University of Galway History Research Seminar Dr Caroline Dodds Pennock (University of Sheffield) Abstract Despite growing scholarly work to the contrary, the popular image of early modern Europe remains an extraordinarily white, ruffed and cod-pieced Tudor fantasy, where Indigenous, African and Asian people existed only as curiosities from distant lands. But, in reality, tens of... | Read on »

Applications are now open for the third of the CLS INFRA academic Training School events, “ExploreCor: Using Programmable Corpora in Computational Literary Studies". It is set to take place in Vienna June 10-12 2024, spanning three intensive days. This program covers some of the most important steps in the research cycle of Computational Literary Studies,... | Read on »

UrbanLab Galway invites you to an evening reception celebrating the Horizon Europe INSITU project that explores the role of the Creative and Cultural Industries in peripheral areas of Europe. We will also be welcoming our project partners from across Europe as they visit Galway. Monday 19 February. 5pm - 7 pm. O'Donoghue Centre, University of... | Read on »

Masterclass: Critical Media Art and the ‘Cloud’ A masterclass run by the Centre for Creative Technologies, with Dr Paul O'Neill of the ADAPT Centre for AI-Driven Technologies in UCD Join us for the next in the masterclass series run by the Centre for Creative Technologies. This talk will provide an overview of ‘critical’ media artists... | Read on »

University of Galway History Seminar: Alms-Collecting and Information Gathering: Spanish Franciscan Commissioners and the Global Expansion of Holy Land Devotion Professor Megan Armstrong (McMaster University) The next University of Galway History Research Seminar of the semester will take place at 4.00pm on Wednesday, 21 February 2024. The speaker will join us online, but colleagues are welcome... | Read on »

Launch of Bríd McGrath’s The Operations of the Irish House of Commons, 1613–48 (Four Courts Press, 2023) By Professor Nicholas Canny, MRIA, FBA Wednesday 21 February at 5.15pm Hardiman Research Building seminar room G010 This is the first account of the workings Irish House of Commons in the early Stuart period, a time of immense... | Read on »

School of Psychology Research Seminar: How to be an Academic in a World on Fire Talk & Hands-On Workshop Dr. Clare Kelly, Trinity College Dublin Monday 26th February 12:30-15:00 (lunch included) G065 AMBE, University of Galway Addressing the climate crisis requires radical and urgent action at all levels of society. Universities are ideally positioned to... | Read on »

ILAS International Research Training Series - 2023/24 Unlocking the Potential of Empirical Research:  An Introduction to R for Statistical Analysis and Data Visualisation  Description: This immersive research session goes through R programming, a powerful tool for statistical analysis, data manipulation, and visualisation. This session aims to showcase the versatility of R in empirical research, focusing... | Read on »

Co-Designing Socially Engaged Research: The Approach of Immersive Empathy Part of the Masterclasses @ Centre for Creative Technologies collection. Introducing the methods used on the Immersive Empathy project along with some of the ethical questions raised by socially engaged research. This event will also be streamed via Zoom – if you would prefer to attend online,... | Read on »

Launch: Building Children’s Futures: Using Children’s Rights to Recover from the Global Pandemic. The Children’s Report We are delighted to invite you to the launch of a new children’s research report, conducted by UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway in partnership with Foróige, and published as... | Read on »