Digital Scholarship Serminar Series Spring 2016We are pleased to announce the Spring 2016 series of Digital Scholarship Seminar! Presentations in this series touch on topics as diverse as electronic poetry, intertextuality, digital ethics, Late Antique epic poetry, and quantitative approaches to book history. Full details of the schedule are available in the attached poster. The... | Read on »

Performance Matters: Irish Theatre Discussion Group - Venue: Room 1003, Floor 1, the Hardiman Research Building(Contact n.barre8@nuigalway.ie)

Drama, Theatre and Performance Speaker Series: Grace DyasGrace DyasTHEATREclub, activist, writer, director BiographyGrace is an activist, a theatre director, a writer, a theatre producer and sometimes she changes things or makes new things happen. She makes theatre because she wants to change the world. She lives and works in inner city Dublin, Ireland where she... | Read on »

GenderARC Postgraduate Reading Group: Feminism and Queer TheoryGender ARC in association with the Centre for Global Women's studies is pleased to be hosting a postgraduate reading group this semester at NUI Galway to discuss theoretical works from critical feminist/gender and queer perspectives. All postgraduate students (from taught/research MA programmes to PhD students) are welcome to... | Read on »

History Graduate Research Seminar Series: Cathal Smith, 'Thomas Bermingham: nineteenth century Irish land agent and 'improver' '.

Irish Centre for Histories of Labour and Class (ICHLC) - Prof Lionel Pilkington (NUIG), ' Losing our Way: Capitalism and Cultural Change in Ireland post 1958.'

Performance Matters: Irish Theatre Discussion Group.Venue: Room 1003, Floor 1, Hardiman Research Building. 14:00h - 15:00h.

SPI Seminars: Space, Place and Identity Research Cluster Seminar Series: Ivan Kenny (Spanish, NUIG) ' Liminal Spaces in Mexican Literature and Film:Juan Rulfo and Luis Bunuel'

Jane Daly, Co-Director, Irish Theatre Institute Irish Theatre InstituteIrish Theatre Institute (ITI), (formerly known as Theatre Shop), is a resource organisation that supports and acknowledges the achievements and ambition of Irish theatre artists and companies across all aspects of theatre practice. ITI has pioneered networking, information provision and on-line research tools and has become a... | Read on »

History Graduate Research Seminar Series: Deirdre Fennell, 'The Best of Times, The Worst of Times? The Fitzwilliam Family and Tudor Ireland 1558 - 1575'.

As part of a special series "Mining the Theatre Archives @NUIG"On their website, the Abbey Theatre includes Sam Shepard in a roundup of playwrights whose work they have "premiered and nurtured." As the only non-Irish writer on this list, Shepard's appeal to the Abbey (and their appeal to him) is curious. Drawing from materials in... | Read on »

CAMPS Lab - Dr Sabine Asmus, Celtic Studies, Universitat Leipzig 'The Celtic Otherworld'.

Yeats & the WestExhibition ClosingwithProf. Margaret Mills Harper(University of Limerick)‰Û÷Yeats & the problem of Crazy Jane'Refreshments will be servedyeatsandthewest.orgMargaret Mills Harper is Glucksman Professor of Contemporary Writing in English at the University of Limerick.She is the author of The Aristocracy of Art: Joyce and Wolfe (1990), and Wisdom of Two: The Spiritual and Literary Collaboration... | Read on »

ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL ABSTRACTIn Ireland, "If you're hungry enough, you'll dig up the tar on the road with your teeth to get a vote." It's not only the other parties that are a threat to you, it's your running mate. Indeed, it's the internal rivalry that can be the most bitter and acrimonious, as... | Read on »

SPI Seminars: Space, Place and Identity Research Cluster Seminar Series: Patricia Garcia (Translation Studies, U.Nottingham), 'Human Spatiality and the Fantastic: Transgressions of Literary Realism'."Human Spatiality and the Fantastic: Transgressions of Literary Realism" byDr. Patricia GarcÌ_a(Translation Studies/Spanish, U. Nottingham) Wednesday, 17 February at 1 p.m. Moore Institute Seminar Room - GO10,Hardiman Research Building, NUI GalwayThanks to... | Read on »

Early Modern Reserach Seminar: Dr Imke Lichterfeld, Dept of English, American and Celtic Studies, University of Bonn - '''What are you made of?' Joan of Arc and Margaret of Anjou in Shakespeare's Henry VI''

History Graduate Research Seminar Series (HGRSS) - Frank Towers, 'The Slave Power's Grassroots:Proslavery Politics and the American Civil War.

'Charles Macklin and the Question of Ethnic Resistance'. by Dr.David O'Shaughnessy, Assistant Professor of Eighteenth- Century Studies at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin.

ICHLC Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour & Class Public Debate: ‰Û÷James Connolly: life, death, & legacy'Contributors: Peter Buckingham, Emmet O'Connor,Theresa Moriarty, Brian Hanley,This event, part of NUI Galway's Ìäire ÌÁM̼scailt programme, is held in associationwith the Galway Council of Trade Unions

Greta Franzini, University of G̦ttingen / University College LondonGrimms MÌ_rchen: Investigating an intertextual puzzle of fairy tales. As the name suggests, the Electronic Text Reuse Acquisition Project (eTRAP) concerns itself with the study and automatic detection of text reuse, and particularly that occurring in historical texts. Text reuse takes various forms, ranging from verbatim quotations... | Read on »

Drama, Theatre and Performance Speaker Series: Reinhard Kuhnert, Actor and Writer'Theatre in Germany before and after Reunification: Experiences of a Playwright working in two political systems' Born in East-Berlin, Reinhard Kuhnert studied Creative Writing and Drama in Leipzig. Since 1967 he workied as a playwright, actor and director at theatres in East-Germany. In 1983 he... | Read on »

SPI Seminars: Space, Place and Identity Research Cluster Seminar Series: Ulf Strohmayer (Geography, NUIG), 'Parisian Abbatoirs: A Foucauldian Approach'

CAMPS Lab, All-day Research Seminar, ''Territorial Boundaries and Topographies of Power'

The Centre for Antique, Medieval and Pre-Modern Studies (CAMPS) is delighted to announce that this year's Annual Medieval Studies Lecture will be delivered byJoseph F. Nagy, Professor of Celtic Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles,on Friday, 26 February, at 12.00 noon,in the Moore Institute, Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research BuildingTitle: 'Hunting Mythical Pigs... | Read on »

Schedule12.30 Introductions by Prof Patrick Lonergan (Drama, Theatre and Performance), Prof. Felix ÌÒ Murchadha (Philosophy)Prof.Rod Stoneman (Huston School of Film and Digital Media)1.15 Prof.Paul Crowther (Discipline of Philosophy, NUIG) 'Hyperbodiment and Aesthetic Meaning in Film'2.15 Coffee Break2.30 Prof. Shaun Richards (St. Mary's University): 'An almost instant communion becomes a trap': Irish stage sets and the... | Read on »

SPI Seminars: Space, Place and Identity Research Cluster Seminar Series: Catherine Emmerson (French, NUIG), '''Ung gentil homme de Bourgoigne nagueres'' : Locality and Identity in the Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles'

Professor Elena Agazzi (Bergamo)Returning home to lost countries and landscapes with ruins: Germany after 1945 seen with today's eyesLecture in EnglishElena Agazzi is Full Professor of German at the University of Bergamo (Italy) and one of the most renowned scholars in German studies in Italy. She is a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation and... | Read on »

Remembering and Unremembering: Liam Mellows, Easter 1916 and County GalwayDr Conor McNamara, Moore Institute 1916 Scholar in Residence, will be giving a public lecture on Wednesday 2nd March at Lackagh Community Centre at 8 PM.The lecture is entitled, Remembering and Unremembering: Liam Mellows and Easter Week 1916 in Galway.

Speaker - Michael Foley (DIT) 'Journalism the last refuge for the middle class boy: the professionalisation of journalism in 19th Century Ireland'. Chaired by Prof Tadhg Foley (NUIG)

'The Enigmatic Aspects of the Hisperica Famina'Prof. Andy Orchard(Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon,Pembroke College, Oxford)The collection of mysterious seventh-century Latin poems known as Hisperica Famina have puzzled-and outraged-readers for decades. They were reviled by the scholar and patriot EÌ_in MacNeill, who memorably called them the ‰Û÷luxuriant culture-fungus of decay', but they were admired by... | Read on »

CAMPS Lab, Prof. Barry Lewis, School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies 'Saints Genealogies in Medieval Wales: A Comparison with the Irish Corpus'