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)

Colonialism within Europe: Fact or Fancy? Conference at NUI Galway, 22-23 June 2012 Provisional Conference Programme Fri., 22nd June 2012 9.00 Welcome and Opening Remarks 9.15-10.30 Session 1 The Irish Experience Nicholas Canny, Dept. of History, NUI Galway ‰ÛÏWas Ireland a colony? The history of a debate‰۝ Bogdan Murgescu, Dept. of History, University of Bucharest... | Read on »

You are warmly invited to A Gender ARC Summer Seminar Gender, spirituality, politics and society Hosted by: Gender, Discourse, Identities Cluster of Gender ARC and Global Women's Studies, School of Political Science and Sociology Venue: Moore Institute Seminar Room Date: Wed June 27 Time: 12.00pm-2.00pm PROGRAMME Nikky-Guninder Singh, Crawford Family Professor of Religion, Colby College,... | Read on »

IOMRAMHA / VOYAGES Three Talks on Medieval and Modern Seafaring organized by Prof. MairÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha All in SPEAKERS' CORNER, GLOBAL VILLAGE, the CLADDAGH, GALWAY (enter from Nimmo's Pier or Grattan Road; it may take 5-10 minutes to reach the Speakers' Corner) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday 4 July, 6pm, ‰Û÷Medieval Irish Seafaring: realities and visions' Speaker: Prof.... | Read on »

Thursday, 5 July, 6pm ‰Û÷‰ÛÏA RÌ_ na Foidhne, glac iad ar lÌÁimh‰۝: ́r mBÌÁid D̼chais agus an tIascach‰۝‰۪ Cainteoir (i nGaeilge): An Dr CrÌ_ostÌ_ir Mac CÌÁrthaigh, AircÌ_vÌ_ Sinsearach, Cnuasach Bh̩aloideas Ìäireann, UCD. Cathaoirleach: An Dr PÌÁdraig ÌÒ H̩alaÌ_, ScolÌÁire Gaeilge agus B̩aloidis, NUIG. CrÌ_ostÌ_ir Mac CÌÁrthaigh is editor of the magnificent and monumental Traditional Boats... | Read on »

Friday 6 July, 6pm, ‰Û÷Science and the Age of Discovery: Spain, Portugal, and the International Atlantic in the 15th-16th Centuries‰۪ Speaker: Dr Edward Collins, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville/UCD. Chair: Dr Enrico Dal Lago, Historian, NUIG. Edward Collins will present an overview of the scientific aspects of the Portuguese and Spanish discoveries in the fifteenth... | Read on »

CAMPS & the Foundations of Irish Culture project Research lab by Dr David Juste, University of Sydney ‰ÛÏPtolemy in Arabic and in Latin‰۝ Thursday 12th July, 5 p.m. Moore Institute Seminar Room, NUI Galway Dr Juste will talk about his Ptolemy research and especially about the project funded by the Forschungsprogramm der Union der deutschen... | Read on »