I.0 Atrium
Room: I.0.02
“On the Inconveniences of Intermedial Connectivity: Contact Zones and Discomfort Zones in Contemporary Anglophone Literatures”
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I.0 Atrium
Rooms: I.1.03, I.1.04, I.1.05, I.1.06
Room: I.1.03
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Presentations:
- Ozoda Ablakulova (Chungbuk National University)
- “Poverty, Marginalization, and Identity: A Class-Cultural Analysis of Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker and Gafur Gulom’s Shum Bola Annatation”
- Mélisande Labrande (Aix Marseille University):
- “The Schnorrer: Intermedial Afterlives in the XXth Century”
- Maria Chiorean (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu) and Teona Farmatu (Babeș-Bolyai University & University of Poitiers):
- “Nation-building through Reactionary Caricatures in Early Modern Romanian Press: Misogyny, Antifeminism, and Antisemitism as Convergent Codes of Representation”
Room: I.1.04
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Presentations:
- Ágnes Pethő (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania):
- “Re-sensitizing the ‘In-between’: Strategies of Connection through Disconnection”
- Kamilla Simor (University of Pécs):
- “Affective Intermediality and Reflexive Sensibility in El Perro Negro – Stories from the Spanish Civil War (2005) by Péter Forgács”
- Melinda Blos-Jáni (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania):
- “The Intermedial Performativity of the Freeze-Frame in Found Footage Films”
Room: I.0.05
Chair:
Presentations:
- Molly Dunn (University of Toronto):
- “Autopathography and the Representation of the Cancer Patient in Hannah Wilke’s Intra-Venus”
- Iga Nowicz (Vrije Universiteit Brussel):
- “Mediating the (F)ailing Body: Multimodal Interventions by Hanif Kureishi and Molly Kochen”
- Andrea Virginás (Babeș-Bolyai University):
- “‘Leaving-of-age’ Melodramas and Televisual-to-Filmic Intermediality via the Post-digital Platform”
Room: I.1.06
Chair:
Presentations:
- Aizhan Kozhabayeva (Chungbuk National University):
- “Feminist Intermediality Female Authorship in Greta Gerwig’s Little Women (2019)”
- Zoe Krofchik (University of Edinburgh):
- “Male Authors & Female Auteurs: Cross-Gendered Film Adaptations of Literature
- Sushree Routray (IIT Roorkee):
- “The Politics of the Bad Mom: Intermedial Mediations of Maternal Ambivalence in Hindi Cinema”
I.0 Atrium
Rooms: I.1.03, I.1.04, I.1.05, I.1.06
Room: I.1.03
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Presentations:
- Nassim W. Balestrini (University of Graz):
- “Arrogant Anthropomorphism or Trans-Species Empathy? Reflections on Intermedial Meaning-Making in Ecodrama”
- Niklas Salmose (Linnæus University):
- “The Climate Politics of Mediated Nostalgia
- Felicia Stenberg (Linnaeus University):
- “Ideas As Material Forces: Towards A Metabolic Intermediality”
- “Ideas As Material Forces: Towards A Metabolic Intermediality”
- Sanaz Alizadeh Tabrizi and Ali Nasrabadi (Istanbul Aydın University):
- “From Novel to Television: Whaling and Environmental Violence in The North Water” (online)
Room: I.0.04
Chair:
Presentations:
- Leonardo Breda (Indiana University):
- “Historiography & Representations in Camp de Thiaroye” (online)
- Lolonyo Djamessi (Indiana University):
- “Shoots and Shots: Intermedial Technologies and Pan-African Soldierhood in Camp de Thiaroye” (online)
- Una Mijatovic (Indiana University):
- “A Multilingual Patchwork: Language, Intermediality, and Collective Agency in Sembène’s Camp de Thiaroye” (online)
- Vincent Bouchard (Indiana University):
- “Camp de Thiaroye: A Tragedy, a Massacre, and a Series of Ruptures” (online)
Room: I.0.05
Chair:
Presentations:
- Mykyta Isagulov (independent scholar):
- “Ternary Subjectivity: Intermedial In-Betweenness and the Politics of Connectivity
- Evonne Levy (University of Toronto):
- “Intermediality and the Decolonization of Colonial Latin American Art”
- Rikus van Eeden (Vrije Universiteit Brussel):
- “Time in Transition: Markers and Meanings of Temporality in an African Magazine”
- Rémy Besson and Claudia Polledri (UQAM – Université du Québec à Montreal):
- “Teaching Intermediality (2017-2025): From Historiographical Overview to Decolonial Practices” (online)
Room: I.1.06
Chair:
Presentations:
- Nina Ernst (Linnæus University):
- “Intermedial Memory and Affective Connectivity: The Politics of the In-Between in Karelen”
- Rosa Saverino (University of Toronto):
- “Childhood, Politics, and the In-Between in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis” (online)
- Heidrun Führer (Lund University) & Lisa Källström (Södertörn University):
- “The Intermedial Rhetoric of Raising a Nonument in Berlin”
- Ada Lipman (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales):
- “Intermediality and (De)Construction of Indian Identity: Studying the Representation of Mughal Emperor Akbar in Contemporary Works of Audiovisual Fiction”
I.0 Atrium
Rooms: I.1.03, I.1.04, I.1.05, I.1.06
Room: I.1.03
Chair:
Presentations:
- Cameron Benson-Davis (University of Edinburgh)
- “The Future, A Sacred and Terrible Air: Social Media Semiotics in Video Game Disco Elysium” (online)
- Anna Ishchenko (Linnæus University):
- “Voices of Melancholy: Exploring Video Games’ Representations of Audio-based Media Through an Intermedial Perspective”
- Wenjun (June) Zhu (Université Libre de Bruxelles):
- “Online Theatre as Public Forum: Intermediality, Crisis, and Connectivity in WANG Chong’s Live-Streamed Performances”
Room: I.1.05
Chair:
Presentations:
- Martin van der Linden (Linnæus University
- “Intermediality and Internet Cultures: On the Politics of the Platform Society and the Radical Potential of Fandom Culture”
- Elena Gasiulytė (Vilnius University):
- “Fake Tweets: A Curious Case of Intermediality in Online Fandoms”
- Maria Ilia Katsaridou (Ionian University of Corfu)
- “The Politics of Age-Gating: Intermedial Age-Passages in Virtual Worlds”
Room: I.1.06
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Presentations:
- Anna Klishevich (Justus-Liebig-University Giessen):
- “The Cultural Work of Ekphrasis in the Digital Age: Subverting the Power of Screens in British Contemporary Novels”
- Liliane Louvel (Université de Poitiers):
- “Ali Smith: Brexit and the subalterns. A case for the feminine and artistic underdogs”
- Katherine Marchant (University of Toronto):
- “Questioning the Past: Volkswagen Blues and Dora Bruder”
I.0 Atrium
Rooms: I.1.03, I.1.04, I.1.05, I.1.06
Room: I.1.03
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- 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”
- “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:
Presentations:
- Dagmar Brunow (Linnæus University
- “Transmediating Epistemic Injustices: Digital Knowledge Infrastructures, Cultural Memory, and the Ethics of Metadata”
- 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”
- Christine Schwanecke (University of Graz):
- “Negotiating the Hegemonies of AI Cultures: Amy Kurzweil’s Graphic Novel Artificial (2023)” (online)
- Giorgio Busi Rizzi (Universiteit Gent):
- “We are the Robots: (Post)digital Mediations, AI, and the Graphic Novel”
Room: I.1.05
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Presentations:
- 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”
- Sayak Roy (Trinity College Dublin):
- “The Migrant’s Gaze: Salman Rushdie’s Intermedial Archipelago” (online)
Room: I.1.06
Chair:
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”
- Graeme Kirkpatrick (University of Manchester):
- “What is an aesthetic regime and what are the politics of falling under one?”
- Jarkko Toikkanen (University of Oulu & Tampere University):
- “Distributed Cognition – or Distributed Mediation”
I.0 Atrium
Rooms: I.1.03, I.1.04, I.1.05, I.1.06
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Presentations by:
- Ben de Bruyn
- Stéphanie Vanasten
- Anne Reverseau
- Corentin Lahouste
- Véronique Bragard & Sabrina Parent
Room: I.1.04
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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
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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”
- Guo Rongrong (Beijing Institute of Technology):
- “Joyce’s Intermedial Practice: A Stylistic Study of Dubliners as an Impressionistic Piece”
Room: I.1.06
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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”
I.0 Atrium
“‘Look at me! The Social Urge for Visibilisation’: About ‘Inter-ships’, on Being In-between in Cultural, Disciplinary, Subjective and Medial Encounters”
+ Film screening: “Refugeedom” (Mieke Bal & Lena Verhoeff, 2023)
Room: I.0.02
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I.0 Atrium
Rooms: I.1.03, I.1.04, I.1.05, I.1.06
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Presentations:
- Mariko Naito (Meiji University):
- “The ‘Fourth Person’ in Pre-modern and Modern Japanese Media: The In-betweenness of Self and Others”
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Sabrina Khonova (Chungbuk National University):
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“Translingual Intermediality in Social Media: Syntax, Identity, and Power in English-Russian Digital Communication”
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- 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):
- “Viewing and Reflecting on the Video Language-Landscape #2”
Room: I.1.05
Chair:
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”
Room: I.1.05
Chair:
Presentations:
- Favour C. Uroko (University of Nigeria):
- “Intermediality and the Migration Crisis in Nigeria: A Phenomenological Analysis” (online)
- 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:
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”
I.0 Atrium
Rooms: I.1.03, I.1.04, I.1.05, I.1.06
Room: I.1.03
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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):
- “Alternative Public Relations: Community Building on Alternative Media News Channels”
Room: I.1.04
Chair:
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:
Presentations:
- Jørgen Bruhn (Linnaeus University):
- “Environmental Grotesque Intermedial Travelogues”
- Heebon Park-Finch (Chungbuk National University):
- “Ecopolitical Intermediality: Staging the Anthropocene in April De Angelis’ Extinct” (online)
- Cristine Fickelscherer de Mattos (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro & Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie):
- “Intermediality for an Ecocritical Reading of a Romantic Colonial Perspective”
- 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”
Room: I.1.06
Chair:
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”
I.0 Atrium
“The Politics of Transmedia Games: Worldbuilding from Diversity to Dissensus"
Room: I.0.02
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I.0 Atrium
Rooms: I.1.03, I.1.04, I.1.05, I.1.06
Room: I.1.03
Chair:
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)”
- Angye Gaona (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México):
- pending [Colombian Poetry & Performing Arts]
Room: I.1.04
Chair:
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:
- “‘Serene, Blue-Violet: Metonymy, Ekphrasis, and Artistic Research in Almeida Prado’s Noturno No. 2” (online)
- André Luís Almeida de Castro:
- “Hybrid Identity and Intermedial Alterity in the Performance of Jônatas Reis’s Sonata No. 1 for Piano” (online)
- Gabriel Casara:
- “Intermedial Dissonance and Transcultural Masks: Arthur Bosmans’ ‘Brazilian Sonority’ as a Performance of Alterity” (online)
Rooms: I.1.05
Chair:
Presentations:
- Neha Jain (University of Gothenburg):
- “Impossible Returns: Drowning as Intermedial Metaphor in Climate Displacement Narratives”
- 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:
Presentations:
- Mattia Petricola (University of L’Aquila):
- “It’s a Kind of (Intermedial) Magic: Rethinking Masculinity from Druidry to Wizardcore”
- Birgit Van Puymbroeck (Vrije Universiteit Brussel):
- “‘That Magical and Enigmatic Margin’: Intermediality in Angela Carter’s Biographical Radio Plays”
- Manvendra Singh Thakur (Université de Montréal:
- “Intermedial Echoes of a Missing Archive: Reading Hijra Histories Through Mona Ahmed” (online)
- 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”
I.0 Atrium
Rooms: I.1.03, I.1.04, I.1.05, I.1.06
Room: I.1.03
Chair:
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):
- pending [Black writer-artist Renee Gladman: autofiction across writing and drawing]
Room: I.1.04
Chair:
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):
- “Contours and boundaries: 160 years of Intermedial Representations of Women’s Role”
Room: I.1.05
Chair:
Presentations:
- Yagmur Atlar (Linnaeus University):
- “Lost in Instantiation: Production(s) of Mediated Identity in Churchill’s A Number and Harrison’s Marjorie Prime”
- “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:
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”
Room: I.0.02
General Assembly International Society of Intermedial Studies and closing remarks by the society’s Board