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CASSCS New Professors’ Inaugural Lecture Series: Professor AnnMarie Groarke

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'What Enhances or Hinders Psychological Adjustment to Chronic Illness for women and men?  A programme of research' Prof. AnnMarie Groarke Personal Professor, School of Psychology Professor AnnMarie Groarke will present key results from her programme of research on psychological adjustment in patients with cancer and arthritis. Given individual variability in response to diagnosis and treatment of... | Read on »

Universities and the Covid-19 Crisis: Problems, Prospects and Pathways

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Update: Video & audio recordings of this session are now available Immense challenges face universities as a result of Covid-19, including the move to online education, the financial impact of the crisis, and the implications for internationalisation and recruitment. Universities have also made vital contributions in research and provided repositories of much needed expertise. This... | Read on »

Normal People: A View from the West

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Update: Video and audio recordings of this session are now available. Sally Rooney’s novel Normal People (2018) and its 12-part TV adaptation this year have generated a remarkable response in Ireland, the UK, the US and beyond. This online discussion considers the book, its representation in the series directed by Lenny Abrahamson and Hetti Macdonald, and the... | Read on »

Philosophy and the Pandemic: reasoning in unreasonable times

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Update: Video and audio recordings of this session are now available. As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, fundamental philosophical questions have come into sharp focus. In this panel discussion, faculty members from the discipline of philosophy at NUI Galway will discuss a range of issues related to these times of change and uncertainty,... | Read on »

Sport and Covid-19

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Update: Audio and video recordings of this session are now available. The advent of the Covid-19 crisis has brought unprecedented challenges to all areas of social, cultural, and economic life. As one of the most popular cultural practices, sport has been particularly impacted with the cancellation since mid-March of most sporting events in countries across... | Read on »

Literature, Narrative, and Covid-19

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This webinar, arising from NUI Galway's participation in the new ENLIGHT consortium of European universities, concentrates on literature and narrative in relation to the current crisis. Daniel Carey will be joined by Marysa Demoor, Ghent University (Belgium), Stephen Donovan (Uppsala University, Sweden), and Raili Marling (University of Tartu, Estonia) to discuss in Daniel Defoe’s Journal... | Read on »

Language in a health crisis: navigating Covid-19 in a multilingual Ireland

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Update: Video and audio recordings of this session are now available. This webinar addresses key sociolinguistic dimensions of the Covid-19 crisis in Ireland, looking at Irish and immigrant languages. Panellists will explore challenges posed by the crisis for speech and language therapy services and EAL (English as an additional language) provision; the role of the... | Read on »

Webinar – Imagine Ageing: Irish Culture and Society

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This event is part of the pan-European project Gendering Age: Representations of Masculinities and Ageing in Contemporary European Literatures and Cinemas (2019-2022). It brings together six speakers from a variety of backgrounds to consider issues and themes in the representation of ageing masculinities in an Irish context. It marks the first in a planned series of webinars and... | Read on »

Webinar: Áit agus Anam: Remembering Tim and Mairéad Robinson

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Update: Now available to watch online An interdisciplinary, online conversation celebrating the lives and legacies of Tim and Mairéad Robinson, who passed away earlier this year. Join us for our ‘zoom regatta’ where our guest speakers discuss fieldwork and friendships, old and new, and pay homage to the couple’s extraordinary contribution to the region and... | Read on »

Learning from pandemics: a century of experience

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This webinar explores historical lessons from major episodes of infectious disease during the past century. What can we learn from the flu pandemic of 1918–19, SARS, Ebola, and other crises, in the response to Covid-19?   Panellists Prof. Svenn-Erik Mamelund (Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway)  Dr. Ida Milne (Carlow College/Trinity College Dublin)  Prof. Grace Mulcahy, MRIA... | Read on »