The Rory Kavanagh Bursary Presentation Final Year Italian student and recipient of the Rory Kavanagh Bursary, Éilis Gillespie, will make a presentation about her experience during the Erasmus Year Abroad in Italy. The Registrar and Deputy President will introduce the evening.
Write Club! EDEN’s Write Club is back for a mid-November writing session! Have you been looking to get that chapter draft, article, or conference paper started? Has your writing has taken a little bit of a back step due to the growing demands of the semester? Come along and join us in the Bridge Room... | Read on »
An bhfuil suim agat i scríbhneoireacht na Gaeilge? An bhfuil tú ag iarraidh do shaothar féin a roinnt le daoine, agus aiseolas a fháil, nó d’obair a phlé go neamhfhoirmiúil le daoine eile a bhfuil Gaeilge acu? Nó an bhfuil tú ag iarraidh éisteacht le scríbhneoirí eile ag léamh a saothar amach os ard? Má... | Read on »
The third biennial Celtic Sociolinguistics Symposium will take place at NUIG in November 16th-17th 2018. As in the previous two Celtic Sociolinguistics symposia, we have attracted a diversity of scholars working in various areas related to linguistic and sociocultural aspects of one (or more) of the six Celtic languages. This year’s theme is ‘Communities in Conversation,’... | Read on »
Pádraic Moran: Translating the Greek Bible in the Ninth Century: Evidence of Glossed Irish Manuscripts Noémi Farkas Biblical Exempla in Sedulius Scottus' De rectoribus Christianis.
Digital Scholarship Seminar 43: Peter Stokes 12pm | Tues 20 Nov 2018 | Arts Millennium/Psychology Building G067 Peter Stokes (Paris, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Université PSL) Modelling texts and manuscripts: some digital approaches to material texts Palaeographers, codicologists and indeed textual editors have long engaged with technological developments and the challenges that they present,... | Read on »
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 »
This paper examines the use of the Qur’ānic term ahl al-kitāb by several contemporary Muslim and Christian scholars in the context of our increasingly interconnected and pluralist societies. The Arabic term ahl al-kitāb is frequently translated as the People of the Book. The People of the Book are the religious communities that the Qur’ān identifies... | Read on »
Modernist Studies Ireland’s monthly forum for new on-going work in Irish modernist studies—Works in Progress—cordially invites you to its third session of this autumnal season, taking place on Tuesday, 20th Nov., from 6-8 pm in The Bridge Room (THB), as per usual with nibbles and wine. This seminar will open to view the much understudied... | Read on »
Dr Michael O’Dowd, NUIG The Speculum Matricis midwifery manual 1670 and my research journey
