AD/BC: Music Archaeology Symposium
AD/BC: Music Archaeology Symposium A fascinating one-day series of talks forming an introduction to the academic background to the concerts and workshops of the 2014 Galway Early Music Festival, May 8-11. Eight international speakers will cover topics as wide-ranging as evidence for music and instruments in classical Rome, prehistoric instruments in Scandinavia, medieval tuning systems,... | Read on »
Guerrilla Digitisation: An Introduction to Bookscanning
The Moore Institute will host a free one-day workshop, Guerrilla Digitisation: An Introduction to Bookscanning, from 11am-4pm on Monday, May 12. Led by Meaghan Connell (PhD student, English Department), this workshop is an introduction to the process of digitising texts using only low-cost materials. Digitised texts can be very useful to the humanities researcher; before... | Read on »
Professor Carl Wennerlind (Barnard College, Columbia University): ‘The Political Economy of Moral Refinement’
Carl Wennerlind (Barnard College, Columbia University and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow): ‰Û÷The Political Economy of Moral Refinement‰۪ Followed by a launch at 5.15pm by Prof. Wennerlind of: Daniel Carey, ed., Money and Political Economy in the Enlightenment (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2014). Wine will be served.
Book Launch: Daniel Carey, ed., Money and Political Economy in the Enlightenment (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2014).
Book launch by Professor Carl Wennerlind(Barnard College, Columbia University and Moore Institute visiting fellow) of: Daniel Carey, ed., Money and Political Economy in the Enlightenment (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2014). Wine will be served.
‘Rebel Girls’: Rosie Hackett and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
'Rebel Girls': Rosie Hackett and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn On this Wednesday (28 May, 8.30), the Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour & Class (ICHLC) presents two short talks in the Town Hall, Galway, under the title 'Rebel Girls': Rosie Hackett and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. Speakers are James Curry (Moore Inst.) and Meredith Meagher (Univ.... | Read on »
New Voices Conference 2014: A Multi-Disciplinary Postgraduate and Early Career Scholars Conference – 5th to 7th June, 2014
The Hardiman Research Building G010 and G011 seminar roomsNew Voices Conference 2014Multi-Disciplinary Postgraduate and Early Career Scholars Conference5th to 7th June, 2014After the first New Voices conference in 1999, P.J. Mathews published an edited collection of the speakers'articles, New Voices in Irish Criticism. In the introduction, Mathews notes the text "can be taken as a snapshotof the current state of Irish studies." The... | Read on »