The DCI aims to bring together NUI Galway staff and students with interests or expertise in digital research and pedagogy in order to share knowledge and experience, develop new projects, and explore connections with creative, cultural and industrial partners in the fields of digital arts, humanities, social and information sciences. The launch will be an... | Read on »
Sport and Exercise Research Group, Moore Institute, NUI Galway Monthly Research Seminar (First Wednesday of each month) 'A New Ireland Rises'? Sport and the Remembering of 1916, Dr Sean Crosson (Huston School of Film and Digital Media, NUI Galway).
Dr Darina McCarthy (Maynooth University) 'Heinrich Bewerunge (1862 - 1923): German cleric, music professor and liturgical reform in Ireland'
Henry Glassie (Professor of Folklore, Indiana University) ‘The Southern Mountain Music of Ola Belle Reed’ 1–2pm Thursday February 2nd The Cube, Bailey Allen Hall Henry Glassie will give the Third Annual Jean Ritchie Memorial Lecture on the Southern Mountain Music of Ola Belle Reed (1916-2002), the American folk singer, songwriter and banjo player whose work... | Read on »
Will Collins Will Collins is a screenwriter whose credits include the Oscar-nominated SONG OF THE SEA, the acclaimed follow-up feature to Tomm Moore's, The Secret of Kells; Will received an ANNIE AWARD nomination for his ‘Achievement in Writing for an Animated Feature’. Will also wrote, MY BROTHERS, his award-winning live-action debut feature which premiered at... | Read on »
The Archives service of the James Hardiman Library, NUI Galway are hosting a half-day seminar on the theme of 'Archives in Research'. The seminar will feature expert speakers in various academic fields who will showcase new research projects which are based on innovative use of archival collections. The seminar will focus on a range of... | Read on »
Maria Engberg (Malmo University) Augmented and Mixed Reality Design for Contested and Challenging Histories
Mr David Kilgannon (NUIG) 'A most lamentable series of practices': Accommodating the Intellectually Disabled in Ireland, 1950 - 67'.
Paul Webster Paul Webster is an award winning director from Navan, Co. Meath. He is a graduate of the MA in Production and Direction at the Huston School of Film & Digital Media (NUIG). Paul was the winner of the Físín Pitching Award at the Dingle International Film Festival 2012 from which his film... | Read on »
Special Screening: Meetings with Ivor (2016). Mon. Feb 13th Eye Cinema, 7:15 pm. Followed by Q+A with Director Alan Gilsenan hosted by Dr. Tony Tracy (Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway). Meetings with Ivor is an 81-minute documentary on the life and work of ground-breaking psychiatrist Ivor Browne. Browne has been a central figure in Irish mental... | Read on »
Francesca Benatti (Open University) 'A Question of Style? Stylometry, Authorship and the Edinburgh Review'
Dr Joseph Clarke (TCD) 'A War Against God'?: Religion and Violence during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars'.
As part of the Arts, Humanities and Innovation - Connecting with Industry series, Mark Campbell, CEO of Pocket Anatomy will talk about his experience building a start-up business that has education at its core. This series of talks is aimed at researchers from the Arts & Humanities, and will be of particular interest to PhD students considering options for... | Read on »
'Frontiers, states and identity in early modern Ireland and beyond' Essays in honour of Steven G. Ellis Christopher Maginn & Gerald Power, editors launch by Prof Ciaran Brady (Dept of History, Trinity College Dublin) RSVP (acceptance only) Four Courts Press | info@fourcourtspress.ie To learn more about this book, visit the Four Courts Press website at http://www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2016/frontiers-states-and-identity-in-early-modern-ireland-and-beyond/... | Read on »
Véronique Montémont (Université de Lorraine) 'Digital Humanities Applied to Literary Studies in France' The Spring 2017 series of Digital Scholarship Seminar continues on Tuesday 21 February with a talk by Véronique Montémont of the Université de Lorraine on digital humanities and literary studies in France. Dr Montémont’s presentation takes a twofold approach, first sketching a... | Read on »
'This 90-minute roundtable discussion is convened by Visiting Fellows at the Moore Institute Prof. Chris Maginn and Dr Gerald Power. It addresses a variety of aspects associated with research into Tudor Ireland, including sources and debates, and new or underexplored topics. The event will be of especial interest to PhD students working in this area,... | Read on »
An Dr Úna Ní Bhroiméil (Mary Immaculate College, UL) 'John Quinn - Irish American patron and powerbroker in turn of the century New York'
Theatre and Translation Dr Alinne Fernandes' talk will reflect on an ongoing practice-based research project, which aims to contribute to the dramaturgical study and dissemination of a number of Irish and Northern Irish women’s plays in Brazil. The project is motivated by the relative lack of study and translation of contemporary female voices in Irish and Northern Irish theatre, such as Patricia Burke... | Read on »
Lizzy Williamson (Folger Shakespeare Library) 'Material Texts and Digital Provenance: Opening a Digital Anthology of Early Modern English Drama'
Prof. Jean-Paul Pittion, fellow emeritus at TCD and former professor of Renaissance Studies in the Université François Rabelais, Tours, has published widely on the history of the book, Protestant academies in France, Huguenot emigration to Ireland, intellectual history, the history of medicine and medical publishing in the early modern period.
French rugby is a sport historically practiced in the ‘wrong’ place, for the ‘wrong’ reasons and in the ‘wrong’ way. Its most abiding social function has been as a marker of frequently belligerent local identities, with investment in the game, both moral and material, being almost always parochial in nature. This was reflected for much... | Read on »
Mr Michael Kavanagh 'Protestant Secondary School Education in Co.Galway: Galway Grammar School, 1895 - 1932'
In October 2015, Dr. Ian Campbell was awarded a Starting Grant of €1.3 million by the European Research Council to pursue the research project ‘War and the Supernatural in Early Modern Europe’ over four-and-a-half years. He will lead a research team of two research fellows and one graduate student to examine the relationship between debates inside... | Read on »
In October 2015, Ian was awarded a Starting Grant of €1.3 million by the European Research Council to pursue the research project ‘War and the Supernatural in Early Modern Europe’ over four-and-a-half years. He will lead a research team of two research fellows and one graduate student to examine the relationship between debates inside the early... | Read on »
