Activities

Publications

Howes, Christina. “From War Memory to Planetary Consciousness: Ecological Postmemory and Reconstructive Metamodernism in Richard Flanagan’s Question 7”. The Grove – Working Papers on English Studies, vol. 32, Dec. 2025, p. e9768, https://doi.org/10.17561/grove.v32.9768.

Conferences and Seminars

Spengler, Nicholas. “Melville’s Migrations: Gurnah’s By the Sea and Akomfrah’s Vertigo Sea.” MLA 2026 Convention, Modern Language Association, and The Melville Society,  8–11 Jan. 2026, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto.

Events (PhD Vivas, Workshops, etc.)

Aguilera, Elvira, Cristina Franco, Irene Gassó, Natàlia Vila. “Literary Representations of War.” Winter Workshop, Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Germanística, 13 Feb. 2026, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès.

Publications

Martín Alegre, Sara. “The Posthuman Patriarchal Villain as Absolute Military Threat: Winston Duarte in The Expanse Novel Series.” Wars We Never Fought: Armed Conflict in Speculative Fiction, edited by Matthew B. Hill and Leigha H. McReynolds, Bloomsbury, 2025, pp. 177–193. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/wars-we-never-fought-9798765121535/

Pividori, Cristina. “The Dynamics of Postmemory: Visual Art as Living Site of Remembrance.” Giorni di Guerra: L’Ombra del Fotografo, edited by Simone Da Dalt and Jasmine Mitaval, Editrice Storica, 2025, pp. 156–179.

Tiempo Devorado Special Issue

Pividori, Cristina. “Owen i Sassoon Reconsiderats: El trauma de la Primera Guerra Mundial, la memòria i la poesia antibel·licista contemporània en l’era ‘Post tot.’” Tiempo Devorado, vol. 10, no. 1, 2025, pp. 41–77, https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/tdevorado.246.

Soler, Albert, coordinator. “Culturas de desmovilización. Conflictos, reinserción y memoria: La construcción de los excombatientes y su impacto en el mundo actual.” Tiempo Devorado, vol. 10, no. 1, 2025, https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/tdevorado.242.

———. “Cómo contar una historia de guerra: Culturas de desmovilización y excombatientes contemporáneos.” Tiempo Devorado, vol. 10, no. 1, 2025, pp. 5–40, https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/tdevorado.237.

Conferences and Seminars

48th AEDEAN Conference

Pividori, Cristina, Elvira Aguilera, Cristina Franco, Sara Martín, David Owen, and Nicholas Spengler. “Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory in Contemporary Anglophone Literature.” 48th AEDEAN Conference, 12–14 Nov. 2025, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz.

Aguilera García, Elvira. “Matter and the (re)construction and mediation of memory and identity in Isabella Hammad’s novel Enter Ghost.” 48th AEDEAN Conference, 12–14 Nov. 2025, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz.

Franco Rosillo, Cristina. “Make America Sick Again: Dislodged Temporalities and Communities in Elizabeth Strout’s Lucy by the Sea.” 48th AEDEAN Conference, 12–14 Nov. 2025, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz.

Owen, David. The Long Shadow of War: Militarised Authority in Austen’s Domestic Worlds.” 48th AEDEAN Conference, 12–14 Nov. 2025, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz.

Pividori, Cristina. “Beyond the Banality: Assemblage, Hauntology, and the Ethics of Space in The Zone of Interest (Novel and Film).” 48th AEDEAN Conference, 12–14 Nov. 2025, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz.

Giorni di Guerra

Rossi, Umberto. “Three Different Ways of Framing a War: From Comedy to Adventure to History.” Giorni di Guerra, Università Ca’ Foscari, Museo della Battaglia di Vittorio Vennetto, and ICLA Research Committee on Comic Studies and Graphic Narrative, 3–5 Nov. 2025, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice.

Soler Ruda, Albert. “Dog soldiers and storytellers. The Great War and the construction of the indigenous citizen and their inherited narratives of memory through comics.” Giorni di Guerra, Università Ca’ Foscari, Museo della Battaglia di Vittorio Vennetto, and ICLA Research Committee on Comic Studies and Graphic Narrative, 3–5 Nov. 2025, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice.

Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory

Aguilera García, Elvira.  “Tracing Embodied Agency in Conflict-Altered Ecologies: Insights from Hala Aylan’s Salt Houses.” Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory, 24 Oct. 2025, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès.

Cristina Pividori and Andrea Bellot. “Beyond the Heart of Darkness: Rape and Ecocide in Congo’s Theatres of Memory.” Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory, 24 Oct. 2025, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès.

Franco Rosillo, Cristina.  “The Illusion of Nature as Affective Shelter in Michael Cunningham’s Day.” Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory, 24 Oct. 2025, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès.

Howes, Christina.  “Entangled Memories: War, Trauma, and Ecological Legacies in Flanagan’s Question 7.” Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory, 24 Oct. 2025, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès.

Martín Alegre, Sara. “Zero Ecology in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road: Exceeding the Possibilities of Human and Natural Recovery.” Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory, 24 Oct. 2025, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès.

Monnickendam, Andrew. “Environmental Memory, Mausoleums, and Holiday Snaps.” Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory, 24 Oct. 2025, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès.

Owen, David.  “Jamie Foyers as Performance, Trauma and Environmental Memory.” Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory, 24 Oct. 2025, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès.

Spengler, Nicholas.  ““Who Will Be Lost in the Story We Tell Ourselves:” Human and Non-Human Memory in Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeus and John Akomfrah’s Vertigo Sea.” Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory, 24 Oct. 2025, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès.

More Pride and Less Prejudice: Jane Austen at 250

Owen, David. “They Also Serve: Jane Austen’s Domestic Spaces as Theatres of War,” More Pride and Less Prejudice: Jane Austen at 250, 8 – 10 Oct. 2026, University of Porto, Porto.