Fwd: FW: 6th Annual Association of Adaptation Studies Conference
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From: Mary Lou O'Neil <mlo...@khas.edu.tr>
Date: Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 12:21 PM
Subject: FW: 6th Annual Association of Adaptation Studies Conference
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Might interest you or some on the grad list.
Asst. Prof. Mary Lou O'Neil
Graduate Program Director
Department of American Culture and Literature
Kadir Has University
Istanbul, Turkey
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Subject: 6th Annual Association of Adaptation Studies Conference
6th Annual Association of Adaptation Studies Conference,
Yeni Yüzyil University, Istanbul, Turkey,
29-30 September 2011
Title: The Intellectual Silk Road: Cross-Media and Cross-Cultural Adaptations
In recent years there have been movements to establish what might be
described as 'the new Silk Road,' which will help improve trade routes
between countries in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia.
In October 2010 the Turkish and Chinese governments signed a new
accord, establishing a framework for this new 'Silk Road' to be
established. The significance of the Silk Road also extends to the
cultural sphere: since 2007 the Turkish city of Bursa has hosted the
Silk Road film festival, dedicated to showing short films and
documentaries as well as feature films from countries once involved in
trade on the Silk Road.
The topic of this year's Association of Adaptation Studies conference
will focus on adaptation as a site for cultural exchange, reflecting
the importance of trading activities along the Silk Road as sites for
the transmission not just of goods but of ideas and cultures. Possible
issues to be addressed in this conference might include:
. Cross Cultural Theories of Adaptation: does the term 'adaptation'
have different significances in different cultures?
. Filming Shakespeare or other western canonical authors in
nonwestern cultures
. Adaptation as Transmission Between Cultures and Forms (e.g. print,
radio, theatre, television, films, and video games, as well as
cross-cultural stage and film adaptations)
. The Pedagogy of Cultural Exchange: Interdisciplinary or
Cross-disciplinary approaches to teaching adaptation
. Occident and Orient: Adaptations across 'east' and 'west'
. Travel Adaptations, both fictional and nonfictional (documentaries,
feature films as well as shorts)
. Adaptation as a form of cultural (re-)negotiation
. The Mass Media and Cultural Exchange: globalization vs. localization
. Autobiography and Cross-Cultural Adaptation
It is hoped that this conference might underline the potential of
adaptation studies to create new intellectual Silk Roads across
cultures as well as across disciplines. However, we also welcome more
general papers on the subject of adaptation studies, focusing on any
kind of adaptation - film, television, video game, as well as other
media.
Venue
Yeni Yüzyil University is a new university (opened in February 2009),
established on the European side of Istanbul. It currently boasts ten
faculties and two vocational schools. Its location seems especially
suitable to the subject of the conference; the city of Istanbul has
always been and continues to be a site for cultural, commercial and
social exchange. In 2010 it was nominated as European City of Culture.
Proposals
Proposals for presentations (20 minutes max + 10 minutes for
questions) are invited to address the issues outlined above, either
through individual case-studies or through more general theoretical
approaches.
Please send proposals BY APRIL 30, 2011 at the latest to both addresses below:
Prof. Dr. Günseli Sönmez Isçi,
Dean, Faculty of Science and Letters
E-Mail gunsel...@yeniyuzyil.edu.tr
Laurence Raw
Baskent University, Ankara
E-Mail l_rawja...@yahoo.com