History Graduate Research Seminar Series 2011-12: ‘The Misery Index’: Irish vs. Polish Peasants in the Nineteenth Century – RÌ_isin Healy
28 March RÌ_isÌ_n Healy ‰Û÷The Misery Index': Irish vs. Polish Peasants in the Nineteenth Century
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English Graduate Research Day
EnglishGRADUATE RESEARCH DAY 9.45am-11.00 chair: Dr Rebecca Barr Rosemary Gallagher ‰Û÷All this happened, more or less': the auto-biographicality of humour in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle and Sirens of Titan Rebecca Downes Rehabilitating the Real: J.M. Coetzee's Aesthetics of Finitude CiarÌÁn Dowd ‰Û÷Not chaos itself lay outside of that matrix': Deterministic Chaos in Cormac McCarthy's... | Read on »
Moore Institute Workshop 2011-12, The Speckled Ground: Hybridity in Irish and Galician Cultural Production
Proposed Dates (tentative): March 30-31st 2012Description of Workshop According to the Romans, the most western point of land in North Western Spain represented Finisterre (Fisterra), the end of the known world. The region of Galicia shares many cultural and historical features with Ireland. In March 2012, academics, translators, poets and musicians from NUI, Galway and... | Read on »
New Approaches to Drama Studies
To mark the end of the semester, the MA in Drama and Theatre Studies and BA Connect in Theatre and Performance programmes are hosting a special event entitled NEW APPROACHES TO DRAMA STUDIES SPEAKERS: Professor Nicholas Grene (Trinity College Dublin) Professor Steve Wilmer (Trinity College Dublin) Dr Hugh Denard (King's College London) ROOM AM110, Arts... | Read on »
Hakluyt Workshop 13th/14th April
Hakluyt Workshop NUI Galway For editors of volumes 1-4 of the critical edition of Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations (1598-1600), 14 vols, under contract to Oxford University Press. General editors: Daniel Carey and Claire Jowitt Supported by the Research Support Fund, NUI Galway Venue: Moore Institute seminar room Friday 13 April 2012 9.15 Welcome and... | Read on »
Workshop: ‘Beyond the Island: Transnational approaches to research in the humanities’
April 20th and 21st 2012Description of Workshop This interdisciplinary conference brings together scholars of History, Political Science, Law and English to discuss the merits and limitations of transnational and global studies. In recent years, scholars have increasingly recognized the limitations of the nation-state as a framework of analyses and as a result transnational and global... | Read on »
Beyond the Island: Transnational Approaches to History
Beyond the Island: Transnational Approaches to HistoryThe Moore Institute Seminar RoomApril 20th and 21st 2012This interdisciplinary conference brings together scholars of History, Political Science, Law and English to discuss the merits and limitations of transnational and global studies. In recent years, scholars have increasingly recognized the limitations of the nation-state as a framework of analyses... | Read on »