Fifth Global Conference
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Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness
Friday 19th - Wednesday 24th March 2004
CERGE-EI,
Prague, Czech Republic
Conference Programme, Abstracts & Papers
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 and papers (where available) for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.
Draft 3 - 09/03/04
Friday 19th March
From 12.00pm
Registration
2.00pm
Welcome and Opening Words
Dr Rob Fisher
2.15pm
Keynote Address
Professor Samuel Pillsbury
Speaking the Language of Evil
3.45pm
Tea
4.15pm
Session 1: Revulsion, Violence and Casual Cruelty
Chair: Daniel J.H. Greenwood
Vera Profit
Mephistopheles Revisited: the Case of Dr. Emmenberger in Friedrich Dürrenmatt's
Der Verdacht
Luca Follis
Attica as the Exception
Diana Medlicott
The Unbearable Brutality of Being: Casual Cruelty in Prison and What
this Tells us About Who we Really Are
5.45pm
Session Ends
Wine Reception
Saturday 20th March
9.00am
Session 2: Groups, Activism & the Tools
of Ethnic Cleansing
Chair: Margaret Breen
Frank Faulkner & Graeme Goldsworthy
Purging the Other: An Exploration of the Pernicious Use of Landmines
as Instruments of Ethnic Cleansing
Mark Burgess & Neil Ferguson
From Individual Discontent to Collective Armed-Struggle: Personal Accounts
of the Impetus for Membership or Non-membership in Paramilitary Groups
Haijing Dai
Dichotomous Thinking and Culture of Destruction: Revisiting Youth Activism
in China during the May Fourth Period
10.30am
Coffee
11.00am
Session 3: Silence, Language and Writing: Representing Evil
Chair: Bill Myers
Alan Udoff
On Language and Silence, and Jean Amery
Jean-Philippe Imbert
Writing for Want of a Better World : Agota Kristov and the Trilogy of
all Evils: Le Grand Cahier (1986), La Preuve (1988) and Le Troisième
Mensonge (1991)
Laura Di Prete
Writing Trauma, Writing the Body: Some Reflections on the Representation
of Evil and Suffering
12.30pm
Lunch
2.00pm
Concurrent Sessions
Session 4a: Inscrutable Evils, Naivete and Harm
Chair: Stephen Morris
Petruschka Schaafsma
Understanding the Inscrutable Nature of Evil
Keith Doubt
Theorizing Evil against Socratic Naiveté
Brian Fogarty
Intention and Legitimacy in the Commission of
Collective Evil
Session 4b: Control, Power and Evils
Chair: Annette Pankratz
Jerry Varsava
Homo Economicus as Homo Diabolus: Don DeLillo on the Problem of Rogue
Capitalism
Annette McLaren
Hierarchical Power and Oppression in the works of Franz Kafka and Robert
Louis Stevenson
Lisa Weckerle
Dystopic Novels and Totalitarian Societies that Embody Evil through Over-Control
3.30pm
Tea
4.00pm
Session 5a: Subverting Binaries and Identifying Evil
Chair: Susanne Chassay
Nursel Icoz
Darkness Visible
Maria Chiancola Glade
Blowing Up the Binary: A Critique of Evil as Ethical in Pat Barker’s
Regeneration
Chris Pliatska
Beyond Blame: Evil and Moral Revulsion
Session 5b: Responding to the Holocaust
Chair: Alan Udoff
Marek Haltof
The Monstrosity of Auschwitz in Wanda Jakubowska’s The Last Stage
(1948)
David Patterson
A Chasidic Anti-Theodicy: Rabbi Shapira’s Response to the Nazi
Evil
Gideon Calder
Judgements about 'Bystander' Behaviour
5.30pm
Sessions End
7.00pm
Boat Trip
Sunday 21st March
No formal programme.
10.00am
Bus leaves for the trip to Terezin
Bus leaves for the trip to Kutna Hora
Monday 22nd March
9.00am
Session 6: Keynote Workshop
Evil and Demining
Graeme Goldsworthy
10.30am
Coffee
11.00am
Session 7: Panel - Issues of Reparations for Distant Wrongs
Amy Hilden, Bill Myers Monica Janzen
12.30pm
Lunch
2.00pm
Concurrent Sessions
Session 8a: Ordinary Evil in Everyday Lives
Chair: Sandrine Berges
Annette Pankratz
Inside Out and Outside In: Constructions of Evil in Contemporary British
Drama
Margarita Carretero-Gonzalez & Mauricio D. Aguilera Linde
No Room for Grace: Apocalypsis and Political Drama in Lars von Trier’s
Dogville
Nancy Marder
The Banality of Evil: A Portrayal
Session 8b: Ethics, Vigilance and Moral Revulsion
Chair: Michael Strmiska
Slawomir Rzeszotko
The Status of Ethics in Contemporary International Relations Theory
Karen Hoffman
Evil and the Despairing Individual: A Kierkegaard Account
Michael Perlin
"There Was an Evil Messenger": Blame, Mental Illness, Wickedness,
and the Pretexts of the Justice System
3.30pm
Tea
4.00pm
Session 9a: Narrative Reflections on Evil,
Crime & Solidarity
Chair: Diana Medlicott
Ted Turnau
Jack Be Evil, Jack Be Quick: Reflections on the Necessary Evils of "24"
Jean Murley
The Cultural Work of the Popular Literary Genre True Crime in America
Dianne George
Censorship and Narrative Shift in the Tale of Paul Bernardo
Session 9b: Perspectives on the Construction and Meaning of Evil
Chair: Michael Perlin
Gisele Szczyglak
Non-Human, In-human and Post-Human. Reflexions on Evil and the Construction
of the Human
Henry Gabriel
The Garden of Eden. A Psychoanalytic Approach
Nathan Kowalsky
Anthropocentrism and Natural Suffering
5.30pm
Sessions End
Tuesday 23rd March
9.00am
Session 10: Evil Language, Distorted Realities
Chair: Graeme Goldsworthy
Margaret Breen
The Evils of [Same] Sex: The U.S. Gay Marriage Debate
Ilana Mountian
Identifying the Enemy: Deconstructing Drugs and the Intersections with
Gender
Sandrine Berges
Discourses of Evil: Abortion and Capabilities
10.30am
Coffee
11.00am
Session 11: Individuals, Groups and Evil Actions
Chair: Luca Follis
Bill Wringe
Personal Evil, Systemic Evil and Collective Responsibility
Stephen Riley
Harm and Transgression in International Criminal Justice
Daniel J.H. Greenwood
Team Spirit: Doing Bad Things in the Cause of Good
12.30pm
Lunch
2.00pm
Concurrent Sessions
Session 12a: Evil, Despair and the Search for Meaning
Chair: Amy Hilden
Encarnacion Hidalgo Tenorio
Evil characters and evil playwrights (…or not )in the history
of the early Abbey Theatre
Nina Bosnicova
To Survive as a Slave
Kathryn Kinmond
The Search for Meaning and Sense in Evil and Human Wickedness of Self-Harm
Session 12b: The Origins and Projection of Evils
Chair: Dianne George
Michelle Rennert
Soon out of the Mouths of Babes: Verbal Abuse in the Nursery
Amanda Mordavsky
The Evil Experiment: Masculine Science in Arthur Machen’s Fiction
Benjamin Lozano
The Sleeplessness of Vigilance: An Introduction to the Concept of Political
Insomnia
3.30pm
Tea
4.00pm
Session 13a: Death, Contagion and Aggression
Chair: Laura Di Prete
Susanne Chassay
Revisiting the Death Drive: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Evil and the
Erotics of Destruction
Karen Peoples
Antecedents of Evil: Dissociative Contagion and the Collapse of Psychic
Space
Dan Turner
Klein and Melville: Psychic Aggressions
Session 13b: Women, Difference and Social
Conflict
Chair: Margarita Carretero-Gonzalez
Darren Oldridge
Women, Witchcraft and the Devil
Michael Strmiska
Mixed Blessings: Missionaries & Social Conflicts in Asia and the
Middle East
Adelina Sánchez Espinosa
"Wickedness" as the Expression of Subversive Difference in
Aesthetic and Decadent Fiction.
5.30pm
Sessions End
Wednesday 24th March
9.00am
Session 14: Judgement, Justice and Forgiveness
Chair: Norman Gabriel
Stephen Morris
Anger vs. Dejection vs. Avarice vs. Non-Resistance: Sin and Political Theory
in the Vita of St. Vaclav of Prague
Shelby Weitzel
Taking a Stand Against Evil: When Good People Refuse to Forgive
Wuiling Cheah
Addressing past evil: Timor Leste’s two-track approach
10.30am
Coffee
11.00am
Session 15: Damaged People & the Creative
Identification with Evil
Chair: Ted Turnau
Wayne Cristado
Damage: A Logic of Evil
Dara Downey
Doubles, Evil and the Subjectivity of the Other
Elizabeth McCarthy
The Evil of Creation: the Destructive Aesthetic in the Figure of the
Romantic Artist
12.30pm
Development Meeting
Dr Rob Fisher
1.00pm
Conference Close
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