RTÉ Brainstorm Media Workshop with Editor, Jim Carroll If you're looking to find a wider audience for your research and expertise, this is for you. RTÉ Brainstorm has already proven to be a big success for NUI Galway academics and researchers. Since the project went live in September 2017, over 160 pieces by NUI Galway academics and researchers have been published on the... | Read on »
ASEAN, disaster discourses and the construction of ‘risk’ Prof. Lorraine Elliott ANU, Canberra, Australia Abstract This paper presents some (early) work in progress that examines how disaster discourses in Southeast Asia constitute a particular version of human (in)security and the human ‘insecure’ through the... | Read on »
At this symposium the Secretary General of Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade, Niall Burgess and John Concannon, Director General, Global Ireland will discuss Brexit and the Government’s strategy for Global Ireland - Ireland’s Global Footprint to 2025: Doubling Ireland’s Impact. Organised in association with Moore and Whitaker Institutes, this symposium offers a unique... | Read on »
We are delighted that Dr Catherine Anne Field from the Health Promotion Research Centre at NUI Galway will deliver the final lunch-time seminar of the series. Palliative day care services provide individual, patient centred and holistic care acting on domains including but not restricted to medical models of care. Day-care is traditionally an under researched... | Read on »
Introduced by Professor Philip Dine All welcome This book provides new insights into the evolution of the global sporting spectacle over the last thirty years through an analysis of star athletes, emblematic organisations and key locations in French sport, highlighting how sport has influenced (and been implicated in) debates over nationhood, immigration, commemorative... | Read on »
By Moore Visiting Fellow David McOmish This talk will discuss the life and literary works of Adam King, an academic, writer, late-sixteenth century agent of the counter-reformation, and early-seventeenth century Stuart Loyalist. A committed follower of Mary, Queen of Scots in Scotland and the catholic cause across Europe, King returned to Scotland in the late... | Read on »
by Dr. Menelaos Gkartzios, Newcastle University, and Dr. Julie Crawshaw, Northumbria University, UK, Moore Visiting Fellows. Menelaos Gkartzios and Julie Crawshaw present their interdisciplinary collaboration across artistic research, planning and rural studies. We draw on a collaborative art residence programme between Newcastle University and Berwick Visual Arts, an arts organisation in the North East of... | Read on »
Professor Frank Shovlin of the Institute for Irish Studies, Liverpool ‘The Letters of John McGahern: 1970’
This panel discusses the relationship between gender, memory and national identity in cultural texts focusing on Franco-Algerian relations. The three speakers will situate specific literary texts and films within the broader contexts of French colonialism and decolonisation with a view to reflecting on the legacy of France’s colonial empire and on how cultural discourses surrounding... | Read on »
