Venue : Plassey House
10:00-11:00 Keynote Address: Professor Evelyne Keitel (TU Chemnitz, Germany):
The Strange Case of the Nordic Detective: Realism, Regionalism, and Rewrites in Fargo
11:00-11:30 Coffee
11:30-13:00 Parallel Session 1
Crime and Media I Commodifying the Body
Chair: Chair:
| Stefanie Jahn (TU Chemnitz, Germany): True Crime Narration in (the Age of) the Internet: Consuming the Podcast Serial | Clare E. Rolens (University of California, San Diego, USA): The Homme Fatal Strikes Again: The Deadly Male as Criminal Consumer in Dorothy Hughes’s In a Lonely Place and Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley |
| Simon James & Mariann Hardey (University of Durham, UK): Serial: This pod/cast consumptive life | Melanie Graichen (TU Chemnitz, Germany): Crime and (Neo-Victorian) Consumption: Re-imagining the 19th Century in BBC’s Ripper Street |
| Michelle Killian (University of Limerick): Rebranding violence in contemporary crime fiction and the reawakening of our prehistoric passions in Breaking Bad | Katarina Gregersdotter (Umeå University, Sweden): “At the bottom of the social scale”: Human Trafficking in Contemporary Crime Fiction |
13:00-14:15 Lunch (Millstream Restaurant)
14:15-15:45 Parallel Session 2
Crime and Media II Food
Chair: Chair:
| Patricia Plummer (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany): Crime, Consumerism and the CSI-Effect | Eva Erdmann (Munich, Germany): Risky consumption in times of organic life (style). From the cocktail evening’s secret spikings to food technology. Eating and drinking in crime fiction |
| Markus Schleich (Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany): “We’re Gonna Make a Lot of Money”: The American Dream, Raw Capitalism and Televised Crime Fiction | Barbara Pezzotti (Australasian Centre for Italian Studies (ACIS), New Zealand): Food as a Political Weapon in Inspector Montalbano Crime Series |
| Noel O’Shea (University of Limerick): Trading Vices: Globalising Crime in the Technology-Driven Financial Flux at the Centre of Michael Mann’s Miami Vice (2006) | Carolina Miranda (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand): Eating out in Hardboiled Buenos Aires: Federico Levin’s Ceviche (2009) |
15:45-16:15 Coffee/Tea
16:15-17:45 Parallel Session 3
Cycles of Consumption Cannibalism
Chair: Chair:
| Deborah Walker-Morrison (University of Auckland, New Zealand): Consumption in Classic French gangster noir | Yun-Chu Cho (Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany): Claiming le biopouvoir in crime: Food/consumption in Kyung-Ran Jo’s crime novel Tongue |
| Michael G. Kelly (University of Limerick): Economies of the Self. Restrained and Unrestrained Consumption in Simenon’s L’Affaire Saint-Fiacre | Jeffrey Halpern (Rider University, NJ, USA): Anthropophagy as Theophagy: Hannibal the Cannibal and the search for the Sacred |
| Dominique Jeannerod (Queen’s University Belfast): Crime Stories and Material forms: an intermedia circulation study | Benjamin Schaab (University of Cologne, Germany) Killing in the Name of – Violence and Ideology in American Cinema around 1970 |
18:00-18:30 Wine Reception & finger food (Plassey House)
18:30-19:30 Keynote Address: Professor Matthieu Letourneux (Université Paris Ouest):
Mysteries, series and consumption: serial dynamics in the inter-war years
Chair : Dr Dominique Jeannerod, QUB
(Event supported by the IRCH, Queen’s University, Belfast)
Saturday, 27th June
10:00-11:00 Parallel Session 4
New Takes on Old Crime Food II
Chair: Chair:
| Michele D’Angelo (Rider University, NJ, USA): Plays within Plays within Plays: Revisiting Shakespeare’s ‘Murder Most Foul’ in the Age of Consumption. | Alison Atkins (Wake Forest University, NC, USA): Alimentary Consumption and the Violence of Artistic Creation in Manuel Vázquez Montalbán’s The Birds of Bangkok (1983) |
| Stefan Meier (TU Chemnitz, Germany): Franchising Sherlock: The Detective as Commodity | Ellen Risholm (University of Dortmund, Germany): The Meanderings of Consumption in Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s Detective Fiction |
11:30-13:30 Parallel Session 5
Selling Setting Critique of Capitalism
Chair: Chair:
| Ellen Carter (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne): Criminal Consumption in and of the South Pacific | Joel Phillips (River University, NJ, USA): Greed and Redemption in Robert J. Sawyer’s Red Planet Blues |
| Julia Augart (University of Namibia): Exploitation as Consumerism. Social Criticism in German crime fiction set in Africa | Elizabeth Scheiber (River University, NJ, USA): The Commodification of the Authentic: Symbol and Mise en Abyme in Richard Price’s Lush Life |
| Kerstin Bergman (Lund University, Sweden): Selling the Swedish Countryside: Commodification of the Rural in Recent Crime Novels | Linda Crawford (Salve Regina University, RI, USA): Private Guise: Socialist Detectives Thwarting Corporate Greed? |
| Andrea Hynynen (University of Turku, Finland): Sami traditions against financial interests in Olivier Truc’s and Lars Petterson’s crime novels | Andrew Pepper (Queen’s University Belfast): Capitalist Noir |
14:45-16:15
Session 6: Irish Crime and the Celtic Tiger
Chair:
| Samantha Weyer-Brown (Paris 3 – Université Sorbonne Nouvelle): ‘Clean as a hound’s tooth’: greed, corruption and consumption in Alan Glynn’s Winterland |
| Jane Rosenbaum (Rider University, NJ, USA): From Faithful Places to Broken Harbors: Tana French and the Crime Novel in the Wake of Eurozone Consumerism |
| Michaela Schrage-Früh (University of Limerick): (Post-) Celtic Tiger Dublin in Recent Irish Crime Fiction |
16:30-17:00 Coffee/Tea/ Refreshments (Millstream Common Room)
17:00-18:00 Crime Writer Niamh O’Connor will talk about her work (Millstream Common Room)
19:30 Conference Dinner, Limerick City
International Crime Fiction Research Group 
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