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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…

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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…

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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….

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Uscronies and popular culture

Andrea Ruthven (ADHUC-Universitat de les Illes Balears) analyzes the affective afrofuturisms in speculative fiction.

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The past and the future, the planet, ourselves, new trends in anglophone fiction

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Videos: Teoria dels afectes: cinema, cultura popular i poesia

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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”…

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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…