The IDAES programme at the University of Vigo announces the lecture: "The ins and outs of ERASMUS Study Abroad: The researcher and the students' perspectives", which will be delivered by Prof. Carmen Pérez Vidal (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) on 16 April at 9am in Vigo (Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución, room B3).
The University of Santiago de Compostela and the research network 'Lingua e Literatura Inglesa e Identidade III' organise the research seminar 'Christopher Norris on “Creative Criticism”: Literary theory and poetic practice' in Santiago on 2-5th April, 2018. IDAES members are welcome to attend the seminar.
The workshop ‘Transdisciplinary Approaches to Affect Theory’ will be conducted by Libe García Zarranz Norwegian, Associate Professor in Literature in English, University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim.
Dr. Eva Darias Beautell visited the University of Vigo on November the 27th, where she delivered a lecture entitled “Responding to Crises: Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness in Canadian Literature”. Starting with a brief introduction to theoretical approaches to cosmopolitanism and the ethics of state apologies, Dr. Darias Beautell dedicated a part of her analysis to the case of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada that investigated the policy of forced assimilation of Indigenous children in Residential Schools in Canada. On the second part of her lecture she offered an extensive overview of diverse and divergent responses to crimes against human rights in the Canadian fiction written in English, including outstanding examples like Joy Kogawa’s Obasan, Rawi Hage’s Cockroach, Madelein Thien’s Certainty, and Joseph Boyden’s The Orenda. Her lecture was followed by an engaging Q&A period with the participation of graduate students and colleagues in our Ph.D. program.
Professor Loredana Polezzi gave a lecture entitled “Between Trauma and Desire: Translating the Memory of Migration” at the Faculty of Philology and Translation in Vigo, on 30 Nov 2017. The talk was directly linked to the doctoral seminar (actividade formativa de doutoramento) “The Representation of Conflicts: An Introduction to Trauma and Memory in Texts”, co-taught by Dr. Teresa Caneda and Dr. Martín Urdiales. This seminar approaches the representation of traumatic events such as the Irish Famine and the Holocaust which implied forms of enforced mobility and have become associated with cultural memory/ies.