Adaptations and the Metropolis
Senate House, London
24-25 September, 2015

The Association of Adaptation Studies invites proposals for papers at the 10th Annual Conference in London 24-25 September 2015, organised with the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London.

In the past century the expansion of industrialised cities has seen a significant increase in urbanisation and non-rural lifestyles. Whilst literature quickly sought to document these changes, substantial technological advancements in cinema also enabled the metropolis to be presented through a variety of visual spectacles. Visions of urban sprawl are present in a variety of media, but it is through their adaptations and remediations that we can trace society’s ongoing relationship with the city, modernisation and globalisation.

Through the presentation of the metropolis in past, present and speculative adaptations we are able to understand aspects of our changing lifestyles, the effects of urbanisation on literary and visual art, national identity, social inequalities, territorial displacement, environmental destruction, utopias and dystopias, and our social and psychological relationship with architecture and city development.

Papers are welcome on these themes or any others related to the metropolis and the city in all forms of remediated adaptation, including literature, theatre, film, television, digital media and other visual and literary arts.

200-word abstracts of suggested papers of should be submitted by 31st May 2015 to AdaptationAssociation@gmail.com.