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.
An invitation to the launch of Dr. Conor Mc Namara's (History) new book on the revolution in County Galway: War and Revolution in the West of Ireland, Galway 1913-22 published by Irish Academic Press. The book will be officially launched by Professor Dan Carey, Moore Institute, NUI Galway. The book will be available for just... | Read on »
Speaker: Tracy Collins Tracy is an experienced professional archaeologist, and holds a PhD from University College Cork on research entitled ‘An Archaeology of Female Monasticism in Medieval Ireland’. She is currently an IRC Government of Ireland research fellow at the Dept of Archaeology UCC, writing a monograph based on her phd research.
New Professors’ Inaugural Lecture Series at NUI Galway Continues: Public Lecture by Professor Gerry Mac Ruairc: “Caution: Children at School, Perspectives on Learning, Leaders and Learners, Imperatives for Inclusive Schools.” Professor Gerry Mac Ruairc, the Established Professor of Education and Head of the School of Education. The lecture is designed to be of interest to... | Read on »
An event celebrating the success of Dr Jacopo Bisagni and Dr Rióna Ní Fhrighil who have both been awarded major research grants by the Irish Research Council under the Laureate Scheme. Please come along to congratulate them and to find out more about their projects.
Public history and the awareness of shared pasts is becoming ever more prevalent. Recent and ongoing commemorations have brought history and its reassessment into public daily discourse. Current politics and society are being shaped... | Read on »
David Kilgannon 'I didn't cause the problem, but by hell I was going to finish it':
A chairde, Back by popular demand! We are pleased to announce the Spring 2018 EDEN Peer Review workshop. This is an excellent chance to get feedback on works in progress in any form and at any stage of development. Whether it is a chapter draft, a journal article or a conference paper take the opportunity... | Read on »
Dara Downey (Visiting Fellow) from the School of English in Trinity College Dublin. Title: The Lady’s Maid’s Burden: Ethnicity, Race, and Servant Status in the Late Nineteenth-Century Ghost Story This paper examines a range of uncanny tales by late-nineteenth-century American writers, in which domestic servants and slaves feature to a greater or lesser extent. For the... | Read on »
The Irish Centre for Histories of Labour and Class welcomes Jimmy Yan (Univ. of Melbourne) to give a talk entitled, ‘Wobblies and Fenians: The Australian connections of the Larkin family, 1916-19, and the Irish revolution’. All welcome. Picture shows Peter Larkin, brother of ‘Big Jim’, one of so-called ‘Sydney Twelve’ imprisoned for anti-war activism in 1916.
Charles Doyle: The Presocratics and Christian Heretics in the works of Irenaeus and Tertullian
This annual event, organised by the Association for French and Francophone Studies in Ireland (ADEFFI), provides a supportive scholarly forum for postgraduates in the areas of French and Francophone Studies to present both work in progress and new research and allows participants to meet peers and established researchers in French and Francophone Studies... | Read on »
"Digital poets/artists/scholars Jason Nelson and Alinta Krauth are presenting a series of workshops for NUI staff, students, and graduates aimed at inspiring you to use interactive digital interfaces to turn your scholarly papers and/or creative writing into interactive outcomes, aimed at publication in interactive journals. Interactive visual interpretation can allow readers a greater insight into... | Read on »
This seminar will examine the connection between academic writing and innovation from a variety of perspectives, including the use of the Project Based Learning (PBL) and other innovative methodologies, the switch from assessing to improving student writing, the role of writing centres in academia, the ideology of writing spaces, and new ways to support librarians... | Read on »
Innovation is seen as a key ingredient for success in academia, but we often taken good academic writing for granted as a crucial skill in this process. We know from the work of Peter Elbow that writing is a creative and imaginative process, irrespective of the subject. Janet Giltrow has argued that ‘style is meaningful’... | Read on »
This paper will examine the contrasting connections that exist between people and landscape in the Bendimahi Delta and the Boora peatlands outside Kilcormac, Co. Offaly, where the development of a sculpture park has been instrumental in not just creating a successful tourist attraction (over 120,000 visitors in 2017) but in re-imagining and reinforcing community values... | Read on »
19th April Pre-Conference 11am - 3pm in Room 1001, The Bridge, Hardiman Research Building 20th April from 8:30am - 6:30pm in G010 and G011, Hardiman Research Building. 21st April from 9:30am - 6:30pm in G010 and G011., Hardiman Research Building "Transient Topographies: Space and Interface in Digital Literature and Art" is the second Galway Digital Cultures... | Read on »
We are delighted to announce details of the Whitaker Institute Research Day 2018. Our Research Day is an opportunity for researchers from across multiple disciplines at NUI Galway to meet and discuss how the multi-perspective research of the Whitaker Institute, on a range of social and economic issues, can promote a more sustainable and inclusive... | Read on »
As part of the Galway Theatre Festival production of Two Truths, a project of my PhD Gaming Audiences into Theatre, this focus group will respond to dis-attributed statements made by Irish politicians and political parties by materialising their affective responses onto full-size maps of the body. These maps will become the materials for the theatre... | Read on »
Welfare Histories Reading Group The Welfare Histories Reading Group provides a forum for staff and postgraduate students to discuss ideas of poverty, development, and ‘improvement’ in a global historical context. Our interests are very diverse, and we would very much welcome the involvement of new members from any discipline. Our next meeting is on Friday 20... | Read on »
Joe Reilly joins NUIG in its newly created Research Impact Librarian. He'll be helping NUIG scholars understand how to make their work more visible around the world. Joe is a veteran librarian who's worked in the USA, Middle East, Switzerland and Asia. He is also from a Humanities background, having completed his PhD in Anthropology,... | Read on »
The event is an International Graduate Conference in Philosophy with Keynote Speaker, Professor. Andrew Haas (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow). The event will be followed by the launch of Tsarina Doyle's Nietzsche's Metaphysics of the Will to Power: The Possibility of Value (Cambridge University Press 2018): https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/nietzsches-metaphysics-of-the-will-to-power/00456388778CD14380989DB824093872 Registration is at 9 am. For further details,... | Read on »
Followed by a Book Launch in Charlie Byrne's Bookshop for Professor Tadhg O hIfearnain and Dr. John Walsh’s new book ‘Meon Folaithe’ as well as Dr. Cassie Smith-Christmas’s own book (edited with Noel P. O Murchadha, Michael Hornsby, and Mairead Moriarty) ‘New Speakers of Minority Languages: Linguistic Ideologies and Practices.’
Come along to see the accumulation of Moore Institute Visiting Fellowships by Dr. Jason Nelson and Alinta Krauth. Dr. Jason Nelson and Alinta Krauth will be discussing the projects that they have been engaging with over the past three weeks during their stay at NUI, including but not limited to: digital art, digital poetry, art... | Read on »
‘Sliding Rock’ Mass Rock, Shantalla, Galway City. We are delighted to invite you to a seminar by Moore Institute Visiting Fellow and Irish Studies Scholar, Dr Hilary Bishop on ‘Irish Mass Rocks’ at NUI Galway next week. The history of Catholicism is an essential component in the history of modern Ireland. As locations of a... | Read on »
EDEN 2018: Borders and Bodies is an all-island interdisciplinary postgraduate conference with speakers drawn from across the humanities and featuring plenary talks by Prof Dan Rebellato (Royal Holloway, London) and Prof Margaret Kelleher (UCD). This event is free and all are welcome to attend. The full conference schedule and registration links can be found at... | Read on »
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Michael Shields: How Frauenlob saw light. A German poet’s look at immateriality, rainbows and Aristotelian physics in 1300.
A panel that will be facilitated by Charlotte McIvor. These companies will be in residence with me at the O'Donoghue for two days prior for an intensive practice-sharing exchange closed to core participants only. Introduced by Professor Anne Scott, Vice-President for Equality & Diversity. This panel gathers practitioners from four of Europe’s leading intercultural theatre companies... | Read on »
Tomás Ó Neachtain, this year’s Sean-nós Singer in Residence, hosted by the Centre for Irish Studies.
We are delighted to invite you to a seminar discussion on Irish and archipelagic coastal heritages by Dr David Gange, University of Birmingham (Moore Institute Visiting Fellow 2017-18 and Irish Studies’ Scholar) entitled, ‘The Ocean Archive: Atlantic History and Heritage by Kayak’. His book, The Frayed Atlantic Edge: A Historian's Journey from Shetland to the... | Read on »
"Online therapies for people with chronic health conditions: Prospects and challenges." In this talk, Prof. Brian McGuire from School of Psychology will describe the growing use of internet-based psychological therapies to help people with chronic health conditions to cope and adapt to their conditions. He will describe the research carried out in his group to help people with conditions such... | Read on »
The third event of the Spring 2018 series of Digital Scholarship Seminar takes place on Thursday 3 May at 2pm, and features a paper on kinetic poetry, a form of poetry that relies on spatiotemporal transitions as expressive literary and visual layers, by Álvaro Seiça, Visiting Moore Institute Fellow from the University of Bergen. The... | Read on »
