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 »

TCC Seminar Series: Dr. David Dwan, Queen's University Belfast - 'Edmund Burke and the Emotions'

Sean SmithThe Call of the Poor & the Call of Power: The Congregation of the Mission & Louis XIV, 1674-1704

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"

Carlos Villar Flor'Graham Greene's travels in Spain'Visiting lecturer to the Spanish Department, NUIG, from the Universidad de la Rioja (Spain)

TCC Seminar Series: Dr. David Wheatley, Hull University - 'The Poetry of Samuel Beckett: Exile and Experiment'

Eoghan MoranSyndicalism as Political Culture: the C.G.T. and the First World War

ECHO Humanities Research Forum: Emily O'Flaherty (NUIG) & Orla Power (NUIG)Thursday 31st March @ 5pm >> Moore MarchInstitute Seminar Room 203"

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 »

"Conversations with an Irish Penguin" by Professor David Dumville of the University of Aberdeen, on Thursday 14 April, beginning at 6.00pm followed by wine reception