[Commlist] CFP - International Conference - Galatea awakens. Artificial and Metamorphic Female Bodies in Contemporary Audiovisual Media

Teresa Sorolla, Maria Medina-Vicent, and Antonio Loriguillo are writing 
to share with you the call for papers for the International Conference 
“Galatea awakens. Artificial and Metamorphic Female Bodies in 
Contemporary Audiovisual Media,*”* which will take place from 6-8 May 
2026, at the Universitat Jaume I (Castelló, Spain).

In their website 
(https://www.culturavisual.uji.es/mujeresartificiales/i-congreso-internacional/ 
<https://www.culturavisual.uji.es/mujeresartificiales/i-congreso-internacional/>) 
you will find a detailed presentation of the conference and all relevant 
information. The submission of paper proposals, which must be sent 
through the form provided on the website, is open until  9th February 
2026. Although the conference will be held mainly in Spanish, 
presentations in English are more than welcome.

This conference focuses on metamorphic female characters and rebellious 
Galateas who not only live but awaken: they question the power relations 
to which they are subjected and their own identities, resist violation, 
resignify and/or reclaim their monstrosity, pursue revenge or 
emancipatory escape, or take control of their own narratives.

The thematic lines of the conference include:
• The representation of artificial, metamorphic, or monstrous female 
bodies in contemporary audiovisual media.
  • Dolls, mannequins, sculptures, AIs, or gynoids that are self-aware 
and/or rebellious.
  • Gothic legacies and intertexts across literature, painting, and 
cinema: reinterpretations of artificial, resurrected, vampiric, 
/doppelgänger/, and /mad doctor/ female creatures.
  • LGBTIQ+ readings of artificial and metamorphic female bodies and 
body horror.
  • Self-imposed mutations of the female body.
  • Technofeminist genealogies, xenofeminism, and the technological 
reappropriation of the feminine in contemporary audiovisual media.
  • Accelerationist readings of contemporary Galateas.
  • The posthuman identity of artificial intelligences.


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