Galway Conference of Irish Studies 2024: Slow Violence X Irish Studies – Call for Contributions

Galway Conference of Irish Studies 2024

Slow Violence X Irish Studies – Call for Contributions
5-7 June 2024

We welcome written abstracts and practice-based submissions in English, Irish, and French, inspired by the theme of slow violence, for the Galway Conference of Irish Studies 2024.

Coined over ten years ago in the influential Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (2011), Rob Nixon challenged readers to consider the incremental and cumulative effects of “slow violence,” expanding on more limited conceptualisations of violence as sensational, explosive, and episodic.  Nixon’s expansive term was initially employed to describe the “attritional lethality” of gradual, and often invisible, forms of environment violence, such as deforestation and oil spills; yet, at the interdisciplinary nexus of Irish Studies, the conference’s conveners suggest that “slow violence” can be a theoretical springboard not only for conversations about the status and future of the environment in Ireland, but also myriad social, political, and cultural “long emergencies.”

Please read our Call for Papers (available in English, Irish, and French) for further details.

All are available here: https://www.universityofgalway.ie/colleges-and-schools/arts-social-sciences-and-celtic-studies/geography-archaeology-irish-studies/disciplines/irish-studies/news/galwayconferenceofirishstudies2024/callforcontributions/

Please submit your 250 word proposal and a brief bio (~50 words) by 15 December, 2023 to irishstudies24@gmail.com.