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3 to 5 May 2010
Prague, Czech Republic

Website: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/evil-women-and-the-femin ine/call-for-papers/
Contact name: Dr Rob Fisher
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Conference Announcement / Call for papers

2nd Global Conference
Evil, Women and the Feminine

Monday 3rd May 2010 – Wednesday 5th May 2010
Prague, Czech Republic

Call for Papers
Continuing from last year's successful project
launch, this inter-disciplinary conference seeks
to examine issues surrounding the conjunction
between evil and the feminine. In many cultures
women have been long suspected as the source of
sundry human miseries, however basic to society
they may be. At the same time as ideals of purity
and dedication to family have been exalted and
feminine beauty lauded, women have been viewed as
embodying sinister forces of evil. Mistrusted as
seductive and beguiling, women are also often
thought of as vengeful, manipulative and even
malevolent. In grappling with our understanding of
what it is to be 'evil', the project aims to shine
a spotlight on this dark area of the human
condition and explore the possible sources of the
fear and resentment of women.

Papers, reports, work-in-progress and workshops
are invited on issues related to the following themes:

~ Evil Women and Feminine Evil
~ Representing and Misrepresenting the Female
~ Motherhood; Monstrous Motherhood
~ Monstrous Births and Infanticide
~ Matriarchy / Matricide
~ Devious Sexuality and Feminine Perversions
~ Women and the Abject
~ Menstruation, Castration
~ Fears and Myths: Feminine Blood
~ Anthropological Perspectives
~ Historical Perspectives
~ The Evil Woman in Literature
~ Psychoanalytic perspectives: Vagina Dentata etc
~ Sexualizing the Female or Evil Objectification
~ Jezebel, Delilah, Lilith, Harpies and the Femme
Fatale
~ The Bitch
~ Women and Power
~ Beauty as threatening or evil
~ Portrayals of Evil Women
~ Fantasy
~ Mythology
~ Vampires, Witches and Sirens
~ Case Studies

The Steering Group particularly welcomes the
submission of pre-formed panel proposals. Papers
will also be considered on any related theme.
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday
27th November 2009. If an abstract is accepted for
the conference, a full draft paper should be
submitted by Friday 12th March 2009.

300 word abstracts should be submitted
simultaneously to both Organising Chairs;
abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF
formats with the following information and in this
order:

a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d)
title of abstract, e) body of abstract.

Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain
from using footnotes and any special formatting,
characters or emphasis (such as bold,
italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and
answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do
not receive a reply from us in a week you
should assume we did not receive your proposal; it
might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to
look for an alternative electronic
route or resend.

Organising Chairs:

Sorcha Ni Fhlainn
Hub Leader, Project Co-Leader, School of English,
Trinity College,
Dublin, Ireland
E-mail: snf@inter-disciplinary.net

Stephen Morris
Hub Leader, Independent Scholar, New York USA
E-mail: smmorris58@yahoo.com

Rob Fisher
Network Founder and
Leader,Inter-Disciplinary.Net,Freeland, Oxfordshire,
United Kingdom
E-mail: ewf2@inter-disciplinary.net

The conference is part of the At the Interface
programme of research projects. It aims to bring
together people from different areas and
interests to share ideas and explore various
discussions which are innovative and exciting. All
papers accepted for and presented at the
conference will be eligible for publication in an
ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be developed for
publication in a themed hard copy volume(s).

For further details about the project please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/evil-women-and-the-feminine/

For further details about the conference please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/evil-women-and-the-feminine/call-for-papers/


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