Ringvorlesung zum Thema Adaptation

Translation, transformation, appropriation, assimilation, adaptation – these processes of inter­textual and intermedial contact have been part and parcel of aesthetic activities since their very beginnings. For some time now, the academic sub-discipline of ‘Adaptation Studies’ has been active in exploring adaptive processes, but we feel that the impact of a global reservoir of images as well as the need to articulate cultural and aesthetic specificity in a climate of universal access have yet to make their full impact on adaptation studies. We specifically seek to address media – from graphic novels, photography, film and television to social media and platforms such as youtube – that tend to erase borders and barriers both of a temporal and geographical nature. We are looking forward to significant case studies from this ubiquity of rewriting, remixing and reloading across media and genres. We have invited a set of local and global experts (from Glasgow, Leicester, Amsterdam, etc. as well as from Siegen) to bring into narrow focus the various aesthetic processes and cultural issues at stake in adapting texts in a globalized world – responding both to the pressure of actualizing texts for a specific cultural moment and to the increasing globalization of cultures. This is a bi-lingual lecture series (talks may be in either German or English). The exact line-up will be published at the beginning of term. The prior knowledge of Linda Hutcheon’s A Theory of Adaptation is useful. Müller, Anja, Univ.-Prof. Dr. 2 Kreditpunkte: Regular attendance and 2-credit-exam 5 Kreditpunkte: Regular attendance and 5-credit-exam Universität Siegen SoSe 2010 Univ.-Prof. Dr. Voigts Virchow Eckart