RELATIONAL FORMS VI: Imagining the Nation. University of Porto, Dec 2 - 4.

By netec Ireland, Vulnerability, Nationhood, American Literature, Dystopia

M. Teresa Caneda Cabrera and Martín Urdiales-Shaw presented papers, and chaired panels, at the Relational Forms VI Conference, hosted by the research group CETAPS and the University of Porto. The first in-person conference in two years!

Teresa Caneda: 'Who are the Irish? ' Portraits of the Nation as a Site of Vulnerability and Resistance in Contemporary Writing. (Panel 10: Ireland and Narratives of (Dis)Harmony)
Martín Urdiales: From Absurdistan (2006) to Super Sad True Love Story (2010): Gary Shteyngart's (semi)Fictional Worlds and the Death of the Nation. (Panel 8: Political Violence and Ideologies of Nation)