[ecrea] CFP - Symposium : Shakespeare in Modern Popular Culture (June 16,17, 18 2016 Arras, France)

CALL FOR PAPERS

International Symposium – Arras, Université d’Artois – June 15-17, 2016


Convenors : Guillaume Winter (Université d’Artois), Vincent Roger
(Institut Catholique de Lille), Julie Assouly (Université d’Artois).


Symposium organized by Textes & Cultures (Université d’Artois, EA 4028)
and Laboratoire Pluridisciplinaire des Sciences de l’Homme et de la
Société (Institut Catholique de Lille), under the aegis of the Société
Française Shakespeare.


Keynote speakers :

-Prof. Sarah Hatchuel (Université du Havre) and Prof. Nathalie
Vienne-Guerrin (Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier)

-Prof. Douglas Lanier (University of New Hampshire)


Four hundred years after his death, Shakespeare is more alive than ever.
In a globalized marketplace, his works reach new audiences every day
through online media that have become innovative places of creation and
adaptation (O’Neill, Shakespeare and Youtube). The Bard has long since
been the object of illustrations and transpositions, but it seems that
the appropriation of his poems and plays by popular culture has taken a
new turn over the last forty years, from cameo appearances of characters
and famous lines to full rewritings or parodies for a
pop-culture-conscious audience (Doescher, William Shakespeare’s Star
Wars). The man behind the plays has left the world of Bardolatry once
associated with ‘high’ culture to become a pop icon, transfigured into a
hip character with his own Twitter and Facebook accounts. But just how
relevant are contemporary popular adaptations and avatars to the
reception and interpretation of the poet? Do they contribute to a new
understanding of Shakespeare, or do they merely testify to the
ever-growing commodification of his works, and of the writer as a public
persona? With the new millennium came fresh appraisals of Shakespeare’s
place in our modern age (Burt ed., Shakespeare after Mass Media). This
conference will be the opportunity to question the validity of
Shakespeare as a popular commodity and the status of the texts in recent
adaptations and transpositions.


We welcome proposals broaching the following topics (non-exhaustive list):



-theatrical and other live performances

-music and dance

-radio, TV and film

-advertising and commercials

-written fiction and biography

-comics and manga

-illustrations and photography

-the Internet and digital media

-social networks



Academic Committee:

Anne Besson (Université d’Artois)

Sarah Hatchuel (Université du Havre)

Peter Holland (University of Notre Dame)

Douglas Lanier (University of New Hampshire)

Delphine Lemonnier-Texier (Université de Rennes 2)

Guillaume Winter (Université d’Artois)



*Deadline for proposal submission: 20 December 2015*


Papers may be delivered in French or English. Please send an abstract
(200-300 words) and a short biographical note to


Julie Assouly (julie.assouly /at/ univ-artois.fr)
<mailto:(julie.assouly /at/ univ-artois.fr)>

Vincent Roger (vincent.roger /at/ univ-catholille.fr)
<mailto:(vincent.roger /at/ univ-catholille.fr)>

Guillaume Winter (guillaume.winter /at/ univ-artois.fr)
<mailto:(guillaume.winter /at/ univ-artois.fr)>





Selected papers will be published in a peer-reviewed volume.



Textes & Cultures (Université d’Artois, EA 4028)

http://textesetcultures.univ-artois.fr/



Laboratoire Pluridisciplinaire des Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société
(Institut Catholique de Lille)

http://www.flsh.fr/lettres-sciences-humaines/la-recherche



Société Française Shakespeare

http://shakespeare.revues.org/

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