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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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BAFTSS “Adaptation Beyond Film”
Please find attached the CFP for a one-day symposium organised by us at the BAFTSS Adaptation Group and co-funded by the University of Birmingham’s B-Film research centre. The event is on 3rd June 2024, titled ‘Adaptation Beyond Film’ – we’ve scheduled it so anyone coming across from the US to Europe…
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Attend the LFA/AAS Joint Conference
Please find the attached program and the registration link for the third virtual joint conference of the Literature Film Association and the Association of Adaptation Studies: Adaptation In and Out of the Classroom. https://udel.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcrd-GqrTMjGtCV11j3U2Fyppx5-wKVXGFq#/registration Please feel free to share this link and the program with others and help us to promote our…
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Conference CFP: Re*Imaginings and Visions of America
Re*Imaginings and Visions of America American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT) 42nd International American Studies Conference Hosted by: Yaşar University Department of English Language and Literature Izmir, Turkey October 23-25, 2024 The devastating earthquake that hit the southeastern cities of Turkey and affected tens of thousands of people…
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Conference CFP: Our Glocal Shakespeare: Intercultural Encounters With The Bard
Our Glocal Shakespeare: Intercultural Encounters With The Bard Co-hosted by “Turkish Shakespeares Project” and Istanbul Bilgi University English Language and Literature Department 19-20 April 2024 Venue: Santral Campus, Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Türkiye Contact: Murat Öğütcü (murat_ogutcu@yahoo.com) and İnci Bilgin Tekin (inci.bilgin@bilgi.edu.tr) Deadline for abstracts and bios: 20.02.2024 As Graham…
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Essay CFP: Ecoadaptations: Mediating Nature and the Environment
CFP: Ecoadaptations: Mediating Nature and the Environment(edited collection) (3/31/24; 12/15/24) Call for Essay Submissions Contact: Pamela Demory Contact email: phdemory@ucdavis.edu Proposals are invited for an edited collection of essays that explore the relationship between adaptation studies and the environment. The editors of the Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture…
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CFP (Conference): Literature, Cinema, and the Transatlantic Dimensions of Adaptation (Venice, May 2024)
See PDF below. Literature, Cinema, and the Transatlantic Dimensions of Adaptation: Mitteleuropa and the US Ca’ Foscari University of Venice14-16 May 2024 This multi- and interdisciplinary conference explores cinematic adaptation as a transnational practice between the area formerly known as Mitteleuropa and the US over thelast century from different angles…
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