Upcoming Events
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PATHOS x MIC FemFest
When: 3 March 2026, 1pm - 2pm
Where: Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Foundation Building G10
In the current context of widespread and worsening global conflict, as women’s rights continue to be eroded, feminist issues are increasingly urgent. Hosted by Ailbhe McDaid, this event brings together award-winning writers and artists Atoosa Pour Hosseini, Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi & Suad Aldarra to explore the relationship between conflict, feminism and artistic practice.
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PATHOS x BASIC TALKS
When: 8 May 2026
Where: National College of Art & Design, Dublin
Join PATHOS x Basic Talks to explore the ways in which global conflict extends beyond borders, how artists engage with conflict from different proximities, and the relationship between art and policy. Hosted by PATHOS-lead Dr Ailbhe McDaid, the event will feature PATHOS participant Paul McKinley (visual artist) and PATHOS affiliate Chloe Brenan (visual artist). The conversation will particularly explore the role of cultural institutions in building solidarities in times of geopolitical upheaval.
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PATHOS x Still, We Gather (Galway Arts Centre)
Event: 30 January 2026
Facilitator: Ailbhe McDaid
Polylogues by PATHOS was a conversation circle that considered how global conflict extends beyond borders, and explored solidarities formed through art and literature. Rooted in the PATHOS Guiding Principles, this event featured PATHOS participants Eoghan Ryan (visual art) and Miriam de Búrca (visual art), and Bojana Janković (visual art and research).
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PATHOS GUIDING PRINCIPLES
Chapter in Stranger lands still bear common ground (2025)
Authors: Ailbhe McDaid, Julie Morrissy, Leah Smith
In November 2025, our co-authored PATHOS Guiding Principles were published as a chapter in the TULCA exhibition book Strange lands still bear common ground, edited by Beulah Ezeugo. The chapter includes our article titled “‘Not a fixed line—Co-Creating the PATHOS Guiding Principles”, which offers a full exploration of the Guiding Principles and their origins in the PATHOS Workshop Series 2025. The article illuminates the workshop conversations, with direct quotations from our PATHOS participants, and shows the full picture of our co-creation processes.
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PATHOS x DUBLIN BOOK FESTIVAL
Panel on 8 November 2025
Venue: Irish Museum of Modern Art
PATHOS partnered with the Dublin Book Festival and Irish Pages for “Conflict and Creation”, an event featuring three PATHOS participants: Atoosa Pour Hosseini, Ciarán O’Rourke and Suad Aldarra, and Ukrainian journalist and writer Natalya Korniyenko. Hosted by Ailbhe McDaid and Julie Morrissy, we were lucky to also have some of our PATHOS artists in the audience. The panellists talked about their literary and artistic practices, focussing on conflict and feminism, proximities to conflict, and the role of collaboration in building solidarity.
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PATHOS x TULCA 2025
Contributors atTULCA Festival of Visual Arts
7 - 23 November 2025, Galway City
PATHOS were contributors to the TULCA Festival of Visual Arts 2025: Strange lands bear common ground, curated by Beulah Ezeugo. TULCA marked the debut PATHOS publication of our Guiding Principles, which were co-created during the PATHOS Workshops at the Glucksman from March-April 2025 with our thirteen participants.
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OTHER NEWS
Also in 2025
Announcement: Dr Julie Morrissy awarded 2025-2026 Fulbright Scholarship
Panel Discussion: “Poetry and Politics: Plural Perspectives’” Thomas MacDonagh Hedge School, 20 September 2025
Announcement: “[Ailbhe McDaid] Tipperary based academic leads new initiative by Mary Immaculate College”. Aoife Sheehan, Tipperary Live, May 2025
Announcement: “MIC launches major collaboaration with The Glucksman as part of PATHOS Project”, Mary Immaculate College, May 2025Keynote: Ailbhe McDaid ‘Contested (Hi)Stories in Media and Creative Arts’, Irish Centre for Transnational Studies, 18 March 2025