We’re honoured to have Dr Helena Buffery (University College Cork, Ireland) give a keynote presentation on the topic “States of Flux: Staging Crisis in Contemporary Iberian theatre” at the ACIS Conference, 4-6 September 2024, Technological University Dublin.

Helena Buffery teaches and researches at University College Cork, in a number of areas related to contemporary Iberian Studies, including Iberian theatre and performance, cultures of exile, migration and diaspora, Translation Studies and Catalan Studies. Publications include Shakespeare in Catalan: Translating Imperialism (2007), Reading Iberia: Theory/History/Identity (with Stuart Davis and Kirsty Hooper), Stages of Exile: Spanish Republican Exile and Performance Cultures (2011), Barcelona: Visual Culture, Space and Power (with Carlota Caulfield), Here and Beyond: Narratives of Travel and Mobility in Iberian Culture (with Sergi Mainer, David Miranda and Martin Veiga), and Modern Literatures in Spain (with Jo Labanyi, Elena Delgado, Kirsty Hooper and Mari Jose Olaziregi).