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AEDEAN 48 – University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) (12-14 November, 2025)
Description of the activity At the 48th AEDEAN Conference, Paula García Rodriguez presented a paper examining the subversive potential of body horror in contemporary feminist and queer narratives. The paper focused on Queen of Teeth (Hailey Piper, 2021), and explored how the novel reimagines the monstrous female body. The protagonist of the novel, Yaya Betancourt,…
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Participación en panel en el 48 Congreso de AEDEAN (Universidad del País Vasco, Vitoria) (12-14 November 2025)
Description of the activity. Drawing from Sarah Ahmed’s postulates about how the classification of beings into their usefulness results into processes of victimisation (2019), and Zygmunt Bauman’s critique of the modern production of “human waste” (2004), this paper aims examined the concomitance of notions of human categorisation and stigmatisation with practices of disposability and violence…
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Textual Intersections: Religious Imagining/Imagining Religion. A Symposium on Literature and Religion- Faculty of Theology, Philosophy and Music of Dublin City University (7th November, 2026)
Description of the activity. In this paper, I argue that in the six and four novels that, respectively, comprise the Quirke and the Quirke-Strafford series published by John Banville as Benjamin Black, readers become acquainted with the author’s growing commitment to tackle the religion-class interface that affected substantially the Irish cultural order of 1950s Ireland.…
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Humanities Institute Lunchtime Seminar Series, University College Dublin: “Theocratic Ireland and beyond in John Banville’s crime fiction” (14th of October 2025)
Description of the activity. Departing from the early, transcendental engagements in his literary career, since the turn of the millennium John Banville’s crime fiction has focussed prominently on the intersection of religion and class on a pragmatical level. The author has become increasingly outspoken in his critique of the terms whereby these two principles of…
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BAVS (British Association of Victorian Studies) 25th Anniversary Conference — University of Oxford (22-25 July 2025)
Description of the activity. David Rocklin’s The Luminist (2011) is a neo-Victorian biofiction published about the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron during her time in the crown colony of Ceylon. In the novel we find a peculiar connection between the protagonist Catherine Colebrook and her Indian servant Eligius Shourie, subverting the relationship mistress-native servant. The so-called…
