By Professor Eamon O’Shea In this seminar, Professor Eamon O’Shea explores the influences on performance in sport and the structures and strategies that  are important in building successful and sustainable teams. A number of key influences are considered, including: values; vision; teamwork; personality; leadership; confidence; and resilience. He examines the lessons to be learned from... | Read on »

  By Prof. Felipe Fernandez Armesto (University of Notre Dame) As part  of  NUI Galway History Research Seminar  Series Semester 1, 2019 This week’s History Research Seminar features world-renowned scholar and intellectual Prof. Felipe Fernandez Armesto speaking on the theme, “How to be Imperial: The Case of the Global Spanish Monarchy”. Armesto is William P.... | Read on »

By Monica Jansen, Utrecht University With the concepts of “scandal” (Pasolini) and “iconoclash” (Latour) this lecture investigates the tensions between religion and aesthetics created by a post-secular work of art when it enters in collision with the public sphere. For this purpose it compares the iconoclast reactions of the public to Romeo Castellucci’s performance Sul concetto... | Read on »

  By Dr. Ananya Gupta Seminar topic: Exercise Physiology in evaluation of fitness and exercise prescription. In this seminar Dr. Ananya Gupta will talk about the benefits of physical activity (PA), the evidence supporting PA and the recommended guidelines for PA in a healthy adult. In addition she will also discuss the importance of exercise physiology... | Read on »

  By Professor Huhana Smith, Massey University, New Zealand as part of Irish Studies’ Seminar Series You are invited to attend the second seminar of our Irish Studies’ Seminar Series, which is run in association with Carbon Cultures hosted by the Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway this month. This seminar will take place at 4pm, Tuesday... | Read on »

By Dr. Pádraig Lenihan (NUI Galway) As  part of NUI Galway History Research Seminar Series Semester 1, 2019-20 Dr. Pádraig Lenihan of the History Department will give a lecture on the experience of writing his most recent book, Fluxes, Fevers and Fighting Men: War and Disease in Ancien Regime Europe, 1648-1789. An expert in military and... | Read on »

This symposium will address current research, practice and developments in the field of digital theatre historiography, archival curation, and memory and performance studies. The digital interface between the archive of past performance and the present is enabling new encounters between presence and absence, as well as navigating and contesting the recognised documented repertoire. The digital... | Read on »