"Concepts of degeneration came to constitute one of the foremost expressions of state power as Ireland transitioned to a fully independent state with its own constitution between 1922 and 1937. During the Free State period, the framework of degeneration was profoundly manifest in the state’s framing and treatment of issues of moral and social hygiene,... | Read on »

1st EDEN All Island Interdisciplinary Conference Hosted by English and Drama Exchange Network (EDEN) at NUI Galway ‘2017: Pasts, Presents, and Futures’ at the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance We're also delighted to announce that registration for the conference is now OPEN! Click here to head over to register via Eventbrite: registration for... | Read on »

PI: Dr Miriam Haughton, O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Supported by: School of Humanities Research Incentivisation Scheme, the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, and Gender ARC. Registration: This is a free event but places are limited. To reserve a place, please email ‘miriam.haughton@nuigalway.ie’ by 5pm Thursday 18 May. Research topics under... | Read on »

  This two-day international conference aims at exploring and further promoting the complementarity between translation and book history with a particular focus on the international publishing panorama of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Keynote Speaker: Norbert Bachleitner (Universität Wien) Provisional programme and other information available on the conference website https://intersections2017.wordpress.com/    

World Literature and the Short Story in the 21st Century ‘Capitalism-in-Crisis and Narrating the World in Rana Dasgupta’s Tokyo Cancelled’ Dr Treasa De Loughry (Maynooth University)    

Room AM205, Arts Millennium Building, NUI Galway  14.00-15.30: Outline of roundtable workshop Maureen O’Sullivan (School of Law) ‘Patents, morality, biotech inventions and a role for participatory democracy’ – short presentation followed by discussion Su-Ming Khoo (School of Political Science and Sociology) ‘Bioethics, public ethics and collective capabilities’ Oliver Feeney (UNESCO Bioethics Ireland, COBRA) ‘Electronic health... | Read on »

UNESCO Bioethics Ireland, COBRA in conjunction with the NUI Galway Research Ethics Committee, NUIG Humanitarian work and disaster responses are increasingly encouraged to be evidence-based. For this and other reasons, more research and other evidence-generation activities are being conducted in disaster and humanitarian settings. This has led to attention to the ethical issues in such research, and how... | Read on »

You are cordially invited to the book launch of “Translation and Language in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: A European Perspective” (Palgrave 2017) by Anne O’Connor, School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures The book will be launched by Prof. Michael Cronin (DCU)  

The annual PhD research day of the Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway will be held on Monday May 29th. Huston currently has ten PhD students engaged in a variety of pioneering research projects, both traditional and practice-based. These include projects examining punk cinema, digital comics, what New Media can learn from... | Read on »

Joseph Twist (Galway/Limerick) - Joseph is interested in the intersection of philosophy, religion and literature. His current research focuses on the interaction between mystical and postmodern thought in the work of Zafer Şenocak, SAID, Feridun Zaimoglu and Navid Kermani (all contemporary German authors of varying Muslim backgrounds). He is particularly interested in the non-identitarian spirituality... | Read on »