Christine Neer: Love is a Battlefield? An Informal Exploration of Gendered Spaces in Medieval Irish Tochmarca ('Wooing Tales'). Contact: Catherine Emerson - catherine.emerson@nuigalway.ie
Let’s Give the Mantle of Harlequin a Brush: Current Research on the Dublin Gate Theatre Dr Ruud van den Beuken, who is working at the Moore Institute as a visiting research fellow, will discuss current research on the Dublin Gate Theatre, including the establishment of a Gate Theatre Research Network (co-founded by the Dutch Research... | Read on »
The Modern Reception of Horace The talk will discuss the treatment of Horace in Nazi-occupied Crete and during World War I; Pound, Eliot, Housman on Horace; Nietzsche on Horace's style; Horace's tags, esp. carpe diem; Irish connections, in Yeats, Joyce, MacNeice, Longley, Boland; Dowson's splendidly awful poem; and Hopkin's translations. All welcome. Contact: Padraic Moran-... | Read on »
Prof. Vitor Izecksohn (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) The US and Brazil in the period of the American Civil War (Final TBC)
Contact: Gearóid Barry - gearoid.barry@nuigalway.ie
Working With Images: This event will highlight methods and tools for working with images. Applications include Website content, digital libraries/archives, animations, scholarly publications, and data analysis. Both desktop and command line tools for image editing and processing will be discussed, including Photoshop, Fireworks, Python, and ImageMagick. About the speaker: Cillian works in the NUI Galway... | Read on »
This event will highlight methods and tools for working with images. Applications include Web site content, digital libraries/archives, animations, scholarly publications, and data analysis. Both desktop and command line tools for image editing and processing will be discussed, including Photoshop, Fireworks, Python, and ImageMagick.
‘Reading’ sport and sports culture: a case study of the codification of wrestling styles during the Celtic and Gaelic revival movements. Tanguy Philippe is a lecturer in Sport and Education Studies at the University of Western Brittany in Brest (France). He has taught previously at the Universities of Rennes, Evry and Savoie. His current research... | Read on »
Contact: Dee Quinn - dee.quinn@nuigalway.ie
'Flower Press', the debut poetry collection of MA in Writing (2017-18) student, Alice Kinsella, will be launched in the Moore Institute at 6:30pm on Thursday, March 15th. Published by Onsalught Press, this short collection of poems can be described as an elegiac apostrophe. In three sections—bud, bloom, and blood—it explores the growth of love... | Read on »
