8th Global Conference (2009)
8th Global Conference
Monday 4th May – Thursday 7th May 2009
Budapest, Hungary
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 (v.1.3g)
Monday 4th May 2009
from 12.30
Registration
13.30
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Rob Fisher and David White
14:00
Session 1: Domestic Violence
Chair: David White
Ella Dreyfus
Punishing Silence: A Contemporary Art Exhibition Reflecting on Emotional Trauma and Domestic Violence
Marika Guggisberg
Blurred Boundaries: When the Victim of Intimate Partner Violence becomes the Offender
Bodil Pedersen
Symbolic Violence and Victimisation
15:30
Coffee Break
16:00
Session 2: Violent Punishment
Chair: Nate Hinerman
Sasha Gear
Logics of Brutality: Gender and Violence in South African Men’s Prisons
Ron Stansfield
The Abolition of Capital Punishment: A Developmental Perspective
17:30
Announcements
Wine Reception
Tuesday 5th May 2009
09:30
Session 3: Violence Against Women
Chair: Vanessa Fredericks
Serges Alain Djoyou Kamga
Eradicating Cultural Based Violence against African Women: The Role of Traditional Leaders
María Beatriz Hernández Pérez
Violence Against Women in Medieval Martyr Legends
10:30
Coffee Break
11:00
Session 4: Pictures of Violence
Chair: Anthony Metivier
Márcio Seligmann-Silva
Photography as an Art of Trauma and Action-Image: Shadows Play in the Photographs of “Desaparecidos” in Latin American Dictatorships
D. Anthony Larivière
The Beauty of Violence
David Levente Palatinus
The Aesthetics of Violence: (Crime as Urban Spectacle in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation)
12:30
Lunch
14:00
Session 5: Violence in Literature
Chair: Ella Dreyfus
Kim Toft Hansen
Violence in Crime Fiction
Pushpinder Walia
Of Boundaries ,Transgression And Victimhood: Patterns Of Violence In Arundhati Roy?s The God Of Small Things
Oumar Cherif Diop
Hearing Silenced Voices: The Body and the Ethics of Reading
15:30
Coffee Break
16:00
Session 6: Anxiety and Fear
Chair: Leonhard Praeg
Nate Hinerman
Increasing Death Anxiety and the Unintended Costs of Managed Care in the U.S.: Newly Emerging ‘Taproots’ of the ‘War on Terror’
Temitope Oriola & Charles Adeyanju
‘Don’t tase me, bro’: Taser-related Deaths as Risk Society’ Accidents?
17:00
Sessions End
Wednesday 6th May 2009
09:30
Session 7: Violence in the Turkish Media
Chair: Roger Bromley
Hanife Aliefendioglu
Feminist Resistance to Violence in the Media in Turkey
Özge Özaydin
Is it the Representation of Violence or the Violence of Representation? A Brief Analysis of Television News Stories about Terrorism in Turkey
10:30
Coffee Break
11:00
Session 8: Communication and Violence
Chair: Ron Stansfield
Melissa Shani Brown
Narrating Silence(s): Relations between the Limits of Language and Power
Reyhan Atasü Topcuoglu
Production and Reproduction of Different Forms of Violence in Two Contexts: Human Trafficking and Discourses of Counter-Trafficking
Leonhard Praeg
Time as Legitimacy
12:30
Sessions End & Lunch
14:00
Free afternoon to explore Budapest. There will also be an optional organized tour.
Thursday 7th May 2009
09:30
Session 9: Poland and WWII
Chair: Marika Guggisberg
Vanessa Fredericks
The Ethics of Violence: the Katyn Massacre & the Question of Justice
Gustav Arnold
‘We may have no choice in having the events and traumas experienced by our ancestors visited upon us in our own lifetime’: Eva Hoffman’s Lost in Translation
10:30
Coffee Break
11:00
Session 10: Violence in Film
Chair: David Levente Palatinus
Anthony Metivier
The Friend as Monster in Serial Killer Cinema
Roger Bromley
Undesirable and Placeless: Systemic Violence, Film Narrative and the Biopolitics of Disposability
Dirk de Bruyn
Communicating the ‘Unspeakability’ of Violent Acts in Cinema
12:30
Lunch
14:00
Thematic Reflections and Panel Discussion
15.30
Tea
16.00
Development Meeting
16.30
Conference Close
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