CFP: SUNY Brockport Hybrid Conference: SEGue 2026: Adaptation

Suny Brokport will be holding a hybrid graduate conference on Saturday, April 18, from 9:30 – 5:30.

Graduate Symposium 

(Hybrid conference – all sessions in person & on Zoom)

 

SEGue Organizers invite proposals for 

  • creative works (poems or short fictional/nonfictional prose for 10–15 minute readings, followed by q&a),
  • individual scholarly presentations (15-20 minutes, critically considering literary texts and contexts),
  • panels/roundtables (75 minutes). 

engaging with any of the following aspects of literary adaptation:

Creative writing concerned with adaptation to social, political, climactic and other change

Environmental or evolutionary adaptation (ecocriticism)

Technological adaptation in translation, critical scholarship, or creative writing

Adaptive publication (multimedial, multiple editions, etc.)

Translation as adaptation (craft of translation and scholarship on translation) 

Translingual or bilingual writing as adaptation

Cinematic Adaptation of Literary Works

Prospective adaptation in Science Fiction 

Adaptation Loops

Intertextual adaption

Transcultural adaptation

Theories of adaptation or the adaptation of theory in literary study

Interdisciplinary adaptation

Queer adaptation

Adaptation in travel literature

Genre Adaptation

and any other lines of inquiry or imagining related to adaptation 

 

Proposal Submissions:

Interested participants should submit a clear, concise, and compelling title, 250-word abstract, as well as their full contact information and institutional affiliation through the SEGue2026: Adaptation Mach form by the extended deadline of Friday, March 6, 2026. Please also indicate whether you would like to present your work in person or on zoom. For those attending the conference in person, in the Fannie Barrier Williams Liberal Arts Building on the main SUNY Brockport campus, there will be coffee hours and a lunch between sessions. In person sessions will also be streamed or in hybrid format, including both in-person and virtual presenters. 

 

If you have any difficulty with the form or have any questions regarding the conference, please reach out to the English Graduate Director (Dr. Sharon Lubkemann Allen, Professor of Comparative Literature) at gradenglish@brockport.edu.

 

Proposers will be notified by Friday, March 13th, regarding acceptance of scholarly papers, translations, and creative works for presentation at the conference. All invited participants must confirm participation by Wednesday, March 18.  


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