Professor Elena Agazzi (Bergamo)Returning home to lost countries and landscapes with ruins: Germany after 1945 seen with today's eyesLecture in EnglishElena Agazzi is Full Professor of German at the University of Bergamo (Italy) and one of the most renowned scholars in German studies in Italy. She is a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation and... | Read on »

Remembering and Unremembering: Liam Mellows, Easter 1916 and County GalwayDr Conor McNamara, Moore Institute 1916 Scholar in Residence, will be giving a public lecture on Wednesday 2nd March at Lackagh Community Centre at 8 PM.The lecture is entitled, Remembering and Unremembering: Liam Mellows and Easter Week 1916 in Galway.

Speaker - Michael Foley (DIT) 'Journalism the last refuge for the middle class boy: the professionalisation of journalism in 19th Century Ireland'. Chaired by Prof Tadhg Foley (NUIG)

'The Enigmatic Aspects of the Hisperica Famina'Prof. Andy Orchard(Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon,Pembroke College, Oxford)The collection of mysterious seventh-century Latin poems known as Hisperica Famina have puzzled-and outraged-readers for decades. They were reviled by the scholar and patriot EÌ_in MacNeill, who memorably called them the ‰Û÷luxuriant culture-fungus of decay', but they were admired by... | Read on »

CAMPS Lab, Prof. Barry Lewis, School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies 'Saints Genealogies in Medieval Wales: A Comparison with the Irish Corpus'

The third event of this series of Digital Scholarship Seminar is co-hosted with the Early Modern Research Seminar, and takes place on Tuesday 8 March at 12pm in Hardiman Building Room 1001. Anders Ingram, who recently completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Moore Institute, will present a paper that brings computational and quantitative methods to... | Read on »

Dr Niamh Whitfield is making her annual visit to NUI Galway (sponsored by MA Medieval Studies and CAMPS). 'Early Irish Metalwork'Tuesday 8th March 3pm - 5pm in Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building.Places are available but must be booked in advance with Dr.Kimberly LoPrete, History. kim.loprete@nuigalway.ie

Dr Niamh Whitfield - Public Lecture'More like the work of fairies than that of human beings'': Filigree from Ireland and Scotland in the early Middle Ages''.

Dr Niamh Whitfield is making her annual visit to NUI Galway (sponsored by MA Medieval Studies and CAMPS).'The Book of Durrow and the'Northumbrian Problem''Thursday 10th March 9am - 11am in Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building.Places are available but must be booked in advance with Dr.Kimberly LoPrete, History. kim.loprete@nuigalway.ie

‰Û÷Crisis, Migration and Performance'Symposium11-12 March 2016For more information or to register,contact crimigper@gmail.com orcharlotte.mcivor@nuigalway.ie.For a full schedule, visithttp://micipnuigalway.weebly.com/crisismigration-and-performance-symposiumschedule.htmlSponsored by Drama and Theatre Studies and the Moore Institute.Keynotes:Emma Cox (Royal Holloway, London)‰Û÷Processional Aesthetics: Performing Irregular Transit in Europe'Alison Jeffers (University of Manchester)‰Û÷Civil listening and hospitable stages: the role of participation in refugee theatre practices'This symposium explores how... | Read on »