Ashling McEvaddy, IRC funded PhD candidate in Philosophy, will present a paper, 'Retrospection and Revaluation in Nietzsche: Overcoming our Evolution in the Pursuit of Freedom' as part of the Values and Identities seminar series on Monday 24th February Time: 3 pm Venue: Tom Duddy seminar room, Philosophy Building, Morrisroe House, 19 Distillery Road ALL WELCOME Abstract: For... | Read on »

Why and when was Joyce’s Ulysses first deemed controversial and how did Joyce respond? This paper, based on Dr Hutton’s OUP monograph, looks at the circumstances in which Joyce’s work was first serialised in the US, and the nature of the post-serial revisions which Joyce made to the text. Dr Clare Hutton is Senior Lecturer... | Read on »

NUI Galway hosts a lunchtime seminar on sports journalism at 1pm on Tuesday 25 February in G010, Moore Institute/Hardiman Research Building to announce the launch of the new MA Sports Journalism and Communication programme from September 2020. Panel to feature:Keith Duggan (Chief Sports Writer, The Irish Times) Máire Treasa Ní Dhubhghaill (Presenter, Rugbaí Beo , TG4) Mike Finnerty... | Read on »

Neil is the third year of the Medieval Studies PhD programme and is working with Prof. Dáibhí Ó'Cróinín. The recipient of an IRC Postgraduate Scholarship, Neil is writing a thesis entitled “Built to Last: The Construction and the Benefits of Uí Néill Dynastic Identity in Early Medieval Ireland”.

Bede and Time is published in the Routledge series Studies in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland and provides the first integrated analysis of Bede’s thought on time. This approach allows for a greater understanding of Bede’s writings on time, and illuminates the place of time and chronology in his other works, including his creation of... | Read on »

This seminar is based upon Prof Haugaard's forthcoming book The Four Dimensions of Power: Empower, Domination and Democracy (MUP – July 2020), which explores the nature and workings of social and political power, through four dimensions,  throwing into relief different aspects of power related phenomena. The analysis constitutes a new framework that builds upon contemporary theoretical perspectives... | Read on »

Dr. Gerald Cipriani will present a paper, 'The Changing Virtues of the Hosting Language: Notes on the Philosophy of Translation', as part of the Values and Identities seminar series on Monday 2nd March. Depending on whether translation leans toward objective rendering or subjective interpretation it will have different truth-functions. This paper reflects on the issues... | Read on »

Inger Marie Okkenhaug is a Professor of History at Volda University College, Norway, and is currently a visiting fellow at the Moore Institute. She specializes in the history of missionary and humanitarian activity in the Middle East. She has published extensively on these topics, most notably, the monograph, “The Quality of Heroic Living, of High... | Read on »

This paper explores how recent films addressing Naples – the Manetti Bros’ Ammore e malvita (2017) and Ferzan Özpetek’s Napoli velata (2017) – work to counter the ‘Gomorra-effect’ and rehabilitate the city in cinematic representation. It explores the politics of heritage film, the genre’s relationship with popular culture and Naples’s place in the national imaginary.... | Read on »

by Francisco Rozano-García.  

What impact did women writers make in history? When is a female author (not) a female author? Join us as we explore these questions in a guided tour of the ‘Readers & Reputations’ exhibition, to celebrate International Women’s Day, on Saturday 7 March 2020. The exhibition, sponsored by the Irish Research Council, showcases the work... | Read on »

The aim of this workshop is to provide participants with the tools and confidence to create video content using the technology already in their pockets – their smart phones. This content can be utilised for anything from conference, event or course promotion, to effective communication of complex research topics. The session will cover basic composition,... | Read on »

by Professor Martin Feely, Earth & Ocean Sciences, NUI Galway

Between 2013 and 2018, approximately 700,000 individuals have crossed the Mediterranean to seek asylum in Italy. The LINCS project (Language Integration and New Communities in  a multicultural Society) explores the role of language and translation in their lives, as they forge links with the Italian society and make sense of the new environment. Andrea Ciribuco... | Read on »

Peter C. Mancall is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at the University of Southern California.  His books include Hakluyt’s Promise: An Elizabethan’s Obsession for an English America (2007), Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson—A Tale of Mutiny and Murder in the Arctic (2009), and, the just-released The Trials of Thomas... | Read on »

  Registration necessary. Over 200 articles written by our research community have been published on the RTÉ Brainstorm website. Jim Carroll, the editor of RTÉBrainstorm, will be on campus to explain how NUIGalway staff and research students can contribute to Brainstorm. He will also deliver insights into pitching content for a public audience and developing... | Read on »

By Mary Clancy (Global Women's Studies) At a time of heightened international debate about democratic and social change during the early decades of the twentieth century, the place of the woman citizen remained contentious. The demand to extend the parliamentary franchise to qualified women, debated in Westminster, for instance, since the mid-19th century, was politically and... | Read on »

            Hosted by the Centre for Creative Arts Research, Moore Institute, this will be the first of four seminars hosted by NUI Galway during 2020 as part of the European Capital of Culture. Produced in partnership with Galway 2020, each seminar will bring together a mix of academics, practitioners, policy... | Read on »

TO BE RESCHEDULED AT A LATER DATE Modernist Studies Ireland is delighted to re-launch its Works in Progress series with a double act on Monday, 16th March, at 4 pm in THB—GO11. You are cordially invited to join us for what promises to be two fantastic talks by early career researchers, shining a light on... | Read on »

TO BE RESCHEDULED AT A LATER DATE   Sponsored by: NUI Galway College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies Research Support Scheme, Drama and Theatre Studies, Gender ARC Registration: Tickets (free) available on Eventbrite. For queries, please email Dr Miriam Haughton: ‘miriam.haughton@nuigalway.ie’. For information on upcoming or past FSN events, please check the website... | Read on »

by Jane Suiter (Dublin City University) Democracy is more than deliberation and deliberative mini-publics  do not make a democracy. Yet mini-publics are proliferating not just in Ireland but in Scotland, Belgium, France and elsewhere. This paper uses the example of the Irish Constitutional Convention and Citizens’ Assembly to ask  how mini-publics  can  be located within... | Read on »

Back by popular demand! We are pleased to announce the Spring 2020 EDEN Peer Review workshop, to be held on Thursday, 19th of March, 15.00 (venue tbc). 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... | Read on »

by Allyn Fives (Power, Conflict and Ideologies) This paper addresses two key aspects of A. John Simmons’s philosophical anarchism. First, as a value pluralist, he maintains that obligations are not conclusive reasons for action, whereas overridden obligations are nonetheless genuine obligations. As a result, we can be faced with genuine moral conflicts concerning our political... | Read on »

by Russell Ó Riagáin More info to follow ...

In Association with the Polish Embassy in Ireland As part of symposium to launch the exhibition, “Paul Strzelecki: A Forgotten Irish Hero of the Great Irish Famine” on view in foyer of Hardiman Research Building.