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Scientific instructions for travellers

Scientific instructions for travellersThe proliferation of inquiries, questionnaires, and directions for scientific travellers is a defining feature of the early modern period, ranging from Humanist agendas for Continental journeys to formal initiatives by Spanish authorities concerned with colonial administration. Exceptional growth in this practice occurred in a variety of seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth-century contexts. This... | Read on »

Mark Corcoran & Alexandra Tauvry (TCD) on Dubliners, Trainspotting

ECHO Humanities Research Forum: Mark Corcoran (NUIG): ‰Û÷Spotting Dubliners in Trainspotting' & Alexandra Tauvry (Trinity College Dublin): ‰Û÷Immram MaÌ_le D̼in: Paul Muldoon's Voyage (Tall) Tales'Thursday 24th March @ 5pm >> Moore MarchInstitute Seminar Room 203"

Building Empires on Air: Histories and Geopolitics of Radio and Empire

Building Empires on Air:Histories and Geopolitics of Radio and EmpireMoore InstituteNational University of Ireland, Galway9am-6pm, 1 April 2011Part of the Texts, Contexts, Cultures research programme.Supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.This workshop will compare scholarly approaches to histories of radio and empire, ina broad transnational and geopolitical context. Key questions to be consideredinclude:- How have... | Read on »