Webinar - Imagine Ageing: Irish Culture and Society
2020-09-18 14:00 - 15:30 (Europe/Dublin) | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
This event is part of the pan-European project Gendering Age: Representations of Masculinities and Ageing in Contemporary European Literatures and Cinemas (2019-2022). It brings together six speakers from a variety of backgrounds to consider issues and themes in the representation of ageing masculinities in an Irish context. It marks the first in a planned series of webinars and events at NUI Galway/Moore Institute that will explore cultural constructions of ageing in film and literature.
Participants

Prof. Desmond O’Neill (TCD): Ageing & the Humanities
Dr Heather Ingman (TCD) – Ageing in Irish Literature and Criticism
Dr Michaela Schrage-Früh (NUI Galway) – Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature
Anne Griffin (Writer) – Writing Male Ageing: When All is Said (2019)
Dr Tony Tracy (NUI Galway) – Ageing and Masculinity in Contemporary Irish Film
Dr Maggie O’Neill / Dr Aine Ni Leime (NUI Galway): Perspectives of Older Men in Ireland on Representations of Ageing

Chair: Prof. Dan Carey (Moore Institute, NUI Galway)
Organisers: Dr Tony Tracy and Dr Michaela Schrage-Früh, in association with the Moore Institute, NUI Galway
Register
Register to attend the webinar now at Eventbrite.

Webinar: Áit agus Anam: Remembering Tim and Mairéad Robinson
2020-09-22 14:00 - 15:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Update: Now available to watch online

An interdisciplinary, online conversation celebrating the lives and legacies of Tim and Mairéad Robinson, who passed away earlier this year. Join us for our ‘zoom regatta’ where our guest speakers discuss fieldwork and friendships, old and new, and pay homage to the couple’s extraordinary contribution to the region and world of nature writing. Speakers include poet Moya Cannon, cultural geographer Dr Fidelma Mullane and historian and nature writer Dr David Gange.
We are especially delighted to also have members of the Clifden Arts Festival committee involved, with contributions from Brendan Flynn and Des Lally on their memories of Tim and Mairéad’s connection to Ireland’s longest running community arts festival. Chaired by Dr Nessa Cronin and co-hosted by the Centre for Irish Studies and Moore Institute, NUI Galway and Clifden Community Arts Festival.
Viewing the Session
This session is pre-recorded, and is available to view on the Moore Institute’s website, YouTube channel, Facebook page, and on the Clifden Arts Festival website, on Tuesday, September 22nd from 2pm.

Contributors

Moya Cannon is an Irish poet with six published collections, the most recent being Donegal Taran-tella (Carcanet Press, Manchester, 2019). In her poems, archaeology and geology figure as gateways to an understanding of our relationship with our endangered earth. Music, particularly traditional Irish music, has always been a deep interest and is a constant theme. She has received the Brendan Behan Award and the O’Shaughnessy Award and, in 2011, was Heimbold Professor of Irish Studies at Villanova University P.A.. She has edited Poetry Ireland Review and is a member of Aosdána. Her Collected Poems is due from Carcanet Press in 2021.
Fidelma Mullane is a cultural geographer and curator specializing in the study of vernacular culture. Advising, teaching and publishing as a specialist and advocate, she concentrates on the topic of historic vernacular building traditions, and on the promotion of culturally appropriate contemporary building practices. She recently curated ‘Photographing the 1950s’, an exhibition of selected photographs of Ireland as captured by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Dorothea Lange and Robert Cresswell.
David Gange is a historian and nature writer based at the University of Birmingham. His most recent book, The Frayed Atlantic Edge, which involved kayaking all the Atlantic coastlines of Ireland and the UK was joint winner of The Highland Book Prize and shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing.

Learning from pandemics: a century of experience
2020-10-02 13:00 - 14:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
This webinar explores historical lessons from major episodes of infectious disease during the past century. What can we learn from the flu pandemic of 1918–19, SARS, Ebola, and other crises, in the response to Covid-19?
Panellists

Prof. Svenn-Erik Mamelund (Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway)
Dr. Ida Milne (Carlow College/Trinity College Dublin)
Prof. Grace Mulcahy, MRIA (UCD)
Dr. Michael Ryan (WHO)

Chair: Prof. Daniel Carey, MRIA (NUI Galway)
To join the webinar, please use the Eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/learning-from-pandemics-a-century-of-experience-tickets-122377798289

The US Election: Perspectives and Prospects
2020-11-05 16:00 - 17:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
This online panel discussion will review the outcome of the US election, the major issues that have faced the electorate in 2020, the campaign, and ways forward for the country. The event is a collaboration between the Moore Institute and the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University.
Panellists

Prof. Eileen Gillooly (Director, Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University)
Prof. Stephanie McCurry (Professor of History, Columbia University)
Dr. Charlotte McIvor (Senior Lecturer in Drama, NUI Galway)
Prof. Josef Sorett (Professor of Religion and African American and African Diaspora Studies, Columbia University)

Chair: Prof. Daniel Carey (Director of the Moore Institute, NUI Galway)
To attend, please sign up via: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86841991293

This Writing Life: Creativity & Well-Being in the time of Pandemic
2020-11-12 18:30 - 19:30 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
The Moore Institute at the National University of Ireland Galway invites you to a live online event exploring themes of Life Writing and Well-Being during the Pandemic. The session features poet and writer Doireann Ní Ghríofa, writer and editor Marina Benjamin, and Arts Council Writer in Residence NUIG 2020 Arnold Thomas Fanning. There will be readings from the participating writers as well as opportunities for input from the audience.
The event will be moderated by award-winning writer Mike McCormack of NUI Galway.
This live online event will take place on the Zoom platform, and will be streamed via the Moore Institute’s Facebook page. To attend, please register use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_eMG0J0LDTKCmC2QYDaZK_Q

'Cinema, Migration & Activism' A conversation with Dagmawi Yimer
2020-11-13 15:00 - 16:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Dagmawi Yimer is an Ethiopian-born, Italian-based director and activist documenting the journeys of asylum seekers and migrants.
In conversation with Dr. Andrea Ciribuco (NUI Galway, Italian), Dagmawi Yimer will present his latest work “Waiting” (with English subtitles, 17 min.), discussing the links between documentary and activism, and how to use images as a medium to reflect on the present historical moment.
Join us on Zoom:
https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/93438022386?pwd=[REDACTED]
This project received funding from the Irish Research Council and from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 713279.

Webinar: Q&A with Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn
2020-11-17 11:00 - 12:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Huston School of Film & Digital Media and The Moore Institute at NUI Galway present a Q&A with Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn, directors of IFTA Best Film 2020 “Ordinary Love“.
Registration
The session will take place live on Zoom – please register to attend at: https://tinyurl.com/y55we38l. It will also be broadcast live on the Moore Institute’s Facebook page.

Sport, Film, and National Culture
2020-11-19 16:00 - 17:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
The webinar will mark the launch of landmark new book ‘Sport, Film and National Culture’, edited by NUI Galway academic Dr Seán Crosson.
NUI Galway’s Moore Institute will host a webinar on Sport, Film, and National Culture on Thursday, 19 November, at 4pm to mark the launch of a major new volume on this theme edited by Dr Seán Crosson of the University’s Huston School of Film & Digital Media and leader of the Sport and Exercise Research Group in the Moore Institute.
Sport and film have historically been key components of national cultures and societies. The Irish experience is particularly instructive in this respect, evident in the close and enduring association between Gaelic games and Irish identity, and its popular depiction in cinema. As we approach the centenary of Bloody Sunday, Irish cinema has provided one of the most memorable and unsettling depictions – in Neil Jordan’s Michael Collins (1996) – of the horrific events of that day when British soldiers fired upon players and supporters at a Gaelic football match. This webinar will provide a global focus on this topic, examining the critical role film has played in affirming the relationship between sport and national cultures internationally.
Covering films of all types, from Hollywood blockbusters to regional documentaries and newsreels, Dr Crosson’s new book Sport, Film, and National Culture considers how filmic depictions of sport have configured and informed a wide range of distinctive national cultures, societies and identities. Featuring case studies from eleven national contexts across six continents – including North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania – it reveals the common and contrasting approaches that have emerged within sport cinema in differing national contexts.
The webinar brings together a broad range of contributors to this book, who are leading authorities on sport and film, to explore the intersection of these prominent cultural forces internationally.
Chaired by Dr Crosson, contributors to the webinar will include:
USA

Jesse Schlotterbeck, Associate Professor of Cinema at Denison University, Granville, Ohio
[recorded] Gina Daddario, Lin Rong San Professor of Communication at Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia.
Grant Wiedenfeld, Assistant Professor of Media and Culture in the Department of Mass Communication at Sam Houston State University.

Europe

[recorded] Francesco Buscemi, Lecturer in History of Radio and TV, Catholic University of Milan
Manuel Garin, Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Studies at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
[recorded] Rebeccah Dawson, Assistant Professor of German Studies, University of Kentucky.
Peter Dahlén, Professor, Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen.
Stephen Glynn, Associate Research Fellow at De Montfort University, Leicester

Brazil and Ethiopia

[recorded] Pauline Peixoto Iglesias Vargas, PhD candidate in Physical Education, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil.
Michael W. Thomas, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Ethiopian Screen Worlds, University of London

Attendance
The session will take place on Zoom; register to attend at: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_K9QVeuSYTIOH2SkE3kWfAA. The session will also be streamed live on the Moore Institute’s Facebook page.

Centre for Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism (CALM) Seminar Series: 'Making research meaningful for multilingual parents'
2020-11-19 18:00 - 19:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Dr Mary-Pat O’Malley Keighran, Lecturer in Speech & Language Therapy, NUI Galway
In this webinar, Mary-Pat will talk about ways in which research into multilingual speech and language development and disorders can be made accessible and meaningful to parents faced with persisting myths about raising multilingual children. For more information about Mary-Pat’s work, see www.talknua.com.
Hosted by the Moore Institute. ‌Please register in advance at this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ygXo5hNgRAS5zhFjCzLwxw

Imagine Ageing: Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Culture
2020-11-20 14:00 - 17:30 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
This online workshop, organised in association with the Moore Institute, NUI Galway follows our earlier webinar and is part of the pan-European project Mascage: Representations of Masculinities and Ageing in Contemporary European Literatures and Cinemas (2019-2022).
Its aim is to present and discuss work-in-progress for a planned collection Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Culture.
Attending
If you are interested in attending this workshop or getting involved with the project, please send an email to tony.tracy@nuigalway.ie and michaela.schrage-frueh@nuigalway.ie to receive further information.

Programme Workshop “Imagine Ageing: Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Culture”
Friday, 20th November 2020, 14.00-17.30
14.00-14.15 Welcome and Introduction
Tony Tracy & Michaela Schrage-Früh (NUI Galway)

14.15-15.00 Panel 1: Visual Culture (Chair: Tony Tracy)
Katarzyna Kociołek (University of Warsaw)
Seán Keating’s Ireland – the Land of the Old Men
Méabh Ní Fhuartháin /Verena Commins (NUI Galway)
”The Rights of Man”: Authenticity, Masculinities and Ageing in Irish Traditional Music on Screen
Áine Ní Léime / Maggie O’Neill (NUI Galway)
Changing the Picture: Older Men’s Responses to Media Representations of Ageing

15.00-15.30 Panel 2: Poetry (Chair: Michaela Schrage-Früh)
Heike Hartung (University of Graz)
Poetics at the Limit: Embodiment, Masculinities and Ageing in Samuel Beckett’s Early Poetry Collection Echo’s Bones
Anne Karhio (NUI Galway)
Masculinity, Ageing, and the Point of Poetry in the Writing of Paul Muldoon

15.45-16.15 Panel 3: Drama (Chair: Tony Tracy)

Ciara L. Murphy (NUI Galway)
Father Ireland on Stage: Representations of Social Change and Ageing Masculinities in Crisis
Matthew Sweney (University of Graz)
“Play and lose and have done with losing.” Masculinity and Loss in Samuel Beckett’s Endgame (1957), and Enda Walsh’s The Walworth Farce (2006)

16.15-17.15 Panel 4: Fiction (Chair: Michaela Schrage-Früh)
Loic Wright (UCD)
Fatherhood, Ageing Masculinities, and the Politics of Insecurity in Twentieth-Century Irish Fiction
Brenda O’Connell (Maynooth University)
Fathers and Sons: Shades of Ageing Masculinities in Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones
Cassandra Sian Tully De Lope (Universidad de Extremadura)
Stuck in the Old Times – a Male-character Analysis on Three Irish novels through Corpus Stylistics
Orlaith Darling (TCD)
“The Land’ll be here long after we’re dead and gone”: Ageing Masculinity, Relationships and the Land in Recent Irish Short Fiction

17.15-17.30 Final Discussion

Webinar: Remembering Michael Moran: NUI Galway marks the centenary of a campus tragedy
2020-11-24 19:30 - 20:30 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
On the evening of 24 November 1920, Michael Moran – a prominent republican in the Tuam area – was shot and killed on the campus of University College Galway, allegedly while ‘trying to escape’ from the custody of Auxiliaries. When the shooting took place, Moran was being escorted from the police barracks in Eglinton Street to the temporary barracks of the 17th Lancers (now the O’Donoghue Centre and College Bar area).
To mark the centenary of the tragedy on the campus, NUI Galway is holding a webinar sponsored by the Moore Institute, which will discuss the life and death of Michael Moran. The session will consider the broader political context in which the event occurred, in particular the escalation of the conflict in Ireland during the closing months of 1920.
Panellists

Dr Síobhra Aiken (Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway)
Prof. Linda Connolly (NUI Maynooth)
Dr Jarlath Deignan, author of Troubled Times: War and Rebellion in North Galway, 1913-23
Damian Quinn, military historian

Chair: Dr John Cunningham (Dept of History, NUI Galway)
Registration
To register for this free webinar, please sign up via: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mX2cFunXT62jTKSwQ6Ap_A
The event will also be streamed live on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mooreinstitute/

Art & Environment Book Launch and Webinar
2020-11-25 20:00 - 21:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Earth Writings: Bogs, Forest, Fields, Gardens, edited by Karen E. Till
8pm, Wednesday 25th November 2020
Dublin Art Book Fair,
in association with the Centre for Irish Studies and Moore Institute, NUI Galway.
To register go to: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uayxddBfSwSXjVlwkCSRzg
We live in an earth facing ecological and climate crises, species extinctions, and global pandemics. How can we repair our collapsing environments? Learn from the creative practices of four artists working in Ireland – Monica de Bath, Cathy Fitzgerald, Pauline O’Connell and Seoidín O’Sullivan – who ‘stay with the trouble’ and make ‘kin in lines of inventive connections’ (Haraway, 2016).
Earth Writings: Bogs, Forests, Fields, Gardens includes artwork, exhibition vignettes, and essays with the artists in conversations with scholars Patrick Bresnihan, Nessa Cronin, Gerry Kearns and Karen E. Till.

With introductions by Lucina Russell and Karen E. Till. The multi-media book launches will include images of artists’ works, readings and conversations by the contributors, followed by questions and answers from the public.
The book launches are part of the online Temple Bar Gallery Dublin Art Book Fair 2020, which embraces arts-practice publishing, artist-run culture and participatory events at the intersection of art and contemporary culture. The first launch takes place during GeoWeek 2020, which highlights the importance of geographical knowledge for understanding the world around us to address contemporary social, political and environmental issues.
The second launch will contribute to Creative Rathangan Meithal’s ‘Layers 3’ event and include artist-scholar Christine Mackey as a guest commentator.
A limited number of hard-copy books are available for 8€ (plus postage) through the Temple Bar Dublin Art Book Fair. Earth Writings: Bogs, Forests, Fields, Gardens (2020), edited by Karen E. Till, design by Pure Designs. ISBN 978-0-9547955-3-5, 73 pp., with full colour images. A PDF of the book will also soon be available on EarthWritings.ie. Contact: karen.till@mu.ie
Generously funded by: Creative Ireland Kildare, Kildare County Council Arts Service, the Irish Research Council New Foundations STEAM grant, Maynooth University Department of Geography Research Incentive Fund.

Centre for Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism (CALM) Seminar Series: 'Artificial intelligence approaches to multilinguality'
2020-12-10 18:00 - 19:00 | Online
Dr John McCrae, Lecturer at Data Science Institute and Insight Centre for Data Analytics, NUI Galway
In this webinar, Dr John McCrae will talk about the use of artificial intelligence for issues in multilinguality. The talk will give an overview of AI applications, including machine translation, that are useful for this and a particular focus will be on the application of AI to minority languages and historical linguistics. We will also cover work on the development of computer-assisted language learning systems.

Hosted by the Moore Institute. Please register in advance at this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KmOc_T10SQGIty9ukqyJog

Launch of Sean-Nós Singer in Residence, Centre for Irish Studies, 2021
2020-12-10 19:30 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Seoladh Amhránaí Sean-Nóis Cónaitheach, Ionad Léann na hÉireann, 2021
Saileog Ní Cheannabháin
Déardaoin, 10 Nollaig, 2020 ag 7.30 i.n.

Launch of Sean-Nós Singer in Residence, Centre for Irish Studies, 2021
Saileog Ní Cheannabháin
Thursday, 10 December, 2020 at 7.30pm
Attendance
The launch recording will be available on the Moore Institute’s YouTube channel, or you can watch it below.

Book Launch - Justin Tonra, Write My Name: Authorship in the Poetry of Thomas Moore
2020-12-17 16:00 - 17:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Join us for the launch of Justin Tonra’s book on Thomas Moore (1779–1852), the first monograph devoted to a celebrated poet, best known for Irish Melodies, and the major poet writing in Ireland before Yeats.
Launching the book are:

Prof. Matthew Campbell (York)
Prof. Claire Connolly (Cork)
Prof. Sean Ryder, Head of the School of English & Creative Arts at NUI Galway

To attend please register via: https://bit.ly/WMNLAUNCH

Covid 19 and the new year's challenges: vaccines, variants and critical care
2021-01-14 16:00 - 17:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
The start of 2021 has seen a deepening of the Covid-19 crisis in Ireland, Europe, and around the world. Leading authorities (Mike Ryan, Anne Moore and Alistair Nichol) will discuss major challenges, ranging from vaccines to variants and critical care.
Panellists:

Prof. Anne Moore (University College Cork)
Prof. Alistair Nichol (University College Dublin and St. Vincent’s University Hospital)
Dr. Mike Ryan (World Health Organization)
Chair: Prof. Patricia Kearney (University College Cork

To attend, please register on:

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/covid-19-and-the-new-years-challenges-vaccines-variants-critical-care-tickets-135697004393

Webinar: Q&A with Lenny Abrahamson
2021-02-09 14:00 - 15:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Huston School of Film & Digital Media and The Moore Institute present a Q & A with Lenny Abrahamson, director of Emmy nominated Normal People.
Attendance
The session will take place live on Zoom – please register to attend at: tinyurl.com/4fkuk6av. It will also be broadcast live on the Moore Institute’s Facebook page

Democracy in America
2021-02-16 15:00 - 16:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Leading American commentators will engage in a wide-ranging discussion of the political condition of the US in the aftermath of the Trump presidency and the outset of Joe Biden’s term.
Panellists:

Dan Balz, chief correspondent, The Washington Post
Prof. Stephanie McCurry (Columbia University)
Prof. Monica Miller (Barnard College)

Respondents:

Prof. Eileen Gillooly (Columbia University)
Prof. Lee Morrissey (Clemson University)

Chair: Prof. Daniel Carey (NUI Galway)
To attend please sign up using this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cYnF0HLRQIWBpFDLg8xtiA. The event will also be streamed on the Moore Institute’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/689296505096386.

"Voyagers from the Grave”: A Claddagh Calamity of 1876
2021-02-22 20:00 - 21:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Online lecture, Monday 22 February, 8 pm, by John Cunningham (History, NUI Galway) presented by Galway Archaeological & Historical Society in conjunction with Moore Institute, NUI Galway.
On Monday 13th November 1876, a hooker, the St Patrick, with a crew of four fishermen, set sail from the Claddagh towards Slyne Head. That night a tremendous storm carried the vessel 150 miles out into the Atlantic, where four days later, three survivors were rescued by a passing Swedish vessel and taken to America. Their families and neighbours had already given them all up for dead. The lecture will trace the travails of the crew of the St Patrick – Michael Moran, Patrick Moran, John Moran and Michael Smyth – and consider circumstances in the Claddagh community to which they belonged
To participate live on Zoom (the most inter-active option), please register in advance here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YH3e_mcmS62-CW-CSiGdSA . For a live stream on Facebook, go to the Moore Institute’s page https://www.facebook.com/mooreinstitute/live

Webinar: Q & A with Will Collins
2021-02-23 12:00 - 13:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Huston School of Film & Digital Media and the Moore Institute present a Q & A with Will Collins writer of Golden Globe nominated
Wolfwalkers.
Attendance
The session will take place live on Zoom – please register to attend at: https://tinyurl.com/90men51k. It will also be broadcast live on the
Moore Institute’s Facebook page

Active* Consent, USI and GRCC Launch of "Start Here" Social Media Campaign
2021-03-01 11:00 - 12:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
This campaign empowers college students and staff with basic information to respond to disclosures of sexual violence and harassment.
Join us to celebrate the launch of this partnership initiative and learn how to get involved and amplify our “Start Here” message individually and at your institution.
We welcome all learning, working and leading in the higher education sector and our colleagues in the NGO, sexual violence and rape crisis sectors to join and get involved in “Start Here”!
Further Information & Registration
For further information and registration, please visit Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/active-consent-usi-and-grcc-launch-of-start-here-social-media-campaign-tickets-142128328657

To learn more about Active* Consent, USI and GRCC’s work in this area, visit:

www.nuigalway.ie/activeconsent
https://usi.ie
https://www.galwayrcc.org

Win, Lose or Draw? Assessing the EU-UK Trade Agreement
2021-03-04 12:00 - 13:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Three leading commentators on European trade, diplomacy, and Northern Ireland will analyse the Agreement signed by the EU and UK in December. Who came out on top in the negotiations and how will the Agreement affect the future of Ireland – North and South – the UK and EU?

Panellists

Katy Hayward (Prof. of Political Sociology, Queen’s University Belfast)

David O’Sullivan (former EU Ambassador to the United States and Secretary General of the European Commission)

Carlo Trojan (former Secretary General of the European Commission; head of the European Commission Task Force on Northern Ireland; and EU Ambassador to the WTO)

Chairs: Prof. Daniel Carey and Prof. Niall Ó Dochartaigh

Sponsored by the Moore Institute in association with the MA in Public Policy at NUI Galway.
Webinar Recording

Watch the recording of this session below, or on YouTube

Silver Screens: Ageing Masculinities in Anglophone and European Cinema
2021-03-12 14:00 - 18:00 | Online
This webinar is part of an ongoing series of events organized as part of the GenderNet+ mascage project www.mascage.eu
tickets: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/silver-screens-ageing-masculinities-in-anglophone-and-european-cinemas-tickets-139834275081
in association with: Moore Institute, NUI Galway

Event organizers: Tony Tracy [Huston School of Film & Digital Media]; Michaela Schrage-Frueh [Dept of German] NUI Galway irishmascage@gmail.com

The Art of Reimagining: Culture, Universities, Cities
2021-03-15 15:00 - 16:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Hosted by Moore Institute Director Dan Carey, this webinar explores the topic of Capitals of Culture: how can universities engage in practice-based arts research and teaching? What are the challenges for Capitals of Culture amidst a global pandemic? Is what we want of cities changed forever? What role do culture and the arts play in the development of local, pan-European, and international networks of solidarity?
Panellists

Flora Carrijn, Provost of KU Leuven, who heads the Board of the University Network for European Capitals of Culture
Patrick Lonergan & Catherine Morris, co-editors of the University Network of European Capitals of Culture Spring 2021 special issue: Capitals of Culture: The Art of Reimagining

Ananya Rajoo, artist from Kerala, India, and MA student (Production & Curation), NUI Galway

Sean Ryder, Head of the School for English and the Creative Arts, NUI Galway
Eithne Verling, Director of the Museum of Galway
Karsten Xuereb, who led preparations for the European Capital of Culture in Malta (2011-2017)

Chair: Daniel Carey, Moore Institute
The webinar also serves as a launch for the University Network of European Capitals of Culture Spring online edition “European Capitals of Culture: The Art of Reimagining” edited by Patrick Lonergan and Catherine Morris. This online journal takes the place of the conference that would have happened in Galway in 2020.
Registration
To attend please register via: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_f0VjpOM-SSGN1StvwzdYAg. The session will also be streamed live on the Moore Institute’s YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXmrvs5vuVE
Webinar Recording

Webinar: Q&A with Neasa Hardiman
2021-03-16 12:00 - 13:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
The Huston School of Film & Digital Media series on media careers continues next week with a Q&A with director Neasa Hardiman. Neasa is a BAFTA winning film and television director whose credits include Happy Valley, Jessica Jones and Casualty. She has directed series for BBC, Netflix and Amazon as well as feature films such as Sea Fever (2019). Neasa will be discussing her career in film and television and the experience of directing big-budget high-profile television series such as the Marvel series Jessica Jones and Inhumans.
Registration
The talk will take place next Tuesday 16th March at 12pm. Places are limited so please register to attend on Zoom at https://tinyurl.com/27d5jym4. The session will also be streamed on the Moore Institute’s Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/mooreinstitute/live

Webinar: Anna Falkenau , “Hotspots' for Revival Sessions" - Irish Studies Seminar Series
2021-03-18 16:00 - 17:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Irish Studies Seminar Series, in association with the Moore Institute, NUI Galway.
Anna Falkenau (Freyer-Hardiman Scholar, Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway), “‘Hotspots’ for Revival Sessions”: Micro and macro flows in the emergence and development of Galway City into an urban centre of Irish traditional music-making.
Join us for our first Spring Seminar in Irish Studies with NUI Galway doctoral scholar Anna Falkenau who will speak on her current research on the relationship between urban spaces and traditional Irish music-making in Galway. We are delighted to have An tOllamh Lillis Ó Laoire (Gaeilge, OÉ Gaillmh) join us as well in the zoom room afterwards, as a respondent to this session, chaired by Dr Nessa Cronin (Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway). For further information please contact: nessa.cronin@nuigalway.ie
Attendance
Zoom registration link for seminar attendees is available here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jDXWMp45R-2q2-2OKUQBpQ. The session will be live-streamed on the Moore Institute’s Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/mooreinstitute/live
About the Speaker
A recipient of a Freyer-Hardiman scholarship from NUI Galway, Anna Falkenau is currently conducting doctoral research at the Centre for Irish Studies on local and global flows in the development of Irish traditional music in Galway City between 1961 and 1981. She previously received her Master of Arts in Music from Wesleyan University, Connecticut, USA (2004) and graduated from University College Cork (BMus, 2002). She is a contributor to the forthcoming book Hardiman and after: Galway Culture and Society, 1820-2020 with a core chapter entitled, “‘It was in the Air’: Irish Traditional Music in Galway, 1960-1979,” edited by John Cunningham and Ciaran McDonagh.

Book launch: Deniable Contact by Niall Ó Dochartaigh (Oxford University Press, 2021)
2021-03-26 17:00 - 18:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Update: Watch a Recording of the Session

Overview
Launched by Prof. Ian McBride (Foster Professor of Irish History, Oxford)
To attend, please register via: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/96749370440?pwd=[REDACTED]
Join us for a conversation between Niall Ó Dochartaigh and Ian McBride to mark the publication of Deniable Contact: Back-Channel Negotiation in Northern Ireland.
Deniable Contact provides the first full-length study of the secret negotiations and back-channels that were used in repeated efforts to end the Northern Ireland conflict. The analysis is founded on a rich store of historical evidence, including the private papers of key Irish republican leaders, recently released papers from national archives in Dublin and London, and the papers of Brendan Duddy, the intermediary who acted as the primary contact between the IRA and the British government on several occasions over a span of two decades, including papers that have not yet been made publicly available. This documentary evidence, combined with original interviews with politicians, mediators, civil servants, and republicans, allows a vivid picture to emerge of the complex maneuvering at this intersection.

Niall Ó Dochartaigh is Personal Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland Galway. He is the author of Deniable Contact: Back-channel Negotiation in Northern Ireland (2021) and Civil Rights to Armalites: Derry and the birth of the Irish Troubles (1997; 2005). He is co-editor of Political Violence in Context (2015) and Dynamics of Political Change in Ireland: Making and Breaking a Divided Island (2017).
Ian McBride
Ian McBride is the Foster Professor of Irish History at Hertford College, University of Oxford. His books include The Siege of Derry in Ulster Protestant Mythology (1997) and Scripture Politics: Ulster Presbyterians and Irish Radicalism in the Late Eighteenth Century (1998), both short-listed for the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Literary Prize; and Eighteenth-Century Ireland: The Isle of Slaves (2009). He is co-editor, with Richard Bourke, of The Princeton History of Modern Ireland (2016).

Webinar: Q&A with Adam Roche
2021-03-30 15:00 - 16:00 | Online
Huston School of Film & Digital Media and the Moore Institute present a Q&A with Adam Roche creator of The Secret History of Hollywood and Attaboy Clarence Podcasts.
Attendance
The session will take place live on Zoom – please register to attend at: https://tinyurl.com/ayv9m888.
Watch the Recording

Centre for Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism (CALM) Seminar Series: Corpus linguistics tools in language acquisition.
2021-04-15 18:00 - 19:00 | Online
Guest Speaker: Prof. Anna Bączkowska, University of Gdansk
Prof. Anna Bączkowska, University of Gdansk, will talk about the CHILDES database, which is a repository of transcripts of conversations held among adults and children.The data illustrate developmental changes occurring in language acquisition in monolingual and bilingual children. Some corpus and NLP tools which allow one to extract material from the database as well as some statistical information available through different software programs will be demonstrated. Examples will be shown and analysed by resorting to the data of bilingual and multilingual children.
Info/register: https://tinyurl.com/v8hcvt97

Event Recording

Conference: Speculative Art And Spatial Justice
2021-04-16 - 2021-04-17 | Online
How can imaginative practices create fairer and safer spaces?
About

The greatest challenges of our time – from climate crisis, global migrations, income inequality to the recent COVID-19 pandemic – can be regarded as spatial issues. The geographies of globalization – the settlements, landscapes, infrastructures, networks, supply chains, markets, and factories which make up our world – are produced unevenly in a fashion which entrenches poverty and exacerbates planetary pollution (Harvey 2000). As a result of geopolitical interventions, a great number of people have been deprived of their rights to both public and private spaces, whereas increased mobility in the developed world has undermined the established concepts of dwelling and spatial rootedness.

Addressing the overlapping issues of social oppression and spatial injustice (Soja 2010) – such as exploitation of natural resources, unsustainable urbanisation, aggressive agriculture – demands a radical transformation of local, national and global spaces. Energy transitions, investments in public infrastructures and services, provisioning of safe and affordable housing, and restoration of green and blue spaces are just some of the changes we need to see. Emergency governmental responses to COVID-19 initiated rapid and radical societal changes that would have previously been unimaginable to many.

Taking the pandemic response as one of the examples of a possible paradigm shift in terms of the kind of political action that can be imagined, this workshop emphasises the vital role of speculative fiction, film and visual art in shaping the physical world. Amid the global pandemic, and at the doorstep of climate breakdown, how can imaginative practices address and rectify spatial injustice?

Speculative literature and art – understood broadly here as a category encompassing science fiction, fantasy, eco-fiction, utopia and dystopia – have long been concerned with imagining space differently. In depicting future or alternative worlds, artists can explore the spatial dynamics of oppression, exploitation and despoliation under today’s global capitalism. Yet, is it possible to go from cultural representation to societal transformation? Can our “reflection upon the virtual guide our understanding of the real (or actual)”, as Henri Lefebvre suggested in his seminal work The Production of Space (1974)? How can we see the spaces of speculative art as potential shapers of healthier and fairer environments? Conversely, how do these artworks deny visions and narratives which erase the spatial abuses of our past, present and future?

Works cited:

Harvey, David, Spaces of Hope, Edinburgh, University Press, 2000.
Lefebvre, Henri, The Production of Space, Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith, Blackwell Publishing, 2008.
Soja, Edward, Seeking Spatial Justice, University of Minnesota Press, 2010.

For more information see: http://sasj2021.com/

The workshop will take place on April 16-17, 2021 via Zoom.
For registration please email us at sasj2021@gmail.com
or apply via registration form.
Registration deadline is April 14, 2021 at 8 PM (GMT).
Registration is free of charge.
