Seminars and Conferences
Upcoming Events
2025
Desembre 18, 2025, Thursday 3 to 5 pm CET
IV NAME Research Seminar
Núria Codina Solà (KU Leuven), Rethinking the European Canon through the Lens of Collaborative Writing Practices
Venue: UOC- Can Jaumandreu, Sala U1.4 – Carrer Perú, 52 | 08018 Barcelona
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November 21, 2025, Friday 11am-1pm
IV Reading Seminar: Untranslatability and Border Memories
Venue: UOC- Can Jaumandreu, Sala U1.15 – Carrer Perú, 52 | 08018 Barcelona
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October 23 – 24, 2025
2025 ASEEES Annual Convention. Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies.
- Book Discussion: Quiet Flows the Una, by Faruk Šehić. Roundtable with Raul Algarín (UAB), Antje Postema (UC Berkeley), Neus Rotger (UOC), Sydney Verel (Indiana U. Bloomington) and the author.
- Panel: Representations of Memory in Contemporary Balkan Literature: Poetics of a Common European Memory?
October 17, 2025, Friday 11am-1pm
III Doctoral Seminar
Clara Ballart (UOC), “With concern for those not free”: The Human Rights dissident in the European long seventies. A critical analysis of the English magazine Index on Censorship
Venue: UOC- Can Jaumandreu, Sala U1.4 – Carrer Perú, 52 | 08018 Barcelona
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Septembre 26, 2025, Friday 11am-1pm
III Reading Seminar: Jacques Rancière and the Politics of the Novel
Texts under discussion:
- Rancière, Jacques. Le fil perdu. La fabrique éditions, 2014.
- Rancière, Jacques. Les bords de la fiction. Seuil, 2017.
Venue: UOC- Can Jaumandreu, Sala U1.4 – Carrer Perú, 52 | 08018 Barcelona
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Past Events
2025
July 8, 2025, Tuesday 3 to 5 pm CET
III NAME Research Seminar
Eralda L. Lameborshi (Texas A&M University – Commerce), Southeastern European Authors: Memory, the Nation, and the Making of European Space
Venue: UOC- Can Jaumandreu, Sala U1.4 – Carrer Perú, 52 | 08018 Barcelona
Please register for the event, on-site or online, by filling in this form.
June 2, 2025, Tuesday 3 to 5 pm CET
Seminari de transferència
Literatures europees en traducció, amb Miquel Cabal i Marc Casals
Venue: UOC- Can Jaumandreu, Sala U1.4 – Carrer Perú, 52 | 08018 Barcelona
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Please register for the event, on-site or online, by filling in this form.
May 29 – June 1, 2025
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting
Reading the European Semi-Periphery: Narrative, Legacy, Collective Memory ACLA 2025 Annual Meeting
May 13 – 16, 2025
Narrative Matters Conference. Paris
Disparate Narrative Worlds: Crisis, Conflict, and the Possibility of Hope George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention. American University of Paris and Université Paris Cité
May 7 2025, Wednesday 3-5pm CET
II Doctoral Seminar
Venue: UOC- Sala 01.39 – Rambla del Poblenou, 156 | 08018 Barcelona
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March 14 2025, Friday 11am-1pm CET
II Reading Seminar: Feminist Epistemologies of the European Margins
Texts under discussion:
- Cerwonka, Allaine. “Traveling Feminist Thought: Difference and Transculturation in Central and Eastern European Feminism.” Signs 33, no. 4 (2008): 809–32, doi: 10.1086/528852
- Tlostanova, Madina. Suruchi Thapar-Björkert and Redi Koobak. “The Postsocialist ‘Missing Other’ of Transnational Feminism?” Feminist Review, 121, 2019, pp. 81–87, doi: 10.1177/014177891881694
Venue: UOC- Can Jaumandreu, Sala U1.7 – Carrer Perú, 52 | 08018 Barcelona
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January 17 2025, Friday 11am-1 pm CET
II NAME Research Seminar
Azucena G. Blanco (Universidad de Granada), La noción de frontera entre literatura y política
Venue: UOC- Can Jaumandreu, Sala U1.4 – Carrer Perú, 52 | 08018 Barcelona
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2024
Thursday December 19 2024, from 3 to 5 pm CET
I NAME Research Seminar
Corina Stan (Duke University), Europe, Otherwise: On Moral Reparations
Venue: UOC- Can Jaumandreu, Sala U1.4 – Carrer Perú, 52 | 08018 Barcelona
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November 22 2024, Friday from 3 to 5 pm CET
I Reading Seminar
European Semi-Peripheal Aesthetics
Venue: UOC- Can Jaumandreu, Sala U1.7 – Carrer Perú, 52 | 08018 Barcelona
- Hazzard, Christinna, Semi-Peripheral Realism. Nation and Form on the Borders of Europe. Palgrave MacMillan, 2024.
- Jameson, Fredric. The Seeds of Time. Columbia U P, 1994.
October 25 2024, Friday from 3 to 5 pm CET
I Doctoral Seminar
Venue: UOC- Can Jaumandreu, Sala U1.7 – Carrer Perú, 52 | 08018 Barcelona