Inaugural Nicholas Canny Lecture @ the Moore Institute, University of Galway David Armitage Blankfein Professor of History (Harvard University) Making England Irish? John Locke and the English Atlantic Empire This distinguished lecture series honours the career and contribution of Professor Nicholas Canny, emeritus chair of history and founding Director of the Moore Institute at the University... | Read on »

BALANCING ACTS ISTR 2023 5-6 May, University of Galway Sponsored by the University of Galway and Irish Theatre Institute in association with Dundalk Institute of Technology Balancing Acts Conference Schedule 5-6 May 2023   Schedule Key PINK: PANEL/PG-ECR Workshop GREEN: BREAK/CATERING YELLOW: KEYNOTE   Conference Team Miriam Haughton, Sarah Hoover, Luke Lamont, Ciara L. Murphy,... | Read on »

Paula Harrison (PhD Researcher, Ancient Classics, University of Galway) will be presenting on ‘When a Quarter is Analogous to Three-quarters: Quadrans in the De Divisionibus Temporum Tract of Laon, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS. 422.’   The Hiberno-Latin tract De divisionibus temporum (‘The divisions of time’) was an elementary work for the study of time reckoning (computus) during the early medieval period. This... | Read on »

A Fulbright Ireland project, Yaqui and Béal: Yoeme and Irish in Conversation is a theatrical exploration of commonalities between Native Americans and Native Irish. Part scripted/part devised, this dramatic piece combines family legends and wisdom from Irish and Yoeme elders, with conceived work that includes audience input. This performance is being composed by theatre-makers from... | Read on »

Please join the School of Education, Nuns Island (room G005, aka “the STC”); 3-4pm on Wed 10th May for the SOE Research Seminar ‘Getting Impact with your Publications’. Associate Professor Sarah Prestridge (https://experts.griffith.edu.au/9530-sarah-prestridge) a visiting scholar with Prof. Tony Hall will present on the talk.

For times and venues see CAMPS Research Labs website: https://www.universityofgalway.ie/camps/labs/

CANCELLED! CAMPS Lab: 'The seven parts of sword-fighting. A linguistic analysis of Leeds, Royal Armouries, I.33’ Jacopo Bisagni (Ancient Classics, University of Galway) will be presenting on ‘The seven parts of sword-fighting. A linguistic analysis of Leeds, Royal Armouries, I.33’.   ‘Unlike most medieval works on the art of combat, which were typically composed in vernacular... | Read on »

A series of talks surveying digital approaches to Humanities research. Co-ordinated by the Moore Institute’s Digital Humanities Research Group (DHRG), with the support of the Moore Institute’s Digital Lab and the Library’s Digital Scholarship and Archives units. Tue 16 May 12pm Introduction to planning and building digital projects David Kelly Enquiries to: padraic.moran@universityofgalway.ie https://mooreinstitute.ie/research-group/digital-humanities/ Register... | Read on »

Translating the Landscape  “Translating the Landscape” is a one-day methodological workshop for early career researchers in the humanities, social studies, and visual arts, taking place on 18 May 2023 at the Burren College of Art’s campus in Ballyvaughan. The workshop is developed as a collaboration between the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and... | Read on »