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Sport & Exercise Research Group Seminar: Football and Cinema under Francoism – Comparing Visual Motifs to Unveil Historical Symptoms

Virtual Lecture via Blackboard Collaborate

Sport & Exercise Research Group Seminar Football and Cinema under Francoism - Comparing Visual Motifs to Unveil Historical Symptoms (Dr Manuel Garin - Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)   Virtual Lecture via Blackboard Collaborate: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/4e5604442fcb44b68f5d5630040e8755 When it comes to the relation of archival materials with historical and political epistemes, the uses of sport, and specifically football,... | Read on »

University of Galway History Seminar: Blood Ties: An Intimate History of Early Twentieth Century American Political Violence

Online, via Zoom

Professor Kevin Boyle  (Northwestern University) Blood Ties: An Intimate History of Early Twentieth Century American Political Violence    Biography Kevin Boyle is the William Smith Mason Professor of American History at Northwestern University. He is the author, most recently, of The Shattering: America in the 1960s (W. W. Norton & Co., 2021), a history of... | Read on »

Galway Book Launch – Fierce Love: The Life of Mary O’Malley

online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

The Lilliput Press cordially invites you to join us in celebrating the legacy of Mary O'Malley, and the launching of Bernard Adams' new biography on her life and work. With special contributions from Professor Lionel Pilkington, Professor Daniel Carey and Conor O'Malley. Archive exhibition from the O'Malley/Lyric Theatre Archive, curated by Dr. Barry Houlihan. Copies... | Read on »

Centre for Irish Studies Seminar Series: ‘The Law of the Mother and the Sibling World: Leeanne Quinn’s Queer Ecologies’

THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway

Centre for Irish Studies Seminar Series ‘The Law of the Mother and the Sibling World: Leeanne Quinn’s Queer Ecologies’ Professor Moynagh Sullivan Moynagh Sullivan is a Professor of English at MU, and the Faculty of Arts, Celtic Studies and Philosophy Associate Dean for Equality, Diversity Inclusion and Interculturalism. A visiting scholar at The Centre for... | Read on »

Translation and Territory – Seminar series: Development, language maps and the problem of translation

online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

Translation and Territory - Seminar series Development, language maps and the problem of translation Prof. Federico M. Federici, UCL How can accurate data about language proficiency and use help development organisations?   This seminar is part of the TRANSLATION AND THE TERRITORY SEMINAR SERIES, AUTUMN 2022.  Events organized by the Emily Anderson Centre for Translation... | Read on »

Open Access Publishing – the Why & How

online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

Open Scholarship Café - Part of Open Access Week 2022 In recent years, the rapidly evolving world of scholarly communication has been subjected to several divisive issues, but none as hotly debated as the transition to Open Access publishing. It seems to be a good idea but also a bit daunting and you might have heard... | Read on »

CAMPS LABS: Plague, Prayer, and Print in Sixteenth-century Italy

THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway

Plague, Prayer, and Print in Sixteenth-century Italy Katherine Tycz (Discipline of Italian) Plague was a constant fear for early modern Italians. When plague broke out in Italy, people turned to a variety of devotional tools and practices for protection from disease and spiritual solace. In this presentation, I will explore the production of printed devotional... | Read on »

Teangacha Trilsithe – Braided Languages – Langues Tressées

Charlie Byrne's bookshop, Galway City

TEANGACHA TRILSITHE / BRAIDED LANGUAGES / LANGUES TRESSÉES A trilingual poetry reading (English, Irish, and French) of the work of three poets / translators, Kelly Norah Drukker (a poet and scholar from Montréal, Canada and also visiting scholar in the Centre for Irish Studies, University of Galway); Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha (poet and PhD scholar from Roinn na... | Read on »

Book Launch: Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages: Personal and Public Art and Literature of the Franklin Search Expeditions

THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway

Book Launch Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages: Personal and Public Art and Literature of the Franklin Search Expeditions by Dr Eavan O'Dochartaigh Speaker: Professor Heidi Hansson, Umeå University, Sweden   Registration:  Please register via Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launch-of-visual-culture-and-arctic-voyages-by-eavan-odochartaigh-tickets-445310885847 Dr Eavan O'Dochartaigh is an SFI-IRC Pathway Programme Awardee at University of Galway (2022-2026) and a former Marie... | Read on »

Reimagining a World for Tomorrow and an Onto-Epistemological Ethics of Remembering

The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway

The Discipline of Philosophy is delighted to welcome back one of its PhD graduates Dr. Roisín Lally of Gonzaga University speaking on: Reimagining a World for Tomorrow and an Onto-Epistemological Ethics of Remembering   Abstract Time is behind our reality structuring. Physicist/philosopher Karen Barad urges us to think about time differently. In Meeting the Universe... | Read on »