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“Translation in the context of the commemorations of 1916 and the Great War” by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Ireland Professor of Poetry

Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building

Hosted by the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures Eilléan Ní Chuilleanáin was born in Cork City in 1942, educated there and at Oxford before spending her working life as an academic in Trinity College, Dublin. She was a founder member of Cyphers, a literary journal. She has won the Patrick Kavanagh Award, the Irish Times Award for... | Read on »

Margaret Heavey Memorial Lecture by Prof. Richard Seaford, University of Exeter “Does the inner self exist?” ancient insights from Greece and India

Siobhan McKenna Theatre

Richard Seaford is Professor Emeritus of Greek at the University of Exeter. He is an expert on Greek Tragedy and on the Marxist/Structuralist interpretation of early Greek literature and world-view. His publications include Reciprocity and Ritual, Money and the Early Greek Mind, and Cosmology and the Polis. He has also published on the work and... | Read on »

‘Moving while doing, nomadic artistic perceptions in socio-environmental transitory times’ a project by Visiting Fellow Seila Fernández Arconada

Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building

The relationship between human beings and the notion of place is changing constantly; we are always in "natural" transition. Therefore observing, mapping, experiencing and analising the limits between the tangible and intangible while addressing socio-environmental (contemporary) concerns become relevant. This project has been an experimental form of work - like moving-while-doing - as an attempt... | Read on »

Drama Theatre and Performance PhD Reading Group

Mezzanine, O'Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance

Chair: Prof. Patrick Lonergan, O'Donoghue Centre of DTP Text: Walter Benjamin, 'The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility: Second Version'.

History Graduate Research Seminar

The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building

Dr Annemarie Brosnan (Mary Immaculate College, UL) 'The education of freed slaves in the American South'

Arts, Humanities & Innovation - Connecting with Industry

Arts, Humanities & Innovation – Speaker Series: Designing for good

The Moore Institute Seminar Room G010 Ground floor The Hardiman Research Building

As part of the Arts, Humanities and Innovation - Connecting with Industry series, Leon Butler, research fellow on the TechInnovate program at NUI Galway, will talk about design, and how PhD students might user their research skills in industry once they qualify. This series of talks is aimed at researchers from the Arts & Humanities, and will be of... | Read on »

Children’s Studies Seminar- Jane O’Hanlon

Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building

PLEASE JOIN US FOR: “The Place of the Arts in Irish Education Revisiting the Benson Report 40 years on” Jane O’Hanlon (Poetry Ireland) 5.00-6.00 pm, March 16, 2017 GO11, James Hardiman Library, NUI Galway

Seminar by Visiting Fellow, Dr Kylie Thomas, University of the Free State, South Africa ‘Photography, Affect and Transnational History: Tracing Lines Between Cape Town and New York’

The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway

Kylie Thomas is the author of the book Impossible Mourning: HIV/AIDS and Visuality after Apartheid and co-editor of the collection, Photography In and Out of Africa: Iterations with Difference. In early 2017 she will hold a European Holocaust Research Infrastructure Fellowship and will be based at the Netherlands Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies... | Read on »

Seminar by Visiting Speaker Prof. Michael Rubenstein ‘“Life Support: Fictions of Energy and Environment”

Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building

Michael Rubenstein is an associate professor of English at Stony Brook University, where he teaches courses on postwar Anglophone literatures, film, Irish modernism, James Joyce, and the Environmental Humanities. His book, Public Works: Infrastructure, Irish Modernism, and the Postcolonial (University of Notre Dame Press, 2010), received the Modernist Studies Association Prize and the American Conference... | Read on »

Book Launch: Scott A. Davison “Petitionary Prayer – A Philosophical Investigation”

Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building

Book launch of Scott A. Davidson: Petitionary Prayer A Philosophical Investigation (Oxford University Press, 2017)   Scott Davidson, Professor of Philosophy at Morehead State University, Kentucky, USA, is a former Visiting Research Fellow at the Moore Institute where he completed this book. The Book will be launched by Prof. Felix Ó Murchadha, Head of School of Humanities.   All... | Read on »