Moore Institute

Book Launch: Navigating Ireland's Theatre Archive:Theory, Practice, Performance
2019-10-24 17:30 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
By Barry Houlihan
The book will be launched by Catriona Crowe, historian and archivist and former Director of Special Projects at the National Archives of Ireland. The event will take place here at the Hardiman Building – Moore Institute Seminar Room (G010) 5.30pm. Please feel free to join us for a glass of wine on the evening. All welcome!
There is also a symposium taking place for the day in advance of the launch, beginning at 10am: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/performance-and-the-archive-presence-absence-and-digital-memory-tickets-70036299457

Wisdom after Metaphysics?
2019-10-24 17:00 | Hardiman Research Building Room G011, Ireland
By Professor Markus Wörner
Abstract
The paper begins with a common-sense approach to the notion of wisdom, drawing on results of Positive Psychology. Wisdom is to be understood as a mode of being in the world based on sapiential competence informed by a general attitude of openness to (practical and theoretical) truth rather than on specialized capacities of an intellectual, moral or religious elite. It is within the competence of Homo sapiens as such. Its acquisition results in a trustworthy and adequate co-ordination of cognitive, emotional and characterological habits (intellectual and ethical virtues) which are suited to confront fundamental, existential questions concerning human reality. Wisdom comes in degrees and may increase with experience.
Biographical Note:
Markus H. Wörner is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and former Head of Department at the National University of Ireland, Galway (1986–2009). After his Lektorat in theology at the Dominican Studium Generale in Germany in 1973 and postgraduate studies in Oxford as DAAD student he completed his studies in philosophy and theology at the University of Bonn with the degree of Dr. phil. (1975). He taught fundamental theology and medieval philosophy at the Free University of Berlin (FU) while finishing his Habilitation in Philosophy (1985). He has taught as Visiting Professor at Boston College (1990) and FU Berlin (2000). His major book publications are Performative und Sprachliches Handeln (1978), Das Ethische in der Rhetorik des Aristoteles (1990), Glückendes Leben (2000), Verstehen an der Grenze (2003), and Thomas von Aquin, Summa Contra Gentiles IV (1996). He also edited four Latin/German editions of the complete Summa Contra Gentiles. His recent research focuses on rhetorical argumentation and wisdom. He is a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Performance and the Archive: Presence, Absence, and Digital Memory
2019-10-24 10:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
This symposium will address current research, practice and developments in the field of digital theatre historiography, archival curation, and memory and performance studies. The digital interface between the archive of past performance and the present is enabling new encounters between presence and absence, as well as navigating and contesting the recognised documented repertoire. The digital future of the archive presents challenges in terms of documentation of contemporary theatre practice. Processes generated and experienced through virtual and augmented reality, digital video installation and other technologically-enabled performance, effects our collective memory. The reanimated archive of aural and visual media, the corporal record of movement and space, as well as the essence and affect of live reception, present an ever-more interdisciplinary engagement with the digital and born-digital archive of performance. The symposium will discuss and question the future presence and possible absence from digital theatre archives, how we encounter and experience exhibitions and display of such records, as well as the documentation and curation of future digital performance.

The event will also include a launch of the new book: Navigating Ireland’s Theatre Archive: Theory, Practice, Performance (Peter Lang Press, 2019) edited by Dr. Barry Houlihan and launched by Catriona Crowe.

To register and for more info please click here

Fluxes, Fevers and Fighting Men: Lessons Learned
2019-10-23 16:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
By Dr. Pádraig Lenihan (NUI Galway)
As part of NUI Galway History Research Seminar Series Semester 1, 2019-20
Dr. Pádraig Lenihan of the History Department will give a lecture on the experience of writing his most recent book, Fluxes, Fevers and Fighting Men: War and Disease in Ancien Regime Europe, 1648-1789. An expert in military and medical history, Dr. Lenihan is the author of four other books, including The Last Cavalier Richard Talbot (2014) and Consolidating Conquest: Ireland 1603-1730 (2007).

Creative Coding Meet-up
2019-10-23 15:00 - 16:00, 2019-10-16 15:00 - 16:00, 2019-10-09 15:00 - 16:00 | IT303, IT Building, NUI Galway, Ireland
This semester we’re going to run a weekly session for those interested in learning “creative coding”. This approach is a good way for those without any coding experience to develop a foundation in programming. The sessions will use online resources (see below) to guide self-directed learning.

Creative coding is a different discipline than programming systems. The goal is to create something expressive instead of something functional. Interaction design, information visualization and generative art are all different types of creative coding – which has become a household term describing artworks articulated as code. (via Awesome Creative Coding )

What can I expect?

This is a peer support group, not an instructor-led workshop / class.
It’s an opportunity to schedule some time each week to develop your coding skills, and to get some help, if you need it.
There are a collection of tutorial videos (bring headphones), online courses and reference material linked to in the “Further Details” section below, for you to work through at your own pace.

If you have no coding experience, and aren’t sure where or how to start, someone will help you.
Come along, meet people who are also learning to code, and get help if you run into any problems. Showing what you’re working on would be great too.
Further details
You can find further details, and learning resources, at: https://github.com/dh-nuigalway/Creative-Coding-Meetup. The sessions run on Wednesday from 3pm – 4pm, in IT 303, IT Building, NUI Galway.
Any questions?: Contact David Kelly (david.d.kelly@nuigalway.ie)

The Kei Uta Collective
2019-10-22 16:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
By Professor Huhana Smith, Massey University, New Zealand as part of Irish Studies’ Seminar Series
You are invited to attend the second seminar of our Irish Studies’ Seminar Series, which is run in association with Carbon Cultures hosted by the Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway this month.
This seminar will take place at 4pm, Tuesday 22 October at Room G010, Moore Institute, Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway.
We are delighted this month to welcome the artist, scholar and curator Professor Huhana Smith to the Centre for Irish Studies, as part of an Irish Research Council New Foundations award in collaboration with Professor Karen E. Till and the Space&Place Research Collective, Department of Geography, Maynooth University. This is a follow up seminar to our Carbon Cultures Interdisciplinary Seminar we hosted earlier this year where Dr Cathy Fitzgerald was in conversation with Dr Iain Biggs on eco-social futures, and all that attended that seminar would be most welcome to attend on this occasion as well.
Huhana will be discussing her ongoing work with the Kei Uta Collective in New Zealand. This is a transdisciplinary research team that has worked together since 2014 to determine necessary adaptation toolkits and transition action plans that aim to mitigate uncontrollable climate change, its unpredictability, and prepare communities in the short term for their long term protection. The Kei Uta Collective has created unique and compelling collaborations where culture, science, design and contemporary art privilege Māori ideas of ecological and cultural sustainability, and which are location-specific to Kuku, Horowhenua, Te Ika a Maui/North Island, New Zealand.
Professor Huhana Smith is a visual artist, curator and principle investigator in research who engages in major environmental, trans-disciplinary, kaupapa Māori and action-research projects. She is co-principle investigator for research that includes mātauranga Māori methods with sciences to actively address climate change concerns for coastal Māori lands in Horowhenua-Kāpiti. Huhana actively encourages the use of art and design’s visual systems combined in exhibitions, to expand how solutions might integrate complex issues and make solutions more accessible for local communities.
We are also delighted to welcome eco-social artist Laura Donkers (University of Dundee) as our session discussant on Tuesday. Laura will explore some of the key issues that Huhana will be addressing in her lecture, and examine it in relation to her own work and experience in the Outer Hebrides and Scottish visual and ecological cultures more widely.
We would like to acknowledge the support of the Irish Research Council, Centre for Irish Studies NUI Galway, Dept. of Geography Maynooth University, School of Art Massey University, and the Research Support Scheme, CASSCS, NUI Galway, in co-hosting our seminar this month.
As usual, do spread the word as beidh fáilte roimh chách!
Le gach dea-ghuí,

Sport & Exercise Research Group: Exercise Physiology in evaluation of fitness and exercise prescription
2019-10-22 13:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
By Dr. Ananya Gupta
Seminar topic: Exercise Physiology in evaluation of fitness and exercise prescription. In this seminar Dr. Ananya Gupta will talk about the benefits of physical activity (PA), the evidence supporting PA and the recommended guidelines for PA in a healthy adult. In addition she will also discuss the importance of exercise physiology and how it can be applied in exercise testing in the evaluation of health, fitness and performance. We will also briefly discuss the basic principles underlying exercise prescription in healthy clients as well as in a clinical setting.
Dr. Ananya Gupta is a lecturer in the Discipline of Physiology. She is the Director of the MSc program in Exercise Physiology and Application in Therapy. She is also the founder and director of the Exercise Physiology Core Facility (EPCF) located in the Human Biology Building which is an integral part of the Discipline of Physiology, School of Medicine, NUI Galway. The Facility is committed to a tripartite mission in which to advance the knowledge and practice of exercise physiology through supporting and advancing exercise physiology research, providing professional training and mentorship to the next generation of exercise physiologists and to increase awareness about the importance of physical activity and physical fitness in lifelong health amongst the general population. Dr. Gupta’s research focuses on the application of exercise interventions in improving health and fitness in sports and in a clinical setting. Some ongoing projects in the lab include-
Exercise as Therapy and its Application in Cancer rehabilitation
Exercise interventions and physiologic monitoring in improving training and sports performance
Monitoring hematocrit levels as a predictor of sports performance
Management of Chemotherapy induced neutropenia in cancer patients

Digitising Cultural Heritage Workshop
2019-10-18 10:00 - 16:30 | The Moore Institute Seminar Room G010 Ground floor The Hardiman Research Building, Ireland
This day-long workshop will start by discussing issues related to the digitisation of cultural heritage; this panel will be followed by two practical sessions aimed at giving participants the skills needed to carry out their own digitisation projects.
Digitising of cultural heritage in Ireland: Open Forum
An open panel discussion on how Ireland can best meet the recommendations set out by the EU Declaration on Cooperation on Advancing Digitisation of Cultural Heritage which was launched on Digital Day 2019 and to which Ireland is a signatory. The National Monuments Service of the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht which liaises with the EU in relation to digital media will chair the session.
This will be followed by workshops on digitising cultural heritage in the areas of LiDAR, GIS, Photogrammetry, Laser Scanning and Data Management.

Please Note: This is a free event, but registration is required due to limited space.

Session 1 – Photogrammetry
In this workshop, we’ll examine the photo capture and post-processing strategies using Agisoft Metashape to generate models, but we’ll reference open source alternatives as well.
Photogrammetry has transformed the way cultural heritage assets are captured in 3D. Computational power is now such that anyone with a camera and a recent generation computer can create detailed 3D models from a collection of digital photographs of a subject. In this session we look at ways of getting the best possible results for cultural heritage objects and sites!
Session 2 – LiDAR, Photogrammetry and GIS
In this workshop, we will examine the integration of LiDAR and Photogrammetry with GIS packages.
As photogrammetry and LiDAR topographical data becomes more accessible we will look at how best to use these different techniques to enhance the digital cultural record, and to create detailed site maps.
About the Workshop
Attendees are encouraged to download a demo version of Metashape, and to bring along a camera and a laptop. Most importantly, bring something you’d like to document in 3D. It could be a childhood toy, a souvenir, a foodstuff, It works best if your “thing” isn’t shiny and has a surface texture with plenty of detail and contrast.
This workshop is scheduled as part of a programme of events around digital creativity, digital media, critical practice, in association with DH_AGE, The Moore Institute at NUI Galway, and the Department of Culture Heritage and Gealtacht, National Monuments Service
Register to attend the workshop. Further details from: www.digitalheritageage.com/workshop

Italian School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures The Moore Institute :The aesthetics of post-secular “iconoclash”: the “scandal” of religion in Castellucci and Sorrentino
2019-10-16 17:00 | Seminar Room G010
By Monica Jansen, Utrecht University
With the concepts of “scandal” (Pasolini) and “iconoclash” (Latour) this lecture investigates the tensions between religion and aesthetics created by a post-secular work of art when it enters in collision with the public sphere. For this purpose it compares the iconoclast reactions of the public to Romeo Castellucci’s performance Sul concetto di volto nel figlio di Dio in 2011 with the “contradiction” embodied by pope Pius XIII in Paolo Sorrentino’s succesfull TV-series The Young Pope (2017).
Monica Jansen is Assistant Professor in Italian Literature at the Department of Languages, Literature and Communication (TLC) – Italian language and culture, at Utrecht University. Her research interests include modernism and postmodernism studies, and more specifically new forms of cultural engagement. She investigates cultural representations of socially relevant topics such as religion, precarity, youth and migration, from an interdisciplinary, transmedial and transnational perspective.

How to be Imperial: The Case of the Global Spanish Monarchy
2019-10-16 16:00 | Hardiman Research Building Room G011, Ireland
By Prof. Felipe Fernandez Armesto (University of Notre Dame)
As part of NUI Galway History Research Seminar Series Semester 1, 2019
This week’s History Research Seminar features world-renowned scholar and intellectual Prof. Felipe Fernandez Armesto speaking on the theme, “How to be Imperial: The Case of the Global Spanish Monarchy”. Armesto is William P. Reynolds Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame and the author of over twenty books, many of which are best-sellers around the world. Most of these focus on early modern Spain and its expansion into the New World, but Armesto has also written several books on broader themes on a global scale, such as Truth: A History and Guide for the Perplexed (2010) and Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration (2006), which has been translated into 27 languages. In 2019, he published The Oxford Illustrated History of the World and Out of Our Minds: What We Think and How We Came to Think It, a history of the power of imagination. Armesto is the recipient of two honorary doctorates and the Grand Cross of the Order of Alfonso X the Wise, Spain’s highest honour for contributors to science, scholarship, education, and the arts.

Sport & Exercise Research Group Lecture: Improving Performance: Lessons from Sport
2019-10-15 13:00 - 14:30 | Hardiman Research Building Room G011, Ireland
By Professor Eamon O’Shea
In this seminar, Professor Eamon O’Shea explores the influences on performance in sport and the structures and strategies that are important in building successful and sustainable teams. A number of key influences are considered, including: values; vision; teamwork; personality; leadership; confidence; and resilience. He examines the lessons to be learned from sport in building successful teams in business, industry and academic environments. Professor O’Shea draws on a lifetime experience of winning and losing in sport to provide insights into what ultimately matters in creating sustainable cultures of performance and achievement.
Eamon O’Shea is Professor of Economics in the School of Business and Economics, founder Director of the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology (ICSG) and Director of the Centre for Economic & Social Research on Dementia at the National University of Ireland Galway. His research interests are focused on the economics of ageing, rural gerontology and dementia. His work has been influential in setting the agenda for reform of services and policies for older people in Ireland. Prof. O’Shea has also managed and coached the Tipperary senior hurling team.

CAMPS: Bobbio and the Hiberno-Latin Grammatical Tradition
2019-10-11 12:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
By Jason O’Rorke as part of CAMPS Seminar Series

EDEN's Academic Speed Dating
2019-10-10 17:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
Welcome to all new PhDs and welcome back to those returning! EDEN is back with it’s first session of the year. The theme of the evening will be academic networking, with some academic ‘speed-dating’. This is a chance to introduce yourself to your fellow NUIG PhD peers. And, as always, drinks and chats to follow at McGinn’s—all are welcome!

Hamish Henderson Centenary
2019-10-10 17:00 | Hardiman Research Building Room G011, Ireland
The Department of Music at NUI Galway welcomes Fred Freeman, Professor of Traditional Music at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and former Moore Visiting Fellow who will play tribute to Hamish Henderson with a lecture in this, the centenary of his birth. Thursday, 10th October 2019, THB-G011 Seminar Room, 5.00 pm
Drawing song and verse examples from his C D tribute album, Fred considers one of the outstanding figures of the 20th-century: a man who accepted the surrender of Italy during
WW II; won the Somerset Maugham Prize for his war elegies (which bear comparison with Siegfried Sassoon or Wilfred Owen); was a prime mover for the founding The School of
Scottish Studies; influenced, quite directly, the course of 20th-century history.
His songs (like BALLAD OF THE D-DAY DODGERS, BANKS OF SICILY, RIVONIA & THE FREEDOM COME ALL YE) were sung by British soldiers and Italian partisans in the field of battle during WW II and by the freedom fighters of S. Africa throughout the 1960s. Moreover, his theories of art and the artist (which can be seen as an extension of the ideas of Antonio Gramsci) make him somewhat unique in the history of 20th-century literature in Britain. His achievement has been fully acknowledged by Nelson Mandela, Montale, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, E. P. Thomson and others. Currently, Professor of Scottish Music at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Fred Freeman is a graduate of Aberdeen and Edinburgh universities and was Senior Associate Member of St Antony’s College, University of Oxford for two years. He is author of numerous books and articles on Scottish literature, Scots language, folk music and history; was formally recognised by the ASLS with a lifetime Honorary Fellowship in 2014. Over the past decade, he has drawn upon his extensive musical background, producing over 47 (internationally acclaimed) CDs, including the only ever recorded “COMPLETE SONGS OF ROBERT BURNS” (Linn Records) and a Hamish Henderson tribute album, “A’ the bairns o Adam”.

Renaissance Galway Seminar
2019-10-10 14:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Seminar on a unique pictorial map of Galway c. 1650
Two copies survive of a remarkable map of the city of Galway, one held by the Hardiman Library and one by TCD. The seminar marks the appearance of Paul Walsh’s study of the map, Renaissance Galway: Delineating the Seventeenth Century City (RIA, 2019). https://www.ria.ie/renaissance-galway-seminar
Speakers will discuss important features of the map, including fortifications, language, and cartographic conventions. The map will be on display in Special Collections reading room of the James Hardiman Library.
Speakers:
Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway)
Sarah Gearty (RIA)
Pádraig Lenihan (NUI Galway)
Annaleigh Margey (Dundalk IT)
Bríd McGrath (TCD)
Nollaig Ó Muraíle (NUI Galway)
Paul Walsh
Please register for this event here https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/renaissance-galway-seminar-tickets-74091400373

The Early Modern Poetry Book as an Expressive Form
2019-10-10 11:00 | Hardiman Research Building Room G011, Ireland
Book Launch by Dr. Erin McCarthy (University of Newcastle, Australia)
Dr. Erin McCarthy (formerly of the Moore Institute, where she worked as postdoc with the RECIRC project for four years, and currently Lecturer in Digital Humanities at the University of Newcastle, Australia) is returning to give a talk based on her imminent book: Doubtful Readers: Print, Poetry and the Reading Public in Early Modern England (Oxford University Press)

Book Club
2019-10-09 17:00 - 18:00 | Common Room 2nd Floor, Hardiman Research Building
First Meeting will take place October 9th
If you are interested in signing up please or looking for more information please email Laoighseach – laoighseach.nichoistealbha@oegaillimh.ie

Thinking the Empire Whole
2019-10-09 16:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
By Prof. Steve Pincus (University of Chicago)
As part of NUI Galway History Research Seminar Series Semester 1, 2019-20
Prof. Pincus describes himself as “a historian of Britain and its Empire, of comparative revolutions, comparative empires, and of northern Europe more broadly” and works mainly on the early modern period. His monographs include a comparative study of England and the Dutch Republic, England’s Glorious Revolution, and the American Declaration of Independence. He is currently working on a global history of the British Empire and a comparison of the Irish Revolution of 1782 and the American Revolution. For more details, see https://history.uchicago.edu/directory/steven-pincus
His paper on Wednesday is called “Thinking the Empire Whole”. It makes a case for getting beyond the teleologies of national and proto-national historiographies so as to capture both the dynamics of empire making and the trajectories of colonial resistance.

Master your PhD, Tools and Strategies to achieve your PhD in the fastest and most effective way possible
2019-10-08 10:00 - 12:00 | Seminar Room G010
A workshop with Dr Alexander O’Hara Oxford University Press author and Visiting Fellow, Moore Institute
To register please click here

Gaeltacht.net
2019-10-07 15:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
An bhfuil Gaeilge agat? Beidh Seisiún Eolais maidir leis an tionscadal taighde Gaeltacht.net ar siúl ar 3pm i seomra G010 Dé Luain, 7 Deireadh Fómhair.
There will be a Launch and Information Session regarding the educational research project Gaeltacht.net at 3pm in Room G010 on Monday, October 7th. Come along to learn more about this month-long course of daily language tasks designed to support overseas Irish language learners, and find out how you could participate – bígí linn!

Do Witches Have Human Rights?
2019-10-04 14:00 | MY333, Aras Moyola
**postponed until further notice **
By Thomas Strong
A remarkable shift has occured in how we talk about witchcraft and sorcery. Whereas these topics have long occasioned critical reflection on belief and reason, or cultural difference and human universals, the new discourse describes witchcraft as a “human rights” problem and focuses on harms associated with it. This shift reflects the influence of a number of actors in both national and international settings, actors working with institutions of global governance to pressure national states to develop coherent legislative and social responses to witchcraft violence. In September 2017, the United Nations Human Rights Commissioner convened its first ever expert workshop on witchcraft and human rights in Geneva. A year later, the UN curated an exhibit of photographs about witchcraft directly outside the The Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations Room in the Palais des Nations where the expert panel had convened. This paper presents an interpretation of this small exhibit and its imagery, highlighting the ways in which its representational sensibility symbolises the shift I have described: from ‘belief’ to ‘harm’ as the dominant topos shaping the intelligibility of witchcraft as a social phenomenon. When articulated in the context of human rights discourse, “witchcraft” requires not so much understanding, as witnessing. Thus, I examine the ways in which the photographs not only construct ‘victims,’ but also ‘witnesses.’ They depict bodies that ‘testify’ to their own suffering and survival, imagery which provokes a sense of moral responsibility in those who see it. Drawing on fieldwork in highland Papua New Guinea, I also reflect on what the photographs can’t show: witchcraft itself. I describe some of the moral and epistemological challenges of representing and responding to witchcraft phenomena, returning to the aporia contained within this question: Do witches have human rights?
Thomas Strong – Department of Anthropology – Maynooth University
https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/thomas-strong

Exchange rates and prices in Ireland, 1698-1826
2019-10-02 16:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
By Daniel Cassidy and Dr. Aidan Kane (NUI Galway)
As part of NUI Galway History Research Seminar Series Semester 1, 2019-20

Introduction to Citations Metrics and Its Role in Identifying Suitable Publication Outlets
2019-10-02 13:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies, in conjunction with the Moore Institute, will be hosting a series or support and information workshops for staff in the coming semester. The first workshop (on Wednesday October 2nd at 1pm) will consider the topic of citation metrics and its role in identifying suitable publication outlets. All sessions will be held in Room G010, Ground Floor Hardiman Research Building.
This session, to be led by Hardy Schwamm (Open Scholarship Librarian, James Hardiman Library), will provide an introduction to citation metrics. We will look at author and journal metrics and see how they can help with identifying suitable publication outilets. We will also discuss limitations of metrics and their responsible use. We will focus on the tools Scopus and Google Scholar. A useful overview of academic impact and research metrics can be found on this PDF.
Hardy Schwamm is the new Open Scholarship Librarian in NUI Galway’s James Hardiman Library who will get involved in different aspects of “Openness” such as Open Access, Open Data and Responsible Metrics. Hardy has previously worked as Research & Scholarly Communications Manager at Lancaster University in the UK where one of his responsibilities was to understand and develop the institutional citations performance.
Our subsequent workshop will be held on Wednesday November 6th at 12pm and will consider the topic of Preparing Major Funding Applications

Keepers of the Gael Caomhnóirí na nGael
2019-10-01 18:00 | Galway City Museum

Sport & Exercise Research Group Lecture:Bringing Stats into Play
2019-10-01 13:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
By Professor John Newell
Professor John Newell is Head of Statistics in the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Applied Mathematics, NUI Galway. His primary areas of research in Biostatistics are in the theory and application of statistical methods in clinical trials of health service and population health interventions and in the development of novel analytic approaches in Sports and Exercise Science.
Through his role as funded Principal Investigator in the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, his team of researchers help sports scientists in elite sporting organisations make sense of their data in order to improve training response, accelerate recovery and optimise performance. In this talk he will give a short history of the use of Statistics in elite sport, the role Biostatistics plays in athlete welfare and the use and misuse of big data in elite sports.

"The family of Clanrickard Burkes and the writing of aristocratic history in eighteenth-century Ireland"
2019-09-27 20:00 | Claregalway Castle, Galway
The Annual De Burgo Lecture
will be given by distinguished historian
Professor Nicholas Canny
Fáilte roimh chách – All welcome, admission free
Nicholas Canny, FBA, has been a publishing scholar on the history of Ireland, particularly during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and on Atlantic History ever since his first learned article appeared in 1970. He was an Established Professor of History at NUI Galway, 1979-2009; President of the Royal Irish Academy, 2008-2011; and Member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council, 2011-2016. His major book is Making Ireland British, 1580-1650 (Oxford, 2001), and he is currently completing Imagining Ireland’s Pasts: Early Modern Ireland through the Centuries scheduled for publication in late 2020, also by Oxford University Press

Archive Screening of a play "Lady G" Written by Carolyn Swift (1987)
2019-09-27 13:00 | Coole Park, Gort, Ireland
****This Event venue has been changed to Coole Park****

Introduced by Barry Houlihan, as part of the Lady Gregory-Yeats Autumn Gathering. Programme details and schedule is here: https://autumngathering.com/about/

European Cultural Identity Workshop at NUI Galway
2019-09-27 10:30 - 17:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
NUI Galway will host an Irish Research Council Funded Creative Connections Initiative, examining questions of European identity through a focus on the themes of sport and digital media.
The workshop will draw on a range of disciplines in the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences (AHSS) and STEM areas from NUI Galway, Trinity College Dublin, and Queen’s University, Belfast to examine the topic of European cultural identity. Additional strands in the network will examine the themes of schooling and curriculum design, and landscape as key components of Europe’s shared cultural heritage and identity. These strands will be used as a prism through which participants will explore European cultural identity, its construction and current crisis.
NUI Galway partner in this initiative, Dr Seán Crosson of the University’s Huston School of Film & Digital Media and leader of the Sport and Exercise Research Group, said: “Sport annually engages millions of diverse people across Europe, both as participants and spectators. Participants engage in sport in a wide variety of competitive, educational, recreational and, increasingly, health-related contexts, while spectators attend sporting events or follow them via the mass media. Widespread engagement with sport, accelerated by considerable technological and digital media advancements, means that sporting practices and representations contribute significantly to the social construction of cultural identities. In its various forms, sport offers a unique opportunity to encourage an appreciation among citizens of their shared cultural heritage and common values at the heart of European identity.”
Workshop two will facilitate an interdisciplinary examination of the interconnection of sport and digital media and their roles in constructions of European cultural identity, bringing together researchers in film, digital media, sport and leisure studies, French studies, psychology, media and communication studies, and medicine.
The keynote speaker at the workshop will be Professor Alan Tomlinson, Professor in Leisure Studies, University of Brighton. A leading contributor in the area of sport and media studies, Professor Tomlinson’s work includes Sport and the Transformation of Modern Europe: States, media and markets 1950-2010 and The Sport Studies Reader. Professor Tomlinson’s lecture ‘Sport, Digital Media and European Cultural Identities’ will explore where and how sport contributes to or problematises conceptions of European cultural identity, with examples from the mass media and new/digital media forms.
A full schedule for the day long workshop is available at https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/research/European-Culture-project.php7
