Events

IARCEES annual conference 4-6 May 2017

IARCEES final conference programme is now available.

The Wendy Bracewell Public Lecture is taking place on Thursday 4 May.

On the occasion of the centenary of the Russian Revolution, the Moore Institute is delighted to host the annual conference of the Irish Association for Russian, Central and East European Studies. Taking its inspiration from Lenin’s fateful journey to Petrograd one hundred years ago, the theme of this year’s conference is ‘journeys’. Papers deal with journeys into, out of and across the vast region that spans from Prague in central Europe to Vladivostok in eastern Asia. Participants offer perspectives from several different disciplines, including literature, history and politics. The conference will open with a keynote lecture by Prof. Wendy Bracewell of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, entitled ‘Travellers, travellees, and travelling texts: Eastern Europe and the Republic of Letters’.  The event is funded by the President’s Office, the School of Humanities, the Discipline of History and Fáilte Ireland.

Location: Moore Institute, NUI Galway    
Time: 4 - 6 May 2017

6th International Conference on the Science of Computus

Date: Friday July 8 - Sunday July 10

Venue: Seminar Rm 203 (Old Moore Seminar Room), Arts/Science Building.

The 6th International Conference on the Science of Computus continues the exploration of the key role that the computation of the date of Easter had in the development of mathematics and natural science in medieval Europe and beyond.

The conference covers a wide range of topics, such as Carolingian mathematicians, Irish computistics, cosmology, chronology, astronomy and astrology, visualisation of number symbols and time, Bede’s scientific works, manuscript transmission of computistical texts, and the mysterious Liber Nemroth.

With a galaxy of world-renowned experts and young and up-and-coming scholars, the conference promises to be a unique opportunity to hear the latest research and discoveries in the field.

Registration: There is no registration fee. The public is welcome to attend.

Further information: www.conference.ie and Prof Dáibhí Ó Cróinín: daibhi.ocroinin@nuigalway.ie

Location: Seminar Rm 203 (Old Moore Seminar Room), Arts/Science Building.    
Time: Begins 3pm on Friday 8 July

Conference: Proclaiming the Revolution

This conference runs from the 22-23 January 2016.

It explores the 1916 Proclamation of the Republic, its ideological underpinnings and its contexts.‌
It focuses, in particular, on the concept of the Republic, issues of division and unity, women, and issues of equality and inequality.‌‌ 

Conference Programme
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Keynote speakers:

Brian Hanley, Éamon Ó Cuív, Sinéad McCoole and Emmet O’Connor

Panels

1. Images of the Republic and Republicans
Speakers: Conor McNamara, W.J. McCormack, Dara Folan, Jackie Uí Chionna

2. The ‘whole nation and all of its parts’?
Liam Kennedy, Mary Harris, Shane Nagle

3. Women in 1916 and beyond
Maryann Gialanella Valiulis, Micheline Sheehy Skeffington, Marie Coleman 

4. The Pursuit of Equality
Mary Muldowney, James Curry and David Convery

Final discussion chaired by John Gibney

To register, email your name and institutional/university details (if any) to proclamationconference@gmail.com

Location: Lower Aula Maxima, National University of Ireland, Galway    
Time: 22-23 January 2016

1916 in Global Context: Connections and Comparisons

This conference shall run from Thursday 16 - Friday 17 June 2016.

‌The purpose of this conference is to explore the significance of Ireland’s Easter Rising and other revolutionary events in the year 1916 in the context of growing challenges to the global imperial system. Our aim is to test the hypothesis that the Irish revolutionary generation was embedded in a range of global transnational networks and that the Rising itself has parallels with other revolutionary events around the world in 1916. The Easter Rising took place during a period of global revolutionary transformations that are often overshadowed by the 1917 Russian Revolution. These include the Mexican Revolution, the Arab Revolt, the Basmachi Revolt, as well as street protests and food riots in European cities.

 Click here to see the provisional conference programme.

The conference is an initiative of the CITE – the Centre for the Investigation of Transnational Encounters at NUI Galway and forms part of the NUI Galway’s ‘A Nation Rising’ year-long programme of events to mark the centenary of the Easter Rising of 1916 .http://www.nuigalway.ie/anationrising/ 

Support from the Irish Research Council for this conference is acknowledged.

Location: Moore Institute, NUI Galway    
Time: Thursday, 16 June - Friday, 17 June 2016