Digital Humanities Research Group  Spring Seminar 2023   Wed 31 May 12pm Niamh Reilly (Political Science & Sociology, University of Galway) Memoirs, politics and histories: open-source annotated republishing as method Rana Roshdy (Dublin City University) Advancing terminology through corpus and statistical regression modelling: a multi-methodological analysis of lexical variation in Islamic legal discourse Registration: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wqDd3k9zSAuMB2U8P96IRg... | Read on »

Centre for the Study of Religion in conjunction with the Discipline of Philosophy and the Moore Institute Presents Truth and Contemplation a lecture by Prof. Kevin Hart, University of Virginia This will be a hybrid event. Those who cannot be present but wish to register online can do so here. Kevin Hart is a theologian,... | Read on »

'The Sport in European Cinema Database: From Rogues of the Turf (UK 1910) to Russian Sport Cinema' with Dr. Seán Crosson Wednesday June 7, 6pm (Irish time) / 7pm (CET)   All welcome at: uvic-cat.zoom.us/j/96387596986 Sport cinema has been among the most enduring and popular genres within American cinema; however, limited research has been undertaken as... | Read on »

Open Scholarship Café: E-textbook emergency: OER to the rescue? In-Person / Online Students in Galway and elsewhere are at an ever-sharpening point of an affordability crisis that threatens their education. The fatalistic common-place that ‘students don’t buy their textbooks’ or required readings conceals the fact that among those who ‘don’t’ are those who don’t because they... | Read on »

Open Scholarship Café: Predatory publishing - How to identify questionable journals In-Person / Online This is a hybrid event! We would like to meet you in person in the Hardiman Building, G010 (on ground floor) where we will finish with a free slice of fresh vegetarian pizza! But if you can't join us on campus you are... | Read on »

IX SILAS Conference at University of Galway ‘Reimaginings and Reconstructions’ Ireland, Latin America, Spain and the Caribbean in Times of Change and Uncertainty Keynote: Professor Kerby Miller “The Travels of Timothy: The Amazing Adventures and Woeful Escapades of a Young Irishman in North and South America, 1920-1924” Chair: Professor Breandán MacSuibhne   Welcome to SILAS... | Read on »

"On 23rd June, 2023, the O'Donoghue Centre for Drama Theatre and Performance will host a 1-day symposium Documentary Theatre: New Perspectives and Practices. The event will feature international scholars in the field of documentary theatre, with two panel sessions followed by a roundtable discussion. It will run from 10am to 5pm. Registration This symposium is free... | Read on »

Globalization, Landscape, and Environment in Modern Ireland, 1922-2022 University of Galway Room G010 (Ground Floor) Hardiman Research Building Moore Institute for the Humanities and Social Studies   Workshop Programme 29 June 2023 11.00    Tea/Coffee and Arrival 11.30     Panel 1 Eric Sandweiss (Indiana University) ‘However picturesque a survival…’ Remaking Claddagh in post-independence Ireland Mo Moulton (University... | Read on »

Talk by Visiting CLS INFRA Fellow Dr Maciej Maryl Social Network Analysis of Career Trajectories in Polish Literature After 1989 The project aims to provide insights into literary reception of the Polish authors after the cultural transition of 1989 by applying social network analysis (SNA) methods to analyse relationships mined from bibliographical and textual data. The project... | Read on »

The Fráma Eile roundtable series, organised by PhD students in the Centre for Irish Studies and Roinn na Gaeilge, explores new approaches to framing established texts (in both English and Irish), material objects, and artwork in the Irish Studies canon. This roundtable discusses the poetry collection Eireaball Spideoige by Seán Ó Ríordáin. Speakers will highlight aspects of the text which... | Read on »