9th Global Conference
Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness

Monday 10th March - Thursday 13th March 2008
Salzburg, Austria

Conference Programme, Abstracts and 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 (where available) for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.

Final Conference Programme (v.1.5b)

Monday 10th March 2008
from 12.30
Registration

13:30
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher and Stephen Morris

14:00
Session 1: “…and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, VERY BAD Hair Day!”
Chair: Robert Butler

Colette Balmain
It’s Alive! Disorderly Hair and Danger in Japanese Horror Cinema

Lois Drawmer
Wanton Women and Wicked Witches: The Stunning Hair of Pre-Raphaelite Women

Stephen Morris
Christ the Barber: Hair as Virtue and Vice in Paulinus of Nola

15:30
Tea

16:00
Session 2: Scelestus Familia
Chair: William Myers

Phil Fitzsimmons
Peter Pan as Evil Escritoire: A Children’s Classic and the Heart of Darkness

Nicola Goc
Bad Mummy: Kate McCann and the Media

Jason Bainbridge
Blaming Daddy: Representing the Evil Father in Popular Culture

17:30
Announcements
Wine Reception

Tuesday 11th March 2008
09:00
Session 3: Philosophy in the Shadows
Chair: Pawel Stachura

Hsuan Huang
Kant’s Concept of Radical Evil

Julio César Díaz
Spinoza on Evil and Punishment

Donal P. O’Mathuna
Evil to Prevent Evil: The Ethics of Torture

10:30
Coffee

11:00
Session 4: Naming and Healing Atrocities
Chair: Richard Piatt

Rachel Waterstradt
The Limits of the Language of Evil: Langer and Ricoeur on the Language Available for Victims and Perpetrators of Atrocity

Nancy Mardas Billias
Towards a Post-Global Community

Erin Vallicelli
Shame as Source of Evil and Barrier to Healing

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Session 5: Evil Martha, Evil Mary: Acting and Listening
Chair: Phil Fitzsimmons

William Myers
Evil Character and Evil Actions

Bettine Siertsema
Grey Zone: A Comparison Between Autobiography and Fiction

Stephen Hawkins
Narrative Discourse and the Evil Perspective: Does Justice Always Require That We Listen to Both Sides of the Story?

15:30
Tea

16:00
Session 6: Forgiving Beauty?
Chair: Margarita Carretero-Gonzalez

Tim Burns
Blessing Those That Curse You: On Lonergan, Forgiveness, and the Problem of Evil

Michele Huppert
She’s Just a Devil Woman… or, There But For the Grace of God….

Charlene Burns
God is Good, Evil Exists: An Ecumenical Monotheistic Interpretation

17:30
Sessions End

Wednesday 12th March
09:00
Session 7: Holocaust
Chair: Erin Vallicelli

Sue Page
Vaseline on the Lens: Contemporary Representations of the Holocaust in Children’s Literature

Lisa Herman
Toying With Auschwitz

Tanya Parnes
Profits of the Holocaust

10:30
Coffee

11:00
Session 8: In the Name of Love? A Round-table Discussion on Some Literary Justifications For Sacrifice
Chair: Rachel Waterstradt

Participants:  Isabel Andres-Cuevas, Laura Torres Zuniga, and Margarita Carretero-Gonzalez

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Cultural Tour program available

19:30
Banquet (tbc: meet in hotel lobby)

Thursday 13th March 2008
09:00
Session 9: Is Evil Ever Justice?
Chair: Hsuan Huang

Senka Suman
Human Freedom as an Act and a Choice of Good and Evil

Natalia Vid
The Contradictory Portrayal of Satan in Bulgakov’s ‘Master and Margarita:’ Embodiment of Evil or Minister of Justice?

Bola Amaike
Destitution and Living Conditions of Older People in Metropolitan Lagos, Nigeria

10:30
Coffee

11:00
Session 10: We Are What We See
Chair: Lois Drawmer

Richard Piatt
Evil, Good, and Praxis in Liberation Theology and the Theatre of the Oppressed

Darryl Smith
Post-Modern Polyphemus: America, Race, and Panoptic Technique in the New Millenium

Claudia Nielsen
Trickster Agenda in the Experience of Evil

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Session 11: Portraying  Evil
Chair: Nicola Goc

Robert Butler
Historians and the Concept of Evil: Adjective or Noun?

Pawel Stachura
Psychological Warfare and Extreme Cruelty: Cordwainer Smith’s Science Fiction and Psychology

Ying-chiao Lin
Life After Death: The Suffering Body in Milton’s ‘Samson Agonistes’

15:30
Tea

16:00
Session 12: Lights! Camera! Action!
Chair: Nancy Mardas

Paul Davies
Joel Schumaker and the Confessional

Ewan Kirkland
Fighting Crime and the Forces of Evil?: Cartoons, Ideology, and the Power Puff Girls
           
17:00
Development Meeting

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