The Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute, in collaboration with the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS), invite you to their hybrid conference ‘The Flowing Image: The Ocean On Screen.’ The Flowing Image will consider the significance of historical and contemporary representations of the ocean in digital, film and moving image works and…
On September 5, Laia Ventayol will talk about her research on water narratives in contemporary literature. The conference as well as the subsequent discussion will take place at Casa Planas, center for contemporary creation and tourist culture in Palma de Mallorca. This activity is part of the Tourist Culture Observatory COSTA. For more information, please…
In July 2024, Tropelías. Revista de Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada published the research paper “Beirut: el mar Mediterráneo y la imaginación de la ecología-mundo” by Aina Vidal-Pérez.
In July 2024, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction published the research papers “Collapsed Modernities in the Twenty-First-Century Southern European Novel“, by Aina Vidal-Pérez and Violeta Ros, and “Edges, Borders, Peripheries: Contested European Imaginaries and Narrative Forms“, by Neus Rotger and Aina Vidal-Pérez.
In July 2024, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction published the research papers “Collapsed Modernities in the Twenty-First-Century Southern European Novel“, by Aina Vidal-Pérez and Violeta Ros, and “Edges, Borders, Peripheries: Contested European Imaginaries and Narrative Forms“, by Neus Rotger and Aina Vidal-Pérez.
Screening of the documentary “Mar de Lobos” (2023) by director Matías Ameglio. This activity is framed within the summer course “Narratives of the sea: an interdisciplinary perspective” . The session is open to anyone interested in the film. The documentary presents an intimate and personal journey by the actor and musician Nicolás Pauls along the…
Which are the narrative strategies used when filming the documentary “Mar de Lobos” inside the world’s second largest sea lion reserve in Uruguay? This interview by Marta Puxan with Matías Ameglio and Nicolás Pauls, director and actor in this film produced by Onside Productions, presents a series of questions that are included in the OCN…
The course will be drawn from the perspective of the “ocean studies”, a term that has recently emerged within the “blue humanities”. These studies were proposed by geographers and literary and cultural critics such as Philip E. Steinberg, Hester Bloom, Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Serenella Iovino or Serpil Opperman. The “ocean studies” aim to understand the sea…
On the 4th of July Stewart King will present the seminar entitled “Environmental crime fiction as world literature” (online). This seminar has been organised between both OCN and LiCETC research groups in the Departament de Filologia Catalana i Lingüística General, Universitat de les Illes Balears. Furthermore, this seminar is also part of the VI Global…