Emotion, Media and Crime Conference
Conference: September 29 - October 1, 2010
Aarhus University
It is our pleasure to invite all interested scholars to take part in this interdisciplinary conference on Emotions, Media and Crime in Aarhus. The aim of the conference is to highlight the relationship between emotion, media and crime in contemporary culture.
Crime is the central point of an extensive production of fiction in books, films, TV series, and games. Crime is also a popular subject of journalism, mediated in newspapers and electronic media, not least the internet. Import and export flourish, developing intercultural exchange in a variety of fiction genres as well as forms of journalism. In short, national and transnational mediation – and mediatization − of crime has been a crucial factor in determining how crime is perceived and discussed within the public sphere. Popular crime fiction, TV series and crime scenes have even become concepts in tourism and destination branding.
Lately, scholars have called attention to the role of emotions in crime fictions. The melodramatic element has been enhanced, and sentimentality and mediated crime have been combined. This point of view has emerged in a search for another history of crime fiction, highlighting the role of supernatural, gothic and hardboiled sentimental genres. The emotional appeal also seems to be important for real as well as mediated crime scenes, just as crime audiences seem to appreciate this kind of appeal. In crime journalism, sensations have an important impact.
The exploration of these and related features invites to applying different methods and approaches (media sociology, textual analysis, combined cultural and criminological orientations, aesthetic analysis, etc.).
Consequently, we invite researchers from a wide range of disciplines: film and media studies, literature, tourism, branding and management, sociology, criminology and communication studies.
The conference will include plenary sessions with keynote speakers as well as parallel sessions with paper presentations in smaller groups.
Deadlines:
| Early bird register, no later than: | July 1 st |
| Register, final date: | September 1 st |
| Submit full papers (non-compulsory): | September 1 st |
Conference fee:
| Early bird: | 200,- Euro (register before July 1 st) |
| Ordinary fee: | 300,- Euro (register after July 1 st ) |
| Phd/students fee, Early bird: | 100,- Euro (register before July 1 st) |
| Ordinary Phd/students fee: | 150,- Euro (register after July 1 st ) |
Participants are kindly asked to individually provide for their own journey and hotel accommodation.
Conference program will be updated online. You can also find suggestions for accommodation and travel routes, as well as you can register online.