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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…
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IASIL Galway 2025: “Technology and Ireland” — Universidad de Galway (21, 22, 23, 24 y 25 de julio de 2025)
Descripción de la actividad. Participación en el IASIL Galway 2025: “Technology and Ireland” con la comunicación oral titulada “Mediating Queer Intimacies through Technology in Irish Theatre: the Case of Chemsex, Community and Crisis” a cargo de J. Javier Torres-Fernández. Congreso organizado por la International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures y la Universidad de…
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23rd International AEDEI Conference: “The Uses and Abuses of Irishness” — Universidad de Huelva (28, 29 y 30 de mayo de 2025)
Descripción de la actividad. Participación en el 23rd International AEDEI Conference: “The Uses and Abuses of Irishness” con la comunicación oral titulada “Queer Experiences of Mis/ab/use in Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance: An Analysis of Party Scene (2022)” a cargo de J. Javier Torres-Fernández. Congreso organizado por la Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses y la…
