Violence
An Inclusive Interdisciplinary Project
Monday 15th July 2019 – Tuesday 16th July 2019
Verona, Italy
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME FINAL
Monday 15th July
08:30 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 09:15 Welcome and Opening Words: Teresa Cutler-Broyles, Event Leader
09:15 – 10:45 Session 1: Violence and Nation / The Goal of Violence
Chair: Teresa Cutler-Broyles
Gentlemen go to War: British Middle-Class Experience in the Great War
Saija Annika Poysa
Mission Before Self and Unlimited Liability: How Military Culture Fosters Violence
Monica Hinton
Violent Behavior is Not Simply a Type of Pragmatic Behaviour
Ciprian Jeler
10:45 – 11:00 Tea/Coffee
11:00 – 12:30 Session 2: Institutional and Gender Based Violence
Chair: Diana Medlicott
Innocent Perpetrators or Victims: Understanding School-Related Gender-Based Violence among Primary School Children in Uganda
Richard Balikoowa
The Origins of Institutional Violence
Tim Bakken
Sex-Selective Abortions: A Heinous Form of Gendercide
Madhurima Verma
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
13:45 – 15:30 Session 3: Violence and / in Literature & Film
Chair: Paul Marinescu
What Happened to Koozoo?: A Children’s Book about Vulnerability
Tamar Ascher Shai
“I’m sure that, in time, her death will be a mystery even to me.”: A Window into the Mind of the Male Perpetrator in Stephen King’s Secret Window, Secret Garden
Violet Rose
Gratuitous Violence in the Crucifixion: The Gospels, Western Art, and Cinema
Dan Fredrick
Treatment of Egyptian Drama to Child Abuse
Jailan Sharaf
15:30 – 16:00 Tea/Coffee
16:00 – 17:45 Session 4: Justifying Violence?
Chair: Saija Annika Poysa
Violence and Social Networking: A Phenomenological Investigation
Catalina Condruz
Could Culture, Religion and Tradition Justify Violence and Discrimination?
Francesca Braga
Confessions of a Convicted Sexual Offender: Exploring Guilt and Remorse
Bibinaz Thokom
Violence: A Proposal for a New Paradigm
Jean-Luc Tinland
17:45 – 18:00 Cross Panel Issues, End of Opening Day Consolidation
18:00 Wine and Drinks Reception
Tuesday 16th July, 2019
09:00 – 10:30 Session 5: Violence in Literature, Film & Language
Chair: Ravi Preethi
The Bard’s Bad Boys: Shakespeare and the ‘Anti-Villain’
Ruby Tuesday
Dismantling Silence: Violence, Language and Trauma
Paul Marinescu
Memory and Space: Film as a Vehicle to Re-Define and Re-Imagine a Violent Past
Tanja Sakota
10:30 – 11:00 Tea/Coffee
11:00 – 12:30 Session 6: Torture Panel 1
Chair: Ciprian Jeler
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Border Patrol, and the American Tradition of Torture
W. Fitzhugh Brundage
Bloodletting: State Violence and Secrecy in the Guantanamo Military Commissions
Mary Spears
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Session 7: Torture Panel 2
Chair: Tim Bakken
A Study of Refugee Crisis: Tribulation and Torture in Alan Gratz’s novel Refugees
Ravi Preethi / Mayilsamy Jayamala
Inflicted Suffering by the State: The Case of Children in Prison
Diana Medlicott
15:30 – 15:45 Tea/Coffee
15:45 – 17:30 Session 8: Shaping Violence / Challenging Norms
Chair: Teresa Cutler-Broyles
Mind the Gap: Social Mechanisms and Language in Israel that Foster Violence (workshop)
Nilly Venezia
true TRUE CRIME crime: The Attraction, Fetishism and Ethics of True Crime Stories: Entertainment for an Audience Safe at Home (performance)
Brian Joyce / Carolyn McKay
17:30 – 17:45 Discussion and Day 2 Consolidation
17:45 – 18:00 Project Development, Closing Thoughts and Goodbyes