HDCA THEMATIC GROUP ON HUMAN SECURITY WEBINAR: New Threats to Human Security in the Anthropocene 12 April 2022, 1400-1600 GMT (0900-1100 EDT) The Human Development Report Office of the UNDP published in February this year its Special Report on Human Security: New Threats to Human Security in the Anthropocene (https://hdr.undp.org/en/2022-human-security-report). This major report of 188... | Read on »

We would like to invite you to the Launch of: Legacies of the Magdalen Laundries: Commemoration, gender and the postcolonial carceral state Edited by Miriam Haughton, Mary McAuliffe, and Emilie Pine Guest Speaker: Catherine Connolly, T.D Chair: Professor Dan Carey, Moore Institute, NUI Galway 40% Launch Discount Code: ‘MAGDALEN40’, valid online at Manchester University Press until... | Read on »

What makes ancient myths so appealing to the modern imagination? Beyond the search for the texts themselves in tablets, scrolls, and manuscripts, new translations and retellings of ancient myths populate the best-seller lists around the world. “Gilgamesh in Conversation” is a round-table interview with Marina Carr (writer, Macnas presents Gilgamesh), Michael Clarke (author, Achilles Beside... | Read on »

The three volume set from Presses Universitaires de Rennes marks the culmination of the Columbanus: Life and Legacy Project (C. Newman & M. Stansbury; PRTLI and Mellon Foundation) and its international iteration Making Europe: Columbanus and His Legacy launched in 2010. Scholars from Ireland, France, Italy, Switzerland, the UK and America contribute over 60 papers... | Read on »

You are cordially invited to the inaugural lecture of the Centre for the Study of Religion at NUI Galway, in association with the Moore Institute Opening Remarks Professor Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh, President, NUI Galway Professor Dan Carey, Director, Moore Institute Guest Speaker Professor Robert Orsi, Northwestern University ‘After Violence, An Experience of God’s Presence: An Introduction... | Read on »

The “Irish Highlands”: Alexander Nimmo, Coastal Environments and Travel in Nineteenth-Century Connemara by Dr Anna Pilz, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh (2020-2022) with a 3-month secondment in Irish Studies at the Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway (March-May 2022). Abstract Travel texts from... | Read on »

What would we like Ireland to look like in 2030? In what kind of society do we want to live, on both sides of the Border? This seems like a simple question. 2030 is just eight years away, so surely politicians, intellectuals, journalists, and the public are busy imagining our future. But this is not... | Read on »

The Creative Futures research team invites you to attend the third of our series of work-in-progress sessions. These are intended as an informal space in which colleagues can share their latest research and think through how it might connect to Creative Futures themes and methods. We have scheduled two exciting mini-presentations from colleagues across a... | Read on »

NUI Galway Library Book Launch Theatre and Archival Memory: Irish Drama and Marginalised Histories 1951-1977 By Dr. Barry Houlihan  Launched by Professor Lionel Pilkington, NUI Galway Guest Speaker – Lelia Doolan Refreshments Provided

"Victorian Town and Gown Prostitution: Cambridge Spinning House and the Domestication of 'Fallen Women'" by Dr. Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz (University of Málaga, Spain) Registration To register, please email sarah-anne.buckley@nuigalway.ie