In this talk award-winning poet and practice-led researcher J. R. Carpenter will present her research on an Island of Demons which appeared on maps off Newfoundland in the early 1500s. This research informs her current research at the Moore Institute on the islands of St Brendan... | Read on »
The Gender ARC (Gender, Discourse and Identity) at the Moore Institute presents DR KELLY SULTZBACH, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, LA CROSSE US Fulbright Scholar through the Fulbright Inter-country Program This talk considers how the experience of a muddy, apocalyptic war and the metroland octopus of suburban development influenced the... | Read on »
Iain Biggs, Flight/Paths: (Her bones…) 2018. Cultural Climates is a two-part lecture and public forum which explores how research and policy in relation to climate change can be engaged with across the cultural and arts sectors in Ireland today. In particular, it explores how culture and the arts are key to addressing issues associated... | Read on »
To be launched by Prof. Dáibhí Ó Cróinín. All welcome. (Refreshments will be served.) De Origine Scoticae Linguae (O’Mulconry’s Glossary): An early Irish linguistic tract, edited with a related glossary, Irsan, Corpus Christianorum, Lexica Latina Medii Aevi 7 (Turnhout, Brepols: 2019) A new edition of the earliest etymological... | Read on »
You are welcome to join us at a wine reception for the opening of the Inis Airc art exhibition by Pádraic Reaney. Inis Airc is artist Pádraic Reaney’s response to the changing form of Inishark, an island off the west Galway coast. It uniquely... | Read on »
Unlike most cultural upheavals, Brexit is not the result of accidental tragedy or spontaneous economic turmoil. Rather, Brexit was contrived by politicians, was voted for by citizens, and is now being implemented by bureaucrats. Brexit did not ‘just happen’; it exists because people decided to make it exist. It is therefore hugely influenced by... | Read on »
Modernist Studies Ireland National University of Ireland Galway Plenary Speaker: Dr Ben Levitas, Goldsmiths University of London Opening address: Prof Daniel Carey The inaugural conference of Modernist Studies Ireland, ‘Modernist Legacies and Futures’ seeks to bring together Irish and international scholars to initiate an... | Read on »
The Imbas committee is holding an open research day ahead of the tenth Imbas conference later this year. Imbas is an interdisciplinary postgraduate conference in Medieval Studies at NUI Galway. This event will showcase ongoing research in disciplines related to Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. All welcome
Colonialism, Development, and the Cooperative Movement in Ireland and India Dr Mo Moulton (Lecturer in the History of Race & Empire, University of Birmingham) Manhood, Transcontinental Networks, and the Baha’i Faith Movement in Cameroon Dr Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoué (Assistant Professor of African History, Baylor University) This seminar is... | Read on »
Hosted by The NUI Galway MA in Culture and Colonialism and the Moore Institute and Discussion lead by James Mcdermott Senior Member of the U.S. house of representatives. Jim McDermott is a Senior Member of the U.S. House of Representatives with over 40 years of public service in the federal and state government. As a Democratic Member... | Read on »
