PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
XVII INTERNATIONAL AEDEI CONFERENCE: “Eco-Fictions Irish Studies” Facultade de Filoloxía, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC) 31 May - 1 June 2018
Wednesday, 30th May
19:00- 20:30 GUIDED TOUR – USC HISTORICAL HERITAGE
Thursday, 31st May
8:30- 9:00 REGISTRATION
9:00- 9:30 OFFICIAL OPENING
9:30- Panel 1. Room (Chair: ) Panel 2. Room (Chair:) Panel 3. Room (Chair:) 11:00 Marilynn Richtarik Maureen O’Connor Britta Olinder (Georgia State University) (University College Cork) (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) “Disability as a Catalyst for Growth: Stewart Parker’s “The Ethics of Diffraction in Mike McCormack’s “A Sense of Place: Vona Groarke’s Irish Land- and Hopdance” Solar Bones” Townscapes”
Constanza del Río Yi-peng Lai Burcu Gülüm Tekin (University of Zaragoza) (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan) (Istanbul Aydin University) “Thinking through the Body in Pain in Dorothy “Chernobyl, London, Belfast: Revisiting Catastrophic “Universally Speaking Themes in Mary O’Donnell’s Nelson’s In Night’s City” Memories in Lucy Caldwell’s All the Beggars Riding” Selected Poems”
Lin Elinor Petterson Aida Rosende Pérez Arancha Rodríguez Fernández (University of Málaga) (University of the Balearic Islands) (University of Santiago de Compostela) “‘The Girl Was a Symbol; She Had no Body “‘[S]cale it down. Zoom in. Look closer’: Affective “Our Shared Japan: Contemporary Spaces of Love and Anymore:’ Neo-Victorian Incest Trauma and the Responses to the City as Neoliberal Toxic Space in Lisa Exoticism by Irish Women Poets” Fasting Body in Emma Donoghue’s The Wonder” McInerney’s The Glorious Heresies”
11:00- PLENARY SESSION. Salón de Graos. (Chair: Laura Lojo-Rodríguez) 12:00
Elke D’hoker (KU Leuven) ‘The Bell, the Irish short story, and the rural life’
12:00- 12:30 COFFEE BREAK
12:30- Panel 1. Room (Chair:) Panel 2. Room (Chair:) Panel 3. Room (Chair:) 14:00 María Jesús Lorenzo Modia Anita Morgan José Ruiz Mas (University of A Coruña) (University CEU San Pablo) (University of Granada) “Medbh McGuckian’s ‘Chalice Orchard’ and the “Sources of inspiration for eco-fiction in the words “Captain Francisco de Cuéllar’s Shipwreck in Ireland and Fragility and Resilience of Natural and Human and music of Northern Irish singer-songwriters, his Struggle against Ocean, Climate, Vegetation, Systems” Tommy and Colum Sands” ‘Savages’ and ‘Sasanaigh’”
Lluïsa Schlesier Corrales James Heaney José Manuel Estévez-Saá (Autonomous University of Barcelona) (St Patrick’s-Carlow College) (University of A Coruña –Amergin Institute) “‘Ireland’s Gone Black Bottom Crazy’: The Potential “‘“actual shells of Rosses” level shore’: Representations “Edna O’Brien’s Blemished (Human and Natural) of Jazz and the Construction of Irish Identity in Roddy of Irish and Spanish Landscapes in the poetry of W. B. Environments in The Little Red Chairs” Doyle’s Oh, Play That Thing” Yeats’
James McNaughton Darren Murphy Verónica Membrive (University of Alabama) (Queen’s University, Belfast) (University of Almería) “Walking Beckett’s Murphy in London; or how a novel “There’s no “non-place” like home: Reimagining working “The Spanish Tourist Boom of the 1960s in the Poetry survives altered urban ecology” class London-Irish identity’ of Pearse Hutchinson”
14:00- 15:30 LUNCH BREAK
15:30- Panel 1. Room (Chair: Eibhear Walshe) Panel 2. Room (Chair: ) Panel 3. Room (Chair: ) 17:00 Themed Panel: ‘Landscapes of Silence’. Coordinated by Eibhear Walshe María José Carrera de la Red Seán Kennedy M. Teresa Caneda Cabrera (University of Valladolid) (Saint Mary’s University) (University of Vigo) “Animal rights, gender, and place: The lifework of an “Shame Laundering: Healing Landscapes in Paula ‘The Sounds of Silence: Speaking the Unspeakable Irish Victorian activist” Meehan’s ‘Troika’” from James Joyce to Amanda Coogan’ Begoña Lasa Álvarez Juan Ignacio Oliva Asier Altuna-García de Salazar (University of A Coruña) (University of La Laguna) (University of Deusto) “Women Painters and Ireland in Ellen Clayton’s “Sense of Nostalgia for Lost Places in Irish Eco-Poetry: A ‘Landscapes of Post-Silence within a Stream of Post- English Female Artists (1876)” Comparative Approach” Consciousness: Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones (2016)’ Marta Ramón García Pilar Villar-Argáiz (University of Oviedo) (University of Granada) Jose Carregal Romero “Parks for the people: Bringing nature to Dublin’s “Ecocritical Explorations in Contemporary Irish (University of Vigo) artisan classes (1860-1890)” Haikus: Pat Boran’s Waveforms” ‘The Silence of Lesbian Widowhood: Disenfranchised Grief in Emma Donoghue’s Hood’
17:00-
17:30 COFFEE BREAK
17:30- INTERVIEW & PUBLIC READING. Salón de Graos. 18:30 Interview & Public Reading: Sara Baume Chair: Margarita Estévez-Saá
19:30 RECEPTION AT SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA CITY HALLTOWN HALL PRAZA DO OBRADOIRO
Friday 1st June
9:00- Panel 1. Room (Chair:) Panel 2. Room (Chair) Panel 3. Room (Chair) 10:00 Scott McKendry Richard Jorge Charlie Jorge (Queen’s University, Belfast) (University of Santiago de Compostela) (University of the Basque Country) “‘Geese, Guns and ‘Slum Clearances’: Charting the “Baleful distractions: the female body in the short stories “Marriage Failures: The Act of Union as a Satanic Cultural History of Belfast’s Hammer District” of James Joyce and Bram Stoker” Marriage in Melmoth the Wanderer”
Ekaterina Mavlikaeva Elena Mª Cantueso Urbano Jorge Rodríguez Durán (University of Vigo) (University of Málaga) (University of Santiago de Compostela) “Negotiating Girlhood, Disability and Deafness in “Irish Magdalene laundries denaturalising the maternal “City Portraits: Images and Words from the Troubles” Rosaleen McDonagh’s Rings and Mainstream” body; reclaiming unmarried mothers’ bodies in June Goulding’s The Light in the Window (1998) and Lisa Michelle Odgaard’s The Magdalen Laundries (2017)”
10:00- PLENARY SESSION. Salón de Graos. (Chair:) 11:00 Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin) “‘A Creature Other than Myself’: Representing the Non-Human in Contemporary Irish Women’s Writing”
11:00- 11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30- Panel 1. Room (Chair:) Panel 2. Room (Chair:) Panel 3. Room (Chair:) 13:00 Alberto Lázaro William H. Mulligan Feargal Whelan (University of Alcalá) (Murray State University) (University College Dublin) “The representation of Jonathan Swift’s Human and Non- “Daughters of the Diaspora: Irish Women in the Michigan “‘A champaign land for the sad and serious’: human Animals in Spain: The Houyhnhnms through the Copper Country, 1845-1920” Landscape as Avoidance in Irish Writing” Filter of Censorship” Carolina P. Amador-Moreno Michael D’Arcy Raquel Merino-Álvarez and Olaia Andaluz-Pinedo (University of Extremadura) (St Francis Xavier University) (UPV/EHU) “Exploring the experience of emigration through letter- “‘Nature has forgotten us’: Late Modernist “Galician identity imported via translation and censorship: writing: the case of Annie O’Donnell” Narrative and the Time of Climate Change” J.M. Synge’s Irish landscape translated and staged in Spain” Sara Martín-Ruiz Inés Lozano Palacio David Clark Mitchell (Independent Scholar) (University of La Rioja) (University of A Coruña) “Direct Provision as Suspended Ontology: Melatu “Existential Irony and the Transition to “The Representation of Urban and Rural Policing in Irish Okorie’s ‘If George Could Talk’” Postmodernism in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Crime Fiction” Godot and Endgame”
13:00- 15:00 LUNCH BREAK
15:00- Panel 1. Room (Chair:) Panel 2. Room (Chair:) 16:30 Sara Díaz Sierra Stephanie Schwerter José Miguel Alonso Giráldez (University of Extremadura) (University of Valenciennes) (University of A Coruña) “Wilson’s Downplaying of Northern Irish Tensions “Territories and Cityscapes. Cinematographic “Environmental and place identity in Contemporary Irish through the Use of the Adjectives “Catholic” and Representations of Belfast and Beirut” Poetry’ “Protestan” in Eureka Street” Laura Izarra Olga Fernández Vicente Cassandra S. Tully (University of São Paulo) (University Isabel I de Castilla) (University of Extremadura) “Landscapes and bodies of the unknown: The “Glocal citizens”: the Irish difference” “Masculinity through Corpus Linguistics in three plays migrant’s imaginary’ by J. M. Synge” José Luis Llamas Álvarez Auxiliadora Pérez-Vides (University of León) Manuel Barberá López (University of Huelva) “Territory and Place-names in Brian Friel’s Translations” (University of Valencia) “The Noir Landscape of Dublin in Benjamin Black’s “Accursed progenitors: A study of Beckettian masculinity Quirke Series’ through parenthood in Molloy, Malone dies and The Unnamable”
16:30- 17:00 COFFEE BREAK
17:00- INTERVIEW & PUBLIC READING. Salón de Graos. 18:00
Interview & Public Reading: Celia de Fréine Chairs: Manuela Palacios González and Luz María González Arias
18:00- ROUND TABLE. Salón de Graos. (Chair: Elena J. de Pablos). 19:00
‘The Art of Mary O’Donnell, Poet, Novelist and Short-Story Writer’
Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin) Pilar Villar-Argáiz (University of Granada) Eibhear Walshe (University College Cork) Mary O’Donnell (writer, Ireland)
19:00- 19:30 CLOSING SESSION
21:00 CONFERENCE DINNER – SAN FRANCISCO HOTEL MONUMENTO