Creative Futures at the University of Galway and the Futures Thinking Forum invite you to participate in Harnessing the Arts for Futures Thinking and Planning Incorporating new tools and methods for thinking about and planning for different possible futures is increasingly a key feature of work across a variety of sectors in Ireland, including the... | Read on »

Irish writers have long been at the forefront of formal experimentation in English-language fiction. Now, a hundred years after James Joyce and Samuel Beckett shattered expectations of the conventional novel, Irish writers are asking new questions about what fiction is capable of doing. Their works represent remarkable innovations in the representation of subjectivity, identity, and... | Read on »

Professor Enrico Dal Lago  (University of Galway) Empires, Workers, and Saints: 'Progressive Imperialism’, Working Class Radicalism, and the Rise of New Millennial Cults in the 1870s    Abstract This paper argues that, by the late 1860s-early 1870s, the previously widespread Euro-American worldview that had combined the cause of nation-building with the cause of progress had... | Read on »

Inbetween Worlds: Fashioning Bodies in the Metaverse Prof. Yvonne Förster (Shanxi University Taiyuan, China and Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany) Yvonne Förster works in philosophy of fashion and technology. She reflects on the influence of digital technology on fashion design and the way bodies/identities are constructed and deconstructed in the interplay of virtual and material dimensions.... | Read on »

'Frankfurt School: Passion, Profanation, Apocalypse' Symposium This one-day symposium will consider the legacy of the Frankfurt School, marking the centenary of the establishment of the Institute for Social Research (Institut für Sozialforschung). The contributors will explore the contemporary relevance of the passions and aspirations of the Frankfurt School scholars. This event is free to attend... | Read on »

“What has happened to this house?” Brian Friel and His Mother’s People Breandán Mac Suibhne Acadamh na hOllscolaiochta Gaeilge   Moderator: Daniel Carey, Director, Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies

The School of Political Science & Sociology is organizing a half-day public event on EU public diplomacy, with the occasion of the recent publication of the Special Issue ‘Global Perspectives on European Union Public Diplomacy’ in the Journal of Contemporary European Studies, co-edited by Dr Evans Fanoulis (University of Galway) and Dr Weiqing Song (University... | Read on »

School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures Research Day In memory of Dr. Mel Boland To join online: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/97191090627   Programme (pdf file available here SLLC Research Day Programme) 9.30 Welcome and Opening Remarks: Rebecca Braun (Dean, CASSCS) Chaosheng Zhang (Vice-Dean Research, CASSCS) Anne O’Connor (Chair, Research Committee SLLC) 9.45-10.45 Session 1: Humour Chair: Pilar Alderete... | Read on »

Ukraine’s Fight for Survival Lessons & future Prospects - a Roundtable Discussion with the Ukrainian, Polish and Lithuanian Ambassadors to Ireland After 420 days of heroic resistance, a free Ukraine still manages to exist although having paid an extraordinary price in suffering. This in person event brings the three Ambassadors to Ireland, from Ukraine, Poland... | Read on »