We are delighted to announce that the third Captivating Criminality international interdisciplinary conference, Crime Fiction, Felony, Fear and Forensics, will be taking place at Bath Spa University in the UK, 23rd-25th June 2016. The Call for Papers is below, and we look forward to receiving your abstracts. Captivating Criminality 3: Crime Fiction, Felony, Fear and Forensics 23 - 25th June 2016, Corsham Court, Bath Spa University, UK ______________________________ The third Captivating Criminality conference will build upon and develop ideas and themes from the first two, Captivating Criminality: Crime Fiction, Darkness and Desire, and Captivating Criminality 2: Crime Fiction, Traditions and Transgression, which took place at Bath Spa University’s Corsham Court campus in 2014 and 2015. This conference will be organised by Bath Spa University and the Captivating Criminality Network: http://www.captivatingcriminalitynetwork.net/ _______________________________ Keynote Speakers (to be announced) ________________________________ Crime Fiction has always been concerned with forensics and draws upon a rich history of the use of forensics in solving crime dating back to a Chinese handbook for coroners called The Washing Away of Wrongs (1247). These days, when we think of forensics the first things that come to mind may well be the cutting-edge of forensic science, often laboratory based and brought to public attention through popular television programmes such as CSI or Silent Witness. However, forensics has been central both to crime fiction and to gathering evidence in ‘real life’ crime: from the first ‘clues’ used in the emerging literary genre of crime fiction to the recognition that even DNA is not always 100% reliable, forensics is utilised in most of the texts that we would, however loosely, term crime fiction. Felony, having committed a serious crime, is often detected by a combination of forensics and fear; the fear of the felon who attempts to leave no trace. Sometimes a murderer ‘gets away with it,’ such as Tom Ripley in Patricia Highsmith’s The Ripliad; other times the felon can be wrongly convicted for a crime, or convicted for a crime different from the one they actually did commit, such as Dr.Bickleigh in Francis Iles’s Malice Aforethought. The intersections between felony, fear and forensics will be explored at this conference, and Bath Spa University and the Captivating Criminality Network invite scholars, practitioners and fans of crime writing to attend this international, interdisciplinary conference about these key elements of crime fiction and real crime. Proposals may be based around, but are not restricted to:
Please send 400 word abstracts to Dr Fiona Peters (f.peters@bathspa.ac.uk) by February 1st 2016. Proposals should include a title, your name and affiliation, and a contact email address.* Feel free to submit abstracts presenting work in progress as well as completed projects. We welcome proposals from postgraduates. Panel suggestions are also welcomed. Papers will be a maximum of 20 minutes in length. Delegates will be notified by the end of April. Attendance fees: £155 (£95 students). * Please note that these details will be distributed in the conference pack on the first day of the conference.
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