RECIRC Conference 2017
Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building'Reception, Reputation and Circulation in the Early Modern World, 1500 - 1800.'
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History Graduate Research Seminar
The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research BuildingDr Gerard Moran (NUIG & Independent scholar) 'Sending out Ireland's Permanent Deadweight During the Great Famine: The Case of the Cork Workhouse Paupers sent to New Brunswick in 1850'
“President Donald Trump: The First Sixty Days and Beyond” Roundtable Discussion
Emily Anderson Concert Hall (Aula Maxima Upper) NUI GalwayModerator: Mary Regan (columnist, Sunday Business Post) Participants: Prof Alan Ahearne (Director of the Whitaker Institute, NUI Galway, and former special adviser to the Minister for Finance) Prof Daniel Carey (Director of the Moore Institute, NUI Galway) Dr Kathleen Cavanaugh (Lecturer, Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway) Larry Donnelly (Lecturer, School of Law,... | Read on »
Italian Art & Its Icons: The Past in the Present
Siobhan McKenna Theatre4-6pm: “The legacy of the Italian Renaissance” with Finola O’Kane Crimmins (UCD), Paolo Bartoloni (NUIG) and Daniel Carey (NUIG); McKenna Lecture Theatre, Arts Millennium Building. 7-10pm: Italian Art and its icons: The past in the present” with Valentina Zucchi (MUS.E) and Michaele Cutaya (Writer and Editor, Galway); 126 Artist-Run Gallery, St. Bridget’s Place.
The Collaborative Design of Tangible Interactions in Museums
The Moore Institute Seminar Room G010 Ground floor The Hardiman Research BuildingInteractive technology for cultural heritage has long been a subject of study for Human-Computer Interaction. Findings from a number of studies suggest that, however, technology can sometime distance visitors from heritage holdings rather than enabling people to establish deeper connections to what they see. Furthermore, the introduction of innovative interactive installations in museum is often... | Read on »
Seminar- Featuring Visiting Speakers: Prof. Erin Goss & Dr. Kerry Sinanan
The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of GalwayProf. Erin Goss (Clemson University) ‘Listening for William Blake’s Daughters of Albion: Echo, Complicity, Complaint’ and Dr. Kerry Sinanan (Moore Institute Visiting Fellow) ‘An Irish Slave Dealer in Africa: Nicholas Owen’s Manuscript Journal’
Book Launch: Anne Karhio – ‘Slight Return’: Paul Muldoon’s Poetics of Place
Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research BuildingAnne Karhio: ‘Slight Return’: Paul Muldoon’s Poetics of Place (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2016) Launched by Professor Sean Ryder, English, School of Humanities 5-6 pm Wine served All welcome!
History Graduate Seminar ‘Making the case for Freedom of Worship: FDR, Stalin, and the Roman Catholic Church in the USSR and Beyond’ by Prof. David Woolner, UCD
Room AC203 'Old' Moore Institute Seminar RoomProf. David Woolner is Roosevelt Institute/ Mary Ball Professor of US History, UCD
Prof. Stewart Donovan ‘Colony, Nation and State: Reflections on Identity and Imagined Communities’
The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of GalwayIntroduced by Prof. Pól Ó Dochartaigh Light lunch served! Prof. Donovan is founder of St. Thomas’s Irish Studies Program and editor of The Nashwaak Review, a literary, arts, historical and cultural magazine. He has published a biography of R. J. MacSween, The Forgotten World (2007), three volumes of poetry and two novels. He... | Read on »
Award-winning film director John Carney to speak in the Huston School of Film & Digital Media
Huston School of Film & Digital Media NUI GalwayJohn Carney was born in Dublin and was educated at De La Salle College Churchtown and at Synge Street CBS. He was bassist for Irish rock band The Frames between 1991 and 1993 and also directed some of their music videos. In addition to shooting music videos, Carney also wrote and directed two award-winning short... | Read on »