Solidarity, Change and Resistance in a Threatened World: The Transformative Power of the Humanities in the Twenty - first Century BLENDED INTENSIVE PROGRAMME (3 ECTS) VENUE Hotel Occidental Playa de Palma, Palma, Spain March – July 2023 https://briccs - bip.uib.eu Organised by BIP Partners Sponsors With the support of: University of Sussex (UK) Østfold University College (Norway) Universidad de Oviedo (Spain) Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain) Ismail Qemali University of Vlorë (Albania) Description The BIP starts with an online module (worth 1 ECTS) which, apart from a welcome session in which the BIP’s most important guidelines will be explained to all participants, is designed to introduce the BIP’s most important topics, including (1) the rise of a new cultural sensibility accounting for the re - emergence of the politics of place, renewed forms of nationalism, the shifts of political ideologies (the rise of the far right and the emergence of anti - establishment movements) and even Islamic fundamentalism; (2) climate change (and how literature and film can help raise awareness); and (3) how social, ethical and ecological commitment can also be found in cultural products other than literature and film (which humanities students are by far best acquainted with). The online modules will be delivered throughout Spring 2023 and will be complemented with an in - person summer school (2 ECTS) to be held in Majorca on 3 - 8 July 2023. This in - person event will involve 20 different sessions structured into six thematic modules. ONLINE MODULE (March - May 2023) Opening Online Session. Introduction to the BIP (Dr José Igor Prieto - Arranz, Dr Rubén Jarazo and Dr Fruela Fernández, UIB) 5 - 6pm, 8 March 2023 Online Session 1. Storytelling in the Anthropocene: Narratives of Climate Fiction 5 - 7pm, 15 March 2023 Prof Jane Mattisson Ekstam (Østfold University College): Fact and Fiction: Novels and Climate Change Dr Katarzyna Paszkiewicz (UIB): The Arts of Noticing: Cli - Fi Film and Ecocinema in the Anthropocene Dr Andrea Ruthven (UIB): Stories That Matter: Indigenous Fictions for a Changing Climate Online Session 2. The Rise of a Postmillennial Sensibility: Metamodernism in Art, Literature and Film (Dr So ň a Šnircová and Prof Slávka Tomaš č íková, UPJS) 5 - 7pm, 19 April 2023 Online Session 3. Meeting Europe’s Intersectional (Socio - political, Ethical, Ecological) Challenges in Cultural Productions. Theoretical Considerations (Prof Sabine Coelsch - Foisner and Dr Christopher Herzog, Paris - Lodron - Universität Salzburg) 5 - 7pm, 26 April 2023 Online Session 4. Migration, Displacement, Exclusion (Dr Patricia Bastida, Dr Rubén Jarazo and Dr Aida Rosende, UIB) 5 - 7pm, 10 May 2023 IN - PERSON MODULES (3 - 8 July 2023) (2h per session) Introductory Lecture 3 July 2023, 9.00 - 11.00am The Theory and Practice of Solidarity: Contemporary Art Forms and Literary Approaches (Prof Isabel Carrera, University of Oviedo) Module 1. Contemporary Fractured Societies. The Case of Britain 3 July 2023, 11.30am.1.30pm The Brexit Novel, or How to ‘Metaphorically Poke All Us in the Ribs’: Jonathan Coe and Ali Smith (Dr José Igor Prieto - Arranz, UIB) 3 July 2023, 3.30 - 5.30pm Gendered Spaces of Solidarity in Contemporary Scottish Fiction: The Nation and Beyond (Dr Carla Rodríguez, University of Oviedo) 3 July 2023, 5.30 - 7.30pm 'Tales from the Border': Global Change and the Posthuman Subject in Contemporary British Short Fiction (Dr Laura Mª Lojo Rodríguez, University of Santiago de Compostela): 4 July 2023, 9.00 - 11.00am Dirt or Cleanliness? The Tension between Travellers and Gypsies and Settled Society (Dr Roberta Piazza, University of Sussex) Module 2. Language and the Dissemination / Dismantling of Identity Discourses 4 July 2023, 11.30am - 1.30pm How to Master the Twittersphere: Donald Trump, Politics and Language (Ms Margalida Pizarro, UIB) 4 July 2023, 3.30 - 5.30pm Approaching Metaphor in British Political Discourse on Brexit (Dr Bledar Toska, University of Vlora) Module 3. Irish Identities 4 July 2023, 5.30 - 7.30pm Nostalgia and National Identity: The Case of Post - Celtic Tiger Irish fiction (Dr Sona Snircova, UPJS): 5 July 2023, 9.00 - 11.00am ‘Girls Just Wanna Have Fun’: Female Adolescence in Irish fiction I (Dr Aida Rosende, UIB) 5 July 2023, 11.30am - 1.30.pm ‘Girls Just Wanna Have Fun’: Female Adolescence in Irish Fiction II (Dr Rubén Jarazo, UIB) Module 4. Culture Beyond the (Literary / Filmic / Television) Text 5 July 2023, 3.30 - 5.30pm Food in Postmillennial Society, Culture and Media (Prof Slavka Tomasciková, UPJS) 6 July 2023, 9.00 - 11.00am Video Games as Simulators of Cultural Identities (Dr Andrei Nae, University of Bucharest) 6 July 2023, 11.30am - 1.30pm Meeting Europe’s Intersectional (Socio - political, Ethical, Ecological) Challenges in Cultural Productions. Practical Considerations I (Prof Sabine Coelsch - Foisner and Dr Christopher Herzog, University of Salzburg): 6 July 2023, 3.30 - 5.30pm Meeting Europe’s Intersectional (Socio - political, Ethical, Ecological) Challenges in Cultural Productions. Practical Considerations II (Prof Sabine Coelsch - Foisner and Dr Christopher Herzog, University of Salzburg) Module 5. Environmental and Health Concerns 7 July 2023, 9.00 - 11.00am The Semiotics of Covid (Dr Armela Panajoti, University of Vlora) 7 July 2023, 11.30am - 1.30pm New Understandings of the Relationship between Humans and Their Non - human Environment; Human and Non - human Survival in the Anthropocene/Capitalocene; Cli - Fi and Other Genres (Dr Katarzyna Paszkiewicz and Dr Andrea Ruthven, UIB) 7 July 2023, 3.30 - 5.30pm Posthuman Identities in Speculative Fiction: Bioengineering, Mind Uploading and Monstrosity in Mike Carey’s Works (Ms Rosa Moreno, UIB) Module 6 Claiming Space: Displacement in the Era of Cosmopolitanism 8 July 2023, 9.00 - 11.00am Modernist vs./and Postmodernist Narratives of the City (Dr Dragos Ivana, University of Bucharest) 8 July 2023, 11.30am - 1.30pm Displacement, Exclusion and Solidarity in 21st - century Diasporic Fiction: Mohsin Hamid’s Migrant Novels (Dr Patricia Bastida, UIB) 8 July 2023, 3.30 - 5.30pm Translation, Trauma, and Solidarity: Zahra Patterson and Don Mee Choi (Dr Fruela Fernández, UIB) ASSESSMENT A. For online live teaching (Mach 2023 – May 2023) Students are expected to select ONE session of their own choice and write a response paper (1200 - 1500 words). A response paper is a genre of academic writing describing your experience with a book, article, poem, movie or, in this case, with the course contents of a session. It should provide a short comprehensive summary of the work the student has engaged with and a formal assessment of it, his/her thoughts and opinions on it, and be backed up by evidence. B. For programmed instruction (July 2023) 1. - Class participation will be graded. Assessment criteria: (1) whether the student participates when requested to do so; (2) whether the student participates spontaneously; (3) whether his/her contributions show interest; (4) whether such contributions can be taken as evidence of having completed compulsory reading assignments; (5) whether such contributions can be taken as evidence of complementary reading on the part of the student; and (6) whether the student’s contributions somehow enrich class discussions. Regular attendance is a condition sine qua non for class participation to be graded. 2. - Students are expected to select ONE session of their own choice and write a response paper (1200 - 1500 words) (see above). Teaching staff at state - funded secondary schools in the Balearic Islands are eligible to add this activity to their self - training record (' itinerari d'autoformació ') as part of the Teaching Staff Lifelong Learning Programme (' Formació permanent del professorat '). Should this be the case, assessment requirement B.2 above will be replaced with a didactic application proposal, which should include the creation of sharable, easily re - usable interactive content or user - friendly, game - like learning management systems integrating audio, video, images and text. REGISTRATION AND ACCOMMODATION Please e - mail sac@uib.cat to register Registration Fees: Reduced fee: €110 (UIB students, faculty and staff members; unemployed, retired and disabled people; large family). Full fee: €120 Accommodation and expenses All participating students will be offered all - inclusive accommodation at the BIP venue, Hotel Occidental Playa de Palma**** at unbeatable rates (see below) These include all meals and all non - alcoholic drinks outside meals The resort is conveniently close to Palma Airport and only a few yards away from Palma Beach ( Platja de Palma) All rooms are air - conditioned and offer free Wi Fi, flat TV screens and balconies Other amenities include outdoor and indoor pools and a cycling centre APPLICABLE RATES - Standard double room (sharing with another person): €115 per person and night - Standard double room for individual use: €150 per person and night - Junior Suite (accommodates two) or Apartment (these have a double bed and a sofa bed in a different room and therefore accommodate up to 3 people): €124 per person and night. If there is a third person, s/he will benefit From a 25% discount, which will reach 50% in the case of a child (ages 2 - 12) Please note that accommodation can only be booked directly with the BIP organisers To book your accommodation, please e - mail Dr Fruela Fernández (fruela.fernandez@uib.cat). Please indicate in your email whether you need a single or a double bedroom. If you are intending to share a bedroom with another participant, do include full details for both of you in your message. No other booking methods will be accepted