Journeys: Memory and Migration

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1 Journeys: Memory and Migration Association of Adaptation Studies Annual Conference Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, Scotland, 8-11 June The Association of Adaptation Studies Annual Conference will take place online this year, between Tuesday 8 th and Friday 11 th of June, and is hosted by Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. To attend the conference you must register via QMU s website: migration/. The fees are 20 (permanently salaried) / 5 (part-time, graduate student, unwaged). Anyone attending or presenting at the conference must also be a member of the Association of Adaptation Studies. Joining information can be found here - association/ Below is a draft programme, subject to change, but correct as of 26 May A full programme with participant abstracts will be made available in early June. Each panel consists of presentations which are 10 minutes long, followed by 20 minutes for panel discussion. Please note all times are British Summer Time (BST) am Tue 8 June Welcome Professor Kamilla Elliott and Professor Julie Grossman (AAS co-chairs). Outlining of conference logistics by Dr Michael Stewart and Dr Robert Munro (QMU) am Keynote 1 Dr Golnar Nabizade, University of Dundee Relocating migrant narratives in The Four Immigrants Manga and The Arrival 11-12pm Panel 1 Offscreen Adaptations Dr Sarah Artt, Edinburgh Napier University: Memoir, sensation, audio: on Call Me By Your Name and its intertexts Dr Anna Blackwell, De Montfort University: Crafting the Canon: Etsy and material forms of adaptation Dr John Milton, Universidade de São Paulo: Aunt Lil s Snapshots: Photography, Memory, and Adaptation: Links to Explore Dr Ruxandra Trandafoiu, Edge Hill University: Booktubing, adaptation and memory migrating between restorative and reflective nostalgia 12-1pm 1-2pm Association of Adaptation Studies AGM 2-3pm Panel 2 Transcultural Adaptation Dr Isadora García Avis, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya: Lateral Adaptation in a Transnational Format Franchise: The Case of Netflix s Criminal

2 Prof. Lucia Krämer, University of Passau: Transcultural Passages to and from India: Vishal Bhardwaj s Shakespeare Adaptation Haider (2014) in Germany Dr Akaitab Mukherjee, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT): Transcultural Adaptations and Rituparno Ghosh s Authorship Joseph Prestwich, King s College London: Büchner, Borders, and the Converging of Crowds : Jack Thorne s Woyzeck (2017) Video Essay pm pm Panel 4 Adaptations and Britain Professor Christine Geraghty, University of Glasgow: Escaping the colonial grip? Adaptations on British television in 2020 Dr Jessy Neau, University of Mayotte: Agatha Christie in Northern France: the TV show Les Petits Meurtres d Agatha Christie (2009-) Dr Agnieszka Rasmus, University of Łódź, Poland: Hollywood Remakes of British Films: Journeys, Memory and Migration pm Networking Opportunity via Gather Town Wed 9 June am Panel 5 Adaptation, Documentary and Biopic Tess Scholfield-Peters, University of Technology Sydney: Sketching Life: A Documentary Bio-Fiction Approach Kevin Fullerton, University of Dundee: Nijinksy: Lost Interpretations of the Russian Dancer María Piqueras Perez, University of Murcia: Bringing Franz Fanon back to life: Black Skins, White Masks and the persistence of Fanon s memory in visual culture through Isaac Julien s documentary Franz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask am Panel 6 Sensory Adaptation Dr Malgorzata Bugaj, University of Edinburgh: Days of Future Past: Journeys and Memories in Jóhann Jóhannsson s Last and First Men (2020) Andre Cowen, De Montfort University: Adapting Senses: Heads-Up Display as a Sensory Adaptive Vehicle in Metro 2033 Redux Professor Jeremy Strong, University of West London: Making a Colourful World am

3 pm Panel 7 Transmedia Adaptations Part 1 Valentina Anania, University of Nottingham: Transmedia authorship and the journey of authorial authority in the Wizarding World Izabela Rudnicka, University of Manchester: Second to The Right, and Straight on Till Morning : J.M. Barrie s Journey to Transmedia Storytelling Dr James C. Taylor, University of Warwick: The Strangest Continuity of All: Journeying Across Timelines in the X-Men Films pm pm Panel 8 Transmedia Adaptations Part 2 Dr Liam Burke, Swinburne University of Technology: Everyday Adaptation: Mapping the journeys of vernacular, unofficial, and industrial adaptations Maria Juko, University of Hamburg: Disney s The Haunted Mansion: A Dark Ride Down Memory Lane Dr Bjarke Liboriussen, University of Nottingham: The Video Game Film: Remembering Video Games through Bodies, Film Stars, and Place Paul McNamara, University of Limerick: Adaptation and Allusion in the Novel, Movie and Picture Book versions of Wonder by R.J Palacio pm Keynote 2 Dr Dima Ayoub, Middlebury University pm pm Panel 9 Practicing Adaptation Rosemary Alexander-Jones, University of York: Chatsworth: The Permanent Pemberley Video Essay Dr Ashley D. Polasek, Tri-County Technical College in South Carolina: Adaptation Studies in Practice: Consulting on Enola Holmes Dr Ronan Hatful, University of Warwick: Cabined, cribbed, confined : Remaking Shakespeare in Lockdown

4 am Panel 10 Adaptation in Focus Thu 10 June Dr Martin Holtz, University of Graz in Austria: The Corkscrew Journey of an Adaptation Fernanda Martins Ferreira de Araujo, University of São Paulo: The Woman Author in Greta Gerwig s Adaptation of Little Women Dr Ann Igelstrom: The Queen s Gambit s Journey from Novel to Film am Panel 11 Adaptation, Place and Memory Professor Jonathan Bignell, University of Reading: Berlin itineraries: walking the cinematic city as palimpsestic adaptation Mert Örsler, University of Calgary: Dizi Tourism: Aşk-ı Memnu and İstanbul Dr Polina Rybina, Lomonosov Moscow State University: Fellini and Guerra Travel Across Media: From the Screen to the Cityscape Hossein Tavazonizadeh, University of Groningen: Architecture, nostalgia, and (prosthetic) memory: Iranian popular cinema as a memory archive am pm Panel 12 Adaptation, Memory and Diaspora pm Bomi Choi, Royal Holloway, University of London: The theatrical presentation and transmission of prosthetic memory of Korean/Japanese diaspora (Zainichi) in Honmalabihae? Dr Robert Geal, University of Wolverhampton: Traumatic memory in environmental apocalypse film, and environmental apocalypse film as traumatic memory Mads Larsen, University of California: Memory as Tyranny and Migration as Analogy in Real Humans and Humans Professor Thomas Leitch, University of Delaware: Migration, Memory, and Adaptation Cristina Ruiz-Poveda Vera, ESNE University of Design: Memories of an Exiled Communist: Flashbacks and Autobiographical Elements in Alain Resnais' La Guerre Est Finis (1966)

5 pm Panel 13 Adapting History and the Canon Angelos Koutsourakis, University of Leeds: Christian Petzold s Transit (2018) in the context of post-fascism. Gurkan Maruf Mihci, Istanbul Institute of Design, Herron School Art and Design (IUPUI): Turkish Fantastic Cinema Between Alice Payne, De Montfort University: Cassandra s Narrative Journey Onscreen Dr Stefanie Van de Peer, Queen Margaret University: 1001 Nights and Anime: The Adaptation of Transnational Folklore in Tezuka Osamu s Senya ichiya monogatari / A Thousand and One Nights (1969) Dr Phillip Zapkin, Pennsylvania State University: Cultural and Generic Journeys in Ali Salim s The Comedy of Oedipus pm Panel 14 Women in British Film and TV Dr Shelley Anne Galpin: A Modern Woman: The Fallacy of Progress in Michael Winterbottom s Trishna Dr Antonija Primorac, University of Rijeka, Croatia: Postfeminist Blind Spots: Cultural Translation, Agency, and Colour-Blind Casting in William Oldroyd s Lady Macbeth (2017) Magdalena Sroczyk, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin: The Woman on the Move: The Re-presentation of Femininity in Brian Percival s North & South pm pm Keynote 3 In Conversation with Kenny Glenaan Kenny is an award-winning television and film director. Work includes Bafta winning film Summer, Locarno film festival winner Yasmin and IFTA nominated 6x1hr thriller Acceptable Risk. Kenny will talk about his most recent feature film, Dirt Road to Lafayette (2018), which he has called 'an adaptation in reverse'. The project started as a collaborative screenplay between Kenny and Booker prize-winning author James Kelman. As the film began its lengthy production journey, Kelman adapted the screenplay into a novel, Dirt Road, released in The film received its world premiere two years later in Both deal with the topic of migration, memory, cultural adaptation and diasporic journeying pm Networking Opportunity via Gather Town

6 am Panel 15 Hardboiled Hollywood am Panel 16 Queering Adaptation Fri 11 June Dr Jonathan Glance, Mercer University: Double Indemnity Redoubled: the Journey of Wilder and Chandler s Adaptation Erica Moulton, University of Wisconsin-Madison: An Authoress in Tinseltown: How Trade Press Constructed and Constrained the Female Novelist and their Movement in Hollywood Dr Margaret Toth, Manhattan College: Dark Journeys: Adapting Women s Noir Fiction from the 1940s Maria Straw-Ҫinar De Montfort University: Queer Women of the Left Bank: creating innovative, intermedia approaches, forms and frameworks for co-creation practice to channel Natalie Barney and her Sapphic Circle Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz, National University of Ireland Galway: Adaptation as an Enabler of Desire: Queer Eros, Quasi-Irony and Early Bruce LaBruce Films Dr Christina Wilkins, University of Winchester: Recalling the (queer) Body am pm Panel 17 Kyle Meikle, Colleen Kennedy-Karpat, Liam Burke and Deborah Cartmell: Submitting Papers to the Adaptation Journal pm Concluding Remarks 1-2pm