A Symposium of the Atlantic Archipelagos Research ProjectOver the Irish SeaApril 26th-27th 2012, University College DublinKeynote SpeakersProfessor Margaret Cohen (Stanford University)author of The Novel and the Sea (2010)Sponsored by the Moore Institute, NUI GalwayProfessor Claire Connolly (Cardiff University)author of A Cultural History of the Irish Novel, 1790-1829 (2011)‰Û÷Over the Irish Sea' is a symposium organised... | Read on »

Globalisation, Empire, and Culture Part of the Texts, Contexts, Cultures research programme. Supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 27th April, 2012 Moore Institute Seminar Room Workshop: ‰Û÷Networks and Identities in the Catholic Reformation' Programme 9-10am Alison Forrestal, National University of Ireland, Galway ‰Û÷Exploiting Sources of Patronage in the French Catholic Reformation: Vincent de Paul... | Read on »

Wood architecture in the Early Middle Ages: A northern building technique Prof. Eleonora Destefanis & Dr. Gabriele Ardizio UniversitÌÊ degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale Wednesday 2nd May, 2.30pm Venue: The Moore Institute

A seminar on communication, contact and dialogue aimed at reducing or ending violence in Northern Ireland that bringstogether key actors with direct experience of mediation and decision-making in the Irish peace process, including Sir Kenneth; Larry and Shauna Duddy; Dr. Maurice Hayes; Jim Gibney; Dr. Harold Good; Rev. Chris Hudson Bloomfield and Dr. Martin Mansergh.... | Read on »

Armed Conflict in Comparative PerspectiveTime / Date / Venue: 9.00am - 5.00pm, Friday 18 May, Aula Maxima, National University of Ireland, Galway.A conference of the Centre for the Study of Nationalism and Organised Violence featuring:Prof. Kristine H̦glund (Uppsala University, Sweden)Prof. Stathis Kalyvas (Yale University, USA)Prof. Eric Kaufmann (Birkbeck College, University of London)Prof. Tom Lodge (University... | Read on »

Professor Paul Crowther will be launching his new book 'The Phenomenology of Art, exploding Deleuze, illuminating Style.'

MÌ_or̼ilt an pharÌ_iste: comhdhÌÁil lae ar fhilÌ_ocht MhÌÁire Mhac an tSaoi, OÌä GaillimhBeidh comhdhÌÁil lae ar shaothar MhÌÁire Mhac an tSaoi ÌÁ reachtÌÁil ag Ionad an L̩inn Ìäireannaigh, Ollscoil na hÌäireann, Gaillimh, D̩ C̩adaoin 23 Bealtaine 2012. TÌÁ MÌÁire Mhac an tSaoi ar dhuine de mhÌ_rfhilÌ_ na hÌäireann sa bhfichi̼ haois agus chuir an ch̩ad... | Read on »

‰ÛÏCuba under Ra̼l: is the Revolution ‰Û÷over‰۪?‰۝ By Antoni Kapcia, Professor in Latin American Studies at the University of Nottingham, U.K. Professor Kapcia is a distinguished expert in modern and contemporary Cuban history and politics. He has published extensively in the field, including Cuba: Island of Dreams (2000), Cuba in Revolution: a History since the... | Read on »

The Moore Institute is pleased to promote a lecture on James Joyce and Galway by Dr. Frank Shovlin of the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool, and incoming Leverhulme Fellow at the Moore Institute during the next academic year. The lecture will take place on Friday, June 1 at 8pm at the Nun‰۪s Island... | Read on »

The Galway American Studies Forum Presents... Destroying the ‰Û÷silver linings': The American media and the Vietnam War, 1968-71 With guest speaker Gavin Wilk, University of Limerick Tuesday, 5th June, 12.30 - 2pm in The Moore Institute Seminar Room Everyone Welcome. Abstract: This paper will demonstrate through relevant examples how the American media, from the 1968... | Read on »