The key practical question buried in the title of my Moore Fellowship project is: reafforestation. An explanation of the context of this study is necessary. The challenge, though, is methodological.... | Read on »
This talk examines representations of slave women, focusing especially on representations of breasts and breastfeeding, in order to read fully the tensions and contradictions between economics, ‘race’, sexuality and maternity in plantation slavery. The sources reveal the impossible position of the female slave who is at once a mother and a commodity to be... | Read on »
Recent scholarship has recognized that contributions to the European Enlightenment came from figures beyond the small collection of radical French philosophes traditionally identified as its architects. In an investigation of the life and career of the French Jesuit and classical scholar Jean Hardouin, Daniel Watkins will speak about the “Catholic Enlightenment” and the reasons that... | Read on »
Musical instruments abound in medieval iconography and literature, so much so that modern craftsmen were able to build replicas of medieval instruments working from images and texts. But did medieval artists and writers always intend to depict or describe real instruments? In this colloquium, five speakers will explore a number of medieval iconographic and textual... | Read on »
Open Rehearsal Come Dance With Me in Ireland: A Pilgrimage to Yeats Country Featuring Patrick Ball, Celtic Harp A new play with music by Moore Institute fellows Patrick Ball and Peter Glazer in the O'Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance 24th of May (Thursday) at 12pm. Please join us for an open rehearsal of... | Read on »
Olivier Szerwiniack talk is part of Dr.Jacopo Bisagni event: ‘On the ten-stringed psaltery’: musical instruments as symbols in the Middle Ages. Olivier Szerwiniack will talk about the textual problems of the short letter known as Epistula ad Dardanum de diversis generibus musicorum (Letter to Dardanus about different kinds of musical instruments).
The Welfare Histories Reading Group provides a forum for staff and postgraduate students to discuss ideas of poverty, development, and ‘improvement’ in a global historical context. Our interests are very diverse, and we would very much welcome the involvement of new members from any discipline. Our next meeting is on 29th May, when we will... | Read on »
Drawing on a research collaboration with New Change, an arts collective of young African Australian women in Melbourne’s west, I explore youth voice and resonance in the context of racialised symbolic violence. Through the lens of liberation psychology, this talk will explore how arts and cultural practices, particularly sound, can create disruptions and dialogue.
This semester’s final session of NUI Galway’s research forum for Modernist Studies Ireland, ‘Works in Progress’, takes place on 30 April, 5-6 pm, in the Bridge Room. IRC Postgraduate Scholar Melinda Szűts will be talking about the influence of early modern theatre spaces on the development of Irish stagecraft at the turn of the century,... | Read on »
