ADAPTATION AND COLLABORATION:

Thursday and Friday, 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 short (eight-to-ten-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 interpretation 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.