Thematic Seminars (Online)

Genealogical Perspectives on Criminalisation and Figures of Crime

We kindly invite you to participate in the first online seminars hosted by the research project « CrimScapes – Navigating citizenship through European landscapes of criminalisation ». In three online sessions, the project invites attendees to discuss the trend towards criminalisation across Europe by exploring political and legal genealogies and the emergent related figures of crime and criminalised fields. Scholars, students as well as anybody interested in the topic are invited to engage in a lively discussion with the research team and invited speakers.

I. May 27th, 3-6pm (CEST): Seminar Kick-Off

• Keynote by Prof. Aya Gruber (Author of « The Feminist War on Crime »): “Policing and Bluelining”
• Project Presentation by CrimScapes’ Principle Investigators Prof. Dr. Beate Binder and Dr. Agata Dziuban
• Discussion

II. June 11th, 12am-3pm (CEST): Working Session I

• Presentation by Johanna Nickels: « Always More and Never Enough? A French-German Comparison of Legislative Dynamics in Criminal Law »
• Working Groups

1. Crime and Media: Representations of crime and criminality in the media,
   Prof. Nicolas Hubé. Prof. Dr. Nitzan Shoshan, Dr. Jérémy Geeraert, Dr. Claire Ruffio, Dr. Todd Sekuler, tba
2. Vulnerabilising criminalised subjects: Entanglements of gender and crime,
   Dr. Agata Chełstowska, Dr. Agata Dziuban, Dr. Friederike Faust, Dr. Justyna Struzik

III. June 14th, 10am-1pm (CEST): Working Session II

• Presentation by Dr. Mathilde Darley: « Judging human trafficking in France and Germany: The criminal production of the victim of sexual exploitation »
• Discussion
• Launch of CrimLines (Timelines of Criminalisation)

Please find a more detailed description of the programme (incl. abstracts and bios).

Enroll: To attend the first session (open to the public) and/or to express your interest in the working sessions, please follow this link: https://eveeno.com/crimscapes

Please note that the second and third sessions are working sessions entailing exchanges within small working groups and thus with a limit number of participants.
The event(s) will be hosted via zoom. All information will be communicated via email prior to the event(s).

The CrimScapes research project (2020-2023) explores the growing mobilisation of criminal law, crime control measures and imaginaries of (il)legality as both responses to, and producers of, the politics of threat and uncertainty that are currently expanding across the European region. It works to analytically grasp the motivations behind, and challenges and implications of, criminalisation for the variety of actors and practices that (re-)shape entangled landscapes of criminalisation around abortion, drug use, hate speech, infectious diseases, sea rescue, sex work and women’s prisons.

CrimScapes is a joint project realised by 11 researchers of four universities, namely Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Université Paris Saclay and University of Helsinki. The project is funded by NORFACE.

Thank you and see you soon,
The CrimScapes Project Team