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I Seminar on Gender and Literature: "New Relational Challenges in Contemporary Literature and Culture"

Vigo
Organization: Pandora Literary Gender Studies, Universidade de Vigo
Categories: Postcolonial, Digital Humanities, Hispanic & Latino, Comparative, Popular Culture, Gender & Sexuality, Literary Theory, Women's Studies, World Literatures, African-American, 20th & 21st Century, 20th & 21st Century, Poetry, Aesthetics, Anthropology/Sociology, Cultural Studies, Environmental Studies, Film, TV, & Media, Philosophy, African & African Diasporas, Asian & Asian Diasporas, Australian Literature, Canadian Literature, Caribbean & Caribbean Diasporas, Indian Subcontinent, Eastern European, Mediterranean, Middle East, Native American, Scandinavian, Pacific Literature
Event Date: 2026-07-09 to 2026-07-10 Abstract Due: 2026-04-15

The seminar "New Relational Challenges in Contemporary Literature and Culture" is an event co?organized by Pandora Literary Gender Studies and the Project “Communitas/Immunitas: Relational Ontologies in Atlantic Anglophone Cultures of the 21st Century” (Proyecto de Generación de Conocimiento PID2022-136904NB-100, funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by FEDER, UE).

 

The seminar aims to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue on how contemporary literature and culture imagine new relational possibilities and respond to the ethical, political, and affective challenges of our time. Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

 

Posthumanism, more-than-human, and hybrid relationalities
Gender, identity, and the reconfiguration of the subject
Affects, emotions, and embodied experiences
Community, solidarity, and alternative forms of social bonding
New forms of maternity, parenthood, and reproductive narratives
Care, vulnerability, and dependency in contemporary culture
Kinship beyond the nuclear family
Feminist and queer futures
Literary and cultural responses to ecological and technological change


Seminar program

The program will include a guided tour of the host city. It will also feature a plenary session by an invited guest speaker, as well as a roundtable discussion with young women experts in the field of English Studies. In addition, we will work to support the publication of selected papers in a special issue of an academic journal.

 

Registration Fees

General fee: 45 €

Pandora members and students: 30 €

In-person attendee: 20 €

Online attendee: 20 €

 

Submission deadline

15th April 2026, via this registration form.

 

Conference venue address

Edificio Redeiras (praza do Berbés, 11), Edificio Cambón (entrada rúa Oliva, 3).

 

Seminar coordinators

Claudia Martori Ribalta, Iago Rodríguez Diéguez.

https://www.pandoraliterarygenderstudies.com/event-details/i-seminar-on-gender-and-literature

iago.rodriguez.dieguez@uvigo.gal

Iago Rodriguez Dieguez