Clodagh Brook, Trinity College Dublin Breaking the Boundaries of Italian Arts.  Introducing Italy’s videoartists   This paper explores what motivated Italian writers and artists to shatter the borders and radically question the identity of their artforms in late 20th-century Italy. My case study here introduces some Italian videoartists, situating their questioning of artforms in a... | Read on »

Aimee Plunkett discusses republican, feminist and trade union activist Helena Molony. Aimee Plunkett works for the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and is a former historical tour guide at the GPO Witness History Visitor Centre. 1918 was a landmark year for women in Ireland and Britain, with legislation beginning the process of their... | Read on »

"Hidden Sins: Miraculous Mind Reading and the Confessional"  Barbara Newman, Professor of English, Religious Studies and Classics Northwestern University   Shortly after the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 mandated annual confession for all Christians, a new type of miracle began to appear in saints' Lives. Holy women and a few lay brothers--but curiously, not priests--came to... | Read on »

On 19 October the Social Sciences Research Centre (SSRC) is hosting a talk by Bruno Esperante Paramos  titled the ‘Agrarian Fascism Innovation Paradigm in Spain between 1939 -1955’. The talk will consider the main agrarian policies of Francoist Spain in war and peace, focusing especially on policies aimed at motorizing agriculture via the introduction of... | Read on »

                                                  Modernist Studies Ireland’s monthly forum for new work in Irish modernist studies—Works in Progress—cordially invites you to its second session of this autumn season, taking place on Tuesday, 23 Oct,... | Read on »

The Power, Conflict and Ideologies Research Cluster (School of Political Science & Sociology), and the Irish Centre for Human Rights, are co-hosting a visit by Dr. Lea David, who is currently Marie Curie fellow (2017-2019) in the School of Sociology, UCD. The focus of this lecture is the way in which collective memory and memorialization... | Read on »