Our hoper Zihan Zhou presented “Listening Beyond the Frame: Sounding the Unseen in The Zone of Interest” at Leiden University, exploring how sound makes the unseen audible and opens spaces for awareness, resistance, and hope. #ReCapHOPE

Our hoper María Porras gave a talk yesterday on "Graphic Classics: Towards a Theory of Adaptation from Literature to Comics" at @filosofiayletrasuco! 🎨 ​A fascinating session on narrative & adaptation strategies. Thanks for sharing your research with us! ​#ComicsStudies #INSPIRE

Our hoper María Porras Sánchez will deliver a keynote talk, titled “Towards a Theory of Adaptation from Literature to Comic,” at @uco.es next Wednesday, in collaboration with the research group INSPIRE (HUM676) 📅 21st of October 🕖 19:00h 📍Facultad de Filosofía y Letras

Also at Tallin University, our hoper @cristinamgamfer has participated in the roundtable “From Vulnerability to Critical Hope” where she could dialogue with Dr. Hanna Lowe and Dr. Marco Caracciolo #hope #vulnerability

Our hopers @cristinamgamfer, María Porras, and Carolina Sánchez-Palencia have participated in the panel “Spaces and Temporalities of Vulnerability and Hope” 📍At the “International Symposium English Exposed: Vulnerability and Hope in Culture and Language,”hosted by Tallinn Univ.

What’s your story? What’s your power? Come find it out! Our hopers are participating tomorrow in "La feria de l@s ingeni@s", organised by @CordobaCiencia. 📍Jardines del Rectorado de la UCO, Av. Medina Azahara, s/n ⏰ 19:00 #hope #feriadelosingenios #nightspain

Today, our hoper María Martín Ortega took part in the Congress “Speculative Visions of Care and Hope,” organised by IAFA and CoFutures, with her paper: “Decolonial Perceptions of Time and Hope as Ontological Resistance in shalan joudry's Waking Ground (2020)”. #hope #resistance

New publication! 📚 “Made of Everything”: Black Joy and Diasporic Rootedness in Melania Luisa Marte’s Plantains and Our Becoming @MacarenaMartnM1 explores thriving as a radical form of resistance. 📖 Lublin Studies 50.2 (2026), 93–105 🔗 doi.org/10.17951/lsmll.2026.…

Also at ESSE 2026 in Santiago, Leonor brought our project’s conversations on hope into dialogue with environmental thought through her paper, “Cartographies of Hope and Environmental Wisdom in Shalan Joudry’s Ecopoetics.” 🌿 #ESSE2026 #ResistingTheCapitalocene #Hope #Ecocritic

We’re delighted to share Susana’s contribution to ESSE 2026 in Santiago de Compostela, where she presented “Nihilist Hope and Identity Failure in the Anthropocene: Gary Owen’s Killology.” ✨ #ESSE2026 #ResistingTheCapitalocene #Hope #Anthropocene #GaryOwen #Killology

Our research project was also represented at ESSE 2026 in Santiago de Compostela by Carolina, who presented “Weaving the Threads of Hope: Textures of Resistance in Contemporary Black British Art.” 🧵✨ #ESSE2026 #Hope #BlackBritishArt #Resistance

We’re delighted to share that our hiper Belén participated in ESSE 2026 in Santiago de Compostela with her paper, “Practicing Feminist Hope in the Capitalocene: Affirmative Becoming in Women’s Transmedia Life-Writing.” ✨ #ESSE2026 #Hope #Capitalocene #FeministStudies

We’re back from our summer break and ready for a new academic year! We’re excited to return with new activities and ideas as we continue exploring narratives of hope, resistance, and community in the Capitalocene. ✨ Stay tuned for what’s coming ! #Resistance #Hope

Today our hoper Zihan Zhou presented at the international conference Representations of Home in Literatures and Cultures in English at the University of Lisbon, discussing nostalgia and memory of home in graphic memoir. #hope

Today our hopers Somoud Kiwan and Lucía Ramírez (@luciernagx_) have participated in the ‘Jornadas Doctorales’ organised by @linglittrad where they have talked about the intersections of hope and despair #hope

One of our hopers, Mar Gallego, presented at the 14th Biennial MESEA Conference (11–13 June) with her paper “Revisiting the Forest: Survival, Healing, and Hope in Toni Morrison's Beloved and A Mercy.” 🌿✨ #MESEA2025 #ToniMorrison #HopeStudies

🌱 Yesterday, our hoper Teresa García Salcedo participated in the CAPS 2026 Annual Conference (Canadian Association for Postcolonial Studies) in Concordia University (Montreal), where she talked about Postcolonial Freedom(s).

Don’t miss our latest session, “A Discussion of Childhood, Hope and Intergenerational Solidarity” with Dr. Maria Augusta Albuja Aguilar. An insightful discussion closing our Advancing Research on Hope seminar series 🌟 👉 youtu.be/nHZzxl_ZjLY #Hope #Childhood

🎥 Don’t miss our latest session, “A Discussion of Childhood, Hope and Intergenerational Solidarity” with Dr. Maria Augusta Albuja Aguilar. An insightful discussion closing our Advancing Research on Hope seminar series 🌟 👉 youtu.be/nHZzxl_ZjLY #Hope #Childhood

Our hoper @cristinamgamfer has just published an insightful article about the necessity of narratives of hope and their negative side in @Conversation_E. Can narratives of hope be used to manipulate us? Read the article here → theconversation.com/necesita… #hope