29.2581, Calls: Sociolinguistics/United Kingdom

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-2581. Mon Jun 18 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.2581, Calls: Sociolinguistics/United Kingdom

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Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 16:30:28
From: Anousch Khorikian [nouschjebees at hotmail.com]
Subject: Watching the Transnational Detectives

 
Full Title: Watching the Transnational Detectives 

Date: 08-Nov-2018 - 09-Nov-2018
Location: London, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Angela Kimyongür
Meeting Email: a.m.kimyongur at hull.ac.uk

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 14-Jul-2018 

Meeting Description:

Watching the Transnational Detectives: 
Showcasing Identity and Internationalism on British Television

Institute of Modern Languages Research, London
8-9 November 2018

Organised by the School of Histories, Languages and Cultures of the University
of Hull
with support from the Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming
Societies project (part of the AHRC’s Open World Research Initiative)

A recent article in the Evening Standard posed the question ‘Is it a
coincidence that just as governments are seeking to close their borders,
television is opening them?’ (March 15 2017). Indeed, in post-Brexit Britain,
television viewers have access to an ever increasing number of foreign
language programmes. And ‘with the boom in streaming services, a single TV
drama can cross borders like never before. Yet still, telling local stories
appears to be the secret to international appeal’ (ibid). But what is the
relationship between the local, national, and transnational that is presented
on screen? And how do these dramas influence viewers’ perceptions of the
countries, nationalities and languages which are depicted on screen?

This conference will address these questions by focusing on popular global
crime dramas that are available with English sub-titles to British viewers.
Although work has been done on the crime genre in literature and on film in
different language contexts, there is little work available on the reception
of these television programmes in a transnational context. The conference will
therefore explore the way in which ideas of national identity and nationhood
are interrogated through crime drama series when watched in Britain and thus
outside of their original national context.


Call for Papers:

The conference will address, but not be limited to, the following areas and
contexts:

- Culture, heritage, preservation, and promotion: ways of screening the nation
- Walter Presents, BBC4, Sky: successful broadcasting strategies
- Notions of cultural value and the place of the middle-brow in national,
international and transnational TV contexts
- The local in the national, the national in the transnational: crime drama as
‘a site where the construction of everyday life may be examined’ (Turner,
1996: 6)
- Cultural identities: local, national, transnational and ‘other’ identities
as represented in crime drama
- Travelling ideas: which ideas and stereotypes of ‘the nation’ persist in and
are reinforced in the viewer by such series?
- Selling the nation, consuming the nation: crime drama as cultural ambassador
or promotional tool?
Confirmed keynote speakers: Professor Lucy Mazdon (University of Southampton),
Professor Andrea Esser (University of Roehampton)

We invite proposals of up to 300 words, on these and related topics, for
papers of 20 minutes. Email proposals should be sent to Dr Angela Kimyongür
(a.m.kimyongur at hull.ac.uk)

Speakers may address any national or linguistic context; however, the working
language of the conference will be English.




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