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 »

Hakluyt Workshop NUI Galway For editors of volumes 1-4 of the critical edition of Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations (1598-1600), 14 vols, under contract to Oxford University Press. General editors: Daniel Carey and Claire Jowitt Supported by the Research Support Fund, NUI Galway Venue: Moore Institute seminar room Friday 13 April 2012 9.15 Welcome and... | Read on »

Beyond the Island: Transnational Approaches to HistoryThe Moore Institute Seminar RoomApril 20th and 21st 2012This interdisciplinary conference brings together scholars of History, Political Science, Law and English to discuss the merits and limitations of transnational and global studies. In recent years, scholars have increasingly recognized the limitations of the nation-state as a framework of analyses... | Read on »

April 20th and 21st 2012Description of Workshop This interdisciplinary conference brings together scholars of History, Political Science, Law and English to discuss the merits and limitations of transnational and global studies. In recent years, scholars have increasingly recognized the limitations of the nation-state as a framework of analyses and as a result transnational and global... | Read on »

Beyond the Island: Transnational Approaches to HistoryThe Moore Institute Seminar RoomApril 20th to 21st, 2011This interdisciplinary conference brings together scholars of History, Political Science, Law and English to discuss the merits and limitations of transnational and global studies. In recent years, scholars have increasingly recognized the limitations of the nation-state as a framework of analyses... | Read on »

Life after the PhD: a series of conversations with visiting scholars We are pleased to announce the second event of the ‰Û÷Life after the PhD‰۪ seminar series. Claire Culleton, a visiting Moore Institute Fellow, is a Professor of English at Kent State University. She has written three books: Names and Naming in Joyce; Working-Class Culture,... | Read on »

Gender and Academic Work24th April 2012Venue: NUI Galway Moore Institute Seminar Room1-5pmThe experiences of women in academic work have long been a source of debate.Research over the previous thirty years has shown us that, for example, aspects of workplace culture in higher education organizations effectively constrain women's career advancement. Issues including homophily and related difficulties... | Read on »

Marianna Fotaki, Reader in health policy and organisation studies.Manchester Business School, University of Manchester.Of women, gender and inequality in academe: Bringing feminism back todispel yet another wicked issue

The Moore Institute is pleased to promote the following C̼irt event: A highlight of the C̼irt International Festival of Literature this week will be the lecture on this coming Wednesday, April 25 at 1 pm, in the Aula Maxima, by GearÌ_id ÌÒ Tuathaigh, entitled, 'Public History and the professional historian: an Irish perspective.' Prof. ÌÒ... | Read on »

A Symposium of the Atlantic Archipelagos Research ProjectOver the Irish SeaApril 26th-27th 2012, University College DublinKeynote SpeakersProfessor Margaret Cohen (Stanford University)author of The Novel and the Sea (2010)Sponsored by the Moore Institute, NUI GalwayProfessor Claire Connolly (Cardiff University)author of A Cultural History of the Irish Novel, 1790-1829 (2011)‰Û÷Over the Irish Sea' is a symposium organised... | Read on »

Globalisation, Empire, and Culture Part of the Texts, Contexts, Cultures research programme. Supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 27th April, 2012 Moore Institute Seminar Room Workshop: ‰Û÷Networks and Identities in the Catholic Reformation' Programme 9-10am Alison Forrestal, National University of Ireland, Galway ‰Û÷Exploiting Sources of Patronage in the French Catholic Reformation: Vincent de Paul... | Read on »

Wood architecture in the Early Middle Ages: A northern building technique Prof. Eleonora Destefanis & Dr. Gabriele Ardizio UniversitÌÊ degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale Wednesday 2nd May, 2.30pm Venue: The Moore Institute