News, working papers, and miscellanea
Kyarachters Symposium – UCLA
I had the wonderful experience of sharing my paper “Outlasting it all? Representing the survivor in post-3.11 literature” at UCLA on the 29th of April for the Kyarachters Symposium, organized by the Yanai Initiative. I talked about how the present convention is based on a construction of the character of the survivor as an individual…
Seminar: Representing the Climate Crisis in European Art and Culture
Between January and March 2023, I had the pleasure of leading a seminar on the conflicts and possibilities related to the representation of the climate crisis in artistic and cultural manifestations in Europe. In four different sessions, we discussed how we are living in a paradigm where the artificial divisions between nature and culture are…
Ponencia invitada UCM: “La recepción de la literatura japonesa contemporánea en España a través de sus premios Nobel”
Estoy muy agradecido a los compañeros de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid por haberme invitado a realizar una ponencia invitada dentro del marco de su Seminario Permanente del Área de Estudios de Asia Oriental. En ella he podido hablar de cómo el premio Nobel de literatura actúa como un elemento canonizante conflictivo a la hora…
Book chapter: “The Illegitimate Ally: the hegemonic national narrative of Japan in the US (1945-2020)”
I am happy to announce that my piece “The illegitimate ally: the hegemonic national narrative of Japan in the US (1945-2020)” is already available as a book chapter for the collective volume The End of Western Hegemonies?, edited by Marie-Josée Lavallé and published by Vernon Press. It is an adapted fragment of my doctoral thesis,…
Two mid-July panels: Non-Western Approaches to Environmental Humanities and CICELI III
I’ve had quite a busy week attending two fantastic events that cover two different branches of my current research lines. On July 11, I gave a talk on the trope of disasters in contemporary transpacific cli-fi for the Non-Western Approaches to Environmental Humanities conference organized by the University of Warsaw. On July 15, I presented…
Clase en la UBA y club de lectura
Este marzo he tenido el placer de haber sido invitado a debatir sobre literatura japonesa contemporánea en dos espacios diversos pero muy enriquecedores. Por un lado, participé en una clase sobre literatura japonesa y canon global dentro del seminario Clanes, Grupos y Tribus en la Literatura Japonesa Contemporánea, dirigido por el doctor Matías Chiappe y…
Panel Organizer for the LASA/Asia 2022 Congress
On February 16th, 2022, my dear colleague Chiara Olivieri and I co-organized a panel for the LASA/Asia 2022 Congress in which we had the immense pleasure of having some of the authors of our recent East Asia, Latin America and the Decolonization of Transpacific Studies: Paulina Pávez, Angélica Cabrera, Rosanne Sia, and Gina León. They…
“Hope in Worse Futures?” Lecture at Nagoya University
Last Friday 21st of January, I was kindly invited to offer a public lecture on hope in dystopian fiction, transpacific cli-fi, and decolonial methodologies as part of the JACS Lecture Series of the University of Nagoya. I titled it “Hope in Worse Futures: A Comparative Exercise on Dystopias, the Climate Emergency, and Multicrises” and it…
“East Asia, Latin America, and the Decolonization of Transpacific Studies” is out!
Our collective book “East Asia, Latin America, and the Decolonization of Transpacific Studies”, co-edited with Chiara Olivieri and published by Palgrave Macmillan, is finally available! You can get it here. In this work, we invited researchers from different disciplines to tackle the question of what are the challenges and promises for the decolonization of transpacific…
Research fellowship at Waseda University
I will be conducting a research stay at Waseda University thanks to a Japan Foundation fellowship until the end of February, 2022. My plan is to study issues of literary representations of the climate crisis and the Anthropocene in contemporary Japanese production. Its outcome is yet to be defined. I am very excited for this…
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Jordi Serrano-Muñoz 