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 […]
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 […]
From 16 to 17 April 2026, the University of Manchester hosted the Falklands/Malvinas Conflict Conference, a major international conference examining the legacy of the 1982 Anglo-Argentinian conflict. The event brought together leading experts, veterans and students from both sides. The interventions explored the enduring significance of the conflict nearly 45 years on, addressing its historical […]
We are pleased to share that Cristina Pividori’s review of Alexandra Zapruder’s Salvaged Pages: Young Writers’ Diaries of the Holocaust (2002) has been published in the Journal of Juvenilia Studies 7.2 (2026), pp. 157–161. In the review, Pividori examines Zapruder’s important contribution to Holocaust memory through her careful curation of fourteen diaries written by young […]
The Beyond Postmemory project, in collaboration with Casa Palestina de Aragón, and under the curatorship of Dr Enas Hamidi, has set up an exhibition in the UAB Humanities Library that will be open for visitors during April 2026. The exhibition is designed as a cultural journey through several Palestinian cities, allowing visitors to explore the […]
SAVE THE DATE 📖 Narratives de la Diàspora Palestina. Isabella Hammad 🗓️19 April 2026, 11:00-12:30 📍Llibreria Aldarull, C/ Torrent de l’Olla 72, 08012, Barcelona. We are very happy to share that Elvira Aguilera García, FPI-funded doctoral candidate at UAB, will be delivering a talk titled “Narratives de la Diàspora Palestina. Isabella Hammad” at Llibreria Aldarull […]
We are very happy to share that one of our BA students, Ysabella Pachano Contreras, has been awarded the Premi Arcadi Oliveres a Treballs de Fi de Grau de transformació per a la Justícia Global. Supervised by Dr Cristina Pividori, Pachano Contreras’ dissertation, “The American’t Dream: The Roles of Irony, Magical Realism and Empathy in […]
We are happy to share that one of our MA students, Hanadi Abu Jazar, took part in an institutional meeting hosted by the Rector of the Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona, Javier Lafuente. The event took place on 25 March 2026 and was organised by the General Secretary, Esther Zapata, together with the Director of the […]
Last Friday, 13 March, we had the pleasure of welcoming Simone Da Dalt, who delivered the talk “Days of War.” He presented insights from his latest publication, the article “The War on Display,” included in the catalogue Days of War. In his talk, Da Dalt offered a cross-analysis of two Great War artists: Luigi Marzocchi […]
SAVE THE DATE 🗣️ “Days of War” by Simone Da Dalt 📍 Sala d’Actes, Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres 📅 13 March 2026, 10:00 – 11:30 We are happy to invite you to our upcoming talk (this time in Spanish!), curated by Simone Da Dalt — “Days of War.” Da Dalt proposes an interdisciplinary reflection […]
We are very happy to share that Dr Nirvana Tanoukhi (Dartmouth College) will be joining us for one of the BA and MA sessions of Modern War Poetry and Theatre and Writing Research. In this lecture, Tanoukhi will talk about her forthcoming book, Disagreeing Together, which examines the crisis of public discourse in Anglo-European democracies […]