This workshop, led by Conor McCabe, author of Money (Sireacht): Longings for Another Ireland (2018), will look at writers such as Silvia Federici, Maria Mies, Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Nancy Fraser, and Selma James, and the application of their ideas and analysis to an Irish context in terms of combating the new enclosures of financialisation in... | Read on »
Jacopo Bisagni, Amrae Coluimb Chille: a critical edition, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (Early Irish Text Series, vol. I), Dublin 2019. Pp. xvi + 524. €35 https://books.dias.ie/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=9_41&products_id=398 Amrae Coluimb Chille is a complex and fascinating Old Irish text. A unique tour de force of... | Read on »
Event Description Introduction The 7th World Congress of the International Microsimulation Association will be hosted by the National University of Ireland, Galway from Wednesday, June 19 through Friday, June 21, 2019. We encourage submissions in the fields (broadly defined) of microsimulation, agent based modelling and computational methods. Plenary Speakers (Proposed): Herwig Immervoll, OECD Deborah Schofield, Director... | Read on »
Sibéal Workshop Series & Feminist/Queer Discussion Space NUIG present: Untangling Methodologies: thinking with feminist and queer methods Keynote Speaker: Professor Kath Browne, Maynooth University At this workshop we aim to think through concepts that emerge from feminist and queer research methodologies in order to explore ideas of collaging, layering and mixing practices. Through the imagery... | Read on »
Abstract: Every undergrad finds out very fast that one of the most important activities of the faculty is publishing papers. Scientific papers are the coin of the realm in everything from health psychology to high-particle physics. No wonder, considering so much is tied to publication: communicating research results to peers, staking a claim on... | Read on »
ABSTRACT: The Kochi Biennale editions since 2012 or India Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2019 are ample testimonies to the themes of decolonization, comparative aesthetics and cosmopolitanism in contemporary Indian art practice. Ananda Coomaraswamy and K.C. Bhattacharyya conceptualized these themes in the early twentieth century. Their differences notwithstanding, they argued for the necessity of... | Read on »
John Cox, University Librarian, is pleased to invite you to an event to mark the generous donation to the University of the Tiomna Nuadh ar Dtighearna agus ar Slanaightheora Josa Criosd By members of the Ó Dálaigh family, Athlone, Co. Westmeath. This was the first translation of the New Testament into Irish and... | Read on »
While the word “glitch” is often still used to connote catastrophic failure, videogamers have come to view glitches opportunistically, as chances to intervene in game texts in ways unforeseen (and often unforeseeable) by their developers. My presentation draws on a variety of game glitches and the alternate modes of textual navigation they enable... | Read on »
This summer school will investigate methods to communicate complex environmental objects such as climate change, habitation, or the human body as a structurally open spaces inhabited by microscopic life forms in competition or symbiosis with non living objects. In addition, nano processes are being offered as solutions for large-scale geoengineering of the planet for climate... | Read on »
“Houses of the Nobility and Gentry”: Big Houses of County Galway
