*Reconnecting and Recovering:*

*A call for papers for the second LFA/AAS online conference*



Following the success of “Only Connect,” the online joint conference of the
Literature/Film Association and the Association of Adaptation Studies, its
organizers—Julie Grossman, Peter Kunze, Thomas Leitch, and Allen Redmon—are
excited to announce a sequel, an online conference scheduled for 16 and 17
February 2023. Like “Only Connect,” “Reconnecting and Recovering” aims to
foster more global conversations among adaptation scholars, promote closer
interaction between the Literature/Film Association and the Association of
Adaptation Studies, and invite participation from scholars who would not
normally consider traveling to the UK or the US for an in-person
conference. Although all presentations will be in English, we hope the
event’s online format will attract adaptation scholars from around the
globe, interested peers in related fields, and anyone else who wants to
learn more about contemporary adaptation studies.



At a time when so many of us are hovering between yearning for a return to
the normal world and wondering whether we have charted an irreversible
course toward a new normal, the two faces of adaptation studies, which,
like the adaptations it examines, looks both forward and backward, seems
more poignantly relevant than ever. As its title suggests, “Reconnecting
and Recovering” encourages colleagues who attended last year’s joint
conference to renew their connections with other scholars they met for the
first time—even if those meetings were virtual, as meetings have
increasingly become as we wait for the Covid pandemic to subside. At the
same time, we hope that an online event bringing together an ever more
diverse network of adaptation scholars might take its place as part of a
new normal that exploits new possibilities for connection even as we seek
to recover from the pandemic and ask what a recovery would look like.



We invite ten-minute presentations that deal with any aspect of adaptation.
We are especially interested in adaptation as an activity that provides
opportunities for reconnection, recovery, or renewal. These presentations,
which may focus on particular adaptations or consider adaptation as a more
general practice, may highlight archives, performances, and networks,
borders and contact zones, divisions and bridges, epistemological and
phenomenological experiences, new media and transmedia, linearity,
spatiality, and seriality, and challenges, defenses, and alternatives to
the humanities. We particularly encourage submissions on the following
topics:


            • adaptation and identity

            • adaptation and the post-human world

            • adaptive vectors

            • trusting adaptations and adaptation

            • haunted and haunting adaptation

            • remaking and readapting

            • building and maintaining adaptation networks



Please send all inquiries and proposals of 250 words and bios of 100 words
to [log in to unmask] by 1 December 2022. We plan to notify
all participants whose proposals are accepted for presentation by 15
December.

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Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite
https://screensite.org/