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History Research Seminar Series: Humanitarian Aid in a Hostile Environment: A comparative exploration of Médecins Sans Frontières and Oxfam’s operations in the post-Khmer Rouge Cambodian crisis’

Maria Cullen is in the second year of a PhD under the supervision of Dr. Kevin O'Sullivan. She has been awarded a Galway Doctoral Scholarship and an NUI Travelling Studentship. Her thesis compares French and British NGOs and their work in authoritan regimes in the Global South from decolonisation to the end of the Cold... | Read on »

History Research Seminar Series: ‘Humanitarian Aid in a Hostile Environment: A comparative exploration of Médecins Sans Frontières and Oxfam’s operations in the post-Khmer Rouge Cambodian crisis’

Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

Maria Cullen is in the second year of a PhD under the supervision of Dr. Kevin O'Sullivan. She has been awarded a Galway Doctoral Scholarship and an NUI Travelling Studentship. Her thesis compares French and British NGOs and their work in authoritan regimes in the Global South from decolonisation to the end of the Cold... | Read on »

CreateHER: Women in the Performing Arts: Amplifying Social Discourse through Theatre

Studio 1, O'Donoghue Centre

Pictured above: The cast of The Kinds of Sex You Might Have In College Join panelists Dr. Charlotte McIvor, Marianne Ní Chinnéide, Sorcha Keane, and Rachel Parry in conversation about how the performing arts can impact social change. For more information and to reserve a space, please click here.

Launch of Strategy for the Humanities in Ireland – “By Imagination We Live”

Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

The strategy, prepared by the Irish Humanities Alliance, is based on  extensive consultation with academics and researchers at all levels in the country, north and south. Prof. Pól Ó Dochartaigh (registrar and deputy president) will launch the strategy.   The chair, vice-chair and director of the IHA will be attending. Please join us to celebrate the... | Read on »

Launch of 6 Books in Classics – School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.

Hardiman Research Building Room G011

                    This book launch and reception, marking the completion of 6 books within Classics during 2018/19, will include an address by Prof. John Carey (UCC). The books are: J., Amrae Coluimb Chille: a Critical Edition (Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2019) Clarke, M., Achilles Beside... | Read on »

History Research Seminar Series: “Irishwomen in late nineteenth-century Russia: Three transnational lives”

Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

Dr. Angela Byrne is Research Associate at Ulster University. She specializes in the histories of migration, travel and exploration, and women’s history. She is author of Geographies of the Romantic North: Science, Antiquarianism, and Travel, 1790–1830 (Palgrave, 2013) and A Scientific, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour: John (Fiott) Lee in Ireland, England and Wales, 1806–07 (Hakluyt Society, 2018).... | Read on »

Book Launch: ‘A University in Living Memory’ by Jackie Uí Chionna

Ground Floor, Aula Maxima

This book tells the story of University College Galway from 1930 to 1980, through the reminiscences of dozens of people who were there. Interviews were conducted with everyone from College Presidents to grounds staff, from students who began their college lives in the 1930s to the post-free-education student activists of the 1970s. It is a portrait... | Read on »

Irish Research Network in Childhood Bilingualism and Multilingualism Symposium

Hardiman Research Building Room G011

This symposium is organised by network members Dr. Stanislava Antonijevic and Dr. Cassie Smith-Christmas. The day will feature a number of talks related to multilingualism in Ireland, with a special focus on children’s multilingual development and language use in the school and the home. This will be followed by the launch of the Centre for... | Read on »

Launch of Centre for Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism(CALM)

Hardiman Research Building Room G011

We are delighted to invite you to the launch of the Centre for Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism (CALM), a new research cluster based in the Moore Institute. CALM will provide a platform for interdisciplinary research in the areas of applied linguistics and multilingualism and will increase awareness of issues related to language learning, language processing... | Read on »