Schedule of Events:

May 18th , 2007

9:30-10:00: Welcome and Introductions

10:00 - 12:00: Plenary Session: Race, Space and the Production of Crime

Carol Stabile, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: “The Media Don't Care About Black People: Race and Criminalization in the News"

Jenny Burman, McGill University: “Just Desserts: The Jamaicanization of Gun Crime in Toronto”

Laurel Wypkema, McGill University: “The Ethics of Looking: Art Photography and the Prison Crisis”

Michele Byers, Saint Mary's University: “Is It Always (and Inevitably?) Neo-Liberal: Ambivalent Representations of Criminality, Identity and Citizenship”

(Break for lunch)

1:30 - 3:30 Panel: Criminal Physiognomies: The Faces and Places of Crime

Graciela Martinez-Zalce, National Autonomous University of Mexico: "The Territorialization of Crime in Mexican Cinema, 1990-2002"

Carrie Rentschler, McGill University: "Faces of Victims, Places of Murder"

Susana Vargas Cervantes, McGill University: “The 'Look' of a Serial Killer: el/la Mataviejitas”

Aurora Wallace, New York University: "Crime Mapping and the Digital City"

4:00 - 6:00 Panel: Sex and the Nation in Crime Novel Detection

Allan Hepburn, McGill University: "Blood Relations: Genealogy and Inheritance in British Detective Fiction"

Andrea Braithwaite, McGill University: “Killer Accessories: How Chick Dicks Dress for Success”

Thomas Heise, McGill University: "Putting the American Back into Psycho: Bret Easton Ellis and the Criminal Class"

Saturday May 19th , 2007

9:30 - 11:30: Plenary Session: Crime Stories and the Press

Will Straw, McGill University: "On the Whiteness of the True Crime Magazine"

Jaclyn Reid, McGill University: “Obscenity as Crime: A Social History of the Obscene Publications Act in Nineteenth-Century London”

Anna Leventhal, McGill University: “Representing the Unrepresentable: Trauma Stories at Work”

Alison Jacques, McGill University: “`It Hurts All Over Again': Press Coverage of Karla”

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