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 (v.1.4)

Wednesday 2nd May
from 12:30
Registration

14.00
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher, Alejandro Cervantes-Carson and Graeme Goldsworthy

14:30
Joint Session 1: Critical Assessments
Chair: Alejandro Cervantes-Carson

Mel Kohlke
Sublime Violations: Trauma Literature and the Search for Transcendence through Violence

Rob Fisher
The Heathlands of Humanity

Cheri Carr
The Value of Violence

16:00
Coffee

16.30
Joint Session 2: On the Ground; Experiences and Reflections of War
Chair: Bob Brecher

Victor Emthoven
Black Soldiers: Military Force and Slavery in the Early Modern Atlantic World

Lu Liu
The War of Resistance: China 1937-1945

Gary Baines
Breaking Ranks: Secrets, Silences and Stories of South Africa’s Border War

18.00
Notices and Announcements
Wine Reception

 

Thursday 3rd May 2007
09:00
Session 3: New Vantage Points
Chair: Viola Brisolin

Leonhard Praeg
Genocide or the Aporia of Collective Violence

Thomas Cooper
The Uses of Adversaries: Normalizing Violence through the Construction of the Other

Gerald Cromer
National Liberation Narratives

10:30
Coffee

11:00
Session 4: Representations
Chair: Roger Bromley

Maria Leppäkari
The Dynamics of Apocalyptic Ends: When Religious Symbols Allows Violence

Yiannis Mylonas
Imaginaries of Contemporary Crises: A Critical Discourse Analytical Study upon the Representation of ‘Rights’ in a Ddocumentary Film about the London Bombings

Madelaine Hron
Kumaramaza?: Representing The Rwandan Killer

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Session 5: Gender and Violence
Chair: Monika Schwarzler

Mike Doherty
“A Man’s Gotta Know His Limitations”: Cruel Humour and Self-Determination in Violent Films

Jill Gillespie
Engendering Memories of World War II: Representing Sexual Violence

Farid Seyed Rabi
Family and Violence in Tehran

15:30
Coffee

16:00
Session 6: Sex and Violence
Chair: Thomas Cooper

Fiona Sprott
Single Girls and Serial Killers: Sex, Slaughter and the City

Eva Payno del Rio
Domestic Terrorism: Female Exposure in Spanish Film

Viola Brisolin
Violence, Subjectivity and Subjection: Two Versions of Sade

17:30
Sessions End

Friday, 4th May
Morning:
Tour and Sightseeing of the City of Budapest

12.30
Lunch

14:00
Session 7: Manifestations of Violence and Identity
Chair: Fiore Geelhoed

Anthony King
Social Malaise, Suicide and Images of Violence

Teresa Klimowicz
Stigma and Disdain - A Negative Setting of Identity

Leonie Riddick, George Thompson and Nick Wilson
Silencing the Canary: The International Epidemiology of Media Worker Homicide

15:30
Coffee

16:00
Session 8: Media, Representation and the Narrative Construction of Violence
Chair: Jill Gillespie

Haluk Üçel
Television Constructions of Violence in Turkey

Monika Schwarzler
Digital Worlds and the Sound of Violence

Lucskay Zsuzsanna
Violence, Crime and Fear in Contemporary South-African Literature

17:00
Sessions End

Saturday 5th May 2007
09:00
Session 9: Nations and States
Chair: Rob Fisher

Aide Esu
The Multiple Faces of Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Alejandro Cervantes-Carson
State Violence, Authoritarianism and Social Complicities

Fiore Geelhoed
Muslims and Westerners as Mutual Enemies in the Netherlands

10:30
Coffee

11:00
Session 10: Justice and Morality
Chair: Fiona Sprott

Kirsten Pavlovic
Justice and the Savage Metamorphosis of Law

Yaso Nadarajah
A Community in Constant Transition - Propagating a Yield of Conflict and Violence?

Nathan Roger
Abu Ghraib and the Prisoners Blind Fear of Electrocution: A Projection of Warped Principles

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Session 11: Otherness and Enmity
Chair: Mel Kohlke

Mashael Al-Sudeary
Creating the Enemy: ‘Violence in Conrad's The Secret Agent’

Roger Bromley
Beast, Vermin, Insect: ‘Hate’ Media and the construction of the enemy – the case of Rwanda, 1990-1994

Nico Carpentier
The Ideological Model of War: Mediated Constructions of the Self and the Enemy

Dmitry Pozhidaev
Challenges of Traditional Violence in Peacebuilding

16.00
Coffee

16:30
Development Meeting and Closing Remarks

17:00
Conference Ends