ÌøåÈåÀC A M P S Prof. Richard Sharpe University of Oxford Ruaidhri O Flaithbheartaigh through his letters A Learned Gaelic Chief & his Friend from Oxford in 1700MON 27th FEBRUARY, 7 pm Fottrell Theatre, NUI Galway Arts Millenium Building
The paper will consider the making of a show commissioned by Renaissance scholar, Stephen Greenblatt. Greenblatt commissioned some twelve playwrights worldwide to each make a version of the so-called "missing" Shakespeare play, Cardenio. Such a project surely was imagined by Greenblatt as primarily a text-based work. My paper will discuss the making of a puppet... | Read on »
VISITING SEMINARRome, Vivarium, BobbioCentres of Learning in EarlyMedieval Europe?PROF. RIChARD ShARPEUniversity of OxfordTUES 28 FEBRUARYOptics Seminar RoomSeminar: 3 - 4 pmTea/Coffee & Discussion: 4 - 5 pm
29 Feb. RÌ_nÌÁn de BhaldraitheA Comparison of Syncretism in Lakota Catholic Congresses and Gullah Camp Meetings
CAMPS, the MA in Medieval Studies and Galway Early Music proudly present SiobhÌÁn Armstrong Historical Harpist and Founder of The Historical Harp Society of Ireland in two public and academic events Seminar ‰Û÷From manuscript to music: unearthing historical Gaelic music from manuscripts & early printed sources' Monday 5th March, 4-6 p.m, Moore Institute Seminar Room... | Read on »
7 March Ged Martin The Making and Re-Making of Charles Stewart Parnell, 1846-1880
Description of Workshop The main aim of the workshop is to examine questions of art, archives and public memories as represented and relevant in west of Ireland contexts. Participants will include academics, students, artists, local researchers and producers of radio and film. Workshop participants will work with existing materials in relation to women, gender and... | Read on »
CIARA GRIFFIN (NUI Galway) ‰Û÷Poignancies of Nourishment: The Gastropoetics of Sara Suleri‰۪s Meatless Days‰۪ ELLEN McWILLIAMS Visiting Fellow, Moore Institute (Bath Spa University) ‰Û÷Women, Exile, and Censorship in John McGahern‰۪s The Leavetaking‰۪ NOTE DATE: 4pm Friday 9th March 2012 Applied Optics Seminar Room All welcome. Wine served.ECHO brings together researchers of all disciplines to discuss... | Read on »
‰Û÷Labour historiography and the ‰ÛÏdecade of centenaries‰‰۪ is the topic a seminar presentation by Emmet O‰۪Connor at the Moore Institute on Tuesday, 13 March at 4 pm Dr O‰۪Connor‰۪s seminar is part of this semester‰۪s Texts, Cultures and Contexts seminar series at the Moore The seminar will be followed at 5.15 pm by the launch... | Read on »
14 March Sarah McCann Aldfrith: a marginalised king in Bede's HistoriaEcclesiastica?
Early Modern Europe and India: Politics, Philosophy, and Representation Newman House, UCD & Chester Beatty Library, 15-16 March 2012 Thursday : Newman House, 85-86 St Stephen‰۪s Green 10.45 Welcome and opening remarks 11.00 Sanjay Subrahmanyam (UCLA) ‰Û÷Orientalism, Realpolitik, and the Foundation of the Compagnie des Indes‰۪ 11.45 Joan-Pau Rubi̩s (London School of Economics) ‰Û÷Libertine readings... | Read on »
Keith Busby will be a Moore Institute visiting fellow in March and will give a lecture at 6pm on Thursday 15th March. The topic of his lecture will be ‰ÛÏThe French of Medieval Ireland and the Ireland of the French‰
21 March Sean Smith When Saints Die: Corporate Identity and Myth-making after Vincent de Paul: The Congregation of the Mission as a case study
The Department of History, NUI, Galway, and the Moore Institute invite you to a talk by Dr James Smith (Boston College) Titled "A Book's Afterlife: The Ryan Report, and State Interaction with the Magdalene Laundries" Thursday 22, March at 18.00 in AC201 James M. Smith is an Associate Professor in the English Department and Irish... | Read on »
Gender and Irish society in the 19th and 20th century: New perspectives and new ideas Two-day conference - 23rd and 24th of March, 2012 Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences National University of Ireland, Galway Funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS)This two-day conference, funded... | Read on »
Francesco Ricatti Cassamarca Senior Lecturer, University of the Sunshine Coast Dealing with the (un)familiar: Italians' uncanny perceptions of otherness, in Italy and abroad It has often been argued, in academic studies as well as in media and public discourse, that Italian hostility towards immigrants is largely due to a sort of amnesia about Italy's past... | Read on »
TCC Seminar Series Dr. Shahidha Bari , Lecturer in Romanticism at Queen Mary University of London Objects, Interiors and Authority: Rethinking the Arabian Nights in English Venue: The Moore Institute March 27th at 16:00
28 March RÌ_isÌ_n Healy ‰Û÷The Misery Index': Irish vs. Polish Peasants in the Nineteenth Century
EnglishGRADUATE RESEARCH DAY 9.45am-11.00 chair: Dr Rebecca Barr Rosemary Gallagher ‰Û÷All this happened, more or less': the auto-biographicality of humour in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle and Sirens of Titan Rebecca Downes Rehabilitating the Real: J.M. Coetzee's Aesthetics of Finitude CiarÌÁn Dowd ‰Û÷Not chaos itself lay outside of that matrix': Deterministic Chaos in Cormac McCarthy's... | Read on »
Proposed Dates (tentative): March 30-31st 2012Description of Workshop According to the Romans, the most western point of land in North Western Spain represented Finisterre (Fisterra), the end of the known world. The region of Galicia shares many cultural and historical features with Ireland. In March 2012, academics, translators, poets and musicians from NUI, Galway and... | Read on »
To mark the end of the semester, the MA in Drama and Theatre Studies and BA Connect in Theatre and Performance programmes are hosting a special event entitled NEW APPROACHES TO DRAMA STUDIES SPEAKERS: Professor Nicholas Grene (Trinity College Dublin) Professor Steve Wilmer (Trinity College Dublin) Dr Hugh Denard (King's College London) ROOM AM110, Arts... | Read on »
