By Professor Markus Wörner Abstract The paper begins with a common-sense approach to the notion of wisdom, drawing on results of Positive Psychology. Wisdom is to be understood as a mode of being in the world based on sapiential competence informed by a general attitude of openness to (practical and theoretical) truth rather than on specialized... | Read on »
By Barry Houlihan The book will be launched by Catriona Crowe, historian and archivist and former Director of Special Projects at the National Archives of Ireland. The event will take place here at the Hardiman Building - Moore Institute Seminar Room (G010) 5.30pm. Please feel free to join us for a glass of wine... | Read on »
The Moore Institute will host an information session on the IRC Postdoctoral Scheme, the closing date for which is on November 27, 2019. The session will be chaired by Prof. Daniel Carey, Director of the Moore Institute. Full details on the scheme can be found here. Reading Service The Moore Institute will also provide... | Read on »
By Dr Jane Walsh Seminar topic: Psychology and Performance in Sport: The Key Characteristics and Strategies used by Elite Athletes. In this seminar Dr. Jane Walsh will look at the evidence from Sports Psychology to provide insight into the key characteristics and mental strategies used by top performers in sport. Jane will draw on recent... | Read on »
Slava Raškaj (1877-1906) Waterlily (1899) Facilitated by Emily Tock, MLIS, MALP, Government of Ireland Post-graduate Scholar PhD student in the Discipline of English As this is a potluck format, attendees are encouraged to bring their own favourite Eastern European and Slavic verse to share in this informal roundtable.
This semester we're going to run a weekly session for those interested in learning "creative coding". This approach is a good way for those without any coding experience to develop a foundation in programming. The sessions will use online resources (see below) to guide self-directed learning. Creative coding is a different discipline than programming systems.... | Read on »
By Dr. Jennifer Keating (UCD) as part of NUI Galway History Research Seminar Series Semester 1, 2019-20 Recently appointed to a post at University College Dublin, Jennifer Keating is a historian of imperial Russia specialising in environmental history. She is currently completing a book manuscript that examines the role of environmental change in colonial policy, practice... | Read on »
Professor Dan Carey will launch this new volume of essays edited by Dr. Róisín Healy of the History Department. A reception will follow. This edited collection reveals the enormous diversity of journeys taken into, out of and around modern Russia and central and eastern Europe by means of twelve case studies. These range from... | Read on »
By Brian Arkins (retired Professor, Classics, NUI Galway.) Abstract: This paper analyses the reception of Hopkins by Eliot, Yeats, Stevens, Pound and Joyce.
By Professor Paolo Bartoloni (Established Professor of Italian Studies) Abstract How is art measured today, and is it possible to speak of contemporary art as “great”? At the turn of the millennium many believed that art was simply commercially driven or its opposite, ephemeral. Postmodernism has often been blamed for the demise of “greatness” in art... | Read on »
