5TH BABEL PUBLIC LECTURE SERIESDr Coralline Dupuy:Victimisation and retaliation in Charles Perrault's fairy talesThis talk will examine the issue of language and power shift in Charles Perrault's fairy tales. In particular, what do Perrault's tales tell the readers about victimization and oppression? What is the link between the use (and abuse) of language and the... | Read on »

An tOllamh RuairÌ_ ÌÒ hUiginn, NUI Maynooth'Marriage, Law, and Tochmarc Emire' Followed by discussion & light lunchEveryone welcome - FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁchFor more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie

GUIDE (Galway University Integration Through Drama and Education) Symposium Kunle Animashaun (Camino Productions) Delphine Coudray (Oulala Productions) Elaine Keane and Manuela Heinz (NUI Galway) Jenny Macdonald (From the Inside Out, Tallaght Community Arts) Chrissie Poulter (Trinity College, Dublin) Fiona Quinn (Friars' Gate Theatre Company, Limerick) Piaras Mac Ìäinri (NUI Cork) This symposium brings together leading... | Read on »

The Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour and Class (ICHLC) is delighted to host a public lecture byProf. Helena Sheehan (Emerita DCU) on'SYRIZA: Storming the Citadel? Greece's new governing party: where it came from; where it's going'.Prof. Sheehan will discuss the origins of Greece's new governing party, its policies and perspectives - and its... | Read on »

Dr Niamh Whitfield, currently based in London, will be presenting a series of lectures and seminars on Early Irish Art, 3rd-5th February 2015, in the Moore Institute, at the invitation of the MA in Medieval Studies and CAMPS (Centre for Antique, Medieval & Pre-Modern Studies).Dr Niamh Whitfield Public Lecture: ‰Û÷Ornament on the Ardagh Chalice: Hidden... | Read on »

Dr Niamh Whitfield, currently based in London, will be presenting a series of lectures and seminars on Early Irish Art, 3rd-5th February 2015, in the Moore Institute, at the invitation of the MA in Medieval Studies and CAMPS (Centre for Antique, Medieval & Pre-Modern Studies). Dr Niamh WhitfieldSeminar: Early Irish Manuscripts: The Book of Durrow... | Read on »

The Special Collections Lunchtime Lectures Series continues with "Bodies of knowledge : the early days of anatomy in Galway"by Alexander Black, Anatomy, School of Medicine.Anatomy was one of the founding departments of Queen's College Galway in the 1840s. At the time anatomy was seen as a rather distasteful, if necessary, field of study, and had... | Read on »

History Graduate Research Seminar SeriesMadeline O'Neill, From Carnacon to Cape Town: Colonel Maurice Moore, An Unremembered Envoy, 1921 for more information please contact caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie

Professor Peadar Kirby, University of Limerick: ‰Û÷The Latin American New Left: towards a post-neoliberalism?' For more information please contact suzanne.gilsenan@nuigalway.ie

Charles Barr - Hitchcock, a Researcher's Tale Alfred Hitchcock's films continue to be so widely shown, discussed and analysed that ‰Û÷Hitchcock fatigue' is understandable - do we really need more books about him? But some parts of his life and work have remained unexplored. A new book, filling some major gaps, will be published in... | Read on »