GALWAY TO HOST MAJOR GEOGRAPHY AND ARCHAEOLOGY EVENTS

Date Published: 22-Aug-2010

TWO major Geography and Archeaology events, with international speakers, will be held in Galway during the coming week.

In the first event the School of Geography and Archaeology at NUI Galway host the university’s first Annual Symposium on Environment, Society, and Development on Tuesday.

Professor Neil Smith, City University New York, will deliver the keynote address entitled “For (Political) Climate Change”.

Meanwhile on Friday (August 27th) NUIG will host a conference on early modern Ireland entitled, “People, Places and Memory”, supported by the Irish Post-Medieval Archaeology Group (IPMAG).

This is the first time cutting-edge research by postgraduate students on early modern Ireland, c. 1550 – 1800 will be showcased at NUI Galway.

The keynote speaker will be Dr Audrey Horning, University of Leicester.