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Breaking the Boundaries of Italian Arts. Introducing Italy’s videoartists by Clodagh Brook, Trinity College Dublin

The Hardiman Building G011 seminar room

Clodagh Brook, Trinity College Dublin Breaking the Boundaries of Italian Arts.  Introducing Italy’s videoartists   This paper explores what motivated Italian writers and artists to shatter the borders and radically question the identity of their artforms in late 20th-century Italy. My case study here introduces some Italian videoartists, situating their questioning of artforms in a... | Read on »

ILLUSTRATED TALK: Helena Molony (1883-1967) – Modern Irishwomen Lecture Series

Education Room, Galway City Museum

Aimee Plunkett discusses republican, feminist and trade union activist Helena Molony. Aimee Plunkett works for the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and is a former historical tour guide at the GPO Witness History Visitor Centre. 1918 was a landmark year for women in Ireland and Britain, with legislation beginning the process of their... | Read on »

Creative Coding Meet-up

The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway

This semester we're going to run a weekly session for those interested in learning "creative coding". This approach is a good way for those without any coding experience to develop a foundation in programming. The sessions will use online resources (see below) to guide self-directed learning. Creative coding is a different discipline than programming systems.... | Read on »

NUI Galway’s 5th Annual Medieval Studies Lecture: “Hidden Sins: Miraculous Mind Reading and the Confessional”

O hEocha Theatre (Arts Millennium Building 250)

"Hidden Sins: Miraculous Mind Reading and the Confessional"  Barbara Newman, Professor of English, Religious Studies and Classics Northwestern University   Shortly after the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 mandated annual confession for all Christians, a new type of miracle began to appear in saints' Lives. Holy women and a few lay brothers--but curiously, not priests--came to... | Read on »

SSRC Visiting Fellow Lecture titled the ‘Agrarian Fascism Innovation Paradigm in Spain between 1939 -1955’ by Bruno Esperante Paramos

Room 333, 2nd Floor, Áras Moyola

On 19 October the Social Sciences Research Centre (SSRC) is hosting a talk by Bruno Esperante Paramos  titled the ‘Agrarian Fascism Innovation Paradigm in Spain between 1939 -1955’. The talk will consider the main agrarian policies of Francoist Spain in war and peace, focusing especially on policies aimed at motorizing agriculture via the introduction of... | Read on »

3DCamp Galway: Special Guest Pete McNally: “Creating versatile materials with Photogrammetry”

The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway

Pete McNally is a Dublin based Senior Designer/3D Generalist with Microsoft. He has worked in the Irish Game and TV industries for over 15 years, at companies like Emmy award-winning Havok and twice Oscar nominated Brown Bag Films. Pete blogs about his experiments in 3D Art at www.petemcnally.com and his work has been featured on Sketchfab and... | Read on »

Creative Coding Meet-up

The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway

This semester we're going to run a weekly session for those interested in learning "creative coding". This approach is a good way for those without any coding experience to develop a foundation in programming. The sessions will use online resources (see below) to guide self-directed learning. Creative coding is a different discipline than programming systems.... | Read on »

Modernist Studies Ireland’s: Works in Progress

Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building

                                                  Modernist Studies Ireland’s monthly forum for new work in Irish modernist studies—Works in Progress—cordially invites you to its second session of this autumn season, taking place on Tuesday, 23 Oct,... | Read on »