6th Annual Environment, Society & Development SymposiumPrecarious Geographies: Insecurity, Solidarity and Critical GeopoliticsThe Geopolitics and Justice Cluster's 6th Annual Symposium on Environment, Society and Development takes place March 30-31 this year. The two-day symposium, supported by the Whitaker Institute and part of its Conflict, Humanitarianism and Security Cluster annual events, engages the key theme of... | Read on »

Martin Reilly Lecture SeriesDeirdre NÌ_ ChonghailepresentsSean̢åÛånÌ_s song in Pennsylvania, 1884̢åÛå1935:the Rev. Daniel J. Murphy Collection FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch Tuilleadh eolais:email: Martinreillylectureseries@gmail.com

Gender ARC and Global Women's Studies at NUI Galway are pleased to invite you to a research seminar:Diversity in Initial Teacher Education (DITE) in Ireland: Critical Perspectives on Gender and SexualityDr. Manuela Heinz, Dr. Elaine Keane, and Dr. Kevin Davison, Education, NUIGalwayAbstract: The homogeneity of the teaching profession is an international phenomenon; teaching bodies are... | Read on »

Interculturalism and Performance Now: New Directions?Featuring Rustom Bharucha, Leo Cabranes-Grant, Emine FiÌÉåÙek, Jason King, Ric Knowles, Julie Holledge, Daphne Lei, Charlotte McIvor, Prathrana Purkayastha, Victor Ramirez Ladron De Guevara, Brian Singleton and Joanne Tompkins Interculturalism has long been one of the most vigorously debated theoretical keywords in the field of theatre and performance studies. Intercultural... | Read on »

CAMPS Reserach lab:Dr Brian FrykenbergAndover, Massachusetts and Moore Institute visiting fellow'Suibne's "Praise of the Garb"' Everyone welcome - FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁchFor more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie

Open Access: Implications and Opportunities Speakers: Prof. Nicholas Canny (ERC) and Prof. Lokesh Joshi (V-P for Research) Open Access is an issue that will be of increasing importance to all academics and it has specific implications for Humanities and Social Science researchers which need to be assessed. In particular, funding bodies are beginning to make... | Read on »

You are cordially invited to the launch ofDuanaire: a treasury of digital data for Irish economic history The event will be chaired by Dr Marie-Louise Coolahan (School of Humanities, NUI Galway) and opened by the President of NUI Galway, Dr James Browne, followed by a short presentation by Dr Aidan Kane on the Duanaire project.... | Read on »

CAMPS resesarch labDr Brian FrykenbergAndover, Massachusetts (Independent scholar, Celtic Studies) and Moore Institute visiting fellow'The Provenance & Language of the Anecdota Suibne Poems' Everyone welcome - FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁchFor more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie

Digital Scholarship Seminar:Gabriel Bodard (King's College London)Standards for Networking Ancient Prosopographies: Data and Relations in Greco-Roman Names For further informatition, contact: Dr PÌÁdraic Moran (padraic.moran@nuigalway.ie),or Dr Justitin Tonra (justitin.tonra@nuigalway.ie)www.nuigalway.ie/digital-seminar ‰ۢ www.facebook.com/nuigdss

CAMPS Reserach lab:Dr Brian FrykenbergAndover, Massachusetts and Moore Institute visiting fellow'St Mo-Ling as Prophet in the Poem "TÌÁinic rath"'Everyone welcome - FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁchFor more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie

Gender ARC Lunchtime Seminar SeriesTanya Watson, PhD Candidate, Political Science and Sociology, NUI Galway Woman of the Farm: Property Ownership and Gender on Family Farms in Ireland All WelcomeFor more information please contact gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie

Special Collections Lunchtime Lectures series Arts of travel: from Renaissance to Romanticism by Prof. Daniel Carey, Moore Institute For more information please contact olivia.lardner@nuigalway.ie

Moore Institute Visiting Fellow Lecture Prof. Alexis Tadi̩ (University of Paris-Sorbonne & Moore Institute Visiting Fellow) ‰Û÷How Can We Talk about Syria?' 4pm, Thursday 16 April Moore Institute Seminar Room (G010) Hardiman Research BuildingFor more information please contact daniel.carey@nuigalway.ie

Book Launch Paolo Bartoloni, Sapere di scrivere. Svevo e gli ordigni di La coscienza di Zeno, Il Carrubo.The book will be launched by Dr Giuseppe Stellardi, The University of Oxford; with an introduction by Daniel Carey.The book launch and all talks will be in English.For more information please contact Paolo Bartoloni at italian@nuigalway.ie

ÌÒ Briain Annual Public Lecture - Prof Jan Pedersen,University of Stockholm, 'Subtitling CulturalReferences: When Mr Rodgers became Donald Duck One of the classic translation problems is cultural references, and when it comes to subtitling the constraints are quite severe: not only is there a shift from spoken to written mode but there is also the... | Read on »

'Language Games': An AWC Seminar on Language and Literature.All welcome.This week's seminar will deal with W.B. Yeats's A Vision Texts for discssion will be provided at the meeting.Contact: irina.ruppo@nuigawlay.ie

Smoking: Are e-cigarettes part of the problem or part of the solution? A panel discussion According to the WHO, tobacco use kills more than 5 million people per year. It is responsible for 1 in 10 adult deaths. Among the five greatest risk factors for mortality, it is the single most preventable cause of death.... | Read on »

Public LecturebyClaudia Kinmonth, Moore Institute Visiting FellowRevising Irish Country Furniture 1700-1950Piggins, Noggins & Fowl IndoorsAll welcomeFor more information please contact kate.thornhill@nuigalway.ie

Medieval Studies Postgraduate Research DayFor more information please contact kim.loprete@nuigalway.ie

What is Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and where does it come from? The simplest definition of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) consists of a list of the typical symptoms. Professor Killeen provides a more comprehensive definition that informs us of the events that trigger ADHD in both its acute and chronic manifestations; the neurobiology that underlies... | Read on »

A Peculiar Society? Ireland, 1970s-1990sProgrammePROGRAMME‰Û÷A peculiar society'? Ireland, 1970s-1990sMoore Institute, Hardiman Research Building,National University of Ireland Galway24-25 April 2015‰Û÷Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century' (John McGahern)24 April 201510.30 - Registration11.15 - Welcome and Introductory... | Read on »

Dr Kim LoPrete, History, NUIG'War, Monastic Conversion, and the Politics of Ecclesiastical Reform in 1070s' France' Followed by discussion & light lunchEveryone welcome - FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁchFor more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie

NUI Galway Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, the Irish Theatrical Diaspora Project (ITD), and the Gate Theatre present: The 12th Annual IRISH THEATRICAL DIASPORA CONFERENCE Theme: DUBLIN'S GATE THEATRE 30 April and 1 May 2015 The Gate Theatre, Parnell Square, Dublin 1 Since the Gate Theatre was founded by Hilton Edwards and MicheÌÁl Mac... | Read on »

Digital Scholarship Seminar:Franck Cinato (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris)Collaborative Digital Editing: Experience from the Liber Glossarum ProjectAbstract: This presentation will share experience from a large-scale project to produce a new collaborative digital edition of the Liber Glossarum, a vast encyclopaedic dictionary (c. 30,000 entries) compiled in a female monastery in northern France around... | Read on »