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.1.6b)

Monday 5th May 2008
from 09.30
Registration

10:30
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher and Alejandro Cervantes-Carson

11:00
Session 1: State, Politics and Violence
Chair: Alejandro Cervantes-Carson

Jeff Heydon
The Promise of Violence: Closed Circuit TV and the Legitimacy of State Violence

Rasim Özgür Dönmez and Pinar Enneli
Changing Logic of Political Violence – The Case of The PKK in Turkey After the Invasion of Iraq

Maya Beasley
The Impact of Counterterrorism and Strain on Palestinian Terrorism

Jane Welsh
Powerful, Educated and Immune from Justice: Contemporary Cambodian Vitrioleuses

13:00
Lunch

14:30
Session 2: Violent Mediations and Music
Chair: Aide Esu

David Weir
Mashing Power: Musical Imaginings of the ‘Unimaginable’

Olasunkanmi Oluwafiropo Ewenla
Violence and the Evolving Social Identity of the Niger Delta People through Popular Music

Kiene Brillenburg Wurth
Music and Mediations of Violence: Aural Virtuality in Modern Warfare

16:00
Coffee Break

16:30
Session 3: Narrative Constructions of Violence
Chair: Gabrielle Murray

Zuzana Luckay
Representations of Violence in Contemporary South African Fiction

Marie-Luise Kohlke
Nostalgic Violence: Neo-Victorian (Re-)Visions of Historical Conflict

Oumar Cherif Diop
The Rhetoric of Violence in African Literature

18:00
Wine Reception (with delegates from War 5)

 

Tuesday 6th May 2008
09:00
Session 4: Media and Representations
Chair: Marie-Luise Kohlke

Tom Clonan
Truth and War Reporting: Journalism in Hostile Environments

Abdülrezak Altun and Mine Gencel Bek
Representations of Domestic Violence in the Turkish Press

Hakan Arikan
Racist Violence Attacks on Foreigners, Mass-Media and Fear of Crime

Yasmin Jiwani
Symbolic and Discursive Violence in Media Representations of Aboriginal Missing and Murdered Women

11:00
Coffee Break

11:30 Concurrent Sessions
Session 5a: Sex, Sexuality and Violence
Chair: Rachel I. Waterstradt

Neringa Grigutyte
How Does Mothers' Sexual Abuse Trauma Beget Trauma in Daughters? The Constellation of Mother Complex

Gabriel Cavaglion
The Cultural Denial of Sexual Slavery

Cassandra Clifford
Rape as a Weapon of War: The Long Term Effects on Victims and Society

Session 5b: Bonds of Intimacy and Violence
Chair: Kenneth A. Parsons

Tammy Hand, Donna Chung and Margaret Peters
Domestic Violence Perpetrators Abuse of Information and Communication Technologies

Monica Denomy
NGOs and Children, Partners in the Prevention of Domestic Violence: Experiences from Plan International’s work in Latin America

Haifa Baha Ezzi
The Social Construction of Saudi Women's Marital Life: Patriarchy and Domestic Violence

13:00
Lunch

14:30
Session 6: Visual Engagements
Chair: David Weir

Gabrielle Murray
Post 9/11 and Screen Violence

Elena Alfaya and Dolores Villaverde
Representations of Violence and Intimidation against Women in the Arts: XVI to XX Centuries

Kenza Oumlil
Arabs and Muslims in Hollywood: Breaking Down The Siege

16:00
Coffee Break

16:30
Session 7: Discourse and Public Sphere Dynamics
Chair: Oumar Cherif Diop

Siyaves Azeri
‘Resurrecting’ the Self: Atomizing the Individual via Solitary Confinement

Aide Esu
The Struggle for Survival and Security in the Middle East: An Ethnological Observation of Public Discourse in Israel

Hilde Jakobsen
Legitimation of Violence Against Women in Peri-Urban Tanzania

18:00
Sessions End

 

Wednesday 7th May 2008
09:00
Session 8: Contextual Conditions of Hostility
Chair: Jeff Heydon

John P. Vanzo
Spatial Factors Leading to Sectarian Violence in Iraq

Melissa Zisler
The Land of Oz: Child Soldiers & Youth Gangs

Kun Jong Lee
Asian Women and Amerasian Children in Western Great Games

Richard Herbst
The Animal in the Arena: An Examination of Animal Fighting’s Historical Context

11:00
Coffee Break

11:30 Concurrent Sessions
Session 9a: Self, Other and Intimate Violence
Chair: Maya Beasley

Marika Guggisberg
Mental Health and Substance Use Problems: The ‘Invisible’ Scars of Intimate Partner Violence Victimisation

Daniel Meier
The Intimacy of Enmity: The Hizbullah-Israel Relation

Tunde Ogunjobi
Institutional Violence and Social Construction of Patriarchy in Nigeria: Reflections on a Girl-Child

Session 9b: Movements Against Violence
Chair: Zuzana Luckay

Corina-Maria Palasan
‘Domesticating’ Violence in Interwar Romania

Cornelia Caseau
Günter Grass: His Commitment Against Violence

Irena Selišnik and Sara Rožman
Changing Legislation on Violence Against Women in Slovenia

13:00
Lunch

14:30
Session 10: Theory and Violence
Chair: Jane Welsh

Kenneth A. Parsons
Three Conditions for Comprehensive Conceptions of Violence

Rachel I. Waterstradt
A Possible Approach to Hostility and Violence: Ricoeur’s Insight into the Relationships of Individual, Smaller and Larger Contexts of Hostility and Violence

Alejandro Cervantes-Carson
What is Symbolic Violence? On the Uses and Abuses of the Concept

16:00
Coffee Break

16:30
Session 11: Social Bonds, Communication and Violence
Chair: Richard Herbst

Gabriela Scripnic, Alina Ganea and Anca Gata
Preventing 'Ideal' Communication by Linguistic Violence

Nadezhda Kazarinova, Valentina Pogolsha and Elena Strogetskaya
Boorishness and Insults as Communicative Practices of Negative Solidarity

Roland Clark
Printing a Pogrom: Violence and Print Communities in the Case of Captain Keller

18:00
Development Meeting

18:30
Conference Ends