POP, ROCK I SCIENCE FICTION Bucureti, 16-19 mai 2013 Universitatea Spiru Haret Str. Ion Ghica Nr.

13, Sector 3, Bucureti Conferina i propune s aduc mpreun diverse abordri empirice ale fenomenelor Rock, Pop i Science Fiction, deschizndu-le domeniului larg al culturii populare. Structura eterogen a acestor puncte de confluen se contureaz n mai multe micro-sesiuni ce ofer participanilor concomitent perspective asupra unor domenii specifice i n acelai timp o deschidere a acestora prin viziunea de ansamblu ce se conturez din cercetrile curente n domenii adiacente. Scopul acestei conferine este s filtreze idei, cunotine i metode, precum i s adune participanii la sfaritul manifestrii la o mas rotund. n acest cadru dorim s discutm oportunitile pe care le deschide aceast manifestare pentru conceperea i realizarea unor proiecte interdisciplinare de cercetare precum i de ce nu opiunea de a iniia o a doua ediie n 2014. Participanii care doresc s prezinte lucrri sunt rugai s opteze pentru una din seciunile de mai jos, n concordan cu tema contribuiei lor. Timpul alocat unei lucrri este de 30 de minute pentru prezentare i 10 minute pentru dezbateri. V rugm s trimitei formularul de nscriere completat direct la adresa de contact a seciunii pentru care optai. Adresele de contact sunt specificate n apelul conferintei pentru fiecare seciune. FORMULARUL DE NSCRIERE SE VA TRIMITE PN LA DATA DE 25 APRILIE 2013 LA ADRESA RESPECTIV. Taxa de participare este de 100 RON. Pentru participani am rezervat un numr limitat de camere la Hotel SIQUA: http://www.hotelsiqua.ro/ la un pre special de 55 EUR / noapte pentru single i 60 EUR / noapte pentru double. Pentru cazare la acest pre

special v rugm s o contactai pe d-na ALINA GOLEANU, Hote Siqua, la: rezervari@hotelsiqua.ro. V rugm s menionai la rezervare: POP, ROCK I SCIENCE FICTION pentru a beneficia de acest pre special. Pentru alte ntrebri nu ezitai s contactai organizatorii de seciuni la adresele de contact din apelul conferintei.

1. ROMPOP: Importing Western Rock & Pop, Developing Local Pop (Panel language: English) Anamaria Schwab (USH) - George Volceanov (USH) Contact address: schwabana@yahoo.com Pop / rock music and pop culture, in general, were severely censored in Communist Romania. The Communist age also produced a strange paradox: While Romanian pop bands and folk singers usually borrowed their lyrics from canonical Romanian poets (Eminescu, Goga, Sorescu, etc.) in order to elude the vigilance of censorship, the original lyrics of Western pop and rock artists like Bob Dylan and John Lennon were published in prestigious literary magazines under the label Foreign Poetry. Such lyrics were then translated and performed during party-controlled concerts (e.g. those organised by Cenaclul Flacra Flacra Circle a series of weekly cultural events organised by the weekly magazine Flacra and its chief editor, the poet Adrian Punescu). Our panel in domestic versus foreign pop / rock trends in Communist Romania invites you to explore the repertoire of Romanian artists and to answer the questions posed by the aforementioned paradox, exploring the extent to which foreign musical and ideological trends collided with domestic party-imposed ideology. We also welcome papers focusing on the extent to which foreign musical and ideological trends contributed to the shaping of the Romanian pop-rock culture of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Contributions in adjacent domains are also highly welcome. 2. AUSTROPOP: Before and After Falco (Panel language: German) Peter Ernst (University of Vienna) - Christiane Pabst (University of Vienna)
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Contact address: christiane.pabst@univie.ac.at Austropop steht fr die in sterreich vorherrschende populre Musikkultur, die unterschiedliche Genres umfasst. Ab den 60er Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts kristallisierten sich in den Liedtexten sterreichischer Musiker verstrkt sprachliche Spezifika heraus: Dialektales, fach- und gruppensprachliche Elemente, wie jene aus dem Jargon der Wiener Unterwelt. In den letzten Jahren werden diese Formen der populren Musikkultur verstrkt von Codeswitching und Mehrsprachigkeit gekennzeichnet. Diese Erscheinungen sollen - nicht nur aus linguistischer Perspektive in der Sektion behandelt werden. . Exemplarisch fr die interdisziplinre Herangehensweise steht falcos many languages, ein von Christian Ide Hintze 2010 im Residenz Verlag herausgegebener Band, in dem sowohl die sprachlichen Besonderheiten von Falcos Liedtexten, als auch deren soziokultureller Hintergrund und Wirkung beleuchtet werden. Dieser Ansatz soll die Beschreibung der Merkmale von Liedtexten auf die gesamte Austropop-Szene und ihre Stars ausweiten. Fr die Sektion sind Beitrge erwnscht, die den Austropop zum Gegenstand linguistischer, interdisziplinrer oder diachroner Untersuchungen machen. 3. Student Section: R, P and SF: The Melting Pot (Panel language: English) Lisa Atzelsdorfer (University of Vienna) - Iris Gassenbauer (University of Applied Arts Vienna) - Loredana Pan (USH) - Georgiana Voicu (USH) Contact address for Romanian students: georgiana.voicu91@yahoo.com Contact address for Austrian students: papers.bucharest.2013@gmail.com We gather in our Student Section contributions on the cultural varieties of rock (R), pop (P) and Science Fiction (SF) focussing on their impact on the live of young people. Alike the famous Melting Pot New York, both R and P, as well as SF serve as instruments of identification and vehicles of identity construction. You will be amazed by a variety of contributions on R, P or SF and their cultural impact on our society. As we are sure that you have heard at least one R&P song and read at least one SF book, we are summoning you to participate in our section.
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Why not try listening to a presentation that will bring you happiness, arouse your curiosity and astonish your mind? But here comes the challenge: Why not try to present a paper on one of these topics yourself? We are sure you have a lot to say and are looking forward to receive the announcements of your interesting contributions. We encourage you to write about whatever concerns you the most, be it literature, politics, architecture, photography, cinematography, music and their impact on R, P & SF and freely discuss it in our conference. We also highly welcome papers linking these phenomena to literature. 4. Wo/men do popular culture? Present Pop, Gender, Politics (Panel language: English) Susanne Hochreiter (University of Vienna) - Ramona Mihil (USH) Contact address: rmihaila@yahoo.com Since the womens movement in Western countries re/started in the late 1960s in the context of students and anti-war struggles it was closely connected with popular culture: Jazz, rock music, hippie ballads created the sound of the political movements as modern art and literature delivered the pictures and words of what the new future democracy, liberty, equal rights for people of all colours and genders should look like. At the same, time womens access as artists and active participants to popular culture was quite limited because the alternative realms of art were also dominated by men. Artists as Yoko Ono, Niki de Saint Phalle, Janis Joplin, or as Valie Export in Austria were feminist pioneers in art and popular culture. A changed concept of art was an integral part of womens involvement in this context: Art was supposed to have meaning beyond elitist exclusiveness and an anachronistic divide of high brow art and popular culture. Feminist popular culture was always political and, at the same time, claimed aesthetic innovation. Todays discussion of popular culture within a gender perspective is very different from what happened four centuries ago. Women are now part of a huge pop music industry, an extremely fast and tough business, where some people make a lot of money. Popular culture of this kind is nowadays more an expression of a severe neoliberalism and hardly a symbol of peace, love and happiness. But what alternative spaces do exist, what are political aims and what role plays gender today in popular culture of Western and Eastern European countries? This conference

section aims for an analysis of contemporary relations of popular culture and gender aspects. 5. From Fantasy to Science Fiction (Panel language: English) Alina Mciuc (USH) - Florin Ptea (USH) Contact address: corneliu_pitea@yahoo.com While Fantasy is the oldest form of literature, going back to the Epic of Gilgamesh, Science Fiction was only made possible by the emergence of the Industrial Age and the cross of popular science, adventure stories, the popular press and compulsory education. Both Fantasy and Science Fiction, as well as their dark cousin, Horror Fiction, took various exciting forms throughout the 20 th century and at the turn of the millennium, from Lord Dunsanys parables to China Mivilles New Weird and from Isaac Asimovs robots to Stanislaw Lems intelligent ocean. This section covers the diachronic evolution of this genre and its subspecies. Papers analysing the subversive message of Fantasy writings in Eastern European Communist times, as well as their general role as vehicles for covert social critique, are highly welcome. Another main topic of the section is the representations of rock and pop subcultures in the field of speculative fiction, as well as its referential status therein. 6. Deutsche Science-Fiction-Romane und ihre Verfilmungen im Kontext der europischen und der amerikanischen Filmkultur (Panel language: German) Ioana Crciun-Fischer (Universitt Bukarest) - Sorin Gdeanu (Universitt Wien) Contact address: sorin.gadeanu@univie.ac.at Als Form der phantastischen Prosa, die sich vor dem Zweiten Weltkrieg noch technische Utopie oder Zukunftsroman nannte und eskapistischen Bedrfnissen breiter Lesermassen entgegenkam, entwickelte sich der deutsche Science-Fiction-Roman im Schatten seiner berhmteren europischen und amerikanischen Brder, von denen er die fr das Genre spezifischen Themen und Motive bernahm: Zeitreisen und Weltraumfahrten, in denen die Gesetze
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von Zeit und Raum auer Kraft gesetzt wurden, intergalaktische Kriege und globale Katastrophen, Roboter und Androiden, Zukunftsbilder und -visionen, Entdeckungen und Erfindungen jenseits des technisch Machbaren und rational Plausiblen. Der oft als literarische Massenware und als Trivialliteratur apostrophierte Science-Fiction-Roman ist aus der deutschen Kultur der Moderne nicht mehr wegzudenken, zumal er auch in der deutschen Filmkultur als literarische Grundlage von berhmten Kassenschlagern man denke nur an Fritz Langs Kultfilm Metropolis (1926) eine Schlsselrolle gespielt hat. In dieser Sektion sind Referate willkommen, die der Problematik und der sthetik deutscher Science-Fiction-Romane und ihrer Verfilmungen gewidmet sind. Erwnscht ist dabei eine interdisziplinre Annherungsweise, in der die germanistische Perspektive ergnzt wird durch eine film- und / oder eine kulturwissenschaftliche Betrachtungsweise. Willkommen sind auch komparatistisch verfasste Referate, in denen der deutsche ScienceFiction-Roman auf seine Wurzeln und auf seine Originalitt hin im Kontrast zur Entwicklung des Genres im brigen Europa und in Nordamerika analysiert wird. Auch als Gegenstand soziologischer und sozialpsychologischer Untersuchungen bieten Verfilmungen deutscher Science-FictionRomane ein ergiebiges Forschungsfeld, das wir in dieser Konferenzsektion zu erweitern und zu vertiefen bestrebt sind.

7. French Studies on Pop, Rock and Popular Culture (Panel language: French) Mihaela Chapelan (USH) - Alexandru Matei (USH) Contact address: amatei25@yahoo.com En France, dans les annes 1960, la sociologie est une discipline mergeante, o sillustre surtout Pierre Bourdieu, philosophe de formation, qui pratique la sociologie en tant que discours critique. Aux annes 1950, il y a deux intellectuels qui sintressent la culture de masse qui sempare de lexistence publique des Franais de laprs-guerre: les sociologues Jean Baudrillard, Edgar Morin et le critique littraire et smioticien Roland Barthes. Leurs approches sont certes diffrentes, mais ils essaient tous les trois dentreprendre une critique du discours de la culture de masse, et de certifier par l son avnement dans la culture franaise.
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Ils ont tous ragi aux vnements qui ont marqu la seconde vague de modernisation de la France : en premier lieu, cet avnement de la culture matrielle amricaine en France, tudie par Kristin Ross en rapport avec la dcolonisation de lAlgrie et la mode du discours thorique dans un livre traduit en franais, Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture (1995). En second lieu, Mai 1968 et un nouvel ethos qui se rvle vite tre, en partie, celui de la culture pop amricaine, occupe les cerveaux de plus brillants intellectuels. En troisime lieu, il sagit de cartographier les subcultures mergeantes aux annes 1990 et tudier la vie des immigrants. Leurs discours critiques ont tous un autre point commun, qui les rend difficilement traduisibles et interprts aux Etats-Unis lcriture, qui emprunte aux plus radicaux textes littraires que la littrature franaise ait connus. Aux annes 2000, dautres approches ont vu le jour, pour mesurer mieux la diversit des formes de la culture de masse, et pour en faire connatre ses formes: la musique, le cinma, la tlvision ou bien internet (voir Jean Pierre Rioux Jean Francois Sirinelli, La Culture de masse en France, Fayard, 2006). Notre colloque accepte toutes sortes dobjets danalyse et de discours (sociologie, cultural studies, fminisme, postcolonial studies, pop philosophie, French theory, ou comptes rendus de projets raliss hors lespace acadmique). Pour les rpondeurs roumains, il serait peut-tre intressant de voir combien la culture de masse franaise a marqu la culture de masse roumaine durant le rgime communiste, et comment elle dcline partir des annes 1980. Pour tous les rpondeurs, il serait intressant de voir en quelle mesure un discours thorique franais existe encore pour rendre compte de la culture du quotidien, ou si nous ne faisons autre chose que parler un discours amricain, mme si nous le faisons en franais.

8. De la cultura textului la cultura popular n epoca poprock (Panel language: Romanian) Andreea Lupu (USH): literatur, comparatism i teoria literaturii Elena Silvestru (USH): lingvistic general i limb romn contemporan Contact address: deea.lupu@yahoo.com

Retrospectiv, ultimii 50 de ani de cultur european ne apar ca un moment de rentoarcere (auto)reflexiv a literaturitii i a metadiscursului literar spre autenticitatea propriilor resurse originare i spre abloanele pe care, n discursul textual i meta- sau intertextual le demistific, demitiznd necrutor locurile comune, valorile consacrate, tabuurile, retorica oficial(izat), orice form a limbii de lemn. Perioada ne apare mai ales ca o epoc a impunerii unor noi patern-uri culturale, cu un impact i un receptor de o diversitate i de o amploare fr precedent, generatoare de popular culture. n consecin, seciunea i propune circumscrierea etapei ca un contrapunct violent fa de tradiii i tabieturi culturale nrdcinate n mentalul colectiv, ca un reflex al unor noi ritmuri spirituale, cu un alt tip de sonoritate, nu lipsit de o anumit poezie a luciditii, dur sau amar i de stridene (de)constructiv contestatare. Rmnnd deschii la sugestiile colegilor, care opteaz pentru elaborarea interveniilor n limba romn, sugerm, orientativ, ca axe ale cercetrii n cadrul seciunii: Teoria i critica literar a sfritului de secol XX: Orientri polemice, re/de-structurri i configurri; Literatur comparat i studii culturale (dialogul cultural i receptarea / lectura activ ca act interpretativ al cititorului, ca metod de abordare textual comparatist; model i canon; complementariti i disocieri ale domeniilor / perspectivelor, abordri teoretice i studii de caz; Literatura romn-autorii populari n epoc; (re)sursele succesului; lectura critic a clasicilor; form(ul)e ale literaturii de mas; condiia fantasticului i literatura S.F.; genuri / specii de frontier; expresii ale rezistenei estetice i opoziiei anticomuniste; popularitatea literaturii de sertar Lingvistic i limb romn contemporan : Lingvistica actual: moment de criz sau reconfigurri (post)structuraliste? (abordri teoretice); direcii i tendine actuale n limba romn contemporan (studii de caz).