Colm Tóibín

6th SILAS Conference (Havana)

NETEC members Teresa Caneda-Cabrera (in the picture, with writer Colm Tóibín) and Martín Urdiales-Shaw participated in the 6th Conference of SILAS (Society for Irish and Latin American Studies) on "Island Relations: Ireland, Cuba, and the Latin World", held in Havana, Cuba, on February 16-18, 2017.

Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland, delivered the inaugural keynote address.

The Irish writers Colm Tóibín and Joseph O’Connor, invited to Havana for the International Book Fair, were also part of the official programme.

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Defensa de tese | PhD Thesis viva

On 16 December José Carregal Romero successfully defended his doctoral dissertation Contemporary Redefinitions of the Irish Family in Colm Tóibín's Fiction ("Mención internacional") at the Faculty of Philology and Translation in Vigo. The dissertation was supervised by Dr María Teresa Caneda Cabrera. Committee members included Professor Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin), Dr Marisol Molares Ladrón (U Alcalá) and Dr Martín Urdiales Shaw (U Vigo).

CONGRATULATIONS !

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