Room: I.1.03

Chair: Marcela Scibiorska (Université Libre de Bruxelles & Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Presentations:

• Andrés Franco Harnache (UC Louvain):
  • “Erased Photographs, Emerging Text: Depicting the Amazon Rain Forest in José Eustasio Rivera’s La vorágine”
• Youngmin Kim (Linnæus University & Dongguk University):
  • “Intermediality and Care: Simondon, Stiegler, and Transmedia Climate Narratives” (online)
• Marco Maggi (Università della Svizzera Italiana
  • “Interspecies Connectivity in Captioned Landscapes”
• Joicy Silva Ferreira (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais):
  • “Art as Mirror for the End-of-the-World: The Representation of Ecological Crisis in James Bradley’s Clade” (online)

Room: I.1.04

Chair: Bertrand Gervais (Université du Québec à Montreal)

Presentations:

• Dagmar Brunow (Linnæus University):
  • “Transmediating Epistemic Injustices: Digital Knowledge Infrastructures, Cultural Memory, and the Ethics of Metadata” (online)
• Jan Løhmann Stephensen (Århus University):
  • “(Operative) Ekphrasis, Hylomorphism, Logocentrism, and (the Experience of) Mastering Multimodal Prompting: The Political Implications of Interface Design of Text-to-Image Generators”
• Giorgio Busi Rizzi (Universiteit Gent):
  • “We are the Robots: (Post)digital Mediations, AI, and the Graphic Novel”

Room: I.1.05

Chair: Sushree Routray (IIT Roorkee)

Presentations:

• Tiago Silva (Federal University of Bahia & Vrije Universiteit Brussel):
  • "Paracolonial Intermedial Crossings: Letters of Introduction, Travelogues and Paintings in Gayl Jones’s Palmares"
• Anna Lorenzon (University of Graz):
  • “Intermedial Counter-Mapping as Decolonizing Practice. An Island of Sound (2022) by J. R. Carpenter and Jules Rawlinson”
• Josephine Delali Ofei (Vrije Universiteit Brussel):
  • “Intermedial Connectivity as a Decolonial Practice in Afrofuturism”
• Callahan Fedullo (University of Edinburgh):
  • “Persepolis as an Adaptation: Promoting Underrepresented Experiences”

Room: I.1.06

Chair: Birgit Neumann (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)

Presentations:

• Erik Erlanson (Linnaeus University):
  • “The Intermedial Politics of New and Old ‘Techniques of Conditioning’: From MI6 to the Situationist International and Back Again"
• Ioannis Tsitsovits (KU Leuven & Vrije Universiteit Brussel):
  • “Reconsidering the Performative: Hyperstition in the Work of the CCRU”
• Jarkko Toikkanen (University of Oulu & Tampere University):
  • “From Distributed Cognition to Distributed Mediation”

Room: I.1.03

Introduction of speakers: Anne Reverseau

Presentations by:

• Ben de Bruyn
• Stéphanie Vanasten
• Anne Reverseau
• Corentin Lahouste
• Véronique Bragard & Sabrina Parent

Room: I.1.04

Chair: Bertrand Gervais (Université de Québec à Montreal)

Presentations:

• Alexandra Saemmer (Paris 8):
  • “Artifical Identities – Cut the Feed: A Research and Creative Proposal to Explore what Social Media News Feeds Say about our Digital Identities”
• Claire Swyzen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel):
  • “Artificial Dialogues – Machine-Generated Dialogue in the Theatre: Technological Progress Falling Back on Convention?”
• Bertrand Gervais (UQAM – Université du Québec à Montreal):
  • “Artificial Imagination – The Conversational Agent as a Dynamic Linguistic and Language Entity, Or How to Exist in the Moment of an Address”

Room: I.1.05

Chair: Fabien Arribert-Narce (University of Edinburgh)

Presentations:

• Richard Müller (Czech Academy of Sciences):
  • “Multilinearity in Literature: Notes toward an Archaeological Approach” (online)
• Barbara Vitoria Teixeira Ribeiro (Federal University of São João del-Rei):
  • “One Day in Washington, and One Day in London: the Intermedial Politics of the In-Between Present in the Appropriation of Mrs. Dalloway in The Days of Afrekete” (online)
• Guo Rongrong (Beijing Institute of Technology):
  • “Joyce’s Intermedial Practice: A Stylistic Study of Dubliners as an Impressionistic Piece”

Room: I.1.06

Chair: Melinda Blos-Jáni (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania)

Presentations:

• Hajnal Király (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania):
  • “Affective Intermediality and the Cinematic Experience of the Frames in Contemporary European ‘School Films’”
• Judit Pieldner (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania):
  • “The Affective Politics of Intermediality in Contemporary Romanian and Hungarian Generation Films”
• Katalin Sándor (Babeș-Bolyai University):
  • Adapting Site-specific Theatre to Cinema in Szabolcs Hajdu’s Chamber Film Trilogy”

Room: I.1.03

Chair: Ceydanur Temurok (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Presentations:

• Mariko Naito (Meiji University):
  • “The ‘Fourth Person’ in Pre-modern and Modern Japanese Media: The In-betweenness of Self and Others”

• Sabrina Khonova (Chungbuk National University):

  • “Translingual Intermediality in Social Media: Syntax, Identity, and Power in English-Russian Digital Communication”

• Nedaa Khashashneh (Chungbuk National University):
  • “Polyphony and Pragmatics: Speech Acts and Identity Formation in Stephen King’s It”
• Amit Leblang (PXL-MAD School of Arts, Hasselt):
  • “‘my miniature Babel’: Translation, Territory, and language-landscape #2”

Room: I.1.04

Chair: Beate Schirrmacher (Linnaeus University)

Presentations:

• Birgitte Stougaard Pederson (Århus University):
  • “Rhythms Across Reading Experiences and Post-Digital Literary Spheres”
• Pim Verhulst (Vrije Universiteit Brussel & University of Reading):
  • “Popular Music, Transmedial Adaptation and the Politics of Intermediality in Tom Stoppard’s Rock ‘n’ Roll and Darkside”
• Dániel Nagy (Eötvös Loránd University):
  • “Word, Image, Music, and the Narratives of Progress: Nietzsche, Strauss, Kubrick and the Intertextual Afterlife of 2001: A Space Odyssey”
• Saana Sutinen (Linnaeus University):
  • “Marvel and the Military: An Intermedial Interrogation of the Soft Power of Film Music” (online)

Room: I.1.05

Chair: Iga Nowicz (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Presentations:

• Calvin Goh (University of Edinburgh):
  • “Hybrid Identities and (Media) Type-Casting: Interrogating Chinese-American Abstraction and Performativity in Charles Yu’s Interior Chinatown (2020)”
• Sabrina Sampaio Martins (University of Geneva):
  • “‘… like (any other) distant land’: Interconnected Histories in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s DICTEE (1982) and Shailja Patel’s Migritude (2010)”
• Francesca Balestro (University College London):
  • “Dispersion and Unity: Narrating the US-Mexican Border through Valeria Luiselli’s Multimodal Archive”

Room I.1.06

Chair: Elisabeth Bekers (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Presentations:

• Jon Parikh (University of Edinburgh):
  • “How the Windigo Got Its Antlers: Intermedial Indigeneity”
• Mohinur Vohidova (Chungbuk National University):
  • “Monstrous Connectivity: Intermedial Politics of Ethical Closure in Frankenstein (1818–2025)” (online)
• Hanene Zoghlami (Université de Poitiers):
  • “Visible Horror: Transmedial Representations of Gas Warfare in British and French Visual Culture, 1915-1918”
• Robyn Pentony (University of Edinburgh):
  • “‘The Future is Over’: Reading the Haptic Supernatural and Specters of Political Violence in Contemporary Argentine Horror Literature and Film”

Room: I.1.03

Chair: Thomas Mantzaris (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Presentations:

• Evan Falls (Independent Researcher):
  • “Pop(ulism) Art: Obama, Trump, and the Artification of Populist Political Movements”
• Ro Lawrence (University of South Florida):
  • “Reframing Framing: Intermedial Negation and Political Polarization”
• Emma Flodqvist (Linnaeus University):
  • “Between Political Worlds: Dialectical Intermediality in American News Media”
• Beate Schirrmacher & Kristoffer Holt (Linnaeus University):
  • “Performing Alternativeness: An Intermedial Approach to Alternative News Media”

Room: I.1.04

Chairs: Anna-Lena Eick (University of Mainz) & Inge van de Ven (Tilburg University)

Presentations:

• Anna-Lena Eick (University of Mainz):
  • “Connective Disconnection: Reading Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking About This (2021) for Intermedial Connections in a Disconnected Postdigital Mediascape”
• Bartosz Lutostański (University of Warsaw):
  • “Intermedial Afterlives of App Fiction: Postdigital (Dis)Connectivity and the Politics of Infrastructural Precarity”
• Ruben Vanden Berghe (University of Cologne & Tilburg University) and Siebe Bluijs (Tilburg University):
  • “‘Tata Steel, Are You Policy?’: Lyric Address, LLMs and the Remediation of Linguistic Automation in Contemporary Poetry”
• Inge van de Ven (Tilburg University):
  • “Scammer: Caroline Calloway and the Intermedial Unravelling of Self-Authorship"

Room: I.1.05

Chair: Gry Ulstein (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Presentations:

• Jørgen Bruhn (Linnaeus University):
  • “Environmental Grotesque Intermedial Travelogues”

• Cristine Fickelscherer de Mattos (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro & Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie):

  • “Intermediality for an Ecocritical Reading of a Romantic Colonial Perspective” (online)

• Barbara Fraipont (UC Louvain Saint-Louis – Brussels):
  • “Intermedial and Cross-Species Configurations in Dutch-Language Poetry: Wat wij doen dat heet bewaren by Siel Verhanneman and Fantoommerrie by Lucas Rijneveld”
• Niklas Salmose (Linnæus University):
  • “The Climate Politics of Mediated Nostalgia" (online)

Room: I.1.06

Chair: Mattia Petricola (University of L’Aquila)

Presentations:

• Michele Bordoni (UC Louvain):
  • “The Hospital of Incurable Madness (1586): Tommaso Garzoni and the Politics of Representation of Madness in the Renaissance”
• Dominika Bugno-Narecka (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin):
  • “Intermedial Assemblages and the Neobaroque Aesthetic: Mapping Hyperconnectivity in Cabinets of Curiosities”
• Olha Romanova (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine):
  • “Epic Ekphrasis and the Politics of Intermedial Connectivity in 19th‑Century European Literature” (online)
• Stefan Clappaert (Vrije Universiteit Brussel):
  • “Créatiques: Ekphrasis and the Collective Experience in Cobra”

Room: I.1.03

Chair: Sabrina Sampaio Martins (University of Geneva)

Presentations:

• Marie-Lise Paoli (Université Bordeaux Montaigne):
  • “Wayne McGregor’s Disembodied Joy: Dancing Through Media—and Relational Ethics”
• Shuangyi Li (University of Bristol):
  • “Making Chineseness: Diaspora, Dance, Technology in Zhi Xu’s Being River (2024)”
• Anne Gjelsvik (Norwegian University of Science and Technology):
  • “The Poetic Politics of Connectivity in Dag Haugerud’s Sex, Dreams, Love (2024)”

Room: I.1.04

Chair: Kurt Bertels (Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel & Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Presentations:

• Andressa Zoi Nathanailidis (Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo):
  • “Voice, Poetry, Performance, and Intermediality as the Politics of the Sensible: Musical Settings of Poems by José Antônio de Almeida Prado” (online)
• Ludmilla Oliveira da Cunha (Federal University of São João del-Rei):
  • “Transcribing the ‘Touch’: Gender, Virtuosity, and the Intermedial Politics of the Toccata in Lina Pires de Campos’s Toccatina” (online)
• Gustavo Piffer (Federal University of São João del-Rei):
  • “'Serene, Purplish-Blue': Metonymy, Ekphrasis, and Artistic Research in Almeida Prado’s Noturno No. 2" (online)
• André Luís Almeida de Castro (Federal University of São João del-Rei):
  • “Hybrid Identity and Intermedial Alterity in the Performance of Jônatas Reis’s Sonata No. 1 for Piano” (online)
• Gabriel Casara (Federal University of São João del-Rei):
  • “Intermedial Dissonance and Transcultural Masks: Arthur Bosmans’ ‘Brazilian Sonority’ as a Performance of Alterity” (online)

Rooms: I.1.05

Chair: Sara Buekens (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Presentations:

• Neha Jain (University of Gothenburg):
  • “Impossible Returns: Drowning as Intermedial Metaphor in Climate Displacement Narratives” (online)
• Valérie Morisson (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3):
  • “Brown Atlantis by Ayesha Hameed: Listening to the Mermaid of the Trees”
• Silvia Kurr (Tartu University & Linnaeus University):
  • “Mandy Barker’s Intermedial Explorations of Plastic Waste: Between Art, Science, and Activism”
• Maria Luchankina (Université de Strasbourg):
  • “Atelier of Inquiry: Intermedial Ecologies and Marginal Artistic Habitats”

Room: I.1.06

Chair: Inge Arteel (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Presentations:

• Manvendra Singh Thakur (Université de Montréal:
  • “Intermedial Echoes of a Missing Archive: Reading Hijra Histories Through Mona Ahmed” (online)
• Mattia Petricola (University of L’Aquila):
  • “It’s a Kind of (Intermedial) Magic: Rethinking Masculinity from Druidry to Wizardcore”
• Inma Sánchez-García (University of Edinburgh):
  • “Queer(ing) Filmic Shakespeare: Rafiki (dir. Wanuri Kahiu, 2018) as a Queer Film Adaptation of Romeo and Juliet in Kenya”

Room: I.1.03

Chair: Wibke Schniedermann (University of Ghent)

Presentations:

• Ege A. Özbek (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg):
  • “The Politics and Poetics of Intermedial Sentimentality in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric (2014)”
• Hermann Wittenberg (University of the Western Cape):
  • “Postcolonial Intermediality: Reflections on the Politics of Black & White Images in three Southern Texts”
• Clara Ng (University College London):
  • "Fugitive Lines: Text, Drawing, and Black World-Making in Renee Gladman"

Room: I.1.04

Chair: Cedric Van Dijck (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Presentations:

• Ruth Alison Clemens (Leiden University):
  • “Re-visioning Modernism: Intermedial Reckoning in the Anglophone World”
• Matěj Kos (Czech Academy of Sciences):
  • “We Sell the Bouquet: A Contemporary Approach to Czech Classical Literature from an Intermedial and Cultural Perspective”
• Alice Jedličková (Czech Academy of Sciences):
  • “Women’s Roles, Bodies and Femininity: 160 years of Intermedial Representations”

Room: I.1.05

Chair: Claire Swyzen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Presentations:

• Yagmur Atlar (Linnaeus University):
  • “Lost in Instantiation: Production(s) of Mediated Identity in Churchill’s A Number and Harrison’s Marjorie Prime”
• Tamás Csönge (University of Pécs):
  • “From Glitch to Myth: Participatory Culture and Cultural Authority in Intermedial Horror” (online)
• Nguyễn Tiến Phát (Tien Phat Nguyen) (Justus-Liebig-University Giessen):
  • “Narrative Techniques across Media and Their Cognitive Effects: Intermediality and the Politics of In-Betweenness in Contemporary Art”

Room: I.1.06

Chair: Tiago Silva (Federal University of Bahia & Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Presentations:

• Ana Claúdia Munari Domingos (Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul):
  • “Intermediality and Platformisation: Sociotechnical Literacy Mediated by Local Culture
• Camila Augusta Pires de Figueiredo (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais):
  • “Provincializing Transmedia Storytelling: Class Dynamics and Convergent Television in Cheias de Charme”
• Miriam de Paiva Vieira (Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei):
  • “Architecture as Counter-Media: Racialized Domestic Space and Literary Circulation of Contemporary Brazilian Fiction”