[Bilimsel Haber] 6th Annual Association of Adaptation Studies Conference, Yeni Yüzyıl University (İstanbul), 29-30 Sept. 2011

[Gonul Pultar]

*from: *//_l_rawjalaurence at yahoo.com <mailto:l_rawjalaurence at yahoo.com>

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*6^th Annual Association of Adaptation Studies Conference, *

*Yeni Yüzyıl University, İstanbul, Turkey, *


*29-30 September 2011*


*Title: The Intellectual Silk Road: Cross-Media and Cross-Cultural 
Adaptations*

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/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./

 

/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:/

 

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      /Cross Cultural Theories of Adaptation: does the term 'adaptation'
      have different significances in different cultures?/

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      /Filming Shakespeare or other western canonical authors in
      nonwestern cultures/

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      /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)/

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      /The Pedagogy of Cultural Exchange: Interdisciplinary or
      Cross-disciplinary approaches to teaching adaptation/

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      /Occident and Orient: Adaptations across 'east' and 'west'/

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      /Travel Adaptations, both fictional and nonfictional
      (documentaries, feature films as well as shorts)  /

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      /Adaptation as a form of cultural (re-)negotiation/

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      /The Mass Media and Cultural Exchange: globalization vs. localization/

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      /Autobiography and Cross-Cultural Adaptation/

 

/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./

 


  /Venue/


Yeni Yüzyıl University is a new university (opened in February 2009), 
established 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.


  Proposals


/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./


/Please send proposals *_BY APRIL 30, 2011_* at the latest to both 
addresses below:/


/Prof. Dr. Günseli Sönmez İşçi,/

/Dean, Faculty of Science and Letters/

/E-Mail /_gunseli.isci at yeniyuzyil.edu.tr 
<mailto:gunseli.isci at yeniyuzyil.edu.tr>_


/Laurence Raw/

/Başkent University, Ankara/

/E-Mail /_l_rawjalaurence at yahoo.com <mailto:l_rawjalaurence at yahoo.com>_

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