Category: Activities
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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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The Conversation: “‘Cosas pequeñas como esas’: un gesto hacia las supervivientes de las Lavanderías de la Magdalena”
Resumen El artículo trata sobre el tratamiento hacia las supervivientes de las denominadas “Lavanderías de la Magdalena” en Irlanda, en tanto que son mujeres que pasaron su vida confinadas contra su voluntad en estas instituciones de disciplinamiento. Se realiza un recorrido sobre las condiciones históricas y culturales que, siguiendo el imaginario patriarcal, dio lugar a…
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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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The Conversation España: ¿Cómo reparar algo que la justicia ha roto? El caso de ‘los cinco de Central Park’
Resumen En este artículo de divulgación se analiza la “puerta de los Eximidos” como un espacio esperanzador para reparar el daño causado por fallos judiciales. https://theconversation.com/como-reparar-algo-que-la-justicia-ha-roto-el-caso-de-los-cinco-de-central-park-267077
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“If all the world is a stage, identity is nothing but a costume”: Liquid masculinities in Sense8
Abstract Sense8 proposes a queer utopian futurity where love, empathy, and the power of collective action defeat the evils present in an exclusionary, monophonic, and corrupt world. This power springs from the malleable and liquid quality of the main cluster’s communal conscience that, trespassing physical and mental boundaries, blurs the distinction between individuality and commonality.…