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 »

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 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 »

Beyond the Island: Transnational Approaches to HistoryThe Moore Institute Seminar RoomApril 20th to 21st, 2011This 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 »

Life after the PhD: a series of conversations with visiting scholars We are pleased to announce the second event of the ‰Û÷Life after the PhD‰۪ seminar series. Claire Culleton, a visiting Moore Institute Fellow, is a Professor of English at Kent State University. She has written three books: Names and Naming in Joyce; Working-Class Culture,... | Read on »

Marianna Fotaki, Reader in health policy and organisation studies.Manchester Business School, University of Manchester.Of women, gender and inequality in academe: Bringing feminism back todispel yet another wicked issue

Gender and Academic Work24th April 2012Venue: NUI Galway Moore Institute Seminar Room1-5pmThe experiences of women in academic work have long been a source of debate.Research over the previous thirty years has shown us that, for example, aspects of workplace culture in higher education organizations effectively constrain women's career advancement. Issues including homophily and related difficulties... | Read on »

The Moore Institute is pleased to promote the following C̼irt event: A highlight of the C̼irt International Festival of Literature this week will be the lecture on this coming Wednesday, April 25 at 1 pm, in the Aula Maxima, by GearÌ_id ÌÒ Tuathaigh, entitled, 'Public History and the professional historian: an Irish perspective.' Prof. ÌÒ... | Read on »