Joseph Twist (Galway/Limerick) - Joseph is interested in the intersection of philosophy, religion and literature. His current research focuses on the interaction between mystical and postmodern thought in the work of Zafer Şenocak, SAID, Feridun Zaimoglu and Navid Kermani (all contemporary German authors of varying Muslim backgrounds). He is particularly interested in the non-identitarian spirituality... | Read on »

Professor Catherine Manathunga, Victoria University, Melbourne and Moore Institute Fellow Irish universities such as Trinity College Dublin, the three Queen’s Colleges of Cork, Galway and Belfast and the Catholic University of Ireland in Dublin served as key models for the development of early Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand universities.  They also contributed many academics to... | Read on »

The purpose of this two day international conference is to explore the myriad experiences of agrarian reform and resistance that characterized rural regions of Europe and the Americas, whether based on either free or unfree labour, between 1815 and 1914. In this period, the economic changes associated with the influence of the Industrial Revolution transcended... | Read on »

Pier Paolo Pasolini has theorized the irrational, oneiric, elementary, and barbaric elements of audiovisual communication. I will connect Pasolini’s reflection on cinema with his posthumous novel Petrolio, and show how Petrolio’s “demoniac technique” addresses contemporary capitalism’s “cosmic crisis”.   Federico Luisetti is an Italian philosopher and professor of Italian Studies at the University of North Carolina at... | Read on »

Sport & Exercise Research Group Monthly Research Seminar, Wednesday June 7, 1pm, Moore Institute   ‘From there to here’: Narratives of Transition, Migration and National Identity in Irish Media Representations of Rugby Union in the Professional Era Dr. Marcus Free (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick)     Irish media representation of rugby union in... | Read on »

The Moore Institute in association with The School of Education are pleased to host a seminar on  Teaching austerity  by Professor William M (Bill) Taylor  Austerity is commonly associated with periods of restraint in government spending and the managed conservation of public resources during economic crises.  Government measures geared for austerity are typically contrast by policies... | Read on »

Organisers: Dr.s Anna Gasperini and Paul Raphael Rooney Keynote speakers: Ms Sarah Wise, Author - Mr Gilbert’s weird psychological novel’: Shirley Hall Asylum and Victorian states of mind; Mr Alexander Black, Department of Anatomy, NUI Galway - The Early Years of Anatomy in Galway (this keynote will be in NUI Galway’s Anatomy Lecture Theatre) Background The internationally recognised Victorian Popular... | Read on »

Current perspectives on the Anthropocene are reformulating Michel Foucault’s biopolitical paradigm, introducing a discourse on geopower and animistic states of nature that account for the political agency of unfamiliar webs of life and nonlife.​   Federico Luisetti is an Italian philosopher and professor of Italian Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is... | Read on »

  Brian Dolber is Assistant Professor of Communication at California State University, San Marcos. He is a historian of media and the labour movement in the United States, and studies communications policymaking in the neoliberal, digital age. Dr. Dolber has been a longtime labour activist and served as staff for three different unions in the... | Read on »