SEMINAR “ARTICULATIONS OF INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNAL VULNERABILITIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION” AND BOOK LAUNCH | JAN 15, AULA 1 EDIFICIO REDEIRAS

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, at Aula 1, Edificio Redeiras, Vigo.

Official Program:

• M. Teresa Caneda Cabrera (Univerity of Vigo) lecture on “Why Vulnerability Matters in Irish Studies”
• José Carregal Romero (University of Huelva) lecture on “’So this was what being alone was like’: Vulnerability and Resistance in Colm Tóibín’s Nora Webster”
• Marisol Morales Ladrón (University of Alcalá de Henares) lecture on “Vulnerable Others in Jan Carson’s Magical Realist Novels”
• Constante González Groba (University of Santiago de Compostela) plenary session on “Speaking the Unspeakable: Resisting the Silencing of the Past in African American Fiction”
• Muriel Domínguez Viso (University of Vigo) lecture on “Vulnerability, Crisis and Mental Health in Sara Baume’s A Line Made By Walking”
• Asier Altuna García de Salazar (University of Deusto) lecture on “Dimensions of Vulnerability in Donal Ryan’s Post-Millenial Fiction”

The programme  also included the BOOK LAUNCH of Narratives of the Unspoken in Contemporary Irish Fiction: Silences that Speak (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) . A hybrid ZOOM event  with the participation of Guest Speaker Paige Reynolds (College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA).

Find more information about the book launch here