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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 »

Dr Kevin James is Associate Professor of History at the University of Guelph and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow – ‘Take my advice, go to Mongan’s Hotel’: Sport, Charity, and Tourism in late-Victorian Rural Co. Galway

Dr Kevin James, University of Guelph and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow'Take my advice, go to Mongan's Hotel': Sport, Charity, and Tourism in late-Victorian Rural Co. Galway A free public lecture entitled ‰Û÷Take my advice, go to Mongan's Hotel: Sport, Charity, and Tourism in Late-Victorian Connemara' will be held in Galway city on Monday, 11 May... | Read on »

Ian McBride, Kings College London and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow -Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland

The recent controversy over the ‰Û÷Boston Project' tapes has demonstrated that the unfinished business of the Troubles still has the power to disrupt political progress in Northern Ireland; but it also reveals the attempts of disparate republican voices to establish the dominant narrative of ‰Û÷armed struggle'. This talk examines the memoirs of former IRA men... | Read on »

Sara Brennan of Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh – Can Irish be Sold Outside the Gaeltacht? A Critical Sociolinguistic Investigation of the Contemporary Promotion of Irish in Business

Sara Brennan of Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh Can Irish be Sold Outside the Gaeltacht? A Critical Sociolinguistic Investigation of the Contemporary Promotion of Irish in Business This talk will present insights from on-going PhD research on the promotion of Irish as an economic resource for businesses in urban areas located outside the Gaeltacht. Drawing on... | Read on »

Digital Material Conference – May 21 and 22 2015

Digital Material is a conference that considers the intersections of digital and material cultures in the humanities.Recent years have seen an intensification of interest in both digital and material cultures. This broad trend has been mirrored in the academy by the growing prominence of digital humanities and the renewed focus on materiality and material objects... | Read on »