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The Association of Researchers in Popular Literature and Media Culture (LPCM) organizes an annual traveling seminar dedicated to current trends in cultural studies research on mass culture. The 2025–2026 season of this seminar features a format centered on dialogue between an invited senior researcher and a young researcher, focusing on shared perspectives and ongoing research projects.

This session is organized in collaboration with UMR PACTE as part of its seminar series“Networks, Socialization, Cultures.”

Session Agenda

— Philippe Coulangeon (CNRS/ENSAE): “Presentation of *Mass Culture and Class Society: The Taste for Otherness*”
— Adèle Hoareau (Sorbonne University): “Who Is the Audience for the Fantastic? *Beauty and the Beast* and Its Modern Adaptations: *Twilight*, *The Witcher*, and *A Palace of Thorns and Roses*”

Moderator: Lucie Amir

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Philippe Coulangeon is a sociologist and research director at the CNRS. He specializes in cultural practices and hierarchies. He is the author of *Jazz Musicians in France* (L'Harmattan, 1999), *Sociology of Cultural Practices* (La Découverte, 2005), *The Metamorphoses of Distinction. Cultural Inequalities in Contemporary France (Grasset, 2011), and Mass Culture and Class Society: The Taste for Otherness (PUF, 2021).

Adèle Hoareau is a doctoral student in comparative literature at Sorbonne University. Her research focuses on English-language retellings and adaptations of Beauty and the Beast. Her first article, “Eros as the Virgin Vampire: Monsters, Desires, and Female Curiosity in the Twilight Series, a Retelling of Cupid and Psyche,” was published in Alizés, the journal of English studies at the University of Réunion.

In practice

The seminar can also be attended via Zoom. Participants who would like to receive the link should email atelierlpcm@protonmail.com.