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LIMLIT: Literature Of(f) Limits Research Team @limlit-unizar.bsky.social · 13d

📢 Today is day! Do not miss this interesting event where some team members will be talking about their research at CaixaForum Zaragoza from 17 h to 22 h!✨

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LIMLIT: Literature Of(f) Limits Research Team @limlit-unizar.bsky.social · Jul 4

Holidays are around the corner, but in the mean time team members continue working non-stop! E.g. @silviafalquina.bsky.social participated this week at @aedeaninfo.bsky.social VI doctoral seminar with the insightful plenary lecture "Keep Calm & Enjoy Your PhD: Notes on Joy, Difficulty, and Care” 🙌📝

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LIMLIT: Literature Of(f) Limits Research Team @limlit-unizar.bsky.social · May 21

Highlights of a bright opening! #limlitconference2025

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LIMLIT: Literature Of(f) Limits Research Team @limlit-unizar.bsky.social · May 21

🙌🏿If you prefer novels about racialised women in the diaspora, then don't miss team member Violeta Duce's paper "Relationality across Borders: A Transmodern Reading of Women’s Migratory
Experiences in Chika Unigwe’s Better Never than Late" in room D3.2!👩🏿‍🦱🌍 #limlitconference2025

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LIMLIT: Literature Of(f) Limits Research Team @limlit-unizar.bsky.social · May 21

This afternoon team member Irache Osés has presented an amazing paper on Pat Barker's The Silence of Girls & its connection to Homer's Iliad!⛵️👏 #limlitconference2025

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LIMLIT: Literature Of(f) Limits Research Team @limlit-unizar.bsky.social · May 21

😊After the first lunch break of #limlitconference2025, team member Susana Onega has presented a great paper on Migration, (Counter-)Terrorism and the Politics of Fear in Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire! 🤩

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LIMLIT: Literature Of(f) Limits Research Team @limlit-unizar.bsky.social · May 21

#limlitconference2025 closes its first day with our second keynote speaker, Prof. John Mcleod from @universityofleeds.bsky.social, and his fantastic lecture about "Bloody Relations"!🩸🧬

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LIMLIT: Literature Of(f) Limits Research Team @limlit-unizar.bsky.social · May 21

#limlitconference2025

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LIMLIT: Literature Of(f) Limits Research Team @limlit-unizar.bsky.social · May 21

🤔 But perhaps you're more interested in the relational turn in narratives of vulnerability set in post-Brexit London!

🔎 Then don’t miss team member Silvia Pellicer's paper on A. L. Kennedy’s Serious Sweet in room D3.2!🤗 #limlitconference2025

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LIMLIT: Literature Of(f) Limits Research Team @limlit-unizar.bsky.social · May 21

After an insightful plenary session, #limlitconference2025 continues with the 1st session of parallel panels!

📍 In Room E1.1, team member Eugenia Ossana is presenting a paper on Narrative Disruption & Ontological Continuity in S.Almada's Not a River & P.Murray's The Bee Sting!😉

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LIMLIT: Literature Of(f) Limits Research Team @limlit-unizar.bsky.social · May 21

#Limlitconference2025 has just started!

Welcome everyone!👋👋🏿

We hope you enjoy the conference, starting with the first plenary speaker!👩🏿‍🦱🎓

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LIMLIT: Literature Of(f) Limits Research Team @limlit-unizar.bsky.social · May 20

All set for #limlitconference2025! 🤩

Here you are the updated version of the programme! limlit.unizar.es/programme/

See you tomorrow!✋🏽✋🏿

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LIMLIT: Literature Of(f) Limits Research Team @limlit-unizar.bsky.social · May 20

🌟 Behind every great conference there is an even greater team! Huge shoutout to our brilliant organisers who’ve been working hard to bring everything together! 💪🎓

#limlitconference2025 opens tomorrow—get ready for an unforgettable event! 🙌😉

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LIMLIT: Literature Of(f) Limits Research Team @limlit-unizar.bsky.social · May 1

📚✨ One of this April’s highlights: our amazing team member Aitana Monzón @koskynta.bsky.social was invited by the Spanish Royal Household for the annual Cervantes Prize luncheon at the Royal Palace in Madrid! Is there a cooler way to celebrate literature & culture? We seriously doubt it! 👑🍷📖

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LIMLIT: Literature Of(f) Limits Research Team @limlit-unizar.bsky.social · Apr 23

👀Did you know that team member Dr. Violeta Duce talked about our project and the importance of literature and the Humanities📚 in an interview for @aragondigital.bsky.social?

We recommend reading the full interview here, especially today, 23 April (International Book Day) ▶️https://shorturl.at/cBC46

La literatura como altavoz: la investigación de humanidades de la UZ que da a conocer las barreras del mundo contemporáneo globalizado

Un proyecto de la Universidad de Zaragoza reivindica la importancia de las Humanidades para entender los desafíos del presente y fomentar el pensamiento crítico

www.aragondigital.es

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LIMLIT: Literature Of(f) Limits Research Team @limlit-unizar.bsky.social · Apr 12

👀And last but not least, team member Dr. Virginia Pignagnoli delivered a very interesting paper in the SAAS panel coordinated by herself and Dr. Laura Roldán-Sevillano.

Dr. Pignagnoli's paper was entitled "Reading for the Political Crossovers: Xochitl Gonzalez’s Olga Dies Dreaming"👏🏽

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LIMLIT: Literature Of(f) Limits Research Team @limlit-unizar.bsky.social · Apr 12

🙌🏽In SAAS, team member Aitana Monzón presented a compelling paper entitled "Dreaming the American Pond: Quivering Waters and Fenced Gardens in Three American Poets".

By the way, did you know Aitana is a great poet? Check her new book here: shorturl.at/LRpU0 🤩

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LIMLIT: Literature Of(f) Limits Research Team @limlit-unizar.bsky.social · Apr 12

In the SAAS panel coordinated by herself & Dr. Virginia Pignagnoli, team member Dr. Laura Roldán-Sevillano delivered an interesting paper entitled "Portraying the (Post-)Recession American Nightmare: An Exploration of the Realist Turn in 21C Immigrant Novels Countering the American Dream"🌎👏🏽

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LIMLIT: Literature Of(f) Limits Research Team @limlit-unizar.bsky.social · Apr 12

🙌🏽This week in the 17th conference organised by the Spanish Associacion for American Studies (SAAS), team work Dr. Martínez-Falquina delivered an insightful paper entitled “Native Women Who Rise to the Challenge”: MMIW,
Running, and Survivance in Marcie Rendon’s Where
They Last Saw Her"👩🏽♀️

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LIMLIT: Literature Of(f) Limits Research Team @limlit-unizar.bsky.social · Mar 20

🙌Today, in a doctoral symposium organised by team members Silvia Pellicer & Julia Kuznetski alongside colleague Chiara Battisti at the University of Verona, students from the universities of Tallinn, Verona & Zaragoza among others shared ideas about their research on crisis in the humanities!📚

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LIMLIT: Literature Of(f) Limits Research Team @limlit-unizar.bsky.social · Mar 18

👀📚Did you know that for several years now, colleagues from our department & project have been participating in the Faculty of Education's Reading Club, where they monthly meet to discuss texts from various genres in a relaxed environment with staff, students & professors of multiple subjects?

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LIMLIT: Literature Of(f) Limits Research Team @limlit-unizar.bsky.social · Feb 28

Yes! So if you are interested in the seminar, we encourage you to join the zoom meeting!😉

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LIMLIT: Literature Of(f) Limits Research Team @limlit-unizar.bsky.social · Feb 28

Seminar structure:
- Introduction: Literature & Crises

*Julia K. "Too Burning for Fiction? Women Writing Nonfiction in Times of Crisis"

*Silvia P. "Life-Writing Practices: A Way out of Crisis?"

*Chiara B. "The Resilient Frame: Graphic Narratives & Crisis Representation"

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LIMLIT: Literature Of(f) Limits Research Team @limlit-unizar.bsky.social · Feb 28

📢Today! (28.02.25)

💻Online seminar on "Literature and Crises" at the University of Ostfold, Norway from 2-4 pm by team members Julia Kuznetski and Silvia Pellicer and colleague Chiara Battisti.

Zoom: hiof.zoom.us/j/6512888571...

ID: 651 2888 5710

Passcode: 382359

Do not miss it‼️

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LIMLIT: Literature Of(f) Limits Research Team @limlit-unizar.bsky.social · Feb 18

✋Hi there! The LimLit team is gradually moving to this new and, for now, more hospitable community. While we complete the migration process, we'd like to use this first post to share the poster of our forthcoming conference (21-23 May 2025, Zaragoza)☺️.

Preliminary programme here▶️ shorturl.at/yGYMy

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