Centre for Antique, Medieval & Pre-Modern Studies (CAMPS)
The
Centre for Antique, Medieval, and Pre-modern Studies at NUI Galway was created by colleagues in
Archaeology,
Classics,
English,
French,
German,
History,
Irish, and
Old and Middle Irish
as an initiative operating under the aegis of the
Moore Institute.
CAMPS has three primary goals:
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First, to help promote, support, and disseminate the
research of its members in both individual and collaborative projects to the wider national and international academic community.
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Second, to create an
academic community committed to the highest standards of collegiality and research.
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Third, to encourage and serve as a forum for
outreach to the non-academic community.
In meeting each of these goals the Centre is responsible to the academic community at NUI Galway, to students at NUI Galway, and to the international academic community.
The Centre’s research is focused on the following areas:
- Editing theory and practice
- Transmission and reception of texts
- Languages and cultures in contact
- Philology
- Texts and manuscript culture
- Gender and identity
- Kingship, lordship, & society
- Material culture
- Historiography
- Place-making
CAMPS Research Labs
CAMPS Research Labs provide a forum for staff and graduate students from all disciplines involved to come together in order to present work-in-progress and debate research issues. CAMPS Labs to date have taken a two-hour format, typically initiated with a presentation of specific research themes, questions and challenges, leading into informal and often very wide-ranging discussions.
Upcoming CAMPS Labs:
Sarah Corrigan
Saint Clement of Rome and his submarine shrine in the Félire Óengusso
Friday, 1 February 2013, in the Moore Institute Seminar Room, noon–2pm
See the
CAMPS Research Labs page for a list of topics presented to date.
CAMPS committee and contact details
Follow the links above for contact details. You can get CAMPS updates via
Facebook and
Twitter.