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 »
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).
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 »
Book Launch: Charles Macklin and the Theatres of London Edited by Ian Newman, Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame and David O’Shaughnessy, Professor in the School of English and Creative Arts at NUI Galway. Organised by the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, and the Keough-Naughton Institute... | Read on »
Professor David O’Shaughnessy (NUI Galway) Theatronomics: The Business of Theatre, 1737-1809 Abstract Eighteenth-century literary studies now acknowledges the centrality of the theatre to Georgian cultural and political life. However, scholars have virtually ignored its remarkable and voluminous financial archive. Account-books, ledgers, and ephemeral manuscript folios contain rich data on ticket sales, audience members, revenues, actor salaries, repayments... | Read on »
