Royal Irish Academy International Affairs Annual Conference 2023 Human (in)security in an unsettled world The Academy’s annual International Affairs Conference, kindly supported by the Department of Foreign Affairs. In our unsettled world of intersecting human and environmental crises, an urgent global governance challenge lies in actioning new visions and strategies of security. Two key tasks... | Read on »

Inaugural Nicholas Canny Lecture @ the Moore Institute, University of Galway David Armitage Blankfein Professor of History (Harvard University) Making England Irish? John Locke and the English Atlantic Empire This distinguished lecture series honours the career and contribution of Professor Nicholas Canny, emeritus chair of history and founding Director of the Moore Institute at the University... | Read on »

Paula Harrison (PhD Researcher, Ancient Classics, University of Galway) will be presenting on ‘When a Quarter is Analogous to Three-quarters: Quadrans in the De Divisionibus Temporum Tract of Laon, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS. 422.’   The Hiberno-Latin tract De divisionibus temporum (‘The divisions of time’) was an elementary work for the study of time reckoning (computus) during the early medieval period. This... | Read on »

A Fulbright Ireland project, Yaqui and Béal: Yoeme and Irish in Conversation is a theatrical exploration of commonalities between Native Americans and Native Irish. Part scripted/part devised, this dramatic piece combines family legends and wisdom from Irish and Yoeme elders, with conceived work that includes audience input. This performance is being composed by theatre-makers from... | Read on »

Please join the School of Education, Nuns Island (room G005, aka “the STC”); 3-4pm on Wed 10th May for the SOE Research Seminar ‘Getting Impact with your Publications’. Associate Professor Sarah Prestridge (https://experts.griffith.edu.au/9530-sarah-prestridge) a visiting scholar with Prof. Tony Hall will present on the talk.

CANCELLED! CAMPS Lab: 'The seven parts of sword-fighting. A linguistic analysis of Leeds, Royal Armouries, I.33’ Jacopo Bisagni (Ancient Classics, University of Galway) will be presenting on ‘The seven parts of sword-fighting. A linguistic analysis of Leeds, Royal Armouries, I.33’.   ‘Unlike most medieval works on the art of combat, which were typically composed in vernacular... | Read on »

A series of talks surveying digital approaches to Humanities research. Co-ordinated by the Moore Institute’s Digital Humanities Research Group (DHRG), with the support of the Moore Institute’s Digital Lab and the Library’s Digital Scholarship and Archives units. Tue 16 May 12pm Introduction to planning and building digital projects David Kelly Enquiries to: padraic.moran@universityofgalway.ie https://mooreinstitute.ie/research-group/digital-humanities/ Register... | Read on »

Living amidst conflict and insecurity Workshop Program  This one-day research workshop at the University of Galway brings together scholars in the field – including Roger Mac Ginty (Durham University) Caitríona Dowd (Dublin City University), Niall Ó Dochartaigh (University of Galway), and Sarah Jenkins (University of Galway) – alongside Early Career Researchers from Ulster University and... | Read on »

School of Political Science and Sociology Distinguished Lecture Professor Bonnie Honig Brown University A Feminist Theory of Refusal   This event is hybrid, please contact suming.khoo@universityofgalway.ie to register for Zoom link. ALL WELCOME!

Heroes of the Gaelic World in the Digital Age: The Fionn Folklore Database Dr Pádraig Fhia Ó Mathúna You are warmly invited to attend an in-person seminar with Dr Pádraig Fhia Ó Mathúna, 'The Fionn Folklore Database: Irish Myths in the Digital Age' on Thursday 18 May. The seminar will take place in the Seminar... | Read on »

Notions Exchange: A transatlantic arts dialogue Erick Boustead (Minnesota) and Emma McKeagney (Dublin) Engage with a group of artists from Ireland and North America/Turtle Island about an exciting exchange they’ve been developing over the last few years. The group includes University of Galway, Irish Studies Masters graduates Emma McKeagney and Erick Boustead, along with Martina... | Read on »

Bealtaine Online Discussion Series 2023 The Bealtaine Discussion Series 2023 is devised and presented in association with Dr. Michaela Schrage-Frueh (School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures) and Dr. Maggie O’Neill (Irish Centre for Social Gerontology) from the University of Galway. Please register via the following Eventbrite links: May 10, 3-4 pm Generational Drama: Intergenerational Relationships,... | Read on »

Description: The Fráma Eile roundtable series, organised by PhD students in the Centre for Irish Studies and Roinn na Gaeilge, explores new approaches to framing established texts (in both English and Irish), material objects, and artwork in the Irish Studies canon. This roundtable discusses Never No More by Maura Laverty. Speakers will highlight aspects of the text which have... | Read on »

Beyond ‘victim’ and ‘perpetrator’ working in the grey zone of the modern academy: the paradoxical ‘problem spaces’ of implicated post-colonial scholars in exile Jo Dillabough, Professor, Sociology & Sociology of Education If self-reflexive critical postcolonial intellectuals view themselves as implicated in machinations of power beyond their control, then arguably such recognition should produce political subjectivities and political actions that seek to operate beyond... | Read on »

Digital Humanities Research Group  Spring Seminar 2023   Wed 31 May 12pm Niamh Reilly (Political Science & Sociology, University of Galway) Memoirs, politics and histories: open-source annotated republishing as method Rana Roshdy (Dublin City University) Advancing terminology through corpus and statistical regression modelling: a multi-methodological analysis of lexical variation in Islamic legal discourse Registration: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wqDd3k9zSAuMB2U8P96IRg... | Read on »

Centre for the Study of Religion in conjunction with the Discipline of Philosophy and the Moore Institute Presents Truth and Contemplation a lecture by Prof. Kevin Hart, University of Virginia This will be a hybrid event. Those who cannot be present but wish to register online can do so here. Kevin Hart is a theologian,... | Read on »