2nd Global Conference (2011)

2nd Global Conference

Sunday 22nd May – Tuesday 24th May 2011
Warsaw, Poland

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 22nd May 2011
from 12.30
Registration

13.30
Welcome and Opening Words
Nate Hinnerman

14.00
Session 1 Medicalizing, Assessing, Treating (Part 1)
Chair: Ana Rute Monteiro

Through the Glass Bubble: A Study of Chronic Pain Patients’ Interpersonal Experience Within the Medical Setting
Nir Sonnenberg and Rebecca Jacoby

The Effect of a Virtual Pain Coach on Pain Management Discussions: A Pilot Study
Deborah McDonald

Pain Communication During Clinic Visits: Examination of Communication Accommodation Theory
Jennifer M. Hehl

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 2 Medicalizing, Assessing, Treating (Part 2)
Chair: Nicola Lazenby

Inhabiting Wounded Bodies
Teresa Casal

Qualitative Methods in Pain Research: The Adequacy of the McGill Pain Questionnaire in the Context of the qualia Problem
Weronika Kalwak

What do you Think About Your Body and Your Pain? – Social Representations of Rheumatic Diseases in Adult Patients
Céu Sá & Abílio Oliveira

The Birkbeck Pain Project
Louise Hide

17.30
Notices and Announcements

17.40
Wine Reception

Monday 23rd May 2011
09.00
Session 3 Ethnographies, Societies, Reactions
Chair: Wouter Schrover

Pains and Perceptions as “Healing Reactions” in an Alternative Medicine Center
Razvan Ionescu-Tugui

Pain in-between Cultures: Eldercare and Filipina Migrant Workers in Israel
Keren Mazuz

Cancer Patients’ Expressions of Pain and Suffering: Hospital Ethnography in Kenya
Benson A. Mulemi

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 4 Identities, In-Dwellings, and the Subjective
Chair: Deborah McDonald

Pain as “Existential”
Mahdi Esfahani

In-Dwelling In The Site Of Pain
Barbara Dalle Pezze

Is Pain Only Bad? On the Ambiguous Value of Being in Pain
Julia Glahn

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 5a Literary Portraits and Encodings
Chair: Rebecca Adelman

Where do we Find Ourselves? – The Experience of Pain in Emerson and Joyce
Marina Guiomar

(Dis) regarding the Pain of Others: Deirdre Madden’s Remembering Light and Stone
Zuzanna Sanches

Jude’s Thorough Pain as the Representation of its Author’s in Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure, a New Historicist’s Approach
Reza Sattarzadeh Nowbari

Session 5b Performing, Moving, Depicting
Chair: Megan Cawood

Performing Pain
Brenda Foley

Temporality of the Dancing Body: Tears, Fears and Ageing Dears
Mark Edward

Staging the “C” Word: Performance and the “Recovery of Experience” in Marianne Paget’s “The Work of Talk”
Virginia Dakari

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 6 Coping, Bearing, Locating
Chair: Andrzej Danczak

Sites of Pain: Trauma, Landscape and Architecture in W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz
Megan Cawood

Coping Efforts, Beliefs, and Meanings Among Women with Chronic Pelvic Pain
Erica Hamilton

Images of Pain: Self-Injurers’ Reflections on Photos of Self-Injury
Hans Sternudd

17.30
Sessions End

Tuesday 24^th May 2011
09.00
Session 7a Accepting, Self-Inflicting
Chair: Julia Glahn

Sublime Pain: A Study of Voluntary Pain Acceptance
Hadi Fayyaz

The Practice of Mortification in XVIIth Century Italy: Battle or Equation?
Elena Bonesi

Lina Casadó
The Medicalization of Adolescent Emotional Distress: Conflicting Explanatory Models of Bodily Self-harm

Session 7b Healing, Perceiving, Holding
Chair: tbc

Ana Rute Monteiro
The Perceptual View of Pain: an urgent question in the Philosophy of Mind

Tran Phuoc Phuong Thao
Body based mindfulness and healing

Chen Gila
The Meaning of Suffering in Drug Addiction and Recovery from the Perspective of Existentialism, Buddhism and the 12 Step Program

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 8a Soul-Making, Transcending
Chair: Benson A. Mulemi

A Constructive Pain-Involved World: Some Developments of John Hick’s Theodicy
Andrzej Danczak

Julius Bautista
The Bright Side of Life: Crucifying Oneself in the Catholic Philippines

Morgan Luck
Incommensurability and the argument from slight inferiority: Why stubbing your toe does not rule out God’s Existence

Session 8b Historisizing, Narrating, and the (Un-)Shareable
Chair: Teresa Casal

“That Was Mean, Motari”: Animal Cruelty, Wartime Spectatorship, and 17 Seconds of Shareable Pain
Rebecca Adelman

Once upon a Time there was a Story
Nicola Lazenby

A Critical Perspective on Visual Imagery: Understanding the Mental Connection Between Torture Scences in the Film Penghianatan G30S/PKI and Indonesian Nationalism During the New Order Regime
Annisa Beta, Inditian Latifa, Nila Ayu Utami

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 9 Suffering, Dying, Palliating

Annihilating Pain: A Study of Peter Singer’s Position on Voluntary Euthanasia
V Prabhul

Pain, Pain Management, and the Desire for Hastened Death in Anna Quindlen’s One True Thing
Wouter Schrover

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Development Meeting  and Closing Remarks

18.00
Conference Ends