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 »

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 »

SPI Seminars: Space, Place and Identity Research Cluster Seminar Series: Catherine Emmerson (French, NUIG), '''Ung gentil homme de Bourgoigne nagueres'' : Locality and Identity in the Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles'

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