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 […]

Dr Albert Soler Ruda at the ‘Days of War’ Conference: “Dog soldiers and storytellers. The Great War and the construction of the indigenous citizen and their inherited narratives of memory through comics.”

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 […]

Dr David Owen at ‘More Pride and Less Prejudice: Jane Austen at 250’

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 […]

Nature Remembers: War Trauma and Environmental Postmemory

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 […]