Theme: Crime as counterculture

Thursday and Friday 5-6 May 2016

Organisers:: Tyge Krogh, Peter Edelberg, Claus Bundgaard Christensen

Place: Schæffergården, Jægersborg Alle 166, 2820 Gentofte

 

Thursday 5th of May:

10.45- 11.15 Check in, coffee

11.15 – 11.25 Peter Edelberg (University of Copenhagen): Welcome

11.25 – 12.20 Pieter Spierenburg (Erasmus University): European homicide from a global perspective

12.20 – 13.30 Lunch

13.30 – 14.25 Tyge Krogh (Danish National Archives): Danish early modern criminal cultures

14.25 – 14.30 Break

14.30 – 15.25 Heather Shore (Leeds Becket University): Defining the “Underworld” over Time: Space, Place and Constructions of Criminality

15.25 – 16.00 Coffee break

16.00 – 16.55 Bolette Frydendahl Larsen (Lund University): Becoming oneself through shame: Social relations and identity formations at a Danish Re-education Home for Girls in the interwar years

16.55 – 17.00 Break

17.00 – 17.55 Mette Seidelin (Danish National Archives): Child sexual abuse inside the family and the construction of the offender and victim 1930-67

19.00 Dinner

 

Friday 6th of May

07.00 – 09.00 Breakfast

09.00 – 09.55 Johan Lund Heinsen (Aalborg University): Maritime Cultures of crime (1600-1800)

09.55 – 10.00 Break

10.00 – 10.55 Claus Bundgaard Christensen (Roskilde University): White-Collar Crime and the Black Market in Denmark 1939-1950

10.55 – 11.30 Coffee break

11.30 – 12.25 Sofie Lene Bak (University of Copenhagen): Sex crime and war (c. 1935-55)

12.25 – 13.30 Lunch

13.30 – 14.25 Mark Roodhouse (The University of York): The Spiv: Linking Overworld and Underworld in 1940s Britain

14.25 – 14.30 Break

14.30 – 15.25 The network ‘The Cultural History of Crime in Denmark’ concluding discussion