Programme

9:20 - 9:50 - Arrival and Registration

9:50 - 10:00 - Welcome to Manchester

10:00 - 11:15 - Keynote Panel: Curating Dangerous Writings

Chair: Marion Vannier

Steven Hartshorne – (curator of the Science, Technology and Medicine Printed Collections) - It’s not always the What, it’s sometimes the How: The challenge of accounting for context in inclusive cataloguing
Dr Janette Martin – (Research and Learning Manager and Modern History Archivist) - Curating English MS 1587

Flora Chatt – (curator of the Humanitarian Archive at the University of Manchester Library) - Dangerous material in humanitarian archive.
Dr Tereza Ward – (archivist and curator of the Christian Brethren Archive at the University of Manchester Library) - Mission Impossible? Navigating Access to Brethren Mission Records.

11:15 - 11:30 - Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:45 - Panel 2 - Research at the Edge: Ethical Challenges of Studying Dangerous Writings

Chair: Jon Shute

Emily Turner & Marion Vannier (University of Manchester) – Engaging ethically with prisoners’ letters
Andriani Fili and Mary Bosworth (University of Oxford) – Documenting Violence, Bearing Witness: The Emotional Aftermath of Detention Research [ONLINE]
Kate Herrity (University of Cambridge) – The goat of HMP Midtown: the ethical dangers of telling people's stories

12:45 - 13:45 - Lunch Break

13:45 - 15:00 - Panel 3 - To Write in Danger

Chair: Steve Scott-Bottoms

Lucy Campbell (University of Edinburgh) - Looking Through a Two-Way Mirror, Prison Diaries and Ethical Representations of the Past Self
Sanja Petkovska (University of Belgrade) - Prison Blogging and the Phenomenology of Public Factination by Life in Prison
Jason Warr (University of Nottingham) - Challenging Emergent Paradigms: The Case of Criminal Justice and Lived Experience

15:00 - 15:15 - Coffee Break

15:15 - 16:15 - Panel 4 - Readers at Risk: Interpretation and Impact of Dangerous Texts

Chair - Emily Turner

Jacopo Bernardini (University of Pisa) – Memory, narrative, and self-justification in Prefectorial Memoirs from the Italian Social Republic (RSI)
Jon Shute (University of Manchester) – The zone of criminological interest? Reading Hoess in dangerous times

16:15- 16:45 - Break - Wine Reception

17:00 - 18:00 - Performance - "Dear Daisy"

A dramatization of letters written by a person in prison

Script by: Steve Scott-Bottoms (University of Manchester)

Duration: 1 hour including Q&A

18:00 - 18:30 - Wine Reception Concludes