Creating and Exploiting Digital Collections 0930 Opening address and launch of the James Hardiman Library's Digital Scholarship Enablement Strategy Consultation (Prof. PÌ_l ÌÒ Dochartaigh, Registrar and Deputy President, NUI Galway) 0945 Digital scholarship in the Moore Institute (Prof. Daniel Carey, Director, Moore Institute for the Humanities and Social Studies) 1010 Supporting digital projects in the... | Read on »
BreandÌÁn MacSuibhneThe End of Outrage; or, Master McGlynn and The Molly Maguires: The Politics of Post-Famine Adjustment
New Work on Irish LiteratureSpeakers: Nessa Cronin (NUI Galway), Ronan McDonald (Moore Institute visiting fellow from the university of New South Wales), Mary Mullen (Moore Institute visiting fellow from Texas Tech university), Frank Shovlin (Moore Institute visiting fellow from the university Liverpool).
Dr. Mahesh Radhakrishnan,Australian National UniversitySouth Indian Carnatic singing and sean-nÌ_s-an ethnographic, musical and linguistic comparison of two distinct performance traditions Abstract: Despite sharing some interesting linguistic and cultural connections in a very distant past, South Indian and Irish musical cultures have emerged from highly distinct contexts and influences. Drawing on doctoral research within the respective... | Read on »
Professor Brendan O'Leary: public lecture on ‰Û÷Power-sharing in deeply divided places with special reference to Iraq and Northern Ireland', NUI Galway, 27 August, 2014. Part of the President's of Ireland's ‰Û÷Ethics Initiative' Distinguished Irish political scientist Professor Brendan O'Leary of the University of Pennsylvania, Visiting Fellow at the Moore Institute,will give a public lecture on... | Read on »
VISITING SPEAKER Thursday, 4th Sept 2.00 -4.00 pm Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building Professor Charles Hirschman Census Classifications and Racial Ideology in Malaysia The official classifications of ethnicity used in population censuses are generally thought to be non-controversial administrative products that reflect commonly understood population categories. Cultural and phenotypical differences are, however, are... | Read on »
Language Games:A Seminar on Language and Literature Language Games is dedicated to all matters relating to language and literature, including linguistics, translation, language instruction, and literary experiments in language and their reception. The round-table format of the seminar is designed to allow participants to share and workshop their ideas, stimulating further discussion and new insights... | Read on »
Yves Navarre : Une vie ÌÊ ̩crireEn hommage ÌÊ la vie et ÌÊ l'Òuvre d'Yves Navarre (1940-1994)This international conference held at NUI, Galway is the first event of its kind to be devoted to the French writer Yves Navarre (1940-1994) on the 20th anniversary of his death. It brings together academics and practitioners from a... | Read on »
Performance MattersIrish Theatre Discussion Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/This week we're going to be tackling Lucy Prebble's Enron. The script is available to all NUI Galway students and can be accessed through the Drama Online portal at the NUIG Library website. If anyone needs some help accessing the play script (or directions etc.) just email PerformanceMattersNUIG@gmail.com or contact us... | Read on »
Interpreting LandscapeMoore Institute International Symposium Tuesday 30 September 2014 Aula Maxima, The Quadrangle, National University of Ireland, Galway Booking essential: http://www.nuigalway.ie/mooreinstitute PROGRAMME 10.30 Registration and coffee/tea, Aula Maxima, Quadrangle 11.00 Welcome by Daniel Carey, Director of the Moore Institute 11.05 Chair: Daniel Carey, NUI Galway John Wylie, Exeter University: ‰Û÷So near and yet so far:... | Read on »
