Smoking: Are e-cigarettes part of the problem or part of the solution? A panel discussion According to the WHO, tobacco use kills more than 5 million people per year. It is responsible for 1 in 10 adult deaths. Among the five greatest risk factors for mortality, it is the single most preventable cause of death.... | Read on »
Public LecturebyClaudia Kinmonth, Moore Institute Visiting FellowRevising Irish Country Furniture 1700-1950Piggins, Noggins & Fowl IndoorsAll welcomeFor more information please contact kate.thornhill@nuigalway.ie
Medieval Studies Postgraduate Research DayFor more information please contact kim.loprete@nuigalway.ie
What is Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and where does it come from? The simplest definition of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) consists of a list of the typical symptoms. Professor Killeen provides a more comprehensive definition that informs us of the events that trigger ADHD in both its acute and chronic manifestations; the neurobiology that underlies... | Read on »
A Peculiar Society? Ireland, 1970s-1990sProgrammePROGRAMME‰Û÷A peculiar society'? Ireland, 1970s-1990sMoore Institute, Hardiman Research Building,National University of Ireland Galway24-25 April 2015‰Û÷Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century' (John McGahern)24 April 201510.30 - Registration11.15 - Welcome and Introductory... | Read on »
Dr Kim LoPrete, History, NUIG'War, Monastic Conversion, and the Politics of Ecclesiastical Reform in 1070s' France' Followed by discussion & light lunchEveryone welcome - FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁchFor more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie
NUI Galway Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, the Irish Theatrical Diaspora Project (ITD), and the Gate Theatre present: The 12th Annual IRISH THEATRICAL DIASPORA CONFERENCE Theme: DUBLIN'S GATE THEATRE 30 April and 1 May 2015 The Gate Theatre, Parnell Square, Dublin 1 Since the Gate Theatre was founded by Hilton Edwards and MicheÌÁl Mac... | Read on »
Digital Scholarship Seminar:Franck Cinato (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris)Collaborative Digital Editing: Experience from the Liber Glossarum ProjectAbstract: This presentation will share experience from a large-scale project to produce a new collaborative digital edition of the Liber Glossarum, a vast encyclopaedic dictionary (c. 30,000 entries) compiled in a female monastery in northern France around... | Read on »
Dr Kieran O'Conor, Archaeology, NUIG'New Work on Rindoon Castle, County Roscommon'. Followed by discussion & light lunchEveryone welcome - FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁchFor more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie
Gender ARC and Global Women's Studies at NUI Galway are pleased to invite you to a public lecture: Sylvia Walby, Distinguished Professor, UNESCO Chair of Gender Research Department of Sociology, Lancaster University Preventing gender based violence against women: Can this be mainstreamed? All WelcomeRefreshments will be served - please RSVP to Gillian Browne (gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie) Abstract:... | Read on »
