Call for Papers

The 7th Annual Conference of The Association of Adaptation Studies

‘Visible and Invisible Authorships’

27th-28th September 2012

The University of York’s Film and Literature programme, in association with the Centre for Modern Studies and the Humanities Research Centre, is delighted to be hosting the 7th annual international conference of the AAS. The conference provides a lively forum for current thinking on adaptation issues and this year specifically invites reflection on the relationship of acts of authoring to the ongoing lives of adapted texts.

• How have different authorial voices and authorial inscriptions (screen writers, directors, designers, editors, studios, composers, writers, illustrators etc) of inherited tales been present in, and/or effaced by the processes of transmission?

• How might we reflect on these processes of authorial visibility and invisibility in the cultural circulation of adapted texts across media and moment?

• What is it to ‘author’ a contemporary telling of a tale that is already authored, or even that is received from history as, in effect, implicitly but eloquently authorless? And what happens in the process of visiting a revised or renewed authorial inscription upon a work?

• Why do some adapted works slough off almost all authorial designations (or cling to unlikely or peripheral ones) in their cultural reputations while others are emphatically branded in terms of an identifiable authorial voice? In line with the broad interests of the Association of Adaptation Studies, proposals on any aspect of adaptation will be considered.

Papers that speak to the conference theme will be particularly welcome. The deadline for receipt of proposals for papers and panels has been extended to 10 February 2012. Please send abstracts (within the body of your email) of not more than 250 words to film-and- literature@events.york.ac.uk and include a biog-sketch of not more than 100 words.