Our Seminar

The MIRCAALT research group is pleased to announce its second doctoral seminar for young scholars, which will take place at La Corrala during the upcoming month of April. This year's edition will focus on "(Re)framing the Normal". 

Accustomed as the world is to questioning traditional terms and definitions, people have honored this creative drive and they have continuously revised what “normal” stands for and produced renewed meanings of it. Forced by catastrophes — the 9/11, the COVID pandemic, the Russian invasion of Ukraine — by socio-political movements — the MeToo, the Black Lives Matter, No More Stolen Sisters — or even by literary currents — Postmodernism, Transculturalism, Ecocriticism — “normal” has never stayed a stable category. This ceaseless endeavour to reconstruct the frames containing normalcy, however, has intensified its force in the past few years. In a period of history where the rise of conservationism claims for stricter lines of definition, the MIRCAALT Group emphasizes the urgency to keep re-questioning to a deep level what for centuries was considered fixed and indisputable. 

The MIRCAALT group has historically promoted the development of young researchers’ careers, and it has openly advocated for the creation of a befitting and hospitable academic environment for them. This second edition of the seminar aims at replicating the inspiring atmosphere which both the academic committee and the participants enjoyed in the previous edition with the objective of fully embracing MIRCAALT’S values. 

This endeavour is an objective that the MIRCAALT group shares with Philobiblion: Young Researchers of Hispanic Literature Association which, also based at UAM, again join the group in this collective effort to boost young scholars' early academic life. In addition, this seminar is also part of Intersectional Maternities: Matrifocal Narratives and New Types of Family in Anglophone Literature, known as MILA, a nationally funded project PID2024-1600044OB-I00 in which several members of MIRCAALT take part.