BAFTSS Adaptation SIG
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⚠️ To Be Continued... is coming in September! Two days + four panels = this SIXTH EDITION of the virtual highlight of our scholarly calendar! Defining, Producing, Performing, Consuming, and Theorising Serials & Adaptations ...since 2021 🕰️ Info & registration 💻 www.monash.edu/arts/media-f...
We've just sent out a call for events for the upcoming year. If you're not on the mailing list, but would like to be involved, get in touch!
Over 40 wonderful books in the Palgrave adaptation and visual culture series — link.springer.com/series/14654 —and there’s a flash sale with this coupon; books are half off through the 4th! @adaptstudies.bsky.social @adaptationtoday.bsky.social @adaptationsig.bsky.social
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BAFTSS Adaptation SIG@adaptationsig.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe have a special bonus event! Join us on Weds 24th June at 6pm (BST) for a discussion with Hee-seung Irene Lee's about her recent book Film Adaptation and the Real. The book is open access: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do... DM for the zoom link if you're not on the mailing list!
We have a special bonus event! Join us on Weds 24th June at 6pm (BST) for a discussion with Hee-seung Irene Lee's about her recent book Film Adaptation and the Real. The book is open access: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do... DM for the zoom link if you're not on the mailing list!
Film Adaptation and the Real
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A great SIG symposium earlier this week with papers from Robert Geal, @jamesctaylor.bsky.social @faywinfield.bsky.social @stinaface.bsky.social and others! Exciting to hear lots of new ideas around adaptation studies.
The AAS 2026 schedule is LIVE! Check out the panels, papers, and events on offer for this year's international conference. There's still time to register for both on-site and remote participation, with two online panels per conference day. www.burmanu.ca/aas2026
Association of Adaptation Studies Annual Conference 2026 | Burman University
, AAS 2026: "Adaptation and Aurality"Dates: July 7-10, 2026 Location: Burman University - Lacombe, Alberta, Canada Hosted by: Burman University, in partnership with the Association of Adaptation Studi...
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NEW BOOKS 📚 in the Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture series! link.springer.com/series/14654 🎮 John Sanders, Literary Game Adaptations: A Systems Approach (Monograph) 🍄 Pamela Demory, ed. Ecoadaptation: Mediating Nature and the Environment (Collected essays)
Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture
This series addresses how adaptation functions as a principal mode of text production in visual culture. What makes the series distinctive is its focus on ...
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Consider sending an abstract for PAMLA/Seattle/Nov. 12-15! I'm chairing 2 panels, one on noir (due 5/25) pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/20006 & one on adaptation pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19939. @adaptstudies.bsky.social @adaptationsig.bsky.social @filmnoir.bsky.social
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We love to see it, thank you for your service @jamesctaylor.bsky.social! 🙌
James C. Taylor@jamesctaylor.bsky.social · 4mo agoI wrote a review of Shannon Wells-Lassagne and Sophie Aymes' edited collection Adaptation and Illustration: New Cartographies, which I really enjoyed! Might be off interest to @adaptationtoday.bsky.social, @adaptstudies.bsky.social and @adaptationsig.bsky.social. journals.openedition.org/erea/20775
While registration for AAS 2026 at Burman U 🇨🇦 remains ongoing, applications & expressions of interest to host AAS 2027 are now open! Reach out to us here or our Board chairs @cbkenkar.bsky.social & @stinaface.bsky.social to learn more.
Sent round details of our next SIG event: Transnational Adaptations on 13th April at 4pm - speakers are Forum Mithani and Zoe Crombie. Get in touch if you want the zoom link!
Also, our March event on Adaptation and Authorship will take place on 4th March at 4-5pm (UK time) with William Proctor and Katrijn Bekers. DM if you've not got the zoom link!
A reminder that abstracts are due THIS FRIDAY. If you're interested in coming to and speaking at a free symposium, see below:
BAFTSS Adaptation SIG@adaptationsig.bsky.social · 8mo agoThe other news is....we're running a symposium in June (supported by @baftss.bsky.social and B-Film). See below for the CFP.
LFA/AAS continues today! Tune in once again at 9:00 a.m. EST / 14:00 GMT for another full program of online conferencing. Follow the link in the OP for registration info 💻
Association of Adaptation Studies@adaptstudies.bsky.social · 7mo agoSTARTS TODAY! Our LFA/AAS joint online conference on Adaptation & Collaboration launches at 9:00 a.m. EST / 14:00 GMT. It's not too late to register! For more info: www.adaptation.uk.com/adaptation-c...
Day one of this has been excellent, and lots to think about, including the idea of atmospheres (collaborations between actors and audiences), authorship and collaboration, adapting lit to orchestral works, and Fortnite as 'intellectual property management game' (@huntressleine.bsky.social)
STARTS TODAY! Our LFA/AAS joint online conference on Adaptation & Collaboration launches at 9:00 a.m. EST / 14:00 GMT. It's not too late to register! For more info: www.adaptation.uk.com/adaptation-c...
Reminder: our Adaptation SIG event is this Wednesday 4pm (UK time) on Adaptation and Franchises! DM if you've not got the zoom link.
We've just sent round details of our Spring Schedule for the SIG but our next event is 18th February on Adaptation and Franchises with @polinazelm.bsky.social and Seren Rose Sonnell. DM if you didn't get the email and want the zoom link.
Looking forward to AAS 2026 at Burman University, Canada & dreaming of what comes next... If your institution would like to host a future AAS conference, get in touch! Our Board considers applications throughout the year. Past conferences: www.adaptation.uk.com/category/aas...
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Not long to go before the LFA/AAS online conference - more details/link to sign up below!
Christina Wilkins@stinaface.bsky.social · 9mo agoThe LFA/AAS 2026 Conference programme for Feb 19/20 is done - great papers (as you can see from a snapshot of some of the Friday panels below). I'll be speaking about mental health/adaptation. If you'd like the full programme, DM me. And to sign up, here's the link: udel.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
The other news is....we're running a symposium in June (supported by @baftss.bsky.social and B-Film). See below for the CFP.
We've just sent round details of our Spring Schedule for the SIG but our next event is 18th February on Adaptation and Franchises with @polinazelm.bsky.social and Seren Rose Sonnell. DM if you didn't get the email and want the zoom link.
The LFA/AAS 2026 Conference programme for Feb 19/20 is done - great papers (as you can see from a snapshot of some of the Friday panels below). I'll be speaking about mental health/adaptation. If you'd like the full programme, DM me. And to sign up, here's the link: udel.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
We sent round details of our next Adaptation SIG event - December 17th, 2-3pm. 'Adaptation and Remakes' featuring @drdjohnston.bsky.social and @rosemaryaj.bsky.social - if you haven't got the email and want to come along, DM us!
📢 Tomorrow (Tues 2 Dec) is @stinaface.bsky.social's online book launch for 'Male Mental Illness in Contemporary Culture' 👇 Email or DM me or Christina for the online link :) #MentalHealth #MentalHealthMatters #MHHums #MedHums
Christina Wilkins@stinaface.bsky.social · 10mo agoJust sent round details of an online and in-person book launch for Male Mental Illness in Contemporary Culture. Online event: Tues 2nd December 5-6pm. In-person: Weds 3rd December 5-6.30pm, UoB campus in Muirhead Tower. DM for full details. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...