PLEASURES OF VIOLENCE International Conference 2019
March 7, 2019 - March 8, 2019 10:00am to 7:00pm Headington Campus - Room AB115a Film Studies & Digital Media Production Twitter: @PoFviolence #PoFviolence
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS - MARCH 7TH Headingon (Gypsy Lane - Room AB115a (Abercrombie Building)
09:30 AM Registration/Coffee, Tea and Biscuits 09:50 AM Welcome/Introductory Remarks 10 - 11:30 AM Getting Off or Getting Even Chair: Dr Paolo Russo From Grift to Mass Murder: Incel Violence and the Failure of Neoliberalism’s Confidence Games Prof. Sarah Banet-Weiser (London School of Economics, UK) and Jack Z. Bratich (Rutgers University, USA) Castrating the Woman: Misogyny on Reddit Dr. Jacob Johanssen (University of Westminster, UK) Scums, Dominas and Suckers Dr. Nathalie Lugan (Université Paris 13 Sorbonne Cité, France) COFFEE BREAK 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM - Colonial Disturbances Chair: Dr James Cateridge Neo-Colonial Violence, Julia Tinneny (Bard College, USA) (Post)colonial and (Post)Digital Violence on the University Campus, Simon Ridley (Université de Paris Nanterre, France) 12:45 - 1:45 PM Lunch
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS - MARCH 7TH Headingon (Gypsy Lane - Room AB115a (Abercrombie Building)
1:45 - 3:15 PM - Technologies of Terror Chair: Dr Antonia Mackay Terrorism in the Net: A Comparison of Confessional Videos of Islamic Terrorist Organizations Prof. Dr. Ralf Spiller, Marco Inderhees, Dan Stoschek, (University of Applied Sciences, Köln, Germany) Moral Violence and the Pleasure of Being Right Leticia Matheus (State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Putting Women Back in their Place: Reflections around sexist hate speech and slut shaming on Italian social media Elisa Giomi (Roma Tre University), Francesca Dragotto, (University of Roma ‘Tor Vergata’) and Sonia Melchiorre (University of Tuscia, Italy) COFFEE BREAK 3:30 - 4:30 PM - Violently Happy: Fetish, Fantasy & Not-So-Guilty Pleasures Chair: Dr Diego Semerene Viral violence: meanings of HIV in the bugchasing groups online Jaime García-Iglesias (University of Manchester, UK) Pornography: Debate on Violence and Domination Raquel Pereira (University of Minho, Portugal) Keynote 4:45 - 6:15pm: CLC.1.12 (Clerici Building) Tentacles, Demons, and Rape: The Allure of Extremity in Animated Pornography Prof. Susanna Paasonen (University of Turku, Finland) Chair: Dr Diego Semerene Conference Dinner Screening
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS - MARCH 8TH Headingon (Gypsy Lane - Room AB115a (Abercrombie Building)
9:45 - 11:15 AM - Risking Resistance Chair: John Twycross The perceived benefits and risks to the well-being of women who publicly exposed sexual victimization on social media: the day after the #MeToo Dr Keren Gueta (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) "#Nofem, #Nofat, #Noblack, #Noasian" Hashtags on Grindr and Preferences as a Form of Violence Ali Atakay (University of Paris 8 Vincennes Saint Denis, France) The Affective Dynamics of Online Shaming and Liberal Moral Outrage Orsolya Bajusz (Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary) COFFEE BREAK 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM - Televisual Violence Chair: Lindsay Steenberg Death becomes her? Post-mortem dressage in the roles of forensic pathologists, Samantha Ryan and Nikki Alexander in British television crime series ‘Silent Witness’ Rachel Velody (University of Bristol, UK) ‘Man of any size lays hands on me, he’s gonna bleed out in under a minute’. The politics of representation of gendered violence in contemporary TV crime series Elisa Giomi (Roma Tre University, Italy) 12:30 - 1:30 PM - Lunch
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS - MARCH 8TH Headingon (Gypsy Lane - Room AB115a (Abercrombie Building)
1:30 - 2:30 PM - Cinematic Violence Chair: Daniela Treveri Gennari Studying Hollywood Neocolonial Violence through the Orientalist Discourse Abderrahmene Karim Bourenane (Le Mans University, France) Toward the antihero theory: Rendering violence and transgressivity in popular fiction as justified and enjoyable Dr. Igor Prusa (Metropolitan University Prague, Czech Republic) COFFEE BREAK 2:45 - 3:45 PM - Video Violence Chair: Maya Nedyalkova ‘Kiss me with your fist, it’s alright’: Deconstructing the Pleasures of Martial Arts Violence Prof. Paul Bowman, (Cardiff University, UK) Representation of violence in M.I.A.´s music video Born Free Dr. Anna Arnman, (Malmö University, Sweden) Keynote 4 - 5:30pm: JHB308 (Kennedy Room) “Fuck politeness”: A Feminist Account of True Crime in the Digital Streaming Era Dr. Tanya Horeck (Anglia Ruskin University, UK) Chair: Dr Lindsay Steenberg Drinks
PLEASURES OF VIOLENCE International Conference 2019