PROFESSOR MICK MOLONEY Music Department New York University (NYU)Arts in Action in association withTHE MOORE INSTITUTEMick Moloney combines the careers of professional musician, folklorist, musicologist, teacher and arts presenter and advocate. He holds a Ph.D. in Folklore and Folklife from the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught ethnomusicology, folklore and Irish studies courses at the... | Read on »
Discipline of German, NUIG Maria Elsner, will read, in German, from MÌÁn'arÌ_la-Trilogy Maria Elsner started to write her first novel Das BÌ_ndnis von MÌÁn'rÌ_la - Die Sprache des Feuers ("The Alliance of MÌÁn'rÌ_la - The Language of Fire") when she was 12. After three years of work the book was published and in 2015 the... | Read on »
Gender ARC Public Lecture - Autumn 2014 Martine Storti ‰Û÷Enjeux de la question des femmes au XXI̬me si̬cle en France et dans le monde' ******* Martine Storti is an author, leading activist in the women's movement in France, and a former philosophy teacher, journalist and political advisor. Her books and essays include : Un chagrin... | Read on »
Archaeology research seminar series:Lynda McCormack on:Negotiating the Liminal at Knowth - "A Study of Space and Ritual in the Boyne Valley"All welcome!maggie.ronayne@nuigalway.ie
Invitation to Book Launch You are cordially invited to the launch of Ovidian Bibliofictions and the Tudor Book by Dr. Lindsay Reid, School of Humanities, on Tuesday, November 18th at 5:30pm, Room G010, Hardiman Research Building. The book will be launched by Dr. Jane Grogan, Senior Lecturer in English at UCD and former NUI Fellow... | Read on »
Language Games is a seminar dedicated to all matters relating to language and literature, including linguistics, translation, language instruction, and literary experiments and their reception.All WelcomeOrganisers:Irina Ruppo Malone (English/Academic Writing Centre, James Hardiman Library)irina.ruppo@nuigalway.ieSiobhan Purcell (English)siobhanmpurcell@gmail.com
Geraldine Curtin(Hardiman Library, NUIG),G010Straitjackets and ribbons: Discipline in early Irish reformatories. for more information please contact caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie
Merrion Press, the Centre for Irish Studies & the Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour and Class request the pleasure of your company at a reception to celebrate the launch ofCaptain Jack White Imperialism, anarchism & the Irish Citizen armybyLeo keohaneWith Special Guest Speaker PÌÁdraig yeates Journalist, trade unionist and author of the definitive... | Read on »
Verne Harris, Director of Research and Archive at the Nelson Mandela Foundationlecture onPost-Apartheid, Post Mandela. Verne Harris offers a reflection on reckoning with pasts and making futures in South Africa. He interrogates inter alia the country's continuing transition to democracy, the unfinished work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the legacy of Nelson Mandela.... | Read on »
Department of Archaeology guest speakerProfessor Mike Parker Pearson from the Institute of Archaeology at University College London will lecture on:The Bronze Age Mummies of Cladh Hallan, Outer HebridesAll welcome!for more information please contact maggie.ronayne@nuigalway.ie
