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Opaque violence and agency in the public space. The discourse of women writers in the peninsular women's press (1848-1918)

International Conference
CfP 5 February 2024 / CONGRESS 17-18 June 2024
Facultat de Filologia i Comunicació, Universitat de Barcelona
Face-to-face and virtual event

Call for Papers

The project GenViPReF—Género, violencia, representación. Los textos de creación en la prensa femenina peninsular (1848-1918) MICIN/AEI/10.13039/50110001103 (ADHUC-Universitat de Barcelona)  MICIN/AEI/10.13039/50110001103 (ADHUC-Universitat de Barcelona) presents the call for the international conference "Violencias opacas y agencia en el espacio público. El discurso de las escritoras en la prensa femenina peninsular (1848-1918)", which will take place at the University of Barcelona on 17 and 18 June 2024. This conference aims to provide an overview of women's contributions to public debate at a time where press was emerging as a means of social communication for the transmission of ideas in Spain and Portugal, with special attention to the tensions resulting from the structural violence that conditioned their creative and professional activity. The deadline for sending communication proposals to congres.genvipref24@ub.edu is 15 February 2024 and they must include the following data in a single attached file in word or pdf format:

  • title 
  • summary (between 200 and 250 words)
  • keywords (between 3 and 5)
  • brief bios of the people signing the proposal, including names, institutional affiliations and e-mail addresses

The languages of the conference will be Catalan, Spanish, Galician, Portuguese and English. The date for notification of acceptance is 15 March 2024.

The maximum time for each communication will be 20 minutes. A selection of articles derived from the communications presented will be published by means of peer review.

Registration for presenters will have a cost of €50 for professionals and €20 for students. Registration for attendance will be free of charge.

For participants who cannot attend in person, a section for online communications will be available.

Confirmed plenary sessions speakers 

  • Alda Blanco (San Diego State University)
  • Pura Fernández (CSIC Madrid)
  • Claudia Pazos-Alonso (University of Oxford) 
  • Iñigo Sánchez Llama (Pardue University) 

Scientific committee

  • Fernanda de Abreu (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) 
  • Enric Bou (Università Ca’Foscari, Venezia)
  • Helena Buffery (University of Birmingham)
  • Isabel Clúa (Universidad de Sevilla)
  • José Manuel González Herrán (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)
  • Jo Labany (New York University)
  • Margarita Pintos
  • Akiko Tsuchiya (Washington University in San Louis)
  • Dolores Vilavedra (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)
Coordination
Elena Losada Soler,
María Xesús Lama López,
Susana Bardavío,
Santiago Díaz Lage,
Catalina Mir Jaume,
Antonio Terrón Barroso
Organization
Proyecto GenViPReF—Género, violencia, representación. Los textos de creación en la prensa femenina peninsular. MICIN/AEI/10.13039/50110001103;
ADHUC—Centre de Recerca Teoria, Gènere, Sexualitat;
Càtedra UNESCO Dones, desenvolupament i cultures
In collaboration with
GRC Creació i pensament de les dones (2017 SGR 588)
https://www.ub.edu/adhuc/en/node/5942