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 29th May, when we will... | Read on »
Drawing on a research collaboration with New Change, an arts collective of young African Australian women in Melbourne’s west, I explore youth voice and resonance in the context of racialised symbolic violence. Through the lens of liberation psychology, this talk will explore how arts and cultural practices, particularly sound, can create disruptions and dialogue.
This semester’s final session of NUI Galway’s research forum for Modernist Studies Ireland, ‘Works in Progress’, takes place on 30 April, 5-6 pm, in the Bridge Room. IRC Postgraduate Scholar Melinda Szűts will be talking about the influence of early modern theatre spaces on the development of Irish stagecraft at the turn of the century,... | Read on »
Narrative forms, play a vital role in human enrichment and development. Through them we acquire a sense not only of our environment, but of our own identity. The recent shift from a society dominated by print, to one where digital media prevails invites us to consider the consequences for storytelling. What new stories have grown... | Read on »
Irish architectural history and classical traditions by Dr Judith Hill (Moore Institute Visiting Fellow 2017-18 and Irish Studies’ Scholar) - ‘Keep the past for pride’: What role did classicism play in the making of commemorative monuments in newly Independent Ireland? Dr Hill will be joined on the day by Dr Pádraic Moran (Classics) who will... | Read on »
The 2018 H-WRBI Annual Conference will take place at the National University of Ireland (NUI), Galway at the Moore Institute on Thursday 7 June and Friday 8 June. Please see programme for the event on the following link: https://historyofwomenreligious.org/conf_programme/ Call for Papers The conference will explore the history of women religious across a broad chronological timeframe,... | Read on »
Violence, Space, and The Political - Critical theory conference Hosted by the Power, Conflict and Ideologies Research Cluster, School of Political science and Sociology In this, multi-disciplinary, conference we wish to think through the imbrications of violence, space, and the political. Given that our present conjuncture is one constituted by innumerable sites of apartheid, exclusion,... | Read on »
As part of the Modern Irishwomen lecture series , Dr James Curry on the often-forgotten nurse and republican activist Dora Maguire (1889-1931), remembered in one Dublin newspaper obituary as the ‘Friend of the Poor’. Modern Irishwomen Lecture Series 1918 was... | Read on »
Information: The HBCRG has recently received funding for a project called ‘INTeRACT for Health: Increasing Integrated Knowledge Translation Capacity for Impact’. The aim of the project is to enhance knowledge translation capacity nationally, and to develop capacity and skill to impact on outcomes of importance. A one day workshop on integrated Knowledge Translation and Implementation... | Read on »
George Moore: Transnational and Cosmopolitan Networks on the Page and Canvas The Ninth International George Moore Conference will take place in NUI Galway from Thursday 14th – Friday 15th June at the Moore Institute: HRB G010. The stimulus of Impressionism and Realism, both in art and literature, on George Moore (1852-1933), led him on a... | Read on »
The NUI Galway mHealth research group (based in the School of Psychology) is hosting an international and interdisciplinary conference on Mobile Health (mHealth) in Galway. The event includes expert keynote speakers, short presentations on innovative research, a round table discussion and poster presentations. This event is for researchers, practitioners, policy makers, industry partners and those... | Read on »
The Digital Repository of Ireland is holding an Introductory Training event on Thursday, June 14, from 10:30am – 3pm in the James Hardiman Library, PC Suite (Nursing & Midwifery). The training is geared towards existing and potential digital collections curators who may be interested in depositing those collections into DRI. The training gives an overview of... | Read on »
Reáchtálfar siompóisiam lae dar teideal '125 Bliain ag Fás? An Athbheochan agus Conradh na Gaeilge' san Aula Maxima (thíos staighre), OÉ Gaillimh, ó 9.30am-4.00pm, Dé hAoine 15 Meitheamh. Is í seo príomhócáid na hollscoile le haghaidh Bhliain na Gaeilge agus is é Uachtarán na hÉireann, Micheál D. Ó hUigínn, a thabharfaidh an príomhaitheasc. Eolas ag:... | Read on »
Both events are free and open to the public. RSVP irishseminar@nd.edu RSV
This event, the second of three international workshops funded by The Leverhulme Trust, is being hosted by Professor Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, one of 6 Co-Investigators on the project. The first workshop was held in April 2018 in London, and the third will be held in Vienna in June 2019. The project focuses on the corpus... | Read on »
Glossing, the practice of annotating manuscripts between the lines and/or in the margins, was a widespread cultural practice wherever books were being read, studied and taught. As an indication of this, the Network for the Study of Glossing currently has 85 members with research interests in glossed manuscripts written in Arabic, Breton, Chinese, German, Greek, Egyptian, English,... | Read on »
The social and political thought of Tom Kettle: Recovering a distinctive Irish Thinker Tom Kettle (1880-1916) is not very well known in Ireland today. Yet, historian Senia Pašeta notes he ‘was associated with almost every major political and cultural development’ during his lifetime. He was a gifted public intellectual, essayist, journalist, nationalist MP (1906-1910) and... | Read on »
