Moore Institute Visiting Fellow Lecture Dr Shelley Troupe, NUI Maynooth "From Druid/Murphy to DruidMurphy"All welcomeFor more information contact Shelley.Troupe@nuim.ie
Language GamesLanguage Games is a seminar dedicated to all matters relating to language and literature, including linguistics, translation, language instruction, and literary experiments and their reception.All WelcomeQuestions and proposals for workshops can be sent toirina.ruppo@nuigalway.ieOrganisers:Irina Ruppo Malone(English/Academic Writing Centre, James Hardiman Library)Siobhan Purcell (English)
‰Û÷What translation means to me':A roundtable of translation and interpretation practitioners in Ireland will discuss their work and their philosophy of translation. The roundtable will include Gabriel Rosenstock - poet and translator; Lorna Shaughnessy - poet, lecturer and Spanish translator; ́ine NÌ_ Sh̼illeabhÌÁin - Head of translation Services DCU; Susan Folan - Interpreter, European Union... | Read on »
Gender ARC Lunchtime Seminar SeriesDr. Elaine Keane, Education, NUI Galway ‰Û÷Some done - A lot more to do': Lessons from Research on Widening Participation in Higher Education & to the Professions All WelcomeFor more information please contact gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie
History Graduate Research Seminar SeriesSusanne Lachenicht. Negotiating Asylum in Europe and the Atlantic World in the 17th and 18th centuries. Followed by Dr Lachenicht's launch of RÌ_isÌ_n Healy & Enrico Dal Lago (eds.) The Shadow of Colonialism on Europe's Modern Past (Palgrave Macmillan 2014) for more information please contact caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie
You are cordially invited to the launch ofThe Shadow of Colonialism on Europe's Modern PastEdited by RÌ_isÌ_n Healy and Enrico Dal Lago The book will be launched by Prof. Susanne Lachenicht (Univeristy of Bayreuth) The book launch will be preceded by Prof. Lachenicht's lecture on"Negotiating Asylum in Europe and the Atlantic World in the 17th... | 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 »
Performance MattersIrish Theatre Discussion Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/For more information please contact lisa.fitzgerald@nuigalway.ie or m.nichualain5@nuigalway.ieAll theatre practitioners, theorists and students are welcome to attend
Archaeology research seminar series:Colette Allen, MLitt student in Archaeology at NUI Galway will give a graduate seminar on: *Landscapes of the Cailleach: An Introduction to BuÌ_ Places* All welcome!for more information please contact maggie.ronayne@nuigalway.ie
'Language Games': An AWC Seminar on Language and Literature.All welcome.Texts for discssion will be provided at the meeting.Contact: irina.ruppo@nuigawlay.ie
History Graduate Research Seminar SeriesGavan Duffy, Freehold or a 999 year lease? Australia, New Zealand and the fate of the German Pacific, 1914-1920. for more information please contact caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie
Centre for Global Women's Studies Project Launch Social and Economic Costs of Violence Against Women and Girls Supported by UK Development for International Development 11th February 2015, 5.00pm, Aula Maxima Lower, NUI, Galway, IrelandFor more information please contact gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie
Roundtable on the Eurocrisis and Book Launch. The Moore Institute and the Economics Discipline at NUI Galway will be holding a roundtable and book launch on Wednesday, Feb. 11th in seminar room G011 in the Hardiman reserach building. The book launch of two volumes, Social Structure of Accumulation Theory and Contemporary Capitalism and Its Crises,... | Read on »
Grundtvig Project MeetingNUI Galway with European NGOs to examine lifelong learning and recognition for voluntary engagement. Thursday 12th February - Friday 13th February 20159.00-5.00 Followed by evening receptionCelebrating the Learning in VolunteeringThursday the 12th February 2015, 5pmAula Maxima, Quadrgangle, NUI Galway Short inputs on the evening will come from: GVC, Europass Ireland, Volunteer Ireland and... | Read on »
Performing Famine Memory:Irish Theatre and the Great Hunger Symposium Conference Convener and Contact: Dr. Jason King Jason.king@nuigalway.ie This symposium examines Irish Theatre and Famine Memory between the periods of the Irish Revival and the rise and fall of Ireland's Celtic Tiger. It places special emphasis on the performance of Famine remembrance to register moments of... | Read on »
Archaeology research seminar series:Raina Howe, doctoral student in History at NUI Galway on The Woodland Tradition of Ireland: Sources and Controversies. All welcome!for more information please contact maggie.ronayne@nuigalway.ie
Gender ARC Lunchtime Seminar SeriesDr. Anne Cassidy, Postdoctoral Researcher 'Join-to-Farm' Teagasc/NUI Galway The Agency Paradox: gender(ed) frameworks in Irish Farming Families All WelcomeFor more information please contact gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie
History Graduate Research Seminar SeriesEamonn Gardiner, 'Insane at the Time of Commission': Stress, Trauma and Suicide in Temporary Cadets of the Auxiliary Division, 1920-1930.' for more information please contact caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie
5th BABEL PUBLIC LECTURE SERIESDr Mel Boland:Contact and Conflict Zones: Reading Gesture in the short fiction of Isabel AllendeHow do we read gesture in literature? This lecture looks at how we read and interpret the description of gestures, using selected short stories from Chilean author Isabel Allende in Spanish and English.The Babel Lectures is an... | Read on »
Lecture under joint auspices of Moore Institute and the Newspaper and Periodical History Forum of IrelandDr Joan Allen(Moore Institute Visiting Research Fellow / Newcastle University)‰Û÷Charles Diamond, the Catholic Herald and the Defence of the Realm Act, 1914-1920' For more information please contact john.cunningham@nuigalway.ie
Word-Bridges: Translation in Ireland Symposium This symposium examines translation in Ireland with a particular focus on the years 1700-1900. The event brings together leading scholars to explore cultural exchange in Ireland and to assess how translation was used for informative, creative and transformative purposes. It will look at translation between Irish and English side by... | Read on »
Francisco Rozano, Medieval Studies, NUIG'Saga hwÌ_t ic hatte: The Many Names and Mysteries of the Exeter Book of Old English Poetry' Followed by discussion & light lunchEveryone welcome - FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁchFor more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie
Performance MattersIrish Theatre Discussion Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/For more information please contact lisa.fitzgerald@nuigalway.ie or m.nichualain5@nuigalway.ieAll theatre practitioners, theorists and students are welcome to attend
Inishowen singers on tour http://inishowensinging.ie/ For more information please contact lillis.olaoire@nuigalway.ie
Archaeology research seminar series:Peter Casby, Galway doctoral scholarship student in Archaeology at NUI Galway Living Trees in Created Environments of Gaelic Ireland (c.700AD - 1600AD). All welcome!for more information please contact maggie.ronayne@nuigalway.ie
'Language Games': An AWC Seminar on Language and Literature.All welcome.Texts for discssion will be provided at the meeting.Contact: irina.ruppo@nuigawlay.ie
History Graduate Research Seminar SeriesFlorry O' Driscoll 'Confounding the Garibaldian Liars': The Letters of Albert De La Hoyde of the Battalion of St Patrick, 1860. for more information please contact caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie
Public talk on writing about the environment at NUI Galway Author and lecturer Paddy Woodworth is to give a guest talk titled ‰Û÷Writing Restoration: A Global Journey to the Cutting Edge of Conservation Science & Practice' at NUI Galway on 26 February at 7pm. The talk, part of the "Doing Writing" series organized by the... | Read on »
Christine Neer, Old & Middle Irish, NUIG'Grieving Lovers and Gendered Mourning in Old and Middle Irish Tochmarca'. Followed by discussion & light lunchEveryone welcome - FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁchFor more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie
