Saturday 15 June 2013 – Special Conference: Literature, and the transcultural forum in Europe
11.30 am, Habitus Cultural Centre
SIBIU INTERNATIONAL THEATRE FESTIVAL
Literature, and the transcultural forum in Europe
Popular genres have always been an effective strategy in describing and disseminating arguments, conflicts and issues in any given society. Crime fiction is associated with the exploration of the rise of industrialised infrastructures, and the genre described the perils and mysteries of the newly invented urban life. Similarly, the science fiction genre debated the effects of space exploration, nuclear energy and computer science, as they happened. In a sense, the literature of these periods and events became methods of communication, unlike anything which had gone before. The classics of crime fiction drew their readers into a special, virtual world which also described and rationalised the events of their everyday lives. As in all popular fiction you don't need specialised knowledge or years of study. It is the narrative which leads you there. The establishment and re-definition of the crime fiction genre is a phenomenon which accompanies social change. The European concept has always been under threat, while at the same time holding the promise of new assemblies, as well as new ways of handling them. Crime fiction is one of the few strategies which can describe these new colloquia in a popular and engaging style.
11.30 am, Habitus Cultural Centre
SIBIU INTERNATIONAL THEATRE FESTIVAL
Literature, and the transcultural forum in Europe
Popular genres have always been an effective strategy in describing and disseminating arguments, conflicts and issues in any given society. Crime fiction is associated with the exploration of the rise of industrialised infrastructures, and the genre described the perils and mysteries of the newly invented urban life. Similarly, the science fiction genre debated the effects of space exploration, nuclear energy and computer science, as they happened. In a sense, the literature of these periods and events became methods of communication, unlike anything which had gone before. The classics of crime fiction drew their readers into a special, virtual world which also described and rationalised the events of their everyday lives. As in all popular fiction you don't need specialised knowledge or years of study. It is the narrative which leads you there. The establishment and re-definition of the crime fiction genre is a phenomenon which accompanies social change. The European concept has always been under threat, while at the same time holding the promise of new assemblies, as well as new ways of handling them. Crime fiction is one of the few strategies which can describe these new colloquia in a popular and engaging style.
Dr Mike Phillips OBE is a British author best known for his novels: Blood Rights (1989), which was adapted for BBC television,The Late Candidate (1990), winner of the Crime Writers’ Association Silver Dagger Award, Point of Darkness (1994), An Image to Die For (1995),The Dancing Face (1998), A Shadow of Myself (2000), The Name You Once Gave Me (2006). Mike Phillips also co-wrote two non-fiction books: Windrush: The Irresistible Rise of Multi-Racial Britain (1998) to accompany a BBC television series, and Rimaru - Butcher of Bucharest (2012). He also writes essays (London Crossings: A Biography of Black Britain, 2001), opera librettos and film scripts.
Mike Phillips was awarded the Arts Foundation Fellowship for crime fiction, and the OBE for services to broadcasting. He is an Honorary Fellow of Goldsmiths College, Doctor of Middlesex University and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Mike Phillips served as a trustee of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, curator at Tate Britain, senior lecturer in media at Westminster University, journalist and broadcaster for the BBC, cultural advisor for various European organisations. He is director of Profusion International Creative Consultancy (www.profusion.org.uk) and has edited a series of East European crime fiction for Profusion Publishers.
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