Moore Institute

TCC Seminar Serires: Prof. MÌÁire NÌ_ AnnrachÌÁin, UCD - 'Why love is not enough: reading contemporary poetry in Irish'
2011-01-25 16:00 (Europe/Dublin)
TCC Seminar Serires: Prof. MÌÁire NÌ_ AnnrachÌÁin, UCD – ‘Why love is not enough: reading contemporary poetry in Irish’

TCC Seminar Series: Prof. Phil Swanson, Sheffield University - 'Time, Place and the Uses of Cuba in Crime Fiction'
2011-02-01 16:00
TCC Seminar Series: Prof. Phil Swanson, Sheffield University – ‘Time, Place and the Uses of Cuba in Crime Fiction’

'Where Is She?' Researching the History of Female Entrepreneurs
2011-02-09 16:00
Therese Moylan
‰Û÷Where Is She?’ Researching the History of Female Entrepreneurs
in mid-20th-c. Ireland

TCC Seminar Series: Prof. Krishan Kumar, University of Virginia - 'Why Empire? Some Thoughts on the Relations between Nation-States and Empires'
2011-02-15 16:00
TCC Seminar Series: Prof. Krishan Kumar, University of Virginia – ‘Why Empire? Some Thoughts on the Relations between Nation-States and Empires’

Ghost Dances & Ring Shouts: Music & the Christianisation of the Lakota & Gullah in the 19th century
2011-02-16 16:00
RÌ_nÌÁn de Bhaldraithe
Ghost Dances & Ring Shouts: Music & the Christianisation of the Lakota & Gullah in the 19th century

Cultural Frontiers in 16th-c. Ireland & Transylvania
2011-02-23 16:00
Teodora Pascal
Cultural Frontiers in 16th-c. Ireland & Transylvania

Aoife Connolly & Sheila Walsh on French African Identities
2011-02-24 17:00
ECHO Humanities Research Forum: Aoife Connolly (NUIG): ‰Û÷Women as keepers of Algerian and pied-noir identity’ & Sheila Walsh (NUIG): ‰Û÷At the crossroads of culture and identity: Thomas Ismayl Urbain and nineteenth-century North Africa’
Thursday 24th February @ 5pm >> Moore

'The Atlantic World 1450-1830', RIA Presidential Discourse by Professor Nicholas Canny
2011-02-28 18:00
The Atlantic World 1450-1830
RIA Presidential Discourse by Professor Nicholas Canny
6pm 28th February 2011, Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2.
Free booking at www.ria.ie

'Yeats and Modernism 1' by Terry Eagleton, Adjunct Professor of Cultural Theory in the Moore Institute
2011-03-01 14:00

TCC Seminar Series: Dr. Lucy Garnier, University of London Institute in Paris - 'The Old & the New: Mixing Manuscripts & Feminism'
2011-03-01 16:00
TCC Seminar Series: Dr. Lucy Garnier, University of London Institute in Paris – ‘The Old & the New: Mixing Manuscripts & Feminism’

PUBLIC LECTURE: 'How to Read a Poem' by Terry Eagleton, Adjunct Professor of Cultural Theory in the Moore Institute
2011-03-02 00:00

'Plures de Scottorum regione': Prosopography & the Venerable Bede's 'many Irish'
2011-03-02 16:00
Sarah McCann
‰Û÷Plures de Scottorum regione’: Prosopography & the Venerable Bede’s ‰Û÷many Irish’

'Yeats and Modernism 2' by Terry Eagleton, Adjunct Professor of Cultural Theory in the Moore Institute
2011-03-03 14:00

'"The American Revolution" and America's Revolution' by Patrick Griffin, Madden-Hennebry Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame
2011-03-03 16:00
FieldEarly American History, Atlantic History and Irish-America
ProfilePatrick Griffin was named the Madden-Hennebry Professor in 2008. He comes to Notre Dame from the University of Virginia. More precisely, he returns to Notre Dame. Griffin holds a BA from Notre Dame, an MA from Columbia University, and a PhD from Northwestern University. His work explores the intersection of colonial American and early modern Irish and British history. As such, it focuses on Atlantic-wide themes and dynamics. He has published work on what we could call conventional Irish-American history-the study of the movement of peoples and cultures from Ireland to America, as well as the process of adaptation-but he also examines the ways in which Ireland and America were linked-and differed-during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He has looked at revolution and rebellion, movement and migration, and colonization and conquest in each society in comparative perspective.
Current ProjectGriffin is working now on two other projects: a comparative study of the colonization and transformation of Ireland and Virginia during the seventeenth century; and a biography of Sir William Johnson, an Irish Catholic-born British official who was regarded by the Mohawk as one of their own and who also became an architect of British empire in America at the time of the Seven Years’ War.
Noted PublicationsThe People with No Name: Ireland’s Ulster Scots, America’s Scots Irish, and the Creation of a British Atlantic World (Princeton, 2001)American Leviathan: Empire, Nation, and Revolutionary Frontier (New York, 2007)

Timothy Keane & Niall Whelehan on Images of Irish Violence
2011-03-03 18:00
ECHO Humanities Research Forum: Timothy Keane (NUIG): ‰Û÷Literary Faces of Captain Rock: From Irish Rebel to English Radical’ & Niall Whelehan (NUIG) ‰Û÷Gendered Images of Irish Violence in the Nineteenth Century’
Thursday 3rd March @ 6pm >> Moore

TCC Seminar Series: Dr. Vic Merriman, Liverpool Hope University - 'Critical Faculties: Mediating Irish Theatre in a Troubled World'
2011-03-08 16:00
TCC Seminar Series: Dr. Vic Merriman, Liverpool Hope University – ‘Critical Faculties: Mediating Irish Theatre in a Troubled World’

The Irish in the West Indies: St Patrick's Day on Monserrat, 1768
2011-03-09 16:00
Orla Power
The Irish in the West Indies: St Patrick’s Day on Monserrat, 1768

PERSPECTIVES SUR L'ÌÄåäCRITURE VIATIQUE :
2011-03-10 10:00
Journ̩e d’̩tudes du jeudi 10 mars 2011
Moore Institute Seminar Room, NUI, Galway
PERSPECTIVES SUR L’ÌäCRITURE VIATIQUE :
JOURNAUX DE VOYAGE EN FRANÌàAIS
18e – 20e SIÌöCLES
Conf̩renciers :
Philippe Lejeune, Catherine Viollet, C̩cile Meynard, Fran̤oise Simonet-Tenant
Journ̩e organis̩e par Sylvie Lannegrand, avec le soutien financier de :
NUI, Galway Millennium Fund
Moore Institute (Texts, Transmission & Cultural Exchange Research Project)
& School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures.
PROGRAMME
10h-10h30 : accueil & caf̩
10h30-10h45 : ouverture de la journ̩e d’̩tudes
10h45-11h45
Philippe Lejeune
åÇ Par monts et par vaux : Bombelles et AzaÌøs åÈ
Dans le cadre de ses recherches sur les origines du journal personnel en France entre 1750 et 1815, Philippe Lejeune pr̩sentera deux exemples, l’un traditionnel, l’autre novateur, de pratique du journal de voyage. En 1781, le marquis de Bombelles parcourt la Suisse en tenant un journal dont il envoie d’abord des extraits ÌÊ sa femme, avant d’essayer d’en tirer un r̩cit instructif et plaisant ÌÊ usage public. Ses papiers ayant ̩t̩ saisis plus tard par les autorit̩s r̩volutionnaires, nous avons aujourd’hui sous les yeux l’essentiel du åÇ dossier g̩n̩tique åÈ de ce travail rh̩torique assez conventionnel. En 1800, le philosophe et musicien AzaÌøs invente un dispositif pour ̩crire en marchant, afin de rapprocher le plus possible le moment de l’expression de celui de l’impression, et il va mouiller son papier sous la grande cascade du cirque de Gavarnie. Malheureusement son journal original a disparu, nous ne le connaissons que par des copies et par sa publication sous forme de livre (Un mois de s̩jour dans les Pyr̩n̩es, 1809). Les deux hommes, malgr̩ leur opposition apparente, se rejoignent dans un m̻me goÌÈt de la communication et un m̻me amour de la montagne.
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Philippe Lejeune a enseign̩ la litt̩rature fran̤aise ÌÊ l’Universit̩ Paris-Nord Villetaneuse jusqu’en 2004. Ses travaux portent sur l’autobiographie (Le Pacte autobiographique, Seuil, 1975, On autobiography, Minnesota University Press, 1989 ; Moi aussi, Seuil, 1986 ; Les Brouillons de soi, Seuil, 1998 ; Signes de vie, Seuil, 2005) et sur le journal personnel (Le Moi des demoiselles : enqu̻te sur le journal de jeune fille, Seuil, 1993 ; Cher ̩cran…, Seuil, 2000 ; Le journal intime, histoire et anthologie, avec Catherine Bogaert, Textuel, 2006 ; On Diary, The University of Hawai’i Press, 2009). Il a fond̩ en 1992 l’Association pour l’Autobiographie, qui recueille et archive les ̩crits personnels des gens ordinaires. Il pr̩pare actuellement un ouvrage intitul̩ Aux origines du journal personnel. France, 1750-1815 qu’on peut consulter en ligne sur son site “Autopacte”. (www.autopacte.org)
11h45-12h45
Catherine Viollet
åÇ Journaux de voyage r̩dig̩s en fran̤ais par des jeunes filles
de l’aristocratie russe (1780-1840) åÈ
D̬s la fin du XVIIIe si̬cle, mais surtout durant les premi̬res d̩cennies du XIXe, de nombreuses femmes et jeunes filles russes issues de l’aristocratie ont voyag̩ ÌÊ travers l’Europe. Beaucoup d’entre elles tenaient des journaux, et le voyage est un pr̩texte de choix pour cette activit̩. La plupart de ces journaux sont cependant rest̩s sous forme de manuscrits in̩dits dans les archives russes. Dans quel but voyageaient-elles ? Comment se d̩roulaient leurs voyages ? Quel b̩n̩fice en tiraient-elles ? Et pour quoi, pour qui ̩crivaient-elles ? Apr̬s un parcours global de ces journaux de voyage seront pr̩sent̩s plus en d̩tail, et compar̩s, les journaux åÇ parall̬les åÈ tenus par quatre cousines ̢g̩es d’une vingtaine d’ann̩es, voyageant ÌÊ travers l’Europe (surtout en Italie) dans les ann̩es 1840.
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Catherine Viollet est Charg̩e de recherche ÌÊ l’Institut des Textes et Manuscrits modernes (CNRS-ENS, Paris), responsable depuis une quinzaine d’ann̩es de l’̩quipe “Gen̬se & Autobiographie”. Co-responsable, avec Elena Gretchanaia, de deux PICS franco-russes åÇ Ecrits autobiographiques XVIIIe – XXe si̬cle åÈ (1999-2002), åÇ Litt̩rature russe d’expression fran̤aise et contextes culturels (XVIIIe – premier tiers du XXe si̬cle) åÈ (2010-2012). Elle a publi̩ des ̩tudes g̩n̩tiques sur de nombreux ̩crivains du XXe si̬cle. Ìäditeur scientifique de Gen̬ses textuelles, identit̩s sexuelles (du L̩rot, 1997) ; co-̩diteur (avec Philippe Lejeune) de Gen̬ses du åÇ Je åÈ (CNRS-Ed., 2000) et Genesis nå¡ 16 åÇ Autobiographies åÈ (Eds. J.-M. Place) ; Gen̬se, censure, autocensure (avec Cl. Bustarret, CNRS-Eds.) ; M̩tamorphoses du Journal personnel (avec M.-F. Lemonnier-Delpy, Academia Bruylant, 2006) ; Gen̬se et Autofiction (avec J.-L. Jeannelle, Academia Bruylant, 2007) ; åÇ Si tu lis jamais ce journal… åÈ Diaristes russes francophones 1780-1854 (avec E. Grechanaya, CNRS-Eds., 2008), anthologie de journaux russes in̩dits r̩dig̩s en langue fran̤aise ; Le Moi et ses mod̬les. Gen̬se et transtextualit̩s (avec V̩ronique Mont̩mont, Academia Bruylant, 2009) ; Genesis nå¡ 32, åÇ Journaux personnels åÈ (avec Fran̤oise Simonet-Tenant, PUPS, 2011).
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13h – 14h : buffet (sur place)
14h-15h
C̩cile Meynard
åÇ Stendhal et la pratique du journal de voyage.
La mise en ligne de ses manuscrits de diariste voyageur åÈ
ÌÛ partir de quelques r̩flexions g̩n̩rales sur les conceptions et les pratiques de Stendhal diariste voyageur (ou voyageur diariste), il s’agira de montrer l’int̩r̻t d’une ̩dition ̩lectronique de ses journaux de voyage sur le site www.manuscrits-de-stendhal.org en compl̩ment des ̩ditions imprim̩es actuelles ou ÌÊ parątre. En effet, la visualisation des pages de manuscrits permet de rendre perceptibles les processus d’̩criture voire de r̩̩criture ÌÊ l’Òuvre dans les journaux de voyage de Stendhal, ainsi que la diversit̩ de ses pratiques, et leur ̩volution.
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C̩cile Meynard est Mątre de Conf̩rences ÌÊ l’UFR des Lettres et Arts du spectacle ÌÊ l’Universit̩ Stendhal Grenoble 3. Elle appartient ÌÊ l’̩quipe de Recherches Traverses 19-21 (composante Centre d’Etudes stendhaliennes et romantiques). Sp̩cialiste de Stendhal (th̬se de doctorat : “Stendhal et la province”) et plus g̩n̩ralement du roman au XIX̬me si̬cle, elle a publi̩ des articles sur Stendhal, Balzac, Dumas, Hugo, Flaubert, Flora Tristan… Co-responsable avec Thomas Lebarb̩ (laboratoire LIDILEM) de la valorisation scientifique des manuscrits stendhaliens de la Biblioth̬que municipale de Grenoble (base documentaire en ligne sur www.manuscrits-de-stendhal.org), elle dirige ̩galement le projet collectif d’̩dition des åÇ Journaux et papiers åÈ de Stendhal (premier tome ÌÊ parątre en 2011, aux ELLUG, Grenoble, France). Int̩ress̩e par les questions de g̩n̩tique textuelle et d’̩dition, notamment des journaux personnels, elle a organis̩ en octobre 2010 un colloque, Journaux d’̩crivains : questions g̩n̩riques et ̩ditoriales.
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15h-16h
Fran̤oise Simonet-Tenant
åÇ De l’Ìägypte ÌÊ l’Inde :
de Jean Cocteau (Maalesh) ÌÊ Jean-Christophe Bailly (Ph̬dre en Inde) åÈ
De mars ÌÊ mai 1949, Jean Cocteau part pour une tourn̩e th̢̩trale dans le bassin m̩diterran̩en (Ìägypte, Liban, Turquie, Gr̬ce), pour y jouer des pi̬ces de Racine, de Feydeau, d’Anouilh, de Sartre et de Cocteau. Son Journal d’une tourn̩e de th̢̩tre est publi̩ par Gallimard en 1949. D’aoÌÈt 1989 ÌÊ janvier 1990, Jean-Christophe Bailly s̩journe ÌÊ trois reprises en Inde pour cr̩er Ph̬dre avec des acteurs indiens et en revient avec Ph̬dre en Inde (Plon, 1990). Cocteau et Bailly ne sont pas de simples voyageurs touristes, dont ils r̩cusent la posture, mais des hommes de th̢̩tre dont le journal de voyage est ̩galement un journal d’exp̩rience professionnelle. Les deux journaux sont anim̩s par un double mouvement, d’extraversion (les diaristes notent les choses vues) et d’intraversion (ils notent le retentissement intime du choc de l’ailleurs). Nous examinerons le(s) r̫le(s) que tient le journal lors de cette exp̩rience de l’̩tranget̩ (non seulement trace m̩morielle, il est aussi une indispensable boussole pour l’occidental d̩pays̩), et l’influence de la perspective de la publication (place du pittoresque, du morceau de bravoure descriptif, ̩ventuelles op̩rations de r̩̩criture). Enfin, nous scruterons les particularit̩s de ces deux journaux de voyage qui suscitent chez le lecteur des effets diff̩rents. L’un est celui d’un esth̬te, homme de lettres connu, qui porte encore l’empreinte de l’̩poque coloniale ; le second est celui d’un intellectuel qui prend soin de s’afficher comme un esprit de l’̬re post-coloniale.
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Fran̤oise Simonet-Tenant, agr̩g̩e de Lettres Modernes, est mątre de conf̩rences ÌÊ Paris-XIII, et auteur d’une th̬se consacr̩e au journal de Catherine Pozzi. Elle est l’̩ditrice de Catherine Pozzi & Jean Paulhan, Correspondance 1926-1934 (̩ditions Claire Paulhan, 1999). Elle est l’auteur d’̩tudes critiques : Le journal intime (Nathan, 2001), Le journal intime, genre litt̩raire et ̩criture ordinaire, (̩ditions T̩ra̬dre, 2004) et Journal personnel et correspondance (1785-1939) ou les affinit̩s ̩lectives, Louvain-la-Neuve, Academia Bruylant, coll. åÇ Au cÒur des textes åÈ, 2009, 244 p. Elle a dirig̩ l’ouvrage collectif, Le propre de l’̩criture de soi (̩ditions T̩ra̬dre, 2007) et plusieurs num̩ros de revue : åÇ Lettre et journal personnel åÈ, Textes r̩unis et pr̩sent̩s par Brigitte Diaz et Fran̤oise Simonet-Tenant, Ìäpistolaire (nå¡32, 2006) et åÇ L’̩pistolaire ÌÊ La Nouvelle Revue fran̤aise (1909-1940) åÈ, Ìäpistolaire (nå¡34, 2008).
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Table ronde ÌÊ partir de 16h
Dans une atmosph̬re d̩tendue et conviviale,
on abordera plusieurs des sujets suivants :

projets de recherche des participants

pr̩sentation des organismes & associations auxquels ils sont affili̩s

̩tat de la recherche en Lettres

La table ronde sera suivie d’une r̩ception.
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ABSTRACTS
Philippe Lejeune
Through valleys and hills: Bombelles et AzaÌøs
Philippe Lejeune, who is currently working on the origins of personal diaries in France between 1750 and 1815, will present two examples of travel diary practises, one traditional, the other innovative. In 1781, while travelling through Switzerland, the Marquis de Bombelles kept a diary, parts of which he sent to his wife before endeavouring to turn it into an instructive and entertaining account, intended for the public. His papers were later seized by the revolutionary authorities, and we can now consult most of the “genetic dossier” of what would otherwise be a rather conventional rhetorical exercise. In 1800, AzaÌøs, a philosopher and musician, invented a device which allowed him to write and walk at the same time. His intention was to bridge the gap between impression and expression. He even goes to wet his paper under the great Cirque de Gavarnie waterfall. Unfortunately, his original diary has disappeared. We only know it via copies and a publication in book form (Un mois de s̩jour dans les Pyr̩n̩es, 1809). Although apparently very different, the two men share the same wish to communicate and the same love of mountains.
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Catherine Viollet
Travel diaries written in French by young women from the Russian aristocracy
Many Russian women of various ages from an aristocratic background, travelled through Europe from the end of the 18th century, especially during the first decades of the 19th century. Many of them kept a diary. Travelling of course provides an ideal impetus for this type of activity. Many of these diaries have been preserved in the form of unpublished manuscripts in Russian archives. Why did these women travel? How did their journeys unfold? What advantage did they gain from it? What and whom did they write for? A general overview of these travel diaries will be followed by a more detailed presentation and comparison of the parallel diaries of four cousins, all of them around 20 years of age, who travelled through Europe (mainly Italy), in the 1840s.
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C̩cile Meynard
Stendhal and the practice of travel writing. The digitization of his travel journal manuscripts.
Beginning with some general reflections on Stendhal’s ideas and his practice of keeping a diary while travelling, this paper will highlight the advantages of presenting an electronic edition of the same travel journals, held on the site www.manuscrits-de-stendhal.org, to serve as a complement to existing or future print editions. Thanks to the on-line visualisation of manuscript pages, the processes of writing and rewriting at work in Stendhal’s travel journals, as well as the diversity and evolution of his practices, can be presented with greater clarity.
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Fran̤oise Simonet-Tenant
From Egypt to India, and from Jean Cocteau (Maalesh) to Jean-Christophe Bailly (Ph̬dre en Inde)
Between March and May 1949, Jean Cocteau undertook a theatre tour of the Mediterranean basin (taking in Egypt, the Lebanon, Turkey, and Greece), where he performed the plays of Racine, Feydeau, Anouilh, Sartre, and Cocteau himself. His Journal d’une tourn̩e de th̢̩tre was published by Gallimard in 1949. Between August 1989 and January 1990, Jean-Christophe Bailly made three trips to India in order to stage Ph̬dre with Indian actors, an experience related in his book Ph̬dre en Inde (Plon, 1990). Cocteau and Bailly were no mere tourists, consciously eschewing such an approach to travel, but rather theatrical impresarios whose travel journals are also accounts of their professional experiences. The two journals thus reflect a double movement, of extraversion (the diarists note what they see) and introversion (they provide an intimate account of the shock of “somewhere else”). This paper explores the role(s) of the journal in the experience of foreignness (not only as a memorial trace, but also as an indispensable compass for the displaced westerner), together with the influence of the possibility of publication (including the place of the picturesque and descriptive purple passages, and possible rewritings). To conclude, we will examine the particular qualities of these two travel journals, which produce distinctive effects on their readers. The former is the work of an aesthete and celebrated man of letters, who stills bears the mark of the colonial era; while the latter is that of an intellectual who is very careful to present himself as a post-colonial spirit.
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Prof. Ludolf Pelizaeus, University of Mainz, "The Spanish Inquisition & Media control in Spain & Mexico at the end of the 18th century"
2011-03-14 16:00
Prof. Ludolf Pelizaeus, University of Mainz
“The Spanish Inquisition & Media control in Spain & Mexico at the end of the 18th century”.
Moore Institute Seminar Room
Monday 14 March 2011, 4 pm

France & the Gaelic Revival. The French Influence on Education in Ireland,
2011-03-16 16:00
Ailbhe NÌ_ Ghearbhuigh
France & the Gaelic Revival. The French Influence on Education in Ireland,
1867-1900

Scientific instructions for travellers
2011-03-18 09:30
Scientific instructions for travellers
The proliferation of inquiries, questionnaires, and directions for scientific travellers is a defining feature of the early modern period, ranging from Humanist agendas for Continental journeys to formal initiatives by Spanish authorities concerned with colonial administration. Exceptional growth in this practice occurred in a variety of seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth-century contexts. This conference explores the traditions and preoccupations behind this activity in a series of different locations.
With participants from the UK, Ireland, Italy, Denmark, and Brazil, the conference will address different national and disciplinary traditions, including the contribution of chorography; directions for collecting the natural world; the institutional role of the Consejo de Indias; instructions for astronomers; travel in the Portuguese Atlantic world; the development of fieldwork practices; and the work of surveying in nineteenth-century Ireland.
“Texts, Contexts, Culture” is funded under the Higher Education Authority, under PRTLI4 http://www.hea.ie
The conference is supported by generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (http://www.mellon.org).
Scientific instructions for travellers
International conference
University of Cambridge
18 March 2011
Room 1.11, Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Ave.
9.30 Registration and Welcome by Daniel Carey and Sadiah Qureshi
Session 1:
Science and instruction in the Luso-Spanish world
Chair: Surekha Davies (Birkbeck, University of London)
Edward Collins (NUI Galway)
Theory and Practice: Scientific Ambition and the Problem of Application in Sixteenth-Century Spain
Lorelai Kury (Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), Rio de Janeiro)
Scientific Travel in the Portuguese Atlantic World during the Enlightenment
11.00 Coffee and tea break

11.15 Session 2:

Reordering knowledge in the early modern period
Chair: Sachiko Kusukawa (University of Cambridge)
Paola Molino (European University Institute, Florence)
Systems of Knowledge in the Late Sixteenth-Century Scholarly World: Instructions for Travellers and Instructions for Librarians in Comparison
Daniel Carey (NUI Galway)
Bacon, Hartlib, Boyle: Unstructuring Knowledge
12.15 Response to the morning session by Joan-Pau Rubi̩s (London School of Economics)
12.45 Lunch

TCC Seminar Series: Dr. David Dwan, Queen's University Belfast - 'Edmund Burke and the Emotions'
2011-03-22 16:00
TCC Seminar Series: Dr. David Dwan, Queen’s University Belfast – ‘Edmund Burke and the Emotions’

The Call of the Poor & the Call of Power: The Congregation of the Mission & Louis XIV, 1674-1704
2011-03-23 16:00
Sean Smith
The Call of the Poor & the Call of Power: The Congregation of the Mission & Louis XIV, 1674-1704

Mark Corcoran & Alexandra Tauvry (TCD) on Dubliners, Trainspotting
2011-03-24 17:00
ECHO Humanities Research Forum: Mark Corcoran (NUIG): ‰Û÷Spotting Dubliners in Trainspotting’ & Alexandra Tauvry (Trinity College Dublin): ‰Û÷Immram MaÌ_le D̼in: Paul Muldoon’s Voyage (Tall) Tales’
Thursday 24th March @ 5pm >> Moore

Carlos Villar Flor, 'Graham Greene's travels in Spain'
2011-03-29 14:30
Carlos Villar Flor
‘Graham Greene’s travels in Spain’
Visiting lecturer to the Spanish Department, NUIG, from the Universidad de la Rioja (Spain)

TCC Seminar Series: Dr. David Wheatley, Hull University - 'The Poetry of Samuel Beckett: Exile and Experiment'
2011-03-29 16:00
TCC Seminar Series: Dr. David Wheatley, Hull University – ‘The Poetry of Samuel Beckett: Exile and Experiment’

Syndicalism as Political Culture: the C.G.T. and the First World War
2011-03-30 16:00
Eoghan Moran
Syndicalism as Political Culture: the C.G.T. and the First World War

Emily O'Flaherty & Orla Power on Caribbean Islands
2011-03-31 17:00
ECHO Humanities Research Forum: Emily O’Flaherty (NUIG) & Orla Power (NUIG)
Thursday 31st March @ 5pm >> Moore

Building Empires on Air: Histories and Geopolitics of Radio and Empire
2011-04-01 09:00
Building Empires on Air:
Histories and Geopolitics of Radio and Empire
Moore Institute
National University of Ireland, Galway
9am-6pm, 1 April 2011
Part of the Texts, Contexts, Cultures research programme.
Supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
This workshop will compare scholarly approaches to histories of radio and empire, in
a broad transnational and geopolitical context. Key questions to be considered
include:
– How have transnational broadcasters sought to influence society, politics,
and culture in target areas, at different times and in different settings?
What comparisons and contrasts can usefully be drawn?
– How might concepts of (soft) power, territory, sovereignty and transnationality
contribute to critical interdisciplinary engagements with
international broadcasting within historical and contemporary ‰Û÷empires’?
– What are the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to the study
of radio and empire? What is the place of institutional history? How do we
tackle the cultural history of broadcasting and empire, and the issue of
audience reception?
– How useful are older models of ‰Û÷media imperialism’, and new ideas about
‰Û÷cultural diplomacy’ and ‰Û÷globalisation’, as tools of scholarly analysis?
– How far have institutions with responsibilities for both domestic and
external broadcasting been reshaped by their overseas obligations?
– What light do different disciplinary perspectives have to shed on these
topics?
There is no charge for registration, but if you would like to attend please email
Simon Potter (simon.potter@nuigalway.ie) in advance.
This event is part of the wider ‰Û÷Texts Contexts Cultures’ research project funded by
the Government of Ireland PRTLI scheme and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Programme
(All sessions take place in the Moore Institute Seminar Room)
9-11am – Session 1 (Chair: Klaus Dodds)
David Hendy (University of Westminster) – ‰Û÷Early Radio and World Visions’
Chandrika Kaul (University of St Andrews) – ‰Û÷”Invisible Empire Tie”: Some Reflections on Broadcasting and the British Raj in India’
Emma Robertson (Sheffield Hallam) – ‰Û÷Listening in Exile: Imagining, identifying and classifying BBC Empire Service audiences’
11-11.30am – Coffee
11.30am-1.30pm – Session 2 (Chair: S̨an Nicholas)
Andrea L. Stanton (University of Denver) – ‰Û÷ESB, PBS, and NEBS: Governing an “Empire on Air” in the Middle East, 1934-49′
Rebecca P. Scales (Rochester Institute of Technology, NY) – ‰Û÷M̩tissage over the Airwaves: Colonial Modernity and the Cultural History of Imperial Broadcasting in French Algeria, 1930-1936 ‰Û÷
NiccolÌ_ Tognarini (European University Institute, Florence) – ‰Û÷”Avanguardia della Propaganda nazionale”: Italian Broadcasting Abroad in the 1930s’
1.30-2.30pm – Lunch
2.30-4.30pm – Session 3 (Chair: Alban Webb)
Gordon Johnston (Leeds Metropolitan University) – ‰Û÷”Broadcasting Freedom”: Scholarship and Ideology in Histories of Cold War Broadcasting’
David Clayton (University of York) – ‰Û÷Communal Consumption: radio broadcasting in dependent colonies, 1945-60′
Alasdair Pinkerton (Royal Holloway) – ‰Û÷Rings around Eurasia: the weaponisation of Cold War radio’
4.30-5pm – Coffee
5pm-6pm – Round Table Discussion (Chairs: Simon Potter and Alasdair Pinkerton)
Klaus Dodds (Royal Holloway), S̨an Nicholas (Aberystwyth), Alban Webb (Open University)
Dr Simon Potter
History
NUI, Galway
simon.potter@nuigalway.ie
Dr Alasdair Pinkerton
Geography
Royal Holloway
A.D.Pinkerton@rhul.ac.uk
The Andrew Mellon Foundation

Professor David Dumville, University of Aberdeen, "Conversations with an Irish Penguin"
2011-04-14 18:00
“Conversations with an Irish Penguin” by Professor David Dumville of the University of Aberdeen, on Thursday 14 April, beginning at 6.00pm followed by wine reception
