Schedule
Thursday, 28th November 2024
The schedule is planned according to Spanish time CET (UTC+01:00).
15.00 Welcome
15.05 – 15.55 Plenary talk: María Amor Barros del Río
The representation of neoliberal affects in Sally Rooney's novels
15.55 – 16.00 Introduction to the sessions and topics
Fragmentation and Vulnerability
16.00 – 16.15 Natalia Jiménez-Pérez
Psycho-affective Alienation within a Precarious World in Sally Rooney’s Fiction.
16.15 – 16.30 Elena Canido Muiño
"Two Entirely Different Existences": Exploring the Sense of Place and Belonging in Sally Rooney's Novel Normal People.
16.30 – 16.45 María Magdalena Flores Quesada
Assembled Vulnerabilities in Sally Rooney’s “Mr Salary”.
16.45 – 17.00 Questions & Discussion
~ Break ~
Mental Health and Emotional Well-being
17.10 – 17.25 Keah Amy Dixon & Laura Vázquez-González
“Inside of a Glass Jar”: Visibilising Insidious Trauma in Conversations with Friends
17.25 – 17.40 Gloria García Pintueles
Digital Culture and its Impact on Millennials’ Identity and Mental Health: Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends
17.40 – 17.55 Silvia Vázquez Lorenzo
Chasing Lightning: Pursuing Intersectionality and Autistic Headcanons in Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends
17.55 – 18.10 Pilar Iglesias-Aparicio
Young women’s self-harm behaviour in Rooney’s fiction and reality.
18.10 – 18.25 María Rosa Valle Sánchez
The ‘Good Woman’ Burden: Cultural Programming and Its Emotional Toll in Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends (2017)
18.25 – 18.45 Questions & Discussion
Friday, 29th November 2024
15.00 Welcoming
Interpersonal Relationships and Community Care
15.10 – 15.25 M. Carmen Gomez-Galisteo
“In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love”: Love and Friendship in Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends and Maeve Binchy’s Circle of Friends
15.25 – 15.40 Sofía Alférez Mendía
Care Ethics and Forgiveness in Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You
15.40 – 15.55 Questions & Discussion
~ Break ~
Gender and Health/Care
16.00 – 16.15 Sara Alvarez Díaz
Sally Rooney’s Normal People: Dismantling Brittle Masculinity Through Vulnerability, Understanding Female Emotion, and Working-Class Pride
16.15 – 16.30 Anna Tengattini
Conversations about endo: Narrating endometriosis in Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends
16:30 – 16:45 Jie Wang
What it Costs to Be a Contemporary Artist: An Analysis of Queer Women Artists in Sally Rooney's Novels
16:45 – 17.00 Questions & Discussion
~ Break ~
Globalization and Narrative Practices
17.10 – 17.25 Paddy Brennan
Thoughtful Faces and Sleek Bodies: Consumption and Self-Starvation in the Fiction of Sally Rooney
17.25 – 17.40 Hande Tekdemir
Re-writing the Biopolitical Bildungsroman tradition: Sally Rooney’s Normal People as a novel of “anti-development
17.40 – 17.55 Questions & Discussion
17.55 Farewell