2017

• Schwegler-Castañer, Astrid: “Tasting the Wide Ocean’: Planetary Conviviality against Tourists’ Consumption of a Commodified Exotic Elsewhere in Simone Lazaroo’s Sustenance“, Fifth Biannual Northern Postcolonial Network Symposium: Culinary Cultures, York St John University, 5 May, 2017.

• García-Fernández, Aurora; Pérez-Fernández, Irene; Cruz-Gutiérrez, Cristina; and Fresno-Calleja, Paloma: Thematic panel: “‘Land(e)scaping the shopping list’: Old and New Uses of the Exotic in Contemporary Popular Romance”, Theorising the Popular Conference, Liverpool Hope University, 21-22 June 2017.

• Pomar-Amer, Miquel: “Distinctively Majorcan features in Helen Walsh’s The Lemon Grove and Emma Straub’s The Vacationers”, International Seminar on Languages and Cultures in the Romance Novel, Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 21-23 June 2017.

• Fresno-Calleja, Paloma: “Selling the Land of the Long White Cloud in Spain: Sarah Lark’s Landscape Novels”, Conference: Islands on Sale: New Zealand and Pacific Arts in the Global Marketplace, Regent’s University, London, 30 June – 1 July.

• García-Fernández, Aurora: “Up and away from Exoticism: (Re)Packaging New Zealand for academic consumption in Spain”, Conference: Islands on Sale: New Zealand and Pacific Arts in the Global Marketplace, Regent’s University, London, 30 June – 1 July.

• Pérez-Fernández, Irene: “Trespassing the Colour Line in Popular Romantic Fiction: the Politics of Generic Innovation in Malorie Blackman’s Young Adult Novels”, Afroeuropeans Conference , University of Tampere, Finland (6-8 July 2017).

• Cruz-Gutiérrez, Cristina: “(Mis)Guiding Readers: the Mark(et)ing of Imaginative Boundaries in The Fever Tree by Jennifer McVeigh”, 41st AEDEAN Conference, University of La Laguna, Spain (8-10 November 2017).

• Fernández-Rodríguez, Carolina: “Literary Activism in Chamorro Romance: Conquered and A Mansion on the Moon“, 41st AEDEAN Conference, University of La Laguna, Spain (8-10 November 2017).

• Moreno-Álvarez, Alejandra: “The Exotic Trope Alive and Kicking: Ruth Prawer Jhavala and Nicole C.Vosseler”, 41st AEDEAN Conference, University of La Laguna, Spain (8-10 November 2017).

• Perez-Ríu, Carmen; García-Fernández, Aurora; Pérez-Fernández, Irene; Fresno-Calleja, Paloma: “From Mills and Boon to the Post-Millenial Boom: The Production, Reception and Marketing of Popular Romance”, 41st AEDEAN Conference, University of La Laguna, Spain (8-10 November 2017).

• Pomar-Amer, Miquel: “Fantasy holidays in the Balearic Islands: #fakeituntilyoumakeit”, 41st AEDEAN Conference, University of La Laguna, Spain (8-10 November 2017).

• Schwegler-Castañer, Astrid: “Palatable (Hi)stories: Exoticism in Contemporary Historical Romance”, 41st AEDEAN Conference, University of La Laguna, 8-10 November 2017.

• Pérez Rodríguez, Eva M: “Lives and Nations Emerging from Ruins: Homes, Exoticism and Recent History in The House of Dust and Dreams by Brenda Reid and Eurydice Street by Sofka Zinovieff”, 10th Conference of the Hellenic Association for the Study of English: Beyond the Ruin: Investigating the Fragment in English Studies, University of Athens, 23-25 November 2017.

• García-Fernández, Aurora: ““Waltzing the Subaltern: The Politics of Romance Writing in and about Australia”, III International Translit Seminar: “Through the Emotional Glass:Historicising Romance, De/Romanticising History”, 24 November 2017.

• Fresno-Calleja, Paloma: “Digging up the Un/Romantic Past: Historical Novels about the Chinese Immigrant Experience in New Zealand”, III International Translit Seminar: “Through the Emotional Glass:Historicising Romance, De/Romanticising History”, 24 November 2017.

• Moreno-Álvarez, Alejandra: “India, just Heat, Dust and Tea? Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Nicole C. Vosseler”, AEEI Conference, Writing/Righting Wrongs:  Misrepresentation,  Discrimination, Inequality, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 29 November – 1 December 2017.

• Pomar-Amer, Miquel: “Les Balears a la cultura popular en anglès: literatura romántica, de viatges i de detectius”, Research Seminar Cultura, conflicte i nous subjectes socials en la Mallorca contemporània, Universitat de les Illes Balears, 22 December 2017.

2018

• Fresno-Calleja, Paloma: “Romantic desti/nations: Branding New Zealand in contemporary romance fiction”, GAPS Conference: Nationalism and the Postcolonial, Johannes Gutenberg University, 10 – 12 May, 2018.

• Cruz-Gutiérrez, Cristina: “(De)Romanticizing the Nigerian Nation: Reformulating Intimate and Public Boundaries in Third-Generation Feminist Fiction”, Seminario de Doctorado en Filología y Filosofía, “Literatura(s) y cultura(s): Representación y recepción desde la modernidad hasta la contemporaneidad”, University of the Balearic Islands, 30 May 2018.

• Pérez-Rodríguez, Eva M.: “Like Old Bruises”: Widowhood and Family Traumas in Leah Fleming’s The War Widows and Sofka Zinovieff’s The House on Paradise Street”, Romantic E-Scapes: Popular Romance in the Digital Age, University of the Balearic Islands 9-11 July 2018.

• Pomar-Amer, Miquel: “The inescapable past: haunting memories of the war in Jo Eames’ The Faithless Wife”, Romantic E-Scapes: Popular Romance in the Digital Age, University of the Balearic Islands 9-11 July 2018.

• Pérez Ríu, Carmen:  “Neo-Victorian popular romance and the pleasures(?) of anachronism”, Romantic E-Scapes: Popular Romance in the Digital Age, University of the Balearic Islands 9-11 July 2018.

• Fresno-Calleja, Paloma: “100% Pure Romance? Rosalind James’s ‘Escape to New Zealand’ Series”, Romantic E-Scapes: Popular Romance in the Digital Age, University of the Balearic Islands 9-11 July 2018.

• Schwegler Castañer, Astrid: “Devouring Textual Love: The Culinary Metaphor in Contemporary Historical Romance”, Romantic E-Scapes: Popular Romance in the Digital Age, University of the Balearic Islands 9-11 July 2018.

• Villar-Argáiz, Pilar: “History, Exoticism and Romance in Popular Fiction set in Ireland”, Romantic E-Scapes: Popular Romance in the Digital Age, University of the Balearic Islands 9-11 July 2018.

• García-Fernández, Aurora: “Between Exotic Postcards and Green Activism: Environmental Preoccupations in Contemporary Australian Romance”, Romantic E-Scapes: Popular Romance in the Digital Age, University of the Balearic Islands 9-11 July 2018.

• Cruz-Gutiérrez, Cristina: “ ‘Yeah, I love it too but just don’t romanticize it’: An African City at the Crossroads of Romance and InsubordiNation”, Romantic E-Scapes: Popular Romance in the Digital Age, University of the Balearic Islands 9-11 July 2018.

• Moreno Álvarez, Alejandra: “De-exotifying Romance Novels in Postcolonial India”, Romantic E-Scapes: Popular Romance in the Digital Age, University of the Balearic Islands 9-11 July 2018.

• Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina: “Nora Roberts’ Inn Boonsboro Trilogy: Fuelling the Myth of Romantic Love, Stoking the Fire of Consumerism”, Romantic E-Scapes: Popular Romance in the Digital Age, University of the Balearic Islands 9-11 July 2018.

• Irene Pérez Fernández (University of Oviedo): “Atoning the Colonial Past in Contemporary Caribbean Romance: Female Characters Challenging the Norms”, Romantic E-Scapes: Popular Romance in the Digital Age, University of the Balearic Islands 9-11 July 2018.

• Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina: “Chamorro Romance Heroines: Loving the G.I. while Resisting Imperialism”, Contemporary Women’s Writing Association, “Writing Wrongs”, Northumbria University, 20-21 September 2018.

• Fresno-Calleja, Paloma: “Feminist Romance Samoan-Style: Local and Global Wrongs in Lani Wendt Young’s Scarlet Series”, Contemporary Women’s Writing Association, “Writing Wrongs”, Northumbria University, 20-21 September 2018.

• García Fernández, Aurora: “Aspirational Dreaming: Political Activism and Transcultural Pedagogy in Anita Heiss’s Romantic Fiction”, Contemporary Women’s Writing Association, “Writing Wrongs”, Northumbria University, 20-21 September 2018.

• Pérez Fernández, Irene: “Re/writing Racial Wrongs:  Ethical and Political Uses of Romance in Malorie Blackman’s Young Adult Series”, Contemporary Women’s Writing Association, “Writing Wrongs”, Northumbria University, 20-21 September 2018.

• Pomar-Amer, Miquel: “The 3 Rs in The Hen Party and The Brazilian: Reality show, Romance and Recycling”, 8^th International SELICUP Conference: “The Humanities and the Challenges of the New Europe: Culture, Languages, Identities”, Universitat de les Illes Balears, 24-26 October 2018.

• Moreno-Álvarez, Alejandra: “What has The Man Booker Prize to do with the Romance Fiction Genre? Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland“, 49 AEDEAN conference, University of Cordoba, 7-9 November, 2018.

• Schwegler-Castañer: “Of Puzzles and Vegemite Toast: Romance and National Identity in the Gameplay of Florence”, Congreso SELICUP. “Las Humanidades ante los Retos de la Nueva Europa: Culturas, Lenguas e Identidades”, Universidad de las Islas Baleares, 24-26 de octubre de 2018.

• Villar-Argáiz, Pilar, Pérez-Rodríguez, Eva M., Pomar-Amer, Miquel and Fresno-Calleja, Paloma: Round Table: “Neo-Orientalism in the Romantic Tourist Novel”, 49 AEDEAN conference, University of Cordoba, 7-9 November, 2018.

2019

• Ripoll-Fonollar, Mariana: “The Figure of the Suffragette in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction”, Pens, doncs escric: perspectives lingüístiques, literàries i culturals, 2n Seminari Doctorands de Filologia i Filosofia, Universitat de les Illes Balears, 1 April 2019.

• Cruz-Gutiérrez, Cristina: “Deconstructing Romantic Love in Third-Generation Nigerian Female Writers”, Pens, doncs escric: perspectives lingüístiques, literàries i culturals, 2n Seminari Doctorands de Filologia i Filosofia, Universitat de les Illes Balears, 1 April 2019.

• Fernández-Rodríguez, Carolina: “The impact of Anglo-Chamorro romance on Guam’s neocolonial status, or the power of the intimate in discussions of the global”, Popular Conference Association, Washington 17-20 April, 2019.

• Cruz-Gutiérrez, Cristina:”Intimately Public Markets and the Hustling of Affect: Lola Shoneyin’s The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives and Yejide Kilanko’s Daugthers Who Walk This Path”, AT GENDER Spring Conference, “Feminist Teaching (through) Emotions, Feelings and Affects”, University of Oviedo, 8-10 May 2019.

• Ripoll-Fonollar, Mariana: “Affected Suffrage: Romanticising Transgressive Bodies in Robin Lee Hatcher’s Catching Katie and Courtney Millan’s The Suffragette Scandal“, AT GENDER Spring Conference, “Feminist Teaching (through) Emotions, Feelings and Affects”, University of Oviedo, 8-10 May 2019.

• Cruz-Gutiérrez, Cristina: “From Dark Tourism to Afropolitan Vindication: Romance, Symbolism and Politics in African Fictions”, Research Seminar “Pages, Screens and Postcards: Media and Literary Tourism in the Anglophone World”, University of the Balearic Islands, 16 May 2019.

• Fernández-Rodríguez, Carolina: “Helen Jackson’s Ramona: The Battle Cry that Became a Tourist Guide”, Research Seminar “Pages, Screens and Postcards: Media and Literary Tourism in the Anglophone World”, University of the Balearic Islands, 16 May 2019.

• Pomar-Amer, Miquel: “From the Page to the Beach: Popular Literature and Tourism”, Research Seminar “Pages, Screens and Postcards: Media and Literary Tourism in the Anglophone World”, University of the Balearic Islands, 16 May 2019.

• Cruz-Gutiérrez, Cristina: “Capable of non-Being: Deconstructing Romantic Love in Chinelo Okparanta’s Under the Udala Trees and Yejide Kilanko’s Daugthers Who Walk this Path”, 6^th ASYRAS Conference (Association of Young Researchers on Anglophone Studies), University of Cantabria, 27-29 June 2019.

• Ripoll-Fonollar, Mariana: “Re-Membering Black Suffrage in Kianna Alexander’s “A Radiant Soul” and Alyssa Cole’s “Let Us Dream”, 6^th ASYRAS Conference (Association of Young Researchers on Anglophone Studies), University of Cantabria, 27-29 June 2019.

• Fresno-Calleja, Paloma; Carmen Pérez Ríu y Alejandra Moreno Álvarez: “Política, Estética y Mercadotecnia en las Fórmulas Literarias Populares de Consumo Femenino. Historia, Exotismo y Romance”, Jornadas Científicas de Estudios de Género, UNED 24-26 junio, 2019.

• Fresno-Calleja, Paloma: “Un/Common Concerns: Lani Wendt Young’s Scarlet Series and the Politics of Postcolonial Romance”, ACLALS  Triennial Conference “The Uncommon Commonwealth”, University of Auckland, 15-19 July 2019.

• García Fernández, Aurora: “Koori Hearts Also Throb: Romance as a Literary Tool to Decolonise Australian History”, 43 AEDEAN Conference, University of Alicante, 13-15 November 2019.

• Moreno-Álvarez, Alejandra: “From Monsooon Wedding to Made in Heaven: Shifting Social Awareness”, 43 AEDEAN Conference, University of Alicante, 13-15 November 2019.

• Fresno-Calleja, Paloma: “Chick Lit, City Branding and the Cultural Cringe: Kate O’Keeffe’s Wellywood Series”, 43 AEDEAN Conference, University of Alicante, 13-15 November 2019.

2021

• Fernández-Rodríguez, Carolina: “Manual para fabricar la historia: El caso de la herencia española en California y Ramona, una heroína de romance”, ponencia presentada en el VI Seminario TRANSLIT, “Los abusos de la des/memoria: una mirada posthumanista”, Universidad de Oviedo, Abril 2021.

• Fernández-Rodríguez, Carolina:“Romancing America with ‘thee’s and thou’s and bonnets and all’, or How Quaker Brides Complicate the Tenets of the Christian Right in Inspirational Romances”, Popular Culture Association, June 2021, online.

• Fresno-Calleja, Paloma: “The Politics, Aesthetics and Marketing of Literary Formulae in Popular Women’s Fiction: History, Exoticism and Romance”, Research Seminar Series: Cultural Industries and Popular Culture. Research Centre for Languages and Cultures, University of Aveiro, June 2021, online.

• Ripoll-Fonollar, Mariana: “Romance as Historiography: At the Crossroads of Commemoration and Commodification”, comunicación presentada en el congreso “A Slow International E-Conference: Sites of Feminist Memory: Remembering Suffrage in Europe and the USA, June 2021, online.

• Pérez-Fernández, Irene: “Michelle Paver’s The Daughters of Eden trilogy: Caribbean Plantation through Rose-tinted Glasses”, 44 AEDEAN Conference, University of Cantabria, November 2021, online.

• Fernández-Rodríguez, Carolina: “God’s Romance with White America: Quaker Brides Come to the Rescue of Indians, Blacks and Jews in Inspirational Fiction”, AEDEAN Conference 44, Universidad de Cantabria, Noviembre 2021, online.

• Schwegler-Castañer, Astrid: “Narrative poetry in video games: Gender and ethnicity in the metaphorical gameplay of Florence”, TRASNLIT Seminar 2021. Critical Borderlands: Mutaciones e Hipertensiones en la Literatura de la Modernidad, Universidad de Oviedo, Diciembre 2021.

• Pérez-Ríu, Carmen: “Beyond reading the romance. Remixing for fanvids and booktrailers”. TRASNLIT Seminar 2021, Critical Borderlands: Mutaciones e Hipertensiones en la Literatura de la Modernidad, Universidad de Oviedo, Diciembre 2021.

• García Fernández, Aurora: “Ulises y los Ciborglectores: del modernismo al multiverso.”TRASNLIT Seminar 2021, Critical Borderlands: Mutaciones e Hipertensiones en la Literatura de la Modernidad, Universidad de Oviedo, Diciembre 2021.

• Fresno-Calleja, Paloma: “Following Jane: An Overview of Jane Austen (Digital) Fandom”. TRASNLIT Seminar 2021. Critical Borderlands: Mutaciones e Hipertensiones en la Literatura de la Modernidad, Universidad de Oviedo, Diciembre 2021.