International Conference “Opaque violence and agency in the public space. The Discourse of Women Writers in the Peninsular Women's Press 1848-1918”
Edifici Josep Carner
Universitat de Barcelona
The International Conference “Opaque violence and agency in the public space. The discourse of women writers in the peninsular women's press 1848-1918” will take place on 17 and 18 June at the Facultat de Filologia i Comunicació of the University of Barcelona. It will feature the works of thirty-seven international researchers, including four plenary lectures by Alda Blanco (San Diego State University), Pura Fernández (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones-CSIC), Claudia Pazos Alonso (Oxford University) and Iñigo Sánchez Llama (Purdue University) and six thematic sessions with three speakers each. The opening act will be hosted by Javier Velaza Frías, dean of the Faculty of Philology and Communication; Mónica Rius Piniés, director of ADHUC-Gender and Sexuality Theory Research Centre; Elena Losada Soler and María Xesús Lama, principal investigators of the GenViPReF project. Attendance will be free and open to anyone interested until full capacity is reached.