The Huston School of Film & Digital Media series on media careers continues next week with a Q&A with director Neasa Hardiman. Neasa is a BAFTA winning film and television director whose credits include Happy Valley, Jessica Jones and Casualty. She has directed series for BBC, Netflix and Amazon as well as feature films such as Sea Fever (2019). Neasa will... | Read on »
Irish Studies Seminar Series, in association with the Moore Institute, NUI Galway. Anna Falkenau (Freyer-Hardiman Scholar, Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway), “‘Hotspots' for Revival Sessions": Micro and macro flows in the emergence and development of Galway City into an urban centre of Irish traditional music-making. Join us for our first Spring Seminar in Irish... | Read on »
Update: Watch a Recording of the Session Overview Launched by Prof. Ian McBride (Foster Professor of Irish History, Oxford) To attend, please register via: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/96749370440?pwd=RUtQZjhBUFRXVmJ0TWxCWEVOWTdHZz09 Join us for a conversation between Niall Ó Dochartaigh and Ian McBride to mark the publication of Deniable Contact: Back-Channel Negotiation in Northern Ireland. Deniable Contact provides the first full-length study of the secret negotiations and... | Read on »
Huston School of Film & Digital Media and the Moore Institute present a Q&A with Adam Roche creator of The Secret History of Hollywood and Attaboy Clarence Podcasts. Attendance The session will take place live on Zoom – please register to attend at: https://tinyurl.com/ayv9m888. Watch the Recording
Guest Speaker: Prof. Anna Bączkowska, University of Gdansk Prof. Anna Bączkowska, University of Gdansk, will talk about the CHILDES database, which is a repository of transcripts of conversations held among adults and children.The data illustrate developmental changes occurring in language acquisition in monolingual and bilingual children. Some corpus and NLP tools which allow one to extract material from... | Read on »
How can imaginative practices create fairer and safer spaces? About The greatest challenges of our time – from climate crisis, global migrations, income inequality to the recent COVID-19 pandemic – can be regarded as spatial issues. The geographies of globalization – the settlements, landscapes, infrastructures, networks, supply chains, markets, and factories which make up our... | Read on »
Irish Studies’ Seminar Series-Spring 2021 – School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies, in association with the Moore Institute, NUI Galway. Distinguished Professor in English and Disability Studies Joseph Valente, PhD, and the John and Rebecca Moores Professor of English at the University of Houston Margot Gayle Backus, PhD, will speak on their newly published book The... | Read on »
This webinar, hosted by the Irish Centre for Histories of Labour and Class and the Moore Institute, looks at Ireland from below in the Revolutionary period. During the Irish struggle for independence, and underpinning that struggle, a number of grassroots social movements – including general strikes, land seizures, and the munitions boycott by transport workers... | Read on »
Moore Institute, Centre for Global Women’s Studies, and School of Political Science Sociology webinar with Vijaya Nidadavolu Min Aung Hlaing, the Commander-in-Chief of the Myanmar military, staged a coup d’etat on February 1st and with it Myanmar’s tentative democratic transition has been brought to a violent halt. A popular multi-centric protest that coalesced in the... | Read on »
Irish Studies’ Seminar Series-Spring 2021 – School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies, in association with the Moore Institute, NUI Galway. This seminar showcases three recently graduated PhD researchers in Irish Studies, Dr Malachy Egan, Dr Michael Lydon, Dr Rory McCabe, all of whom have music culture and music-making as their central research area. In this seminar, these... | Read on »
