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The Centre for Antique, Medieval and Pre-Modern Studies (CAMPS) presents ‘3rd Annual Medieval Studies Lecture’ by Joseph.F.Nagy, Prof of Celtic Studies, University of California

The Centre for Antique, Medieval and Pre-Modern Studies (CAMPS) is delighted to announce that this year's Annual Medieval Studies Lecture will be delivered byJoseph F. Nagy, Professor of Celtic Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles,on Friday, 26 February, at 12.00 noon,in the Moore Institute, Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research BuildingTitle: 'Hunting Mythical Pigs... | Read on »

School of Humanitites: Symposium on the Phenomenology of Theatre and Film

Schedule12.30 Introductions by Prof Patrick Lonergan (Drama, Theatre and Performance), Prof. Felix ÌÒ Murchadha (Philosophy)Prof.Rod Stoneman (Huston School of Film and Digital Media)1.15 Prof.Paul Crowther (Discipline of Philosophy, NUIG) 'Hyperbodiment and Aesthetic Meaning in Film'2.15 Coffee Break2.30 Prof. Shaun Richards (St. Mary's University): 'An almost instant communion becomes a trap': Irish stage sets and the... | Read on »

Public Lecture by Professor Elena Agazzi (Bergamo) ‘Returning home to lost countries and landscapes with ruins: Germany after 1945 seen with today’s eyes’.

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 »

2016 Margaret Heavey Memorial Lecture ‘The Enigmatic Aspects of Hisperica Famina’ by Prof Andy Orchard (Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo Saxon, Pembroke College, Oxford)

Charles McMunn Theatre (Arts/Science Concourse) NUI Galway

'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 »