[Commlist] Adaptation conferenc: Adaptation and Modernisms: Establishing and Dismantling Borders in Adaptation Practice and Theory

*Association of Adaptation Studies Annual Conference 2019 *

*Adaptation and Modernisms: Establishing and Dismantling Borders in 
Adaptation Practice and Theory

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*Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic*

*19^th -20^th September 2019*

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*Keynote speakers:*

*Dudley Andrew*,**R. Selden Rose Professor of Comparative Literature and 
Professor of Film Studies at Yale University, USA**

*Lars Elleström*, Professor of Comparative Literature at Linnaeus 
University, Sweden

The Modern, the Postmodern, the Premodern, the Metamodern, and other 
“modernisms” are concepts deeply rooted within attempts to conceptualise 
Western and global development in history, politics, geopolitics, 
economy, and in scientific, socio-cultural, and aesthetic domains. In 
any attempt to “think historically” or to “look at the bigger picture,” 
these terms are unavoidable.

Different versions of “modernism” are deeply concerned with historical 
changes and cultural transformations, including adaptation of various 
kinds. Seeing “modernism” as a continuum enables us to ask questions 
about what changes and what stays the same across the different 
“modernisms,” and such transpositions and transgressions can be 
insightfully analyzed by adaptation studies. The conference ponders how 
different media, views of temporality, historical periods, and theories 
of art travel within and across different kinds of modernisms and how 
their producers and consumers construct and engage with them. At the 
same time, the conference attends to how the etymology of “modern” and 
the accompanying concepts of “novelty”, “the new”, and even “revolution” 
echo in different epochs and their adaptations, and to what can 
adaptation studies tell us about their transformation into “norm”, “the 
old”, and “the Classic”.

We welcome papers concerned with, but not limited to, topics related to 
the following questions:

How does adaptation practice, and theoretical concepts connected with 
it, inform or change in various kinds of “modernisms”?

How does today’s adaptation studies respect / cement / ignore the 
conceptual borders of premodernism, modernism, postmodernism, 
post-post-modernism, and metamodernism?

How do different kinds of modernisms inform the cultural, political, 
aesthetic, and media exchange of adaptations?

Does adaptation studies offer new ways of looking at the adaptation of, 
for example, Modernism by Postmodernism?

*Conference chairs: *Dr Petr Bubeníček, Dr Miroslav Kotásek

Proposals for conference papers should be written in English, include 
the name, academic affiliation, and a short author bio (no more than 100 
words), the title of the paper, and an abstract (250 words or less) and 
should be sent in Microsoft Word or .pdf format to the email address: 
/(brno_aasconference /at/ phil.muni.cz)/.

Deadline for paper proposals is *14th February 2019*.
The participants will be notified of the acceptance of their papers by 
10th April at the latest.

In order to participate in the conference, all confirmed speakers must 
be members of the AAS. To register, please follow this link: 
/www.adaptation.uk.com/join-the-association
/
Up to four travel bursaries are available for postgraduate students 
delivering papers at the 2019 conference: up to two for students based 
in the EU (£250 each) and up to two for students based outside of the EU 
(£500 each). Bursary recipients must be registered members of the AAS. 
To apply, please follow this 
link:/www.adaptation.uk.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/AAS-2019-Conference-Travel-Bursary-Form.docx/


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