The Art of TravelEarly modern theory, advice and critique9-10 October 2009Seminar Room 203Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social SciencesNational University of Ireland, GalwayThis international conference will discuss the importance of early modern advice on travel known as the ars apodemica (art of travel). Essays, letters, treatises and orations abounded on this subject... | Read on »

'Jack Yeats and the Archive'

Professor Terry Eagleton Seminar entitled Cultural Modernism 2 will take place in the Moore Institute seminar room on Monday 19th October (203) at 4.00pm

Professor Terry Eagleton will be available all day for individual consultations with graduate students/junior faculty about their work. Appointments may be arranged through Marie Kennedy ext 3902 or email marie.kennedy@nuigalway.ie.

Robert O'Neill (Boston College),'The Burns Library: Collections and Digital Projects'

Professor Terry Eagleton Seminar entitled Cultural Modernism 3 will take place in the Moore Institute seminar room on Wednesday 21st October (203) at 4.00pm

Paul Crowther (NUIG) - 'The Visual Sublime; It's Structure and Emergence'

Josie Dixon (Publishing Consultant), Publishing Workshop (details for advance registration and participation will be posted shortly)9.30-11.00Public lecture and discussion'Academic Publishing in the 21st Century: Markets and Technology, Survival and Change'Debates about the future of scholarly publishing are not a new phenomenon, and the research monograph in the humanities and social sciences has long been a... | Read on »

This is advance notice of a conference to be held at the National University of Ireland, Galway from 6-7 November 2009 on the reception in Ireland of the plays of Henrik Ibsen and Anton Chekhov. Its aim is to contextualise contemporary adaptations and translations of works by Ibsen and Chekhov within the history of Irish... | Read on »