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 […]
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 […]
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 […]