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We’re delighted to share Susana’s contribution to ESSE 2026 in Santiago de Compostela, where she presented “Nihilist Hope and Identity Failure in the Anthropocene: Gary Owen’s Killology.” ✨ #ESSE2026 #ResistingTheCapitalocene #Hope #Anthropocene #GaryOwen #Killology

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Macarena, a member of our research project, also participated in ESSE 2026 in Santiago de Compostela, presenting “Hope Beyond the State: Community and Care in Angie Cruz’s Narrative.” ✨ #ESSE2026 #Hope #Community #Care #AngieCruz

Our research project was also represented at ESSE 2026 in Santiago de Compostela by Carolina, who presented “Weaving the Threads of Hope: Textures of Resistance in Contemporary Black British Art.” 🧵✨ #ESSE2026 #Hope #BlackBritishArt #Resistance

We’re delighted to share that @belencdaza.bsky.social, a member of our project, participated in ESSE 2026 in Santiago de Compostela with her paper, “Practicing Feminist Hope in the Capitalocene: Affirmative Becoming in Women’s Transmedia Life-Writing.” #ESSE2026 #Hope #Capitalocene #FeministStudies

We’re back from our summer break and ready for a new academic year! We’re excited to return with new activities and ideas as we continue exploring narratives of hope, resistance, and community in the Capitalocene. ✨ Stay tuned for what’s coming! #Resistance #Hope

Project Hope 🍃 @recaphope.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Today our hoper Zihan Zhou presented at the international conference Representations of Home in Literatures and Cultures in English at the University of Lisbon, discussing nostalgia and memory of home in graphic memoir. #hope.

Project Hope 🍃 @recaphope.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Today our hopers Somoud Kiwan (@sumud13.bsky.social) and Lucía Ramírez (@luciernagx.bsky.social) have participated in the ‘Jornadas Doctorales’ organised by the university of Málaga where they have talked about the intersections of hope and despair #hope

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Project Hope 🍃 @recaphope.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

One of our hopers, Mar Gallego, presented at the 14th Biennial MESEA Conference (11–13 June, Greece) with her paper “Revisiting the Forest: Survival, Healing, and Hope in Toni Morrison's Beloved and A Mercy.” 🌿✨ #MESEA2025 #ToniMorrison #HopeStudies

Cristina M.Gámez-Fernández @cmgamez-fernandez.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

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Qué esperanzas albergo hoy, bien en silencio o más públicamente, que son cómplices de mi deterioro y del de mi entorno? Vuelvo a esta pregunta una y otra vez, con una mirada crítica, para reflexionar sobre este fenómeno @es.theconversation.com @cordobaciencia.bsky.social @recaphope.bsky.social

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Project Hope 🍃 @recaphope.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

🌱 Yesterday, our hoper Teresa García Salcedo participated in the CAPS 2026 Annual Conference (Canadian Association for Postcolonial Studies) in Concordia University (Montreal), where she talked about Postcolonial Freedom(s).

PopMeC Association for US Popular Culture Studies @popmec.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

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📢 Call for contributions! Special thematic dossier "Aesthetics, Performance, Discourse and Spectacle in the Age of Trumpism" in the journal REDEN. 📰📺👀 🔎 Editor: @annamartamarini.bsky.social ❗ Submission of full papers by November 1, 2026. erevistas.publicaciones.uah.es/ojs/index.ph...

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CFP | Aesthetics, Performance, Discourse and Spectacle in the Age of Trumpism | REDEN. Revista Española de Estudios Norteamericanos

Editor: Anna Marta Marini (JFKI–Freie Universität Berlin)

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Project Hope 🍃 @recaphope.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Don’t miss our latest session, “A Discussion of Childhood, Hope and Intergenerational Solidarity” with Dr. Maria Augusta Albuja Aguilar. An insightful discussion closing our Advancing Research on Hope seminar series 🌟 👉 youtu.be/nHZzxl_ZjLY #Hope #Childhood

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Project Hope 🍃 @recaphope.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

📢 Our hoper @cmgamez-fernandez.bsky.social has just published an insightful article about the necessity of narratives of hope and their negative side in @es.theconversation.com. Can narratives of hope be used to manipulate us? Read the article here ➡️ theconversation.com/necesitamos-... #hope

🪴Our hopers Cristina Gámez-Fernández (@cmgamez-fernandez.bsky.social) and Teresa García Salcedo participated in a roundtable with @rosarioariasuma.bsky.social and Magdalena Flores Quesada as members of the WE-CARE team at @assemblagelit.bsky.social conference. What a team! #LitAssemblage

Also at @assemblagelit.bsky.social conference, our hoper Lucía Ramírez García (@luciernagx.bsky.social) delivered a thoughtful presentation about hope in the intersection between the human and the more-than-human in Becky Chamber’s Monk and Robot #hope #LitAssemblage

Continuing our contributions to the @assemblagelit.bsky.social conference, our hoper Teresa García Salcedo delivered a thought-provoking presentation about temporal assemblages and ethics of care in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing #hope #LitAssemblage

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Project Hope 🍃 @recaphope.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

🌱 Our hopers Cristina Gámez (@cmgamez-fernandez.bsky.social), Teresa García Salcedo, and Lucía Ramírez (@luciernagx.bsky.social) have attended the @assemblagelit.bsky.social conference this week. Thank you so much for having us, it has been such an enriching experience! 💚 #hope #LitAssemblage

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🌿Earlier this week we had our third and last predoctoral seminar where our hopers Yulia Ivashkina, Somoud Kiwan, and Zihan Zhou discussed hope, despair, and anger as intertwined affects. 💚 Thank you to everyone who attended! #hope #capitalocene

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Project Hope 🍃 @recaphope.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Less than an hour to start!!🪴 Will you join us? #hope

Project Hope 🍃 @recaphope.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

🎥 Now available on YouTube: Don't miss the full recording of our latest seminar, "The Politics of Hope and the Mirror of Fear: Philosophical Reflections": youtu.be/eDQjy054Zy4 #hope #capitalocene

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Project Hope 🍃 @recaphope.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

🗓️ Quick reminder that our third predoctoral seminar with Yulia Ivashkina, Somoud Kiwan, and Zihan Zhou is tomorrow at 12:00 CET! 🌱 Join us to discuss hope, despair, and anger as intertwined affects. 🔗 Sign up for the link: recaphope@gmail.com #hope

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Project Hope 🍃 @recaphope.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Join us for our last Predoc Online Seminar with Yulia Ivashkina, Somoud Kiwan, and Zihan Zhou. They explore hope, despair, and anger as intertwined affects, from everyday life to resistance and transformation. 📅 28 April at 12:00 CET 🔗 Sign up for the session’s link: recaphope@gmail.com #hope

Project Hope 🍃 @recaphope.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

📆Quick reminder that our third seminar "The Politics of Hope and the Mirror of Fear: Philosophical reflections" led by our hoper Susana Nicolás Román is happening on Thursday, 16th April 10am CET 📩 Registration to receive the session’s link: forms.gle/pK5qWGmDiNFWG2… #hope

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Project Hope 🍃 @recaphope.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Our project keeps travelling around the world! Yesterday, our hoper Mar Gallego delivered a talk titled “Toni Morrison’s legacy: love, healing and hope” in an invited lecture at the #UniversityofGdansk. #hope #love

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Project Hope 🍃 @recaphope.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

🎥 Did you miss our second seminar? “Hope in Resistance: Spirituality and Social Transformation” with Silvia Castro and Mar Gallego is now available on YouTube! You can watch it here!➡️https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj5Ocqtio4A #hope #capitalocene

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Project Hope 🍃 @recaphope.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

We're getting ready for our third seminar "The Politics of Hope and the Mirror of Fear: Philosophical reflections" led by our amazing hoper Susana Nicolás Román 🗓️Thursday, 16th April 10am CET ✨You can't miss it! Registration is still open: forms.gle/pK5qWGmDiNFW... #hope #capitalocene

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Project Hope 🍃 @recaphope.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Quick reminder that our second seminar is taking place tomorrow at 17:30h CET! We hope you can join us! 🍃💚 Link to register ➡️ forms.gle/161vtGZxUbTi... #hope #capitalocene

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Online Seminar "Hope in Resistance: Spirituality and Social Transformation"

Date: March 25, 2026, 17:30-20:30h CET

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Project Hope 🍃 @recaphope.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

📢 We have a new date!!! We’re resuming our seminar “Hope in Resistance: Spirituality and Social Transformation” with our hopers Silvia Castro and Mar Gallego 📅 March 25, 17:30h CET 🌱Join us to reflect, connect, and keep building hope together. #Hope #Resistance

Project Hope 🍃 @recaphope.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

This is today!! so excited to see you all 💚

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Project Hope 🍃 @recaphope.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

ESSE @essenglish.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

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Call for Papers. English Exposed: Vulnerability and Hope in Culture and Language International Symposium. Host and dates: Tallinn University, School of Humanities. 8-10 October 2026. Deadline for submissions: 15 June 2026. #essecfp. 👉 essenglish.org/cfp-conferen...

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The Posthuman Wound @posthumanuz.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

📢 Call for Papers! “Unbound, Unfinished, Ongoing: A Kate Zambreno Symposium” 📍 Online 📅 23 Oct 2026 🗓 Abstract deadline: 1 July 2026 🔗 sites.google.com/view/kate-za...

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PopMeC Association for US Popular Culture Studies @popmec.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

📢 Call for articles! Special dossier "Digital Projections and Screened Identities in US American Culture" in REDEN, edited by Laura Álvarez Trigo and Anna Marta Marini. 📺💻🎬📱 📩 Submission deadline: April 15, 2026. 🌐https://erevistas.publicaciones.uah.es/ojs/index.php/reden/announcement/view/66

Project Hope 🍃 @recaphope.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Join us our 2nd Predoc Online Seminar with Teresa García Salcedo & Belén Cornejo Daza. They’ll explore past & present from a generative perspective, connecting affect, posthuman studies & hope. 📅 20 March at 12:00 CET 🔗 Sign up for the session’s link: recaphope@gmail.com

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Project Hope 🍃 @recaphope.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Last Saturday, our hoper @cmgamez-fernandez.bsky.social took part in the 9th edition of Las que cuentan la ciencia (@cordobaciencia.bsky.social). She delivered a wonderful monologue about how we name the eras we live in—such as the Capitalocene. #anthropocene #capitalocene #hope

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Project Hope 🍃 @recaphope.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

We had such an insightful and engaging first pre-doctoral seminar last Tuesday discussing hope, despair, and solastalgia. Thank you to everyone who attended and we’ll see you again very soon! #hope

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Project Hope 🍃 @recaphope.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Last Friday our hoper María Porras delivered a workshop at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, @uco.es, on reading comics from a literary perspective. A thoughtful exploration of comics as literary artefacts—bringing together narrative strategies, visual rhetoric, and textual interpretation #hope

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Project Hope 🍃 @recaphope.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Quick reminder that this is tomorrow! 🪴

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Project Hope 🍃 @recaphope.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Profa. #MaríaPorras (UCM) ofrece una conferencia-taller sobre el cómic como género híbrido 📅 Viernes 27/02, 12:00-14:00 📍 Facultad de Filosofía y Letras 📝 Inscripción obligatoria: forms.gle/5QA4YmKnDpwd... ⏳ Cierra jueves, 18:00 Organizan: INSPIRE (HUM-676) y @recaphope.bsky.social

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Project Hope 🍃 @recaphope.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

🌟Upcoming predoc seminar series “Bringing Hope to the Table”! The first online seminar, led by María Martín and Lucía Ramírez, will address interrelated concepts such as solastalgia and despair. 📅When: 26th February, 12:00pm CET Sign up for link: recaphope@gmail.com #hope #capitalocene