Dr. Bona will present some reflections on Research Methodology applied to Humanities, mainly Communication, in Latin America. Bringing a perspective from "the South", the talk will approach the role of the researcher in data gathering and analysis and the importance of self-knowledge; the challenges of researching in a field that is in constant movement and... | Read on »

Dr. Sarah Corrigan will be appearing in Hardiman G010 next Friday (24th September) at noon and anyone who is on campus is very welcome. But, there’s more… for those of you who are not on campus, we will also be setting up a zoom session, so you can join us from the comfort of wherever... | Read on »

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This talk will explore a model developed to give a holistic account of caregivers’ goals for successful intergenerational language transmission, referred to as the 'saibhreas' model. This model was developed within an autochthonous minority language context (Irish in Corca Dhuibhne, Co. Kerry with the ’Sustaining Minoritized Languages in Europe’ initiative), but the talk will show the... | Read on »

This autumn the UCD Humanities Institute celebrates its 20th anniversary. We can look back over a successful history. Generations of PhDs and postdoctoral fellows have benefitted from the unique research environment offered by the Humanities Institute . Hundreds of conferences, workshops and Distinguished Guest Lectures have placed the Humanities Institute on the national and international... | Read on »

Current conceptualizations of climate and climate change are dominated by the abstract idea of climate as “the average weather.” This scientific understanding needs to be complemented by a cultural concept of climate which has a long tradition from Antiquity to the Enlightenment. In order to understand what it means to “be in the air” culturally,... | Read on »

This is an in-person event held in is room 306 in Aras Moyola, NUI Galway. About this event This presentation will outline a book currently being developed about civic parties in deeply divided societies, focusing on the case of Northern Ireland after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. The book explores the place of civic parties... | Read on »

Hermit Songs (1953) by Samuel Barber  Watershed (2020) by Ailís Ní Ríain  Watershed is a new song cycle for voice and piano inspired by the natural bodies of water and land in Ireland’s midwest region and along the Atlantic coast.  With music by renowned Irish composer Ailís Ní Ríain and text by Ballina-Killaloe resident, poet Jessica Brown, it is... | Read on »

Professor Matthew Smith (University of Strathclyde) Peace of Mind: Social Psychiatry, Universal Basic Income and Preventing Mental Illness in the USA Abstract Following the Second World War, a new, interdisciplinary and preventive approach to psychiatry gained influence in the US.  Social psychiatry involved teams of social scientists and psychiatrists which explored the environmental causes of... | Read on »