Journalism ScreeningTitle: Media Pranks: From Welles to the Yes Men Details: October 30th 1938 saw one of the most celebrated media hoaxes of all time, when a young radio director, Orson Welles, broadcast an adaptation of HG Wells' War of the Worlds. We will listen to this iconic radio broadcast, and examine it in relation... | Read on »
School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures Italian Studies The Culture of Italian Music: Opera and Colonialism Prof. Paolo Bartoloni: Introduction Mario Inglese: The Italian Language and Opera: Verdi and Puccini Alessandro Luchetti: The Music of Italian Colonization in Africa: Racism and Sexism Mario Inglese's talk will focus on some traits of Italian as employed in... | Read on »
THREESIS: Open Your Mind...and Get to the Point!!Join us as NUI Galway researchers use their 3 minutes to Get to the Point and Open Your Mind!Come along and support your colleagues!Grand Final Threesis 2015 For more information please contact ena.brophy@nuigalway.ie
Nietzsche Symposium at NUI, Galway: The Galway Nietzsche Symposium is a one-day event that brings together academics and advanced graduate students working on Nietzsche from John Cabot University Rome, NUI Galway and University College Cork. It is an open event and formal registration is not required. 10.30 - 11.30 Tom Bailey (John Cabot University, Rome)... | Read on »
Fanch Bihan-Gallic (Old & Middle Irish & Celtic Studies, NUIG) 'Burial islands in Scotland and the Celtic Watery Journey to the Afterlife'Followed by discussion & light lunchEveryone welcome - FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁchFor more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie
Journalism ScreeningPranksters, media manipulation, and more On the 77th anniversary of the broadcast of Orson Welles' classic adaptation of War of the Worlds, we'll listen to the broadcast, watch material from contemporary media pranksters The Yes Men, and discuss a range of related issues, from media hoaxes to message framing in social activism. For more... | Read on »
Lunchtime Seminar Series: The OHCHR Investigation on Sri Lanka: the catharsis moment for the protection and promotion of human rights or business as usual?by Mr. Glyn Morgan and Mr. Thamil Venthan Ananthavinayagan, LL.M. (Maastricht) Glyn served in the British Army and British Police before spending six years in the Office of the Prosecutor at International... | Read on »
Drama Theatre and Performance speaker series:Blue Raincoat Theatre, "A Company History: From Then to Now" We are a venue-based professional theatre ensemble. Our company and our venue, The Factory Performance Space, were founded in 1991. We produce between four and six professional productions every year, with an emphasis on staging modern European classics, new writing... | Read on »
Book launch invitationEarly Medieval Ireland and Europe: Chronology, Contacts, Scholarship A Festschrift for DÌÁibhÌ_ ÌÒ CrÌ_inÌ_nPÌÁdraic Moran & Immo Warntjes (eds)(Turnhout: Brepols, 2015)A collection of 27 articles on cultural interactions between Ireland, Britain and the Continent during the early Middle Ages. Offered to DÌÁibhÌ_ by friends and colleagues on the occasion of his 60th birthday.... | Read on »
THE RORY KAVANAGH BURSARYThe Bursary has been made possible by a generous donation from the family of the late Rory Kavanagh (1971-1996), a 1993 B.A. graduate of National University of Ireland, Galway. Rory spent the 1991-1992 academic year in Italy at the University of Bologna under the ERASMUS Student Mobility Programme. This Bursary is awarded... | Read on »
