[ecrea] CfP David Bowie Symposium

*“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 œuvre is open to a wide variety of 
theoretical approaches (aesthetics, musicology, gender and queer 
studies, cultural studies, philosophy, semiotics, etc.), that it is an 
œuvre 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 
June 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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