[ecrea] cfp: Adaptations Conference

Association of Adaptation Studies Annual Conference 2018 is holding its 
annual conference with the theme of 'Facts: True, Alternative, Evolving' 
with a special focus on Entertainment Franchises

at The University of Amsterdam | 27-28 September 2018

Confirmed Keynotes: Professor James Chapman (University of Leicester, 
UK) Professor Christine Geraghty (Honorary Professorial Fellow, 
University of Glasgow)

We live in a ‘post truth’ world populated by ‘alternative facts’. Both 
terms are politically, narratively and aesthetically resonant as applied 
to, and in conversation with, adaptation studies. The 2018 Association 
for Adaptation Studies annual conference invites reflection on questions 
of truth, untruth and post-truth in the context of adaptation studies, 
as well as on the meaning and applications of facts, ‘true’, 
‘alternative’ and ‘evolving’.

Within the very broad context of adaptation, we also encourage 
submissions that address the cultural work undertaken or expressed by 
prequels, sequels and media interactions that build on a particular 
character or story franchise. One particularly evocative and well-known 
example of a story franchise that has generated a vast array of 
prequels, sequels and iterative adaptations is Ian Fleming’s Bond series 
and this year’s AAS conference will feature a special focus on 
adaptations of Fleming’s oeuvre as well as on the continuing 
post-Fleming prequel and sequel industries. But papers on other story 
sequences and franchises are most welcome.

We invite single-paper and panel proposals on a wide range of topics, 
and are particularly interested in proposals that address the politics, 
industries and ideologies of adaptation.

The conference chair for the AAS 2018 conference is Dr Joyce Goggin at 
the University of Amsterdam. Please send queries and abstracts of 
250-350 words, along with a brief bio of no more than 100 words, to 
(j.goggin /at/ uva.nl) by March 1, 2018. More details can be obtained at 
http://www.adaptation.uk.com/aas-conference-2018/

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