Hosted by The NUI Galway MA in Culture and Colonialism and the Moore Institute and Discussion lead by James Mcdermott Senior Member of the U.S. house of representatives. Jim McDermott is a Senior Member of the U.S. House of Representatives with over 40 years of public service in the federal and state government. As a Democratic Member... | Read on »

A panel discussion and response by Prof. Margaret Kelleher Speakers: Conor Hanley, Niall Ó Ciosáin, Ciarán Ó Cofaigh, Anne O’Connor, John Walsh & Mary Harris (chair)

            by Prof. Scott Kirsch University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill  Abstract While for centuries technology referred to a systematic study of the ‘practical arts’ – typically in the form of a book or technical manual – the term’s usage has expanded so dramatically that today we think nothing of the... | Read on »

This talk will be given by Moore Visiting Fellow Dr Dieter Reinisch (University of Vienna/Webster University) as part of the ’Violence, Space and the Archives’ conference. Full conference programme and further details available at https://ghussey3.wixsite.com/violencespacearchive   Image: Harvey/McCaughey/Smith Cumann Sinn Féin minute book, Portlaoise Prison, July 1982-January 1983         

A talk by Moore Visiting Fellow Jaime Goodrich Abstract:  This talk will offer an introduction to the rare books owned by the Galway Poor Clares, who recently reacquired several dozen volumes lent to the Franciscan House of Studies in Killiney during the 1970s.  In addition to providing an overview of the current collection’s scope and... | Read on »

This talk will be given by Moore Visiting Fellow Dr Sanjin  Uležić (Centre on Social Movement Studies (Cosmos), Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence),as part of the ’Violence, Space and the Archives’ conference. Full conference programme and further details available at  https://ghussey3.wixsite.com/violencespacearchive

                    10.00 am Screening Odd Man Out (1947) will take place in The Houston school of Film and Digital Media NUIG 1.00–2.30 pm Chair Niall Ó Dochartaigh, National University of Ireland, Galway Romancing ‘the Organisation’ Odd Man Out and Contemporary Discourses on the IRA John Ó Néill, Treason Felony... | Read on »

  Dr Federica Scicolone (King’s College London) Moore Visiting Fellow 2019 This talk will consider a widespread motif in archaic Greek poetry, the so-called ‘contest of wisdom’ between wise men, usually bards or poets (e.g. Calchas and Mopsus in fr. 278 M-W; the Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi), in relation to the Hellenistic and later practice... | Read on »

Talk By Dr Jyoti Atwal Moore Visiting Fellow 2019                 Atwal suggests that India and Ireland were both trying to identify symbols to create a national ideal in late nineteenth century. Theatre and music provided a fertile ground for this purpose. Through the Dublin life of James Cousins,... | Read on »

Abstract Humiliation is a definitive but, within the discipline of philosophy, under-theorized harm of sexual violence against women. This talk draws upon the late work of Michel Foucault in order to provide an account of sexual humiliation resulting from sexual violence, as well as to posit ways in which sexual violence and sexual humiliation might be effectively... | Read on »