White-Coat Stories: Medicine, Criminality, and Murder (This CFP is part of a larger conference (AICED-27))
UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST
Event: This CFP is part of a larger conference (AICED-27)
White-Coat Stories: Medicine, Criminality, and Murder
Interdisciplinary Workshop (on site only)
White-Coat Stories: Medicine, Criminality, and Murder invites scholars, researchers, practitioners, and artists to explore the interplay between medical authority, investigative logic, and criminal transgression across historical periods and media forms. We are particularly interested in the dual figure of the doctor as both potential criminal and detective: healer and killer, diagnostician and investigator, authority and suspect.
We welcome contributions that examine how medicine intersects with crime detection, violence, illegality, and moral ambiguity in literature, film, television, history, law, and public discourse.
Possible Topics Include (but are not limited to):
Doctors as perpetrators: medical serial killers, malpractice, euthanasia, and covert harm
Physician-investigators in literature, television, and film
The medicalization of criminality (e.g., insanity defenses, forensic psychiatry)
Autopsy, pathology, and the forensic gaze in crime fiction and true crime
Hospitals as spaces of secrecy, conspiracy, or institutional violence
Gender, race, and power in narratives of medical crime
Organ trafficking, body commodification, and biopolitical control
Bioethics and the boundaries of “legitimate” killing
Representations of medical crime in media
Panel stream organisers:
Monica Manolachi, University of Bucharest, monica.manolachi@lls.unibuc.ro;
Lorena Mihaes, University of Bucharest, lorena.mihaes@lls.unibuc.ro
This workshop is part of AICED-27, tHE 27th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST, to be held on 5-6 June 2026
Conference presentations must be in English and will be allocated 20 minutes each, plus 10 minutes for discussion. Prospective participants are invited to submit abstracts of up to 200 words. Proposals should be in .doc or .docx format and also include (within the same document): name and institutional affiliation, the title of the proposed paper, a short bio note (no more than 100 words), 5 keywords, and the participant’s e-mail address. Proposals for panel streams (to be organised by the participants) will also be considered.
Please submit all proposals to our email address: conf.eng.litcult@lls.unibuc.ro
Deadline for proposals: 15 March 2026
Conference fee
Early bird: 100 Euro or 500 lei (by 1 April 2026)
Regular: 120 Euro or 600 lei (by 30 April 2026)
MA students and PhD Candidates: 50 Euro or 250 lei
Payment details will be communicated to the participants upon acceptance.
A selection of papers from the conference will be published in the University of Bucharest Review (ISSN 2069–8658) – listed on SCOPUS, EBSCO, ERIH PLUS and DOAJ. See the guidelines for contributors at https://ubr.rev.unibuc.ro/.
https://engleza.lls.unibuc.ro/conferinte/
Lorena Mihaes