Assises de la recherche en cultures populaires et médiatiques 2018

« Approches  critiques des fictions médiatiques : enjeux, outils, méthodes »

Research on Popular Cultures and Media Cultures Convention 2018: “Critical approaches to media fictions: stakes, tools and methods”

 

Dates : 11-13 octobre 2018

Lieu : Nanterre et Paris

Programme

Comité organisateur

Stéphane Benassi (Univ. Lille, Geriico)

Vincent Berry (Paris 13, EXPERICE – labex ICCA), également représenté par Sébastien François et Vinciane Zabban

Anne Besson (Université d’Artois, « Textes et Cultures »)

Sébastien Févry (UC Louvain, – GIRCAM)

Anne-Isabelle François (Paris 3, CERC)

Anaïs Goudmand (Lausanne/EHESS / assistante de R. Baroni EFLE / RRN)

Irène Langlet (Université de Limoges, EHIC)

Sarah Lecossais (Paris 13, LABSIC – labex ICCA)

Matthieu Letourneux (Paris Nanterre, CSLF)

Jacques Migozzi (Université de Limoges, EHIC)

Federico Pagello (Queen’s University, Belfast)

Isabelle Périer (Université du Mans, 3-LAM)

Lucia Quaquarelli (Paris Nanterre, CPRM)

Luce Roudier (ENS Ulm)

Sarah Sepulchre (UCLouvain, GIRCAM)

 

Comité scientifique

Raphaël Baroni

Stéphane Benassi

Vincent Berry

Anne Besson

Mélanie Bourdaa

Olivier Caïra

Isabelle-Rachel Casta

Monica Dall’Asta

Jean-Pierre Esquenazi

Sébastien Fevry

Anne-Isabelle François

François Jost

Irène Langlet

Sarah Lécossais

Jacques Migozzi

Keith Moser

Lucia Quaquarelli

Angels Santa

Sarah Sepulchre

Olivier Servais

Marie-Eve Therenty

 

 

Call for proposals

Research on popular cultures and media cultures emerged in the 1960s with a few seminal works, and developed considerably in the last 25 years, particularly in the last 10 years through the contributions of a new generation of researchers who fully own up to their immersion in contemporary transmedia and serial culture. Topical or synthetical research has thus explored such diverse fields as literature, cinema, television, transmedia productions, gaming and video games, comics, children’s and young adult literature, action figures, images etc.

Since the 1990s, there has thus been a significant output of enlightening and clearly synergetic research, which now warrants a collective reconsideration on the basis of new cooperation looking for interdisciplinary relationships.

Indeed, although many conferences have been organized in the field of media culture, and although researchers often read and are aware of each other’s research, we rarely get the opportunity to meet in a large group to compare our topics and perspectives or our areas of theory.

The goal of this convention on popular cultures and media cultures is to fill this gap through meetings and unprecedented scientific debates between the disciplines, methodologies, tools, groups and networks…

Such an ambitious enterprise naturally runs the risk of losing its focus, which is why we will concern ourselves with media fictions, writ in the largest sense. However, all research angles on media fictions are welcome in theory, so that as many researchers as possible are able to participate in this unifying event.

On the occasion of its first meeting, held in November 2016, the organizing committee established a list of possible themes, specifying that it was comprehensive and that it deliberately used broad terms.

 

These possible themes include:

1. Reception (praxis, usages, audiences)
2. Production (conception, creation, platforms, socioeconomics)
3. Narrative (media, seriality, fiction/non-fiction, genres, poetics, narrativity)
4. Distribution/Circulation (appropriation, reappropriation, adaptation, translation, intertextuality)
5. Cultures (media culture, material culture, industrial culture, popular culture; consumption, objects)
6. Representations and imaginaries (myths, politics, ideologies, gender/race/class)
7. Transmissions (heritages, cultural politics, education, pedagogy)

 

Organization of the sessions

The convention aims to facilitate dialogue between disciplines, theories, objects etc. The sessions’ primary goal will therefore be to encourage interdisciplinarity and to do away with the usual dividing lines between fields, corpuses or institutions. Papers proposals must therefore clearly state which method, corpus and theoretical positioning the researcher uses so that the scientific committee can organize panels which fulfill the interdisciplinary expectation and requirement.

Sessions will be comprised of three 15-to-20-minute papers. Ample time will be provided during each session for in-depth interdisciplinary discussion, moderated by a respondent named in advance by the committee for their expertise. All speakers must therefore send their papers in advance to that colleague.

Pre-constituted panel proposals are allowed on the condition that the contributions are clearly interdisciplinary and allow for the aforementioned discussions.

A selection of papers will be published.

The paper abstracts must mention which themes they discuss. They must be no longer than 300 words or 2000 characters and conform to the defining guidelines mentioned above. They should be sent with a short biography of the author(s) by October 15, 2017, at the latest at the following email address: assises@cpm2018.fr

 

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