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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 »

Naming the Traces: (Re)Constructing an Irish-Canadian Family Narrative of Emigration, Place-Making, and Return

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. On what narrative, mnemonic, and spatial scaffolding is an intergenerational family story built? How, as writers and historians, can we access the family memories that inform these stories, and reconstruct the past, despite the gaps and... | Read on »

J. M. Synge and Performance Traditions

Online

Panel discussion and launch of Hélène Lecossois's Performance, Modernity and the Plays of J. M. Synge (Cambridge, 2020). Panellists Alice Maher (Artist) Adrian Paterson (NUI Galway) Shaun Richards (Staffordshire University) Registration To attend, please register via: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XxVRKRs7S7O6w5R7jgyGUQ Session Recordings Video Recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HyPNQ7R6ok Audio Recording

W.J.T. Mitchell: Present Tense 2020 – On the Iconology of Time

Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom

In an anachronistic gathering of images of time from ancient and modern sources, the lecture attempts to replace the ontology of time with an iconology that may provide some useful tools for keeping our bearings in the midst of our epoch. Respondents Jeannine Kraft (Columbus College of Art and Design, Ohio, USA), Nessa Cronin (Irish... | Read on »

W.J.T. Mitchell: Art, Community, and Resistance

Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom

This lecture will survey the role of activist artistic practices in a number of different sites, including demonstrations, murals, exhibitions, archives, and educational facilities. » Scat/Rap Counterpoint Respondents Timothy Stott (Trinity College Dublin), El Putnam (Huston School of Film and Digital Media, NUI Galway) Registration Register for this Zoom Webinar via https://tinyurl.com/3zr7jfhk. The session will also... | Read on »