[ecrea] CFP 10th Annual Conference of the Association of Adaptation Studies

*Adaptations and the Metropolis: 10th Annual Conference of the
Association of Adaptation Studies, Senate House, London, 24-25
September, 2015*

**CFP DEADLINE REMINDER: 31st MAY 2015**

The Association of Adaptation Studies invite proposals for papers for
the 10th Annual Conference in London on 24-25 September, 2015, organised
with the Institute of English Studies, University of London.  Confirmed
speakers are: Andrew Davies, screenwriter and patron of the Association
of Adaptation Studies, Jonathan Powell, former Head of BBC Drama and
Controllor of BBC1, now Professor of Media Arts, Royal Holloway
University, and Professor Graham Holderness, critic, novelist, poet and
dramatist.

In the past century the expansion of industrialised cities has seen a
significant increase in urbanisation and non-rural lifestyles. Whilst
literature quickly sought to document these changes, substantial
technological advancements in cinema also enabled the metropolis to be
presented through a variety of visual spectacles. Visions of urban
sprawl are present in an assortment of media, but it is through their
adaptations and remediations that we can trace society’s ongoing
relationship with the city, modernisation and globalisation.
Furthermore, the presentation of the metropolis in past, present and
speculative adaptations enable us to understand aspects of our changing
lifestyles, the effects of urbanisation on literary and visual art,
national identity, social inequalities, territorial displacement,
environmental destruction, utopias and dystopias, and our social and
psychological relationship with architecture and city development.

Papers are welcome on these themes, or any others related to adaptation,
in all forms of remediated adaptation, including literature, theatre,
film, television, digital media and other visual and literary arts.

200-word abstracts of suggested papers should be submitted by 31st May,
2015 to both Prof Deborah Cartmell ((djc /at/ dmu.ac.uk)
<mailto:(djc /at/ dmu.ac.uk)>) and Prof Jeremy Strong ((jeremy.strong /at/ uwl.ac.uk)
<mailto:(jeremy.strong /at/ uwl.ac.uk)>).

http://www.adaptation.uk.com/cfp-adaptations-metropolis/

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Dr Jamie Sherry

Lecturer in Screenwriting & Senior Tutor

School of Creative Studies and Media

Bangor University

John Phillips Hall, College Road

Bangor, LL57 2DG

United Kingdom

Tel: + 44 (0)1248 382094

Email: (j.sherry /at/ bangor.ac.uk)

Website: http://www.bangor.ac.uk/creative_industries/jamie_sherry

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