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Universit&#233; de La Rochelle-Universit&#233; de Reims, 11 au 13 d&#233;cembre 2019ArgumentaireL&#8217;ambition de ce colloque est de r&#233;v&#233;ler les liens &#233;troits, quoique souvent cach&#233;s ou implicites, entre cultures populaires et politique. En effet, que cette derni&#232;re se joue d&#8217;elles, soit ridiculis&#233;e ou lou&#233;e par elles, il appara&#238;t int&#233;ressant d&#8217;interroger ce champ de recherches encore peu &#233;tudi&#233; en France croisant deux sph&#232;res parfois contradictoires et conflictuelles.Si depuis longtemps, la politique et les hommes et les femmes politiques sont repr&#233;sent&#233;.es dans la culture populaire, que ce soit &#224; travers des caricatures, des fictions qui abordent, entre autres,&#160; des questionnements sur les modes de gouvernance, le r&#244;le du politique et ses liens avec d&#8217;autres pouvoirs (&#233;conomiques, militaires, m&#233;diatiques, etc.),&#160; qui reviennent sur des &#233;v&#233;nements, ou qui cherchent &#224; influencer l&#8217;opinion publique, il appara&#238;t que la culture populaire est aussi devenue un outil qui, depuis le d&#233;veloppement&#160; de l&#8217;internet, des cha&#238;nes de t&#233;l&#233;vision du c&#226;ble et des r&#233;seaux sociaux multipliant sa visibilit&#233; et son effet viral, est utilis&#233; par les hommes et les femmes politiques eux.elles-m&#234;mes, mais aussi par les populations et les influenceurs comme un vecteur essentiel d&#8217;expression et de pouvoir. Twitter est ainsi devenu le canal de communication favori du pr&#233;sident d&#8217;une des premi&#232;res puissances mondiales. En utilisant un des r&#233;seaux sociaux les plus populaires, Donald Trump prolonge ainsi une accointance ant&#233;rieure avec la culture populaire. De &#171; concepteur &#187; &#224; travers ses reality shows, il s&#8217;est mu&#233; en &#171; utilisateur &#187; mais aussi en &#171; personnage &#187; et caricature de la culture de masse. Les fameuses &#171; fake news &#187; sont devenues en peu de temps un moyen tr&#232;s efficace de manipulation des foules tant il est difficile d&#8217;effacer ces rumeurs des temps modernes comme on a pu l&#8217;observer lors des campagnes pr&#233;sidentielles r&#233;centes. De m&#233;diatique, la culture populaire est devenue m&#233;dium en politique. Jadis m&#233;pris&#233;e parce que li&#233;e aux masses, elle est, surtout depuis le d&#233;veloppement d&#8217;internet, un passage oblig&#233; pour gagner la confiance du public ou ses voix, un r&#233;f&#233;rentiel commun entre le pl&#233;b&#233;ien et son &#233;lectorat o&#249; les s&#233;ries deviennent les nouvelles illustrations d&#8217;enjeux et de d&#233;nonciations politiques &#224; l&#8217;instar de Tchernobyl, House of Cards, Baron noir, Borgen&#8230;La porosit&#233; entre la politique et les cultures populaires s&#8217;illustre pleinement dans la f&#233;condation du r&#233;el par des symboles contestataires issus de la &#171; culture pop &#187;. Le masque que porte l&#8217;anarchiste dans V pour Vendetta (Alan Moore et David Lloyd, 1982-1990) est &#224; l&#8217;effigie de Guy Fawkes, un opposant historique au r&#233;gime politique anglais li&#233; &#224; la conspiration des poudres de 1605 &#224; Londres. M&#233;diatis&#233; par le film de James McTeigue, sorti en 2006, il est ensuite rendu au r&#233;el et, paradoxalement, &#224; la contestation politique et sociale par les Anonymous et l&#8217;Occupy Movement &#224; Wall Street (2011-). La chanson italienne du partisan &#8220;Bella Ciao&#8221; est, quant &#224; elle, remise au go&#251;t du jour par la s&#233;rie La Casa de papel qui consid&#232;re ses personnages comme des r&#233;sistants au syst&#232;me.Aussi, les liens entre cultures populaires et politique ne se cantonnent pas aux repr&#233;sentations dans la fiction, les champs d&#8217;expression de la culture de masse sont multiples et justifient le pluriel qui lui est associ&#233;. Le sport en g&#233;n&#233;ral et le football (soccer) en particulier constituent ainsi un exemple associant culture populaire et enjeu politico-&#233;conomique. De m&#234;me, le SuperBowl aux &#201;tats-Unis montre aussi les multiples facettes d&#8217;une pratique culturelle qui conjugue enjeux &#233;conomiques, politiques, m&#233;diatiques, culturels, et sportifs.&#192; l&#8217;instar de ces exemples qui illustrent la porosit&#233; entre la politique et les cultures populaires, il s&#8217;agira lors de ce colloque de voir comment la politique actuelle est influenc&#233;e dans ses repr&#233;sentations, sa communication, ses d&#233;cisions, son &#233;conomie, son mode de fonctionnement par la/les cultures populaires. On pourra &#233;galement s&#8217;interroger sur la profondeur historique des liens entre cultures populaires et politique.Les propositions peuvent aborder diff&#233;rents champs d&#8217;&#233;tudes et les conjuguer (sociologie, anthropologie, &#233;tudes politiques, civilisation, histoire, litt&#233;rature, &#233;conomie, m&#233;dia, journalistique, linguistique, etc.), diff&#233;rents pays, et traiter de tous les domaines des cultures populaires (arts visuels (s&#233;ries t&#233;l&#233; et internet, cin&#233;ma, bande dessin&#233;e, vid&#233;os et chaines YouTube, etc.), diff&#233;rents &#171; genres &#187; de fiction (science-fiction, fantasy, horreur, policier, roman de gare, etc.), sports, musique, objets de collection, pratiques culturelles et m&#233;diatiques, jeux (jeu de r&#244;le, jeu vid&#233;o, jeu de soci&#233;t&#233;, etc.), jouets, litt&#233;ratures, etc.Modalit&#233;s de soumissionLes abstracts (d&#8217;environ 400 mots) et une courte biographie devront &#234;tre envoy&#233;s conjointement &#224; Dani&#232;le Andr&#233; daniele.andre@univ-lr.fr, Annabel Audureau annabel.audureau@univ-lr.fr et Frank Healy frank.healy@univ-lr.fr.La date limite de retour des propositions est fix&#233;e au 3 novembre 2019.Nous sommes aussi heureux d&#8217;annoncer qu&#8217;il s'agira d'un colloque fondateur d&#8217;une Association Fran&#231;aise d'&#201;tude des Cultures Populaires et du temps sera aussi consacr&#233; &#224; cette question.Comit&#233; scientifique&#160;Sylvie MikowskiYann PhilippeHerv&#233; LagogueySergio Coto-RivelEstelle EpinouxDani&#232;le Andr&#233;Annabelle AudureauFrank HealyOrganisateursCRHIA (Centre de Recherches en Histoire Internationale et Atlantique) La RochelleDani&#232;le Andr&#233;Annabelle AudureauFrank Healy CRHIAKeynote speakerProfesseure Diane Negra, directrice du d&#233;partement de Film and Media Studies &#224; University College Dublin.Bibliographie indicativeOuvragesCaso, Federica And Hamilton, Caitlin (Eds.), Popular Culture and World Politics: Theories, Methods, Pedagogies, E-International Relations, Bristol, 2015.Leah A. Murray (Ed.), Politics and Popular Culture, Cambridge Scholars Publishing; New edition (July 1, 2010).Edsforth, Ronald &#38; Bennett, Larry (Eds), Popular Culture and Political Change in Modern America, SUNY series in Popular Culture and Political Change,1991.ArticlesBradley, J.M. (1997). &#8220;Political, Religious and Cultural Identities: The undercurrents of Scottish football.&#8221; Politics 17(1), 25-32.Clapton, William, &#8220;Popular Culture Matters: Defining &#8216;Politics&#8217;&#8221; in Popular Culture &#38; World Politics, Jul 26 2018, https://www.e-ir.info/2018/07/26/popular-culture-matters-defining-politics-in-popular-culture-world-politics/Cloonan, M., &#38; Street, J. (1998), &#8220;Rock the Vote: Popular Culture and Politics.&#8221;, Politics, 18(1), 33&#8211;38. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9256.00058Dorzweiler, N. (2017), &#8220;Popular culture in (and out of) American political science: A concise critical history,&#8221; 1858&#8211;1950. History of the Human Sciences, 30(1), 138&#8211;159. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695116684314Dubosclard, Alain, &#171;&#160;Le cin&#233;ma, passeur culturel, agent d&#8217;influence de la diplomatie fran&#231;aise aux &#201;tats-Unis dans l&#8217;entre-deux-guerres&#160;&#187;. 1895. Mille huit cent quatre-vingt-quinze,&#160; 42 | 2004, mis en ligne le 10 janvier 2008, URL : http://journals.openedition.org/1895/279Finn, G. (1991). &#8220;Racism, Religion and Social Prejudice: Irish Catholic Clubs, Soccer and Scottish Identity - Social Identity and Conspiracy Theories.&#8221; In International Journal of the History of Sport, Vol. 8 No. 3.Hall Stuart (2018) &#8220;Popular culture, politics and history,&#8221; Cultural Studies, 32:6, 929-952. Routledge.Orwell, G. (December 1945). &#8216;The Sporting Spirit&#8217;, Tribune. London, UK.Rubin, Jennifer, &#8220;Why popular culture matters in politics&#8221;, The Washington Post, October 28, 2013,M&#233;moires/Th&#232;sesKnightly, Patrick J., &#8220;Politics and the Popular Culture : an Examination of the Relationship between Politics and Film and Music.&#8221; (1999). Masters Theses 1911- February 2014, 2551, University of Massachusetts Amherst, ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. &#160;&#160;https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/2551La Rochelle University (France) from 11th to 13th December 2019PresentationThe ambition of this conference is to explore the close links, hidden or implicit, that exist between popular culture and politics. Indeed, politics may attempt to subvert popular culture, or may be an object of ridicule or praise in Popular Culture, and it would therefore be of great interest to investigate this research field, which is relatively unexplored in France and which mixes two sometimes contradictory and conflicting spheres.Throughout History politics and politicians have been represented in popular culture, whether it be in caricatures, works of fiction dealing with issues like systems of governance, the role of the politician and their links to other types of power (economic, military, media, etc.), that reassess past events, or seek to influence public opinion. However, it would appear that popular culture today has also become a tool which, with the development of the internet, cable television channels and social networks that magnify its visibility and its viral effect, is used by politicians themselves, and also by ordinary citizens and influencers, as an essential vector of expression and power. Thus, Twitter has become the favourite communication channel for the President of one of the Super Powers. By using one of the most popular social networks, Donald Trump is merely continuing his long-standing acquaintance with popular culture. From a &#8216;designer&#8217; through his reality shows, he has been transformed into a &#8216;user&#8217; and also a &#8216;character&#8217; and a caricature of mass culture. The infamous &#8216;fake news&#8217; have quickly become a highly efficient means to manipulate the masses, such is the difficulty of erasing these modern-day rumours that were in evidence throughout the recent electoral campaign. Born and spread through the mass media, popular culture has now become a political medium. Once despised as something of interest only to the masses, with the development of the internet it has been transformed into a prerequisite to gain the confidence of the public and our votes, a shared frame of reference between the demagogues and their electorate, where TV series are the new illustrations of current issues and political denunciations, such as Tchernobyl, House of Cards, Baron noir, Borgen etc.The porosity between politics and popular culture is clearly illustrated by the impregnation of the real world by symbols of dissent derived from &#8216;pop&#160;culture&#8217;. The mask worn by the anarchist in V for Vendetta (Alan Moore and David Lloyd, 1982-1990) is an effigy of Guy Fawkes, a historical opponent of the English political regime who was involved in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 in London. Popularised by James McTeigue&#8217;s 2006 film, it was then recycled in a modern political context, paradoxically in the political and social contestation led by the Anonymous and Occupy Wall Street Movements (2011-). Another example is the Italian partisans&#8217; song &#8220;Bella Ciao&#8221;, which been given a new lease of life by the series La Casa de papel in which the characters are considered to be part of the resistance to the system.Moreover, the links between popular culture and politics are not limited to representations in fiction, the modes of expression of mass culture are multiple. Sport in general and football (soccer) in particular are an example of how popular culture can be an extension of political and economic issues.&#160;For example, the SuperBowl in the United States reveals multiple facets of a cultural practice that combines economic, political, communicational, cultural and sporting issues.These examples illustrate the porosity between politics and popular culture, and the conference will explore how politics today is influenced in its representations, its communication, its decision-making, its economy, its mode of operation, by popular culture. We may also explore in depth the historical background to the links between popular culture and politics. Papers could examine different countries and different fields of study, and combine them (sociology, anthropology, political studies, cultural studies, history, literature, economy, media, journalism, linguistics, etc.), and explore all the fields of study in popular culture (the visual arts, TV series and the internet, cinema, comics, videos and YouTube channels, etc.), different &#8216;genres&#8217; of fiction (science-fiction, fantasy, horror, detective stories, pulp fiction, etc.), sports, music, collector&#8217;s items, cultural and media practices, games (role plays, video games, board games, etc.), toys, literature, etc.Submission GuidelinesAbstracts (approx. 400 words) and a short biography should be sent to Dani&#232;le Andr&#233; daniele.andre@univ-lr.fr, Annabel Audureau annabel.audureau@univ-lr.fr and Frank Healy frank.healy@univ-lr.fr.The deadline for submissions is 3rd November 2019.We are also delighted to announce that part of the conference will be devoted to the creation of the Popular Culture Association of France. (http://pcaof.com/en/)Scientific CommitteeReims University:Sylvie MikowskiYann PhilippeHerv&#233; LagogueyNantes University:Sergio Coto-RivelLimoges University:Estelle Epinoux,La Rochelle University:Dani&#232;le Andr&#233;Annabelle AudureauFrank HealyOrganisersCRHIA (Centre de Recherches en Histoire Internationale et Atlantique) La Rochelle UniversityDani&#232;le Andr&#233;Annabelle AudureauFrank HealyKeynote SpeakerWe are pleased to announce that Diane Negra, Head of the Film Studies Department, University College Dublin, has accepted to be one of our Keynote Speakers.Bibliography (illustrative)BooksCaso, Federica And Hamilton, Caitlin (Eds.), Popular Culture and World Politics: Theories, Methods, Pedagogies, E-International Relations, Bristol, 2015.&#160;Leah A. Murray (Ed.), Politics and Popular Culture. Cambridge Scholars Publishing; New edition (July 1, 2010).&#160;Edsforth, Ronald &#38; Bennett, Larry (Eds), Popular Culture and Political Change in Modern America, SUNY series in Popular Culture and Political Change.1991.ArticlesBradley, J.M. (1997). Political, Religious and Cultural Identities: The undercurrents of Scottish football. Politics 17(1), 25-32.Clapton, William, Popular Culture Matters: Defining &#8216;Politics&#8217; in Popular Culture &#38; World Politics, Jul 26 2018, https://www.e-ir.info/2018/07/26/popular-culture-matters-defining-politics-in-popular-culture-world-politics/Cloonan, M., &#38; Street, J. (1998). Rock the Vote: Popular Culture and Politics. Politics, 18(1), 33&#8211;38. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9256.00058Dorzweiler, N. (2017). Popular culture in (and out of) American political science: A concise critical history, 1858&#8211;1950. History of the Human Sciences, 30(1), 138&#8211;159. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695116684314Dubosclard, Alain, Le cin&#233;ma, passeur culturel, agent d&#8217;influence de la diplomatie fran&#231;aise aux &#201;tats-Unis dans l&#8217;entre-deux-guerres. 1895. Mille huit cent quatre-vingt-quinze [En ligne], 42&#160;|&#160;2004, mis en ligne le 10 janvier 2008, consult&#233; le 03 septembre 2019. URL&#160;: http://journals.openedition.org/1895/279&#160;Finn, G. (1991). Racism, Religion and Social Prejudice: Irish Catholic Clubs, Soccer and Scottish Identity - Social Identity and Conspiracy Theories. In International Journal of the History of Sport, Vol. 8 No. 3.Grayson, Kyle, Matt Davies, Simon Philpott, Pop Goes IR? Researching the Popular Culture&#8211;World Politics Continuum, October 2009, Politics 29(3):155 - 163Hall Stuart (2018) Popular culture, politics and history, Cultural Studies, 32:6, 929-952. Routledge.Orwell, G. (December 1945). &#8216;The Sporting Spirit&#8217;, Tribune. London, UK.Rubin, Jennifer, Why popular culture matters in politics, October 28, 2013, The Washington Post.Dissertations/ThesesPatrick J. Knightly, University of Massachusetts Amherst, ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst, Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014, 1999 Politics and the popular culture: an examination of the relationship between politics and film and music.