8th Global Conference (2010)

8th Global Conference

Sunday 19th September – Wednesday 22nd 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

Sunday 19th September 2010
from 12.30
Registration

13.30
Welcome and Opening Words
Sorcha Ní Fhlainn

14.00
Session 1: Monstrosity Made Feminine
Chair:  Sorcha Ní Fhlainn

Wolfsbane, Fangs, and Hirsute Heretics: Tracing the Confluences Between Lycanthropy, Witchcraft, and Vampirism in the Female Werewolf
Jazmina Cininas

Snakes on a Mane: Medusa, the Body, and Serpentine Monstrosity
Melissa LaPorte

Female of the Species: Monstrous Women in Thai Horror Cinema
Milagros Exposito-Barea

15.30
Tea

16.00
Session 2: The Monsters in Our Midst
Chair:  Seyda Inceoglu

Troping the Monstrous Body Politic: H. G. Well’s The Time Machine (1895) and Alasdair Gray’s Lanark. A Life in Four Books (1981)
Carmen-Veronica Borbely

Twisted Monster? Media(ted) Representation of a National Alien
Julie Gregory and Samah Sabra

If You Dare Lock Eyes With Them, You Will be Afraid… Monstrosity and the Other in Patterson’s Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Hopkins’ Ghost and the Darkness
Carys Crossen

17.30
Announcements
Wine Reception

18.30
Dinner

Monday 20th September 2010
09:00
Session 3: Monster as Sexual Being
Chair:  Hannah Priest

Demonising the Holy: Narrative Film as an Element in the Emergence of the Story of Clerical Abuses of Children in Ireland
Daire Maira Ni Uanachain

Monster Crusades: Construction of Responsibility for the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and Youth
Caitlin Janzen

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 4: Monstrosity Made Masculine
Chair:  Kenneth Monteith

Monstrous Masculinities and the Culture of Cruelty: Cormac McCarthy’s No Country For Old Men
Elaine Pigeon

Anatomy of a ‘Squared’ Monster: Physiology and Pathology of the Gay Zombie
Alessandro Grilli

Am I Monster?
Dana Chalmers

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Concurrent Session 5a: Desire Among the Monsters
Chair: Crystal Ward

Monster Evolution, or How the Dead Got Their Groove Back
Deborah Christie

Monstrous Virgin in the Popular Romance Novel
Jonathan Allan

Returning Desire With Death: Evil Dolls
Claudia Peppel

Concurrent Session 5b: Monsters in the 18^th Century
Chair:  John Sears

Depicting Monsters: Cultural Context of Aristotle’s Masterpiece in 18^th Century England
Julie Bieber

Monstrous Representations of Self and Other in 18^th Century Satire
Kerstin Frank

Of Humans and Monsters: Monstrous Representation of the Foreigner in Wuthering Heights
Pin-Ching Huang

15.30
Tea

16.00
Session 6: Monsters in Flight
Chair: Jillian Burcar

An Epidemic of Flying Heads in a Melanau Community in Sarawak, Malaysia
Ann Appleton

The Wasp Factory: A Story of Monsters and Victims
F. Zeynep Bilge

The Monster and Daedalus
Albert Smith and Kendra Schank Smith

17.30
Sessions End

Tuesday 21st September 2010
09.00
Session 7: Mothers Gone Monstrous!
Chair: Simona Klaus

Monster Mothers: The Work of Annie Vivanti
Anne Urbancic

The Monstrous Maternal: Precarious Motherhood in the Poetry of Marosa DiGiorgio
Jeannine M. Pitas

Sacrificing Virginity, or Taming (Im)potency in Contemporary Women’s Fiction
Cristina Santos

10:30
Coffee

11.00
Concurrent Session 8a: More Mothers Gone Monstrous!
Chair: Joanna Madloch

Monstrous Foster Mother: Baby Farming and Infanticide
Tanja Poulsen

Monster Moms: A Typology of Maternal Filicide Capital Offenders
Shauna Papenbroak and Crystal Ward

Survival of the Toothiest: Vagina Dentata in Christopher Unborn and Teeth
Maja Srndic

Concurrent Session 8b: Monsters Made Fashionable
Chair: Jonathan Allan

Fashion and Its Monsters
Lorraine Warde

New Transgenic Monsters: Bioart and Teratology
Maria Aline Ferreira

Monster in the Sketch
Kendra Schank Smith and Albert Smith

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 9a: Monstrous Houses and Spaces
Chair: Cathy Gutierrez

Haunted Houses, Haunted Spaces: Victorian Lifewriting, Cybertexts, and the Quandry of Impermanence
Jillian Burcar

Monstrosity of the Memory, Architecture as a Medium of the Cultural Transmission of Trauma
Zuzana Dziuban

The Role of Architecture of Psychiatric Environments in Making the Monstrous into Monster, Strangers into Aliens, or Vice Versa
Katerina Panagaki

Concurrent Session 9b: Monsters Turkish
Chair: Kerstin Frank

Juxtapositional Theories of Monstrosity: Redefining the Monster Image in Turkish Culture
Seyda Inceoglu

Women and Children as the Open Enemies of a Civil War by the Kurdish Question
Yeliz Kizilarslan

15.30
Tea

16.00
Session 10: That Seeing, They May Not See…
Chair: Zuzana Dziuban

The Monstrous Eye
Joanna Madloch

Goo Goo Muck
Ian Haig

Tormented
Elizabeth Nelson

17.30
Sessions End

Wednesday 22nd September 2010
09.00
Session 11: Monsters on the Screen
Chair: Dana Chalmers

Monsters in TV Advertisements
Simona Klaus

Monster: Cinematic Backlash Excuses Monstrousness of the Killing State
Helen Beardsley

Monstrous Desires: Toward a Sociological Account of Modern Monstrosity
Philip Steiner

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 12: Phylum Monstrositas
Chair: Daire Maria Ni Uanachain

Sleeping Dragons, Fighting Dragons
Dan Marshall

Facing Monstrosity in Stephen King’s Pet Sematary
John Sears

Of Gods and Monsters: Personal Religio-Mythic Narrative Identity and the Regenerated Dr. Who (2005)
Jessica Garrahy

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 13: Vampires Alive!
Chair:  Jessica Garraky

Recombinant Beings: The Contemporary Vampire and Cyborg
Sherrie Dilley

Monstrous Literature: The Case of Dacre Stoker’s Dracula the Undead
Hannah Priest

Fundamentalism, Hybridity and Remapping the Vampire Body: The Postmodern Vampire and the Presidency of George W. Bush
Sorcha Ni Fhlainn

15.30
Tea

16.00
Session 14: There Be More Monsters There Again!
Chair: Jazmina Cininas

American Monsters: Lurking Between the Secular and the Sacred
Cathy Gutierrez

Monstrosity and the Unconscious: Xenophobic Violence in South African Society
Ralph Goodman

Zombie Tourism: Connor McMahon’s Dead Meat
Kenneth Monteith

17.30
Development Meeting

18.00
Conference Ends