Araceli González Crespán presented the paper "From La Viuda to Letters from Cuba. Ends and Beginnings in Maria Irene Fornes's Theater through Family Correspondence" at the 6th International Conference on American Drama and Theater: Game Over! US Drama and Theater and the End(s) of an American Idea(l) , Miraflores de la Sierra, Madrid, 1-3 junio 2022. See conference webpage here.
M. Teresa Caneda-Cabrera presented a lecture on "Transformative Journeys: Convergences, Intersections and Entanglements in Irish Studies" at the II IRISH STUDIES INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR: “CULTURAL WAVES IN IRELAND AND IRISH STUDIES" held on 20 April 2022 at the Facultad de Humanidades, University of Huelva.
Martín Urdiales-Shaw participated in the 34th European Association for American Studies (EAAS) , held at UNED campus in Madrid.
As part of a two-panel session centred on Toxic Tales, organized by the research project Literature and Globalization 2: Communities of Waste, Martín presented the paper “'Welcome to America 2.0'': dystopian modes of waste in Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story"
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!
M. Teresa Caneda Cabrera presented the lecture “Uncovering Inconvenient Truths: Joyce and Beyond” at the plenary panel "Saying Nothing’: Voice, Knowledge, and Truth" with Vincent Cheng (University of Utah) and Margot Norris (University of California, Irvine) as co-participants. 27th International James Joyce Virtual Symposium: Omniscientific Joyce. University of Trieste, Trieste. Italy. 15-19 June, 2021. See full programme here.
M. Teresa Caneda Cabrera presented the paper “Storytelling and Communal and Individual Healing: Emer Martin’s The Cruelty Men” at 2021 ACIS - American Conference for Irish Studies, VIRTUAL. Ulster University. Derry, June 2-5, 2021. See panel info here. See full programme here.
Martín Urdiales-shaw participated in Workshop Session C9 (April 30, 11:15–12:15): Wasted Communities, Communities Of Waste with Begoña Simal-González (Chair and panelist, U. da Coruña) and Sara Villamarín-Freire (panelist, Universidade da Coruña). See full programme here.
M. Teresa Caneda-Cabrera presented the paper “Voicing the True Stories of the Past in Contemporary Irish Fiction by Women Writers: Evelyn Conlon’s Not the Same Sky”. See full programme here.
Martín Urdiales Shaw presented the paper "Wasted Lives and Wasted Living in Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story" in Panel 7. "Good Fear, Bad Fear: Apocalyptic Plagues, Cautionary Tales and Risk Criticism" (session 1, Friday) . Panel Chair: Begoña Simal (U da Coruña) . See full programme here.
The research project INTRUTHS, in collaboration with NETEC members, hosted the 19th International AEDEI Conference "Silences and Inconvenient Truths in Irish Culture and Society", organised by the University of Vigo.
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The International Colloquium Inconvenient Truths: Silences, Scandals and Secrets in Modern Ireland organised by the Research Project Inconvenient Truths: Cultural Practices of Silence in Contemporary Irish Fiction (FFI2017-84619-P AEI/FEDER,UE) will begin at 10 am with a plenary lecture by Professor Margaret Kelleher, Chair of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama, University College Dublin. The plenary lecture will be followed by discussion sessions with the participation of scholars from the National University of Ireland Galway, University College Cork, University of Deusto, University of Alcalá de Henares and the Universities of Vigo and Santiago de Compostela.
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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 2019. 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."
NETEC P.I. Teresa Caneda-Cabrera is chairing panel 4.3.Translating Joyce , at the Joyce Without Borders Symposium being held at UNAM's Casa Universitaria del Libro in Mexico City, where she is also presenting a paper entitled "Paradoxical Entanglements: James Joyce and World Literature".This panel is scheduled for Friday 14th 2018, at 9 am.
In the picture Vincent J Cheng, Maria McGarrity, Greg Winston and Teresa Caneda
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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.
NETEC members Araceli González Crespán and Martín Urdiales-Shaw participated in the14th SAAS Conference (Spanish Association for American Studies) on "The Image and the Word", held at the University of Salamanca, from 9 to 11 April 2019.
April 15 2019, 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.
