The 16th SAAS Conference has taken place in Granada between the 28th and 30th of March. Take a look at this post to see our team members’ contributions!
Dr. Francisco Collado Rodríguez has inaugurated the panel on posthumanism and the New Normal with a paper on posthuman numbness in Chuck Palahniuk’s Adjustement Day
Dr. Carmen Laguarta Bueno has shared her work on digital surveillance in Dave Eggers’ The Every in the paper “COVID-19 and the Normalization of Digital Surveillance: An Analysis of Dave Egger’s The Every (2021)”.
And to close the first session of the panel, Dr Sonia Baelo Allué has discussed Jennifer Egan’s novel The Candy House in the paper “Digitised Memories and Fragmented Patterns: Constructing and Deconstructing Narrative in Jennifer Egan’s The Candy House”.
The afternoon sessions open with a panel on critical posthumanism and ethics, featuring Dr Mónica Calvo-Pascual’s paper “on material posthumanism in River Solomon’s The Deep”The New Normal: The Inclusive Ethics of Material Posthumanism”.
Our team member Dr María Ferrández-San Miguel has presented her work on Octavia Butler’s trilogy Xenogenesis in the paper “Posthuman (Ab-)Normalcy in Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis Trilogy”.
And to close the evening, our team’s predoctoral researchers have presented in the second session of Posthumanism and the New Normal. María Abizanda-Cardona has discussed discourses of transhumanism in Lincoln Michel’s The Body Scout in the paper “The American Dream is for American Genes: Challenging the transhumanist New Normal in Lincoln Michel’s The Body Scout”.
And last but not least, Lucía Bennet Ortega has delivered the paper “Posthuman and Entanglements in Richard Powers’ The Overstory”.
On day 2, Dr Rubén Peinado Abarrio has presented his work on the medical subject on Kate Zambrano’s To Write as if Already Dead.
Plus, Dr. Esther Muñoz-González has delivered the paper “Posthuman thought and a Gothic story: Kelly Link’s ‘Two Houses'”.