Call for Papers

Following the success of the I International Conference on Gender Studies & Intermedial Narratives (UCM, 2024), this new edition seeks to go further, deeper, and bolder. If last year we worked around the idea of intermediality, this year we want to explore its most visceral and material dimension: how gender is inscribed on, through, and as bodies—and how bodies themselves become texts, interfaces, archives, and narrative machines.We begin with a simple premise: every text is a body, and every body is a text.

Cultural narratives, ideologies, technologies, affects, and politics flow across bodies and media. Gender is not only represented; it is performed, coded, embedded, digitized, materialized, and reproduced across literature, film, music, theatre, comics, poetics and digital environments. This interdisciplinary perspective will be explored in this Conference through connections with literary texts from the Anglophone world.

This conference invites contributions that push boundaries, experiment with the text in its various representational forms and engage critically with intermedial theory. We especially welcome hybrid, interdisciplinary, and transgressive proposals.

We seek difficult questions.

We encourage porous borders.

We want texts that come to life and bodies that speak.

We encourage papers dealing with:

1. Embodied & Gendered Textualities

• Queer, trans, and the non-binary
• Sexuality, desire and representation
• Toxicity, vulnerability, resilience

2. Intermedial & Aesthetic Forms

• Film, literature, theatre, music
• Comics, graphic narratives, poetics
• Hybrid or transmedial narratives

3. Posthuman & the Environment

• Cyborgs, avatars, AI-generation
• Virtual bodies; Gender, algorithms
• Ecofeminism & climate imaginaries

 4. Intersectional Corpo-realities

• Racialized and migrant bodies
• Disability and crip theory
• Ageing, Political and protest bodies

Individual Papers

250–350-word abstract + 150-word bio (15-minute presentation + 5 min Q&A)

Panels (3–4 participants)

Panel abstract (100–150 words) + Short bios (150 words each) (45 min + 15-min Q&A)

Performances (poetry readings, poetry slams, visual poetry…)

Description (250–350 words) + bio.

Conference Format: Participation will be primarily in person. However, we will also accept a limited number of proposals for online panels. Please note that the majority of panels will take place on site. When submitting your abstract, please specify the format in which you wish to participate.

Fee: The conference fee is 80€ for regular presenters and 40€ for PhD and master’s students. Payment details will be provided upon acceptance.

Abstracts accepted in English and Spanish.

Proposals sent to: rebcampo@ucm.es

Scientific & Organizing Committees:

Rebeca Campos Ferreras

Alberto García García-Madrid

Mercedes Pérez Agustín

Maya Zalbidea Paniagua

Research Group Studies on Intermediality and Intercultural Mediation

Research Group Poetics and Emergent Textualities

Department of English Studies – UCM