The Moore Institute is pleased to promote a lecture on James Joyce and Galway by Dr. Frank Shovlin of the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool, and incoming Leverhulme Fellow at the Moore Institute during the next academic year. The lecture will take place on Friday, June 1 at 8pm at the Nun‰۪s Island... | Read on »
The Galway American Studies Forum Presents... Destroying the ‰Û÷silver linings': The American media and the Vietnam War, 1968-71 With guest speaker Gavin Wilk, University of Limerick Tuesday, 5th June, 12.30 - 2pm in The Moore Institute Seminar Room Everyone Welcome. Abstract: This paper will demonstrate through relevant examples how the American media, from the 1968... | Read on »
Saturday 16th JuneDescription of Workshop The idea of wisdom is currently attracting renewed attention as a source of innovative ideas and practices for social organisation. This workshop addresses two deficits in the associated debates, accentuating contributions derived from observed ‰Û÷wise‰۪ practices in the West of Ireland. Wisdom is generally regarded as a form of reasoning... | Read on »
History, School of HumanitiesThe Moore Institute Frontier and border regions in early modern Europe 21-22 June 2012 Thursday 21 June (Moore Institute Seminar Room) 09.00 ‰ÛÒ 09.20 Raingard EÌÙer, University of Groningen, the Netherlands; Steven Ellis, National University of Ireland, Galway Introduction 09.20 ‰ÛÒ 10.10 Steven Ellis, National University of Ireland, Galway ‰Û÷Ireland‰۪s ‰ÛÏlost‰ English... | Read on »
RaingardEsser, The Politics of Memory:the Writing of Partition in the seventeenth-century Low Countries (Brill, 2012); Christopher Maginn, William Cecil, Ireland, and the Tudor State (Oxford, 2012)
Colonialism within Europe: Fact or Fancy? Conference at NUI Galway, 22-23 June 2012 Provisional Conference Programme Fri., 22nd June 2012 9.00 Welcome and Opening Remarks 9.15-10.30 Session 1 The Irish Experience Nicholas Canny, Dept. of History, NUI Galway ‰ÛÏWas Ireland a colony? The history of a debate‰ Bogdan Murgescu, Dept. of History, University of Bucharest... | Read on »
You are warmly invited to A Gender ARC Summer Seminar Gender, spirituality, politics and society Hosted by: Gender, Discourse, Identities Cluster of Gender ARC and Global Women's Studies, School of Political Science and Sociology Venue: Moore Institute Seminar Room Date: Wed June 27 Time: 12.00pm-2.00pm PROGRAMME Nikky-Guninder Singh, Crawford Family Professor of Religion, Colby College,... | Read on »
IOMRAMHA / VOYAGES Three Talks on Medieval and Modern Seafaring organized by Prof. MairÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha All in SPEAKERS' CORNER, GLOBAL VILLAGE, the CLADDAGH, GALWAY (enter from Nimmo's Pier or Grattan Road; it may take 5-10 minutes to reach the Speakers' Corner) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday 4 July, 6pm, ‰Û÷Medieval Irish Seafaring: realities and visions' Speaker: Prof.... | Read on »
Thursday, 5 July, 6pm ‰Û÷‰ÛÏA RÌ_ na Foidhne, glac iad ar lÌÁimh‰: ́r mBÌÁid D̼chais agus an tIascach‰‰۪ Cainteoir (i nGaeilge): An Dr CrÌ_ostÌ_ir Mac CÌÁrthaigh, AircÌ_vÌ_ Sinsearach, Cnuasach Bh̩aloideas Ìäireann, UCD. Cathaoirleach: An Dr PÌÁdraig ÌÒ H̩alaÌ_, ScolÌÁire Gaeilge agus B̩aloidis, NUIG. CrÌ_ostÌ_ir Mac CÌÁrthaigh is editor of the magnificent and monumental Traditional Boats... | Read on »
Friday 6 July, 6pm, ‰Û÷Science and the Age of Discovery: Spain, Portugal, and the International Atlantic in the 15th-16th Centuries‰۪ Speaker: Dr Edward Collins, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville/UCD. Chair: Dr Enrico Dal Lago, Historian, NUIG. Edward Collins will present an overview of the scientific aspects of the Portuguese and Spanish discoveries in the fifteenth... | Read on »
