37.661, Confs: Mythical Archipelagos: Islands, Narratives, and Imaginaries Across Cultures and Media - International Interdisciplinary Seminar (Spain)

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Subject: 37.661, Confs: Mythical Archipelagos: Islands, Narratives, and Imaginaries Across Cultures and Media - International Interdisciplinary Seminar (Spain)

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Date: 16-Feb-2026
From: Marta Silvera-Roig [mythical-2026 at ulpgc.es]
Subject: Mythical Archipelagos: Islands, Narratives, and Imaginaries Across Cultures and Media - International Interdisciplinary Seminar


Mythical Archipelagos: Islands, Narratives, and Imaginaries Across
Cultures and Media - International Interdisciplinary Seminar

Date: 14-May-2026 - 15-May-2026
Location: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Contact: Marta Silvera Roig
Meeting URL:
https://dfmti.ulpgc.es/app/pages/investigacion-dicos/dicos/islas/

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics;
Cognitive Science; Discourse Analysis; Ling & Literature

Submission Deadline: 30-Mar-2026

Across cultures, historical periods, and media, islands have
functioned as privileged sites of myth-making and imagination. Often
perceived as bounded worlds, islands have generated narratives of
origin and apocalypse, utopia and dystopia, exile and belonging,
isolation and connection. From ancient mythologies to contemporary
cultural production, from oral traditions to visual and digital media,
and from colonial imaginaries to ecological discourses, islands have
operated as narrative laboratories in which cultural anxieties,
desires, and transformations are articulated.
The international seminar Mythical Archipelagos: Islands, Narratives,
and Imaginaries Across Cultures and Media invites scholars to explore
islands as mythical, symbolic, and narrative spaces. Myths are
understood here in a broad sense: as foundational stories, cultural
imaginaries, symbolic systems, and narrative frameworks that are
inherited, transformed, reimagined, or contested in relation to
insular spaces.
Rather than treating islands as merely geographic entities, this
seminar approaches them as dynamic sites where overlapping
temporalities, negotiated identities, and human and more-than-human
relations converge. Particular attention will be given to
environmental humanities, indigenous and postcolonial perspectives,
and intermedial approaches—while remaining open to comparative,
historical, theoretical, and interdisciplinary contributions.
We welcome interdisciplinary contributions from island studies,
environmental humanities, anthropology, cultural studies, linguistics,
media studies, and related fields.
Abstract deadline: 30 March 2026
Full CFP and details:
https://dfmti.ulpgc.es/app/pages/investigacion-dicos/dicos/islas/
Submissions: mythical-2026 at ulpgc.es



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