This autumn the UCD Humanities Institute celebrates its 20th anniversary. We can look back over a successful history. Generations of PhDs and postdoctoral fellows have benefitted from the unique research environment offered by the Humanities Institute . Hundreds of conferences, workshops and Distinguished Guest Lectures have placed the Humanities Institute on the national and international... | Read on »

Current conceptualizations of climate and climate change are dominated by the abstract idea of climate as “the average weather.” This scientific understanding needs to be complemented by a cultural concept of climate which has a long tradition from Antiquity to the Enlightenment. In order to understand what it means to “be in the air” culturally,... | Read on »

This is an in-person event held in is room 306 in Aras Moyola, NUI Galway. About this event This presentation will outline a book currently being developed about civic parties in deeply divided societies, focusing on the case of Northern Ireland after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. The book explores the place of civic parties... | Read on »

Hermit Songs (1953) by Samuel Barber  Watershed (2020) by Ailís Ní Ríain  Watershed is a new song cycle for voice and piano inspired by the natural bodies of water and land in Ireland’s midwest region and along the Atlantic coast.  With music by renowned Irish composer Ailís Ní Ríain and text by Ballina-Killaloe resident, poet Jessica Brown, it is... | Read on »

Professor Matthew Smith (University of Strathclyde) Peace of Mind: Social Psychiatry, Universal Basic Income and Preventing Mental Illness in the USA Abstract Following the Second World War, a new, interdisciplinary and preventive approach to psychiatry gained influence in the US.  Social psychiatry involved teams of social scientists and psychiatrists which explored the environmental causes of... | Read on »

The Irish Association for Russian, Central and East European Studies and the Moore Institute presents a virtual roundtable on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Roundtable speakers: Dr Tetyana Lokot, Ukrainian resistance and mobilisation: national and transnational dynamics and decolonial histories, DCU Maciej Curpyś, Putin's Historical Propaganda and the reality of Ukrainian Nationalism, NUI Galway Dr... | Read on »

The Creative Futures research team invites you to attend the second of our series of work-in-progress sessions. These are intended as an informal space in which colleagues can share their latest research and think through how it might connect to Creative Futures themes and methods. We have scheduled two exciting mini-presentations from colleagues across a... | Read on »

Dr Isabella Jackson (Trinity College Dublin)  ‘My Father Sold Me’: Listening to the Voices of Enslaved Girls in Republican China  Abstract In republican China (1912-1949), it was common practice for poor parents to sell daughters to wealthy families via middlemen for unpaid domestic labour. Being female, poor, cut off from their natal families, and performing... | Read on »

Arts in Action presents:  Grandmothers, Goddesses, Gradys & Great Actresses by Up Up Up Sound. Sex. Knickers. Candles. Emigration. Revolution. Religion. Madness, Bodies. Hair. Cessair. Brigid. Sinéad. Pegeen. Contour lines. Gaol bars. Stage boards. Emma O'Grady is a theatre artist; actor, writer and production manager based in Galway. She produces art under the name Up Up Up... | Read on »