BAFTSS Adaptation SIG

Loads of great books here on adaptation here!

📢 Tomorrow (Tues 2 Dec) is @stinaface.bsky.social's online book launch for 'Male Mental Illness in Contemporary Culture' 👇

Email or DM me or Christina for the online link :)

#MentalHealth #MentalHealthMatters #MHHums #MedHums

Tomorrow!

Male Mental Illness in Contemporary Culture This book explores contemporary cultural narratives across film, television, and literature to illuminate the way male mental illness is positioned

Just sent round details of an online and in-person book launch for Male Mental Illness in Contemporary Culture. Online event: Tues 2nd December 5-6pm. In-person: Weds 3rd December 5-6.30pm, UoB campus in Muirhead Tower. DM for full details. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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Our next SIG event is Wednesday 26th November at 3-4pm on Adaptation and Industry with @faywinfield.bsky.social and Christopher Hogg. DM for the zoom link if you've not found it in your inbox.

Introduction to the Call for Papers for the Association of Adaptation Studies Annual Conference 2026: Adaptation and Aurality. The conference will be hosted at Burman University in Alberta, Canada.

A list of suggested topics on the theme of Adaptation and Aurality

A short bio and photo of the keynote speaker for AAS 2026, poet/musician/scholar Dr. Sonnet L'Abbé (Vancouver Island University).

Submission guidelines and contact information. For further inquiries please write to aas2026@burmanu.ca

👉 👉 The call is HERE for AAS 2026: Adaptation and Aurality, hosted by Burman University in beautiful Alberta, Canada!

✍️ Proposals due 15 December 2025
🗓️ Conference 7-10 July 2026

Full details posted on the AAS website: www.adaptation.uk.com/aas-conferen...

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This Wednesday (22nd) there will be a webinar for the Unspool collection - all about time loops onscreen, online at 4pm (BST). I'll be taking part, talking about Russian Doll, as well as @sarahlahmtv.bsky.social and others! Registration link is here: york-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Tomorrow!

A reminder that our first event - Adaptation and AI - with @huntressleine.bsky.social and Reece Goodall - is next Weds 15th at 2pm (online) - DM us for the link!

We'll shortly be putting a call out for the BAFTSS SIG Panel next April in Bournemouth - check your inboxes this afternoon. If you didn't get it, but would like to be on the panel, get in touch.

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The next event for the MHHRN is on the 30th Oct at 4pm -ONLINE - Television and Mental Health featuring @veronicaheney.bsky.social and @rob-lawson.bsky.social talking - DM us for the Zoom link! We're looking forward to it.

Today!

TBC5 flyer 2025 final.docx To Be Continued 5 Defining, Producing, Performing, Consuming, and Theorizing Serials and Adaptations A Zoom Symposium, 18–19 September 2025 Organizers: Julie Grossman (Le Moyne College), Thomas Leitch...

Adaptation, seriality, film, media, literature, and cultural studies scholars, come to the fifth annual online To Be Continued conference, Sept. 18-19! Presenter and (free) registration information can be found on this flyer. Hope to see you there! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Have sent round an email about getting involved in upcoming events for the SIG later this year - if you'd like to be involved but didn't get the email, get in touch!

The latest issue of Lit/Film Quarterly has a great line up, and also features my article on 'The Work of Adaptation' where I use Haynes' May December to think through approaches to adaptation. lfq.salisbury.edu#gsc.tab=0

I hope scholars interested in adaptation studies will consider submitting a proposal (SAMLA in Atlanta in Nov.) for this roundtable on knowledge and adaptation! @adaptationtoday.bsky.social @adaptstudies.bsky.social @adaptationsig.bsky.social samla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19316

Mentoring Welcome to the Adaptation Today Mentorship Program! At Adaptation Today, we believe that the future of academia lies in collaboration, inclusivity, and the sharing of knowledge across all levels of…

Interested in adaptation studies? @adaptationtoday.bsky.social sponsors mentorship programs: adaptationtoday.com/professional... If you'd like to provide feedback for our future planning, pls fill out this survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @adaptstudies.bsky.social @adaptationsig.bsky.social

Teaching Fellow in Film Studies at University of Birmingham Searching for an academic job? Explore this Teaching Fellow in Film Studies opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

Come work with us in the Film department! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI241/t...

Also yesterday we got to celebrate 10 years of the Palgrave Adaptation series, run by @grossmjj.bsky.social and Barton Palmer. There was an excellent cake, and I’m so happy to have been on a cake in such excellent company

The @adaptstudies.bsky.social conference is kicking off with a panel on AI and adaptation, chaired by the excellent @cbkenkar.bsky.social

And my paper finished the panel, taking about Russian Doll

Now we have @jamesctaylor.bsky.social talking on nostalgia and restoration and ‘serialised cinema’

First up in our panel this afternoon on multiplicities and multiverses is Olgahan Yalçin talking about Jumanji adaptations. @adaptstudies.bsky.social

Great first day at the Association of Adaptation Studies Conference in Istanbul. Saw some brilliant papers on AI and sound, presented on the Contemporary Screens panel, and ate Adaptation Cake. Have also obviously been befriending some of the city's beautiful cats.

Coming up on the conclusion of day 1 of @adaptstudies.bsky.social. Many thanks to @stinaface.bsky.social for capturing this photo and for hosting me at U of Birmingham last week

“Without widespread theft, my industry can’t survive” is an argument against your industry surviving, and is not an argument for allowing widespread theft

My contributor's copy of Authenticity and Adaptation, edited by @stinaface.bsky.social, finally arrived 🎉. My chapter explores how different screen adaptations have negotiated the challenges of adapting the Lovecraftian image. Very much looking forward to reading the other chapters!

Very excited for the upcoming @adaptstudies.bsky.social conference in Istanbul this weekend/next week.

My physical copies of my book - The Superhero Blockbuster: Adaptation, Style, and Meaning - arrived today. It's now 100% a real tangible thing that exists in the world!

This is tomorrow!