History Graduate Research Seminars 2016 – 2017
The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of GalwayCathal Smith (NUIG) Irish Americans and American Slavery, 1815 - 1865. All Welcome.
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‘Office Hours’ Drop-In Service
The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of GalwayFor Postgraduate Research students and academic staff with questions or ideas about: Using digital technologies to support research Communicating and promoting their work Accessing funding to enable their work. Meet with.... David Kelly, Research Technologist, Moore and Whitaker Institute. Deirdre Flynn, Impact and Communications, Moore and Whitaker Institute Martha Shaughnessy, Development Manager, Moore Institute. Aisling... | Read on »
Talk by Prof Scott Rettberg (Digital Culture, University of Bergen).
The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway'Histories and Genres of Electronic Literature'
Gender ARC – #Feminism
Seminar Room GO11, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research BuildingGenderARC study break: play some games that highlight feminist issues! We have several leaders, so we will be starting new games every 30-60 minutes between 4 and 7; feel free to drop in anytime and another game will start soon. Knowledge has a way of sinking into our bodies; we may not even be aware... | Read on »
Digital Scholarship Seminar
The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research BuildingMichael Hunter (Birkbeck College, University of London) 'The Workdiaries of Robert Boyle: A Digital Edition and its Uses' Also streamed live at https://www.facebook.com/nuigdss/
IMBAS Conference 2016 ‘Transformation and Preservation in Late Antiquity and Middle Ages’
Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research BuildingPlease see IMBAS 2016 Programme here. Imbas accepts papers from all disciplines with a focus on any topic from Late Antiquity until the end of the Middle Ages. The keynote lecture will be delivered by Dr Elva Johnston (UCD).
Launch of Irish Research Council-funded website – www.ClassicIrishPlays.com
Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research BuildingThis website was created by Dr. David Clare as part of his recently-concluded, IRC-funded postdoctoral research project, “The Hibernicising of the Anglo-Irish Playwright”. That project was based in the Moore Institute at the National University of Ireland, Galway. www.ClassicIrishPlays.com provides scholars, theatre practitioners, and the general public with invaluable biographical information related to the... | Read on »
Irish-Jewish Literature Exhibition
Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research BuildingWe would be delighted if you could attend the launch of an exhibition in the James Hardiman Library on Irish-Jewish Literature. The exhibition results from an AHRC-funded collaboration between NUI Galway and Ulster University. It will be launched by Mr Stanley Price, author of Somewhere to Hang My Hat: An Irish Jewish Journey and James Joyce... | Read on »
Book Launch ‘He Was Galway – Máirtín Mór McDonogh, 1860 – 1934’ by Jackie Uí Chionna
Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research BuildingFour Courts Press cordially invites you to the launch of He was Galway Máirtín Mór McDonogh, 1860–1934 Jackie Uí Chionna at 6 p.m. on Thursday 8 December 2016 in Room G010, The Moore Institute Seminar Room, The Hardiman Building, NUI Galway, Galway Prof. Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh will officially launch the book. Refreshments will be provided.... | Read on »
The School of Political Science and Sociology and the Moore Institute present a workshop ‘ Why Higher Education still matters: a conversation about what we do everyday’ with Les Back (Goldsmiths, University of London) and Kevin Ryan (School of Political Science and Sociology, NUIG)
Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research BuildingIs a university education still relevant? What are the forces that threaten it? Should academics ever be allowed near Twitter? In Academic Diary (Goldsmiths Press 2016), Les Back has chronicled three decades of his academic career, turning his sharp and often satirical eye to the everyday aspects of life on campus and the larger forces that are reshaping it. In... | Read on »