Out of Bounds Conference

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Join us for the Out of Bounds Conference: An Exploration of Boundaries in Crisis, organised by a team of doctoral researchers at Trinity College Dublin.

<h3>Introduction</h3>From the exact lines on an architect’s blueprints to the demarcations on maps that shape the world today, boundaries have consequences. In concrete form they have separated societies, but they need not be material in order to exert power. The onset of crisis often sees the imposition of boundaries that are nebulous and ill-defined but surely no less potent than the menacing walls of segregation.On a macro level, the looming climate crisis has us racing against thresholds in time, anxiously assessing what is salvageable, while the geographical boundaries of a changing world are shifted by rising sea levels, deforestation and forced migration. The problem is of such scale that it surpasses our anthropocentric capabilities and limits what individuals can “do about it” on a micro level.Similarly, the enduring pandemic of our century stubbornly reinforces boundaries large and small, from travel restrictions to social distancing between peers. Covid-19 has also just as suddenly dissolved personal boundaries as it has imposed them: The already precarious work/life boundary crumbled with the merging of work and home. Coupled with the isolating effects of social distancing, this surely renders the discussion of mental health all the more urgent. Whether they are erected or suspended, these more obscure boundaries of crisis abound. Can we come to understand them? Are they so vast that understanding itself is, quite literally, “out of bounds”? Such questions are at the forefront of this inter- and transdisciplinary conference, kindly hosted by the Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation at Trinity College Dublin.

<h2>Programme</h2><h3>You can download the pdf version of our programme <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YXxctDB4D2ijUlw7SVsTHI1cdxCfpcl7/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>. It has the full list of talks, along with an abstract for each and biographical notes for each speaker.</h3>

<h3>Welcome &amp; Opening Remarks</h3>09:00 – 09.15Alicia Byrne Keane Trinity College DublinTom Hedley Trinity College DublinOpening Remarks
10:15 – 10.30
School of Languages, Literatures &amp; Cultural Studies,
Trinity College Dublin<h3></h3>

<h3>Panel 1</h3>A Literary History of Boundaries10:30 – 12.15 | Chair: Conor Brennan, TCDCiarán O’RourkePoetry Reading &amp; Discussion: John Clare EnclosedLisa Doyle Trinity College DublinA Woman in Crisis: The Boundaries Experienced by Medea in Ancient Greek LiteratureJohn Attridge University of SurreyEdwardians in Crisis: Traversing Gendered &amp; Sexual Boundaries in E.M. Forster’s Short FictionKim Verwaayen Western University London, OntarioBounding over Borders: Carceral Experience, Permeabilities of Form, and Intersubjective Testimony in ‘Still Sane’

<h3>Panel 2</h3>Shifting Sands: Identity, Indigeneity &amp; Justice12:30 – 14.00 | Chair: Sahar Ahmed, TCDSushoban Das Jadavpur University (f.)Identities, Affiliations, and Belonging: Towards an Ethics of Imagining a Postnational WorldSahar Shah University of WarwickLines and Land Laws: Canada’s National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and the Disruption of Legal TaxonomiesCallum Bateson Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamBetween an Ocean and a Rock: Liminality, Gender and the Environment in Song of the Sea

<h3>Panel 3</h3>Rethinking Normal: Crisis, Society &amp; Mental Health15:00 – 16.30 | Chair: Alicia Byrne Keane, TCDNatalia Mikhailova European Humanities University, VilniusThinking the Crisis with Boundaries ReimaginedRobert Randolph Waynesburg University, PennsylvaniaPorous Boundaries and Self-WorthAmanda Best Trinity College DublinNayara H. C. Güércio Trinity College Dublin National Inquiry into Missing and Political Divide, News Media and Mental Health as New Boundaries During the 2020 COVID-19 Climate in Brazil and the U.S.

<h3>Keynote 1</h3>16:45 – 17.45 | Chair: Tom Hedley, TCDDr Sowon Park University of California, Santa BarbaraMemory Out of Bounds<h3>Social Event</h3>19:30 – 21.00Informal online meet-up &amp; evening drinks

<h3>Panel 4</h3>(Non)human Boundaries: Ecocriticism &amp; Anthropocene09:00 – 10.30 | Chair: Callum Bateson, VUACéline Thobois Trinity College DublinUndoing Human Boundaries in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot &amp; EndgameConor Brennan Trinity College DublinThe Plastic Bag Theory of Fiction: Aspects of Anthropocene Aesthetics Georgina Nugent-Folan Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenTender Furiosa: Olga Tokarczuk’s Tender Narrator &amp; the Tender, Furious Narrators of Samuel Beckett, Daša Drndić, &amp; Han Kang

<h3>Panel 5</h3>Borders: Citizenship, Migration &amp; Refugee Studies11:00 – 12.45 | Chair: Maria Bateson, NASCSahar Ahmed Trinity College DublinPersecution in Perpetuity: Reforming Definitional Lacunae in International Refugee LawSimran Dhingra Jamia Millia Islamia, New DelhiBorders, Memory &amp; Trauma: Narratives from the Forgotten India Roisín Á Costello Dublin City UniversitySmart Borders, Vulnerable SubjectsSouad Baghli Berbar University of TlemcenPandemic Heterotopias: Migrant Crisis in the Mediterranean

<h3>Panel 6</h3>Creativity in Crisis: Reimagining Artistic Boundaries and Mental Well-Being13:45 – 15.15 | Chair: Tom Hedley, TCDKaren Meenan Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College DublinDementia-Inclusive Radio Series ‘Talkin’ About Neurodegeneration’Amelia McConville Trinity College DublinInterdisciplinary Approaches to Poetry on the MarginsOctavia Cade Massey UniversityArtist in Lockdown: Personal Experiences of a Residency in the Pandemic

<h3>Keynote 2</h3>16:00 – 17.00 | Chair: Alicia Byrne KeaneDr Niamh Campbell University College DublinHow They Met Themselves, or, the Poetics of Deep Emotional Time<h3>Closing Discussion</h3>17:00 – 17.30Final open roundtable discussion and closing remarks

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