Event Description Introduction The 7th World Congress of the International Microsimulation Association will be hosted by the National University of Ireland, Galway from Wednesday, June 19 through Friday, June 21, 2019. We encourage submissions in the fields (broadly defined) of microsimulation, agent based modelling and computational methods. Plenary Speakers (Proposed): Herwig Immervoll, OECD Deborah Schofield, Director... | Read on »

Sibéal Workshop Series & Feminist/Queer Discussion Space NUIG present: Untangling Methodologies: thinking with feminist and queer methods    Keynote Speaker: Professor Kath Browne, Maynooth University  At this workshop we aim to think through concepts that emerge from feminist and queer research methodologies in order to explore ideas of collaging, layering and mixing practices. Through the imagery... | Read on »

This exhibition developed by the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb and the Embassy of the Republic of Croatia celebrates the life and legacy of Irishman, Count Laval Nugent of Westmeath.  Laval Nugent was Irish by birth, a field marshal in the Austrian Army, a negotiator during the Napoleonic Wars, a Croatian national hero and a passionate... | Read on »

  Abstract: Every undergrad finds out very fast that one of the most important activities of the faculty is publishing papers. Scientific papers are the coin of the realm in everything from health psychology to high-particle physics. No wonder, considering so much is tied to publication: communicating research results to peers, staking a claim on... | Read on »

  ABSTRACT:   The Kochi Biennale editions since 2012 or India Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2019 are ample testimonies to the themes of decolonization, comparative aesthetics and cosmopolitanism in contemporary Indian art practice.  Ananda Coomaraswamy and K.C. Bhattacharyya conceptualized these themes in the early twentieth century.   Their differences notwithstanding, they argued for the necessity of... | Read on »

    John Cox, University Librarian, is pleased to invite you to an event to mark the generous donation to the University of the  Tiomna Nuadh ar Dtighearna agus ar Slanaightheora Josa Criosd  By members of the Ó Dálaigh family, Athlone, Co. Westmeath. This was the first translation of the New Testament into Irish and... | Read on »

    While the word “glitch” is often still used to connote catastrophic failure, videogamers have come to view glitches opportunistically, as chances to intervene in game texts in ways unforeseen (and often unforeseeable) by their developers. My presentation draws on a variety of game glitches and the alternate modes of textual navigation they enable... | Read on »

This summer school will investigate methods to communicate complex environmental objects such as climate change, habitation, or the human body as a structurally open spaces inhabited by microscopic life forms in competition or symbiosis with non living objects. In addition, nano processes are being offered as solutions for large-scale geoengineering of the planet for climate... | Read on »

“Houses of the Nobility and Gentry”: Big Houses of County Galway  

  Programme  10AM: Welcome 10.10-11.15: Researchers’ Panel Olivia Martin: West of Ireland Landed Estates collections as sources for women’s lives Joe Murphy: The Redington Papers: Insight into a 19th Clarinbridge estate Ann O’Riordan: Hearnesbrook House & Estate, Killimor 11.15-11.45 Coffee/Tea 11.45-12.30 Landed Estates resources in practice Geraldine Curtin: Family History in estate archives:  the Wilson-Lynch... | Read on »