INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY BREMEN

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From December 8.-10. the symposium „Crime and Nation“ takes place at IUB. Why are crime novels, characterized by geographical and cultural patterns, so successful?

[ Dec 01, 2005]  20 scientists from Germany, Italy, Ireland, France, the Netherlands and Togo explore the culture typologies mediated by and manifested in crime. The conference is aimed at analyzing – with respect to diverse media specificities and within different historical contexts – various kinds of representations in which this culture-typological dimension of crime is being dealt with and worked out.

The other focus of the conference will be true crime. The symposium is truly transdisciplinary, experts of literature, theatre, film and TV work alongside political scientist, ethnologist sociologists and criminologists.

The conference begins on Thursday at 4 p.m. Everybody is invited to join the lectures in Research IV’s lecture hall on IUB campus. All lectures are in English.

On Friday, December 9, a special event takes place the panel discussion „To Die For: Beautiful Scenes of Crime. Globalisation and Crime.“ Well known crime novel protagonists discuss the frontiers of interculturality in crime novels: author Jan Seghers (alias Matthias Altenburg), Tatort-commissar Sabine Postel (alias Inga Lürssen), Die ZEIT journalist Tobias Gohlis, Kristian Lutze (translator of Robert Wilson and other authors) and Dr. Cornelia Ackers from Bayerischer Rundfunk (Polizeiruf 110). The discussion will be in German, it takes place at IUB’s campus Center and starts at 6.30 p.m.

A special lecture will be held on Saturday at 11.30 a.m.: Prof. Dr. Pino Arlacchi, former Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Drugs Control and Crime Prevention, lectures on ”Godfathers or Wiseguys? Grand Stereotypes and Mean Realities in the World of Organized Crime.”

The symposium will be supported by the VolkswagenStiftung.

Here you can find the conference program.

Contact:
International University Bremen
Dr. Immacolata Amodeo
Professor of Literature
Fon: 0421 200 3322
Email: i.amodeo@iu-bremen.de

Universität Erfurt
Dr. Eva Erdmann
Philosophische Fakultät
Fon: 0361 737 4282
Email: eva.erdmann@uni-erfurt.de

 


Author: Dagmar Becker. Last updated on 06.12.2005. © 2005 International University Bremen, Campus Ring 1, 28759 Bremen. All rights reserved. No unauthorized reproduction. http://www.iu-bremen.de. For all general inquiries, please call IUB at +49 421 200-4100 or mail to iub@iu-bremen.de.