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