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Centre for Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism (CALM) Seminar Series: Corpus linguistics tools in language acquisition.

Online

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 »

Conference: Speculative Art And Spatial Justice

Online

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 »

The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature: Writing the Unspeakable

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 »

May Day webinar: Revolution? Ireland from below, c.1919-1923

Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom

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 »

What’s happening in Myanmar? From Putsch to popular protest

Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom

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 »

“He [She] got this Air out of the Night”: Environments of Irish Music

Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom

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 »

CAMPS: ‘The Crown’s Ecclesiastical Creditors: Loans from the English Church to Edward II and Edward III, 1307-1377’

Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom

CAMPS Research Labs provide a forum for staff and graduate students from all disciplines involved to come together in order to present work-in-progress and debate research issues. CAMPS Labs to date have taken a two-hour format, typically initiated with a presentation of specific research themes, questions and challenges, leading into informal and often very wide-ranging... | Read on »

CAMPS: Epic Similes in In Cath Catharda, the Middle Irish version of Lucan’s epic of the Roman Civil War

Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom

CAMPS Research Labs provide a forum for staff and graduate students from all disciplines involved to come together in order to present work-in-progress and debate research issues. CAMPS Labs to date have taken a two-hour format, typically initiated with a presentation of specific research themes, questions and challenges, leading into informal and often very wide-ranging... | Read on »

Covid-19: The Crisis in India

Online

In this special webinar, colleagues living in India and observing the situation closely will report on the devastating impact of the crisis during the latest phase of the pandemic. Issues addressed will include the public health situation, the loss life, grief and funerals, rural vs. urban India, regional variation, the political response, and education. Panellists... | Read on »

Webinar: Diversity in Publishing

Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom

Hosted by Dr Lindsay Reid and postgraduate students from the MA in Literature in Publishing, this webinar will feature Sarah Bannan (Head of Literature, The Arts Council of Ireland), Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan (arts manager, writer, and performer), and Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe (author, editor, and founder of Pay It Forward Fellowships) speaking on the topic of diversity... | Read on »