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  

  Programme  10AM: Welcome 10.10-11.15: Researchers’ Panel Olivia Martin: West of Ireland Landed Estates collections as sources for women’s lives Joe Murphy: The Redington Papers: Insight into a 19th Clarinbridge estate Ann O’Riordan: Hearnesbrook House & Estate, Killimor 11.15-11.45 Coffee/Tea 11.45-12.30 Landed Estates resources in practice Geraldine Curtin: Family History in estate archives:  the Wilson-Lynch... | Read on »

Recent work by Denis O’Hearn and Andrej Grubacic proposes that “exilic spaces” are a hopeful model for progressive change and, ultimately, for social revolution. Exilic spaces can be defined as those areas of social and economic life in which people attempt to escape from capitalist relations and processes, whether territorially or by attempting to build... | Read on »

This paper examines the connections between the revolutionary politics of Theobald Wolfe Tone and his friendships, especially that with Thomas Russell, his best friend and closest political ally. It also discusses the centrality of ideas of masculinity to Tone's politics. In doing so, it seeks to locate Tone and the United Irishmen not just within... | Read on »

  Postgraduate Medieval Studies invites all incoming and returning MA, PhD, PostDoc students (along with academic staff at all levels) with an interest in the antique, medieval and early modern worlds to it's annual Welcome Reception,all welcome, regardless of programme or discipline.

                  09:00 – 09:30 Registration / Coffee & Tea 09:30 – 11:00 Panel 1: Aesthetic Manifestations, Expressionisms and Power Structures Power, Subcultures and Queer Stages in Twentieth-Century Italy and Ireland Zsuzsanna Balázs, PhD Candidate (Drama and Theatre Studies), NUI Galway Pondering Progressive Punk Poetry Jonathan Hannon, PhD Candidate... | Read on »