8th Global Conference (2007)

8th Global Conference
Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness

Monday 19th March – Friday 23rd March 2007
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)

Monday 19th March
from 12:30
Registration

14.00
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher and Stephen Morris

14:15
Session 1: Political Uses of Evil
Chair: Lois Drawmer

Fred Karns
Commodification of Fear: A Blueprint For Evil

Frank Faulkner
Can I Play With Madness? The Psychopathy of Evil, Leadership, and Political Mismanagement

Phil Fitzsimmons
Deformed Discourse in the ‘Axis of the Willing:’ The Hint of Evil and the Touch of the Monster in the Media

15:45
Tea

16:15
Session 2: Evil in National/Religious(?) Fiction
Chair: Ann-Marie Cook

Amirhossein Sadeghi and Hakimeh Entesari
Islam’s View on Evil and Popular Iranian Fiction

Evangeline Manickam
The Presence of Evil: Violence as Technique in The Roman Catholic Writer

Mercedes Díaz Dueñas
Representations of War in Canadian Fiction

17.45
Wine Reception

Tuesday 20th March
09:00
Session 3: Carving Up
Chair: Frank Faulkner

Lauren Gallow
Carving Out Identity: Sadomasochism and the Discourse of Evil in the work of Catherine Opie

Franziska Lindner
Devouring Boundaries – The Cannibal of Rothenburg: Two Discourses of Transgression

Sophie Oliver
Sacred and (sub)human Pain: The Body as Witness in Early Modern Hagiography and Contemporary Literature of Atrocity

10:30
Coffee

11:00
Session 4: Scelestus Familia
Chair: Paul Davies

Gabriel Cavaglion
Bad or Mad? Parents Who Kill and Press Coverage in Israel

Belinda Morrissey
The Medea Complex: ‘Radical Evil’ and Modern Motherhood

Roshanak Pashaee
Archetypal Evil in Literature

12.30
Lunch

14:00
Session 5: Cinematic Evil I
Chair: Rob Butler

Ann Danilevich
Murder Made Beautiful: Crime Scene Aesthetics in Contemporary Media

Ann-Marie Cook
Decoding the Iconography of the Rwandan Genocide: How Films Interpret the Moral Significance of Ethnic Cleansing

Paul Davies
Be Not Overcome by Evil But Overcome Evil With Good (Rom. 12:21): The Theology of Evil in ‘Man on Fire’

15.30
Tea

16:00
Concurrent Session 6a: Lord, What Devils These Mortals Be!
Chair: Rob Fisher

Peter Mario Kreuter
Are Witches Good – and Devils Evil? The Conception Of Evil in Paracelsus

Rob Butler
Akhenaten, the Damned One: Monotheism as Root of All Evil

Lois Drawmer
Witches, Mystics, and Martyrs in Pre-Raphaelite Painting: The Dichotomy of Good vs. Evil

Concurrent Session 6b: Evil, Repentance, and Reconciliation
Chair: Ewan Kirkland

David White
You’ve Got to Change Your Evil Ways: The Limits on Forgiving Evil

Ursula Scheidegger
Building the Rainbow Nation: The Practice Of Transformation and Reconciliation

Rachel Waterstradt
Academic Evil and Scholarly Sins: Ricoeur on Correcting Errors in Method and Approach

17:30
Sessions End

Wednesday 21st March
14:00
Session 7: Evil Asia
Chair: Nancy Mardas

Colette Balmain
Evil, Responsibility, and Shintoism in The Ghost Story of Yotsuya

Yuet Keung Lo
The Idea of Evil in Early China

15:00
Tea

15:30
Workshop: Agonizing Over Power, Love, and Evil OR Trying to Find A Voice to Talk About This Stuff
with Wayne Cristaudo

17:00 Sessions End

Thursday 22nd March
09:30
Session 8: Evil Pre- and Post- Modern
Chair: Joel Westerdale

Amy Lee Bell
Tall, Dark, and Deadly: Fairytale Bluebeard as Icon Of Evil in the Modern Story

Atousa Ebrahimi
Postmodern Approach to Evil and Human Wickedness in Toni Morrison’s ‘Beloved’

Briony Kapoor
The Leverage Effect of Evil

11:00
Coffee

11:30
Session 9: Cinematic Evil II
Chair: Belinda Morrissey

Anders Johansson
Lars von Trier and the Evil Cinema

Joel Westerdale
The Fiendish Cast of Early German Film

12.30
Lunch

14:00
Concurrent Session 10a: Evil and Self-Reflection
Chair: Peter Mario Kreuter

Carmen Darabus
Communism: The Fine Laboratory of Terrorism and Nicholae Steinhardt’s ‘Diary of Happiness’

Rita Carter
Is Wickedness Out There in the World, Or Just in the Brain of the Beholder?

David Boothroyd
Beyond Suffering: The Ethics and Politics of Being Cruel To Be Kind

Concurrent Session 10b: Evil Masculine
Chair: Lauren Gallow

Aytül Özüm
Deconstucted Masculine Evil in Angela Carter’s Bloody Chamber Stories

Simon Brodbeck
Patriliny and Wickedness in the Sanskrit Mahabharata

Margarita Carretero-Gonzelez
Sympathy for the Devil: The Hero is a Terrorist in ‘V For Vendetta’

15:30
Tea

16:00
Session 11: Writing Gothic and Treasonous
Chair: Carmen Darabus

Maria Antonia Lima
Evil Writers: The Obsessive Effect of Gothic Writing

Sonia Ouaras
Victorian Evils and Gothic Revivalism: Narratives and Aesthetic of Human Wickedness

Effie Yiannopoulou
Rebecca West and the Treason of War

17:30
Sessions End

20:00 Banquet (tbc)

Friday 23rd March
09:30
Session 12: What Shadows Lurk in the Hearts of Men…or Computers?
Chair: Rachel Waterstradt

Manjeet Chaturvedi
Hate Communities in Cyber Space

Ewan Kirkland
Remediation, Analogue Corruption, and the Signification Of Evil in Digital Games

10:30
Coffee

11:00
Session 13: Evil Feminine
Chair: Wayne Cristaudo

Vivian Carlson
A Community-Based Study of Aggression Among Girls: Is a Culture of Avoidance Inherently Evil?

Nancy Mardas
Overturning Adorno: Poetry as Rational Response to Evil

Stephen Morris
Something Patristic, No Doubt

12.30
Lunch

14:00
Session 14: Wherefore Evil?
Chair: Amy Lee Bell

Andrew Hryhorowych
Metaphysics of Evil: A Response to Claudia Card

Nigel Leary
Motivational Accounts of Evil: The Missing Element

Jennifer Baldwin
Reconsidering Theodicy

15:30
Tea

16:00
Development Meeting

16.30
Conference Close