The Welfare Histories Reading Group provides a forum for staff and postgraduate students to discuss ideas of poverty, development, and ‘improvement’ in a global historical context. Our interests are very diverse, and we would very much welcome the involvement of new members from any discipline. Our next meeting is on 29th May, when we will... | Read on »
Drawing on a research collaboration with New Change, an arts collective of young African Australian women in Melbourne’s west, I explore youth voice and resonance in the context of racialised symbolic violence. Through the lens of liberation psychology, this talk will explore how arts and cultural practices, particularly sound, can create disruptions and dialogue.
This semester’s final session of NUI Galway’s research forum for Modernist Studies Ireland, ‘Works in Progress’, takes place on 30 April, 5-6 pm, in the Bridge Room. IRC Postgraduate Scholar Melinda Szűts will be talking about the influence of early modern theatre spaces on the development of Irish stagecraft at the turn of the century,... | Read on »
Narrative forms, play a vital role in human enrichment and development. Through them we acquire a sense not only of our environment, but of our own identity. The recent shift from a society dominated by print, to one where digital media prevails invites us to consider the consequences for storytelling. What new stories have grown... | Read on »
Irish architectural history and classical traditions by Dr Judith Hill (Moore Institute Visiting Fellow 2017-18 and Irish Studies’ Scholar) - ‘Keep the past for pride’: What role did classicism play in the making of commemorative monuments in newly Independent Ireland? Dr Hill will be joined on the day by Dr Pádraic Moran (Classics) who will... | Read on »
The 2018 H-WRBI Annual Conference will take place at the National University of Ireland (NUI), Galway at the Moore Institute on Thursday 7 June and Friday 8 June. Please see programme for the event on the following link: https://historyofwomenreligious.org/conf_programme/ Call for Papers The conference will explore the history of women religious across a broad chronological timeframe,... | Read on »
Violence, Space, and The Political - Critical theory conference Hosted by the Power, Conflict and Ideologies Research Cluster, School of Political science and Sociology In this, multi-disciplinary, conference we wish to think through the imbrications of violence, space, and the political. Given that our present conjuncture is one constituted by innumerable sites of apartheid, exclusion,... | Read on »
As part of the Modern Irishwomen lecture series , Dr James Curry on the often-forgotten nurse and republican activist Dora Maguire (1889-1931), remembered in one Dublin newspaper obituary as the ‘Friend of the Poor’. Modern Irishwomen Lecture Series 1918 was... | Read on »
