Dearbhla Glynn Dearbhla Glynn is an award-winning artist, documentary filmmaker and teacher, specializing in explorations of conflict and its effect on women and children. Among her films are Gaza: Post Operation Cast Lead (2010) which offered a personal insight into the day-to-day living conditions faced by the Gaza Strip's 1.5 million conflict-stricken inhabitants. Her 2013... | Read on »
Critical Approaches to Children's Literature From Librarianship to Childhood Studies via Liberal Humanism, High Theory, Post-Theory, Metamodernism and Pooh Corner Professor Peter Hunt (Cardiff University) Over the past 50 years, children’s literature has become a vibrant and important part of university-level studies worldwide. Approaches to it have been as diverse and lively (and problematic) as... | Read on »
Dr Peadar Ó Muirceartaigh (Abersythwyth University and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow) 'Isidorian semiotics and an orthographic crux in Old Irish'
'Norse sources for Ireland: Telling tales and seeking sources'.
The session will be led by the Director of the Moore Institute Prof Daniel Carey and will have contributions from Prof Nicholas Canny, former member of the ERC Scientific Council and Dr Gary Lupton, Research Office, NUIG.
Dr Joe Regan (NUIG) 'Patrick Finney of Loughrea, Boston bounty broker in Ireland during the American Civil War'
Valediction: The Conditions of the University by Prof Rod Stoneman with an introduction by Prof Timothy Emlyn Jones Valediction: the Conditions of the University Boy bitten by a Lizard, about 1594-5, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Oil on Canvas, 66 x 49.5 cm. An undergraduate in university in England during the 1970s, returning to tertiary education... | Read on »
Dr Ian Leask (DCU) will give a talk ' Only Natural: John Toland (1670 - 1722) and the Jewish Question.'
Leon Butler Leon Butler has worked across a broad range of positions in the media industry as a visual narrative designer, filmmaker, and educator. He graduated from Huston’s MA in Digital Media in 2009 and his final project animated film, Ghosts Before Dawn (2009), won the Gold Medal at the National Digital Media Awards. Since... | Read on »
