The DETECt research workshop “DETECting Europe in TV Crime Series – Geopolitics, locations, audiences” is organised by the Aalborg University team along with the Aarhus University team, and will take place at Aalborg University on December 11.

The aim of the workshop is to expand and solidify DETECt’s international network: experiences from the FKK-funded What Makes Danish TV Drama Series Travel? research project illustrate that expanded cooperation with similar international research projects, as well as individuals with relevant research profiles, is hugely beneficial for all parties involved.

There are obvious links between the work DETECt aims to do and the small nation angle pursued in research projects such as Screen Agencies as Cultural Intermediaries.

What is the relationship between the small nations producing crime fiction and the rest of Europe, and how is this relationship reflected on screen as well as in production forms and policies? At the same time, looking above and beyond the single nation seems essential in a context emphasizing Europe. How can popular European crime fiction be analysed on a geopolitical level?

This workshop consists of brief talks about the different associated research projects. The idea is to discuss research projects on an informal level. Each speaker will have maximum 15 minutes for project introduction. As a result, plenty of time will be dedicated to the discussion of preliminary methodologies, results and research theses.

The workshop is organized by the Aalborg University team along with the Aarhus University team.

The event will take place at Aalborg University, Kroghstræde 3, room 2-107, 11 December 2018, 10-18.

10:00 – 10:20 Welcome and introduction
Lynge Stegger Gemzøe and Kim Toft Han-sen(Aalborg University, DK)

10:20 – 11:15 Locative crime narratives: Web mobile app as data and resource
Anne Marit Waade (Aarhus University, DK) and Lone Mark Daubjerg (VisitAarhus, DK)

11:15 – 12:15 Small nations in a large continent
                         Local crime drama on the European continent
Pei-Sze Chow (Aarhus University, DK) and Caitriona Noonan (Cardiff University, UK)

12:15 – 13:00 Lunch

13:00 – 14:00 Learning through and receiving European crime narratives: MOOC, students and the audience
Jana Dejonghe (KU Leuven, BE) and Pia Majbritt Jensen (Aarhus University, DK)

14:00 – 15:00 European policy studies and the geopolitics of European crime narratives
Laura Landorff (Aalborg University, DK) and Robert Saunders (Farmingdale State College, US)

15:00 – 15:30 Trip to the coffee machine

15:30 – 16:30 Serialized crime locations and the transcultural European space
Lynge Stegger Gemzøe and Kim Toft Han-sen(Aalborg University, DK)

16:30 – 18:00 Plenary discussion
                          Mutual interests and further collaboration; DETECt research network;
                          developing common methods for production, reception and representation studies

For more information please download the full programme of the workshop.