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We are AAS: scholars of adaptation, intertextuality, intermediality & all the disciplines that involve them. Arguably the best sidebar chat game in online aca-conferencing.

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Association of Adaptation Studies @adaptstudies.bsky.social · 12d
👉 👉 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...
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
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adaptstudies.bsky.social
Many thanks to @drchrislouttit.bsky.social for putting this together and helping us all get settled in over here! #adaptstudies
drchrislouttit.bsky.social Chris Louttit @drchrislouttit.bsky.social · Nov 11
I haven't seen an adaptation studies #starterpack doing the rounds, so thought I'd create it myself! One for you if you're interested in #adaptation in a cultural context in all of its wonderfully various forms. Let me know in the replies if you'd like to be added.
November 12, 2024 at 3:49 AM
adaptstudies.bsky.social
Need a mentor in adaptation practice? Look no further!
adaptationtoday.bsky.social Adaptation Today @adaptationtoday.bsky.social · 11d
Interested in adaptation, as a practice? Adaptation Today's upcoming mentorship workshop features composers, performers, and directors who will share their experiences adapting stories to bring familiar narratives to life - join us!

Register here: udel.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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adaptstudies.bsky.social
👉 👉 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...
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
October 30, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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🔆 LFA/AAS Joint Conference (ONLINE ONLY): Adaptation and Collaboration, 19-20 Feb 2026

✍️ Submit your proposal here by 1 December 2025: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
LFA/AAS Online Conference 2026: Adaptation and Collaboration February 19-20, 2026 When the online joint LFA/AAS conference began in the heyday of a global pandemic, the goal and theme was connection: to meet and mingle with scholars from across the world when circumstances made in-person connection untenable. Now, with half a decade under our belts and increasingly complex global problems facing our cultures and communities, it becomes crucial to think about the ways that adaptations (and adaptation scholars) of all kinds can find strength through an ethic and theory of collaboration, one that recognizes the ways adaptations have always been collaborative and explores new possibilities for intergroup cooperation We invite scholars from all disciplines to submit 8-10 minute presentations on the intersection of textual adaptation (intertextuality, intermediality, industries, and auteurs) and collaboration (cooperation, collective action, interdisciplinarity, and academic partnerships) writ broadly. While we welcome any unique interpretations of this theme, possible approaches could include: Adaptation as a collaborative practice between authors and adapters, readers and viewers, scholars and practitioners, or texts and technologies Adapting (with) non-human collaborators Adaptations that theorize or explore themes of collaboration and collective action Adaptation’s role in collaborative pedagogies Adapting for the sake of international/interdisciplinary collaboration Adapting collaborative technologies for artistic production and cultural reception We particularly encourage presentations and panels which foster cooperation across disciplines and/or bring the spirit of collaboration into the panel format itself – experimentation is welcome! Please submit abstracts using this Google Form by 1 December 2025. All inquiries may be directed to adaptationjointconference@gmail.com We will notify everyone whose proposals are accepted for presentation by mid-December.
November 3, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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oxfordacademic.bsky.social
@adaptstudies.bsky.social is inviting applications for Editorial Board Members starting January 2026.

Join our community of scholars and make a meaningful contribution over a two-year term: oxford.ly/4oZKnHX

Deadline: 30 Nov 2025
Adaptation Editorial Board Call for Applications
November 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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drbeard79.bsky.social
If you could bring an author forward in time to watch or otherwise engage with an adaptation of their work, who and what would it be?

I’d like to show Austen Clueless, Dickens Muppet Christmas Carol, and Shakespeare 10 Things I Hate About You!
lesbiaudrey.bsky.social Audrey Armstrong @lesbiaudrey.bsky.social · 5d
do you think if you took Victor Hugo forward in time to see a stage musical adaptation of Les Mis he'd be like "this shit's fire"
November 6, 2025 at 8:44 AM
adaptstudies.bsky.social
AAS shoutout to AAAS: Austrian Assocation for American Studies, of interest to adaptationists!

Call for the AAAS annual conference, November 5-7, 2026 in Linz. Connect here for details:
aaas.at/annual-confe...
Annual Conference: Critical Media Analysis, Participatory Cultures, and New Textualities: American Studies through a Digital Lens – Linz 2026 – Austrian Association for American Studies
aaas.at
November 7, 2025 at 7:44 AM
adaptstudies.bsky.social
🔆 LFA/AAS Joint Conference (ONLINE ONLY): Adaptation and Collaboration, 19-20 Feb 2026

✍️ Submit your proposal here by 1 December 2025: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
LFA/AAS Online Conference 2026: Adaptation and Collaboration February 19-20, 2026 When the online joint LFA/AAS conference began in the heyday of a global pandemic, the goal and theme was connection: to meet and mingle with scholars from across the world when circumstances made in-person connection untenable. Now, with half a decade under our belts and increasingly complex global problems facing our cultures and communities, it becomes crucial to think about the ways that adaptations (and adaptation scholars) of all kinds can find strength through an ethic and theory of collaboration, one that recognizes the ways adaptations have always been collaborative and explores new possibilities for intergroup cooperation We invite scholars from all disciplines to submit 8-10 minute presentations on the intersection of textual adaptation (intertextuality, intermediality, industries, and auteurs) and collaboration (cooperation, collective action, interdisciplinarity, and academic partnerships) writ broadly. While we welcome any unique interpretations of this theme, possible approaches could include: Adaptation as a collaborative practice between authors and adapters, readers and viewers, scholars and practitioners, or texts and technologies Adapting (with) non-human collaborators Adaptations that theorize or explore themes of collaboration and collective action Adaptation’s role in collaborative pedagogies Adapting for the sake of international/interdisciplinary collaboration Adapting collaborative technologies for artistic production and cultural reception We particularly encourage presentations and panels which foster cooperation across disciplines and/or bring the spirit of collaboration into the panel format itself – experimentation is welcome! Please submit abstracts using this Google Form by 1 December 2025. All inquiries may be directed to adaptationjointconference@gmail.com We will notify everyone whose proposals are accepted for presentation by mid-December.
November 3, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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phdhurtbrain.bsky.social
CAMPUS VISIT WITH THE VAMPIRE

TEACHING DEMO WITH THE VAMPIRE

SIT-DOWN WITH THE DEAN WITH THE VAMPIRE

APOLOGETIC EMAIL THAT THE SEARCH WAS CANCELED WITH THE VAMPIRE
November 3, 2025 at 1:31 AM
adaptstudies.bsky.social
CFP relevant to adaptationists:
« La nostalgie n’est plus ce qu’elle était »* : Uses and constructions of nostalgia in film & TV
*Nostalgia isn't what it used to be

Université Bordeaux Montaigne, ARTES
Proposals (Fr/Eng) due 19 December 2025
Conference 30 March - 1 April 2026
La nostalgie n’est plus ce qu’elle était. Fabrique et usages de la nostalgie en cinéma et audiovisuel (Bordeaux)
« La nostalgie n’est plus ce qu’elle était » : Fabrique et usages de la nostalgie en cinéma et audiovisuel  Colloque international – Université Bordeaux Montaigne, ARTES, Les 30 mars-1er avril 2026...
www.fabula.org
October 30, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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cbkenkar.bsky.social
CFP is up for AAS 2026 let's goooooo ✍️
adaptstudies.bsky.social Association of Adaptation Studies @adaptstudies.bsky.social · 12d
👉 👉 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...
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
October 30, 2025 at 8:48 AM
adaptstudies.bsky.social
👉 👉 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...
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
October 30, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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ecco0210.bsky.social Eckart Voigts @ecco0210.bsky.social · 18d
I spoke about Adaptation Studies and the Environmental Humanities for our Open Imaginaries Project. The extraordinary kindness of hosts Prof. Heebon Park, Dr Minki Kim, Sungji Lee and the entire team overwhelmed me. A shout out to fellow keynote speaker & travelling companion Mark Thornton Burnett.
October 24, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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midcenturycinema.bsky.social
Continue to be Very enthusiastic about this - based on the outstanding Logevall biography, and w/serious talent now attached (in addition to landing Fassbinder as Joe, "Thomas Vinterberg (Festen, The Hunt, Another Round)...will direct the first and last episodes")
www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...
The Kennedy Family Is Coming to Netflix
Oscar nominee Michael Fassbender will lead the drama series.
www.netflix.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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openlibhums.org
It’s #OAweek, and this year we’re also celebrating 10 years since the publication of the first article in the #OLHjournal marking a decade since the launch of the OLH itself.

We’re proud to celebrate a decade of scholar-led, #diamondOA publishing, sustained by our incredible community 🎉 🧵 (1/4)
October 22, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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illuminations.bsky.social
A really good @loisbeckett.bsky.social article about a remarkable and heartening exhibition

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Breathtaking, unsettling, healing: how US artist Kara Walker transformed a Confederate monument
The sweeping exhibition Monuments, which features 19 contemporary artists, opens in LA on 23 October
www.theguardian.com
October 18, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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Official Launch Notes on our new release: tracking podcasts for attention to research:
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Track research mentions in podcast episodes with Altmetric!
As of 15 October 2025, Altmetric is tracking mentions from podcast episodes.
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October 16, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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lwlies.com
Guillermo del Toro handles Mary Shelley’s canonical text with the tenderness of a butterfly, exulting in the author’s wisdom and sense of high tragedy while bringing his own steampunk spin to the material.

Review: lwlies.com/reviews/fran...
Frankenstein review – Jacob Elordi is a revelation
Guillermo del Toro handles Mary Shelley’s canonical text with the tenderness of a butterfly, exulting in the author’s wisdom and sense of high tragedy…
lwlies.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Of interest to adaptationists!
ymmwtpodcast.bsky.social You Made Me Watch That?! @ymmwtpodcast.bsky.social · 26d
NEW EPISODE! Special guest Dr. Eric Sandberg of City University Hong Kong joins the YMMWT crew to discuss the highs and lows of PTA's latest Pynchon adaptation, One Battle After Another!

Catch it here or wherever you get podcasts 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/y...
ep. 93 | One Battle After Another (2025)
Podcast Episode · You Made Me Watch That?! · 10/15/2025 · 1h 37m
podcasts.apple.com
October 16, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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emer.bsky.social
if anyone is looking to commission writing on chloé zhao’s hamnet over the next few months:
💀 @edelsemple.bsky.social is the undisputed queen of shakespeare biofiction studies
💀 i myself specialise in irish shakespeares (especially actors), and celebrity casting.

let us write/give talks for u!
October 13, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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iheartfatapollo.bsky.social
Are you 18 or older with a fandom-related tattoo (or know someone who has one)? Please take 10 min to fill out this survey for my new book project on embodied fan identities and practices. Share widely! utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Contact info: suzanne.scott@utexas.edu.
October 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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🧵 The Open Book Collective is pleased to share our 2024–2025 Annual Report: A Year of Important Progress. We’ve made big strides toward sustainability, expanded our collective + strengthened global partnerships for OA books. Read the full report: openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/open-boo...
Open Book Collective 2024-2025 annual report: A year of important progress
The team provide an overview of the Open Book Collective's work, as well as the work of its Publisher and Publishing Service Provider Members
openbookcollective.pubpub.org
October 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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adaptstudies.bsky.social
Periodic reminder that we have a YouTube archive of talks, video essays, and other adaptation-adjacent academic content! www.youtube.com/@association...
October 1, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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POV
Tu as présenté Mulholland Drive la veille et le hall de l’hôtel que tu dois quitter à 5h40 tient aussi absolument à rendre hommage à David Lynch.
Couloir d’hôtel avec sol en damier noir et blanc et murs à rayures noires et blanches (Juventus de Turin ou Colonnes de Buren, c’est selon).
October 13, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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How Close Did We Come to Losing Beowulf Forever?

Robert Bartlett on a Vital Work of the Western Canon That Barely Survived Multiple Disasters

lithub.com/how-close-di...

Beowulf at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje...

#books #literature #old_manuscripts
The first folio of the heroic epic poem Beowulf, written primarily in the West Saxon dialect of Old English. Part of the Cotton MS Vitellius A XV manuscript currently located within the British Library. This is a digital photographic copy of the folio. Text shown according to https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43521/beowulf-old-english-version: WE GARDE na in geardagum, þeodcyninga, [129] þrym gefrunon, hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon. Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum,monegum mægþum, meodosetla ofteah, egsode eorlas. Then the feast was found, he asked for it, grew under the clouds, the gods, until each of those sitting around him heard the sound of the horn, gomban gyldan. That was a good king. After that, he was remembered, walking in the fields, the good one sent to the king; the fire on the king who had long been dead. His life, the ruler of the people, the lord of the world, was taken away; Beowulf was quick to spring forth, Scyld's son, into the lands of the dead. Thus shall men go forth to good deeds, from pious gifts to their fathers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf#/media/File:Beowulf_Cotton_MS_Vitellius_A_XV_f._132r.jpg
October 13, 2025 at 9:15 AM