Adapting Histories: Appropriations, Migrations, Re-animations from Louis Riel to Abu Ghraib March 31, 2006

Sponsored by
Canadian Studies at University College
University of Toronto

A Roundtable Presentation & Discussion
Friday, March 31 from 1 to 3 pm
University College, Room 140

In her forthcoming book, A Theory of Adaptation (Routledge), Linda Hutcheon describes adaptation as "a process of appropriation, of taking possession of another's story and filtering it through one's own sensibility, interests, talents."

In this roundtable discussion, artists and scholars will address theories and practices of adaptation - its processes and reception - across a wide and wild range of media and genres. The discussion will migrate from Louis Riel to South African AIDS activist Zackie Achmat, from Cape Town to Abu Ghraib, and from Tashme internment camp to the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia. Artists and writers will illustrate and discuss their approach to adaptation, what Hutcheon has called a double-pronged act of interpretation and creation. Hutcheon herself will address her theorizing of adaptation: the "Who? What? Why? How? Where? When?" of it.

Panelists include Stephen Andrews, visual artist; Chester Brown, graphic novelist; George Elliot Clarke, poet, novelist, Professor of English, University of Toronto; John Greyson, video artist, filmmaker, Assistant Professor, Film, York University; Linda Hutcheon, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Toronto; and Kerri Sakamoto, novelist, Barker Fairley Distinguished Visitor, University College. The discussion will be moderated by Mark Cheetham, Director, Canadian Studies Program, University College, University of Toronto.

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