“Caution: Children at School, Perspectives on Learning, Leaders and Learners, Imperatives for Inclusive Schools.”
Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research BuildingNew Professors’ Inaugural Lecture Series at NUI Galway Continues: Public Lecture by Professor Gerry Mac Ruairc: “Caution: Children at School, Perspectives on Learning, Leaders and Learners, Imperatives for Inclusive Schools.” Professor Gerry Mac Ruairc, the Established Professor of Education and Head of the School of Education. The lecture is designed to be of interest to... | Read on »
Celebration Event for Jacopo Bisagni and Rióna Ní Fhrighil
The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of GalwayAn event celebrating the success of Dr Jacopo Bisagni and Dr Rióna Ní Fhrighil who have both been awarded major research grants by the Irish Research Council under the Laureate Scheme. Please come along to congratulate them and to find out more about their projects.
Archives and Public History: Witnessing the Past
Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach BuildingPublic history and the awareness of shared pasts is becoming ever more prevalent. Recent and ongoing commemorations have brought history and its reassessment into public daily discourse. Current politics and society are being shaped... | Read on »
History Seminar – David Kilgannon
The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of GalwayDavid Kilgannon 'I didn't cause the problem, but by hell I was going to finish it':
Ursula Fanning, University College Dublin – Gender in Pirandello: Objects, Subjects, Abjects
Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research BuildingThis paper will explore those representations of gender in Pirandello in which his female characters function as objects of representation, while their male counterparts attain subject positions; here I am particularly interested in Pirandello’s configuration of the maternal abject as well as of the paternal. It then moves to those areas where Pirandello challenges... | Read on »
Spring 2018 EDEN Peer Review workshop
The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of GalwayA chairde, Back by popular demand! We are pleased to announce the Spring 2018 EDEN Peer Review workshop. This is an excellent chance to get feedback on works in progress in any form and at any stage of development. Whether it is a chapter draft, a journal article or a conference paper take the opportunity... | Read on »
Dara Downey (Visiting Fellow) The Lady’s Maid’s Burden.
The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of GalwayDara Downey (Visiting Fellow) from the School of English in Trinity College Dublin. Title: The Lady’s Maid’s Burden: Ethnicity, Race, and Servant Status in the Late Nineteenth-Century Ghost Story This paper examines a range of uncanny tales by late-nineteenth-century American writers, in which domestic servants and slaves feature to a greater or lesser extent. For the... | Read on »
‘Wobblies and Fenians: The Australian connections of the Larkin family, 1916-19, and the Irish revolution’
Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research BuildingThe Irish Centre for Histories of Labour and Class welcomes Jimmy Yan (Univ. of Melbourne) to give a talk entitled, ‘Wobblies and Fenians: The Australian connections of the Larkin family, 1916-19, and the Irish revolution’. All welcome. Picture shows Peter Larkin, brother of ‘Big Jim’, one of so-called ‘Sydney Twelve’ imprisoned for anti-war activism in 1916.
Centre for Antique, Medieval and Pre-Modern Studies (CAMPS) Research Labs.
The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of GalwayCharles Doyle: The Presocratics and Christian Heretics in the works of Irenaeus and Tertullian