Seminar on Poetry and PhilosophyProf William Desmond (KU Leuven and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow)'Poetic porosity and Astonished Prayer: On the Poetics of Sean O'Riordan'Prof Felix ÌÒ Murhcadha (NUIG)' Gerald Manley Hopkins: Nature and Emotion'.Seminar Room GO11, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building.

France-Algeria: Memories and Identities International WorkshopDiscipline of French, School of Languages, Literatures and CulturesNUI, Galway27 May 2016Room: AMB 2070 (Arts Millennium Building)

Discipline of Philosophy, School of Humanities, UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre and School of Sociology and Politics are hosting a Book Launch' Philosophy and Political Engagement: Reflection in the public sphere'.Launched by Prof James Edwin Mahon (CUNY - Lehman).Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building.

THE "IRISH PROTESTANT PLAYWRIGHTS" CONFERENCE1-3 JUNE 2016Moore Institute, NUI Galway, IRELANDFeaturing:-Keynote addresses by Prof. SeÌÁn Kennedy (St. Mary's University, Halifax) and Dr. Emilie Pine (University College Dublin)-Panel papers and roundtable discussions on the great Irish Protestant playwrights, including (among others) George Farquhar, Oliver Goldsmith, R.B. Sheridan, Elizabeth Griffith, Dion Boucicault, Oscar Wilde, Bernard Shaw, J.M.... | Read on »

Moore Institute Visiting Fellow Prof Padraic Kenney (Indiana University, USA) gives a talk entitled ' Farewell to the Transnational: Global History in Theory and Practice'.9th June @4pm Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building.

The next Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society / An Cumann Ìäire San Ocht̼ C̩ad D̩ag Annual Conference will be held in National University of Ireland Galway, 10-11 June 2016. Plenaries will be delivered by Prof. Michael Brown (Aberdeen), Prof. Norma Clark (Kingston), and Dr MeidhbhÌ_n NÌ_ Ì_rdail (UCD).Harvard University Press will also mark the Irish launches of... | Read on »

Prof Alain Dubreucq, Moore Institute Visiting Fellow presents a talk '"The manuscript transmission of the Vita Columbani. Prolegomenes to a new edition"Wednesday 15th June @12.30pm.The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building.

1916 IN GLOBAL CONTEXT:CONNECTIONS AND COMPARISONSConference ProgrammeThursday 16th June -- Friday 17th June 2016Hardiman Research Building, NUI GalwayandNotre Dame Centre, Kylemore Abbey,ConnemaraOrganised by RÌ_isÌ_n Healy, Enrico Dal Lago and GearÌ_id Barry of History, NUI Galway Thursday 16th June: G010, Hardiman Building, Moore Institute, NUI Galway9.00 Registration 9.15 Opening Remarks by Jane Ohlmeyer, Chair of the... | Read on »

Dr. Justin Carville(Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art and Design and Moore Institute)Primitive Faces and Ungovernable Eyes:Racial Photography, Anthropology, and Counter-Visuality in Ireland 11.30 Thursday 16 June'The Bridge' Seminar Room 1001Hardiman Research Building