Vulnerability

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

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)