Moore Institute

School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures Research Day in memory of Dr. Mel Boland
2023-04-19 09:30 - 17:00 (Europe/Dublin) | THB-G011 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Research Day
In memory of Dr. Mel Boland
To join online: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/97191090627

Programme (pdf file available here SLLC Research Day Programme)
9.30 Welcome and Opening Remarks:
Rebecca Braun (Dean, CASSCS)
Chaosheng Zhang (Vice-Dean Research, CASSCS)
Anne O’Connor (Chair, Research Committee SLLC)
9.45-10.45 Session 1: Humour
Chair: Pilar Alderete Diez
• Marie Blom: Creativity in Translation: a strategy for translating humour
• Daniela Toulemonde: The subtitling into Spanish of reference and citationality-based humour in RuPaul’s Drag Race
• Ivan Kenny: El México rojo: Entropic Humour, Naturalism and Death in Luis Buñuel’s El río y la muerte and Ensayo de un crimen
10.45-11.15 Coffee
11.15-12.15 Session 2: Languages of Encounter/International Encounter
Chair: Begoña Sangrador-Vegas
• Deirdre Byrnes: Seán O’Casey in the GDR
• Sara-Louise Cooper: Marie Darrieussecq, Edouard Glissant and Gustave Flaubert: Reading Mediterranean Migration from the Caribbean
• Tony Tracy: Good Enough? Motherhood in Contemporary Irish Cinema
12.15-1.15 Lunch
1.15-2.15 Session 3: Latin America and the Canon
Roundtable Discussion
Chair: Lorraine Kelly
With contributions from: Céire Broderick; Monika Jurkiewicz; Kate Quinn; Jenny Wood
2.15-3.15 Session 4: Linguistics and Translation
Chair: Francesca Nicora
• John Walsh: New speakers of minority languages in Spain
• Andrea Ciribuco and Samantha Goodchild: International encounters in rural Ireland. Participative methods in research with culturally and linguistically diverse communities”
• Martín Veiga: Textual Mobilities: Literary Translation as Research and Creative Practice
3.15-3.30 Coffee
3.30-4.00 Dr. Mel Boland In Memoriam
Owen Harrington Fernandez (Heriot Watt University)
Dan Carey (Director of Moore Institute)
Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh (President, University of Galway)
4.00-5.00 Translation, poetry and song
Chair: Anne O’Connor
Lorna Shaughnessy: Translation between forms: from written text to visual media
Screening of Short Film Finding Mothers by Barra Convery, based on the poetry of Lorna Shaughnessy
Lillis Ó Laoire: Translating popular songs into Irish: Motivations, methods and metrics.
5.00 Concluding Remarks and Reception
Tina Pusse (Head of School, Languages, Literatures and Cultures)
Zoom Link: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/97191090627

Ukraine’s Fight for Survival. Lessons & Future Prospects - a Roundtable Discussion with the Ukrainian, Polish and Lithuanian Ambassadors to Ireland
2023-04-19 11:30 - 13:00 | IT125, IT Building, University of Galway
Ukraine’s Fight for Survival
Lessons & future Prospects – a Roundtable Discussion with the Ukrainian, Polish and Lithuanian Ambassadors to Ireland
After 420 days of heroic resistance, a free Ukraine still manages to exist although having paid an extraordinary price in suffering. This in person event brings the three Ambassadors to Ireland, from Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania, together with University of Galway academic staff and students, to jointly share reflections and insight. How can we make sense of the invasion and what it means for Ukraine, Europe, and Ireland? Or indeed our wider world? What lessons can or should be drawn, and how can we conceive of victory and the war ending? Join us for a timely and respectful discussion of one of Europe’s most pressing crises.
Registration
Please register via Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/ukraines-fight-for-survival-lessons-future-prospects-a-table-discussion-tickets-609346570997
