APAC Study Day 2018: Digitisation and Born Digital Collections for Performing arts: Where are we now and what’s the next big thing?
Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach BuildingAPAC’s 2018 Study Day is open for bookings. The Study Day will take place on Friday 9 November in Galway. The Study Day is free for APAC members and €20 for non-members. Additional talks and visits have been organised for Thursday 8 November in Dublin. This day is open to APAC members only. If you... | Read on »
Launch of ‘Yeats Collection Exhibition’
Special Collections, James Hardiman LibraryNew NUI Galway exhibition features art from controversial Yeats sale NUI Galway is delighted to announce the launch of its Yeats Collection Exhibition. Following controversial sales in the UK and Ireland of material from ‘Ireland’s greatest literary and artistic family’ – as described by London auctioneers Sotheby’s – the university is proud to confirm... | Read on »
Italian (NUI Galway) and Tulca Festival of Visual Art present Transformative Memories: Curatorial Practices in the Third Millennium
O'Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance NUI GalwayA Roundtable event with Valentina Zucchi (Mus.e Florence), Linda Shevlin (Curator, Tulca Festival of Visual Art, Galway), Mary McCarthy (Crawford Gallery, Cork), Paolo Bartoloni (Italian, NUIG) Friday November 9, 6-8pm, O’Donoghue Theatre, National University of Ireland Galway The current world is inextricably linked to a past that not only forms identity, tradition and individual or... | Read on »
Ann Matthews on suffragist, novelist and republican activist Charlotte Despard (1844-1939). – Modern Irishwomen Lecture Series
Education Room, Galway City MuseumAnn Matthews on suffragist, novelist and republican activist Charlotte Despard (1844-1939).
Cartoons in World War I: Irish and Franco-Belgian Encounters
Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach BuildingCartoons in World War I: Irish and Franco-Belgian Encounters Keynote speakers: Professor Grace Neville (University College Cork), a leading specialist in Franco-Irish relations, and prize-winning Belgian graphic novelist, Jean-Claude Servais. All welcome The First World War was a devastating conflict, but how did artists at the time use cartoons to tell the story? In association... | Read on »
Current Implications for Arendt’s Concept of Banality of Evil by Michael Hardiman
Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research BuildingPrinting in the Irish Language, 1571-1871 by Prof. Richard Sharpe, Oxford University
The River Room, AS203, Arts/Science BuildingThe History Department presents: Printing in the Irish Language, 1571-1871 Prof. Richard Sharpe, Oxford University AS203: The River Room (Old Moore Seminar Room) Prof. Richard Sharpe of Oxford University and Mícheál Hoyne of the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies have recently unveiled their bibliography of books printed in Irish between 1571 and 1871. The... | Read on »
Moore Institute Open Meeting for members of the CASSCS
Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research BuildingWe would like to invite you to an Open Meeting next Tuesday, November 13 @ 2pm in Room G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room. The meeting is an occasion for the Institute to update staff on the Institute’s activities to-date and its plans for the future while also giving staff the opportunity to ask questions and... | Read on »
Creative Coding Meet-up
Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research BuildingThis semester we're going to run a weekly session for those interested in learning "creative coding". This approach is a good way for those without any coding experience to develop a foundation in programming. The sessions will use online resources (see below) to guide self-directed learning. Creative coding is a different discipline than programming systems.... | Read on »