The term ‘Classical’ connotes so many things as to be useless. ‘Neoclassical’ is valid for a particular era. ‘Classic’ (minus the suffix -al) may denote various items. ‘Tradition’ and like terms are too passive. Prof. Arkins will discuss these terms.
Martin Hurcombe is Professor of French Studies at the University of Bristol, UK, and a specialist of early twentieth-century French political culture, history and literature. His PhD examined the French combat novel of the First World War, arguing that the experience of combat led to a fundamental shift in the way that a generation... | Read on »
Dr Federico Ugolini – Visiting Research Fellow ‘Visualising maritime cityscapes’ explains how and why Greek and Romans represented so frequently the sea and the marine infrastructures within their artworks. This paper argues that the available textual and iconographic evidence supports the argument that these representations have a symbolic, rather than literal, meaning and message.... | Read on »
Jim Reid (NUI Galway) Munster as a frontier of the Roman Empire in the 5th-6th centuries.
The Politics of Piety: Ritual Communities and Social Cohesion in Merovingian Gaul, 450-750
Financial Management in a World without Banks! The Case of Jonathan Swift A seminar on inter-personal lending and borrowing in early eighteenth-century Ireland.
Italian School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures The Moore Institute H. E. Mr Paolo Serpi, Ambassador of Italy to Ireland
Dr Hugh Rowland (An tAcadamh, NUI Galway) Language debates in Ireland in the 1960s: the Language Freedom Movement reconsidered.
