CFP: Adaptation Conference

From:  "James Welsh" JXWELSH <at> salisbury.edu

 *CALL FOR PAPERS*

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*Adaptation Unbounded: New Directions, New Agendas*

*International Interdisciplinary Conference***

31 October - 2 November 2013*, *Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi,
Romania

The topic of this conference, suggested by Jim Welsh, Professor Emeritus,
Salisbury University, USA addresses researchers from disciplines such as
literary studies, film studies, translation studies, semiotics, and last
but not at all least from the recently created research field of adaptation
studies. The purpose is to explore the boundaries and the potentialities of
adaptation, more broadly defined, as well as the (occasionally fuzzy)
boundaries that distinguish this concept from other forms of translation
(in all its senses) and rewriting in an attempt to attribute
interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary dimensions to on-going research in
the field.

The first journal in the field of literature/film studies, *Literature/Film
Quarterly* (founded and edited by Jim Welsh), was initially interested in
adaptations of literary and dramatic texts to film and later television,
though more broadly defined notions of adaptation were not necessarily
dismissed. Subsequent journals in the literature/film area (*Adaptation* -
editors Deborah Cartmell and Imelda Whelehan, *The Journal of Adaptation in