Conference Programme
Conference Venue: Conference room of Paulinerkirche (Address: Papendiek 14, 37073 Göttingen)
Thursday, May 31, 2012
18:30: Conference Warming at "Cafe Botanik" (Address: Untere Karspüle 1b, 37073 Göttingen)
Friday, June 1, 2012
9:30 – 11:00: Conference Adresses and Opening Keynote: Andrew Lycett: "Sherlock Holmes – Scottish Detective"
11:00 – 11:30: Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00: Session 1: Crime Across the Genres
András Beck: "21st Century Criminals on the Contemporary Scottish Stage"
Rohan Berry: "'nothing silences an awkward truth more effectively than ridicule' – Covert Biographies in Denise Mina’s Paddy Meehan Trilogy"
Joseph Walton: "'What’s In An 'M'?' Responsibility and Wrongdoing in the Novels of Iain M. Banks and Iain Banks"
13:00 – 14:30: Lunch Break
14:30 – 16:00: Session 2: Exploding the Canon: Old Classics, New Narratives
Gioia Angeletti: "'Rewriting' a Nineteenth-Century Classic: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner and the Contemporary Scottish Intertextual Novel"
Ema Jelinkova: "Dual Personalities in Louise Welsh's Detective Fiction"
Maha El Hissy: "History, Crime and the Political Unconscious in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped"
16:00 – 16:30: Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:00: Session 3: Historical Crimes in Fiction
Ingibjörg Ágústsdóttir: "Treatments of Historical Crime in Literature and Film: The Case of Mary Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley"
Silvia Mergenthal: "Walter Scott's Walking Stick – The Case of Major Weir"
Tobias Wiemer: "The Literary Construction of Crime: the Glasgow Ice Cream Wars in Romance and Crime Fiction"
afterwards: Reception
Saturday, June 2, 2012
9:30 – 11:00: Session 4: Ian Rankin's Edinburgh
Caroline Jones: "Capital Crime: Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus and the Many Faces of Edinburgh"
Agnieszka Sienkiewicz-Charlish: '"A crime scene waiting to happen': Edinburgh in the Novels of Ian Rankin"
Cyprian Piskurek: "Age of Devolution, Age of Retirement: John Rebus and Ageism"
11:00 – 11:30: Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00: Session 5: Crime and the City
Dorothea Rösch: "Scottish Urban Crime Fiction and its Social Significance"
Janneke Rauscher: "The Detective as Wanderer between Worlds: Glasgow as Semantic Space in Denise Mina's Garnethill"
Marie Hologa: "Resurrecting the Old Town: Body-Snatchers, Ghost Tours and Edinburgh Tourism"
13:00 – 14:30: Lunch Break
14:30 – 16:00: Session 6: The Sociology of Crime Fiction
Natascha Haas: "A Look at the Hyde side: Does Duality still Work in Post-Devolutionary Crime Fiction?"
Christoph Rosenbusch: "Familiar Crimes Crime Novels as Data in Social Science Research"
Christopher Kydd: "Scottish Noir: Complicity"
16:00 – 16:30: Coffee Break
16:15 – 17:00 General Meeting of the Society for Scottish Studies in Europe
17:00 – 18:30: Walking Tour of Göttingen
20:00: West Side Story (Deutsches Theater, Address: Theaterplatz 11, 37073 Göttingen)
Sunday, June 3, 2012
9:30 – 10:30: Closing Keynote: Lin Anderson: "Crime Writing - Scotland's Cultural Export"
10:30 – 11:00: Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:00: Session 7: Gendered Crime Fictions
Mariagiulia Garufi: "'Inside the Frame.' Resisting Genders in Crime Fiction: The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh"
Samantha Walton: "The Scottish Landscape and Crime in Non-Canonical texts by 20th Century Female Crime Writers, Gladys Mitchell and Josephine Tey"
12:00 – 14:00: Closing Lunch
