On October 24, we had the pleasure of hosting the seminar ‘Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory’ at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. In a series of individual presentations, the members of the research group shared their latest research on the notion of “environmental postmemory”, exploring how ecosystems and non-human agents transmit and transform […]
From 3 to 5 November, the international, interdisciplinary conference Giorni di Guerra: La Photo-Graphika del Trauma (Days of War: Photographics of Trauma) was held in Venice. The event was organised by the Museo della Battaglia di Vittorio Veneto and Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, in collaboration with the ICLA Research Committee on Comics Studies and Graphic Narrative. The conference […]
David Owen attended and participated in the conference titled “More Pride and Less Prejudice: Jane Austen at 250″, hosted by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Porto, Portugal, from 02–04 October. The conference—with plenary sessions given by Professor John Mullan of University College London and Professor Fiona Stafford of the University of […]
SAVE THE DATE 🌿Nature Remembers: War, Trauma and Environmental Postmemory 🗓️ Friday, 24th October 2025 📍Sala de Graus, Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona We are pleased to announce that the Beyond Postmemory Research Group (POSTLIT) is hosting a research seminar on environmental postmemory in contemporary Anglophone literature, titled ‘Nature Remembers: War […]
The European Network for Remembrance Solidarity (ENRS) held the conference ‘Genealogies of Memory 2025: What Remains from the Second World War? Remnants, Memories and Narratives Revised’, where Dr Christina Howes (UIC) presented her paper “The Space Between: Postmemory, Wartime Space, and the Ethics of Proximity in Rachel Seiffert’s A Boy in Winter“. From September 17 […]
We are pleased to report that Dr María Gaviña Costero has recently published El Teatro de Brian Friel (2025). The monograph examines the dramatic works of Brian Friel (Omagh, 1929-2015), one of the most influential Irish playwrights of the 20th century. Dr Gaviña Costero’s publication fills the existing gap in Spanish-speaking academia by presenting a […]
We are pleased to announce that Dr Sara Martín Alegre has published the book Masculinity in Contemporary Science Fiction by Men: No Plans for the Future (Liverpool University Press, 2025). The recent publication addresses gender roles in conflict and war set in Sci-Fi narratives, examining how masculine identity is shaped by military, ecological, racial, and […]
On 12 June 2025, we hosted “Singing Survival: Memory, Theatre and the Afterlives of Violence” as part of the Words Beyond War initiative at the Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres (UAB). The event, framed within the Projectes d’Educació per a la Justícia Global (EpJG), and funded by FAS, invited colleagues from the Universitat de Lleida to reflect on how […]
At the 2025 Memory Studies Association conference, held at Nottingham Trent University under the theme “Dynamics, Mediation, Mobilization,” Dr. Cristina Pividori (UAB) and Dr Andrea Bellot (URV) presented the paper “Ruined Bodies and Landscapes: Theatre, Postmemory, and the Entangled Legacies of Rape and Ecocide in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.” In this joint work, they […]
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 […]