History, School of HumanitiesThe Moore Institute Frontier and border regions in early modern Europe 21-22 June 2012 Thursday 21 June (Moore Institute Seminar Room) 09.00 ‰ÛÒ 09.20 Raingard EÌÙer, University of Groningen, the Netherlands; Steven Ellis, National University of Ireland, Galway Introduction 09.20 ‰ÛÒ 10.10 Steven Ellis, National University of Ireland, Galway ‰Û÷Ireland‰۪s ‰ÛÏlost‰۝ English... | Read on »

RaingardEsser, The Politics of Memory:the Writing of Partition in the seventeenth-century Low Countries (Brill, 2012); Christopher Maginn, William Cecil, Ireland, and the Tudor State (Oxford, 2012)

Colonialism within Europe: Fact or Fancy? Conference at NUI Galway, 22-23 June 2012 Provisional Conference Programme Fri., 22nd June 2012 9.00 Welcome and Opening Remarks 9.15-10.30 Session 1 The Irish Experience Nicholas Canny, Dept. of History, NUI Galway ‰ÛÏWas Ireland a colony? The history of a debate‰۝ Bogdan Murgescu, Dept. of History, University of Bucharest... | Read on »

You are warmly invited to A Gender ARC Summer Seminar Gender, spirituality, politics and society Hosted by: Gender, Discourse, Identities Cluster of Gender ARC and Global Women's Studies, School of Political Science and Sociology Venue: Moore Institute Seminar Room Date: Wed June 27 Time: 12.00pm-2.00pm PROGRAMME Nikky-Guninder Singh, Crawford Family Professor of Religion, Colby College,... | Read on »

IOMRAMHA / VOYAGES Three Talks on Medieval and Modern Seafaring organized by Prof. MairÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha All in SPEAKERS' CORNER, GLOBAL VILLAGE, the CLADDAGH, GALWAY (enter from Nimmo's Pier or Grattan Road; it may take 5-10 minutes to reach the Speakers' Corner) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday 4 July, 6pm, ‰Û÷Medieval Irish Seafaring: realities and visions' Speaker: Prof.... | Read on »

Thursday, 5 July, 6pm ‰Û÷‰ÛÏA RÌ_ na Foidhne, glac iad ar lÌÁimh‰۝: ́r mBÌÁid D̼chais agus an tIascach‰۝‰۪ Cainteoir (i nGaeilge): An Dr CrÌ_ostÌ_ir Mac CÌÁrthaigh, AircÌ_vÌ_ Sinsearach, Cnuasach Bh̩aloideas Ìäireann, UCD. Cathaoirleach: An Dr PÌÁdraig ÌÒ H̩alaÌ_, ScolÌÁire Gaeilge agus B̩aloidis, NUIG. CrÌ_ostÌ_ir Mac CÌÁrthaigh is editor of the magnificent and monumental Traditional Boats... | Read on »

Friday 6 July, 6pm, ‰Û÷Science and the Age of Discovery: Spain, Portugal, and the International Atlantic in the 15th-16th Centuries‰۪ Speaker: Dr Edward Collins, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville/UCD. Chair: Dr Enrico Dal Lago, Historian, NUIG. Edward Collins will present an overview of the scientific aspects of the Portuguese and Spanish discoveries in the fifteenth... | Read on »

CAMPS & the Foundations of Irish Culture project Research lab by Dr David Juste, University of Sydney ‰ÛÏPtolemy in Arabic and in Latin‰۝ Thursday 12th July, 5 p.m. Moore Institute Seminar Room, NUI Galway Dr Juste will talk about his Ptolemy research and especially about the project funded by the Forschungsprogramm der Union der deutschen... | Read on »

Galway Computus Conference 2012- Speakers & Papers 1. LeofrancHolford-Strevens (England) Fratresnostri qui tuncRomaefuere: aneglected problem in Bede, De temporumratione, cap. 47 2. Masako Ohashi (Japan) Who was the author of the Letter to King Nechtan of the Picts (ad 710)? 3. Brigitte Englisch (Germany) Der Komputusdes Victorius von Aquitanien: einForschungsproblem? 4. Caitlin Corning (USA) ‰Û÷The... | Read on »

The Moore Institute in collaboration with Spanish, NUI Galway, and The Mexican Embassy present Dr Michael Hogan ‰Û÷Los San Patricios. The Irish Soldiers of Mexico‰۪ On Monday Sept 10th, 2012 at 4pm. The Seminar Room, The Moore Institute Dr Hogan‰۪s talk will be followed by a book launch and reception.