Drama Theatre and Performance speaker series: Anne Clarke (Landmark Productions), "Producing and/as Innovation" Landmark Productions is one of Ireland's leading theatre producers. Established by Anne Clarke ten years ago, the company produces wide-ranging and ambitious work in Ireland and tours Irish work abroad. In the past decade, the company has produced eighteen plays, including six... | Read on »

History Graduate Research Seminar SeriesCiaran O Murchadha, The Great Famine: historiographical challenges. FÌÁilte roimh cÌÁchfor more information please contact caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie

NUI Galway Research Office Seminar Series In conjunction with the Moore Institute, the Research Office is pleased to present: Writing an ERC Advanced Grant Application by Professor Michael Woods, Advanced ERC Awardee Professor of Human Geography & Professor of Transformative Social Science at Aberystwyth University, Co-Director of the ESRC WISERD/Civil Society Research Centre 12.30pm, Thursday,... | Read on »

Journalism ScreeningTitle: Media Pranks: From Welles to the Yes Men Details: October 30th 1938 saw one of the most celebrated media hoaxes of all time, when a young radio director, Orson Welles, broadcast an adaptation of HG Wells' War of the Worlds. We will listen to this iconic radio broadcast, and examine it in relation... | Read on »

School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures Italian Studies The Culture of Italian Music: Opera and Colonialism Prof. Paolo Bartoloni: Introduction Mario Inglese: The Italian Language and Opera: Verdi and Puccini Alessandro Luchetti: The Music of Italian Colonization in Africa: Racism and Sexism Mario Inglese's talk will focus on some traits of Italian as employed in... | Read on »

THREESIS: Open Your Mind...and Get to the Point!!Join us as NUI Galway researchers use their 3 minutes to Get to the Point and Open Your Mind!Come along and support your colleagues!Grand Final Threesis 2015 For more information please contact ena.brophy@nuigalway.ie

Nietzsche Symposium at NUI, Galway: The Galway Nietzsche Symposium is a one-day event that brings together academics and advanced graduate students working on Nietzsche from John Cabot University Rome, NUI Galway and University College Cork. It is an open event and formal registration is not required. 10.30 - 11.30 Tom Bailey (John Cabot University, Rome)... | Read on »

Fanch Bihan-Gallic (Old & Middle Irish & Celtic Studies, NUIG) 'Burial islands in Scotland and the Celtic Watery Journey to the Afterlife'Followed by discussion & light lunchEveryone welcome - FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁchFor more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie

Journalism ScreeningPranksters, media manipulation, and more On the 77th anniversary of the broadcast of Orson Welles' classic adaptation of War of the Worlds, we'll listen to the broadcast, watch material from contemporary media pranksters The Yes Men, and discuss a range of related issues, from media hoaxes to message framing in social activism. For more... | Read on »

Lunchtime Seminar Series: The OHCHR Investigation on Sri Lanka: the catharsis moment for the protection and promotion of human rights or business as usual?by Mr. Glyn Morgan and Mr. Thamil Venthan Ananthavinayagan, LL.M. (Maastricht) Glyn served in the British Army and British Police before spending six years in the Office of the Prosecutor at International... | Read on »