The Media, Sport and Ireland International Symposium will take place on 19 and 20 May 2022. Organised by the Sport & Exercise Research Group, NUIG in association with the Department of Media and Communication Studies, Mary Immaculate College, the venue for this blended event is the Moore Institute, NUI Galway. On behalf of the Sport... | Read on »
This webinar brings together researchers, writers and the public as part of the Bealtaine Festival 2022. Through presentations, discussions and readings, the online event will explore the empowering potential of women’s creativity and life writing, and the importance of recognising the diversity of women’s experiences as they grow older, experiences which are so often stereotyped... | Read on »
The Creative Futures research group is excited to invite you to this in-person gathering, set up to facilitate a variety of discussions. This World Café style event offers an opportunity to connect with Creative Futures colleagues and work together to explore themes, topics, and issues of interest, including approaches to interdisciplinary research, creative methodologies, generating... | Read on »
Paradigm shifting and the centrality of justice in pathways to low carbon economies by Professor Lorraine Elliott, Professor Emerita (and previously Professor of International Relations) in the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs at the Australian National University The debate about how to manage climate change has increasingly been linked to expectations about net-zero emissions,... | Read on »
As national institution and site of memory for France for over a century, the Tour de France is a privileged locus for investigating the interactions between sport and cultural meaning. Literary journalism chronicling the race has a long history of representing the multiple meanings and dimensions of physical performance, particularly of heroic champions, in the Tour. During the late twentieth and... | Read on »
Ba mhór ag Institiúid de Móra tú a bheith i láthair nuair a sheolfaidh an tOllamh Regina Uí Cholltáin, An Coláiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath an leabhar One Hundred Years of Irish Language Policy, 1922-2022 leis an Dr John Walsh, Scoil na dTeangacha, na Litríochtaí agus na gCultúr, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe. Beidh an ócáid ar... | Read on »
Irish Travellers / Mincéirs and the State, 1922-2022 This two-day conference will examine Irish Travellers’ experiences of discrimination since the foundation of the state, paying particular attention to the state’s role in perpetuating disadvantage. It will be a multi-disciplinary and participative conference, with presentations in a variety of formats, and featuring local, national and international... | Read on »
The Moore Institute will host an information session for the IRC Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme on Tuesday, September 20 at 12pm. The session will be led by Prof. Dan Carey, Director of the Moore Institute with contributions from Dr. Lindsay Reid, Vice Dean for Graduate Studies in the College of Arts, Social Sciences & Celtic Studies... | Read on »
Sports events are powerful vehicles for the construction, reproduction and, less frequently, the negotiation or contestation of national identity. The increasingly complex interplay between broadcast, print and new media is central to the ways in which sporting celebrities become emblematic of national identity and objects of collective emotional investment for committed and casual sports fans... | Read on »
Abstract August 2022 marked the 450th anniversary of the Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, long regarded as the archetype of religious violence and fanaticism in Europe. In this talk, Prof. Stuart Carroll will reflect on the enduring relationship between religion and violence through history. It is commonplace to argue that religion is the cause of violence... | Read on »
