ICTS News – 2nd European Graduate Collaboration Conference, University of Verona: “Crises, Disasters, Destruction” (Nov. 2024)

Four MIC graduate students, associated with the Irish Centre for Transnational Studies (ICTS), were allocated external funding to present their research at the 2nd 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 approaches to “Crises, Disasters, Destruction“, took place at the University of Verona, 14-16 November 2024, and included papers by Róisín Doherty McBride (PhD, History; “Migration as a response to personal crises: Moving abroad after prison sentences in 1890s Ireland”); Dr Chrysi Kyratsou  (Postdoc, Music Education; “Musicking crisis: migrant enquiries of spatial (non-)belonging”); Inga Owesen (PhD candidate, German Studies; “Is women’s leadership the answer? (Re-)Imagining female leaders in German Fantasy Literature”); Hanna Rompf (PhD candidate, German Studies; “Narratives of self-determination as a response to experiences of crisis”). Network partners are the University of Augsburg (Germany), University of Bucharest (Romania), University of Nancy (France), University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), University of Verona (Italy), and MIC (Ireland). Papers by MIC participants focused on crisis as turning point and its potential for change. 

MIC’s Róisín Doherty McBride, Dr Chrysi Kyratsou, Inga Owesen, and Hanna Rompf.