Pier Paolo Pasolini has theorized the irrational, oneiric, elementary, and barbaric elements of audiovisual communication. I will connect Pasolini’s reflection on cinema with his posthumous novel Petrolio, and show how Petrolio’s “demoniac technique” addresses contemporary capitalism’s “cosmic crisis”.   Federico Luisetti is an Italian philosopher and professor of Italian Studies at the University of North Carolina at... | Read on »

Sport & Exercise Research Group Monthly Research Seminar, Wednesday June 7, 1pm, Moore Institute   ‘From there to here’: Narratives of Transition, Migration and National Identity in Irish Media Representations of Rugby Union in the Professional Era Dr. Marcus Free (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick)     Irish media representation of rugby union in... | Read on »

The Moore Institute in association with The School of Education are pleased to host a seminar on  Teaching austerity  by Professor William M (Bill) Taylor  Austerity is commonly associated with periods of restraint in government spending and the managed conservation of public resources during economic crises.  Government measures geared for austerity are typically contrast by policies... | Read on »

Organisers: Dr.s Anna Gasperini and Paul Raphael Rooney Keynote speakers: Ms Sarah Wise, Author - Mr Gilbert’s weird psychological novel’: Shirley Hall Asylum and Victorian states of mind; Mr Alexander Black, Department of Anatomy, NUI Galway - The Early Years of Anatomy in Galway (this keynote will be in NUI Galway’s Anatomy Lecture Theatre) Background The internationally recognised Victorian Popular... | Read on »

Current perspectives on the Anthropocene are reformulating Michel Foucault’s biopolitical paradigm, introducing a discourse on geopower and animistic states of nature that account for the political agency of unfamiliar webs of life and nonlife.​   Federico Luisetti is an Italian philosopher and professor of Italian Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is... | Read on »

  Brian Dolber is Assistant Professor of Communication at California State University, San Marcos. He is a historian of media and the labour movement in the United States, and studies communications policymaking in the neoliberal, digital age. Dr. Dolber has been a longtime labour activist and served as staff for three different unions in the... | Read on »

The Moore Institute in association with The School of Education are pleased to host a seminar on Researching Disasters by Professor William M (Bill) Taylor  Histories, representations and ethics of catastrophe This seminar draws on my research over a number of years, on different projects and building histories that all seem to involve disasters of... | Read on »

Election Special!  The Moore Institute will host a snap event to discuss the UK election, Northern Ireland, France, and more!  With contributions from Jane Conroy, Eoin Daly, Niall Ó Dochartaigh, and others.  Thursday, June 15th at 12 noon  Moore Institute seminar room (G010) Hardiman Research Building   All welcome!    

Huston School of Film & Digital Media (NUI Galway) are delighted to welcome Joseph McBride, author of the award-winning biography Searching for John Ford (2001) for a public lecture at the school entitled  "John Ford, Irish-American Poet and Comedian”. McBride's talk will take place on Thursday June 15th at 7pm, is free and open to all. “If there is... | Read on »

Introduction to Modelling Decision Making – Monday 19th of June, 2-5pm Computer Lab, Arts Millennium Building (Psychology) The development of clearly defined models of human behaviour enables us to translate theoretical concepts into precise hypotheses for experimental work. This workshop is an introduction to the practice of cognitive modelling focusing on decision making. How do we... | Read on »

Irish-Austrian Exchanges on the Stage: Performing the Archive with Dr. Vicky Angelaki What does it mean to perform the archive? The lived historiography of theatre captures the embodied experience rather than logging decorporealised data. The archive is performed in two ways: first synchronically, as lived history is created through our staging and spectatorial choices and... | Read on »

GALWAY#HERSTORY SALON An evening of celebration and reflection- Tuesday 20 June 2017, 6--‐8pm NUI Galway –Aula Maxima Lower Herstory is a new movement dedicated to ensuring the stories of women from the past, present and future will now be heard and never lost again. Since its foundation by Melanie Lynch in 2015, Herstory has been... | Read on »

The Moore Institute, in co-operation with the Galway County Council, presents the second in their six parts series of public history events in Craughwell Community Hall on Tuesday 20 June at 8 pm. This week's event features three speakers and is free to the public. The panel features: Leona Armstrong (NUIG), 'The Forgotten Voices of... | Read on »

Neural Plausibility of Decision Making Models – Panel Discussion AMB 067, Arts Millennium Building (Psychology) 1-2pm Wednesday the 21st of June There is little doubt that complex cognition depends on the brain. However, in order for us to model human behaviour, especially the complexities of decision making, we need to make decisions about how to... | Read on »

Focussing on the martial services and petitions of Patrick Plunkett, Baron of Dunsany, during the Nine Years’ War, this paper will explore how members of Ireland’s Old English Pale community drew on military traditions and personal service as the chief means of articulating political allegiances, grievances, and their rights as crown subjects. It will address... | Read on »

As part of the Path Breaking Women Exhibition, you are warmly invited to “Remembering Margaret Heavey”. With keynote presentation by Dr Pádraic Moran, lecturer in Classics NUI Galway, followed by a roundtable discussion on the many contributions of Margaret Heavey as a classics scholar, educationalist and long-time member of the NUI Galway community. All welcome!

Galway Centenary Conversations - a series of free public history events organised by the Moore Institute in conjunction with the Galway County Council takes places in the Station House Theatre, Clifden on Wednesday 28 June, at 8pm.  Topics to be examined this week include the aftermath of the 1916 Rebellion; the conscription crisis of 1918 and... | Read on »