Crime Fiction & The Law, Symposium 8 Dec 2012, Birkbeck, University of London

The pur­pose of this one day Sym­posium on Crime Fic­tion and the Law is to develop an inter­dis­cip­lin­ary and public-​facing research and teach­ing focus on the rela­tion­ship between crime fic­tion and the law. This focus is broad-​based and includes issues such as: the rela­tion­ship between crime fic­tion, legal reas­on­ing and cri­tique; psycho-​analytical per­spect­ives on crime-​fiction; ques­tions sur­round­ing the rule of law and the rela­tion­ship between law and justice; gender issues; legal, polit­ical and social impacts of fic­tional rep­res­ent­a­tions of crime and justice; the rela­tion­ship between fac­tion and fic­tion; and, the impact of law on the devel­op­ment of crime fiction.

The Sym­posium is jointly sponsored by the School of Law, as part of its twen­ti­eth anniversary cel­eb­ra­tions, and by the Birk­beck Insti­tute for the Humanities.

Starts: Dec 08, 2012 10:00 AM
Fin­ishes:Dec 08, 2012 06:00 PM
Venue: Room B33 Main Build­ing
Book­ing: This event is free but regis­tra­tion is essen­tial - register here

Speak­ers:

Chris Boge, Fac­ulty of Philo­sophy, Uni­ver­sity of Cologne:
Sus­pend­ing Demo­cracy: Vigil­ante Justice and the Rule of Law in Chris­topher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy

Gian­carlo De Cataldo, Judge of the Appeal Court of Assize, Rome; widely pub­lished writer of both non-​fiction (includ­ing In Gius­tizia (2011)) and fic­tion (includ­ingRomanzo Crim­inale (2002), I Trad­itori (2010) and Io Sono Il Libanese (2012)); screen­writer and trans­lator:
Journ­al­ism and Justice

Peter Fitzpatrick, School of Law, Birk­beck:
Mys­terium non tre­men­dum, or: the nor­mal­ity of transgression

Oscar Guardiola-​Rivera, School of Law, Birk­beck:
On Gen­o­cide. From Sartre to Cortázar

John Kra­ni­auskas, Depart­ment of Iberian and Latin Amer­ican Stud­ies, School of Arts, Birk­beck:
Force/​Law/​Power: On The Wire

Fiona Mac­mil­lan, School of Law, Birk­beck:
Is Bondurant’s The Wet­test County in the World really Law­less?

Janet McCabe, Depart­ment of Media and Cul­tural Stud­ies, School of Arts, Birk­beck:
The Girl in the Faroese Jumper: Female Rep­res­ent­a­tion, Sexual Polit­ics and the Pre­cari­ous­ness of Power and Dif­fer­ence in con­tem­por­ary Scand­inavian TV crime drama

Patri­cia Tuitt, School of Law, Birk­beck:
Crime, Fic­tion and Legal Critique

Bar­bara Villez, Depart­ment of Eng­lish for spe­cific pur­poses (Départe­ment d’études des pays anglo­phones), Uni­ver­sity Paris 8; Vis­it­ing Fel­low, Birk­beck Insti­tute of the Human­it­ies:
Com­ing out of the con­fu­sion: Rep­res­ent­a­tion of French justice through Spiral(Engren­ages sea­son 4)

Chair and com­ment­ator: Maria Aris­to­de­mou, School of Law, Birkbeck

The fol­low­ing two events will also form part of the Symposium:

• Gian­carlo De Cataldo (see above) in con­ver­sa­tion with Cos­tas Douz­i­nas (School of Law, Birk­beck; Dir­ector of the Birk­beck Insti­tute of the Human­it­ies) on law, justice, polit­ics and fiction;

• Col­li­sions by Zimbo (Birmingham-​based musi­cian; dir­ector and founder of One Mile Away), Ana­stasia Tataryn (PhD stu­dent, School of Law, Birk­beck) and Penny Wool­cock (film dir­ector and doc­u­ment­ary maker; win­ner of the Michael Pow­ell Award, 66^th Edin­burgh Inter­na­tional film Fest­ival): A rap-​ballet fusion about the col­li­sion of two worlds on a street corner — an encounter, where two forms of liv­ing (one con­sidered gen­er­ally illegal and crim­inal, the other legal and “nor­mal”), two styles of art, two ways of com­mu­nic­at­ing, col­lide and play-​off each other.

Con­tact name:

T: (0) 20 7631 6612
E: j.​eisner@​bbk.​ac.​uk