Digital Scholarship Seminar, November 2013. 12-2pm, Wednesday 20 November, Moore Institute Seminar Room. The second event of the Autumn/Winter series of DSS is a lunchtime seminar featuring presentations from researchers in English and Huston School (abstracts below): Ciara Griffin (English). ‰Û÷The Author is Glitched: Media-Specificity and the Non-Western Writer.‰۪ Hilary Dully (Huston School). ‰Û÷Digital Issues... | Read on »
Laura O'Brien The Bishop on the Barricades: French commemorations of the death of Archbishop Denis Affre, 1848-1871
Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour & Class Moore Institute, NUI Galway Inaugural conference Arts Humanities and Social Science Reserach Building (new extension) 21-22 November 2013 Round One: THURSDAY 21 NOVEMBER, 9.00 ‰ÛÒ 10.30 Panel 1: Irish working life and politics: (i) Primitive rebels Gary Hussey (NUI Galway), ‰Û÷Agrarian secret societies and a moral... | Read on »
If you like gossiping, poetry, languages, puns, puzzles, jokes, double entendres or even avant-garde tomes, you might like Finnegans Wake. Despite its scurrilous critical reputation, James Joyce's final workis not as difficult as it would first appear and,when read as part of a group, can be a hugely rewarding experience. It is our hope to... | Read on »
ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF IRELANDFriday 22nd November 2-3.30 session 1 18th century economic Salim Rashid (Illinois), 18c Ireland and the birth of development economics Aidan Kane (NUIG), A database of 18th-century Irish public finances Patrick Walsh (UCD), Who paid what? Taxation and the financial impact of the state in... | Read on »
Irish Renaissance SeminarSchedule1.30̢åÛå3.00Dr Anders Ingram (NUI, Galway): ‰Û÷Discourse and Digital Methods: EEBO, Corpus Research and the ‰ÛÏTurk‰ in Early Modern England‰۪Dr Kathleen Miller (TCD): ‰Û÷Katherine Austen‰۪s Reckoning with Plague in Book M‰۪Dr Lindsay Reid (NUI, Galway): ‰Û÷Vernacular Ovids and the Cross̢åÛåDressed Narcissus of Shakespeare‰۪s Twelfth Night‰۪3.00̢åÛå3.45Tea/Coffee3.45̢åÛå5.00Dr Tom Roebuck (University of East Anglia): ‰Û÷Writing Medieval History... | Read on »
THREESIS: Open Your Mind...and Get to the Point!!Join us as NUI Galway researchers use their 3 minutes to Get to the Point and Open Your Mind!EilÌ_s Flanagan (Education), Fionn ÌÒ Sealbhaigh (Gaeilge) and Paul Flynn (Education). will participate in this week's heat.Come along and support your colleagues!A light lunch will be served after the presentations.
Joe Regan Defending Antebellum US Slavery: the impact of Bishop John England & other Irish Clerics
You are cordially invited to the final ECHO seminar of the semester, a Christmas circus cracker. We have two fine speakers, fine wine, and fine themes to gladden the heart and deepen the soul. The Reverend Al Green put it on record: 'happiness is when you're really feeling good about somebody'. No doubt he had... | Read on »
Join us for an hour to network with colleagues and explore potential opportunities for collaboration on research projects, outreach initiatives, workshops,seminars, summer schools and conferences.Refreshments served at 12 noon
