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Past, Present, Future How best can we live our histories and our futures?
January 31, 2019 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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Passé, Présent, Futur
Comment mieux vivre nos histoires et nos avenirs ?
Past, Present, Future
How best can we live our histories and our futures?
La Nuit des Idées or The Night of Ideas is an annual event coordinated by the Institut Français which takes place this year on Thursday 31st January. Its goal is to celebrate the exchange of ideas between countries, cultures, topics and generations. Speakers from diverse backgrounds will gather in a wide range of cultural or knowledge centres to discuss the theme across five continents, from Dakar to Los Angeles, not to mention Brussels, Buenos Aires, Kathmandu, Marseille, Paris… and Galway! As part of this global event, the Discipline of French at NUI Galway, in collaboration with the French Embassy in Ireland and the Moore Institute, will host an evening of talks and short film screenings to which all are warmly invited. This event will examine ways in which memories of the past can productively inform the present, and on how our current experiences may be enhanced by artistic, scientific and civic engagement with a variety of imagined futures.
Keynote speaker: Professor Grace Neville (University College Cork)
Postgraduate student presentations
Lucas Cantinelli (French, NUIG)
Eilish Kavanagh (Heritage Research Group, GMIT),
Maša Uzelac (French, NUIG).
Short Film Screenings
Le Voyage dans la lune (Georges Méliès, 1902)
La Race (Michaël Le Meur, 2015)
All welcome
For further information, please contact: philip.dine@nuigalway.ie