[Commlist] Call for Papers: Adaptations

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Adaptations

Madrid, April 21st and 22nd, 2023

Saint Louis University Madrid


Submissions deadline extended to March 31, 2023:

(timothy.day /at/ slu.edu) and (olivia.badoi /at/ slu.edu)



CALL FOR PAPERS

Adaptation is a term that bridges the divide between literature and 
evolution. Texts are adapted to speak to new circumstances as time 
advances and younger writers, directors, actors, artists, and audiences 
seek connections to a mutable culture. Likewise, organisms adapt over 
generations to better suit their circumstance.


Adaptation also presupposes a relationship to an original, a source. In 
organisms, unchecked replication can lead to distorted text, broken 
genetic code. In the age of infinite digital reproduction, of Tiktoks, 
NFTs, AI- generated images or novels and so on, the concept of 
adaptation can generate productive conversations on the current role and 
nature of art.

Have we irrevocably moved away from the notion of art as belonging to a 
particular time and space, having a unique context, what Benjamin 
called “aura”? Lawrence Venuti, who configures adaptation as 
translation, writes that “the interpretive force of a translation issues 
from the fact that the source text is not only decontextualized, but 
recontextualized” (Venuti 93). In nature as well as art, both the 
monstrous and the exquisite are born from these textual 
recontextualizations.


This conference aims to approach adaptation in all its guises: The 
literary, the evolutionary, the personal. We seek stories of adaptation, 
criticism that approaches textual or theatrical adaptation, and 
presentations that explore the juncture between literary and 
evolutionary space.


Performance Studies, Literature and Science, Literary Adaptation, Genre- 
bending, Biosemiotics, Ecocriticism, Adaptation and Translation


Keynotes: Stephen O’Neill and John Holmes


Please send Abstracts of 250 words plus a bio in the body of an email by 
March 31, 2023.  to (timothy.day /at/ slu.edu) and (olivia.badoi /at/ slu.edu)


Works cited

Venuti, Lawrence. “‘Adaptation, Translation, Critique.” Film and 
Literature an Introduction and Reader, edited by Timothy Corrigan, 
Routledge, New York, NY, 2012, pp. 93.



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