Saturday 18th March 2023
08:30 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 10:30 Welcome and Opening Words: Abby Bentham
09:30 – 10:15 Session 1: Evil Women on the Edges of Popular Culture
Chair: Abby Bentham
The Trope of ‘the Obsessive Woman’
Gabrielle Everall
The Witch as Resistance through Her Contemporary Practices and Performance: Through the Lens of a Black Aesthetic
Motlatsi Khosi
10:15 – 10:30 Session 1.2: Presentations from Women Aid Nepal:
Boksi: An Evil Woman of Society
Mindok Sangmo
Dowry: A Cause of Violence Against Women in Nepal
Munni Mahato
10:30 – 11:00 Tea/Coffee
11:00 – 12:30 Session 2: Victims of Evil
Chair: Roberta Garrett
Eileen Gray, Le Corbusier and a Mural Framed as a Rape
Eric Nay
Expressions of Limited Agency in Cases of Intimate Partner Homicide
Morag Kennedy
In Search of an Ethics for the Disappeared
John Kaiser Ortiz
Sexual Harassment in the Night-Time Economy: Negotiating the Right to Space
Michelle Cunliffe
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Session 3: Evil Beauty
Chair: Hannah Helm
Evil Women and the Quest for Eternal Youth: From Elizabeth Báthory – the Vampire Countess – to Vampire Facials
Cynthia Jones and Justin Rhees
The Image and the Boundary of Beauty/ Ugliness of Asian Female Ghosts: A Case Study of Taiwanese Sister Lintou and Japanese Oiwa
Su Joping
Glamour and Monstrosity: Evil Women in Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Music Videos
Tomasz Fisiak
15:30 – 16:00 Tea/Coffee
16:00 – 17:00 Session 4: ‘Evil’ Mothers
Chair: Eva Burke
“Learning to be good’: Jessamine’s Chan’s School for Bad Mothers
Roberta Garrett
Subversive Mothers: Stop Rocking the Cradle and Start Rocking the Boat
Clare Gallagher
17:00 – 17:45 End of Opening Day Discussion and Consolidation
17:45 Wine and Drinks Reception
Sunday 19th March 2023
09:00 – 10:30 Session 5: ‘Othering’ Mothering
Chair: Adriana Acquaviti
Queering Mothering: Gender, Sexuality, Race, Class, and Disability in Contemporary UK and US Cinema
Leanne Dawson
Black Mothering in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing
Amanda Charles
Bad Mothers as Depicted in Popular Contemporary Hollywood Films: The Unconscious Male Fear of Women’s Reproductive and Sexual Power
Rhyena Halpern
10:30 – 11:00 Tea/Coffee
11:00 – 12:30 Session 6: Evil Sexuality?
Chair: John Kaiser Ortiz
Deconstructing the Temptress: Understanding Evil in the White Caribbean Plantocracy in Caryl Phillips’ Cambridge (1991)
Madelyn Walsh
‘The Serpent’s Skill is Among Our Gardens Still’: Reclaiming the Medieval Snake Woman in Letitia Landon’s ‘The Fairy of the Fountains’
Alex Carabine
The Sadeian Woman: The Monstrous Daughter & the Suffering Mother. Narratives of Feminine Body Transformation in the Literature of Marquis de Sade’s Philosophy in the Bedroom
Efstathia Palyvou
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Session 8: Fairytale Evil
Chair: Alex Carabine
“A narrative about female empowerment”? – A Critical Analysis of Feminist Tendencies in Disney’s Maleficent
Adriana Acquaviti
Female Fairy Tale Villains: Monstrous Motherhood, Evil Enchantresses, and the Patriarchy
Stacy Shirk
‘Beware of your Stepmother!’: Female Rebellion and the Evil Stepmother in Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s ‘Little Snow White’ (1812)
Hannah Helm
The Socialisation of Desirable and Undesirable Female Attributes Through Fairytales
Shireen Heidari
15:30 – 16:00 Tea/Coffee
16:00 – 17:30 Session 9: Conceptualising Female Killers
Chair: Clare Gallagher
Murder Ballads & Female Murderers
Theresa Porter
‘Just let ‘em imagine you’re who they want you to be’: Performing Identity in Scott Coblio’s Murderess: The Winnie Ruth Judd Story (2007)
Abby Bentham
‘Compliant Victims’: The Reduction of Agency in the Cultural Construction of Female Killers
Eva Burke
17:30 – 18:00 Day 2 Consolidation
Project Development
Closing Thoughts
Goodbyes