Moore Institute

Irish Conference of Medievalists
2010-06-25 09:00 (Europe/Dublin)
The Classics department is holding the Irish Conference of Medievalists beginning on June 25th, 2010. Further information is available at http://www.irishmedievalists.com/ or please contact Dr Jacopo Bisagni, Tower 2, Rm 505. 091-495963 ( jacopo.bisagninuigalway.ie)

Imperialism, Theory and Media
2010-06-23 14:00
Imperialism, Theory and Media
Wednesday 23rd June, 2010
Moore Institute Seminar Room
2.30 – 3.30 Talk by Prof Patrick Wolfe, Charles La Trobe Research Fellow, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia,
‰Û÷Imperialism in Theory and Practice’
3.30 – 4.00 Discussion
4.00 – 4.15 Tea/Coffee
4.15 – 5.15 Talk by Prof Cynthia Young, Associate Professor, Boston College ‰Û÷Imperialism and Media
5.15 – 5.45 Discussion
Professor Patrick Wolfe is Charles La Trobe Research Fellow in History at La Trobe University, Australia and author of Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology: The Politics and Poetics of an Ethnographic Event (Cassell, 1999). He has researched, taught, lectured, and written on race, colonialism, Aboriginal histories, the history of anthropology, and genocide in Australia, the United States, Brazil, Palestine, and India. The Organization of American Historians recently appointed him to its Distinguished Lectureship Program. In 2009-2010, he will be a fellow at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University. He is currently working on a transnational history of settler-colonial policies on Native peoples.
Professor Cynthia Young is Director of the African and African Diaspora Studies Program at Boston College. She specializes in literature and culture of the African Diaspora, U.S. popular culture, race and cultural theory, African American and U.S. Ethnic literatures. Her most recent projects are on black British and black American cultural politics and popular culture after 9/11. She is the author of Soul Power: Cultural Radicalism and the Making of a U.S. Third World Left (Durham: Duke University Press).
This event is supported by funding received from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, New York.

Association of Latin Americanists in Ireland Conference, 2010: 'Interpreting Independence in Latin America'
2010-06-04 09:00
The department of Spanish is holding the Association of Latin Americanists in Ireland Conference, 2010: ‰Û÷Interpreting Independence in Latin America’ on 4th & 5th June, 2010 in the Moore Institute seminar room.
www.latinamericanconference.org
For further information please contact Dr Lorraine Kelly at lorraine.kelly@nuigalway.ie or 091 495927

Europe and India in the Early Modern Period
2010-06-03 13:15
Europe and India in the Early Modern Period International Conference,
3-4 June 2010, Newman House UCD & Old Library TCD
Organized by Daniel Carey, Derval Conroy and Jane Conroy
Conference organized with the support of:
The Early Modern Research Strand, University College, Dublin
Texts Contexts and Cultures, NUI, Galway
The Library, Trinity College, Dublin
The Andrew W. Mellon FoundationSociety for Renaissance Studies
Programme
Thursday 3 June, Newman House, 85-86, St Stephen’s Green
13.15 Registration in Newman House
14.15 Joan-Pau Rubi̩s (London School of Economics):
‰Û÷Despotism and superstition: changing views of Indian civilization in Europe, 1550-1750′
14.45 Daniel Carey (National University of Ireland, Galway):
‰Û÷John Locke and sati’
15.30 Coffee
16.00 Rui Loureiro, Universidade Nova de Lisboa e Universidade dos A̤ores:
‰Û÷The Indian journeys of a Spanish ambassador: Don GarcÌ_a de Silva y Figuero and his Comentarios
(1614-1624)’
16.30 Dirk van der Cruysse, University of Antwerp:
‰Û÷Barth̩lemy Carr̩’s second itinerary to Persia and India’
17.15 Reception in Newman House
Friday 4 June, Henry Jones Conference Room, Old Library, TCD
9.30 Visit to the exhibition: Nabobs, Soldiers and Imperial Service: the Irish in IndiaThe Old Library, Trinity College with Dr Charles Benson, Keeper of Early Printed Books
10.00 Nandini Das (University of Liverpool):
‰Û÷Elizabeth I and the East India Company’
10.30 Richmond Barbour (Oregon State University):
‰Û÷Corporate praxis and the legacy of privateering: early voyages of the London East India
Company’
11.15 Coffee
11.30 Florence D’Souza (Universit̩ de Lille):
‰Û÷Some European perceptions of Indian trade and multiculturalism in pre-colonial Surat’
12.00 Giorgio Riello (University of Warwick):
‰Û÷Superiority by design? Cotton, technology and aesthetics in Eurasian trade, c. 1600-1800′
12.30 In̬s Zupanov (Ìäcole des Hautes Ìätudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris):
‰Û÷Passage to India: Jesuit spiritual economy between martyrdom and profit’
13.15 Lunch
14.45 Michael Harrigan (Fellow at Marsh’s Library):
‰Û÷Early Modern French Travellers and Histories of India’
15.15 ZoltÌÁn Biedermann (Birkbeck, University of London):
‰Û÷Negotiating India: Portuguese travel and diplomacy in Hindustan, 1498-1550′
15.45 Dejanirah Couto(Ìäcole Pratique des Hautes Ìätudes, Paris):
‰Û÷Informal Portuguese diplomacy of the Estado da India: spies and renegades in Gujarat (1535-
1547)’
16.30 Final discussion

'Emerging Philippine Studies, 1821-91: The Work of Jos̩ Felipe Del-Pan'
2010-06-01 14:00
Dr. Lino Dizon, Tarlac State University (the Philippines) and Fulbright Fellow, UC Berkeley:
‰Û÷Emerging Philippine Studies, 1821-91: The Work of Jos̩ Felipe Del-Pan’
Moore Institute Seminar Room

Shakespeare, Performance and Ireland
2010-05-29 09:30
Shakespeare, Performance and Ireland
Research Seminar in association with the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway, and the Druid Theatre Company
Supported by the Irish Research Council in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Saturday 29th May, 2010
9.30-10am Registration and Welcome
10-11am Dr Stephen O’Neill (NUI Maynooth): ‘Celtic Shakespeare? Or, what has happened to Shakespeare’s ‰Û÷English’ histories?’
11-11.30am Coffee
11.30am-12.30pm Dr Deana Rankin (Royal Holloway, University of London): ‰Û÷Short-winded accents of new broils’: voicing the archipelago in Shakespeare’s Henriad’
12.30-1.30pm Lunch
1.30-2.30pm Professor Nicholas Grene (TCD): ‰Û÷Shakespeare, our Irish contemporary?’
2.30-3pm Coffee
3-5pm Roundtable discussion with the Druid Theatre Company
The seminar will take place in the Moore Institute Seminar Room (203), National University of Ireland, Galway
For more information please contact Dr Patrick Lonergan patrick.lonergan@nuigalway.ie or Professor Nicholas Allen nicholas.allen@nuigalway.ie
For free registration in advance please contact mooreinstitute@nuigalway.ie
091-493906

'ADAPTATION' by Professor Colin MacCabe (University of Pittsburgh)
2010-05-27 17:00
Professor Colin MacCabe (University of Pittsburgh)
‘ADAPTATION’
Lecture in association with the Huston School of Film & Digital Media, and the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities & Social Studies
5pm, Thursday 27th May 2010, Moore Institute Seminar Room (203)
Colin MacCabe is distinguished professor of English and Film at the University of Pittsburgh and professor of English and Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London. MacCabe was educated at St Benedict’s School and the University of Cambridge where he began his academic career. A Board member of Screen magazine in the 1970s, he helped to introduce film theory into English. He was Head of Production at the British Film Institute Production Board before producing film and television independent company, Minerva Pictures. He taught English at the University of Pittsburgh. Since 2002 he has returned to full-time academic work and followed his seminal book on Joyce, with publications on Godard, T.S. Eliot and Neil Jordan’s adaptation of Patrick McCabe’s novel The Butcher Boy.
All welcome. For more information please contact mooreinstitute@nuigalway.ie 091-493906

Culture and Politics in Ireland and the British Empire
2010-05-14 09:00
Culture and Politics in
Ireland and the British Empire
A one-day workshop – part of the Texts, Contexts, Cultures research programme
Supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Moore Institute Seminar Room, NUI, Galway
Friday 14 May 2010, 9.30am – 6pm
9.30am-11am – Session 1 – Chair: Prof. GearÌ_id ÌÒ Tuathaigh (NUI, G)
Dr Philip Ollerenshaw (University of the West of England) – ‰Û÷Politics and Conflict in Northern Ireland, 1935-50′
Ian Kenneally (NUI,G) – ‘Truce to Treaty: Irish journalists and the peace process of 1920-21’
Tea/Coffee
11.15am-1.15pm – Session 2 – Chair: Prof. Nicholas Allen (NUI, G)
John Towler (GMIT) – ‰Û÷Mapping Galway’s mid-Seventeenth-Century Settlement Morphology’
Dr Donal Lowry (Oxford Brookes University) – ‰Û÷Irish Catholics in the British Empire’
Patricia Bergin (NUI,G) – ‰Û÷Education and the Open Competitive Examination System: Irish Civil Servants in India, 1855-1914′
Lunch
2.15pm-3.45pm – Session 3 – Chair: Dr. Mary Harris (NUI, G)
Philip Legg (University of the West of England) – ‰Û÷The Land War in King’s County, 1879-1882′
å_å_å_å_å_å_å_å_å_å_å_James O’Donnell (NUI,G) – ‰Û÷”A brave and valiant nation combating against a power by whose heel she herself has been crushed”: Irish news gathering and editorial comment on the South African War (1899-1902) – a case study of Co. Clare newspapers.’
Tea/Coffee
4-6pm – Session 4 – Chair: Dr Mark McCarthy (GMIT)
Dr Jeff Dann (NUI,G) – ‰Û÷Sport and Hegemony in the British Empire’
Dr Kent Fedorowich (University of the West of England) – ‰Û÷Family Matters? The Dominion High Commissioners in Wartime Britain, 1938-42′
Alan Lyons (NUI,G) – ‰Û÷Foreign Office attitudes towards the Arabs of Palestine’
Further Information: Dr. Simon J. Potter (NUIG) simon.potter@nuigalway.ie

e-Publishing for Postgrads
2010-05-04 10:00
The Moore Institute, in co-ordination with the Vice Dean for Graduate Studies and the Vice Dean for Research of the College of Arts, Social Sciences & Celtic Studies, would like to invite you and your PhD students to a seminar entitled ‰Û÷e-Publishing for Postgrads’.
Postgraduate students often find little guidance in getting their work published which is necessary to establish their reputation and even less guidance in using digital tools to disseminate their work beyond traditional publishers. This seminar will discuss changes taking place in the system of scholarly communication and give advice for creating scholarship that transcends traditional models of print publishing.
he seminar will be given by Kevin Hawkins, Visiting Metadata Manager with the Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO) at the Royal Irish Academy. Kevin is Electronic Publishing Librarian at the University of Michigan.
Places to attend the seminar are limited and must be booked by this coming Friday, April 30. To do so, please email marie.kennedy@nuigalway.ie with ‰Û÷e-Publishing’ in the subject line.
Seminar Details:
Title: ‰Û÷e-Publishing for Postgrads’
Presenter: Kevin Hawkins
Date: Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Time: 10am – 12:30pm
Location: Moore Institute Seminar Room, Room 203

'PLACE THE REAL', an interdisiciplinary workshop
2010-04-30 09:00
‘PLACE THE REAL’
an interdisciplinary workshop

An initiative of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures

30 APRIL 2010, 9:00 – 17:30
Moore Institute Seminar Room

Keynote speaker: Margaret Higonnet, University of Connecticut
Panelists:
Nicholas Allen
Daniel Balderston
Paolo Bartoloni
Paul Crowther
RÌ_isÌ_n Healy
Felix ÌÒ Murchadha
Bill Richardson
Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa
Maria Scott
Further information:
http://www.nuigalway.ie/languages_literatures_cultures/workshop.html
Prof Paolo Bartoloni paolo.bartoloni@nuigalway.ie
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Daniel Balderston (University of Pittsburgh), 'Borges and Ireland'
2010-04-29 16:00
Daniel Balderston (University of Pittsburgh), ‘Borges and Ireland’
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Professor Terry Eagleton, "Postmodernism and the War on Terror"
2010-04-21 13:00
As part of the initiative promoted last year by the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies and enabled by private philanthropy, Terry Eagleton, Adjunct Professor of Cultural Theory in the Moore Institute, will offer a seminar on ‘Atheism, Postmodernism and the War on Terror’ on Wednesday 21st April, at 1.00pm in the Moore Institute seminar room. Professor Eagleton will also be available after the seminar for discussion with the students.

DHO TEI and Irish Digital Resources Workshops at NUIG
2010-04-07 09:30
DHO TEI and Irish Digital Resources Workshops at NUIG
24 March 2010 – The DHO is pleased to offer a three-day series of workshops in collaboration with the Moore Institute, NUI, Galway. These are designed for anyone interested in the future of humanities research. They will greatly benefit scholars working with textual sources, providing you with the opportunity and the skills to think about text in new and useful ways.
‘Text Encoding with the TEI‘ will offer two concurrent workshop strands in text encoding for both beginners and more advanced practitioners. These two-day courses entitled ‰Û÷From Text Encoding to Digital Publishing’ and ‰Û÷TEI for Handwritten Texts’ will run on Wednesday, 7th and Thursday, 8th April.
‰Û÷Using Digital Resources for Research and Teaching in Irish Studies‘, which will take place on Friday, 9th April, will offer two half-day sessions. will offer two half-day sessions. These will explore ways to utilize the wide variety of digital resources now available to the field of Irish Studies. Participants may register for one or both of the sessions.
As Easter is fast approaching, we will close registration for the above workshops on Tuesday, 30th March. These workshops are free and open to all members of HSIS institutions, although places are limited and will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. To register, and for more information on the events, please visit the respective event pages linked above and register as soon as possible.
http://dho.ie/node/685

Professor Isabel Wuensche, 'The Synaesthetic Experience: Wassily Kandinsky, Nikolai Kulbin, Mikhail Matyushin'
2010-03-29 16:00
Professor Isabel Wuensche, (Jacobs University Bremen)
‰Û÷The Synaesthetic Experience: Wassily Kandinsky, Nikolai Kulbin, Mikhail Matyushin’
Visiting Speakers in Art History
History of art and visual culture is not an academic discipline formally present at NUI Galway. However, it explores areas that intersect with many aspects of the Moore Institute’s research work. It also engages with issues with a bearing on possible new areas of teaching and research in the Philosophy Department.
Isabel Wuensche will investigate some influential ideas concerning synaesthesia, that function in the development of abstract art’s early stages.

Margaret Kelleher (NUI Maynooth), 'The Language Question in Nineteenth-Century Ireland'
2010-03-23 16:00
Margaret Kelleher (NUI Maynooth), ‘The Language Question in Nineteenth-Century Ireland’

Catherine Morris (UCD), 'Alice Milligan and the Irish Cultural Revival: Exhibition and Audience'
2010-03-16 16:00
Catherine Morris (UCD), ‘Alice Milligan and the Irish Cultural Revival: Exhibition and Audience’

Dr. Clemena Antonova, 'From Icon to Picture: The Changing Role of Narrative in the Maniera Greca'
2010-03-11 16:00
Dr. Clemena Antonova (Fellow at the Royal Flemish Academy for Science and the Arts, Belgium)
‘From Icon to Picture: The Changing Role of Narrative in the Maniera Greca’
Visiting Speakers in Art History
History of art and visual culture is not an academic discipline formally present at NUI Galway. However, it explores areas that intersect with many aspects of the Moore Institute’s research work. It also engages with issues with a bearing on possible new areas of teaching and research in the Philosophy Department.
Clemena Antonova will analyze the emergence of elements of Renaissance pictorial space from its neo-Byzantine predecessor

Diana Montengro, 'The Broken Facade: Imperial Dominance in Papal Portraiture (1523-1534)'
2010-03-04 10:00
Diana Montengro (Department of Art History and Theory, University of Essex).
‘The Broken Facade: Imperial Dominance in Papal Portraiture (1523-1534)’
Visiting Speakers in Art History
History of art and visual culture is not an academic discipline formally present at NUI Galway. However, it explores areas that intersect with many aspects of the Moore Institute’s research work. It also engages with issues with a bearing on possible new areas of teaching and research in the Philosophy Department.
Diana Montenegro will discuss key developments in a specific idiom of iconography

MÌ_ch̩al Mac Craith (NUIG), 'Tadhg ÌÒ CianÌÁin's travel narrative: a Gaelic view of Counter-Reformation'
2010-03-02 16:00
MÌ_ch̩al Mac Craith (NUIG), ‘Tadhg ÌÒ CianÌÁin’s travel narrative: a Gaelic view of Counter-Reformation’

Gender and the medical profession in Britain and Ireland, c.1800-1950
2010-02-26 09:00
Gender and the medical profession in Britain and Ireland, c.1800-1950
Supported by the Wellcome Trust
The main objective of this meeting is to explore the importance of gender as a mode of investigation within the history of medicine. This workshop will bring together historians of medicine from Ireland and the United Kingdom who are working on themes relating to gender and the medical profession in order to discuss most recent research that is being conducted within the field. Through the discussion of gendered themes relating to the history of medicine, participants will provide useful feedback to each others’ work in addition to focusing on the relevance of gender to modern research in the history of medicine.
The themes of papers that will be given include:
o Gender issues within the history of medical education and medical
students.
o Masculinity and femininity and the medical profession.
o Gender issues with regard to the treatment of patients.
o Masculine and feminine representations of medical missionaries.
o The future of gendered themes within the history of medicine: is
gender a valuable mode of investigation?
Registration for this workshop is essential. If you wish to attend or require further details, please email Laura Kelly at l.kelly15@nuigalway.ie.

Women, Writing, and Language in Early Modern Ireland
2010-02-25 17:15
Women, Writing, and Language in Early Modern Ireland (Oxford, 2010)
by Marie-Louise Coolahan
You are invited to a reception to mark the launch of Women, Writing, and Language in Early Modern Ireland by Dr. Marie-Louise Coolahan in the Moore Institute seminar room, Thursday 25th February at 5.15pm. Professor Daniell Clarke (UCD, School of English) will launch the book.

Susan Schreibman (Digital Humanities Observatory), 'Tools to Think With: Re-Conceiving Humanities Research'
2010-02-23 16:00
Susan Schreibman (Digital Humanities Observatory)

‘Tools to Think With: Re-Conceiving Humanities Research’

Professor Terry Eagleton - 'Post Modernism No 3'
2010-02-19 13:00
Professor Terry Eagleton
‘Post Modernism No 3’ at the Moore Institute seminar room on
Friday 19th Feburary at 1.00pm

Professor Terry Eagleton - 'The Ambiguities of Oscar Wilde'
2010-02-18 18:00 | Siobhan McKenna Theatre, Ireland
Professor Terry Eagleton
Public lecture, on the subject of ‘The Ambiguities of Oscar Wilde’ will take place on Wednesday 18th February at 6 pm in the Siobhan McKenna Theatre
Professor Eagleton will be ready to address questions on the same subject after the formal lecture.

Professor Terry Eagleton - 'Post Modernism No 2'
2010-02-17 13:00
Professor Terry Eagleton
‘Post Modernism No 2’ at the Moore Institute seminar room on
Wednesday 17th Feburary at 1.00pm

Phiroze Vasunia (University of Reading), 'Memories of Conquest: Alexander the Great and Colonial India'
2010-02-16 16:00
Phiroze Vasunia (University of Reading), ‘Memories of Conquest: Alexander the Great and Colonial India’

The Postcolonial Enlightenment
2010-02-09 18:00
The Postcolonial EnlightenmentEighteenth Century Colonialism and Postcolonial TheoryEdited by Daniel Carey and Lynn Festa392 pages, ISBN 978-0-19-922914-7(Oxford, 2009)
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Daniel Carey (NUIG), 'A Scrupulous Travesty? Spivak's Kant'
2010-02-09 16:00
Daniel Carey (NUIG), ‘A Scrupulous Travesty? Spivak’s Kant’
‘Daniel Carey will give a talk on ‘A Scrupulous Travesty? Spivak’s Kant’ in the Moore Institute Seminar Room on Tuesday, 9th February at 4:00pm. This will be followed at 5pm by the launch of his new book by Lionel Pilkington, head of the School of Humanities. The Postcolonial Enlightenment: Eighteenth-century Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory is edited by Daniel Carey and Lynn Festa, and is published by Oxford University Press. All are welcome.

Roisin Healy (NUIG), 'The Challenges of Comparative History: Ireland and Poland in the Long Nineteenth Century'
2010-02-02 16:00
Roisin Healy (NUIG), ‘The Challenges of Comparative History: Ireland and Poland in the Long Nineteenth Century’

Adrian Paterson (NUIG), 'The Curlew and the Abbey: the music of Peter Warlock and W.B.Yeats'
2010-01-26 16:00
Adrian Paterson (NUIG), ‘The Curlew and the Abbey: the music of Peter Warlock and W.B.Yeats’
