Events

25th AISNA Biennial Conference, 26-28 September. Ragusa, Sicilia, Italy.

NETEC member Martín Urdiales-Shaw participated in the 25th AISNA Biennial conference (Associazione Italiana di Studi Nord Americani) held at the the town of Ragusa, Sicily, and organized by the Università degli studi di Catania, from September 26 to 28. The conference theme was "Gate(d) Ways: Enclosures, Breaches and Mobilities across US Boundaries and Beyond".  Martín presented a paper entitled "Thresholds of Storytelling: the Nonhuman and the Inhuman in Yann Martel's Fiction."    

40th APEAA Conference: 6 - 8 June

NETEC members Teresa Caneda Cabrera and Araceli González Crespán are participating in the 40th edition of the APEEA conference in Porto. Teresa is presenting a paper entitled: "Forget Me Not: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Silence in Irish Writing" (Panel 5, 2:30 pm, June 6). Araceli's presentation is "Letters From Cuba: Transcending Migration on Stage" (Panel 2, 11 am, June 6).

See a print program of the conference here. 

James Joyce and Revolutions: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Havana 1964

April 15, 6.30 pm

The James Joyce Centre was delighted to welcome Dr. Teresa Caneda Cabrera, during her sabbatical as a visiting associate professor at UCD School of English, Drama and Film,  for the April instalment in the Spring / Summer 2019 Lecture series. Dr. Caneda Cabrera's talk focused on the relevance of the 1964 Cuban translation of Joyce’s novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in the years following the 1959 Cuban revolution.

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INTRUTHS AT UCC SCHOOL OF ENGLISH RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES and the IRISH STUDIES SEMINAR SERIES of the MOORE INSTITUTE at NUI GALWAY

 inTRUTHS project members TERESA CANEDA and JOSÉ CARREGAL will participate in the The School of English Research Seminar Series at University College Cork during the Spring Semester of 2019 

• 16 January: Teresa Caneda Cabrera, University of Vigo, Spain “‘Inconvenient Truths’: Silences, Scandals, and Secrets in Irish Fiction”
• 27 February: José Carregal Romero, University of Vigo, Spain “Rent Boys and the Dublin Underworld of Male Prostitutionin  Keith Ridgway’s ‘Angelo’ and The Parts

More information at https://www.ucc.ie/en/english/research/schoolofenglishresearchseminar/

TERESA CANEDA  will deliver a seminar entitled, ‘Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence in Contemporary Irish Fiction’ at 4pm on Thursday 4 April, Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies of the Moore Institute, NUI Galway. 

More information at  https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/irish-studies-seminar-series-2018-19-2/

INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR organised by INTRUTHS

On September 21 the Research Project inTRUTHS held the  INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR “Speaking the Unspeakable: Approaches to Silence in Contemporary Ireland” with the participation of all Project members and collaborators. This was the programme:

• Teresa Caneda Cabrera (U. of Vigo) “Cultural Practices of Silence in Contemporary Irish Fiction: An Introduction to Themes and Theories”
• Asier Altuna García de Salazar (University of Deusto) “Taxonomies of Silence in Recent Irish Fiction”
• Elke D’hoker (KU Leuven) “Silence and the Short Story in Ireland”
• Seán Crosson (NUI Galway) “Examining Silences in Irish Cinema”
• Marisol Morales Ladrón (University of Alcalá de Henares) “The Ethics of Silence in Contemporary Historical Fiction by Irish Women Writers”
• José Carregal Romero (U. of Vigo / University College Cork) “Boys for Rent: Breaking the Silence on Male Street Prostitution in Contemporary Irish Gay Fiction”
• Eibhear Walshe (University College Cork) “‘Not The President of Ancient Greece’: Classicism and Unspoken Sexual Identity in Contemporary Irish Literary Culture"

The presentations were followed by lively discussions in which the INTRUTHS Project members looked at the interrelations, similarities and dissimilarities of what they identified as the overwhelming presence of cultural practices of silence in the contemporary literary production of Irish fiction writers.

The Art of James Joyce: 26th International James Joyce Symposium

Teresa Caneda Cabrera, P.I. of inTRUTHS, participated in the 26th International James Joyce Symposium, "The Art of James Joyce", held at the University of Antwerp, 11-16 June 2018, with a paper entitled "'Silencio, exilio y astucia': A Portrait of James Joyce as a Dissident Artist". In the picture, Teresa Caneda with playwright, composer and lyricist Jonathan Brielle, author of the off-Broadway musical Himself and Nora, based on the story of James Joyce and Nora Barnacle, during the reception hosted by the City of Antwerp in the City Archives.

"Landscapes of Silence" panel at AEDEI Conference (31 May-1 June)

The Research Project "Inconvenient Truths: Cultural Practices of Silence in Contemporary Irish Fiction" FFI2017-84619-P was officially  launched at the 17th AEDEI conference, held at the University of Santiago de Compostela (31 May-1 June). M. Teresa Caneda Cabrera, Asier Altuna-García de Salazar and José Carregal Romero,  participated in a themed panel on "Landscapes of Silence", chaired by Eibhear Walshe. In the picture  the  inTRUTHS Research Project members, including Elke D'hoker, at the welcoming reception offered by the town hall.Click here to access the conference programme. 

LECTURE: "Maxine Hong Kingston and Gish Jen" - Prof. Begoña Simal, UdC

On Monday, 5th March at 1pm in room B1 (FFT), prof. Begoña Simal (U. of Coruña) will be presenting the lecture "Maxine Hong Kingston and Gish Jen: Exploring Gender across Generational and Ethnic Boundaries" This lecture is part of the academic activities of the course Ambitos II (19th and 20th c. American Literature) but is open to anybody wishing to attend.