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1) EPOP: a fully integrated project

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As announced in the last newsletter, an online database meant to gather informationabout European popular culture has been designed and set by the Géomatiquedepartment of the University of Limoges and is currently being tested, so far successfully. The EPOP project members are about to meet in Bologna to start thinking about thebest ways to fill this database and to use it in further scientific activities and research.However, the project has been deeply extensively discussed online during the last coupleof months with by all the members and is now shaping into a fully integrated project.

As mentioned in the first newsletters, theEPOP project aims to deliver a diverseresearch output, including a virtual museum,a collection of essays, a website, a travelling exhibition and an educational cd-rom. All of these products will be based on informationcollected in the database. What is new is thatthe members of the project have now

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Editorial

Welcome to the third issue of the EPOP ProjectNewsletter. Popular Roots of European Culture throughFilm, Comics and Serialized Literature is funded by theEuropean Culture Programme 2007.Please send all contributions to:federico.pagello@unibo.it.

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decided that all the deliverables shouldappear as a consistent whole. The structureand content of this coordinated group willdepend on the virtual museum, which willconsist of 10 to 15 “rooms”, each onededicated to an important theme inEuropean popular culture or to a caseanalysis on transnational and/or transmediaculture phenomena. The exhibition, that isto be presented at least in Belgium and Italy, will show to visitors the content of a part of this Museum, along with explanationsspecially devised for the general public. Theeducational cd-rom will also reflect a part of the museum and will be distributed toschool teachers with a booklet suggesting didactical activities about Europe’s popularculture. Finally, a collection of essays willpresent a more academic view on thosematters, set as a first scientific reflection ondifferent important cases. It will later befollowed by a more theoretical publication.

2) The Louvain EPOP Members

The GRIT (Groupe de Recherche surl’Image et le Texte) is a research group onImage and Text that was created back in1997 by P. Massart. Conceived as amultidisciplinary team, it involves membersof several departments of the Universitécatholique de Louvain (mostly the RomancePhilology, the History and the Arts and Archeology departments), as well as Art andCollege teachers. Currently managed by Professor Jean-Louis Tilleuil, the team’smain objective is to consider the growing importance in our society of culturalproductions involving both image and text:comic books, illustrated books, commercials,children’s literature and so on. Twoperspectives are favoured in the study of these “mixed” messages :a) A theoretical point of view, that consistsin establishing a specific and appliedsemiology of the relationships betweenimage and text and describing the thematic,stereotypic and symbolic imaginary of themultimedia messages ;b) A pedagogical point of view, that aims tobuild methodological and didactical tools toallow university teachers to efficiently approach multimedia. The GRIT’s website is regularly updated, sothat everyone can stay informed of ouractivities. Moreover, this website offers a very large number of articles (more than100) from all our members. Please visithttp://grit.fltr.ucl.ac.be/

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Texte, image, imaginaire

Beside the EPOP project, the GRIT iscurrently involved in a large researchprogram with another group from Louvain,the CRI (Centre de recherche surl’imaginaire), but also with

Figura

, a researchgroup out of the UQAM (Montreal, Canada)and with colleagues from the UMASS(Massachusetts, USA) and the Smith College(Northampton, USA). The outcomes of this programme are already numerous : several international conferenceshave been organized, 5 academic books havebeen published, and one internationalexhibition has been set. The next event tooccur in this context is another internationalconference that will take place in march2010 in Louvain-la-Neuve. The theme of this meeting will be the

figurations d’auteurs

,the representations of authors.

Des fictions qui construisentle monde

The GRIT is currently organizing series of conferences on the theme

Fictions qui construisent le monde

, fictions that build the world. These conferences take place in thecontext of the post-graduate school ED3(Langues et lettres). They will be laterpublished on the GRIT’s website.

Collection « Texte-Image »

The GRIT directs an academic seriesdevoted to the study of text/imagerelationships at Academia-Bruylant inBelgium. Here are some of the last issues inthis series :- Nicolas Lesire,

Trois femmes pour un héros. Une analyse des personnages féminins dans la série « Thorgal »

, 2000 ;- Aude Vangeenderhuysen,

Le Petit Chaperon rouge… entre peur et désir.L’ambivalence des sentiments de l’enfant à l’égard du loup dans le texte et l’illustration

, 2001 ;- Jacques Carion, Georges Jacques et Jean-Louis Tilleuil (eds),

Aventures et voyages au pays de la Romane. Pour Pierre Massart

, 2002 (hors série) ;- Jean-Louis Tilleuil (ed.),

Images,imaginaires du féminin

, 2003 (out of print) ;- Jean-Louis Tilleuil (ed.),

Théories et lectures de la relation image-texte

, 2005 ;- Éric Lavanchy,

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