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📢😍Thrilled to share the final program for the Félix Martín 2026 Doctoral Seminar (UCM, 12-13 March). Two days of panels on identity, gender, popular culture, posthumanism and more + keynote lectures and cultural activities. Looking forward to the conversations ahead!!📚
😍Join us for our Reading group's February session!!
We'll discuss “The Future Imaginary” (The Routledge Handbook of Cofuturisms) by Jason Edward Lewis.
📅19 Feb 2026 (16:00 CEST/10:00 EST). 📚
🔗Sign up for reading materials and attendance certificate: reading.saas.ys@gmail.com
😍📚Don’t miss our next reading session! We'll be discussing Tama Leaver's "Early Artificial Intelligence Films: When are you going to let me out of this box".🤖
📅 January 29 - 17:00
💌Free registration + reading materials: reading.saas.ys@gmail.com
Attendance is certified!👇
✍️📢Writing an abstract: the difficulties of a simple task
Join us for this online workshop with Dr. Miriam Fernández Santiago on how to write a strong, effective abstract for your TFG, TFM, thesis, or article.
🗓️ February 11 at 18:00–19:30
🖇️ Free registration: shorturl.at/9hvXa%F0%9F%...
📢😍Remember registration for the 2026 SAAS Félix Martín Doctoral Seminar is open!!
🐦Early-bird registration open until Jan 31; regular registration open until Feb 15!
🖇️ shorturl.at/nvAch
💌Inquiries: saasyoungscholars@gmail.com
We can’t wait to meet you and hear about your work!
😍📭Many thanks for all your submissions!! We’re currently reviewing your abstracts, so keep an eye on your inbox for updates.
📅 Remember registration opens January 15.
📄Stay tuned for the provisional program and more updates!
😍We’re grateful for your submissions so far and looking forward to welcoming you to Madrid for the Félix Martín Doctoral Seminar 2026 (March 12–13). 📖
📩You can still send your proposal today to: saasyoungscholars@gmail.com
🔗More info: shorturl.at/TgfZO
📢😍Nos vemos mañana, 11 diciembre a las 19h, para compartir consejos, estrategias y experiencias a la hora de defender trabajos académicos.📚🎙️
🖇️Si todavía no lo has hecho, puedes preinscribirte aquí👉 shorturl.at/cKS06
😍📢 One week left to apply for our 2026 Félix Martín Seminar! Send your proposal by December 15 and join us for two days of academic conversation, feedback, and peer support--with Dr. Eulalia Piñero Gil and Dr. Laura Álvarez Trigo as keynotes.📚
💻+ info: shorturl.at/TgfZO
😍 Os esperamos a la próxima sesión!
😍Os esperamos mañana a las 17:00!! Si todavía no os habéis apuntado, todavía estáis a tiempo. Creemos que será una sesión muy útil!🤓🔖
📚📢We're resuming our reading sessions! 😍Join us for our next one. We'll be reading Susan Stryker, “My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage”
🗓 3 Dec 2025 – 16:00 CEST/10:00 EST
📩 Sign up here: reading.saas.ys@gmail.com
Hope to see you there!
😍📢Friendly reminder that the #CFP for the SAAS Félix Martín Doctoral Seminar is open until December 15. Whether your PhD project is already advanced or still taking shape, we'd love to welcome your proposal and create a supportive space for early-career researchers.📖
🖇️More info: shorturl.at/TgfZO
📢 ¿Vas a defender un TFG, TFM o tesis doctoral y no sabes por dónde empezar? Te invitamos a nuestro taller online donde compartiremos dudas y orientaciones sobre el proceso de defensa.📚
🗓 11 dic 2025 - 19:00–20:00
💻 Online y gratuito.
🔗 Inscripciones: acesse.one/eaapF
¡Os esperamos!😍
📢😍 Si estás cursando un doctorado o pensado en hacerlo, nos hace ilusión invitarte a una sesión informativa sobre distintas modalidades de financiación: convocatorias FPU, FPI, autonómicas, Fulbright, etc. ¡Te esperamos!
📅5 diciembre - 17:00h
🔗Inscripción grauita : shorturl.at/aEXwZ
📚 😍Finishing on a great note with Dr. Sean O’Brien’s work on precarity and representation. Thank you to everyone who joined us throughout these five sessions; we’re grateful for your time, generosity, and insights. We can’t wait to start the next "In Conversation" series!
📢Happening today! Hope to see you all at 16:00 for the last session of our “In Conversation” 2025 series. Thank you to everyone who joined us for the past sessions! 😍📚
😍📢It’s a wrap! Join us for the final “In Conversation” session with Dr. Sean O’Brien (U. of Bristol)
🗓️ Oct 24, 16:00 CEST / 10:00 EST
💬 “Representing Precarity: American Literature and Culture from Boom to Crisis”
💌 Free registration & certificates: reading.saas.ys@gmail.com
Hope to see you there!📚
🎙️📚 We’re live with Dr. Catherine Rottenberg, who’s explaining the link between neoliberal feminism, postfeminism, and the figure of the "trad-wife".
Happening today!! Hope to see you all there at 16.00h📚😍
😍📢 For our 5th “In Conversation” session, we'll have Dr. Catherine Rottenberg sharing her work on "The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism".
📅 Friday, Oct. 17th, 16h
💌Free registration, materials & attendance certificates: reading.saas.ys@gmail.com
💻+ info: shorturl.at/TgfZO
Hope to see you there!📚
Reminder - Call for papers: HORROR STUDIES NOW, May 28/29 2026, Northumbria University
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CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline: March 1, 2026 Feminists are no strangers to crisis. In the context of rapidly escalating population-threatening catastrophes—the global rise of fascism; war and genocide; climate crisis and Indigenous dispossession; sharp rises in unhoused, migrant, and refugee populations and their subsequent criminalization; increased normalization and legalization of gendered and sexual violence; lethal threats to public and reproductive health; the upward distribution of resources and wealth; and the crisis of the university—feminist theorizing feels both as urgent and as under threat as it was during the dawning of women’s studies as an academic enterprise. This special issue invites contributions theorizing and responding to crisis. Where and how do we locate crisis (or crises)? What enables crisis conditions, and how do we—feminists and feminism—survive them? Feminist, queer, and trans theorists are uniquely positioned to offer critical readings of crisis within the longer temporal frame of slow violence and everyday brutality. Guest Editors: Jih-Fei Cheng (Scripps College), Cati Connell (Boston University), and Gowri Vijayakumar (Brandeis University). For the full call for papers and submission instructions, visit www.signsjournal.org/cfp
Signs is seeking submissions for a new special issue: "Crisis," edited by Jih-Fei Cheng, Cati Connell, and Gowri Vijayakumar. For the full CFP go to signsjournal.org/for-authors/...
We're live!🤓 Dr. Cagulada is sharing her work on blindness as perception and reception, and on disability narratives that see through embodied difference.
😍Happening today!! Hope to see you all there at 16:00! If you haven't, you still have time to register!👇
😍Happening today!! Hope to see you all there at 16:00! If you haven't, you still have time to register!👇
Thank you all who joined us on Friday! Many thanks to Dr. Maíllo-Pozo for her generosity and for a truly engaging and inspiring conversation!😍
🌿For our 4th “In Conversation,” Dr. Elaine Cagulada
will explore how disability studies reimagines narratives of seeing and deafness.👁️ Hope to see you all there!
🗓️ Oct 10-16:00 CEST
🔗Free registration+ attendance certificates: reading.saas.ys@gmail.com
💻More info: shorturl.at/S4VTV
📢😍We're excited to share the #CFP for the 2026 Félix Martín Doctoral Seminar - a welcoming space for PhD candidates to share their work among peers!
📅March 12-13, 2026
📩Please send your proposals by December 15➡️ saasyoungscholars@gmail.com
💻+ info: shorturl.at/TgfZO
Share widely and stay tuned!!