Noir
in the North
Conference
Programme
@noirinthenorth
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Wednesday,
November 16th
9.30-10.00 Registration
2nd Floor, Hotel Saga
10.00-10.15 Opening Remarks (Room: Katla II)
10.15-11.30 Keynote Address
(Room: Katla II)
Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, ‘Yin Yang’
11.30-12.00 Refreshments
12.00-13.30 Panel One
1A) Noir & the
Past (Room: Katla II)
Chair: Dagný Kristjánsdóttir
·
Melissa
Jacques (University of British Columbia), ‘Mid-Century Modern and the Aesthetics of Fascism’
·
Christopher
James (Bridgewater College), ‘Bleakness and Tenacity: Fin-de-siècle
French Literature and Nordic Noir’
·
Daisy
Neijmann (University of Iceland), ‘Fair Shores: Pastness and Authenticity in Arnaldur
Indriðason and Ann Cleeves’
1B) Noir &
National Identity (Room: Hekla I)
Chair: Giti Chandra
·
Kerstin
Bergman (University of Lund), ‘From Solidarity to Neo-liberalism: The Swedish
Police Novel’
·
Nina
Muždeka (University of Novi Sad), ‘Nordic
Noir and Subversive Sociopolitical Commentary: A Norwegian Example’
·
Catherine
Nickerson (Emory University), ‘Lilyhammer’s “Land of
Second Chances”’
1C) Noir & Space (Room: Hekla II)
Chair: Anne Marit Waade
·
Lughan
Deane (University College Dublin), ‘Ghost Estates, Building Sites and Dead Developers
in Irish Crime Fiction’
·
Graeme
Gilloch (Lancaster University), ‘Views from The
Bridge: Panoramas, Non-Places and Spatial Hieroglyphs’
·
Kjartan Már Ómarsson (University of Iceland), ‘White Nights: The Nordic Periphery in Baltasar Kormakur’
13.30-14.30 Lunch
Restaurant
Skrúður (1st Floor, Hotel Saga)
14.30-15.45 Keynote Address (Room: Katla II)
Bruce Robbins (Columbia University), ‘The Place
of Nordic Noir in the History of Violence’
Chair: Stacy Gillis
15.45-16.15 Refreshments
16.15-17.45 Panel Two
2A) Noir
& the Epic (Room: Katla II)
Chair: Felicity
Hand
·
Jillene Bydder (University of Waikato), ‘The Detective and the Sagas: Erlendur in the
Novels of Arnaldur Indriðason’
·
Giti Chandra (University of Delhi), ‘Dragon Tattoos, Crime, and the City: The
Contemporary Epic’
·
Michael
Treschow (University of British Columbia), ‘Outsiders: Grettir the Strong and
Carl Mørck’
2B) Noir & the Child (Room: Hekla I)
Chair: Sara
Kärrholm
·
Katarina Gregersdotter (Umeå
University), ‘The
Child as Outsider and Avenger in John Ajvide Lindqvist’
·
Franziska
Kretschmer (University of Freiburg), ‘The Child is a Vamp: The Supernatural Femme Fatale in John Ajvide Lindqvist and Tomas Alfredson’
·
Andrew
Nestingen (University of Washington), ‘Kid
Stuff: Nordic Noir and Quality’
2C)
Noir & Work (Room: Hekla II)
Chair: Christinna Hobbs
·
Iratxe Fresneda (University of the Basque Country),
‘Female Detectives in Nordic Noir: Bron/Broen and Forbrydelsen’
·
Kate Hinnant
(University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire), ‘Life and Work, Work and Life: Traversing
Boundaries in Nordic Noir’
·
Fiona
Peters (Bath Spa University), ‘Saga, Sarah and Kurt: On the Borderline’
20.00 Conference
Dinner (for
those who have pre-booked)
Fiskfélagiđ
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Thursday, November 17th
9.30-11.15 Panel Three
3A) Noir & Genealogies (Room: Katla II)
Chair: Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson
·
Björn
Norðfjörð (St. Olaf College), ‘To Be or Not To Be (Noir)’
·
Alda
Björk Valdimarsdóttir (University of Iceland), ‘When Murder Comes to Town: The
Dark Vision of Gerður Kristný’
·
Pao-Hsiang
Wang (National Taiwan University), ‘“Seneca Cannot Be Too Heavy, Nor Plautus
Too Light”: Heavy Business and Light Desire in Kaurismaki’s Hamlet Goes Business’
3B) Noir & Women (Room: Hekla I)
Chair: Nina Muzdeka
·
Lorna Hill (University of Stirling), ‘Bloody Women:
Female Protagonists Transforming Contemporary Scottish and Scandinavian Crime
Fiction’
·
María
Socorro Suárez Lafuente (University of Oviedo), ‘Female Crime Writers and Their
Detectives: The Nordic Countries and Spain’
·
Gerardine Meaney (University
College Dublin), ‘The Woman Between: A Social Network Analysis of The Fall and The Bridge’
·
Jon
Wilkins (Independent), ‘Irene Huss: Mother, Wife, Detective’
3C) Noir &
Reception (Room: Hekla II)
Chair: Kate Hinnant
·
Ingibjörg Ágústsdóttir (University of
Iceland), ‘A
Brooding Nordic Noir? Noirish Elements in Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites’
·
Sara
Kärrholm (Lund University) and Carina Sjöholm (Lund University), ‘The Power of
the Good Example: The Packaging of Characters and Places in Contemporary Nordic
Noir’
·
Delphine Letort (Université du Maine), ‘The Transnational Values of Noir in Danish and American
Television Series’
·
Jacqui
Miller (Liverpool Hope University), ‘A Labyrinth of
Noir: Martin Beck, Translation and Adaptation’
11.15-11.45 Refreshments
11.45-13.00 Keynote Address (Room: Katla II)
Mary Evans (London
School of Economics), ‘Dark Nights and Moral Diversity: Very Good and Very Bad
in Nordic Noir’
Chair: Gunnþórunn
Guðmundsdóttir
13.00-14.00 Lunch
Restaurant
Skrúður (1st Floor, Hotel Saga)
14.00-15.30 Panel Four
4A) Noir & Gender (Room: Katla II)
Chair: Gerardine Meaney
·
Guðni Elísson (University of Iceland), ‘The
Monster in the Closet: Bisexuality and Discursive Unease in Arnaldur
Indriðason’s Bettý’
·
Anna
Sigríður A. Guðfinnsdóttir (University of Iceland) and Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson
(University of Iceland), ‘Femininity, Masculinity and Style in Arnaldur
Indriðason’s Bettý’
·
Björn
Þór Vilhjálmsson (University of Iceland), ‘Male Violence and Female Victimhood:
Social Justice in Steinar Bragi’s Kata’
4B) Noir &
Peripheries (Room: Hekla I)
Chair: Jacqui Miller
·
Felicity Hand (Universitat Autònoma
de Barcelona), ‘Reading Gunnar Staalesen’s The
Consorts of Death Ecocritically’
·
Christinna
Hobbs (Liverpool John Moores University), ‘“Depressing,
hideous…Beautiful”: Nordic Noir and the Postcolonial North’
·
Anne Marit Waade (Aarhus University) and Kim Toft
Hansen (Aalborg University), ‘Locating
Nordic Noir’
4C) Noir & Definitions (Room: Hekla II)
Chair: Delphine Letort
·
Parnal
Chirmuley (Jawaharlal Nehru
University), ‘Timely Translation: The
Creation of Nordic Noir as an Identifiable Genre’
·
Andrew
Pepper (Queen’s University Belfast), ‘Nordic Noir, Transnationalism, and
Problems of Definition’
·
Patrick
Kent Russell (University of Connecticut), ‘Understanding American and Nordic
Noir Critiques through Hard-Boiled Interrogations of Wealth and Crime’
15.30-16.00 Refreshments
16.00-16.45 Roundtable
(Room: Katla II)
17.30-19.30 Keynote Address & Reception (Reykjavik City Hall)
Val McDermid
Chair: Stacy Gillis
Keynote
Address in association with Iceland Noir Festival
&
Reykjavik UNESCO City of Literature.
Reception Hosts: The British Embassy in
Iceland
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