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 »

As part of its Academic Research Support Services initiative, the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies, in association with the Moore Institute, is hosting a series of research support and information seminars for staff this semester. The second workshop in this series will consider the topic of Preparing Major Funding Applications. The session... | Read on »

  By Dr. William P. Kelly (University of Ulster) As part of NUI Galway History Research Seminar Series  Semester 1, 2019-20    

Guest Lecture by distinguished scholar Ian Fisher, FSA (London), FSAScot: St Colmán, the 7th-century Irishman who founded a church on Inishbofin and another at Mayo, is best-known from the account of him in Bede's History of the English Church.  While living in Northumbria, Colmán became embroiled in the Easter Controversy, after which he retreated to... | Read on »

Book launch By Maggie Scull The Catholic Church and the Northern Ireland Troubles, 1968-98 (Oxford University Press, 2019) provides an indispensable study of the role played by the Catholic Church during one of the most tumultuous periods of British and Irish history - the Northern Ireland Troubles - showing evidence which offers a radical new... | Read on »

'Mairéad Farrell — An Unfinished Conversation' is a documentary from Loopline Film which investigates the life and death of Mairéad Farrell. In 1988, the SAS shot dead Farrell and two other unarmed members of the IRA in Gibraltar. Due to her youth, her gender, and her stature within the IRA, Farrell was quickly subsumed into... | Read on »

About the Speaker Dr. Ian Munday is Senior Lecturer in Educational Philosophy in the School of Education at NUI Galway. Ian’s research activities testify to an engagement with philosophical issues in education, particularly those concerned with teaching and learning. His publications have tended to focus on various approaches to performatives and performativities and demonstrate the... | Read on »

By Prof. Bernie Carlson (University of Virginia) As part of  NUI Galway History Research Seminar  Series Semester 1, 2019-20. The final session of the History Research Seminar this semester, next Wednesday, 13 November, features Prof. Bernie Carlson from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Carlson is a historian of technology based in the Faculty of Engineering,... | Read on »

The Centre for Irish Studies invites you to attend the final seminar of our Irish Studies’ Seminar Series by Úna Kavanagh, PhD Scholar at the Centre for Irish Studies, will speak on her current research, ‘The Clonbrock Photographic Collection and Lady Clonbrock (1839-1928): Contemporary Contexts and Public Activism’. The seminar will take place at 4pm,... | Read on »

Dr. Nora Ward (NUI, Galway) will present a paper. 'From Ethics to Ontology to the Anthropocene', as part of the seminar series of the Values and Identities research group on Monday 18th November. About the speaker Nora Ward is a lecturer in the philosophy department. She received her BA and MA from NUIG, and completed... | Read on »

  Mikael Males is Associate Professor at the Dept of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Oslo, and PI of the project Myths about Language in the Middle Ages. Publications include Etymology and Wordplay in Medieval Literature (ed.) (Turnhout: Brepols, 2019) The Poetic Genesis of Old Icelandic Literature (Berlin: De Gruyter, in press... | Read on »

Mikael Males is Associate Professor at the Dept of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Oslo, and PI of the project Myths about Language in the Middle Ages. Publications include Etymology and Wordplay in Medieval Literature (ed.) (Turnhout: Brepols, 2019) The Poetic Genesis of Old Icelandic Literature (Berlin: De Gruyter, in press for... | Read on »

The Rory Kavanagh Bursary Presentation is an event showcasing the Erasmus experience in Italy by students of Italian at NUIG,  the opportunity to celebrate the memory of Rory Kavanagh and his passion for Italian life, language and culture, and the generosity of Mary and Des Kavanagh, whose endowment to the University has made it possible... | Read on »

                                         Including a keynote by Dr Stewart King (Monash, Australia) on ‘Spanish Crime Fiction in and beyond Spanish Studies, this symposium brings together specialists from Ireland who approach ‘Hispanic’ crime fiction from a range of different perspectives: Dr David Conlon (Maynooth) takes a comparative look at Borges and Twin Peaks: The Return; Dr... | Read on »

The triadic relationship between poetry, human rights and literary translation is at the heart of the research project Republic of Conscience: Human Rights and Modern Irish Poetry upon which this presentation is based. Cognisant that Percy Bysshe Shelley claimed that “poets were the unacknowledged legislators of the world”, this presentation will critically examine the relationship between poetry,... | Read on »