Conference Programme
The draft programme for the conference is available below. Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.

Thursday 26th September

12.00pm
Registration

2.00pm
Opening Words & Introduction
Rob Fisher

2.15pm
Keynote Address: Thinking Imprisonment, Writing The Experience
Diana Medlicott

3.30pm
Tea

4.00pm.
Session 1 : Women’s Identity in Prison
Chair: Robert Perkinson

Nawar Golley: Memoirs from the Women’s Prison by Dr. Nawal El-Saadawi

Velinka Grozdanic and Ute Bremer: A Written Word from Women’s Prisons Regarding Socialisation

5.15pm
Finish

Friday 27th September
9.30am
Session 2 : Prisoner Narratives and Prison Novels
Chair: David Schalkwyk

Rebecca Bordt: A Sociological Analysis of Prison Narratives Written by U.S. Prisoners

Andrew Sobanet: Penology and Fiction: The Prison Novel as Interdisciplinary Sub-Genre

Dr. Danine Farquharson: Irish Ironies: The Prison Writings of John Mitchel, Brendan Behan, and Gerry Adams

11.00am
Coffee

11.30am
Session 3 : Shifting Subjectivities: Political Expression Through Creativity
Chair: Danine Farquharson

Laurence McKeown: Writing our own History: The Creative Writings of Irish Political Prisoners in Long Kesh Prison Camp

Astreia Soares: Within the Beige Pants Country: A Comparison of Texts Written by Detainees in Brazil

12.30pm
Lunch

2.00pm
Session 4 : Arts Projects in Prison
Chair: Diana Medlicott

Jean Trounstine: Shakespeare Behind Bars: The Power of Drama in a Women’s Prison

Mary Stephenson: A Distant Voice in the Darkness

3.00pm
Coffee

3.30pm
Session 5: Informal Roundtable Discussion : The Links Between Imprisonment, Identity and Creativity

5.00pm
Finish

Saturday 30th September
9.30 a.m.
Session 6: Resistance and the Body
Chair: Laurence McKeown

David Schalkwyk: Mandela’s Lost Manuscript: Appropriation and Repression in Accounts of Robben Island

Robert Perkinson: Hell Exploded: How Prisoner Music and Memoir Helped Topple America’s Convict Lease System and What This Means for the Future of Penal Reform

Jonathan Ortiz: Digging up Resistance: An Exploration of Inmate Infraction as Resistance

11.00am
Coffee

11.00am
Session 7 : Reports from the Front: Gambia

Dominique Sarr & Fatoumata Sy: A Report from Gambia

12.00pm
Lunch

2.00 pm
Session 8: Informal Roundtable Discussion : Repression, Resistance and Freedom

3.30pm
Coffee break

4.00pm
Development Meeting – Discussion of hardback publication, e-publishing, future projects.

5.00pm
Conference Close