You are invited to the launch of Sabine Müller, Tina-Karen Pusse From Ego to Eco.  Mapping Shifts from Anthropocentrism to Ecocentrism   by Dr Eoin Flannery (SL, English Literature, UL) On Thursday, February 1st at 4pm GO 11, Hardiman Building  

Jessica Cooke: A Reappraisal of the Vita Secunda of Saint Fursa: the Irish Origins of a Continental Saint    

The Irish Centre for Human Rights invites you to a public talk on Universal Periodic Review, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identities By Diana Carolina Prado Mosquera Diana is the United Nations Programme Officer at ILGA (The International LGBTQI+ Association). Originally from Colombia, Diana holds a master's in human rights law and spent several years working as... | Read on »

Chelsea Ryan 1st Year Doctoral Candidate in Archaeology Conveying Identity Through Place: Understanding Bronze Age People and Society via Nucleated Settlements Irish Bronze Age (2200-600BC) settlement studies are dominated by research on roundhouse farmsteads and hillforts. This seminar demonstrates that an in-depth study of a third settlement type, nucleated settlements (domestic villages), will enhance our... | Read on »

Open Research Data and Critical Data Studies: The Building City Dashboards Project.

    The first event of the Spring 2018 series of Digital Scholarship Seminar takes place on Wednesday 14 February at 2pm, and features a stylometric interrogation of the study of authorship in nineteenth-century periodicals by Francesca Benatti, Research Fellow in Digital Humanities with The Open University. Following on from her talk on the Digital Humanities... | Read on »

14 Feb. Dr Martin O’Donoghue (National Library of Ireland) Commemoration of Parnell & Davitt in the Irish Free State.    

INVITATION You are invited to the launch of: Lindsay Myers UN FANTASY TUTTO ITALIANO Le declinazioni del fantastico nella letteratura  italiana per l'Infanzia dall'Unita al XXI secolo by Prof. Laura Tosi (Ca' Foscari,Venice)

  The seminar is free to attend but advance registration is necessary. To register via Eventbrite, click here. To download the seminar programme, click here** The WHAI is delighted to announce its annual Spring Seminar which will take place at the Moore Institute, NUI Galway on Friday 16 February 2018. This one-day interdisciplinary symposium will... | Read on »

Máirín Ní Dhonnachada: Drinking, kingship and lordship in early medieval Ireland: scoping the topic  

This seminar will be hosted by Nadia Smith who is a current Visiting Fellow who received her PhD in modern Irish history from Boston College. Nadia Smith will be presenting on "Irish Women Historians and Life Writing, 1900-1960," as part of her ongoing research on Irish women historians and academics in the NUI in the... | Read on »

Guest Lecture: Dr Christopher P. Barton, Assistant Professor Department of History, Francis Marion University and Fulbright Visiting Scholar in the School of Geography and Archaeology for 2018. Title: From the Trowel to the Trenches: Archaeology as Social Activism Contemporary economic, environmental, political, and social injustices are modern manifestations of past practices; they are legacies of marginalization. It is... | Read on »

Aisling Ní Churraighín (Roinn na Gaeilge) and Eoin Byrne (Centre for Irish Studies), the 2017 recipients of Sparánacht Uí Eithir will be presenting on their research. All welcome. SPARÁNACHT UÍ EITHIR This bursary was established in 1995 in memory of Breandán Ó hEithir, through donations from his friends. The broadcaster, journalist and writer was a former... | Read on »

Liam Alex Heffron No Revolution - Igniting War in North Mayo, 1917-1923.

Thinking Continental: Writing the Planet One Place at a Time Edited by Tom Lynch, Susan Naramore Maher, Drucilla Wall, and O. Alan Weltzien.  (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017) Following an introduction by Dr Louis de Paor, Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway, the volume will be launched by Professor Bríona Nic Dhiarmada, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish... | Read on »

We all use different methodologies to get the work done, but what if we’re missing something we’ve never thought of before? Come to our February session on research methodologies and see if you can find something new to put in your research toolkit. Our panel of speakers will outline research methodologies in the areas of:... | Read on »

                                                Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine  Alex de Waal Tufts University & Executive Director, World Peace Foundation 6.30 pm, Monday, 26 February 2018 Room G010, Hardiman Research Building Alex... | Read on »

Andy Kellogg The Early Medieval Royal Assembly Sites at Gamla Uppsala and Magh Adhair: A Comparative Study of their Settlement and Landscape Contexts. The Yngling dynasty in Svealand, Sweden and the Dál Cais dynasty in what is now Co. Clare may have shared a common approach in the way they legitimized their right to be... | Read on »

                                            The Library is hosting the launch of the Archives and Special Collections 2017 report and Donation of rare issues of the Connaught Journal and it will take place on Tuesday 27th at 17:30... | Read on »

                                              The Library is hosting a lecture by Jane Burns on Understanding Altmetrics to determine where your research is gaining attention. To register for the events please use the following links – Archives... | Read on »

Dr Charlotte Chopin (University of London Institute in Paris) Settler colonialism and the press in late 19th-century French Algeria.

                                Italian School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures The Moore Institute Charles Burdett, University of Bristol Transnational Time: Reading Post War Representations of the Italian Presence in East Africa Working from recent theoretical writing on time and the concept of... | Read on »

Gender Arc Research Seminar  "Understanding, Mapping and Negotiating the Politicisation of Evidence Based Policy Research: The Case of Research on Lone Parent Labour Market Activation in Ireland"  by Dr Michelle Millar, Dr Rosemary Crosse and Dr John Canavan. NUI Galway School of Political Science and Sociology and UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre.

Beyond Fishing: the connection of Indigenous Torres Strait Islander (northern Australia) Women to sea space Monica E. Mulrennan, Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University, Montreal Documentation of the knowledge and practices of indigenous fishing societies has tended to focus on the contribution of men while the activities of women have been overlooked or,... | Read on »

Transition to Employment - CV Workshop Thursday March 1st, 1-2pm, Careers Seminar Room. Open to students with a disability or mental health challenge. Hints and tips on how to tailor your CV to highlight your strengths. #getjobready