9:09 a.m.
Welcome to Meeting Media Minds with Thomas Leitch on How to Succeed in Intermediality
Without Really Being Lars Elleström
We are happy to invite you to attend the fourth talk in our open lecture series Meeting
Media Minds: Critical legacies of Lars Elleström on Wednesday 8 June. This week we are
visited by Thomas Leitch, who is a Professor of English and Unidel Andrew B. Kirkpatrick
Chair in Writing, University of Delaware.
Nota that this lecture takes place in the evening (in Swedish time).
Abstract: How to Succeed in Intermediality Without Really Being Lars Elleström
Lars Elleström’s approach to intermedial studies was so ambitious and all-encompassing
that some scholars inspired by his work might find his analytical precision and his
prodigious grasp of, and for, new material too daunting to make effective models for their
own work. This presentation seeks to encourage new research in intermedial studies along
two obviously contradictory lines: scholarship that seeks to establish itself by imitating
Elleström’s own approach, and scholarship that aims to establish new perspectives by
following a contrary approach. Focusing on the analysis of three examples of qualified
media that have so far largely escaped scrutiny by intermedial scholars, the presentation
aims to demonstrate not only that following in Elleström’s footsteps and challenging his
principles and protocols at every step are equally reasonable ways to undertake
intermedial studies, but that Elleström’s own work incorporates and anticipates them
both.
The lecture is on Wednesday 8. June 17.15-19.00 CEST (Swedish summertime).
This lecture is completely digital. You are welcome to participate via zoom:
https://lnu-se.zoom.us/j/63994556354?pwd=T1ZBVW91QkFkWXdhV0lKSW9qRUVKZz09.
This lecture is part of the IMS lecture series 'Meeting Media Minds – Critical
Legacies of Lars Elleström' (MMM). The MMM is a series of open, online lectures
intended to commemorate and discuss the work of Lars Elleström.
The invited speakers have been asked to talk about and discuss one of Lars Elleström’s
concepts in relation to their own work. The lectures will further include a consideration
of how the concept can be used and developed in future research, and an open discussion.
Best wishes,
Signe – on behalf of IMS
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Signe Kjaer Jensen / PhD
Senior Lecturer, Department of Film and Literature
Social Media Manager for Center for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS)
Linnæus University
Department of Film and Literature