Adapting the Canon
A Legenda conference supported by the IMLR, MHRA & Maney Publishing
10 October 2014 at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, Senate House, London
Registration now open: for details, please visit www.events.sas.ac.uk/imlr/events/view/15947/Adapting+the+Canon
Keynote speakers: Prof. Clive Scott (UEA), Dr Kamilla Elliott (Lancaster), Prof. Dudley Andrew (Yale)
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PROGRAMME
9am - Registration, welcome
9.30-10.30 - Keynote 1 (and Presidential Address of the MHRA for 2014)
Prof. Clive Scott (UEA): Adaptation, Translation and the Sense of Medium
10.40-11.40 - 3 Parallel sessions
Panel (a) French Poetry across the Channel
. Claire Pascolini-Campbell (University College London, Comparative Literature), François Villon on the Radio: Ezra Pound's Adaptation of the Testament for the BBC
. Adam Watt (Exeter, French), 'A faint Spark ponders these inheritances' - on the Adaptation of 'Le Cimetière marin'
Panel (b) Intertextual 'Figures'
. Michael Lee (Queen's, Belfast, School of Creative Arts, Musicology), Tasso's Armida in Late Seventeenth-Century Opera
. Harriet Hulme (UCL, Comparative Literature), 'The Serpent in the Garden': Translation, Plagiarism and Adaptation in Bernardo Atxaga's Obabakoak (1988) and Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979)
Panel (c) 'Popular' Culture & the Canon
. Nina Holst (Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, English Dept), World Wide Jane: YouTube's Adaptations of Pride and Prejudice and Emma
. Guillaume Lecomte (Glasgow, French), Adaptation as Prescription: The Ephemeral Canon
11.40-12.00 - Coffee
12.-1.30 - 2 parallel sessions
Panel (d) Case Studies: Adapting the Nineteenth-Century French Novel (Hugo, Zola, Balzac)
. Bradley Stephens (Bristol, French), Putting la misère back into Les Misérables: Adaptive Tensions across the English Channel
. Kate Griffiths (Cardiff, French), Selling Zola on British TV: Translating Au Bonheur des dames for the Small Screen
. Andrew Watts (Birmingham, French), Fight or Flight? Adaptation and Escapism in Patrick Rambaud's La Bataille
Panel (e) Case Studies: Shakespeare
. Linde de Potter & Yves T'Sjoen (Ghent University, Belgium, Dept of Literary Studies, Dutch), 'Give me another modderfokking horse': Three Times Adapting Shakespeare's King Richard III into Dutch
. Robert Gillett (QMUL, German), Adapting Shakespeare for the Twentieth-Century Gay Sub-Culture: Ralf König's Jago
. Jozefina Komporaly (De Montfort University, Drama), From the Canon to Consumer Culture: Ostermaier's Intermedial Hamlet
1.30-2.30 - Lunch
2.30-3.30 - Keynote 2: Dr Kamilla Elliott (Lancaster):
Ad-APP-ting the Canon
3.40-5 - 3 Parallel Sessions
Panel (f) Graphic Adaptation: Illustration, Comic Books & Graphic Novels
. Christina Ionescu (Mount Allison, French Dept), Adapting Voltaire's Candide for the North American Public: The Random House Experiment (1928-1975)
. Juliane Blank (Saarland, German Dept), The Kafka Image: Innovation and Tradition of Kafka Adaptations in Comics and Graphic Novels
. Armelle Blin-Rolland (Leicester, French), Polymedia Jekyll and Hyde: The Dual Character in Film and Comic Book
Panel (g) Novel to Film: New Perspectives
. Christine Geraghty (Glasgow, School of Culture & the Creative Arts), Minelli's Madame Bovary (1949): A Test Case for New Disciplines
. Marion Schmid (Edinburgh, French), Cinema as Resistance: Chantal Akerman Adapts Joseph Conrad
. Oliver Knabe (Vanderbilt, German), The Tin Drum: Volker Schlondorff's Emancipation from the Nation's Conscience
Panel (h) Re-visioning Themes & Motifs
. Jeremy Strong (University of West London, Dept of Literature and Film): Ships of Fools and Servants of Two Masters
. Jaimey Fisher (UC Davis, Dept of German & Russian), War Adaptation: Embodying Collective Memory amid the Spaces of Death in Westfront (1930) and Thin Red Line (1998)
. Femke Essink (Amsterdam, Dept of Dutch Language and Literature), The Cultural Effects of Adaptation: Sexuality and Emancipation in Turkish Delight (Turks Fruit)
5-5.30 - Tea/coffee
5.30-6.30 - Keynote 3: Prof. Dudley Andrew (Yale): Adaptation and
Evolution in André Bazin
6.30 Drinks reception
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Registration is open until Monday 29 September. The registration form is available at: www.events.sas.ac.uk/imlr/events/view/15947/Adapting+the+Canon
Registration fees:
£35 - standard rate
£20 - reduced rate*
£20 - student rate
*fully paid up Friends of Germanic Studies or of Italian Studies at the IMLR, retired staff, postgraduate students, members of the MHRA
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