Dr Peter Crooks (Trinity College Dublin)  Antiquaries, Archivists and the Origins of an Historical Profession in Ireland: Perspectives from the Beyond 2022 Project  Speaker Biography Dr Peter Crooks is Founding Director of Beyond 2022: Ireland’s Virtual Record Treasury, an all-island and international collaboration to create a virtual reality reconstruction of the Public Record Office of Ireland,... | Read on »

This is an in-person event held in the Hardiman Research Building's Bridge Seminar Room, THB-1001 (1st floor). About this event Humanitarian expressions of solidarity during the Cold War: a comparison of how the volatile security situation in Honduras conditioned the engagements of Oxfam and Médecins Sans Frontières with the principle of neutrality in the Salvadoran... | Read on »

"An Uneven Score: Gender Balance Investigation for Publicly Funded Composer Opportunities on the Island of Ireland (2004-2019)" by Laura Watson (Dept. of Music, Maynooth University) and Michael Lydon (Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway) Laura and Michael will speak on “An Uneven Score: Gender Balance Investigation for Publicly Funded Composer Opportunities on the Island of... | Read on »

CALM seminar: The CEFR at 20: What have we gained from it? Dr Dorothy Ní Uigín, NUI Galway The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages was developed by the Council of Europe in the 1990s and published officially in 2001, with its principal aim being to establish transparency in language competency.  While the CEFR... | Read on »

Prof. Brian Arkins (Discipline of Classics, emeritus) is scheduled to give a talk at 5pm on Thursday 31 March 5pm in room AMB-G065. "Modern Literary Theory and the Classics" All welcome!

Book Launch The NGO Moment: The Globalisation of Compassion from Biafra to Live Aid  (Cambridge University Press, 2021) by Dr Kevin O’Sullivan (Lecturer in History, NUI Galway) Guest Speakers Michaël Neuman (Director of Studies at Centre de Réflexion sur l'Action et les Savoirs Humanitaires, Médecins sans Frontières) Professor Silvia Salvatici (Professor of Contemporary History, University... | Read on »

We will be running a third reading group session on April 6th, which will look at the topic of “Anticipatory Memory” and will be facilitated by Dr Kevin O’Sullivan from the History Department. We will read the following text: Rob Nixon, 'All Tomorrow's Warnings', Sydney Review of Books, 18 Sept. 2020 https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/review/the-future-we-choose/ The reading group... | Read on »

This is an in-person event held in the Hardiman Research Building’s Bridge Seminar Room, THB-1001 (1st floor). About this event Anna Tulin-Brett & Niall Ó Dochartaigh: Appropriating peace theory: encounters between peacemaking practice and conflict resolution theory in Northern Ireland. Conflict resolution originated as an activist discipline, but theorists of peace and conflict transformation have... | Read on »

Samuel Fisher (Asst. Professor, Department of History, Catholic University of America) The Gaelic and Indian Origins of the American Revolution Samuel Fisher is author of The Gaelic and Indian Origins of the American Revolution: Diversity and Empire in the British Atlantic, 1688-1783, which will appear with Oxford University Press in July. This paper summarises the... | Read on »

An online webinar on 8th April and conference this Autumn, hosted by NUI Galway as part of the Decade of Centenaries Programme. Message from President Michael D. Higgins; Collaboration between Traveller activists and allies and the National University of Ireland Galway, welcomed by university president, Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh; Supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture,... | Read on »