⚖️Jornada Cooperació per la Justícia Gobal, Fundació Autònoma Solidària 🗓️24 November 2025, 9-14h 📍Sala de Juntes, Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres I was glad to take part in the Jornada de Cooperació Universitària per la Justícia Global by presenting the activites carried out within Words Beyond War, a FAS-funded project that set out to connect…
At the 48th AEDEAN Conference in Vitoria-Gasteiz (12–14 November), I took part in several activities connected to our Beyond Postmemory Project. I chaired a roundtable with our PhD students Elvira Aguilera and Cristina Franco, Dr Sara Martín, Dr Nick Spengler and Dr David Owen, where we discussed the intersections of war, trauma and ecology through…
On Friday 25 April March, we had the pleasure of holding a Role-Play Workshop organised as part of the “Words Beyond War” initiative. The event was a collaborative initiative between FAS (Fundació Autònoma Solidària), the KUDWA association, the Group for the Representation of Conflict (G4RoC), and the Beyond Postmemory Project (POSTLIT). Through embodied storytelling, BA and MA students and…
On Friday 28 March, the Sala Polivalent at the Àgora building filled with voices, stories and reflections during the Storytelling Session organised as part of the “Words Beyond War” initiative. The event was a collaborative event between FAS (Fundació Autònoma Solidària), the KUDWA association, the Group for the Representation of Conflict (G4RoC), and the Beyond Postmemory Project (POSTLIT). Led by members of KUDWA, the…
“Narratives Across Borders: Contemporary Perspectives in Literature and Culture” 📅 27th February 2025 | 📍 Sala de Graus, Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres, UAB On February 27, we had the pleasure of hosting the 3rd SGR Seminar Barcelona-Lleida, bringing together researchers from G4RoC (Group for the Representation of Conflict, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and CELCA…
Our SGR Group for the Representation of Conflict (G4RoC) recently participated in a seminar organized by our colleagues at CELCA (Centre de Literatures i Cultures en Anglès, Universitat de Lleida). The event covered a wide range of topics, including literary gerontology, various aspects of conflict, and the challenges posed by anthropocentric and terracentric readings in…
2nd SGR Seminar Lleida-Barcelona The 2nd SGR Seminar on Contemporary Literatures in English will be held on May 16, 2024, at the Universitat de Lleida, in the Sala Juntes room of the Rectorat building. This research seminar, coordinated by CELCA (Centre de Literatures i Cultures en Anglès, Universitat de Lleida) and G4RoC (Group for the…
2023. On December 8th, I presented my latest work at the 8th “Memory, Melancholy and Nostalgia” International Interdisciplinary Conference, that took place in Gdańsk, Poland. I had the chance to engage with fellow scholars and attendees in a dialogue about how lsabel Colegate’s The Shooting Party (1980) recreated an Edwardian period which was informed by…
2023. On June 21, I had the privilege to attend and present at the “Diasporic Heritage and Identity” conference held at the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture (University of Amsterdam). My paper, entitled “’Make America Great Again’: (De)Colonising Masculinities in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees (2017),” explores the representation of displaced masculinities…
