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Dear Colleagues, Please see the research seminar we are holding next week. All welcome to attend. Richard Prof Richard J. Hand, Professor of Theatre and Media Drama, Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries, University of Glamorgan, Adam Street, Cardiff CF24 2XF. Wales, UK. 01443-668608 CCI - DEPARTMENT OF DRAMA AND MUSIC University of Glamorgan RESEARCH SEMINAR It is our pleasure to welcome Professor Eckart Voigts-Virchow, University of Siegen, Germany. 'Droso-Philology': Adaptation and Bio-Poetics WEDNESDAY, 14 NOVEMBER 2007 11AM ROOM CA228 REFRESHMENTS WILL BE PROVIDED ALL WELCOME! Professor Voigts-Virchow coined the term 'Droso-Philology' in order to mark approaches to art dominated by neo-Darwinist thinking (i.e., Joseph Carroll). This paper reviews recent approaches to adaptation (Kamilla Elliott and Robert Stam) and attempts to assess the relative merits of the biologistic analogies of the term. In particular he shall argue against the universalist tendencies in bio-poetical approaches. The point of this paper is, therefore, to articulate doubts about the intrinsic, universal and perennial appeal of any story, any writer and even more severe reservations about the attempt to build a canon from socio-biological universalism: "The greatest literary works most completely satisfy [the reader's desire for cognitive order]" (Carroll 2004: 145). This paper is very much work in progress and invites attempts to apply this to theatre and performance in preparation of the forthcoming conference "Adaptations - Performing across Media and Genres", University of Siegen, May 2008.