Thursday 17th March – Saturday 19th March 2011
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; it will open a new window as it does so. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.

Please note: the main programme is stored under the Perspectives on Evil project pages. For 2011 Magic and the Supernatural is a special track appearing within the Evil programme. As a page cannot appear in two locations in the WordPress system, we had no other choice than to arrange it in this manner.

Final Conference Programme

Thursday 17th March 2011
from 12.30
Registration

13.30
Welcome and Opening Words
Stephen Morris

Session 1: New Perspectives on Old Friends
Chair:  Darren Oldridge

Atila the Hun: Evil in Old and New Perspective
Robert Butler

Neither a Witch, Nor a Sorceress: A Modern (and Feminine) Interpretation of Homer’s Circe
Linda McGuire

Our Demonic Selves: Analyzing Human Values Through a Demonic Lens
Robert Priddle

15.30
Tea

16.00
Session 2a: “String ‘Em Up!”
Chair: Natalia Kaloh Vid

Magic and the Power of the Condemned: English Public Executions and Popular Superstition From 1736-1867
Stephen Banks

Evil and Capital Sentencing
Peter Barry

Cinema and the Magical Erasure of Women
Vivien Chadder

Session 2b: “Is This Healthy?”
Chair: Liesbeth Grotenhuis

If This Is Not Evil, What Is? If There Is No Evil, What is This?
Bonnie Settlage

Agency and Evil in the Healthcare Setting
Brenden Leier

Against Compassion: Understanding Institutional Perfidy as Evil
Wendy Austin

17.30
Notices and Announcements

Wine Reception

Friday 18^th March
09:00
Session 3a: “In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate….”
Chair:

Witch-Hunting in Perspective: Comparing the Western and Islamic Attitudes and Conditions
Fatmagul Berktay

For Every Illness and Symptom: A Pragmatic Study of Medieval Islamic Magical Amulets
John D. Martin III

Supernatural Beliefs and Practices of Arabian Culture
Shireen Heidari

Session 3b: “So Let It Be Written….”
Chair: Hannah Priest

Evil in Edgar Allan Poe’s Short Stories, or Redefining Limits
Juliette Dorotte

Malicious (Non)Space in Speculative Fiction: Koja’s Cipher and Danielewski’s House of Leaves
Agnieszka Kotwasinska

A Thematic Analysis of Evil in American Literature
Norris Smith

10.30
Coffee

Session 4a: Magical Materiel
Chair: Dolores Miralles Alberda

Literary Fictions and the Education of Magicians
George Hersh

The Hoodoo That You Do: Risk Management and Gendered Magical Material Culture
C. Riley Auge

Faerie Communion: Magical Cure in Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings
Merve Sari

Session 4b: Cartography of Evil
Chair: Jean Rossmann

Primum Non Nocere: Gray Area in Commanding the Right and Forbidding the Wrong
John D. Martin III

What We Know About Evil: A Deep Map
William Myers

12.30
Lunch

Session 5a: Magic Words
Chair: Ralph Poole

Magic Formulas Across Time and Cultures: Aspects and Reasons of Another Universalism
Josef Shovanec

Invocations of the Inmost Other: True Names, False Signs, Shamanic Naturalism
Darryl Smith

Language Peculiarities of the Old English “Field Remedy Ritual” and “Nine Herbs Charm”
Irina Yanushkevich

Session 5b: Evil Thinking
Chair: Martin Sticker

Unsettling Banality: The Unheimlichkeit of Evil
Rosa Slegers

The Abyss of Freedom: Radical Evil at the Basis of Human Subjectivity
Joseph Carew

Literary Movements and the Emerging Question: Can Evil Exist Today?
Zekiye Antakyalioglu

15.30
Tea

16.00
Session 6a: Shifting Through Time and Space:Shape-shifters and Their Importance in Differing Literary Contexts
Chair: Bianca Smith

Shifting the Focus: Magical Beings as Sympathetic Other
Nadine Farghaly

Sex Shape-Shifting: Male Body Spectacles of Vampires and Other Monstrous Border Crossers
Ralph Poole

Dracula and the Western Question: The Vampire as a Metaphor for the Continuance of the Ottoman Empire
Sophia Kottmayer

Session 6b: More Evil Thinking
Chair: Peter Barry

The Relation Between Hermeneutics and Evil, or Evil Between Explanation and Understanding
Bobb Catalin

Evil and Its Relationship With Divine Justice and Theosophy in Motahhari
Aliasghar Zakavi

Rethinking Evil: Towards a Communicative Conception of Evil
Martin Sticker

17.30
Sessions End

Saturday 19^th March 2011
09.00
Session 7a: Magickal Indonesia
Chair: Darryl Smith

Magical Warriors of Islam: Ethnographic Notes on Human Flying and Shape-shifting in Lombok, Indonesia
Bianca Smith

On Pelet, Santet, and Kyai: Black Magic in Indonesian Horror Cinema
Ekky Imanjaya

Magic and Witchcraft in Current Indonesian Horror Films
Diah Agung Esfandari

Session 7b: Is Evil Really Necessary?
Chair: William Myers

The Necessity of Evil in Middlemarch
Elaine Pigeon

The Necessity of Evil and Unresolved Ambiguity
Phil Fitzsimmons

The Integration of Good and Evil in Marlene van Niekerk’s Agaat
Jean Rossman

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 8a: Magic Played Out in Front of Our Faces
Chair: C. Riley Auge

Dark, Powerful Forces: Gender and Its Relationship to Religion, Demonology, and the Supernatural in The Exorcism of Emily Rose
Carys Crossen

Myth and Infanticide in Recent Spanish Supernatural Films: The Others, The Orphanage, Pan’s Labyrinth
Dolores Miralles Alberda

Ancestor Haunts: Ghosts in Don Rosa’s Donald Duck Comics
Katja Kontturi

Session 8b: Evil Goes Shopping!
Chair: Robert Butler

Shopaholics and the (Female) Vice of Over-Consumption in Ancient Rome
Linda McGuire

Her Husband’s Goods: Women, Shopping, and Evil in the Later Middle Ages
Hannah Priest

Consuming Evil: Fashion and the Glamour of Evil
Lorraine Warde

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 9a: The Mysteries of Magic and Evil
Chair: Fatmagul Berktay

Rethinking Dumbo’s Feather: An Exploration of the Psychology of Magic
Jodi Affuso

Dreaming in Circles, Facing the Ruins: Mystery and Limitations of the Human Self in Borge’s Circular Ruins
Nataly Tcherepashenets

Session 9b: Alluring Evil
Chair: Bonnie Settlage

“A symbol of our times, neither light nor day, neither dark nor light:” Sympathy for the Demon in Russian Literature and Art
Natalia Kaloh Vid

What is Tempting Anthony? The Beauty of Evil depicted in Symbolism
Liesbeth Grotenhuis

Evil as Bondage to the Passions: Rushdie’s Shalimar the Clown and Fury
Roxana Doncu

15.30
Tea

16.00
Session 10: Early Modern English Evil
Chair: Stephen Banks

“Strange Works of God:” The Problem of Evil in the English Reformation
Darren Oldridge

Evil Queens of The Faerie Queene
Hande Seber

17.00
Development Meeting and Closing Remarks

18.00
Conference Ends