Die L'Unité de Formation et de Recherche Arts, Lettres et Langues (UFR ALL-Nancy) ist Teil des 2023 von der GGS mitinitiierten kulturwissenschaftlichen Graduiertenschulen Netzwerks Euro.Cultural.Connect.

Von 3.-6.11.2025 veranstaltet ALL-Nancy eine Tagung zu Formen des kulturellen und künstlerischen Engagements in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Drei Promovierende der GGS haben scih erfolgreich für eine Präsentation ihrer Forschungen im Rahmen der Konferenz beworben. 

Sophie Fecht mit einem Beitrag zum Thema "Between applause, opposition, and resistance: the German Protestant youth during the Nazi Regime in the 1930s", Sabrina Hadwiger mit ihrer literaturwissenschaftlichen Forschung zu "Narratives of sexualized violence as cultural activism: memory, change, and female self-empowerment" und Georg Tiroch mit seinem Forschungsprojekt "Problematizing masculinity in the digital age: the staging of masculinity by Das Rudel on Instagram as a form of cultural engagement". Wir wünschen den dreien viel Erfolg!

Tagungsprogramm: 

Research seminar of the European doctoral network Universities of Augsburg (Germany), Bucharest (Romania), Limerick (Ireland), Santiago de Compostela (Spain), Verona (Italy) and Lorraine (France)

“Old and new forms of commitment: cultural and artistic practices in Europe and around the world”

3–6 November 2025

University of Lorraine, Nancy, France

Salle internationale MSHL (3^e étage), 91 Avenue de la Libération, Nancy

Monday 3 November

15:00 Meet & Greet

15:15 Welcome Address

Prof. Nathalie Collé, Sylvie Grimm-Hamen and Giuseppe Sangirardi (University of Lorraine)

15:30 – 16:30 Keynote Lecture

Prof Cécile Vaissié (Rennes): The concept and realities of commitment for Sartre and the Soviet writers of his time

16:30 – 18:30 Panel 1 – Changing forms of cultural and artistic engagement

Chair: Nathalie Collé (Lorraine)

• Enda Griffin (Limerick): Portrait painting as embodied a/r/tographic commitment and research
• Giuseppe Pantano (Lorraine): Running Up That Hill: Kate Bush’s artistic journey of emancipation and enduring legacy
• Irina Vasile (Bucarest): Builing a Space of Solidarity and Resistence in the Face of Eco-Anxiety in the Solo Performance A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction by Miranda Rose Hall
• Madalina Leonte (Bucarest): Literature as an act of resistance: social engagement and cultural activism in the work of Anna Seghers

18:30 – 19:30 Keynote Lecture

Prof. Antonio Montefusco (Lorraine): Francis of Assisi and ecological commitment to a new harmony with the wilderness: the case of the wolf of Gubbio

20:00 Dinner in downtown Nancy

Tuesday 4 November

09:00 – 10:00 Keynote Lecture

Prof. Jean-Philippe Heberlé (Lorraine): Benjamin Britten’s Pacifist Commitment through War Requiem and Owen Wingrave

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 – 12:30 Panel 2 – Tradition, heritage and new perspectives

Chair: Massimo Natale (Verona)

• Laura Tomasi (Verona): The early printed tradition of Marco Polo’s “Devisement dou monde”: cultural engagement, book heritage and new perspectives
• Léo Michel (Lorraine): A typology of partisan literature in the campaign of Charles I of Anjou
• Vinícius Figueiredo Furtado Mourão (Santiago): Furtado Mourão, Fernando Oliveira and civic humanism: royal service and social critique in sixteenth-century Portugal
• Ilinca Ionescu (Bucarest): Old Gods, New World: The Apologética Historia Sumaria (1552) and its Demons

12:30 – 14:00 Light lunch on campus

14:00 – 18:00 Guided Tour of Nancy, Visit of the Musée de l’Ecole de Nancy

Wednesday 5 November

09:00 – 10:00 Keynote Lecture

Ass. Prof. Florent Coste (Lorraine): Politics of literature & politics of reading: the role of literary theory in shaping political commitment

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 – 13:30 Panel 3 – Social movements, engaged art and cultural activism

Chair: Dorothy Morrissey (Limerick)

• Eleanor Parkin-Coates (Lorraine): Artist and “Intellectual”? The evolution of George Cruikshank’s (1792-1878) engagement in public debate
• Marco De Bartolomeo (Verona): From subversion to institution: towards a post-carnivalesque aesthetics of engagement – Pietro Marcello and the model of Instituting Praxis
• Sophie Fecht (Augsburg): Between applause, opposition, and resistance: the German Protestant youth during the Nazi Regime in the 1930s
• Liudmila Sharaeva (Lorraine): Methodological reflection: analysing artistic engagement, cultural resistance, and their suppression under the Putin regime (2000-2022)

13:30 – 15:00 Light lunch on campus

15:00 – 17:00 Panel 4 – Old and new forms of activism and inter-cultural practices

Chair: Theresia Dingelmaier (Augsburg)

• Simon Viot (Limerick): The Irish Capuchin colleges and mission in Flanders and Northern France, 1610-1799
• Fernando Apolinar-Rodríguez (Santiago): Convincing the public to fight: military accounts of the Peninsular War (1807-1814)
• Sabrina Hadwiger (Augsburg): Narratives of sexualized violence as cultural activism: memory, change, and female self-empowerment
• Georg Tiroch (Augsburg): Problematizing masculinity in the digital age: the staging of masculinity by Das Rudel on Instagram as a form of cultural engagement

19:30 Dinner in downtown Nancy

Thursday 6 November

09:00 – 12:00 Closing session and coffee

Synthsesis of the symposium

Reports from the sections

Projects outlines by young researchers

Perspectives for further cooperation