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!EilÌ_s Flanagan (Education), Fionn ÌÒ Sealbhaigh (Gaeilge) and Paul Flynn (Education). will participate in this week's heat.Come along and support your colleagues!A light lunch will be served after the presentations.

Joe Regan Defending Antebellum US Slavery: the impact of Bishop John England & other Irish Clerics

You are cordially invited to the final ECHO seminar of the semester, a Christmas circus cracker. We have two fine speakers, fine wine, and fine themes to gladden the heart and deepen the soul. The Reverend Al Green put it on record: 'happiness is when you're really feeling good about somebody'. No doubt he had... | Read on »

Join us for an hour to network with colleagues and explore potential opportunities for collaboration on research projects, outreach initiatives, workshops,seminars, summer schools and conferences.Refreshments served at 12 noon

John Whitman, Cornell/National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Toyko ‰Û÷Kundoku: What is it, and did anything like it exist in the medieval West?‰۪

IMBAS 2013 The theme for the 2013 conference is ' Destruction and Renewal ‰Û_and back again?‰۪, and it will run from the 29th November to 1st December at the Moore Institute, NUI Galway.The committee is delighted to announce that this year's keynote speaker will be Professor Fredric Cheyette of Amherst College, Massachusetts. Professor Cheyette is... | Read on »

Horizon 2020 Marie Curie DayProgramme of Events: -Part I: Excellent Science - the Marie Curie option (10.00- 12.00pm) An overview & update of the Marie Curie Scheme presented by Dr Jennifer Brennan NCP. Also campus case studies of an ITN, or the IEF Scheme and the IAPP as shared by our colleagues Register here: http://bit.ly/17gMKLW... | Read on »

Performance MattersIrish Theatre Discussion Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/ For more information please contact lisa.fitzgerald@nuigalway.ie or m.nichualain5@nuigalway.ie All theatre practitioners, theorists and students are welcome to attend For more information please email PerformanceMattersNUIG@gmail.com.

Centre for Irish StudiesDoctoral Research SymposiumProgramme11.00am - 12.30pm Panel 1'Ritual Tears': Some aspects of the phenomena of tears in ritual and religious funerary practices, with particular reference to narratives from the National Folklore Archives on Erris, Co MayoRita O'DonoghueA methodological approach to literary translation from a minority to a majority languageFionnuala NÌ_ RÌÁinneIdeology and polemic... | Read on »

If you like gossiping, poetry, languages, puns, puzzles, jokes, double entendres or even avant-garde tomes, you might like Finnegans Wake. Despite its scurrilous critical reputation, James Joyce's final workis not as difficult as it would first appear and,when read as part of a group, can be a hugely rewarding experience. It is our hope to... | Read on »

Rosemary Power, Independent Scholar, Adjunct of CAMPS, NUI Galway ‰Û÷A Norse view of Brian BÌ_r̼‰۪

Digital Scholarship SeminarThe third and final event of the Autumn/Winter series of DSS is a lunchtime seminar featuring presentations from scholars in Classics and Gaeilge: Mark Stansbury (Classics). 'What‰۪s digital about digital humanities?' Lillis ÌÒ Laoire (Gaeilge). ‰Û÷The Joe Heaney Collection: Building the Digital Archive.‰۪ Chair: Sean Ryder (English) The seminar will be followed by... | Read on »

INVITATION NUI Galway‰۪s THREESIS 2013 FINAL:The THREESIS competition will see NUI Galway staff and students present their research to the audience and a panel of judges in accessible language a non-expert can understand, in three minutes or less. Each of the 8 finalists will have only three slides and three minutes to communicate their research... | Read on »

Kenneth Coyne, History Department, NUIG 'The description of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos in Robert The Monk's Historia Iherosolimatana': caricature or reality?

Global Women's Studies is pleased to host aGender ARC Public Lecture withSenator Katherine ZapponeMoving beyond a politics of shame: marriage equality, gender recognition and the new embrace of humanityReception to follow - all welcomersvp: Gillian.browne@nuigalway.ieSenator Katherine Zappone is one of Ireland's foremost thinkers and legislators on equality issues. She was formerly a Commissioner with the... | Read on »

Performance MattersIrish Theatre Discussion Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/ For more information please contact lisa.fitzgerald@nuigalway.ie or m.nichualain5@nuigalway.ie All theatre practitioners, theorists and students are welcome to attend For more information please email PerformanceMattersNUIG@gmail.com.

Pascale Dettwiller from Flinders University, Australia on community engagement in the Katherine Region of the Northern Territories entitled ‰Û÷Community Engagement: improving student experience within the communities, how can Universities be innovative?' Pascale will offer a 30 minute presentation on her community engagement work in the Katherine region followed by a group discussion and brainstorm. The... | Read on »