1st Global Conference (2010)

1st Global Conference

Thursday 15th July 2010 – Saturday 17th July 2010
Mansfield College, Oxford

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

Thursday 15th July 2010
from 12.30
Registration

13.30
Welcome and Opening Words
David White

14:00
Session 1: Revenge Literature
Chair: Stephen Banks

The Servant as Nemesis in Wuthering Heights
Esra Melikoglu

A Path to Dead End: An Exploration on Revenge in Wuthering Heights
Kuo-Ping Claudia Tai

The Mixed-Blood Settles Scores: The Question of Racial Justice in Georges by Alexandre Dumas
Claudie Bernard

15:30
Coffee Break

16:00
Session 2: Philosophy of Revenge
Chair: Sarah Linwick

Dreaming of Justice: Revenge and the Beautiful in Dostoevsky’s Notes From the Underground
Roger Berkowitz

Aristotle on the Purpose of Revenge
Krisanna Scheiter

Balancing Thymos and Eros
Mario Wenning

17:30
Announcements
Wine Reception

18.30
Dinner

Friday 16th July 2010
09:00
Session 3: Anthropological Studies of Revenge
Chair: Busuyi Mekusi

Vengeful Spirits: A Psychocultural Account of Goddess Beliefs in South India
Charles Nuckolls and David Crandall

The Discursive Representation of Revenge and Retribution in Pastaza Quichua Narrative
Janis B. Nuckolls

Ancestral Wrath: A Modern Day Dilemma
Sheila Bibb

Revenge as Imperial Policy: The Evolution of Retribution in Roman Society and Culture
Cindy Finlayson

11:00
Coffee Break

11:30
Session 4: Poe-etic Revenge
Chair: Anders Widmark

Analysing Darker Motives or Delving Robert Browning’s ‘Poetry of Revenge’
Paula Alexandra Guimarães

Montresor and Hop-Frog Strike Back: Poe’s Never-Ending Poetics of Revenge
Marta Miquel-Baldellou

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Session 5a: Historical Perspectives
Chair: Claudie Bernard

Dead before Breakfast: The English Gentleman and Honour Affronted
Stephen Banks

‘If you don’t come to me, I’ll come to you’: Primal Injury and Revenge in the Ghost Stories of M.R. James
Terry Scarborough

Session 5b: Revenge in Film
Chair: Roger Berkowitz

Revenge, American Cinema, and Framing the Decade of the 1970s
William Gombash

Maternal Revenge and Redemption in Post-Feminist Rape-Revenge Cinema
Claire Henry

Revenging The Holocaust: Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds
Ahona Panda

15:30
Coffee Break

16:00
Session 6: “If you wrong us, shall we not revenge?”
Chair: Charles Nuckolls

English Renaissance Revenge Tragedy and the Sovereign Exception
Martin Moraw

Using Bodies to Exact Revenge: The Skull and Severed Parts as Instruments of Vengeance in Early Modern Revenge Tragedy
Julianne Mentzer

‘There is no madness without the law’: Genre Matters and Iago’s “Hearted Cause” for Revenge in Othello
Sarah Linwick

17:30
Sessions End

Saturday 17th July 2010
09:00
Session 7: Revenge in the Arts
Chair: Terry Scarborough

The Involuntary Casualties of Revenge in Alan Ayckbourn’s The Revengers’ Comedies
Iwona Bojarska

The Dramaturgy of Revenge or ‘Revenge Is Sweet’
Marcela Pozarek

‘The malaise of the ghetto’: Fractured Community in Mathieu Kassovitz’s La Haine
Ajitpaul Mangat

10:30
Coffee Break

11:00
Session 8: Revenge around the Globe
Chair: Mario Wenning

When Indemnity Becomes Disdainful; Revenge as Metaphor for ‘Unfinished Businesses’ in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Busuyi Mekusi

The Confucian Views on Revenge
Kam-por Yu

Revenge as Cultural Catharsis in Moya Henderson’s Opera Lindy
Timothy McKenry

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Session 9: Various Perspectives on Revenge
Chair: Julianne Mentzer

Unlikely Heroines; Self-Destructive Sexuality and Narrative Identity-Building in the Fiction of Joyce Carol Oates
Jenaeth Markaj

The Writer Seeking Vengeance: Blognovelism and its Relationship with Literary Critics
Daniel Escandell

Using Art Therapy Methods to Investigate Aggression and Revenge in Children
Naghmeh Taghva and Farahnaz Nezhadi

15:30
Coffee Break

16:00
Session 10: Revenge in Middle Eastern Literature
Chair: William Gombash

Treatment of Vengeance in Ferdowsi’s The Shahnameh: Book of Kings
Leyli Jamali

Experiences of Revenge as Reflected in the Contemporary Pashto Short Story Genre
Anders Widmark

17:00
Development Meeting

18.00
Conference Close