CFP: Motherhood, Infertility and Vulnerability in Contemporary Irish Literature

Coedited by Nuria Torres, University of Almería, and Felicity Smith, University of Granada Deadline for abstract submissions: 5th March, 2025 contact: Nuria Torres López and Felicity Smith emails: nuria.torres@ual.es / felicity@correo.ugr.es This book is about “motherhood”, something that has traditionally been considered a given for women, whereby special attention is paid to women’s desires and maternal instinct. However, over the

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SEMINAR: Interdependency and vulnerability in contemporary Irish culture

International inTRUTHS2 Seminar 21 January, 9:30am-5:00pm – Huston School of Film & Digital Media, University of Galway In the face of individual and communal vulnerabilities affected by global and local forms of precarity, the Research Project INTRUTHS 2: “Articulations of Individual and Communal Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Irish Writing” [PID2020-114776GB-I00 MCIN/AEI] focuses on how Irish contemporary writing and film have responded

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CFP: Special issue of Irish Studies Review. “Vulnerability, Care and Relational Ethics in Contemporary Irish Culture”

In light of current threats and crises –social, economic, political and environmental– causing much insecurity, anxiety and ideological conflict on both global and national scales, with power structures affecting the nature of personal relationships, this special issue of Irish Studies Review seeks to explore how contemporary Irish culture addresses the current plight of vulnerable individuals in relation to their communities.

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