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 »

The Irish Association for Russian, Central and East European Studies and the Moore Institute presents a virtual roundtable on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Roundtable speakers: Dr Tetyana Lokot, Ukrainian resistance and mobilisation: national and transnational dynamics and decolonial histories, DCU Maciej Curpyś, Putin's Historical Propaganda and the reality of Ukrainian Nationalism, NUI Galway Dr... | Read on »

The Creative Futures research team invites you to attend the second of our series of work-in-progress sessions. These are intended as an informal space in which colleagues can share their latest research and think through how it might connect to Creative Futures themes and methods. We have scheduled two exciting mini-presentations from colleagues across a... | Read on »

Dr Isabella Jackson (Trinity College Dublin)  ‘My Father Sold Me’: Listening to the Voices of Enslaved Girls in Republican China  Abstract In republican China (1912-1949), it was common practice for poor parents to sell daughters to wealthy families via middlemen for unpaid domestic labour. Being female, poor, cut off from their natal families, and performing... | Read on »

Arts in Action presents:  Grandmothers, Goddesses, Gradys & Great Actresses by Up Up Up Sound. Sex. Knickers. Candles. Emigration. Revolution. Religion. Madness, Bodies. Hair. Cessair. Brigid. Sinéad. Pegeen. Contour lines. Gaol bars. Stage boards. Emma O'Grady is a theatre artist; actor, writer and production manager based in Galway. She produces art under the name Up Up Up... | Read on »

This is an in-person event in GO10, Hardiman Research Building (Moore Institute). About this event This paper is a political-sociological exploration of the forms of connection and rupture, collaboration and conflict that define relationships across the Irish Sea at a time of constitutional and political change on 'these islands'. The aim is to examine the... | Read on »

Presented by Joey Tuminello (Assistant Professor of Philosophy at McNeese State University) Abstract In this presentation, Gadamerian philosophical hermeneutics is applied to identify and examine interpretations of the ontological categories of 'food' and 'drugs' in allopathic medicine, psychology, and psychiatry, unearthing the implicit interpretive modes in these views to draw attention to emerging patterns of... | Read on »

ENLIGHT Lecture Series "Tackling Climate Change: Migration and Climate Change” March 9th,  5-6pm (Irish Time) / 6-7pm CET Dr Su-Ming Khoo, Associate Professor, Head of Sociology,  School of Political Science and Sociology and Chair, Socio-Economic Impact Research Cluster, Ryan Institute and Environment and Development and Sustainability Research Cluster, Whitaker Institute, will contribute to this lecture... | Read on »