Digital Humanities Research Group seminar Deirdre Ní Chonghaile, Glucksman Ireland House, New York University Oksana Dereza, Data Science Institute, University of Galway "To have the 'million' readers yet": applying OCR & NER to bilingual Irish-English texts in An Gaodhal (1881–1898)   Abstract: Computerized text extraction for the Irish language (Gaeilge) faces a number of challenges, the... | Read on »

Translation Café: 'Four-Eyes Readers and characters: Translation choices and the creation of characters in three versions of Manolito Gafotas by Dr Maria Pilar Alderete Diez (Spanish, University of Galway and CITN - Children in Translation Network) In this translation café, we will have a look at three English versions of a Spanish book series marketed... | Read on »

Kimberly LoPrete (History, University of Galway) The Cultivation of Holy Men in the Long 1070s by Thibaud III, Count of Blois, Chartres, Meaux, and Troyes 9 February 2024 12 noon THB-G010 Lunch to follow and all welcome!

University of Galway History Research Seminar Dr Caroline Dodds Pennock (University of Sheffield) Abstract Despite growing scholarly work to the contrary, the popular image of early modern Europe remains an extraordinarily white, ruffed and cod-pieced Tudor fantasy, where Indigenous, African and Asian people existed only as curiosities from distant lands. But, in reality, tens of... | Read on »

Applications are now open for the third of the CLS INFRA academic Training School events, “ExploreCor: Using Programmable Corpora in Computational Literary Studies". It is set to take place in Vienna June 10-12 2024, spanning three intensive days. This program covers some of the most important steps in the research cycle of Computational Literary Studies,... | Read on »

UrbanLab Galway invites you to an evening reception celebrating the Horizon Europe INSITU project that explores the role of the Creative and Cultural Industries in peripheral areas of Europe. We will also be welcoming our project partners from across Europe as they visit Galway. Monday 19 February. 5pm - 7 pm. O'Donoghue Centre, University of... | Read on »

Masterclass: Critical Media Art and the ‘Cloud’ A masterclass run by the Centre for Creative Technologies, with Dr Paul O'Neill of the ADAPT Centre for AI-Driven Technologies in UCD Join us for the next in the masterclass series run by the Centre for Creative Technologies. This talk will provide an overview of ‘critical’ media artists... | Read on »

University of Galway History Seminar: Alms-Collecting and Information Gathering: Spanish Franciscan Commissioners and the Global Expansion of Holy Land Devotion Professor Megan Armstrong (McMaster University) The next University of Galway History Research Seminar of the semester will take place at 4.00pm on Wednesday, 21 February 2024. The speaker will join us online, but colleagues are welcome... | Read on »

Launch of Bríd McGrath’s The Operations of the Irish House of Commons, 1613–48 (Four Courts Press, 2023) By Professor Nicholas Canny, MRIA, FBA Wednesday 21 February at 5.15pm Hardiman Research Building seminar room G010 This is the first account of the workings Irish House of Commons in the early Stuart period, a time of immense... | Read on »

School of Psychology Research Seminar: How to be an Academic in a World on Fire Talk & Hands-On Workshop Dr. Clare Kelly, Trinity College Dublin Monday 26th February 12:30-15:00 (lunch included) G065 AMBE, University of Galway Addressing the climate crisis requires radical and urgent action at all levels of society. Universities are ideally positioned to... | Read on »