Inger Marie Okkenhaug is a Professor of History at Volda University College, Norway, and is currently a visiting fellow at the Moore Institute. She specializes in the history of missionary and humanitarian activity in the Middle East. She has published extensively on these topics, most notably, the monograph, “The Quality of Heroic Living, of High... | Read on »

This paper explores how recent films addressing Naples – the Manetti Bros’ Ammore e malvita (2017) and Ferzan Özpetek’s Napoli velata (2017) – work to counter the ‘Gomorra-effect’ and rehabilitate the city in cinematic representation. It explores the politics of heritage film, the genre’s relationship with popular culture and Naples’s place in the national imaginary.... | Read on »

by Francisco Rozano-García.  

What impact did women writers make in history? When is a female author (not) a female author? Join us as we explore these questions in a guided tour of the ‘Readers & Reputations’ exhibition, to celebrate International Women’s Day, on Saturday 7 March 2020. The exhibition, sponsored by the Irish Research Council, showcases the work... | Read on »

The aim of this workshop is to provide participants with the tools and confidence to create video content using the technology already in their pockets – their smart phones. This content can be utilised for anything from conference, event or course promotion, to effective communication of complex research topics. The session will cover basic composition,... | Read on »

by Professor Martin Feely, Earth & Ocean Sciences, NUI Galway

Between 2013 and 2018, approximately 700,000 individuals have crossed the Mediterranean to seek asylum in Italy. The LINCS project (Language Integration and New Communities in  a multicultural Society) explores the role of language and translation in their lives, as they forge links with the Italian society and make sense of the new environment. Andrea Ciribuco... | Read on »

Peter C. Mancall is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at the University of Southern California.  His books include Hakluyt’s Promise: An Elizabethan’s Obsession for an English America (2007), Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson—A Tale of Mutiny and Murder in the Arctic (2009), and, the just-released The Trials of Thomas... | Read on »

  Registration necessary. Over 200 articles written by our research community have been published on the RTÉ Brainstorm website. Jim Carroll, the editor of RTÉBrainstorm, will be on campus to explain how NUIGalway staff and research students can contribute to Brainstorm. He will also deliver insights into pitching content for a public audience and developing... | Read on »

By Mary Clancy (Global Women's Studies) At a time of heightened international debate about democratic and social change during the early decades of the twentieth century, the place of the woman citizen remained contentious. The demand to extend the parliamentary franchise to qualified women, debated in Westminster, for instance, since the mid-19th century, was politically and... | Read on »