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Seminar by Visiting Speaker Prof. Michael Rubenstein ‘“Life Support: Fictions of Energy and Environment”

Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building

Michael Rubenstein is an associate professor of English at Stony Brook University, where he teaches courses on postwar Anglophone literatures, film, Irish modernism, James Joyce, and the Environmental Humanities. His book, Public Works: Infrastructure, Irish Modernism, and the Postcolonial (University of Notre Dame Press, 2010), received the Modernist Studies Association Prize and the American Conference... | Read on »

Book Launch: Scott A. Davison “Petitionary Prayer – A Philosophical Investigation”

Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building

Book launch of Scott A. Davidson: Petitionary Prayer A Philosophical Investigation (Oxford University Press, 2017)   Scott Davidson, Professor of Philosophy at Morehead State University, Kentucky, USA, is a former Visiting Research Fellow at the Moore Institute where he completed this book. The Book will be launched by Prof. Felix Ó Murchadha, Head of School of Humanities.   All... | Read on »

Conference: Reception, Reputation and Circulation in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800

Seminar Rooms G010 & G011, Hardiman Research Building

This international conference will bring together scholars working on the reception of texts, the reputations of authors and individuals, and the circulation of people and things in the early modern world. Invited Speakers: Ruth Ahnert (QMUL), Sebastian Ahnert (Cambridge), Robin Buning (Oxford), Marc Caball (UCD), Liesbeth Corens (Cambridge), Gillian Dow (Southampton), Julia Flanders (Northeastern), Juliet Fleming (NYU), Jaime Goodrich (Wayne State), Jerome de Groot (Manchester), Katherine... | Read on »

RECIRC Conference 2017

Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building

'Reception, Reputation and Circulation in the Early Modern World, 1500 - 1800.'

History Graduate Research Seminar

The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building

Dr Gerard Moran (NUIG & Independent scholar) 'Sending out Ireland's Permanent Deadweight During the Great Famine: The Case of the Cork Workhouse Paupers sent to New Brunswick in 1850'

“President Donald Trump: The First Sixty Days and Beyond” Roundtable Discussion

Emily Anderson Concert Hall (Aula Maxima Upper) NUI Galway

  Moderator: Mary Regan (columnist, Sunday Business Post) Participants: Prof Alan Ahearne (Director of the Whitaker Institute, NUI Galway, and former special adviser to the Minister for Finance) Prof Daniel Carey (Director of the Moore Institute, NUI Galway) Dr Kathleen Cavanaugh (Lecturer, Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway) Larry Donnelly (Lecturer, School of Law,... | Read on »

Italian Art & Its Icons: The Past in the Present

Siobhan McKenna Theatre

4-6pm: “The legacy of the Italian Renaissance” with Finola O’Kane Crimmins (UCD), Paolo Bartoloni (NUIG) and Daniel Carey (NUIG); McKenna Lecture Theatre, Arts Millennium Building. 7-10pm: Italian Art and its icons: The past in the present” with Valentina Zucchi (MUS.E) and Michaele Cutaya (Writer and Editor, Galway); 126 Artist-Run Gallery, St. Bridget’s Place.

The Collaborative Design of Tangible Interactions in Museums

The Moore Institute Seminar Room G010 Ground floor The Hardiman Research Building

Interactive technology for cultural heritage has long been a subject of study for Human-Computer Interaction. Findings from a number of studies suggest that, however, technology can sometime distance visitors from heritage holdings rather than enabling people to establish deeper connections to what they see. Furthermore, the introduction of innovative interactive installations in museum is often... | Read on »

Seminar- Featuring Visiting Speakers: Prof. Erin Goss & Dr. Kerry Sinanan

The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway

Prof. Erin Goss (Clemson University) ‘Listening for William Blake’s Daughters of Albion: Echo, Complicity, Complaint’ and Dr. Kerry Sinanan (Moore Institute Visiting Fellow) ‘An Irish Slave Dealer in Africa: Nicholas Owen’s Manuscript Journal’