July 1, 11:00 – 13:00
1A Literary Transcodifications/1
Chair: Donata Meneghelli
Ana Laguna Martínez (University of Granada)
Brecht’s Kriegsfibel: a Semiotic Study
Vincenzo Maggitti (Independent Researcher)
Terms of Visual and Trans-Medial Debate in Nathaniel West’s The Day of the Locust
Helena Van Praet (Catholic University of Louvain)
From Print to Digital and Back Again: Network Aesthetics in Anne Carson’s The Beauty of the Husband
Link: https://meet.jit.si/clam2021_1A
1B Comics and Sequential Narrative/1
Chair: Mario Tirino
Mattia Arioli (University of Bologna)
Framing Memories: Intercode Adaptation of Iconic Photographs of the Vietnam War
Giorgio Busi Rizzi (University of Ghent)
Digital comics as participatory Gesamtkunstwerk: Andrew Hussie’s Homestuck
Stefan Buchenberger (Kanagawa University)
Trying to Describe the Non-describable: H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu-Mythos and Its Adaptations in Alan Moore’s Graphic Novels
Link: https://meet.jit.si/clam2021_1B
1C Theories and Philosophies of Transcodification/1
Chair: Mattia Petricola
Raffaele Chiarulli (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan)
“Various are the incidents in one man’s life which cannot be reduced to unity”. First Aristotelian Lesson on Transcodification
Soo-Young Nam (Korea National University of Arts)
The Purloined Codes: Media (Techniques) as Cryptology
Youngmin Kim (Dongguk University)
Converging Transmedia, Digital Humanities, and World Literature: The Poetics of Database and Transcodification
Link: https://meet.jit.si/clam2021_1C
1D Digital Media Practices
Chair: Márcio Seligmann-Silva
Jess McPherson (Spa University of Bath)
Girl Swarm: Performing Post-Internet Female Identity
Natasha Lushetich (University of Dundee)
BeHere. Cultural and Personal Memory in the Age of Global Informationalism
Marie Thérèse Abdelmessih (Cairo University)
The Egyptian ‘Enigma’ in New Media Art
Link: https://meet.jit.si/clam2021_1D
1E Icons and Iconicity
Chair: Massimo Fusillo
Sarah M.T. Goeth (University of Hamburg)
The Iconic Turn as a Pioneer of Modern Transmedialism
Silvia Albertazzi (University of Bologna)
Nostalgia of the Present: Pauline Boty from the Swinging Sixties to Post-Brexit UK
Beatrice Seligardi (University of Parma)
From Femicide to Art Criticism: Remediating Francesca Alinovi’s Icon
Link: https://meet.jit.si/clam2021_1E
1F Transcoding Japan
Chair: Yorimitsu Hashimoto
Takayuki Yokota-Murakami (Osaka University)
Transcodification of Critical Terms: Character/seikaku/xingge from Chinese Classical Writings via Modern Japanese Literature to Contemporary “Light Novels”
Toshiko Ellis (Nagoya University of Foreign Studies, Japan)
Opening Canonical Texts: Quotation, Retelling and Potential Criticality
Laura Treglia (Independent Researcher)
Lady Snowblood or the Cross-media and Transnational Appeal of the Angry Woman Tale: An Early Example of Transcodification Politics and Practices of the Japanese “Media Mix”
Francesco-Alessio Ursini (Central China Normal University)
Japanese Space Opera and Intermediality