Moore Institute

e-Publishing for Postgrads
2010-05-04 10:00 (Europe/Dublin)
The Moore Institute, in co-ordination with the Vice Dean for Graduate Studies and the Vice Dean for Research of the College of Arts, Social Sciences & Celtic Studies, would like to invite you and your PhD students to a seminar entitled ‰Û÷e-Publishing for Postgrads’.
Postgraduate students often find little guidance in getting their work published which is necessary to establish their reputation and even less guidance in using digital tools to disseminate their work beyond traditional publishers. This seminar will discuss changes taking place in the system of scholarly communication and give advice for creating scholarship that transcends traditional models of print publishing.
he seminar will be given by Kevin Hawkins, Visiting Metadata Manager with the Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO) at the Royal Irish Academy. Kevin is Electronic Publishing Librarian at the University of Michigan.
Places to attend the seminar are limited and must be booked by this coming Friday, April 30. To do so, please email marie.kennedy@nuigalway.ie with ‰Û÷e-Publishing’ in the subject line.
Seminar Details:
Title: ‰Û÷e-Publishing for Postgrads’
Presenter: Kevin Hawkins
Date: Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Time: 10am – 12:30pm
Location: Moore Institute Seminar Room, Room 203

Culture and Politics in Ireland and the British Empire
2010-05-14 09:00
Culture and Politics in
Ireland and the British Empire
A one-day workshop – part of the Texts, Contexts, Cultures research programme
Supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Moore Institute Seminar Room, NUI, Galway
Friday 14 May 2010, 9.30am – 6pm
9.30am-11am – Session 1 – Chair: Prof. GearÌ_id ÌÒ Tuathaigh (NUI, G)
Dr Philip Ollerenshaw (University of the West of England) – ‰Û÷Politics and Conflict in Northern Ireland, 1935-50′
Ian Kenneally (NUI,G) – ‘Truce to Treaty: Irish journalists and the peace process of 1920-21’
Tea/Coffee
11.15am-1.15pm – Session 2 – Chair: Prof. Nicholas Allen (NUI, G)
John Towler (GMIT) – ‰Û÷Mapping Galway’s mid-Seventeenth-Century Settlement Morphology’
Dr Donal Lowry (Oxford Brookes University) – ‰Û÷Irish Catholics in the British Empire’
Patricia Bergin (NUI,G) – ‰Û÷Education and the Open Competitive Examination System: Irish Civil Servants in India, 1855-1914′
Lunch
2.15pm-3.45pm – Session 3 – Chair: Dr. Mary Harris (NUI, G)
Philip Legg (University of the West of England) – ‰Û÷The Land War in King’s County, 1879-1882′
å_å_å_å_å_å_å_å_å_å_å_James O’Donnell (NUI,G) – ‰Û÷”A brave and valiant nation combating against a power by whose heel she herself has been crushed”: Irish news gathering and editorial comment on the South African War (1899-1902) – a case study of Co. Clare newspapers.’
Tea/Coffee
4-6pm – Session 4 – Chair: Dr Mark McCarthy (GMIT)
Dr Jeff Dann (NUI,G) – ‰Û÷Sport and Hegemony in the British Empire’
Dr Kent Fedorowich (University of the West of England) – ‰Û÷Family Matters? The Dominion High Commissioners in Wartime Britain, 1938-42′
Alan Lyons (NUI,G) – ‰Û÷Foreign Office attitudes towards the Arabs of Palestine’
Further Information: Dr. Simon J. Potter (NUIG) simon.potter@nuigalway.ie

'ADAPTATION' by Professor Colin MacCabe (University of Pittsburgh)
2010-05-27 17:00
Professor Colin MacCabe (University of Pittsburgh)
‘ADAPTATION’
Lecture in association with the Huston School of Film & Digital Media, and the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities & Social Studies
5pm, Thursday 27th May 2010, Moore Institute Seminar Room (203)
Colin MacCabe is distinguished professor of English and Film at the University of Pittsburgh and professor of English and Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London. MacCabe was educated at St Benedict’s School and the University of Cambridge where he began his academic career. A Board member of Screen magazine in the 1970s, he helped to introduce film theory into English. He was Head of Production at the British Film Institute Production Board before producing film and television independent company, Minerva Pictures. He taught English at the University of Pittsburgh. Since 2002 he has returned to full-time academic work and followed his seminal book on Joyce, with publications on Godard, T.S. Eliot and Neil Jordan’s adaptation of Patrick McCabe’s novel The Butcher Boy.
All welcome. For more information please contact mooreinstitute@nuigalway.ie 091-493906

Shakespeare, Performance and Ireland
2010-05-29 09:30
Shakespeare, Performance and Ireland
Research Seminar in association with the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway, and the Druid Theatre Company
Supported by the Irish Research Council in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Saturday 29th May, 2010
9.30-10am Registration and Welcome
10-11am Dr Stephen O’Neill (NUI Maynooth): ‘Celtic Shakespeare? Or, what has happened to Shakespeare’s ‰Û÷English’ histories?’
11-11.30am Coffee
11.30am-12.30pm Dr Deana Rankin (Royal Holloway, University of London): ‰Û÷Short-winded accents of new broils’: voicing the archipelago in Shakespeare’s Henriad’
12.30-1.30pm Lunch
1.30-2.30pm Professor Nicholas Grene (TCD): ‰Û÷Shakespeare, our Irish contemporary?’
2.30-3pm Coffee
3-5pm Roundtable discussion with the Druid Theatre Company
The seminar will take place in the Moore Institute Seminar Room (203), National University of Ireland, Galway
For more information please contact Dr Patrick Lonergan patrick.lonergan@nuigalway.ie or Professor Nicholas Allen nicholas.allen@nuigalway.ie
For free registration in advance please contact mooreinstitute@nuigalway.ie
091-493906

'Emerging Philippine Studies, 1821-91: The Work of Jos̩ Felipe Del-Pan'
2010-06-01 14:00
Dr. Lino Dizon, Tarlac State University (the Philippines) and Fulbright Fellow, UC Berkeley:
‰Û÷Emerging Philippine Studies, 1821-91: The Work of Jos̩ Felipe Del-Pan’
Moore Institute Seminar Room

Europe and India in the Early Modern Period
2010-06-03 13:15
Europe and India in the Early Modern Period International Conference,
3-4 June 2010, Newman House UCD & Old Library TCD
Organized by Daniel Carey, Derval Conroy and Jane Conroy
Conference organized with the support of:
The Early Modern Research Strand, University College, Dublin
Texts Contexts and Cultures, NUI, Galway
The Library, Trinity College, Dublin
The Andrew W. Mellon FoundationSociety for Renaissance Studies
Programme
Thursday 3 June, Newman House, 85-86, St Stephen’s Green
13.15 Registration in Newman House
14.15 Joan-Pau Rubi̩s (London School of Economics):
‰Û÷Despotism and superstition: changing views of Indian civilization in Europe, 1550-1750′
14.45 Daniel Carey (National University of Ireland, Galway):
‰Û÷John Locke and sati’
15.30 Coffee
16.00 Rui Loureiro, Universidade Nova de Lisboa e Universidade dos A̤ores:
‰Û÷The Indian journeys of a Spanish ambassador: Don GarcÌ_a de Silva y Figuero and his Comentarios
(1614-1624)’
16.30 Dirk van der Cruysse, University of Antwerp:
‰Û÷Barth̩lemy Carr̩’s second itinerary to Persia and India’
17.15 Reception in Newman House
Friday 4 June, Henry Jones Conference Room, Old Library, TCD
9.30 Visit to the exhibition: Nabobs, Soldiers and Imperial Service: the Irish in IndiaThe Old Library, Trinity College with Dr Charles Benson, Keeper of Early Printed Books
10.00 Nandini Das (University of Liverpool):
‰Û÷Elizabeth I and the East India Company’
10.30 Richmond Barbour (Oregon State University):
‰Û÷Corporate praxis and the legacy of privateering: early voyages of the London East India
Company’
11.15 Coffee
11.30 Florence D’Souza (Universit̩ de Lille):
‰Û÷Some European perceptions of Indian trade and multiculturalism in pre-colonial Surat’
12.00 Giorgio Riello (University of Warwick):
‰Û÷Superiority by design? Cotton, technology and aesthetics in Eurasian trade, c. 1600-1800′
12.30 In̬s Zupanov (Ìäcole des Hautes Ìätudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris):
‰Û÷Passage to India: Jesuit spiritual economy between martyrdom and profit’
13.15 Lunch
14.45 Michael Harrigan (Fellow at Marsh’s Library):
‰Û÷Early Modern French Travellers and Histories of India’
15.15 ZoltÌÁn Biedermann (Birkbeck, University of London):
‰Û÷Negotiating India: Portuguese travel and diplomacy in Hindustan, 1498-1550′
15.45 Dejanirah Couto(Ìäcole Pratique des Hautes Ìätudes, Paris):
‰Û÷Informal Portuguese diplomacy of the Estado da India: spies and renegades in Gujarat (1535-
1547)’
16.30 Final discussion

Association of Latin Americanists in Ireland Conference, 2010: 'Interpreting Independence in Latin America'
2010-06-04 09:00
The department of Spanish is holding the Association of Latin Americanists in Ireland Conference, 2010: ‰Û÷Interpreting Independence in Latin America’ on 4th & 5th June, 2010 in the Moore Institute seminar room.
www.latinamericanconference.org
For further information please contact Dr Lorraine Kelly at lorraine.kelly@nuigalway.ie or 091 495927

Imperialism, Theory and Media
2010-06-23 14:00
Imperialism, Theory and Media
Wednesday 23rd June, 2010
Moore Institute Seminar Room
2.30 – 3.30 Talk by Prof Patrick Wolfe, Charles La Trobe Research Fellow, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia,
‰Û÷Imperialism in Theory and Practice’
3.30 – 4.00 Discussion
4.00 – 4.15 Tea/Coffee
4.15 – 5.15 Talk by Prof Cynthia Young, Associate Professor, Boston College ‰Û÷Imperialism and Media
5.15 – 5.45 Discussion
Professor Patrick Wolfe is Charles La Trobe Research Fellow in History at La Trobe University, Australia and author of Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology: The Politics and Poetics of an Ethnographic Event (Cassell, 1999). He has researched, taught, lectured, and written on race, colonialism, Aboriginal histories, the history of anthropology, and genocide in Australia, the United States, Brazil, Palestine, and India. The Organization of American Historians recently appointed him to its Distinguished Lectureship Program. In 2009-2010, he will be a fellow at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University. He is currently working on a transnational history of settler-colonial policies on Native peoples.
Professor Cynthia Young is Director of the African and African Diaspora Studies Program at Boston College. She specializes in literature and culture of the African Diaspora, U.S. popular culture, race and cultural theory, African American and U.S. Ethnic literatures. Her most recent projects are on black British and black American cultural politics and popular culture after 9/11. She is the author of Soul Power: Cultural Radicalism and the Making of a U.S. Third World Left (Durham: Duke University Press).
This event is supported by funding received from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, New York.

Irish Conference of Medievalists
2010-06-25 09:00
The Classics department is holding the Irish Conference of Medievalists beginning on June 25th, 2010. Further information is available at http://www.irishmedievalists.com/ or please contact Dr Jacopo Bisagni, Tower 2, Rm 505. 091-495963 ( jacopo.bisagninuigalway.ie)

3rd International Conference on the science of Computus
2010-07-16 00:00
The third International Conference on the science of Computus takes place on July 16th-18th July, 2010, in the Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Further Information: Prof. DÌÁibhÌ_ ÌÒ CrÌ_inÌ_n, History, NUI, Galway, daibhi.ocroinin@nuigalway.ie ‰ۢ www.foundationsirishculture.gaillimh.eu
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Performing Shakespeare in Ireland, 1660-1922
2010-09-03 13:00
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
Performing Shakespeare in Ireland, 1660-1922
Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway
3-4 September 2010
During the last fifteen years, many valuable studies on the relationship between Shakespeare and Ireland have appeared. These have enhanced and complicated our understanding of the impact of Irish politics on Elizabethan and Jacobean drama in general, and have led to the detailed re-assessment of Shakespeare’s History plays in particular. Simultaneously, we have also seen new work on the impact of Shakespeare on Irish literature after the Revival, with special emphasis on inter-textual references to Shakespeare in the work of Yeats, Joyce, O’Casey, Heaney, and many others. In other words, we now have a good understanding of the relationship between Shakespeare and Ireland, both in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries on the one hand, and in the twentieth century on the other.
The purpose of this conference is to investigate the intervening centuries: to explore and, if appropriate, to retrieve the histories of Shakespearean performance in Ireland from the Restoration to the Revival. It aims to consider the place of Shakespeare in the development of Irish theatre before the foundation of the Abbey, and assesses the importance of Ireland for the development of Shakespearean performance, publishing, and editing internationally during the same period.
The conference will feature discussion of the place of Ireland in Shakespeare’s works, and we will explore a variety of case studies from the period 1660 to 1922 – considering key events, major actors, general trends, and so on. One of the major aims of the conference will be to trace the extent to which Shakespeare’s treatment of Ireland and the Irish had an impact on the performance and reception of his plays after 1660.
The conference will begin at lunchtime on Friday 3 September and will continue through to the evening of Saturday 4 September.
The conference coincides with the Druid Theatre production of Sean O’Casey’s The Silver Tassie, which delegates are warmly encouraged to attend (see www.druid.ie/ for details).
Confirmed speakers include:

Conrad Brunstrom, “Thomas Sheridan’s Coriolanus and Thomas Sheridan as Coriolanus”.
Helen Burke, “‘Bon Ton Theatricals’, Shakespeare, and the Culture Wars in Late 18th Century Ireland”
Richard Foulkes, “The English Bard and Irish Reviewers Shakespeare and Ireland 1864-1916”.
Stephen Kelly, ‘Shakespeare and Politics in Restoration Dublin’
John Kerrigan, ‘”By Chrish Law”: Henry V, Oaths and Ireland’.
Willy Maley, “Othello and the Irish Question”.
Deirdre McFeely, ‘Shakespeare on the Dublin Stage, 1660-1904’
Andrew Murphy, “W. B. Yeats’ Irish Renaissance”
Stephen Watt, “Shakespeare in Fin de Si̬cle Ireland: Ghosts, Celebrities, and The Merchant of Venice”

Respondents: Nicholas Grene and Anthony Roche.
Registration
Registration for the event is free, but places are limited. To register, please send an email to Patrick.Lonergan@nuigalway.ie before 27 August 2010.
This event is funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (www.irchss.ie/)
Conference organising committee: Daniel Carey, Marie-Louise Coolahan, Patrick Lonergan, Deirdre McFeely.

Edward Collins, 'Assessing the Ascendancy of Spanish Nautical Science'
2010-09-15 16:00
HISTORY GRADUATE RESEARCH SEMINARS 2010/11
Edward Collins, ‘Assessing the Ascendancy of Spanish Nautical Science’

Sander Westerhout, 'Character-Recognition Analysis of Medieval Irish Inscriptions'
2010-09-22 16:00
HISTORY GRADUATE RESEARCH SEMINARS 2010/11
Sander Westerhout
‘Character-Recognition Analysis of Medieval Irish Inscriptions’

(Post) Imperial Cultures
2010-09-25 10:30
(Post) Imperial Cultures
Symposium at the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway, in association with the English Department and Texts, Contexts, Cultures

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Saturday 25th September 2010

(Post) Imperial Cultures is a one day symposium designed to discuss questions of aesthetics and representation in context of contemporary theory of empire and the transnational. The symposium will include a panel and roundtable discussion on (post) imperial cultures, with contributions from Terence Brown (Trinity College Dublin), Moynagh Sullivan (National University of Ireland, Maynooth), and others. Areas to be considered include the relationship of culture to representation during and after empire; poetry and the transnational; modernism and the global.
Keynote Lectures
Jahan Ramazani (University of Virginia), ‘Transnationalizing Poetics’
Joe Cleary (National University of Ireland, Maynooth), ‘England’s Difficulty: Modernism, Imperialism and the Literary World System, 1890-1940’
For further details and a schedule of events please see http://www.nuigalway.ie/mooreinstitute
To register for this free symposium please email Marie Kennedy marie.kennedy@nuigalway.ie
(Post) Imperial Cultures
Symposium at the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway, in association with the English Department and Texts, Contexts, Cultures
Saturday 25th September 2010
10.30-11am
Coffee and welcome
11am-12pm
Joe Cleary (National University of Ireland, Maynooth), ‘England’s Difficulty: Modernism, Imperialism and the Literary World System, 1890-1940’
12-1pm
Panel on (Post) Imperial Cultures including Moynagh Sullivan 9national University of Ireland, Maynooth), Nicholas Allen (National University of Ireland, Galway) and Terence Brown (Trinity College Dublin)
1-2pm
Lunch
2-3pm
Jahan Ramazani (University of Virginia), ‘Transnationalizing Poetics’
3-4pm
Roundtable discussion including graduate students and close

Dr. Campbell Jones 'What kind of person is the market?'
2010-09-28 16:00
Dr. Campbell Jones, University of Leicester
‘What kind of person is the market?’
We are today surrounded with talk about the market, about what it is doing and its consequences for us. More strangely, it is often said that the market itself can speak, that it can say things to us, it can ‰Û÷respond’ to our actions, that it is sending us messages about what we ought to do. On 7 May 2010, the London International Financial Futures Exchange (LIFFE) opened at 1.00am for a special session so the markets could respond to the news of the UK election the day before.
Such phenomena are, I will suggest, both philosophically puzzling and of considerable political import. They raise perhaps obvious questions about democratic process, but beyond this raise all manner of issues regarding the hearing of voices and the psychopathologies of auditory hallucination, the question of who it is that is doing this speaking, and the continuation of theological motifs appear here in the form of the will and voice of the market.
Set within this broader frame of a concern with the idea that the market could speak, this talk will focus on the specific dimension of the personification of the market. If the market is a kind of person – who can will, respond, even speak – then we need to ask what kind of person it is. This will require consideration of the forms of appearance of the market and the nature of personhood, which might help us grasp some of the stakes of investing something like the market with the capacities of a person.
Campbell Jones, University of Leicester, UK, is author of a number of works at the intersection of philosophy and political economy. His most recent book is Unmasking the Entrepreneur (2009, Edward Elgar, with Andr̩ Spicer), and his most recent paper is ‰Û÷The subject supposed to recycle’ (Philosophy Today, 2010, 54(1): 30-39). He is currently writing a book called Can the Market Speak? for Zero Books.

Ireland and Biafra
2010-09-30 11:00
‰Û÷Ireland and Biafra’
at
The Moore Institute Seminar Room (AC203), NUI Galway.
Thursday 30th September
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11.00am Coffee
11.30am Welcome and Introduction: Ireland and Biafra
Dr Fiona Bateman, Moore Institute, NUI Galway
12.30pm Lunch
2.00pm Prelude to the War
Prof Godfrey Uzoigwe, Mississippi State University
3.15pm Coffee
3.30pm Panel Session: Spreading the message about Biafra – missionaries and the media.
Including Mr Ciaran Carty, Mr Michael Foley and Fr Padraig ÌÒ MÌÁille
5.30pm ‰Û÷Night Flight to Uli’ (1968) A screening of the
Radharc documentary.
Presented by Fr Dermod McCarthy in the Huston Film School, NUI Galway.
Friday 1st October
9.30am The Irish response – Africa Concern
Dr Kevin O’Sullivan UCD with John and Kay
O’Loughlin Kennedy, Concern
10.45am Coffee
11.00am The Experiences of a Biafran refugee in the Ivory Coast and Ireland
Dr Philip Effiong, University of Maryland
12.30pm Lunch
2.00pm Mourning Biafra
Prof Michael Echeruo, Syracuse University.
3.30pm Coffee
3.45pm Round table panel discussion – Biafra: Experiences and memories, policy and practice.
Including Dr Noel Dorr, Fr John Wilson, Dr Dom Colbert et al
5.15pm Closing remarks
This conference is funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation as part of the Texts Contexts Cultures Project at the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Dr. Brian Jackson, 'A text in context: Henry Fitzsimon's 'Revelation' and Varieties of Uniformity within Counter-Reformation Catholicism'
2010-10-05 16:00
Dr Brian Jackson, University College Dublin
‘A text in context: Henry Fitzsimon’s ‰Û÷Revelation’ and Varieties of Uniformity within Counter-Reformation Catholicism’

Terry Dunne, 'Class Conflict in the Leinster Colliery District, 1826-34'
2010-10-06 16:00
HISTORY GRADUATE RESEARCH SEMINARS 2010/11
Terry Dunne
‘Class Conflict in the Leinster Colliery District, 1826-34’

Scientific instructions for travellers
2010-10-08 09:00
Scientific instructions for travellers
International conference
8-9 October 2010
Moore Institute Seminar Room (203)
The development of inquiries, questionnaires, and directions for scientific travellers proliferated in the early modern period, ranging from the chorographers surveying particular places in Europe, to the Royal Society’s queries for destinations around the world. The growth in this practice in eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and into the era of professional anthropology is remarkable. This conference explores the traditions and preoccupations behind this practice in a series of contexts and traditions. With participants from Italy, Germany, Switzerland, America, Argentina, Britain, and Ireland, the conference will address different national and disciplinary traditions, including the contribution of chorography; directions for collecting the natural world; the institutional role of the Consejo de Indias; instructions for geologists and anthropologists; the development of fieldwork practices; and instructions for specific expeditions to Australia, Kamchatka, and elsewhere. Among the figures discussed will be Sebastian MÌ_nster, William Petty, John Locke, Edward Lhuyd, Fran̤ois Bernier, and J.M. de G̩rando.
The conference is supported by generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (http://www.mellon.org).
Conference program
Friday October 8th
9.30 Session 1: Networks of Exchange
Matthew McLean (University of St. Andrews)
Remapping Early Confessional Europe: Humanist Collaborative Method and the Making of MÌ_nster’s Cosmography
Fr̩d̩ric Tinguely (University of Geneva)
Regulating Free Thought ? Chapelain’s Instructions to Fran̤ois Bernier (1661)
11.15 Session 2: Natural History & Seventeenth-Century Method
Daniel Carey (NUI Galway)
John Locke, the Royal Society and travel instructions
Ted McCormick (Concordia University)
Population Questions and the Scale of Salubrity
14.15 Session 3: Chorography and Antiquarianism
Adam Fox (University of Edinburgh)
Printed Questionnaires and the Discovery of Britain and Ireland, 1650-1700
Nancy Edwards (Bangor University)
Edward Lhuyd’s ‘Great Tour’ (1697-1701) and the ‘Archaeologia Britannica’
16.00 Session 4: Philosophy & Method in Nineteenth-Century Travel
Efram Sera Shriar (University of Leeds)
How to be a ‘Philosophical Traveller’: De G̩rando’s ‘Methods to Follow’, and the Baudin Expedition 1799-1803
Charles Withers (University of Edinburgh)
Questions of method and practice in guides to travellers,c.1839-c.1849
Saturday October 9th
09.15 Session 5: Observing and Collecting the Physical World
Dominik Collet (University of G̦ttingen)
Doing science at a distance. Global collecting in early museums
Marcelo Figueroa (National University of TucumÌÁn, CONICET)
Spanish questionnaires: Instructions and Travel Advice on Collecting Natural Objects (18th Century)
Ezio Vaccari (University of Insubria)
Making geology in the field: the role of scientific instructions in the 19th century
11.30 Session 6: Ethnography and Travel Practice
Gudrun Bucher (University of G̦ttingen)
“De Historia Gentium” – The Instructions of Gerhard Friedrich MÌ_ller for the Second Kamchatka Expedition (1733-1743)
Henrika Kuklick (University of Pennsylvania)
Personal Equations: Peculiarities of Fieldwork Method
For any queries or further information, please contact Gabor Gelleri at gabor.gelleri@nuigalway.ie

Professor Lee Morrissey, 'The Constitution of Literature: Toward a New History of English Literary Criticism'
2010-10-12 16:00
Professor Lee Morrissey, Fulbright Fellow in English
‘The Constitution of Literature: Toward a New History of English Literary Criticism’

Doireann Dennehy, '1031 And All That: A Year to Remember in Clonmacnois'
2010-10-13 16:00
HISTORY GRADUATE RESEARCH SEMINARS 2010/11
Doireann Dennehy
‘1031 And All That: A Year to Remember in Clonmacnois’

Dr Matthew Campbell (University of Sheffield), '"Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves": Hopkins, Yeats, Parnell and the Unravelling of Empire'
2010-10-19 16:00
Dr Matthew Campbell (University of Sheffield)
‘”Spelt from Sibyl’s Leaves”: Hopkins, Yeats, Parnell and the Unravelling of Empire’

John Burke, 'The Challenge of Political Organisation in Athlone, 1901-22'
2010-10-20 16:00
HISTORY GRADUATE RESEARCH SEMINARS 2010/11
John Burke
‘The Challenge of Political Organisation in Athlone, 1901-22’

Prof. Lorna Hardwick, 'Translating Greek and Roman texts today: transmission, transgression and transformation'
2010-10-26 16:00
Prof. Lorna Hardwick,
‘Translating Greek and Roman texts today: transmission, transgression and transformation’

Paul McNamara, 'Stalinist Dictatorship in Poland, 1946-53: The Case of Pomerania'
2010-10-27 16:00
HISTORY GRADUATE RESEARCH SEMINARS 2010/11
Paul McNamara
‘Stalinist Dictatorship in Poland, 1946-53: The Case of Pomerania’

Dr. Jerome de Groot, 'Popular history and nationalism'
2010-11-02 16:00
Dr. Jerome de Groot, Manchester University
‘Popular history and nationalism’

Lorna Moloney, 'The Gaelic Lordships in Thomond, c. 1400-c.1500'
2010-11-03 16:00
HISTORY GRADUATE RESEARCH SEMINARS 2010/11
Lorna Moloney
‘The Gaelic Lordships in Thomond, c. 1400-c.1500’

Prof. John Horgan, 'Journalism, Regulation and Law'
2010-11-09 16:00
Prof. John Horgan, Press Ombudsman
‘Journalism, Regulation and Law’
Biographical Details Professor John Horgan:
Born Tralee, Co. Kerry, 26 October 1940. Education: St Gerard’s, Bray, Co Wicklow; Glenstal Abbey, Murroe, Co. Limerick; University College, Dublin; University College, Cork (BA 1962, PhD 1997); The Law Society, Dublin. Employment: Evening Press (1962), Catholic Herald (1962-63), Irish Times (1963-1976). Editor, Education Times (1973-76). Member, Seanad Eireann, 1969-77; DÌÁil Eireann, 1977-81; European Parliament 1982-83. Dublin City University, 1983-2006. Member of: Interim Radio Commission (1985-87), Commission on the Newspaper Industry (1995-96), Forum on Broadcasting (2002). Fellow, Center for International Relations, Harvard University (1987-88). Jean Monnet Research Professor, European University Institute, Florence (2002). Appointed Press Ombudsman by the Press Council of Ireland (2007).
Research Interests:
Journalism, Media, Media History, Media Ethics, Political Economy of Media; 20th Century Irish History and Biography.

Meabh Ni Fhuarthain, 'Articulating a Vision of Revival: Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann, 1951-1972'
2010-11-10 16:00
HISTORY GRADUATE RESEARCH SEMINARS 2010/11
M̩abh NÌ_ FhuarthÌÁin
‘Articulating a Vision of Revival: Comhaltas CeoltÌ_irÌ_ Ìäireann, 1951-1972’

Imbas 2010 Conference
2010-11-12 13:00
Imbas 2010 Conference
Imbas 2010 will be taking place in the Moore Institute Seminar Room the weekend of November 12-14th, beginning at lunch time on Friday. It is an interdisciplinary postgraduate medieval conference, run by NUI Galway postgraduates for postgraduates. This year’s theme is Representations: image, word, artefact, and the conference has attracted speakers from many different universities in the UK, the USA, Italy, Hungary and Ireland. Our keynote speaker will be Professor Michelle P. Brown, of the School of Advanced Studies at the University of London.
Our website is http://medieval.starlight.ie/cms/view/63, and we can be contacted at imbasnuig@gmail.com.
