CFP: Crime Fiction: Insiders and Outsiders (Deadline 3rd Feb)

CFP: 5th Captivating Criminality Conference:

Crime Fiction: Insiders and Outsiders

28th – 30th June 2018
Corsham Court, Bath Spa University, UK

The Captivating Criminality Network is delighted to announce its fifth UK conference. Building upon and developing ideas and themes from the previous four successful conferences, Crime Fiction: Insiders and Outsiders, will examine the ways in which Crime Fiction as a genre is able to incorporate both traditional ideas and themes, as well as those from outside mainstream and/or dominant ways of thinking.

Crime fiction narratives continue to gain in both popularity and critical appreciation. This conference will consider the ways in which writers who work within generic cultural and critical boundaries and those who challenge those seeming restrictions, through both form and content, have influenced each other. Crime fiction, in its widest sense, has benefited from challenges from diverse ‘outsiders’ who in turn shift and develop the genre. This was as true in the early days of the genre as it is today and, as such, we welcome submissions from the early modern to the present day.

A key question that this conference will address is the enduring appeal of crime fiction and its ability to incorporate other disciplines such as History, Criminology, Film, TV, Media, and Psychology. From the ‘sensational’ novelists of the 1860s to today’s ‘Domestic Noir’ narratives, crime fiction has proved itself to be open to challenges and development from historical and cultural movements such as, feminism, gender studies, queer politics, post modernism, metafiction, war, and shifting concepts of criminality. In addition, crime fiction is able to respond to and incorporate changes in political and historic world events. With this in mind, we are interested in submissions that approach crime narratives from the earliest days of crime writing until the present day.

This international, interdisciplinary event is organised by Bath Spa University and the Captivating Criminality Network, and we invite scholars, practitioners and fans of crime writing, to participate in this conference that will address these key elements of crime fiction and real crime. Topics may include, but are not restricted to:

• Feminist Sleuths (second wave and beyond)
• The Victorian Lady Detective
• Femininity and the Golden Age
• Masculinities
• Crime and Queer Theory
• Crime and War
• Crime and Gothic
• Gothic Outsiders
• Gothic Disruptions and Disturbances
• The Cozy Crime Novel
• Victims and Perpetrators
• Crime Fiction and Form
• The Prison and Other Institutions
• Madness and Criminality
• Technology
• Film Adaptations
• Post-Communist Crime Fiction
• Crime Fiction in Times of Trauma
• Latin American Crime Fiction and Trauma
• The Psychological
• The Detective, Then and Now
• The Anti-Hero
• True Crime
• Contemporary Crime Fiction
• Victorian Crime Fiction
• Eighteenth-Century Crime
• Early Forms of Crime Writing
• The Golden Age
• Hardboiled Fiction
• Forensics and Detection
• The Body
• Seduction and Sexuality
• The Criminal Analyst
• Others and Otherness
• Landscape
• The Country and the City
• The Media and Detection
• Adaptation and Interpretation
• Justice Versus Punishment
• Lack of Order and Resolution

Please send 200 word proposals to Dr. Fiona Peters and Joanne Ella Parsons (captivatingcriminalitynetwork@gmail.com) by 3rd February 2018. The abstract should include your name, email address, and affiliation, as well as the title of your paper. Please feel free to submit abstracts presenting work in progress as well as completed projects. Postgraduate students are welcome. Papers will be a maximum of 20 minutes in length. Proposals for suggested panels are also welcome.

Attendance fees:
Full Fee: £135
Reduced Rate £95

For more information go to International Crime Fiction Association

Free Crime Fiction Event: Meet Anya Lipska

An Interview with Anya Lipska

 

Sponsored by the International Crime Fiction Association

http://www.captivatingcriminalitynetwork.net

 

Friday 28^th July 2017, 7pm-8.15

at

Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights, 14/15 John Street, Bath BA1 2JL

https://www.mrbsemporium.com

 

Anya Lipska is a British crime writer, TV producer and scriptwriter. Lipska’s crime thriller series, set in East London, follows the adventures and investigations of Janusz Kiszka, tough guy and fixer to the Polish community, and the sharp-elbowed young police detective Natalie Kershaw. The Kiszka & Kershaw series has won critical acclaim and was recently optioned by BBC Drama as a potential TV crime series. A radio story featuring the character of Kiszka was broadcast as part of the BBC’s ‘Poles in the UK’ series on Radio 4 in 2015. Anya’s debut, Where the Devil Can’t Go, led to her selection by Val McDermid for the prestigious New Blood panel at the 2013 Harrogate Crime Festival. It was followed by Death Can’t take a Joke, and A Devil Under the Skin. She is supported by the Polish Cultural Institute in the UK, which is dedicated to bringing an understanding of Polish arts and culture to a UK audience. Anya is currently working on a new standalone novel.

 

Married to a Pole, Lipska lives in East London. She works as a TV producer and has credits on a wide variety of factual programmes on many different topics, whether it’s Neanderthal archaeology, saving the clouded leopard in the wild, or Italy’s Renaissance Gardens. Check out her website: http://www.anyalipska.com/

Follow Anya @AnyaLipska

 

This is a free event, which includes a wine reception. Registration is required please email j.parsons1@bathspa.ac.uk to secure your place.

Deadline reminder: Crime Fiction Here and There 3

Crime Fiction Here and There: Time and Space

13-15 September 2016    (deadline for sending abstracts: 31 May 2016)

3rd International Conference

Organised by the Department of English Language Cultures and Literatures at the University of Gdańsk in cooperation with Captivating Criminality Network and Bath Spa University

From the locked room to the mean streets of the metropolis, the concept of space has always played as important role in crime fiction as the concept of time. A lot has been said in recent years about the importance of a specific locale in crime fiction. Both readers and writers like to divide crime novels into certain national and spatial genre variants: Nordic Noir, Tartan Noir, L.A. Noir etc., but are these variants really so different from each other? How does space define a particular formula? Studies on crime fiction and temporality usually refer to Todorov’s well-known chapter in his book The Poetics of Prose entitled “The Typology of Detective Fiction,” in which he argues that crime fiction narratives are structured by a double temporality: the reconstruction of events leading up to the murder and the progress of the detective’s investigation, with both narratives eventually converging at the point of the crime’s solution. However, if one looks at some contemporary crime novels as well as contemporary criticism this model certainly needs to be revised or at least reformulated. Although the construction of time and space in terms of genre conventions has been discussed quite extensively by critics, there still seems to be room for further analyses.

We invite papers on crime fiction in literature, cinema and the new media which will deal with one or more of the following points (the list is by no means exhaustive):

• constructing time and space in crime narrative
• time and space in nation-specific crime writing (e.g. Polish / Scottish / Austrian crime fiction, Nordic noir, etc.)
• place-specific crime writing (e.g. academic mystery, domestic noir, etc.)
• oneiric, imaginary or other alternative worlds in crime writing
• closure and openness in crime fiction (e.g. locked rooms, manor houses, mean streets, prisons and other ‘crime spaces’ )
• gendered spaces in crime fiction
• the detective and the city
• setting as a protagonist?
• noir city
• psychogeography
• across time and space: movement trajectories in crime fiction
• the aesthetics / theory of space: the ‘spatial turn’ in literature and cinema.

 

Please send an abstract and a short biographical note to crimegdansk@gmail.com by 31 May 2016. The abstract should include a title, name and affiliation of the speaker and a contact email address. We welcome proposals from both postgraduate students and established scholars. Proposals for suggested panels are also welcome. Papers should be no longer than 20 minutes of presentation time and should be delivered in English.

 Conference fee: 400 PLN (100 Euro/ 75 GBP), Students – 350 PLN (80 Euro/65 GBP)

Conference dinner on Wednesday 14th of September (optional): 25 Euro/20 GBP/ 100 PLN

The fee includes a delegate pack, lunches and other refreshments on all 3 days. Please note that it does not include accommodation. The conference dinner on Wednesday is optional and should be booked during the registration. There is going to be an informal conference warming on Monday, the 12^th of September.

For further information, see our conference website https://www.crimegdansk.wordpress.com

For more information on Captivating Criminality Network, see http://www.captivatingcriminalitynetwork.net

 

Organising committee:

Ludmiła Gruszewska-Blaim

Agnieszka Sienkiewicz-Charlish

Maja Wojdyło

 

Conference secretaries: Irina Antonenko, Arco van Ieperen

 

CFP: Crime Fiction Here and There 3

Crime Fiction Here and There: Time and Space

13-15 September 2016

3rd International Conference

Organised by the Department of English Language Cultures and Literatures at the University of Gdańsk in cooperation with Captivating Criminality Network and Bath Spa University

From the locked room to the mean streets of the metropolis, the concept of space has always played as important role in crime fiction as the concept of time. A lot has been said in recent years about the importance of a specific locale in crime fiction. Both readers and writers like to divide crime novels into certain national and spatial genre variants: Nordic Noir, Tartan Noir, L.A. Noir etc., but are these variants really so different from each other? How does space define a particular formula? Studies on crime fiction and temporality usually refer to Todorov’s well-known chapter in his book The Poetics of Prose entitled “The Typology of Detective Fiction,” in which he argues that crime fiction narratives are structured by a double temporality: the reconstruction of events leading up to the murder and the progress of the detective’s investigation, with both narratives eventually converging at the point of the crime’s solution. However, if one looks at some contemporary crime novels as well as contemporary criticism this model certainly needs to be revised or at least reformulated. Although the construction of time and space in terms of genre conventions has been discussed quite extensively by critics, there still seems to be room for further analyses.

       We invite papers on crime fiction in literature, cinema and the new media which will deal with one or more of the following points (the list is by no means exhaustive):

• constructing time and space in crime narrative
• time and space in nation-specific crime writing (e.g. Polish / Scottish / Austrian crime fiction, Nordic noir, etc.)
• place-specific crime writing (e.g. academic mystery, domestic noir, etc.)
• oneiric, imaginary or other alternative worlds in crime writing
• closure and openness in crime fiction (e.g. locked rooms, manor houses, mean streets, prisons and other ‘crime spaces’ )
• gendered spaces in crime fiction
• the detective and the city
• setting as a protagonist?
• noir city
• psychogeography
• across time and space: movement trajectories in crime fiction
• the aesthetics / theory of space: the ‘spatial turn’ in literature and cinema.

Please send an abstract and a short biographical note to crimegdansk@gmail.com by 31 May 2016. The abstract should include a title, name and affiliation of the speaker and a contact email address. We welcome proposals from both postgraduate students and established scholars. Proposals for suggested panels are also welcome. Papers should be no longer than 20 minutes of presentation time and should be delivered in English.

Conference fee: 400 PLN (100 Euro/ 75 GBP), Students – 350 PLN (80 Euro/65 GBP)

Conference dinner on Wednesday 14th of September (optional): 25 Euro/20 GBP/ 100 PLN

The fee includes a delegate pack, lunches and other refreshments on all 3 days. Please note that it does not include accommodation. The conference dinner on Wednesday is optional and should be booked during the registration. There is going to be an informal conference warming on Monday, the 12^th of September.

For further information, see our conference website https://www.crimegdansk.wordpress.com

For more information on Captivating Criminality Network, see http://www.captivatingcriminalitynetwork.net

 

Organising committee:

Ludmiła Gruszewska-Blaim

Agnieszka Sienkiewicz-Charlish

Maja Wojdyło

 

Conference secretaries: Irina Antonenko, Arco van Ieperen