Call for Papers

Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory in Contemporary Anglophone Literature and Culture We are happy to share the Call for Papers for our upcoming collected volume “Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory in Contemporary Anglophone Literature and Culture.” In the same spirit as our homonymous October seminar, which showcased a variety of literary […]

Words Beyond War at 12th TELLC Workshop

On 28 January 2026, the 12th edition of the Teaching English Language and Culture (TELLC) Workshop will be held at the Sala d’Actes (Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres) from 9:00 – 14:00. Organized and coordinated by Dr Sara Martín, the event brings together the teaching staff of the Department of English and German Studies to […]

New Publication: Dr Christina Howes on Ecological Postmemory and Reconstructive Metamodernism in Richard Flanagan’s ‘Question 7’

We are pleased to announce that Dr Christina Howes has recently published an article titled “From war memory to planetary consciousness: ecological postmemory and reconstructive metamodernism in Richard Flanagan’s Question 7.” In her contribution to the journal The Grove, Howes examines Richard Flanagan’s Question 7 (2023) as a transformative work of postmemorial literature that fuses […]

New Publication: Dr Sara Martín in Wars We Never Fought

We are happy to announce that Dr Sara Martín has contributed with the chapter “The Posthuman Patriarchal Villain as Absolute Military Threat: Winston Duarte’s Wars in The Expanse Novel Series”  to Wars We Never Fought — a collection of essays examining how armed conflict functions as a subject, theme, metaphor, symbol, or plot device in […]

PhD Defence: Enas Talib Farid Hamidi (URV, 28 Nov 2025)

We are happy to announce the successful defence of Enas Talib Farid Hamidi’s doctoral thesis, “Breaking Down Barriers: Addressing Cultural Factors in Language Learning for Syrian Women Refugees in the UK,” presented in the Doctoral Programme in Humanistic Studies at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona). Although Enas’s project does not sit strictly within literary […]

‘Words beyond War’: Building an Academic-Refugee Community through Literature and Performance at the Jornada de Cooperació per la Justícia Global

SAVE THE DATE ⚖️Jornada Cooperació per la Justícia Gobal, Fundació Autònoma Solidària 🗓️24 November 2025, 9-14h 📍Sala de Juntes, Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres Dr Cristina Pividori will contribute to the Jornada de Cooperació per la Justícia Global by presenting Words Beyond War, a FAS-funded initiative designed tobond higher education with lived experience by cultivating […]

Days of War Exhibition Catalogue: “The Dynamics of Postmemory: Visual Art as a Living Site of Remembrance” by Dr Cristina Pividori

We are pleased to share that Dr Cristina Pividori has contributed an essay to the exhibition catalogue Giorni di Guerra – Days of War, produced for the project Days of War – The Photographer’s Shadow, which marks the 110th anniversary of Italy’s entry into the First World War. The event brings together historical and contemporary visual work […]

The Beyond Postmemory Research Group at the 48th AEDEAN Conference in Vitoria-Gasteiz

From 12 to 14 November, the AEDEAN held its 48th conference at the Faculty of Arts of the University of the Basque Country. There, the Beyond Postmemory Research Group participated in roundtables and individual presentations in the Cultural Studies and Modern and Comparative Literature panels. Chaired by Dr Cristina Pividori, Elvira Aguilera, Cristina Franco, Dr […]

Dr Umberto Rossi’s Keynote Lecture at the ‘Days of War’ Conference (Università Ca’Foscari)

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 […]

Follow-up to the Seminar Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory

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 […]