Vulnerability

The XXX INTERNATIONAL JAMES JOYCE SYMPOSIUM took place this year in  Kraków, Poland 15–19 June 2026 on the theme of doubling/doubles.

M. Teresa Caneda-Cabrera (in the picture with her former mentor the Joycean scholar Vincent J.Cheng) participated with paper on Vulnerability, Intimacy, and Grievability in Joyce’s 'The Dead' and Mary Costello’s 'Barcelona'. 

This was another stimulating gathering of Joyceans across different generations and from different corners of the world which encouraged dialogue and celebrated diversity with fascinating panels, readings and plenary talks.  All in all a wonderful convergence of academic excellence and conviviality!

NETEC research was represented at the X Relational Forms Conference, held at the University of Porto from 4 to 6 December. See full programme here.

On 27 May, NETEC PI Teresa Caneda delivered the guest lecture "Researching Entanglements: Vulnerability and Silence in Contemporary Irish Writing"at the University of Dalarna (Sweden).

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. Find more information here

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.