Month: April 2024
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Adapting Turkish Shakespeares (Edited Volume)
deadline for submissions: September 30, 2024 full name / name of organization: Turkish Shakespeares contact email: turkishshakespeares@gmail.com Call for Chapters Türkiye has a long tradition of reading, translating, and staging William Shakespeare’s plays, a practice dating back to the pre-Constitution era and persisting in the 21st century. Shakespeare is arguably the most…
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CFP for Syllabi
By June 30, 2024, we encourage you to email one or more adaptation-related syllabi to the Adaptation Today Pedagogy Team: James Fleury (fleuryjb@wustl.edu) and Kathryn J. McClain (kmcclain@coloradomesa.edu). You are welcome to submit one or more syllabi focused either entirely or partly on the study of adaptation; in addition to…
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CFP for Blog Posts
In addition to regularly scheduled calls for materials, Adaptation Today will publish an ongoing blog titled “What I Learned Teaching Adaptation Today.” This blog will provide the opportunity to share teaching reflections in an informal format with other adaptation educators. We ask that submissions (300-500 words) be sent by the…
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LFA 2024: RECOGNITION AND EMPATHY
LITERATURE / FILM ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA, YORK, PA SEPTEMBER 26-28, 2024 Film screening and Conversation: Dina Amer, director of You Resemble Me (2021) Keynote: Elsie Walker, Salisbury University, author of Life 24x A Second: Cinema, Selfhood, and Society (Oxford UP, 2023) In many ways, our current social and political moment has been…
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CFP: To Make a Short Story Long: Theories of Adapting Short Fiction
To Make a Short Story Long: Theories of Adapting Short Fiction The adaptation of short stories goes back to the beginning of cinema and continues today, yet the practice receives relatively little critical attention. While much energy has been spent theorizing film adaptation of the novel, there exists virtually no…
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CFPs: SAMLA 2024
Adaptation Studies in the Light of Generative AI Association of Adaption Studies Generative AI has upended ways of visualizing, reading, and interpreting texts, whether in makerspaces, on publishing platforms, or on college campuses. The use of generative AI raises questions about authorship, copyright, authenticity, originality, and integrity—all critical matters that…
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