Leeds Beckett University hosts Criminal Heritage: Crime, Fiction, and History Sept. 5, 2017. Abstracts are due by June 30, 2017.
This interdisciplinary conference aims to explore, analyse, and debate the relationship between crime, narrative, and history. We invite proposals of 200 words for 20-minute papers relating to the conference theme. We welcome proposals for traditional presentations and those which approach the theme in an innovative way. Possible topics include but are not limited to
- Historical crimes
- Nostalgia
- Crime fiction as history
- The figure of the detective
- The figure of the criminal
- Gangs and underworlds
- Morality and deviance
- Gender, sexuality and queerness
- Generic tropes and development – e.g. the country house
- Haunted crimes and revelations – anniversary events, cold cases, secrecy, psychological trauma
- Time travel
- Medieval mysteries
- Sensation fictions
- The Newgate Calendar
- Neo-Victorianism
- The roaring 1920s
- Translation, politics, and historicity
- Crimes, histories, and narratives from around the world
- Pastiches, parodies and rewritings
- Crime and history on-screen
- Alternative histories
- Non-fiction novels
- National heritage and heritage in law
- Publication technologies and reading habits
Please send abstracts and a brief biographical note to Fern Pullan and Jamie Bernthal at criminalheritage@gmail.com by Friday 30 June 2017.
