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 »

            Hosted by the Centre for Creative Arts Research, Moore Institute, this will be the first of four seminars hosted by NUI Galway during 2020 as part of the European Capital of Culture. Produced in partnership with Galway 2020, each seminar will bring together a mix of academics, practitioners, policy... | Read on »

TO BE RESCHEDULED AT A LATER DATE Modernist Studies Ireland is delighted to re-launch its Works in Progress series with a double act on Monday, 16th March, at 4 pm in THB—GO11. You are cordially invited to join us for what promises to be two fantastic talks by early career researchers, shining a light on... | Read on »

TO BE RESCHEDULED AT A LATER DATE   Sponsored by: NUI Galway College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies Research Support Scheme, Drama and Theatre Studies, Gender ARC Registration: Tickets (free) available on Eventbrite. For queries, please email Dr Miriam Haughton: ‘miriam.haughton@nuigalway.ie’. For information on upcoming or past FSN events, please check the website... | Read on »

by Jane Suiter (Dublin City University) Democracy is more than deliberation and deliberative mini-publics  do not make a democracy. Yet mini-publics are proliferating not just in Ireland but in Scotland, Belgium, France and elsewhere. This paper uses the example of the Irish Constitutional Convention and Citizens’ Assembly to ask  how mini-publics  can  be located within... | Read on »

Back by popular demand! We are pleased to announce the Spring 2020 EDEN Peer Review workshop, to be held on Thursday, 19th of March, 15.00 (venue tbc). This is an excellent chance to get feedback on works in progress in any form and at any stage of development. Whether it is a chapter draft, a journal article or a... | Read on »

by Allyn Fives (Power, Conflict and Ideologies) This paper addresses two key aspects of A. John Simmons’s philosophical anarchism. First, as a value pluralist, he maintains that obligations are not conclusive reasons for action, whereas overridden obligations are nonetheless genuine obligations. As a result, we can be faced with genuine moral conflicts concerning our political... | Read on »

by Russell Ó Riagáin More info to follow ...