'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 »

CAMPS Lab - Dr Jacopo Bisagni, Classics Dept, NUI Galway - 'The newly discovered Irish compustica in the Vatican manuscript Reg.lat.123'

Drama, Theatre and Performance Speaker Series :Lynne Parker, Artistic Director, Rough Magic Theatre

This lecture discusses economics as a compromise ethics suitable to the weakness of human nature, engaging with Gulliver's Travels and other texts by Swift.