On December 19 Laia Ventayol-García will be presenting the documentary film “Legend of the Waterflowers” by Hee-young Koh at Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró in Palma. This activity is framed within the mediation program around the visual art exhibition “Ecotrò” by Ventayol, curated by Aina Pomar, in the museum. For further information, please check the…
Next November, the Escola Municipal de Mallorquí, in collaboration with the Centre de Professorat de Manacor, presents a new monograph to reflect on the fundamental role of the sea in our lives. The talks will be coordinated by Professor Emeritus Gonçal López Nadal. This series of events will allow us to explore the complex relationship…
Visiting scholar Camille Lavoix, from the Universität Würzburg, presented her research on the savannah on October 24 at the Universitat de les Illes Balears. This seminar is a collaboration between the OCN project and the LiCETC research group. Attendance was possible in an hybrid format.
On September 18 the Pilar and Joan Miró Foundation in Palma de Mallorca presented the exhibition Ecotrò, by Laia Ventayol-García. This exhibition has been curated by Aina Pomar and deals with a visit to Jeju Island, a trip that Laia Ventayol-García undertook willing to interact with the ‘haenyeo’ community. The ‘haenyeo’ are the women divers…
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.