Our coffee break are something else! “Remember, remember, the fifth of November…” #VforVoices

Our last plenary speaker of the day is Dr Juan Luis Perez de Luque Juan L. Pérez with his presentation “Bats, Clowns and Other Masks”, where he analyses the audiovisual adaptations of DV comics through Marx’s theory of the superstructure. #VforVoices

And that’s a wrap! #VforVoices Thank you very much to everyone who has followed the sessions, and congrats to the winners of the comics’ raffle! either if you've won or not, you now know where to go to get cool comics like the ones given in the raffle 🙌💥 Tatooine Cómics

Just in case you missed the opportunity! The deadline for proposals at our upcoming literary contest has been extended to November 27th! Short stories and poems are welcome, and the prizes will be given on December 3rd at our upcoming 9th Seminar on English Studies 🥳

This is happening tomorrow! ✨ Breakfast and great talks at our seminar “Inner and Outer Journeys: Transnational Approaches to Literature”, taking place from 9:30 at Universidad de Jaén 🗺️

Hey everyone! Don’t miss out on this amazing event—join us for a memorable experience! 🥳

We start with Dr Barbara Korte, from the University of Freiburg, talking about the British Empire in Victorian periodicals: “Imperial Cities in Victorian Popular Magazines: Real Travel and Armchair Travel”.

We continue with Dr Esther Pujolras and her analysis on how transnationalism shapes the Indian Ocean in her paper “Ectopic Insiders and the Transnational Imaginary: M. G. Vassanji’s And Home Was Kariakoo and Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the Family”.

And to close this wonderful seminar, Dr Maria Jesus López Sánchez-Vizcaíno shares her research on the ‘migrant turn’ with her paper “‘Look at them leaving in droves’: African migration in NoViolet Buñawayo’s We Need New Names and Diane Mengestu’s Someone Like Us”.