The Classics department is holding the Irish Conference of Medievalists beginning on June 25th, 2010. Further information is available at http://www.irishmedievalists.com/ or please contact Dr Jacopo Bisagni, Tower 2, Rm 505. 091-495963 ( jacopo.bisagninuigalway.ie)

The third International Conference on the science of Computus takes place on July 16th-18th July, 2010, in the Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway.Further Information: Prof. DÌÁibhÌ_ ÌÒ CrÌ_inÌ_n, History, NUI, Galway, daibhi.ocroinin@nuigalway.ie ‰ۢ www.foundationsirishculture.gaillimh.eu"Conference Poster" "Conference Programme"

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTPerforming Shakespeare in Ireland, 1660-1922Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway3-4 September 2010During the last fifteen years, many valuable studies on the relationship between Shakespeare and Ireland have appeared. These have enhanced and complicated our understanding of the impact of Irish politics on Elizabethan and Jacobean drama in general, and have led to the... | Read on »

HISTORY GRADUATE RESEARCH SEMINARS 2010/11Edward Collins, 'Assessing the Ascendancy of Spanish Nautical Science'

HISTORY GRADUATE RESEARCH SEMINARS 2010/11Sander Westerhout'Character-Recognition Analysis of Medieval Irish Inscriptions'

(Post) Imperial CulturesSymposium at the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway, in association with the English Department and Texts, Contexts, Cultures"Download full size poster"Saturday 25th September 2010(Post) Imperial Cultures is a one day symposium designed to discuss questions of aesthetics and representation in context of contemporary... | Read on »

Dr. Campbell Jones, University of Leicester'What kind of person is the market?'We are today surrounded with talk about the market, about what it is doing and its consequences for us. More strangely, it is often said that the market itself can speak, that it can say things to us, it can ‰Û÷respond' to our actions,... | Read on »

‰Û÷Ireland and Biafra'atThe Moore Institute Seminar Room (AC203), NUI Galway.Thursday 30th September"Download full poster"11.00am Coffee11.30am Welcome and Introduction: Ireland and BiafraDr Fiona Bateman, Moore Institute, NUI Galway12.30pm Lunch2.00pm Prelude to the WarProf Godfrey Uzoigwe, Mississippi State University3.15pm Coffee3.30pm Panel Session: Spreading the message about Biafra - missionaries and the media.Including Mr Ciaran Carty, Mr Michael... | Read on »

Dr Brian Jackson, University College Dublin'A text in context: Henry Fitzsimon's ‰Û÷Revelation' and Varieties of Uniformity within Counter-Reformation Catholicism'

HISTORY GRADUATE RESEARCH SEMINARS 2010/11Terry Dunne'Class Conflict in the Leinster Colliery District, 1826-34'