Visual arts exhibition by Laia Ventayol-García at the Pilar and Joan Miró Foundation from Palma de Mallorca

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…

Ignacio Martínez Armas and Laia Ventayol García take part in the conference “The Flowing Image: The Ocean On Screen” at the University of Southampton

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…

Laia Ventayol will talk about her research on water narratives in the context of Casa Planas

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…

Screening of the documentary “Mar de Lobos” and panel discussion chaired by Ignacio Martínez Armas at Cinema Tívoli

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…

“Mar de Lobos”, interview on environmental harm at sea

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…

Summer course “Narratives de la mar: una perspectiva interdisciplinària” with Marta Puxan Oliva

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…

Seminar “Environmental crime fiction as world literature” by Stewart King

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 presents the paper “Selling fish at the wholesale market: the role of patronas in the socioeconomic organization of the fishing communities of Mallorca (1944-2003)” at Uppsala University

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.

Shared panel between Marta Puxan-Oliva, Ignacio Martínez-Armas, Aina Vidal-Pérez and Laia Ventayol-García at the 10th Conference “EASLCE: Sea more blue”

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