Two Culture Talks by Judit Pieldner

The English Department is proud to invite you to

two public lectures

by

Judit Pieldner, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Department of Human Sciences
Faculty of Economics, Socio-Human Sciences and Engineering
Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania

Literature on Screen: An Introduction to Film Adaptations through Shakespeare's Hamlet

November 26, 2024, 8.50 am, P002

This presentation proposes to familiarize the audience with the relationship between literature and film. It will survey the major theories of screen adaptation. Various adaptation typologies will be exemplified through screen adaptations of Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Postcolonial Rewritings of the Classics

November 28, 2024, 6.00 pm, P005

This presentation provides an introduction to strategies of rewriting, why writers resort to this practice in contemporary literature, what changes are effected and how they reinterpret the original works. The theory of rewriting will be discussed especially in connection with postcolonialism, exploring how colonial patterns are shifted by their critical treatment and by giving voice to the Other.

Judit Pieldner is associate professor at Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Miercurea Ciuc, Romania. Her research interests are related to intermediality, remediation, experimental cinema and screen adaptation. She is executive editor of the journal Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica. Her latest volume entitled Adaptation, Remediation and Intermediality: Forms of In-Betweenness in Cinema was published by Cluj University Press (2020).