The Political Prison: Dissent, Incarceration, and Penal RegimesUniversity of Dundee, 18-19 June 2015.

Thursday 18 June

8.30-9.15: registration, coffee, Dalhousie 2S14

9.15-10.30: Keynote Lecture, Dalhousie 3G02

David Nash, (Oxford Brookes University) Are We All ‘Prisoners of Blasphemy’?

Conflicts over Religious Beliefs, Incarceration, and the State.

10.30-11.00: Coffee, Dalhousie 2S14

11.00-1.00: Contemporary Politics, Penal Power, and the State

Dalhousie 2S15

Chair: Emily Hart

Liv Gaborit (DIGNITY, Danish Institute Against Torture), Researching the

Political Prison: Ethical Dilemmas of Political Involvement in Research.

Andrew Jefferson (DIGNITY, Danish Institute Against Torture), Legacies of

Detention in Myanmar: On Changing Penal Regimes and their Consequences.

Melissa Dearey (Hull University), Defining Deviancy Up? Exploring the

Criminalisation of Environmental Protest, Tactics Undercover Policing and the Media

Construction of Police Officer as Pariah: the Case of Mark Kennedy.

Tomas Martin and Gilles Chantraine (Danish Human Rights Institute and

Universit Lillé), Toward a Sociology of Prison Escape.

1.00-2.00: Lunch, Dalhousie 2S14

2.00-3.30: Riots, Resistance, and Sexual Violence in America’s Prisons.

Dalhousie 2S15

Chair: Rachel Seoighe

Althea Legal-Miller (University College, London), The Unmentionable Ugliness

of the Jailhouse: Sexualised Violence, Testimony, and the Southern Civil Rights

Movement.

Erin Lux (University of Strathclyde), Every inmate in the prison is so afraid of

dying, freedom is so far away: Prisoner resistance and the 1951-3 Riots in the United

States.

Vivien Miller (Nottingham University), Challenging Prisoner Dissent and the

Florida State Prison Riot of 1971.

3.30-4.00: Coffee, Dalhousie 2S14

4.00-5.00: Political Prisoners and Revolutionary Struggle in Ireland.

Dalhousie 2S15

Chair: Zoe Colley

William Murphy (Dublin City University), A Branch of warfare not usually

taught in drill-halls: Prison Protest and the Irish Revolution, 1915-21.

Mary Corcoran (Keele University), Spectacular Protest: The Imprisoned Body

as an Artifact of Resistance.

5.00-5.15: Comfort Break.

5.15-6.15: Plenary Lecture, Dalhousie 3G02

Joe Sim (Liverpool John Moores University), 'We Are Not Animals, We Are Human

Beings': The Strangeways Demonstration, State Punishment and the Limits of Liberal

Reform.

7.30: Conference dinner, Malmaison.

Friday 19 th June

9.15-10.45: Female Incarceration and Resistance from the Past to the Present.

Dalhousie 2S15

Chair: Rachel Seoighe

Kelly Hignett (Leeds Becket University), We were There, Too: Female Political

Prisoners in Communist Czechoslovakia, 1948-1968.

Hannah Al-Hassan (Merton College, Oxford University), Modernity and the

Mu’taqal: Women Political Prisoners in Egypt, 1948-1963.

Emily Hart (Liverpool Hope University), You’ve gotta stand by your woman:

Women Prisoners’ Forms and Methods of Resistance in the UK.

10.45-11.15: Coffee, Dalhousie 2S14

11.15-1.00: Political Prisoners and Everyday Expressions of Resistance in Europe.

Dalhousie 2S15

Chair: Matthew Graham

Lucia Herrmann (University of Zurich), The Political Prisoners’ Voice: The

Radio Programme Antena de Burgos in Spain, 1963-1966.

Graham Harris (University of East Anglia), The Fast, the Hunger Strike, and

the Imprisoned Opposition in Poland, 1977-1980.

Danilo Dondici (University of East Anglia), Resisting and Reinterpreting Prison:

Discipline, Punishment, and Political Dissent in Modern Italy.

Fabienne Emmerich (Keele University), Political Resistance in German Prisons

during the 1970s and 80s: Prison Life Stories of Survival, Sacrifice and the Fight for

Intercommunicative Groups.

1.00-2.00: Lunch, Dalhousie 2S14

2.00-3.30 Colonial Regimes, National Identity, and Political Prisoners’ Struggle for

Power. Dalhousie 2S15

Chair: Zoe Colley

Katy Roscoe (University of Leicester), The Transportation of Aboriginal

Convicts as ‘de facto’ Political Prisoners in Mid-Nineteenth Western Australia.

Lorraine Patterson (Wolfson College, University of Oxford), Translating Exile:

Penal Interpreters of the French Colonial Empire.

Jocelyn Alexander (Oxford University), The Political Prison in 1980s

Zimbabwe: Creating Objects of Loyalty.

3.30: Conference closes.

Further Information

Registration:

Attendance at the conference is free. To register, please email

humanitiesdeansec@dundee.ac.uk by 12 June.

Conference dinner:

The dinner will be held at the Malmaison Hotel. Please confirm attendance, whether you require the vegetarian option, and any special dietary requirements to z.a.colley@dundee.ac.uk by 12 June.

Menu:Starter: Potato and black olive velouté, truffle oil, and artisan breadMain: Slow cooked belly of pork, choucroute, smoked sausage, mustard sauce.Dessert: Malmaison chocolate brownie.

Vegetarian option:Starter: Potato and black olive velouté, truffle oil, and artisan breadMain: Penne Pasta Arrabbiata, courgette, buffalo mozzarella, and fresh basil.Dessert: Malmaison chocolate brownie.

Travel and accommodation:

Dundee is on the main East cost rail line, with regular direct trains from London

King’s Cross. There are daily flights from London Stansted to Dundee airport.

Edinburgh and Aberdeen airports are a 1 hour train ride away.

The most convenient hotel is the Queen’s Hotel on Nethergate,

http://www.queenshotel-dundee.com

For further information about travelling to Dundee and other accommodation

options, please visit http://www.conventiondundeeandangus.co.uk.

For information about travelling to Dundee University, please visit

http://www.dundee.ac.uk/travel/travellingtotheuniversity/

Venue: Dalhousie Building, main campus (no 14 on campus map):

Directions from Queen’s Hotel to Dalhousie Building.

The Dalhousie building is a 5 minute walk from the Queen’s Hotel:1. Turn left as you exit the hotel and cross the road. 2. The university’s Tower Building will be to your right.3. Turn right down Small’s Wynd (immediately after the Tower Building).4. Walk along Small’s Wynd (you will pass the university library on your left.)5. The Dalhousie building is the white building at the very end of Small’s Wynd. The room numbering system in Dalhousie is somewhat counterintuitive. The first number refers to the block, the following letter refers to the floor (G=ground

floor; F=first floor; S=second floor.) The final number refers to the room. Registration is in 2S14—block 2, second floor, room 14.

Directions from Dundee train station to the Queen’s Hotel:

The Queen’s Hotel is a 5-10 minute walk from the station, or a 2 minute taxi ride. Walking directions:

1. Turn left out of the station exit.2. Follow the road as it curves around to the left and then the right. 3. You will come to a cross-roads, with the Halifax Bank opposite you and

Debenhams on the right. Turn left down Nethergate.4. The Queen’s hotel is a 2 minute walk along Nethergate, just past the Dundee

Contemporary Arts.

Conference dinner:The dinner will be held in the Malmaison Hotel, 44 Whitehall Crescent.

A walking party will depart the Queen’s Hotel at 7.15. Please meet in the hotel reception area. Alternatively, walking directions are included below.

Directions from the Queen’s Hotel to the Malmaison:1. Turn right as you exit the Queen’s Hotel and walk along Nethergate.2. Cross the road at the traffic lights and turn right along Yeaman’s Shore (you

will pass Mecca Bingo and Thornton’s solicitors on your left.)3. The Malmaison will be in front of you.