[ecrea] CFP - Feasting on Hannibal: An Interdisciplinary Conference

     FEASTING ON HANNIBAL: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE


         SCHOOL OF CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION


         ARTS WEST, THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE


         NOVEMBER 29-30, 2016




*CALL FOR PAPERS - DEADLINE 30 JUNE 2016*

Keynote Speakers:

Associate Professor Jane Stadler, The University of Queensland

Professor Angela Ndalianis, The University of Melbourne

Hannibal ‘the Cannibal’ Lecter is one of contemporary popular culture’s 
most prominent and recognisable models of monstrosity. Initially 
conceived in the 1981-2006 novel series by Thomas Harris, Hannibal 
exists at the centre of a sprawling franchise that includes the 
critically acclaimed film,/The Silence of the Lambs/(Jonathan Demme, 
1991), and most recently Bryan Fuller’s television 
series/Hannibal/(2013-2015). The diverse texts that constitute the 
Hannibal franchise demonstrate the fertile potential of the Hannibal 
mythology to extend and develop across multiple media, and the 
complexity of Hannibal himself as a boundary-defying figure of modern 
monstrosity and the senses. At the centre of Hannibal’s monstrosity is a 
breakdown of the boundaries between high and low art, the mythic and the 
everyday, and refinement and savagery. Accordingly, critical interest in 
the Hannibal franchise has focused on Hannibal’s embodiment of the 
boundary transgressions central to scholarly understandings of monstrosity.

Critical analyses of the books and films have been both profound and 
widespread across various disciplines. More recently, Fuller’s 
/Hannibal/ has not only redefined what came before, but has inspired, 
extended and renewed interest in this seminal figure. The “Feasting on 
Hannibal” conference aims to push the boundaries of previous 
conceptualizations of the Hannibal series, while reflecting on how the 
television show has reframed the culture of Hannibal. This conference 
looks to the future of the franchise as a continually developing and 
mutating mythology, welcoming papers that examine Hannibal across any of 
his multiple incarnations, but especially considering how Hannibal 
mythology has been reformulated and extended since Fuller’s television 
series.

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Screen and Cultural Studies and the School of Culture and Communication 
at the University of Melbourne invite you to submit abstract proposals 
for an interdisciplinary conference feast that turns the tables on 
Hannibal Lecter, offering Hannibal up for a meal of multiple courses and 
scholarly cuisines.

Topics might include, but are not limited to:

   * Hannibal’s influence on screen culture
   * Hannibal as embodiment of contemporary monstrosity
   * Hannibal and the sensorium
   * Hannibal as mythology
   * Aesthetics and affect in Hannibal
   * Hannibal as a franchise property
   * Hannibal, seriality and transmedia storytelling
   * Self-reflexivity and intertextuality in Hannibal
   * Hannibal and adaptation
   * Hannibal and genre
   * High-concept television
   * High art and elite tastes
   * The aesthetics of violence
   * Hannibal and fandom
   * The culture of food in Hannibal
   * Hannibal, cannibalism, food, and body horror
   * Representations of animality and the post human in Hannibal
   * Criminal monstrosity and moral panic
   * Depictions of psychology and emotions
   * The development of gender and sexuality in the Hannibal mythology
   * The music of Hannibal and Hannibal’s music

*Submit abstracts up to 300 words, and a 100-word bio, before 30th of 
June to **(hannifeast /at/ gmail.com)* <mailto:(hannifest /at/ gmail.com)>.

Website: feastingonhannibal.com <http://feastingonhannibal.com>
Twitter: @Hannifeast
Facebook: facebook.com/hannifeast <http://facebook.com/hannifeast>


Organised by:

Dr Jessica Balanzategui, Dr Naja Later, and Tara Lomax

School of Culture and Communication

The University of Melbourne



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