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Future Landscapes Workshop: Enhancing Seen & Unseen Landscapes with Mixed Reality

Moore Institute Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway, Galway

UPDATE: Applications for the fee-waiver scholarships available via the Moore Institute and Galway 2020 are now closed Future Landscapes is an intensive four-week, full-time workshop created in conjunction with the School of Machines, Making and Make-Believe and Galway 2020. The aim of the workshop is to allow participants to develop the skills to explore the... | Read on »

Public meeting about Galway city Irish Language Plan- Cruinniú poiblí faoi Phlean Gaeilge chathair na Gaillimhe

Seminar Rooms G010 & G011, Hardiman Research Building

  A public meeting about the Galway City Irish Language Plan will be held on Tuesday May 7th at 7.30pm in rooms G010 & G011, Hardiman Research Building, National University of Ireland, Galway. The meeting aims to provide another chance to people in Galway to give their opinions about the Irish Language Plan being prepared... | Read on »

The School of Humanities Equality, Diversity and Progression (EDP) Committee – ‘Reflecting on past, present and ongoing issues’

Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building

11.00: Introductory Remarks: Professor Felix Ó Murchadha, Head of the School of Humanities 11.05: Panel One: Precarious Work, Progression and Equality Chair: Prof Lionel Pilkington Speakers: Maggie Ronayne (SIPTU), Karen Walsh, Ciara Murphy (PhD representative), Dr Felicity Maxwell (Moore Institute), Eibhlín Seoighthe (SU)  11.55: Tea/Coffee 12.05: Panel Two: Gender, Disability and Minority Groups Chair: Dr Andrew... | Read on »

Modernist Studies Ireland Works in Progress

Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building

    Tom Walker, Trinity College Dublin W.B. Yeats, Scholastic Aestheticism, and Cultural Authority in Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland Chris Collins, University of Nottingham ‘The man went queer in his head’: Synge and the cultural politics of mental health, 1871-1909 Refreshments will be served! Join us for exiting talks by two current Moore Institute Visiting Fellows. Part of... | Read on »

Gaelic Games on Film: From silent films to Hollywood hurling, horror and the emergence of Irish cinema-by Seán Crosson

Huston Main, Huston School of Film and Media

Introduced by Professor Philip Dine All welcome This study provides the first major monograph examination of filmic representations of Gaelic games, charting these representations from the earliest years of the twentieth century, including silent films such as Knocknagow (1918) to more recent productions Michael Collins (1996) and The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006). Among... | Read on »

MSCA Individual Fellowships 2019

Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building

  Dr. Geraldine Canny, NCP Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, and Dr. Emmett Marron, succesful MSCA Fellow, will give advice and tips for applicants submtting to the upcoming MSCA Individual Fellowship call closing on the 11th of September 2019. The presentations will start at 9:30am, followed by a Q&A, with the session finishing at 11:00am. This opportunity is not... | Read on »

Phantom Islands of the North Atlantic

Hardiman Research Building Room G011

                  In this talk award-winning poet and practice-led researcher J. R. Carpenter will present her research on an Island of Demons which appeared on maps off Newfoundland in the early 1500s. This research informs her current research at the Moore Institute on the islands of St Brendan... | Read on »

GREEN THINKING: HOW 20TH CENTURY BRITISH ENVIRONMENTAL LITERATURE SHAPES THE STORY OF CLIMATE CHANGE

Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building

The Gender ARC (Gender, Discourse and Identity) at the Moore Institute presents DR KELLY SULTZBACH, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, LA CROSSE US Fulbright Scholar through the Fulbright Inter-country Program               This talk considers how the experience of a muddy, apocalyptic war and the metroland octopus of suburban development influenced the... | Read on »

Cultural Climates – Public Seminar – ‘Fostering Art for Sustainability – Time for a New Cultural Policy?’

Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

   Iain Biggs, Flight/Paths: (Her bones…) 2018. Cultural Climates is a two-part lecture and public forum which explores how research and policy in relation to climate change can be engaged with across the cultural and arts sectors in Ireland today. In particular, it explores how culture and the arts are key to addressing issues associated... | Read on »