3rd European Graduate Collaboration Conference - "Old and New Forms of Commitment: Cultural and Artistic Practices in Europe and Around the World"
Three junior and senior researchers from MIC, associated with the Irish Centre for Transnational Studies (ICTS), were allocated external funding to present their research and chair panels at the 3rd interdisciplinary conference of Euro.Cultural.Connect: European Network for Early Career Researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences (MIC project lead: Dr Sabine Egger, German Studies).
The conference, focusing on social and political engagement through cultural and artistic practices was hosted by the Université de Lorraine (Nancy) from 3-6 November 2025. This year’s event included research papers by Enda Griffin, PhD candidate, Education, who presented “Portrait painting as embodied a/r/tographic commitment and research”, and Simon Viot, PhD candidate, History/French Studies. He presented “The Irish Capuchin colleges and mission in Flanders and Northern France, 1610-1799”.
A big thank you to Dr Dorothy Morrissey (Lecturer in Drama Education), who accompanied the MIC researchers to Nancy and took part in exchanges with senior colleagues from partner institutions.
Network partners are the University of Augsburg (Germany), University of Bucharest (Romania), University of Lorraine, Nancy (France), University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), University of Verona (Italy), and MIC (Ireland).
Conference Programme of Events
This was the fourth such event run by the network, with MIC as project partner, in association with ICTS. Details of previous events are available at the links below.
2nd European Graduate Collaboration Conference, University of Verona: “Crises, Disasters, Destruction” - November 2024
“Taking the Bull by the Horns. Humanities and Social Science Perspectives on the Idea of Europe” - November 2023
