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At the beginning of June, York-based doctoral candidate Alice Flinta organised and chaired an event on contemporary Palestinian Literature, as part of the annual York Festival of Ideas. The event brought together Ghazzawi writer Sondons Sabra and Comma Press editor James Harker for a conversation and live readings from Voices of Resistance. Diaries of Genocide (Comma Press, 2025). James spoke about the context and editorial development of this powerful collection of testimonies, whilst Sondos read from her entries in the book, as well as some new, unpublished writings of hers. She recalled her time in Gaza from 2023, up until she moved to the UK, in November 2025, to study a Masters in Creative Writing at Lancaster University. Sondos’s writing is expectedly raw, loaded, as the depth of the spectrum of human emotion in troubled times like ours comes through unfiltered via a literary style that holds the weight of experience. The lecture theatre, which often remained in supportive, contemplative silence, resonated with shared, deeply felt emotions. These were reflected in the mindful and caring questions, and words of thanks, and hope, the public addressed to the speakers during the final Q&A. The public, which boasted university staff, students and the York city community, were deeply appreciative of the event, which ended in a standing ovation. As we all walked out of it metaphysically bruised, we could not ignore the renewed sense of resistance, political commitment and human connection brewing within, and amongst, ourselves. The event is a result of a long-standing collaboration with Manchester-based, independent publishing house Comma Press, first established by Dr Nicoletta Asciuto (English and Related Literature) in 2020. The EUTERPE Project: European Literature and Gender from a Transnational Perspective consolidated this partnership, as Comma Press is York’s official industry partner. The recording of the event is available on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVeAtOG0GOw With thanks to the York Festival of Ideas Team for making this event possible.

During May 18th and 21th, doctoral candidates Marina Casado Guerreo (CEU) and Olga Fenoll Martinez (UŁ) attended and presented their PhD projects at the international interdisciplinary conference – “Borders: Literary, Cultural and Political Dialogues” – taking place in the University of Athens, Greece. The conference, organised by the Department of English Language & Literature of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Hellenic Association for the Study of English (HASE), sought to offer “a space for experimental and innovative approaches to borders as well as for a critical dialogue which will unravel the complexity and multifariousness of borders across time and space”.

On June 1st and 2nd, different members of the EUTERPE Project attended and participated at the 13th International Feminist New Materialisms Conference: Enfleshing Literature Beyond Words. The conference aimed to plore the vibrant "interferences" between feminist new materialisms and literature, moving beyond the idea of literature as mere text enclosed in words so as to approach it as a modality of knowledge —an apparatus "yet-to-come" that allows us to revisit our pasts, inhabit our current experiences, and reimagine our futures in deeply affective and imaginative ways. Dr. Beatriz Revelles Benavente and Dr. Adelina Sánchez Espinosa—from the University of Granada—were both part of the organising and scientific committee, as wel as Dr. Angela Harris Sánchez who was part of the organising committee. Doctoral Candidates who were also part of the organising committee are Marina Casado Guerrero (CEU), Olga Fenoll Martínez (UŁ) and Séamus O’Kane (UGR). During the conference, Dr. Dorota Golańska gave one of the plenary sessions of the conference with a paper titled “Thinking small: the politics of minor remembrance”. On the other hand, DC’s Marina Casado Guerrero (CEU), Tamara Cvetković (CEU) and Olga Fenoll Martínez (UŁ) also presented part of their research undertaken within the EUTERPE project.

“Use the Words You Have to Get the Words You Need” with Kimberly Campanello This lecture is dedicated to the memory of Susan Stanford Friedman. Susan Stanford Friedman's work was seminal for the conception of EUTERPE, and we deeply grieve her passing. She was not only a highly respected and influential scholar, but also a special friend known for her warm personality and intellectual generosity. This lecture series was created in her honour, to celebrate her legacy and to keep her presence alive. This episode features a lecture given by Kimberly Campanello, which weaves together her recent published and unpublished writing and her reading in neuroscience and literary criticism, including Susan Stanford Friedman’s writing on H.D., who has significantly influenced Campanello's work. During the performance-lecture, the audience participated in a multilingual circumlocution activity, the prompts for this activity are included in the accompanying lecture slides for listeners who would like to follow along. Kimberly Campanello is a poet, performer, and writer, and a professor of poetry at the University of Leeds. The performance-lecture includes an introduction given by Nicoletta Asciuto, a Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature at the University of York, translator, and co-investigator at York for the EUTERPE consortium. This lecture was originally delivered on 20/04/2025 at the fourth biannual EUTERPE Doctoral School, held at the University of York in York, United Kingdom. The accompanying slides can be accessed here . The slides include the full titles of work by Campanello and others that are featured or referenced in the lecture. Campanello’s “Paradiso 4” from “Beginning Imperfectly Wanting,” Book 1 of This Knot: a new version of Dante’s Commedia with the Poet K , dedicated to Nicoletta Asciuto, Bobby Alexandrova, and Alice Flinta, can be read here . Excerpts of this work were read by the poet during the lecture. The episode transcript can be accessed here . Please note that due to the performance aspect of the lecture some parts of the audio may be less clear than others. For more information on Kimberly Campanello’s events and publications, see her official website https://www.kimberlycampanello.com/ . This episode is part of the EUTERPE podcast Library on European Literatures and Genders from a Transnational Perspective. The podcast is powered by the European Union, UKRI, and the Central European University Library. Grant Agreement: 101073012 EUTERPE HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01 Project. For more information about the EUTERPE project please refer to the official project webpage https://www.euterpeproject.eu/ , or follow us on Instagram @euterpe_project_ or Facebook at EUTERPE Doctoral Network Project . This episode was edited by Evangeline Scarpulla. Thank you to Alexander Walker for the music and to Alice Flinta for the voice over. Thank you also to Ninutsa Nadirashvili and Kris Orszaghova for designing the podcast covers. Photo Credit: Olivia Braggs.

Decolonisation and Caste: Untold Hierarchies In this episode of the EUTERPE Podcast, doctoral candidate Uthara Geetha (University of Oviedo) speaks with Dr. Malavika Binny (Kannur University) and Dr. Tintu Joseph (Mahatma Gandhi University) about the long history of caste as a system of hierarchy and exclusion. Beginning with B.R. Ambedkar’s seminal insights, the conversation traces caste from its Vedic origins and the Aryan migrations to its intersections with patriarchy, slavery, colonialism, and Christianity in Kerala. The episode examines how caste was reinforced under British rule, compares it with racial apartheid and white supremacy, and shows how it continues to structure oppression today. Listeners are invited to rethink caste as central to both colonial histories and decolonial futures. The episode transcript can be accessed here: https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:EU:394e091c-b94f-4c65-a5d7-138da9a0e450 . This episode is part of the EUTERPE podcast Library on European Literatures and Genders from a Transnational Perspective. The podcast is powered by the European Union, UKRI, and the Central European University Library. Grant Agreement: 101073012 EUTERPE HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01 Project. For more information about the EUTERPE project please refer to the official project webpage https://www.euterpeproject.eu/ , or follow us on Instagram @euterpe_project_ or Facebook at EUTERPE Doctoral Network Project . This episode was produced and edited by: Uthara Geetha . Thank you to Alexander Walker for the music and to Alice Flinta for the voice over. Thank you also to Ninutsa Nadirashvili and Kris Orszaghova for designing the podcast covers.

Podcast Library Bodies in poetry, territorial dysphoria, collective politics : A conversation with Aurora H. Camero In this podcast episode, DC Marina Casado invites the poet and collagist Aurora H. Camero to talk about a wide variety of topics: poetry, migration, art, transness, erotics, and everything in-between that needs to be thought and built collectively, hand in hand. The conversation is a shapeshifting poem, where the pauses and brackets give insights on contemporary poetry and different writing strategies. Together they also converse about Camero’s two poetry collections: Violeta and La vía sutil. The conversation also merges poetry with politics and gender with territory, generating reflections about the inseparability of identity categories and the urgency of moving our bodies and our theories beyond white-centered trans and queer imaginaries. A Conversation with Maxime Garcia Diaz In this episode, Séamus O’Kane interviews the Dutch-Uruguayan poet Maxime Garcia Diaz. They discuss her relationship with different languages and how they impact her creative process and the question of identity. The conversation also covers her life in the United States, the experience of having her work translated into Spanish in Argentina, the future of the printed book and fragmentation in modern culture. Europe beyond Europe. On Macau, water heritage, and “the language of women.” A conversation with Mariana Pinto Leitão Pereira Mariana Pinto Leitão Pereira is a heritage and diaspora researcher, and in this podcast she talks to York-based EUTERPE candidate Alice Flinta about what it means to be and grow up as Macanese. Having lived through Macau’s transition period and vividly remembering the handover day, she reflects on identity at the historical and political fringes of Europe, as well as what feelings of belonging are possible when the landscape changes in the blink of an eye and childhood geographies morph. Hélène Cixous, Echo, Subjectivity, Diffraction (Part 2): A Conversation with Professor Birgit Kaiser In this two-part episode of the EUTERPE Podcast, doctoral candidate Uthara Geetha (University of Oviedo) speaks with Professor. Birgit Kaiser (Utrecht University) about her second monograph ‘Hélène Cixous's Poetics of Voice: Echo - Subjectivity – Diffraction. Prof. Kaiser reveals how Hélène Cixous’s poetic fictions perform a radical, anti-essentialist model of subjectivity as “voice”– one that emerges not from a closed individual but from a ceaseless echo of other beings, places, and times. Sparkly Pearls in the Dustbin of Literature – in conversation with Olja Alvir In this episode of the EUTERPE podcast library, host Tamara Cvetković engages in a wide-ranging conversation with Olja Alvir, a multifaceted literary scholar, writer, translator, and journalist who examines the complexities of identity and migration. Born in Yugoslavia before moving to Austria in 1992, Alvir discusses her academic "excavation" of early Yugoslav partisan films to reveal their artistic value. She reflects on her position as a writer in exile whose homeland no longer exists, and the linguistic friction of navigating between German, English, and Serbo-Croatian (BCMS). A Conversation with Francesca Sobande For this podcast, Doctorate Candidate Maria Auxiliadora Castillo Soto conversed with Dr. Francesca Sobande about her book titled Big Brands are Watching You: Marketing Social Justice and Digital Culture published by University of California Press in 2024. In this episode, Dr. Sobande talks about her experience with writing this book, her bricolage methodology, and other important topics and concepts that she deals with in her research, including morality and racial capitalism. We invite you to dive into this conversation to know more about Dr. Sobande’s work and to check out the following links for more information. A Conversation with Marta Olivi on Translation In this podcast, doctoral candidate Evangeline Scarpulla speaks with translator Marta Olivi. During the conversation we discuss Marta’s four major English to Italian translation projects: Canta Ancora, Ragazza (2022), a translation of Jacqueline Roy’s The Fat Lady Sings (2000); L’Antropocene Inconscio (2022), a translation of Mark Bould’s The Anthropocene Unconscious (2021); Paradiso Terrestre (2024), a translation of Laura Vandenberg’s State of Paradise (2024); and selected poems from Molly Brodak's The Cipher (2020). Olivi also talks about her approach to translation work, the intersections between translation and academic research, and the importance of translation in today's transnational literary landscape. We hope that you enjoy listening to this podcast. Reshuffling: Feminist Collaboration and Transnational Solidarity with Rebecca L. Walkowitz This episode features a lecture delivered by Rebecca L. Walkowitz, Claire Tow Professor of English and Provost and Dean of the Faculty at Barnard College. The episode also includes an introduction given by Jasmina Lukić, Professor with the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University in Vienna and the Principal Leader for the EUTERPE project. The lecture pays tribute to the legacy of Susan Stanford Friedman as a scholar and mentor by reflecting on the concept of “reshuffling,” which Friedman developed in her later work as a way of thinking about feminist collaboration across differences of generation, nationality, race, religion, and class. This lecture is dedicated to the memory of Susan Stanford Friedman. A Conversation with Eugenia Seleznova In this episode, doctoral candidates Tamara Cvetković and Samriddhi Pandey interview Eugenia Seleznova, an author, researcher, and cultural manager from Ukraine. Currently, Eugenia is a PhD Candidate at Central European University, where she conducts a research on queer Ukrainian relationalities during the war. In conversation with Tamara and Samriddhi, Eugenia shares how the contexts of the post-Soviet, then revolutionary, and then, finally, wartime Ukraine have shaped her experience as an author, and directed her own shifts and transitions: between identities, regionalities, languages, genres, occupations — and ways to love and write. The conversation also touches on transnational and translingual experiences of writing through displacement, and on finding one's way as a "peripheral researcher" amidst the Western academia. A Conversation with Author Chérissa Iradukunda In this podcast, doctoral candidates Evangeline Scarpulla and Maria Auxiliadora Castillo Soto, converse with transnational author Chérissa Iradukunda, a first time published author who recounts her migratory experience from Burundi to the Netherlands in her book titled Broken Object. Her book was published in 2023 by Austin Macauley Publishers, and it presents readers with the difficulties experienced by a teenage girl while adapting to her new home and Dutch culture. Throughout their conversation, Iradukunda talks about what being a transnational author means to her. She also discusses the process of publishing her book, and her motivation for choosing English as the language of publication. Lastly, they discuss specific themes related to the plot and characters of her creative novel. Postcolonial Europe and Its Intellectuals: Feminist and Transnational Perspectives with Sandra Ponzanesi This episode features a lecture by Sandra Ponzanesi. Sandra is a member of the EUTERPE consortium and the Principal Investigator for Utrecht University. She is Chair and full Professor of Media, Gender and Postcolonial Studies in the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University, where she is also the Founding Director of the Postcolonial Studies Initiative (PCI). In this lecture, Sandra Ponzanesi discusses how Europe is not just a continent, a mere geographical space that continually redefines its boundaries and peripheries, but an ideal. It is the cradle of Enlightenment and scientific revolutions, and therefore of Western modernity and democracy. Minal Sukumar on Performance Poetry In this podcast, doctoral candidate Evangeline Scarpulla speaks with performance poet and PhD researcher Minal Sukumar. Minal’s humorous and engaging poetry explores themes of identity, selfhood, and coming of age. In this episode, she gives a reading of some of her poems including #OOTD, If History Catches Up and The Women I House. These readings are followed by a conversation about the origins and inspiration for her work, the meaning of transnationalism in her life and writing, and some of the specific imagery and themes found in her poetry. Decolonisation and Caste: Untold Hierarchies In this episode of the EUTERPE Podcast, doctoral candidate Uthara Geetha (University of Oviedo) speaks with Dr. Malavika Binny (Kannur University) and Dr. Tintu Joseph (Mahatma Gandhi University) about the long history of caste as a system of hierarchy and exclusion. Beginning with B.R. Ambedkar’s seminal insights, the conversation traces caste from its Vedic origins and the Aryan migrations to its intersections with patriarchy, slavery, colonialism, and Christianity in Kerala. The episode examines how caste was reinforced under British rule, compares it with racial apartheid and white supremacy, and shows how it continues to structure oppression today. Listeners are invited to rethink caste as central to both colonial histories and decolonial futures. International Literature Festival in Utrecht: Q&A with Authors Alejandra Ortiz and Chérissa Iradukunda In this podcast, Doctorate Candidate María Auxiliadora Castillo Soto converses with life writing authors Alejandra Ortiz and Chérissa Iradukunda. This conversation is the result of a workshop’s Q&A that Auxi Castillo Soto delivered as part of her EUTERPE internship. During their conversation, Ortiz and Iradukunda talk about their writing process, the language selection, the opinion of their close ones, and many other interesting topics related to their life writing narratives. Hélène Cixous, Echo, Subjectivity, Diffraction (Part 1): A Conversation with Professor Birgit Kaiser In this two-part episode of the EUTERPE Podcast, doctoral candidate Uthara Geetha (University of Oviedo) speaks with Professor. Birgit Kaiser (Utrecht University) about her second monograph ‘Hélène Cixous's Poetics of Voice: Echo - Subjectivity – Diffraction. Prof. Kaiser reveals how Hélène Cixous’s poetic fictions perform a radical, anti-essentialist model of subjectivity as “voice”– one that emerges not from a closed individual but from a ceaseless echo of other beings, places, and times. Libros con L de Latinas In this episode, Séamus O’Kane interviews Roxana Aguilar and Diana Cruz, two of the founding members of the Libros con L de Latinas book club. They discuss the importance of establishing a Spanish-speaking book club for Latin American women living in Glasgow which allows for migrant women to connect and form a community. The conversation explores how the book club can serve as an inclusive space for expression, solidarity and connecting literature to lived experience. Ruins, Fragments, and the Word: War, Memory, and Utopian Vision in H.D.’s Late Poetry with Raffaella Baccolini This episode features a lecture delivered by Raffaella Baccolini, a professor of Gender Studies and American and British Literature at the University of Bologna, Forlì Campus. Baccolini completed her PhD under the supervision of Susan Stanford Friedman, and has since published widely on women’s writing, H.D., modernism, dystopia and science fiction, trauma and memory, and Young Adult literature. The episode also includes a short introduction given by Jasmina Lukić, Professor with the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University in Vienna and the Principal Leader for the EUTERPE project. This lecture is dedicated to the memory of Susan Stanford Friedman. “Use the Words You Have to Get the Words You Need” with Kimberly Campanello This episode features a lecture given by Kimberly Campanello, which weaves together her recent published and unpublished writing and her reading in neuroscience and literary criticism, including Susan Stanford Friedman’s writing on H.D., who has significantly influenced Campanello's work. This lecture is dedicated to the memory of Susan Stanford Friedman. Stories of Survival: South Asian Voices in Vienna What does it mean to translate one’s story, language, and labor across borders? In this episode of the EUTERPE podcast series, host Samriddhi Pandey speaks with three South Asian scholars based in Vienna whose work deals with migration, identity, and artistic practice. Moiz Rehan reflects on queer asylum and bureaucratic violence, Rameeza Rizvi explores the “gray zones” of consent and the politics of intimacy in Lahore, and Fattima Naufil Naseer discusses the fading craft traditions of Lahore’s carpet weavers. The conversation moves through stories of navigating European academic spaces and finding ways to keep one’s voice alive inside these institutions. "I am not a sedentary person; I am peacefully restless": A Conversation with Elvira Dones How does an artist listen to the pain of others? How can writing represent and respect their voices? In this episode, Albanian Italian author, and English PEN Award winner, Elvira Dones talks to Alice Flinta about her process of writing, and how her life experiences inform the creative process. From life in Albania and her escape in 1988, to the asylum experience in Switzerland, to the documentary work across borders (Albania, Italy, Kosovo and the U.S.) that informs her literary endeavours, Dones offers intimate and thought-provoking insights into being transnational and living transnationally. Georgia, Caucasus and Beyond: A Conversation with Author Nana Abuladze When Nana Abuladze – Georgian author of novels such as "Akumi" and "The New Perception", who has received many prestigious awards for their work exploring the themes of gender, sexuality, identity and spirituality – visited the United States, Ninutsa Nadirashvili (EUTERPE doctoral candidate) was privileged enough to record a conversation with the writer about all things Georgia, Caucasus and beyond. In this podcast, they talk about isolation, Georgia’s history and how it’s been shaped by imperialism as well as internal strife. Additionally, they discuss transnational experiences and the merging of global and local life. We hope this podcast will encourage you to learn more about Nana’s work and Georgian literature. Interdisciplinarity and Interpretation: Concepts, Boundaries, and Contradiction with Ato Quayson This episode of the EUTERPE podcast features a lecture by Ato Quayson, the Jean G. and Morris M. Doyle Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies, Professor of English, and Chair of the Department of African and African American Studies at Stanford University. The lecture was delivered at the third biannual EUTERPE Doctoral School, held at Central European University in Vienna, Austria. A Conversation with Author Alejandra Ortiz In this podcast episode, doctoral candidate Maria Auxiliadora Castillo Soto and transnational author Alejandra Ortiz took a walking tour around different places in Amsterdam that are important to the author. Ortiz is the author of the book De Waarheid zal me Bevrijden , published in 2022 by Lebowski Publishers. In her book, Ortiz recounts her migratory experience from Mexico to the United States and Netherlands and her varied experiences in these countries as a trans migrant woman. Kimberly Campanello: "I don't want to be the poet who never thought about the meanwhile" On overlapping chronologies, intersecting geographies, translation and how writing can bring this all together. Kimberly Campanello - poet, performer, writer and professor at the University of Leeds - converses with Alice Flinta about her transnational belongings between the US, the UK and the south of Italy, and how this all comes together in her most recent project, a rewriting of the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. Multi-layered Approaches: A Conversation with Filmmaker Zuza Banasińska This podcast is a conversation between EUTERPE doctoral candidates Ninutsa Nadirashvili and Olga Fenoll Martínez and the transnational filmmaker Zuza Banasińska. Interested in the reproduction of images, systems, subjects and bodies, Zuza looks for ways to embody and queer existing archives. In this interview, they discussed their essay films, installations, multi-layered approaches that incorporate found and recorded footage, intricate ecosystems, and how they strive to interrogate and de-stabilise entrenched notions of identity, gender, and representation.