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... | Read on »
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... | Read on »
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... | Read on »
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... | Read on »
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... | Read on »
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... | Read on »
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.... | Read on »
This semester’s final session of NUI Galway’s research forum for Modernist Studies Ireland, ‘Works in Progress’, takes place on 30 April, 5-6 pm, in the Bridge Room. IRC Postgraduate Scholar... | Read on »
Narrative forms, play a vital role in human enrichment and development. Through them we acquire a sense not only of our environment, but of our own identity. The recent shift... | Read on »
