We are pleased to announce that the Beyond Postmemory Research Group (POSTLIT) will host a research seminar on classed postmemory in contemporary Anglophone literature, entitled Classed Postmemory: The Unequal Inheritance of War and Conflict. The event will take place on Friday, 20 November 2026, in Room P‑15 at the Facultat de Psicologia i Logopèdia (UAB). […]
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On 2 October 2026, the National Library of Ireland hosted its second annual ‘Ballybeg Goes Global’ event, which explores how one of Ireland’s greatest playwrights continues to inspire audiences around the world. This year, scholars and performers gathered at the NLI to explore how Brian Friel’s work has travelled across languages, cultures, and theatrical traditions. […]
We’re happy to share that our colleague, Dr Maria Gaviña-Costero, has recently published “Renegotiating loyalism and Irishness in post-Brexit, post-Covid Belfast: Rosemary Jenkinson’s Billy Boy“ in the Irish Studies Review (Routledge). In this article, Gaviña-Costero addresses how post-conflict Northern Ireland is fragmented on multiple levels, with intersections between them marked by barriers, symbols and celebrations. […]
We are happy to share that our PhD student and research assistant, Cristina Franco, took part in the conference COVID Legacies: Long-Term Social and Cultural Effects, which took place from 9 to 11 October in Istanbul and was organised by Sabancı and Koç Universities. Bringing together scholars from a wide range of disciplines, from medicine […]
We are happy to share that Elvira Aguilera attended and presented at the first conference of the Iberian Memory Studies Network (RIEM), held from 16 to 18 September 2026 at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. The inaugural conference, under the theme of “Memory and Emancipation,” explored the tensions and dialogues between memory and emancipation as means […]
We are pleased to announce that our proposal for a massive online course (MOOC), titled Beyond Postmemory: War, Memory and Literature Today, has been accepted by the UAB’s Escola de Formació Permanent. The course will be recorded in January/February 2027 and is expected to be available online, through the Coursera platform (https://www.coursera.org/), by the end of the 2026–27 […]
We are pleased to invite you to the defence of Andrea E. Sáenz’s doctoral thesis, entitled Reassessing War Writing in Virginia Woolf’s Late Fiction: The Temporal and Spatial Borders of War, in which Sáenz explores the representation of both World Wars in Woolf’s late writings. The viva will take place on Thursday, September 17, at […]
Members of the Beyond Postmemory research project took part in the 36th Biennial Conference of the European Association for American Studies (EAAS), “1776–2026: Visions of Freedom,” held at the University of Bologna from 1 to 4 September 2026. Cristina Pividori, David Owen and Nicholas Spengler presented the roundtable “Minor Revolutions: Viet Thanh Nguyen and the […]
Irene Gassó i Lagares, a second-year PhD student in English Studies and member of the Beyond Postmemory research group, recently participated in the VII AEDEAN Doctoral Seminar. The event was hosted at the University of Cantabria, in Santander, from 1 to 3 July 2026. Gassó i Lagares shared with fellow doctoral students and professors her […]