Meetings and Events
The TransCanadian Networks team has organized and/or participated in the following selected international conferences, workshops and/or meetings.
2026
TransCanadian Networks 26: José V. Alegría-Hernández
TransCanadian Networks 26 Online Seminars (RED2018-102643-T).
Tema: “‘Decolonization is necessarily unsettling’: Incommensurability and Settler Innocence in ‘Unsettled’”
A cargo de: José V. Alegría-Hernández
28 de mayo 2026 @ Google Meet
2025
Workshop “After Resilience?”
Research Centre for the Study of Culture
Justus Liebig University in Giessen
TransCanadian Networks 25: Amanda Ricci
TransCanadian Networks 25 Online Seminars (RED2018-102643-T).
Tema: “At the Heart of the City: The Garment Industry in 1930s Montreal”
A cargo de: Amanda Ricci
11 de diciembre 2025 @ Google Meet
TransCanadian Networks 25: Sheila Hernández González
TransCanadian Networks 25 Online Seminars (RED2018-102643-T).
Tema: “Monstrous Girls and (Un)Happy Gender Expectations in Hiromi Goto”
A cargo de: Sheila Hernández González
30 de octubre 2025 @ Google Meet
Panel: “Moving Beyond the Damage: Approaches to Healing, Well-Being and Care”
10th Congress of the Polish Association for Canadian Studies
Sara Tabuyo-Santaclara, Lucía Lopez-Serrano, Eva Darias-Beautell
Inaugural Lecture: Eva Darias-Beautell
“Everything Will Be: The Liquid City in Canada’s Literature and Film”
Canadian Studies Centre at Masaryk University
ICCS Lecture: Eva Darias Beautell
“Everything Will Be: The Liquid City in Canada’s Literature and Film”
International Council for Canadian Studies
TransCanadian Networks 25: Lucía López Serrano
TransCanadian Networks 25 Online Seminars (RED2018-102643-T).
Tema: “‘No One Wants to Read a Story if it has No Ending’: Messy Feelings and the Poetics of Chronicity in Nisha Patel’s A Fate Worse than Death”
A cargo de: Lucía López Serrano
2 de abril 2025 @ Google Meet
HAPPINESS/RESILIENCE Project International Research Workshop III
TransCanadian Networks 25: Gabby Moser
TransCanadian Networks 25 Online Seminars (RED2018-102643-T).
Tema: “Extra-Curricular: Photography, Race, and Education in the University Settlement House of Toronto, 1946-56”
A cargo de: Gabby Moser
16 de enero 2025 @ Google Meet
Keynote Lecture “The Melancholic Island: Land Suspended in Canadian Literatures”
International Symposium “Looking at Canada From Portugal”
2024
Seminario de Investigación Narratives of Nature and Climate Change
Universidad de La Rioja
Undergraduate Course “Affecting Narratives: Reshaping Happiness and Hope in Contemporary North American Texts”
Universidad de La Laguna
TransCanadian Networks 24: Claudia Miller
TransCanadian Networks 24 Online Seminars (RED2018-102643-T).
Tema: “‘Arctic Adoration’: Affective Ecocriticism in Ashley Qilavaq-Savard’s Where the Sea Kuniks the Land”
A cargo de: Claudia Miller
3 de octubre 2024 @ Google Meet
Seminar: Pedagogies of Relation: Black Canadian Literature
Karina Vernon and Winfried Siemerling
University of Salamanca
TransCanadian Networks 24: Sara Casco Solís
TransCanadian Networks 24 Online Seminars (RED2018-102643-T).
Tema: “Vulnerable Lives: Relational Resilience and Agency in Lawrence Hill’s The Illegal”
A cargo de: Sara Casco Solis
26 de febrero 2024 @ Google Meet
2023
TransCanadian Networks 23: Colin Coates
TransCanadian Networks 23 Online Seminars (RED2018-102643-T).
Tema: “Is there a Canadian Utopian Tradition?”
A cargo de: Colin Coates
14 de diciembre 2023 @ Google Meet
TransCanadian Networks 23: Jennifer Estévez Yanes
TransCanadian Networks 23 Online Seminars (RED2018-102643-T).
Tema: “Images of a Layered (Hi)Story: Postmemory Generation in David Chariandy’s Soucouyant”
A cargo de: Jennifer Estévez Yanes
5 de octubre 2023 @ Google Meet
HAPPINESS/RESILIENCE Project International Research Workshop II
- TransCanadian Networks Online Seminar Series: Oblique Emotions and Border Intimacies in Dionne Brand’s Theory. Libe García Zarranz. April 27th 2023 (organized by Eva Darias Beautell)
- Seminar: Tiger Symmetries: Pandemic as Gift. Larissa Lai (ULL) March 24th 2023 (organized by Eva Darias Beautell)
- Seminar: Why I Write Historical Fiction. Larissa Lai. University of Huelva. March 16th, 2023. (organized by Pilar Cuder. Maria Zambrano Fellowship. COIDESO)
- TransCanadian Networks Online Seminar Series: (Dis)Entangled Memories in Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? Andrea Llano Busta. February 23rd, 2023. (organized by Eva Darias Beautell)
- Seminar: Poethics. Larissa Lai. University of Huelva. February 22nd, 2023. (organized by Pilar Cuder. Maria Zambrano Fellowship. COIDESO)
- Seminar: Agential Environments and Non-human Becoming in Indigenous Epistemologies of Land Aliveness. Andrea Ruthven (UIB). Programa Interuniversitario de Doctorado en Estudios Ingleses Avanzados de la U. de Vigo. February 13th 2023. (organized by Belén Martín Lucas)
- Presentation: Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies. University of Salamanca. January 31st, 2023. (organized by Ana Fraile Marcos)
2022
- Seminar: Insurgent Utopias. Larissa Lai. University of Oviedo. November 28th, 2022. (organized by Alejandra Moreno Álvarez, Departamento de Filología Inglesa, Francesa y Alemana)
- Plenary Conference: Decolonial Love as Critical Pedagogy: Learning Response-Ability from Indigenous Authors. Belén Martín Lucas. 45th International AEDEAN Conference. University of Extremadura. November 16-18th 2022
- Seminar: Feminismo Indígena. Belén Martín Lucas. Máster Erasmus Mundus de Estudios de las Mujeres GEMMA de la Universidad de Oviedo. November 3rd 2022
- Seminar: Feminismo Descolonial. Belén Martín Lucas. Máster Erasmus Mundus de Estudios de las Mujeres GEMMA de la Universidad de Oviedo. November 2nd 2022.
- Lecture: La vida de las mujeres de Alice Munro. Belén Martín Lucas. Club de lectura del Centro de Documentación y Recursos Feministas de la Biblioteca de Vigo. October 26th 2022
- Keynote Lecture: “The Hos(ti)pitality of Affects: Threshold Suspension in Vancouver Literature and Film.”. By Eva Darias-Beautell. The 9th Congress of Polish Canadianists (University of Białystok: September 21-23, 2022)
2021
- Seminar: Necropolitics and Abjection in Emma Donoghue’s “Counting the Days”. International Seminar: Research Results of the “Bodies In Transit 2” Project. Universidade da Coruña, online. May 19-21st 2021
- Plenary Conference: Indigenous Futurism in TransCanadian SF. A Feminist Reading of Celu Ambertone’s “The Refugees”. Belén Martín Lucas, Andrea Ruthven and Maria Grau Perejoan. I Symposium “La cuarta ola: especulaciones feministas para un futuro posible”. Universitat de les Illes Balears, online November 10-12, 2021
- Conference: “Posthuman Love and Feminist Kinship in TransCanadian Speculative Fiction”. Belén Martín Lucas. Summer Course “The Past and the Future, the Planet, Ourselves: New Trends in Anglophone Fiction”. Universitat de les Illes Balears. July 5th 2021.
- TransCanadian Networks Online Seminar Series: Nelly Arcand (by Myra Bloom) (organized by Eva Darias Beautell)
- María Zambrano Seminars: Insurgent Utopias (by Larissa Lai)
- TransCanadian Networks/ESSE Workshop
- María Zambrano Seminars: Book launch of The Lost Century (by Larissa Lai)
- TransCanadian Networks Online Seminar Series: Power and Monstruosity (by Pilar Somacarrera) (organized by Eva Darias Beautell)
- TransCanadian Networks Online Seminar Series: “Place-Thought” and “Terristory” (by Andrea Ruthven) (organized by Eva Darias Beautell)
- HAPPINESS/RESILIENCE Project International Research Workshop I
- Studying Indigenous Literatures and Cultures of Turtle Island in Europe Workshop
- TransCanadian Networks 22 Online Seminar Series: «Lost Your Superpowers?» (organized by Eva Darias Beautell)
- TransCanadian Networks 22 Online Seminar Series: Testimonies from Gilead (organized by Eva Darias Beautell)
- TransCanadian Networks 21 Online Seminar Series: (De)colonizing Turtle Island (organized by Eva Darias Beautell)
- Seminario de Investigación Avanzada: Manjares Literarios: Propuestas Feministas Comestibles
- I Simposio Constelaciones Feministas: La cuarta ola: especulaciones feministas para un futuro posible
- Conferencia «On Trans Aliveness as Feminist Praxis: Ivan Coyote’s & Syrus Marcus Ware’s Ungovernable Archives»
- TransCanadian Networks 21 Online Seminar Series: Narratives of Happiness and Resilience Project Presentation (organized by Eva Darias Beautell)
- Artpolitical: Margaret Atwood’s Aesthetics (12 March 2021)
- Narratives of Resistance and Radical Resurgence from Canada/Turtle Island, Universidad de Salamanca (Febrero 2020).
- Canada and Beyond Conference 6: Difference and Indifference, Universidade de Vigo, Spain (June 2020). Cancelled due to covid-19.
- TransCanadian Networks Meeting, Círculo de Bellas Artes de Tenerife, Spain (June 2018)
- IV International Research Workshop on Canadian Literature (VULNERA Project) – Universidad de La Laguna, Círculo de Bellas Artes de Tenerife, Spain (June 2018)
- Canada & Beyond Conference 5: Bodies of Water, Casa Colón, Universidad de Huelva, Spain (June 2018)
- Narratives of Resilience and Healing, an Interdisciplinary Conference, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain (October 2017)
- Mikinaakominis / TransCanadas: Literature, Justice, Relation, University of Toronto, Canada (May 2017)
- 16th Triennial EACLALS Conference, Universdad de Oviedo, Spain (April 2017)
- BACS Conference, Canada House, London (April 2017)
- Maladies of the Soul, Emotion, Affect, The Banff Centre, Canada (September 2016)
- Digital Textualities / Canadian Contexts: Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory Launch Conference, University of Alberta, Canada (September 2016)
- Canada & BeyondConference 4, Universidade de Vigo, Spain (June 2016)
- International Conference Crisis and Beyond: The Literatures of Canada and Quebec, University of Innsbruck, Austria (October 2015)
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