Francesco Ricatti Cassamarca Senior Lecturer, University of the Sunshine Coast Dealing with the (un)familiar: Italians' uncanny perceptions of otherness, in Italy and abroad It has often been argued, in academic studies as well as in media and public discourse, that Italian hostility towards immigrants is largely due to a sort of amnesia about Italy's past... | Read on »

TCC Seminar Series Dr. Shahidha Bari , Lecturer in Romanticism at Queen Mary University of London Objects, Interiors and Authority: Rethinking the Arabian Nights in English Venue: The Moore Institute March 27th at 16:00

28 March RÌ_isÌ_n Healy ‰Û÷The Misery Index': Irish vs. Polish Peasants in the Nineteenth Century

EnglishGRADUATE RESEARCH DAY 9.45am-11.00 chair: Dr Rebecca Barr Rosemary Gallagher ‰Û÷All this happened, more or less': the auto-biographicality of humour in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle and Sirens of Titan Rebecca Downes Rehabilitating the Real: J.M. Coetzee's Aesthetics of Finitude CiarÌÁn Dowd ‰Û÷Not chaos itself lay outside of that matrix': Deterministic Chaos in Cormac McCarthy's... | Read on »

Proposed Dates (tentative): March 30-31st 2012Description of Workshop According to the Romans, the most western point of land in North Western Spain represented Finisterre (Fisterra), the end of the known world. The region of Galicia shares many cultural and historical features with Ireland. In March 2012, academics, translators, poets and musicians from NUI, Galway and... | Read on »

To mark the end of the semester, the MA in Drama and Theatre Studies and BA Connect in Theatre and Performance programmes are hosting a special event entitled NEW APPROACHES TO DRAMA STUDIES SPEAKERS: Professor Nicholas Grene (Trinity College Dublin) Professor Steve Wilmer (Trinity College Dublin) Dr Hugh Denard (King's College London) ROOM AM110, Arts... | Read on »

Hakluyt Workshop NUI Galway For editors of volumes 1-4 of the critical edition of Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations (1598-1600), 14 vols, under contract to Oxford University Press. General editors: Daniel Carey and Claire Jowitt Supported by the Research Support Fund, NUI Galway Venue: Moore Institute seminar room Friday 13 April 2012 9.15 Welcome and... | Read on »