By Professor John Newell Professor John Newell is Head of Statistics in the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Applied Mathematics, NUI Galway.  His primary areas of research in Biostatistics are in the theory and application of statistical methods in clinical trials of health service and population... | Read on »

The College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies, in conjunction with the Moore Institute, will be hosting a series or support and information workshops for staff in the coming semester. The first workshop (on Wednesday October 2nd at 1pm) will consider the topic of citation metrics and its role in identifying suitable publication outlets.... | Read on »

              By Daniel Cassidy and Dr. Aidan Kane (NUI Galway) As part of NUI Galway History Research Seminar Series Semester 1, 2019-20    

  **postponed until further notice ** By Thomas Strong A remarkable shift has occured in how we talk about witchcraft and sorcery.  Whereas these topics have long occasioned critical reflection on belief and reason, or cultural difference and human universals, the new discourse describes witchcraft as a “human rights” problem and focuses on harms associated with... | Read on »

An bhfuil Gaeilge agat? Beidh Seisiún Eolais maidir leis an tionscadal taighde Gaeltacht.net ar siúl ar 3pm i seomra G010 Dé Luain, 7 Deireadh Fómhair. There will be a Launch and Information Session regarding the educational research project Gaeltacht.net at 3pm in Room G010 on Monday, October 7th. Come along to learn more about this... | Read on »

A workshop with Dr Alexander O’Hara Oxford University Press author and Visiting Fellow, Moore Institute To register please click here  

By Prof. Steve Pincus (University of Chicago) As part of NUI Galway History Research Seminar  Series Semester 1, 2019-20 Prof. Pincus describes himself as “a historian of Britain and its Empire, of comparative revolutions, comparative empires, and of northern Europe more broadly” and works mainly on the early modern period. His monographs include a comparative study of... | Read on »

First Meeting will take place October 9th If you are interested in signing up please or looking for more information please email Laoighseach - laoighseach.nichoistealbha@oegaillimh.ie                    

  Book Launch by Dr. Erin McCarthy (University of Newcastle, Australia) Dr. Erin McCarthy (formerly of the Moore Institute, where she worked as postdoc with the RECIRC project for four years, and currently Lecturer in Digital Humanities at the University of Newcastle, Australia) is returning to give a talk based on her imminent book: Doubtful Readers:... | Read on »

  Seminar on a unique pictorial map of Galway c. 1650 Two copies survive of a remarkable map of the city of Galway, one held by the Hardiman Library and one by TCD. The seminar marks the appearance of Paul Walsh’s study of the map, Renaissance Galway: Delineating the Seventeenth Century City (RIA, 2019). https://www.ria.ie/renaissance-galway-seminar Speakers... | Read on »

The Department of Music at NUI Galway welcomes Fred Freeman, Professor of Traditional Music at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and former Moore Visiting Fellow who will play tribute to Hamish Henderson with a lecture in this, the centenary of his birth. Thursday, 10th October 2019, THB-G011 Seminar Room, 5.00 pm Drawing song and verse... | Read on »

  By Jason O’Rorke as part of CAMPS Seminar Series

  By Professor Eamon O’Shea In this seminar, Professor Eamon O’Shea explores the influences on performance in sport and the structures and strategies that  are important in building successful and sustainable teams. A number of key influences are considered, including: values; vision; teamwork; personality; leadership; confidence; and resilience. He examines the lessons to be learned from... | Read on »

  By Prof. Felipe Fernandez Armesto (University of Notre Dame) As part  of  NUI Galway History Research Seminar  Series Semester 1, 2019 This week’s History Research Seminar features world-renowned scholar and intellectual Prof. Felipe Fernandez Armesto speaking on the theme, “How to be Imperial: The Case of the Global Spanish Monarchy”. Armesto is William P.... | Read on »

By Monica Jansen, Utrecht University With the concepts of “scandal” (Pasolini) and “iconoclash” (Latour) this lecture investigates the tensions between religion and aesthetics created by a post-secular work of art when it enters in collision with the public sphere. For this purpose it compares the iconoclast reactions of the public to Romeo Castellucci’s performance Sul concetto... | Read on »

  By Dr. Ananya Gupta Seminar topic: Exercise Physiology in evaluation of fitness and exercise prescription. In this seminar Dr. Ananya Gupta will talk about the benefits of physical activity (PA), the evidence supporting PA and the recommended guidelines for PA in a healthy adult. In addition she will also discuss the importance of exercise physiology... | Read on »

  By Professor Huhana Smith, Massey University, New Zealand as part of Irish Studies’ Seminar Series You are invited to attend the second seminar of our Irish Studies’ Seminar Series, which is run in association with Carbon Cultures hosted by the Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway this month. This seminar will take place at 4pm, Tuesday... | Read on »

By Dr. Pádraig Lenihan (NUI Galway) As  part of NUI Galway History Research Seminar Series Semester 1, 2019-20 Dr. Pádraig Lenihan of the History Department will give a lecture on the experience of writing his most recent book, Fluxes, Fevers and Fighting Men: War and Disease in Ancien Regime Europe, 1648-1789. An expert in military and... | Read on »

This symposium will address current research, practice and developments in the field of digital theatre historiography, archival curation, and memory and performance studies. The digital interface between the archive of past performance and the present is enabling new encounters between presence and absence, as well as navigating and contesting the recognised documented repertoire. The digital... | Read on »

By Professor  Markus Wörner Abstract The paper begins with a common-sense approach to the notion of wisdom, drawing on results of Positive Psychology. Wisdom is to be understood as a mode of being in the world based on sapiential competence informed by a general attitude of openness to (practical and theoretical) truth rather than on specialized... | Read on »

  By Barry Houlihan The book will be launched by Catriona Crowe, historian and archivist and former Director of Special Projects at the National Archives of Ireland. The event will take place here at the Hardiman Building - Moore Institute Seminar Room (G010) 5.30pm. Please feel free to join us for a glass of wine... | Read on »

The Moore Institute will host an information session on the IRC Postdoctoral Scheme, the closing date for which is on November 27, 2019. The session will be chaired by Prof. Daniel Carey, Director of the Moore Institute.  Full details on the scheme can be found here.     Reading Service The Moore Institute will also provide... | Read on »

    By Dr Jane Walsh Seminar topic: Psychology and Performance in Sport: The Key Characteristics and Strategies used by Elite Athletes. In this seminar Dr. Jane Walsh will look at the evidence from Sports Psychology to provide insight into the key characteristics and mental strategies used by top performers in sport. Jane will draw on recent... | Read on »

Slava Raškaj (1877-1906) Waterlily (1899)   Facilitated by Emily Tock, MLIS, MALP, Government of Ireland Post-graduate Scholar PhD student in the Discipline of English As this is a potluck format, attendees are encouraged to bring their own favourite Eastern European and Slavic verse to share in this informal roundtable.    

  By  Dr. Jennifer Keating (UCD) as part of NUI Galway History Research Seminar Series  Semester 1, 2019-20 Recently appointed to a post at University College Dublin, Jennifer Keating is a historian of imperial Russia specialising in environmental history. She is currently completing a book manuscript that examines the role of environmental change in colonial policy, practice... | Read on »

By Brian Arkins (retired Professor, Classics, NUI Galway.) Abstract: This paper analyses the reception of Hopkins by Eliot, Yeats, Stevens, Pound and Joyce.

By Professor Paolo Bartoloni (Established Professor of Italian Studies) Abstract  How is art measured today, and is it possible to speak of contemporary art as “great”? At the turn of the millennium many believed that art was simply commercially driven or its opposite, ephemeral. Postmodernism has often been blamed for the demise of “greatness” in art... | Read on »

By Barbara Katz Rothman, Professor of Sociology, CUNY in association with Gender Arc at NUI Galway Barbara Katz Rothman, PhD, is Professor of Sociology, Public Health, Disability Studies and Women’s Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where she also runs the Food Studies concentration. This talk focuses on her book, A... | Read on »