Research project "Trans-formations: Queer Practices of Use and Embodiment in post 9/11 Narratives in English" (PID2023-146450NB-I00) funded by @CienciaGob
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IMPORTANT! The time zone for the seminar is 4:30 CEST, not CET‼️
📣 We are pleased to announce our next event!
📖 This time our predoctoral students will discuss their PhD theses in relation to the main critical research lines of our project!
🗓️ April 28, 2026
⏱️ 4:30 PM (CET)
Registration details below‼️
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📚✨New Book Chapter!
We’re delighted to share that our project member Rocío Cobo Piñero has published a new chapter in Patricia Anzini and Verena Lindemann Lino’s edited collection⬇️
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«Transatlantic Women’s Networks: Cultural Engagements from the 19th Century to the Present” (Peter Lang 2026).
➡️ “Dissident Bodies Occupy Public Space: Zanele Muholi’s Transatlantic Visual Activism”
🔗 doi.org/10.3726/b23314
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This contribution draws on Judith Butler’s “performative theory of assembly” and how “embodied forms of action and mobility” (2015, 8) to discuss the performative possibilities of Muholi’s series in public space as acts of LGBTIQ resistance.
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🤩 Last week, there were exciting news about project members in the 25th Anniversary AEDEI International Conference, held at Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea!
✨ Auxiliadora Pérez-Vides was appointed President of AEDEI!
📚 In addition, several members presented their research.
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J. Javier Torres-Fernández (Universidad de Almería) presented his paper “Political Stagnation and the AIDS Crisis: Exploring Narratives and Metaphors of HIV/AIDS in Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance”.
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For her part, María Elena Jaime de Pablos (Universidad de Almería) presented her paper “Victimhood, resistance and self-transformation in Somewhere Out There You by Nancy Harris”.
Congratulations for their work in Irish Studies! 🇮🇪
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Our team member Paula García Rodríguez has been on a roll! 👏Over the past month, Paula has brought her research to two international conferences.
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From May 18th to 20th, she attended the Poetics and Politics of Literary Assemblages: an International Conference (Universidad de Málaga).
This time, she bridged assemblage theory and hauntology by analysing Tracy Fahey’s novella They Shut Me Up and its aging female bodies.
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Congratulations, Paula, on bringing visibility to these narratives and opening up such essential debates in academia! 👏✨#feminism #genderstudies #academia #transformations #narratives
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📚✨New Article!
We’re delighted to share that Pedro Mora-Ramírez has published a new article in “The Conversation”.
➡️ “¿Cómo reparar algo que la justicia ha roto? El caso de ‘los cinco de Central Park’”
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🔍This contribution highlights the role of the Gate of the Exonerated, a space for hope and transformation that advocates for the lives of those wrongly incarcerated. Link below!
🔗 doi.org/10.64628/AAO.6hekgkh…
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📚Some weeks ago, we held our II Online Seminar, where our predoctoral researchers discussed their PhD theses and some of our project's key research lines.
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Ending the first session, Paula García-Rodríguez presented her PhD thesis on contemporary literary works focused on body horror and queer use.
Isaac Linton Clewes started the second session discussing his project on irony and sincerity in trans literature and art.
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Finally, Vladyslav Shapoval Spivak introduced us to autobiographical narratives that can be used as a tool to mirror queer migrants in the US.
Thank you to everybody who attended the seminar and we hope to see you all in future events!
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🤩📚Today we celebrate World Book Day and with nothing better than book recommendations!
🗒️ Consider adding these to your collection and to your TBR list!
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As Toni Morrison beautifully articulated, “Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind”.
Happy World Book Day❤️📖
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