In March, Laia Ventayol taught a seminar on materiality at sea in the Departament of Compared Literature at The University of Hong Kong, within the Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures. Prof. Winnie Yee and Prof. Daniel Elam were chairing the talk.
The article “The use of molecular genetics in environmental harm studies: eDNA as a method for ecological damage in the ecocriminological analysis”, written by our colleague Esteban Morelle Hungría, has been recently published. To read it, this is the link. Morelle-Hungría, E. The use of molecular genetics in environmental harm studies: eDNA as a method for ecological damage…
The journal Theory Now has published “Cli-Fi as Dystopia, Utopia, or Realism. Understanding the Challenges of Imagining the Climate Crisis”. This special issue, edited by Jordi Muñoz Serrano, contains the following articles “Narrating the Red Tide or Harmful Algal Blooms as Climate Change: The Uses of Temporality in Fernanda Trías’ Mugre rosa and Scientific and…
Solomon Sebuliba has published in the Nature journal, together with Eylem Elma and Katherine G. Sammler, the article entitled “‘Our fish are not your marine biodiversity’: tensions in integrating fisheries into the BBNJ Agreement”.
From May 21 to May 23 we are presenting the first conference by the OCN group, entitled “Ocean Narratives and Environmental Harm in Contemporary Literature and Film”. The first activity will be the screening of the film Vides de Sal de Sílvia Gómez Mestres in CineCiutat. On the next day, the conference continues at the…
On May 21 we are screening the film “Vides de Sal” by Silvia Gómez Mestres at CineCiutat in Palma at 6 PM.
On May 21 at 11 AM we will have Silvia Gómez Mestres as a guest speaker. Gomez Mestres is a marine social anthropologist and lecturer at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. The seminari will be held in hybrid format. In case you would like to join, please contact ignacio.martinez@uib.cat, also to receive the texts we…
Esteban Morelle-Hungría presents the seminar “Environmental Crimes and Harms: Insights from Green Criminology” on April 9 at 16:00 PM. in hybrid format. To receive the papers we are going to read and the link to access the seminar, please contact Ignacio Martínez Armas. 1. Opening and Introduction (10 min) Welcome & Introduction – Marta Puxan Oliva…
On 21 and 22 October, Aina Vidal-Pérez took part in the International Seminar ‘Rafael Chirbes, writer and intellectual for the 21st century’, dedicated to the Valencian writer and organised by the University of Alcalá with the paper “Cercamiento de tierras y narrativa del crimen en En la orilla“.