Activities | Irgal

LECTURES and WORKSHOPS

Workshop ‘The Animal Trope: On Literary and Empirical Animals’. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 16 September 2019

Roman Bartosch (University of Cologne), “Teaching Animals”, 7 May 2019.

Juan Igancio Oliva (Universidad de la Laguna), ““Environmental Humanities & the New Materiality of Borders”, 8 April 2019.

Keith Payne, “Strange Boat: Staying afloat in English Ireland”. 26 November 2018.

Angélica Velasco Sesma (Universidad de Valladolid), “Mujeres, animales y naturaleza. Hacia un ética ecofeminista de la virtud”. 29 October 2018.

Maureen O’Connor (University College Cork), “Ecofeminists and Other Animals: Tim Robinson’s Non-Human Ethics”. 19 March 2018.

Grace Wells. ‘Culture versus Nature – the Root of Ecopoetics – When Education Threatens Wildness,’ Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 10 October 2017.

Annemarie Ní Churreáin, “Where One Starts From: Home & the Art of Belonging”. 10 October 2016.

Eveleyn Conlon, Lecture and reading at Universidade de Vigo. 29 November 2012.

Mary O’Donnell, Lecture and Reading at Universidade de Vigo. 22 October 2012.

CONFERENCES and SEMINARS

Conference ‘Language and Violence: Literary Mediations in the Age of the Anthropocene’. Universidade de Vigo, 16-17 January 2020.
Collaboration of projects “Ecofictions” and “The Animal Trope” with conference ‘Borders, Intersections and Identity in the Contemporary Short Story in English’, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 23-24 May 2019.

Collaboration of projects “Ecofictions” and “The Animal Trope” with conference ‘The Epoch of Space. State and New Perspectives’, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 8-10 April 2019.

Seminar “The Animal Trope: an Ecofeminists Approach” (Margarita Estévez Saá, Laura Lojo, & Manuela Palacios coords). 29 October 2018.

XVII International AEDEI Conference: ‘Eco-Fictions & Irish Studies’, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. 31 May – 1 June 2018

Symposium ‘Galician Interdisciplinary Studies’, University of Edimburgh, 8 March 2018.

Symposium ‘”Post-Ige”: A cultura despois do barco’,Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 14 November 2017.

Symposium ‘Eco-Críticas: Palabras e Imaxes’, held at Casa das Campás, Pontevedra, 9 November 2017. [full programme]

International Seminar ‘Eco-Fictions II’, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 9 October 2017.

Conference ‘Identities in Transition’ (16-17/06/2017) Univ. St Andrews, U.K. Colab. USC, UVigo, Xunta de Galicia.

Symposium ‘Ecocritical Encounters: Women and Nature in Galician and Irish Cultural Production’, University College Cork. 3-4 May 2017.

International Seminar ‘Eco-Fictions’, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela . 15 December 2016.

Seminar ‘Irish Studies in Galicia’, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. 8 June 2016.

LAUNCHES

Launch of Six Galician Poets at Libraría Chan da Pólvora, Santiago de Compostela, 18 May 2017.

Launch of Six Galician Poets at Biblioteca de EMAO Escola de Artes e Oficios, Universidade de Vigo, 10 March 2017.

Máighréad Medbh poetry reading at Universidade de Vigo, 8 November 2011.

Launch of To the Winds Our Sails and poetry reading at Libraría Couceiro, Santiago de Compostela, 1 October, 2010.