Conference Programme, Abstracts and Papers
1st Global Conference

Wednesday 17th February – Friday 19th February 2010
The Women’s College, Sydney, Australia
in association with the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney
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
Wednesday 17th February 2010
from 12.30
Registration
13.30
Welcome and Opening Words
Mira Crouch, Heather McKenzie, Harry Blatterer
14.00
Session 1: Painful Writing
Chair: Mira Crouch
Negotiating Pain: Beyond Nostos to Co-Presence in Flanagan’s The Sound of One Hand Clapping
Jane Fernandez-Goldborough
Post-Independence Malaysian Short Stories: A Depiction of Racially Inflicted Pain
Nor Hashima Isa
Eros and Thanatos: The Murderous Struggle of Pain and Desire in Gabrielle D’Annunzio’s Triumph of Death and Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist
Angela Tumini
15.30
Tea
16.00
Session 2: The Language of Pain
Chair: Heather McKenzie
The Clinical Conversation about Pain: Tensions between the Lived Experience and the Medical Model
Milton Cohen and John Quintner
Inflecting Pain
Hildur Kalman and Naomi Scheman
Revelational Indicators: A Framework for Analysing Pain
Shona Hill and Shlinka Smith
17.30
Notices and Announcements
Wine Reception
Thursday 18th February 2010
09.00
Session 3: Pain and Metaphor
Chair: Shona Hill
The Scandinavian Zombie and the Welfare State: Politics, Pain and Love in John Ajvide Lindquist’s Handling the Undead
Katarina Gregersdotter
Painstaking Pain: Alice McDermott’s Child of My Heart
Hoda Khallaf
Gravity’s Rainbow: The Baroque Folds and ‘Conatus Sense Conservandi’ in Tandem Singh’s The Fall
Yen-Chen Chuang
10.30
Coffee
11.00
Session 4: Texts of Pain and Love
Chair: Hoda Khallaf
The Erotics of Pain: BDSM Femslash Fan Fiction
Malin Isaksson
Dancing in Others’ Shoes: Between Pain and Pleasure
Daria Radchenko
The Discourse of Cutting – A Study of Visual Representation of Self-injury on the Internet
Hans Sternudd
12.30
Lunch
14.00
Session 5: Pain and Cancer
Chair: Hildur Kalman
Pain and the Performing Musician: The Interplay of Culture, Cancer and Identity
Meghan Neaton
Pain and Personal Experiences of Cancer: A Complex Intersection
Heather McKenzie
Communication with Emotions: Use of Emotional Intelligence as Pain Relief
Tuna Yavuz
15.30
Tea
16.00
Session 6: Health Care in Pain
Chair: Ruth Dubin
Journeys with Chronic Pain: Acquiring Stigma Along the Way
Amanda Nielsen
How to Listen to Chronic Pain Narratives
Mary Buchinger Bodwell
The Mind/Body Problem in Contemporary Healthcare
Gillian Bendelow
17.30
Sessions End
Friday 19th February 2010
09.00
Session 7: Pain in Question
Chair: Angela Tumini
Who is Able to Fell Pain? A Cartesian Attack on the Bete-machine
Anik Waldow
The Ambiguity of Pain
Sascha Fink
Suffering from a Psychiatric Disorder: Interpreting Psychological Pain for Meaning and Re-authoring
Jean-Francois Pelletier
10.30
Coffee
11.00
Session 8: Vicissitudes of Pain
Chair: Gillian Bendelow
The Trajectory of Chronic Non-Cancer Pain in Six Patients: A Roller-Coaster Ride
Ruth Dubin
Connecting Drug Use and Pain in GLBTQ Communities
Ian Flaherty
Shooting Pains: Autobiographical Video as a Means of Addressing Illness-related Pain and Mortality
Broderick Fox
12.30
Lunch
14.00
Session 9: Pain in History
Chair: Broderick Fox
An Uncertain Anodyne: Making Sense of Pain through Mesmerism in the Nineteenth Century
Elizabeth Todd
A Suffering Woman in Catholic Literature
Therese Taylor
Brief Break
Session 10: Pain and Resistance
Chair: Ian Flaherty
The Caribbean Slave Woman: Resistance as a Form of Preservation
Nadia Salter
The Audiences of Pain: The Indonesian Audiences’ Response to Human Rights
Kurniawan Adi Saputro
16.00
Coffee and Development Meeting
17.00
Conference Close
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