I Seminar on Gender and Literature

I Seminar on Gender and Literature: "New Relational Challenges in Contemporary Literature and Culture"

Edificio Redeiras y Edificio Cambón, Universidade de Vigo (UVigo)

July 9-10, 2026

Submissions deadline: 15th April 2026, via this registration form.

The seminar "New Relational Challenges in Contemporary Literature and Culture" is an event co‑organized by Pandora Literary Gender Studies and the Project “Communitas/Immunitas: Relational Ontologies in Atlantic Anglophone Cultures of the 21st Century” (Proyecto de Generación de Conocimiento PID2022-136904NB-100, funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by FEDER, UE).

The seminar aims to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue on how contemporary literature and culture imagine new relational possibilities and respond to the ethical, political, and affective challenges of our time. Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

• Posthumanism, more-than-human, and hybrid relationalities

• Gender, identity, and the reconfiguration of the subject

• Affects, emotions, and embodied experiences

• Community, solidarity, and alternative forms of social bonding

• New forms of maternity, parenthood, and reproductive narratives

• Care, vulnerability, and dependency in contemporary culture

• Kinship beyond the nuclear family

• Feminist and queer futures

• Literary and cultural responses to ecological and technological change

Seminar program

The program will include a guided tour of the host city. It will also feature a plenary session by an invited guest speaker, as well as a roundtable discussion with young women experts in the field of English Studies. In addition, we will work to support the publication of selected papers in a special issue of an academic journal.

Registration Fees

General fee: 45 €

Pandora members and students: 30 €

In-person attendee: 20 €

Online attendee: 20 €

Submission deadline

15th April 2026, via this registration form.

Conference venue address

Edificio Redeiras (praza do Berbés, 11), Edificio Cambón (entrada rúa Oliva, 3).

Seminar coordinators

Claudia Martori Ribalta, Iago Rodríguez Diéguez.

Thank you. We will be in touch after the deadline to let you know if your submission has been accepted.

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