Moore Institute

Prof Terry Eagleton, Cultural Modernism 2
2009-10-19 16:00 (Europe/Dublin)
Professor Terry Eagleton Seminar entitled Cultural Modernism 2 will take place in the Moore Institute seminar room on Monday 19th October (203) at 4.00pm

Prof Terry Eagleton, Individual Consultations
2009-10-20 16:00
Professor Terry Eagleton will be available all day for individual consultations with graduate students/junior faculty about their work. Appointments may be arranged through Marie Kennedy ext 3902 or email marie.kennedy@nuigalway.ie.

Robert O'Neill (Boston College), 'The Burns Library: Collections and Digital Projects'
2009-10-20 16:00
Robert O’Neill (Boston College),
‘The Burns Library: Collections and Digital Projects’

Prof Terry Eagleton, Cultural Modernism 3
2009-10-21 16:00
Professor Terry Eagleton Seminar entitled Cultural Modernism 3 will take place in the Moore Institute seminar room on Wednesday 21st October (203) at 4.00pm

Research Development Initiative 2009
2009-10-22 16:00

Paul Crowther (NUIG) - 'The Visual Sublime; It's Structure and Emergence'
2009-10-27 16:00
Paul Crowther (NUIG) – ‘The Visual Sublime; It’s Structure and Emergence’

Josie Dixon (Publishing Consultant), Publishing Workshop
2009-11-03 09:30
Josie Dixon (Publishing Consultant), Publishing Workshop (details for advance registration and participation will be posted shortly)
9.30-11.00
Public lecture and discussion
‘Academic Publishing in the 21st Century: Markets and Technology, Survival and Change’
Debates about the future of scholarly publishing are not a new phenomenon, and the research monograph in the humanities and social sciences has long been a focus of particular concern. Yet the sense of crisis has sharpened in recent years, and changes in the market and in technology have resulted in some fundamental shifts in academic publishers’ business. Digital media offer new opportunities, but have arguably introduced at least as many problems as they have solved. The most fundamental issues for the sustainability of scholarly publishing relate to the larger workings of the academic economy – involving not just publishers but funding bodies, research assessors and tenure committees, libraries, and all the wholesale and retail links in the international distribution chain between publisher and reader. As part of that broader picture, we need to understand the varying pressures of supply and demand, together with recent changes in the economy of print publishing and developments in electronic publishing. In this wide-ranging lecture, based on 15 years’ publishing experience in both university-press and commercial-academic sectors, Josie Dixon reviews the state of the market and the strategies scholarly publishers have developed to ensure the survival of their business. She outlines some of the new challenges brought by digital technology, including some fundamental questions relating to copyright, access, and intellectual property. While these issues are being played out most dramatically in the sciences, it is clear that they are already encroaching on humanities and social science publishing, and likely to have a major impact in the coming years.
The following for workshop participants only:
11.00 Coffee
11.30-1.15 Workshop part 1
1.15-1.45 Lunch
1.45-3.30 Workshop part 2

Ibsen and Chekhov on the Irish Stage
2009-11-06 09:00
This is advance notice of a conference to be held at the National University of Ireland, Galway from 6-7 November 2009 on the reception in Ireland of the plays of Henrik Ibsen and Anton Chekhov. Its aim is to contextualise contemporary adaptations and translations of works by Ibsen and Chekhov within the history of Irish drama. The immediate context for this conference is the work of Tom Kilroy, Frank McGuinness, and Brian Friel. In adapting the plays of Ibsen and Chekhov for the Irish stage, these leading contemporary dramatists engage audience in their literary relationships with these classic authors. Their adaptations pose questions on the cultural relevance of the plays of Ibsen and Chekhov, their historical impact on the Irish dramatic tradition, and their influence on the development of Irish theatre. This conference aims to explore these questions by bringing together major playwrights, practitioners, and leading theatre scholars.The conference covers the period from 1899 to the present day and will be in two parts. The first will feature papers on the reception of Ibsen and Chekhov and the second those dealing with contemporary Irish approaches to their works. We will also host presentations by playwrights and directors followed by a round table discussion of their work on Ibsen and Chekhov. The conference in investigating the cross currents between native tradition and international influence, and between literary influence and public reception, will it is hoped, shed new light on the history of Irish dramatic writing.Further information and details of the provisional programme may be obtained from the organisers Dr. Ros Dixon and Dr. Irina Ruppo Malone at ruppodixon@gmail.com or by calling 353 91 493974.

Nicholas Canny (NUIG), 'Ireland and Europe 1600-1750'
2009-11-10 16:00
Nicholas Canny (NUIG), ‘Ireland and Europe 1600-1750’

Conchur O Giollagain, 'The Bilingual Gaeltacht: a culture and community in crisis'
2009-11-17 16:00
Conchur O Giollagain (NUIG), ‘The Bilingual Gaeltacht: a culture and community in crisis’

Professor Terry Eagleton, 'EVIL'
2009-11-17 18:00 | IT250, Ireland
Public lecture, on the subject of ‘EVIL’will take place on Tuesday 17 November at 6 pm in IT Lecture Theatre 250. Professor Eagleton will be ready to address questions on the same subject after the formal lecture.

Philip Dine (NUIG), 'Making Sense of Sport: Practices, Locations, Representations' LECTURE POSTPONED
2009-11-24 16:00
Philip Dine (NUIG), ‘Making Sense of Sport: Practices, Locations, Representations’

Geraldine Kennedy
2009-11-26 18:00 | IT250, Ireland
The Moore Institute will host Ms Geraldine Kennedy, Editor of the Irish Times, on Thursday 26 November at 6.10pm in Lecture Theatre 250 of the IT building. Ms Kennedy will attend a short reception at 5.40 pm in the foyer outside the lecture theatre. This will be followed by Discourse on the subject of Challenges to Press Freedom in the 21st Century. The Discourse, to be chaired by President Jim Browne, will be led by Geraldine Kennedy who will speak on the Challenges to Press Freedom that she, and the Irish Times, have experienced in the recent past; this will be followed by a discussion by William Schabas, Professor of Human Rights Law at NUI Galway, on Challenges to Press Freedom throughout the Globe. There will be ample opportunity for questions and answers on the particular subject and on more general problems confronting Journalists and Journalism in the 21st Century. This event is open to all staff, students and the general public.

Professor Michele Hilmes (University of Wisconsin-Madison), '"Eyes Pointing Different Ways": INTERTEL and Transnational Television Documentary in the 1960s.'
2009-11-30 16:00
Professor Michele Hilmes (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
‰Û÷”Eyes Pointing Different Ways”: INTERTEL and Transnational Television Documentary in the 1960s.’

Poul Holm (Trinity College Dublin), 'Sea Change: The Urgency of Oceans Past'
2009-12-01 16:00
Poul Holm (Trinity College Dublin), ‘Sea Change: The Urgency of Oceans Past’

Professor Peter Putnis (University of Canberra), 'Communication and History: Understanding How and Why Australians Went to War in the Sudan in 1885'
2009-12-01 18:00 | Galway City Museum
Professor Peter Putnis (University of Canberra)
‰Û÷Communication and History: Understanding How and Why Australians Went to War in the Sudan in 1885′

Professor Peter Putnis (University of Canberra), 'Celebrating Communication and Mourning its Failures: The Australian Colonial Experience'
2009-12-03 13:00
Professor Peter Putnis (University of Canberra)
‰Û÷Celebrating Communication and Mourning its Failures: The Australian Colonial Experience’

Professor Michele Hilmes (University of Wisconsin-Madison), 'Trans-Atlantic Connections: The BBC's North American Service, 1940-1961'
2009-12-03 16:00
Professor Michele Hilmes (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
‰Û÷Trans-Atlantic Connections: The BBC’s North American Service, 1940-1961′

Maria Scott (NUIG), 'Female freedom-fighters in Stendhal's fiction (and why they embarrass critics)'
2010-01-19 16:00
Maria Scott (NUIG), ‘Female freedom-fighters in Stendhal’s fiction (and why they embarrass critics)’

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’

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’

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.

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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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’

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

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 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

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’

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.

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.
