WAR MAKES MONSTERS: Crime & Criminality in Times of Conflict | 2-3 June 2022
Venue: UCD HUMANITIES INSTITUTE | Seminar Room H204
THURSDAY, 2 JUNE 2022
12:00-13:00 LUNCH/MEET & GREET
13:00-14:20 PANEL 1
Wars without End: The World Wars in Golden Age British Crime Fiction
Jessica Meyer, University of Leeds, UK
Dead but Not Buried: Serial Murderer Henri Désiré Landru and a Century of War Critique
Julie M. Powell, University College Dublin, Ireland
14:20-14:40 TEA/COFFEE BREAK
14:40-16:00 PANEL 2
Criminality in Finland Immediately after the Second World War: Perspectives of the Regional Press, 1944–1949
Katja Pyötsiä, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
The Rhetoric and Politics of Gender-Based Violence in the Interwar French Colonial Press
Angélique Ibáñez Aristondo, City University of New York, US
20:00-22:00 DINNER at FIRE Steakhouse & Bar, The Mansion House, Dawson St, Dublin 2
FRIDAY, 3 JUNE 2022
10:00-12:00 PANEL 3
‘Brutal by temperament and taste’: Violence between comrades in the French Army, 1914-1918
Claire Eldridge, University of Leeds, UK
The Algerian Enemy Within: Policing the Black Market in Marseille and Algiers, 1939-1950
Danielle Beaujon, University of Illinois, US
‘A man who has fought cannot be anything but a brave man’: Intimate and family violence in Britain during the First World War’
Chloë Pieters, University College London, UK
12:00-13:00 LUNCH
13:00-14:20 PANEL 4
Ex Post Facto Criminal Law and the Third Reich
Andrew McKeown, The Honorable Society of King’s Inns, Ireland
War Makes Citizens: Claiming Prisoner, National, and Human Rights in French Prisons during the Algerian War, 1954-1962
Ariel Mond, Rutgers University – New Brunswick, US
14:20-14:40 TEA/COFFEE BREAK
14:40-16:00 PANEL 5
‘Justice and humanity must be promptly avenged’: from the experience of civil war to the idea of war crimes in Revolutionary France
Joseph Clarke, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Forgiving Monsters? Military Criminality and the Politics of Royal Pardon in 15th- Century France
Quentin Verreycken, University of Louvain, Belgium
16:00-16:20 CLOSING DISCUSSION
