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The Crisis in Ukraine: history, politics, and prospects

THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, HRB

Moore Institute Flash Seminar The Crisis in Ukraine: history, politics, and prospects Friday, March 4 @ 1.00pm THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, HRB, NUI Galway With: Dr Brendan Flynn, School of Political Science & Sociology, NUI Galway Dr Róisín Healy, School of History and Philosophy, NUI Galway Dr Ekaterina Yahyaoui, Vice-Dean for Research, College of Business,... | Read on »

The Irish Association for Russian, Central and East European Studies presents a virtual roundtable on the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Online

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 »

Creative Futures Research Group: Work in progress session

Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom

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 »

History Research Seminar Series: ‘My Father Sold Me’: Listening to the Voices of Enslaved Girls in Republican China

Online, via Zoom

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

The Cube, Bailey Allen Hall

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 »

Political Science and Sociology Research Seminars: “More smoke, admittedly, than flame’? Ireland-Wales relations after Brexit”

THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, HRB

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 »

Food Pharmacies and Food Addiction: Shifting Food-Drug Interpretations in Allopathic Medicine, Psychology, and Psychiatry

Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom

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”

Online, via Zoom

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 »

Book Launch: ‘Mootsy and the Awfully Big Bite’, and, ‘Everyone Must Stay at Home’

The Moore Institute Seminar Room G010 Ground floor The Hardiman Research Building

The School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, NUI Galway cordially invites you to the launch of  Mootsy and the Awfully Big Bite - Lindsay Myers and Tara Canniffe, and, Everyone Must Stay at Home - Bláithín Breathnach (2BLG1). The books will be launched by Professor Peter Hunt (Professor Emeritus in Children's Literature, Cardiff University, UK).  

Open Scholarship Café: Podcasts and deflationary technology as means of opening up learning

Online

Dr. Kieran Fitzpatrick Podcasts and deflationary technology as means of opening up learning About this event In this Café, Dr Kieran Fitzpatrick will explore the idea of the deflationary impact of technology in higher education through a discussion of a podcast he launched called Body Politics, which builds on his experiences of teaching the history of science and... | Read on »