All Welcome! Hywel Griffiths-  Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University Current predictions of the impacts of climate change on environmental and social systems have brought human-environment interactions into sharp relief, and have further highlighted the importance of understanding the historical and cultural contingencies of people’s perceptions of the environment. The value of historical... | Read on »

Digital Poet and Fulbright Scholar Jason Nelson and Digital Artist Alinta Krauth "The Fulbright Commission of Ireland has granted an Intercountry award for the NUI Galway Moore Institute to host the digital poet Jason Nelson, who will visit Galway on 23-29 April 2017. Nelson is Senior Lecturer at Griffith University, Australia, and is currently holding... | Read on »

Looking for an opportunity to explore ideas and network for the future?  Then join us for an opportunity to meet with representatives from Fidelity, Accenture and others to learn how students can plan for a variety of careers post PhD and Masters.   Draft Programme Arts, Humanities and Innovation .... connecting with Industry 10:00  Coffee... | Read on »

Presented by the MA in Writing and the BA with Creative Writing at the Discipline of English in association with the U.S. Embassy’s Creative Minds series and the Cúirt International Festival of Literature Date & time:  Friday 28 April at 1pm Venue:  The Moore Institute, Hardiman Research Building, Room G011 The event will be introduced... | Read on »

Sport & Exercise Research Group Monthly Research Seminar (First Wednesday of each month) Sport and homophobia in France: Twenty years of research - Featuring Professor Philippe Liotard From 1997 (Eurogames in Paris) to 2018 (Gay Games in Paris), LGBT's sport spread in two directions. On the one hand, an associative sports network has developed which... | Read on »

On the occasion of the centenary of the Russian Revolution, the Moore Institute is delighted to host the annual conference of the Irish Association for Russian, Central and East European Studies. Taking its inspiration from Lenin’s fateful journey to Petrograd one hundred years ago, the theme of this year’s conference is ‘journeys’. Papers deal with... | Read on »

Public Keynote Lecture by Prof. Wendy Bracewell School of Slavonic and East European Studies University College London   Prof. Wendy Bracewell of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, is to deliver a public lecture entitled ‘Travellers, travellees, and travelling texts: Eastern Europe and the Republic of Letters’ at NUI Galway... | Read on »

    The ‘Research in Real-Time: Practice in Progress’ conference is a two-day interdisciplinary programme of PaR performances, workshops, interventions, panels, playtests and installations, taking place on the 5th and 6th May at the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance at NUI Galway. Contributors will present their practice (as research) in the now: in... | Read on »

  Organised by Heritage/Library Services, Roscommon Co. Council; Roscommon Historical & Archaeological Society; and the Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway   FRIDAY NIGHT: Gleason’s Townhouse Hotel PANEL 1 8.00: NORTH ROSCOMMON BEGINS: THE 1917 BY-ELECTION Regina Donlon (Maynooth University): ‘Hurrah for Plunkett’: The 1917 North Roscommon by-election in context Martin O’Donoghue (NUI Galway):... | Read on »

Programme   Tuesday, May 8, 2017 10:00 am Session I Nicholas Canny: "Atlantic Empire and the Peoples of the British Monarchy, 1603-1815" Alison Games: "Massacres, Memories and Empire: The Amboyna Incident's Long History"   10:45 am Session II Jane Ohlmeyer: "Ireland and the Wider World in the Early Modern Period" Max Edelson: "Mapping Empire: Geographic... | Read on »