Producers, Distributors and Audiences of European Crime Narratives

Preliminary Programme

(Version 29 August 2019)

Producers, distributors and audiences of European crime narratives

2019 Conference Aalborg University September 30 – October 2

Venue: Kroghstræde 3, Aalborg

What is DETECt?

The research project DETECt – Detecting Transcultural Identity in Euro- pean Popular Crime Narratives (2018-21) – addresses the formation of Eu- ropean cultural identity as a continuing process of transformation fos- tered by the mobility of people, products and representations across the continent. Because of the extraordinary mobility of its products, popular culture plays a decisive role in circulating representations that constitute a shared cultural asset for large sectors of the European society.

The project examines examples of crime fiction, film and TV dramas from 1989 to present, to learn how mobility strategies such as co-production, serialization, translation, adaptation, distribution, and more, have influ- enced the transnational dissemination of European popular culture. It also investigates how the treatment of specific ‘mobile signifiers’— including representation of gender, ethnic and class identities — affect the ability of European narratives to migrate outside their place of origin, and be appropriated elsewhere in different and variegated ways. Researching the contemporary history of the crime genre in Europe, DETECt aims to iden- tify the practices of production, distribution and consumption that are best suited to facilitate the emergence of engaging representations of Europe’s enormously rich, plural and cross-cultural identity.

The knowledge acquired through a detailed research programme will be used in cultural, learning and public engagement initiatives designed to prompt the elaboration of new transnational formats for the European creative industries. These activities will profit from a set of experimental research and learning resources and innovative collaborative tools, aggre- gated and organized on DETECt Web portal.

For further information: http://www.detect-project.eu/.

Contact regarding the EURONOIR conference Kim Toft Hansen ([email protected]) Lynge Stegger Gemzøe ([email protected])

Conference Programme

Plenary 1.104 Parallel sessions Activities Overview

Monday, 30 September Tuesday, 1 October Wednesday, 2 October 08:30-09:00 09:00-10:00 Keynote by Annette Hill Registration (Lund University) with coffee (title tbc)

10:00-10:15 Welcome Break Bus trip to Aarhus 10:15-11:15 Keynote by Andrea Esser (University of Roehampton) Launch and testing of DETECt Aarhus App 9. Investigating Reception Universal dispositions & cultural 10. Crime Scene Europe specificity: The transnational appeal of contemporary crime series See separate programme (tbc) 11:15-11:45 Coffee break Coffee break 11:45-12:45 Lunch included 1. Crime Scene France 11. Crime Scene Germany 2. Investigating European 12. Investigating HBO & Netflix Transculturalism I

12:45-13:45 Lunch Lunch

13:45-14:45 Keynote panel Sue Turnbull Keynote by Robert Saunders 3. Crime Scene Britain (University of Wollongong) 4. Investigating Mediterranean Anna Estera Mrozewicz The Political Culture(s) of Euro- Noir I: Italy (Adam Mickiewickz University) pean Crime Fiction: Place, Power, Gunhild Agger Identity (Aalborg University)

14:45-15:00 Short break

15:00-16:00 Launch of DETECt Portal & Industry panel 7. Investigating Gender & Katrine Vogelsang (TV 2) Conference Recap Ethnicity Hanne Palmquist (HBO Europe) 8. Investigating European with Monica dell’Asta, Trin Hjortkjær Thomsen Transculturalism II Ilaria Bartolini, Cathrin Bengesser (Nordisk Film) and Federico Pagello

16:00-16:30 Coffee break Sum-up and goodbye bubbles

16:30-17:30 Keynote by Jan Arnald 5. Investigating Mediterranean (Arne Dahl) Noir II: Turkey & Spain End of conference 6. Crime Scene Hungary “Finding a Voice for Europe through Crime Fiction” Break 19:00

19:30 Screening of DNA (2019) presented by Trin Hjortkjær Thom- Conference dinner sen, producer on DNA (starts at 19:00) Rendsburggade 14, auditorium 3.107.

Keynote speakers and plenary sessions

September 30 ______

Morning keynote talk Evening TV screening 10:15 -11:15 starts at 19:30

Andrea Esser DNA (2019)

Professor of Media and Globalization, Roehamp- ton University Presented by Trin Hjortkjær Thomsen (producer, Nordisk Film Production A/S) Universal dispositions and cultural specificity: The transnational appeal of contemporary Context:

crime series “In the eight part series, Anders W. Berthelsen Chair: Kim Toft Hansen plays Rolf Larsen, once a respected criminal investigator at the CPH Police, who lost his daughter in a tragic accident. Rolf is devas- tated from grief, but soon it turns out that the National DNA register has a system failure.

Afternoon industry panel New information brings him hope that his 15:00 -16:00 daughter might be alive, and an unauthorised investigation leads Rolf on the trail of a case Producing European Television Crime Dramas of illegal child trafficking.

Katrine Vogelsang Nordisk Film producer Trin Hjortkjær Thomsen Head of fiction, TV 2 Denmark said: “DNA is a character-driven crime thriller, rooted into the contemporary European context. It’s also a human story – and not just Hanne Palmqvist Rolf’s, which drives the investigation and is our entry point into the series’ broader Commissioning Editor & VP, Original Program- themes.“ ming, HBO Europe

Nordic Film & TV Fund, February 28, 2019 Trin Hjortkjær Thomsen Produc er, Nordisk Film Production A/S Venue: CREATE, Rendsburggade 14, Aalborg, auditorium 3.107.

Chair: Kim Toft Hansen

October 1 ______

_ Afternoon keynote panel 13:45-14:45

Nordic Noir and its European Context October 2

______Sue Turnbull Senior professor of Communication and Media, _ University of Wollongong Morning keynote talk Walking in Andri’s Footsteps: Trapped, ‘White 09:00-10:00 Noir’, and the Icelandic Crime Scene. Annette Hill Gunhild Agger Professor at Media and Communication Studies, Professor emerita of Danish Media History, Aal- Lund University borg University Title: [TBC] Crime in service of a higher cause – The Left Wing Gang Chair: Pia Majbritt Jensen

Anna Estera Mrozewicz Associate Professor of Scandinavian Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University

‘Feel-bad’ Euro Noir: Imagining Europe from its eastern periphery through geopolitical lo- Afternoon keynote talk cation and plot in The Border/Wataha 13:45-14:45

Chair: Anne Marit Waade Robert A. Saunders Professor of History, Politics and Geography, State University of New York

Title: The Political Culture(s) of European Afternoon keynote talk Crime Fiction: Place, Power, Identity 16:30-17:30 Chair: Lynge Stegger Gemzøe

Jan Arnald (Arne Dahl) Novelist, literary critic

Title: Finding a Voice for Europe through Crime Fic- tion

Chair: Katarina Gregersdotter

Parallel sessions September 30 ______

1. Crime Scene France 2. Investigating European 11:45-12:45 Transculturalism I

Chair: Löic Artiaga 11:45-12:45

Jacques Migozzi Chair: Andy Lawrence

University of Limoges Lynge Stegger Gemzøe "French polar Ltd."? Two decades of crime Aalborg University fiction import/export observed from France National Anchorage and Banal Diversity in Trans-European Crime Dramas Natacha Levet University of Limoges Cathrin Bengesser The role of institutions in Euronoir circula- Aarhus University tion and its cultural hybridizations Co-producing narratives of solidarity between old & new Europe: The Last Panthers Lucie Amir University of Limoges Nikos Filippaios, Christos Dermenzopoulos, Where are the "docks" of crime fiction? The Lampros Flitouris "Quais du polar" international crime fiction University of Ioannina festival on the boundaries of the French na- Integrating the Nordic noir in the modern tional space Greek culture: the case of Vagelis Giannisis

3. Crime Scene Britain 4. Investigating 13:45-14:45 Mediterranean Noir I: Italy 13:45-14:45 Chair: Markus Schleich Chair: Dominique Jeannerod Robert Watts The University of Manchester Luca Barra Atlantic Noir: Fortitude, Sky Atlantic and University of Bologna the ‘homegrown’ European elsewhere Distorting Mirrors: The Complex Lives Abroad of Italian & European TV Crime Dramas Andrew Pepper and Brian Greenspan Queen’s University Belfast and Carleton Valentina Re University Link Campus University Tailing Rebus: Adapting a Best-Selling De- Outside the Borders 1: La porta rossa and tective Novel for Locative Mobile Media the use of peripheral locations in Italian crime TV shows Eve Bennett Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3 Massimiliano Coviello Power, Profits and Paranoia: The TV Corpo- Link Campus University rate Conspiracy Narrative in Britain and Be- Outside the Borders 2: Narrative and aes-

yond thetic effects of location strategies in La

Porta Rossa 6

5. Investigating 6. Crime Scene Hungary Mediterranean Noir II: 16:30-17:30 Turkey & Spain 16:30-17:30 Chair: Anne Keszeg

Chair: Valentina Re Dorottya Molnár-Kovács

Anna Tous-Rovirosa University of Debrecen Autonomous University of Barcelona A general overview of the Hungarian crime Spanish TV police genre fiction publishing industry

Ayşegül Kesirli Unur Sándor Kálai Istanbul Bilgi University University of Debrecen New Wave of Turkish Police Procedurals Location strategies in crime novels’ publica- tion in Hungary Stefano Baschiera Queen’s University Belfast Péter Mészáros & Dorottya Molnár-Kovács The territorialisation of Isla Minima: pro- University of Debrecen duction, promotion and distribution of the Location Strategies in the Television Series Spanish True Detective Aranyélet/Golden Life

October 1 ______7. Investigating Gender & 8. Investigating European Ethnicity Transculturalism II 15:00-16:00 15:00-16:00

Chair: Natacha Levet Chair: Andrew Pepper

Roxana Eichel Loïc Artiaga and Matthieu Letourneux University of Bucharest University of Limoges and Paris Nanterre Intersecting Inequalities in Romanian Crime University Fiction: Diversity Empowerment vs. Rein- Productions & Plots: Relationship between forcement of Identity Stereotypes in Cin- European Networks of Production and Plot- ema and TV Series ing of Eurospy Fictions

Djuna Hallsworth Paola Del Zoppo The University of Sydney Università della Tuscia The Absent Ones: Women's Duty of Care in Social Enquête and Detective Novel in Euro- Nordic Noir Dramas pean Transcultural and Transnational fiction: Tragedy, norms, stigmas and possibili- Janet McCabe ties to represent truth concepts

Birkbeck, University of London Andy Lawrence Bodies at the border: Transnational co-pro- University of Nottingham duced TV drama and its gender politics in Adapting Simenon: Transnational production the pilots of Bron/Broen and adaptations, frameworks and Maigret’s pedigree The Bridge and The Tunnel

October 2 ______

9. Investigating European 10. Crime Scene Europe Crime Reception 10:15-11:15 10:15-11:15

Chair: Christos Dermenzopoulos Chair: Stefano Baschiera Dominique Jeannerod Giancarlo Lombardi Queen’s University Belfast The Graduate Center/CUNY European Dead Zones: Nordic Noir, Stylisa- Watching Drama Religiously Across Conti- tion and Heterotopia in French-Belgian TV nents: The Reception of Ennemi Public, Bro- Series ken and Il Miracolo

Federico Pagello and Markus Schleich Jørgen Riber Christensen University of Bologna and Queen’s Uni- Aalborg University versity Belfast One week of Danish Television: 235 crime Pessimistic European Tourists? Studying the episodes and their European poetics critical reception European Crime Dramas Caius Dobrescu and Anne Marit Waade Pia Majbritt Jensen University of Bucharest and Aarhus Uni- Aarhus University versity Othering the Self and same-ing the Other: Euroscapes: Poetics of Place and Good Gov- Australians watching Scandi Noir ernance in European Crime Narratives

11. Crime Scene Germany 12. Investigating Netflix & 11:45-12:45 HBO Chair: Nikos Filippaios 11:45-12:45

Lothar Mikos and Lina Mareike Zopfs Irina Souch Film University Babelsberg University of Amsterdam From Arthouse to Berlin Noir: Babylon Berlin The Journey into Darkness: The Issue of En- and the Production Company X-Filme vironmental Catastrophe in the German TV Series Dark Susanne Eichner Aarhus University Anna Keszeg and Roxana Eichel Berlin Noir: Location, aesthetics and market University of Debrecen logics of new German series Romanian and Hungarian Cinema as Influ- ences for the HBO Phenomenon Markus Schleich Queen’s University Belfast Mikkel Jensen “The European Aspect”: Sebastian Schip- Aalborg University pert’s Victoria as an Exercise in Transna- Crime and Policing in The Deuce tional Europeanness