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 »

The Moore Institute in association with The School of Education are pleased to host a seminar on Researching Disasters by Professor William M (Bill) Taylor  Histories, representations and ethics of catastrophe This seminar draws on my research over a number of years, on different projects and building histories that all seem to involve disasters of... | Read on »

Galway Centenary Conversations: War & Revolution Roadshow This summer will see a series of free public history events around the County organised by NUI Galway, GMIT, local history societies and Galway County Council as part of its Decade of Commemoration strategy (2013-23). Galway Centenary Conversations: War & Revolution Roadshow will take place in Tuam, Craughwell,... | Read on »