Evil Women: Women and Evil
An Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference
Saturday 1st December 2018 – Sunday 2nd December 2018
Vienna, Austria
FINAL CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Saturday 1st December 2018
08:30 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 09:30 Welcome and Opening Words: Abby Bentham, Project Leader
09:30 – 11:00 Session 1: Femmes Fatales
Chair: Abby Bentham
An Analysis of the Modern Image of Manon Lescaut from Des Grieux’s Descriptions in 20th Century Films and TV Dramas
Mariko Kasahara
From Femme Fatale to Femme Noir: A Celebration of Evil
Jacqui Miller
Quadruple Trouble: The Foul Witches of Kill Shakespeare
Buket Akgün
11:00 – 11:15 Tea/Coffee
11:15 – 12.45 Session 2: Women and Violence
Chair: Teresa Porter
Female Violence and its Perception as Evil
Helen Gavin
The “Good Bloke” Versus the “Evil Woman”: The Role of Rhetoric in Public Perceptions of Murder and other Violent Offences
Laura Button
Representations of and Responses to Women who Kill in African Fiction
Adebola Abosede Fawole
11:15 – 12.45 Session 3: Monstrous Feminine?
Chair: Almudena Nido
Empirical Reflections of Female Evilness: Popular Literature in Qing Dynasty China (1644-1912)
Junfu Wong
The Yakshi as the “Monstrous Feminine”: An Examination through some Malayalam Representations
Mamatha Karollil
“Are You Food, Or Are You Sex?” Mimetic Desire, Sacred Violence and Precarity in Nicholas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon
Mairead Casey
12.45 – 14.15 Lunch
14:15 – 15.45 Session 4: Women, Sex and Sexuality
Chair: John Dayton
The Monstrous Girl: Teen Witches, Abjection and the Horror of Femininity
Miranda Corcoran
The ‘Feminine-as-Monstrous’: Using the Whore Narrative to Unpack Representations of Militarised Femininity Gone Awry
Stacy Banwell
Communicating Sex as Part of a University Curriculum
Paul G. Nixon
14.15 – 15.45 Session 5: ‘Evil’ Bodies?
Chair: Mairead Casey
Ugly in Public: The Grotesque Politics of Sexualised Naked Protest
Alexandra Fanghanel
Trans Female Psycho: A Myth that Endures?
Gina Maya Roberts
Seduced by Satan: Damnation, Salvation and the Plight of Women in Nineteenth Century Quebecois Tales and Legends
Cynthia Jones
15.45 – 16:15 Tea/Coffee
16:15 – 17.45 Session 6: Evil Mothers
Chair: Gabrielle Everall
Bad Mothers in Early Modern Receptions of Greek Tragedy
Beth Harper
Momism at the Movies: Maternal Masterminds and Matriarchal Evil in Midcentury American Films
Keira V. Williams
Mayhem and the Matriarch: US Popular Television’s Evil Mothers
Julia M. Mason
17.45 – 18.00 End of Day Consolidation
18.00 Wine and Drinks Reception
Sunday 2nd December 2018
09:00 – 10:30 Session 7: Evil Women and the Media
Chair: Helen Gavin
Scourge, Sinner or Saint? Mary Whitehouse and the Evils of Modern Society
Emma Jones
“But What About the Children?” Media Constructions of “Mothers” Engaged in Group Offending
Emma Milne and Angus Nurse
Social Media in Domestic Homicide
Morag Kennedy
10:30 – 11:00 Tea/Coffee
11:00 – 12:30 Session 8: Women and War
Chair: Laura Button
Violation as Crime and Symbol in the Serbo-Bulgarian Ethnic Conflict of World War I
John Dayton
Towards a Queer Reading of the Female Nazi Perpetrator
Katherine Stone
Women and the Use of Torture
Helen Gavin and Theresa Porter
11:00 – 12.30 Session 9: Power
Chair: Jacqui Miller
Of “Bitter” gardens and “Unsafe Edge(s)”: Why Baby Kochamma turns Evil in Arundhati Roy’s novel The God of Small Things
Pushpinder Walia
The Duteous ‘Evil’?: A Re-Reading Of Lady Macbeth
Subhrasleta Banerjee
Women as Evil Mesmerizers in Arthur Conan Doyle and Ramesh Chandra Dutt: A Cross-Cultural Study
Shreya Chakravorty
12.30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Session 10: Ancient Texts and Myths
Chair: Beth Harper
Beautiful, Enticing and Deceptive: The Reception of the Female Body in the Byzantine Illuminated Book
Mati Meyer
Capgras Syndrome and the Case of Bridget Cleary
Kristin L. Bone
Male Gaze and Female Monstrosity in Beowulf: the Two Femmes Fatales
Almudena Nido
15:30 – 16:00 Tea/Coffee
16:00 – 17:00 Session 11: Creative Evil
Chair: Claire Elizabeth Childers
The Daughters of Lucifer
Gabrielle Everall
Evil Women and Religion: A Dialogue in Poems
Allene Nichols
17:00 – 17:15 End of Day Consolidation
17:15 – 17:30 Where Now? What Next? Closing Remarks, Photographs, Goodbyes