Ringling North Library BequestThe University recently received a very generous bequest of a selection of volumes from the private Library of Henry Ringling North. The attached flyer offers some additional information. Some family members will visit the University on Friday 6 June and, as part of the event to mark this bequest, we will assemble... | Read on »
Small Nations and Colonial Peripheries in World War I: Europe and the Wider World National University of Ireland, Galway Friday 13th-Saturday 14th June 2014 The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum of debate for transnational and comparative approaches to the history of small European nations and Europe‰۪s colonial peripheries in World War... | Read on »
Readers, Purveyors, Creators, and Users: Studying Victorian Print Consumption in 201416-17 June 2014 Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway Deadline for Proposals: 16 April 2014.Plenary speakers Dr Stephen Colclough, Bangor University. Dr Niall ÌÒ CiosÌÁin, National University of Ireland, Galway. Nineteenth-century studies continues to engender some... | Read on »
You are invited to attend an upcoming public lecture in NUI Galway on ‰Û÷A Brief History of Liberty - and its Lessons' by Professor Philip Pettit of Princeton University. Professor Pettit is one of the foremost contemporary philosophers and political theorists,renowned for his revival and development of republicanism within political philosophy and for his contribution... | Read on »
Chaucer at Galway II: Chaucer and Realismwednesday 25th- thursday 26th June, 2014Venue: Hardiman Research Building, Room G011 Program Wednesday 25th June 2014 9.30-10am: Registration (Hardiman Research Building, Room GO11) 10.00-11.00am: Sarah Nangle (UCD): Music, Rationality and Chaucer's Unnatural Birdsongs Simonne Berry (Trinity): The ‰Û÷Substaunce' of Sound: Musical Instruments in Chaucer's House of Fame 11.00-11.30am: coffee... | Read on »
Global Women's Studies In association with the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies Gender ARC - Gender, Discourse and Identity Cluster is pleased to invite you to a Summer Seminar with Mayesha Alam "Women, Conflict and Transitional Justice: two case studies - Bangladesh and Kenya" Wednesday June 25th - 12.00-2.00 pm... | Read on »
Katherine Philips 350: Writing, Reputation, LegacyKatherine Philips as ‰Û÷Orinda'This conference to celebrate the life and works of Katherine Philips - poet, dramatist and letter-writer - will take place in Dublin, Ireland, on 26-28 June, 2014. The event will mark the 350th anniversary of the publication of her Poems (1664) and of her death the same... | Read on »
The Emergency: Ireland inWartimeNational University of Ireland, GalwayMoore InstituteHardiman Research Building27-28 June 2014Conference ProgrammeFriday 27 June09.45 Welcome10.00 - 11.30 Panel 1: HIGH DIPLOMACYPaul McNamara (NUI, Galway)Sean Lester, Irish Diplomat in Peacetime and Wartime, 1934-46Steven Murphy (University College Cork)Irish Neutral Diplomacy in World War IIBarry Whelan (NUI, Maynooth)Behind the green curtain: Spanish perceptions of neutral Ireland... | Read on »
