We've just sent round details of our Spring Schedule for the SIG but our next event is 18th February on Adaptation and Franchises with @polinazelm.bsky.social and Seren Rose Sonnell. DM if you didn't get the email and want the zoom link.
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Annual Conference Archives - The Association of Adaptation Studies
The annual Association of Adaptation Studies conference.
Looking forward to AAS 2026 at Burman University, Canada & dreaming of what comes next...
If your institution would like to host a future AAS conference, get in touch! Our Board considers applications throughout the year. Past conferences: www.adaptation.uk.com/category/aas...
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Not long to go before the LFA/AAS online conference - more details/link to sign up below!
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The other news is....we're running a symposium in June (supported by @baftss.bsky.social and B-Film). See below for the CFP.
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We've just sent round details of our Spring Schedule for the SIG but our next event is 18th February on Adaptation and Franchises with @polinazelm.bsky.social and Seren Rose Sonnell. DM if you didn't get the email and want the zoom link.
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The LFA/AAS 2026 Conference programme for Feb 19/20 is done - great papers (as you can see from a snapshot of some of the Friday panels below). I'll be speaking about mental health/adaptation. If you'd like the full programme, DM me. And to sign up, here's the link: udel.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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We sent round details of our next Adaptation SIG event - December 17th, 2-3pm. 'Adaptation and Remakes' featuring @drdjohnston.bsky.social and @rosemaryaj.bsky.social - if you haven't got the email and want to come along, DM us!
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Loads of great books here on adaptation here!
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π’ Tomorrow (Tues 2 Dec) is @stinaface.bsky.social's online book launch for 'Male Mental Illness in Contemporary Culture' π
Email or DM me or Christina for the online link :)
#MentalHealth #MentalHealthMatters #MHHums #MedHums
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Tomorrow!
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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.
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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'AbbΓ© (Vancouver Island University).
Submission guidelines and contact information. For further inquiries please write to aas2026@burmanu.ca
π π The call is HERE for AAS 2026: Adaptation and Aurality, hosted by Burman University in beautiful Alberta, Canada!
βοΈ Proposals due 15 December 2025
ποΈ 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...
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Tomorrow!
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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!
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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.
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Today!
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TBC5 flyer 2025 final.docx
To Be Continued 5 Defining, Producing, Performing, Consuming, and Theorizing Serials and Adaptations A Zoom Symposium, 18β19 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...
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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!
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View Session
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
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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 ofβ¦
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
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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 Iβm so happy to have been on a cake in such excellent company
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The @adaptstudies.bsky.social conference is kicking off with a panel on AI and adaptation, chaired by the excellent @cbkenkar.bsky.social
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And my paper finished the panel, taking about Russian Doll
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Now we have @jamesctaylor.bsky.social talking on nostalgia and restoration and βserialised cinemaβ
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First up in our panel this afternoon on multiplicities and multiverses is Olgahan Yalçin talking about Jumanji adaptations. @adaptstudies.bsky.social
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British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies #BAFTSS2026
Warwick Film TV PhD β’ Researching sex on screen in the #MeToo era β’ π³οΈβπ
Teaching Fellow (Inquiry and Research Skills) at Warwick University. Specialisms include heritage media, historical filming locations and understanding authenticity in heritage media.
Associate professor
Fuzhou University of International Studies and Trade
PhD in Film and Television, UoN
Graduate representative of SCMS Performance and Stardom SIG
Research includes stardom, fandom, social media, cultural memory.
We are AAS: scholars of adaptation, intertextuality, intermediality & all the disciplines that involve them. Arguably the best sidebar chat game in online aca-conferencing.
Join us! https://www.adaptation.uk.com/
YouTube: @associationofadaptationstu3160
A podcast for expanding each other's cinematic/TV/gaming knowledge, one recommendation at a time. Available wherever you get fine audio.
#BilkentUniversity COMD
Hosts @cbkenkar.bsky.social @sailorjello.bsky.social & Wickham Flannagan
Producer: Taylan AkΔ±l
Adaptation studies; Classical Hollywood; film noir; TV, musical theater
She/Her. Film Studies/History professor. Co-editor at @ComparativeCinema.bsky.social.
My views are my own, and all that jazz.
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Teaching Fellow at the University of Warwick's Film and TV Department. Wealth and fame I ignored, pursuing academia as my reward. He/him.
I used to make TV, now I write about it.
PhD in English, Scholar of Film Adaptation @UofDelaware ποΈ π¬
http://www.sedaoz.info
Media Reviews Editor, Adaptation
Treasurer, Association of Adaptation Studies
Founding Editor, Adaptation Today
The Official Bluesky account for SCMS
https://www.cmstudies.org/
Questions? Don't hesitate to get in touch with the SCMS office via the Contact Us page, and weβll be happy to respond.
Associate Professor in Media and Cinema
@RMIT University
Editor, Horror and Gothic Media Cultures @amsterdamupress
Australian Research Council Industry Fellow
Seminar instructor in media studies @rug.nl | Editor @Adaptationtoday.bsky.social | Researching adaptations, intermediality, folk narratives & AI
Children's horror doctor, rabbit film studies connoisseur and intermittent gremlin.
I can't see my DMs.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/author/catherine-lester/
Multidisciplinary movement based artist, fan-scholar/scholar-fan, storyteller, homemaker, crafter, autistic femme lesbian. Jewitch and aspiring Kohenet Priestess.
Graduate Researcher Academic Associate & PhD Candidate at University of Melbourne |
Media Studies | Book History | Publishing Studies | Social Media | Fan Studies πβοΈ
Cultural historian. Prof of Cinema and Television History and Director of Research and Innovation Institute of Arts, Design and Performance at De Montfort University.
19th-century British lit, gender, adaptation
https://feeds.captivate.fm/ripperaturebuildingthemyth/
