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 »

Professor Catherine Manathunga, Victoria University, Melbourne and Moore Institute Fellow Irish universities such as Trinity College Dublin, the three Queen’s Colleges of Cork, Galway and Belfast and the Catholic University of Ireland in Dublin served as key models for the development of early Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand universities.  They also contributed many academics to... | Read on »

The purpose of this two day international conference is to explore the myriad experiences of agrarian reform and resistance that characterized rural regions of Europe and the Americas, whether based on either free or unfree labour, between 1815 and 1914. In this period, the economic changes associated with the influence of the Industrial Revolution transcended... | Read on »

Pier Paolo Pasolini has theorized the irrational, oneiric, elementary, and barbaric elements of audiovisual communication. I will connect Pasolini’s reflection on cinema with his posthumous novel Petrolio, and show how Petrolio’s “demoniac technique” addresses contemporary capitalism’s “cosmic crisis”.   Federico Luisetti is an Italian philosopher and professor of Italian Studies at the University of North Carolina at... | Read on »

Sport & Exercise Research Group Monthly Research Seminar, Wednesday June 7, 1pm, Moore Institute   ‘From there to here’: Narratives of Transition, Migration and National Identity in Irish Media Representations of Rugby Union in the Professional Era Dr. Marcus Free (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick)     Irish media representation of rugby union in... | Read on »