Vulnerability

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. 

On Thursday,  19 December 2024, José Carregal Romero (University of Huelva) gave the talk "People can really change one another": Vulnerability and Care in Sally Rooney's Fiction.

NETEC Seminar Series on Intersectional Vulnerabilities was pleased to host the Zoom conversation, "Visions and Revisions of 'Home' in Irish Literature and Society," featuring renowned writers Evelyn Conlon and Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, on Thursday November 7 2024. 

NETEC Seminar Series on Intersectional Vulnerabilities was delighted to host Dr. Alfred Markey (University of León) who discussed Irish-Spanish relations this Thursday October 31 2024.

NETEC is proud to have had researcher Martín Urdiales Shaw represent us at the 17th ESSE Conference.

The seminar “Articulations of Individual and Communal Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Fiction” organised  by the Research Project inTRUTHS2: Articulations of Individual and Communal Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Writing (PID2020-114776GB-I00 MCIN/AEI) and Irish Studies at Uvigo took place January 15 2024, at Aula 1, Edificio Redeiras, Vigo.

The “Gender Vulnerability: Resistance and Resilience in the Work of Contemporary Women Writers” seminar organised by the Research Project inTRUTHS2: Articulations of Individual and Communal Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Writing (PID2020-114776GB-I00 MCIN/AEI) was held on October 2 and October 3 2023 at FFT, featuring scholars Pilar Villar Argáiz (University of Granada), Auxiliadora Pérez Vides (University of Huelva) and Laura Lojo Rodríguez (University of Santiago de Compostela).

NETEC Seminar Series on Intersectional Vulnerabilities hosted Professor Maria McGarrity from Long Island University for an insightful discussion on the language of vulnerability

NETEC members participate in AEDEI 2022 and in AEDEAN 2022.

We are proud to announce that our NETEC research has been represented at the two annual conferences of the major national associations of Angloamerican Studies and Irish Studies.   

NETEC SEMINAR SERIES ON INTERSECTIONALVULNERABILITIES 2022:  I: Women’s  Voices in Contexts of Conflict / II: Writers' Voices in Times of Crisis

Co-organised by Research Group NETEC and Research Project INTRUTHS 2 "Articulations of Individual and Communal Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Irish Writing" PID2020-114776GB-I00 MCIN/AEI