2nd Global Conference
Evil Women: Women and Evil
An Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference
Sunday 1st December 2019 – Monday 2nd December 2019
Prague, Czech Republic
FINAL CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Sunday 1st December 2019
08:30 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 09:30 Welcome and Opening Words: Abby Bentham, Project Leader
09:30 – 10:30 Session 1: Performing ‘Evil’ Identities
Chair: Abby Bentham
Spiteful Spirits, Projection and Blaming in Women’s Lives
Moy McCrory
Becoming the Monster: Constructing Identity Beyond the Bad Girl – A Performed Dialogue
Bec Kavanagh and Simmone Howell
10:30 – 11:00 Tea/Coffee
11:00 – 12:30 Session 2: Wicked Stepmothers and Evil Queens
Chair: Lorraine Rumson
“Evil Isn’t Born, It’s Made”: Redefining the Fairy Tale Villain for Contemporary Televison Storytelling
Natalie Le Clue and Janelle Vermaak
Was Snow White’s Mother Really Evil?
Naomi Govreen
A Retelling of an Evil Queen in I, Phoolan Devi: The Autobiography of India’s Bandit Queen
Parveen Kumari
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Session 3: Women and Myth
Chair: Anna Köhler
Dark Mothers – Remythologization of Motherhood in Elfriede Jelinek’s Lust, Deborah Levy’s Hot Milk, and Charlotte Roche’s Mädchen für alles
Laura Eyselein
The Grotesque Women in Myths Normalizing and Politically Utilizing their Bodies as Agential Tools
Deepa Thomas
Causes of Natural Calamities: Evil Embodiment of Feminine Figures in Early China (475-221 BCE)
Junfu Wong
15:30 – 16:00 Tea/Coffee
16:00 – 17:00 Session 4: Evil Women on the Screen
Chair: Sam George-Allen
Old Witches on the Movie Screen: Evil Women and Witchcraft in the Horror Movies of the 1960s
Gabriela Müller Larocca
It Came from Beneath the Subtext: 1950s Cinema and its Celebration of Deviant Women
Jacqui Miller
Fire, Blood and Ashes: The Evil Women of Game of Thrones
Jhinuk Sen
17:00 – 17:30 End of Opening Day Discussion and Consolidation
17:30 Wine and Drinks Reception
Monday, 2nd December 2019
09:00 – 10:30 Session 5: The Evil Mother
Chair: Naomi Govreen
The Mother Figure in Faulkner’s Novels
Iris A. Knieling
Infanticide and Demonized Women of Tokugawa Japan
Eiko Saeki
Shame, Guilt, Responsibility? Working with Women Who Use Force in a Family Context
Margaret Kertesz
10:30 – 11:00 Tea/Coffee
11:00 – 12:30 **PARALLEL SESSION** Session 6: Feminism, Patriarchy, and Toxic Masculinity
Chair: Deepa Thomas
End of the Line: The Gothic Terror of Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom
Cat Conway
On the Russian Orthodox Monastic Writings “About Evil Wives”
Hellen Dayton
Only Evil Women Embrace Sexual Freedom
Andrea Silverstone and Carrie McManus
11:00 – 12:30 **PARALLEL SESSION** Session 7: Gender Roles and Society
Chair: Catherine Jenkins
Women in Literature: From the Golden Age to Contemporary Wirting in Crime Fiction, Women Writers, and Detectives as the Most Evil Threat to Social Gender Conventions
Maria del Mar Delgado Ricci
Witch Hunt – The Media’s Obsession with One Infamous Canadian
Jane Barker
Reading the Contours of Evil Women in the Hindu Epic Ramayana
Anupama Vohra
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Session 8: The Anti-Mother
Chair: Laura Eyselein
Off With Their Wombs! Cultural Representations of Women’s Rebellion Against Childhood
Elif Çakmak and Lorraine Rumson
Conceptions of Mad Motherhood and the Innocent Criminal: Infanticide in Romantic Poetry
Leslie Cook
Beyond Mandatory Motherhood: How Childfree Women Use Digital Spaces to Redefine Femininity
Sam George-Allen
15:30 – 16:00 Tea/Coffee
16:00 – 17:30 Session 9: Witches and the Occult
Chair: Gabriela Müller Larocca
Run Away, Sell Your Soul and Become a Witch: Rejecting Twisted Morality and Cruel Convention in Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes
Liza Blackman
From Evil to Empowering: Reclaiming the Witch in Western Literature
Anna Köhler
Forgiving Witches: The Case for Pardons and Memorials
Catherine Jenkins
17:30 – 17:45 End of Day Consolidation
17:45 – 18:00 Where Now? What Next? Closing Remarks, Photographs, Goodbyes