Intercultural Transfers and Translations Across Media

Third Workshop of the University of Edinburgh-Meiji University Research Partnership in Intermedia Studies

Friday 10th March 2023, 10.15 am – 3.30 pm

University of Edinburgh, Lister Learning and Teaching Centre (LLTC), Room 4.3

 

Kindly generated by the intemedial AI system DALL-E with the textual prompt ‘A landscape painting of Edinburgh in the style of Hokusai’

10:30am: Introduction, by Dr Fabien ARRIBERT-NARCE (University of Edinburgh)

10:35–12:00 Panel 1: Aesthetic Transfers and Translations between Image and Text

Rumiko OYAMA (Meiji University, Tokyo), ‘Translatability in Literary Texts: The Verbal and Visual Translation of “Japaneseness” in Kyoko Nakajima’s The Little House’

Xingtong ZHOU (University of Edinburgh), ‘(Anti)-Representational Politics: Photography in Yoko Tawada’s The Bath’

Katie PLEMING (University of Edinburgh), ‘Marguerite Duras’s Les Mains négatives and Photographic Theory’

 

13:10–14:10 Panel 2: Intercultural Transfers and Mutations Across Media

Alex WATSON (Meiji University, Tokyo), ‘The World in Miniature: Walter Benjamin and Phillip de Loutherbourg’s Eidophusikon (1781)’

Alexandra SMITH (University of Edinburgh), ‘Adaptation as Mutation: Michael Mayer’s Cinematographic Version of Chekhov’s The Seagull (2018)’

14:30–15:30 Panel 3: Shakespearean Adaptations

Masahiro KOBAYASHI (Meiji University, Tokyo), ‘Painting Shakespeare: John Millais’ Ophelia (1851-2) and Eugène Delacroix’s The Death of Ophelia (1834)’

Inma SANCHEZ-GARCIA (University of Edinburgh), ‘Queer Cinematic Shakespeare: Queer Futurity and the Contemporary Romeo and Juliet Short Film’

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