VISITING THE SHADOWS: EVIL, SUBVERSION, REBELLION
A Global Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference
May 7th– May 8th, 2022
Prague, Czech Republic
Conference Programme – second draft
Saturday 7th May 2022
09:00 – 09:30 Welcome to Event and Opening Words: Event Leaders
Miranda Corcoran, Lorraine Rumson, Claudio Zanini
09:30 – 10:45 Practising Magic – The Witch in Literary and Visual Arts (room 1)
Chair: Miranda Corcoran
Uncanny Valley Girl (poetry performance and reflection)
Sara Mae Henke
Witch Reoch (creative reading and reflection)
Ashleigh Angus
i am an old phenomenon (display of artwork and reflection)
Ann Shelton – REMOTE
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break
PARALLEL PANEL SESSIONS
11:15 – 13:00 Dark Streets (conference room 1)
Chair: Claudio Zanini
Explore the Dark Side of Thessaloniki: An Augmented Reality Urban Tour Application for Contested Past Crimes
Alexandra Mentzou-Gigantidou, Angeliki Chrysanthi and Dimitris Papageorgiou
Off the Beaten Track — Islands of Dark Tourism
Peter Hohenhaus
Atlasing Graffiti by Design Means: Reading, Writing and Representing Crises on an Athenian Wall
Konstantinos Avramidis
The democratic praxis of Art in Odd Places
Michael Kilburn
11:15 – 13:00 Dark Education and Commercialization
Chair: Lorraine Rumson
“What if they steal those things?”: Teachers’ responses to introducing assistive sexual devices in comprehensive sexuality education for learners with visual impairment
Lindokuhle Ubisi
Caging Desire: The Commercialization of Sexuality in Modern Japan
Gavan Patrick Gray
Interrogating the educational modes and effects of dark tourism
Scott Chazdon and Michal Moskow
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 – 16:00 Workshop
Chair: Claudio Zanini
Poetry and Disaster, a Workshop
Jennie Owen
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
PARALLEL PANEL SESSIONS
16:30 – 18:30 Workshop (Conference Room 1)
Chair: Miranda Corcoran
Casting Interactive Spells: Using Witchy Narratives to Craft Twine Fiction
Victoria Shropshire
Andy Tytler
16:30 – 18:30 Workshop (Conference Room 1)
Chair: Lindokuhle Ubisi
Can Contemplative Pedagogy Increase Compassion in College Students?
Ranjeeta Basu
18:30 – 19:00 Day One consolidation, reminders for Day Two
19:00 Drinks and All-Around Good Times
Sunday 8th May 2022
09:00 – 10:30 Queerness
Chair: Sara Mae Henke
All-Consuming Desires: The Re-Emergence of the Queer Cannibal Figure in 21st Century Television
Abel Fenwick
Witchcraft and Queer Representation in The Old Gods of Appalachia
Milo Miller
‘Curing Deviance’: Homosexuality in Postcolonial India
Rianna Price
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 12:15 Evil and Sex on Film
Chair: Kylo-Patrick R. Hart
Strategies for constructively responding to the demonisation of sex and sexuality in Fellini 8½
Odeya Kohen-Raz
Rape, Revenge, and Evil Women: The Complex Depictions of Female Villains in Hindi Film Industry
Nidhi Shrivastava
“It hurts ‘cause you’re in my world now, bitch”: Evil, Pedophilia, and the
Gothic in A Nightmare on Elm Street
Claudio Zanini
12:15 – 13:45 Lunch break
PARALLEL PANEL SESSIONS
13:45 – 15:00 Regional and National Witchcraft(s) (conference room 2)
Chair: Ashleigh Angus
Reimagining the Islandmagee witch trial, Ireland, 1711: public history, gaming and graphic novels.
Brian Coyle, Victoria McCollum, Sabrina Minter, Andrew Sneddon
13:45 – 15:00 Workshop
Chair: Lorraine Rumson
“Don’t Call Me a Whore” – Understanding Sex Work and Coercive Control
Carrie McManus and Andrea Silverstone
15:00 – 15:15 Coffee break
PARALLEL PANEL SESSIONS
15:15 – 16:45 Folk Tales and Fairy Tales (conference room 1)
Chair: Milo Miller
Mother or Witch? Which is she? Representations of Bad Mothers and Good Witches in Fairytales
Naomi Govreen
Yakshi – demonisation of female desire
Charutha Lal – REMOTE
Meg Merrilies: the Romantic Witch
Amy McVeigh
15:15 – 16:45 Sexual/Violence on Film (conference room 2)
Chair: Abel Fenwick
The Holocaust and Pornography in Israel During the Sixties
Sandra Meiri
New Cambodian Cinema, Genocidal Forced Marraige and Rape
Raya Morag
Invasion of the (Cinematic) Penis Snatchers
Kylo-Patrick R. Hart and Janice E. McCall
16:45 – 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 – 18:30 Evolving Ideas of Witchcraft
Chair: Amy McVeigh
Seventeenth-Century Witch Trials in British Contemporary Fiction: Reclaiming the Narrative
Manon Burz-Labrande
Witchcraft and Fantastic Crimes in Colonial-Era New Spain
Josette Rosenzweig Espinal
#Witch: Witchcraft in the Digital Age
Claire Slack
18:30 – 19:00 Publishing and project development conversation, end-of-day
discussion, closing thoughts, goodbyes