Category: Activities
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HAUNTED FUTURES CONFERENCE – University College Cork (12–14 November, 2025)
Description of the activity. From 12–14 November 2025, it took place the third annual Haunted Futures Conference, held in the Department of Film and Screen Media at University College Cork.The conference explored haunting as a powerful site for radical social transformation. “By disrupting hegemonic relationships to time, haunting opens pathways for imagining alternative futures within…
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Online Seminar Series: Predoctoral Journeys and Key Research Lines
Descripción de la actividad Este mes terminamos con una nueva entrega de nuestra serie de seminarios online y celebraremos, el día 28 de abril a las 4.30pm (CEST) el segundo seminario del proyecto de investigación. En esta sesión el equipo de trabajo presentará sus proyectos de tesis atendiendo a las líneas y términos clave del…
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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.…