Chair: Prof. Patrick Lonergan, O'Donoghue Centre of DTP Text: Walter Benjamin, 'The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility: Second Version'.
Dr Annemarie Brosnan (Mary Immaculate College, UL) 'The education of freed slaves in the American South'
As part of the Arts, Humanities and Innovation - Connecting with Industry series, Leon Butler, research fellow on the TechInnovate program at NUI Galway, will talk about design, and how PhD students might user their research skills in industry once they qualify. This series of talks is aimed at researchers from the Arts & Humanities, and will be of... | Read on »
PLEASE JOIN US FOR: “The Place of the Arts in Irish Education Revisiting the Benson Report 40 years on” Jane O’Hanlon (Poetry Ireland) 5.00-6.00 pm, March 16, 2017 GO11, James Hardiman Library, NUI Galway
Kylie Thomas is the author of the book Impossible Mourning: HIV/AIDS and Visuality after Apartheid and co-editor of the collection, Photography In and Out of Africa: Iterations with Difference. In early 2017 she will hold a European Holocaust Research Infrastructure Fellowship and will be based at the Netherlands Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies... | Read on »
Michael Rubenstein is an associate professor of English at Stony Brook University, where he teaches courses on postwar Anglophone literatures, film, Irish modernism, James Joyce, and the Environmental Humanities. His book, Public Works: Infrastructure, Irish Modernism, and the Postcolonial (University of Notre Dame Press, 2010), received the Modernist Studies Association Prize and the American Conference... | Read on »
Book launch of Scott A. Davidson: Petitionary Prayer A Philosophical Investigation (Oxford University Press, 2017) Scott Davidson, Professor of Philosophy at Morehead State University, Kentucky, USA, is a former Visiting Research Fellow at the Moore Institute where he completed this book. The Book will be launched by Prof. Felix Ó Murchadha, Head of School of Humanities. All... | Read on »
Dr Gerard Moran (NUIG & Independent scholar) 'Sending out Ireland's Permanent Deadweight During the Great Famine: The Case of the Cork Workhouse Paupers sent to New Brunswick in 1850'
Moderator: Mary Regan (columnist, Sunday Business Post) Participants: Prof Alan Ahearne (Director of the Whitaker Institute, NUI Galway, and former special adviser to the Minister for Finance) Prof Daniel Carey (Director of the Moore Institute, NUI Galway) Dr Kathleen Cavanaugh (Lecturer, Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway) Larry Donnelly (Lecturer, School of Law,... | Read on »
4-6pm: “The legacy of the Italian Renaissance” with Finola O’Kane Crimmins (UCD), Paolo Bartoloni (NUIG) and Daniel Carey (NUIG); McKenna Lecture Theatre, Arts Millennium Building. 7-10pm: Italian Art and its icons: The past in the present” with Valentina Zucchi (MUS.E) and Michaele Cutaya (Writer and Editor, Galway); 126 Artist-Run Gallery, St. Bridget’s Place.
