[ecrea] David Bowie Symposium, Toulouse, France

*“New ways ever free”:*

*David Bowie, Landscapes & Heritage*

*Symposium, December 2, 2016*

*Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, France*

/Station to Station./

In the wake of Bowie’s passing, images and voices have multiplied to
evoke the diverse landscapes of his work, from the musical styles to the
characters he imagined to the many facets of a career that has seen
Bowie take on several roles, sometimes simultaneously, leading him from
music to drama (/The Elephant Man/) to cinema (/The Man who Fell to
Earth/, /Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence/, /The Hunger/, /Twin Peaks: Fire
Walk with Me/) and the visual arts—a wide array of fields which he
explored with passion and managed to leave his indelible and sometimes
decisive mark on.

/Changes (“Turn and face the strange”)./

The call of the strange—as the title of the 2012 conference on Bowie “A
Strange Fascination?” emphasized—resonates in his work, to the point of
becoming the signature of many records, performances, music videos or
cult songs. It is a signature made manifest in the countless figures of
openess that traverse the whole. The themes of expansion, escape and
alienation combine with motifs such as rifts and wanderings, which
constantly resound in his music through a multiplicity of influences,
stylistic editing, with the novel suddenly shooting forth, often via the
plasiticity of his voice, which likewise follows the many corridors of
the strange, the transgeneric and the transborder.

/Bowie is./

 From stardust to blackstar to the various forms of “black suns” his
characters inhabit, Bowie’s œuvre is an exploration of atmospheres, a
confluence of literary and artistic discourses, a memory and an
anticipation of history, a neverending odyssey ceaselessly opening on
vistas that involve art, redefinitions of gender and genre, and
discourses on the human and the post-human.

/Bowie remains./

It is what “remains” of Bowie that we wish to explore, in its various
artistic, literary, sociological and historical manifestations—all
testify to the fact that his Å“uvre is open to a wide variety of
theoretical approaches (aesthetics, musicology, gender and queer
studies, cultural studies, philosophy, semiotics, etc.), that it is an
Å“uvre whose identity, like that of its creator, is characterized by
fluidity, movement and an ongoing quest.

Proposals in English or French, including a title, an abstract (200-300
words), a short bibliography and a biographical blurb, should be sent by 
May 16, 2016 to Nathalie Vincent-Arnaud ((nathalie.vincentarnaud /at/ sfr.fr)
<mailto:(nathalie.vincentarnaud /at/ sfr.fr)>), Emeline Jouve
((emeline.jouve /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(emeline.jouve /at/ gmail.com)>), Philippe
Birgy ((birgy /at/ univ-tlse2.fr) <mailto:(birgy /at/ univ-tlse2.fr)>) and David Roche 
((mudrock /at/ neuf.fr) <mailto:(mudrock /at/ neuf.fr)>).

_Organizers_:

Nathalie Vincent-Arnaud (Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, CAS EA 801)

Emeline Jouve (Albi-Champollion, CAS EA 801)

Philippe Birgy (Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, CAS EA 801)

David Roche (Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, CAS EA 801)

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