Online Module (March-May 2023)
Opening Online Session. Introduction to the BIP (Dr José Igor Prieto-Arranz, Dr Rubén Jarazo-Álvarez and Dr Fruela Fernández Iglesias, UIB) 5-6pm, 8 March 2023
Online Session 1. Storytelling in the Anthropocene: Narratives of Climate Fiction 5-7pm, 15 March 2023
Fact and Fiction: Novels and Climate Change (Prof Jane Mattisson Ekstam, Østfold University College)
The Arts of Noticing: Cli-Fi Film and Ecocinema in the Anthropocene (Dr Katarzyna Paszkiewicz, UIB)
Stories That Matter: Indigenous Fictions for a Changing Climate (Dr Andrea Ruthven, UIB)
Online Session 2. The Rise of a Postmillennial Sensibility: Metamodernism in Art, Literature and Film (Dr Soňa Šnircová and Prof Slávka Tomaščíková, UPJS) 5-7pm, 19 April 2023
Online Session 3. Meeting Europe’s Intersectional (Socio-political, Ethical, Ecological) Challenges in Cultural Productions. Theoretical Considerations (Prof Sabine Coelsch-Foisner and Dr Christopher Herzog, Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg) 5-7pm, 26 April 2023
Online Session 4. Migration, Displacement, Exclusion (Dr Patricia Bastida Rodríguez, Dr Rubén Jarazo-Álvarez and Dr Aida Rosende Pérez, UIB) 5-7pm, 10 May 2023
In-person Modules (3-8 July 2023) (2h per session)
Official Opening and Introductory Lecture
3 July 2023, 9.00-11.00am The Theory and Practice of Solidarity: Contemporary Art Forms and Literary Approaches (Prof Isabel Carrera Suárez, University of Oviedo)
Module 1. Contemporary Fractured Societies. The Case of Britain
3 July 2023, 11.30am-1.30pm The Brexit Novel, or How to ‘Metaphorically Poke All Us in the Ribs’: Jonathan Coe and Ali Smith (Dr José Igor Prieto-Arranz, UIB)
3 July 2023, 2.30-4.30pm Gendered Spaces of Solidarity in Contemporary Scottish Fiction: The Nation and Beyond (Dr Carla Rodríguez, University of Oviedo)
3 July 2023, 4.30-6.30pm 'Tales from the Border': Global Change and the Posthuman Subject in Contemporary British Short Fiction (Prof Laura Mª Lojo Rodríguez, University of Santiago de Compostela):
4 July 2023, 9.00-11.00am Dirt or Cleanliness? The Tension between Travellers and Gypsies and Settled Society (Dr Roberta Piazza, University of Sussex)
Module 2. Language and the Dissemination / Dismantling of Identity Discourses
4 July 2023, 11.30am-1.30pm How to Master the Twittersphere: Donald Trump, Politics and Language (Ms Margalida Pizarro, UIB)
4 July 2023, 2.30-4.30pm Approaching Metaphor in British Political Discourse on Brexit (Dr Bledar Toska, University of Vlora)
Module 3. Irish Identities
4 July 2023, 4.30-6.30pm Nostalgia and National Identity: The Case of Post-Celtic Tiger Irish Fiction (Dr Sona Snircova, UPJS):
5 July 2023, 9.00-11.00am ‘Girls Just Wanna Have Fun’: Female Adolescence in Irish fiction I (Dr Aida Rosende Pérez, UIB)
5 July 2023, 11.30am-1.30.pm ‘Girls Just Wanna Have Fun’: Female Adolescence in Irish Fiction II (Dr Rubén Jarazo-Álvarez, UIB)
Module 4. Culture Beyond the (Literary / Filmic / Television) Text
5 July 2023, 2.30-4.30pm Food in Postmillennial Society, Culture and Media (Prof Slavka Tomasciková, UPJS)
6 July 2023, 9.00-11.00am Video Games as Simulators of Cultural Identities (Dr Andrei Nae, University of Bucharest)
6 July 2023, 11.30am-1.30pm Meeting Europe’s Intersectional (Socio-political, Ethical, Ecological) Challenges in Cultural Productions. Practical Considerations I (Prof Sabine Coelsch-Foisner and Dr Christopher Herzog, University of Salzburg)
6 July 2023, 2.30-4.30pm Meeting Europe’s Intersectional (Socio-political, Ethical, Ecological) Challenges in Cultural Productions. Practical Considerations II (Prof Sabine Coelsch-Foisner and Dr Christopher Herzog, University of Salzburg)
Module 5. Environmental and Health Concerns
7 July 2023, 9.00-11.00am The Semiotics of Covid (Dr Armela Panajoti and Dr Elonora Hodaj, University of Vlora)
7 July 2023, 11.30am-1.30pm New Understandings of the Relationship between Humans and Their Non-human Environment; Human and Non-human Survival in the Anthropocene/Capitalocene; Cli-Fi and Other Genres (Dr Katarzyna Paszkiewicz and Dr Andrea Ruthven, UIB)
7 July 2023, 2.30-4.30pm Posthuman Identities in Speculative Fiction: Bioengineering, Mind Uploading and Monstrosity in Mike Carey’s Works ( Dr Rosa Moreno Redondo, UIB)
Module 6. Claiming Space: Displacement in the Era of Cosmopolitanism
8 July 2023, 9.00-11.00am Modernist vs./and Postmodernist Narratives of the City (Dr Dragos Ivana, University of Bucharest)
8 July 2023, 11.30am-1.30pm Displacement, Exclusion and Solidarity in 21st-century Diasporic Fiction: Mohsin Hamid’s Migrant Novels (Dr Patricia Bastida Rodríguez, UIB)
8 July 2023, 2.30-4.30pm Writing as Translation, Translation as Solidarity: from Ezra Pound to Don Mee Choi (Dr Fruela Fernández Iglesias, UIB)
This Blended Intensive Programme comprises an online and an onsite component. Students need to register for both; it is not possible to follow just one. Onsite sessions are arranged according to modules in order to enhance internal coherence and to foster dialogue; however, none of these modules is optional: students are expected to attend at least 80% of the sessions to receive the certificate. Please be aware of these restrictions when registering.