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…
Ariana Domínguez takes part in the “European Labor History Network Conference” at University University in Sweden. He paper is entitled “Selling fish at the wholesale market: the role of patronas in the socioeconomic organization of the fishing communities of Mallorca (1944-2003)”. The conference will take place between June 11 and 13, 2024.
The Ocean Crime Narratives presents a shared panel with the members of the group at the 10th Conference “EASLCE: Sea more blue”. For more information, check the EASLCE website. The program can be downloaded here. Day 1 – PANEL 2 : Ocean Crime Narratives of Environmental Harm (Salle F332) Chair: Raffaele Russo, Italy
This April, Marta Puxan-Oliva was interviewed in the Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad de la República in Uruguay, during her research stay at the university. During the interview she speaks of the project Ocean Crime Narratives. To visualize this interview, please click on the image.
Marta Puxan will be talking about the Ocean Crime Narratives’ project and presenting the narratives of “marea roja/FAN”, or Harmful Algal Blooms (HAB) in English, and the Uruguayan novel Mugre rosa, by Fernanda Trías. The seminar can be attended online at 15:00 CET.
From April 24 to 26, UOC Campus. Marta Puxan-Olive co-directs, together with Neus Rotger, the international conference The Global Novel: Bridging Material, Objects and Forms. The Global Novel Research Project’s final conference gathers scholars pursuing research on the contemporary novel from a global perspective, from any literary and linguistic tradition. The conference topic aligns with…