12-13th March 2026 |
| Authors as Characters in Fiction, Film and Graphic Narratives
Date limite d'envoi: 1e Octobre 2025The great paradox of the modern age appears to be that, since Roland Barthes announced the ‘death of the Author’, there has never been so much fascination with authorial figures, tangible in fiction, film and graphic narratives. The aim of this international and interdisciplinary conference is to understand the fetishisation of English-speaking canonical authors (such as William Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, Henry James, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Sylvia Plath, Mary Shelley, D. H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway), the ‘versioning’ (Silver xvi) of their texts and images, the fabrication of myths which are ‘endlessly repeated and woven into culture’ (Miller xiii), the relationship between auctoriality and celebrity, and artistic and historiographic representations.
Submission guidelines: We invite proposals for individual papers or panels. Please submit paper proposals (which should include the title of the paper, author(s), a 250-300-word abstract, institutional affiliation, contact information and a short bio-bibliography) before 1st September 2025, to the following address: idea-authors-as-characters-contact@univ-lorraine.fr
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19-20th March 2026 |
| “What’s the name of the game?” ABBA, Northernness and Pop Culture
Date limite d'envoi: 1e Octobre 2025
The extraordinary global success of ABBA has made them one of the most enduring pop acts of all time. From their 1974 Eurovision victory with “Waterloo” to the sustained popularity of ABBA Gold, the Mamma Mia! musicals and films, and the recent Voyage project, ABBA’s impact extends far beyond the realm of music. Yet, despite their prominence in popular culture, ABBA have received relatively little academic attention, possibly due to the only recent acceptance of popular music as a field of academic research. This conference seeks to explore ABBA as a cultural and musical phenomenon, examining their significance through the lenses of nation branding, cultural transfers, reception, and broader questions of Northernness in pop culture.
Submission guidelines: Les propositions de communications de 300 mots maximum accompagnées d’une notice biographique de 200 mots maximum sont à envoyer avant le 1er octobre 2025 à l’adresse suivante:
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