3rd Global Conference (2010)

3rd Global Conference

Can I Play with Madness? Metal, Dissonance, Madness and Alienation

Monday 8th November – Wedesday 10th November 2010
Prague, Czech Republic

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

Monday 8th November 2010
from 12.30
Registration

13.30
Welcome and Opening Words
Niall Scott

14.00
Session 1: Title Going Beserk!
Chair: Carmen Deanna

A furore Normannorum, libera nos domine!” A Short History of Going Berserk in Scandinavian Literature and Heavy Metal
Imke Von Helden

Title Breathing History, Veiled in Mystery”: Turisas’ The Varangian Way and the Saga Tradition
Ashley Walsh

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 2: Title: Machined Heads: The Exited, Aggressive and the Insane
Chair: Rute Rodrigues

Two Steps Past Insanity – The Expression of Aggression in Death Metal Music
Daniel Frandsen

Cycles of Metal and Cycles of Male Aggression: Using Metal as a Metric to Measure the Propensity of Young Men to Engage in Aggressive Behaviour
Samir Puri

Heavy metal rituals and the civilising process
Gary Sinclair

17.30
Notices and Announcements

17.40
Wine Reception

Tuesday 9th November 2010
09.00
Session 3: Title: Black Metal Madness
Chair: Andy Brown

Playing with Madness in the Forest of Shadows: Dissonance, Deviance and Non-comformity in the Black Metal Scene
Karl Spracklen

A Lost Forgotten Sad Spirit. Black Metal, Psychosis and the Collective Unconsciousness
Sangam Sharma

Black Metal ist krieg the Political Boundaries of Black Metal
Attila Gyulai

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 4: Title: Disordered, Dissonant  and Disturbed
Chair: Colin Mackinnon

Fractured Realities: (Mis)Representing Schizophrenia in Rock Music
Richard Wilson and Mike Thomas

Metal Disorder, Metal Disturbance
Niall Scott

Metal and the Schizophrenia of (Be)Longing
Hrvoje Ryznar

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 5: Title: Metal Madness: Something to Write Home About
Chair: Brian Hickam

No Method in the Madness: The ‘Problem’ of the ‘Cultural Reading’ in Robert Walser’s Running With the Devil: Power, Madness and Gender in Heavy Metal Music and recent Metal Studies
Andy Brown

Emo Saved My Life’: Challenging the Mainstream Discourse of Mental Illness around My Chemical Romance
Rosemary Hill

Qualitative Research in Understanding Metal Community
Igor Gafarov

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 6: Title: Heavy Metal as Therapy?
Chair: Rosemary Hill

Gotta See My Rock-n-Roll Doctor: Heavy Metal as Therapy
Carmen Deanna

Can Progressive Metal’s Narrative Inform Social Stigma Theory? Pain of Salvation’s “the Perfect Element” Parts 1 & 2 as Examples
Nelson Varas-Diaz

Madness Caught Another Victim”: Self-medication of Trauma through Heavy Metal Storytelling
Brian Hickam

17.30
Sessions End

Wednesday 10th November 2010
09.00
Session 7: Title: Full Metal Sex
Chair: Samir Puri

Satan: The Perfect Man
Sanna Fridh

Hysteric Desire: Sexual Positions, Sonic Subjectivity, and the Performance of Gender in Glam Metal
Kirsten Sollee

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 8: Title: Insane Perspectives
Chair: Imke Von Helden

Goethe versus Rammstein: Who is Allowed to Play with Madness? The Influence of Musical Taste on Prejudice Against Heavy Metal Lyrics
Julia Kneer and  Diana Rieger

Life and Death: The Role of Music and the Others
Rute Rodrigues and Abílio Oliveira

Heavy Metal, Identity Work and Social Transitions: What are the Implications for Young People’s Wellbeing in the Australian Context?’
Paula Rowe

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 9: Alienation
Chair: Alick Kay

‘War Inside My Head’: Metal, Mental Illness and Psychic Energy
Colin McKinnon

Imagined Madness: Socially Constructed Alienation of Heavy Metal through Context and Performance
Martin Fillion

Crushed by Equilibrium: Is there a Causal Link between the Popularity of Heavy Metal and Economic Alienation?
Joseph French

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 10: The End: The Volume of Suicide
Chair: Karl Spracklen

Does Death and Suicide Sound Like the Music you Hear?
Abílio Oliveira and Rute Rodrigues

The Darkness of Doom
Allan McKenna

Suicide, Metal and Expectancy Theory
Alick Kay

17.30
Development Meeting
Closing Remarks

18.00
Conference Ends