Wed 15 Apr
|Universidad de Alcalá (UAH)
PLGS International Conference 2026: "Female CorpoRealities"
How is the female body inscribed in literature and culture? This conference examines how gender, sexuality, race, class, ability, and technology shape embodied realities, engaging with intersections of the corporeal and the real in representations, experiences, and theories of the female body.
Time & Location
15 Apr 2026, 09:00 – 17 Apr 2026, 14:00
Universidad de Alcalá (UAH), Colegio de Málaga (Facultad de Filosofía y Letras), C. Colegios, 2, 28801 Alcalá de Henares, Madrid
About the event
PLGS International Conference 2026: "Female CorpoRealities"
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Alcalá (UAH)
April 15–17, 2026
Plenary speakers:
Wednesday, April 15: Dr. Kathryn Laing
Thursday, April 16: Dr. Silvia García Hernández
Friday, April 17: Xinran
The 2026 PANDORA Conference, hosted by the University of Alcalá de Henares, invites proposals for papers exploring the multifaceted theme of “Female CorpoRealities.”
This conference seeks to engage with the intersections of the corporeal and the real in representations, experiences, and theories of the female body. The title gestures to the material, symbolic, and discursive dimensions through which female bodies are written, read, regulated, and reimagined. How is the body inscribed in literature and culture? How do gender, sexuality, race, class, ability, and technology converge to shape the lived realities of female embodiment?
We invite contributions that interrogate the construction, performance, and subversion of “female corporealities” across literary, artistic, philosophical, and cultural domains. Papers may address, but are not limited to, the following topics:
Theorizing embodiment and materiality in feminist thought
Representations of female bodies in literature, film, and media
Corporeality and affect
The politics of visibility, performance, and resistance
Bodies, borders, and belonging
Desire, sensuality, and the body as a site of expression and agency
Disability and the gendered body
Digital, virtual, and posthuman corporealities
Sexuality, reproduction, infertility and bodily autonomy
The body as archive, text, and site of memory
Ecofeminism and the environmental body
Queer and trans perspectives on corporeality
Violence, vulnerability, and care
Submission Guidelines
Presentations should be 15 minutes in length.
Publication Opportunities
A selection of the best papers presented at the conference will be considered for publication in a monographic issue or edited volume devoted to Female CorpoReal-ities.
Hybrid format
In-person and online participation.
Registration Fees:
General: 120€
Student (Undergraduate, Master's, PhD): 75€
Atendee: 25€
Thank you!
We will be in touch after the deadline to let you know if your submission has been accepted.
Stay connected, stay empowered
pandoryliterarygenderstudies@gmail.com
Conference secretary: Bruno Echauri Galván (UAH)
Scientific committee: Silvia García Hernández (Universidad de Alcalá, UAH)
Raquel Fernández Fernández (Universidad de Alcalá, UAH)
Candelas Bayón Cenitagoya (Universidad de Alcalá, UAH)
Ángela Muro Arpón (Universidad de Alcalá, UAH)
Sofía Martinicorena Zaratiegui (Universidad Complutense, UCM)
Marisol Morales (Universidad de Alcalá, UAH)
Laura de la Parra Fernández (UCM)
Laura-Jane Devanny (University of Northampton, UoN)
Encarnación Hidalgo Tenorio (Universidad de Granada, UGR)
Eroulla Demetriou Demetriou (Universidad de Jaén, UJA)
Ana Isabel Simón Alegre (Adelphi University, New York)
Karina Walker (Hartwick College)
Mercedes Arriaga Flórez (Universidad de Sevilla, USE)
María Victoria Muñoz (Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina)
Paula García Ramírez (Universidad de Jaén, UJA)