ICTS Workshop – Creative Histories of Migration

“Creative Histories of Migration”, a workshop hosted by Irish Centre for Transnational Studies in association with the Department of History, will take place at MIC Limerick on 17 May 2024.
Workshop Programme
Where: G.08 Foundation Building, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick
When: 17 May 2024
11am-11.45am
No Academic is an Island: Some Thoughts on Collaborative Creative (Hi)stories
Professor Martin Evans, University of Sussex
Coffee Break
12.05pm-12.50pm
Creative Pathways in the Collaboration between Academics and Artists
Professor Ulrike Hanna Meinhof, University of Southampton
Lunch break, 12.50pm-1.50pm
1.50pm-3pm
Creative Histories: Artists Roundtable
Deirdre Mulrooney (Film-maker and journalist)
Michael J. Sheehy (Singer-Songwriter)
Eileen Gogan (Singer-Songwriter)
3pm-3.45pm
Voices of Mississippi
Professor William R. Ferris, University of North Carolina (online)
3.45pm
Closing Remarks
5pm
Irish launch of the Bring Your Own Hammer album, ‘My Grief on the Sea’ by Professor William Leahy at Steamboat Music with performances from Eileen Gogan and Michael J. Sheeh.
The workshop is part of the interdisciplinary three-year-ICTS project “Trajectories of Belonging: Creative (hi)stories, spaces and futures of migration”.
For further information on the Irish Centre for Transnational Studies (ICTS) visit www.ictstudies.ie.
You can contact us at icts@mic.ul.ie.
Fáilte Roimh Chách! / All Welcome!
Workshop organisers: Richard Mc Mahon, Sabine Egger, Ailbhe Kenny, Mairéad Ní Bhriain
Funded by: Research & Graduate School’s ‘Group Support Scheme’, MIC & Dept of History, MIC