Professor Kevin Boyle  (Northwestern University) Blood Ties: An Intimate History of Early Twentieth Century American Political Violence    Biography Kevin Boyle is the William Smith Mason Professor of American History at Northwestern University. He is the author, most recently, of The Shattering: America in the 1960s (W. W. Norton & Co., 2021), a history of... | Read on »

The Lilliput Press cordially invites you to join us in celebrating the legacy of Mary O'Malley, and the launching of Bernard Adams' new biography on her life and work. With special contributions from Professor Lionel Pilkington, Professor Daniel Carey and Conor O'Malley. Archive exhibition from the O'Malley/Lyric Theatre Archive, curated by Dr. Barry Houlihan. Copies... | Read on »

Centre for Irish Studies Seminar Series ‘The Law of the Mother and the Sibling World: Leeanne Quinn’s Queer Ecologies’ Professor Moynagh Sullivan Moynagh Sullivan is a Professor of English at MU, and the Faculty of Arts, Celtic Studies and Philosophy Associate Dean for Equality, Diversity Inclusion and Interculturalism. A visiting scholar at The Centre for... | Read on »

Translation and Territory - Seminar series Development, language maps and the problem of translation Prof. Federico M. Federici, UCL How can accurate data about language proficiency and use help development organisations?   This seminar is part of the TRANSLATION AND THE TERRITORY SEMINAR SERIES, AUTUMN 2022.  Events organized by the Emily Anderson Centre for Translation... | Read on »

Open Scholarship Café - Part of Open Access Week 2022 In recent years, the rapidly evolving world of scholarly communication has been subjected to several divisive issues, but none as hotly debated as the transition to Open Access publishing. It seems to be a good idea but also a bit daunting and you might have heard... | Read on »

Plague, Prayer, and Print in Sixteenth-century Italy Katherine Tycz (Discipline of Italian) Plague was a constant fear for early modern Italians. When plague broke out in Italy, people turned to a variety of devotional tools and practices for protection from disease and spiritual solace. In this presentation, I will explore the production of printed devotional... | Read on »

TEANGACHA TRILSITHE / BRAIDED LANGUAGES / LANGUES TRESSÉES A trilingual poetry reading (English, Irish, and French) of the work of three poets / translators, Kelly Norah Drukker (a poet and scholar from Montréal, Canada and also visiting scholar in the Centre for Irish Studies, University of Galway); Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha (poet and PhD scholar from Roinn na... | Read on »

Book Launch Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages: Personal and Public Art and Literature of the Franklin Search Expeditions by Dr Eavan O'Dochartaigh Speaker: Professor Heidi Hansson, Umeå University, Sweden   Registration:  Please register via Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launch-of-visual-culture-and-arctic-voyages-by-eavan-odochartaigh-tickets-445310885847 Dr Eavan O'Dochartaigh is an SFI-IRC Pathway Programme Awardee at University of Galway (2022-2026) and a former Marie... | Read on »

The Discipline of Philosophy is delighted to welcome back one of its PhD graduates Dr. Roisín Lally of Gonzaga University speaking on: Reimagining a World for Tomorrow and an Onto-Epistemological Ethics of Remembering   Abstract Time is behind our reality structuring. Physicist/philosopher Karen Barad urges us to think about time differently. In Meeting the Universe... | Read on »

Sport & Exercise Research Group Seminar Strength in Numbers: Data and Science in Soccer (Professor John Newell, Sonraí Health Data Science Research Cluster)   Professor John Newell is Professor of Biostatistics in the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Galway, an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University... | Read on »