Poetics of the Sayable: Framing Crisis and Conflict in Contemporary Spain

Location:

Neuadd Reichel, Bangor University, Ffriddoedd Road, Bangor, or via Zoom

Time:

Friday 1 April 2022, 09:00–19:30

Contact:

Professor Helena Miguelez-Carballeira - h.m.carballeira@bangor.ac.uk

You can attend this conference in person at Neuadd Reichel, Bangor University, Ffriddoedd Road, Bangor, or via Zoom by REGISTERING IN ADVANCE.

Confirmed keynote speakers: Dr David Becerra Mayor (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid); Dr Helena Buffery (University College Cork)

Organisers: Prof. Helena Miguélez-Carballeira (Bangor University); Dr Maite Usoz de la Fuente (University of Leicester).

Funding organisation: Institute of Modern Languages Research, Regional Conference Scheme

The aim of this interdisciplinary one-day conference is to consider how recent experiences of crisis and conflict in Spain have been culturally framed within the Spanish public sphere. A working premise is that the discourses of Spanish nationalism and unionism, intensified by the arrival into parliamentary politics of far-right parties, provide one such cultural frame (to use Butler’s term) for what is sayable. Focusing on works published from 2010 onwards, we will consider the way in which cultural texts from the Peninsula have reflected crises and conflicts over the past decade; which narratives have been promoted, celebrated and institutionalised, and which have been disavowed, ignored or silenced.