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 »
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 »
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 »
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
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 »
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 »
8th International Conference on the Science of Computus in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Galway 17-19 June 2021 Since 2006, the Moore Institute of the National University of Ireland in Galway has hosted, under the direction of Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, a biannual conference on the science of computus in the Middle Ages. Computus – the mathematics... | Read on »
This workshop is designed to facilitate dialogue between academics, policymakers, practitioners, and NGOs in imagining a more inclusive Ireland, and the role that language plays in how we envisage this inclusivity. The event stems from the project ‘Languages, Families, and Society’ (LaFS) at NUI Galway, which uses an ethnographic approach to understand more about the... | Read on »
British Embassy Glencairn Conversations, in partnership with the Royal Irish Academy. Ambassador Paul Johnston and RIA President Mary Canning invite you to hear UK and Irish perspectives on applying the lessons from Covid 19 to strengthen our preparedness for future pandemics on 5 July 2021. G7 leaders, meeting in Cornwall, committed to strengthening our collective... | Read on »
What does it mean to embody a lived approach to global solidarity and equal partnership in humanitarian action and advocacy? This workshop, organised by Dóchas and the School of History & Philosophy at NUI Galway, brings together leading voices from the worlds of professional humanitarianism, diplomacy, activism and academia in conversation on three key areas:... | Read on »
