BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Moore Institute - ECPv6.0.0.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://mooreinstitute.ie X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Moore Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Dublin BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:IST DTSTART:20190331T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20191027T010000 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190507 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190601 DTSTAMP:20260517T113732 CREATED:20181205T140056Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190325T142656Z UID:6622-1557187200-1559347199@mooreinstitute.ie SUMMARY:Future Landscapes Workshop: Enhancing Seen & Unseen Landscapes with Mixed Reality DESCRIPTION:UPDATE: Applications for the fee-waiver scholarships available via the Moore Institute and Galway 2020 are now closed \n\nFuture Landscapes is an intensive four-week\, full-time workshop created in conjunction with the School of Machines\, Making and Make-Believe and Galway 2020. \nThe aim of the workshop is to allow participants to develop the skills to explore the use of immersive technologies\, such as Virtual and Augmented Reality\, within the context of Landscape\, both seen and unseen. This may include\, for example\, the augmentation of physical landscapes\, or creating immersive experiences related to social or political landscapes. Technical experience is not a prerequisite for participating in the course. \nOverview\nCompelling us all is an interest in creatively exploring vast landscapes in the physical world and of the mind while gaining an understanding of the potentials of augmented-\, virtual-\, and mixed reality through a myriad of critical\, conceptual\, and hands-on approaches. \nUsing technology to imagine unknown realities can inspire new ways of looking at the world. In designing new forms of interactive and tactile experiences\, artistic creation and storytelling\, what could we add or augment to our surroundings to develop new narratives about landscapes\, be them physical\, social\, or mental\, that permeate our lives? What forms of play and togetherness might we be able to create and sustain? Could thoughtful discourse on landscapes and realities empower us into making impactful change? \nCourse Description\nMixed Reality (MR) refers to a suit of technologies that anchors virtual objects in a space\, allowing for the possibility of “real” interaction with those objects. With Augmented Reality (AR)\, in addition to superimposing images and 3D models over the camera feed\, these toolkits offer the opportunity to map physical spaces\, understand ambient lighting and track the position of a phone in space. Pokemon Go used these techniques to capture the public interest and brought AR into the mainstream\, but it begs the question\, what else can we do with this technology? In this class\, we’ll explore the spectrum of what these tools have to offer. \nThese techniques are just a starting point for what may be possible. There is much experimentation to be done by utilising the other capabilities of handheld devices to stream live data\, communicate with others\, and incorporate information from built in sensors. \nAlthough various types of augmented and virtual reality systems have existed for some time\, recent advances in mobile technology platforms provide us more powerful ways of creating and sharing these experiences with a wider audience. So as the technology is advancing\, what happens when we bring conceptual ideas and criticality to the fore? \nThe primary tool of this program will be Unity 3D. We will work with the ARKit and Vuforia libraries. As we engage the potential of these new tools\, we will also take a critical perspective discussing the shortcomings and challenges of future technologies. \nIn this course\, you will be introduced to:\n\nCritical and conceptual development of projects *\nCreative development with Unity3D *\nScripting in Unity3D to create interactivity *\nIntroduction to ARKit (iOS) and Vuforia *\nAttaching virtual objects to real image markers *\nCreating both AR and VR experiences *\nRecording and placing sounds inside a virtual AR space *\nDesigning an AR space that can be shared and explored with multiple people at the same time *\nBuilding mixed reality experiences *\nAn amazing network and community of like-minded creative beings and potential future collaborators\n\n* No previous experience necessary \nCourse Outline\nWeek 1: Introductions\, concepts\, narratives\, play\, and critical discourse. \nWeek 2: Tools and techniques for creating interactive experiences in Unity \nWeek 3: Advanced tools and techniques for creating interactive experiences in Unity. Adding physicality into our work through props and found artefacts. \nWeek 4: Preparing talks\, presentations\, and Mixed Reality experiences for final showcase open to the public \nWho is this program for?\nThis workshop is geared toward anyone involved in creative projects (such as architects\, designers\, makers\, artists\, musicians\, performers) and members of the arts and humanities research community\, that wish to begin incorporating mixed reality experiences into their work or practice. \nThis course approaches mixed reality from an introductory level. A basic knowledge of programming (in any language/platform) is encouraged\, *but not required*. \nApplication Process\nParticipation in the course is subject to an application process and interview\, which will be conducted by the School of MA. \nAn online application form for the programme\, and details of fees for participation in this 4-week full-time course are available on the course registration page. \nNUI Galway Scholarship Opportunities\nFor staff\, students and researchers currently affiliated with the College of Arts at NUI Galway\, there are a number of fee-waiver scholarships available. These scholarships are generously funded through a HEA project on “Digital Literacy in Irish Humanities”. You must indicate on the application form if you wish to be considered for one of these scholarships. \nA number of fee-waiver scholarships are also available via Galway 2020 for professionals working in the Arts\, technology\, or research and living in Galway\, Ireland. You can indicate on the application form if you wish to be considered for one of these scholarships. \nApplications for these fee-waiver scholarships will close on February 28th \nQuestions\nIf you have any questions\, please feel free to contact David Kelly (david.d.kelly@nuigalway.ie) at the Moore Institute\, NUI Galway. URL:https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/future-landscapes/ LOCATION:Moore Institute\, Hardiman Research Building\, NUI Galway\, Galway ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mooreinstitute.ie/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/futureLandscapes_2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="David%20Kelly":MAILTO:david.d.kelly@nuigalway.ie END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190514T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190514T160000 DTSTAMP:20260517T113732 CREATED:20190510T114659Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190510T114659Z UID:7484-1557842400-1557849600@mooreinstitute.ie SUMMARY:GREEN THINKING: HOW 20TH CENTURY BRITISH ENVIRONMENTAL LITERATURE SHAPES THE STORY OF CLIMATE CHANGE DESCRIPTION:The Gender ARC (Gender\, Discourse and Identity) at the Moore Institute presents \nDR KELLY SULTZBACH\, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN\, LA CROSSE \nUS Fulbright Scholar through the Fulbright Inter-country Program \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThis talk considers how the experience of a muddy\, apocalyptic war and the metroland octopus of suburban development influenced the pastoral imagination of environmental writing between the wars. It addresses popular literature and nature writing\, much of it penned by veterans of the First World War\, including Edmund Blunden\, J.B. Priestly\, and R.C. Sherriff.  Their stories raise messy questions about rural nostalgia\, preservation and prejudice\, as well as the fickleness of human nature when confronted with choices about our own consumerist desires and what is best for a thriving countryside.  These stories are less engaged with the progressive posthumanism of contemporary scholarship; instead\, they illuminate some of the more contested social struggles of 21st century climate change:  What kinds of narratives motivate people to support environmental agendas?  Are the reasons most of us love and cherish nature compatible with preserving it?  How do we create stories that don’t just speak to fellow activists\, but subtly\, compellingly\, begin to listen to and cultivate wider fields of green public thinking?  Using examples from both my published work and new research\, this talk will explore the continued relevance of environmental modernism to a 21st century Anthropocene awareness. URL:https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/green-thinking-how-20th-century-british-environmental-literature-shapes-the-story-of-climate-change/ LOCATION:Room 1001\, the Bridge\, Hardiman Research Building ORGANIZER;CN="Muireann%20O%27Cinneide":MAILTO:muireann.ocinneide@nuigalway.ie END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190514T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190514T180000 DTSTAMP:20260517T113732 CREATED:20190507T121622Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190507T121622Z UID:7447-1557849600-1557856800@mooreinstitute.ie SUMMARY:Cultural Climates - Public Seminar - 'Fostering Art for Sustainability - Time for a New Cultural Policy?' DESCRIPTION:   Iain Biggs\, Flight/Paths: (Her bones…) 2018. \nCultural Climates is a two-part lecture and public forum which explores how research and policy in relation to climate change can be engaged with across the cultural and arts sectors in Ireland today. In particular\, it explores how culture and the arts are key to addressing issues associated with the climate emergency\, and how the arts and sustainability sectors need to be more integrated in their approach to addressing social\, political and environmental challenges in the Age of the Capitalocene. The presentations from Dr Iain Biggs and Dr Cathy Fitzgerald will be followed by a public forum and discussion on what role the arts and cultural sectors can\, and need to\, play in addressing the issues of ecological crisis in this a time of climate emergency. \nCultural Climates: This public seminar emerges from research\, teaching and public engagement events in the areas of Irish Studies\, Art\, Geography and socially-engaged research developed between Dr Nessa Cronin at NUI Galway and Professor Karen E. Till and Professor Gerry Kearns at Maynooth University since 2012. \nSupported by the Centre for Irish Studies\, Moore Institute\, and the Research Support Scheme\, CASSCS\, NUI Galway\, 2018-19 and the Irish Research Council’s Creative Connections Scheme. In association with the EUGEO International Conference and the Conference of Irish Geographers\, NUI Galway\, 15-18 May 2019. URL:https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/cultural-climates-public-seminar-fostering-art-for-sustainability-time-for-a-new-cultural-policy/ LOCATION:Seminar Room G010\, Hardiman Research Building ORGANIZER;CN="Dr%20Nessa%20Cronin":MAILTO:nessa.cronin@nuigalway.ie END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190514T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190514T170000 DTSTAMP:20260517T113732 CREATED:20190509T094045Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190509T094735Z UID:7455-1557853200-1557853200@mooreinstitute.ie SUMMARY:NUIG Classics book launch De origine scoticae linguae\, a new edition by Pádraic Moran of a seventh-century Irish scholarly text on the origins of the Irish language. DESCRIPTION:To be launched by Prof. Dáibhí Ó Cróinín. \nAll welcome. (Refreshments will be served.) \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nDe Origine Scoticae Linguae (O’Mulconry’s Glossary): An early Irish linguistic tract\, edited with a related glossary\, Irsan\, Corpus Christianorum\, Lexica Latina Medii Aevi 7 (Turnhout\, Brepols: 2019) \nA new edition of the earliest etymological study of a European vernacular language. \nDe Origine Scoticae Linguae (also known as O’Mulconry’s Glossary) is a text originating in seventh-century Ireland that provides etymologies for c. 880 Irish words\, mostly drawn from Latin\, Greek\, and Hebrew. Its Latin prologue declares its affiliation to the Graeco-Roman linguistic tradition\, claiming an origin for the Irish language in the Greek dialects Attic\, Doric and Aeolic. The glossary attests to the transmission and reception of the Latin grammatical tradition in Ireland and shines light in particular on the Irish knowledge of Greek and Hebrew. The text also represents a milestone in the history of European linguistics\, as the earliest etymological study of a European vernacular language. \nThe glossary was published once before\, by Whitley Stokes in 1898. This new edition provides the first translation and textual commentary\, clarifying the sense of difficult entries and discussing sources. The introduction analyses the structure and contents\, origins and development\, linguistic issues\, and relationships to other texts. The text is edited here along with a shorter related glossary of 232 entries\, entitled Irsan\, which includes shared material and sheds further light on its development. URL:https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/nuig-classics-book-launch-de-origine-scoticae-linguae-a-new-edition-by-padraic-moran-of-a-seventh-century-irish-scholarly-text-on-the-origins-of-the-irish-language/ LOCATION:The staff Club\, NUIG ORGANIZER;CN="Padraic%20Moran":MAILTO:padraic.moran@nuigalway.ie END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190514T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190514T170000 DTSTAMP:20260517T113732 CREATED:20190510T083600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190510T092324Z UID:7472-1557853200-1557853200@mooreinstitute.ie SUMMARY:Inis Airc art exhibition by Pádraic Reaney. DESCRIPTION:  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nYou are welcome to join us at a wine reception  for the opening of the Inis Airc art exhibition by Pádraic Reaney. \nInis Airc is artist Pádraic Reaney’s response to the changing form of Inishark\, an island off the west Galway coast. It uniquely captures a crumbling cultural landscape as the uninhabited island\, which once supported a community of over 200 people\, returns to nature. \nThis exhibition is funded by the Discipline of Geography\, NUIG\, for the 7th EUGEO Congress in conjunction with the 51st Conference of Irish Geographers\, which is co-chaired by Dr Frances Fahy and Dr Kathy Reilly and will take place from the 15-18th of May. The exhibition will be open to all 500 conference delegates throughout the duration of the conference and is open to all staff\, students and visitors to our University from May 7th until May 28th\, 2019. Our thanks to Richard Scriven (Geography)\, Dan Carey and the Moore Institute for all of their work and support in preparation for this exhibition. \n  \n  URL:https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/inis-airc-art-exhibition-by-padraic-reaney/ LOCATION:Ground Floor Hardiman Research Building ORGANIZER;CN="Frances%20Fahy":MAILTO:frances.fahy@nuigalway.ie END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR