Detecting Europe in Contemporary Crime Narratives: Print Fiction, Film, and Television ONLINE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

21-23 June 2021 Link Campus University Via del Casale di San Pio V 44 Rome ONLINE PLATFORM:GoToWebinar

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Theo D’haen (Leuven University and Leiden University) Janet McCabe (Birkbeck, University of London) Peppino Ortoleva (University of Turin)

CONFERENCE CHAIRS Monica Dall’Asta (University of Bologna), Federico Pagello (D'Annunzio University of Chieti- Pescara), Valentina Re (Link Campus University)

ADVISORY BOARD Stefano Arduini (Link Campus University), Maurizio Ascari (University of Bologna), Jan Baetens (KU Leuven), Luca Barra (University of Bologna), Stefano Baschiera (Queen’s University Belfast), Giulia Carluccio (University of Turin), Silvana Colella (University of Macerata), Caius Dobrescu (University of Bucharest), Andrea Esser (University of Roehampton), Nicola Ferrigni (Link Campus University), Katarina Gregersdotter (Umeå University), Kim Toft Hansen (Aalborg University), Annette Hill (University of Lund), Dominique Jeannerod (Queen’s University Belfast), Sándor Kálai (University of Debrecen), Matthieu Letourneux (University Paris Nanterre), Natacha Levet (University of Limoges), Giacomo Manzoli (University of Bologna), Janet McCabe (Birkbeck University), Jacques Migozzi (University of Limoges), Andrew Pepper (Queen’s University Belfast), Marica Spalletta (Link Campus University)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Luca Antoniazzi (University of Bologna), Sara Casoli (University of Bologna), Massimiliano Coviello (Link Campus University), Paola De Rosa (Link Campus University)

STUDENTS STAFF Eleonora Mercuri, Nicola Pimpinella, Lavinia Sansone (Link Campus University, undergraduate degree programme in Film and Theatre Making)

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Further information: [email protected] CONFERENCE OVERVIEW MONDAY 21 JUNE 2021 ROOM A 10:00 - 10:45 am CET Welcome address and project presentation

ROOM A 10:45 am - 12:15 pm CET PLENARY SESSION 1

Keynote speech THEO D’HAEN, KU LEUVEN How Glocal are Contemporary European Crime Narratives?

PARALLEL SESSION 1 2:30 - 4:00 pm CET

ROOM A ROOM B ROOM C PANEL A1: PANEL B1: PANEL C1: New Takes on New Takes on Nordic A Tale of Three Cities: Mediterranean Noir Noir Crime and the Urban Tissue in Contemporary Fiction

Break PARALLEL SESSION 2 4:15 - 5:45 pm CET

ROOM A ROOM B ROOM C PANEL A2: PANEL B2: PANEL C2: French Noir and the Crime Films and The Black Rome. Transformations of National Identities. The Eternal City as European Crime The Case of Greece Protagonist of Crime Fiction Narrative TUESDAY 22 JUNE 2021 PARALLEL SESSION 3 9:00 - 10:30 am CET

ROOM A ROOM B ROOM C PANEL A3: PANEL B3: PANEL C3: Crime Narratives: Crime Narratives, The Geography of A Crossborder Periphery and Crime Fiction: Perspective Multiculturalism Local / Global

Break PARALLEL SESSION 4 10:45 am - 12:15 pm CET

ROOM A ROOM B ROOM C PANEL A4: PANEL B4: PANEL C4: Crime Narratives: New Takes on the Crime Narratives and a Transmedia Police Procedural Ecocriticism Perspective

PARALLEL SESSION 5 2:00 - 3:30 pm CET

ROOM A ROOM B ROOM C PANEL A5: PANEL B5: PANEL C5: Crime Narratives Crime Narratives Netflix and the and Politics and Gender Popularity of TV Crime Drama

Break TUESDAY 22 JUNE 2021 ROOM A 3:45 - 5:00 pm CET PLENARY SESSION 2

Keynote speech JANET MCCABE, BIRKBECK, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Divided Bodies, Crossings Borders, Transnational Encounters: Towards a Feminist Approach of Transnational TV Studies

PARALLEL SESSION 6 5:00 - 6:30 pm CET

ROOM A ROOM B ROOM C PANEL A6: PANEL B6: PANEL C6: Crime Films and The Other in TV Generic and Narrative Transnationalism Crime Dramas Hybridity in European Crime Cinema and Television

WEDNESDAY 23 JUNE 2021 PARALLEL SESSION 7 9:00 - 10:30 am CET

ROOM A ROOM B ROOM C PANEL A7: PANEL B7: PANEL C7: The Foreigner The Geography of TV The Contribution of Digital in Crime Fiction Crime Dramas: Humanities to Cultural Local / Global Studies Research Roundtable: The Challenges of Digital Humanities to Cultural Studies Research, a Face-to-Face Debate

Break WEDNESDAY 23 JUNE 2021 ROOM A 10:45 am - 12:15 pm CET PLENARY SESSION 3 Crime, Creative Industries and Contemporary European Media Policies

ROOM A 2:30 - 3:45 pm CET PLENARY SESSION 4

Keynote speech PEPPINO ORTOLEVA, UNIVERSITY OF TURIN A Spice of Danger. On the Pleasure(s) of Following Detective Stories

Break

ROOM A 4:00 - 5:30 pm CET PLENARY SESSION 5 Concluding Round Table Research Impact in the Humanities: New Directions

ROOM A 5:30 - 7:00 pm CET PLENARY SESSION 6 Contest Award Ceremony FINAL PROGRAMME 10:45 am - 12:15 pm 2:00 - 3:30 pm 3:45 - 5:00 pm 10:45 am - 12:15 pm 5:30 - 7:00 pm ROOM B ROOM B ROOM C ROOM B PANEL B1: New Takes on Nordic Noir PANEL B2: Crime Films and National Identities. The Case of Greece PARALLEL SESSION 4 PARALLEL SESSION 5 PANEL C6: Generic and Narrative Hybridity in European Crime Cinema and Television PANEL B7: The Geography of Crime Narratives: Local / Global MONDAY 21 JUNE 2021 ROOM A ROOM A ROOM A Gunhild Agger, Aalborg University Anna Poupou, Leonidas Papadopoulos and Eva Stefani, University of Athens 9:00 - 10:30 am PLENARY SESSION – Keynote speech Temenuga Trifonova, York University Dominique Jeannerod, Queen’s University Belfast PLENARY SESSION – Crime, Creative Industries and Contemporary PLENARY SESSION – DETECt Screenwriting Contest Award Ceremony Crime as a Moral Detective Between Humor and Darkness: Crime Films, Investigation Thrillers and Neo-noir Narratives in ROOM A ROOM A Trans-textual Peaks: Mountain Locations and Identities in European Crime Narratives 10:00 am PANEL A4: Crime Narratives: A Transmedia Perspective PANEL A5: Crime Narratives and Politics Detecting “the Other” in Contemporary European Cinema European Media Policies Contemporary Greek Cinema PARALLEL SESSION 3 JANET MCCABE, BIRKBECK, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON INTRODUCTION AND WELCOME ADDRESS Robert Saunders, State University of New York, and Gabriella Calchi Novati, Independent Scholar Joseph Boisvere, CUNY Graduate Center Jan Baetens, KU Leuven Luca Antoniazzi, University of Bologna Massimiliano Coviello, Link Campus University Roy Menarini, University of Bologna Divided Bodies, Crossings Borders, Transnational Encounters: Towards a Feminist Approach of Ben Harris, Serial Eyes, and Valentina Re, Link Campus University ROOM A Marcella as “London Noir”: Transplanting the (Bio)Politics of Nordic Noir into the Dark Heart of Afroditi Nikolaidou, University of Athens Black Spot: When Pastiche is the Point Crime Fiction in Belgium: Comics versus Graphic Novels The New Audiovisual Media Service Directive. Potential and Weaknesses PLENARY SESSION – Welcome address and project presentation Neoliberalism Modernisation’, Greekness and the Athenian Landscape in the Greek Crime Films of the Period ROOM A Mediating Memories in Contemporary European Crime Narratives: The Case of Babylon Berlin Suburra: Crime and Political Plots Transnational TV Studies PANEL A3: Crime Narratives: A Crossborder Perspective Leonardo Nolé, CUNY Graduate Center Antoine Dechêne, Independent Scholar Luca Barra, University of Bologna 1996-2004 Federico Pagello, D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, and Sara Casoli, University of Bologna Valerio Coladonato, The American University of Paris, and Dominic Holdaway, University of Urbino INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT OF THE JURY Carlo Alberto Giusti, Rector of Link Campus University Eva Novrup Redvall, University of Copenhagen “Can We Change Our Energy System?” Forms of Social and Environmental Responsibility in La trêve: A Case of Belgian Rural Noir Make It Circulate! Localization, Dubbing and the Support to European Non National Crime Drama Towards Euro-Noir? Conceptualizing the Noirisation of Contemporary European TV Series Benedict’s Brexit: Cumberbatch’s Star Image and Britishness, between Dominic Cummings and Discussant: Pia Majbritt Jensen, Aarhus University Giulia Carluccio, President of CUC – Consulta Universitaria del Cinema, University of Turin Writing Serial Crime Drama for Danish Children’s Television: The Case of the Tween Whodunnit Nickos Myrtou, National and Kapodistrean University of Athens Massimiliano Gaudiosi, University Suor Orsola Benincasa Bedrag and Karppi Maurizio de Giovanni (writer) in conversation with Alessandro Perissinotto (writer and scholar, Sherlock Holmes Anders Grønlund, University of Copenhagen Cathrin Helen Bengesser, Aarhus University, and Kim Toft Hansen, Aalborg University Guilty Representations of Uniformed Officers in the Cinematic Universe of Nikos Perakis Death in Duisburg. The Italian Crime Fiction and the Evolution of a Transnational Archetype Maria Adorno, Universität zu Köln University of Turin) Roberta Bartoletti, President of PIC-AIS – Associazione Italiana di Sociologia, Sezione Processi e Alessandro Carpin, Brown University Creating (in) the Arctic: Investigating European Co-production and Location through a Case Study Evaluating Creative Europe’s TV Programming Scheme: Geographical Imbalances in Fiction Angela Maiello, University of Calabria Multiple Versions and Transcultural European Cooperation: Trends Towards Crime Stories From Giacomo Tagliani, University of Palermo Istituzioni Culturali, University of Urbino Being Here While Being There: Spatial Organization of the Narrative and Spatial Logics of Distri- of the Arctic Noir Serial Thin Ice Funding Decisions Chair: Lynge Stegger Gemzøe, Aalborg University Chair: Christos Dermentzopoulos, University of Ioannina Looking at Europe from the Allies of Southern Italy The Letter (1929) to Hinterland (2016) Crime as Epistemic Strategy. Mystery and History in European Political Biopics 5:00 - 6:30 pm bution in Gomorra. La serie, Suburra. La serie and Zero Zero Zero STATEMENTS BY JURY MEMBERS Monica Dall’Asta, DETECt Project Coordinator, University of Bologna Kim Toft Hansen, Aalborg University, and Cathrin Helen Bengesser, Aarhus University Guerino Bovalino, Università per Stranieri “Dante Alighieri” di Reggio Calabria Nikos Filippaios, University of Ioannina PARALLEL SESSION 6 Chair: Valentina Re, Link Campus University Valentina Re, DETECt Communication Manager, Link Campus University Tv Crime Drama as Transcultural Communication: Creative Europe’s Predilection for North-Euro- Karen Hassan, Cattleya The “Italian Violence” from The Godfather to Gomorra: American’s Fascination by the Ethics and Chair: Markus Schleich, Queen’s University Belfast DETECTing the Evil: the Extreme Right in Modern European Crime Fiction Chair: Giancarlo Lombardi, CUNY Graduate Center Steve Matthews, HBO Europe Aesthetics of a Tribal Thought ROOM A pean Crime Dramas ROOM C ROOM C PANEL A6: Crime Films and Transnationalism Giacomo Poletti, Mediaset Group PANEL C1: A Tale of Three Cities: Crime and the Urban Tissue in Contemporary Fiction PANEL C2: The Black Rome. The Eternal City as Protagonist of Crime Narrative Ruxandra Trandafoiu, Edge Hill University Chair: Marica Spalletta, Link Campus University Respondent: Laura Landorff, Aalborg University 10:45 am - 12:15 pm ROOM C Eva van Leeuwen, Netflix Europe’s Shared Fears – Crime and Migration in Collateral (UK), Wallander (Sweden) and Montalbano (Italy) Russ Hunter, Northumbria University PANEL C7: The Contribution of Digital Humanities to Cultural Studies Research Chair: Federico Pagello, D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara Maurizio Ascari, University of Bologna Lorenzo Ugolini, Fabio Ciammella and Grazia Quercia, Sapienza University of Rome ROOM B Hidden in Plain Sight: The Curious Case of the Missing European Crime Festivals ROOM A John Rebus’s Edinburgh: Portrait of a Dark City in Dark Times Places of Rome as the Stage and Symbol of “Noantri”’s Criminality PANEL B4: New Takes on the Police Procedural llaria Bartolini and Andrea Di Luzio (University of Bologna), Cathrin Helen Bengesser and Anne Chair: Luca Antoniazzi, University of Bologna Stefano Baschiera and Markus Schleich, Queen’s University Belfast AWARD CEREMONY PLENARY SESSION – Keynote speech ROOM B Marit Waade (Aarhus University), Roberta Pireddu and Fred Truyen (KU Leuven) Donata Meneghelli, University of Bologna Marica Spalletta and Paola De Rosa, Link Campus University Ayşegül Kesirli Unur, Istanbul Bilgi University PANEL B5: Crime Narratives and Gender Distribution and Understanding of European Crime Cinema THEO D’HAEN, KU LEUVEN Fred Vargas’ Myth of Paris: Between (Trans)national Changing Identity, Tourism, and Nostalgia Rome in Crime. Media Coverage and Audience’s Perception of “Romanism” in Crime TV series In the Search of a Genuine Voice: A Closer Look at Turkish Police Procedurals DETECt: The Contribution of Digital Humanities to Cultural Studies Research Maja Pandzic, University of Zadar Giuseppe Fidotta, Concordia University 2:30 - 3:45 pm How Glocal are Contemporary European Crime Narratives? Silvia Baroni, University of Bologna Isabella Pezzini and Bianca Terracciano, Sapienza University of Rome Anna Keszeg, Babeș–Bolyai University Gangster Film Reloaded: European Values and the Criminal Specter of Late Modernity Ilaria Bartolini and Andrea Di Luzio, University of Bologna ROOM B Anastasija Kamenskaja – Walking a Thin Line – Between Challenging and Restating Gender The DETECt Digital Infrastructure, Front and Back “Shadows under the Porticoes”: Bologna, the Criminal Roman-ness and Model Bodies: Voices on the Sidelines, Revolutions Taking Place PANEL B3: Crime Narratives, Periphery and Multiculturalism Domestic Patterns of European Crime in Chamber Play Series Stereotypes Andrea Buccino, Manchester Metropolitan University ROOM A Discussant: Andrew Pepper, Queen’s University Belfast Giovanni Ciofalo, Sapienza University of Rome, and Paolo Sigismondi, University of Southern Lynge Stegger Gemzøe, Aalborg University The Tony Montana Effect: the Gangster Narrative as a Parable of Neoliberalism in Its 9:00 - 10:30 am Roberta Pireddu and Fred Truyen, KU Leuven PLENARY SESSION – Keynote speech Lucie Amir, University of Limoges Kemal Deniz, Munzur University Chair: Federica Ambroso, University of Bologna California Annenberg The Kim Wall Murder Serialized: Ethics & Aesthetics in High-Profile True Crime Correspondence Between Reality and Fiction Reaching Audiences with the DETECt MOOC Crime Fiction Characters Faced with Migration Crisis: Representations of Political Action in Persona as Social Justice on Crime Against Women PARALLEL SESSION 7 PEPPINO ORTOLEVA, UNIVERSITY OF TURIN The Dark Side of Rome? The Eternal City into Netflix Mainstreaming Cathrin Helen Bengesser and Anne Marit Waade, Aarhus University Contemporary French Crime Fiction Stefania Antonioni, University of Urbino Carlo Bo Maria Elena D’Amelio, University of San Marino In the Beginning Was a Murder. The Changing Meanings, and Pleasures, of Crime Ghost in the Crime Machine, or When the Detective is “Unreal”: the Cases of the TV Series’ River, Chair: Roy Menarini, University of Bologna Smart Crime Tourism as Multilayered Cultural Encounters: Exploring Aarhus via Locative Media 2:30 - 4:00 pm 4:15 - 5:45 pm Guglielmo Scafirimuto, University of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 Petra, Eva, Imma: a Postfeminist Taxonomy of Contemporary Italian Female Detectives ROOM A Chair: Silvia Leonzi, Sapienza University of Rome Beau Sejour and La Porta Rossa and Crime Narratives Crime Fictions in Banlieue Cinema. The Ghettoization of French Multiculturalism PANEL A7: The Foreigner in Crime Fiction PARALLEL SESSION 1 PARALLEL SESSION 2 Izabella Frere-Scott, Queen Mary University of London Discussant: Maurizio Ascari, University of Bologna Livio Lepratto, University of Parma Queer Criminals: Stereotypes and Prejudices in True Crime Ilana Shiloh, The Academic Center of Law and Business (Israel) Chair: Kim Toft Hansen, Aalborg University Roundtable: The Challenges of Digital Humanities to Cultural Studies Research, a Face-to-Face ROOM A “Noir Padano”. The Po Valley as the Theater of the Italian Crime Genre of the New Millennium ROOM B Images of the Other in European Noir Debate PANEL A1: New Takes on Mediterranean Noir ROOM A PANEL B6: The Other in TV Crime Dramas PANEL A2: French Noir and the Transformations of European Crime Fiction Chair: Flavia Laviosa, Wellesley College Sam Naidu, Rhodes University Loïc Artiaga (University of Limoges), Ilaria Bartolini (University of Bologna), Jacques Migozzi Chair: Stefano Baschiera, Queen’s University Belfast Intersecting Crime: Europe through the Eyes of an African Assassin in Deon Meyer’s The Last (University of Limoges), Frederik Truyen (KU Leuven), and Anne Marit Waade (Aarhus University) 4:00 - 5:30 pm Barbara Pezzotti, Monash University Jacques Migozzi, University of Limoges Susanne Eichner, Aarhus University Hunt (2019) Mediterranean Identity in European Crime Fiction Real events and fictitious explanations: a new age of investigation in French Noir? ROOM C “We” and the “Others”? Agency, Representation and Ethnicity in Danish Television Crime Drama Andrew Pepper, Queen’s University Belfast PANEL C4: Crime Narratives and Ecocriticism ROOM C Federica Ambroso, University of Bologna Chair: Ilaria Bartolini, University of Bologna ROOM A Alice Jacquelin, University of Limoges Péter Mészáros, University of Debrecen The Problem of Mediterranean Noir PANEL C5: Netflix and the Popularity of TV Crime Drama The Foreigner in Contemporary Noir Fiction of Bologna, Limoges and Thessaloniki: Between PLENARY SESSION – Concluding Round Table Noir Novel’s Failure to Undermine Official History: Didier Daeninckx, Le roman noir de l’Histoire ROOM C Tamsin Boynton, The University of Hull Representations of Foreign Countries in Hungarian Television Crime Series After the Regime PANEL C3: The Geography of Crime Fiction: Local / Global Discrimination and Integration Research Impact in the Humanities: New Directions Rubén Romero Santos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (2019) The Ecocrisis and Ecological Crime as a Threat to Social Identity in Contemporary European Ben Lamb, Teesside University Change Pepe Carvalho TV Adaptations: Screen Adventures of a Southern Noir Antihero Crime Narratives Interrogating Criminal UK / France / Germany / Spain Caius Dobrescu, Roxana Eichel, University of Bucharest Monica Dall’Asta, University of Bologna - DETECt Loïc Artiaga, University of Limoges Myriam Roche, Savoie Mont-Blanc University and Emilie Guyard, University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour From Blaxploitation to “Eastploitation”: The West-East European Contest of Constructing and Chair: Roxana Eichel, University of Bucharest The Decades 1980-1990: Political Transformations and Reconfiguration of Crime Fiction Regional Anchoring in Contemporary Spanish Noir: Towards a Europe of Regions in Popular Culture? Alessandra Ballotti, University of Lorraine Vasilis Chasiotis, University of Western Macedonia, and Dimitrios Tachmatzidis, University of Valentina Re, Link Campus University - DETECt Deconstructing Subalternity Chair: Sara Casoli, University of Bologna Sándor Kálai, University of Debrecen Slippery When Wet: Dread in/for the Nordic Landscape Western Macedonia and School of Film, Fine Arts Aristotelian, University of Thessaloniki Francesco Pitassio, University of Udine - VICTOR-E A Hypermodernity Reading of the Netflix Series Dark Marco Castagnetto, Link Campus University Chair: Matthieu Letourneux, Paris Nanterre University Eastern Europe in Scandinavian Crime Fiction Simon Popple, Director of Impact, School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds Frederique Toudoire, University of Limoges Detecting Religions. Crime series, Religions, and Popular Imagery Renata Zsamba, Eszterhazy Karoly University Arctic Noir: a Political or an Ecological Paradigm for Europe? Daniela Cardini, IULM University, and Gianni Sibilla, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Massimo Scaglioni, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – CInCIt Budapest Fraud and the Sense of Homelessness Partners in Crime. Pop Songs as Tools For Building Genre Identity in TV Crime Series Aina Vidal-Pérez, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Chair: Catherine Bengesser, Aarhus University Beixi Li, University of Bristol Endangered Waters: Between Local Exoticism and Global Environmental Concerns in Donna Cathrin Helen Bengesser, Pia Majbritt Jensen, Aarhus University, and Paola De Rosa, Marica Chair: Luca Barra, University of Bologna Role of Paratext in Publishing Contemporary Chinese Crime Fiction in Translation: A Case Study Leon’s Eco-Crime Fiction Spalletta, Link Campus University of The Golden Hairpin Audiences’ Perceptions of Place, Society and (TV) Culture in Popular European Audiovisual Crime Narratives Chair: Alice Jacquelin, University of Limoges Chair: Caius Dobrescu, University of Bucharest Chair: Federico Pagello, D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara 10:45 am - 12:15 pm 2:00 - 3:30 pm 3:45 - 5:00 pm 10:45 am - 12:15 pm 5:30 - 7:00 pm ROOM B ROOM B ROOM C ROOM B PANEL B1: New Takes on Nordic Noir PANEL B2: Crime Films and National Identities. The Case of Greece PARALLEL SESSION 4 PARALLEL SESSION 5 PANEL C6: Generic and Narrative Hybridity in European Crime Cinema and Television PANEL B7: The Geography of Crime Narratives: Local / Global ROOM A ROOM A ROOM A Gunhild Agger, Aalborg University Anna Poupou, Leonidas Papadopoulos and Eva Stefani, University of Athens 9:00 - 10:30 am PLENARY SESSION – Keynote speech Temenuga Trifonova, York University Dominique Jeannerod, Queen’s University Belfast PLENARY SESSION – Crime, Creative Industries and Contemporary PLENARY SESSION – DETECt Screenwriting Contest Award Ceremony Crime as a Moral Detective Between Humor and Darkness: Crime Films, Investigation Thrillers and Neo-noir Narratives in ROOM A ROOM A Trans-textual Peaks: Mountain Locations and Identities in European Crime Narratives 10:00 am PANEL A4: Crime Narratives: A Transmedia Perspective PANEL A5: Crime Narratives and Politics Detecting “the Other” in Contemporary European Cinema European Media Policies Contemporary Greek Cinema PARALLEL SESSION 3 JANET MCCABE, BIRKBECK, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON INTRODUCTION AND WELCOME ADDRESS Robert Saunders, State University of New York, and Gabriella Calchi Novati, Independent Scholar Joseph Boisvere, CUNY Graduate Center Jan Baetens, KU Leuven Luca Antoniazzi, University of Bologna Massimiliano Coviello, Link Campus University Roy Menarini, University of Bologna Divided Bodies, Crossings Borders, Transnational Encounters: Towards a Feminist Approach of Ben Harris, Serial Eyes, and Valentina Re, Link Campus University ROOM A Marcella as “London Noir”: Transplanting the (Bio)Politics of Nordic Noir into the Dark Heart of Afroditi Nikolaidou, University of Athens Black Spot: When Pastiche is the Point Crime Fiction in Belgium: Comics versus Graphic Novels The New Audiovisual Media Service Directive. Potential and Weaknesses PLENARY SESSION – Welcome address and project presentation Neoliberalism Modernisation’, Greekness and the Athenian Landscape in the Greek Crime Films of the Period ROOM A Mediating Memories in Contemporary European Crime Narratives: The Case of Babylon Berlin Suburra: Crime and Political Plots Transnational TV Studies PANEL A3: Crime Narratives: A Crossborder Perspective Leonardo Nolé, CUNY Graduate Center Antoine Dechêne, Independent Scholar Luca Barra, University of Bologna 1996-2004 Federico Pagello, D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, and Sara Casoli, University of Bologna Valerio Coladonato, The American University of Paris, and Dominic Holdaway, University of Urbino INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT OF THE JURY Carlo Alberto Giusti, Rector of Link Campus University Eva Novrup Redvall, University of Copenhagen “Can We Change Our Energy System?” Forms of Social and Environmental Responsibility in La trêve: A Case of Belgian Rural Noir Make It Circulate! Localization, Dubbing and the Support to European Non National Crime Drama Towards Euro-Noir? Conceptualizing the Noirisation of Contemporary European TV Series Benedict’s Brexit: Cumberbatch’s Star Image and Britishness, between Dominic Cummings and Discussant: Pia Majbritt Jensen, Aarhus University Giulia Carluccio, President of CUC – Consulta Universitaria del Cinema, University of Turin Writing Serial Crime Drama for Danish Children’s Television: The Case of the Tween Whodunnit Nickos Myrtou, National and Kapodistrean University of Athens Massimiliano Gaudiosi, University Suor Orsola Benincasa Bedrag and Karppi Maurizio de Giovanni (writer) in conversation with Alessandro Perissinotto (writer and scholar, Sherlock Holmes Anders Grønlund, University of Copenhagen Cathrin Helen Bengesser, Aarhus University, and Kim Toft Hansen, Aalborg University Guilty Representations of Uniformed Officers in the Cinematic Universe of Nikos Perakis Death in Duisburg. The Italian Crime Fiction and the Evolution of a Transnational Archetype Maria Adorno, Universität zu Köln University of Turin) Roberta Bartoletti, President of PIC-AIS – Associazione Italiana di Sociologia, Sezione Processi e Alessandro Carpin, Brown University Creating (in) the Arctic: Investigating European Co-production and Location through a Case Study Evaluating Creative Europe’s TV Programming Scheme: Geographical Imbalances in Fiction Angela Maiello, University of Calabria Multiple Versions and Transcultural European Cooperation: Trends Towards Crime Stories From Giacomo Tagliani, University of Palermo Istituzioni Culturali, University of Urbino Being Here While Being There: Spatial Organization of the Narrative and Spatial Logics of Distri- of the Arctic Noir Serial Thin Ice Funding Decisions Chair: Lynge Stegger Gemzøe, Aalborg University Chair: Christos Dermentzopoulos, University of Ioannina Looking at Europe from the Allies of Southern Italy The Letter (1929) to Hinterland (2016) Crime as Epistemic Strategy. Mystery and History in European Political Biopics 5:00 - 6:30 pm bution in Gomorra. La serie, Suburra. La serie and Zero Zero Zero STATEMENTS BY JURY MEMBERS Monica Dall’Asta, DETECt Project Coordinator, University of Bologna Kim Toft Hansen, Aalborg University, and Cathrin Helen Bengesser, Aarhus University Guerino Bovalino, Università per Stranieri “Dante Alighieri” di Reggio Calabria Nikos Filippaios, University of Ioannina PARALLEL SESSION 6 Chair: Valentina Re, Link Campus University Valentina Re, DETECt Communication Manager, Link Campus University Tv Crime Drama as Transcultural Communication: Creative Europe’s Predilection for North-Euro- Karen Hassan, Cattleya The “Italian Violence” from The Godfather to Gomorra: American’s Fascination by the Ethics and Chair: Markus Schleich, Queen’s University Belfast DETECTing the Evil: the Extreme Right in Modern European Crime Fiction Chair: Giancarlo Lombardi, CUNY Graduate Center Steve Matthews, HBO Europe Aesthetics of a Tribal Thought ROOM A pean Crime Dramas ROOM C ROOM C PANEL A6: Crime Films and Transnationalism Giacomo Poletti, Mediaset Group PANEL C1: A Tale of Three Cities: Crime and the Urban Tissue in Contemporary Fiction PANEL C2: The Black Rome. The Eternal City as Protagonist of Crime Narrative Ruxandra Trandafoiu, Edge Hill University Chair: Marica Spalletta, Link Campus University Respondent: Laura Landorff, Aalborg University 10:45 am - 12:15 pm ROOM C Eva van Leeuwen, Netflix Europe’s Shared Fears – Crime and Migration in Collateral (UK), Wallander (Sweden) and Montalbano (Italy) Russ Hunter, Northumbria University PANEL C7: The Contribution of Digital Humanities to Cultural Studies Research Chair: Federico Pagello, D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara Maurizio Ascari, University of Bologna Lorenzo Ugolini, Fabio Ciammella and Grazia Quercia, Sapienza University of Rome ROOM B Hidden in Plain Sight: The Curious Case of the Missing European Crime Festivals ROOM A John Rebus’s Edinburgh: Portrait of a Dark City in Dark Times Places of Rome as the Stage and Symbol of “Noantri”’s Criminality PANEL B4: New Takes on the Police Procedural llaria Bartolini and Andrea Di Luzio (University of Bologna), Cathrin Helen Bengesser and Anne Chair: Luca Antoniazzi, University of Bologna Stefano Baschiera and Markus Schleich, Queen’s University Belfast AWARD CEREMONY PLENARY SESSION – Keynote speech ROOM B Marit Waade (Aarhus University), Roberta Pireddu and Fred Truyen (KU Leuven) Donata Meneghelli, University of Bologna Marica Spalletta and Paola De Rosa, Link Campus University Ayşegül Kesirli Unur, Istanbul Bilgi University PANEL B5: Crime Narratives and Gender Distribution and Understanding of European Crime Cinema THEO D’HAEN, KU LEUVEN Fred Vargas’ Myth of Paris: Between (Trans)national Changing Identity, Tourism, and Nostalgia Rome in Crime. Media Coverage and Audience’s Perception of “Romanism” in Crime TV series In the Search of a Genuine Voice: A Closer Look at Turkish Police Procedurals DETECt: The Contribution of Digital Humanities to Cultural Studies Research Maja Pandzic, University of Zadar Giuseppe Fidotta, Concordia University 2:30 - 3:45 pm How Glocal are Contemporary European Crime Narratives? Silvia Baroni, University of Bologna Isabella Pezzini and Bianca Terracciano, Sapienza University of Rome Anna Keszeg, Babeș–Bolyai University Gangster Film Reloaded: European Values and the Criminal Specter of Late Modernity Ilaria Bartolini and Andrea Di Luzio, University of Bologna ROOM B Anastasija Kamenskaja – Walking a Thin Line – Between Challenging and Restating Gender The DETECt Digital Infrastructure, Front and Back “Shadows under the Porticoes”: Bologna, the Criminal Roman-ness and Model Bodies: Voices on the Sidelines, Revolutions Taking Place PANEL B3: Crime Narratives, Periphery and Multiculturalism Domestic Patterns of European Crime in Chamber Play Series Stereotypes Andrea Buccino, Manchester Metropolitan University ROOM A Discussant: Andrew Pepper, Queen’s University Belfast Giovanni Ciofalo, Sapienza University of Rome, and Paolo Sigismondi, University of Southern Lynge Stegger Gemzøe, Aalborg University The Tony Montana Effect: the Gangster Narrative as a Parable of Neoliberalism in Its 9:00 - 10:30 am Roberta Pireddu and Fred Truyen, KU Leuven PLENARY SESSION – Keynote speech Lucie Amir, University of Limoges Kemal Deniz, Munzur University Chair: Federica Ambroso, University of Bologna California Annenberg The Kim Wall Murder Serialized: Ethics & Aesthetics in High-Profile True Crime Correspondence Between Reality and Fiction Reaching Audiences with the DETECt MOOC Crime Fiction Characters Faced with Migration Crisis: Representations of Political Action in Persona as Social Justice on Crime Against Women PARALLEL SESSION 7 PEPPINO ORTOLEVA, UNIVERSITY OF TURIN The Dark Side of Rome? The Eternal City into Netflix Mainstreaming Cathrin Helen Bengesser and Anne Marit Waade, Aarhus University Contemporary French Crime Fiction Stefania Antonioni, University of Urbino Carlo Bo Maria Elena D’Amelio, University of San Marino In the Beginning Was a Murder. The Changing Meanings, and Pleasures, of Crime Ghost in the Crime Machine, or When the Detective is “Unreal”: the Cases of the TV Series’ River, Chair: Roy Menarini, University of Bologna Smart Crime Tourism as Multilayered Cultural Encounters: Exploring Aarhus via Locative Media 2:30 - 4:00 pm 4:15 - 5:45 pm Guglielmo Scafirimuto, University of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 Petra, Eva, Imma: a Postfeminist Taxonomy of Contemporary Italian Female Detectives ROOM A Chair: Silvia Leonzi, Sapienza University of Rome Beau Sejour and La Porta Rossa and Crime Narratives Crime Fictions in Banlieue Cinema. The Ghettoization of French Multiculturalism PANEL A7: The Foreigner in Crime Fiction PARALLEL SESSION 1 PARALLEL SESSION 2 Izabella Frere-Scott, Queen Mary University of London Discussant: Maurizio Ascari, University of Bologna Livio Lepratto, University of Parma Queer Criminals: Stereotypes and Prejudices in True Crime Ilana Shiloh, The Academic Center of Law and Business (Israel) Chair: Kim Toft Hansen, Aalborg University Roundtable: The Challenges of Digital Humanities to Cultural Studies Research, a Face-to-Face ROOM A “Noir Padano”. The Po Valley as the Theater of the Italian Crime Genre of the New Millennium ROOM B Images of the Other in European Noir Debate PANEL A1: New Takes on Mediterranean Noir ROOM A PANEL B6: The Other in TV Crime Dramas PANEL A2: French Noir and the Transformations of European Crime Fiction Chair: Flavia Laviosa, Wellesley College Sam Naidu, Rhodes University Loïc Artiaga (University of Limoges), Ilaria Bartolini (University of Bologna), Jacques Migozzi Chair: Stefano Baschiera, Queen’s University Belfast Intersecting Crime: Europe through the Eyes of an African Assassin in Deon Meyer’s The Last (University of Limoges), Frederik Truyen (KU Leuven), and Anne Marit Waade (Aarhus University) 4:00 - 5:30 pm Barbara Pezzotti, Monash University Jacques Migozzi, University of Limoges Susanne Eichner, Aarhus University Mediterranean Identity in European Crime Fiction Real events and fictitious explanations: a new age of investigation in French Noir? ROOM C “We” and the “Others”? Agency, Representation and Ethnicity in Danish Television Crime Drama Hunt (2019) PANEL C4: Crime Narratives and Ecocriticism Chair: Ilaria Bartolini, University of Bologna ROOM A Andrew Pepper, Queen’s University Belfast Alice Jacquelin, University of Limoges ROOM C Péter Mészáros, University of Debrecen Federica Ambroso, University of Bologna The Problem of Mediterranean Noir Noir Novel’s Failure to Undermine Official History: Didier Daeninckx, Le roman noir de l’Histoire PANEL C5: Netflix and the Popularity of TV Crime Drama The Foreigner in Contemporary Noir Fiction of Bologna, Limoges and Thessaloniki: Between PLENARY SESSION – Concluding Round Table ROOM C Tamsin Boynton, The University of Hull Representations of Foreign Countries in Hungarian Television Crime Series After the Regime (2019) PANEL C3: The Geography of Crime Fiction: Local / Global Discrimination and Integration Rubén Romero Santos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid The Ecocrisis and Ecological Crime as a Threat to Social Identity in Contemporary European Ben Lamb, Teesside University Change Research Impact in the Humanities: New Directions Pepe Carvalho TV Adaptations: Screen Adventures of a Southern Noir Antihero Loïc Artiaga, University of Limoges Myriam Roche, Savoie Mont-Blanc University and Emilie Guyard, University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour Crime Narratives Interrogating Criminal UK / France / Germany / Spain Caius Dobrescu, Roxana Eichel, University of Bucharest Monica Dall’Asta, University of Bologna - DETECt Desiring Future. Shaping Tomorrow in Eurospy's Fiction From Blaxploitation to “Eastploitation”: The West-East European Contest of Constructing and Chair: Roxana Eichel, University of Bucharest Regional Anchoring in Contemporary Spanish Noir: Towards a Europe of Regions in Popular Culture? Alessandra Ballotti, University of Lorraine Vasilis Chasiotis, University of Western Macedonia, and Dimitrios Tachmatzidis, University of Valentina Re, Link Campus University - DETECt Deconstructing Subalternity Chair: Sara Casoli, University of Bologna Sándor Kálai, University of Debrecen Slippery When Wet: Dread in/for the Nordic Landscape Western Macedonia and School of Film, Fine Arts Aristotelian, University of Thessaloniki Francesco Pitassio, University of Udine - VICTOR-E Chair: Matthieu Letourneux, Paris Nanterre University A Hypermodernity Reading of the Netflix Series Dark Marco Castagnetto, Link Campus University Eastern Europe in Scandinavian Crime Fiction Simon Popple, Director of Impact, School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds Frederique Toudoire, University of Limoges Detecting Religions. Crime series, Religions, and Popular Imagery Renata Zsamba, Eszterhazy Karoly University Arctic Noir: a Political or an Ecological Paradigm for Europe? Daniela Cardini, IULM University, and Gianni Sibilla, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Massimo Scaglioni, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – CInCIt Budapest Fraud and the Sense of Homelessness Partners in Crime. Pop Songs as Tools For Building Genre Identity in TV Crime Series Aina Vidal-Pérez, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Chair: Catherine Bengesser, Aarhus University Beixi Li, University of Bristol Endangered Waters: Between Local Exoticism and Global Environmental Concerns in Donna Cathrin Helen Bengesser, Pia Majbritt Jensen, Aarhus University, and Paola De Rosa, Marica Chair: Luca Barra, University of Bologna Role of Paratext in Publishing Contemporary Chinese Crime Fiction in Translation: A Case Study Leon’s Eco-Crime Fiction Spalletta, Link Campus University of The Golden Hairpin Audiences’ Perceptions of Place, Society and (TV) Culture in Popular European Audiovisual Crime Narratives Chair: Alice Jacquelin, University of Limoges Chair: Caius Dobrescu, University of Bucharest Chair: Federico Pagello, D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara 10:45 am - 12:15 pm 2:00 - 3:30 pm 3:45 - 5:00 pm 10:45 am - 12:15 pm 5:30 - 7:00 pm ROOM B ROOM B ROOM C ROOM B PANEL B1: New Takes on Nordic Noir PANEL B2: Crime Films and National Identities. The Case of Greece PARALLEL SESSION 4 PARALLEL SESSION 5 PANEL C6: Generic and Narrative Hybridity in European Crime Cinema and Television PANEL B7: The Geography of Crime Narratives: Local / Global ROOM A ROOM A ROOM A Gunhild Agger, Aalborg University Anna Poupou, Leonidas Papadopoulos and Eva Stefani, University of Athens 9:00 - 10:30 am PLENARY SESSION – Keynote speech Temenuga Trifonova, York University Dominique Jeannerod, Queen’s University Belfast PLENARY SESSION – Crime, Creative Industries and Contemporary PLENARY SESSION – DETECt Screenwriting Contest Award Ceremony Crime as a Moral Detective Between Humor and Darkness: Crime Films, Investigation Thrillers and Neo-noir Narratives in ROOM A ROOM A Trans-textual Peaks: Mountain Locations and Identities in European Crime Narratives 10:00 am PANEL A4: Crime Narratives: A Transmedia Perspective PANEL A5: Crime Narratives and Politics Detecting “the Other” in Contemporary European Cinema European Media Policies Contemporary Greek Cinema PARALLEL SESSION 3 JANET MCCABE, BIRKBECK, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON INTRODUCTION AND WELCOME ADDRESS Robert Saunders, State University of New York, and Gabriella Calchi Novati, Independent Scholar Joseph Boisvere, CUNY Graduate Center Jan Baetens, KU Leuven Luca Antoniazzi, University of Bologna Massimiliano Coviello, Link Campus University Roy Menarini, University of Bologna Divided Bodies, Crossings Borders, Transnational Encounters: Towards a Feminist Approach of Ben Harris, Serial Eyes, and Valentina Re, Link Campus University ROOM A Marcella as “London Noir”: Transplanting the (Bio)Politics of Nordic Noir into the Dark Heart of Afroditi Nikolaidou, University of Athens Black Spot: When Pastiche is the Point Crime Fiction in Belgium: Comics versus Graphic Novels The New Audiovisual Media Service Directive. Potential and Weaknesses PLENARY SESSION – Welcome address and project presentation Neoliberalism Modernisation’, Greekness and the Athenian Landscape in the Greek Crime Films of the Period ROOM A Mediating Memories in Contemporary European Crime Narratives: The Case of Babylon Berlin Suburra: Crime and Political Plots Transnational TV Studies PANEL A3: Crime Narratives: A Crossborder Perspective Leonardo Nolé, CUNY Graduate Center Antoine Dechêne, Independent Scholar Luca Barra, University of Bologna 1996-2004 Federico Pagello, D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, and Sara Casoli, University of Bologna Valerio Coladonato, The American University of Paris, and Dominic Holdaway, University of Urbino INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT OF THE JURY Carlo Alberto Giusti, Rector of Link Campus University Eva Novrup Redvall, University of Copenhagen “Can We Change Our Energy System?” Forms of Social and Environmental Responsibility in La trêve: A Case of Belgian Rural Noir Make It Circulate! Localization, Dubbing and the Support to European Non National Crime Drama Towards Euro-Noir? Conceptualizing the Noirisation of Contemporary European TV Series Benedict’s Brexit: Cumberbatch’s Star Image and Britishness, between Dominic Cummings and Discussant: Pia Majbritt Jensen, Aarhus University Giulia Carluccio, President of CUC – Consulta Universitaria del Cinema, University of Turin Writing Serial Crime Drama for Danish Children’s Television: The Case of the Tween Whodunnit Nickos Myrtou, National and Kapodistrean University of Athens Massimiliano Gaudiosi, University Suor Orsola Benincasa Bedrag and Karppi Maurizio de Giovanni (writer) in conversation with Alessandro Perissinotto (writer and scholar, Sherlock Holmes Anders Grønlund, University of Copenhagen Cathrin Helen Bengesser, Aarhus University, and Kim Toft Hansen, Aalborg University Guilty Representations of Uniformed Officers in the Cinematic Universe of Nikos Perakis Death in Duisburg. The Italian Crime Fiction and the Evolution of a Transnational Archetype Maria Adorno, Universität zu Köln University of Turin) Roberta Bartoletti, President of PIC-AIS – Associazione Italiana di Sociologia, Sezione Processi e Alessandro Carpin, Brown University Creating (in) the Arctic: Investigating European Co-production and Location through a Case Study Evaluating Creative Europe’s TV Programming Scheme: Geographical Imbalances in Fiction Angela Maiello, University of Calabria Multiple Versions and Transcultural European Cooperation: Trends Towards Crime Stories From Giacomo Tagliani, University of Palermo Istituzioni Culturali, University of Urbino Being Here While Being There: Spatial Organization of the Narrative and Spatial Logics of Distri- of the Arctic Noir Serial Thin Ice Funding Decisions Chair: Lynge Stegger Gemzøe, Aalborg University Chair: Christos Dermentzopoulos, University of Ioannina Looking at Europe from the Allies of Southern Italy The Letter (1929) to Hinterland (2016) Crime as Epistemic Strategy. Mystery and History in European Political Biopics 5:00 - 6:30 pm bution in Gomorra. La serie, Suburra. La serie and Zero Zero Zero STATEMENTS BY JURY MEMBERS Monica Dall’Asta, DETECt Project Coordinator, University of Bologna Kim Toft Hansen, Aalborg University, and Cathrin Helen Bengesser, Aarhus University Guerino Bovalino, Università per Stranieri “Dante Alighieri” di Reggio Calabria Nikos Filippaios, University of Ioannina PARALLEL SESSION 6 Chair: Valentina Re, Link Campus University Valentina Re, DETECt Communication Manager, Link Campus University Tv Crime Drama as Transcultural Communication: Creative Europe’s Predilection for North-Euro- Karen Hassan, Cattleya The “Italian Violence” from The Godfather to Gomorra: American’s Fascination by the Ethics and Chair: Markus Schleich, Queen’s University Belfast DETECTing the Evil: the Extreme Right in Modern European Crime Fiction Chair: Giancarlo Lombardi, CUNY Graduate Center Steve Matthews, HBO Europe Aesthetics of a Tribal Thought ROOM A pean Crime Dramas ROOM C ROOM C PANEL A6: Crime Films and Transnationalism Giacomo Poletti, Mediaset Group PANEL C1: A Tale of Three Cities: Crime and the Urban Tissue in Contemporary Fiction PANEL C2: The Black Rome. The Eternal City as Protagonist of Crime Narrative Ruxandra Trandafoiu, Edge Hill University Chair: Marica Spalletta, Link Campus University Respondent: Laura Landorff, Aalborg University 10:45 am - 12:15 pm ROOM C Eva van Leeuwen, Netflix Europe’s Shared Fears – Crime and Migration in Collateral (UK), Wallander (Sweden) and Montalbano (Italy) Russ Hunter, Northumbria University PANEL C7: The Contribution of Digital Humanities to Cultural Studies Research Chair: Federico Pagello, D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara Maurizio Ascari, University of Bologna Lorenzo Ugolini, Fabio Ciammella and Grazia Quercia, Sapienza University of Rome ROOM B Hidden in Plain Sight: The Curious Case of the Missing European Crime Festivals ROOM A John Rebus’s Edinburgh: Portrait of a Dark City in Dark Times Places of Rome as the Stage and Symbol of “Noantri”’s Criminality PANEL B4: New Takes on the Police Procedural llaria Bartolini and Andrea Di Luzio (University of Bologna), Cathrin Helen Bengesser and Anne Chair: Luca Antoniazzi, University of Bologna Stefano Baschiera and Markus Schleich, Queen’s University Belfast AWARD CEREMONY PLENARY SESSION – Keynote speech ROOM B Marit Waade (Aarhus University), Roberta Pireddu and Fred Truyen (KU Leuven) Donata Meneghelli, University of Bologna Marica Spalletta and Paola De Rosa, Link Campus University Ayşegül Kesirli Unur, Istanbul Bilgi University PANEL B5: Crime Narratives and Gender Distribution and Understanding of European Crime Cinema THEO D’HAEN, KU LEUVEN Fred Vargas’ Myth of Paris: Between (Trans)national Changing Identity, Tourism, and Nostalgia Rome in Crime. Media Coverage and Audience’s Perception of “Romanism” in Crime TV series In the Search of a Genuine Voice: A Closer Look at Turkish Police Procedurals DETECt: The Contribution of Digital Humanities to Cultural Studies Research Maja Pandzic, University of Zadar Giuseppe Fidotta, Concordia University 2:30 - 3:45 pm How Glocal are Contemporary European Crime Narratives? Silvia Baroni, University of Bologna Isabella Pezzini and Bianca Terracciano, Sapienza University of Rome Anna Keszeg, Babeș–Bolyai University Gangster Film Reloaded: European Values and the Criminal Specter of Late Modernity Ilaria Bartolini and Andrea Di Luzio, University of Bologna ROOM B Anastasija Kamenskaja – Walking a Thin Line – Between Challenging and Restating Gender The DETECt Digital Infrastructure, Front and Back “Shadows under the Porticoes”: Bologna, the Criminal Roman-ness and Model Bodies: Voices on the Sidelines, Revolutions Taking Place PANEL B3: Crime Narratives, Periphery and Multiculturalism Domestic Patterns of European Crime in Chamber Play Series Stereotypes Andrea Buccino, Manchester Metropolitan University ROOM A Discussant: Andrew Pepper, Queen’s University Belfast Giovanni Ciofalo, Sapienza University of Rome, and Paolo Sigismondi, University of Southern Lynge Stegger Gemzøe, Aalborg University The Tony Montana Effect: the Gangster Narrative as a Parable of Neoliberalism in Its 9:00 - 10:30 am Roberta Pireddu and Fred Truyen, KU Leuven PLENARY SESSION – Keynote speech Lucie Amir, University of Limoges Kemal Deniz, Munzur University Chair: Federica Ambroso, University of Bologna California Annenberg The Kim Wall Murder Serialized: Ethics & Aesthetics in High-Profile True Crime Correspondence Between Reality and Fiction Reaching Audiences with the DETECt MOOC Crime Fiction Characters Faced with Migration Crisis: Representations of Political Action in Persona as Social Justice on Crime Against Women PARALLEL SESSION 7 PEPPINO ORTOLEVA, UNIVERSITY OF TURIN The Dark Side of Rome? The Eternal City into Netflix Mainstreaming Cathrin Helen Bengesser and Anne Marit Waade, Aarhus University Contemporary French Crime Fiction Stefania Antonioni, University of Urbino Carlo Bo Maria Elena D’Amelio, University of San Marino In the Beginning Was a Murder. The Changing Meanings, and Pleasures, of Crime Ghost in the Crime Machine, or When the Detective is “Unreal”: the Cases of the TV Series’ River, Chair: Roy Menarini, University of Bologna Smart Crime Tourism as Multilayered Cultural Encounters: Exploring Aarhus via Locative Media 2:30 - 4:00 pm 4:15 - 5:45 pm Guglielmo Scafirimuto, University of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 Petra, Eva, Imma: a Postfeminist Taxonomy of Contemporary Italian Female Detectives ROOM A Chair: Silvia Leonzi, Sapienza University of Rome Beau Sejour and La Porta Rossa and Crime Narratives Crime Fictions in Banlieue Cinema. The Ghettoization of French Multiculturalism PANEL A7: The Foreigner in Crime Fiction PARALLEL SESSION 1 PARALLEL SESSION 2 Izabella Frere-Scott, Queen Mary University of London Discussant: Maurizio Ascari, University of Bologna Livio Lepratto, University of Parma Queer Criminals: Stereotypes and Prejudices in True Crime Ilana Shiloh, The Academic Center of Law and Business (Israel) Chair: Kim Toft Hansen, Aalborg University Roundtable: The Challenges of Digital Humanities to Cultural Studies Research, a Face-to-Face ROOM A “Noir Padano”. The Po Valley as the Theater of the Italian Crime Genre of the New Millennium ROOM B Images of the Other in European Noir Debate PANEL A1: New Takes on Mediterranean Noir ROOM A PANEL B6: The Other in TV Crime Dramas PANEL A2: French Noir and the Transformations of European Crime Fiction Chair: Flavia Laviosa, Wellesley College Sam Naidu, Rhodes University Loïc Artiaga (University of Limoges), Ilaria Bartolini (University of Bologna), Jacques Migozzi Chair: Stefano Baschiera, Queen’s University Belfast Intersecting Crime: Europe through the Eyes of an African Assassin in Deon Meyer’s The Last (University of Limoges), Frederik Truyen (KU Leuven), and Anne Marit Waade (Aarhus University) 4:00 - 5:30 pm Barbara Pezzotti, Monash University Jacques Migozzi, University of Limoges Susanne Eichner, Aarhus University Hunt (2019) Mediterranean Identity in European Crime Fiction Real events and fictitious explanations: a new age of investigation in French Noir? ROOM C “We” and the “Others”? Agency, Representation and Ethnicity in Danish Television Crime Drama Andrew Pepper, Queen’s University Belfast PANEL C4: Crime Narratives and Ecocriticism ROOM C Federica Ambroso, University of Bologna Chair: Ilaria Bartolini, University of Bologna ROOM A Alice Jacquelin, University of Limoges Péter Mészáros, University of Debrecen The Problem of Mediterranean Noir PANEL C5: Netflix and the Popularity of TV Crime Drama The Foreigner in Contemporary Noir Fiction of Bologna, Limoges and Thessaloniki: Between PLENARY SESSION – Concluding Round Table Noir Novel’s Failure to Undermine Official History: Didier Daeninckx, Le roman noir de l’Histoire ROOM C Tamsin Boynton, The University of Hull Representations of Foreign Countries in Hungarian Television Crime Series After the Regime PANEL C3: The Geography of Crime Fiction: Local / Global Discrimination and Integration Research Impact in the Humanities: New Directions Rubén Romero Santos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (2019) The Ecocrisis and Ecological Crime as a Threat to Social Identity in Contemporary European Ben Lamb, Teesside University Change Pepe Carvalho TV Adaptations: Screen Adventures of a Southern Noir Antihero Crime Narratives Interrogating Criminal UK / France / Germany / Spain Caius Dobrescu, Roxana Eichel, University of Bucharest Monica Dall’Asta, University of Bologna - DETECt Loïc Artiaga, University of Limoges Myriam Roche, Savoie Mont-Blanc University and Emilie Guyard, University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour From Blaxploitation to “Eastploitation”: The West-East European Contest of Constructing and Chair: Roxana Eichel, University of Bucharest The Decades 1980-1990: Political Transformations and Reconfiguration of Crime Fiction Regional Anchoring in Contemporary Spanish Noir: Towards a Europe of Regions in Popular Culture? Alessandra Ballotti, University of Lorraine Vasilis Chasiotis, University of Western Macedonia, and Dimitrios Tachmatzidis, University of Valentina Re, Link Campus University - DETECt Deconstructing Subalternity Chair: Sara Casoli, University of Bologna Sándor Kálai, University of Debrecen Slippery When Wet: Dread in/for the Nordic Landscape Western Macedonia and School of Film, Fine Arts Aristotelian, University of Thessaloniki Francesco Pitassio, University of Udine - VICTOR-E A Hypermodernity Reading of the Netflix Series Dark Marco Castagnetto, Link Campus University Chair: Matthieu Letourneux, Paris Nanterre University Eastern Europe in Scandinavian Crime Fiction Simon Popple, Director of Impact, School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds Frederique Toudoire, University of Limoges Detecting Religions. Crime series, Religions, and Popular Imagery Renata Zsamba, Eszterhazy Karoly University Arctic Noir: a Political or an Ecological Paradigm for Europe? Daniela Cardini, IULM University, and Gianni Sibilla, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Massimo Scaglioni, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – CInCIt Budapest Fraud and the Sense of Homelessness Partners in Crime. Pop Songs as Tools For Building Genre Identity in TV Crime Series Aina Vidal-Pérez, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Chair: Catherine Bengesser, Aarhus University Beixi Li, University of Bristol Endangered Waters: Between Local Exoticism and Global Environmental Concerns in Donna Cathrin Helen Bengesser, Pia Majbritt Jensen, Aarhus University, and Paola De Rosa, Marica Chair: Luca Barra, University of Bologna Role of Paratext in Publishing Contemporary Chinese Crime Fiction in Translation: A Case Study Leon’s Eco-Crime Fiction Spalletta, Link Campus University of The Golden Hairpin Audiences’ Perceptions of Place, Society and (TV) Culture in Popular European Audiovisual Crime Narratives Chair: Alice Jacquelin, University of Limoges Chair: Caius Dobrescu, University of Bucharest Chair: Federico Pagello, D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara 10:45 am - 12:15 pm 2:00 - 3:30 pm 3:45 - 5:00 pm 10:45 am - 12:15 pm 5:30 - 7:00 pm ROOM B ROOM B ROOM C ROOM B PANEL B1: New Takes on Nordic Noir PANEL B2: Crime Films and National Identities. The Case of Greece TUESDAY 22 JUNE 2021 PARALLEL SESSION 4 PARALLEL SESSION 5 PANEL C6: Generic and Narrative Hybridity in European Crime Cinema and Television PANEL B7: The Geography of Crime Narratives: Local / Global ROOM A ROOM A ROOM A Gunhild Agger, Aalborg University Anna Poupou, Leonidas Papadopoulos and Eva Stefani, University of Athens 9:00 - 10:30 am PLENARY SESSION – Keynote speech Temenuga Trifonova, York University Dominique Jeannerod, Queen’s University Belfast PLENARY SESSION – Crime, Creative Industries and Contemporary PLENARY SESSION – DETECt Screenwriting Contest Award Ceremony Crime as a Moral Detective Between Humor and Darkness: Crime Films, Investigation Thrillers and Neo-noir Narratives in ROOM A ROOM A Trans-textual Peaks: Mountain Locations and Identities in European Crime Narratives 10:00 am PANEL A4: Crime Narratives: A Transmedia Perspective PANEL A5: Crime Narratives and Politics Detecting “the Other” in Contemporary European Cinema European Media Policies Contemporary Greek Cinema PARALLEL SESSION 3 JANET MCCABE, BIRKBECK, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON INTRODUCTION AND WELCOME ADDRESS Robert Saunders, State University of New York, and Gabriella Calchi Novati, Independent Scholar Joseph Boisvere, CUNY Graduate Center Jan Baetens, KU Leuven Luca Antoniazzi, University of Bologna Massimiliano Coviello, Link Campus University Roy Menarini, University of Bologna Divided Bodies, Crossings Borders, Transnational Encounters: Towards a Feminist Approach of Ben Harris, Serial Eyes, and Valentina Re, Link Campus University ROOM A Marcella as “London Noir”: Transplanting the (Bio)Politics of Nordic Noir into the Dark Heart of Afroditi Nikolaidou, University of Athens Black Spot: When Pastiche is the Point Crime Fiction in Belgium: Comics versus Graphic Novels The New Audiovisual Media Service Directive. Potential and Weaknesses PLENARY SESSION – Welcome address and project presentation Neoliberalism Modernisation’, Greekness and the Athenian Landscape in the Greek Crime Films of the Period ROOM A Mediating Memories in Contemporary European Crime Narratives: The Case of Babylon Berlin Suburra: Crime and Political Plots Transnational TV Studies PANEL A3: Crime Narratives: A Crossborder Perspective Leonardo Nolé, CUNY Graduate Center Antoine Dechêne, Independent Scholar Luca Barra, University of Bologna 1996-2004 Federico Pagello, D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, and Sara Casoli, University of Bologna Valerio Coladonato, The American University of Paris, and Dominic Holdaway, University of Urbino INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT OF THE JURY Carlo Alberto Giusti, Rector of Link Campus University Eva Novrup Redvall, University of Copenhagen “Can We Change Our Energy System?” Forms of Social and Environmental Responsibility in La trêve: A Case of Belgian Rural Noir Make It Circulate! Localization, Dubbing and the Support to European Non National Crime Drama Towards Euro-Noir? Conceptualizing the Noirisation of Contemporary European TV Series Benedict’s Brexit: Cumberbatch’s Star Image and Britishness, between Dominic Cummings and Discussant: Pia Majbritt Jensen, Aarhus University Giulia Carluccio, President of CUC – Consulta Universitaria del Cinema, University of Turin Writing Serial Crime Drama for Danish Children’s Television: The Case of the Tween Whodunnit Nickos Myrtou, National and Kapodistrean University of Athens Massimiliano Gaudiosi, University Suor Orsola Benincasa Bedrag and Karppi Maurizio de Giovanni (writer) in conversation with Alessandro Perissinotto (writer and scholar, Sherlock Holmes Anders Grønlund, University of Copenhagen Cathrin Helen Bengesser, Aarhus University, and Kim Toft Hansen, Aalborg University Guilty Representations of Uniformed Officers in the Cinematic Universe of Nikos Perakis Death in Duisburg. The Italian Crime Fiction and the Evolution of a Transnational Archetype Maria Adorno, Universität zu Köln University of Turin) Roberta Bartoletti, President of PIC-AIS – Associazione Italiana di Sociologia, Sezione Processi e Alessandro Carpin, Brown University Creating (in) the Arctic: Investigating European Co-production and Location through a Case Study Evaluating Creative Europe’s TV Programming Scheme: Geographical Imbalances in Fiction Angela Maiello, University of Calabria Multiple Versions and Transcultural European Cooperation: Trends Towards Crime Stories From Giacomo Tagliani, University of Palermo Istituzioni Culturali, University of Urbino Being Here While Being There: Spatial Organization of the Narrative and Spatial Logics of Distri- of the Arctic Noir Serial Thin Ice Funding Decisions Chair: Lynge Stegger Gemzøe, Aalborg University Chair: Christos Dermentzopoulos, University of Ioannina Looking at Europe from the Allies of Southern Italy The Letter (1929) to Hinterland (2016) Crime as Epistemic Strategy. Mystery and History in European Political Biopics 5:00 - 6:30 pm bution in Gomorra. La serie, Suburra. La serie and Zero Zero Zero STATEMENTS BY JURY MEMBERS Monica Dall’Asta, DETECt Project Coordinator, University of Bologna Kim Toft Hansen, Aalborg University, and Cathrin Helen Bengesser, Aarhus University Guerino Bovalino, Università per Stranieri “Dante Alighieri” di Reggio Calabria Nikos Filippaios, University of Ioannina PARALLEL SESSION 6 Chair: Valentina Re, Link Campus University Valentina Re, DETECt Communication Manager, Link Campus University Tv Crime Drama as Transcultural Communication: Creative Europe’s Predilection for North-Euro- Karen Hassan, Cattleya The “Italian Violence” from The Godfather to Gomorra: American’s Fascination by the Ethics and Chair: Markus Schleich, Queen’s University Belfast DETECTing the Evil: the Extreme Right in Modern European Crime Fiction Chair: Giancarlo Lombardi, CUNY Graduate Center Steve Matthews, HBO Europe Aesthetics of a Tribal Thought ROOM A pean Crime Dramas ROOM C ROOM C PANEL A6: Crime Films and Transnationalism Giacomo Poletti, Mediaset Group PANEL C1: A Tale of Three Cities: Crime and the Urban Tissue in Contemporary Fiction PANEL C2: The Black Rome. The Eternal City as Protagonist of Crime Narrative Ruxandra Trandafoiu, Edge Hill University Chair: Marica Spalletta, Link Campus University Respondent: Laura Landorff, Aalborg University 10:45 am - 12:15 pm ROOM C Eva van Leeuwen, Netflix Europe’s Shared Fears – Crime and Migration in Collateral (UK), Wallander (Sweden) and Montalbano (Italy) Russ Hunter, Northumbria University PANEL C7: The Contribution of Digital Humanities to Cultural Studies Research Chair: Federico Pagello, D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara Maurizio Ascari, University of Bologna Lorenzo Ugolini, Fabio Ciammella and Grazia Quercia, Sapienza University of Rome ROOM B Hidden in Plain Sight: The Curious Case of the Missing European Crime Festivals ROOM A John Rebus’s Edinburgh: Portrait of a Dark City in Dark Times Places of Rome as the Stage and Symbol of “Noantri”’s Criminality PANEL B4: New Takes on the Police Procedural llaria Bartolini and Andrea Di Luzio (University of Bologna), Cathrin Helen Bengesser and Anne Chair: Luca Antoniazzi, University of Bologna Stefano Baschiera and Markus Schleich, Queen’s University Belfast AWARD CEREMONY PLENARY SESSION – Keynote speech ROOM B Marit Waade (Aarhus University), Roberta Pireddu and Fred Truyen (KU Leuven) Donata Meneghelli, University of Bologna Marica Spalletta and Paola De Rosa, Link Campus University Ayşegül Kesirli Unur, Istanbul Bilgi University PANEL B5: Crime Narratives and Gender Distribution and Understanding of European Crime Cinema THEO D’HAEN, KU LEUVEN Fred Vargas’ Myth of Paris: Between (Trans)national Changing Identity, Tourism, and Nostalgia Rome in Crime. Media Coverage and Audience’s Perception of “Romanism” in Crime TV series In the Search of a Genuine Voice: A Closer Look at Turkish Police Procedurals DETECt: The Contribution of Digital Humanities to Cultural Studies Research Maja Pandzic, University of Zadar Giuseppe Fidotta, Concordia University 2:30 - 3:45 pm How Glocal are Contemporary European Crime Narratives? Silvia Baroni, University of Bologna Isabella Pezzini and Bianca Terracciano, Sapienza University of Rome Anna Keszeg, Babeș–Bolyai University Gangster Film Reloaded: European Values and the Criminal Specter of Late Modernity Ilaria Bartolini and Andrea Di Luzio, University of Bologna ROOM B Anastasija Kamenskaja – Walking a Thin Line – Between Challenging and Restating Gender The DETECt Digital Infrastructure, Front and Back “Shadows under the Porticoes”: Bologna, the Criminal Roman-ness and Model Bodies: Voices on the Sidelines, Revolutions Taking Place PANEL B3: Crime Narratives, Periphery and Multiculturalism Domestic Patterns of European Crime in Chamber Play Series Stereotypes Andrea Buccino, Manchester Metropolitan University ROOM A Discussant: Andrew Pepper, Queen’s University Belfast Giovanni Ciofalo, Sapienza University of Rome, and Paolo Sigismondi, University of Southern Lynge Stegger Gemzøe, Aalborg University The Tony Montana Effect: the Gangster Narrative as a Parable of Neoliberalism in Its 9:00 - 10:30 am Roberta Pireddu and Fred Truyen, KU Leuven PLENARY SESSION – Keynote speech Lucie Amir, University of Limoges Kemal Deniz, Munzur University Chair: Federica Ambroso, University of Bologna California Annenberg The Kim Wall Murder Serialized: Ethics & Aesthetics in High-Profile True Crime Correspondence Between Reality and Fiction Reaching Audiences with the DETECt MOOC Crime Fiction Characters Faced with Migration Crisis: Representations of Political Action in Persona as Social Justice on Crime Against Women PARALLEL SESSION 7 PEPPINO ORTOLEVA, UNIVERSITY OF TURIN The Dark Side of Rome? The Eternal City into Netflix Mainstreaming Cathrin Helen Bengesser and Anne Marit Waade, Aarhus University Contemporary French Crime Fiction Stefania Antonioni, University of Urbino Carlo Bo Maria Elena D’Amelio, University of San Marino In the Beginning Was a Murder. The Changing Meanings, and Pleasures, of Crime Ghost in the Crime Machine, or When the Detective is “Unreal”: the Cases of the TV Series’ River, Chair: Roy Menarini, University of Bologna Smart Crime Tourism as Multilayered Cultural Encounters: Exploring Aarhus via Locative Media 2:30 - 4:00 pm 4:15 - 5:45 pm Guglielmo Scafirimuto, University of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 Petra, Eva, Imma: a Postfeminist Taxonomy of Contemporary Italian Female Detectives ROOM A Chair: Silvia Leonzi, Sapienza University of Rome Beau Sejour and La Porta Rossa and Crime Narratives Crime Fictions in Banlieue Cinema. The Ghettoization of French Multiculturalism PANEL A7: The Foreigner in Crime Fiction PARALLEL SESSION 1 PARALLEL SESSION 2 Izabella Frere-Scott, Queen Mary University of London Discussant: Maurizio Ascari, University of Bologna Livio Lepratto, University of Parma Queer Criminals: Stereotypes and Prejudices in True Crime Ilana Shiloh, The Academic Center of Law and Business (Israel) Chair: Kim Toft Hansen, Aalborg University Roundtable: The Challenges of Digital Humanities to Cultural Studies Research, a Face-to-Face ROOM A “Noir Padano”. The Po Valley as the Theater of the Italian Crime Genre of the New Millennium ROOM B Images of the Other in European Noir Debate PANEL A1: New Takes on Mediterranean Noir ROOM A PANEL B6: The Other in TV Crime Dramas PANEL A2: French Noir and the Transformations of European Crime Fiction Chair: Flavia Laviosa, Wellesley College Sam Naidu, Rhodes University Loïc Artiaga (University of Limoges), Ilaria Bartolini (University of Bologna), Jacques Migozzi Chair: Stefano Baschiera, Queen’s University Belfast Intersecting Crime: Europe through the Eyes of an African Assassin in Deon Meyer’s The Last (University of Limoges), Frederik Truyen (KU Leuven), and Anne Marit Waade (Aarhus University) 4:00 - 5:30 pm Barbara Pezzotti, Monash University Jacques Migozzi, University of Limoges Susanne Eichner, Aarhus University Hunt (2019) Mediterranean Identity in European Crime Fiction Real events and fictitious explanations: a new age of investigation in French Noir? ROOM C “We” and the “Others”? Agency, Representation and Ethnicity in Danish Television Crime Drama Andrew Pepper, Queen’s University Belfast PANEL C4: Crime Narratives and Ecocriticism ROOM C Federica Ambroso, University of Bologna Chair: Ilaria Bartolini, University of Bologna ROOM A Alice Jacquelin, University of Limoges Péter Mészáros, University of Debrecen The Problem of Mediterranean Noir PANEL C5: Netflix and the Popularity of TV Crime Drama The Foreigner in Contemporary Noir Fiction of Bologna, Limoges and Thessaloniki: Between PLENARY SESSION – Concluding Round Table Noir Novel’s Failure to Undermine Official History: Didier Daeninckx, Le roman noir de l’Histoire ROOM C Tamsin Boynton, The University of Hull Representations of Foreign Countries in Hungarian Television Crime Series After the Regime PANEL C3: The Geography of Crime Fiction: Local / Global Discrimination and Integration Research Impact in the Humanities: New Directions Rubén Romero Santos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (2019) The Ecocrisis and Ecological Crime as a Threat to Social Identity in Contemporary European Ben Lamb, Teesside University Change Pepe Carvalho TV Adaptations: Screen Adventures of a Southern Noir Antihero Crime Narratives Interrogating Criminal UK / France / Germany / Spain Caius Dobrescu, Roxana Eichel, University of Bucharest Monica Dall’Asta, University of Bologna - DETECt Loïc Artiaga, University of Limoges Myriam Roche, Savoie Mont-Blanc University and Emilie Guyard, University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour Regional Anchoring in Contemporary Spanish Noir: Towards a Europe of Regions in Popular Culture? From Blaxploitation to “Eastploitation”: The West-East European Contest of Constructing and Chair: Roxana Eichel, University of Bucharest The Decades 1980-1990: Political Transformations and Reconfiguration of Crime Fiction Alessandra Ballotti, University of Lorraine Vasilis Chasiotis, University of Western Macedonia, and Dimitrios Tachmatzidis, University of Valentina Re, Link Campus University - DETECt Deconstructing Subalternity Chair: Sara Casoli, University of Bologna Sándor Kálai, University of Debrecen Slippery When Wet: Dread in/for the Nordic Landscape Western Macedonia and School of Film, Fine Arts Aristotelian, University of Thessaloniki Francesco Pitassio, University of Udine - VICTOR-E Eastern Europe in Scandinavian Crime Fiction A Hypermodernity Reading of the Netflix Series Dark Marco Castagnetto, Link Campus University Chair: Matthieu Letourneux, Paris Nanterre University Frederique Toudoire, University of Limoges Simon Popple, Director of Impact, School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds Renata Zsamba, Eszterhazy Karoly University Detecting Religions. Crime series, Religions, and Popular Imagery Budapest Fraud and the Sense of Homelessness Arctic Noir: a Political or an Ecological Paradigm for Europe? Daniela Cardini, IULM University, and Gianni Sibilla, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Massimo Scaglioni, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – CInCIt Partners in Crime. Pop Songs as Tools For Building Genre Identity in TV Crime Series Beixi Li, University of Bristol Aina Vidal-Pérez, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Chair: Catherine Bengesser, Aarhus University Role of Paratext in Publishing Contemporary Chinese Crime Fiction in Translation: A Case Study Endangered Waters: Between Local Exoticism and Global Environmental Concerns in Donna Cathrin Helen Bengesser, Pia Majbritt Jensen, Aarhus University, and Paola De Rosa, Marica Chair: Luca Barra, University of Bologna of The Golden Hairpin Leon’s Eco-Crime Fiction Spalletta, Link Campus University Audiences’ Perceptions of Place, Society and (TV) Culture in Popular European Audiovisual Crime Narratives Chair: Caius Dobrescu, University of Bucharest Chair: Alice Jacquelin, University of Limoges Chair: Federico Pagello, D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara 10:45 am - 12:15 pm 2:00 - 3:30 pm 3:45 - 5:00 pm 10:45 am - 12:15 pm 5:30 - 7:00 pm ROOM B ROOM B ROOM C ROOM B PANEL B1: New Takes on Nordic Noir PANEL B2: Crime Films and National Identities. The Case of Greece PARALLEL SESSION 4 PARALLEL SESSION 5 PANEL C6: Generic and Narrative Hybridity in European Crime Cinema and Television PANEL B7: The Geography of Crime Narratives: Local / Global ROOM A ROOM A ROOM A Gunhild Agger, Aalborg University Anna Poupou, Leonidas Papadopoulos and Eva Stefani, University of Athens 9:00 - 10:30 am PLENARY SESSION – Keynote speech Temenuga Trifonova, York University Dominique Jeannerod, Queen’s University Belfast PLENARY SESSION – Crime, Creative Industries and Contemporary PLENARY SESSION – DETECt Screenwriting Contest Award Ceremony Crime as a Moral Detective Between Humor and Darkness: Crime Films, Investigation Thrillers and Neo-noir Narratives in ROOM A ROOM A Trans-textual Peaks: Mountain Locations and Identities in European Crime Narratives 10:00 am PANEL A4: Crime Narratives: A Transmedia Perspective PANEL A5: Crime Narratives and Politics Detecting “the Other” in Contemporary European Cinema European Media Policies Contemporary Greek Cinema PARALLEL SESSION 3 JANET MCCABE, BIRKBECK, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON INTRODUCTION AND WELCOME ADDRESS Robert Saunders, State University of New York, and Gabriella Calchi Novati, Independent Scholar Joseph Boisvere, CUNY Graduate Center Jan Baetens, KU Leuven Luca Antoniazzi, University of Bologna Massimiliano Coviello, Link Campus University Roy Menarini, University of Bologna Divided Bodies, Crossings Borders, Transnational Encounters: Towards a Feminist Approach of Ben Harris, Serial Eyes, and Valentina Re, Link Campus University ROOM A Marcella as “London Noir”: Transplanting the (Bio)Politics of Nordic Noir into the Dark Heart of Afroditi Nikolaidou, University of Athens Black Spot: When Pastiche is the Point Crime Fiction in Belgium: Comics versus Graphic Novels The New Audiovisual Media Service Directive. Potential and Weaknesses PLENARY SESSION – Welcome address and project presentation Neoliberalism Modernisation’, Greekness and the Athenian Landscape in the Greek Crime Films of the Period ROOM A Mediating Memories in Contemporary European Crime Narratives: The Case of Babylon Berlin Suburra: Crime and Political Plots Transnational TV Studies PANEL A3: Crime Narratives: A Crossborder Perspective Leonardo Nolé, CUNY Graduate Center Antoine Dechêne, Independent Scholar Luca Barra, University of Bologna 1996-2004 Federico Pagello, D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, and Sara Casoli, University of Bologna Valerio Coladonato, The American University of Paris, and Dominic Holdaway, University of Urbino INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT OF THE JURY Carlo Alberto Giusti, Rector of Link Campus University Eva Novrup Redvall, University of Copenhagen “Can We Change Our Energy System?” Forms of Social and Environmental Responsibility in La trêve: A Case of Belgian Rural Noir Make It Circulate! Localization, Dubbing and the Support to European Non National Crime Drama Towards Euro-Noir? Conceptualizing the Noirisation of Contemporary European TV Series Benedict’s Brexit: Cumberbatch’s Star Image and Britishness, between Dominic Cummings and Discussant: Pia Majbritt Jensen, Aarhus University Giulia Carluccio, President of CUC – Consulta Universitaria del Cinema, University of Turin Writing Serial Crime Drama for Danish Children’s Television: The Case of the Tween Whodunnit Nickos Myrtou, National and Kapodistrean University of Athens Massimiliano Gaudiosi, University Suor Orsola Benincasa Bedrag and Karppi Maurizio de Giovanni (writer) in conversation with Alessandro Perissinotto (writer and scholar, Sherlock Holmes Anders Grønlund, University of Copenhagen Cathrin Helen Bengesser, Aarhus University, and Kim Toft Hansen, Aalborg University Guilty Representations of Uniformed Officers in the Cinematic Universe of Nikos Perakis Death in Duisburg. The Italian Crime Fiction and the Evolution of a Transnational Archetype Maria Adorno, Universität zu Köln University of Turin) Roberta Bartoletti, President of PIC-AIS – Associazione Italiana di Sociologia, Sezione Processi e Alessandro Carpin, Brown University Creating (in) the Arctic: Investigating European Co-production and Location through a Case Study Evaluating Creative Europe’s TV Programming Scheme: Geographical Imbalances in Fiction Angela Maiello, University of Calabria Multiple Versions and Transcultural European Cooperation: Trends Towards Crime Stories From Giacomo Tagliani, University of Palermo Istituzioni Culturali, University of Urbino Being Here While Being There: Spatial Organization of the Narrative and Spatial Logics of Distri- of the Arctic Noir Serial Thin Ice Funding Decisions Chair: Lynge Stegger Gemzøe, Aalborg University Chair: Christos Dermentzopoulos, University of Ioannina Looking at Europe from the Allies of Southern Italy The Letter (1929) to Hinterland (2016) Crime as Epistemic Strategy. Mystery and History in European Political Biopics 5:00 - 6:30 pm bution in Gomorra. La serie, Suburra. La serie and Zero Zero Zero STATEMENTS BY JURY MEMBERS Monica Dall’Asta, DETECt Project Coordinator, University of Bologna Kim Toft Hansen, Aalborg University, and Cathrin Helen Bengesser, Aarhus University Guerino Bovalino, Università per Stranieri “Dante Alighieri” di Reggio Calabria Nikos Filippaios, University of Ioannina PARALLEL SESSION 6 Chair: Valentina Re, Link Campus University Valentina Re, DETECt Communication Manager, Link Campus University Tv Crime Drama as Transcultural Communication: Creative Europe’s Predilection for North-Euro- Karen Hassan, Cattleya The “Italian Violence” from The Godfather to Gomorra: American’s Fascination by the Ethics and Chair: Markus Schleich, Queen’s University Belfast DETECTing the Evil: the Extreme Right in Modern European Crime Fiction Chair: Giancarlo Lombardi, CUNY Graduate Center Steve Matthews, HBO Europe Aesthetics of a Tribal Thought ROOM A pean Crime Dramas ROOM C ROOM C PANEL A6: Crime Films and Transnationalism Giacomo Poletti, Mediaset Group PANEL C1: A Tale of Three Cities: Crime and the Urban Tissue in Contemporary Fiction PANEL C2: The Black Rome. The Eternal City as Protagonist of Crime Narrative Ruxandra Trandafoiu, Edge Hill University Chair: Marica Spalletta, Link Campus University Respondent: Laura Landorff, Aalborg University 10:45 am - 12:15 pm ROOM C Eva van Leeuwen, Netflix Europe’s Shared Fears – Crime and Migration in Collateral (UK), Wallander (Sweden) and Montalbano (Italy) Russ Hunter, Northumbria University PANEL C7: The Contribution of Digital Humanities to Cultural Studies Research Chair: Federico Pagello, D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara Maurizio Ascari, University of Bologna Lorenzo Ugolini, Fabio Ciammella and Grazia Quercia, Sapienza University of Rome ROOM B Hidden in Plain Sight: The Curious Case of the Missing European Crime Festivals ROOM A John Rebus’s Edinburgh: Portrait of a Dark City in Dark Times Places of Rome as the Stage and Symbol of “Noantri”’s Criminality PANEL B4: New Takes on the Police Procedural llaria Bartolini and Andrea Di Luzio (University of Bologna), Cathrin Helen Bengesser and Anne Chair: Luca Antoniazzi, University of Bologna Stefano Baschiera and Markus Schleich, Queen’s University Belfast AWARD CEREMONY PLENARY SESSION – Keynote speech ROOM B Marit Waade (Aarhus University), Roberta Pireddu and Fred Truyen (KU Leuven) Donata Meneghelli, University of Bologna Marica Spalletta and Paola De Rosa, Link Campus University Ayşegül Kesirli Unur, Istanbul Bilgi University PANEL B5: Crime Narratives and Gender Distribution and Understanding of European Crime Cinema THEO D’HAEN, KU LEUVEN Fred Vargas’ Myth of Paris: Between (Trans)national Changing Identity, Tourism, and Nostalgia Rome in Crime. Media Coverage and Audience’s Perception of “Romanism” in Crime TV series In the Search of a Genuine Voice: A Closer Look at Turkish Police Procedurals DETECt: The Contribution of Digital Humanities to Cultural Studies Research Maja Pandzic, University of Zadar Giuseppe Fidotta, Concordia University 2:30 - 3:45 pm How Glocal are Contemporary European Crime Narratives? Silvia Baroni, University of Bologna Isabella Pezzini and Bianca Terracciano, Sapienza University of Rome Anna Keszeg, Babeș–Bolyai University Gangster Film Reloaded: European Values and the Criminal Specter of Late Modernity Ilaria Bartolini and Andrea Di Luzio, University of Bologna ROOM B Anastasija Kamenskaja – Walking a Thin Line – Between Challenging and Restating Gender The DETECt Digital Infrastructure, Front and Back “Shadows under the Porticoes”: Bologna, the Criminal Roman-ness and Model Bodies: Voices on the Sidelines, Revolutions Taking Place PANEL B3: Crime Narratives, Periphery and Multiculturalism Domestic Patterns of European Crime in Chamber Play Series Stereotypes Andrea Buccino, Manchester Metropolitan University ROOM A Discussant: Andrew Pepper, Queen’s University Belfast Giovanni Ciofalo, Sapienza University of Rome, and Paolo Sigismondi, University of Southern Lynge Stegger Gemzøe, Aalborg University The Tony Montana Effect: the Gangster Narrative as a Parable of Neoliberalism in Its 9:00 - 10:30 am Roberta Pireddu and Fred Truyen, KU Leuven PLENARY SESSION – Keynote speech Lucie Amir, University of Limoges Kemal Deniz, Munzur University Chair: Federica Ambroso, University of Bologna California Annenberg The Kim Wall Murder Serialized: Ethics & Aesthetics in High-Profile True Crime Correspondence Between Reality and Fiction Reaching Audiences with the DETECt MOOC Crime Fiction Characters Faced with Migration Crisis: Representations of Political Action in Persona as Social Justice on Crime Against Women PARALLEL SESSION 7 PEPPINO ORTOLEVA, UNIVERSITY OF TURIN The Dark Side of Rome? The Eternal City into Netflix Mainstreaming Cathrin Helen Bengesser and Anne Marit Waade, Aarhus University Contemporary French Crime Fiction Stefania Antonioni, University of Urbino Carlo Bo Maria Elena D’Amelio, University of San Marino In the Beginning Was a Murder. The Changing Meanings, and Pleasures, of Crime Ghost in the Crime Machine, or When the Detective is “Unreal”: the Cases of the TV Series’ River, Chair: Roy Menarini, University of Bologna Smart Crime Tourism as Multilayered Cultural Encounters: Exploring Aarhus via Locative Media 2:30 - 4:00 pm 4:15 - 5:45 pm Guglielmo Scafirimuto, University of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 Petra, Eva, Imma: a Postfeminist Taxonomy of Contemporary Italian Female Detectives ROOM A Chair: Silvia Leonzi, Sapienza University of Rome Beau Sejour and La Porta Rossa and Crime Narratives Crime Fictions in Banlieue Cinema. The Ghettoization of French Multiculturalism PANEL A7: The Foreigner in Crime Fiction PARALLEL SESSION 1 PARALLEL SESSION 2 Izabella Frere-Scott, Queen Mary University of London Discussant: Maurizio Ascari, University of Bologna Livio Lepratto, University of Parma Queer Criminals: Stereotypes and Prejudices in True Crime Ilana Shiloh, The Academic Center of Law and Business (Israel) Chair: Kim Toft Hansen, Aalborg University Roundtable: The Challenges of Digital Humanities to Cultural Studies Research, a Face-to-Face ROOM A “Noir Padano”. The Po Valley as the Theater of the Italian Crime Genre of the New Millennium ROOM B Images of the Other in European Noir Debate PANEL A1: New Takes on Mediterranean Noir ROOM A PANEL B6: The Other in TV Crime Dramas PANEL A2: French Noir and the Transformations of European Crime Fiction Chair: Flavia Laviosa, Wellesley College Sam Naidu, Rhodes University Loïc Artiaga (University of Limoges), Ilaria Bartolini (University of Bologna), Jacques Migozzi Chair: Stefano Baschiera, Queen’s University Belfast Intersecting Crime: Europe through the Eyes of an African Assassin in Deon Meyer’s The Last (University of Limoges), Frederik Truyen (KU Leuven), and Anne Marit Waade (Aarhus University) 4:00 - 5:30 pm Barbara Pezzotti, Monash University Jacques Migozzi, University of Limoges Susanne Eichner, Aarhus University Hunt (2019) Mediterranean Identity in European Crime Fiction Real events and fictitious explanations: a new age of investigation in French Noir? ROOM C “We” and the “Others”? Agency, Representation and Ethnicity in Danish Television Crime Drama Andrew Pepper, Queen’s University Belfast PANEL C4: Crime Narratives and Ecocriticism ROOM C Federica Ambroso, University of Bologna Chair: Ilaria Bartolini, University of Bologna ROOM A Alice Jacquelin, University of Limoges Péter Mészáros, University of Debrecen The Problem of Mediterranean Noir PANEL C5: Netflix and the Popularity of TV Crime Drama The Foreigner in Contemporary Noir Fiction of Bologna, Limoges and Thessaloniki: Between PLENARY SESSION – Concluding Round Table Noir Novel’s Failure to Undermine Official History: Didier Daeninckx, Le roman noir de l’Histoire ROOM C Tamsin Boynton, The University of Hull Representations of Foreign Countries in Hungarian Television Crime Series After the Regime PANEL C3: The Geography of Crime Fiction: Local / Global Discrimination and Integration Research Impact in the Humanities: New Directions Rubén Romero Santos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (2019) The Ecocrisis and Ecological Crime as a Threat to Social Identity in Contemporary European Ben Lamb, Teesside University Change Pepe Carvalho TV Adaptations: Screen Adventures of a Southern Noir Antihero Crime Narratives Interrogating Criminal UK / France / Germany / Spain Caius Dobrescu, Roxana Eichel, University of Bucharest Monica Dall’Asta, University of Bologna - DETECt Loïc Artiaga, University of Limoges Myriam Roche, Savoie Mont-Blanc University and Emilie Guyard, University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour From Blaxploitation to “Eastploitation”: The West-East European Contest of Constructing and Chair: Roxana Eichel, University of Bucharest The Decades 1980-1990: Political Transformations and Reconfiguration of Crime Fiction Regional Anchoring in Contemporary Spanish Noir: Towards a Europe of Regions in Popular Culture? Alessandra Ballotti, University of Lorraine Vasilis Chasiotis, University of Western Macedonia, and Dimitrios Tachmatzidis, University of Valentina Re, Link Campus University - DETECt Deconstructing Subalternity Chair: Sara Casoli, University of Bologna Sándor Kálai, University of Debrecen Slippery When Wet: Dread in/for the Nordic Landscape Western Macedonia and School of Film, Fine Arts Aristotelian, University of Thessaloniki Francesco Pitassio, University of Udine - VICTOR-E A Hypermodernity Reading of the Netflix Series Dark Marco Castagnetto, Link Campus University Chair: Matthieu Letourneux, Paris Nanterre University Eastern Europe in Scandinavian Crime Fiction Simon Popple, Director of Impact, School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds Frederique Toudoire, University of Limoges Detecting Religions. Crime series, Religions, and Popular Imagery Renata Zsamba, Eszterhazy Karoly University Arctic Noir: a Political or an Ecological Paradigm for Europe? Daniela Cardini, IULM University, and Gianni Sibilla, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Massimo Scaglioni, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – CInCIt Budapest Fraud and the Sense of Homelessness Partners in Crime. Pop Songs as Tools For Building Genre Identity in TV Crime Series Aina Vidal-Pérez, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Chair: Catherine Bengesser, Aarhus University Beixi Li, University of Bristol Endangered Waters: Between Local Exoticism and Global Environmental Concerns in Donna Cathrin Helen Bengesser, Pia Majbritt Jensen, Aarhus University, and Paola De Rosa, Marica Chair: Luca Barra, University of Bologna Role of Paratext in Publishing Contemporary Chinese Crime Fiction in Translation: A Case Study Leon’s Eco-Crime Fiction Spalletta, Link Campus University of The Golden Hairpin Audiences’ Perceptions of Place, Society and (TV) Culture in Popular European Audiovisual Crime Narratives Chair: Alice Jacquelin, University of Limoges Chair: Caius Dobrescu, University of Bucharest Chair: Federico Pagello, D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara 10:45 am - 12:15 pm 2:00 - 3:30 pm 3:45 - 5:00 pm 10:45 am - 12:15 pm 5:30 - 7:00 pm ROOM B ROOM B ROOM C ROOM B PANEL B1: New Takes on Nordic Noir PANEL B2: Crime Films and National Identities. The Case of Greece PARALLEL SESSION 4 PARALLEL SESSION 5 PANEL C6: Generic and Narrative Hybridity in European Crime Cinema and Television PANEL B7: The Geography of Crime Narratives: Local / Global ROOM A ROOM A ROOM A Gunhild Agger, Aalborg University Anna Poupou, Leonidas Papadopoulos and Eva Stefani, University of Athens 9:00 - 10:30 am PLENARY SESSION – Keynote speech Temenuga Trifonova, York University Dominique Jeannerod, Queen’s University Belfast PLENARY SESSION – Crime, Creative Industries and Contemporary PLENARY SESSION – DETECt Screenwriting Contest Award Ceremony Crime as a Moral Detective Between Humor and Darkness: Crime Films, Investigation Thrillers and Neo-noir Narratives in ROOM A ROOM A Trans-textual Peaks: Mountain Locations and Identities in European Crime Narratives 10:00 am PANEL A4: Crime Narratives: A Transmedia Perspective PANEL A5: Crime Narratives and Politics Detecting “the Other” in Contemporary European Cinema European Media Policies Contemporary Greek Cinema PARALLEL SESSION 3 JANET MCCABE, BIRKBECK, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON INTRODUCTION AND WELCOME ADDRESS Robert Saunders, State University of New York, and Gabriella Calchi Novati, Independent Scholar Joseph Boisvere, CUNY Graduate Center Jan Baetens, KU Leuven Luca Antoniazzi, University of Bologna Massimiliano Coviello, Link Campus University Roy Menarini, University of Bologna Divided Bodies, Crossings Borders, Transnational Encounters: Towards a Feminist Approach of Ben Harris, Serial Eyes, and Valentina Re, Link Campus University ROOM A Marcella as “London Noir”: Transplanting the (Bio)Politics of Nordic Noir into the Dark Heart of Afroditi Nikolaidou, University of Athens Black Spot: When Pastiche is the Point Crime Fiction in Belgium: Comics versus Graphic Novels The New Audiovisual Media Service Directive. Potential and Weaknesses PLENARY SESSION – Welcome address and project presentation Neoliberalism Modernisation’, Greekness and the Athenian Landscape in the Greek Crime Films of the Period ROOM A Mediating Memories in Contemporary European Crime Narratives: The Case of Babylon Berlin Suburra: Crime and Political Plots Transnational TV Studies PANEL A3: Crime Narratives: A Crossborder Perspective Leonardo Nolé, CUNY Graduate Center Antoine Dechêne, Independent Scholar Luca Barra, University of Bologna 1996-2004 Federico Pagello, D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, and Sara Casoli, University of Bologna Valerio Coladonato, The American University of Paris, and Dominic Holdaway, University of Urbino INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT OF THE JURY Carlo Alberto Giusti, Rector of Link Campus University Eva Novrup Redvall, University of Copenhagen “Can We Change Our Energy System?” Forms of Social and Environmental Responsibility in La trêve: A Case of Belgian Rural Noir Make It Circulate! Localization, Dubbing and the Support to European Non National Crime Drama Towards Euro-Noir? Conceptualizing the Noirisation of Contemporary European TV Series Benedict’s Brexit: Cumberbatch’s Star Image and Britishness, between Dominic Cummings and Discussant: Pia Majbritt Jensen, Aarhus University Giulia Carluccio, President of CUC – Consulta Universitaria del Cinema, University of Turin Writing Serial Crime Drama for Danish Children’s Television: The Case of the Tween Whodunnit Nickos Myrtou, National and Kapodistrean University of Athens Massimiliano Gaudiosi, University Suor Orsola Benincasa Bedrag and Karppi Maurizio de Giovanni (writer) in conversation with Alessandro Perissinotto (writer and scholar, Sherlock Holmes Anders Grønlund, University of Copenhagen Cathrin Helen Bengesser, Aarhus University, and Kim Toft Hansen, Aalborg University Guilty Representations of Uniformed Officers in the Cinematic Universe of Nikos Perakis Death in Duisburg. The Italian Crime Fiction and the Evolution of a Transnational Archetype Maria Adorno, Universität zu Köln University of Turin) Roberta Bartoletti, President of PIC-AIS – Associazione Italiana di Sociologia, Sezione Processi e Alessandro Carpin, Brown University Creating (in) the Arctic: Investigating European Co-production and Location through a Case Study Evaluating Creative Europe’s TV Programming Scheme: Geographical Imbalances in Fiction Angela Maiello, University of Calabria Multiple Versions and Transcultural European Cooperation: Trends Towards Crime Stories From Giacomo Tagliani, University of Palermo Istituzioni Culturali, University of Urbino Being Here While Being There: Spatial Organization of the Narrative and Spatial Logics of Distri- of the Arctic Noir Serial Thin Ice Funding Decisions Chair: Lynge Stegger Gemzøe, Aalborg University Chair: Christos Dermentzopoulos, University of Ioannina Looking at Europe from the Allies of Southern Italy The Letter (1929) to Hinterland (2016) Crime as Epistemic Strategy. Mystery and History in European Political Biopics 5:00 - 6:30 pm bution in Gomorra. La serie, Suburra. La serie and Zero Zero Zero STATEMENTS BY JURY MEMBERS Monica Dall’Asta, DETECt Project Coordinator, University of Bologna Kim Toft Hansen, Aalborg University, and Cathrin Helen Bengesser, Aarhus University Guerino Bovalino, Università per Stranieri “Dante Alighieri” di Reggio Calabria Nikos Filippaios and Lampros Flitouris, University of Ioannina PARALLEL SESSION 6 Chair: Valentina Re, Link Campus University Valentina Re, DETECt Communication Manager, Link Campus University Tv Crime Drama as Transcultural Communication: Creative Europe’s Predilection for North-Euro- Karen Hassan, Cattleya The “Italian Violence” from The Godfather to Gomorra: American’s Fascination by the Ethics and Chair: Markus Schleich, Queen’s University Belfast DETECTing the Evil: the Extreme Right in Modern European Crime Fiction Chair: Giancarlo Lombardi, CUNY Graduate Center Steve Matthews, HBO Europe Aesthetics of a Tribal Thought ROOM A pean Crime Dramas ROOM C ROOM C PANEL A6: Crime Films and Transnationalism Giacomo Poletti, Mediaset Group PANEL C1: A Tale of Three Cities: Crime and the Urban Tissue in Contemporary Fiction PANEL C2: The Black Rome. The Eternal City as Protagonist of Crime Narrative Ruxandra Trandafoiu, Edge Hill University Chair: Marica Spalletta, Link Campus University Respondent: Laura Landorff, Aalborg University 10:45 am - 12:15 pm ROOM C Eva van Leeuwen, Netflix Europe’s Shared Fears – Crime and Migration in Collateral (UK), Wallander (Sweden) and Montalbano (Italy) Russ Hunter, Northumbria University PANEL C7: The Contribution of Digital Humanities to Cultural Studies Research Chair: Federico Pagello, D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara Maurizio Ascari, University of Bologna Lorenzo Ugolini, Fabio Ciammella and Grazia Quercia, Sapienza University of Rome ROOM B Hidden in Plain Sight: The Curious Case of the Missing European Crime Festivals ROOM A John Rebus’s Edinburgh: Portrait of a Dark City in Dark Times Places of Rome as the Stage and Symbol of “Noantri”’s Criminality PANEL B4: New Takes on the Police Procedural llaria Bartolini and Andrea Di Luzio (University of Bologna), Cathrin Helen Bengesser and Anne Chair: Luca Antoniazzi, University of Bologna Stefano Baschiera and Markus Schleich, Queen’s University Belfast AWARD CEREMONY PLENARY SESSION – Keynote speech ROOM B Marit Waade (Aarhus University), Roberta Pireddu and Fred Truyen (KU Leuven) Donata Meneghelli, University of Bologna Marica Spalletta and Paola De Rosa, Link Campus University Ayşegül Kesirli Unur, Istanbul Bilgi University PANEL B5: Crime Narratives and Gender Distribution and Understanding of European Crime Cinema THEO D’HAEN, KU LEUVEN Fred Vargas’ Myth of Paris: Between (Trans)national Changing Identity, Tourism, and Nostalgia Rome in Crime. Media Coverage and Audience’s Perception of “Romanism” in Crime TV series In the Search of a Genuine Voice: A Closer Look at Turkish Police Procedurals DETECt: The Contribution of Digital Humanities to Cultural Studies Research Maja Pandzic, University of Zadar Giuseppe Fidotta, Concordia University 2:30 - 3:45 pm How Glocal are Contemporary European Crime Narratives? Silvia Baroni, University of Bologna Isabella Pezzini and Bianca Terracciano, Sapienza University of Rome Anna Keszeg, Babeș–Bolyai University Gangster Film Reloaded: European Values and the Criminal Specter of Late Modernity Ilaria Bartolini and Andrea Di Luzio, University of Bologna ROOM B Anastasija Kamenskaja – Walking a Thin Line – Between Challenging and Restating Gender The DETECt Digital Infrastructure, Front and Back “Shadows under the Porticoes”: Bologna, the Criminal Roman-ness and Model Bodies: Voices on the Sidelines, Revolutions Taking Place PANEL B3: Crime Narratives, Periphery and Multiculturalism Domestic Patterns of European Crime in Chamber Play Series Stereotypes Andrea Buccino, Manchester Metropolitan University ROOM A Discussant: Andrew Pepper, Queen’s University Belfast Giovanni Ciofalo, Sapienza University of Rome, and Paolo Sigismondi, University of Southern Lynge Stegger Gemzøe, Aalborg University The Tony Montana Effect: the Gangster Narrative as a Parable of Neoliberalism in Its 9:00 - 10:30 am Roberta Pireddu and Fred Truyen, KU Leuven PLENARY SESSION – Keynote speech Lucie Amir, University of Limoges Kemal Deniz, Munzur University Chair: Federica Ambroso, University of Bologna California Annenberg The Kim Wall Murder Serialized: Ethics & Aesthetics in High-Profile True Crime Correspondence Between Reality and Fiction Reaching Audiences with the DETECt MOOC Crime Fiction Characters Faced with Migration Crisis: Representations of Political Action in Persona as Social Justice on Crime Against Women PARALLEL SESSION 7 PEPPINO ORTOLEVA, UNIVERSITY OF TURIN The Dark Side of Rome? The Eternal City into Netflix Mainstreaming Cathrin Helen Bengesser and Anne Marit Waade, Aarhus University Contemporary French Crime Fiction Stefania Antonioni, University of Urbino Carlo Bo Maria Elena D’Amelio, University of San Marino In the Beginning Was a Murder. The Changing Meanings, and Pleasures, of Crime Ghost in the Crime Machine, or When the Detective is “Unreal”: the Cases of the TV Series’ River, Chair: Roy Menarini, University of Bologna Smart Crime Tourism as Multilayered Cultural Encounters: Exploring Aarhus via Locative Media 2:30 - 4:00 pm 4:15 - 5:45 pm Guglielmo Scafirimuto, University of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 Petra, Eva, Imma: a Postfeminist Taxonomy of Contemporary Italian Female Detectives ROOM A Chair: Silvia Leonzi, Sapienza University of Rome Beau Sejour and La Porta Rossa and Crime Narratives Crime Fictions in Banlieue Cinema. The Ghettoization of French Multiculturalism PANEL A7: The Foreigner in Crime Fiction PARALLEL SESSION 1 PARALLEL SESSION 2 Izabella Frere-Scott, Queen Mary University of London Discussant: Maurizio Ascari, University of Bologna Livio Lepratto, University of Parma Queer Criminals: Stereotypes and Prejudices in True Crime Ilana Shiloh, The Academic Center of Law and Business (Israel) Chair: Kim Toft Hansen, Aalborg University Roundtable: The Challenges of Digital Humanities to Cultural Studies Research, a Face-to-Face ROOM A “Noir Padano”. The Po Valley as the Theater of the Italian Crime Genre of the New Millennium ROOM B Images of the Other in European Noir Debate PANEL A1: New Takes on Mediterranean Noir ROOM A PANEL B6: The Other in TV Crime Dramas PANEL A2: French Noir and the Transformations of European Crime Fiction Chair: Flavia Laviosa, Wellesley College Sam Naidu, Rhodes University Loïc Artiaga (University of Limoges), Ilaria Bartolini (University of Bologna), Jacques Migozzi Chair: Stefano Baschiera, Queen’s University Belfast Intersecting Crime: Europe through the Eyes of an African Assassin in Deon Meyer’s The Last (University of Limoges), Frederik Truyen (KU Leuven), and Anne Marit Waade (Aarhus University) 4:00 - 5:30 pm Barbara Pezzotti, Monash University Jacques Migozzi, University of Limoges Susanne Eichner, Aarhus University Hunt (2019) Mediterranean Identity in European Crime Fiction Real events and fictitious explanations: a new age of investigation in French Noir? ROOM C “We” and the “Others”? Agency, Representation and Ethnicity in Danish Television Crime Drama Andrew Pepper, Queen’s University Belfast PANEL C4: Crime Narratives and Ecocriticism ROOM C Federica Ambroso, University of Bologna Chair: Ilaria Bartolini, University of Bologna ROOM A Alice Jacquelin, University of Limoges Péter Mészáros, University of Debrecen The Problem of Mediterranean Noir PANEL C5: Netflix and the Popularity of TV Crime Drama The Foreigner in Contemporary Noir Fiction of Bologna, Limoges and Thessaloniki: Between PLENARY SESSION – Concluding Round Table Noir Novel’s Failure to Undermine Official History: Didier Daeninckx, Le roman noir de l’Histoire ROOM C Tamsin Boynton, The University of Hull Representations of Foreign Countries in Hungarian Television Crime Series After the Regime PANEL C3: The Geography of Crime Fiction: Local / Global Discrimination and Integration Research Impact in the Humanities: New Directions Rubén Romero Santos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (2019) The Ecocrisis and Ecological Crime as a Threat to Social Identity in Contemporary European Ben Lamb, Teesside University Change Pepe Carvalho TV Adaptations: Screen Adventures of a Southern Noir Antihero Crime Narratives Interrogating Criminal UK / France / Germany / Spain Caius Dobrescu, Roxana Eichel, University of Bucharest Monica Dall’Asta, University of Bologna - DETECt Loïc Artiaga, University of Limoges Myriam Roche, Savoie Mont-Blanc University and Emilie Guyard, University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour From Blaxploitation to “Eastploitation”: The West-East European Contest of Constructing and Chair: Roxana Eichel, University of Bucharest The Decades 1980-1990: Political Transformations and Reconfiguration of Crime Fiction Regional Anchoring in Contemporary Spanish Noir: Towards a Europe of Regions in Popular Culture? Alessandra Ballotti, University of Lorraine Vasilis Chasiotis, University of Western Macedonia, and Dimitrios Tachmatzidis, University of Valentina Re, Link Campus University - DETECt Deconstructing Subalternity Chair: Sara Casoli, University of Bologna Sándor Kálai, University of Debrecen Slippery When Wet: Dread in/for the Nordic Landscape Western Macedonia and School of Film, Fine Arts Aristotelian, University of Thessaloniki Francesco Pitassio, University of Udine - VICTOR-E A Hypermodernity Reading of the Netflix Series Dark Marco Castagnetto, Link Campus University Chair: Matthieu Letourneux, Paris Nanterre University Eastern Europe in Scandinavian Crime Fiction Simon Popple, Director of Impact, School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds Frederique Toudoire, University of Limoges Detecting Religions. Crime series, Religions, and Popular Imagery Renata Zsamba, Eszterhazy Karoly University Arctic Noir: a Political or an Ecological Paradigm for Europe? Daniela Cardini, IULM University, and Gianni Sibilla, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Massimo Scaglioni, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – CInCIt Budapest Fraud and the Sense of Homelessness Partners in Crime. Pop Songs as Tools For Building Genre Identity in TV Crime Series Aina Vidal-Pérez, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Chair: Catherine Bengesser, Aarhus University Beixi Li, University of Bristol Endangered Waters: Between Local Exoticism and Global Environmental Concerns in Donna Cathrin Helen Bengesser, Pia Majbritt Jensen, Aarhus University, and Paola De Rosa, Marica Chair: Luca Barra, University of Bologna Role of Paratext in Publishing Contemporary Chinese Crime Fiction in Translation: A Case Study Leon’s Eco-Crime Fiction Spalletta, Link Campus University of The Golden Hairpin Audiences’ Perceptions of Place, Society and (TV) Culture in Popular European Audiovisual Crime Narratives Chair: Alice Jacquelin, University of Limoges Chair: Caius Dobrescu, University of Bucharest Chair: Federico Pagello, D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara 10:45 am - 12:15 pm 2:00 - 3:30 pm 3:45 - 5:00 pm 10:45 am - 12:15 pm 5:30 - 7:00 pm ROOM B ROOM B ROOM C ROOM B PANEL B1: New Takes on Nordic Noir PANEL B2: Crime Films and National Identities. The Case of Greece PARALLEL SESSION 4 PARALLEL SESSION 5 PANEL C6: Generic and Narrative Hybridity in European Crime Cinema and Television PANEL B7: The Geography of Crime Narratives: Local / Global ROOM A ROOM A ROOM A Gunhild Agger, Aalborg University Anna Poupou, Leonidas Papadopoulos and Eva Stefani, University of Athens 9:00 - 10:30 am PLENARY SESSION – Keynote speech Temenuga Trifonova, York University Dominique Jeannerod, Queen’s University Belfast PLENARY SESSION – Crime, Creative Industries and Contemporary PLENARY SESSION – DETECt Screenwriting Contest Award Ceremony Crime as a Moral Detective Between Humor and Darkness: Crime Films, Investigation Thrillers and Neo-noir Narratives in ROOM A ROOM A Trans-textual Peaks: Mountain Locations and Identities in European Crime Narratives 10:00 am PANEL A4: Crime Narratives: A Transmedia Perspective PANEL A5: Crime Narratives and Politics Detecting “the Other” in Contemporary European Cinema European Media Policies Contemporary Greek Cinema PARALLEL SESSION 3 JANET MCCABE, BIRKBECK, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON INTRODUCTION AND WELCOME ADDRESS Robert Saunders, State University of New York, and Gabriella Calchi Novati, Independent Scholar Joseph Boisvere, CUNY Graduate Center Jan Baetens, KU Leuven Luca Antoniazzi, University of Bologna Massimiliano Coviello, Link Campus University Roy Menarini, University of Bologna Divided Bodies, Crossings Borders, Transnational Encounters: Towards a Feminist Approach of Ben Harris, Serial Eyes, and Valentina Re, Link Campus University ROOM A Marcella as “London Noir”: Transplanting the (Bio)Politics of Nordic Noir into the Dark Heart of Afroditi Nikolaidou, University of Athens Black Spot: When Pastiche is the Point Crime Fiction in Belgium: Comics versus Graphic Novels The New Audiovisual Media Service Directive. Potential and Weaknesses PLENARY SESSION – Welcome address and project presentation Neoliberalism Modernisation’, Greekness and the Athenian Landscape in the Greek Crime Films of the Period ROOM A Mediating Memories in Contemporary European Crime Narratives: The Case of Babylon Berlin Suburra: Crime and Political Plots Transnational TV Studies PANEL A3: Crime Narratives: A Crossborder Perspective Leonardo Nolé, CUNY Graduate Center Antoine Dechêne, Independent Scholar Luca Barra, University of Bologna 1996-2004 Federico Pagello, D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, and Sara Casoli, University of Bologna Valerio Coladonato, The American University of Paris, and Dominic Holdaway, University of Urbino INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT OF THE JURY Carlo Alberto Giusti, Rector of Link Campus University Eva Novrup Redvall, University of Copenhagen “Can We Change Our Energy System?” Forms of Social and Environmental Responsibility in La trêve: A Case of Belgian Rural Noir Make It Circulate! Localization, Dubbing and the Support to European Non National Crime Drama Towards Euro-Noir? Conceptualizing the Noirisation of Contemporary European TV Series Benedict’s Brexit: Cumberbatch’s Star Image and Britishness, between Dominic Cummings and Discussant: Pia Majbritt Jensen, Aarhus University Giulia Carluccio, President of CUC – Consulta Universitaria del Cinema, University of Turin Writing Serial Crime Drama for Danish Children’s Television: The Case of the Tween Whodunnit Nickos Myrtou, National and Kapodistrean University of Athens Massimiliano Gaudiosi, University Suor Orsola Benincasa Bedrag and Karppi Maurizio de Giovanni (writer) in conversation with Alessandro Perissinotto (writer and scholar, Sherlock Holmes Anders Grønlund, University of Copenhagen Cathrin Helen Bengesser, Aarhus University, and Kim Toft Hansen, Aalborg University Guilty Representations of Uniformed Officers in the Cinematic Universe of Nikos Perakis Death in Duisburg. The Italian Crime Fiction and the Evolution of a Transnational Archetype Maria Adorno, Universität zu Köln University of Turin) Roberta Bartoletti, President of PIC-AIS – Associazione Italiana di Sociologia, Sezione Processi e Alessandro Carpin, Brown University Creating (in) the Arctic: Investigating European Co-production and Location through a Case Study Evaluating Creative Europe’s TV Programming Scheme: Geographical Imbalances in Fiction Angela Maiello, University of Calabria Multiple Versions and Transcultural European Cooperation: Trends Towards Crime Stories From Giacomo Tagliani, University of Palermo Istituzioni Culturali, University of Urbino Being Here While Being There: Spatial Organization of the Narrative and Spatial Logics of Distri- of the Arctic Noir Serial Thin Ice Funding Decisions Chair: Lynge Stegger Gemzøe, Aalborg University Chair: Christos Dermentzopoulos, University of Ioannina Looking at Europe from the Allies of Southern Italy The Letter (1929) to Hinterland (2016) Crime as Epistemic Strategy. Mystery and History in European Political Biopics 5:00 - 6:30 pm bution in Gomorra. La serie, Suburra. La serie and Zero Zero Zero STATEMENTS BY JURY MEMBERS Monica Dall’Asta, DETECt Project Coordinator, University of Bologna Kim Toft Hansen, Aalborg University, and Cathrin Helen Bengesser, Aarhus University Guerino Bovalino, Università per Stranieri “Dante Alighieri” di Reggio Calabria Nikos Filippaios, University of Ioannina PARALLEL SESSION 6 Chair: Valentina Re, Link Campus University Valentina Re, DETECt Communication Manager, Link Campus University Tv Crime Drama as Transcultural Communication: Creative Europe’s Predilection for North-Euro- Karen Hassan, Cattleya The “Italian Violence” from The Godfather to Gomorra: American’s Fascination by the Ethics and Chair: Markus Schleich, Queen’s University Belfast DETECTing the Evil: the Extreme Right in Modern European Crime Fiction Chair: Giancarlo Lombardi, CUNY Graduate Center Steve Matthews, HBO Europe Aesthetics of a Tribal Thought ROOM A pean Crime Dramas ROOM C ROOM C PANEL A6: Crime Films and Transnationalism Giacomo Poletti, Mediaset Group PANEL C1: A Tale of Three Cities: Crime and the Urban Tissue in Contemporary Fiction PANEL C2: The Black Rome. The Eternal City as Protagonist of Crime Narrative Ruxandra Trandafoiu, Edge Hill University Chair: Marica Spalletta, Link Campus University Respondent: Laura Landorff, Aalborg University 10:45 am - 12:15 pm ROOM C Eva van Leeuwen, Netflix Europe’s Shared Fears – Crime and Migration in Collateral (UK), Wallander (Sweden) and Montalbano (Italy) Russ Hunter, Northumbria University PANEL C7: The Contribution of Digital Humanities to Cultural Studies Research Chair: Federico Pagello, D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara Maurizio Ascari, University of Bologna Lorenzo Ugolini, Fabio Ciammella and Grazia Quercia, Sapienza University of Rome ROOM B Hidden in Plain Sight: The Curious Case of the Missing European Crime Festivals ROOM A John Rebus’s Edinburgh: Portrait of a Dark City in Dark Times Places of Rome as the Stage and Symbol of “Noantri”’s Criminality PANEL B4: New Takes on the Police Procedural llaria Bartolini and Andrea Di Luzio (University of Bologna), Cathrin Helen Bengesser and Anne Chair: Luca Antoniazzi, University of Bologna Stefano Baschiera and Markus Schleich, Queen’s University Belfast AWARD CEREMONY PLENARY SESSION – Keynote speech ROOM B Marit Waade (Aarhus University), Roberta Pireddu and Fred Truyen (KU Leuven) Donata Meneghelli, University of Bologna Marica Spalletta and Paola De Rosa, Link Campus University Ayşegül Kesirli Unur, Istanbul Bilgi University PANEL B5: Crime Narratives and Gender Distribution and Understanding of European Crime Cinema THEO D’HAEN, KU LEUVEN Fred Vargas’ Myth of Paris: Between (Trans)national Changing Identity, Tourism, and Nostalgia Rome in Crime. Media Coverage and Audience’s Perception of “Romanism” in Crime TV series In the Search of a Genuine Voice: A Closer Look at Turkish Police Procedurals DETECt: The Contribution of Digital Humanities to Cultural Studies Research Maja Pandzic, University of Zadar Giuseppe Fidotta, Concordia University 2:30 - 3:45 pm How Glocal are Contemporary European Crime Narratives? Silvia Baroni, University of Bologna Isabella Pezzini and Bianca Terracciano, Sapienza University of Rome Anna Keszeg, Babeș–Bolyai University Gangster Film Reloaded: European Values and the Criminal Specter of Late Modernity Ilaria Bartolini and Andrea Di Luzio, University of Bologna ROOM B Anastasija Kamenskaja – Walking a Thin Line – Between Challenging and Restating Gender The DETECt Digital Infrastructure, Front and Back “Shadows under the Porticoes”: Bologna, the Criminal Roman-ness and Model Bodies: Voices on the Sidelines, Revolutions Taking Place PANEL B3: Crime Narratives, Periphery and Multiculturalism Domestic Patterns of European Crime in Chamber Play Series Stereotypes Andrea Buccino, Manchester Metropolitan University ROOM A Discussant: Andrew Pepper, Queen’s University Belfast Giovanni Ciofalo, Sapienza University of Rome, and Paolo Sigismondi, University of Southern Lynge Stegger Gemzøe, Aalborg University The Tony Montana Effect: the Gangster Narrative as a Parable of Neoliberalism in Its 9:00 - 10:30 am Roberta Pireddu and Fred Truyen, KU Leuven PLENARY SESSION – Keynote speech Lucie Amir, University of Limoges Kemal Deniz, Munzur University Chair: Federica Ambroso, University of Bologna California Annenberg The Kim Wall Murder Serialized: Ethics & Aesthetics in High-Profile True Crime Correspondence Between Reality and Fiction Reaching Audiences with the DETECt MOOC Crime Fiction Characters Faced with Migration Crisis: Representations of Political Action in Persona as Social Justice on Crime Against Women PARALLEL SESSION 7 PEPPINO ORTOLEVA, UNIVERSITY OF TURIN The Dark Side of Rome? The Eternal City into Netflix Mainstreaming Cathrin Helen Bengesser and Anne Marit Waade, Aarhus University Contemporary French Crime Fiction Stefania Antonioni, University of Urbino Carlo Bo Maria Elena D’Amelio, University of San Marino In the Beginning Was a Murder. The Changing Meanings, and Pleasures, of Crime Ghost in the Crime Machine, or When the Detective is “Unreal”: the Cases of the TV Series’ River, Chair: Roy Menarini, University of Bologna Smart Crime Tourism as Multilayered Cultural Encounters: Exploring Aarhus via Locative Media 2:30 - 4:00 pm 4:15 - 5:45 pm Guglielmo Scafirimuto, University of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 Petra, Eva, Imma: a Postfeminist Taxonomy of Contemporary Italian Female Detectives ROOM A Chair: Silvia Leonzi, Sapienza University of Rome Beau Sejour and La Porta Rossa and Crime Narratives Crime Fictions in Banlieue Cinema. The Ghettoization of French Multiculturalism PANEL A7: The Foreigner in Crime Fiction PARALLEL SESSION 1 PARALLEL SESSION 2 Izabella Frere-Scott, Queen Mary University of London Discussant: Maurizio Ascari, University of Bologna Livio Lepratto, University of Parma Queer Criminals: Stereotypes and Prejudices in True Crime Ilana Shiloh, The Academic Center of Law and Business (Israel) Chair: Kim Toft Hansen, Aalborg University Roundtable: The Challenges of Digital Humanities to Cultural Studies Research, a Face-to-Face ROOM A “Noir Padano”. The Po Valley as the Theater of the Italian Crime Genre of the New Millennium ROOM B Images of the Other in European Noir Debate PANEL A1: New Takes on Mediterranean Noir ROOM A PANEL B6: The Other in TV Crime Dramas PANEL A2: French Noir and the Transformations of European Crime Fiction Chair: Flavia Laviosa, Wellesley College Sam Naidu, Rhodes University Loïc Artiaga (University of Limoges), Ilaria Bartolini (University of Bologna), Jacques Migozzi Chair: Stefano Baschiera, Queen’s University Belfast Intersecting Crime: Europe through the Eyes of an African Assassin in Deon Meyer’s The Last (University of Limoges), Frederik Truyen (KU Leuven), and Anne Marit Waade (Aarhus University) 4:00 - 5:30 pm Barbara Pezzotti, Monash University Jacques Migozzi, University of Limoges Susanne Eichner, Aarhus University Hunt (2019) Mediterranean Identity in European Crime Fiction Real events and fictitious explanations: a new age of investigation in French Noir? ROOM C “We” and the “Others”? Agency, Representation and Ethnicity in Danish Television Crime Drama Andrew Pepper, Queen’s University Belfast PANEL C4: Crime Narratives and Ecocriticism ROOM C Federica Ambroso, University of Bologna Chair: Ilaria Bartolini, University of Bologna ROOM A Alice Jacquelin, University of Limoges Péter Mészáros, University of Debrecen The Problem of Mediterranean Noir PANEL C5: Netflix and the Popularity of TV Crime Drama The Foreigner in Contemporary Noir Fiction of Bologna, Limoges and Thessaloniki: Between PLENARY SESSION – Concluding Round Table Noir Novel’s Failure to Undermine Official History: Didier Daeninckx, Le roman noir de l’Histoire ROOM C Tamsin Boynton, The University of Hull Representations of Foreign Countries in Hungarian Television Crime Series After the Regime PANEL C3: The Geography of Crime Fiction: Local / Global Discrimination and Integration Research Impact in the Humanities: New Directions Rubén Romero Santos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (2019) The Ecocrisis and Ecological Crime as a Threat to Social Identity in Contemporary European Ben Lamb, Teesside University Change Pepe Carvalho TV Adaptations: Screen Adventures of a Southern Noir Antihero Crime Narratives Interrogating Criminal UK / France / Germany / Spain Caius Dobrescu, Roxana Eichel, University of Bucharest Monica Dall’Asta, University of Bologna - DETECt Loïc Artiaga, University of Limoges Myriam Roche, Savoie Mont-Blanc University and Emilie Guyard, University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour From Blaxploitation to “Eastploitation”: The West-East European Contest of Constructing and Chair: Roxana Eichel, University of Bucharest The Decades 1980-1990: Political Transformations and Reconfiguration of Crime Fiction Regional Anchoring in Contemporary Spanish Noir: Towards a Europe of Regions in Popular Culture? Alessandra Ballotti, University of Lorraine Vasilis Chasiotis, University of Western Macedonia, and Dimitrios Tachmatzidis, University of Valentina Re, Link Campus University - DETECt Deconstructing Subalternity Chair: Sara Casoli, University of Bologna Sándor Kálai, University of Debrecen Slippery When Wet: Dread in/for the Nordic Landscape Western Macedonia and School of Film, Fine Arts Aristotelian, University of Thessaloniki Francesco Pitassio, University of Udine - VICTOR-E A Hypermodernity Reading of the Netflix Series Dark Marco Castagnetto, Link Campus University Chair: Matthieu Letourneux, Paris Nanterre University Eastern Europe in Scandinavian Crime Fiction Simon Popple, Director of Impact, School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds Frederique Toudoire, University of Limoges Detecting Religions. Crime series, Religions, and Popular Imagery Renata Zsamba, Eszterhazy Karoly University Arctic Noir: a Political or an Ecological Paradigm for Europe? Daniela Cardini, IULM University, and Gianni Sibilla, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Massimo Scaglioni, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – CInCIt Budapest Fraud and the Sense of Homelessness Partners in Crime. Pop Songs as Tools For Building Genre Identity in TV Crime Series Aina Vidal-Pérez, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Chair: Catherine Bengesser, Aarhus University Beixi Li, University of Bristol Endangered Waters: Between Local Exoticism and Global Environmental Concerns in Donna Cathrin Helen Bengesser, Pia Majbritt Jensen, Aarhus University, and Paola De Rosa, Marica Chair: Luca Barra, University of Bologna Role of Paratext in Publishing Contemporary Chinese Crime Fiction in Translation: A Case Study Leon’s Eco-Crime Fiction Spalletta, Link Campus University of The Golden Hairpin Audiences’ Perceptions of Place, Society and (TV) Culture in Popular European Audiovisual Crime Narratives Chair: Alice Jacquelin, University of Limoges Chair: Caius Dobrescu, University of Bucharest Chair: Federico Pagello, D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara 10:45 am - 12:15 pm 2:00 - 3:30 pm 3:45 - 5:00 pm 10:45 am - 12:15 pm 5:30 - 7:00 pm ROOM B ROOM B ROOM C ROOM B PANEL B1: New Takes on Nordic Noir PANEL B2: Crime Films and National Identities. The Case of Greece PARALLEL SESSION 4 PARALLEL SESSION 5 PANEL C6: Generic and Narrative Hybridity in European Crime Cinema and Television PANEL B7: The Geography of Crime Narratives: Local / Global ROOM A ROOM A ROOM A Gunhild Agger, Aalborg University Anna Poupou, Leonidas Papadopoulos and Eva Stefani, University of Athens 9:00 - 10:30 am PLENARY SESSION – Keynote speech Temenuga Trifonova, York University Dominique Jeannerod, Queen’s University Belfast PLENARY SESSION – Crime, Creative Industries and Contemporary PLENARY SESSION – DETECt Screenwriting Contest Award Ceremony Crime as a Moral Detective Between Humor and Darkness: Crime Films, Investigation Thrillers and Neo-noir Narratives in ROOM A ROOM A Trans-textual Peaks: Mountain Locations and Identities in European Crime Narratives 10:00 am PANEL A4: Crime Narratives: A Transmedia Perspective PANEL A5: Crime Narratives and Politics Detecting “the Other” in Contemporary European Cinema European Media Policies Contemporary Greek Cinema PARALLEL SESSION 3 JANET MCCABE, BIRKBECK, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON INTRODUCTION AND WELCOME ADDRESS Robert Saunders, State University of New York, and Gabriella Calchi Novati, Independent Scholar Joseph Boisvere, CUNY Graduate Center Jan Baetens, KU Leuven Luca Antoniazzi, University of Bologna Massimiliano Coviello, Link Campus University Roy Menarini, University of Bologna Divided Bodies, Crossings Borders, Transnational Encounters: Towards a Feminist Approach of Ben Harris, Serial Eyes, and Valentina Re, Link Campus University ROOM A Marcella as “London Noir”: Transplanting the (Bio)Politics of Nordic Noir into the Dark Heart of Afroditi Nikolaidou, University of Athens Black Spot: When Pastiche is the Point Crime Fiction in Belgium: Comics versus Graphic Novels The New Audiovisual Media Service Directive. Potential and Weaknesses PLENARY SESSION – Welcome address and project presentation Neoliberalism Modernisation’, Greekness and the Athenian Landscape in the Greek Crime Films of the Period ROOM A Mediating Memories in Contemporary European Crime Narratives: The Case of Babylon Berlin Suburra: Crime and Political Plots Transnational TV Studies PANEL A3: Crime Narratives: A Crossborder Perspective Leonardo Nolé, CUNY Graduate Center Antoine Dechêne, Independent Scholar Luca Barra, University of Bologna 1996-2004 Federico Pagello, D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, and Sara Casoli, University of Bologna Valerio Coladonato, The American University of Paris, and Dominic Holdaway, University of Urbino INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT OF THE JURY Carlo Alberto Giusti, Rector of Link Campus University Eva Novrup Redvall, University of Copenhagen “Can We Change Our Energy System?” Forms of Social and Environmental Responsibility in La trêve: A Case of Belgian Rural Noir Make It Circulate! Localization, Dubbing and the Support to European Non National Crime Drama Towards Euro-Noir? Conceptualizing the Noirisation of Contemporary European TV Series Benedict’s Brexit: Cumberbatch’s Star Image and Britishness, between Dominic Cummings and Discussant: Pia Majbritt Jensen, Aarhus University Giulia Carluccio, President of CUC – Consulta Universitaria del Cinema, University of Turin Writing Serial Crime Drama for Danish Children’s Television: The Case of the Tween Whodunnit Nickos Myrtou, National and Kapodistrean University of Athens Massimiliano Gaudiosi, University Suor Orsola Benincasa Bedrag and Karppi Maurizio de Giovanni (writer) in conversation with Alessandro Perissinotto (writer and scholar, Sherlock Holmes Anders Grønlund, University of Copenhagen Cathrin Helen Bengesser, Aarhus University, and Kim Toft Hansen, Aalborg University Guilty Representations of Uniformed Officers in the Cinematic Universe of Nikos Perakis Death in Duisburg. The Italian Crime Fiction and the Evolution of a Transnational Archetype Maria Adorno, Universität zu Köln University of Turin) Roberta Bartoletti, President of PIC-AIS – Associazione Italiana di Sociologia, Sezione Processi e Alessandro Carpin, Brown University Creating (in) the Arctic: Investigating European Co-production and Location through a Case Study Evaluating Creative Europe’s TV Programming Scheme: Geographical Imbalances in Fiction Angela Maiello, University of Calabria Multiple Versions and Transcultural European Cooperation: Trends Towards Crime Stories From Giacomo Tagliani, University of Palermo Istituzioni Culturali, University of Urbino Being Here While Being There: Spatial Organization of the Narrative and Spatial Logics of Distri- of the Arctic Noir Serial Thin Ice Funding Decisions Chair: Lynge Stegger Gemzøe, Aalborg University Chair: Christos Dermentzopoulos, University of Ioannina Looking at Europe from the Allies of Southern Italy The Letter (1929) to Hinterland (2016) Crime as Epistemic Strategy. Mystery and History in European Political Biopics 5:00 - 6:30 pm bution in Gomorra. La serie, Suburra. La serie and Zero Zero Zero STATEMENTS BY JURY MEMBERS Monica Dall’Asta, DETECt Project Coordinator, University of Bologna Kim Toft Hansen, Aalborg University, and Cathrin Helen Bengesser, Aarhus University Guerino Bovalino, Università per Stranieri “Dante Alighieri” di Reggio Calabria Nikos Filippaios, University of Ioannina PARALLEL SESSION 6 Chair: Valentina Re, Link Campus University Valentina Re, DETECt Communication Manager, Link Campus University Tv Crime Drama as Transcultural Communication: Creative Europe’s Predilection for North-Euro- Karen Hassan, Cattleya The “Italian Violence” from The Godfather to Gomorra: American’s Fascination by the Ethics and Chair: Markus Schleich, Queen’s University Belfast DETECTing the Evil: the Extreme Right in Modern European Crime Fiction Chair: Giancarlo Lombardi, CUNY Graduate Center Steve Matthews, HBO Europe Aesthetics of a Tribal Thought ROOM A pean Crime Dramas ROOM C ROOM C PANEL A6: Crime Films and Transnationalism Giacomo Poletti, Mediaset Group PANEL C1: A Tale of Three Cities: Crime and the Urban Tissue in Contemporary Fiction PANEL C2: The Black Rome. The Eternal City as Protagonist of Crime Narrative Ruxandra Trandafoiu, Edge Hill University Chair: Marica Spalletta, Link Campus University Respondent: Laura Landorff, Aalborg University 10:45 am - 12:15 pm ROOM C Eva van Leeuwen, Netflix Europe’s Shared Fears – Crime and Migration in Collateral (UK), Wallander (Sweden) and Montalbano (Italy) Russ Hunter, Northumbria University PANEL C7: The Contribution of Digital Humanities to Cultural Studies Research Chair: Federico Pagello, D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara Maurizio Ascari, University of Bologna Lorenzo Ugolini, Fabio Ciammella and Grazia Quercia, Sapienza University of Rome ROOM B Hidden in Plain Sight: The Curious Case of the Missing European Crime Festivals ROOM A John Rebus’s Edinburgh: Portrait of a Dark City in Dark Times Places of Rome as the Stage and Symbol of “Noantri”’s Criminality PANEL B4: New Takes on the Police Procedural llaria Bartolini and Andrea Di Luzio (University of Bologna), Cathrin Helen Bengesser and Anne Chair: Luca Antoniazzi, University of Bologna Stefano Baschiera and Markus Schleich, Queen’s University Belfast AWARD CEREMONY PLENARY SESSION – Keynote speech ROOM B Marit Waade (Aarhus University), Roberta Pireddu and Fred Truyen (KU Leuven) Donata Meneghelli, University of Bologna Marica Spalletta and Paola De Rosa, Link Campus University Ayşegül Kesirli Unur, Istanbul Bilgi University PANEL B5: Crime Narratives and Gender Distribution and Understanding of European Crime Cinema THEO D’HAEN, KU LEUVEN Fred Vargas’ Myth of Paris: Between (Trans)national Changing Identity, Tourism, and Nostalgia Rome in Crime. Media Coverage and Audience’s Perception of “Romanism” in Crime TV series In the Search of a Genuine Voice: A Closer Look at Turkish Police Procedurals DETECt: The Contribution of Digital Humanities to Cultural Studies Research Maja Pandzic, University of Zadar Giuseppe Fidotta, Concordia University 2:30 - 3:45 pm How Glocal are Contemporary European Crime Narratives? Silvia Baroni, University of Bologna Isabella Pezzini and Bianca Terracciano, Sapienza University of Rome Anna Keszeg, Babeș–Bolyai University Gangster Film Reloaded: European Values and the Criminal Specter of Late Modernity Ilaria Bartolini and Andrea Di Luzio, University of Bologna ROOM B Anastasija Kamenskaja – Walking a Thin Line – Between Challenging and Restating Gender WEDNESDAY 23 JUNE 2021 The DETECt Digital Infrastructure, Front and Back “Shadows under the Porticoes”: Bologna, the Criminal Roman-ness and Model Bodies: Voices on the Sidelines, Revolutions Taking Place PANEL B3: Crime Narratives, Periphery and Multiculturalism Domestic Patterns of European Crime in Chamber Play Series Stereotypes Andrea Buccino, Manchester Metropolitan University ROOM A Discussant: Andrew Pepper, Queen’s University Belfast Giovanni Ciofalo, Sapienza University of Rome, and Paolo Sigismondi, University of Southern Lynge Stegger Gemzøe, Aalborg University The Tony Montana Effect: the Gangster Narrative as a Parable of Neoliberalism in Its 9:00 - 10:30 am Roberta Pireddu and Fred Truyen, KU Leuven PLENARY SESSION – Keynote speech Lucie Amir, University of Limoges Kemal Deniz, Munzur University Chair: Federica Ambroso, University of Bologna California Annenberg The Kim Wall Murder Serialized: Ethics & Aesthetics in High-Profile True Crime Correspondence Between Reality and Fiction Reaching Audiences with the DETECt MOOC Crime Fiction Characters Faced with Migration Crisis: Representations of Political Action in Persona as Social Justice on Crime Against Women PARALLEL SESSION 7 PEPPINO ORTOLEVA, UNIVERSITY OF TURIN The Dark Side of Rome? The Eternal City into Netflix Mainstreaming Cathrin Helen Bengesser and Anne Marit Waade, Aarhus University Contemporary French Crime Fiction Stefania Antonioni, University of Urbino Carlo Bo Maria Elena D’Amelio, University of San Marino In the Beginning Was a Murder. The Changing Meanings, and Pleasures, of Crime Ghost in the Crime Machine, or When the Detective is “Unreal”: the Cases of the TV Series’ River, Chair: Roy Menarini, University of Bologna Smart Crime Tourism as Multilayered Cultural Encounters: Exploring Aarhus via Locative Media 2:30 - 4:00 pm 4:15 - 5:45 pm Guglielmo Scafirimuto, University of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 Petra, Eva, Imma: a Postfeminist Taxonomy of Contemporary Italian Female Detectives ROOM A Chair: Silvia Leonzi, Sapienza University of Rome Beau Sejour and La Porta Rossa and Crime Narratives Crime Fictions in Banlieue Cinema. The Ghettoization of French Multiculturalism PANEL A7: The Foreigner in Crime Fiction PARALLEL SESSION 1 PARALLEL SESSION 2 Izabella Frere-Scott, Queen Mary University of London Discussant: Maurizio Ascari, University of Bologna Livio Lepratto, University of Parma Queer Criminals: Stereotypes and Prejudices in True Crime Ilana Shiloh, The Academic Center of Law and Business (Israel) Chair: Kim Toft Hansen, Aalborg University Roundtable: The Challenges of Digital Humanities to Cultural Studies Research, a Face-to-Face ROOM A “Noir Padano”. The Po Valley as the Theater of the Italian Crime Genre of the New Millennium ROOM B Images of the Other in European Noir Debate PANEL A1: New Takes on Mediterranean Noir ROOM A PANEL B6: The Other in TV Crime Dramas PANEL A2: French Noir and the Transformations of European Crime Fiction Chair: Flavia Laviosa, Wellesley College Sam Naidu, Rhodes University Loïc Artiaga (University of Limoges), Ilaria Bartolini (University of Bologna), Jacques Migozzi Chair: Stefano Baschiera, Queen’s University Belfast Intersecting Crime: Europe through the Eyes of an African Assassin in Deon Meyer’s The Last (University of Limoges), Frederik Truyen (KU Leuven), and Anne Marit Waade (Aarhus University) 4:00 - 5:30 pm Barbara Pezzotti, Monash University Jacques Migozzi, University of Limoges Susanne Eichner, Aarhus University Hunt (2019) Mediterranean Identity in European Crime Fiction Real events and fictitious explanations: a new age of investigation in French Noir? ROOM C “We” and the “Others”? Agency, Representation and Ethnicity in Danish Television Crime Drama Andrew Pepper, Queen’s University Belfast PANEL C4: Crime Narratives and Ecocriticism ROOM C Federica Ambroso, University of Bologna Chair: Ilaria Bartolini, University of Bologna ROOM A Alice Jacquelin, University of Limoges Péter Mészáros, University of Debrecen The Problem of Mediterranean Noir PANEL C5: Netflix and the Popularity of TV Crime Drama The Foreigner in Contemporary Noir Fiction of Bologna, Limoges and Thessaloniki: Between PLENARY SESSION – Concluding Round Table Noir Novel’s Failure to Undermine Official History: Didier Daeninckx, Le roman noir de l’Histoire ROOM C Tamsin Boynton, The University of Hull Representations of Foreign Countries in Hungarian Television Crime Series After the Regime PANEL C3: The Geography of Crime Fiction: Local / Global Discrimination and Integration Research Impact in the Humanities: New Directions Rubén Romero Santos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (2019) The Ecocrisis and Ecological Crime as a Threat to Social Identity in Contemporary European Ben Lamb, Teesside University Change Pepe Carvalho TV Adaptations: Screen Adventures of a Southern Noir Antihero Crime Narratives Interrogating Criminal UK / France / Germany / Spain Caius Dobrescu, Roxana Eichel, University of Bucharest Monica Dall’Asta, University of Bologna - DETECt Loïc Artiaga, University of Limoges Myriam Roche, Savoie Mont-Blanc University and Emilie Guyard, University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour From Blaxploitation to “Eastploitation”: The West-East European Contest of Constructing and Chair: Roxana Eichel, University of Bucharest The Decades 1980-1990: Political Transformations and Reconfiguration of Crime Fiction Regional Anchoring in Contemporary Spanish Noir: Towards a Europe of Regions in Popular Culture? Alessandra Ballotti, University of Lorraine Vasilis Chasiotis, University of Western Macedonia, and Dimitrios Tachmatzidis, University of Valentina Re, Link Campus University - DETECt Deconstructing Subalternity Chair: Sara Casoli, University of Bologna Sándor Kálai, University of Debrecen Slippery When Wet: Dread in/for the Nordic Landscape Western Macedonia and School of Film, Fine Arts Aristotelian, University of Thessaloniki Francesco Pitassio, University of Udine - VICTOR-E A Hypermodernity Reading of the Netflix Series Dark Marco Castagnetto, Link Campus University Chair: Matthieu Letourneux, Paris Nanterre University Eastern Europe in Scandinavian Crime Fiction Simon Popple, Director of Impact, School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds Frederique Toudoire, University of Limoges Detecting Religions. Crime series, Religions, and Popular Imagery Renata Zsamba, Eszterhazy Karoly University Arctic Noir: a Political or an Ecological Paradigm for Europe? Daniela Cardini, IULM University, and Gianni Sibilla, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Massimo Scaglioni, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – CInCIt Budapest Fraud and the Sense of Homelessness Partners in Crime. Pop Songs as Tools For Building Genre Identity in TV Crime Series Aina Vidal-Pérez, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Chair: Catherine Bengesser, Aarhus University Beixi Li, University of Bristol Endangered Waters: Between Local Exoticism and Global Environmental Concerns in Donna Cathrin Helen Bengesser, Pia Majbritt Jensen, Aarhus University, and Paola De Rosa, Marica Chair: Luca Barra, University of Bologna Role of Paratext in Publishing Contemporary Chinese Crime Fiction in Translation: A Case Study Leon’s Eco-Crime Fiction Spalletta, Link Campus University of The Golden Hairpin Audiences’ Perceptions of Place, Society and (TV) Culture in Popular European Audiovisual Crime Narratives Chair: Alice Jacquelin, University of Limoges Chair: Caius Dobrescu, University of Bucharest Chair: Federico Pagello, D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara 10:45 am - 12:15 pm 2:00 - 3:30 pm 3:45 - 5:00 pm 10:45 am - 12:15 pm 5:30 - 7:00 pm ROOM B ROOM B ROOM C ROOM B PANEL B1: New Takes on Nordic Noir PANEL B2: Crime Films and National Identities. The Case of Greece PARALLEL SESSION 4 PARALLEL SESSION 5 PANEL C6: Generic and Narrative Hybridity in European Crime Cinema and Television PANEL B7: The Geography of Crime Narratives: Local / Global ROOM A ROOM A ROOM A Gunhild Agger, Aalborg University Anna Poupou, Leonidas Papadopoulos and Eva Stefani, University of Athens 9:00 - 10:30 am PLENARY SESSION – Keynote speech Temenuga Trifonova, York University Dominique Jeannerod, Queen’s University Belfast PLENARY SESSION – Crime, Creative Industries and Contemporary PLENARY SESSION – DETECt Screenwriting Contest Award Ceremony Crime as a Moral Detective Between Humor and Darkness: Crime Films, Investigation Thrillers and Neo-noir Narratives in ROOM A ROOM A Trans-textual Peaks: Mountain Locations and Identities in European Crime Narratives 10:00 am PANEL A4: Crime Narratives: A Transmedia Perspective PANEL A5: Crime Narratives and Politics Detecting “the Other” in Contemporary European Cinema European Media Policies Contemporary Greek Cinema PARALLEL SESSION 3 JANET MCCABE, BIRKBECK, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON INTRODUCTION AND WELCOME ADDRESS Robert Saunders, State University of New York, and Gabriella Calchi Novati, Independent Scholar Joseph Boisvere, CUNY Graduate Center Jan Baetens, KU Leuven Luca Antoniazzi, University of Bologna Massimiliano Coviello, Link Campus University Roy Menarini, University of Bologna Divided Bodies, Crossings Borders, Transnational Encounters: Towards a Feminist Approach of Ben Harris, Serial Eyes, and Valentina Re, Link Campus University ROOM A Marcella as “London Noir”: Transplanting the (Bio)Politics of Nordic Noir into the Dark Heart of Afroditi Nikolaidou, University of Athens Black Spot: When Pastiche is the Point Crime Fiction in Belgium: Comics versus Graphic Novels The New Audiovisual Media Service Directive. Potential and Weaknesses PLENARY SESSION – Welcome address and project presentation Neoliberalism Modernisation’, Greekness and the Athenian Landscape in the Greek Crime Films of the Period ROOM A Mediating Memories in Contemporary European Crime Narratives: The Case of Babylon Berlin Suburra: Crime and Political Plots Transnational TV Studies PANEL A3: Crime Narratives: A Crossborder Perspective Leonardo Nolé, CUNY Graduate Center Antoine Dechêne, Independent Scholar Luca Barra, University of Bologna 1996-2004 Federico Pagello, D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, and Sara Casoli, University of Bologna Valerio Coladonato, The American University of Paris, and Dominic Holdaway, University of Urbino INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT OF THE JURY Carlo Alberto Giusti, Rector of Link Campus University Eva Novrup Redvall, University of Copenhagen “Can We Change Our Energy System?” Forms of Social and Environmental Responsibility in La trêve: A Case of Belgian Rural Noir Make It Circulate! Localization, Dubbing and the Support to European Non National Crime Drama Towards Euro-Noir? Conceptualizing the Noirisation of Contemporary European TV Series Benedict’s Brexit: Cumberbatch’s Star Image and Britishness, between Dominic Cummings and Discussant: Pia Majbritt Jensen, Aarhus University Giulia Carluccio, President of CUC – Consulta Universitaria del Cinema, University of Turin Writing Serial Crime Drama for Danish Children’s Television: The Case of the Tween Whodunnit Nickos Myrtou, National and Kapodistrean University of Athens Massimiliano Gaudiosi, University Suor Orsola Benincasa Bedrag and Karppi Maurizio de Giovanni (writer) in conversation with Alessandro Perissinotto (writer and scholar, Sherlock Holmes Anders Grønlund, University of Copenhagen Cathrin Helen Bengesser, Aarhus University, and Kim Toft Hansen, Aalborg University Guilty Representations of Uniformed Officers in the Cinematic Universe of Nikos Perakis Death in Duisburg. The Italian Crime Fiction and the Evolution of a Transnational Archetype Maria Adorno, Universität zu Köln University of Turin) Roberta Bartoletti, President of PIC-AIS – Associazione Italiana di Sociologia, Sezione Processi e Alessandro Carpin, Brown University Creating (in) the Arctic: Investigating European Co-production and Location through a Case Study Evaluating Creative Europe’s TV Programming Scheme: Geographical Imbalances in Fiction Angela Maiello, University of Calabria Multiple Versions and Transcultural European Cooperation: Trends Towards Crime Stories From Giacomo Tagliani, University of Palermo Istituzioni Culturali, University of Urbino Being Here While Being There: Spatial Organization of the Narrative and Spatial Logics of Distri- of the Arctic Noir Serial Thin Ice Funding Decisions Chair: Lynge Stegger Gemzøe, Aalborg University Chair: Christos Dermentzopoulos, University of Ioannina Looking at Europe from the Allies of Southern Italy The Letter (1929) to Hinterland (2016) Crime as Epistemic Strategy. Mystery and History in European Political Biopics 5:00 - 6:30 pm bution in Gomorra. La serie, Suburra. La serie and Zero Zero Zero STATEMENTS BY JURY MEMBERS Monica Dall’Asta, DETECt Project Coordinator, University of Bologna Kim Toft Hansen, Aalborg University, and Cathrin Helen Bengesser, Aarhus University Guerino Bovalino, Università per Stranieri “Dante Alighieri” di Reggio Calabria Nikos Filippaios, University of Ioannina PARALLEL SESSION 6 Chair: Valentina Re, Link Campus University Valentina Re, DETECt Communication Manager, Link Campus University Tv Crime Drama as Transcultural Communication: Creative Europe’s Predilection for North-Euro- Karen Hassan, Cattleya The “Italian Violence” from The Godfather to Gomorra: American’s Fascination by the Ethics and Chair: Markus Schleich, Queen’s University Belfast DETECTing the Evil: the Extreme Right in Modern European Crime Fiction Chair: Giancarlo Lombardi, CUNY Graduate Center Steve Matthews, HBO Europe Aesthetics of a Tribal Thought ROOM A pean Crime Dramas ROOM C ROOM C PANEL A6: Crime Films and Transnationalism Giacomo Poletti, Mediaset Group PANEL C1: A Tale of Three Cities: Crime and the Urban Tissue in Contemporary Fiction PANEL C2: The Black Rome. The Eternal City as Protagonist of Crime Narrative Ruxandra Trandafoiu, Edge Hill University Chair: Marica Spalletta, Link Campus University Respondent: Laura Landorff, Aalborg University 10:45 am - 12:15 pm ROOM C Eva van Leeuwen, Netflix Europe’s Shared Fears – Crime and Migration in Collateral (UK), Wallander (Sweden) and Montalbano (Italy) Russ Hunter, Northumbria University PANEL C7: The Contribution of Digital Humanities to Cultural Studies Research Chair: Federico Pagello, D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara Maurizio Ascari, University of Bologna Lorenzo Ugolini, Fabio Ciammella and Grazia Quercia, Sapienza University of Rome ROOM B Hidden in Plain Sight: The Curious Case of the Missing European Crime Festivals ROOM A John Rebus’s Edinburgh: Portrait of a Dark City in Dark Times Places of Rome as the Stage and Symbol of “Noantri”’s Criminality PANEL B4: New Takes on the Police Procedural llaria Bartolini and Andrea Di Luzio (University of Bologna), Cathrin Helen Bengesser and Anne Chair: Luca Antoniazzi, University of Bologna Stefano Baschiera and Markus Schleich, Queen’s University Belfast AWARD CEREMONY PLENARY SESSION – Keynote speech ROOM B Marit Waade (Aarhus University), Roberta Pireddu and Fred Truyen (KU Leuven) Donata Meneghelli, University of Bologna Marica Spalletta and Paola De Rosa, Link Campus University Ayşegül Kesirli Unur, Istanbul Bilgi University PANEL B5: Crime Narratives and Gender Distribution and Understanding of European Crime Cinema THEO D’HAEN, KU LEUVEN Fred Vargas’ Myth of Paris: Between (Trans)national Changing Identity, Tourism, and Nostalgia Rome in Crime. Media Coverage and Audience’s Perception of “Romanism” in Crime TV series In the Search of a Genuine Voice: A Closer Look at Turkish Police Procedurals DETECt: The Contribution of Digital Humanities to Cultural Studies Research Maja Pandzic, University of Zadar Giuseppe Fidotta, Concordia University 2:30 - 3:45 pm How Glocal are Contemporary European Crime Narratives? Silvia Baroni, University of Bologna Isabella Pezzini and Bianca Terracciano, Sapienza University of Rome Anna Keszeg, Babeș–Bolyai University Gangster Film Reloaded: European Values and the Criminal Specter of Late Modernity Ilaria Bartolini and Andrea Di Luzio, University of Bologna ROOM B Anastasija Kamenskaja – Walking a Thin Line – Between Challenging and Restating Gender The DETECt Digital Infrastructure, Front and Back “Shadows under the Porticoes”: Bologna, the Criminal Roman-ness and Model Bodies: Voices on the Sidelines, Revolutions Taking Place PANEL B3: Crime Narratives, Periphery and Multiculturalism Domestic Patterns of European Crime in Chamber Play Series Stereotypes Andrea Buccino, Manchester Metropolitan University ROOM A Discussant: Andrew Pepper, Queen’s University Belfast Giovanni Ciofalo, Sapienza University of Rome, and Paolo Sigismondi, University of Southern Lynge Stegger Gemzøe, Aalborg University The Tony Montana Effect: the Gangster Narrative as a Parable of Neoliberalism in Its 9:00 - 10:30 am Roberta Pireddu and Fred Truyen, KU Leuven PLENARY SESSION – Keynote speech Lucie Amir, University of Limoges Kemal Deniz, Munzur University Chair: Federica Ambroso, University of Bologna California Annenberg The Kim Wall Murder Serialized: Ethics & Aesthetics in High-Profile True Crime Correspondence Between Reality and Fiction Reaching Audiences with the DETECt MOOC Crime Fiction Characters Faced with Migration Crisis: Representations of Political Action in Persona as Social Justice on Crime Against Women PARALLEL SESSION 7 PEPPINO ORTOLEVA, UNIVERSITY OF TURIN The Dark Side of Rome? The Eternal City into Netflix Mainstreaming Cathrin Helen Bengesser and Anne Marit Waade, Aarhus University Contemporary French Crime Fiction Stefania Antonioni, University of Urbino Carlo Bo Maria Elena D’Amelio, University of San Marino In the Beginning Was a Murder. The Changing Meanings, and Pleasures, of Crime Ghost in the Crime Machine, or When the Detective is “Unreal”: the Cases of the TV Series’ River, Chair: Roy Menarini, University of Bologna Smart Crime Tourism as Multilayered Cultural Encounters: Exploring Aarhus via Locative Media 2:30 - 4:00 pm 4:15 - 5:45 pm Guglielmo Scafirimuto, University of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 Petra, Eva, Imma: a Postfeminist Taxonomy of Contemporary Italian Female Detectives ROOM A Chair: Silvia Leonzi, Sapienza University of Rome Beau Sejour and La Porta Rossa and Crime Narratives Crime Fictions in Banlieue Cinema. The Ghettoization of French Multiculturalism PANEL A7: The Foreigner in Crime Fiction PARALLEL SESSION 1 PARALLEL SESSION 2 Izabella Frere-Scott, Queen Mary University of London Discussant: Maurizio Ascari, University of Bologna Livio Lepratto, University of Parma Queer Criminals: Stereotypes and Prejudices in True Crime Ilana Shiloh, The Academic Center of Law and Business (Israel) Chair: Kim Toft Hansen, Aalborg University Roundtable: The Challenges of Digital Humanities to Cultural Studies Research, a Face-to-Face ROOM A “Noir Padano”. The Po Valley as the Theater of the Italian Crime Genre of the New Millennium ROOM B Images of the Other in European Noir Debate PANEL A1: New Takes on Mediterranean Noir ROOM A PANEL B6: The Other in TV Crime Dramas PANEL A2: French Noir and the Transformations of European Crime Fiction Chair: Flavia Laviosa, Wellesley College Sam Naidu, Rhodes University Loïc Artiaga (University of Limoges), Ilaria Bartolini (University of Bologna), Jacques Migozzi Chair: Stefano Baschiera, Queen’s University Belfast Intersecting Crime: Europe through the Eyes of an African Assassin in Deon Meyer’s The Last (University of Limoges), Frederik Truyen (KU Leuven), and Anne Marit Waade (Aarhus University) 4:00 - 5:30 pm Barbara Pezzotti, Monash University Jacques Migozzi, University of Limoges Susanne Eichner, Aarhus University Hunt (2019) Mediterranean Identity in European Crime Fiction Real events and fictitious explanations: a new age of investigation in French Noir? ROOM C “We” and the “Others”? Agency, Representation and Ethnicity in Danish Television Crime Drama Andrew Pepper, Queen’s University Belfast PANEL C4: Crime Narratives and Ecocriticism ROOM C Federica Ambroso, University of Bologna Chair: Ilaria Bartolini, University of Bologna ROOM A Alice Jacquelin, University of Limoges Péter Mészáros, University of Debrecen The Problem of Mediterranean Noir PANEL C5: Netflix and the Popularity of TV Crime Drama The Foreigner in Contemporary Noir Fiction of Bologna, Limoges and Thessaloniki: Between PLENARY SESSION – Concluding Round Table Noir Novel’s Failure to Undermine Official History: Didier Daeninckx, Le roman noir de l’Histoire ROOM C Tamsin Boynton, The University of Hull Representations of Foreign Countries in Hungarian Television Crime Series After the Regime PANEL C3: The Geography of Crime Fiction: Local / Global Discrimination and Integration Research Impact in the Humanities: New Directions Rubén Romero Santos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (2019) The Ecocrisis and Ecological Crime as a Threat to Social Identity in Contemporary European Ben Lamb, Teesside University Change Pepe Carvalho TV Adaptations: Screen Adventures of a Southern Noir Antihero Crime Narratives Interrogating Criminal UK / France / Germany / Spain Caius Dobrescu, Roxana Eichel, University of Bucharest Monica Dall’Asta, University of Bologna - DETECt Loïc Artiaga, University of Limoges Myriam Roche, Savoie Mont-Blanc University and Emilie Guyard, University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour From Blaxploitation to “Eastploitation”: The West-East European Contest of Constructing and Chair: Roxana Eichel, University of Bucharest The Decades 1980-1990: Political Transformations and Reconfiguration of Crime Fiction Regional Anchoring in Contemporary Spanish Noir: Towards a Europe of Regions in Popular Culture? Alessandra Ballotti, University of Lorraine Vasilis Chasiotis, University of Western Macedonia, and Dimitrios Tachmatzidis, University of Valentina Re, Link Campus University - DETECt Deconstructing Subalternity Chair: Sara Casoli, University of Bologna Sándor Kálai, University of Debrecen Slippery When Wet: Dread in/for the Nordic Landscape Western Macedonia and School of Film, Fine Arts Aristotelian, University of Thessaloniki Francesco Pitassio, University of Udine - VICTOR-E A Hypermodernity Reading of the Netflix Series Dark Marco Castagnetto, Link Campus University Chair: Matthieu Letourneux, Paris Nanterre University Eastern Europe in Scandinavian Crime Fiction Simon Popple, Director of Impact, School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds Frederique Toudoire, University of Limoges Detecting Religions. Crime series, Religions, and Popular Imagery Renata Zsamba, Eszterhazy Karoly University Arctic Noir: a Political or an Ecological Paradigm for Europe? Daniela Cardini, IULM University, and Gianni Sibilla, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Massimo Scaglioni, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – CInCIt Budapest Fraud and the Sense of Homelessness Partners in Crime. Pop Songs as Tools For Building Genre Identity in TV Crime Series Aina Vidal-Pérez, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Chair: Catherine Bengesser, Aarhus University Beixi Li, University of Bristol Endangered Waters: Between Local Exoticism and Global Environmental Concerns in Donna Cathrin Helen Bengesser, Pia Majbritt Jensen, Aarhus University, and Paola De Rosa, Marica Chair: Luca Barra, University of Bologna Role of Paratext in Publishing Contemporary Chinese Crime Fiction in Translation: A Case Study Leon’s Eco-Crime Fiction Spalletta, Link Campus University of The Golden Hairpin Audiences’ Perceptions of Place, Society and (TV) Culture in Popular European Audiovisual Crime Narratives Chair: Alice Jacquelin, University of Limoges Chair: Caius Dobrescu, University of Bucharest Chair: Federico Pagello, D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara 10:45 am - 12:15 pm 2:00 - 3:30 pm 3:45 - 5:00 pm 10:45 am - 12:15 pm 5:30 - 7:00 pm ROOM B ROOM B ROOM C ROOM B PANEL B1: New Takes on Nordic Noir PANEL B2: Crime Films and National Identities. The Case of Greece PARALLEL SESSION 4 PARALLEL SESSION 5 PANEL C6: Generic and Narrative Hybridity in European Crime Cinema and Television PANEL B7: The Geography of Crime Narratives: Local / Global ROOM A ROOM A ROOM A Gunhild Agger, Aalborg University Anna Poupou, Leonidas Papadopoulos and Eva Stefani, University of Athens 9:00 - 10:30 am PLENARY SESSION – Keynote speech Temenuga Trifonova, York University Dominique Jeannerod, Queen’s University Belfast PLENARY SESSION – Crime, Creative Industries and Contemporary PLENARY SESSION – DETECt Screenwriting Contest Award Ceremony Crime as a Moral Detective Between Humor and Darkness: Crime Films, Investigation Thrillers and Neo-noir Narratives in ROOM A ROOM A Trans-textual Peaks: Mountain Locations and Identities in European Crime Narratives 10:00 am PANEL A4: Crime Narratives: A Transmedia Perspective PANEL A5: Crime Narratives and Politics Detecting “the Other” in Contemporary European Cinema European Media Policies Contemporary Greek Cinema PARALLEL SESSION 3 JANET MCCABE, BIRKBECK, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON INTRODUCTION AND WELCOME ADDRESS Robert Saunders, State University of New York, and Gabriella Calchi Novati, Independent Scholar Joseph Boisvere, CUNY Graduate Center Jan Baetens, KU Leuven Luca Antoniazzi, University of Bologna Massimiliano Coviello, Link Campus University Roy Menarini, University of Bologna Divided Bodies, Crossings Borders, Transnational Encounters: Towards a Feminist Approach of Ben Harris, Serial Eyes, and Valentina Re, Link Campus University ROOM A Marcella as “London Noir”: Transplanting the (Bio)Politics of Nordic Noir into the Dark Heart of Afroditi Nikolaidou, University of Athens Black Spot: When Pastiche is the Point Crime Fiction in Belgium: Comics versus Graphic Novels The New Audiovisual Media Service Directive. Potential and Weaknesses PLENARY SESSION – Welcome address and project presentation Neoliberalism Modernisation’, Greekness and the Athenian Landscape in the Greek Crime Films of the Period ROOM A Mediating Memories in Contemporary European Crime Narratives: The Case of Babylon Berlin Suburra: Crime and Political Plots Transnational TV Studies PANEL A3: Crime Narratives: A Crossborder Perspective Leonardo Nolé, CUNY Graduate Center Antoine Dechêne, Independent Scholar Luca Barra, University of Bologna 1996-2004 Federico Pagello, D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, and Sara Casoli, University of Bologna Valerio Coladonato, The American University of Paris, and Dominic Holdaway, University of Urbino INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT OF THE JURY Carlo Alberto Giusti, Rector of Link Campus University Eva Novrup Redvall, University of Copenhagen “Can We Change Our Energy System?” Forms of Social and Environmental Responsibility in La trêve: A Case of Belgian Rural Noir Make It Circulate! Localization, Dubbing and the Support to European Non National Crime Drama Towards Euro-Noir? Conceptualizing the Noirisation of Contemporary European TV Series Benedict’s Brexit: Cumberbatch’s Star Image and Britishness, between Dominic Cummings and Discussant: Pia Majbritt Jensen, Aarhus University Giulia Carluccio, President of CUC – Consulta Universitaria del Cinema, University of Turin Writing Serial Crime Drama for Danish Children’s Television: The Case of the Tween Whodunnit Nickos Myrtou, National and Kapodistrean University of Athens Massimiliano Gaudiosi, University Suor Orsola Benincasa Bedrag and Karppi Maurizio de Giovanni (writer) in conversation with Alessandro Perissinotto (writer and scholar, Sherlock Holmes Anders Grønlund, University of Copenhagen Cathrin Helen Bengesser, Aarhus University, and Kim Toft Hansen, Aalborg University Guilty Representations of Uniformed Officers in the Cinematic Universe of Nikos Perakis Death in Duisburg. The Italian Crime Fiction and the Evolution of a Transnational Archetype Maria Adorno, Universität zu Köln University of Turin) Roberta Bartoletti, President of PIC-AIS – Associazione Italiana di Sociologia, Sezione Processi e Alessandro Carpin, Brown University Creating (in) the Arctic: Investigating European Co-production and Location through a Case Study Evaluating Creative Europe’s TV Programming Scheme: Geographical Imbalances in Fiction Angela Maiello, University of Calabria Multiple Versions and Transcultural European Cooperation: Trends Towards Crime Stories From Giacomo Tagliani, University of Palermo Istituzioni Culturali, University of Urbino Being Here While Being There: Spatial Organization of the Narrative and Spatial Logics of Distri- of the Arctic Noir Serial Thin Ice Funding Decisions Chair: Lynge Stegger Gemzøe, Aalborg University Chair: Christos Dermentzopoulos, University of Ioannina Looking at Europe from the Allies of Southern Italy The Letter (1929) to Hinterland (2016) Crime as Epistemic Strategy. Mystery and History in European Political Biopics 5:00 - 6:30 pm bution in Gomorra. La serie, Suburra. La serie and Zero Zero Zero STATEMENTS BY JURY MEMBERS Monica Dall’Asta, DETECt Project Coordinator, University of Bologna Kim Toft Hansen, Aalborg University, and Cathrin Helen Bengesser, Aarhus University Guerino Bovalino, Università per Stranieri “Dante Alighieri” di Reggio Calabria Nikos Filippaios, University of Ioannina PARALLEL SESSION 6 Chair: Valentina Re, Link Campus University Valentina Re, DETECt Communication Manager, Link Campus University Tv Crime Drama as Transcultural Communication: Creative Europe’s Predilection for North-Euro- Karen Hassan, Cattleya The “Italian Violence” from The Godfather to Gomorra: American’s Fascination by the Ethics and Chair: Markus Schleich, Queen’s University Belfast DETECTing the Evil: the Extreme Right in Modern European Crime Fiction Chair: Giancarlo Lombardi, CUNY Graduate Center Steve Matthews, HBO Europe Aesthetics of a Tribal Thought ROOM A pean Crime Dramas ROOM C ROOM C PANEL A6: Crime Films and Transnationalism Giacomo Poletti, Mediaset Group PANEL C1: A Tale of Three Cities: Crime and the Urban Tissue in Contemporary Fiction PANEL C2: The Black Rome. The Eternal City as Protagonist of Crime Narrative Ruxandra Trandafoiu, Edge Hill University Chair: Marica Spalletta, Link Campus University Respondent: Laura Landorff, Aalborg University 10:45 am - 12:15 pm ROOM C Eva van Leeuwen, Netflix Europe’s Shared Fears – Crime and Migration in Collateral (UK), Wallander (Sweden) and Montalbano (Italy) Russ Hunter, Northumbria University PANEL C7: The Contribution of Digital Humanities to Cultural Studies Research Chair: Federico Pagello, D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara Maurizio Ascari, University of Bologna Lorenzo Ugolini, Fabio Ciammella and Grazia Quercia, Sapienza University of Rome ROOM B Hidden in Plain Sight: The Curious Case of the Missing European Crime Festivals ROOM A John Rebus’s Edinburgh: Portrait of a Dark City in Dark Times Places of Rome as the Stage and Symbol of “Noantri”’s Criminality PANEL B4: New Takes on the Police Procedural llaria Bartolini and Andrea Di Luzio (University of Bologna), Cathrin Helen Bengesser and Anne Chair: Luca Antoniazzi, University of Bologna Stefano Baschiera and Markus Schleich, Queen’s University Belfast AWARD CEREMONY PLENARY SESSION – Keynote speech ROOM B Marit Waade (Aarhus University), Roberta Pireddu and Fred Truyen (KU Leuven) Donata Meneghelli, University of Bologna Marica Spalletta and Paola De Rosa, Link Campus University Ayşegül Kesirli Unur, Istanbul Bilgi University PANEL B5: Crime Narratives and Gender Distribution and Understanding of European Crime Cinema THEO D’HAEN, KU LEUVEN Fred Vargas’ Myth of Paris: Between (Trans)national Changing Identity, Tourism, and Nostalgia Rome in Crime. Media Coverage and Audience’s Perception of “Romanism” in Crime TV series In the Search of a Genuine Voice: A Closer Look at Turkish Police Procedurals DETECt: The Contribution of Digital Humanities to Cultural Studies Research Maja Pandzic, University of Zadar Giuseppe Fidotta, Concordia University 2:30 - 3:45 pm How Glocal are Contemporary European Crime Narratives? Silvia Baroni, University of Bologna Isabella Pezzini and Bianca Terracciano, Sapienza University of Rome Anna Keszeg, Babeș–Bolyai University Gangster Film Reloaded: European Values and the Criminal Specter of Late Modernity Ilaria Bartolini and Andrea Di Luzio, University of Bologna ROOM B Anastasija Kamenskaja – Walking a Thin Line – Between Challenging and Restating Gender The DETECt Digital Infrastructure, Front and Back “Shadows under the Porticoes”: Bologna, the Criminal Roman-ness and Model Bodies: Voices on the Sidelines, Revolutions Taking Place PANEL B3: Crime Narratives, Periphery and Multiculturalism Domestic Patterns of European Crime in Chamber Play Series Stereotypes Andrea Buccino, Manchester Metropolitan University ROOM A Discussant: Andrew Pepper, Queen’s University Belfast Giovanni Ciofalo, Sapienza University of Rome, and Paolo Sigismondi, University of Southern Lynge Stegger Gemzøe, Aalborg University The Tony Montana Effect: the Gangster Narrative as a Parable of Neoliberalism in Its 9:00 - 10:30 am Roberta Pireddu and Fred Truyen, KU Leuven PLENARY SESSION – Keynote speech Lucie Amir, University of Limoges Kemal Deniz, Munzur University Chair: Federica Ambroso, University of Bologna California Annenberg The Kim Wall Murder Serialized: Ethics & Aesthetics in High-Profile True Crime Correspondence Between Reality and Fiction Reaching Audiences with the DETECt MOOC Crime Fiction Characters Faced with Migration Crisis: Representations of Political Action in Persona as Social Justice on Crime Against Women PARALLEL SESSION 7 PEPPINO ORTOLEVA, UNIVERSITY OF TURIN The Dark Side of Rome? The Eternal City into Netflix Mainstreaming Cathrin Helen Bengesser and Anne Marit Waade, Aarhus University Contemporary French Crime Fiction Stefania Antonioni, University of Urbino Carlo Bo Maria Elena D’Amelio, University of San Marino A Spice of Danger. On the Pleasure(s) of Following Detective Stories Ghost in the Crime Machine, or When the Detective is “Unreal”: the Cases of the TV Series’ River, Chair: Roy Menarini, University of Bologna Smart Crime Tourism as Multilayered Cultural Encounters: Exploring Aarhus via Locative Media 2:30 - 4:00 pm 4:15 - 5:45 pm Guglielmo Scafirimuto, University of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 Petra, Eva, Imma: a Postfeminist Taxonomy of Contemporary Italian Female Detectives ROOM A Chair: Silvia Leonzi, Sapienza University of Rome Beau Sejour and La Porta Rossa and Crime Narratives Crime Fictions in Banlieue Cinema. The Ghettoization of French Multiculturalism PANEL A7: The Foreigner in Crime Fiction PARALLEL SESSION 1 PARALLEL SESSION 2 Izabella Frere-Scott, Queen Mary University of London Discussant: Maurizio Ascari, University of Bologna Livio Lepratto, University of Parma Queer Criminals: Stereotypes and Prejudices in True Crime Ilana Shiloh, The Academic Center of Law and Business (Israel) Chair: Kim Toft Hansen, Aalborg University Roundtable: The Challenges of Digital Humanities to Cultural Studies Research, a Face-to-Face ROOM A “Noir Padano”. The Po Valley as the Theater of the Italian Crime Genre of the New Millennium ROOM B Images of the Other in European Noir Debate PANEL A1: New Takes on Mediterranean Noir ROOM A PANEL B6: The Other in TV Crime Dramas PANEL A2: French Noir and the Transformations of European Crime Fiction Chair: Flavia Laviosa, Wellesley College Sam Naidu, Rhodes University Loïc Artiaga (University of Limoges), Ilaria Bartolini (University of Bologna), Jacques Migozzi Chair: Stefano Baschiera, Queen’s University Belfast Intersecting Crime: Europe through the Eyes of an African Assassin in Deon Meyer’s The Last (University of Limoges), Frederik Truyen (KU Leuven), and Anne Marit Waade (Aarhus University) 4:00 - 5:30 pm Barbara Pezzotti, Monash University Jacques Migozzi, University of Limoges Susanne Eichner, Aarhus University Hunt (2019) Mediterranean Identity in European Crime Fiction Real events and fictitious explanations: a new age of investigation in French Noir? ROOM C “We” and the “Others”? Agency, Representation and Ethnicity in Danish Television Crime Drama Andrew Pepper, Queen’s University Belfast PANEL C4: Crime Narratives and Ecocriticism ROOM C Federica Ambroso, University of Bologna Chair: Ilaria Bartolini, University of Bologna ROOM A Alice Jacquelin, University of Limoges Péter Mészáros, University of Debrecen The Problem of Mediterranean Noir PANEL C5: Netflix and the Popularity of TV Crime Drama The Foreigner in Contemporary Noir Fiction of Bologna, Limoges and Thessaloniki: Between PLENARY SESSION – Concluding Round Table Noir Novel’s Failure to Undermine Official History: Didier Daeninckx, Le roman noir de l’Histoire ROOM C Tamsin Boynton, The University of Hull Representations of Foreign Countries in Hungarian Television Crime Series After the Regime PANEL C3: The Geography of Crime Fiction: Local / Global Discrimination and Integration Research Impact in the Humanities: New Directions Rubén Romero Santos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (2019) The Ecocrisis and Ecological Crime as a Threat to Social Identity in Contemporary European Ben Lamb, Teesside University Change Pepe Carvalho TV Adaptations: Screen Adventures of a Southern Noir Antihero Crime Narratives Interrogating Criminal UK / France / Germany / Spain Caius Dobrescu, Roxana Eichel, University of Bucharest Monica Dall’Asta, University of Bologna - DETECt Loïc Artiaga, University of Limoges Myriam Roche, Savoie Mont-Blanc University and Emilie Guyard, University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour From Blaxploitation to “Eastploitation”: The West-East European Contest of Constructing and Chair: Roxana Eichel, University of Bucharest The Decades 1980-1990: Political Transformations and Reconfiguration of Crime Fiction Regional Anchoring in Contemporary Spanish Noir: Towards a Europe of Regions in Popular Culture? Alessandra Ballotti, University of Lorraine Vasilis Chasiotis, University of Western Macedonia, and Dimitrios Tachmatzidis, University of Valentina Re, Link Campus University - DETECt Deconstructing Subalternity Chair: Sara Casoli, University of Bologna Sándor Kálai, University of Debrecen Slippery When Wet: Dread in/for the Nordic Landscape Western Macedonia and School of Film, Fine Arts Aristotelian, University of Thessaloniki Francesco Pitassio, University of Udine - VICTOR-E A Hypermodernity Reading of the Netflix Series Dark Marco Castagnetto, Link Campus University Chair: Matthieu Letourneux, Paris Nanterre University Eastern Europe in Scandinavian Crime Fiction Simon Popple, Director of Impact, School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds Frederique Toudoire, University of Limoges Detecting Religions. Crime series, Religions, and Popular Imagery Renata Zsamba, Eszterhazy Karoly University Arctic Noir: a Political or an Ecological Paradigm for Europe? Daniela Cardini, IULM University, and Gianni Sibilla, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Massimo Scaglioni, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – CInCIt Budapest Fraud and the Sense of Homelessness Partners in Crime. Pop Songs as Tools For Building Genre Identity in TV Crime Series Aina Vidal-Pérez, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Chair: Catherine Bengesser, Aarhus University Beixi Li, University of Bristol Endangered Waters: Between Local Exoticism and Global Environmental Concerns in Donna Cathrin Helen Bengesser, Pia Majbritt Jensen, Aarhus University, and Paola De Rosa, Marica Chair: Luca Barra, University of Bologna Role of Paratext in Publishing Contemporary Chinese Crime Fiction in Translation: A Case Study Leon’s Eco-Crime Fiction Spalletta, Link Campus University of The Golden Hairpin Audiences’ Perceptions of Place, Society and (TV) Culture in Popular European Audiovisual Crime Narratives Chair: Alice Jacquelin, University of Limoges Chair: Caius Dobrescu, University of Bucharest Chair: Federico Pagello, D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara 10:45 am - 12:15 pm 2:00 - 3:30 pm 3:45 - 5:00 pm 10:45 am - 12:15 pm 5:30 - 7:00 pm ROOM B ROOM B ROOM C ROOM B PANEL B1: New Takes on Nordic Noir PANEL B2: Crime Films and National Identities. The Case of Greece PARALLEL SESSION 4 PARALLEL SESSION 5 PANEL C6: Generic and Narrative Hybridity in European Crime Cinema and Television PANEL B7: The Geography of Crime Narratives: Local / Global ROOM A ROOM A ROOM A Gunhild Agger, Aalborg University Anna Poupou, Leonidas Papadopoulos and Eva Stefani, University of Athens 9:00 - 10:30 am PLENARY SESSION – Keynote speech Temenuga Trifonova, York University Dominique Jeannerod, Queen’s University Belfast PLENARY SESSION – Crime, Creative Industries and Contemporary PLENARY SESSION – DETECt Screenwriting Contest Award Ceremony Crime as a Moral Detective Between Humor and Darkness: Crime Films, Investigation Thrillers and Neo-noir Narratives in ROOM A ROOM A Trans-textual Peaks: Mountain Locations and Identities in European Crime Narratives 10:00 am PANEL A4: Crime Narratives: A Transmedia Perspective PANEL A5: Crime Narratives and Politics Detecting “the Other” in Contemporary European Cinema European Media Policies Contemporary Greek Cinema PARALLEL SESSION 3 JANET MCCABE, BIRKBECK, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON INTRODUCTION AND WELCOME ADDRESS Robert Saunders, State University of New York, and Gabriella Calchi Novati, Independent Scholar Joseph Boisvere, CUNY Graduate Center Jan Baetens, KU Leuven Luca Antoniazzi, University of Bologna Massimiliano Coviello, Link Campus University Roy Menarini, University of Bologna Divided Bodies, Crossings Borders, Transnational Encounters: Towards a Feminist Approach of Ben Harris, Serial Eyes, and Valentina Re, Link Campus University ROOM A Marcella as “London Noir”: Transplanting the (Bio)Politics of Nordic Noir into the Dark Heart of Afroditi Nikolaidou, University of Athens Black Spot: When Pastiche is the Point Crime Fiction in Belgium: Comics versus Graphic Novels The New Audiovisual Media Service Directive. Potential and Weaknesses PLENARY SESSION – Welcome address and project presentation Neoliberalism Modernisation’, Greekness and the Athenian Landscape in the Greek Crime Films of the Period ROOM A Mediating Memories in Contemporary European Crime Narratives: The Case of Babylon Berlin Suburra: Crime and Political Plots Transnational TV Studies PANEL A3: Crime Narratives: A Crossborder Perspective Leonardo Nolé, CUNY Graduate Center Antoine Dechêne, Independent Scholar Luca Barra, University of Bologna 1996-2004 Federico Pagello, D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, and Sara Casoli, University of Bologna Valerio Coladonato, The American University of Paris, and Dominic Holdaway, University of Urbino INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT OF THE JURY Carlo Alberto Giusti, Rector of Link Campus University Eva Novrup Redvall, University of Copenhagen “Can We Change Our Energy System?” Forms of Social and Environmental Responsibility in La trêve: A Case of Belgian Rural Noir Make It Circulate! Localization, Dubbing and the Support to European Non National Crime Drama Towards Euro-Noir? Conceptualizing the Noirisation of Contemporary European TV Series Benedict’s Brexit: Cumberbatch’s Star Image and Britishness, between Dominic Cummings and Discussant: Pia Majbritt Jensen, Aarhus University Giulia Carluccio, President of CUC – Consulta Universitaria del Cinema, University of Turin Writing Serial Crime Drama for Danish Children’s Television: The Case of the Tween Whodunnit Nickos Myrtou, National and Kapodistrean University of Athens Massimiliano Gaudiosi, University Suor Orsola Benincasa Bedrag and Karppi Maurizio de Giovanni (writer) in conversation with Alessandro Perissinotto (writer and scholar, Sherlock Holmes Anders Grønlund, University of Copenhagen Cathrin Helen Bengesser, Aarhus University, and Kim Toft Hansen, Aalborg University Guilty Representations of Uniformed Officers in the Cinematic Universe of Nikos Perakis Death in Duisburg. The Italian Crime Fiction and the Evolution of a Transnational Archetype Maria Adorno, Universität zu Köln University of Turin) Roberta Bartoletti, President of PIC-AIS – Associazione Italiana di Sociologia, Sezione Processi e Alessandro Carpin, Brown University Creating (in) the Arctic: Investigating European Co-production and Location through a Case Study Evaluating Creative Europe’s TV Programming Scheme: Geographical Imbalances in Fiction Angela Maiello, University of Calabria Multiple Versions and Transcultural European Cooperation: Trends Towards Crime Stories From Giacomo Tagliani, University of Palermo Istituzioni Culturali, University of Urbino Being Here While Being There: Spatial Organization of the Narrative and Spatial Logics of Distri- of the Arctic Noir Serial Thin Ice Funding Decisions Chair: Lynge Stegger Gemzøe, Aalborg University Chair: Christos Dermentzopoulos, University of Ioannina Looking at Europe from the Allies of Southern Italy The Letter (1929) to Hinterland (2016) Crime as Epistemic Strategy. Mystery and History in European Political Biopics 5:00 - 6:30 pm bution in Gomorra. La serie, Suburra. La serie and Zero Zero Zero STATEMENTS BY JURY MEMBERS Monica Dall’Asta, DETECt Project Coordinator, University of Bologna Kim Toft Hansen, Aalborg University, and Cathrin Helen Bengesser, Aarhus University Guerino Bovalino, Università per Stranieri “Dante Alighieri” di Reggio Calabria Nikos Filippaios, University of Ioannina PARALLEL SESSION 6 Chair: Valentina Re, Link Campus University Valentina Re, DETECt Communication Manager, Link Campus University Tv Crime Drama as Transcultural Communication: Creative Europe’s Predilection for North-Euro- Karen Hassan, Cattleya The “Italian Violence” from The Godfather to Gomorra: American’s Fascination by the Ethics and Chair: Markus Schleich, Queen’s University Belfast DETECTing the Evil: the Extreme Right in Modern European Crime Fiction Chair: Giancarlo Lombardi, CUNY Graduate Center Steve Matthews, HBO Europe Aesthetics of a Tribal Thought ROOM A pean Crime Dramas ROOM C ROOM C PANEL A6: Crime Films and Transnationalism Giacomo Poletti, Mediaset Group PANEL C1: A Tale of Three Cities: Crime and the Urban Tissue in Contemporary Fiction PANEL C2: The Black Rome. The Eternal City as Protagonist of Crime Narrative Ruxandra Trandafoiu, Edge Hill University Chair: Marica Spalletta, Link Campus University Respondent: Laura Landorff, Aalborg University 10:45 am - 12:15 pm ROOM C Eva van Leeuwen, Netflix Europe’s Shared Fears – Crime and Migration in Collateral (UK), Wallander (Sweden) and Montalbano (Italy) Russ Hunter, Northumbria University PANEL C7: The Contribution of Digital Humanities to Cultural Studies Research Chair: Federico Pagello, D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara Maurizio Ascari, University of Bologna Lorenzo Ugolini, Fabio Ciammella and Grazia Quercia, Sapienza University of Rome ROOM B Hidden in Plain Sight: The Curious Case of the Missing European Crime Festivals ROOM A John Rebus’s Edinburgh: Portrait of a Dark City in Dark Times Places of Rome as the Stage and Symbol of “Noantri”’s Criminality PANEL B4: New Takes on the Police Procedural llaria Bartolini and Andrea Di Luzio (University of Bologna), Cathrin Helen Bengesser and Anne Chair: Luca Antoniazzi, University of Bologna Stefano Baschiera and Markus Schleich, Queen’s University Belfast AWARD CEREMONY PLENARY SESSION – Keynote speech ROOM B Marit Waade (Aarhus University), Roberta Pireddu and Fred Truyen (KU Leuven) Donata Meneghelli, University of Bologna Marica Spalletta and Paola De Rosa, Link Campus University Ayşegül Kesirli Unur, Istanbul Bilgi University PANEL B5: Crime Narratives and Gender Distribution and Understanding of European Crime Cinema THEO D’HAEN, KU LEUVEN Fred Vargas’ Myth of Paris: Between (Trans)national Changing Identity, Tourism, and Nostalgia Rome in Crime. Media Coverage and Audience’s Perception of “Romanism” in Crime TV series In the Search of a Genuine Voice: A Closer Look at Turkish Police Procedurals DETECt: The Contribution of Digital Humanities to Cultural Studies Research Maja Pandzic, University of Zadar Giuseppe Fidotta, Concordia University 2:30 - 3:45 pm How Glocal are Contemporary European Crime Narratives? Silvia Baroni, University of Bologna Isabella Pezzini and Bianca Terracciano, Sapienza University of Rome Anna Keszeg, Babeș–Bolyai University Gangster Film Reloaded: European Values and the Criminal Specter of Late Modernity Ilaria Bartolini and Andrea Di Luzio, University of Bologna ROOM B Anastasija Kamenskaja – Walking a Thin Line – Between Challenging and Restating Gender The DETECt Digital Infrastructure, Front and Back “Shadows under the Porticoes”: Bologna, the Criminal Roman-ness and Model Bodies: Voices on the Sidelines, Revolutions Taking Place PANEL B3: Crime Narratives, Periphery and Multiculturalism Domestic Patterns of European Crime in Chamber Play Series Stereotypes Andrea Buccino, Manchester Metropolitan University ROOM A Discussant: Andrew Pepper, Queen’s University Belfast Giovanni Ciofalo, Sapienza University of Rome, and Paolo Sigismondi, University of Southern Lynge Stegger Gemzøe, Aalborg University The Tony Montana Effect: the Gangster Narrative as a Parable of Neoliberalism in Its 9:00 - 10:30 am Roberta Pireddu and Fred Truyen, KU Leuven PLENARY SESSION – Keynote speech Lucie Amir, University of Limoges Kemal Deniz, Munzur University Chair: Federica Ambroso, University of Bologna California Annenberg The Kim Wall Murder Serialized: Ethics & Aesthetics in High-Profile True Crime Correspondence Between Reality and Fiction Reaching Audiences with the DETECt MOOC Crime Fiction Characters Faced with Migration Crisis: Representations of Political Action in Persona as Social Justice on Crime Against Women PARALLEL SESSION 7 PEPPINO ORTOLEVA, UNIVERSITY OF TURIN The Dark Side of Rome? The Eternal City into Netflix Mainstreaming Cathrin Helen Bengesser and Anne Marit Waade, Aarhus University Contemporary French Crime Fiction Stefania Antonioni, University of Urbino Carlo Bo Maria Elena D’Amelio, University of San Marino In the Beginning Was a Murder. The Changing Meanings, and Pleasures, of Crime Ghost in the Crime Machine, or When the Detective is “Unreal”: the Cases of the TV Series’ River, Chair: Roy Menarini, University of Bologna Smart Crime Tourism as Multilayered Cultural Encounters: Exploring Aarhus via Locative Media 2:30 - 4:00 pm 4:15 - 5:45 pm Guglielmo Scafirimuto, University of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 Petra, Eva, Imma: a Postfeminist Taxonomy of Contemporary Italian Female Detectives ROOM A Chair: Silvia Leonzi, Sapienza University of Rome Beau Sejour and La Porta Rossa and Crime Narratives Crime Fictions in Banlieue Cinema. The Ghettoization of French Multiculturalism PANEL A7: The Foreigner in Crime Fiction PARALLEL SESSION 1 PARALLEL SESSION 2 Izabella Frere-Scott, Queen Mary University of London Discussant: Maurizio Ascari, University of Bologna Livio Lepratto, University of Parma Queer Criminals: Stereotypes and Prejudices in True Crime Ilana Shiloh, The Academic Center of Law and Business (Israel) Chair: Kim Toft Hansen, Aalborg University Roundtable: The Challenges of Digital Humanities to Cultural Studies Research, a Face-to-Face ROOM A “Noir Padano”. The Po Valley as the Theater of the Italian Crime Genre of the New Millennium ROOM B Images of the Other in European Noir Debate PANEL A1: New Takes on Mediterranean Noir ROOM A PANEL B6: The Other in TV Crime Dramas PANEL A2: French Noir and the Transformations of European Crime Fiction Chair: Flavia Laviosa, Wellesley College Sam Naidu, Rhodes University Loïc Artiaga (University of Limoges), Ilaria Bartolini (University of Bologna), Jacques Migozzi Chair: Stefano Baschiera, Queen’s University Belfast Intersecting Crime: Europe through the Eyes of an African Assassin in Deon Meyer’s The Last (University of Limoges), Frederik Truyen (KU Leuven), and Anne Marit Waade (Aarhus University) 4:00 - 5:30 pm Barbara Pezzotti, Monash University Jacques Migozzi, University of Limoges Susanne Eichner, Aarhus University Hunt (2019) Mediterranean Identity in European Crime Fiction Real events and fictitious explanations: a new age of investigation in French Noir? ROOM C “We” and the “Others”? Agency, Representation and Ethnicity in Danish Television Crime Drama Andrew Pepper, Queen’s University Belfast PANEL C4: Crime Narratives and Ecocriticism ROOM C Federica Ambroso, University of Bologna Chair: Ilaria Bartolini, University of Bologna ROOM A Alice Jacquelin, University of Limoges Péter Mészáros, University of Debrecen The Problem of Mediterranean Noir PANEL C5: Netflix and the Popularity of TV Crime Drama The Foreigner in Contemporary Noir Fiction of Bologna, Limoges and Thessaloniki: Between PLENARY SESSION – Concluding Round Table Noir Novel’s Failure to Undermine Official History: Didier Daeninckx, Le roman noir de l’Histoire ROOM C Tamsin Boynton, The University of Hull Representations of Foreign Countries in Hungarian Television Crime Series After the Regime PANEL C3: The Geography of Crime Fiction: Local / Global Discrimination and Integration Research Impact in the Humanities: New Directions Rubén Romero Santos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (2019) The Ecocrisis and Ecological Crime as a Threat to Social Identity in Contemporary European Ben Lamb, Teesside University Change Pepe Carvalho TV Adaptations: Screen Adventures of a Southern Noir Antihero Crime Narratives Interrogating Criminal UK / France / Germany / Spain Caius Dobrescu, Roxana Eichel, University of Bucharest Monica Dall’Asta, University of Bologna - DETECt Loïc Artiaga, University of Limoges Myriam Roche, Savoie Mont-Blanc University and Emilie Guyard, University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour From Blaxploitation to “Eastploitation”: The West-East European Contest of Constructing and Chair: Roxana Eichel, University of Bucharest The Decades 1980-1990: Political Transformations and Reconfiguration of Crime Fiction Regional Anchoring in Contemporary Spanish Noir: Towards a Europe of Regions in Popular Culture? Alessandra Ballotti, University of Lorraine Vasilis Chasiotis, University of Western Macedonia, and Dimitrios Tachmatzidis, University of Valentina Re, Link Campus University - DETECt Deconstructing Subalternity Chair: Sara Casoli, University of Bologna Sándor Kálai, University of Debrecen Slippery When Wet: Dread in/for the Nordic Landscape Western Macedonia and School of Film, Fine Arts Aristotelian, University of Thessaloniki Francesco Pitassio, University of Udine - VICTOR-E A Hypermodernity Reading of the Netflix Series Dark Marco Castagnetto, Link Campus University Chair: Matthieu Letourneux, Paris Nanterre University Eastern Europe in Scandinavian Crime Fiction Simon Popple, Director of Impact, School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds Frederique Toudoire, University of Limoges Detecting Religions. Crime series, Religions, and Popular Imagery Renata Zsamba, Eszterhazy Karoly University Arctic Noir: a Political or an Ecological Paradigm for Europe? Daniela Cardini, IULM University, and Gianni Sibilla, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Massimo Scaglioni, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – CInCIt Budapest Fraud and the Sense of Homelessness Partners in Crime. Pop Songs as Tools For Building Genre Identity in TV Crime Series Aina Vidal-Pérez, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Chair: Catherine Bengesser, Aarhus University Beixi Li, University of Bristol Endangered Waters: Between Local Exoticism and Global Environmental Concerns in Donna Cathrin Helen Bengesser, Pia Majbritt Jensen, Aarhus University, and Paola De Rosa, Marica Chair: Luca Barra, University of Bologna Role of Paratext in Publishing Contemporary Chinese Crime Fiction in Translation: A Case Study Leon’s Eco-Crime Fiction Spalletta, Link Campus University of The Golden Hairpin Audiences’ Perceptions of Place, Society and (TV) Culture in Popular European Audiovisual Crime Narratives Chair: Alice Jacquelin, University of Limoges Chair: Caius Dobrescu, University of Bucharest Chair: Federico Pagello, D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara