Organisers: Dr.s Anna Gasperini and Paul Raphael Rooney Keynote speakers: Ms Sarah Wise, Author - Mr Gilbert’s weird psychological novel’: Shirley Hall Asylum and Victorian states of mind; Mr Alexander Black, Department of Anatomy, NUI Galway - The Early Years of Anatomy in Galway (this keynote will be in NUI Galway’s Anatomy Lecture Theatre) Background The internationally recognised Victorian Popular... | Read on »

Current perspectives on the Anthropocene are reformulating Michel Foucault’s biopolitical paradigm, introducing a discourse on geopower and animistic states of nature that account for the political agency of unfamiliar webs of life and nonlife.​   Federico Luisetti is an Italian philosopher and professor of Italian Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is... | Read on »

  Brian Dolber is Assistant Professor of Communication at California State University, San Marcos. He is a historian of media and the labour movement in the United States, and studies communications policymaking in the neoliberal, digital age. Dr. Dolber has been a longtime labour activist and served as staff for three different unions in the... | Read on »

The Moore Institute in association with The School of Education are pleased to host a seminar on Researching Disasters by Professor William M (Bill) Taylor  Histories, representations and ethics of catastrophe This seminar draws on my research over a number of years, on different projects and building histories that all seem to involve disasters of... | Read on »

Galway Centenary Conversations: War & Revolution Roadshow This summer will see a series of free public history events around the County organised by NUI Galway, GMIT, local history societies and Galway County Council as part of its Decade of Commemoration strategy (2013-23). Galway Centenary Conversations: War & Revolution Roadshow will take place in Tuam, Craughwell,... | Read on »

Election Special!  The Moore Institute will host a snap event to discuss the UK election, Northern Ireland, France, and more!  With contributions from Jane Conroy, Eoin Daly, Niall Ó Dochartaigh, and others.  Thursday, June 15th at 12 noon  Moore Institute seminar room (G010) Hardiman Research Building   All welcome!    

Huston School of Film & Digital Media (NUI Galway) are delighted to welcome Joseph McBride, author of the award-winning biography Searching for John Ford (2001) for a public lecture at the school entitled  "John Ford, Irish-American Poet and Comedian”. McBride's talk will take place on Thursday June 15th at 7pm, is free and open to all. “If there is... | Read on »

Migration and the Humanities: Critical Challenges  16-17 June 2017  Moore Institute NUIG/ Irish Humanities Alliance Migration – and its social, cultural, political, and economic consequences – represents one of the most significant issues facing Europe today. This conference will draw together scholars from humanities disciplines such as art history; geography; history; literature; modern languages; politics;... | Read on »

Introduction to Modelling Decision Making – Monday 19th of June, 2-5pm Computer Lab, Arts Millennium Building (Psychology) The development of clearly defined models of human behaviour enables us to translate theoretical concepts into precise hypotheses for experimental work. This workshop is an introduction to the practice of cognitive modelling focusing on decision making. How do we... | Read on »

Irish-Austrian Exchanges on the Stage: Performing the Archive with Dr. Vicky Angelaki What does it mean to perform the archive? The lived historiography of theatre captures the embodied experience rather than logging decorporealised data. The archive is performed in two ways: first synchronically, as lived history is created through our staging and spectatorial choices and... | Read on »