Imbas: NUIG's International Medievalist Postgraduate Conference Venue: Hardiman Research Building This year's theme: 'East - West and the Middle Ages' Begins: 3.30pm, Friday 28th November, through Saturday until 1pm Sunday 30th November Wine Reception: 6 - 7pm, Friday 28th November Keynote Speaker: Dr L̩an NÌ_ Chl̩irigh, Trinity College, Dublin: 'East Meets West: the crusades and... | Read on »

Dr. Lucy-Ann Buckley, School of Law, NUI Galway Gender, autonomy and family agreements: lessons for Ireland from Canada? Date/Time: Wednesday 3 December, 1.00-2.00pm Venue: Room 1001, The Hardiman Building, NUI Galway Contact details: Gender ARC Research Seminar and Public Lecture Series coordinator: Emma BrÌ_nnlund, e.brannlund1@nuigalway.ie or Gillian Browne, Centre for Global Women's Studies, Gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie

Spanish Department guest speaker Professor Jeremy Munday (Leeds)will give a guest talk on Translation Studies For more information please contact geraldine.smyth@nuigalway.ie

Prof. Patrick Lonergan (Drama & Theatre Studies, NUI Galway)Digital Humanitities and Theatre History: Re-thinking the role of women writers at theAbbey TheatreMs Ellen McCabe (Huston School, NUI Galway)‰Û÷Let the frame of things disjoint': Ambiguity in the digital age and the consequences foreducatition Presentatitions during the first hour of each seminar are followed by discussion and... | Read on »

Journalism Guest Speaker Series: In conversation with Ms Hilary Martyn, Editor, The Galway IndependentFor more information please contact bernadette.osullivan@nuigalway.ie

Archaeology guest lecture by Distinguished Research Professor in ArchaeologyAlasdair Whittle, Cardiff University.Professor Whittle will speak on:The Times of their Lives: Why Does Building Precise Chronologies for the European Neolithic Matter? (Please come before 11am; lecture will begin promptly because there is a class following at 12). All welcome!for more information please contact maggie.ronayne@nuigalway.ie

Journalism Guest Speaker Series:In conversation with Ms Lorna Siggins, The Irish Times -Western and Marine Correspondent For more information please contact bernadette.osullivan@nuigalway.ie

History Graduate Research Seminar SeriesCarla Lessing 'Ethnic Silence': Swedish perceptions of 'Finnishness' in the 16th and 17th centuries. for more information please contact caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie

Professor Richard Reynolds Deputy Head, Division of Brain Sciences,Wolfson Neuroscience LaboratoriesImperial College London"Knowledge, gifting and passion: a recipe for success in Neuroscience"Organised by the Discipline of Anatomy, School of Medicine and the Galway Neuroscience Centre, in remembrance of the outstanding contributions that the late Professor Turlough Fitzgerald made to Neuroscience and Anatomy research and teaching... | Read on »

Gender ARC Lunchtime Seminar SeriesDr. Julie Gaucher,PhD in French Literature and Sport History, University of Lyon 1Writing the Sportswomen: Between Tradition and ModernityThis New Character in French Literature from 1920's to 1950's Abstract: Till now, Gender Studies rarely focused on the fictive character of the sportswoman. Though it is an emblematic figure that makes visible... | Read on »