Hermit Songs (1953) by Samuel Barber  Watershed (2020) by Ailís Ní Ríain  Watershed is a new song cycle for voice and piano inspired by the natural bodies of water and land in Ireland’s midwest region and along the Atlantic coast.  With music by renowned Irish composer Ailís Ní Ríain and text by Ballina-Killaloe resident, poet Jessica Brown, it is... | Read on »

This is an in-person event held in is room 306 in Aras Moyola, NUI Galway. About this event This presentation will outline a book currently being developed about civic parties in deeply divided societies, focusing on the case of Northern Ireland after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. The book explores the place of civic parties... | Read on »

Professor Matthew Smith (University of Strathclyde) Peace of Mind: Social Psychiatry, Universal Basic Income and Preventing Mental Illness in the USA Abstract Following the Second World War, a new, interdisciplinary and preventive approach to psychiatry gained influence in the US.  Social psychiatry involved teams of social scientists and psychiatrists which explored the environmental causes of... | Read on »

The Irish Association for Russian, Central and East European Studies and the Moore Institute presents a virtual roundtable on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Roundtable speakers: Dr Tetyana Lokot, Ukrainian resistance and mobilisation: national and transnational dynamics and decolonial histories, DCU Maciej Curpyś, Putin's Historical Propaganda and the reality of Ukrainian Nationalism, NUI Galway Dr... | Read on »

The Creative Futures research team invites you to attend the second of our series of work-in-progress sessions. These are intended as an informal space in which colleagues can share their latest research and think through how it might connect to Creative Futures themes and methods. We have scheduled two exciting mini-presentations from colleagues across a... | Read on »

Dr Isabella Jackson (Trinity College Dublin)  ‘My Father Sold Me’: Listening to the Voices of Enslaved Girls in Republican China  Abstract In republican China (1912-1949), it was common practice for poor parents to sell daughters to wealthy families via middlemen for unpaid domestic labour. Being female, poor, cut off from their natal families, and performing... | Read on »

This is an in-person event in GO10, Hardiman Research Building (Moore Institute). About this event This paper is a political-sociological exploration of the forms of connection and rupture, collaboration and conflict that define relationships across the Irish Sea at a time of constitutional and political change on 'these islands'. The aim is to examine the... | Read on »

Dr. Kieran Fitzpatrick Podcasts and deflationary technology as means of opening up learning About this event In this Café, Dr Kieran Fitzpatrick will explore the idea of the deflationary impact of technology in higher education through a discussion of a podcast he launched called Body Politics, which builds on his experiences of teaching the history of science and... | Read on »

Book Launch: Charles Macklin and the Theatres of London Edited by Ian Newman, Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame and David O’Shaughnessy, Professor in the School of English and Creative Arts at NUI Galway. Organised by the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, and the Keough-Naughton Institute... | Read on »

Professor David O’Shaughnessy (NUI Galway)  Theatronomics: The Business of Theatre, 1737-1809 Abstract  Eighteenth-century literary studies now acknowledges the centrality of the theatre to Georgian cultural and political life. However, scholars have virtually ignored its remarkable and voluminous financial archive. Account-books, ledgers, and ephemeral manuscript folios contain rich data on ticket sales, audience members, revenues, actor salaries, repayments... | Read on »

FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES IN COMPUTATIONAL LITERARY STUDIES Information session Are you someone who works in or is interested in Computational Literary Studies? Do you have collaborators who work in Computational Literary Studies whom you would like to invite to NUI Galway? The CLS INFRA project is offering a range of paid Transnational Access Fellowships to visit... | Read on »

Aodh Ó Coileáin, Acadamh, will conduct a public interview with Martin Doyle, Books Editor, The Irish Times, on his career in journalism, in Ireland and Britain, on Thursday next 24 March, at 4.00 pm in the Ó Tnuthail Theatre, Arts Millennium Building, AMB 1023. Before joining The Irish Times in 2007, Martin Doyle worked for various newspapers... | Read on »

COLLABORATIVE WORKSHOP: Learned and vernacular interactions in the medieval North and West. The session includes a lecture by Dr Mikael Males "Irish words in Old Norse: true loans or stylistic markers?" Organised by Norse Philology at the University of Oslo and Ancient Classics & CAMPS at NUI Galway. All welcome – further information michael.clarke@nuigalway.ie  

The Irish Centre for Human Rights is pleased to invite you to the following talk: ‘The Israeli Occupation of Palestine: Is International Law Closer to Power than to Justice?’ by Professor Michael Lynk Professor Michael Lynk is the current United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinians territories occupied since... | Read on »

NUI Galway Library and The Moore Institute: Sources and Voices: Archives, Writing, and the Irish Diaspora A free online webinar - 28 March 2022 2.30pm - 5.15pm (NOTE: All times are GMT) This webinar draws together academics, archivists, and researchers across a number of disciplines, including History, English, Irish Language, and related disciplines, with a... | Read on »

Dr Peter Crooks (Trinity College Dublin)  Antiquaries, Archivists and the Origins of an Historical Profession in Ireland: Perspectives from the Beyond 2022 Project  Speaker Biography Dr Peter Crooks is Founding Director of Beyond 2022: Ireland’s Virtual Record Treasury, an all-island and international collaboration to create a virtual reality reconstruction of the Public Record Office of Ireland,... | Read on »

This is an in-person event held in the Hardiman Research Building's Bridge Seminar Room, THB-1001 (1st floor). About this event Humanitarian expressions of solidarity during the Cold War: a comparison of how the volatile security situation in Honduras conditioned the engagements of Oxfam and Médecins Sans Frontières with the principle of neutrality in the Salvadoran... | Read on »

"An Uneven Score: Gender Balance Investigation for Publicly Funded Composer Opportunities on the Island of Ireland (2004-2019)" by Laura Watson (Dept. of Music, Maynooth University) and Michael Lydon (Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway) Laura and Michael will speak on “An Uneven Score: Gender Balance Investigation for Publicly Funded Composer Opportunities on the Island of... | Read on »

CALM seminar: The CEFR at 20: What have we gained from it? Dr Dorothy Ní Uigín, NUI Galway The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages was developed by the Council of Europe in the 1990s and published officially in 2001, with its principal aim being to establish transparency in language competency.  While the CEFR... | Read on »