Verne Harris, Director of Research and Archive at the Nelson Mandela Foundationlecture onPost-Apartheid, Post Mandela. Verne Harris offers a reflection on reckoning with pasts and making futures in South Africa. He interrogates inter alia the country's continuing transition to democracy, the unfinished work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the legacy of Nelson Mandela.... | Read on »

Department of Archaeology guest speakerProfessor Mike Parker Pearson from the Institute of Archaeology at University College London will lecture on:The Bronze Age Mummies of Cladh Hallan, Outer HebridesAll welcome!for more information please contact maggie.ronayne@nuigalway.ie

Dr. Cathy Swift, Irish Studies, University of Limerick'Confession, Penitence and the Anamchara' Followed by discussion & light lunchEveryone welcome - FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁchFor more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie

Gender ARC Public Lecture - Autumn 2014 Kris McDaniel-Miccio ‰Û÷Fundamental rights and gender-motivated violence in the United States and Ireland: Lessons from recent legal battles and policy approaches' ******* Kris McDaniel-Miccio is Professor of Law at Sturm College of Law, University of Denver. She is an expert in comparative law, focusing on family law in... | Read on »

Therese Moylan(IADT & NUIG),A Yard of Counter Is Better Than A Farm of Land:Business-women in twentieth-century Ireland. for more information please contact caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie

Dr Aidan Kane (Economics, NUI Galway),Dr Patrick A. Walsh (UCD)&Dr Eoin Magennis (InterTrade Ireland)Creatiting a database of Irish internatitional trade 1698-1829Dr MÌÁirÌ_n Mac Carron (History, NUI Galway)What are the potentitial benefifits of applying mathematitical network theory to Humanitities sources?Presentatitions during the first hour of each seminar are followed by discussion and exchange overa light lunch... | Read on »

Symposium: "The Human Rights Scholar-Activist or Activist-Scholar?" and Launch of Professor Kevin Boyle Archive 28th November 2014, NUI Galway The family of the late Professor Kevin Boyle, co-founder of the Irish Centre for Human Rights (ICHR), has kindly deposited the Kevin Boyle archive at the James Hardiman Library, NUI Galway. This important archive has much... | Read on »

Prof. MÌÁirÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha, Old & Middle Irish, NUI Galway'A Solution from Irish Tradition to the Enigma of an Old English Poem, the So-called "Wulf and Eadwacer'" Followed by discussion & light lunchEveryone welcome - FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁchFor more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie

Imbas: NUIG's International Medievalist Postgraduate Conference Venue: Hardiman Research Building This year's theme: 'East - West and the Middle Ages' Begins: 3.30pm, Friday 28th November, through Saturday until 1pm Sunday 30th November Wine Reception: 6 - 7pm, Friday 28th November Keynote Speaker: Dr L̩an NÌ_ Chl̩irigh, Trinity College, Dublin: 'East Meets West: the crusades and... | Read on »

Dr. Lucy-Ann Buckley, School of Law, NUI Galway Gender, autonomy and family agreements: lessons for Ireland from Canada? Date/Time: Wednesday 3 December, 1.00-2.00pm Venue: Room 1001, The Hardiman Building, NUI Galway Contact details: Gender ARC Research Seminar and Public Lecture Series coordinator: Emma BrÌ_nnlund, e.brannlund1@nuigalway.ie or Gillian Browne, Centre for Global Women's Studies, Gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie