2nd Global Conference (2011)

2nd Global Conference

Saturday 16th July 2011 – Monday 18th July 2011
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom

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

Saturday 16th July 2011
From 12.30
Registration

13:45
Welcome and Opening Words
Charles W. Nuckolls

14.00
Session 1: Revenge in Cinema, Literature, and Philosophy
Chair: Selina Doran

Melancholy in Kill Bill: The Dark Side of Love
Rania Eleftheria Kosmidou

Witchcraft, Jealousy, and Revenge in The Scarlet Letter
Anna Milione

Resentment and Valuation in the Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
Bogdan Dragomirescu

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 2: Bacon and Shakespeare on Revenge
Chair: Laura K. Field

Wild Justice, Judicature, and Self-Love: Francis Bacon on Revenge
Erin Dolgoy

Geneology of Justice: Ressentiment and Revenge in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice.
Rebecca Papanicolas

“More kind than is her custom:” Francis Bacon on Revenge and Nemesis
Heidi Studer

What the Vengence: Shapespeare’s Corolianus as a Study in Renevge.
Bryan H. Smith

18.00
Notices and Announcements

18.30
Wine Reception

Sunday 17th July 2011

09.00
Session 3: Literature and Revenge
Chair: Andrew Oldenquist

“As I Have Been Made:” Social Revenge in Dickens’ Great Expectations.
Lydia Christoph

“Blood Will Have Blood”: Vengeance and Justice in Salman Rushdie’s Shalimar the Clown.
Roxanne Barbara Doerr

The Snooper and the Scribbler: Literary Revenge in Poe’s Dupin Trilogy
Charity Givens

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 4: Culture, Society, and Revenge
Chair: Lydia Christoph

The Roles of Revenge
Andrew Oldenquist

Revenge at the Service of Social Justice: An Afrocentric View
Boniface Anusiem

“You Made Me What I Am. You Added to the Rage:” School Shooters in the United States and the Cultural Script of Revenge
Selina Doran

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 5: Histories of Revenge
Chair: Stein Arnold Hervoy

We Understood the Nature of Our Acts: Revenge and Racial Strife in the American Civil War West (1863-1865)
John Ringquist

A Revenge towards Professional and Social Treasons: Gendarmic Purges after World War II
Campion Jonas

Survival and Decline of the Right to Vengeance at the turn of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period in a City of the Low Countries (Namur, 14th-17th centuries)
Aude Musin

15:30
Coffee

16.00
Session 6: Literature, Philosophy, and Revenge
Chair: Roxanne Barbara Doerr

The Weight of the Vendetta: Revenge and Self-destruction in Romanzo Criminale
Daire Maria Ni Uanachian

Punishing the Dead
Saul Smilansky

Tender Toxicity: Desire and Revenge in Elizabeth Bowen’s Eva Trout
Heather Levy

17:30 Announcements

Monday 18th July 2011

09.00
Session 7: Philosphy, History, and Culture
Chair: Aude Musin

Imagine Less Resentment: An Outline of an Ethical Encounter between Nietzschean and Bataillean Thought Concerning Revenge and War.
Stein Arnold Hevroy

Revenge – The Volcano of Despair: The Story of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.
Helena Yakovlev-Golani

Inherited Guilt and the Cultural Dynamics of Vengeance in the Oresteia and a South Indian Goddess Cult
Charles W. Nuckolls

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 8: Roundtable Discussion:Revenge and the Death of Osama bin Laden
Chair: Charles W. Nuckolls

(all participants are invited to attend and participate)

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Development Meeting

15.00
Coffee

15.30
Conference Ends