Thursday 25th September - Sunday 28th September 2003
St Catherine's College, Oxford

Conference Programme and Abstracts
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 for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation

Final Programme

Thursday 25th September

12.00pm - 2.00pm
Registration

2.00pm
Welcome and Opening Words

2.15pm
Keynote Address
Violence and Film
David Slocum

3.30pm
Tea

4.00pm
Session 1: Conflict, Violence and Explanations
Chair: Kate Flynn

Patricia Turrisi
Theories of Violence Put to the Test: Is Athens' Theory the "Best Explanation" of Violent Behaviour?

Barry Weisberg
The Globalization of Violence, The Violence of Globalization

Oleg Piletsky
E Pluribus Unum: European Nationalism. Shopping for Identities in the European Union

5.30pm
Sessions End

Wine Reception

6.30pm
Dinner

Friday 26th September
9.00am
Session 2: Violence, Terror and the Shaping of Place Consciousness
Chair: Viktoria Hertling

Jessica Wolfendale
From Soldier to Torturer? Military Training and Moral Agency

Kaiama Glover
A Literature of Terror and Mourning

Karen Lysaght
The Violent Shaping of Place Consciousness

10.30am
Coffee

11.00am
Session 3: Youth, Violence and Visual Harassment
Chair: Oleg Piletsky

Ivana Bacovic
Youth and Violence - Gang violence, children soldiers, hooliganism

Larissa Niec
Violence on the Screen: Psychological Perspectives on Child Abuse in American Popular Film

Sari Nare
Visual Harassment in the Intimization of Culture

12.45pm
Lunch

2.00pm
Session 4: Violence, Peace and the Home
Chair: Tony King

Viktoria Hertling
Countering the “Culture of Violence”

Martha Apostolidou
Knowledge and Perceptions of Cypriot Students on Family Violence

Nancy Carolyn Kwant
Advocacy Review Teams and Domestic Violence

3.30pm
Tea

4.00pm
Session 5: Masculinity, Abuse and the Private Domain
Chair: Jessica Wolfendale

Titi Lana
Violence in the Private Domain - The Abuse of Women and Children

5.00pm
Sessions End

Saturday 27th September
9.30am
Session 6: Suicide and Violence
Chair: J David Slocum

Susanne Chassay
Hurtling Toward Darkness, Faces of Violence in the Contemporary World

Candace Fertile
Plays, Poems and Violence

10.30am
Coffee

11.00am
Session 7: Women, Mutilation and Ethnicity
Chair: Randi DeBourg

Marita Husso
Why do Battered Women Stay: The Time and Space of Intimate Violence

Tobe Levin
The Creative Writing of FGM as an Act of Violence and Human Rights Abuse

Mateja Sedmak
The Wrong Belongings: When Ethnicity Becomes a Crucial Family Issue

12.45pm
Lunch

2.00pm
Session 8: Religion, Human Nature and Violence
Chair: Rob Fisher

Rumana Hashem
Could Tanbazar Eviction in 1999 be Violence Against Women? Fundamentalism: a Form of Violence when it Risks Life in the Name of Religion

Brent Muirhead
American Evangelicals: Ministry Challenges and Enhancing the Quality of Theological Education

Ceri Bowen & Mauricio Garcia-Duran
Living in the shadow of conflict: Reflections on the topic ‘is violence part of human nature?

3.30pm
Tea

4.00pm
Session 9: Identity, Racism and Intervention
Chair: Susan Chassay

Kate Flynn & Tony King
Re-Constructing South African Identity after 1994: Museums and Public History

Eleonore Wildburger
Racism and Violence: Anti-Racist Strategies in Intercultural Contact Zones

5.00pm
Sessions End

Sunday 28th September
9.30am
Session 10: Narratives of Political Violence
Chair: Eleonore Wildburger

Jin-hee Lee
Practice of Violence, Competing Narratives: Choices of Interpretations in the Vigilante Massacre Trial in 1923 Japanese Empire

Minoli Salgado
Text and Territorialism: Sri Lankan Literature since the Civil War

10.30am
Coffee

11.00am
Session 11: The State, Guns, and Violence
Chair: Rebecca Frischkorn

William Vlach
When Saviour Becomes Serpent: The Psychology of Police Violence

Vivien Miller
Equality in Life Presumes Equality in Death: Gender and Execution in Sunbelt America

Amy Wales
Legislative positioning of gun-safety measures in the United States

12.45pm
Lunch

2.00pm
Session 12: History, Identity and Violence
Chair: Tobe Levin

Rebecca Frischkorn & Yodit Fitigu
Violence and the (Re) Identification of Self, Community, and Place

Aristotle Kallis
History, Memory and Violence

3.00pm
Tea

3.30pm
Project Development Meeting

4.00pm
Conference Close