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Colloquium 2: September 2006

Women Killing: Violent Women and Murderous Mothers

7 - 10 September 2006: Exeter College, Oxford

 

Thursday, 7 September 2006

14:30 Welcome and practicalities (Sarah Colvin and Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly). Participants introduce themselves and their research
16:00 Tea
16:30 Kath Swarbrick (Edinburgh): Feminine subjects, psychoanalytic structures
18:30 Drinks
19:00 Dinner

Friday, 8 September 2006

Schreckensvisionen (Chair: Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly)

9:30 Bettina Bildhauer (St Andrews): Incorporated memory and violent mourning: Kriemhild as an archetypal killing woman
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Laura McClure (Madison): By Sword or Poison:  Women as Murderers in Greek Tragedy
12:00 Susanne Kord (UCL): From Evil Eye to Poetic Eye: Witch Beliefs and Physiognomy in the Age of Reason
13:00 Lunch

Telling Tales (Chair: Anna Richards)

14:30 Mary Lindemann (Florida): Cutting-Up Rough: Dismemberment Murders as Narratives (1600-1800)
15:30 Tea
16:00 Clare Bielby (Edinburgh): The Representation of Vera Brühne in the German Media
17:00 Geraldine Horan (UCL): ‘Eine besondere Verrohung der weiblichen Natur’: the portrayal of KZ-Aufseherinnen in postwar texts
18:30 Drinks
19:00 Dinner

Saturday, 9 September 2006

The Art of Murder (Chair: Gisela Ecker)

9:30 Kathrin Hoffmann-Curtius (Berlin): TäterInnen +/- 1914
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Lawrence Kramer (Fordham): Murder, She Sang: Fatal Women in German Opera
12:00 Joanne Leal (Birkbeck, London): Love and the murderous woman: Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Tom Tykwer
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Free afternoon
18:30 Drinks
19:00 Dinner

Sunday, 10 September 2006

Murderous Mothers (Chair: Anna Linton)

9:30

Ruth B. Bottigheimer (SUNY Stonybrook): Murdering Mothers in Bible Stories and Fairy Tales 

10:30
Helen Fronius (Oxford): ‘die scheusliche Flut von Kindesblut’. Images of Infanticide in eighteenth-century Germany
11:00 Coffee & Champagne
12:00 Conclusions and Future Directions (Chaired by Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly and Sarah Colvin)