Colloque (12-13 septembre, université de Lyon 2 et Lyon 3) : Appel à contributions

Call for Papers

Women and Crime in Britain and North America since 1500: An Interdisciplinary Conference, Lyon 2 & Lyon 3 University, Lyon, France, 12-13 September 2008.

This conference will explore the complex relationship between women and crime over the last five centuries in Britain and North America: patterns of criminality, the experience of women criminals and victims of crime; the shifting mechanisms by which forms of behaviour are labelled deviant, and the representations of such behaviour in official and popular discourse, in law, science, the media, literature, drama and art. The conference is interdisciplinary in scope and encourages contributions from different theoretical perspectives. Proposals for thirty-minute papers are invited in the fields of social, cultural and political history, literature, drama, gender studies, the history of ideas and the history of art. Papers in social, political and literary theory together with historiography are also welcome.

Proposals should contain a summary of not more than 500 words, together with a curriculum vitae and may be sent by e-mail or post to the conference organiser listed below.

Deadline for proposals: 15 November 2007.

Neil Davie,
Professor of British History,
Université Lumière Lyon 2
Faculté de Langues,
Département d’Etudes du Monde Anglophone,
74 rue Pasteur,
69365 Lyon cedex 07,
FRANCE.
Neil.Davie@univ-lyon2.fr