Moore Institute

TCC Seminar Series: Dr. David Dwan, Queen's University Belfast - 'Edmund Burke and the Emotions'
2011-03-22 16:00 (Europe/Dublin)
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

Voyager dans l'Europe du Grand Tour (17e-18e siÌÄå¬cle), Gilles Bertrand
2011-05-03 16:00
‘Voyager dans l’Europe du Grand Tour (17e-18e si̬cle)’ by Gilles Bertrand
(Universit̩ Pierre Mend̬s-France Grenoble 2 – CRHIPA)
Moore Institute Seminar Room, Tuesday 3rd May, 4 pm

A la recherche de nouveaux territoires aux marges du Grand Tour (espaces montagneux et sites arch̩ologiques, seconde moiti̩ du XVIIIe siÌÄå¬cle, d̩but XIXe siÌÄå¬cle), Gilles Bertrand
2011-05-04 10:00
‘A la recherche de nouveaux territoires aux marges du Grand Tour (espaces montagneux et sites arch̩ologiques, seconde moiti̩ du XVIIIe si̬cle, d̩but XIXe si̬cle)’ by Gilles Bertrand
(Universit̩ Pierre Mend̬s-France Grenoble 2 – CRHIPA)
Moore Institute Seminar Room, Wednesday 4th May, 10 am

Conference: The Shadows of Modernism
2011-05-12 10:00
THE SHADOWS OF MODERNISM, THURSDAY MAY 12th, 2011, The Moore Institute Seminar RoomAs part of the research project “1916 and After”, the Moore Institute, the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, and Italian Studies are pleased to announce the one-day workshop The Shadows of Modernism. The workshop will be led by Margaret Higonnet (University of Connecticut), and Mario Perniola (University of Rome, Tor Vergata), and will interrogate aspects and issues of modernism which have been neglected or are still unthought in the context of the rapid transformation of aesthetic and social phenomena. The workshop will have a master-class format. There will be ample space for discussion and interaction. This project is sponsored by a NUI, Galway Research Support Fund. Programme10 -10.30: Welcome Professor Nicholas Canny10.30- 12.30: Professor Margaret Higonnet“Breaking Down and Building Up: Women, War and Modernism”A number of feminist critics have contested the absence of women from British modernism and noted the anxieties about gender that mark the masculine “high modernist” canon. This comparative study builds on their work to suggest that the politicization of European women around suffrage and the costs of World War I triggered the creation of stunning experimental works of literature and art. Today many of these avant-garde artists and writers have begun to gain a reputation, joining the ranks of Woolf and Stein. But the radicalism of their work still remains in a troubled relationship to modernism. Their absence from the cultural history of modernism reflects a reception filtered through gendered assumptions about proprieties in style, conduct, and social attitudes. To recognize women’s ironic play with traditional beliefs and forms such as the love poem or the elegy is the first step toward a reassessment of their contribution to the ruptures wrought by modernism. 12.30- 2.00 Lunch 2.00- 4.00: Professor Mario Perniola “The Stalling of Western Aesthetics and the Rising of Oriental Thought”While several non-European cultures are producing novel aesthetic conceptualizations autonomous from the Western tradition (starting though from a profound knowledge and engagement with it), Western thought has undergone a paradigmatic shift which has dramatically altered the essential relation between society and aesthetics.It appears as if the continuation of the process of modern development started in the XVIII Century with Illuminism was brought to a halt by the two tragic catastrophes of the First and Second World War. The society that emerged in the second part of the twentieth century found it impossible to resume the civic progress commenced in the previous centuries. Aesthetics, intended here not so much as an academic discipline as a collective mode of being, had been jettisoned. What we confront today is a hiatus between the people and the heirs of modernity. While the former have been gradually subjugated by the culture of the mass-media, the logic of profit, and the hope of wealth heralded and introduced by technology, the latter have lost purchase on imagination and emotion. Attention is now drawn to the modernization underway in Oriental thought, which as opposed to the Western one has not severed the links with its tradition. 4.00- 4.30 Break 4.30- 5.30 General discussion with Margaret Higonnet and Mario Perniola Margaret Higonnet, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Connecticut, has taught at George Washington University and the Universities of Munich and Santiago de Compostela. A past President of the American Conference on Romanticism and of the American Comparative Literature Association, she cochairs the Study Group on Gender, Society, and Politics at Harvard’s Center for European Studies. She also created the Gender Studies Committee of the ICLA and is now President of the ICLA committee that publishes a major series of comparative literary histories. Her theoretical interests have ranged from the romantic roots of modern literary theories (Bachelard and Benjamin) to the intersection of feminist theory and comparative literature, as in the volumes Borderwork (1995), Gender in Literary History, CCS 6.2 (2009), and Comparatively Queer (2010). Her work on gender issues in the nineteenth century is represented by British Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century (1996) and The Sense of Sex: Feminist Perspectives on Hardy (1992), as well as Penguin and Oxford editions of two Thomas Hardy novels. Much of her recent scholarship has been devoted to the literature of World War I, in articles and in Behind the Lines (1987), Lines of Fire (1999), Nurses at the Front (2001), and Margaret Hall’s Letters and Photographs from the Battle Country,1918 – 1919 (forthcoming). She has taught courses as well on “Word and Image,” suicide, and children’s literature; she edited the journal Children’s Literature for seven years. Mario Perniola: http://www.marioperniola.it/ is full professor of Aesthetics, director of the Centro Studi e Documentazione “Linguaggio e pensiero” (CELP) and former director of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” (Italy).Visiting Professor in many universities and research centres in France, Denmark, Brazil, Japan, Canada, USA and Australia, is author of several books translated into many languages. He has directed the journals åÇAgaragaråÈ (1971-3) åÇClinamenåÈ (1988-92) åÇEstetica NewsåÈ (1988-95) and åḈgalma. Rivista di studi culturali e di esteticaåÈ (since 2000) http://www.agalmaweb.org/Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_PerniolaBooks translated into EnglishEnigmas, London-New York, Verso, 1995.Ritual Thinking. Sexuality, Death, World, Amherst (USA), Humanity Books2001.The Sex appeal of the Inorganic , Continuum, London-New York 2004.The Art and its Shadow Continuum, London-New York 2004.Contemporary Aesthetics , Continuum, forthcoming.Other Texts in English in the Webpage: http://www.marioperniola.it/site/leggitext.asp?idlingua=2Books in Italian:Il metaromanzo, Milano, Silva, 1966.L’alienazione artistica, Milano, Mursia, 1971.I situazionisti, numero 4 monografico della rivista “Agaragar”, 1972; nuova edizione in volume Roma, Castelvecchi, 1998,2005.Georges Bataille e il negativo, Milano, Feltrinelli, 1977; nuova edizione accresciuta col titolo Philosophia sexualis. Scritti su Georges Bataille, Verona, Ombre Corte, 1998.La societÌÊ dei simulacri, Bologna, Cappelli, 1980. Nuova edizione Milano, Mimesis 2011.Dopo Heidegger. Filosofia ed organizzazione della cultura, Milano, Feltrinelli, 1982.Transiti. Come si va dallo stesso allo stesso,Bologna, Cappelli, 1985, 1989; terza edizione col titolo Transiti. Filosofia e perversione, Roma, Castelvecchi 1998.Presa diretta. Estetica e politica, Venezia, Cluva, 1986.Enigmi. Il momento egizio nella societÌÊ e nell’arte,Genova, Costa & Nolan, 1990.Del sentire, Torino, Einaudi, 1991 ried. 2002PiÌ_ che sacro, piÌ_ che profano, Milano,Mimesis, 1992, 2010.Il sex appeal dell’inorganico, Torino, Einaudi, 1994, 2004, 2010.Estetica del Novecento, Bologna,il Mulino, 1997.Disgusti.Nuove tendenze estetiche, Milano, Costa e Nolan,1998, 1999L’arte e la sua ombra, Torino, Einaudi, 2000.Del sentire cattolico. La forma culturale di una religione universale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2001.Contro la comunicazione, Torino, Einaudi, 2004.Miracoli e traumi della comunicazione, Torino, Einaudi, 2009.Strategie del conflitto. Strategie del bello Quarant’anni di estetica italiana (1968-2008) Mimesis Editore, Milano, 2010.

Irish landed estates, c.1700-1900
2011-05-20 13:00
The Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities & Social Studies
is pleased to announce the completion and launch of the e-database of the landed estates of Munster, c.1700-1900, a research project funded under the Higher Education Authority’s Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions, Cycle 4. To mark the occasion the Institute will host a Conference on
Irish landed estates, c.1700-1900
From Friday, 20 May to Saturday, 21 May, 2011 in the Moore Institute seminar room
An exhibition of the photographs of Tarquin Blake, entitled Abandoned Mansions of Ireland, will be open for viewing in the James Hardiman Library, NUI, Galway, during the days of the Conference.
While there will be no fee charged for attendance, to facilitate an estimate of numbers (for refreshments, seating and comfort), an indication of intention to attend would be appreciated.
Please indicate your intention to attend to: mooreinstitute@nuigalway.ie

Programme
Friday, May 20, 2011
1-2pm Registration
2:15 Lecture: Reflections on the Irish landed estate and Irish society
Speaker: Professor Joe Lee (Professor of History, New York University and Director of Irish Studies at Glucksman Ireland House, NYU)
3:30 Coffee
4:00 Panel of Young Researchers on the Irish landed estate
Research in Progress: Joanne McEntee, Conor Montague, Laura Vickers (NUI, Galway)
5:30 Official launch of the Munster Landed Estates e-database
Speaker: Dr Martin Mansergh
A demonstration of the e-database by Brigid Clesham and Marie Boran, will be followed by a Reception.
7:15 Lecture: Irish historic gardens & demesnes: survival and revival
Speaker: Finola Reid, (Author, Researcher and Member of the Heritage Council of Ireland)
Saturday, May 21, 2011
9:15am Archive Forum: The archive and the research community: challenges and changing contexts
Speakers: CaitrÌ_ona Crowe (National Archives of Ireland), Ciara Kerrigan (National Library of Ireland), Dr. Olwen Purdue (Senior Research Fellow, Queen’s University, Belfast)
10:30am Coffee Break
11:00am Lecture: Landlords and the estate system: catalysts for social and cultural change?
Speaker: Professor William J.Smyth (Professor Emeritus of Geography, University College Cork)
12:30pm Close of Conference

The conference is supported by the Higher Education Authority, the European Regional Development Fund, the Department of Education & Science, and Ireland’s EU Structural Funds Programme 2007 – 2013.

Conference: Fifth International George Moore Conference: 3-6 June 2011
2011-06-03 09:00
http://www.conference.ie/Conferences/index.asp?Conference=112
For all queries please contact:
Conor MontagueMoore Institute NUI Galwayc.montague1@nuigalway.ie

The Francophone World and the Angloworld: Empires of Culture, c. 1700-2000
2011-06-08 09:00
The Francophone World and the Angloworld: Empires of Culture, c. 1700-2000
National University of Ireland, Galway – 8-10 June 2011
Part of the Texts, Contexts, Cultures research programme.
Supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

This June, Galway will host an international conference of renowned scholars, who will compare critical approaches to the study of histories and cultures of empire in Britain, France and the US.
Studies of the British and French empires have been influenced over the last three decades by the insights offered by postcolonialism, by developments in cultural and critical theory, and by continuing archival research. More recently, scholars have sought to link the histories of the British and French empires to the history of globalisation. In terms of the British empire, this has encouraged some to frame the ‰Û÷Angloworld’ as a more appropriate basis for analysis, looking at connections between the British empire and the independent, but in many ways imperial, settler societies of the United States. Scholars of French colonial expansion and enterprise are resurrecting the history of the Francophone world as a ‰Û÷process’ rather than a ‰Û÷stance’, exploring the ways in which a colonising metropole and colonised territories shaped each other over time. Moreover, imperialism has increasingly been seen as a process of control deeply reliant on a range of regulatory practices, from the dissemination of literary texts to a wide range of theatrical and cultural performances.
Key questions to be considered at the conference include:

How do the Angloworld and the Francophone world fit in with histories of globalisation?
What is the prominence given to the role of culture in the scholarship of empire in the British and French contexts?
Was the impact of empire on Britain and France’s own domestic cultures similar in extent and nature?
What directions might the study of the British and French empires take over the next decade?
How did the circulation of culture in the circum-Atlantic and -Pacific spheres influence the nature of the British and French empires?
What are the different ways in which religion played a part in the dissemination of empire?

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.
Confirmed Speakers:
James Belich is Professor at the Stout Research Centre, Victoria University, Wellington. His many publications include the ground-breaking study of British and US imperial expansion, Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld (Oxford, 2009). His current research focuses on European expansion, industrialization, and divergence, 1500-2000, and is supported by New Zealand’s Marsden Fund.
Lauren Benton is Professor of History and Affiliate Professor of Law at New York University. Her research interests lie in legal history and the comparative history of Atlantic empires. Winner of the World History Association Book Award and the James Willard Hurst prize for her Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900 (Cambridge, 2002), she recently published A Search for Sovereignty: Law and Geography in European Empires, 1400-1900 (Cambridge 2010).
Tracy C. Davis is Ethel M. Barber Professor in Performing Arts at Northwestern University. She is a specialist in performance theory, theatre historiography, and research methodology and has authored several books, including The Economics of the British Stage, 1800-1914 (Cambridge, 2000) and Stages of Emergency: Cold War Nuclear Civil Defense (Duke, 2007).
Alison Games is Dorothy M. Brown Distinguished Professor of History at Georgetown University. She has published extensively on migration in the English Atlantic world, and her most recent books are Witchcraft in Early North America (New York, 2010), and The Web of Empire: English Cosmopolitans in an Age of Expansion, 1560-1660 (New York, 2008).
Eliga Gould is Associate Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire. His research interests lie in colonial North America, with particular specialism in the American Revolution. Currently writing The World of the American Revolution and An Unfinished Peace: The American Revolution and the Legal Transformation of the European Atlantic, he has also published The Persistence of Empire: British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution (Chapel Hill and London, 2000).
Jean-Fran̤ois Klein is mątre de conf̩rences d’Histoire contemporaine at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales and a member of the Centre Roland Mousnier Histoire et Civilisation (Paris IV-Sorbonne). He has published widely on the history of French overseas expansion in Indochina, and on the Lyon silk trade with China and the Far East.
Anne McClintock is Simone de Beauvoir Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author of many books, including Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest (1995) and Double Crossings: Madness, Sexuality and Imperialism (2001). Her creative non-fiction book Skin Hunger: a Chronicle of Sex, Desire and Money is forthcoming from Jonathan Cape. She is working on a new book called Paranoid Empire: Specters from Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib.
Rob Nixon is Rachel Carson Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His books include Dreambirds: the Natural History of a Fantasy (Picador, 2000), which was selected as a Notable Book of 2000 by the New York Times Book Review and as one of the ten best books of the year by Esquire. It was also serialized as Book of the Week on BBC Radio Four. His book Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor is forthcoming this year from Harvard University Press. Professor Nixon is a former director of the Border and Transcultural Studies Research Circle.
Francois-Joseph Ruggiu is Professor of History in the Centre Roland Mousnier at the Universit̩ de Paris IV-Sorbonne. He specialises in the comparative social history of France and England, with particular expertise in family structures, urban society, and French colonial settlements. Recent publications include Histoire des Ì_les Britanniques (Paris, 2007), and L’Individu et la famille dans les soci̩t̩s anglaise et fran̤aise (vers 1720-1780) (Paris, 2007).
Damon Salesa is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His work focuses on New Zealand and the Pacific, and his monograph Racial Crossings: Race, Intermarriage and the Victorian British Empire is due to be published byOxford University Press in April.
Todd Shepard is Associate Professor of History at the Johns Hopkins University. His work examines how imperialism intersects with histories of national identity, state institutions, race, and sexuality, particularly in the French empire. His first book, The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France (2006), was awarded both the American Historical Association’s 2006 J. Russell Major Prize and the Council of European Studies 2008 Book Prize.
Emmanuelle Sibeud is mątre de conf̩rences en histoire contemporaine, Universit̩ Paris 8 (Vincennes – Saint-Denis) and specialises in the cultural and political history of French colonisation in Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Publications include Une science imp̩riale pour l’Afrique? La construction des savoirs africanistes en France, 1878-1930 (Paris, 2002).
Martin Thomas is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He has published widely on the combined and comparative histories of the European empires, with particular specialisms in the history of the French empire and the history of security services in the European empires. Recent publications include Empires of Intelligence? Security Services and Colonial Disorder after 1914 (University of California Press, 2007).
Kathleen Wilson is Professor of History and Cultural Studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Her publications address themes relating to British culture and empire, and include The Sense of the People: Politics, Culture and Imperialism in England, 1715-1785 (1995), which won prizes from the Royal Historical Society and the North American Conference on British Studies, and The Island Race: Englishness, Empire and Gender in the Eighteenth Century (2003). She is currently exploring the politics of theatrical and social performance and colonial rule in sites that range across the Atlantic and Pacific worlds.
Dr Alison Forrestal, History alison.forrestal@nuigalway.ie
Dr Lionel Pilkington, English, lionel.pilkington@nuigalway.ie
Dr Simon Potter, History, simon.potter@nuigalway.ie

Symposium: W. B. Yeats and the Arts
2011-08-26 09:00
Symposium: W. B. Yeats and the Arts
26th-27th August, 2011
Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway
Funded by the NUI Galway Millennium Fund, and the ‘1916 and After’ project.
[Download poster here]
‰Û÷The arts have failed’, wrote W.B.Yeats, ‰Û÷fewer people are interested in them in every generation.’ Fortunately, however, this gloom over the fate of ‰Û÷ingenious lovely things’ only spurred him on to ever greater artistic engagement. His poetry, prose, and drama repeatedly address and incorporate music, dance and visual art, while his publications self-consciously deploy design and iconography. Yet Yeats was not only a author; he was also a cultural entrepreneur. He changed Irish public life by helping to found institutions such as Dublin’s Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, the Abbey Theatre, and the Abbey School of Ballet. In collaboration with his sisters, Lilly and Lolly, he set up a printing press as a forum for Irish design and illustration. Together with his wife, George, he renovated the tower at Ballylee using local craftsmen. He took to the concert platform and later the airwaves to promote poetry spoken with music. Moreover, as a theatre director, journalist, public speaker and politician, he inspired numerous other cultural productions in Ireland and beyond.
This two-day international symposium, presented by ECHO, NUI Galway’s Humanities Research Forum, and funded by the NUI Galway Millennium Fund and as part of the international research project ‰Û÷1916 and After’, seeks to promote research on all aspects of Yeats’s interactions with the arts, from storytelling to stained-glass windows. It offers a forum for discussing different historical, methodological and theoretical approaches, crossing disciplines to bring together critics of literature and drama, musicologists, and historians of dance and the visual arts. It thus includes panels on Yeats and Music, Yeats and Dance, Yeats and the Visual Arts, Yeats and Drama, Yeats and the Book, and Yeats and the Wider Arts, presented by the some of the finest scholars in the field. There will also be a conference dinner and an evening’s entertainment of Joycean and Yeatsian songs.
As well as addressing key issues within Yeats’s work, the symposium looks to wider debates in Irish studies, and cultural history and theory. It considers questions about the value and relationship of the arts, Ireland’s role in European modernism, and the links between late-Victorian and modernist culture. Examining the interaction between aesthetics and politics, it also reflects on the political operation of centres of cultural production and the role played by art in political radicalism in Ireland in the period, leading up to the 1916 uprising and the revolutionary conflicts that followed. Through a focus on Yeats’s work and career, it seeks to encourage further a growing body of cultural history and criticism based on genuinely interdisciplinary research.
We are delighted to welcome as our keynote lecturer Daniel Albright of Harvard University. Our panels of Yeatsians and other scholars from many disciplines include such distinguished speakers as Nicholas Allen, Brian Arkins, Richard Rupert Arrowsmith, Nicola Gordon Bowe, Terence Brown, Adrian Frazier, Warwick Gould, Margaret Mills Harper, Sue Jones, Stoddard Martin, Emilie Morin, Aidan Thomson and Deirdre Toomey.
The two-day symposium is free to all from NUI Galway, and ‰âÂ50 (‰âÂ40) otherwise. All are very welcome.
For further information please look at our website: http://echoforum.wordpress.com/
or address the conference organisers:
Adrian Paterson (National University of Ireland, Galway) adrianpaterson@yahoo.com
Thomas Walker (University of Oxford/Trinity College Dublin) thomas.walker@ell.ox.ac.uk

EARLY MODERN IRELAND: CULTURE, POLITICS, AND PLANTATION
2011-09-06 13:00
Early Modern Ireland:
Culture, Politics, and Plantation
One-Day ConferenceMoore InstituteNational University of Ireland, GalwayTuesday 6 September 2011
Programme:
Session 1: 1pm.
Andrew Hadfield (Sussex): ‰Û÷Spenser on the Munster Plantation’ 1.30-2.15
Richard Serjeantson (Cambridge): ‰Û÷Francis Bacon, Ireland, and the Classical Theory of Colonisation’
Pause – tea break (3-4pm)
Session 2: 4pm.
Marie-Louise Coolahan (NUI Galway), ‰Û÷Renaissance Dublin and the Literary Construction of Authorship’
Daniel Carey (NUI Galway): ‰Û÷Ireland and the Art of Travel’
All are welcome.
For further information contact Daniel Carey (daniel.carey@nuigalway.ie)”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).

Lecture: Franca Cavagnoli, Italian translator and scholar
2011-09-28 18:00
Italian Studies and the Moore Institute are delighted to announce a talk by Italian translator and scholar
Franca Cavagnoli
28 September 2011 @ 6.00pm – The Moore Institute Seminar 6.00pm
Cultural Hybridity and Liminal Space in Post-Colonial Literary Translation
Liminal space and its creative potentialities have been scarcely investigated by Translation Studies in Italy. The in-betweenspace of contact languages is a culturally fertile ground for post-colonial translation, since it is the inter – the cutting edge of translation and renegotiation – that carries the burden of the meaning of culture (Bhabha, 1994). My reflections will draw on my experience as a translator of post-colonial writers and will concentrate on exploring the contact zone of rotten English and creole continuum, as shown by Ken Saro-Wiwa in Sozaboy (1985) and by Jean Rhys in Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) respectively, and on analysing the strange middle ground of Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children (1981). The final part of my lecture will focus on how liminal space and hybridity have been perceived in their Italian translations. Franca Cavagnoli has published two novels: Una pioggia bruciante (2000) – winner of the CittÌÊ di Cuneo Award for First Novel – and Non si ̬ seri a 17 anni (2007), as well as a volume of essays Il proprio e l’estraneo nella traduzione letteraria di lingua inglese (2010). Her articles and reviews have been published in Corriere della sera, Il manifesto, Diario, Linea d’ombra. She has edited two collections of Australian short stories, Il cielo a rovescio (1950s-1990s) and Cent’anni di racconti australiani (1850s-1990s), in addition to the complete collection of Katherine Mansfield’s short stories. She lectures in Translation Studies at ISIT, UniversitÌÊ degli Studi di Milano and UniversitÌÊ degli Studi di Pisa. She is interested in Post-Colonial Studies (her primary areas of interest are Australia, South Africa and the Caribbean) and she has been working as a literary translator for leading Italian publishers (Adelphi, Feltrinelli, Einaudi) since 1987. She has translated, among others, works by Toni Morrison, Nadine Gordimer, Jamaica Kincaid, V.S. Naipaul, J.M. Coetzee and David Malouf. She was awarded the Premio Fedrigoni for literary translation in 2010 and the Premio Gregor von Rezzori for her new translation of The Great Gatsby.

Beckett Reading Group
2011-10-10 18:00
Call for people interested in a Beckett Reading Group
First Meeting: Monday October 10th from 6-7 in the Moore Institute Seminar Room.
We are looking for people interested in participating in a reading group centered around Beckett texts-both primary and secondary. Each week a participant will lead an informal discussion of a short work or excerpt of his or her choosing. We are hoping this will be a chance for discussion and shared perspective that will create some momentum at the beginning of each work week. The readings will be kept short, and we will be sure the meetings are kept to 1 hour. If you are interested or have questions or suggestions please contact David Delaney dpjdel@hotmail.com and Kristin Jones kristinannjones@yahoo.com.

History Graduate Seminar Series 2011/12
2011-10-12 16:00
Paddy McMenamin
Long Kesh 1972-76: Politicisation of a Generation of Working-Class Youth
in Northern Ireland
Moore Institute Seminar Room,
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
4pm

Lecture: Beckett & God by John Calder
2011-10-17 16:00
John Calder published 23 Nobel Prize winners for Literature including Samuel Beckett. The Godot Company which he founded has toured Ireland with Waiting for Godot (2006), Endgame (2009), Beckett x3 (2010) which were acclaimed both by critics and by audiences.
Calder was Beckett’s principal English-language publisher during his lifetime, who was also a close friend, and has written one of the most enlightening books about him.
Samuel Beckett is probably the best-known, and most admired internationally, Irish author of the twentieth century, but much of his work is too little understood or considered not accessible to a wide general public. This should not to be so. Beckett’s work has universal appeal, and, although intended to help give an accurate picture of life as we know it and the realities of human destiny, it is also vastly entertaining, often very comic, and above all enlightening in what it tells us about how to make life better for others and more interesting for ourselves.
John Calder’s lecture will explain how this “God-haunted man” as he has been described, used his religious knowledge to help us understand the realities and the absurdities of our lives, make great literature out of it, always with great originality, humour and wisdom.
Every lecture will finish with a question and answer session.’

History Graduate Seminar Series 2011/12
2011-10-19 16:00
19 Oct.
Hayley Humphrey
Representations of the Virgin Mary on Irish High Crosses

History Graduate Seminar Series 2011/12
2011-10-26 16:00
26 October 2011
Lili ZÌÁch
Diplomatic Links between Ireland & the Successor States
of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1919-1945

History Graduate Seminar Series 2011/12
2011-11-02 16:00
2 Nov.Jackie UÌ_ Chionnaith
The G.I. Bill and American Medical Students at University College Galway
1946-1966

Professor Shaun Richards 'Space and Place in Irish Drama'
2011-11-08 16:30
Professor Shaun Richards (Moore institute Visiting Fellow): ‰Û÷Space and Place in Irish Drama‰۪ workshop

History Graduate Seminar Series 2011/12
2011-11-09 16:00
The Gallipoli Campaign in the Mainstream Irish Media:
Coverage, Reaction, Comment

IMBAS 2011 - Identity: Individual, Society and Realm
2011-11-11 00:00
Identity: Individual, Society and Realm
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11TH
12.00-12:30: registration
1.00-2.30: Panel A
Chair: Prof. MÌÁirÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha
R̼airÌ_ O’SuilleabhÌÁin
University College Cork
Light, fire, sanctity and salvation: Spiritual and patristic echoes in AdomnÌÁn’s Vita Columbae
Sarah Corrigan
NUI, Galway
The Parting of the Waters in Early Lives of Irish Saints
Jessica Fahy
University College Dublin
Brides of Christ: Female religious identity and Italian conventual art
2.30-3.00: tea & coffee break
3.00-4.30: Panel B
Chair: Prof. DÌÁibhi ÌÒ CrÌ_inÌ_n
Chris Doyle
NUI, Galway
‰Û÷Defence of the Realm’ Constantine III: Usurper, Tyrant or Patriot?
Sandra Hartl
University of Bamberg
The Anonymous Crowd in Ammianus Marcellinus
David Burke
University of Durham
Who wrote the Canones Adomnani?
4.30- 5:00: tea and coffee break
5:00-6:00: Panel C
Chair: Dr Amanda Kelly
Daniel Curley
NUI, Galway
Dundonnell and its place in 13th Century Ireland
Sander Westerhout
NUI, Galway
Clonmacnoise graveslabs in 3D: Now what?
6.00-7.00: wine reception
7.00-8.00: Keynote speech by Dr Alan Murray of the University of Leeds: National Identity, Ethnicity and language in the age of the Crusade
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12TH
9.30-11.00: Panel A
Chair: Prof. Michael Clarke
Steffen Magister
Trinity College Dublin
Wipo and the Early Medieval Mirrors of Princes
Lyla Owens
Bemidji State University, Minnesota
The Encomium Emmae Reginae: The establishment of Queenship within Late Anglo Saxon England
Jennifer Farrell
University College Dublin
When the realm is the King: Representations of the rise and fall of the nation in the individual portraits of Arthur and Mordred in the Historia Regnum Britanniae
11.00-11.30: tea & coffee break
11.30-1.00: Panel B
Chair: Dr Jacopo Bisagni
Ben Wright
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo
How long did the Cistercians “live by the work of their hands”: Negotiating the Cistercian ideal of manual labour at Cambron abbey 1148-1331
Katie Hager
University of Oxford
The Monk in Cassian and Evagrius: how their interpretations of Creation affect the identity of the monk in the ascetic life
Sarah McCann
NUI Galway
Playing their part: the Irish in Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum
1.00-2.15: buffet lunch on campus in An Bialann
2.30-4.00: Panel C
Chair: Dr PÌÁdraic Moran
Julie Damaggio
University of Lyon
Loan words and literate identity: Latin grammarians, Roman poets and the problem of Greek words in ìëÀìâ
Jason O’Rorke
NUI, Galway
Observations on the transmission of Donatus’ terminology in the Late Antique grammatical tradition
Beatrice Da Vela
University College London
In search of the author’s identity: exegetical problems in Donatus’ commentary on Terrence
4.00-4.30: tea & coffee break
4.30-6.00: Panel D
Chair: Dr Kim Lo Prete
Kenneth Coyne
NUI, Galway
Individual and Societal Identity in Robert of Rheim’s ‰Û÷urban speech’ in the historia Iherosolimitana
Edwin Hustwit
Bangor University, Gwynedd
Court poetry and the Men of the North: dynastic identity and the heroic past in 12th century Wales
Caoimhe Whelan
Trinity College Dublin
English Colonial Readers: the Hiberno- Middle English translation of Gerald of Wales’ Expugnatio Hibernica
7.30: Conference Dinner at the House Hotel
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13TH
9.30-11.00: Panel A
Chair: Cliodhna Carney
Robert Spindler
Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck
Gawain and hegemonic masculinity in the Middle Ages
Mary Michelle Poellinger
University of Leeds
The Violence of Translation: Creating a ‰Û÷Scottish Identity’ in Lancelot of the Laik
Laura Brennan
University College Dublin
‰Û÷The heroic model of William Marshal: An examination of the idealisation and reality of knighthood and chivalry in the twelfth-century Angevin Empire’.
11.00-11.30: tea & coffee break
11.30-1.00: Panel B
Chair: Dr Clodagh Downey
Esther Le Mair
NUI, Galway
Watch your morphology! Why the distinction between spoiling once or spoiling repeatedly is important in Old Irish verb formation
Mona Jakob
NUI, Galway
Adam the pure and torturous Lucifer- conceptual patterns in the Saltair na Rann
Eoin ÌÒ Donnchadha
University College Dublin
Sanas Cormaic and Identity within the early Irish poetic profession
1.00-1.30: tea & coffee break & light lunch
1.30-3-00: Panel C
Chair: Prof. GearÌ_id Mac Eoin
Nathan Millin
University College Dublin
Identity and emotions: Constrasting responses to the care of the dead in Medieval Ireland
Laura Aitken
University of Aberdeen
The enemy within: An examination of Medieval Irish and Norse attitudes towards the mentally ill.
Mark Kirwan
University College Dublin Enthusiasts and Rebels: Late 19th and early 20th century attitudes to the Viking Age in the British Isles
End of Conference

History Graduate Seminar Series 2011/12
2011-11-16 16:00
16 Nov. MÌÁire ÌÒ Broin
History & Myth in 19th-Century Germany: the Lost City of Vineta

The St. Gall Glosses to Priscian
2011-11-17 10:00
PROFESSOR PIERRE-YVES LAMBERT‰۪S VISIT
Thursday November 17th
10 a.m. ‰ÛÒ 12 p.m.: Postgraduate seminar, ‰Û÷The St Gall Glosses to Priscian‰۪
SiobhÌÁn McKenna Theatre (AM214).
5 p.m.: Lecture, ‰Û÷The Old Breton glosses on Bede in the manuscript Angers 477‰۪
MÌÁirtÌ_n ÌÒ Tnuthail theatre, Arts Millennium Building.
See further
http://www.ephe.sorbonne.fr/details/2032-lambert-pierre-yves-linguistique-et-philologie-celtiques.html
http://www.univ-brest.fr/Recherche/Laboratoire/CRBC/cherch/lambepie.htm.
Jacopo Bisagni/Michael Clarke

The Rory Kavanagh Bursary
2011-11-17 17:00
THE RORY KAVANAGH BURSARY
The Bursary has been made possible by a generous donation from the family of the late Rory Kavanagh (1971-1996), a 1993 B.A. graduate of National University of Ireland, Galway. Rory spent the 1991-1992 academic year in Italy at the University of Bologna under the ERASMUS Student Mobility Programme. This Bursary is awarded annually to allow a student of Italian spend a year at a university in Italy. It is awarded to a fulltime undergraduate student of Italian who passes the second year examinations in Arts or Commerce.
