Key in the history of cinema, the ageing star is a figure of media obsolescence that carries the memory of a bygone era of filmmaking, awakening in the viewer... | Read on »
Dr Cristina Bon (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan). ‘The President Matters’: John Janney and the Virginia Secession Convention (February-April 1861).
Italian School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures Talk by Charles Burdett, University of Durham Working from recent theoretical writing on time and the concept of the spectral, the paper... | Read on »
The term ‘Classical’ connotes so many things as to be useless. ‘Neoclassical’ is valid for a particular era. ‘Classic’ (minus the suffix -al) may denote various items. ‘Tradition’ and like... | Read on »
Martin Hurcombe is Professor of French Studies at the University of Bristol, UK, and a specialist of early twentieth-century French political culture, history and literature. His PhD examined the... | Read on »
Dr Federico Ugolini – Visiting Research Fellow ‘Visualising maritime cityscapes’ explains how and why Greek and Romans represented so frequently the sea and the marine infrastructures within their artworks.... | Read on »
Jim Reid (NUI Galway) Munster as a frontier of the Roman Empire in the 5th-6th centuries.
The Politics of Piety: Ritual Communities and Social Cohesion in Merovingian Gaul, 450-750
Financial Management in a World without Banks! The Case of Jonathan Swift A seminar on inter-personal lending and borrowing in early eighteenth-century Ireland.
