- Multispecies Explorations in a World in Ruins. Hybrid Bodies, Intertwined and Inscribed Upon One Another
The seminar “Multispecies Explorations in a World in Ruins. Hybrid Bodies, Intertwined and Inscribed Upon One Another”, organized by Laura Del Vecchio and Stephanie Rincón, aims to create a space for imagining and exploring new sensory and creative ways of thinking about plural worlds from perspectives that reach beyond the human.
- Mind, Body, Planet: Indigenous Environmental Justice
Salma Monani, Professor of Environmental Studies at Gettysburg College, will discuss the concept of d-ecocinema, focusing on how Indigenous cinema’s ecological…
- Presentation of the videoessay “Stray Visuality”
Katarzyna Paszkiewicz presents her videoessay “Stray Visuality”, which raises questions about the role of film as a vehicle for denaturalizing the anthropocentric perspective and cultivating new ways of perceiving….
- Presentation of the videoessay “Stray Visuality” and talk by Katarzyna Paszkiewicz
Katarzyna Paszkiewicz will be presenting her videoessay “Stray Visuality”. The activity is part of the master’s programme CRIC – Construction and Representation of Cultural Identities and…
- The Affective Politics of the Novel: From Research to the Classroom
Katarzyna Paszkiewicz, Andrea Ruthven, and Paloma Fresno Calleja coordinate the international seminar “The Affective Politics of Romance: From Research to The Classroom”…
- Citizen Science, Environmental, Citizenship and Women’s Ornithological Writing in Nineteenth Century
Clara Contreras Ameduri (Universidad de Extremadura) will give an online seminar titled “Citizen Science, Environmental, Citizenship and Women’s Ornithological Writing in the Nineteenth Century”.
- International Symposium “Cinema in the Anthropocene”
The goal of the International Symposium “Cinema in the Anthropocene” is to reflect on the ways in which contemporary cinema allows us to resituate ourselves in what is commonly known as the Anthropocene, along with the filmic forms (narratives, modes, and genres) that respond to this climatic, social, and cultural reality…
- Ambivalent Imaginaries of the Future: Ustopias in Speculative and Science Fiction
What narrative formulas and models of representation are used today in literary and audiovisual fiction to explain the crises of recent times? How are the ustopian futures of capitalist/post-capitalist society represented in these types of narratives? The Workshop…
- I Symposium ¿La quarta onada?: Especulacions feministes per a un futur possible
The I Symposium “La quarta onada: Especulacions feministes per a un futur possible” aims to go beyond the analysis of the representation of gender and sexuality produced by the hegemonic patriarchal and social system in order to focus on the production of viable imaginaries in the speculative context of a possible future in which other socio-political and affective systems can develop….
- Uscronies and popular culture
Andrea Ruthven (ADHUC-Universitat de les Illes Balears) analyzes the affective afrofuturisms in speculative fiction.
- The past and the future, the planet, ourselves, new trends in anglophone fiction
Summer course
- Affect Theory: Cinema, Popular Culture, and Poetry
This activity is one of the results of the research projects “Cinema and Environment: Affective Ecologies in the Anthropocene”, “Trànsfugues i pàries modernes: gènere i exclusió a la cultura popular del segle XXI” and “La poesia catalana contemporània des de la perspectiva dels estudis afectius”…
- Noves Direccions en els Estudis Literaris i Culturals: Pensar la «malaltia» en temps de pandèmia
L’activitat, que inaugura el cicle Noves Direccions en els Estudis Literaris i Culturals, es proposa reflexionar sobre la pandèmia des del posthumanisme i les humanitats mèdiques i mediambientals…