Taking as our departure point George Bluestone’s provocative comment “the novel has three tenses; the film has only one. From this follows almost everything else one can say about time in both media” (1957:48), we would like to explore how different configurations of time and space have a bearing on adaptation, understood both as a product and as a process.
It is the nineteenth annual conference of the Association of Adaptation Studies, which brings together researchers of adaptation, transmediality, media and film. This is the first AAS conference held in Poland.
The conference will host the most famous adaptation researchers in the world, e.g. prof. Thomas Leitch (University of Delaware, USA, chairman of the association) and prof. Kamilla Elliot (University of Lancaster, UK). The conference will be attended by 80 delegates from around the world, including the US, UK, Ireland, Brazil, China, Japan, Australia, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Turkey, South Africa, India, Hungary, Lithuania, Czech Republic and Polish. The proceedings will be preceded by workshops for doctoral students.
The conference will focus on the following topics:
- Adaptation as temporal and spatial palimpsest
- Adaptation as revision / presentism in adaptation
- The past of adaptation: history and development of adaptation & adaptation studies
- The future of adaptation: new directions in adaptation studies
- Adapting the past: historical & biographical adaptations
- (Deliberate) anachronism in adaptation and appropriation
- Appropriation into new spatial and temporal contexts
- Futuristic adaptation
- Time travel motif in adaptation
- Settings, stagings, mise-en-scènes, chronotopes in adaptation
- Global and transnational adaptation: beyond Anglo-centric adaptation
- National, ethnic and cultural adaptation and appropriation
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