Detecting Europe in Contemporary Crime Narratives: Print Fiction, Film, and Television – Online International Conference

Programme

Detecting Europe in Contemporary Crime Narratives: Print Fiction, Film, and Television

Detecting Europe in Contemporary Crime Narratives: Print Fiction, Film, and Television – Online International Conference

Programme

Detecting Europe in Contemporary Crime Narratives: Print Fiction, Film, and Television

Detecting Europe in Contemporary Crime Narratives:
Print Fiction, Film, and Television

Online International Conference
21-23 June 2021
Link Campus University

Keynote Speakers

Theo D’haen (Leuven University and Leiden University)
 Janet McCabe (Birkbeck, University of London)
 Peppino Ortoleva (University of Turin)

Conference Chairs: Monica Dall’Asta (University of Bologna), Federico Pagello (D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara), Valentina Re (Link Campus University)

Advisory Board: Stefano Arduini (Link Campus University), Maurizio Ascari (University of Bologna), Jan Baetens (KU Leuven), Luca Barra (University of Bologna), Stefano Baschiera (Queen’s University Belfast), Giulia Carluccio (University of Turin), Silvana Colella (University of Macerata), Caius Dobrescu (University of Bucharest), Andrea Esser (University of Roehampton), Nicola Ferrigni (Link Campus University), Katarina Gregersdotter (Umeå University), Kim Toft Hansen (Aalborg University), Annette Hill (University of Lund), Dominique Jeannerod (Queen’s University Belfast), Sandor Kalai (University of Debrecen), Matthieu Letourneux (University Paris Nanterre), Natacha Levet (University of Limoges), Giacomo Manzoli (University of Bologna), Janet McCabe (Birkbeck University), Jacques Migozzi (University of Limoges), Andrew Pepper (Queen’s University Belfast), Marica Spalletta (Link Campus University)

Organizing Committee: Luca Antoniazzi (University of Bologna), Sara Casoli (University of Bologna), Massimiliano Coviello (Link Campus University), Paola De Rosa (Link Campus University)

Students Staff: Eleonora Mercuri, Nicola Pimpinella, Lavinia Sansone (Link Campus University, undergraduate degree programme in Film and Theatre Making)

Conference overview

Monday 21 June 2021

Monday 21 June 2021

Room A

10:00-10:45am CET

Plenary Session

Welcome address and project presentation

Room A

10:45am-12:15pm CET

Plenary session 

Keynote speech

Theo D’haen, KU Leuven

How Glocal are Contemporary European Crime Narratives?

Parallel session 1

2.30-4:00pm CET

Room A

Room B

Room C

Panel A1: New Takes on Mediterranean Noir

Panel B1: New Takes on Nordic Noir

Panel C1: A Tale of Three Cities: Crime and the Urban Tissue in Contemporary Fiction

Break

Parallel session 2

4:15-5:45pm CET

Room A

Room B

Room C

Panel A2: French Noir and the Transformations of European Crime Fiction

Panel B2: Crime Films and National Identities. The Case of Greece

Panel C2: The Black Rome. The Eternal City as Protagonist of Crime Narrative

Tuesday 22 June 2021

Parallel session 3

9:00-10:30am CET

Room A

Room B

Room C

Panel A3: Crime Narratives: A Crossborder Perspective

Panel B3: Crime Narratives, Periphery and Multiculturalism

Panel C3: The Geography of Crime Fiction: Local / Global

Break

Parallel session 4

10:45am-12:15pm CET

Room A

Room B

Room C

Panel A4: Crime Narratives: a Transmedia Perspective

Panel B4: New Takes on the Police Procedural

Panel C4: Crime Narratives and Ecocriticism

Parallel session 5

2:00-3:30pm CET

Room A

Room B

Room C

Panel A5: Crime Narratives and Politics

Panel B5: Crime Narratives and Gender

Panel C5: Netflix and the Popularity of TV Crime Drama

Break

Room A

3:45-5:00pm CET

Plenary session 3

Keynote speech

Janet McCabe, Birkbeck, University of London

Divided Bodies, Crossings Borders, Transnational Encounters: Towards a Feminist Approach of Transnational TV Studies

Parallel session 6

5:00-6:30pm CET

Room A

Room B

Room C

Panel A6: Crime Films and Transnationalism

Panel B6: The Other in TV Crime Dramas

Panel C6: Generic and Narrative Hybridity in European Crime Television

Wednesday 23 June 2021

Parallel session 7

9:00-10:30am CET

Room A

Room B

Room C

Panel A7: The Foreigner in Crime Fiction

Panel B7: The Geography of TV Crime Dramas: Local / Global

Panel C7: The Contribution of Digital Humanities to Cultural Studies Research

Roundtable: The Challenges of Digital Humanities to Cultural Studies Research, a Face-to-Face Debate

Break

Room A

10:45am-12:15pm CET

Plenary session 4

Crime, Creative Industries and Contemporary European Media Policies

Room A

2:30-3:45pm CET

Plenary session 5

Keynote speech

Peppino Ortoleva, University of Turin

In the Beginning Was a Murder. The Changing Meanings, and Pleasures, of Crime

Break

Room A

4:00-5:30pm CET

Plenary session 6

Concluding round table

Research Impact in the Humanities: New Directions

Room A

5:30-7:0pm CET

Plenary session 7

DETECt Screenwriting Contest Award Ceremony