Ant and Dec join Diversity for Saturday Night Takeaway finale, Internet responds in kind
Posted: March 1, 2014 in Uncategorized“When you look at the play there is loads of singing in it and I was very lucky to find a student, Katerina Kavanova, who is a great singer and is also studying Spanish,” he says. “We’ll have live music with a classical guitarist, Sean McLaughlin, and most of the music in the production has been composed specially for it.”
“With the play and the singing is that you really want to have the songs in Spanish, so we have some of the songs in Spanish and some of it is underpinned with the guitar and we keep it spoken so you still have that lyricism.”
Max Haffler chatting to the Galway advertiser about his production of Lorca’s Yerma which premiered late this week
CFP: Small Nations and Colonial Peripheries in World War I: Europe and the Wider World
Posted: February 14, 2014 in UncategorizedTags: and Gearóid Barry, at the History Department, Enrico Dal Lago, Galway, Ireland, National University of Ireland Galway, NUI Galway, Rosin Healy, Royal Irish Academy, world war I
CFP: Small Nations and Colonial Peripheries in World War I: Europe and the Wider World
Categories: Call for papers, Events
*Call for Papers for an International Workshop on ‘Small Nations and Colonial Peripheries in World War I: Europe and the Wider World’
National University of Ireland, Galway
Friday 13th-Saturday 14th June 2014
CFP deadline – 28 February 2014*
The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum of debate for transnational and comparative approaches to the history of small European nations and Europe’s colonial peripheries in World War I in the context of the epochal changes brought by the collapse of large imperial states. Our aim is to reach a more nuanced understanding of the complex relationship between the peripheral regions of Europe and her empires and Europe’s metropolitan core through the comparative and transnational analysis of the contribution of European, Asian and African peripheries to the war effort in World War I.
Prof. Michael S. Neiberg, an eminent scholar of World War I, will deliver the keynote address. Prof. Neiberg has written extensively on the multiple theatres and global reach of the War, most notably in Fighting the Great War: A Global History (Harvard, 2006) and Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I (2011).
Scholars are invited to submit papers on themes focusing on social, political, or economic aspects of Europe’s small nations and colonial regions during World War I.
Themes covered may include the following:
• Colonial troops serving in Europe
• Troops of ethnic European minority populations serving in Europe
• Troops of ethnic European minority populations serving in overseas colonies
• Experiences of populations of independent small nations in Europe
• Experiences of populations of ethnic minorities within European multiethnic states
• Experiences of indigenous and settler populations of European overseas empires
• Official attempts to mobilise popular support across all ethnic groups in Europe and in the overseas colonies
• Support for or resistance to such mobilisation efforts and their different outcomes
Papers may address the following geographical regions:
• Peripheries of European multi-ethnic empires in Europe
• Peripheries of European belligerent powers to the east and south of Europe
• Europe’s overseas colonies
The workshop is an initiative of Róisín Healy, Enrico Dal Lago, and Gearóid Barry at the History Department, NUI Galway, and will be held in June 2014 in order to mark the beginning of the commemorations for the hundredth anniversary of thestart of World War I.
Prospective participants should send a paper title and a 300-word abstract, accompanied by a 1-page CV to enrico.dallago@nuigalway.ie
by the deadline of 28 February 2014. They will be notified of acceptance by mid-March 2014.
Posted by conference organizing team member;
Gearóid Barry,
Department of History,
School of Humanities,
NUI Galway.
The biggest folk music news this week is, of course, the passing of the extraordinary Pete Seeger. But, before that rocked all of our worlds yesterday (as it continues to rock us today), there was seemingly big news about a collaborative tour set to kick off in March, featuring Shawn Colvin and Steve Earle. According toNonesuch Records:
Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriters Shawn Colvin and Steve Earle announce a special run of tour dates
It woud be a fair bet that at least one song Seeger taught the world will wind up in these shows somewhere. Dates are below and tickets are available now.
Mar 18 – Carnegie Library Music Hall of Homestead – Munhall, PA
Mar 19 – Musikfest Café – Bethlehem, PA
Mar 20 – Carolina Theatre – Durham, NC
Mar 22 – Hilbert Circle Theatre – Indianapolis, IN
Mar 23 – Symphony Hall – Atlanta, GA
Mar 24 – Schermerhorn Symphony Center – Nashville, TN
Mar 26 – Modlin Center for the Arts – Richmond, VA
Mar 27 – Troy Savings Bank Music Hall – Troy, NY
Mar 28 – Berklee Performance Center – Boston, MA
Mar 29 – Keswick Theatre – Glenside, PA
thanks to Kim Ruehl for spreading the news 🙂
A protégé of legendary songwriters Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark, Earle quickly became a master storyteller in his own right, with his songs being recorded by Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings, Travis Tritt, The Pretenders, Joan Baez and countless others. 1986 saw the
release of his debut record, Guitar Town, which shot to number one on the country charts and immediately established the term “New Country.” What followed was an extremely exciting and varied array of releases including the biting hard rock of Copperhead Road (1988), the minimalist beauty of Train A Comin’ (1995), the politically charged masterpiece, Jerusalem (2002) and the Grammy Award Winning albums The Revolution Starts…Now (2004), Washington Square Serenade (2007) and Townes (2009). I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive (2011) is Steve Earle’s 14th Studio Album and shares the same name with his 2011 debut novel. Of the novel, Patti Smith stated, “Steve Earle brings to his prose the same authenticity, poetic spirit and cinematic energy he projects in his music. I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive is like a dream you can’t shake, offering beauty and remorse, redemption in spades.”
Long-Time Boston College Assistant AD Dick Kelly Passes Away
Posted: February 14, 2014 in Uncategorized
The NUI Galway History Seminar meets every Wednesday at 16.00 in Room G010 in the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Building (adjacent to the library). Next week (19 February) we are delighted to have a seminar from our own Enrico Dal Lago, who will speak about ‘”Purging Nations with Blood”: John Brown, Pisacane, and 19th-century guerrilla warfare’. The seminar will be followed by the launch of his new book, William Lloyd Garrison and Giuseppe Mazzini: Abolition, Democracy and Radical Reform (LSU Press, 2013).
Speaker: Dr Enrico Dal Lago
Title: ‘”Purging nations with blood”: John Brown, Pisacane, and 19th-century guerrilla warfare’
Time & Date: 16.00, 19 February 2014
Venue: Room G010, Humanities and Social Sciences Research Building, NUI Galway
All are welcome!
The View from The DJ booth 