[Commlist] CFP: Reconnecting and Recovering: An Adaptation Studies Online Conference

*Reconnecting and Recovering:*

*A call for papers for the second LFA/AAS online conference*

Following the success of “Only Connect,” the online joint conference of 
the Literature/Film Association and the Association of Adaptation 
Studies, its organizers—Julie Grossman, Peter Kunze, Thomas Leitch, and 
Allen Redmon—are excited to announce a sequel, an online conference 
scheduled for 16 and 17 February 2023. Like “Only Connect,” 
“Reconnecting and Recovering” aims to foster more global conversations 
among adaptation scholars, promote closer interaction between the 
Literature/Film Association and the Association of Adaptation Studies, 
and invite participation from scholars who would not normally consider 
traveling to the UK or the US for an in-person conference. Although all 
presentations will be in English, we hope the event’s online format will 
attract adaptation scholars from around the globe, interested peers in 
related fields, and anyone else who wants to learn more about 
contemporary adaptation studies.

At a time when so many of us are hovering between yearning for a return 
to the normal world and wondering whether we have charted an 
irreversible course toward a new normal, the two faces of adaptation 
studies, which, like the adaptations it examines, looks both forward and 
backward, seems more poignantly relevant than ever. As its title 
suggests, “Reconnecting and Recovering” encourages colleagues who 
attended last year’s joint conference to renew their connections with 
other scholars they met for the first time—even if those meetings were 
virtual, as meetings have increasingly become as we wait for the Covid 
pandemic to subside. At the same time, we hope that an online event 
bringing together an ever more diverse network of adaptation scholars 
might take its place as part of a new normal that exploits new 
possibilities for connection even as we seek to recover from the 
pandemic and ask what a recovery would look like.

We invite ten-minute presentations that deal with any aspect of 
adaptation. We are especially interested in adaptation as an activity 
that provides opportunities for reconnection, recovery, or renewal. 
These presentations, which may focus on particular adaptations or 
consider adaptation as a more general practice, may highlight archives, 
performances, and networks, borders and contact zones, divisions and 
bridges, epistemological and phenomenological experiences, new media and 
transmedia, linearity, spatiality, and seriality, and challenges, 
defenses, and alternatives to the humanities. We particularly encourage 
submissions on the following topics:


             • adaptation and identity

             • adaptation and the post-human world

             • adaptive vectors

             • trusting adaptations and adaptation

             • haunted and haunting adaptation

             • remaking and readapting

             • building and maintaining adaptation networks

Please send all inquiries and proposals of 250 words and bios of 100 
words to (reconnect.recover2023 /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(reconnect.recover2023 /at/ gmail.com)> by 1 December 2022. We plan to 
notify all participants whose proposals are accepted for presentation by 
15 December.

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