From Civil Rights to the Bailout: Social movements, workers agitation, and left-wing activism in Ireland, 1968-2010Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour & Class,http://fromcivilrightstothebailout.wordpress.com/ Conference Overview Friday 19 June 13.00-13.45 Registration 13.45 Welcome address 14.00-15.30 Panel 1: The context of Northern Ireland 15.30-15.45 Break 15.45-17.15 Panel 2: Varieties of Protest 19.30 Mechanics' Institute, Middle Street:... | Read on »

Derek Gladwin, University of British Columbia and Moore Institute Visiting Research Fellow'North Atlantic Poetry and Multimedia: Environmentalism, Space and Websites' This talk discusses the relationship between two interdisciplinary environmental and spatial approaches to literature, known as ecocriticism and geocriticism, through two interactive websites that focus on the poetry of Eavan Boland and Marlene Creates. In... | Read on »

Persons, documents, models: organising and structuring information for the Web People and documents are of enduring interest. Documents may be generated by individuals, collective groups, and administrations, on any number of topics. We are particularly interested in the relationships between people and documents. The most important relationships are creation (authors, illustrators, translators, ...), usage (e.g.... | Read on »

DhÌÁ leagan D̩ag: An Sean-nÌ_s san aon̼ haois is ficheClÌÁr na ComhdhÌÁlaD̩ C̩adaoin 24 Meitheamh 9.00 ClÌÁr̼ 9.15 Oscailt Oifigi̼il An Dr. Jeannine Woods, Ceann GnÌ_omhach na Gaeilge, OÌä Gaillimh Pain̩al 1 9.30-11.00 Cathaoirleach: Jeannine Woods Lillis ÌÒ Laoire OÌä Gaillimh CÌÁ bhfuil an Sean-nÌ_s? An Miotas, An R̩altacht agus an SpÌÁs Idir Eatarthu SÌ_le... | Read on »

As part of NUI Galway's commemorative programme, Friday 4 September 2015 will see a one day workshop onResearching the Irish Parliamentary Party in the Decade of Centenaries. This workshop will feature speakers outlining their own particular research focus and its aims as well as commenting on perceived opportunities and/or challenges when researching the Irish Party... | Read on »

Prof. William Maker Philosophy, Clemson University Darkness Made (In)visible: The Dialectic of Race in Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust Wednesday 9 September 5pm Hardiman Research Building seminar room G011For more information please contact daniel.carey@nuigalway.ie

The Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour & Class (ICHLC) is pleased to announce its inaugural seminar series.The first seminar will seeDavid Convery,Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the ICHLC, speak on'Writing and Theorising the Irish Working Class'.All are welcome to attend. For more information please contact david.convery@nuigalway.ie

Gender ARC is pleased to invite you to a research seminar May-Len Skilbrei, University of Oslo, Norway"The Sex Purchase Ban in Sweden and Norway: evaluating law-in-action" This seminar launches the first all-Ireland network for researchers critically engaged in the area of commercial sex and its attendant politics. A further one-day series of workshops will be... | Read on »