International Crime Genre Research Group 7th biennial conference:
Networks and Connections in the Crime Genre
National University of Ireland, Galway, Friday 26 – Saturday 27 May, 2017,
10:00-11:00 Panel 1: Hispanic Identities
| Chair: Tina Pusse |
| Diana Battaglia (QUB): Imagined Communities, Identity and Exile in Leonardo Padura’s Crime Fiction |
| Linda Crawford (Salve Regina): Who Are You Calling “Postcolonial”? Reconsidering the Postcolonial in Latin American Detective Fiction |
11:00-11:15 Tea/Coffee (Foyer IT Building)
11:15- 1:00 Panel 2: Society, Power and Corruption
| Chair: Kerstin Bergman |
| Elizabeth Scheiber (Rider) : Into the Harsh Light of Day: Representations of the Sicilian Mafia in The Day of the Owl |
| Angela Kimyongür (Hull): Beyond the French Connection: criminal and other networks in Dominique Manotti’s Or Noir (2015) |
| Michael Kelly (UL): Summoning the System. Crime Fiction as Cognitive Mapping |
| Jane Rosenbaum (Rider): Above the Law: Privileged Lives and the Network of Deceit |
1:00-2:15 Lunch (An Bhialann/Canteen – Near the Library)
2:15-3:15 Keynote Address
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Dr Eilis Ward: “Trafficking Tales, Facts and Fictions: a view from the social sciences”
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3:15- 3:30 Tea/Coffee
3:30-5:00 Panel 3: Trafficking
| Chair: Linda Crawford |
| Charlotte Beyer (Gloucestershire): Depictions of Human Trafficking in Contemporary Crime Fiction |
| Eoin McCarney (DCU): Beyond Borders: Illegal Trafficking, Criminality and the State in Irish and Mexican Crime Fiction and Narcoliterature |
| Andrew Pepper (QUB): Markets and Violence in Contemporary Crime Fiction |
5:00-6:00 Crime Writer
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Crime writer Anthony J Quinn will read from, and talk about his work.
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6:00 Wine Reception
Saturday 27th May IT Building: IT204
10:00-11:00 Panel 4: Adaptation and Genre
| Chair: David Conlon |
| Barry Nevin (DIT/TCD): Class, Community and Criminality in Jean Renoir’s Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (1935) and Les Bas-Fonds (1936). |
| Joel Phillips (Rider): Transhumanism, Posthumans, and Personhood in Selected Works of Robert J. Sawyer |
11:00-11:15 Coffee
11:15-1:00 Panel 5: Influence and Creativity
| Chair: Elizabeth Scheiber |
| Ellen Risholm (TU Dortmund): “Chambers in Crime Fiction: Networks of Terror” |
| Lindsay Reid (NUIG): Resurrecting Love’s Labours Won and Cardenio in Recent Fiction |
| Roberta Clipper (Rider): Criminal Influences and Creative Writing |
1:00-2:15 Lunch
2:15-3:15 Panel 6: Nordic Crime
| Chair: Marieke Krajenbrink |
| Kerstin Bergman (Lund): Sisterly Connections, Swedish Women Detectives Following in the Footsteps of Lisbeth Salander |
| Sara Kärrholm (Lund): Social Marketing Strategies among Swedish Crime Writers. |
3:15-3:30 Tea/Coffee
3:30-5:00 Panel 7: Terrorism
| Chair: Kate Quinn |
| Begoña Sangrador-Vegas (NUIG): The Back Alleys of Democracy: the Dirty War against ETA in Film, Lasa eta Zabala |
| David Conlon (NUIM): Love in a Time of Climate Change: Crimes Of and Against Nature in Ricardo Piglia’s El Camino de Ida. |
| Jeffrey Halpern (Rider): Who is the Criminal, who is the Hero? Crime and Detection in the Matrix Trilogy |
5:00-5:15 Tea/Coffee
5:15-6:00 Panel 8: Europe in View – Perspectives Old and New
| Chair: Sara Kärrholm |
| Marieke Krajenbrink (UL): Wandering the (Under) World. On Connections and Networks in Gerhard Roth |
| Eva Erdmann: European Networks of Crime and Detection |
6:00 Concluding Remarks
Organising Committee: Dr Kate Quinn (NUIG), Dr Marieke Krajenbrink (UL), Dr Dominique Jeannerod (QUB)
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies, the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, and the Discipline of Spanish at NUI, Galway.
