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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><strong><font size="5"><font
face="inherit, Times New Roman, serif">6<sup>th</sup>
Annual Association of Adaptation Studies Conference, </font></font></strong>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><strong><font size="5"><font
face="inherit, Times New Roman, serif">Yeni
Yüzyıl University, İstanbul, Turkey, </font></font></strong>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><strong><font size="5"><font
face="inherit, Times New Roman, serif">29-30
September 2011</font></font></strong></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><strong><font size="4"><font
face="inherit, Times New Roman, serif">Title:
The Intellectual Silk Road: Cross-Media and Cross-Cultural
Adaptations</font></font></strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><em> </em></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;"><font
face="inherit, Times New Roman, serif">In
recent years there have been movements to establish what might be
described as ‘the new Silk Road,’ which will help improve trade
routes between countries in Africa, the Middle East, Latin
America and Asia. In October 2010 the Turkish and Chinese
governments signed a new accord, establishing a framework for
this new ‘Silk Road’ to be established. The significance of
the Silk Road also extends to the cultural sphere: since 2007
the Turkish city of Bursa has hosted the Silk Road film festival,
dedicated to showing short films and documentaries as well as feature
films from countries once involved in trade on the Silk Road.</font></span></em></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;"><font
face="inherit, Times New Roman, serif">The
topic of this year's Association of Adaptation Studies conference
will focus on adaptation as a site for cultural exchange, reflecting
the importance of trading activities along the Silk Road as sites for
the transmission not just of goods but of ideas and
cultures. Possible issues to be addressed in this
conference might include:</font></span></em></p>
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<ul>
<li>
<p style="margin-top: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><em><span
style="font-style: normal;"><font
face="inherit, Times New Roman, serif">Cross Cultural Theories of
Adaptation: does the term 'adaptation' have different significances in
different cultures?</font></span></em></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;"><font
face="inherit, Times New Roman, serif">Filming Shakespeare or other
western canonical authors in nonwestern cultures</font></span></em></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;"><font
face="inherit, Times New Roman, serif">Adaptation as Transmission
Between Cultures and Forms (e.g. print, radio, theatre, television,
films, and video games, as well as cross-cultural stage and film
adaptations)</font></span></em></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;"><font
face="inherit, Times New Roman, serif">The Pedagogy of Cultural
Exchange: Interdisciplinary or Cross-disciplinary approaches to
teaching adaptation</font></span></em></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;"><font
face="inherit, Times New Roman, serif">Occident and Orient:
Adaptations across 'east' and 'west'</font></span></em></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;"><font
face="inherit, Times New Roman, serif">Travel Adaptations, both
fictional and nonfictional (documentaries, feature films as well as
shorts) </font></span></em></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;"><font
face="inherit, Times New Roman, serif">Adaptation as a form of
cultural (re-)negotiation</font></span></em></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;"><font
face="inherit, Times New Roman, serif">The Mass Media and Cultural
Exchange: globalization vs. localization</font></span></em></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.19in;"><em><span
style="font-style: normal;"><font
face="inherit, Times New Roman, serif">Autobiography and
Cross-Cultural Adaptation</font></span></em></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;"><font
face="inherit, Times New Roman, serif">It
is hoped that this conference might underline the potential
of adaptation studies to create new intellectual Silk
Roads across cultures as well as across disciplines. However, we also
welcome more general papers on the subject of adaptation studies,
focusing on any kind of adaptation – film, television, video game,
as well as other media.</font></span></em></p>
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<h1 class="western"><em><span style="font-style: normal;">Venue</span></em></h1>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Yeni Yüzyıl University is a new
university (opened in February 2009), established<font color="#ff0000">
</font>on the European side of Istanbul. It currently boasts ten
faculties and two vocational schools. Its location seems especially
suitable to the subject of the conference; the city of İstanbul has
always been and continues to be a site for cultural, commercial and
social exchange. In 2010 it was nominated as European City of
Culture.</p>
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<h1 class="western"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Proposals</font></h1>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;"><font
face="inherit, Times New Roman, serif">Proposals for
presentations (20 minutes max + 10 minutes for questions) are
invited to address the issues outlined above, either through
individual case-studies or through more
general theoretical approaches.</font></span></em></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;"><font
face="inherit, Times New Roman, serif">Please
send proposals <b><u>BY APRIL 30, 2011</u></b> at the latest to both
addresses below:</font></span></em></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;"><font
face="inherit, Times New Roman, serif">Prof.
Dr. Günseli Sönmez İşçi,</font></span></em></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;"><font
face="inherit, Times New Roman, serif">Dean,
Faculty of Science and Letters</font></span></em></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;"><span
lang="de-DE"><font face="inherit, Times New Roman, serif">E-Mail
</font></span></span></em><font color="#0000ff"><u><a
href="mailto:gunseli.isci@yeniyuzyil.edu.tr"><span lang="de-DE"><font
face="inherit, Times New Roman, serif">gunseli.isci@yeniyuzyil.edu.tr</font></span></a></u></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;"><font
face="inherit, Times New Roman, serif">Laurence
Raw</font></span></em></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;"><font
face="inherit, Times New Roman, serif">Başkent
University, Ankara</font></span></em></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;"><font
face="inherit, Times New Roman, serif">E-Mail
</font></span></em><font color="#0000ff"><u><a
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face="inherit, Times New Roman, serif">l_rawjalaurence@yahoo.com</font></a></u></font></p>
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