[ecrea] CfP process and practice: adaptation considered as a collaborative art october 3-4 2014 ucc cork ireland

Conference: PROCESS AND PRACTICE: ADAPTATION CONSIDERED AS A 
COLLABORATIVE ART

3-4 October 2014, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland



Confirmed Key-Note: Thomas Leitch (Delaware)



John Banville will speak in interview about adaptation in the context of 
his work.



In a landmark essay of 2003, Thomas Leitch claimed that “several 
fundamental questions in adaptation theory remain unasked, let alone 
unanswered. Everyone knows, for example, that movies are a collaborative 
medium, but is adaptation similarly collaborative, or is it the work of 
a single agent—the screenwriter or director—with the cast and crew 
behaving the same way as if their film were based on an original 
screenplay?” Rather than returning to reductive but seemingly 
never-exhausted debates such as the fidelity issue, this conference 
takes Leitch’s question as its starting point, approaching adaptation 
from the point of view of the processes and practices involved. Looking 
at the debate from this perspective makes issues such as authorship, 
originality, genius, even appropriation less important than questions of 
collaboration, ensemble, engagement etc. which now become the critical 
factors in the consideration of an artwork. A focus on the “how?” of 
adaptation dismantles a hierarchical view of adaptation that is caught 
in the gravitational field of originality, fidelity and marked by such 
concepts as primacy and secondarity. Instead the artist is always 
understood to be in relation.

This conference invites contributions that focus therefore on the 
creative processes and practices involved in adaptation across the 
entire spectrum of genres and media. Contributions might consider 
adaptive processes and practices in terms of:



• The identity of the adapter? The roles of the writer, screenwriter, 
dramaturge, director, actor, translator, composer etc.

• Collaborative processes

• Audience and Reception

• Devising

• Re-contextualisation

• Re-mediation

• Adaptation in the “second degree”: adaptations of adaptations

• Transfer of knowledge (including adaptation in the context of 
“practice as research”)

• Brokering between idioms: communication between collaborators in the 
adaptive process



Abstracts of no more than 300 words for papers of 20 minutes should be 
submitted to the organizing committee at (adaptconf2014 /at/ ucc.ie) together 
with a short CV by Friday 28 February 2014.



Donna Alexander | Bernadette Cronin | Rachel MagShamhráin | Nikolai 
Preuschoff





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