Friday, 26th June
9:15-9:45 Registration (Plassey House)
9.45 -10:00 Opening of the Conference by Professor Tom Lodge,
Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Limerick
10:00-11:00 Keynote Address: Professor Evelyne Keitel (TU Chemnitz, Germany):
The Strange Case of the Nordic Detective: Realism, Regionalism, and Rewrites in Fargo
11:00-11:30 Coffee
11:30-13:00 Parallel Session 1
Cycles of Consumption (Board Room) Commodifying the Body (Wood Room)
Chair: Ellen Carter Chair: Andrea Hynynen
Deborah Walker-Morrison (University of Auckland, New Zealand): Consumption in Classic French gangster noir
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Clare E. Rolens (University of California, San Diego, USA): The Homme Fatal Strikes Again: The Deadly Male as Criminal Consumer in Dorothy Hughes’s In a Lonely Place and Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley
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Michael G. Kelly (University of Limerick): Economies of the Self. Restrained and Unrestrained Consumption in Simenon’s L’Affaire Saint-Fiacre
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Melanie Graichen (TU Chemnitz, Germany): Crime and (Neo-Victorian) Consumption: Re-imagining the 19th Century in BBC’s Ripper Street
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Dominique Jeannerod (Queen’s University Belfast): Crime Stories and Material forms: an intermedia circulation study
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Katarina Gregersdotter (Umeå University, Sweden): “You could only sell a cow once, but you could milk it every day”: Human Trafficking in Contemporary Crime Fiction.
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13:00-14:15 Lunch (Millstream Restaurant)
14:15-15:45 Parallel Session 2
Crime and Global Consumerism (Board Room) Food (Wood Room)
Chair: Michaela Schrage-Früh Chair: Linda Crawford
Patricia Plummer (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany): Crime, Consumerism and the CSI-Effect
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Eva Erdmann (Munich, Germany): Risky consumption in times of organic life (style). From the cocktail evening's secret spikings to food technology. Eating and drinking in crime fiction
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Samantha Weyer-Brown (Paris 3 - Université Sorbonne Nouvelle): ‘Clean as a hound’s tooth’: greed, corruption and consumption in Alan Glynn’s Winterland
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Barbara Pezzotti (Australasian Centre for Italian Studies (ACIS), New Zealand): Food as a Political Weapon in Inspector Montalbano Crime Series
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Noel O'Shea (University of Limerick): Trading Vices: Globalising Crime in the Technology-Driven Financial Flux at the Centre of Michael Mann’s Miami Vice (2006)
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Carolina Miranda (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand): Eating out in Hardboiled Buenos Aires: Federico Levin’s Ceviche (2009)
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15:45-16:15 Coffee/Tea
16:15-17:15 Parallel Session 3
Crime and Media (Board Room) Cannibalism (Wood Room)
Chair: Patricia Plummer Chair: Katarina Gregersdotter
Stefanie Jahn (TU Chemnitz, Germany): True Crime Narration in (the Age of) the Internet: Consuming the Podcast Serial
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Jeffrey Halpern (Rider University, NJ, USA): Anthropophagy as Theophagy: Hannibal the Cannibal and the search for the Sacred
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Simon James & Mariann Hardey (University of Durham, UK): Serial: This pod/cast consumptive life
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Benjamin Schaab (University of Cologne, Germany) Killing in the Name of - Violence and Ideology in American Cinema around 1970
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17.30-18.00 Welcome Reception & finger food (Plassey House)
18.00-19.00 Keynote Address: Professor Matthieu Letourneux (Université Paris Ouest):
Mysteries, series and consumption: serial dynamics in the inter-war years
Saturday, 27th June
10:00-11:00 Parallel Session 4 New Takes on Old Crime (Board Room) Food II (Wood Room)
Chair: Kerstin Bergman Chair: Eva Erdmann
Michele D'Angelo (Rider University, NJ, USA): Plays within Plays within Plays: Revisiting Shakespeare's 'Murder Most Foul' in the Age of Consumption.
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Alison Atkins (Wake Forest University, NC, USA): Alimentary Consumption and the Violence of Artistic Creation in Manuel Vázquez Montalbán’s The Birds of Bangkok (1983)
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Stefan Meier (TU Chemnitz, Germany): Franchising Sherlock: The Detective as Commodity
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Ellen Risholm (University of Dortmund, Germany): The Meanderings of Consumption in Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s Detective Fiction
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11:00-11:30 Coffee
11:30-13:30 Parallel Session 5
Selling Setting (Board Room) Critique of Capitalism (Wood Room)
Chair:Deborah Walker Chair: Jeffrey Halpern
Ellen Carter (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne): Criminal Consumption in and of the South Pacific
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Joel Phillips (River University, NJ, USA): Greed and Redemption in Robert J. Sawyer’s Red Planet Blues
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Julia Augart (University of Namibia): Exploitation as Consumerism. Social Criticism in German crime fiction set in Africa
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Elizabeth Scheiber (River University, NJ, USA): The Commodification of the Authentic: Symbol and Mise en Abyme in Richard Price's Lush Life
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Kerstin Bergman (Lund University, Sweden): Selling the Swedish Countryside: Commodification of the Rural in Recent Crime Novels
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Linda Crawford (Salve Regina University, RI, USA): Private Guise: Socialist Detectives Thwarting Corporate Greed?
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Andrea Hynynen (University of Turku, Finland): Sami traditions against financial interests in Olivier Truc’s and Lars Petterson’s crime novels
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Andrew Pepper (Queen’s University Belfast): Capitalist Noir
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13:30-14:45 Lunch (Plassey House)
14:45-16:15
Session 6: Irish Crime and the Celtic Tiger (Wood Room)
Chair: Andrew Pepper
Jane Rosenbaum (Rider University, NJ, USA): From Faithful Places to Broken Harbors: Tana French and the Crime Novel in the Wake of Eurozone Consumerism
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Michaela Schrage-Früh (University of Limerick): Consumerism, Crime and Gender in Declan Hughes' The Wrong Kind of Blood and Niamh O'Connor's Taken
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Kate Quinn (NUI Galway): Disintegrating Psyches, Madness and Follies in Declan Hughes, Niamh O’Connor and Alan Glynn
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16:30-17:00 Coffee/Tea (Millstream Common Room)
17:00-18:00 Crime Writer Niamh O’Connor will read from and talk about her work (Millstream Common Room)
19:30 Conference Dinner (Azur, 8 George's Quay, Limerick City)
We gratefully acknowledge the support for the conference from
the Vice-President Academic and Registrar of the University of Limerick; the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, UL; the School of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics, UL; the School of Culture and Communication, UL; the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, NUI Galway; and the Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities, Queen’s University Belfast
   
 
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