This event investigates the role of the producer and the processes of production with a particular emphasis on how change can be facilitated to occur. The primary analysis is directed at producing for theatre and performance, but takes account of the intersections and relationships with the wider creative arts industry. This event is intended to... | Read on »
Staging Trauma: Bodies in Shadow Dr Miriam Haughton, Drama and Theatre Studies, NUI Galway Nominated for the TaPRA Early Career Research Prize Introduced by Louise Lowe (ANU Productions) and Dr Cathy Leeney (UCD) Book Launch: Monday, 25 February 2019, 5.30pm, Foyer, O’Donoghue Centre... | Read on »
A Discussion with Members and Staff of the Commission on the Future of Policing In Ireland Prof. Donncha O’Connell Helen Ryan Sinéad Ryan
Essays by an Irish Rebel-Revolution,Politics and Culture Translations from Irish of Liam Ó Briains Essays 1934-1968 by Eoin Ó Dochartaigh Launched by Prof Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh(History), with Dr. John Cunningham (History) and Aodh Ó Coileáin (NUIG/ Taibhdhearc)
Introduction to Research Data Management and related supports at NUI Galway – Trish Finnan, G010, 12-1pm Wednesday 27th February Research data management is an integral part of the research process. Increasingly research data management plans and open access to research data is required by funders. The advantages cited include the potential for verification and re-use... | Read on »
Prof. Glenda Gilmore (Yale / Mary Ball Washington Visiting Prof, UCD) The Nazis and Dixie: European Fascism and Southern Racism Compared. (Followed by book-launch for Drs C. Smith & J. Regan)
You are cordially invited to the launch of Agrarian Reform and Resistance in Age of Globalisation The Euro-American World and Beyond, 1780-1914 (Routledge, 2019) Edited by Joe Regan and Cathal Smith The book will be launched by Prof. Glenda Gilmore
Update: Audio recordings of the conference sessions are now available The Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame, the Moore Institute at NUI Galway, and the Mitchell Institute at Queen's University Belfast present Brexit & the Future of British-Irish Relations. SCHEDULE Thursday 28 February Location: O'Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance, NUI... | Read on »
Jane O’Brien (NUI Galway) ‘Important or exceptional occurrences’ - An analysis of Managers' Diaries and other correspondence from the Irish Industrial School system : 1868 - 1920.
The session will be broken down into the following, Open Access publishing and ARAN (30 minutes presentation) - Trish Managing your Research Profile (30 minutes presentation) - Rosie Introduction to Research Data Management (30 minutes presentation) – Trish Questions (15 minutes)
This workshop is designed to help researchers plan career strategies that will allow them to take charge of their career. It will provide insight into how you can translate your existing skills to various career pathways and identify any gaps in your skill set. NB: Bring laptop/Ipad if... | Read on »
Come along at lunchtime this Friday to the launch of the revamped bilingual Trácht ar Thráchtais/ Thesis Talk blog for PhD and Post Doc researchers. We are delighted to welcome traditional musicians Dr. Cassie-Smith Christmas, Dr Deirdre Ní Chonghaile, John Singleton and Aisling Ní Churraighín. Bring your lunch or your instrument and enjoy the tunes... | Read on »
Launch of New Translation Research Group: Crosswinds: Irish and Galician Poetry and Translation https://mooreinstitute.ie/research-group/crosswinds-irish-and-galician-poetry-and-translation/ Both will be launched by Prof Louis de Paor.
12:45 Welcome (preceded by light lunch from 12:00) Cathal O’Donoghue, Dean, College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Celtic Studies Daniel Carey, Director, Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies 13:00 Panel discussion 1: Public participation, well-being and shared stewardship Gesche Kindermann & Caitriona Carlin: Natural heritages, community, and human health Maggie Ronayne:... | Read on »
Key in the history of cinema, the ageing star is a figure of media obsolescence that carries the memory of a bygone era of filmmaking, awakening in the viewer nostalgia and anxiety, which the film industry continues to capitalize on. Building on her doctoral findings, Flavia’s research aims to analyze the strategies specific to... | Read on »
Dr Cristina Bon (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan). ‘The President Matters’: John Janney and the Virginia Secession Convention (February-April 1861).
The term ‘Classical’ connotes so many things as to be useless. ‘Neoclassical’ is valid for a particular era. ‘Classic’ (minus the suffix -al) may denote various items. ‘Tradition’ and like terms are too passive. Prof. Arkins will discuss these terms.
Martin Hurcombe is Professor of French Studies at the University of Bristol, UK, and a specialist of early twentieth-century French political culture, history and literature. His PhD examined the French combat novel of the First World War, arguing that the experience of combat led to a fundamental shift in the way that a generation... | Read on »
Dr Federico Ugolini – Visiting Research Fellow ‘Visualising maritime cityscapes’ explains how and why Greek and Romans represented so frequently the sea and the marine infrastructures within their artworks. This paper argues that the available textual and iconographic evidence supports the argument that these representations have a symbolic, rather than literal, meaning and message.... | Read on »
Jim Reid (NUI Galway) Munster as a frontier of the Roman Empire in the 5th-6th centuries.
The Politics of Piety: Ritual Communities and Social Cohesion in Merovingian Gaul, 450-750
Financial Management in a World without Banks! The Case of Jonathan Swift A seminar on inter-personal lending and borrowing in early eighteenth-century Ireland.
Italian School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures The Moore Institute H. E. Mr Paolo Serpi, Ambassador of Italy to Ireland
Dr Hugh Rowland (An tAcadamh, NUI Galway) Language debates in Ireland in the 1960s: the Language Freedom Movement reconsidered.
Creating Digital Exhibitions with Omeka – Cillian Joy, G011, 12-1pm Thursday 28th March This workshop will introduce and show how to use Omeka to create digital exhibitions. Omeka is designed to be a user-friendly platform for creating online exhibitions. NUI Galway students and staff can use an institutional version of Omeka to create online digital... | Read on »
IDP and skills needs analysis workshop by Sinead Beacom (RDC) More Information to follow
Powerful, Shrewd and Pious: Countess Emengarde of Brittany c.1070-1147
