Book Launch The NGO Moment: The Globalisation of Compassion from Biafra to Live Aid  (Cambridge University Press, 2021) by Dr Kevin O’Sullivan (Lecturer in History, NUI Galway) Guest Speakers Michaël Neuman (Director of Studies at Centre de Réflexion sur l'Action et les Savoirs Humanitaires, Médecins sans Frontières) Professor Silvia Salvatici (Professor of Contemporary History, University... | Read on »

We will be running a third reading group session on April 6th, which will look at the topic of “Anticipatory Memory” and will be facilitated by Dr Kevin O’Sullivan from the History Department. We will read the following text: Rob Nixon, 'All Tomorrow's Warnings', Sydney Review of Books, 18 Sept. 2020 https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/review/the-future-we-choose/ The reading group... | Read on »

This is an in-person event held in the Hardiman Research Building’s Bridge Seminar Room, THB-1001 (1st floor). About this event Anna Tulin-Brett & Niall Ó Dochartaigh: Appropriating peace theory: encounters between peacemaking practice and conflict resolution theory in Northern Ireland. Conflict resolution originated as an activist discipline, but theorists of peace and conflict transformation have... | Read on »

Samuel Fisher (Asst. Professor, Department of History, Catholic University of America) The Gaelic and Indian Origins of the American Revolution Samuel Fisher is author of The Gaelic and Indian Origins of the American Revolution: Diversity and Empire in the British Atlantic, 1688-1783, which will appear with Oxford University Press in July. This paper summarises the... | Read on »

An online webinar on 8th April and conference this Autumn, hosted by NUI Galway as part of the Decade of Centenaries Programme. Message from President Michael D. Higgins; Collaboration between Traveller activists and allies and the National University of Ireland Galway, welcomed by university president, Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh; Supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture,... | Read on »

Hugh Gallagher and Eleanor Lynch (students on the MA in Medieval Studies) will be presenting their final project from the Palaeography module. The title of their presentation is: Editing and Authority: Authors and Printers in Late Medieval France

Prof. Alan Titley (UCC) Bone and Marrow/Cnámh agus Smior In conversation with Prof. Samuel Fisher (Catholic University of America) Join us for this event marking the publication of Bone and Marrow/Cnámh agus Smior: An Anthology of Irish Poetry from Medieval to Modern, ed. Samuel K. Fisher and Brian Ó Conchubhair (Wake Forest UP, 2022). Alan... | Read on »

HDCA THEMATIC GROUP ON HUMAN SECURITY WEBINAR: New Threats to Human Security in the Anthropocene 12 April 2022, 1400-1600 GMT (0900-1100 EDT) The Human Development Report Office of the UNDP published in February this year its Special Report on Human Security: New Threats to Human Security in the Anthropocene (https://hdr.undp.org/en/2022-human-security-report). This major report of 188... | Read on »

We would like to invite you to the Launch of: Legacies of the Magdalen Laundries: Commemoration, gender and the postcolonial carceral state Edited by Miriam Haughton, Mary McAuliffe, and Emilie Pine Guest Speaker: Catherine Connolly, T.D Chair: Professor Dan Carey, Moore Institute, NUI Galway 40% Launch Discount Code: ‘MAGDALEN40’, valid online at Manchester University Press until... | Read on »

What makes ancient myths so appealing to the modern imagination? Beyond the search for the texts themselves in tablets, scrolls, and manuscripts, new translations and retellings of ancient myths populate the best-seller lists around the world. “Gilgamesh in Conversation” is a round-table interview with Marina Carr (writer, Macnas presents Gilgamesh), Michael Clarke (author, Achilles Beside... | Read on »