The Whitaker Institute for Innovation and Societal Change on Thursday, 6th June will host its fourth annual PhD Forum in the Hardiman Research Building at NUI Galway. The Forum is a one-day event for PhD students, which aims to provide students with a day to interact and network with each other, to... | Read on »
Dr Charlotte McIvor (Drama and Theatre Studies), Dr. Pádraig Mac Neela, Dr Siobhán O’Higgins & Kate Dawson (School of Psychology) Abstract This talk theorises the signature approach of the Active Consent programme team comprised of researchers from Psychology, Health Promotion, and Drama and Theatre Studies in relationship to the current policy and educational... | Read on »
Talk by Moore Visiting Fellow Bridget English Bio: Dr. Bridget English is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She received her PhD in English from Maynooth University in Ireland, where she also lectured. She is a specialist in modern and contemporary Irish literature and culture, with particular research interests... | Read on »
We are delighted to host the Third Galway Conference of Irish Studies on the theme of home(s) in Irish Studies and extend a warm welcome to the Moore Institute community! Dr. Sindy Joyce will give our first plenary lecture, 'Mincéirí Cena: Travellers and Mobile Spaces, Home as a Place, Space and Mobility', on Friday... | Read on »
Organised by the Knowledge Discovery Unit (KDU) at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, the Moore Institute and the Lero Software Research Centre, NUI Galway. Running from the 10th – 14th of June at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, NUI Galway, Ireland, the KDU Visual Analytics Summer School will provide students, researchers, academics and... | Read on »
Talk by Moore Visiting Fellow Caroline Magennis ‘This talk will offer an overview of the depiction of Northern Irish skin in recent short story collections, particularly Bernie McGill’s Sleepwalkers (2013) and Roisin O’Donnell’s Wild Quiet (2016). Drawing on work by Laura Marks, Abbie Garrington, Virginia Woolf, Sara Ahmed and others, this paper seeks to... | Read on »
A participatory workshop for all engaged in institutional policy development with respect to digital and open teaching and learning. This workshop is open to all in Irish higher education, particularly those engaged in institutional policy development with respect to digital and open teaching and learning. Workshop participants will have... | Read on »
This workshop, led by Conor McCabe, author of Money (Sireacht): Longings for Another Ireland (2018), will look at writers such as Silvia Federici, Maria Mies, Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Nancy Fraser, and Selma James, and the application of their ideas and analysis to an Irish context in terms of combating the new enclosures of financialisation in... | Read on »
Jacopo Bisagni, Amrae Coluimb Chille: a critical edition, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (Early Irish Text Series, vol. I), Dublin 2019. Pp. xvi + 524. €35 https://books.dias.ie/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=9_41&products_id=398 Amrae Coluimb Chille is a complex and fascinating Old Irish text. A unique tour de force of... | Read on »
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 »
