Future events

Professor Kapcia is a distinguished expert in modern and contemporary Cuban history and politics. He has published extensively in the field, including Cuba: Island of Dreams (2000), Cuba in Revolution: a History since the Fifties (2008). His forthcoming book examines literary culture in Cuba since 1959.

The 10th annual Galway Symposium on Higher Education. More information on the CELT website: http://www.nuigalway.ie/celt/conference/conference12.html

The School of Law is co-organising and co-sponsoring a conference on “The Regulation of Continental Shelf Development: Present Status and Future Directions” which will take place from 20 to 22 June 2012 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Conference is co-organized with leading specialist research institutes at the University of Virginia, Dalhousie University, the National University of Singapore, the Korean Maritime Institute, Bergen University, and McInnes Cooper Halifax.
The conference is the 36th Annual Conference of the Center of Oceans Law and Policy at UVa and brings together international experts to examine a broad range of pressing regulatory matters concerning offshore industries in light of the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
NUI Galway was also the principal organiser and co-hosted the 30th Annual COLP Conference on “Law, Science and Ocean Management” held at Dublin Castle in 2006.
Conference proceedings will be published by Martinus Nijhoff. Click here  to view the other volumes in this series: http://www.brill.nl/publications/center-oceans-law-and-policy
Further information: Dr. Ronán Long
More information at: http://www.continentalshelfconference.ca/.

Colonialism within Europe: Fact or Fancy? Conference at NUI Galway, 22-23 June 2012 Provisional Conference Programme Fri., 22nd June 2012 9.00 Welcome and Opening Remarks 9.15-10.30 Session 1 The Irish Experience Nicholas Canny, Dept. of History, NUI Galway “Was Ireland a colony? The history of a debate” Bogdan Murgescu, Dept. of History, University of Bucharest “A Colonial Periphery? Ireland and Romania in the Early Modern Era” 10.30-11.00 Coffee 11.00-13.00 Session 2: North-South Relations Piotr Szlanta, Dept. of History, University of Warsaw “The Russian bear in the land of the Persian lion. The patterns of subjection 1890-1914” Enrico Dal Lago, Dept. of History, NUI Galway “Italian National Unification and the Mezzogiorno: A Case of Internal Colonialism?” Clemens Ruthner, Dept. of Germanic Studies, Trinity College Dublin “Austria’s Only “Colony”: Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1878-1918” Commentator: Ulrike Lindner, Dept. of History, University of Bielefeld 13.00-13.30 Lunch 13.30-14.30 Humboldt Foundation Programmes by either member of Humboldt staff or Prof. Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, Dept. of History, NUI, Galway 14.30-16.30 Session 3: German Peripheries Detmar Klein, Dept. of History, University College Cork “German-Annexed Alsace and Imperial Germany: A Process of Colonisation?” Nils Langer, Dept. of German, Bristol University “Germany and the Danes: Language Politics in Schleswig-Holstein” Róisín Healy, Dept. of History, NUI Galway “Germans and Poles in Poznania and West Prussia” Commentator: TBA 16.30-17.00 Coffee 17.00-18.00 Keynote Address: Mark von Hagen, Dept. of History, University of Arizona 19.00 Conference Dinner Sat., 23 June 2012 9.30-11.00 Session 4: Contested Territories in the Interwar Period Christoph Mick, Dept. of History, University of Warwick “Colonialism in the Polish Eastern borderlands, 1919-1939" Guido Hausmann, Dept. of History, University of Munich “Maps of the Borderlands: Russia and the Ukraine” Commentator: Mridu Rai, Dept. of History, Trinity College Dublin 11.00-11.30 Coffee 11.30-13.00 Session 5: Sovietization as Colonization Paul McNamara, Dept. of History, NUI Galway “Polonization and Sovietization in Poland’s Recovered Territories” Balazs Apor, Centre for European Studies, Trinity College Dublin “Political Rituals and the Sovietization of Hungary” Commentator: Ulf Engel, Centre for African Studies/Global and European Studies Institute, University of Leipzig 13.00-14.00 Lunch 14.00-15.15 Session 6: Colonial Practices Alan Kramer, Dept. of History, Trinity College Dublin “The Colonial Origins of the Concentration Camp” Second speaker to be arranged 15.15 Closing Discussion

The 2012 Sino-European Symposium on Environment and Health (SESEH 2012) provides an internationally leading platform for interaction between scientists, consultants, and public servants engaged in the multi-disciplinary areas of environment and health. With the fast economic growth, the importance of environment and health is widely recognized in China, and China welcomes international experts for collaboration. This symposium provides an opportunity for a direct communication between experts from China and the rest of the world, and helps to foster and develop international collaborations with China, the 2nd largest economy of the world.

 

The conference venue is the campus of National University of Ireland, Galway, within walking distance of Galway’s city centre. The conference is co-organized by GIS Centre, Ryan Institute of NUI Galway, The Geographical Society of China (www.gsc.org.cn) and Environmental Sciences Association of Ireland (ISAI, www.esaiweb.org), supported by Ryan Institute of NUI Galway (www.ryaninstitute.ie), Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health (SEGH, www.segh.net), International Medical Geology Association (IMGA, www.medicalgeology.org), Geographical Society of Ireland (www.ucd.ie/gsi), Ireland Chinese Association of Environment, Resources & Energy (ICAERE, www.icaere.ie), National Centre for Geocomputation (ncg.nuim.ie), South China Institute of Environmental Sciences (http://www.scies.org/en) and Chinese Environmental Scholars & Professionals Network (http://www.cespn.net/english).

2012 Babel Public Lecture Series, further details available at http://www.nuigalway.ie/languages_literatures_cultures/lectures.html

The Babel 2012 Public Lecture Series, further details available at http://www.nuigalway.ie/languages_literatures_cultures/lectures.html