The University of Galway’s Centre for Creative Technologies will be officially launched by President Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh. Venue: O’Donoghue Centre Foyer Date & Time: 5pm on the 21st September Supported by the University’s Strategic Fund, the Centre fosters research and teaching activities that explore and develop links between creative practice and technology. Join Digital Artist in Residence James... | Read on »

You are cordially invited to the online launch of 'The Censorship of Eighteenth-Century Theatre: Playhouses and Prohibition, 1737–1843' edited by Prof. David O'Shaughnessy, School of English and Creative Arts, on Thursday, September 21 at 6pm.    Please use the following link to join the event:  https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jM90nh9ASgivATeit3nsQQ   We look forward to seeing you there.          

Algeria: Pasts, Presents and Futures   10.50am: Welcome 11am–12pm: Panel 1 – Cinema, memory and trous de mémoire Dr Aoife Connolly (TU Dublin): ‘Le retour: returning to images of the Algerian war’. Dr Barry Nevin (TU Dublin): ‘Du non-visible et du non-représentable’: crises of classical narration in Muriel ou le temps d’un retour (Resnais, 1963)’.... | Read on »

Open Access Publishing - everything you need to know In-Person / Online Open Scholarship Café - Open Access Publishing 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... | Read on »

Strzelecki Exhibition Launch Symposium 3pm-6pm, Wed., 27 Sept. 2023 Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway   The next event in the University of Galway History Research Seminar series will take place at 3.00pm on Wednesday, 27 September 2023 . This is an in-person event, in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway... | Read on »

Handbook of Glossing workshop University of Galway, 28–29 September 2023 Background The Handbook of Glossing will be a new publication that will document, for the first time, the full extent of the practice of glossing internationally, while providing outlines of new theoretical and conceptual frameworks that can be used by researchers both engaged in individual fields and working... | Read on »

'On Constellations of Populism’  Oliver Simpson (Lancaster University)  One of the consistently slippery and illusive aspects of populism for social and political research is specifying exactly what the term designates. Attempts to define populism as a political ideology often leave one with a definition so broad it seems to apply to all politics, or a... | Read on »

University of Galway History Research Seminar Ireland in the Ottoman press, 1914-1918  Dr Merve Doğan Kader Abstract In this study the news about Ireland in the Ottoman press between 1914-1918, that is, during the First World War, is analysed. In the first months of 1914, it is seen that the Curragh Incident was reported in... | Read on »

Guest Lecture: Thursday 5th of October at 5 p.m. in THB-G010 World Crime Fiction and Comparison: Back to the Future Stewart King. Monash University   Abstract The transnational turn in literary studies has transformed the field of crime fiction, challenging the hegemony of British and American models as the defining features of the genre. The... | Read on »