Moore Institute Welcomes Visiting Fellows for June 2014

Moore Institute Visiting Fellows – June 2014 The Moore Institute welcomes Kevin James, Adam Kaul, Eleonora Destafanis, Kathleen Costello Sullivan, Fí©rdia Stone Davis, Ronan MacDonald, Bridget Martin, Mayesha Alam, Lisbeth Buchelt and Breandíçn O’Leary as Visiting Fellows during the month of June 2014. Kevin James is Associate Professor of History, University of Guelph, Canada. Kevin has been with us from May 24th and will be here until the end of June working on his project äóÖThe Irish Hotel: A Social and Cultural History, 1840-1922′. Kevin can be contacted on kjames@uoguelph.ca Adam Kaul is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, USA. He has been here since June 9 and will be with us until July 4 to work on his project äóÖBusking on the Streets of Galway: Money, Meaning, and Mobility’. Adam can be contacted on adamkaul@augustana.edu Eleonora Destafanis is from the Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Universitíć del Piemonte Orientale “Amedeo Avogadro”, Vercelli-Italy. She will be here from June 7-14 and again from July 14-26 to work on her project äóÖ Early Medieval Ecclesiastical Sculpture: Ireland and Continental Europe’. Eleonora can be contacted on el.destefanis@gmail.com Kathleen Costello Sullivan is Associate Professor of Modern Irish Literature, le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY. She will be with us from June 16-27 to work on her project “John McGahern and the Literature of Recovery”. Kathleen can be contacted on sullivkp@lemoyne.edu Fí©rdia Stone Davis of Georg-August-Universití_t Gí_ttingen, Germany, will be with us from June 16 to August 16 to work on her projec: äóÖCall and response: the musical configuration of desire’. Fí©rdia can be contacted on ferdia.stone-davis@phil.uni-goettingen.de Ronan MacDonald is the Director of the Global Irish Studies Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He will be with us from June 16 to August 23 working on his project äóÖModernism, Nihilism and the Irish Revival’. Ronan can be contacted on r.mcdonald@unsw.edu.au Bridget Martin, University College Dublin will be with us from June 23 to August 17 working on her project äóÖThe depiction of the psychai of the dead on fifth-century B.C. Greek funerary vases and what it can contribute to our understanding of common, contemporary belief concerning the dead’. Bridget can be contacted on bridget.martin@ucd.ie Mayesha Alam is Assistant Director of the Institute for Women, Peace and Security, Georgetown University (USA). She will be here from June 23 to July 4 and will be carrying out research on the National Action Plan (NAP) on Women, Peace and Security launched by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Republic of Ireland in 2011. Mayesha can be contacted on ma744@georgetown.edu Lisbeth Buchelt is Associate Professor, Medieval British and Irish Studies, Department of English, University of Nebraska-Omaha. She will be here from June 28 to July 18 working on her project: Speech and Silence in Early Irish Literature. Lisbeth can be contacted on lbuchelt@unomaha.edu Breandíçn O’Leary is Lauder Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, USA. He will be here from June 29 to August 17 working on completing a draft of a monograph provisionally entitled Understanding Northern Ireland: Colonialism, Control and Consociation. Breandíçn can be contacted on boleary@sas.upenn.edu.