Events

IASIL BUDAPEST 2026, PÁZMÁNY PÉTER CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY (PPCU), BUDAPEST 6-10 JULY 2026

NETEC research was represented at the IASIL International Conference "Translating Ireland" held at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPCU) from 6 to 10 July 2026. See full programme here 

José Carregal-Romero contributed to the panel "Sally Rooney" with a paper entitled “Interpreting Contemporary Ireland: Care and Intimacy in Sally Rooney's Intermezzo"

Lydia Freire contributed to the panel "Translating Ireland in the Eighteenth and Early-nineteenth Century" with a paper entitled "Translating the Hamlet: Ecofeminsit Localities and Matilda's Body-Land in Regina Maria Roche's The Maid of the Hamlet”

XXX INTERNATIONAL JAMES JOYCE SYMPOSIUM

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!

36th SEDERI CONFERENCE, UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE 13-15 MAY 2026

X RELATIONAL FORMS CONFERENCE, UNIVERSITY OF PORTO 4-6 DECEMBER 2025

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.

48 AEDEAN CONFERENCE, UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO 12-14 NOVEMBER 2O25

NETEC research was represented at the 48 AEDEAN Conference, held at University of País Vasco from 12 to 14 November

“By Any Means Necessary”: Corporate Capitalism and Pathological Narcissism in Gary Shteyngart’s Fiction

GUEST LECTURE BY NETEC PI TERESA CANEDA AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DALARNA

On 27 May, NETEC PI Teresa Caneda delivered the guest lecture "Researching Entanglements: Vulnerability and Silence in Contemporary

INTERNATIONAL INTRUTHS 2 SEMINAR: INTERDEPENDENCY AND VULNERABILITY IN CONTEMPORARY IRISH CULTURE: University of Galway, 21 Jan 2025

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