Dear all, We won’t have an IMS seminar this week, but we have something even better! Nafiseh Mousavi will have her digital PhD defence on Migratory self-adaptation on Friday, 19 March! Nafiseh’s defence of her thesis "The Art of Repeating Oneself. Migratory self-adaption: media choice, self-location and authorship" will take place as a public, digital event from 13.00 CET - ca. 16.00 CET. Read more about the defence and how to get access here: https://lnu.se/en/meet-linnaeus-university/current/events/2021/public-defen… You can also read Nafiseh's full thesis here: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-101334<https://l.facebo… Abbreviated abstract: This thesis studies the process and products of migratory self-adaptation: the practice of a migrant author recreating their own work in a new medium, and the baggage it brings with it. Migratory self-adaptation is developed and analyzed in this research through a comparative and processual analysis of two cases of adaptation: Persepolis, a French autobiographical graphic novel written and drawn by Marjane Satrapi, the Franco- Iranian artist and writer, later turned into an animation movie co-written and codirected by Satrapi herself; and The Patience Stone, a novel written in French by Atiq Rahimi, the Franco-Afghan author, which is adapted to a homonymous film in Dari- Persian, co-written and directed by the author. With their intercultural position, migrant authors face particular challenges of positionality, visibility, inclusion, and survival. Various strategies have been developed to address these challenges and migratory self-adaptation, as is argued and demonstrated throughout this research, which brings several of these strategies together. The research argues that the authorship constructed through migratory self-adaptation is multi-directional, transmedial, and transcultural. This multi-dimensional authorship is analyzed through the extended case studies, which include contexts as well as texts and processes alongside the products. (...) The study adopts an interdisciplinary approach in theory and methodology and develops a transmedial understanding of migrant authorship and a multi-layered understanding of adaptation. In doing so, it joins the disciplines of intermediality and adaptation studies with literature and cinema of migration and also integrates theories of authorship, translation, border, and memory. By discussing various faces of adaptation in the migratory situation and the interconnection between different cultural mechanisms, this research addresses some of the fundamental questions regarding authoring in migration, including but not restricted to translational communication, cultural difference, dynamics of inclusion and exclusion, and survival. Best wishes and see you on Friday! /Signe – on behalf of IMS IMS on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LNU.IMS IMS public email list: https://lists.sunet.se/listinfo/publik.ims Signe Kjaer Jensen PhD student in Comparative Literature Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS) Linnæus University Department of Film and Literature 351 95 Växjö Sweden https://lnu.se/personal/signe.kjaerjensen/ signe.kjaerjensen at lnu.se<mailto:signe.kjaerjensen at lnu.se>