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 »
Moore Institute Flash Seminar The Crisis in Ukraine: history, politics, and prospects Friday, March 4 @ 1.00pm THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, HRB, NUI Galway With: Dr Brendan Flynn, School of Political Science & Sociology, NUI Galway Dr Róisín Healy, School of History and Philosophy, NUI Galway Dr Ekaterina Yahyaoui, Vice-Dean for Research, College of Business,... | 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 »
This is an in-person event in GO10, Hardiman Research Building (Moore Institute). About this event This paper is a political-sociological exploration of the forms of connection and rupture, collaboration and conflict that define relationships across the Irish Sea at a time of constitutional and political change on 'these islands'. The aim is to examine the... | Read on »
