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<strong>States</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Crime</strong>: The State in <strong>Crime</strong> Fiction<br />
17 th -18th <strong>of</strong> June 2011<br />
School <strong>of</strong> Languages, Literatures and Performing Arts and School <strong>of</strong> English<br />
Queen's University Belfast<br />
Conference Programme<br />
Friday 17 June 2011<br />
9: 30- 10:15 Registration /Café (Queen’s Postgraduate Centre)<br />
10:15 - 10: 30 Welcome and Opening Address : Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Anna McMullan, Head <strong>of</strong> School LLPA<br />
General Announcements<br />
10:45 12:15 Panel Sessions 1<br />
Political Noir: a Committed Literature?<br />
12/101<br />
David Schmid (State University <strong>of</strong> New York at<br />
Buffalo), Base and Superstructure in <strong>Crime</strong><br />
Fiction<br />
Sarah Trott (Swansea), Post Combat Trauma<br />
and the State in the Hard-Boiled <strong>Crime</strong> Fiction <strong>of</strong><br />
Raymond Chandler and James Crumley<br />
David Platten (Leeds), 'Voyages au bout du<br />
noir': the State under Stress in the Fiction <strong>of</strong><br />
Caryl Férey.<br />
12: 15- 12:30<br />
12:30 -13:30<br />
Enemies <strong>of</strong> the State<br />
11/101<br />
Café<br />
Panel Sessions 2<br />
Marieke Krajenbrink (Limerick) Investigating the<br />
"State that nobody wanted" - Austria's First<br />
Republic (1918-1934) in Andreas Pittler's<br />
Bronstein Series<br />
Angela Kimyongür (Hull), Classes<br />
dangereuses? Representations <strong>of</strong> class and<br />
ethnic minorities in contemporary French crime<br />
fiction<br />
13:30 -14:15<br />
14: 15- 15:45<br />
Lunch<br />
Panel Sessions 3<br />
Masquerade and Evasion <strong>of</strong> State Authority<br />
12/101<br />
Amy Wigelsworth, (Durham), Secret Societies -<br />
from Mystères urbains to roman policier<br />
Federico Pagello (Limoges), Criminal Supermen<br />
beyond the (Nation) State: Urbanity, Spectacle<br />
and Transnationalism in the Arsène Lupin,<br />
Raffles and Lord Lister series<br />
Emma Bielecki (Hertford College Oxford),<br />
Judicial Identity in Early Twentieth Century<br />
French <strong>Crime</strong> Fiction: The Case <strong>of</strong> Arsène Lupin<br />
15: 45- 16:00<br />
16: 00- 17:30<br />
C<strong>of</strong>fee<br />
Panel Sessions 4<br />
Through other Eyes: Re-working the Hardboiled<br />
Tradition<br />
12/101<br />
Maysa Jaber (Manchester), Hardboiled Agents:<br />
Literary and Legal Discourses on Women’s<br />
Criminality<br />
Cynthia S. Hamilton, (Liverpool Hope) Strange<br />
Birds: Rewriting The Maltese Falcon<br />
Maureen Sunderland (Newcastle), The<br />
Fractured Family: the presentation <strong>of</strong> family<br />
relationships as a metaphor for the oppressive<br />
capitalist state in the detective novels <strong>of</strong> Ross<br />
Macdonald and James Ellroy<br />
Emerging State Formations: the Politics <strong>of</strong><br />
Ambivalence<br />
11/101 CHAIR:<br />
James Wishart (King’s College London),<br />
Balzac‟s « Histoire des Treize » : An Investigation<br />
in the Formation <strong>of</strong> the State.<br />
Clare Clarke (Belfast), Detecting the nation:<br />
anxieties <strong>of</strong> empire in late-Victorian detective<br />
fiction<br />
Michela Toppano (Université de Provence), State<br />
Justice and Punishment or Faith in God and<br />
Redemption. The Case <strong>of</strong> the Italian Detective<br />
Novel Spasimo (1897) by Federico De Roberto<br />
<strong>Crime</strong> Fiction and Space: marginalisation &<br />
social exclusion<br />
9/101<br />
Deepthi Sebastian (Belfast), The State, the<br />
Asylum and their inmates in Miller’s Batman.<br />
Eduardo Obradó Mancholas (Santander), <strong>Crime</strong><br />
in the tower blocks<br />
State Violence and the politics <strong>of</strong> Complicity<br />
11/101<br />
Steven Powell (Liverpool), Rogue Cops and<br />
Shakedown Artists: Agents <strong>of</strong> the State in James<br />
Ellroy’s American Tabloid<br />
Paula Arvas (Helsinki), The Case <strong>of</strong> the Bad<br />
policeman<br />
Claire Whitehead (St Andrews), ‘Red-<br />
Pinkertonism’ and Beyond: Post-Revolutionary<br />
Russian <strong>Crime</strong> Fiction<br />
The State in Scottish and Irish <strong>Crime</strong> Fiction<br />
11/101<br />
David M. Clark (Universidade da Coruña), “Pride<br />
<strong>of</strong> Templemore”: The representation <strong>of</strong> An Garda<br />
Síochána in Irish crime fiction.<br />
Christopher Kydd (Dundee),Thatcherism and<br />
Scottish <strong>Crime</strong> Fiction<br />
Natascha Haas (Heidelberg), The real criminals<br />
were in the Council, The British State in Scottish<br />
<strong>Crime</strong> Fiction<br />
Post-colonial <strong>Crime</strong><br />
9/101<br />
Jeanne Glesener (Luxembourg), State<br />
paranoia, enemy constructions and madness in<br />
J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the barbarians and<br />
D. Chraïbi’s Une enquête au pays<br />
Colette Guldimann (Notre Dame University):<br />
New Freedom, New <strong>Crime</strong>s: the State in South<br />
African <strong>Crime</strong> Fiction.<br />
The Criminal State and its Judges<br />
7/101<br />
Elizabeth Scheiber (Rider), Voluntary Witness':<br />
Gianrico Car<strong>of</strong>iglio's Indictment <strong>of</strong> the Italian<br />
Judicial System"<br />
Jeff Morrison (Maynooth), The Compromised<br />
Swiss State in Dürrenmatt’s Der Richter und<br />
sein Henker<br />
Economic/Political <strong>Crime</strong>s<br />
9/101<br />
Barbara Pezzotti (Victoria University,<br />
Wellington), A State <strong>of</strong> <strong>Crime</strong>: Contemporary Italy<br />
in Massimo Carlotto’s Detective Series<br />
Marco Amici (Cork), Massimo Carlotto and the<br />
structural presence <strong>of</strong> crime in Italian democracy<br />
Martyn Colebrook (Hull), The Logical Extension<br />
<strong>of</strong> Business is Murder: Don DeLillo's Running<br />
Dog<br />
State Criminality and Thatcherism: Peace and<br />
Raymond<br />
9/101<br />
Anna Pasolini (Milan), Gender and Identity in I<br />
was Dora Suarez, by D. Raymond.<br />
Nicoletta Vallorani (Milan) History made flesh.<br />
The body <strong>of</strong> the State in David Peace Red Riding<br />
Quartet<br />
Guy Witzel (State University <strong>of</strong> New York at<br />
Buffalo), In Letters <strong>of</strong> Blood and Fire: David<br />
Peace and the Neoliberal Counter-Revolution<br />
17:30 Reception No Alibis Bookshop/Crescent Art Centre<br />
18: 15- 19:30 No Alibis Bookshop/Crescent Art Centre Talk and Roundtable with David Peace and Eoin McNamee<br />
20:00<br />
Dinner Duke’s at Queen’s
9: 30- 11:00 Panel Sessions 5<br />
Scandinavian Welfare State<br />
12/101<br />
Kerstin Bergman (Lund), The police<br />
procedural in the welfare state. Swedish<br />
developments in the genre 1965–2010<br />
Jane Rosenbaum (Rider), Policing the police:<br />
racism, classism, and the role <strong>of</strong> the state in<br />
Swedish crime fiction<br />
Corinne François-Denève (Versailles-Saint-<br />
Quentin en Yvelines), Trolls and Interpol :<br />
“Scandinavian” crime novels and “political crime<br />
fictions”.<br />
Archives/Memory<br />
11/101<br />
Conference Programme<br />
Saturday 18 June 2011<br />
Sophie Boyer (Bishop's University, Sherbrooke),<br />
Patricide or Mourning for the Nation-State in Francis<br />
Leclerc‟s Looking for Alexander<br />
Alessia Risi (Cork), Back to the „Years <strong>of</strong> Lead‟:<br />
Between Conspiracy and Psychological Investigation<br />
in Annamaria Fassio‟s Come torrenti di pioggia<br />
David Conlon (Galway), Dark Paper <strong>States</strong>: The<br />
Emergence <strong>of</strong> Shadow Archives in the <strong>Crime</strong><br />
Fictions <strong>of</strong> Ricardo Piglia<br />
Totalitarian <strong>States</strong> and neo liberal<br />
Dictatorship<br />
9/101<br />
Katharina Hall (Swansea), The ‘Nazi Detective’<br />
and the State: Philip Kerr’s The Pale Criminal<br />
(1990), and Richard Birkefeld and Göran<br />
Hachmeister’s Wer übrig bleibt, hat recht (2002)<br />
(Victors’ Justice)'<br />
Sissy Helff (Francfort), Stalin’s Henchmen: the<br />
<strong>Crime</strong> <strong>of</strong> Disobedience in Tom Rob Smith’s<br />
Thriller Child 44<br />
Kate Quinn (Galway), Representations <strong>of</strong> the<br />
State in Chilean crime writing : Ramon Diaz<br />
Eterovic and Roberto Ampuero<br />
11: 30- 12:30 Queen’s Film Theatre. Keynote address : Dominique Kalifa (Paris 1) The State and the Construction <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Underworld<br />
12: 30 - 13:30 Lunch Queen’s Film Theatre<br />
13: 30- 15:00 Panel Sessions 6<br />
Counter-Histories 1<br />
12/101<br />
Claire Gorrara (Cardiff) Un crime de bureau? Representing State<br />
Collaboration and Persecution in French <strong>Crime</strong> Fiction about the Second<br />
World War<br />
Véronique Desnain (Edinburgh) The State <strong>of</strong> Modern France: Politics<br />
and Economics in the novels <strong>of</strong> Dominique Manotti<br />
Jean-Philippe Gury (Brest), Blood <strong>of</strong> Spain Francoist crimes in André<br />
Héléna‟s novels<br />
15: 00- 15:30 C<strong>of</strong>fee<br />
15: 15- 17:00 Panel Sessions 7<br />
Noir Atlantic: Africa-Paris-US<br />
12/101<br />
Charles Scruggs (Arizona), ‘Somebody Done<br />
Hoodooed the Hoodoo Man': Randolph Bourne's<br />
'The State' and Rudolph Fisher's "The Conjure<br />
Man-Dies"<br />
Pim Higginson (Bryn Mawr) Felix Couchoroa<br />
and the Roots <strong>of</strong> Francophone African Noir<br />
Will Turner (Manchester) ‘That Don’t Make<br />
Sense.’: Unorganised Revolutions in the<br />
Detective Fiction <strong>of</strong> Chester Himes.<br />
17: 00 – 17:15 C<strong>of</strong>fee<br />
Noir Countercultures: State <strong>Crime</strong>s on Film<br />
9/101<br />
Chia-wen Kuo (Taiwan), Cinema as the Ideological Apparatus <strong>of</strong> Anarchy in<br />
the Case <strong>of</strong> LeRoy’s I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang in 1930s Pre-code<br />
Hollywood<br />
Nick Heffernan (Nottingham), Reconciliation under Duress: <strong>Crime</strong>,<br />
Counterculture and the State in American Film Noir, 1942-1956.<br />
Paolo Caponi (Milan), “Visconti’s Ossessione between Fascism and<br />
intentions”.<br />
The Patriarchal State and Sexual violence<br />
11/101<br />
Katarina Gregersdotter (Umeå), ‘Rape and the<br />
State <strong>of</strong> the Welfare State’<br />
Sara Kärrholm (Lund), “Searching for the Model<br />
Man”: Larsson´s Mikael Blomkvist, Masculinity<br />
and the Swedish Welfare State<br />
Srirupa Chatterjee (Indian Institute <strong>of</strong><br />
Technology Hyderabad), Combating Sexual<br />
<strong>Crime</strong> in Joyce Carol Oates’s Rape: A Love Story<br />
The State at the Confines <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Crime</strong> Genre<br />
9/101<br />
Louisa Hadley (McGill University), From the<br />
Wrong Name to No Name: Identity <strong>Crime</strong>s in<br />
Victorian Sensation Fiction<br />
Joel Phillips (Rider) The Poison Bites Deep:<br />
Puccini's Tosca as <strong>Crime</strong> Fiction<br />
Jeffrey R. Halpern (Rider) Replicants, Windup<br />
Girls and the Abominations <strong>of</strong> Leviticus<br />
17: 15 – 18:00 Conclusion, Postgraduate Centre<br />
18:00 – 20:00 Book Launch for Down These Green Streets, Irish <strong>Crime</strong> Writing In the 21st Century, Ed. by Declan Burke, No Alibis<br />
20: 30- Conference Dinner
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