XORNADAS “GENDER VULNERABILITY: RESISTANCE AND RESILIENCE IN THE WORK OF CONTEMPORARY WOMEN WRITERS” | October 2-3 at FFT.

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 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).

• Pilar Villar presented a lecture on “Vulnerability, Resilience and Resistance in the Work of Contemporary Women Poets: Eavan Boland and Paula Meehan”
• Auxiliadora Pérez presented a lecture on “Resisting Magdalen Vulnerability in Ireland: An Affective Turn in Claire Keegan’s Small Things like These”
• Laura Lojo presented a lecture on “Vulnerability, Borders and Global Mobility in the Contemporary Short Story in English”

Find more information about the conference here