Camps a Talk by Sean Murphy
Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach BuildingOccidentalism in the West
Occidentalism in the West
Come along at lunchtime this Friday to the launch of the revamped bilingual Trácht ar Thráchtais/ Thesis Talk blog for PhD and Post Doc researchers. We are delighted to welcome traditional musicians Dr. Cassie-Smith Christmas, Dr Deirdre Ní Chonghaile, John Singleton and Aisling Ní Churraighín. Bring your lunch or your instrument and enjoy the tunes... | Read on »
Launch of New Translation Research Group: Crosswinds: Irish and Galician Poetry and Translation https://mooreinstitute.ie/research-group/crosswinds-irish-and-galician-poetry-and-translation/ Both will be launched by Prof Louis de Paor.
12:45 Welcome (preceded by light lunch from 12:00) Cathal O’Donoghue, Dean, College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Celtic Studies Daniel Carey, Director, Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies 13:00 Panel discussion 1: Public participation, well-being and shared stewardship Gesche Kindermann & Caitriona Carlin: Natural heritages, community, and human health Maggie Ronayne:... | Read on »
Key in the history of cinema, the ageing star is a figure of media obsolescence that carries the memory of a bygone era of filmmaking, awakening in the viewer nostalgia and anxiety, which the film industry continues to capitalize on. Building on her doctoral findings, Flavia’s research aims to analyze the strategies specific to... | Read on »
Dr Cristina Bon (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan). ‘The President Matters’: John Janney and the Virginia Secession Convention (February-April 1861).
Italian School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures Talk by Charles Burdett, University of Durham Working from recent theoretical writing on time and the concept of the spectral, the paper begins by questioning how we can talk about transnational temporalities. The paper then looks at some of the ways in which the Italian colonial and... | Read on »
The term ‘Classical’ connotes so many things as to be useless. ‘Neoclassical’ is valid for a particular era. ‘Classic’ (minus the suffix -al) may denote various items. ‘Tradition’ and like terms are too passive. Prof. Arkins will discuss these terms.
Martin Hurcombe is Professor of French Studies at the University of Bristol, UK, and a specialist of early twentieth-century French political culture, history and literature. His PhD examined the French combat novel of the First World War, arguing that the experience of combat led to a fundamental shift in the way that a generation... | Read on »