Global women's Studies and Gender ARC are pleased to invite you to a lunchtime seminar: 'Reproductive health and rights: Ireland and India, historical and contemporary struggles' With guest speakers Dorothea Melvin - pioneer in the Irish movement for access to contraception and the establishment of the Galway Family Planning Association in the 1970s and Lakshmi... | Read on »

THREESIS: Open Your Mind...and Get to the Point!! Join us as NUI Galway researchers use their 3 minutes to Get to the Point and Open Your Mind! James Curry (Moore Institute & History) and EilÌ_s NÌ_ Dh̼ill (Gaeilge) will participate in this week‰۪s heat. Next week‰۪s heat on November 26th will feature presentations from EilÌ_s... | Read on »

Performance MattersIrish Theatre Discussion Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/ For more information please contact lisa.fitzgerald@nuigalway.ie or m.nichualain5@nuigalway.ie All theatre practitioners, theorists and students are welcome to attend For more information please email PerformanceMattersNUIG@gmail.com.

Digital Scholarship Seminar, November 2013. 12-2pm, Wednesday 20 November, Moore Institute Seminar Room. The second event of the Autumn/Winter series of DSS is a lunchtime seminar featuring presentations from researchers in English and Huston School (abstracts below): Ciara Griffin (English). ‰Û÷The Author is Glitched: Media-Specificity and the Non-Western Writer.‰۪ Hilary Dully (Huston School). ‰Û÷Digital Issues... | Read on »

Laura O'Brien The Bishop on the Barricades: French commemorations of the death of Archbishop Denis Affre, 1848-1871

Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour & Class Moore Institute, NUI Galway Inaugural conference Arts Humanities and Social Science Reserach Building (new extension) 21-22 November 2013 Round One: THURSDAY 21 NOVEMBER, 9.00 ‰ÛÒ 10.30 Panel 1: Irish working life and politics: (i) Primitive rebels Gary Hussey (NUI Galway), ‰Û÷Agrarian secret societies and a moral... | Read on »

If you like gossiping, poetry, languages, puns, puzzles, jokes, double entendres or even avant-garde tomes, you might like Finnegans Wake. Despite its scurrilous critical reputation, James Joyce's final workis not as difficult as it would first appear and,when read as part of a group, can be a hugely rewarding experience. It is our hope to... | Read on »

ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF IRELANDFriday 22nd November 2-3.30 session 1 18th century economic Salim Rashid (Illinois), 18c Ireland and the birth of development economics Aidan Kane (NUIG), A database of 18th-century Irish public finances Patrick Walsh (UCD), Who paid what? Taxation and the financial impact of the state in... | Read on »

Irish Renaissance SeminarSchedule1.30̢åÛå3.00Dr Anders Ingram (NUI, Galway): ‰Û÷Discourse and Digital Methods: EEBO, Corpus Research and the ‰ÛÏTurk‰۝ in Early Modern England‰۪Dr Kathleen Miller (TCD): ‰Û÷Katherine Austen‰۪s Reckoning with Plague in Book M‰۪Dr Lindsay Reid (NUI, Galway): ‰Û÷Vernacular Ovids and the Cross̢åÛåDressed Narcissus of Shakespeare‰۪s Twelfth Night‰۪3.00̢åÛå3.45Tea/Coffee3.45̢åÛå5.00Dr Tom Roebuck (University of East Anglia): ‰Û÷Writing Medieval History... | Read on »