You are cordially invited to the Launch of the Apodemica Online Database: The Art of Travel 1500-1800 by Prof. Sean Ryder (English/Moore Institute) On Monday November 7, 5.30pm, Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building G010 This electronic resource provides extensive bibliographical and biographical records on hundreds of contributions to the advice literature on travel... | Read on »

Moore Institute, National University of Ireland Galway Organized by Daniel Carey daniel.carey@nuigalway.ie   Monday 7 November 9.00 Registration and welcome (with coffee) 9.30-11.00 Session 1 Edward Chaney (Southampton Solent University), ‘The Origins of the Grand Tour and the discovery of the arts' Jean Boutier (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales), ‘Inventing the "Grand Tour":... | Read on »

You are cordially invited to the Launch of a new book by former Moore Institute postdoctoral fellow, Gabor Gelleri: Philosophies du voyage: visiter l'Angleterre aux 17e-18e siècles (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2016) Launched by Prof. Jane Conroy (French) On Tuesday November 8, 5.30pm, Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building G010 Refreshments served!

History Graduate Research Seminar presents Ultan Lally 'Thady O'Farrell, Dominican - the politics of mission and the Nine Years War, 1954 - 1963'.

School of Languages, Literatures & Culture, & The Moore Institute Italian Studies Seminar By a close reading of some pivotal episodes of Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata, as well as of some passages from his treatises (Discorsi dell'arte poetica; Discorsi del poema eroico), the lecture aims to point out how Tasso distances himself from some central issues... | Read on »

The US Election: What Just Happened? A Round Table Discussion   with Daniel Carey (Moore Institute) Kathleen Cavanaugh (Human Rights) Jane Conroy (French) Enrico Dal Lago (History) Adrian Frazier (English) Sean Ryder (English) Mark Stansbury (Classics) Ann Torres (Discipline of Marketing, College of BPPL) and others.   Today!!  Thursday, November 10, 11am Room G010 Hardiman... | Read on »

  International Research Group for Culture and Dialogue www.irccd.org Millennium Research Fund Moore Institute, NUIG Convener: G. Cipriani 9:30 Dr. Gerald Cipriani (Philosophy, NUI Galway) "In Dialogue: Eastern and Western Thought" 10:15 Dr. Cosimo Zene (Religions and Philosophies, SOAS, University of London) "The Risky Choice of Calling It World Philosophies: Beyond the Anglo-European Canon" 11:00... | Read on »

IRISH LABOUR RADICALS AND THE INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY ‘One Big Union' was a motto of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), founded in Chicago in 1905. Reflecting disappointment with the achievements of political Labour, the IWW was ‘syndicalist' in advocating that working people rely on militant trade... | Read on »

To register for this event click here By Dr. Deirdre Flynn (Moore Institute) and David Kelly (Research Technologist, Moore Institute).