LECTURES and WORKSHOPS
- Catherine Barbour (Trinity College Dublin) “Multidisciplinary Approaches to Galician Migration”, Modern Language Association Convention, Philadelphia, 4-8 January 2024, chair and participant.
- Maureen O’Connor (University College Cork), “Haunted Nature in the Fiction of Edna O’Brien”, 30 November 2023, guest lecture at the University of Würzburgh.
- Stephanie Schwerter (University of Hauts-de-France) “Translating at ethnic and ethno-religious intersections: a British and Irish gendered perspective”. 23 November 2023, within the Posthuman Intersections in Irish and Galician Literatures: International Seminar Series 2023, University of La Rioja.
- Melania Terrazas (University of La Rioja), “Challenged Borders and Unmapped Intersections in Evelyn Conlon’s Moving About the Place“, 19 October 2023, guest lecture at Maynooth University.
- Brais González Arribas (University of Vigo), “Posthumanismo filosófico: de la crítica a la subjetividad canónica a la transhumanidad“, 10 October 2023, guest lecture at the University of Santiago de Compostela.
- Monica Pearl (University of Manchester), “Intersections of Race, Sexuality, and Film Archives in The Watermelon Woman (1996)“, 28 September 2023, guest lecture at the University of La Rioja.
- Dairena Ní Chinnéide, “Posthumanist Intimations. Landscape, Language and Identity“, 25 September 2023, guest lecture at the University of Santiago de Compostela.
- Grace Wells and Keith Payne, “Irish Ecopoetry in Postcolonial Times”, 19 September 2022.
- Małgorzata Kowalcze (Pedagogical University of Cracow, Poland), “We are of the World: Introduction to Posthumanism”, 20 November 2021
- Lorna Shaughnessy (NUIG), “Witness Trees: Postcolonial Landscapes in Irish Poetry”, 27 September 2021
- Margarita Carretero González (Universidad de Granada; Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics), “Más allá de las fábulas: los otros animales en los estudios literarios” ,14 May 2021.
- Roman Bartosch (University of Cologne), “Teaching Animals”, 7 May 2019.
- Juan Ignacio 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 (De)Writing the Borderland: Human and Non-Human Liminal Identities. Organised by the projects “Intersections” (FEM2017, 83084P, FEDER), “The Animal Trope” (PGC2018-093545-B-I00, MCIU, AEI, FEDER, UE), New Migratory Cartographies (PID2019-109582GB-100 MCIU/AEI/FEDER, UE) and Narratives of the New Diasporas (Xunta de Galicia). University of Santiago de Compostela, 13-15 January 2022.
Seminar Zoe: Literatura, Ecofeminismo e Configuracións Animais. University of Santiago de Compostela, 13 November 2020.
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 “A Different Eden”. Eds. Keith Payne, Lorna Shaughnessy and Martín Veiga. Dublin: Dedalus Press, 2021. Faculty of Philology (USC) and Libraría Numax, Santiago de Compostela, 4 December 2021.
- 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.