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01 December 2015

Academy Discourse: Tabletop X-Ray Lasers: From Star Wars to Nanotechnology

By Professor Margaret Murnane, Fellow of JILA and Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado.

Discourse Series
18 November 2015

Panel Discussion: At Home in the Revolution: What Women Said and Did in 1916

Chaired by Catriona Crowe with Margaret O’Callaghan, Lucy McDiarmid and others.

Publications
12 November 2015

'Ethics and society in the Ancient World' Classical Studies Colloquium and Public Lecture 2015

Public Lecture: 'Ancient Philosophy and the Contemporary Good' on Thursday 12 November at 17:00 in Newman House followed by a one day Classical Studies Colloquium 'Ethics and Society in the Ancient World' on Friday 13...

Humanities and Social Sciences Committees, Classical Studies Colloquium
10 November 2015

Academy Discourse: 'Risk regulation, uncertainty and ethics in governing biotechnologies' Professor Joyce Tait CBE, University of Edinburgh

This Discourse will consider how life science innovation trajectories are affected by our governance systems and the perspectives of different stakeholder groups. These factors will determine what new products and...

05 November 2015

Evolving Quantum Computers, Eric Ladizinsky

Quantum computation could revolutionize the information age and trigger as big an impact on society as the conventional computer. It promises to transform not just science and technology but our very understanding of...

05 November 2015

1916 as a Global Event Lecture Series: “The Easter Rising and the Indian nationalist movement” Professor Partha Chatterjee

In association with University College Dublin, the Royal Irish Academy will co-organize and co-sponsor a series of high profile public lectures to underline the global repercussions of, and responses to, the Easter...

1916 Centenary
04 November 2015

Evolving Quantum Computers, Eric Ladizinsky

Quantum computation could revolutionize the information age and trigger as big an impact on society as the conventional computer. It promises to transform not just science and technology but our very understanding of...

03 November 2015

Gaelic Medical Manuscripts from the Academy collections

Online exhibition highlighting a lesser known aspect of medieval Irish society and the range of medical learning to which Irish doctors had access and which they made their own.

Library
29 October 2015

Austerity Conference and Keynote Lecture

The Royal Irish Academy in association with University College Dublin invites you to attend this keynote lecture presented by Prof. Simon Wren-Lewis, University of Oxford. This lecture has been arranged by the Academy...

28 October 2015

Public Lecture: 'Yeats and the occult: the unchristened heart'

Professor Harper is the Director of the Yeats Summer School, the President of the International Yeats Society, the author or editor of a number of works on Yeats and the Occult. Margaret Harper is the Glucksman...

Humanities and Social Sciences Committees

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