A Narratology of Criminal Cases
Narrating Crimes
An international workshop organized by the research project «A Narratology of Criminal Cases».
Sir John Lavery - High Treason, Court of Criminal Appeal: the Trial of Sir Roger Casement (1916)
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The Athenaeum
Hovedinnhold
A report from the workshop is available here.
Program:
Friday May 26th
- Frode Helmich Pedersen (The University of Bergen): «The Story in the Norwegian Judicial Opinion»
- Jeanne Gaakeer (Erasmus University Rotterdam): «Pathologies of Narrative in Criminal Law»
- Matthew Weait (Univserity of Portsmouth): «Just a Matter of Opinion? Expertise and Criminal Culpability»
- Patrick Hanafin (Birkbeck, University of London): «Crime narratives and counter-narratives in Dacia Maraini's Isolina»
- Karen-Margrethe Simonsen (Univeristy of Aarhus): «14 years of Suspended Justice. On Mohamedou Ould Slahi and ‘Guantánamo Diary’»
- Werner Gephart (The University of Bonn): «Narration or Subsumption? Two operations of imputing crime and punishment»
- Ditlev Tamm (University of Copenhagen): «Narrating Crime in Wagner’s The Ring of The Niebelungs»
- Julia Chryssostalis (University of Westminister): «Telling tales to catch law's ear? Literature maintains...»
Saturday May 27th
- Greta Olson (Justus Liebig University Giessen): «The Criminalization and Ethnosexualization of Migrant Men in Germany after the 2015 Attacks in Cologne»
- Panu Minkkinen (University of Helsinki): «'Natural Born Killers': Roland Barthes and the Mythological Criminal»
- Helle Porsdam (Univeristy of Copenhagen): «Innocence and Identity: Orhan Pamuk and Access to Cultural Heritage»
- Arild Linneberg (University of Bergen): «The Metaphysics of Storytelling. Walter Benjamin as a Challenge to Narratology – And to Our Project
Organizing and Funding
The workshop is organized by the research project «A Narratology of Criminal Cases». The project is funded by the University of Bergen and the Research Council of Norway.
The location for the Workshop is Solstrand Hotel
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Solstrand Hotel & Bad
