Samhlú – Seeing Things, an event jointly hosted by Westport Civic Trust and UCD Centre for Irish Towns, is a day of talks, walks & workshops reimagining the past, present & future of Small Irish Towns with key note speaker, Sile de Cléir. De Cléir, who has a background in fashion and textiles, is a […]
CPOI Reads hosted an online lunch time event with Dr Sun Park, Ad Astra Research Fellow in AI and Digital Cultural Heritage at UCD’s School of Information and Communication Studies in conversation with contributors to the new anthology, Artificial Intelligence in the Cultural and Creative Sectors Opportunities, Challenges, and Transformations. The event took place on […]
Founded in 2003, the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) is an international organisation dedicated to the study of games and play. The 2026 DiGRA conference theme is Intersectional Pleasures. The theme invites a critical and celebratory exploration of how games (digital, analogue, and hybrid) enable, mediate, or restrict pleasure across lines of identity, genre, platforms, […]
IAMCR, the International Association for Media and Communications Research, is hosting its annual conference in Galway this 28 June – 2 July. The 2026 central theme, Peripheries and Connections: Media, Communication, and Transformation, addresses the complexities of contemporary media systems in a polarised and interconnected world. By emphasising intersections between the global and the local, […]