2nd Global Conference (2010)

2nd Global Conference

Tuesday 14th September – Thursday 16th 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

Tuesday 14th September 2010
from 12.30
Registration

13.30
Welcome and Opening Words
Sorcha Ní Fhlainn

14.00
Session 1: Villains of Our Youth
Chair: Dana Chalmers

Triumvirate of Evil: Major Villains of Don Rosa’s Donald Duck Comics
Katja Kontturi

I Want More! Insatiable Villains in Children’s Literature and Young Adult Fiction
Karin Kokorski

Peter Pan and the Tyranny of Youth: AN Apologia for Captain Hook
Jaime Cuenca

15.30
Tea

16.00
Session 2: Villains With an Ethnic Twist
Chair: Seyda Inceoglu

Washington’s Troops Skinned Dead Indians From the Waist Down And Made Leggings From the Skins – Reiterating Villainy in Native American Gothic Fiction
Corinna Lenhardt

Representation of Villainy in Yemeni Fiction
Fawaz Jazim

A Spanish Incarnation of ‘Cain:’ Miguel de Unamuno’s Abel Sanchez
Santiago Perez Isasi

17.30
Announcements
Wine Reception (with Madness delegates)

18.30
Dinner

Wednesday 15th September 2010
09:00
Session 3: Villainy Times Two
Chair:  Luke Seaber

The Double in Poe and Dostoevsky: Descent into the Subconscious
Ekaterina Yasko

Complicated Matter of Villainy: Mr. Hyde in Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Omer Ogunc

Cyborg Villain: Mechanical and Existential Fear
Jori DeCoster

10.30
Coffee

11:00
Session 4: Cinematic Villainy
Chair: Selina Doran

Destabilizing the Rhetoric of Villainy With Haneke’s Cache
Scott Loren and Jorg Metelmann

Getting Away with Haneke: Anti-Climatic Narrative Dynamics and Villainy in Haneke Films
Betul Kat

Inner Villain in Ingmar Bergman
Joao Ribeirete

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Concurrent Session 5a: Killers, Singular and Serial
Chair: Scott Loren

Seduction of the Serial Killer: Representing Justice with Lester, Dexter, and the Death Note
Jason Bainbridge

The Mad Scientist as a Villain: H. G. Wells’ The Island of Dr. Moreau
Oya Bayiltmis

Concurrent Session 5b: Villainy Cosmic and Righteous
Chair:

The Serial Killer as Sympathetic Villain: Criminal Fictions of Easton, Ellis, Ellroy, Leonard, and Lindsay
Carolyn Beasley

Evolutionary Villain – Alfred Bester as Oppressed Victim and Righteous Villain
Mikko Poutanen

I am the Man in the Dark Room: Puppetmaster From Cosmic Adversary to Cosmic Villain
Luke Seaber

15.30
Tea

16.00
Concurrent Session 6a: Domestic and Feminine Faces of Villainy
Chair: Margarette Lincoln

The Changing Face of Femme Fatale: Is She Really Villainous?
Burcu Genc

Concurrent Session 5b: Villainy in the Streets
Chair: Jason Bainbridge

Immorality and Consciousness in Scorsese’s Mean Streets
David Sousa

Urban Anti-Hero: Comparison of the General and Il Libanese in the Representations of City Crime Gangs
Daire Maria Ni Uanachain

17.30
Sessions End

Thursday 16th September 2010
09.00
Session 7: Villains in the English Renaissance
Chair: Kathryn Hemmann

Archetypal Figure of the Villainous Jew in English Renaissance Literature
Ivona Misterova

Strategies of Narrative Representation of Villains in English Renaissance Rogue Literature
Kateryna Vasylyna

Damnation of a Hero or Villain: Marlowe’s Tragical History of Life and Death of Doctor Faustus
Seyda Inceoglu

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 8: Villains Onstage
Chair: Santiago Perez-Isasi

Macbeth’s Self-Destructive Villainy
Timo Uotinen

Precious Villain…Honorable Murderer: Traitor as Scapegoat in Shakespeare
Shala Alert

The Sow That Repeatedl y Devours Her Own Piglets: Villains on the Nigerian Stage
Tiziana Morosetti

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Concurrent Session 9a: Male Villains
Chair: Jaime Cuenca

Portrayal of Male Villain in Broadcast Televisual Text Hollyoaks
Selina Doran

Monstrous Action-Men and Jealous Princesses: Defining the Villain in Gendered Narratives
Dikmen Yakali-Camoglu

Villainous Pirates and Their Relations With Women
Margarette Lincoln

Concurrent Session 9b: Literary Villains
Chair:  Karin Kokorski

Steerpike and Evasive Villainy in Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast Novels
Arrate Hidalgo-Sanchez

“Sympathy for the Devil”: The Reader’s Desire for the Truly Evil in Thackeray’s Catherine and Barry Lyndon
Ellen Redling

Enter Peter Ackroyd’s Nicholas Dyer – Architect, Devil Worshipper, and Murderer
Roxanne Barbara Doerr

15.30
Tea

16.00
Session 10: Villainous States
Chair:  Betul Kat

Sexual Villainy in the Holocaust
Beverley Chalmers

Ideological Villains
Dana Chalmers

State Villainy in Orwell’s 1984
Cumhur Yilmac Madran

17.30
Development Meeting

18.00
Conference Ends