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[Hannibal Lecter]

FEASTING ON HANNIBAL: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE

SCHOOL OF CULTURE AND COMMUNICATIONARTS WEST, THE UNIVERSITY OF
MELBOURNENOVEMBER
29-30, 2016

*CALL FOR PAPERS - DEADLINE 30 JUNE 2016*

Keynote Speakers:

Associate Professor Jane Stadler, The University of Queensland

Professor Angela Ndalianis, The University of Melbourne

Hannibal ‘the Cannibal’ Lecter is one of contemporary popular culture’s
most prominent and recognisable models of monstrosity. Initially conceived
in the 1981-2006 novel series by Thomas Harris, Hannibal exists at the
centre of a sprawling franchise that includes the critically acclaimed film,
 *The Silence of the Lambs* (Jonathan Demme, 1991), and most recently Bryan
Fuller’s television series *Hannibal* (2013-2015). The diverse texts that
constitute the Hannibal franchise demonstrate the fertile potential of the
Hannibal mythology to extend and develop across multiple media, and the
complexity of Hannibal himself as a boundary-defying figure of modern
monstrosity and the senses. At the centre of Hannibal’s monstrosity is a
breakdown of the boundaries between high and low art, the mythic and the
everyday, and refinement and savagery. Accordingly, critical interest in
the Hannibal franchise has focused on Hannibal’s embodiment of the boundary
transgressions central to scholarly understandings of monstrosity.

Critical analyses of the books and films have been both profound and
widespread across various disciplines. More recently, Fuller’s *Hannibal* has
not only redefined what came before, but has inspired, extended and renewed
interest in this seminal figure. The “Feasting on Hannibal” conference aims
to push the boundaries of previous conceptualizations of the Hannibal
series, while reflecting on how the television show has reframed the
culture of Hannibal. This conference looks to the future of the franchise
as a continually developing and mutating mythology, welcoming papers that
examine Hannibal across any of his multiple incarnations, but especially
considering how Hannibal mythology has been reformulated and extended since
Fuller’s television series.

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Screen and Cultural Studies and the School of Culture and Communication at
the University of Melbourne invite you to submit abstract proposals for an
interdisciplinary conference feast that turns the tables on Hannibal
Lecter, offering Hannibal up for a meal of multiple courses and scholarly
cuisines.

Topics might include, but are not limited to:

   - Hannibal’s influence on screen culture
   - Hannibal as embodiment of contemporary monstrosity
   - Hannibal and the sensorium
   - Hannibal as mythology
   - Aesthetics and affect in Hannibal
   - Hannibal as a franchise property
   - Hannibal, seriality and transmedia storytelling
   - Self-reflexivity and intertextuality in Hannibal
   - Hannibal and adaptation
   - Hannibal and genre
   - High-concept television
   - High art and elite tastes
   - The aesthetics of violence
   - Hannibal and fandom
   - The culture of food in Hannibal
   - Hannibal, cannibalism, food, and body horror
   - Representations of animality and the post human in Hannibal
   - Criminal monstrosity and moral panic
   - Depictions of psychology and emotions
   - The development of gender and sexuality in the Hannibal mythology
   - The music of Hannibal and Hannibal’s music

*Submit abstracts up to 300 words, and a 100-word bio, before 30th of June
to **hannifeast at gmail.com* <hannifest at gmail.com>.
Website: feastingonhannibal.com
Twitter: @Hannifeast
Facebook: facebook.com/hannifeast


Organised by:
Dr Jessica Balanzategui, Dr Naja Later, and Tara Lomax

School of Culture and Communication

The University of Melbourne




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Feasting on Hannibal - An Interdisciplinary Conference
29 - 30 November, 2016
The University of Melbourne

Website: feastingonhannibal.com <http://feastingonhannibal.com.au>
Twitter: @Hannifeast
Facebook: facebook.com/hannifeast

Contact:
Dr Jessica Balanzategui jessica.balanzategui at unimelb.edu.au
Dr Naja Later naja.later at unimelb.edu.au
Tara Lomax tara.lomax at unimelb.edu.au
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