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Appealing the World on Migration (2024/2025)

 The following cultural products are a selection of activities created by students for the module Raza, Género, Sexualidad, Cine y Teatro en Culturas de Lengua Inglesa (Race, Gender, Sexualities, Cinema and Theatre in English Speaking Cultures) during the academic year of 2024/2025. They were asked to produce an Appeal to the World to make awareness or state no to a specific system of inequalities regarding migration. The course is an elective subject taught for students in their third or fourth year of the degree. You can find the theoretical background and support on the Migramedia Project Webpage:  Clicke here for the article on teaching an APPEAL TO WORLD The teaching initiatives have also received the support of  the Research Project  "Aquatic Imaginaries: Re-charting Indoceanic and Atlantic Literary Productions " (funded by  Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation -  PID2022-141118NB-I00)  ratnakara.org These are some of those appeals to the worlds: Material: Where A
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Film Recommendations (2024/2025): A Corpus of Representations about Aquatic Cartographies

 You can find a selection of different sources that deal with oceans, seas and migrations on people on the link below. It will help students, professors and interested people find a list of movies, novels and other formats detailing stories about the sea and the ocean to detail aquatic cartographies that challenge terracentric representations. Corpus available on:  Corpus on Aquatic Cartographies The Erasmus+ Project Migramedia has published a teaching article on the Corpus, explaining how to implement the selection in the classroom and to outreach society as Transfer Knowledge. You can click on the following link to read the full pedagogical article:  Click here for the Pedagogical article here
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Film and Literary Recommendations (2023/2024): Vulnerability and Transformative Hope

Andrea Llano Busta (University of Oviedo, Spain) has compiled the recommendations of project members into a corpus of audiovisual and written texts. With over two hundred entries, the list may prove useful to students and teachers in secondary and tertiary education, who may likewise benefit from the corpora created in previous years — 2020 , 2021 , 2022 . The Corpus is always made on the outline of topics and questions proposed by Jorge Diego Sánchez (University of Salamanca, Spain)
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W/Righting Trajectories of Diaspora

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On March 14 th , the University of Salamanca held the seminar "W/Righting Trajectories of Diaspora," led by Dr. Rohini Bannerjee ( @RohiniBannerjee ), Professor of French and Associate Vice-President of Diversity Excellence at Saint Mary's University, Halifax. The event, attended by a full house, was organized by the Department of English Philology at USAL and the research group Narrating Resilience, Achieving Happiness - NARESH as part of the project Narrating Resilience, Achieving Happiness? Toward a Cultural Narratology (PID2020-113190-GB-C22), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. The programme included a Q&A session on Dr. Bannerjee’s short story “The Landing,” a creative writing workshop and several lectures on diasporic identities and the humanities.
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Film and Literary Recommendations (2022–2023): Critical topics on Racism and Misogyny

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In a series of videos, students in the module “Race, Gender, Sexuality, Cinema and Theatre in English-Speaking Cultures” at the University of Salamanca adopt a critical approach to current issues such as racism and misogyny by analyzing films, TV series, news articles and social media posts, among other sources. Below are some examples of their timely work. • Samuel Amador Vicente, Pablo Crespo Arias, Jesús Delgado Ponce & Ernesto Sentenac Martín · Green Book   S. Amador, P. Crespo, J. Delgado & E. Sentenac | Green Book   • Celia Arroyo Riolobos, Isabel Duque Zavala, Manuel Felipe Matellán & Eva Fernández Belloso · Black Lives Matter   C. Arroyo, I. Duque, M. Felipe & E. Fernández | Black Lives Matter   • Isabel Francoso Fernández, Zaira González Lorenzo, Gloria Grande Almoguera & Sofía Mielgo Giralde · The Deep Urgency of Being Heard: The Intertwining of Public Opinion and Misogyny in the Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard Trial   I. Francoso, Z. González, G. Grande &am
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