⚠️ 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...

Presenting at To Be Continued, 6 this September! Looking forward to joining colleagues in adaptation and seriality studies for a fantastic series of conversations on remakes, romance, sexuality, and beyond. See you online! 🎥✨ www.monash.edu/arts/media-f...

📣 New publication! We’re delighted to share “Adapting the Academy: The Communal Turn in Adaptation Studies,” published in Literature/Film Quarterly. lfq.salisbury.edu/_issues/54_3... #AdaptationStudies #PublicHumanities #AcademicCommunity

Listening to @julideetem.bsky.social at Bilkent COMD, speaking about her book “Film Diplomacy: A Media History of Turkey-US Relations” 🎬📚

Adaptation in Turkish Literature, Cinema and Media, ed. @ssedaozz.bsky.social & Taner Can, particularly my chapter looking at intertextual connections between Truffaut's classic Jules et Jim (1962) & the Turkish self-adaptation Bizim Büyük Çaresizliğimiz (film 2011) link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Relational Geometries in Our Grand Despair (2011) and Jules et Jim (1962)

The festival success Bizim Büyük Çaresizliğimiz / Our Grand Despair (2011) offers a rare example of a contemporary Turkish novel adapted primarily for transnational audiences. Auth...

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This Wednesday, I’ll be talking about Alraune, the female screen monster who runs along with the Golem, Dracula, and Frankenstein, but has her own strange afterlife across Weimar, Nazi, and postwar German cinema. #Adaptation #Monstrosity, #EntangledHistories Zoom: udel.zoom.us/j/91594244515

So happy to be part of "Entangled Histories." The series brings together scholars working on borders, cultural encounters, memory, media, migration, and more. I’ll be presenting on May 6 with “Entangled Germanies: Remaking Cinema at the Borders of Cultural Memory.” sites.google.com/view/entangl...

Entangled Histories - About the Series

Entangled Histories: Borders and Cultural Encounters from the Medieval to the Contemporary Era is an interdisciplinary seminar series that explores borders not merely as fixed lines of separation, but...

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One of the central aims of Adaptation in Turkish Literature, Cinema, and Media was to push adaptation studies beyond its Anglo-American defaults. So it feels fitting that the first review has appeared not in English, but in Russian. Thank you, Polina Rybina! www.ivran.ru/f/Vestnik-In...

Very happy to see this published. My co-conspirator in all things conference-related, @cbkenkar.bsky.social, and I are so proud of the students who wrote this review and grateful to everyone who made the event such a special one.

Association of Adaptation Studies@adaptstudies.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📣 OPEN ACCESS review of AAS 2025: Adaptation, Restoration, Rebirth in Istanbul! doi.org/10.1093/adap...

Oscar watchlist: completed. With the exception of #F1 and #MartySupreme —both consciously skipped—I’ve now seen everything I had set out to watch this season. A few films stood out as essential viewing: #TheVoiceofHindRajab #Hamnet #SentimentalValue #Sirat

BIG THANKS to the organizers for the 5th Literature/Film Association & AAS Joint Online Conference for another successful collaboration! 🫶 @grossmjj.bsky.social & @ssedaozz.bsky.social & Tom Leitch & Allen Redmon & John Sanders. Lots to digest this weekend!

Best thing I’ve seen this year so far is still Óliver Laxe’s Sirât. Less plot-delivery than sensory ceremony. The desert rave isn’t a backdrop; it’s the form. It pulls you into its rhythm. #sirat #oliverlaxe

Seda Öz@ssedaozz.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Saw Sirât with my students at the Philadelphia Film Festival. Oliver Laxe proves that astonishment still belongs to cinema. We might just be entering a new age of the “cinema of attractions.” ✨🎬 #filmadelphia #Sirat #CinemaOfAttractions #FilmStudies #WorldCinema #contemporarycinema #PFS

Everyone’s calling Sentimental Value a father–daughter story, but the film’s emotional engine isn’t just lineage. It’s the labor of sisters and friends to hold each other up, translate pain into care, and make a life together out of what’s left. #sentimentalvalue #joachimtrier #neon

TOMORROW: JOIN US on DEC 12 🎬🎭🎶 We’re so excited to welcome composers, performers, and directors who adapt stories in the coolest ways! Scoring silent films, turning books into plays, and using puppets + music to make old stories feel brand new, are all part of the conversation!

Seda Öz@ssedaozz.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Join us for Musical Adaptation in Practice -an @adaptationtoday.bsky.social event exploring how composers and performers bring stories to life through sound, puppets, and live performance. Dec 12, 12PM EST Register: udel.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #AdaptationStudies #FilmMusic #TheaterAdaptation

⚠️ DEADLINE TODAY!!! ⚠️ Get your abstract in for the LFA/AAS joint conference on Adaptation & Collaboration, to be held online February 19-20 2026 🖥️

Association of Adaptation Studies@adaptstudies.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🔆 LFA/AAS Joint Conference (ONLINE ONLY): Adaptation and Collaboration, 19-20 Feb 2026 ✍️ Submit your proposal here by 1 December 2025: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Finally read my friend @kmecholsky.bsky.social’s “The Narcissistic Scandal of Adapting History.” So jealous of his work. It’s half academic essay, half New Yorker piece. He argues adapting history isn’t about the past but about securing our place in the future. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

The Narcissistic Scandal of Adapting History

This chapter examines a phenomenon it calls “historical–poetic interpolation,” the process of seeking analogies in the historical past by rereading history and literature that reflec...

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If you missed Jane Hiddleston talk on "Anti-colonial Ecopoetics in the Caribbean," we got you. Check the Youtube Channel: youtu.be/X7cBSWHq4Agg

Literature and the Ecological World: Anticolonial Ecopoetics in the Caribbean by Jane Hiddleston

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Seda Öz@ssedaozz.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🌍 Join us for the 2nd talk of our World Literature Webinar Series! 📢 Dr. Jane Hiddleston (University of Oxford): “Literature and the Ecological World: Anticolonial Ecopoetics in the Caribbean.” 🔗 Free registration: udel.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #WorldLiterature #Ecocriticism #PostcolonialStudies

🔆 LFA/AAS Joint Conference (ONLINE ONLY): Adaptation and Collaboration, 19-20 Feb 2026 ✍️ Submit your proposal here by 1 December 2025: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Happening on Thursday. Join us!

Seda Öz@ssedaozz.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🌍 Join us for the 2nd talk of our World Literature Webinar Series! 📢 Dr. Jane Hiddleston (University of Oxford): “Literature and the Ecological World: Anticolonial Ecopoetics in the Caribbean.” 🔗 Free registration: udel.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #WorldLiterature #Ecocriticism #PostcolonialStudies

Did you miss the first 'World Literature Webinar Series' of this year? "Telling Lives Across Borders: Life Narratives in the World Literary Context" by Helga Lenart-Cheng can be watched here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=di2f... #worldliterature #lifenarratives

Telling Lives Across Borders: Life Narratives in the World Literary Context by Helga Lenart-Cheng

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Happening next week! Register to join.

Seda Öz@ssedaozz.bsky.social · 10mo ago

📣 Join us for the first talk in our Fall World Literature Webinar Series! Prof. Helga Lenart-Cheng: Telling Lives Across Borders Oct 29 | 2PM NY / 7PM Paris / 9PM Istanbul 🔗 Register: udel.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #WorldLiterature #LifeWriting #Webinar

Saw Sirât with my students at the Philadelphia Film Festival. Oliver Laxe proves that astonishment still belongs to cinema. We might just be entering a new age of the “cinema of attractions.” ✨🎬 #filmadelphia #Sirat #CinemaOfAttractions #FilmStudies #WorldCinema #contemporarycinema #PFS

🌍 Join us for the 2nd talk of our World Literature Webinar Series! 📢 Dr. Jane Hiddleston (University of Oxford): “Literature and the Ecological World: Anticolonial Ecopoetics in the Caribbean.” 🔗 Free registration: udel.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #WorldLiterature #Ecocriticism #PostcolonialStudies

📣 Join us for the first talk in our Fall World Literature Webinar Series! Prof. Helga Lenart-Cheng: Telling Lives Across Borders Oct 29 | 2PM NY / 7PM Paris / 9PM Istanbul 🔗 Register: udel.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #WorldLiterature #LifeWriting #Webinar

🎤 What did you miss in Istanbul? In the latest @adaptationtoday.bsky.social podcast, we sat down with @reraddatz.bsky.social and @cbkenkar.bsky.social to revisit the AAS conference, panels, workshops, cake cuttings, and everything in between. Spoiler: you’ll want to join us next time.

Association of Adaptation Studies@adaptstudies.bsky.social · 11mo ago

THE LATEST from @adaptationtoday.bsky.social: a conversation about the highlights of the AAS İstanbul conference, led by host @reraddatz.bsky.social and featuring conference co-organizers @ssedaozz.bsky.social and @cbkenkar.bsky.social!

📣 Calling film reviewers! I’m looking for folks to review upcoming and newly released adaptations. Want to call dibs before they hit wide distribution?Email me at sedaoz@udel.edu Titles up for grabs: Frankenstein The Roses The Running Man Wuthering Heights The Odyssey academic.oup.com/adaptation

Join us for Musical Adaptation in Practice -an @adaptationtoday.bsky.social event exploring how composers and performers bring stories to life through sound, puppets, and live performance. Dec 12, 12PM EST Register: udel.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #AdaptationStudies #FilmMusic #TheaterAdaptation

Some films return when you need them most. Tonight I revisited #CinemaParadiso. I cried with gratitude: for the art, for the work, for the privilege of doing what I do. This is why I teach film. Because cinema still hits like nothing else. Cinema haunts. And heals. #FilmStudies #WhyWeWatch

Psst: Our US case study is about to start, and we are looking for people from the US who love to talk about everything Hollywood. 🤩 Sounds like you or someone you know? Then share this information and register on our website: hollywood-memories.com/en/participa...

Bringing the whole crew this time—my students and I are showing up as one big group!

grossmjj@grossmjj.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Adaptation, seriality, film, media, literature, and cultural studies scholars, come to the fifth annual online To Be Continued conference, Sept. 18-19! Presenter and (free) registration information can be found on this flyer. Hope to see you there! docs.google.com/document/d/1...