Relational
Forms IX
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Topics
Sustainable Objects?: Books, Screens and Creative Transit in the Cultures of the English Language
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The organisers will welcome proposals for 20-minute papers in English responding to the above.
Suggested (merely indicative) topics include:
• print culture and the codex in history;
• culture and technology – writing and communication in the digital era;
• forms of rewriting: adaptation, translation, transmediation,…;
• the fortunes and misfortunes of themes, symbols, and motifs;
• canonicity and subversion in conventional and new media;
• textual and material cultures: formats, modes, genres;
• literature and the arts in the age of social media;
• books, print culture and environmental awareness;
• cultural ecology and literature.
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