COST Action IS1303 (CHIPME) Final Conference, September 4-6 2017 (Aula Maxima, Quadrangle, NUI Galway) COST Action IS1303 (CHIPME) is a high capacity network formed to monitor, and offer guidance for, developments and emerging initiatives in genetic testing, research and healthcare throughout Europe. With members from 26 COST countries, this community of researchers and stakeholders brings... | Read on »

BOOK LAUNCH Please join us at the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, NUI Galway for the launch of 'Re-Place - Irish Theatre Environments' by Lisa FitzGerald (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2017) The book will be launched by Prof Patrick Lonergan on Thursday 7 September at 16.00 in Studio 1.  All are welcome!     BOOK... | Read on »

  Speakers: Dr. Margaret Brehony (NUIG) The challenges of writing the Irish into Latin American History   Prof. Nuala Finnegan (UCC) Framing Irishness: Reflections on the Irish in Latin America Exhibition   Prof. Bill Richardson (NUIG) Borges and Ireland     3:00pm Wednesday 13th September Bridge Seminar Room Hardiman Research Building

In Conversation with Bob Quinn ‘Huston Main’, Huston School of Film & Digital Media, Thursday September 14th, 2:30pm James Thurber wrote of himself: 'Easy to rouse, he is hard to quiet and people usually just go away.' The same might be said of Bob Quinn. Under the title 'Cinegael', and for nearly four decades, in... | Read on »

‘Paddy Trench: Galwegian, activist and artist’:  ICHLC seminar followed by drinks reception to mark donation of significant archival material. 14 September, 4 pm, The Bridge, Hardiman Building, NUI Galway. The first seminar of the Irish Centre for the Histories of the Labour and Class (Moore Institute) for the 2017-18 academic year takes place next Thursday, 14 September, at 4... | Read on »

“At School with The Man Who Knew Too Much” A Lecture by Murray Pomerance Sponsored by the Discipline of English and the Huston School of Film & Digital Media 15 September 2017, from 2-4 pm in Huston Main Murray Pomerance is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Ryerson University. He is the author of... | Read on »

Tuesday September 19th, 1-2pm in the Bridge Room - Teaching Advice Session Bring your lunch and yourselves to this lunchtime session on teaching advice, hosted by EDEN. We will be joined by Dr. Miriam Haughton (Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance), Professor Lionel Pilkington (School of English), a representative from CELT (Centre of Excellence for... | Read on »

The opening event of the Autumn 2017 series of Digital Scholarship Seminar takes place on Thursday 21 September at 1pm, and features a talk on digital representations of popular early modern poetry collections by Abigail Williams of the University of Oxford. Prof Williams discusses the Digital Miscellanies Index, a Leverhulme-funded online database which can be... | Read on »

ÖCALAN’S BOOK: “CAPITALISM THE AGE OF UNMASKED GODS AND NAKED KINGS. MANIFESTO FOR A DEMOCRATIC CIVILIZATION”  Presentation by Havin Guneser Journalist and Activist   Thursday 21st of September 2017, 1:30-2:30 pm The Bridge Room 1001, First Floor Hardiman Research Building (main library), NUIG Sponsored by the Irish Centre for Human Rights   This presentation will focus upon the... | Read on »

'Animation in Ireland'-  With Heather Grace Mills Thursday Sep 21, 2.30pm, Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway     Heather Grace Mills is an Animation Producer and Line Producer working for Telegael in Connemara, in the West of Ireland. A graduate of both GMIT (BA Film & TV Production) and NUIG (MA Film Studies:... | Read on »