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 »
University of Galway History Research Seminar Writing Haughey: Ethics and Dilemmas in Political Biography Professor Gary Murphy (Dublin City University) Abstract On his death in June 2006, Charles Haughey was little mourned. Beyond his circle of family and close friends his death was met largely with indifference by the Irish public. Yet during his political... | Read on »
