Migration and the Humanities: Critical Challenges 16-17 June 2017 Moore Institute NUIG/ Irish Humanities Alliance Migration – and its social, cultural, political, and economic consequences – represents one of the most significant issues facing Europe today. This conference will draw together scholars from humanities disciplines such as art history; geography; history; literature; modern languages; politics;... | Read on »
Introduction to Modelling Decision Making – Monday 19th of June, 2-5pm Computer Lab, Arts Millennium Building (Psychology) The development of clearly defined models of human behaviour enables us to translate theoretical concepts into precise hypotheses for experimental work. This workshop is an introduction to the practice of cognitive modelling focusing on decision making. How do we... | Read on »
Irish-Austrian Exchanges on the Stage: Performing the Archive with Dr. Vicky Angelaki What does it mean to perform the archive? The lived historiography of theatre captures the embodied experience rather than logging decorporealised data. The archive is performed in two ways: first synchronically, as lived history is created through our staging and spectatorial choices and... | Read on »
GALWAY#HERSTORY SALON An evening of celebration and reflection- Tuesday 20 June 2017, 6--‐8pm NUI Galway –Aula Maxima Lower Herstory is a new movement dedicated to ensuring the stories of women from the past, present and future will now be heard and never lost again. Since its foundation by Melanie Lynch in 2015, Herstory has been... | Read on »
The Moore Institute, in co-operation with the Galway County Council, presents the second in their six parts series of public history events in Craughwell Community Hall on Tuesday 20 June at 8 pm. This week's event features three speakers and is free to the public. The panel features: Leona Armstrong (NUIG), 'The Forgotten Voices of... | Read on »
Neural Plausibility of Decision Making Models – Panel Discussion AMB 067, Arts Millennium Building (Psychology) 1-2pm Wednesday the 21st of June There is little doubt that complex cognition depends on the brain. However, in order for us to model human behaviour, especially the complexities of decision making, we need to make decisions about how to... | Read on »
This workshop brings together practitioners and academics to reflect on humanitarian action in Somalia since the 1990s. What did and didn’t work in the field? What contextual factors shaped the practice of humanitarian aid? What lessons can we draw from that experience for contemporary policy-making? The workshop is organised by the School of Humanities, NUI... | Read on »
Focussing on the martial services and petitions of Patrick Plunkett, Baron of Dunsany, during the Nine Years’ War, this paper will explore how members of Ireland’s Old English Pale community drew on military traditions and personal service as the chief means of articulating political allegiances, grievances, and their rights as crown subjects. It will address... | Read on »
As part of the Path Breaking Women Exhibition, you are warmly invited to “Remembering Margaret Heavey”. With keynote presentation by Dr Pádraic Moran, lecturer in Classics NUI Galway, followed by a roundtable discussion on the many contributions of Margaret Heavey as a classics scholar, educationalist and long-time member of the NUI Galway community. All welcome!
Galway Centenary Conversations - a series of free public history events organised by the Moore Institute in conjunction with the Galway County Council takes places in the Station House Theatre, Clifden on Wednesday 28 June, at 8pm. Topics to be examined this week include the aftermath of the 1916 Rebellion; the conscription crisis of 1918 and... | Read on »
