As part of NUI Galway's commemorative programme, Friday 4 September 2015 will see a one day workshop onResearching the Irish Parliamentary Party in the Decade of Centenaries. This workshop will feature speakers outlining their own particular research focus and its aims as well as commenting on perceived opportunities and/or challenges when researching the Irish Party... | Read on »

Prof. William Maker Philosophy, Clemson University Darkness Made (In)visible: The Dialectic of Race in Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust Wednesday 9 September 5pm Hardiman Research Building seminar room G011For more information please contact daniel.carey@nuigalway.ie

The Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour & Class (ICHLC) is pleased to announce its inaugural seminar series.The first seminar will seeDavid Convery,Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the ICHLC, speak on'Writing and Theorising the Irish Working Class'.All are welcome to attend. For more information please contact david.convery@nuigalway.ie

Gender ARC is pleased to invite you to a research seminar May-Len Skilbrei, University of Oslo, Norway"The Sex Purchase Ban in Sweden and Norway: evaluating law-in-action" This seminar launches the first all-Ireland network for researchers critically engaged in the area of commercial sex and its attendant politics. A further one-day series of workshops will be... | Read on »

Gender ARC is pleased to invite you to: "Lily and Lolly: Yeats and his Sisters" Written and performed by Sinead Murphy and Darina Gallagher Reception and Performance: Friday 11 September 2015 - 3.30-5.00pm - All Welcome!! Venue: Room G006, Institute for Lifecourse and Society, NUI Galway Lily and Lolly is a new work of theatre... | Read on »

Prof. Alan Stewart (Columbia University / Centre for Editing Lives and Letters)Writing a life in early modern England: the case of Richard Stonley Moore Institute "BRIDGE" seminar Room (Hardiman Research Building 1001) NUI Galway 5pm Tuesday 15 September

You are cordially invited to the launch ofThe Age of Lincoln and Cavour:Comparative Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century American and Italian Nation-BuildingBy Enrico Dal LagoThe book will be launched byProf. Daniel CareyFor more information please contact enrico.dallago@nuigalway.ie

Lo Zibaldone, Leopardi and Translation Organized by: Italian Institute of Culture and NUI Galway The launch of the second English edition of Giacomo Leopardi's Zibaldone with Prof. Franco D'Intino and Prof. Michael Caesar. Published in the USA and UK - after seven years of work - the first complete translation in English of the Zibaldone,... | Read on »

EDEN (English and Drama Exchange Network),a student-led research exchange network forEnglish and Drama postgraduate studentsFor more information please contact Justine Nakase at j.nakase1@nuigalway.ie

A Musical Evening of the Poems of Oscar Wilde set to music by Susanne Thea and Malinovsky For more information please contact monica.crump@nuigalway.ie

Official launch of the 2015/16 Arts in Action Programme in association with the James Hardiman Library.The programme will be launched by Mr Cathal Goan.We look forward to seeing you all.

Performance MattersIrish Theatre Discussion Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/This week we will be discussingBrian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa For more information please contact n.barre8@nuigalway.ieAll theatre practitioners, theorists and students are welcome to attend

German Reading GroupRoom 1003Every wednesday 11-1For more information please contact lucy.m.elvis@gmail.com

Drama, Theatre and Performance Speaker SeriesCharlotte McIvor'Migration, Performance and Contemporary Ireland'This talk lays out my study of the effect of large-scale immigration and interculturalism as social policy on Irish theatre and performance post-1990s. It investigates Ireland's translation of interculturalism as social policy into aesthetic practice and situates the wider implications of this ‰Û÷new interculturalism' for... | Read on »

History Graduate Research Seminar SeriesConor McNamara and Martin O'Donoghue,to be chaired by Dr Mary Harris,History and commemoration for more information please contact caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie

Public Round Table on New Speakers of IrishIS ÌÒĆID PHOIBL̍ ̍ SEO / THIS IS A PUBLIC EVENTD̩ardaoin 24̼ MeÌÁn FÌ_mhair Ì_ 4.30-6.30 san Aula Maxima, OÌä Gaillimh /Thursday 24th September from 4.30-6.30 in the Aula Maxima, NUI GalwayAula Maxima, NUI GalwayReÌÁchtÌÁlfar an pain̩al poiblÌ_ seo ar nuachainteoirÌ_ na Gaeilge mar chuid de chruinni̼ den... | Read on »

School of Languages,Literatures and CulturesItalian Studies Narrative and Poetic Explorations between Body and Mind: An Encounter with Valerio Magrelli Programme 6:00 pm: Welcome (Professor Paolo Bartoloni, NUIG, Head of Italian Studies) 6:10 pm: Introducing Valerio Magrelli (Mario Inglese, NUIG, Research Scholar, Italian) 6:20 pm: Conversation on the Challenges of Translating Valerio Magrelli (Clarissa Botsford, Translator... | Read on »

Journalism Roundtable DiscussionRoundtable: FlirtFM@20: Twenty years of Irish student radioA diverse panel, including Paula Healy (Flirt FM), Louise Clarke (iRadio), John Nolan (Claremorris Community Radio), and Emma Goode (NUI Galway) discuss their experiences working with Flirt FM, and the role of student and community radio in contemporary Irish societyFor more information please contact Andrew.obaoill@nuigalway.ie

Performance MattersIrish Theatre Discussion Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/We will be discussing Killer Joe by Tracy Letts for this week's session For more information please contact n.barre8@nuigalway.ieAll theatre practitioners, theorists and students are welcome to attend

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!Threesis 2015 Heat 1: Biomedical Science and Engineering For more information please contact ena.brophy@nuigalway.ie

Jennifer Pozner, Women in Media and News A conversation with New York-based media analyst Jennifer Pozner, author of "Reality Bites Back: the troubling truth about guilty pleasure TV", a critical analysis of reality television. We'll be discussing the intersection of gender, race, and media, among other topics. More info: http://www.realitybitesbackbook.com/about-the-author/ and https://twitter.com/jennpozner

This week in the Drama, Theatre and Performance Speaker Series: Andrew Flynn, Artistic Director of Decadent Theatre Andrew Flynn has been the Artistic Director of Decadent Theatre Company since 2000. In his role, Andrew orchestrates the arranging of our theatre show by curating and unifying various endeavours and aspects of production. His function as the... | Read on »

History Graduate Research Seminar Series Raingard Esser,"Local Baronios" in a contested border region: history, hagiography and politics in Upper Guelders in the seventeenth century.To be followed by book launch. for more information please contact caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie

Steven G.Ellis Defending English Ground War & Peace in Meath & Northumberland, 1460-1542 (Oxford University Press, 2015)A key duty of the Renaissance monarchy was the defence of its subjects. For the English monarchy, the subject's rule and defence from enemies beyond the long-landed frontiers in Ireland and the English far-north proved an intractable problem. It... | 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!Threesis 2015 Heat 2: Informatics, Data Analytics, Physical and Computational Sciences For more information please contact ena.brophy@nuigalway.ie

Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour and Class Seminar SeriesTheme: Thomas Piketty - wealth and income inequalityTerrence McDonough (NUIG) and Cian McMahon (NUIG)For more information please contact jamesthomasodonnell@gmail.com

The Discipline of Spanish, NUI Galway, in collaboration with ISLA Expandido, presents Bombal (Dir. Marcelo Ferrari, Chile 2011) A film based on the life and works of the Chilean author MarÌ_a Luisa Bombal Introduced by Dr. LucÌ_a Guerra Cunningham (University of California, Irvine) and followed by a question and answer session. Thursday, 1 October at... | Read on »