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
Tues 6th March, 2-4 PM Visiting Seminar (rsvp required), Dr Niamh Whitfield: 'Early Irish Metalwork' Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building. contact/rsvp: kim.loprete@nuigalway.ie Wed 7th March, 9-11 AM Visiting Seminar (rsvp required), Dr Niamh Whitfield: 'The Book of Durrow & the 'Northumbrian Problem'' Archaeology Reading Room/Library in Archaeology Department contact/rsvp: kim.loprete@nuigalway.ie Contact: Dr... | Read on »
Listening to Irish music as Indian raga: an arts practice research project Dr. Matthew Noone (UL) and Dr. Lillis Ó Laoire (NUIG) This research project focuses on the supposition of Irish-Indian musical connections, most notably the idea of sean-nos singing... | Read on »
‘Surviving the Viva’ Whether it is looming large or safely in the distance, it’s never too early to start preparing for your viva! Postgraduates at all stages of their career are warmly invited to bring their lunches to Room 1001 to learn about the viva process from invited speakers Dr Charlotte McIvor (Drama, Theatre and... | Read on »
The next postgraduate seminar will be given by Frank J. Hall who is a Galway doctoral research scholar in Archaeology. Title: The fortified houses and stronghouses of Connacht, c.1580-1650: gentry houses or the continuation of the castle tradition into post-medieval Ireland? Contact Maggie Ronaynce - maggie.ronayne@nuigalway.ie
7th March School of Education Research Seminar Series “Exploring Sexuality and Gender Identity in the Irish Education System” Speaker: Dr. Aoife Neary, School of Education, University of Limerick 5pm: Wednesday, 7 March 2018 Venue: AM214 Siobhán McKenna Theatre, Arts Millennium Building, NUI Galway. Biography: Dr Aoife Neary joined UL School of Education 2014. She currently... | Read on »
Duplicates & doppelgängers: Generating digital solutions to cataloguing, accessibility and network-analysis challenges A NUI Postdoctoral Fellow in Irish/Celtic Studies affiliated with Roinn na Gaeilge and based in the Moore Institute, Deirdre Ní Chonghaile aims to generate discussion of some of her digital humanities research challenges with the Digital Scholarship Seminar. She will highlight three archival... | Read on »
Graduate Research Seminars in History 2017-18 Andrew Ó Donghaíle Contracting Peace in Early Medieval Ireland Contact: Gearóid Barry - gearoid.barry@nuigalway.ie
Dean of College, Professor Cathal O'Donoghue will speak on the subject of “Recognising Diversity and Complexity in Policy Formation”. Professor O'Donoghue has been from 2016, the Dean of Arts and Social Sciences at NUI Galway and Professor of Public and Social Policy. Prior to this he was since 2005, Head of Teagasc’s (Irelands Agriculture and... | Read on »
Christine Neer: Love is a Battlefield? An Informal Exploration of Gendered Spaces in Medieval Irish Tochmarca ('Wooing Tales'). Contact: Catherine Emerson - catherine.emerson@nuigalway.ie
Let’s Give the Mantle of Harlequin a Brush: Current Research on the Dublin Gate Theatre Dr Ruud van den Beuken, who is working at the Moore Institute as a visiting research fellow, will discuss current research on the Dublin Gate Theatre, including the establishment of a Gate Theatre Research Network (co-founded by the Dutch Research... | Read on »
The Modern Reception of Horace The talk will discuss the treatment of Horace in Nazi-occupied Crete and during World War I; Pound, Eliot, Housman on Horace; Nietzsche on Horace's style; Horace's tags, esp. carpe diem; Irish connections, in Yeats, Joyce, MacNeice, Longley, Boland; Dowson's splendidly awful poem; and Hopkin's translations. All welcome. Contact: Padraic Moran-... | Read on »
Prof. Vitor Izecksohn (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) The US and Brazil in the period of the American Civil War (Final TBC)
Working With Images: This event will highlight methods and tools for working with images. Applications include Website content, digital libraries/archives, animations, scholarly publications, and data analysis. Both desktop and command line tools for image editing and processing will be discussed, including Photoshop, Fireworks, Python, and ImageMagick. About the speaker: Cillian works in the NUI Galway... | Read on »
This event will highlight methods and tools for working with images. Applications include Web site content, digital libraries/archives, animations, scholarly publications, and data analysis. Both desktop and command line tools for image editing and processing will be discussed, including Photoshop, Fireworks, Python, and ImageMagick.
‘Reading’ sport and sports culture: a case study of the codification of wrestling styles during the Celtic and Gaelic revival movements. Tanguy Philippe is a lecturer in Sport and Education Studies at the University of Western Brittany in Brest (France). He has taught previously at the Universities of Rennes, Evry and Savoie. His current research... | Read on »
CFPs “Critical Feminist Exits, Re-Routings, and Institutional Betrayals in Academia” A Special Issue of Feminist Formations - Full papers NOW due March 16, 2018 While universities often identify diversity as an important concern and goal, the neo-liberalization of academic contexts has in many ways fostered the entrenchment and rearticulation of hegemonic racial and gendered ideologies... | Read on »
Lindsay Ann Reid, 'The Early Modern Querelle des Femmes and the Judgement of Solomon in Greene's Vision'. Contact: Catherine Emerson - catherine.emerson@nuigalway.ie
RIA Ethical, Political, Legal and Philosophical Studies Committee 'How secular should the state be?' Cécile Laborde (Oxford) A lecture and book launch Cécile Laborde FBA holds the Nuffield Chair in Political Theory at Oxford University. She has published extensively in the areas of republicanism, liberalism and religion, theories of law and the state, and global... | Read on »
Regular expressions are a powerful tool to help you search, clean, transform, or otherwise mutate and repurpose data - from large text corpora, gene sequence datafiles, to bulk econometric data, to scanned, historical printed documents and everything in-between. Traditionally found in specialised editors and programming languages, regular expressions now appear in many user-tools including word-processing... | Read on »
The Archaeology Society will be hosting our final lecture of the year this coming Wednesday the 21st of March in room G010 in the Hardiman building. Our speaker will be Dr. William Roulston of the Ulster Historical Foundation and is titled 'The Scots and Plantation Ulster'. He will be discussing an overview of the Scottish... | Read on »
A research symposium in Irish music studies. The symposium Nótáí / Notes Music and Ireland is a preparatory symposium for the upcoming special issue journal publication Nótáí / Notes Music and Ireland ÉIre Ireland, due for publication in January 2019. Contact: Méabh Ní Fhuartháin - meabh.nifhuarthain@nuigalway.ie
Rosemary Power: Carvings, sculpture and position on Columban and Benedictine Iona
Consultant archaeologist Dr Alan Hawkes MIAI will give the next lecture in Archaeology's research seminar series. Title: Burnt Mounds and Prehistoric Cooking: Reappraising the Evidence The widespread distribution of burnt mounds is striking, suggesting that Ireland was the most prominent user of the pyrolithic water-boiling technology in Bronze Age Europe. However, narratives related to these sites have long... | Read on »
An information session on the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships will be led by Prof. Dan Carey, Director of the Moore Institute, with contributions from Dr. Cassie Smith Christmas, a recent recipient of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie individual fellowship, and her mentor An tOll. Tadhg Ó hIfearnáin, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. Dr. Gary Lupton, Head of... | Read on »
This hour-long session will introduce some key aspects of visualising your research data using web-based maps. You will have the opportunity to get hands-on and follow along with a demonstration of how to create your own simple web-based map, using an online service.
