On the occasion of the centenary of the Russian Revolution, the Moore Institute is delighted to host the annual conference of the Irish Association for Russian, Central and East European Studies. Taking its inspiration from Lenin’s fateful journey to Petrograd one hundred years ago, the theme of this year’s conference is ‘journeys’. Papers deal with... | Read on »

Public Keynote Lecture by Prof. Wendy Bracewell School of Slavonic and East European Studies University College London   Prof. Wendy Bracewell of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, is to deliver a public lecture entitled ‘Travellers, travellees, and travelling texts: Eastern Europe and the Republic of Letters’ at NUI Galway... | Read on »

    The ‘Research in Real-Time: Practice in Progress’ conference is a two-day interdisciplinary programme of PaR performances, workshops, interventions, panels, playtests and installations, taking place on the 5th and 6th May at the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance at NUI Galway. Contributors will present their practice (as research) in the now: in... | Read on »

  Organised by Heritage/Library Services, Roscommon Co. Council; Roscommon Historical & Archaeological Society; and the Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway   FRIDAY NIGHT: Gleason’s Townhouse Hotel PANEL 1 8.00: NORTH ROSCOMMON BEGINS: THE 1917 BY-ELECTION Regina Donlon (Maynooth University): ‘Hurrah for Plunkett’: The 1917 North Roscommon by-election in context Martin O’Donoghue (NUI Galway):... | Read on »

Programme   Tuesday, May 8, 2017 10:00 am Session I Nicholas Canny: "Atlantic Empire and the Peoples of the British Monarchy, 1603-1815" Alison Games: "Massacres, Memories and Empire: The Amboyna Incident's Long History"   10:45 am Session II Jane Ohlmeyer: "Ireland and the Wider World in the Early Modern Period" Max Edelson: "Mapping Empire: Geographic... | Read on »

Students in MA Medieval Studies will be presenting their dissertation projects for comment and feedback in Room 1001 "The Bridge" on Tuesday, May 9th 10-12pm. All welcome!

The Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies at NUI Galway will host the international conference Other Codes / Cóid Eile –  Digital Literatures in Context.  The event focuses on the various contexts of the production, dissemination and reception of digital literature in its different forms, as well as the cultural, national, geographical... | Read on »

Finding Lady Gregory: Teaching, Research and Performance Practice in Global Contexts A joint talk by Moore Visiting Fellows: Dr Emer O’Toole (Concordia) and Dr Anna Pilz (UCC), chaired by Dr Miriam Haughton, O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance   Dr Anna Pilz lectures on Irish and English literature in the School of English at... | Read on »

By Dr. Marion Krauthaker In this seminar, Marion will present the early findings of an ongoing pedagogical research project on Modern Foreign Languages. Looking back at the roots of MFL teaching in the UK has enabled me to retrace its original mission and to better pinpoint the disconnections between its founding values, its current perception and... | Read on »

#50isEnough:  Israeli Civil Society Confronts the Occupation The Occupation is now 50 years old and the current political leadership in Israel seems intent on silencing Israelis who want to see it end. Indeed, the debate over the Occupation – and the damage it is doing to both Palestinian society and Israeli democracy – has been... | Read on »