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10 Feb 2014: Prof. Michael Clarke to give public lecture on 25 February 2014

Prof. Michael Clarke will give a public lecture entitled "Ireland and India: The Edges of the World in Ancient Thought" on Tuesday 25 February 2014 at 6.30pm in the Town Hall Theatre Studio, as part of the The Babel Lectures "Exploring Spaces: Travel Stories" lecture series. All welcome.

29 Jan 2014: New President of Classical Association of Ireland

We are delighted to announced that Prof. John Madden, Emeritus Professor of Classics at NUIG, has been invited to take over as the next President of the Classical Association of Ireland.

10 Jan 2014: Greek Reading Group

The Greek Reading Group reconvenes in semester two to read Hesiod's Theogony: 11am, Tuesdays, Classics room 506. Everyone is welcome to join — contact Prof. Michael Clarke for more details.

19 Dec 2013: New discoveries in Paris

In the context of research carried out in Paris during his Sabbatical Leave (September 2013–August 2014), Dr Jacopo Bisagni has recently made a number of discoveries (some of which were made in collaboration with Dr Immo Warntjes, of Queen’s University, Belfast) in manuscripts of medieval computus preserved at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Read more…

29 Nov 2013: International workshop on vernacular literacy in medieval Europe and East Asia

The historical interaction of learned Classical languages and spoken vernaculars is a cross-cultural phenomenon. International scholarship on this topic up to now has been entirely focused on regional studies. Recent explorations, however, have revealed affinities in the relationships, on the one hand, between Classical Latin and Old Irish, Old High German and other vernaculars in early medieval manuscripts from western Europe and, on the other, Classical Chinese and Japanese and Korean vernaculars in contemporaneous manuscripts in the Far East.

We were very pleased to welcome Prof. John Whitman of Cornell/NINJAL (Tokyo) to Galway on 29 Nov 2013 to give a CAMPS Lab entited ‘Kundoku: What is it, and did anything like it exist in the medieval West?’. The Lab was followed with a workshop with colleagues Máire Ní Mhaonaigh and Imre Galambos from Cambridge University to explore opportunities for future collaborations.

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