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Appel à contributions : Fictions multiverselles, fictions multiversions

Fictions multiverselles, fictions multiversions : pour une poétique des mondes fictionnels parallèles

Échéance des propositions : 14 Mars 2025

Dirigé par Romain Bionda & Aurélien Maignant

Appel à articles pour un ouvrage collectif.

N.B. : Cet ouvrage prendra la suite des journées d’étude organisées sous le même titre par le Pôle de narratologie transmédiale, transculturelle et transhistorique (NaTrans) à La Grange, le Centre Arts et Sciences de l’Université de Lausanne. Ces journées ont eu lieu les 3 et 4 octobre 2024 dans le cadre d’une semaine de programmation artistique et scientifique intitulée La Mixtape du Multivers.

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Parution : Virtual Reality Cinema. Narrative Tips and Techniques

Eric R. Williams, Carrie Love, Matt Love, Virtual Reality Cinema. Narrative Tips and Techniques, Routledge, 2021. 

Award-winning cine-maVRicks Eric R. Williams, Carrie Love and Matt Love introduce virtual reality cinema (also known as 360° video or cine-VR) in this comprehensive guide filled with insider tips and tested techniques for writing, directing and producing effectively in the new medium.

Join these veteran cine-VR storytellers as they break down fundamental concepts from traditional media to demonstrate how cine-VR can connect with audiences in new ways. Examples from their professional work are provided to illustrate basic, intermediate and advanced approaches to crafting modern story in this unique narrative space where there’s no screen to contain an image and no specific stage upon which to perform.

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Parution : Posthumains en série. Les détectives du futur

Hélène Machinal, Posthumains en série. Les détectives du futur, Presses Universitaires François-Rabelais, 2020. 

Depuis les années 2000, la fiction s’est peuplée de créatures artificielles et d’humains augmentés, de mondes virtuels ou parallèles, d’intelligences artificielles et de mondes postcataclysmiques qui renouvellent les questionnements sur l’identité humaine. Avec l’avènement des séries à narration complexe, la fiction explore à l’écran les possibles devenirs de l’humain. En s’appuyant sur des séries qui hybrident science-fiction et récit policier, ce livre étudie les représentations du posthumain à l’écran. De Fringe à Westworld, de Person of Interest à Sense8, Mr Robot, The Expanseou The Handmaid’s Tale, les nouveaux détectives du futur croisent androïdes, cyborgs, robots et clones dans des séries télévisées qui nous interrogent sur l’avenir de l’être humain.

Hélène Machinal est professeure en Études anglophones à l’Université de Bretagne Occidentale et membre de HCTI (EA 4249). Elle est spécialiste de littérature policière, fantastique et de fiction spéculative fin XIXe, et travaille sur les représentations du posthumain dans les séries TV contemporaines.

Colloque: Mondes possibles, mondes numériques enjeux et modalités de l’immersion fictionnelle

Mondes possibles, mondes numériques

enjeux et modalités de l’immersion fictionnelle

Colloque organisé du 18 au 20 juin 2014

Colloque organisé du 18 au 20 juin 2014 à l’Université du Maine (Le Mans), dans le cadre des travaux du 3L. AM (Laboratoire de Langue, Littérature et Linguistique des Universités d’Angers et du Mans), par Laurent Bazin, Anne Besson et Nathalie Prince.

À l’occasion de ce colloque se tiendra l’assemblée générale de la LPCM (association des chercheurs en Littératures Populaires et Culture Médiatique)

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Call for papers : Narrative Minds and Virtual Worlds, 21-22 May 2013

Narrative Minds and Virtual Worlds

Tampere, Finland, May 21st and 22nd 2013

Call for Papers, abstract deadline January 31st, 2013

Keynote speakers:

  • Marie-Laure Ryan (author of Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence and Narrative Theory [1991], Narrative as Virtual Reality [2001] and Avatars of Story [2006]; editor of Cyberspace Textuality [1999] and Narrative across Media [2004])
  • Jarmila Mildorf (author of Storying Domestic Violence [2007]; editor of Magic, Science, Technology, and Literature [2006] and Imaginary Dialogues in English [2011])

The postclassical turn in narratology has led to 1) a new emphasis on minds, both fictional and interpretative, and 2) the theoretical discovery of storyworlds. These ideas come together in cognitive-theoretically informed narratology, which is well on its way to getting to grips with the processes of immersion and readerly orientation within the storyworld, and also with perceptual positioning on the levels of storyworld, narration and the actual reading process. This conference discusses, applies and tests narratological theories of world and mind construction in different media, ranging from literature to digital games, classroom interaction and corporate communication.

The conference calls for papers from any relevant field of study addressing interfaces of minds and worlds, narrative as well as virtual. Bringing together research on different narrative and quasi-narrative media will reveal both the medium-specific and the transmedial dynamics between inner and outer worlds in narrative sense-making. For instance, the narratological notions of fictional mind construction have lately been informed by theories of spatial and temporal situatedness and its effect on the reading process. The situation of game players immersed in a virtual world involves both interesting similarities with as well as differences to more prototypically narrative environments, particularly in its prioritisation of navigation and problem-solving over empathetic identification. Furthermore, the use of shared storyworlds as foundations for transmedial franchises suggests that worlds may, indeed, be translatable.

This conference is inspired by interdisciplinary and transmedial studies of narrative as pursued by, among others, our keynote speakers Jarmila Mildorf and Marie-Laure Ryan. We welcome papers discussing general and theoretical issues, as well as papers focusing on particular texts or cases in any medium. Furthermore, papers may address medium-specificity or disciplinary boundaries as interpretative or methodological challenges.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

  • medial and intermedial construction of minds and worlds in literature and the everyday
  • adapting storyworlds from one medium to another
  • socially distributed minds in everyday conversation, narration and life stories
  • the role of fiction and narration in digital games
  • misreading virtual minds in fiction
  • fictional worlds in picture books and graphic novels
  • virtual worlds and fictional minds as tools for teaching
  • game worlds between real action and imaginary spaces
  • narrative and ludic agency in game playing
  • narrative, material and visual dimensions of organisational sense-making
  • ?Theories of Mind? in different media
  • attributing minds and representing worlds in historical narratives
  • exceptional minds and bodies in fiction and the everyday
  • dream narratives as virtual worlds
  • narrative embodiment in illness narratives
  • the function of stories in marketing and brand development

Please send a 250-word abstract to Mari Hatavara (mari.hatavara[at]uta.fi) by January 31st 2013. Be sure to give the title, author(s), affiliation(s), and e-mail address in the same document.

The conference is organised by:

  • Mari Hatavara, professor of Finnish literature at the University of Tampere School of Language, Translation and Literary Studies
  • Matti Hyvärinen, professor of Sociology at the University of Tampere School of Social Sciences and Humanities
  • Frans Mäyrä, professor of Information Studies and Interactive Media at the University of Tampere School of Information Sciences