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Book Launch: The NGO Moment: The Globalisation of Compassion from Biafra to Live Aid

March 31, 2022 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

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Date:
March 31, 2022
Time:
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Venue

online via Zoom

Organizer

Dr Gearóid Barry gearoid.barry@universityofgalway.ie
Email:
kevin.k.osullivan@universityofgalway.ie

Book Launch

The NGO Moment: The Globalisation of Compassion from Biafra to Live Aid 

(Cambridge University Press, 2021)

by Dr Kevin O’Sullivan (Lecturer in History, NUI Galway)

Guest Speakers

  • Michaël Neuman (Director of Studies at Centre de Réflexion sur l’Action et les Savoirs Humanitaires, Médecins sans Frontières)
  • Professor Silvia Salvatici (Professor of Contemporary History, University of Florence)
  • Professor Andrew Thompson (Professor of Global and Imperial History and a Professorial Fellow of Nuffield College, University of Oxford)
  • Dr Sinéad Walsh (Climate Director, Irish Aid, Department of Foreign Affairs)

Organised by the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies.

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