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Dr. Mick Wilson (University of Gothenburg)

Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

                                          Contact: Dee Quinn - dee.quinn@nuigalway.ie

Flower Press (Poetry Collection) Book Launch

Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

  'Flower Press', the debut poetry collection of MA in Writing (2017-18) student, Alice Kinsella, will be launched in the Moore Institute at 6:30pm on Thursday, March 15th. Published by Onsalught Press, this short collection of poems can be described as an elegiac apostrophe. In three sections—bud, bloom, and blood—it explores the growth of love... | Read on »

Gender Arc

CFPs “Critical Feminist Exits, Re-Routings, and Institutional Betrayals in Academia” A Special Issue of Feminist Formations - Full papers NOW due March 16, 2018  While universities often identify diversity as an important concern and goal, the neo-liberalization of academic contexts has in many ways fostered the entrenchment and rearticulation of hegemonic racial and gendered ideologies... | Read on »

Gender Arc

Royal Irish Academy, Dawson Street

RIA Ethical, Political, Legal and Philosophical Studies Committee 'How secular should the state be?' Cécile Laborde (Oxford) A lecture and book launch Cécile Laborde FBA holds the Nuffield Chair in Political Theory at Oxford University. She has published extensively in the areas of republicanism, liberalism and religion, theories of law and the state, and global... | Read on »

Introduction to Regular Expressions – Digital Scholars Workshop Series

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

Regular expressions are a powerful tool to help you search, clean, transform, or otherwise mutate and repurpose data - from large text corpora, gene sequence datafiles, to bulk econometric data, to scanned, historical printed documents and everything in-between. Traditionally found in specialised editors and programming languages, regular expressions now appear in many user-tools including word-processing... | Read on »

The Archaeology Society – Dr. William Roulston

Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

The Archaeology Society will be hosting our final lecture of the year this coming Wednesday the 21st of March in room G010 in the Hardiman building. Our speaker will be Dr. William Roulston of the Ulster Historical Foundation and is titled 'The Scots and Plantation Ulster'. He will be discussing an overview of the Scottish... | Read on »

Literature and Translations

Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

Dr Stéphanie Noirard, Université de Poitiers : Un Enterrement dans l’il(e) : Breton poet Paol Keineg faces the challenge of translating Hugh MacDiarmid Translating Hugh MacDiarmid means having to handle his political stance on the independence and the renewal of Scottish literature, as well as his poetic and linguistic experiments. While the initiative allows Paol Keineg to... | Read on »

Maire Cross (Visiting Fellow)

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

Contact: Máire Cross - m.f.cross@newcastle.ac.uk

Modern Studies – ‘Works in Progress’

Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

Researchers will present short papers on their current project, with response given from the audience. Contact: Gabrielle Fletcher - G.FLETCHER1@nuigalway.ie