Con(tra)vention: Crime and the Boundaries of Genre - Call for Papers
CALL FOR PAPERS
for the Third Interdisciplinary Conference of the Atlantic Alliance of Universities (NUI Galway, University of Limerick, University College Cork) Crime Genre Research Group on
Con(tra)vention: Crime and the Boundaries of Genre
to be held at
University College Cork, 26-27 June 2009
Proposals are invited for papers which focus on issues of contamination, cross-fertilization or hybridization of the crime genre, in its literary and screen manifestations, by other narrative forms, such as historical narrative, social and/or political commentary, science fiction, ‘true crime’, computer games, etc. Papers may refer to any language area, although, in the interest of interdisciplinary debate, they must be delivered in English.
Papers will be welcomed from a range of disciplines, including (but not limited to) modern languages, film studies, literary and cultural studies, gender studies, history, geography, sociology, and political science.
Abstracts (of 300 words maximum) and a short biography should be sent to corkcrime@gmail.com to reach us no later than Friday, 27 February 2009. Papers should be no more than twenty minutes in length.
Organizing Committee:
Dott. Marco Amici (Italian)
Mr Eoin Barrett (Hispanic Studies)
Dr Mark Chu (Italian)
Dr Rachel MagShamhráin (German)
Dr Barry Monahan (English/Film Studies)
Dott. Alessia Risi (Italian)
Dr Gwenda Young (English/Film Studies)
Acknowledgements
The Conference Committee is grateful for the support received from the Conference Fund of the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences of University College Cork, and from the Society for Italian Studies.
