The NUI Galway mHealth research group (based in the School of Psychology) is hosting an international and interdisciplinary conference on Mobile Health (mHealth) in Galway. The event includes expert keynote speakers, short presentations on innovative research, a round table discussion and poster presentations. This event is for researchers, practitioners, policy makers, industry partners and those... | Read on »

The Digital Repository of Ireland is holding an Introductory Training event on Thursday, June 14, from 10:30am – 3pm in the James Hardiman Library, PC Suite (Nursing & Midwifery). The training is geared towards existing and potential digital collections curators who may be interested in depositing those collections into DRI. The training gives an overview of... | Read on »

Reáchtálfar siompóisiam lae dar teideal '125 Bliain ag Fás? An Athbheochan agus Conradh na Gaeilge' san Aula Maxima (thíos staighre), OÉ Gaillimh, ó 9.30am-4.00pm, Dé hAoine 15 Meitheamh. Is í seo príomhócáid na hollscoile le haghaidh Bhliain na Gaeilge agus is é Uachtarán na hÉireann, Micheál D. Ó hUigínn, a thabharfaidh an príomhaitheasc. Eolas ag:... | Read on »

Both events are free and open to the public. RSVP irishseminar@nd.edu RSV                                                    

This event, the second of three international workshops funded by The Leverhulme Trust, is being hosted by Professor Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, one of 6 Co-Investigators on the project. The first workshop was held in April 2018 in London, and the third will be held in Vienna in June 2019. The project focuses on the corpus... | Read on »

Glossing, the practice of annotating manuscripts between the lines and/or in the margins, was a widespread cultural practice wherever books were being read, studied and taught. As an indication of this, the Network for the Study of Glossing currently has 85 members with research interests in glossed manuscripts written in Arabic, Breton, Chinese, German, Greek, Egyptian, English,... | Read on »

The social and political thought of Tom Kettle: Recovering a distinctive Irish Thinker Tom Kettle (1880-1916) is not very well known in Ireland today. Yet, historian Senia Pašeta notes he ‘was associated with almost every major political and cultural development’ during his lifetime. He was a gifted public intellectual, essayist, journalist, nationalist MP (1906-1910) and... | Read on »

Laser-scanning and Photogrammetry Workshop                             Hosted by Discipline of Archaeology, School of Geography and Archaeology, NUI Galway Presented by Gary Devlin Discovery Programme (Centre for Archaeology and Innovation Ireland, Dublin) Joe Fenwick Discipline of Archaeology (School of Geography and Archaeology, NUI Galway)... | Read on »

Since Angela Nagle published her book Kill All Normies: The Online Culture Wars from Tumblr and 4chan to the Alt-Right and Trump (2017), in which Nagle investigates how right-wing internet activists have declared war on so-called “Social Justice Warriors”, things have not calmed down. Instead such attacks are slowly and steadily seeping into the mainstream.... | Read on »