Drama Theatre and Performance speaker series: Anne Clarke (Landmark Productions), "Producing and/as Innovation" Landmark Productions is one of Ireland's leading theatre producers. Established by Anne Clarke ten years ago, the company produces wide-ranging and ambitious work in Ireland and tours Irish work abroad. In the past decade, the company has produced eighteen plays, including six... | Read on »
History Graduate Research Seminar SeriesCiaran O Murchadha, The Great Famine: historiographical challenges. FÌÁilte roimh cÌÁchfor more information please contact caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie
NUI Galway Research Office Seminar Series In conjunction with the Moore Institute, the Research Office is pleased to present: Writing an ERC Advanced Grant Application by Professor Michael Woods, Advanced ERC Awardee Professor of Human Geography & Professor of Transformative Social Science at Aberystwyth University, Co-Director of the ESRC WISERD/Civil Society Research Centre 12.30pm, Thursday,... | Read on »
Journalism ScreeningTitle: Media Pranks: From Welles to the Yes Men Details: October 30th 1938 saw one of the most celebrated media hoaxes of all time, when a young radio director, Orson Welles, broadcast an adaptation of HG Wells' War of the Worlds. We will listen to this iconic radio broadcast, and examine it in relation... | 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!Grand Final Threesis 2015 For more information please contact ena.brophy@nuigalway.ie
Nietzsche Symposium at NUI, Galway: The Galway Nietzsche Symposium is a one-day event that brings together academics and advanced graduate students working on Nietzsche from John Cabot University Rome, NUI Galway and University College Cork. It is an open event and formal registration is not required. 10.30 - 11.30 Tom Bailey (John Cabot University, Rome)... | Read on »
Fanch Bihan-Gallic (Old & Middle Irish & Celtic Studies, NUIG) 'Burial islands in Scotland and the Celtic Watery Journey to the Afterlife'Followed by discussion & light lunchEveryone welcome - FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁchFor more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie
Lunchtime Seminar Series: The OHCHR Investigation on Sri Lanka: the catharsis moment for the protection and promotion of human rights or business as usual?by Mr. Glyn Morgan and Mr. Thamil Venthan Ananthavinayagan, LL.M. (Maastricht) Glyn served in the British Army and British Police before spending six years in the Office of the Prosecutor at International... | Read on »
Performance MattersIrish Theatre Discussion Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/For more information please contact n.barre8@nuigalway.ieAll theatre practitioners, theorists and students are welcome to attend
THE RORY KAVANAGH BURSARYThe Bursary has been made possible by a generous donation from the family of the late Rory Kavanagh (1971-1996), a 1993 B.A. graduate of National University of Ireland, Galway. Rory spent the 1991-1992 academic year in Italy at the University of Bologna under the ERASMUS Student Mobility Programme. This Bursary is awarded... | Read on »
Archaeology research seminar series:Yolande O'Brien - doctoral candidate in Archaeology All welcome!for more information please contact maggie.ronayne@nuigalway.ie
Digital Scholarship Seminar:Evan Bourke (NUI Galway)Female Involvement, Membership, and Centrality: A Social Network Analysis of the Hartlib Circle The Hartlib circle was an intellectual correspondence network that was formed in London in 1641, centred around Samuel Hartlib, John Dury, and Jan Amos Kaminski. This group was mainly active between 1641 and 1661, and included well-known... | Read on »
Drama Theatre and Performance speaker series:Moonfish Theatre, "Developing Practices: A Conversation on Creating Star of the Sea and Cultivating A Theatre Company" Moonfish is a Galway-based theatre company creating work in English and Irish that is rooted in the limitless possibilities of the imagination. Moonfish produce theatre for young people and adults. Our work is... | Read on »
Journalism Guest Speaker SeriesSally Galiana, President AMARC Europe. AMARC is the international organisation for community radio. Ms. Galiana, of Dublin's NEAR FM, is currently president, and will be talking about community media and alternative approaches to news production. For more information please contact Andrew.obaoill@nuigalway.ie
Prof. John Waddell (Archaeology, NUIG) 'Medieval Windows on a Pagan Past' Followed by discussion & light lunchEveryone welcome - FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁchFor more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie
Engendering IrelandNew Reflections on Modern History and LiteratureEditor(s):Rebecca Anne Barr, Sarah-Anne Buckley, Laura Kelly Contributors: Laura Mernie Pomeroy, Katharina Walter, Eleanor O'Leary, Myrtle Hill, Declan O'Keeffe, Marion Krauthaker, Evelyn Glynn, Mary Muldowney, Claire McGing, Charlotte McIvor; Book DescriptionEngendering Ireland is a collection of ten essays showcasing the importance of gender in a variety of disciplines.... | Read on »
Lunchtime Seminar Series:LGBTI rights in Uganda - the state of human rights defenders in perilby Sandra Namutebi, human rights defender from Uganda The Irish Centre for Human Rights, in cooperation with Front Line Defenders, is pleased to welcome Sandra Namutebi, a human rights defender for the LGBTI community in Uganda. In February 2014, Ugandan President... | Read on »
Performance MattersIrish Theatre Discussion Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/For more information please contact n.barre8@nuigalway.ieAll theatre practitioners, theorists and students are welcome to attend
Dr BrÌ_d McGrath Managing the Windsor of Ireland: Galway's Town Council From 1603-1653 Monday, 9 November at 8pm Harbour Hotel, Dock Road, Galway Dr. McGrath's talk explores one of Galway's most outstanding treasures, the ‰Û÷Liber A' manuscript, preserved in the James Hardiman Library at NUI Galway The lecture, sponsored by the Galway Archaeological and Historical... | Read on »
Digital Scholarship Seminar:Gerardine Meaney (University College Dublin) A Comparative Social Network Analysis of Irish and English Fiction, 1800-1922 The Nation, Genre and Gender: A Comparative Social Network Analysis of Irish and English Fiction, 1800-1922 project is currently creating an electronic corpus of approximately 100 Irish and English novels from the period 1800-1922. It will use... | Read on »
Archaeology research seminar series:Daisy Spencer - doctoral candidate in Archaeology and Geography,All welcome!for more information please contact maggie.ronayne@nuigalway.ie
Drama Theatre and Performance speaker series:Jeannine Woods (National University of Ireland, Galway) "A right queer carry-on: traditional wake games, drag performance and trans-formations of gender identities in Irish popular culture" ̢åÛå» Dr. Jeannine Woods graduated from NUI Maynooth with a joint first-class honours degree in Modern Irish and Cultural Anthropology. She was awarded a first-class... | Read on »
Gender ARC Research Seminar Series,Autumn 2015Gender ARC and Global Women's Studies at NUI Galway arepleased to invite you to the following research seminar:................................The Experience of Imprisonment for Incarcerated Mothers and their Childrenin IrelandSinead O'Malley, PhD Candidate, UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre atthe National University of Ireland - Galway For more information please contact gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie
History Graduate Research Seminar SeriesRegina Donlon, Crisis of Identity: the varying experiences of the James Hack Tuke emigrants in Minnesota and Pennsylvania 1880-1930 FÌÁilte roimh gach duinefor more information please contact caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie
Early Modern Research Seminar Dr. Laura Branch,‰Û÷Christian Communities: The Culture of England's Chartered Companies in the Sixteenth Century' Dr. Mark Empey, ‰Û÷"These Books are excellent in their several kinds and well-chosen": Book Ownership and the Reception of Women's Texts, c. 1680-98'
Dr Martin McCleery (Queen's University Belfast and Moore Institute) Assessing the Micro-Dynamics of Political Violence: The Murders of Two British Army Corporals in Belfast, 19 March 1988 Thursday 12 November 4pm Moore Institute Seminar Room (G010 Hardiman Research Building) Followed by the launch of: Martin McCleery, Operation Demetrius and Its Aftermath: A New History of... | Read on »
Book LaunchMartin McCleery,Operation Demetrius and Its Aftermath: A New History of the Use of Internment Without Trial in Northern Ireland 1971-75 (Manchester University Press, 2015). Launched by Dr. Niall ÌÒ DochartaighSchool of Political Science and Sociology, NUI Galway All are welcome!
Prof. MÌÁirÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha (Old & Middle Irish & Celtic Studies, NUIG) 'Uproarious laughter in medieval Cork, but who wrote Aislinge Meic Con Glinne?'Followed by discussion & light lunchEveryone welcome - FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁchFor more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie
Weekend Conference:‰Û÷Remembering NoÌÇl Browne, 1915-97: Reflections on Radicalism, Welfare & Social Change in Modern Ireland'Featuring Robert Ballagh, Joe Higgins TD and others. Marking the centenary of the birth of Irish socialist politician and health reformer Noel Browne in Galway 13 - 14 November 2015.The programme of events is...Friday 13 November - 19:30Galway Mechanics Institute, Nun's... | Read on »
The Galway launch of the Letters of 1916 2 - 6pm Nursing and Midwifery PC suite of the James Hardiman Library. Here you can meet the team and learn to transcribe a letter. The Letters 1916 team will also be on hand to digitise any letters that you bring along. We are especially interested in... | Read on »
Performance MattersIrish Theatre Discussion Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/For more information please contact n.barre8@nuigalway.ieAll theatre practitioners, theorists and students are welcome to attend
Archaeology research seminar series:Thor McVeigh - doctoral candidate in Archaeology All welcome!for more information please contact maggie.ronayne@nuigalway.ie
We are pleased to welcome ROSALEEN McDONAGH to NUI Galway as a Global Women's Studies Visiting ScholarRosaleen McDonagh is a writer and playwright, a well-known feminist in the Irish Traveller community, and a tireless advocate for human rights. A regular contributor to the Irish Times, Rosaleen currently holds a PhD fellowship at the University of... | Read on »
Drama Theatre and Performance speaker series:Emilie Pine (University College, Dublin)"Top Tips for Docu-Verbatim Memory Plays: The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later" Dr Emilie Pine lectures in modern drama in the School of English, Drama and Film at UCD. Emilie has published widely in the fields of memory studies, Irish studies and... | Read on »
History Graduate Research Seminar SeriesMatthew McGinty, ‰Û÷God Hath Supplied Us': Niall Garbh and the English in the Nine Years War. FÌÁilte roimh gach duinefor more information please contact caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie
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
Lunchtime Seminar Series:The Ryan Commission: between justice and re-traumatisation, than and nowby Rosaleen McDonagh, leading feminist within the Traveller community The Irish Centre for Human Rights, in cooperation with Global Women's Studies, is pleased to welcome Rosaleen McDonagh, a doctoral scholar at Northumbria University, reading for a PhD titled "An Exploration of the Relevance of... | Read on »
A Victorian bestseller: David Roberts The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea,Egypt & Nubia.Library Ireland Week Talk by Marie Boran, Special Collections Librarian Date: Friday 20 November, 13.00-14.00 Venue: Hardiman Research Building G011 All Welcome
Performance MattersIrish Theatre Discussion Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/This weeks discussion - God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza.For more information please contact n.barre8@nuigalway.ieAll theatre practitioners, theorists and students are welcome to attend
Gender ARC Research Seminar Series,Autumn 2015Gender ARC and Global Women's Studies at NUI Galway arepleased to invite you to the following research seminar:................................Psychiatry, mental illness and gender Edmund O'Toole, PhD Candidate, Discipline of Philosophy at the National University of Ireland - Galway For more information please contact gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie
Please join us for a performance of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale as adapted and performed by NUI Galway's 3rd Year Drama, Theatre and Performance students. It runs in the Mick Lally Theatre, Druid's performance space, for three nights: Tuesday, 24 November - Thursday, 26 November. The starting time is 8pm and it will run for... | Read on »
Drama Theatre and Performance speaker series:Lian Bell (Set Designer and Arts Manager)"Design + Management- Making Work" Since completing an MA in Scenography at Central St. Martin's College of Art and Design, Bell has freelanced in Dublin both as an arts manager and designer for performance, working with some of the most significant organisations, artists and... | Read on »
History Graduate Research Seminar SeriesCormac O ComhraÌ_ Protast̼naigh na Gaillimhe agus an R̩abhlÌ_id 1913-23 FÌÁilte roimh gach duinefor more information please contact caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie
Western Worldsa day @Yeats & the West William Butler Yeats, poet, playwright, politician, and Nobel prize-winner for literature, always looked west. The Yeats & the West exhibition at NUI Galway, with rare books, art, music, drama, and film, discovers what the west meant to him, and what this means for us. Part of the Yeats... | Read on »
Prof. Elizabeth Fitzpatrick (Archaeology, NUIG) 'The Speckled Place: Boundaries and Natural Resources in Medieval Gaelic Ireland'Followed by discussion & light lunchEveryone welcome - FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁchFor more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie
Lunchtime Seminar Series:Human Trafficking and the Criminalization of Buying Sex: Understanding Vulnerability to Trafficking in Europe and Abroadby Prof. Davina Durgana, Associate Professor at SIT Graduate Institute in Washington, DC and Senior Technical Advisor at Seraphim GLOBAL Dr. Davina Durgana is a human trafficking expert who has won national and local awards for her work... | Read on »
Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour and Class Seminar Series Theme: 'Women's rights and child welfare in Ireland, 1922-2014'Sarah-Anne Buckley (NUIG) For more information please contact jamesthomasodonnell@gmail.com
Archaeology research seminar series:Peter Casby - doctoral candidate in ArchaeologyAll welcome!for more information please contact maggie.ronayne@nuigalway.ie
Smart Consent Workshop with Elaine Byrnes. Smart Consent is a workshop where students can explore what consent means in a fun environment, led by facilitator, Elaine Byrnes, from the School of Psychology. Smart Consent was developed following research conducted with NUI Galway students on the topic on Consent and Sexual Services. The objectives of this... | Read on »
Drama Theatre and Performance speaker series:Junk Ensemble (Megan and Jessica Kennedy), "Junk Ensemble and Dance Theatre in Ireland and Beyond" junk ensemble was established in 2004 by identical twin sisters Megan Kennedy and Jessica Kennedy with a commitment to creating works of brave and imaginative dance theatre. Previous Artists in Residence at Tate Britain, junk... | Read on »
Gender ARC Research Seminar Series,Autumn 2015Gender ARC and Global Women's Studies at NUI Galway arepleased to invite you to the following research seminar:................................The Subject of Choice and the Story of Single Motherhood Dr Yianna Liatsos, Department of English in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of LimerickFor more information please contact gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie
You are cordially invited to the book launches for Bernard Shaw's Irish Outlook, by David Clare. Although Bernard Shaw is often regarded as a writer of English society plays, his formative years in Ireland deeply influenced his work for the stage. His use of Irish, Irish Diasporic, Surrogate Irish, and Stage English characters reveals the... | Read on »
Digital Scholarship Seminar:Hugh Houghton (University of Birmingham) Editing the Greek and Latin New Testament in the Digital Age Hugh Houghton, University of Birmingham Editing the Greek and Latin New Testament in a Digital Age Computer technology has transformed the editing of the New Testament. For the first time ever, it is possible to take into... | Read on »
GENDER InEQUALITY Conference, Friday, 4th December 2015 Venue: Hardiman Research Building (GO 10), keynotes (AM 250) TIME 9.30-10.00 Welcome & Opening Address Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, NUIG 10.00-10.30 Campaigning against Discrimination at NUI Galway Maggie Ronayne SIPTU equality committee, NUIG Micheline Sheehy Skeffington, 10.30-11.00 The Age of Anxiety - Postgraduate Experiences Mary McGill, Feminist Society, NUIG 11.00-11.30... | Read on »
Dr Kim LoPrete (History, NUIG) 'Bertrada of Montfort's Dower(s): Finding History in Charters'Followed by discussion & light lunchEveryone welcome - FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁchFor more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie
