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.

Programme 2.2

Monday 20th September

From 12.00
Registration

14.00
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher

14.15
Lead Paper/Keynote Address
Tobe Levin
University of Maryland in Europe and University of Frankfurt, Germany

Female Genital Mutilation: Risking and Eschewing the Pornographic Gaze

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 1: Attempting to Understand Violence
Chair: Patricia Turrisi

Michael Staudigl
Phenomenological Explanations of Violence and their Interdisciplinary Value

Neil Whitehead
Anthropologies of Violence

Stefan Bucher
Globalization and Structural Violence

17.30
Wine Reception

19.00
Dinner

Tuesday 21st September
09.00
Session 2: Media, Memory and Confession
Chair: Michael Innes

Raphael Cohen-Almagor
The Terrorists’ Best Ally: Media Coverage of Terror

Jo Ellen Fair
Media, Memory, and the Meaning of a Violent Past in Ghana

Patricia Seminetta
Politics, Violence, and Expression: The Role of Memory and Identity in Guatemala’s War - Torn Past

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 3: Battering, Trauma and Bystander Behaviour
Chair: Chantal Marie Cornut-Gentille

Dalit Yassour-Borchowitz
"An Insider’s Look" – A Phenomenological inquiry into the World of Battering Men and Battered Women

Fon Gordon
Echoes of Trauma in Three Critical Trials

Dorothy Lenthall
The Bullying Culture in High Schools

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Concurrent Sessions
Session 4A: Violence, Imagination and Positive Reinforcement
Chair: Christian Bundegaard

Rob Fisher
Violence and Evil: Imaginative Creativity

Patricia Turrisi
Against Rewards: A Critical Analysis of Positive Reinforcement as Permissive Toward Violence

Session 4B: Violence, Representation and Literature
Chair: Jo Ellen Fair

Chantal Cornut-Gentille D’Arcy
Physical, Psychological and Institutional Violence in Ken Loach's Ladybird, Ladybird

Juliet Wightman
“The surest way to charme a womans tongue is break her neck”: Language, Violence and Representation in A Yorkshire Tragedy

Eunju Hwang
Violence and Perversion in Machine Culture: J. G. Ballard’s Fictional Works

15.30
Tea

16.00
Concurrent Sessions
Session 5A: Representations of Violence
Chair: Maria Jose Alcaraz Leon

Ying Chih Liao
Gloom and Boom: Representation of Violence in Taiwan and Hong Kong gangster films

Emily McMehen
Thrill-Kill Culture and the Beautiful Wound

Ivana Kronja
Violence as a Cause of and a Response to Frustration: Serbian Cinema and Violence Culture, 1990 - 2004

Session 5B: Warriors, Punk and Metaphors
Chair: Raphael Cohen-Almagor

Katrin Sjursen
The Gender Factor as Revealed by the Experiences of Women Warriors: The Middle Ages and Today

Roy Wallace
Punk in the Politics of N.Ireland

Marilyn Yaquinto
Hollywood’s Rogue Cop as Metaphor for Nation

17.30
Sessions End

19.00
Dinner

Wednesday 22nd September
09.00
Session 6: Demobilisation, NGO’s and Human Security
Chair: Stefan Bucher

Graeme Goldsworthy
“..You’re old enough to kill, but too young to vote…..”

Aleksi Ylönen
From the South to Darfur: Periphery Marginalization and Violence in Sudan

Christian Bundegaard
The Discourse of Human Security: Developing an International Responsibility to Protect

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 7: The Need for Art in Representing Violence
Chair: Karen Lysaght

Maria Jose Alcaraz León
Being Hit Artistically

Gary Wheeler
Gendered Expressions of Violence and Symbolic Speech: Afghanistan “War rugs” and “Western Burqas”

Pei-ying Wu
Visual Representations of Violence in the Visual Arts

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Concurrent Sessions
Session 8A: Blood Sports, Animal Rights and Violence
Chair: Roy Wallace

Shelby Weitzel
Blood Sport: Hunting as a Form of Respect for Life

Elisa Aaltola
The Animal Rights Movement and Violence: Two Viewpoints

Session 8B: Violence and Transition
Chair: Marilyn Yaquinto

Julian Brown
The Rules of Violence: The South African Culture of Violence and the Transition from Apartheid

15.00
Tea

15.30
Concurrent Sessions
Session 9A: Language, Monsters and Difference
Chair: John Collins

Heinz Lechleiter
The Language of Open and Deliberate Racism on the Internet

R. Sophie Statzel
The Making of Monsters: Nationalist Subjectivation and the Production of Violent Desire

Jane Jameson-Till
Cultural difference, violence and the law: towards an understanding of the law’s (inadequate) response to ‘Gypsies’ as victims of public and private violence

Session 9B: Violence, Sovereignty and Rhetoric
Chair: Rob Fisher

Ana Devic
Civil Society, Inter-Ethnic Reconciliation, and Violence in the Context of International Aid in Kosovo

Michael Innes
Bosnia’s Terrorist Paradox: Islamic Insurgency and Nationalist Response in Post-War Rhetoric and Reality

Rolf Schwarz & Oliver Jütersonke
Divisible Sovereignty and the Reconstruction of Iraq

17.00
Sessions End

19.00
Dinner

Thursday 23rd September
09.00
Session 10: Globalism, Terrorism and Militarism
Chair: Graeme Goldsworthy

John Collins
Total War/Total Peace: Notes from Global Palestine

Jamal Benhayoun
New Terrorism

Edmund Byrne
Militarism in the Service of Geopolitics

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 11: Subcultures of Violence
Chair: Tobe Levin

Jeremy Tranmer
Political Hooliganism? The Politics of British Anti-racism and Anti-fascism

Stratos Georgoulas
"Another Case of un-shameful robbery…" Violence, Crime and the Local Press in a Provincial City of Greece.

Nicola Horsburgh & Jordan Javier
Jihadist Subculture of Terrorism in Spain.

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 12: Fear and Peace
Chair: Neil Whitehead

Karen Lysaght
Reasonable/Unreasonable Fear

Ron Smith
Peace Stories and Peacemaking: Applying Narrative Thinking to Northern Irish Children’s Ideas About Peace

15.00
Tea

15.30
Development Meeting

16.00
Conference Close

Non-Presenting Participants

Sunite Pande: Riverview Hospital, Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada