1916 IN GLOBAL CONTEXT:CONNECTIONS AND COMPARISONSConference ProgrammeThursday 16th June -- Friday 17th June 2016Hardiman Research Building, NUI GalwayandNotre Dame Centre, Kylemore Abbey,ConnemaraOrganised by RÌ_isÌ_n Healy, Enrico Dal Lago and GearÌ_id Barry of History, NUI Galway Thursday 16th June: G010, Hardiman Building, Moore Institute, NUI Galway9.00 Registration 9.15 Opening Remarks by Jane Ohlmeyer, Chair of the... | Read on »

Dr. Justin Carville(Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art and Design and Moore Institute)Primitive Faces and Ungovernable Eyes:Racial Photography, Anthropology, and Counter-Visuality in Ireland 11.30 Thursday 16 June'The Bridge' Seminar Room 1001Hardiman Research Building

Prof. Peter Glazer (Berkeley) and Patrick Ball (musician)‰Û÷Musics of a Lost Kingdom: Yeats, Story and Song'The remarkable, crystalline sound of the wire strung harp (the clÌÊrsach) was at the centre of Irish culture and legend for 700 years, most famously in the playing of Turlough O'Carolan. Yet it was wholly absent from the Celtic Revival.... | Read on »

Moore Institute Visiting Fellow, Dr Salvatore Scifo presents a talk :' The origins and development of community radio in Britain under New Labour (1997 - 2007)'.Monday, 20th June @ 11am in The Bridge, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building.

Dr Dalene M. Swanson, University of Stirling Dalene is an educationalist and her research expertise spans (reconceptualist) curriculum perspectives, mathematics education, critical cultural studies, ethical internationalisation, democracy in education, and social and ecological justice. She is interested broadly in critical, ideological and socio-political perspectives in education and society, and mostly writes from poststructural and de/post-colonial... | Read on »

The Moore Institute at NUIG, SUAS and IDEA are delighted to invite you to a one-day workshop on Inclusion and Exclusion in Global Citizenship Education. The workshop will be held at the Moore Institute, National University of Ireland Galway, on Monday 27 June, 10:45 am - 3:45 pm. The aim of the day is to... | Read on »

CONFERENCE PROGRAMMEWEDNESDAY 29 JUNE 2016Venue Institute for Lifecourse and Society (ILAS), NUI Galway11:30 - 13:45 UNISCAPE GENERAL ASSEMBLYVenue: LCI - G006 Seminar Room 513:00 REGISTRATION OPENS Venue: Foyer, ILAS, NUI Galway14:00 CONFERENCE LAUNCHVenue: LCI-G018, ILAS, NUI GalwayConor Newman School of Geography and Archaeology, NUI GalwayTim Collins Centre for Landscape Studies, NUI Galway Nessa Cronin Centre... | Read on »

Place, Identity & Conflict: The West of Ireland in War & Revolution, 1913-19 This upcoming conference explores War and Revolution in the West of Ireland between 1913 and 1918. The conference runs for two days on Friday and Saturday 1/2 July in the Aula Maxima, NUIG. All talks are free and open to the public.Identity... | Read on »

6th International Conference on the Science of Computus in the Middle AgesOld Moore Institute, NUI Galway, 8-10 July 2016Friday 8 July16:00-18:00 - Session 1: Liber Nemroth Barbara Obrist (Geneva) Nemroth's cosmology and computus in the 12th centuryDavid Juste (Munich) The lost astrological chapters of the Liber Nemroth and the origin of the textPhilipp Nothaft (Oxford)... | Read on »

Towards a World Literature Network Seeding Event Series Special Topic: Women and World Literature21st July 2016 - Seminar Room GO10, Hardiman Research Building.Recent debates surrounding the definition and scope of world literature have sparked a resurgence of interest in the concept of the disciplinary boundaries of literary studies. This resurgence has been amplified by questions... | Read on »