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 »
By Barbara Katz Rothman, Professor of Sociology, CUNY in association with Gender Arc at NUI Galway Barbara Katz Rothman, PhD, is Professor of Sociology, Public Health, Disability Studies and Women’s Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where she also runs the Food Studies concentration. This talk focuses on her book, A... | Read on »
As part of its Academic Research Support Services initiative, the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies, in association with the Moore Institute, is hosting a series of research support and information seminars for staff this semester. The second workshop in this series will consider the topic of Preparing Major Funding Applications. The session... | Read on »
By Dr. William P. Kelly (University of Ulster) As part of NUI Galway History Research Seminar Series Semester 1, 2019-20
