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Álvaro Seiça (Visiting Fellow) – Kinetic Poetry: From Screening to Running Interactive Language

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

The third event of the Spring 2018 series of Digital Scholarship Seminar takes place on Thursday 3 May at 2pm, and features a paper on kinetic poetry, a form of poetry that relies on spatiotemporal transitions as expressive literary and visual layers, by Álvaro Seiça, Visiting Moore Institute Fellow from the University of Bergen. The... | Read on »

‘Trump, Irish America and the New Right’ – Renowned New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd and founder of IrishCentral, Niall O’Dowd will lead a discussion of the new right phenomenon

Ground Floor, Aula Maxima

One of the most striking recent developments in American politics has been the emergence of Irish Americans associated with the Right and their participation in (or support for) the Trump administration. The traditional expectation that Irish Americans align themselves with the Democratic Party (led by the Kennedy family and figures like Tip O’Neill) has been... | Read on »

‘The impact of deforestation on Irish culture: a sylva sylvarum for treeless places’ by Paul Carter (Visiting Fellow from RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia)

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

                                                  The key practical question buried in the title of my Moore Fellowship project is: reafforestation. An explanation of the context of this study is necessary. The challenge, though, is methodological.... | Read on »

Palimpsest and Creolité: Representations of Slave women in the Caribbean in the long eighteenth century by Kerry Sinanan (Visiting Fellow)

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

  This talk examines representations of slave women, focusing especially on representations of breasts and breastfeeding, in order to read fully the tensions and contradictions between economics, ‘race’, sexuality and maternity in plantation slavery. The sources reveal the impossible position of the female slave who is at once a mother and a commodity to be... | Read on »

‘Criticism and the Making of the Catholic Enlightenment: Rethinking the Career of Jean Hardouin, S.J. (1646-1729)’ by Dr. Daniel Watkins, (Visiting Fellow from Baylor University)

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

Recent scholarship has recognized that contributions to the European Enlightenment came from figures beyond the small collection of radical French philosophes traditionally identified as its architects. In an investigation of the life and career of the French Jesuit and classical scholar Jean Hardouin, Daniel Watkins will speak about the “Catholic Enlightenment” and the reasons that... | Read on »

‘On the ten-stringed psaltery’: musical instruments as symbols in the  Middle Ages

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

Musical instruments abound in medieval iconography and literature, so much so that modern craftsmen were able to build replicas of medieval instruments working from images and texts. But did medieval artists and writers always intend to depict or describe real instruments?  In this colloquium, five speakers will explore a number of medieval iconographic and textual... | Read on »