Make, ReMake, Adapt: Transcultural Perspectives in the European and Francophone Space
Short Title: EuReM

Date: 09-May-2025 – 10-May-2025
Location: Nicosia, Cyprus
Contact Person: Landry Digeon
Meeting Email: eurem@ucy.ac.cy
Web Site: https://www.ucy.ac.cy/eurem/

 

Call Deadline: 02-Feb-2025

Meeting Description:

This conference invites a transdisciplinary reflection on adaptation and the processes of artistic and cultural transformation over time, in Europe and its interactions with other regions. By examining the interplay between literary and artistic creation and cultural phenomena, it highlights how works engage with diverse historical, geographical, and technological contexts, drawing on these influences to create new and original forms. Adaptation is considered in its broadest sense, encompassing transfers between arts and media: literature, cinema, visual arts, theater, music, dance, audiovisual, digital, multimedia, and performative creations.

The objective of this conference is to explore the processes of artistic and cultural adaptation and transformation, emphasizing the interactions between creative practices and transcultural dynamics. It seeks to analyze how works engage in dialogue, reinvent themselves, and become enriched in various contexts, while examining concepts such as intertextuality, authorship, translation, and cultural transfers.

The phenomenon of adaptations and remakes is explored as a lens for analyzing intercultural and interdisciplinary dialogues. We will address questions such as: How do old, famous, unknown, or popular creations reinvent themselves to meet contemporary sensibilities? How do globalization and digital platforms influence these practices? What mechanisms are at play in transfers from one medium to another?

These issues will be addressed over two days dedicated to the theme Make, Remake, Adapt. Designed to encourage meetings, exchanges, and collaboration among researchers from various disciplines, these days offer a unique opportunity to share experiences, present innovative work, and identify common research topics.

Scientific Committee:

Christakis Christofi (UCY)
David Pinho Barros (U. Porto)
Edward Larkey (UMBC)
Landry Digeon (UCY)
Maria Constantinou Papanicolaou (UCY)

Join us on this journey of exploration and discovery at the crossroads of digital innovation and artistic creativity!
The EuReM editorial board will select a number of papers for peer-reviewed publication, either in a collective volume of conference proceedings or in a special issue.

Conference Registration Fees:

€100 for in-person participants, including a meal, coffee breaks, and publication of proceedings after peer review.
50 for online participants, also including publication after peer review.
For more information, visit the official conference website.

Timeline:

December 4, 2024: Call for papers opens
February 2, 2025: Submission deadline
February 20, 2025: Notification of selection results
May 9-10, 2025: International conference
August 30, 2025: Submission of articles
January 30, 2026: Publication of conference proceedings

Call for Papers:

Suggested topics for exploration:

– Adaptation and intermedial transfers
– Remakes: the dynamics of repetition and innovation
– Intertextuality and reference networks
– Postcolonialism and cultural hybridity
– Technology and innovation in adaptation
– Reception, audiences, and authorship
– Adaptation, censorship, and politics
– Revisiting myths, grand narratives, and legends
– Adaptation, ethics, and aesthetics
– Adaptation in a historical perspective
– Translation, adaptation, and creation
– Transdisciplinary collaborations and intercultural approaches
– Digital storytelling, creative technologies, and intercultural communication
– Intercultural dialogue in intermedial theatrical productions and mediated performances

Submission Guidelines:

Proposals for presentations (title, abstract of up to 250 words, and a short biographical note) should be written in French or English and sent by February 2 to Christakis Christofi (christofi.christakis@ucy.ac.cy), Landry Digeon (digeon.landry@ucy.ac.cy) and EuReM (eurem@ucy.ac.cy).