[ecrea] Call for Workshop Participants: The End of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

*Call for Workshop Participants*

*The End of an Era?
15 Years of /CSI: Crime Scene Investigation/ and Forensic TV *

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16-17 October, 2015. Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK.**

In late September 2015, /CSI: Crime Scene Investigation/ (CBS,
2000-2015) will finally wrap its 15-season run with a two-hour finale,
promised to feature the return of some of the series original cast. The
programme has been understood as re-defining the TV landscape of the new
millennium in terms of its popularity and the resulting reversal of
fortunes for its original broadcaster CBS, and its distributors and
producers - including Alliance Atlantis and Jerry Bruckheimer, for whom
the series presented a first – and very successful – foray into
television production. It popularised the focus on forensic science as
investigative methodology and, as a result, helped to redefine narrative
structure and verisimilitude in the crime genre. It also brought a focus
on visual and aural display – of the crime scene but more importantly of
the corpse – which created a specific visual aesthetic that has since
been much emulated. Its popularity has sparked not just a number of
spin-offs, extensions, exhibits, and merchandise but also a significant
body of scholarly work that examines the variety of pleasures,
displeasures and interests drawing audiences to the series. This
includes the representation of the abject body but also its style, its
quality, its merchandise, etc.

To mark the end of one of the most pivotal television shows of the
2000s, and perhaps also the wider forensic turn that has characterised
crime television of the last two decades, we are organizing a two-day
workshop at Oxford Brookes University, gathering scholars who have all
contributed to the study of the crime genre and forensics in popular
culture.  The event starts on _Friday October 16^th at 5pm_, with a
screening of the two-hour finale of /CSI: Crime Scene Investigation/,
followed by drinks and dinner. On _Saturday October 17^th _we will
organize a number of roundtable discussions, focused on pre-determined
topics. These might include:

·The impacts of /CSI/ (on the crime genre, television and culture)

·Post-forensic crime television

·Forensic aesthetics

·The /CSI/ Franchise

·Discourses on science and the body

·Issues of representation: gender, race and sexuality in /CSI/

·Transnational distribution and reception

·Mainstream or Exceptional? /CSI/, quality television and complex TV

·The history of forensic television

·Teaching /CSI/

·The future of research on forensic TV

Register by sending your /Name, Affiliation, Contact Details and
workshop interest/ to: (csifinaleworkshop /at/ gmail.com)
<mailto:(csifinaleworkshop /at/ gmail.com)>/before September 7^th 2015/.
Please note that registration is /free, /as is a light lunch and
refreshments on the Saturday, but participants have to pay for their own
travel expenses, accommodation and additional meals.   A detailed
workshop schedule will be sent out to registered participants in
mid-September.

Elke Weissmann

Reader in Film and Television

Edge Hill University

Ormskirk, L39 4QP

(weissmae /at/ edgehill.ac.uk) <mailto:(weissmae /at/ edgehill.ac.uk)>


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