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 »

Saturday 16th JuneDescription of Workshop The idea of wisdom is currently attracting renewed attention as a source of innovative ideas and practices for social organisation. This workshop addresses two deficits in the associated debates, accentuating contributions derived from observed ‰Û÷wise‰۪ practices in the West of Ireland. Wisdom is generally regarded as a form of reasoning... | Read on »

History, School of HumanitiesThe Moore Institute Frontier and border regions in early modern Europe 21-22 June 2012 Thursday 21 June (Moore Institute Seminar Room) 09.00 ‰ÛÒ 09.20 Raingard EÌÙer, University of Groningen, the Netherlands; Steven Ellis, National University of Ireland, Galway Introduction 09.20 ‰ÛÒ 10.10 Steven Ellis, National University of Ireland, Galway ‰Û÷Ireland‰۪s ‰ÛÏlost‰۝ English... | Read on »

RaingardEsser, The Politics of Memory:the Writing of Partition in the seventeenth-century Low Countries (Brill, 2012); Christopher Maginn, William Cecil, Ireland, and the Tudor State (Oxford, 2012)