FEMININE 2011 - 3rd Global Conference: Evil, Women and the Feminine

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Deadline: April 01, 2011 | Date: May 13, 2011-May 15, 2011

Venue/Country: Warsaw, Poland

Updated: 2011-03-20 17:44:25 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Evil, Women and the Feminine

13th to 15th May 2011

Warsaw, Poland

Call for Papers

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

26th November 2010. If an abstract is accepted for

the conference, a full draft paper should be

submitted by Friday 1st April 2011.

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.

E-mails should be entitled: EWF3 Abstract Submission.

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 that you then

look for an alternative electronic route or resend.

Organising Chairs:

* Sorcha Ní Fhlainn

Hub Leader, Project Co-Leader, School of English,

Trinity College,

Dublin, Ireland

E-mail: snfinter-disciplinary.net

* Stephen Morris

Hub Leader, Independent Scholar, New York USA

E-mail: smmorris58yahoo.com

* Rob Fisher

Network Founder and Leader,Inter-Disciplinary.Net,

Oxfordshire,

United Kingdom

E-mail: ewf3inter-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 pleases 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/