What’s on in Intermediality
Call for Contributions: In/Between Issue 2
In/Between issue 2 is open for submissions until Monday 1 September. On the theme of translation in a broad sense, submissions are invited from postgraduate students and independent researchers. Submissions can be in the form of written articles, poetry, translations, photography, films, and more. Read the first issue of In/Between here, and read the full call for submissions here.
Read about our previous events below:
2024 – 2025
Journal Launch: In/Between Issue 1
24 March 2025, 6.00pm – 8.00pm
Join us for the celebration of the inaugural issue of the student-led intermediality journal, In/Between. Read the full issue online here.
Workshop: World Literature and Intermediality
13 – 14 March 2025
An International and Interdisciplinary workshop, featuring the launch of the EUP book series, Edinburgh Critical Studies in World Literature and Intermediality. Featuring speakers from Edinburgh, Tokyo, Växjö, and Marseille, exploring the intersections of literature and other art forms across global cultures. Topics include photo-literature, multilingualism, adaptation, and intermedial translation.
Intermedia in Italy: From Futurism to Digital Convergence
Thursday 6 February 2025
Clodagh Brook (Trinity College Dublin), Florian Mussgnug (UCL), and Giuliana Pieri (Royal Holloway) join Emanuela Patti (UoE) to discuss their book, Intermedia in Italy: From Futurism to Digital Convergence. They explore how Italian artists have continually crossed boundaries between literature, visual art, film, and digital media, reflecting on why intermediality emerged so strongly in Italy and how it continues to shape creative expression today.
Fruitmarket Outing with Benoît Loiret
Monday 27 January 2025, 12.10pm
Join Benoît Loiret, a PhD candidate, for this outing to visit the exhibition currently on show at Fruitmarket Gallery: Barry Le Va, In A State of Flux. This exhibition weaves together reflections on sculpture, architecture, drawing, performance, and music through beautiful works.
Guest Seminar: Fabien Arribert-Narce and Marion Schmid, Linnaeus University
4 December 2024
This week’s guest speakers at the IMS Seminar are Fabien Arribert-Narce and Marion Schmid, the Co-Programme Directors of the MSc Intermediality: Literature, Film and the Arts in Dialogue (University of Edinburgh). Find more information here.
Night of Intermediality and Creativity
Tuesday 26 November 2024, 5.00pm – 9.00pm
The MSc and PhD Intermediality: Literature, Film and the Arts in Dialogue is celebrating its second, expanded Night of Intermediality and Creativity. Join us for an exciting showcase of students’ practice-based projects and creative work, including films, video art, zine and animation, and engage in creative activities such as live drawing and tableaux vivants!
Intermediality and Arts: New Connections (Nov 2024)
Friday 22 November 2024
An interdisciplinary workshop featuring four talks from al over the world, exploring how intermediality shapes artistic and political expression across cultures and genres. Barnaby Ralph (University of Tokyo), Ayako Otomo (Tokyo Woman’s Christian University), Andy Stafford (University of Leeds), and Fariha Asghar (Bahauddin Zakariya University/University of Leeds) speak on topics ranging from photo-texts of Guadeloupe’s cane-fields to dance, myth, and political memoirs in Pakistan.
Inadaptation: For a Co-History of Literature and Cinema
Wednesday 6 November 2024, 6.00pm
What can failed or unfinished film adaptations teach us about the entangled histories of literature and cinema? Professor Jean-Louis Jeannelle (University Paris-Sorbonne) explores the shared history of literature and cinema through the rich, often hidden, terrain of mis-adaptations.
Call for Submissions: World Literature and Intermediality Workshop (Autumn 2024)
Deadline 1 December 2024
Call for papers for World Literature and Intermediality workshop (March 2025). Abstracts invited which explore global literary forms across media (film, art, music, performance). Confirmed keynote speaker, Dr Shuangyi Li (University of Bristol).
Artistic Get-Together
Saturday 19 October 2024, 12.10pm
Join us for a get-together to see and discuss the stupendous installation piece ‘TSIATSIA – Searching for Connection’, by Ghanaian artist El Anatsui in Old College. More about the exhibition here.
Fruitmarket Outing with Benoît Loiret
Friday 27 September 2024, 4.30pm
Join Benoît Loiret, a PhD candidate, for this outing to visit the exhibition currently on show at Fruitmarket Gallery: Ibrahim Mahama, Songs About Roses. Mahama explores the postcolonial history of Ghana through materials related to the railway built by the British through intermedial practice.
Nina Six on ‘The Little World of Stella Benson
Wednesday 25 September, 5.30pm – 7.00pm
Discover this fascinating dialog between the legacy of Stella Benson and the art of Nina Six, which is also a dialog between media, between women, and between cultures.
