Texts, Contexts, Cultures Seminars

Our weekly seminars in Texts, Contexts, Cultures invite scholars from across humanities disciplines to present their work to our intellectual community. Our aim is to bring the best in contemporary international practice to the Moore Institute, giving multi-disciplinary focus to ongoing research in the university and the national academy.

The seminars are supplemented by Lectures and Master classes in Archival Research, Digitization, Funding and Publishing.

Events are open to all and take place at 4.00pm in the Moore Institute Seminar Room 203.

Graduate students enrolled in the Structured PhD programme in the College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Celtic Studies can receive 5 ECTS towards completion of their degree by attending eight of the talks in the calendar year. To benefit from this please register your name during each talk on the roster provided.

The Moore Institute is grateful to the Office of the Registrar and the College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Celtic Studies for their support in this initiative.

For more information please contact Professor Nicholas Allen nicholas.allen@nuigalway.ie

Autumn 2009

13th October
Nicholas Allen (NUIG), 'Jack Yeats and the Archive'

20th October
Robert O'Neill (Boston College), 'The Burns Library: Collections and Digital Projects'

27th October
Paul Crowther (NUIG), 'The Visual Sublime; It's Structure and Emergence'

3rd November
Josie Dixon (Publishing Consultant), Publishing Workshop (details for advance registration and participation will be posted shortly)

10th November
Nicholas Canny (NUIG), 'Ireland and Europe 1600-1750'

17th November
Conchúr Ó Giollagáin (NUIG), 'The Bilingual Gaeltacht: a culture and community in crisis'

24th November
Philip Dine (NUIG), 'Making Sense of Sport: Practices, Locations, Representations'

1st December
Poul Holm (Trinity College Dublin), 'Sea Change: The Urgency of Oceans Past'

19th January
Maria Scott (NUIG), ‘Female freedom-fighters in Stendhal's fiction (and why they embarrass critics)'

26th January
Adrian Patterson (NUIG), 'The Curlew and the Abbey: the music of Peter Warlock and W.B.Yeats'

2nd February
Roisin Healy (NUIG), ‘The Challenges of Comparative History: Ireland and Poland in the Long Nineteenth Century'

9th February
Daniel Carey (NUIG), 'A Scrupulous Travesty? Spivak's Kant'

16th February
Phiroze Vasunia (University of Reading), 'Memories of Conquest: Alexander the Great and Colonial India'

23th February
Susan Schreibman (Digital Humanities Observatory), title tbc

16th March
Patrick Lonergan (NUIG), ‘Irish Drama: Consuming Traditions'

23rd March
Margaret Kelleher (NUI Maynooth), ‘The Language Question in Nineteenth-Century Ireland'

27th April
Daniel Balderston (University of Pittsburgh), ‘Borges and Ireland'