Discipline of Philosophy, School of Humanities, UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre and School of Sociology and Politics are hosting a Book Launch' Philosophy and Political Engagement: Reflection in the public sphere'.Launched by Prof James Edwin Mahon (CUNY - Lehman).Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building.
THE "IRISH PROTESTANT PLAYWRIGHTS" CONFERENCE1-3 JUNE 2016Moore Institute, NUI Galway, IRELANDFeaturing:-Keynote addresses by Prof. SeÌÁn Kennedy (St. Mary's University, Halifax) and Dr. Emilie Pine (University College Dublin)-Panel papers and roundtable discussions on the great Irish Protestant playwrights, including (among others) George Farquhar, Oliver Goldsmith, R.B. Sheridan, Elizabeth Griffith, Dion Boucicault, Oscar Wilde, Bernard Shaw, J.M.... | Read on »
Moore Institute Visiting Fellow Prof Padraic Kenney (Indiana University, USA) gives a talk entitled ' Farewell to the Transnational: Global History in Theory and Practice'.9th June @4pm Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building.
The next Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society / An Cumann Ìäire San Ocht̼ C̩ad D̩ag Annual Conference will be held in National University of Ireland Galway, 10-11 June 2016. Plenaries will be delivered by Prof. Michael Brown (Aberdeen), Prof. Norma Clark (Kingston), and Dr MeidhbhÌ_n NÌ_ Ì_rdail (UCD).Harvard University Press will also mark the Irish launches of... | Read on »
Prof Alain Dubreucq, Moore Institute Visiting Fellow presents a talk '"The manuscript transmission of the Vita Columbani. Prolegomenes to a new edition"Wednesday 15th June @12.30pm.The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building.
1916 IN GLOBAL CONTEXT:CONNECTIONS AND COMPARISONSConference ProgrammeThursday 16th June -- Friday 17th June 2016Hardiman Research Building, NUI GalwayandNotre Dame Centre, Kylemore Abbey,ConnemaraOrganised by RÌ_isÌ_n Healy, Enrico Dal Lago and GearÌ_id Barry of History, NUI Galway Thursday 16th June: G010, Hardiman Building, Moore Institute, NUI Galway9.00 Registration 9.15 Opening Remarks by Jane Ohlmeyer, Chair of the... | Read on »
Dr. Justin Carville(Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art and Design and Moore Institute)Primitive Faces and Ungovernable Eyes:Racial Photography, Anthropology, and Counter-Visuality in Ireland 11.30 Thursday 16 June'The Bridge' Seminar Room 1001Hardiman Research Building
Prof. Peter Glazer (Berkeley) and Patrick Ball (musician)‰Û÷Musics of a Lost Kingdom: Yeats, Story and Song'The remarkable, crystalline sound of the wire strung harp (the clÌÊrsach) was at the centre of Irish culture and legend for 700 years, most famously in the playing of Turlough O'Carolan. Yet it was wholly absent from the Celtic Revival.... | Read on »
Moore Institute Visiting Fellow, Dr Salvatore Scifo presents a talk :' The origins and development of community radio in Britain under New Labour (1997 - 2007)'.Monday, 20th June @ 11am in The Bridge, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building.
Dr Dalene M. Swanson, University of Stirling Dalene is an educationalist and her research expertise spans (reconceptualist) curriculum perspectives, mathematics education, critical cultural studies, ethical internationalisation, democracy in education, and social and ecological justice. She is interested broadly in critical, ideological and socio-political perspectives in education and society, and mostly writes from poststructural and de/post-colonial... | Read on »
