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 »

A Symposium of the Atlantic Archipelagos Research ProjectOver the Irish SeaApril 26th-27th 2012, University College DublinKeynote SpeakersProfessor Margaret Cohen (Stanford University)author of The Novel and the Sea (2010)Sponsored by the Moore Institute, NUI GalwayProfessor Claire Connolly (Cardiff University)author of A Cultural History of the Irish Novel, 1790-1829 (2011)‰Û÷Over the Irish Sea' is a symposium organised... | Read on »

Globalisation, Empire, and Culture Part of the Texts, Contexts, Cultures research programme. Supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 27th April, 2012 Moore Institute Seminar Room Workshop: ‰Û÷Networks and Identities in the Catholic Reformation' Programme 9-10am Alison Forrestal, National University of Ireland, Galway ‰Û÷Exploiting Sources of Patronage in the French Catholic Reformation: Vincent de Paul... | Read on »