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AEDEAN @aedeaninfo.bsky.social · Sep 5

AEDEAN is announcing the Patricia Shaw Research Funding: 4 grants of up to €800 each.

👩‍🎓 Who?: AEDEAN members with a recent degree in English Studies or related fields.
📅 DEADLINE: 1st October 2025
👉 More details here: aedean.org?page_id=10607

#ResearchFunding #Research

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AEDEAN @aedeaninfo.bsky.social · 27d

Spread the word! 🤗
@essenglish.bsky.social

@englishassociation.bsky.social

@aesla.bsky.social

#ResearchFunding #Research #AmericanStudies #EnglishStudies #PhD

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Silvia Martínez-Falquina @silviafalquina.bsky.social · Jul 3

What a wonderful experience to be part of the #aedean-doctoral2025!!! The students are amazing, full of enthusiasm and great ideas. And Santander is just perfect. Thank you @aedeaninfo.bsky.social for inviting me!!!

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AEDEAN @aedeaninfo.bsky.social · Jul 2

A big thank you to Silvia Martinez Falquina
@silviafalquina.bsky.social, our first plenary speaker! Her talk, “Keep Calm and Enjoy Your PhD: Notes on Joy, Difficulty, and Care,” was truly inspiring and full of valuable advice 👏 #AEDEAN_Doctoral2025

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AEDEAN @aedeaninfo.bsky.social · Jun 16

📢 The programme for the 6th AEDEAN Doctoral Seminar is now available! 🔗 Visit the website to download it: aedean.org?page_id=9584.

Only a few weeks left until we meet in Santander!

Programme | AEDEAN

aedean.org

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Transnational Spaces in Contemporary Cinema @spacescinema.bsky.social · Jun 16

Happy Before Sunrise Day! 🌅
30 years ago, Jesse and Céline met on a train and decided to get off in Vienna
“If there’s any kind of magic in this world, it must be in the attempt of understanding someone sharing something.”
theconversation.com/parece-que-f...

Parece que fue ayer: 30 años de ‘Antes del amanecer’

En 1995, el encuentro entre dos jóvenes en un tren marcó a una generación e inició una trilogía icónica en la historia del cine.

theconversation.com

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Filología Inglesa y Alemana Unizar @filoinglesauz.bsky.social · Jun 17

📢📢 Ya está disponible en la web el nuevo número de @miscelaneauz.bsky.social correspondiente a junio de 2025.

Miscelánea Journal @miscelaneauz.bsky.social · Jun 17

📢#Issue71 is here!📢

Explore the latest research on...
📗Language and linguistics
📕Literature, film and cultural studies
...through fresh analytical lenses

And don’t miss the 📖book reviews📖!

🔗 papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.ph...

Huge thanks to everyone involved! 🙌

@filoinglesauz.bsky.social

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RELY project @assemblagelit.bsky.social · Jun 18

👥✨ Yesterday we had the chance of welcoming young students who were introduced by @rosarioariasuma.bsky.social to the background and aims of our group, offering insight into academia. The visit continued with a literary analysis workshop. Thank you for your curiosity! #RELY #LitAssemblage

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María Ferrández-Sanmiguel @maria-fsm.bsky.social · Jun 19

Absolutely thrilled to share that our volume, The Posthuman Condition in 21st Century Literature and Culture: Interdisciplinary Insights, has just been [email protected]
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Thank you so much to our contributors and to the Palgrave Macmillan staff🤩

The Posthuman Condition in 21st Century Literature and Culture

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the latest theoretical developments in the burgeoning field of critical posthumanism.

link.springer.com

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Pablo Gómez @pablogomezm.bsky.social · May 27

The "Real and Imagined Spaces in Film" conference is right around the corner!! Program available here: eventos.unizar.es/126084/progr...
@spacescinema.bsky.social @filoinglesauz.bsky.social @iedis.bsky.social @sercia.bsky.social @www.unizar.es

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Transnational Spaces in Contemporary Cinema @spacescinema.bsky.social · May 26

#RealandImaginedSpacesinFilm week is HERE! 🎉 Looking forward to a great conference this week, kicking off on Thursday! See you there! 📽️

drive.google.com/file/d/19FLi...

Real and Imagined Spaces in Film_Book of Abstracts.pdf

drive.google.com

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The Posthuman Wound @posthumanuz.bsky.social · May 23

📢 This week, our team members have taken part of the #limlitconference2025 organized by our UNIZAR peers at @limlit-unizar.bsky.social!

⬇️ Take a look at this thread to see their contributions!

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Rosario Arias @rosarioariasuma.bsky.social · May 24

What a week! I've enjoyed the Relational Turn @limlit-unizar.bsky.social conference, co-organised by the wonderful @silviafalquina.bsky.social and Bárbara Aritzi a lot! Thank you! Here's to continuing conversations about our own #relational #assemblages of care @assemblagelit.bsky.social

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Universidad de Zaragoza @unizar.es · May 23

Recuerda! Hoy viernes a las 12h @www.unizar.es celebra el Acto Solemne de Investidura de Nuevos Doctores. Acudirán 123 de los 349 doctorandos que defendieron su tesis doctoral en el curso 2023-24.

🎥 El acto se retransmitirá por streaming en www.youtube.com/live/rtbQqk_...

IX ACTO DE INVESTIDURA DE NUEVOS DOCTORES.

YouTube video by EDUZ

www.youtube.com

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AEDEAN @aedeaninfo.bsky.social · May 22

🎓✨ CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: AEDEAN AWARDS 2025! ✨🎓

🗓️ Deadline: July 1, 2025

Don’t miss your chance to apply for one of the many awards offered by AEDEAN! 🏆📚
👉 More info here: aedean.org?page_id=572

#EnglishStudies #AmericanStudies #Award #CFP #AEDEAN2025

Awards | AEDEAN

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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

#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

😊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

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

🙌🏿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

Highlights of a bright opening! #limlitconference2025

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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 · 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 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

🤔 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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