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‘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 »

Open Rehearsal: Come Dance With Me in Ireland: A Pilgrimage to Yeats Country by Patrick Ball and Peter Glazer (Visiting Fellows)

O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studio 1, NUI Galway

Open Rehearsal Come Dance With Me in Ireland: A Pilgrimage to Yeats Country Featuring Patrick Ball, Celtic Harp  A new play with music by Moore Institute fellows Patrick Ball and Peter Glazer in the O'Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance 24th of May (Thursday) at 12pm. Please join us for an open rehearsal of... | Read on »

‘Textual problems in the Epistula ad Dardanum.’ by Olivier Szerwiniack ( Visiting Fellow from Université de Picardie Jules Verne)

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

Olivier Szerwiniack talk is part of Dr.Jacopo Bisagni event: ‘On the ten-stringed psaltery’: musical instruments as symbols in the Middle Ages. Olivier Szerwiniack will talk about the textual problems of the short letter known as Epistula ad Dardanum de diversis generibus musicorum (Letter to Dardanus about different kinds of musical instruments).

Welfare Histories Reading Group.

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

The Welfare Histories Reading Group provides a forum for staff and postgraduate students to discuss ideas of poverty, development, and ‘improvement’ in a global historical context. Our interests are very diverse, and we would very much welcome the involvement of new members from any discipline. Our next meeting is on 29th May, when we will... | Read on »

From Voice to Resonance: Distrupting Symbolic Violence Through Liberatory Arts Research by Alison Baker (Visiting Fellow from Victoria University, Australia)

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

Drawing on a research collaboration with New Change, an arts collective of young African Australian women in Melbourne’s west, I explore youth voice and resonance in the context of racialised symbolic violence. Through the lens of liberation psychology, this talk will explore how arts and cultural practices, particularly sound, can create disruptions and dialogue.