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CALL FOR PROPOSALS: ECOLOGIES OF/AND ADAPTATION

*LITERATURE / FILM ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA, MISSOULA,
MONTANA SEPTEMBER 21-23, 2023*

With each passing year, the pressures of climate change make it clear that
the natural world and human endeavor are irrevocably intertwined. As we
head to Western Montana in 2023, we invite scholars to explore how the
concept of “adaptation” can serve to further questions of ecologies: the
relationships between living organisms and their environments. Adaptations,
after all, are always already about networked relationships, exploring not
only the connections between texts – including the written word, film, and
media – but also the relationships between images and music, performers and
performance, human and nonhuman, and bodies and physical spaces. Where do
film, literature, and media fit within the larger web of global ecologies,
and how can ecological thinking enrich our understanding of the
interactions between nature, culture, and adaptation? Inspired by recent
work in the environmental humanities and ecocriticism, we invite proposals
that bridge the study of the environment (broadly conceived) and the study
of textual adaptation.



While we welcome papers on any aspect of film and media studies, we are
especially interested in papers exploring one or more of the following
topics concerning ecology and adaptation:

●      The environment as text

●      Landscapes and adaptations

●      Adaptation and the anthropocene

●      Parasitic and symbiotic adaptations

●      Apocalypse or post-apocalypse and adaptation

●      Multiverses and alternate realities and adaptations

●      Relationships between past, present, and future

●      Worldbuilding and transmedia storyworlds as narrative ecologies

●      Narratives of survival

●      The relationship between biological adaptation and textual adaptation

●      Ecocritical re-imaginings of well-known stories

●      Fandoms as evolving ecosystems

●      How adaptations operate within media ecosystems



We also have significant interest in general studies of American and
international cinema, film and technology, television, new media, and other
cultural or political issues connected to the moving image. In addition to
academic papers and pre-constituted panels, presentation proposals about
pedagogy or from creative writers, artists, video essayists, and filmmakers
are also welcome.



Please submit your proposal, which will consist of a title, 250-word
abstract, and keywords, via this *Google Form*
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSecUBvvoU_-iWdGzdPIdxgyin-lS9uierT183BVqoSM8PHfSQ/viewform?usp=sf_link>
by *April 7, 2023*. You will receive a confirmation email within 48 hours.
If you have any questions or concerns, contact Amanda Konkle at
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presenters will be notified by *April 24*, and the conference program will
be available by June 1 to enable travel planning.



The conference registration fee is $200 ($150 for students and retirees)
before September 1, 2023 and $225 ($175 for students and retirees)
thereafter. All conference attendees must also be current members of the
Literature/Film Association. Annual dues are $20.

Presenters will be invited to submit their work to the *Literature/Film
Quarterly *for potential publication. For details on the journal’s
submission requirements, visit their website *here*
<https://lfq.salisbury.edu/submit.html>.


Call for Authors of Recent Publications to Participate in Adaptation
Conversations:

Have you recently published a work on adaptation? Would you like to
participate in an inaugural Adaptation Conversation via Zoom about your
work? There’s a space for that on the conference proposal form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSecUBvvoU_-iWdGzdPIdxgyin-lS9uierT183BVqoSM8PHfSQ/viewform>,
or you can reach out to

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information about your publication.


Thank you!
Amanda Konkle, PhD
Associate Professor of Film Studies, English
Georgia Southern University
President, The Literature / Film Association <https://litfilm.org/>
Author of *Some Kind of Mirror: Creating Marilyn Monroe
<https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/some-kind-of-mirror/9781978802612>*
Co-editor of *Perspectives on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: Nuanced Postnetwork
Television
<https://press.syr.edu/supressbooks/3463/perspectives-on-crazy-ex-girlfriend/>*
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