Intermediality

Each semester, we host a series of workshops, talks, film screenings, and/or interviews with artists, writers and other art practitioners.

Our intermediality events are conducted in close connection with the MSc programme ‘Intermediality: Literature, Film and the Arts in Dialogue’ which was launched in September 2021.

Some of these events are organised jointly with Meiji University in Tokyo as part of our Research Partnership in Intermedia Studies, with academic workshops and impact projects held alternatingly in Edinburgh and Tokyo.

Join us on Teams for the second event in our DRSS seminar series on Decolonising Minds and Methods. This seminar's theme is 'intermediality'. Guest speakers: Dr Emanuela Patti and Dr Inma Sánchez-García.

Join us at the inaugural workshop of the Research Partnership in Intermedia Studies between the University of Edinburgh and Meiji University, exploring relationships between images, music and texts.

Join us on Zoom for a seminar by Professor Pascale Aebischer (University of Exeter) on made-for-digital live productions during the Covid-19 pandemic and the re-imagination of the relationship between audience and performers.

Join us on Zoom for a conversation with Professor Ben Bollig on his two recent books Moving Verses and The Poetry-Film Nexus in Latin America.

Join us in person for this year's first DRSS seminar by Professor Patrick O'Donovan (University College Cork) on the relation between architecture and literature in modernist fiction.

Join us for this in-person talk from Sébastien Laurier on his time in the Pitcairn Islands and how it inspired his book, 'La Bounty à Pitcairn. Mais que sont les révoltés devenus ?'.

Join us in-person for this intermediality seminar with Professor Barnaby Ralph (Seikei University, Tokyo) and Professor Fuhito Endo (Seikei University, Tokyo) on the topic of interdisciplinary perspectives.

Join us at the next workshop of the Research Partnership in Intermedia Studies between the University of Edinburgh and Meiji University, exploring translations and adaptations of a range of media.

Are you interested in studying Intermediality?

As the first UNESCO World City of Literature, home of the Edinburgh International Festival and a major cultural hub, Edinburgh is the ideal place for the study of intermediality. Our one-year taught masters programme draws on world-class teaching and research expertise across media, from literature to film, music, painting, photography and visual culture more widely. 

The programme will make you conversant with intermedial theory and equip you with the critical tools and historical background for understanding and analysing a wide range of intermedial phenomena across different periods and cultures. It can also be completed part-time over two years.