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. For our first seminar of 2024, speakers will discuss Pádraic Ó Conaire’s novel Deoraíocht. This event will be bilingual.... | Read on »
Masterclass with Dr. Máiréad Ní Chróinín, theatre artist and researcher based at Drama & Theatre Studies, University of Galway. This talk will be in two parts: the first part will focus on Dr. Ní Chróinín's current research, which explores the creation of 'ecological perception' through performances that utilise creative technologies. The second part of the... | Read on »
Irish Society for Theatre Research Webinar: 'Principles and Practice of Intercultural Dramaturgy' Dr Sarah Hoover in conversation with Dr Karen Jean Martinson Join Dr. Sarah Hoover, She/Her, (University of Galway) and Dr. Karen Jean Martinsen, She/Her, (University of Arizona) in conversation discussing Principles and Practice of Intercultural Dramaturgy. Speaker Bios: Dr Sarah Hoover (She/Her) is... | Read on »
University of Galway History Research Seminar Defection and disclosure: The German Jesuits and the problem of apostasy in the sixteenth century Dr Richard Kirwan (University of Limerick) Biography Dr Richard Kirwan is a Senior Lecturer in History and an Irish Research Council Laureate. He is the P.I. of 'Malcontents: Order and Disorder in the... | Read on »
“…don’t forget the photos, it’s very important…” A photo exhibition about the Nazi Persecution of Sinti and Roma The launch of a photo exhibition about the Nazi persecution of Sinti and Roma, organised by Dr Gearóid Barry and Dr Niall Ó Ciosáin. The launch will take place on Wednesday, 31 January 2024, at 5.15pm, at... | Read on »
Digital Humanities Research Group seminar Deirdre Ní Chonghaile, Glucksman Ireland House, New York University Oksana Dereza, Data Science Institute, University of Galway "To have the 'million' readers yet": applying OCR & NER to bilingual Irish-English texts in An Gaodhal (1881–1898) Abstract: Computerized text extraction for the Irish language (Gaeilge) faces a number of challenges, the... | Read on »
Translation Café: 'Four-Eyes Readers and characters: Translation choices and the creation of characters in three versions of Manolito Gafotas by Dr Maria Pilar Alderete Diez (Spanish, University of Galway and CITN - Children in Translation Network) In this translation café, we will have a look at three English versions of a Spanish book series marketed... | Read on »
Kimberly LoPrete (History, University of Galway) The Cultivation of Holy Men in the Long 1070s by Thibaud III, Count of Blois, Chartres, Meaux, and Troyes 9 February 2024 12 noon THB-G010 Lunch to follow and all welcome!
University of Galway History Research Seminar Dr Caroline Dodds Pennock (University of Sheffield) Abstract Despite growing scholarly work to the contrary, the popular image of early modern Europe remains an extraordinarily white, ruffed and cod-pieced Tudor fantasy, where Indigenous, African and Asian people existed only as curiosities from distant lands. But, in reality, tens of... | Read on »
Applications are now open for the third of the CLS INFRA academic Training School events, “ExploreCor: Using Programmable Corpora in Computational Literary Studies". It is set to take place in Vienna June 10-12 2024, spanning three intensive days. This program covers some of the most important steps in the research cycle of Computational Literary Studies,... | Read on »
