NETEC members Teresa Caneda Cabrera and Araceli González Crespán are participating in the 40th edition of the APEEA conference in Porto. Teresa is presenting a paper entitled: "Forget Me Not: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Silence in Irish Writing" (Panel 5, 2:30 pm, June 6). Araceli's presentation is "Letters From Cuba: Transcending Migration on Stage" (Panel 2, 11 am, June 6).
See a print program of the conference here.
April 15, 6.30 pm
The James Joyce Centre was delighted to welcome Dr. Teresa Caneda Cabrera, during her sabbatical as a visiting associate professor at UCD School of English, Drama and Film, for the April instalment in the Spring / Summer 2019 Lecture series. Dr. Caneda Cabrera's talk focused on the relevance of the 1964 Cuban translation of Joyce’s novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in the years following the 1959 Cuban revolution.
NETEC members Teresa Caneda-Cabrera (in the picture, with writer Colm Tóibín) and Martín Urdiales-Shaw participated in the 6th Conference of SILAS (Society for Irish and Latin American Studies) on "Island Relations: Ireland, Cuba, and the Latin World", held in Havana, Cuba, on February 16-18, 2017.
Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland, delivered the inaugural keynote address.
The Irish writers Colm Tóibín and Joseph O’Connor, invited to Havana for the International Book Fair, were also part of the official programme.
