Centre for Creative Technologies’ masterclass series Miss-communication - Joanna Walsh Joanna Walsh will present her Markievicz-award-winning miss-communication.ie, the first generative text project to be supported by the Irish Arts Council. Miss-Communication.ie is a work of two halves: an AI chatbot trained on Constance Markievicz's prison letters and interviews with 20th century Dublin women collected by Máirín Johnston... | Read on »

University of Galway History Research Seminar: ‘Tangier, Bombay and the political economy of Empire: an Irish model?’  Professor Steven Pincus (University of Chicago)  This event is in-person only, in Room G010, Hardiman Building. The seminar will take place at 1.30pm - please note the different to usual start time. This talk is part of the University... | Read on »

University of Galway History Research Seminar: 'The Irish Face of British Politics: Agrarian "outrages", Propaganda, and Reform 1830-1845  Dr Jay Roszman (University College Cork)    Abstract Some of the most compelling histories of nineteenth-century Ireland focus not simply on the ways that Britain shaped Ireland, but on the ways that Ireland shaped Britain and its... | Read on »

Please join us for the University of Galway launch of Micheline’s Three Conditions: How We Fought Gender Inequality at Galway’s University and Won by Rose Foley and Micheline Sheehy Skeffington Micheline will give a short talk and both authors will answer questions and sign books. The book provides a gripping account of the campaign by Micheline... | Read on »

“Going North”: Landed Estates in the counties of Cavan, Donegal & Monaghan, 1700-1914 Seminar Monday 6 November 2023 3-5pm - G010 Seminar Room, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building & on Zoom Speakers: Ms. Virginia Teehan, CEO, Heritage Council Dr. Jonathan Cherry (DCU) Prof. Terence Dooley, (Maynooth University) Dr. William Roulston (Ulster Historical Foundation)   Marie Boran... | Read on »

The Irish Society for Theatre Research (ISTR) webinar on 'Publishing in a Journal', 8 November 1-2pm, with Prof Helena Grehan (Murdoch Uni, Performance Research Deputy Editor) in conversation with Dr Shonagh Hill (Queen's, author of Embodied Mythmaking in Irish Theatre, CUP 2019). Registration: Get Tickets – ISTR Webinar: Publishing in a Journal - Q and... | Read on »

POSTPONED! University of Galway History Research Seminar Finding Sophie: 'Tracing and Returning a Greenlandic Woman through the Archives of Exploration' Dr Eavan O’Dochartaigh (University of Galway) Abstract In the mid-nineteenth century, ships of ‘exploration’ made their way along Greenland’s west coast, often stopping to rest, re-supply, and trade at settlements before entering the Northwest Passage.... | Read on »

“Thinking About American Public Opinion: Past and Present” Professor Susan Herbst, University of Connecticut American politics and public discourse have changed rapidly since 2015 and the election of President Trump.  Political scientists, journalists, and engaged citizens have been surprised by the extraordinary acceleration of partisan polarization, for example.  Of the contemporary American political dynamics, which current... | Read on »

Jumping into the Metaverse, with Professor Sarah Jones Virtual reality has come a long way since headsets had to be bolted to the ceiling as they were too heavy for a person to support them. In this discussion, Sarah Jones, Professor of Education Innovation at the University of Gloucestershire, will take us on a journey through the... | Read on »

You are cordially invited to the launch of Getting by in Tligolian by a Galway-based author Roppotucha Greenberg (known to some of you as Ira Ruppo) 13 November at 6pm The book will be launched by Dr Dermot Burns (SEMCA, College of Arts) Below, please find an Eventbrite link with more information about the books... | Read on »

Immersed in Domes – or Learning to Look Up, with Alan Hook In this presentation, Senior Lecturer in Ulster University, Alan Hook will survey a new body of practice work that he has been collaborating on with musicians, storytellers, and artists to create immersive experiences for dome projection. The talk will showcase the Psychlorama project,... | Read on »

The School of Political Science and Sociology research seminar “Negotiating Nollywood: Women, intersectionality and post-feminist sensibilities” Oluwatumininu Adebayo and Stacey Scriver (Global Women’s Studies Research Cluster)  Nollywood, the Nigerian film industry, is the second largest film industry globally based on the number of movies produced each year. Women, via their roles as actresses and more... | Read on »

Open Scholarship Forum: Enabling Research Data Management Date: November 15, 2023, 12-13.30, THB-G010, Hardiman Building We are excited to invite research students, academic and university support staff to our upcoming Open Scholarship Forum, "Enabling Research Data Management" This event will show different perspectives on how we can enable Research Data Management at the University of... | Read on »

University of Galway History Research Seminar Dr Tomás Irish (Swansea University) Feeding the Mind: Humanitarianism and the Reconstruction of European Intellectual Life after the First World War  The final University of Galway History Research Seminar of the semester will take place at 4.00pm on Wednesday, 15 November 2023. This is an online event, streamed via... | Read on »

Irish Studies Seminar Series "'In a bad place': A Topography of Romantic Entanglements in Recent Irish Novels" Ms Nathalie Lamprecht (Charles University, Prague) We are delighted to invite you to the third seminar of our Irish Studies Seminar Series for this academic year. We offer a warm winter welcome to Ms Nathalie Lamprecht who is currently visiting the Centre for... | Read on »

Unveiling New Perspectives Through Press Archives, News Photography, and a Decolonial Lens: Disrupting Parisian Fashion  Lecture introduced by Dr. Don Duncan of the Discipline of Journalism & Communication, School of English, Media & Creative Arts Pierre-Antoine Vettorello’s research sits at the intersection of fashion design, history, museology, and decolonial studies. In his lecture, he will... | Read on »

The Emily Anderson Centre for Translation Research and Practice and The Centre for the Study of Religion invite you to a talk entitled: RESISTING: PATRIARCHAL MISTRANSLATION OF SIKH SACRED TEXT How to translate the terse simplicity and beauty of the Sikh sacred text? A daunting task to begin with, its English translations have been weighed down... | Read on »

The theatre section of the ICOG Research Centre for Arts in Society, University of Groningen is delighted to announce the online book launch by Dr Miriam Haughton (University of Galway), Dr Alinne Balduino P. Fernandes (Federal University of Santa Catarina) and Dr Pieter Verstraete (University of Groningen) as part of the SPOT ON series, of... | Read on »

The Centre for Creative Technologies at University of Galway, in collaboration with the Galway Simon Community, is excited to launch Lost & Found on Wednesday November 22nd at 7pm, as part of the Arts in Action programme. Lost & Found is a co-created, virtual reality film produced in collaboration with clients from the Galway Simon Community. This 360 degree... | Read on »

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 the legacy and writings of Edmund Spenser. This event will be bilingual. All are welcome, and... | Read on »

Emergent norms, models and target varieties in Celtic language revitalization Múnlaí, noirm, caighdeáin agus spriocanna in athneartú na dteangacha Ceilteacha 27 November 2023, Áras na Gaeilge, University of Galway  Níl aon táille i gceist ach caithfear clárú roimh an Déardaoin 23 Samhain. There is no registration fee but please register at the link below by Thursday... | Read on »

The School of Political Science and Sociology invites you to a research seminar with Dr. Huw Bennett (Cardiff University, supported by Power, Conflict and Ideologies Cluster) Uncivil War: the British Army and the Troubles, 1966-1975  When Operation Banner was launched in 1969 civil war threatened to break out in Northern Ireland and spread over the... | Read on »

Orpen Press is pleased to invite you to the launch of GALWAY: MAKING A CAPITAL OF CULTURE BY Patrick Collins The book will be launched by Patricia Forde, Laureate na nÓg With a welcome by President of University of Galway Professor Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh RSVP info@orpenpress.com WWW.ORPENPRESS.COM