López-Varela   Transatlantic Dialogues: Europe and the US May 22-24 2008. Fulbright Commission and University of Bucharest.

 López-Varela  "E-motions and the Pleasures of the Interface"    EAAS Networks Research meeting:  "E-motion: Sentiment and Technology" Annual Fatih University Conference on Literary and Cultural Studies. Istanbul, Turkey, May 16-17, 2008,

 López-Varela "Canon and border-crossing in the work of Mina Loy"    EAAS Networks Research meeting:  Colloque International Les Réécritures du Canon dans la littérature féminine de langue anglaise (II)   Université Paris X-Nanterre, 6-7 Juin 2008

 López-Varela    " Bridging Intertextuality and Intermediality from a Cultural and Literary Perspective"    E-lit conference. Universisty of Bergen (Norway). Sept. 11-14 2008  

  López-Varela    "Studies on Intermediality as Intercultural Mediation" European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) 2nd European Communication Conference Barcelona 2008, 25-28 November 2008. 

  López-Varela  &  Mariana Net     "Mindscapes: Cityscapes, Landscapes, Hyperspaces". Cultural Landscapes: Heritage and Conservation. 3rd Conference of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and the Environment (EASLCE). Instituto Franklin. Universidad de Alcalá de Henares. 16-19 Octubre 2008.

  López-Varela     "Intermedial Literary Spaces: Bridging the Material and the Cultural" XXXII Congreso de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-norteamericanos (AEDEAN) Universidad de las Islas Baleares Palma de Mallorca, 13-15 noviembre 2008