The Francophone World and the Angloworld: Empires of Culture, c. 1700-2000National University of Ireland, Galway - 8-10 June 2011Part of the Texts, Contexts, Cultures research programme.Supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.This June, Galway will host an international conference of renowned scholars, who will compare critical approaches to the study of histories and cultures of... | Read on »
Symposium: W. B. Yeats and the Arts26th-27th August, 2011Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway Funded by the NUI Galway Millennium Fund, and the '1916 and After' project.‰Û÷The arts have failed', wrote W.B.Yeats, ‰Û÷fewer people are interested in them in every generation.' Fortunately, however, this gloom over the fate of ‰Û÷ingenious lovely things' only spurred... | Read on »
Early Modern Ireland:Culture, Politics, and PlantationOne-Day ConferenceMoore InstituteNational University of Ireland, GalwayTuesday 6 September 2011Programme:Session 1: 1pm.Andrew Hadfield (Sussex): ‰Û÷Spenser on the Munster Plantation' 1.30-2.15Richard Serjeantson (Cambridge): ‰Û÷Francis Bacon, Ireland, and the Classical Theory of Colonisation'Pause - tea break (3-4pm)Session 2: 4pm.Marie-Louise Coolahan (NUI Galway), ‰Û÷Renaissance Dublin and the Literary Construction of Authorship'Daniel Carey (NUI... | Read on »
Italian Studies and the Moore Institute are delighted to announce a talk by Italian translator and scholarFranca Cavagnoli28 September 2011 @ 6.00pm - The Moore Institute Seminar 6.00pmCultural Hybridity and Liminal Space in Post-Colonial Literary TranslationLiminal space and its creative potentialities have been scarcely investigated by Translation Studies in Italy. The in-betweenspace of contact languages... | Read on »
Call for people interested in a Beckett Reading GroupFirst Meeting: Monday October 10th from 6-7 in the Moore Institute Seminar Room.We are looking for people interested in participating in a reading group centered around Beckett texts-both primary and secondary. Each week a participant will lead an informal discussion of a short work or excerpt of... | Read on »
Paddy McMenaminLong Kesh 1972-76: Politicisation of a Generation of Working-Class Youth in Northern IrelandMoore Institute Seminar Room, Wednesday, October 12, 20114pm
John Calder published 23 Nobel Prize winners for Literature including Samuel Beckett. The Godot Company which he founded has toured Ireland with Waiting for Godot (2006), Endgame (2009), Beckett x3 (2010) which were acclaimed both by critics and by audiences.Calder was Beckett's principal English-language publisher during his lifetime, who was also a close friend, and... | Read on »
19 Oct.Hayley HumphreyRepresentations of the Virgin Mary on Irish High Crosses
26 October 2011Lili ZÌÁch Diplomatic Links between Ireland & the Successor States of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1919-1945
2 Nov.Jackie UÌ_ Chionnaith The G.I. Bill and American Medical Students at University College Galway 1946-1966
