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Public Lecture: Peter Killeen, Arizona State University and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow: What is Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and where does it come from?

What is Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and where does it come from? The simplest definition of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) consists of a list of the typical symptoms. Professor Killeen provides a more comprehensive definition that informs us of the events that trigger ADHD in both its acute and chronic manifestations; the neurobiology that underlies... | Read on »

‘A Peculiar Society’? Ireland, 1970s-1990s – April 24th and 25th 2015

A Peculiar Society? Ireland, 1970s-1990sProgrammePROGRAMME‰Û÷A peculiar society'? Ireland, 1970s-1990sMoore Institute, Hardiman Research Building,National University of Ireland Galway24-25 April 2015‰Û÷Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century' (John McGahern)24 April 201510.30 - Registration11.15 - Welcome and Introductory... | Read on »

The 12th Annual Irish Theatrical Diaspora Conference – April 30th and May 1st

NUI Galway Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, the Irish Theatrical Diaspora Project (ITD), and the Gate Theatre present: The 12th Annual IRISH THEATRICAL DIASPORA CONFERENCE Theme: DUBLIN'S GATE THEATRE 30 April and 1 May 2015 The Gate Theatre, Parnell Square, Dublin 1 Since the Gate Theatre was founded by Hilton Edwards and MicheÌÁl Mac... | Read on »

Digital Scholarship Seminar: Franck Cinato (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris) Collaborative Digital Editing: Experience from the Liber Glossarum Project

Digital Scholarship Seminar:Franck Cinato (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris)Collaborative Digital Editing: Experience from the Liber Glossarum ProjectAbstract: This presentation will share experience from a large-scale project to produce a new collaborative digital edition of the Liber Glossarum, a vast encyclopaedic dictionary (c. 30,000 entries) compiled in a female monastery in northern France around... | Read on »

Gender ARC Public Lecture: Sylvia Walby, Distinguished Professor, UNESCO Chair of Gender Research Department of Sociology, Lancaster University -Preventing gender based violence against women: Can this be mainstreamed?

Gender ARC and Global Women's Studies at NUI Galway are pleased to invite you to a public lecture: Sylvia Walby, Distinguished Professor, UNESCO Chair of Gender Research Department of Sociology, Lancaster University Preventing gender based violence against women: Can this be mainstreamed? All WelcomeRefreshments will be served - please RSVP to Gillian Browne (gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie) Abstract:... | Read on »

Special Collections Lunchtime Lectures Series -Dr. Micheline Sheehy Skeffington,Early floras and natural history guides -what can we learn?

Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building

Special Collections Lunchtime Seminar SeriesDr. Micheline Sheehy Skeffington Early floras and natural history guides -what can we learn?Dr. Micheline Sheehy Skeffington will look at some of the unusual, rare and key natural history books in Special Collections and explain the significance of a selection of these.Some examples will be on display during the talk.For more... | Read on »

School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures Reserach Day

School of Languages,Literatures and Cultures Reserach DayPROGRAMME 9.30 - 10am: Reception with tea and coffee & Welcome from Professor PÌ_l ÌÒ Dochartaigh 10 - 11 am: Panel 1 (Chair: Tina-Karen Pusse) Barry NEVIN (French): Ida (1935) Revisited: Post-war Trauma and the Looming Threat of Fascism in Jean Renoir's Front Populaire Output' Maura STEWART (French): ‰Û÷Le... | Read on »