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 »

  This talk will be given by Moore Visiting Fellow Dr Agnès Lafont (University Paul Valery – Montpellier 3, France) Abstract: William Barksted in Myrrha, The Mother of Adonis: Or, Lustes Prodigie (1607) uses  the classical story of Myrrha (Ovid, Metamorphoses 10) in similar and divergent ways to create an erotic epyllion. This early modern adaptation of the Ovidian story offers a case point of... | Read on »

        Talk by Helen Sonner Moore visiting  Fellow 2019 William Petty is well known for conducting the Down Survey and for his contributions to the development of statistics, demographics, and economics. However, his methods in the Down Survey can also be seen to have anticipated many of the methodologies used today in... | Read on »

      The Sophia Network Meeting will take place in Galway at the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) on the 1st and 2nd of June, and as a bonus, the NUIG invites delegates to a P4C Symposium on the 31st of May. The SOPHIA Network Meeting this year is being co-hosted by Philosophy, NUI Galway Philosophical Dialogue Project – NUI Galway, Little Rainbow... | Read on »

      The Whitaker Institute for Innovation and Societal Change on Thursday, 6th June will host its fourth annual PhD Forum in the Hardiman Research Building at NUI Galway. The Forum is a one-day event for PhD students, which aims to provide students with a day to interact and network with each other, to... | Read on »

  Dr Charlotte McIvor (Drama and Theatre Studies), Dr. Pádraig Mac Neela, Dr Siobhán O’Higgins &  Kate Dawson (School of Psychology)   Abstract This talk theorises the signature approach of the Active Consent programme team comprised of researchers from Psychology, Health Promotion, and Drama and Theatre Studies in relationship to the current policy and educational... | Read on »

    Talk by Moore Visiting Fellow Bridget English Bio: Dr. Bridget English is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She received her PhD in English from Maynooth University in Ireland, where she also lectured. She is a specialist in modern and contemporary Irish literature and culture, with particular research interests... | Read on »