Teaching Adaptations Symposium
Monday 4-Tuesday 5 February, 2013
University of Tasmania, Hobart

Conference Organisers: Imelda Whelehan and Felix Wilson

Deadline for submissions: 10 September 2012

Call For Papers

Film, television, theatre and video game adaptations of literary and other
texts are an expanding area of study for undergraduate and postgraduate
students, across literature, film, performance, media, cultural and
communications studies programs. While there are an increasing number of
theoretical perspectives being published in the field, there is less awareness
of what teaching adaptations involves at disciplinary and cross-disciplinary
study. Sometimes approaches to adaptations are taught within a broader
unit structure in which the status of text as adaptation is given little
attention.

Why do we teach the study of adaptations in the Arts and Humanities and
how do we teach it? As an interdisciplinary field of study, it is often hard
to locate where adaptation studies is taught and to measure its impact on
existing disciplines. This symposium aims to explore adaptation studies in
Australia and beyond; to share experiences about where we teach it and
how we teach it; to reflect on the philosophy of sharing via open education
resources and explore the virtues and challenges of communities of practice
in teaching. It will showcase innovative pedagogic practices and consider
the research/teaching nexus as well as question the changing boundaries
of academic disciplines and new critical contexts. The two-day event will
also include the official launch of the world’s first adaptations open access
repository of learning and teaching materials, which aims to encourage the
sharing and development of resources in adaptation studies.

Papers are invited on any aspect of adaptation studies and its relationship
to teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. While the call is
open, panel and paper suggestions might fall in topics such as:

• Adaptations and disciplinarity
• Adaptations and curriculum design
• Authors and auteurs
• Screenwriting and creative practice
• Canons and classics
• Adaptations and assessment innovation
• Studying the popular
• Open education resources and adaptations
• Communities of practice and adaptation studies
• Using adaptations as ‘study aids’
• Remakes and remaking
• Adaptation on stage
• Reading and viewing in the twenty-first century
• Cross-cultural adaptations
• Teaching the adaptation industry

Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be sent to Imelda.whelehan@utas.edu.au by 10 September 2012.

This symposium will mark the end of the OLT funded project ‘Bridging the Gap: Teaching Adaptations Across the Disciplines and Sharing Content for Curriculum Renewal’ (Lead Investigator, Prof Imelda Whelehan, (UTAS); co-investigators, Prof David Sadler (UTAS), Dr Lisa Fletcher (UTAS), Dr Chris Worth (Monash), A/Prof Frances Bonner (UQ), A/Prof Jason Jacobs (UQ), Dr Hila Shachar (UWA); Project Officer, Felix Wilson).

The aim of the project is to promote the curricular enhancement of the study of adaptations and associated program development from a cross-disciplinary perspective. This will be achieved through the creation of a community of practice of academics across a number of disciplinary areas who deploy adaptation course components as part of their curriculum. At the heart of the project lies an ambition to create an accessible and navigable repository of open teaching resources for students and scholars in the area. To find out more visit the project web page.

Limina Conference 2012
Humanising Collaboration
7 June, 2012
University of Western Australia, Perth
Conference Website

To celebrate the launch of volume 18 of Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies the Collective is pleased to announce that:

The 7th Annual Limina Conference will be held on Thursday 7th June 2012 at the University of Western Australia, Perth, with supplementary events on the 6th and the 8th.

Call For Papers

The Limina Collective is calling for conference submissions from postgraduates and early-career researchers that explore the many facets of scholarly collaborations and interdisciplinary research in the twenty-first century Humanities and Social Sciences. The conference aims to foster a supportive environment in which current post-graduates and early career researchers can present their own research whilst investigating the complexities of scholarly cooperation.

Masterclass on ‘Socialising Research’ will be held on Friday the 8th.

To submit your proposal, please forward a 200-word abstract and brief biographical note as an attachment to the submissions form located at: http://tinyurl.com/7jxnwnq. If accepted, papers must be 20 minutes in length.

Please Note: $100 travel bursaries will be made available to successful international and interstate applicants at the discretion of the Limina collective.

Possible topics of discussion may be adapted to one of the following areas:

Connecting History and Culture: Research into Collaboration
This stream may include: collaborations that occur in primary sources, the study of texts or sources where individuals, groups, or nations work together. Texts or sources that challenge conventional ideas of how people interact and work together and what this interaction means for them, their society and wider humanity.

Transcending Boundaries: Research with Collaboration
This stream may include research drawing on approaches from multiple disciplines or research being conducted by two or more people. Further possibilities could include working with others, interdisciplinary approaches, co-authored books and journals, anthologies, government funded research projects. Papers being presented by multiple authors are especially encouraged.

Analysing Connections: Research on Collaboration
This stream may include: methodologies and practices of collaborative research, effects, costs and benefits of collaboration, motives for collaboration, information technology and collaboration, measuring collaboration, pedagogy, distinctions between collaboration and co-authorship.

Deadline for submissions: Friday 30th of March 2012 (with a possibility of extension to mid/late April – visit the conference website for details). **Edit**: The call for papers has been extended until the 30th of April.

Inquiries: limina@cyllene.uwa.edu.au

Scotland in Early Medieval Europe
22-24 February, 2013
Conference Website

Closing date for proposals: 29th June 2012

The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland invites you to submit papers and posters for Scotland in Early Medieval Europe, the fourth in its series of themed international conferences, to be held across the 22nd to 24th February 2013 in conjunction with the Dark Age Studies Committee. The conference will examine Scotland and its connections and identity in Early Medieval Europe (AD200 and AD1000). Contributions are welcome from all disciplines, utilising all sources of evidence, and they are particularly interested to mix overarching themes with specific case studies.

Themes for the conference will include:

1. Power and identity
2. Groups and communities
3. Ideologies and economies
4. Contacts and communications

All contributions should in some way offer examinations relating to at least one of the following:

• Scales of analysis, e.g. individual – family – community
• Regionality
• Continuity and change
• Scotland in the wider context of Britain and/or Europe
• Multi-disciplinary approaches

Please submit a paper or poster title and short summary (no longer than 400 words), plus contact details of all contributors and a correspondence address and email by 29 June 2012. Please submit abstracts to SIEME@socantscot.org

Music and Theology in the European Reformations
KULeuven, House of Polyphony
19-21 September, 2012

Organised by the KULeuven Department of Musicology, the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, and the Alamire Foundation.

This conference will bring together musicologists, theologians, biblical scholars and historians to promote interdisciplinary debate between these parallel areas of specialisation, focussed upon the musical and liturgical outcomes of the various strands of the Reformation of the sixteenth century: Lutheran, Calvinist, Catholic and Radical. Papers of 30 minutes’ length are invited on relevant topics.

Themes include:

• Developments in Biblical exegesis in the sixteenth century and their musical outcomes
• The musical and liturgical impact of the Lutheran, Calvinist, Catholic and Radical Reformations
• Music and early Christian literature in the sixteenth century: the Sibylline oracles, the Ancient Theology and the revival of ancient music

Invited speakers include:

• Andrew Pettegree (St Andrews)
• Maarten Wisse (VU Amsterdam)
• Inga Groote (Zurich)
• Robin Leaver (Rider College, emeritus)
• Risto Saarinen (Helsinki)
• Thomas Schmidt-Beste (Bangor)
• Hyun-Ah Kim (Toronto)
• Michael Questier (Queen Mary, London)
• Katelijne Schiltz (LMU, Munich)
• Nils Holger Petersen (Copenhagen)
• Henk Jan de Jonge (Leiden, emeritus)
• Frank Dobbins (Goldsmith’s College, London, emeritus)

The preferred language of the conference is English, but other languages will also be considered. A special session for doctoral students will also take place. A published volume of proceedings is planned. The conference will take place at the “House of Polyphony,” the new headquarters of the Alamire Foundation, Leuven. Registration, covering conference materials, light refreshments and admission to a concert, will be EUR 80 (free to students and members of KULeuven).

Abstracts should be sent to Grantley McDonald (grantley.mcdonald@arts.kuleuven.be) before 15 May 2012.