Sherlock Holmes, Arsène Lupin, Rocambole, Fantomas, Belphégor, Lord Lister,Maciste:
between the second half of the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries theseimmortal characters were the protagonists of an intense cultural exchange involving all Europeancountries. Serial literature, illustration, comics and cinema gave us sensational narratives andunforgettable images, able to easily cross national boundaries and create a shared cultural heritagelong before the very idea of the European Union. To recognise the complexity and richness of this phenomenon and improve our understanding of it is the principal goal of
EPOP – PopularRoots of European Culture through Film, Comics, and Serialized Literature (1850-1930)
,an interdisciplinary project funded by the EU Culture Programme and developed by fourEuropean universities (Bologna, Limoges, Louvain-la-Neuve, Leiden), under the coordination of the Department for Culture of the Province of Pescara.
The conference
Il progetto EPOP. Alla ricerca delle radici popolari della cultura europea
(The EPOPProject. Looking for the Roots of European Popular Culture) will be held at the Department of Music and Performing Arts of the University of Bologna on December 9, 2009.
The severalinitiatives planned by the EPOP scholarly team
(a virtual museum, a database, an exhibition,an exhibition catalogue, a series of seminars for high-school students and teachers, a periodicalnewsletter, etc.)
will be presented to the public for the first time.
The scholars whocontributed to the project during its first year of activity will show the results of the work doneso far. In particular, the technical features and the scholarly and teaching resources of thedatabase and the virtual museum will be described by the Limoges team, which has supervisedtheir technical realisation. The design of these research (and popularisation) tools was inspired by the project’s general goal of promoting cooperation among the European institutions working inthis particular field. A series of presentations devoted to a few
case studies
, and
a
r
ound tableabout the problems of preservation
of this rare and vulnerable material, will try to assess theresults which can be achieved through the creation of an international network on Europeanpopular culture.
Conference Program:
9:30
Welcome
9:45
Project presentation
Monica Dall’Asta (University of Bologna), Jacques Migozzi (University of Limoges), Jean-Louis Tilleuil (University of Louvain), Adriaan van der Weel (Universiy of Leiden)
Genesi di un progetto
(Genesis of a project)Loïc Artiaga, Farid Boumediène (University of Limoges)
Le musée virtuel et la base de données EPOP
(The EPOP virtual museum and database)ore 11.00 – Coffe break ore 11.15 –
Prospettive interdisciplinari
(Interdisciplinary Perspectives)Chair: Jacques MigozziMatthieu Letourneux (University of Paris X)
Les “mystères urbains”, une métaphore de la culture populaire moderne au XIXe siècle?
(The “UrbanMysteries”: A Metaphor for Nineteenth Century Popular Culture?)
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