Epop Newsletter #8

Editorial List of contents 1. THE EPOP CONFERENCE p. 2 2. CALL FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE p. 5

Welcome to the EPOP Project Newsletter. In this number you will find the presentation of the EPOP Conference, which will be held in Bologna on December 9, 2009, and the call for a special issue of this newsletter entirely dedicated to presentations of groups, institutions, associations, journals and websites working on the history of popular culture. If you have any suggestions regarding the newsletter or anything else relating to the project, please contact [email protected]. With the best wishes, EPOP Project Publication Committee

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1) The EPOP Conference. Bologna, December 9, 2009

The EPOP Project. Looking for the Roots of European Popular Culture International Conference Directors Monica Dall’Asta and Federico Pagello Bologna, December 9, 2009 Dipartimento di Musica e Spettacolo, Università di Bologna

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Sherlock Holmes, Arsène Lupin, Rocambole, Fantomas, Belphégor, Lord Lister, Maciste: between the second half of the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries these immortal characters were the protagonists of an intense cultural exchange involving all European countries. Serial literature, illustration, comics and cinema gave us sensational narratives and unforgettable images, able to easily cross national boundaries and create a shared cultural heritage long 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 – Popular Roots of European Culture through Film, Comics, and Serialized Literature (1850-1930), an interdisciplinary project funded by the EU Culture Programme and developed by four European 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 EPOP Project. 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 several initiatives 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 periodical newsletter, etc.) will be presented to the public for the first time. The scholars who contributed to the project during its first year of activity will show the results of the work done so far. In particular, the technical features and the scholarly and teaching resources of the database and the virtual museum will be described by the Limoges team, which has supervised their 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 in this particular field. A series of presentations devoted to a few case studies, and a round table about the problems of preservation of this rare and vulnerable material, will try to assess the results which can be achieved through the creation of an international network on European popular 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 Migozzi Matthieu Letourneux (University of Paris X) Les “mystères urbains”, une métaphore de la culture populaire moderne au XIXe siècle? (The “Urban Mysteries”: A Metaphor for Nineteenth Century Popular Culture?)

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Jean-Louis Tilleuil, Olivier Odaert (University of Louvain) Les origines européennes de la bande dessiné (The European Origins of Comics) Federico Pagello (University of Bologna) Le origini europee della serialità cinematografica (The European Origins of Serial Cinema) Discussion ore 14.30 – Studi di caso (Case-Studies) Chair: Michele Fadda (University of Bologna) Natacha Levet (University of Limoges) Les vies pluriels de Sherlock Holmes à travers l’Europe (The Plural Lives of Sherlock Holmes across Europe) Felice Pozzo (Indipendent scholar ) Salgari in Europa (Salgari in Europe) Irène Langlet (Université de Limoges) Un problème technique avec l’anticipation (A Technical Problem with Science-Fiction) ore 16.00 – Round Table Problemi e prospettive della conservazione e valorizzazione della cultura popolare europea (Problems and Perspectives of the Preservation and Valorisation of European popular culture) Chair: Loïc Artiaga (University of Limoges) With Claudio Gallo (Biblioteca civica di Verona), Paola Pallottino (University of Macerata), Franco Spiritelli (Fondazione Rosellini, Senigallia), Luigi Virgolin (Cineteca di Bologna) and the members of the EPOP teams. Discussion

Alla ricerca delle radici popolari della cultura europea Convegno a cura di  Monica Dall’Asta e Federico Pagello Promozione e comunicazione  Fabio Acca, Marta Martina Ufficio stampa Laura Bernardini Supporto logistico  Michela Giorgi Assistenza tecnica  Stefano Orro Traduzione simultanea  Maura Vecchietti Tirocinanti  Simone Varriale, Mara Zanardi

www.epop­lab.eu www.pdfcoke.com/EPOP Project ­ Newsletter Il presente progetto è finanziato con il sostegno della  Commissione Europea. L’autore è il solo responsabile di questa  comunicazione e la Commissione declina ogni responsabilità  sull’uso che potrà essere fatto delle informazioni in essa contenute.

"Popular Roots of European Culture through Film, Comics and Serialized Literature" CULTURE PROGRAMME (2007-2013) CALL FOR PROPOSALS EACEA N. 23/2007 - Strand 1.2.1

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2) Call for a special issue We will be glad to dedicate a whole number of our newsletter to a series of presentations of research groups, institutions, associations, academic or fan/collector reviews or web-sites, etc. working on European popular culture, possibly interested in joining the EPOP network. This newsletter, as well as the whole project, is firstly a networking activity: our main goal is indeed to enlarge the number of subjects involved in our network, in order to develop wider research projects on the history of European popular culture after the end of the first phase of EPOP. If you are interested in participating to this special issue please send us a short presentation, including a description of your interests and activities, your contacts, and your ideas about a European coordination of scholars, fans and collectors on the History of our popular culture.

About the Project: The EPOP Project (Popular Roots of European Culture Through Film, Comics and Serialized Literature) is a research and popularization project funded by the European Commission’s Culture Programme 2007 and is promoted by the Department of Music and Performing Arts of the University of Bologna, the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Limoges, the Pallas Institute for Art Historical and Literature Studies of the University of Leiden, the GRIT (Groupe des Recherche sur l’Image et le Texte) of the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve, and the Department for Culture of the Province of Pescara. The project started on 24 November 2008 and will be completed on 24 May 2010. About this Newsletter: EPOP Project Newsletter provides news about the development of the project activities and circulates information on research, initiatives and events concerning the history of European popular culture. The newsletter will normally be published monthly. To be removed from our mailing list, just click reply, and put 'remove' in the subject line. We will immediately remove your email address from our mailing-list. This publication reflects the views only of its authors, and the European Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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