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POSTPONED – School of Political Science & Sociology Seminar Series: ‘Conflicting political obligations: A response to philosophical anarchism’

Room 333, Aras Moyola

by Allyn Fives (Power, Conflict and Ideologies) This paper addresses two key aspects of A. John Simmons’s philosophical anarchism. First, as a value pluralist, he maintains that obligations are not conclusive reasons for action, whereas overridden obligations are nonetheless genuine obligations. As a result, we can be faced with genuine moral conflicts concerning our political... | Read on »

POSTPONED – Workshop: Working with images in Python for research

The Moore Institute Seminar Room G010 Ground floor The Hardiman Research Building

This workshop demonstrates the use of Python to work with images. The focus is images used in research. Two concepts of 1) data visualisation and 2) image processing using APIs are explored and demonstrated. The workshop will provide demonstration data and image sets to work with during the workshop. You can also bring your own... | Read on »

Covid-19 Response webinar – ‘Data, Ethics and the Covid-19 Crisis’

Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom

Update: A video recording of this session is now available. The second seminar in our Covid-19 Response series, this session will explore questions of surveillance and social benefit in the midst of the corona virus pandemic, including data gathering and contact tracing apps, and the advantages, risks, and ethical challenges. Panelists Mathieu d'Aquin (Director of... | Read on »

James Hardiman 200 years on: Commemorating The History of the Town and County of the Town of Galway

Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom

Update: A video and audio recording of this webinar is now available This year marks the bicentenary of the publication of James Hardiman’s classic History of the Town and County of the Town of Galway. This webinar explores Hardiman as a scholar of music, poetry, folklore and history. The panellists will assess his work as... | Read on »