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Insular Manuscripts. Networks of Knowledge, Now & Then: Digital Potential. 

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

This event, the second of three international workshops funded by The Leverhulme Trust, is being hosted by Professor Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, one of 6 Co-Investigators on the project. The first workshop was held in April 2018 in London, and the third will be held in Vienna in June 2019. The project focuses on the corpus... | Read on »

Glossing cultural change: Comparative perspectives on manuscript annotation, c. 600–1200 CE

Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

Glossing, the practice of annotating manuscripts between the lines and/or in the margins, was a widespread cultural practice wherever books were being read, studied and taught. As an indication of this, the Network for the Study of Glossing currently has 85 members with research interests in glossed manuscripts written in Arabic, Breton, Chinese, German, Greek, Egyptian, English,... | Read on »

New Professors’ Inaugural Lecture Series with Professor Niamh Reilly: The social and political thought of Tom Kettle: Recovering a distinctive Irish Thinker

Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

The social and political thought of Tom Kettle: Recovering a distinctive Irish Thinker Tom Kettle (1880-1916) is not very well known in Ireland today. Yet, historian Senia Pašeta notes he ‘was associated with almost every major political and cultural development’ during his lifetime. He was a gifted public intellectual, essayist, journalist, nationalist MP (1906-1910) and... | Read on »

Laser-scanning and Photogrammetry Workshop

Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building

Laser-scanning and Photogrammetry Workshop                             Hosted by Discipline of Archaeology, School of Geography and Archaeology, NUI Galway Presented by Gary Devlin Discovery Programme (Centre for Archaeology and Innovation Ireland, Dublin) Joe Fenwick Discipline of Archaeology (School of Geography and Archaeology, NUI Galway)... | Read on »

Open Discussion: Online Culture Wars

Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

Since Angela Nagle published her book Kill All Normies: The Online Culture Wars from Tumblr and 4chan to the Alt-Right and Trump (2017), in which Nagle investigates how right-wing internet activists have declared war on so-called “Social Justice Warriors”, things have not calmed down. Instead such attacks are slowly and steadily seeping into the mainstream.... | Read on »

European Health Psychology Conference

The Bailey Allen Hall

The National University of Ireland Galway is delighted to host the 2018 annual conference of the European Health Psychology from the 21st – 25th of August 2018. The 2018 conference is the 32nd EHPS annual conference. The conference theme is Health Psychology Across the Lifespan: Uniting Research, Practice and Policy. Please find more information on:... | Read on »