Interdisciplinary Approaches to 'Setting the Scene': Representation of Rurality in Crime Fiction and Media Culture

Description

I have co-organised with Dr Linda Price (SPACE) this two day Symposium, supported by the Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities and which delivers on its 2014/15 theme of ‘Creativity in Imagined and Material Worlds’. It builds on two previous conferences I organised in QUB on issues of Crime Fiction and territories (States of Crime , 2011 with Dr Andrew Pepper) and The Territorialization of Crime Fiction, 2014, with Dr Natacha Levet. It expands my research interests in the area of cultural geography and looks at a specific kind of territory, the rural : It brings together studies in crime fiction and media culture looking at a variety of outlets such as fiction, film, television, comics, games and many others to explore the concept of ‘rurality’. Interdisciplinary approaches are reflected in a very successful response to the CFP, with high quality international participants ranging from Anthropology, Modern Languages, English, Film and Media Studies, History, Cultural Studies, Historical/Cultural/Rural Geography, Sociology, Spatial Planning looking at how cultural constructions of the rural ‘set the scene’ for crime fiction

Period	15 Jun 2015
Event type	Conference
Location	Belfast, United KingdomShow on map