We are pleased to announce that our proposal for a massive online course (MOOC), titled Beyond Postmemory: War, Memory and Literature Today, has been accepted by the UAB’s Escola de Formació Permanent. The course will be recorded in January/February 2027 and is expected to be available online, through the Coursera platform (https://www.coursera.org/), by the end of the 2026–27 […]
We are pleased to invite you to the defence of Andrea E. Sáenz’s doctoral thesis, entitled Reassessing War Writing in Virginia Woolf’s Late Fiction: The Temporal and Spatial Borders of War, in which Sáenz explores the representation of both World Wars in Woolf’s late writings. The viva will take place on Thursday, September 17, at […]
Members of the Beyond Postmemory research project took part in the 36th Biennial Conference of the European Association for American Studies (EAAS), “1776–2026: Visions of Freedom,” held at the University of Bologna from 1 to 4 September 2026. Cristina Pividori, David Owen and Nicholas Spengler presented the roundtable “Minor Revolutions: Viet Thanh Nguyen and the […]
Irene Gassó i Lagares, a second-year PhD student in English Studies and member of the Beyond Postmemory research group, recently participated in the VII AEDEAN Doctoral Seminar. The event was hosted at the University of Cantabria, in Santander, from 1 to 3 July 2026. Gassó i Lagares shared with fellow doctoral students and professors her […]
From 17 to 19 June, the University of Amsterdam hosted the annual conference by the Amsterdam School for Heritage Memory and Material Culture. This year’s edition focused on “Unsettling Heritage & Memory Futures: Decolonial Trajectories between Crisis & Possibility.” Elvira Aguilera, FPI-funded doctoral candidate of the Beyond Postmemory Project, presented her paper “Material Heritage in […]
I am happy to share the publication of my article, “From the First World War to Iraq: Teaching War and Conflict through Contemporary Literature and Culture – A Reflective Essay and Response”, in the special issue Teaching the First World War for the Twenty-First Century: Pedagogies in Dialogue, guest edited by Ann-Marie Einhaus, Susan R. […]
Cristina Pividori and Christina Howes participated in the Place of Memory and Memory of Place Conference held at Birkbeck, University of London, on 20-21 June 2026 with the paper “In the Shadow of War: Classed Postmemory and Affective Domesticity in Beverly Gologorsky.” Their joint paper examined Beverly Gologorsky’s fiction through the concept of classed postmemory, […]
We are happy to share that our colleagues, Dr Maria Gaviña and Dr Lluïsa Schlesier, have taken part in the 25th Anniversary AEDEI International Conference. The conference, under the theme of “Victims,” took place at the University of the Basque Country in Vitoria-Gasteiz, from 27 to 27 May 2026. Dr Gaviña and Dr Schlesier participated […]
We are happy to share that Dr Sara Martín-Alegre will be joining the upcoming International Conference on Transcultural Adaptations: Literature Beyond Borders and Toward Peace. The event is organised by the University of the Balearic Islands (Spain) and will take place online on 19 June 2026. You may contact Dr Zahra Nazemi, the Conference Director, […]
SAVE THE DATE 📖Palestine: Culture, Identity, and Heritage 🗓️8 May 2026, 13:00 📍Sala Goytisolo, Tercera Planta, Biblioteca d’Humanitats, UAB We are pleased to announce that, on Friday, 8 May 2026, the Beyond Postmemory project will host a talk at the Humanities Library (Biblioteca d’Humanitats). As part of the exhibition “Palestine, Culture, Identity, and Heritage,” the […]