INTERNATIONAL INTRUTHS 2 SEMINAR: INTERDEPENDENCY AND VULNERABILITY IN CONTEMPORARY IRISH CULTURE: University of Galway, 21 Jan 2025
The seminar seeks to foreground the emergence of positive formulations of common interdependency and shared vulnerabilities which are seen as empowering responses to the fragility and precarity of the contemporary world. The focus will be on the discussion of works, methodologies and ideologies which situate resistance and positive transformation in the realm of individual relationships and the communal, generating a sense of attentiveness and responsiveness towards systemic fallibilities, social frailties and universal human needs.
A dedicated session will be held in memoriam of former project member, writer and UCC academic Eibhear Walshe, who sadly passed away in July 2024.
Huston School of Film & Digital Media, University of Galway
9:30h Opening: InTruths 2 Research Team meeting (Huston Q1)
10 – 11 am. Plenary Lecture (Huston Q1)
Sarah-Anne Buckley (University of Galway): “Vulnerability and Ethical
Considerations in relation to the Tuam Oral History Project”
Chair: Seán Crosson
11.15 – 12.15 Panel I (Huston Q1)
M. Teresa Caneda-Cabrera (University of Vigo): “Vulnerability as a
Critical Framework: Ways of Reading Contemporary Irish Fiction”
José Carregal-Romero (University of Huelva):" ‘The Most Ordinary
Thing about Human Beings is Love and Care’: The Ethics of
Interdependency in Sally Rooney's Fiction”
Chair: Marisol Morales-Ladrón
12.30 – 1.30 Lunch Break (Moffets Restaurant)
1.45 – 2.45 Plenary Lecture (Huston Main)
Nessa Cronin (University of Galway): “Precarious Climates: The Politics of Hope in Kim
Stanley Robinson’s Ministry for the Future (2020) and Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where are You (2021)”
Chair: M. Teresa Caneda-Cabrera
3 – 4.30 Panel II (Huston Main)
Marisol Morales-Ladrón (University of Alcalá): “Extreme vulnerability
and environmental ethics in Emma Donoghue’s Haven”
Elke D’hoker (University of Leuven): “Interdependency and
Vulnerability in Sara Baume’s Seven Steeples”
Seán Crosson (University of Galway): “Depicting and Evoking
Vulnerability in Irish-language Cinema: An Cailín Ciúin (The Quiet Girl)
(2022)”
Chair: José-Carregal Romero
5 pm In memoriam: A Tribute to Eibhear Walshe (Huston Main)