First Call for Papers: International Culture & Media Research Conference
Deadlines
Abstracts: May 1st, 2009
Full Papers: September 1, 2009
Emotions, Media and Crime
September 29 - October 1, 2010
Aarhus University
It is our pleasure to invite all interested
scholars to take part in this interdisciplinary
conference on /Emotions, Media and Crime /in
Aarhus. The aim of the conference is to
highlight the relationship between emotion,
media and crime in contemporary culture.
Crime is the central point of an extensive
production of fiction in books, films, TV
series, and games. Crime is also a popular
subject of journalism, mediated in newspapers
and electronic media, not least the internet.
Import and export flourish, developing
intercultural exchange in a variety of fiction
genres as well as forms of journalism. In short,
national and transnational mediation and
mediatization - of crime has been a crucial
factor in determining how crime is perceived and
discussed within the public sphere. Popular
crime fiction, TV series and crime scenes have
even become concepts in tourism and destination branding.
Lately, scholars have called attention to the
role of emotions in crime fictions. The
melodramatic element has been enhanced, and
sentimentality and mediated crime have been
combined. This point of view has emerged in a
search for another history of crime fiction,
highlighting the role of supernatural, gothic
and hardboiled sentimental genres. The emotional
appeal also seems to be important for real as
well as mediated crime scenes, just as crime
audiences seem to appreciate this kind of
appeal. In crime journalism, sensations have an important impact.
The exploration of these and related features
invites to applying different methods and
approaches (media sociology, textual analysis,
combined cultural and criminological orientations, aesthetic analysis, etc.).
Consequently, we invite researchers from a wide
range of disciplines: film and media studies,
literature, tourism, branding and management,
sociology, criminology and communication studies.
The conference organizers invite contributors to
further investigate the relationship between
emotion, media and crime in contemporary culture.
We invite papers to investigate the following areas:
*a) Traditional history / another history*:
- Historical development of media genres
- New perspectives on genre history
- Crime journalism in a historical view
- Crime fiction formats and genres in a historical view
- The interplay between actual, factual crime and crime fiction
*b) Crime as a popular media product*:
- The aesthetics of the crime scene
- Mediated crime and gender
- Bestsellers and blockbusters
- Imports and exports
- Cross-national co-production of TV series and other media products
- The crime scene as location and tourist destination
*c) Converging media, production and affective culture*:
- Emotions in journalism
- Emotions in fiction
- Sentimental crime audiences
- Cross-media production
- Interactivity, mobility and affect
- Fiction, media tourism and place branding
The conference will include plenary sessions
with keynote speakers as well as parallel
sessions with paper presentations in smaller groups.
Panel proposals (for at least 4 papers) are likewise very welcome.
Ph D students are invited to submit papers for presentation.
The abstracts (300 words) and the panel
proposals must be submitted online:
www.imv.au.dk/emcconference
<http://www.imv.au.dk/emcconference> no later than May 1^st , 2010
Deadlines:
Submit abstract: May 1^st
Feedback regarding your abstract: June 1^st
Early bird register, no later than: July 1^st
Register, final date: September 1^st
Submit full papers (non-compulsory): September 1^st
Conference fee:
Early bird 200,- Euro (register before July 1^st)
Ordinary fee: 300,- Euro (register after July 1^st )
Ph D/students fee, Early bird: 100,- Euro (register before July 1^st)
Ordinary Ph D/students fee 150,- Euro (register after July 1^st )
Participants are kindly asked to individually
provide for their own journey and hotel accommodation.
Conference homepage: www.imv.au.dk/emcconference
<http://www.imv.au.dk/emcconference>
Conference program will be updated online. You
can also find suggestions for accommodation and
travel routes, as well as you can register online and send you abstract online.
*The confirmed invited keynote speakers* are:
- Leonard Casutto, Professor, Fordham
University, NY, US: "Sympathy and Serial Killers."
- Maurizio Ascari, Senior Lecturer, University
of Bologna: "From Enigmas to Emotions: the
Twentieth Century Canonization of Crime Fiction."
- Torben Grodal, Professor, University of
Copenhagen: ?High on Crime: the Psychology of Crime Fiction Consumption.?
- Gunhild Agger, Professor, University of
Aalborg: ?Emotions, Gender and Investigation.?
We have also organized a panel on *Crime Scene* with invited speakers:
- Elke Weissmann, Edge Hill University
University, UK: /Crime scene as Quality TV/.
- Stijn Reijnders, Erasmus University Rotterdam,
The Netherlands: /Guilty landscapes and the detective tours/.
The conference is organized by the research
project /Crime Fiction and Crime Journalism in
Scandinavia/: www.krimiforsk.aau.dk <http://www.krimiforsk.aau.dk/>
It is supported by FMKJ, The Danish National
Research School for Media, Communication, and Journalism.
Contact persons:
*Gunhild Agger,* professor, D Phil
Dep. of Culture and Language,
Aalborg University. Email: (gunhild /at/ hum.aau.dk) <mailto:(gunhild /at/ hum.aau.dk)>
* *
*Anne Marit Waade*, associate professor, Ph D
Dep. of Information and Media Studies,
Aarhus University. Email: (amwaade /at/ imv.au.dk) <mailto:(amwaade /at/ imv.au.dk)>
Conference secretary:
*Ulla Rasmussen*, Faculty of Humanities, Aarhus
University: (kultur /at/ hum.au.dk) <mailto:(kultur /at/ hum.au.dk)>
--
Gunhild Agger
Professor, dr. phil.
Institut for Sprog og Kultur
(Dep. of Language and Culture)
Aalborg Universitet
Kroghstræde 3
DK-9220 Aalborg Øst
Tlf. 9940 9029
www.krimiforsk.aau.dk
www.kultur.aau.dk
