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Open Rehearsal: Come Dance With Me in Ireland: A Pilgrimage to Yeats Country by Patrick Ball and Peter Glazer (Visiting Fellows)

O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studio 1, NUI Galway

Open Rehearsal Come Dance With Me in Ireland: A Pilgrimage to Yeats Country Featuring Patrick Ball, Celtic Harp  A new play with music by Moore Institute fellows Patrick Ball and Peter Glazer in the O'Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance 24th of May (Thursday) at 12pm. Please join us for an open rehearsal of... | Read on »

‘Textual problems in the Epistula ad Dardanum.’ by Olivier Szerwiniack ( Visiting Fellow from Université de Picardie Jules Verne)

The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway

Olivier Szerwiniack talk is part of Dr.Jacopo Bisagni event: ‘On the ten-stringed psaltery’: musical instruments as symbols in the Middle Ages. Olivier Szerwiniack will talk about the textual problems of the short letter known as Epistula ad Dardanum de diversis generibus musicorum (Letter to Dardanus about different kinds of musical instruments).

Welfare Histories Reading Group.

The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway

The Welfare Histories Reading Group provides a forum for staff and postgraduate students to discuss ideas of poverty, development, and ‘improvement’ in a global historical context. Our interests are very diverse, and we would very much welcome the involvement of new members from any discipline. Our next meeting is on 29th May, when we will... | Read on »

From Voice to Resonance: Distrupting Symbolic Violence Through Liberatory Arts Research by Alison Baker (Visiting Fellow from Victoria University, Australia)

The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway

Drawing on a research collaboration with New Change, an arts collective of young African Australian women in Melbourne’s west, I explore youth voice and resonance in the context of racialised symbolic violence. Through the lens of liberation psychology, this talk will explore how arts and cultural practices, particularly sound, can create disruptions and dialogue.

Modernist Studies Ireland

The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway

This semester’s final session of NUI Galway’s research forum for Modernist Studies Ireland, ‘Works in Progress’, takes place on 30 April, 5-6 pm, in the Bridge Room. IRC Postgraduate Scholar Melinda Szűts will be talking about the influence of early modern theatre spaces on the development of Irish stagecraft at the turn of the century,... | Read on »

Living The Stories We Create: Education in the age of Post-truth by Ellen McCabe (Visiting Fellow, Independent Scholar)

The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway

Narrative forms, play a vital role in human enrichment and development. Through them we acquire a sense not only of our environment, but of our own identity. The recent shift from a society dominated by print, to one where digital media prevails invites us to consider the consequences for storytelling. What new stories have grown... | Read on »

Irish architectural history and classical traditions by Dr Judith Hill (Moore Institute Visiting Fellow 2017-18 and Irish Studies’ Scholar)

The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway

Irish architectural history and classical traditions by Dr Judith Hill (Moore Institute Visiting Fellow 2017-18 and Irish Studies’ Scholar) - ‘Keep the past for pride’: What role did classicism play in the making of commemorative monuments in newly Independent Ireland? Dr Hill will be joined on the day by Dr Pádraic Moran (Classics) who will... | Read on »

‘The History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland’ Annual Conference

Seminar Rooms G010 & G011, Hardiman Research Building

The 2018 H-WRBI Annual Conference will take place at the National University of Ireland (NUI), Galway at  the Moore Institute on Thursday 7 June and Friday 8 June. Please see programme for the event on the following link: https://historyofwomenreligious.org/conf_programme/  Call for Papers The conference will explore the history of women religious across a broad chronological timeframe,... | Read on »

Violence, Space, and The Political – Critical theory conference

The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway

Violence, Space, and The Political - Critical theory conference Hosted by the Power, Conflict and Ideologies Research Cluster, School of Political science and Sociology In this, multi-disciplinary, conference we wish to think through the imbrications of violence, space, and the political. Given that our present conjuncture is one constituted by innumerable sites of apartheid, exclusion,... | Read on »