Conference Programme, Abstracts and Papers

10th Global Conference

Sunday 13th May – Tuesday 15th May 2012
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

Sunday 13th May 2012
From 12.30
Conference Registration

13.30
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Diana Medlicott

14.00
Session 1: Violence in Specific Settings
Chair: Diana Medlicott

In Harm´s Way – Medical Practitioners as Targets of Aggression
Danny Hills

Violence Against the Elderly in Brazil: Negation of Rights
Alacir Ramos Silva

Study About Urban Violence in Brazil: The Case of the City of Serra
Nara Cuman Motta and Alacir Ramos Silva

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 2: Historiography and Agency
Chair: Seetha Menon

Historiography and Violence
Allison Merrick

A Response to Violence: The Iconography of Human Agency in Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin´s Portraiture
Paula Horta

17.30
Notices and Announcements

17.45
Wine Reception

Monday 14th May 2012
09.00
Session 3: Sexual and Domestic Violence
Chair: Alex Hogue

An Investigation of Domestic Violence through the Economic Impact of Dowry Practices
Seetha Menon

Violence and Romantic Relationships: A Story that Repeats Itself
Mariangela Braga Pereira Nielsen and Alacir Ramos Silva

The Role of Social Capital In Combating Domestic Violence
Nino Javakhishvili

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 4: Representations in  Literature
Chair: Wendy Isaacs-Martin

Conditions of Violence in the Story of Coriolanus
Apostolos N. Stavelas

Violence as a form of Communication in Wolfram´s von Eschenbach ´Willehalm´
Sonja Feldmann

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 5: Images: Film and  Science Fiction
Chair: Danny Hills

Hard-Bodies and Hetero-Norms in Hollywood Combat Films
Andrea Schofield

Power, Bees, and the Death of Man: A Violent Age
Alex Hogue

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Sessions 6: Roundtable Discussion
Chair: Diana Medicott

Tuesday 15th May 2012
09.00
Session 7: Extraordinary Examples of Violence; Ritual, Witchcraft and Child Soldiers
Chair: Apostolos N. Stavelos

Ritual and Muti Murders amongst the Vha-Venda People of South Africa: An Ethnographic Assessment of the Phenomenon
Cornelis Roelofse

The Symbology of Violence: Women, Witchcraft and Weakness in the Rural Eastern Cape
Wendy Isaacs-Martin and Theodore Petrus

Militarization and the Issue of Child Soldiers: Children Playing with Guns in Burma/Myanmar
Anna Rosario Dejarlo Malindog

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 8: Violence and the Media
Chair: Allison Merrick

Scapegoating the Foreigner: A Girardian View of the Continuing Violence in South Africa
Wendy Isaacs-Martin

Metafictive Geography: Violence and Hope in News Reportage
Victorio Sugbo

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 9: Violence Stemming from State Structures
Chair: Graeme Goldsworthy

Re-imagining Structural Violence: Understanding the Relational Dysfunction between People and Power
Chijioke John Ojukwu

Capitalism and Violence, or The Violence of Capital
Rochelle M Green

“Not Enough of Them are Done Away With, Why Interrogate Them at All – They Should be Lynched”: Political Trials in the Post-war Slovenia and Public Comments during the 1947 Nagode Trial
Ziga Koncilija

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Development meeting and closing remarks

16.30
Conference Ends