Registration and Saturday Evening Event

The following fees are applicable for registration confirmed and prepaid by 15 June 2009. Unfortunately, a late registration fee of €10.00 applies to all registrations received after this date. Please submit a completed Registration form with your remittance, indicating dietary needs (all participants and attendees) and audio-visual requirements (speakers).

Cheques/bank drafts should be in Euro or Sterling (apologies to participants from other currency zones!) and made payable to 'Department of Italian, University College Cork'.

Payment and registration forms should be sent to:

Con(tra)vention Conference, c/o Department of Italian, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Receipts will be issued on arrival unless otherwise requested.

Full Conference Fee: (Friday, 26 June, and Saturday, 27 June) €65.00/£60.00

This fee covers;

• morning tea/coffee (both days);
• lunch (both days);
• afternoon tea/coffee (Friday);
• reception (Friday);
• room hire and other administrative costs.

Conference Day Fee (attendees only):

Friday, 26 June only

€40.00

This fee covers;

• morning tea/coffee;
• lunch;
• afternoon tea/coffee;
• reception;
• room hire and other administrative costs.

Saturday, 27 June only

€32.50

This fee covers:

• morning tea/coffee;
• lunch;
• room hire and other administrative costs. 

Saturday Evening Event (open to all)

This will involve a tour of the Gaol led by actors, followed by a meal of cold canapes, with wine and minerals included.

€45.00/£40.00

This fee covers;

• interactive tour of Cork City Gaol Heritage Centre;
• cold canapes (catered by Bitesize: see sample menus);
• wine/minerals.

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)

Programme

The Conference Programme and abstracts of all papers are now available in PDF format below.

Con(tra)vention Programme

Con(tra)vention Abstracts

Practical Information for Participants

The following are a number of links to relevant parts of the UCC Conferencing webpages.

If the information you are looking for is not here, try going to the Home page of the Conferencing service.

Cork Restaurants

Events in Cork June

Restaurants Kinsale

Weather in Cork

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.