Write Club! EDEN’s Write Club is back for a mid-November writing session! Have you been looking to get that chapter draft, article, or conference paper started? Has your writing has taken a little bit of a back step due to the growing demands of the semester? Come along and join us in the Bridge Room... | Read on »
An bhfuil suim agat i scríbhneoireacht na Gaeilge? An bhfuil tú ag iarraidh do shaothar féin a roinnt le daoine, agus aiseolas a fháil, nó d’obair a phlé go neamhfhoirmiúil le daoine eile a bhfuil Gaeilge acu? Nó an bhfuil tú ag iarraidh éisteacht le scríbhneoirí eile ag léamh a saothar amach os ard? Má... | Read on »
The third biennial Celtic Sociolinguistics Symposium will take place at NUIG in November 16th-17th 2018. As in the previous two Celtic Sociolinguistics symposia, we have attracted a diversity of scholars working in various areas related to linguistic and sociocultural aspects of one (or more) of the six Celtic languages. This year’s theme is ‘Communities in Conversation,’... | Read on »
Pádraic Moran: Translating the Greek Bible in the Ninth Century: Evidence of Glossed Irish Manuscripts Noémi Farkas Biblical Exempla in Sedulius Scottus' De rectoribus Christianis.
Digital Scholarship Seminar 43: Peter Stokes 12pm | Tues 20 Nov 2018 | Arts Millennium/Psychology Building G067 Peter Stokes (Paris, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Université PSL) Modelling texts and manuscripts: some digital approaches to material texts Palaeographers, codicologists and indeed textual editors have long engaged with technological developments and the challenges that they present,... | Read on »
This semester we're going to run a weekly session for those interested in learning "creative coding". This approach is a good way for those without any coding experience to develop a foundation in programming. The sessions will use online resources (see below) to guide self-directed learning. Creative coding is a different discipline than programming systems.... | Read on »
This paper examines the use of the Qur’ānic term ahl al-kitāb by several contemporary Muslim and Christian scholars in the context of our increasingly interconnected and pluralist societies. The Arabic term ahl al-kitāb is frequently translated as the People of the Book. The People of the Book are the religious communities that the Qur’ān identifies... | Read on »
Modernist Studies Ireland’s monthly forum for new on-going work in Irish modernist studies—Works in Progress—cordially invites you to its third session of this autumnal season, taking place on Tuesday, 20th Nov., from 6-8 pm in The Bridge Room (THB), as per usual with nibbles and wine. This seminar will open to view the much understudied... | Read on »
Dr Michael O’Dowd, NUIG The Speculum Matricis midwifery manual 1670 and my research journey
Dorothy Estrada-Tanck (University of Murcia, Spain) “Human security and international human rights law in the Mediterranean crisis” Abstract: The unspeakable tragedy faced by thousands of migrant persons dying at sea trying to reach the European Mediterranean coast from the Middle East and North Africa has resulted in nearly 2,000 registered deaths in 2018. This situation,... | Read on »
