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Naming the Traces: (Re)Constructing an Irish-Canadian Family Narrative of Emigration, Place-Making, and Return

Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom

Irish Studies’ Seminar Series-Spring 2021 – School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies, in association with the Moore Institute, NUI Galway. On what narrative, mnemonic, and spatial scaffolding is an intergenerational family story built? How, as writers and historians, can we access the family memories that inform these stories, and reconstruct the past, despite the gaps and... | Read on »

J. M. Synge and Performance Traditions

Online

Panel discussion and launch of Hélène Lecossois's Performance, Modernity and the Plays of J. M. Synge (Cambridge, 2020). Panellists Alice Maher (Artist) Adrian Paterson (NUI Galway) Shaun Richards (Staffordshire University) Registration To attend, please register via: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XxVRKRs7S7O6w5R7jgyGUQ Session Recordings Video Recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HyPNQ7R6ok Audio Recording

W.J.T. Mitchell: Present Tense 2020 – On the Iconology of Time

Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom

In an anachronistic gathering of images of time from ancient and modern sources, the lecture attempts to replace the ontology of time with an iconology that may provide some useful tools for keeping our bearings in the midst of our epoch. Respondents Jeannine Kraft (Columbus College of Art and Design, Ohio, USA), Nessa Cronin (Irish... | Read on »

W.J.T. Mitchell: Art, Community, and Resistance

Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom

This lecture will survey the role of activist artistic practices in a number of different sites, including demonstrations, murals, exhibitions, archives, and educational facilities. » Scat/Rap Counterpoint Respondents Timothy Stott (Trinity College Dublin), El Putnam (Huston School of Film and Digital Media, NUI Galway) Registration Register for this Zoom Webinar via https://tinyurl.com/3zr7jfhk. The session will also... | Read on »

CAMPS: 8th International Conference on the Science of Computus in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, 17-19 June 2021

Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom

8th International Conference on the Science of Computus in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Galway 17-19 June 2021 Since 2006, the Moore Institute of the National University of Ireland in Galway has hosted, under the direction of Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, a biannual conference on the science of computus in the Middle Ages. Computus – the mathematics... | Read on »

Imagining inclusivity: The role of language in an increasingly diverse Ireland

Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom

This workshop is designed to facilitate dialogue between academics, policymakers, practitioners, and NGOs in imagining a more inclusive Ireland, and the role that language plays in how we envisage this inclusivity. The event stems from the project ‘Languages, Families, and Society’ (LaFS) at NUI Galway, which uses an ethnographic approach to understand more about the... | Read on »

Learning from Covid-19: How Science Can Help Build Global Resilience Against Future Pandemics (hosted by the British Embassy Dublin in partnership with the Royal Irish Academy)

Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom

British Embassy Glencairn Conversations, in partnership with the Royal Irish Academy. Ambassador Paul Johnston and RIA President Mary Canning invite you to hear UK and Irish perspectives on applying the lessons from Covid 19 to strengthen our preparedness for future pandemics on 5 July 2021. G7 leaders, meeting in Cornwall, committed to strengthening our collective... | Read on »

Reimagining Humanitarianism in an Age of Global Solidarity: Interrogating Power Structures in Aid and Multilateral Institutions

Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom

What does it mean to embody a lived approach to global solidarity and equal partnership in humanitarian action and advocacy? This workshop, organised by Dóchas and the School of History & Philosophy at NUI Galway, brings together leading voices from the worlds of professional humanitarianism, diplomacy, activism and academia in conversation on three key areas:... | Read on »

Sport & Exercise Research Group Seminar Series: “Sport and Film: An American Dream?”

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

Sport and Film: An American Dream? Dr. Seán Crosson (Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway) In the first lecture of this year's Sport & Exercise Research Group seminar series, Dr. Seán Crosson will chart the history of sport cinema internationally and examine the important role the genre has played in the United States in popularising... | Read on »

Society for Folk Life Studies Annual Conference

Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom

The Society for Folk Life Studies  Online Annual Conference  Galway, Republic of Ireland  10-12 September 2021 **Music, dance, song, story and related artefacts** **Vernacular buildings and interiors**   The conference will be accessed by Zoom and hosted by The Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway (Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies... | Read on »