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(Post) Imperial Cultures

(Post) Imperial CulturesSymposium at the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway, in association with the English Department and Texts, Contexts, Cultures"Download full size poster"Saturday 25th September 2010(Post) Imperial Cultures is a one day symposium designed to discuss questions of aesthetics and representation in context of contemporary... | Read on »

Dr. Campbell Jones ‘What kind of person is the market?’

Dr. Campbell Jones, University of Leicester'What kind of person is the market?'We are today surrounded with talk about the market, about what it is doing and its consequences for us. More strangely, it is often said that the market itself can speak, that it can say things to us, it can ‰Û÷respond' to our actions,... | Read on »

Ireland and Biafra

‰Û÷Ireland and Biafra'atThe Moore Institute Seminar Room (AC203), NUI Galway.Thursday 30th September"Download full poster"11.00am Coffee11.30am Welcome and Introduction: Ireland and BiafraDr Fiona Bateman, Moore Institute, NUI Galway12.30pm Lunch2.00pm Prelude to the WarProf Godfrey Uzoigwe, Mississippi State University3.15pm Coffee3.30pm Panel Session: Spreading the message about Biafra - missionaries and the media.Including Mr Ciaran Carty, Mr Michael... | Read on »

Scientific instructions for travellers

Scientific instructions for travellersInternational conference8-9 October 2010Moore Institute Seminar Room (203)The development of inquiries, questionnaires, and directions for scientific travellers proliferated in the early modern period, ranging from the chorographers surveying particular places in Europe, to the Royal Society's queries for destinations around the world. The growth in this practice in eighteenth and nineteenth centuries... | Read on »