3rd Global Conference
Saturday 10th September – Monday 12th September 2011
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
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.
Saturday, 10 September
12:30
Conference Registration
13:30
Opening Remarks
14:00
Session 1: Villains or Heroes? Which is it?
Chair: Shona Hill
The Adorable Mr. Ripley: Crime and Morality in Highsmith’s Suspense Fiction
Daniela Chana
Positive Villains: Tarantino’s Construction of Negative Characters the Audience Can Sympathize With
Anna Koronowicz
Villains and Victims: A Complex Relationship
Ruth Amir
15:30
Coffee
16:00
Session 2: The Fog of War
Chair: Kim D. Weinert
War and Punishment
David J. Garren
Behind the Hurt Locker: Target Acquired?
Sonja Pasuantonio
Messala: Roman Villain via Boss Tweed and Billy the Kid
Jon Solomon
17:30
Notices and Announcements
17:40
Wine Reception
18:30
Dinner
Sunday, 11 September
09:00
Session 3: Are They Really as Bad as all That?
Chair: Karin Kokorski
Philip Marlowe: The Indifferent Threshold
Debasree Basu
Juvenile Villains in America: Attitude-appropriate psych-social-sex-education, Framing of Grooming, Framing the Prevention of Trans-Diagnostic Sub-Clinical Patterns
Laura Mangan
10:30
Coffee
11:00
Session 4: Heroes and Villains United
Chair: Sana Khalesi
Dark Hero or Gothic Villain: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Shona Hill
The Heroic Villain: Gregor Jordan’s Ned Kelly, The Melbourne Argus and the Jerilderie letter
Stephen Gaunson
007 License to Kill: Bond Villains and Links to Society
Tarren Smarr
12:30
Lunch
14:00
Session 5: Darkness Within
Chair: Shilinka Smith
The Dark Realm of Peder Carel
Ozge Seven
The Sympathetic Hero is an Inside Man
Susan Meindl
Dangers of the Foreign Other: Villains in Sherlock Holmes
Erica Foss
15:30
Coffee
16:00
Session 6: Villains and Heroes in the 1700s-1800s
Chair: Erica Foss
Mashasati: A Hero of Assent and Dissent
S. P. Vagishwari
“Cossacks, whose brutality was fiendish:” Russians as Villains in English-language Fiction In the 1880s and 1890s
Jillene Bydder
Handsome, Rich, Dangerous: The Attraction of Gothic Villains in 19th Century Literature
Stefenie Kruger
17:30
Sessions End
Monday, 12 September
09:00
Session 7: Villains vs. Criminals
Chair: Jon Solomon
Villains But No Criminals?! Selected Villains in Fantasy Fiction for Children and Young Adults
Karin Kokorski
Visualising Villains: Crafting Criminals in Australian Crime Fiction
Rachel Franks
The Joycean Hero as Treacherous Villain in Coetzee’s Summertime (2009)
Fabricio Tocco
10:30
Coffee
11:00
Session 8: Cultivating Good Guys and Bad Guys
Chair: David Garren
Good and Evil in Ancient Persian Festivals: an Analytical Psychology Approach
Sana Khalesi
Physiognomic Depiction of Hero and Villain
Qi Chen
12:30
Lunch
14:00
Session 9: Deconstructing Villainy
Chair Rachel Franks
Crossing Legs, Genres, and Gender: Catherine Tramell:Portrait of a Writer as Postmodern Femme Fatale
Juan Senis Fernandez
Is There a Perfect Environment to Allow a Villain or Villainess to Thrive
Kim D. Weinert
15:30
Coffee
16:00
Development Meeting and Closing Remarks
16:30
Conference Ends
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