7th Global Conference (2006)

7th Global Conference
Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness

Monday 13th – Friday 17th March 2006
Salzburg, Austria

Conference Programme, Abstracts & Papers

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 (v.1.9)

Sunday 12th March 2006
16.00
Cultural Tour 1: Introduction to Salzburg: Mozart and The Sound of Music
(tbc)

Monday 13th March 2006
from 12.30
Registration

14.00
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher

14.15
Session 1: Witches, Cannibals, and Paedophiles: Oh My!
Chair: Margaret Breen

Roger Davis
You Are What You Eat: Cannibalism, Autophagy, and The Case of Armin Meiwes

Pilar Villar Argaiz
Witchcraft and Evilness as Sources of Female Potential: Eavan Boland’s Representation of a New Eve in Irish Poetry

Sarah Goode
The Splendor of Little Girls’: Social Constructions of Paedophiles and Child Sexual Abuse

15.45
Tea

16.15
Session 2: Terrorism 1: Whose Terrorism Is It?
Chair: Graeme Goldsworthy

Predrag Cicovacki
Terrorism – Theirs and Ours

Nancy Mardas
Terrorism – Within and Without

Agnes Curry
Terrorism – Then and Now

17.45
Notices and Announcements

18.00
Wine Reception

Tuesday 14th March
09.00
Session 3: Mass Murder and Violence
Chair: Rachel Waterstradt

Iwan Sudjatmiko
The 1965 Political Genocide of PKI in Indonesia (The Local Killings in East Java and Bali)

Annedith Schneider
Responsibility and Remembrance: Literature and the Refusal To Let the Dead Go

Anders Johansson
Violence and Consolation: The Goodness of Literature from Adorno’s Point of View

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 4: When Others Are Swept Up By Evil
Chair: Marty Norden

Bill Myers
How Civilians Became Targets: The Moral Catastrophe of ‘Collateral Damage’

Encarnacion Hidalgo Tenorio
Side Effects of the Linguistic Construction of Others’ Wickedness

Mena Mitrano
From Aesthetics to the Pain of Others: Susan Sontag

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 5: Evil: The Political Made Personal
Chair: Mena Mitrano

Alejandro Cervantes-Carson
Interviewing the Embodiment of Political Evil

Graeme Goldworthy
As Others See Us: Reflecting on the Political-Military Role of De-mining Organizations in Humanitarian Interventions

Stephen Morris
Responses to Perceptions of Political Evil

15.30
Tea

16.00
Session 6: Women Surviving Child Maltreatment: Becoming Resolute in the Face of Evil
Chair: Marlin Bates

Joanne Hall
Secrecy and Spectacle, Deception and Disclosure: Climbing to a Habitable Horizon

Sandra Thomas
Life Trajectories of Women Survivors of Child Maltreatment: Redemptive and Contaminating Sequences

Tonya Broyles
Strategies for Survival for Women Dealing With Child Abuse

Catherine Kingery
Relationships of Adult Women Who Survived Child Abuse

18.00
Sessions End

Wednesday 15th March
No programme in the morning. Time for sight-seeing/shopping.

09.30
Cultural Tour 2: Churches, Crypts, and Cemeteries of Historic Salzburg

14.00 Concurrent Sessions
Session 7a: Accessing Wicked Realities
Chair: Annedith Schneider

Marlin Bates
ur-Real Evil and Wickedness in a Virtual World

Christian Fuchs and Robert Bichler
Ethics For a Sustainable Information Society

Lee Quinby
Demurring to Doom: A Geopolitics of Prevailing.

Session 7b: Scholarship, Film, Genocide and the Holocaust
Chair: Ursula Scheidegger

Nikola Alenkin
The Search for Genocide Scholarship in Social Work

Victoria Doyle
Innocent or Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity? The Role Of Film in the Holocaust, 1939-45

Philip Snyder
The Mental Construct of Nazi Germany: Purification or Evil?

15.30
Tea

16.00 Concurrent Sessions
Concurrent Session 8a: Terrorism, Ecoterrorism & Destitution
Chair: Vera Profit

Scott Powers
Post-Modern Narratives of Evil and 9/11: The Case of Frédéric Beigbeder’s Windows on the World

Margarita Carretero-Gonzalez
Ecoterrorism, Climatic Change, and the Politization of Science in Crichton’s State of Fear

Omobolanle Amaike
Gender Differentials in Destitution and Living Conditions of Older People in Metropolitan Lagos

Concurrent Session 8b: Repairing Wickedness
Chair: Luc Small

Margaret Breen
A Couple of Problems: The Evil of Queer Desires within Heteronormative Cultures

Kristy Buckley
The Externalization of Justice

Marta Mendonça
On Evil: Ricoeur’s Lecture on Leibniz’s Theodicy

17.30
Sessions End

Thursday 16th March
09.00
Session 9: Evil in Japan
Chair: Greg Turek

Lois Drawmer
Adolescent Angst and Adult Anxiety in Japanese Popular Culture

Colette Balmain
’Suicide is [Not] Painless’: Anti-Oedipal Conflict in Jisatsu Saakuru (Suicide Club, Shion Sono, Japan: 2002)

Charles Nuckolls
Evil and Ecstasy in the Land of the Rising Sun

10:30
Coffee

11.00
Session 10: Experiencing Evil With Children
Chair: Ann-Marie Cook

Christopher Burris
After the Spider Comes Along: Understanding Responses to Evil

Shelby Weitzel
The Suffering of Children as an Assessment of God’s Benevolence

Rob Fisher
Let Evil be Evil

12.30
Lunch

14.00 Concurrent Sessions
Concurrent Session 11a: Evil in Marlowe and Co.
Chair: Robert Bichler

Andrew McCarthy
‘Ah, Mephistopheles!’: Intimacy and the Devil in Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus

Verena Theile
Staging the Devil: Performing Evil in Marlowe and Greene

Gregory Wilson
‘Unrepenting Sorrow and Deliberate Sin:’ Milton and Hawthorne’s Understanding of Evil

Concurrent Session 11b: Evil, Christianity, and Human Nature
Chair: Gregory Wilson

Neal Curtis
Revelation, Rapture, and the Bad Infinite

Ann-Marie Cook
Sex, Sin, and Redemption: Critiquing Christian Rhetoric in Rolf de Heer’s Bad Boy Bubby

Greg Turek
Predicting Evil: I-D Orientation and Its Implications for Human Nature

15.30
Tea

16.00
Concurrent Session 12a: Terrorism 3
Chair: Lois Drawmer

Shlomit Harrosh
Terrorism and Human Rights: Confronting Evil and Remaining Good

Namita Chakrabarty
Posturing Fear in a World of Performed Evil: Terrorists, Teachers, And Evil Neo-Liberals

Joshua Mills-Knutsen
The Rhetoric of Evil: How Failure is Turned to One’s Own Advantage

Concurrent Session 12b: Evil and the Philosophers
Chair: Charles Nuckolls

Karen Hoffman
The Role of Reflection in Good and Evil

Silvia Lanzetta
Portraits of Evil in Wittgenstein: From Poetry to Disenchantment

Rachel Waterstradt
Teaching and Evil: Is Philosophy Pointless When Dealing With Extremes?

17.30
Sessions End

Conference Banquet (optional/tbc)

Friday 17th March
09.30
Session 13: Literary Wickedness
Chair: Alejandro Cervantes-Carson

Luc Small
Contesting Claggart: Evil in Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor

Ilana Shiloh
Allegories of Evil: Kafka’s The Castle and Auster’s The Music of Chance

Vera Profit
The Face of Darkness: Fritz Emmenberger in Friedrich Durrenmatt’s Der Verdacht

11.00
Coffee

11.30
Session 14: Intelligent Evil
Chair: Barbara Knuesli

Jeffrey Wallen
Falling Under an Evil Influence

Wayne Cristaudo
Evil and the Loss of Intellect

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 15: Evil in Cinema and Media
Chair: Tonya Broyles

Neil Forsyth
The Language of Evil: Popular Versus ‘Higher’ Culture

Jacqueline Guzda
Terror of the Media Image: Disguised Evil in Everyday Communication From the Forces That Be

Marty Norden
Villainy, Disability, and the Moving Image: A Psychoanalytic Perspective

15.30
Tea

16.00
Development Meeting