This conference will focus on the unique challenges and benefits of
researching and writing about forgotten, immoral, ignored and disliked
individuals, groups and ideas at any time in history. Postgraduate
students and early-career researchers will come together from across
Great Britain to discuss their research and the difficulties they have
faced as they study such subjects. Questions to be addressed include
who is considered to be a villain, rogue or deviant? What makes them
so? And how did ethical frameworks shift over time to change
society's views of these people?
The scheduled programme for the day:
| 9:00am |
Registration begins |
| 9:25am |
Welcome |
| 9:45am |
Session One: Defining criminal and non-criminal behaviour |
| 11:15am |
Session Two: Gender and law in Britain |
| 12:20pm |
Lunch (provided) |
| 1:15pm |
Session Three: Twentieth century genocide |
| 2:20pm |
Session Four: Villains and literature |
| 3:45pm |
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Louise Jackson (University of Edinburgh) |
| 4:45pm |
Closing remarks |
S
peakers will be discussing a wide variety of topics related to the
overarching theme of the conference. The first session will focus on
changing perceptions of criminal and non-criminal behaviour over time.
Gender and law will examine laws regarding infanticide,
cross-dressing and incest. The session on genocide will include
discussions of the Nuremburg Trials, the Khmer Rouge, and portrayals
of genocide in modern film. Villains and literature will look at the
use of persuasive literature and politically slanted writing in
Britain and abroad. In her keynote address, Criminal Lives, Dr.
Louise Jackson will discuss the continued popularity of convicted
offenders' biographies
since the early modern period.
Generously funded by the Edinburgh Trust
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