Moore Institute

School of Humanities Public Lecture
2017-01-25 17:30 - 19:30 UTC | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Valediction: The Conditions of the University
by Prof Rod Stoneman
with an introduction by Prof Timothy Emlyn Jones

Valediction: the Conditions of the University
Boy bitten by a Lizard, about 1594-5, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Oil on Canvas, 66 x 49.5 cm.
An undergraduate in university in England during the 1970s, returning to tertiary education after work in the television and film industries with a university post in Ireland in 2003 – I offer this valedictory talk as a review of changing conditions of engagement: reflections on moments of rupture and continuity in a varied life of commitment, pleasure and “savage indignation”.
As for Caravaggio’s luscious painting – the apprehension of the boy, the lizard’s bite, the realisation of the glass vase – I have never been able to explain to myself the relation between them.

Seminar: Only Natural: John Toland (1670 - 1722) and the Jewish Question
2017-01-26 12:30 - 13:30 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Dr Ian Leask (DCU)
will give a talk
‘ Only Natural: John Toland (1670 – 1722) and the Jewish Question.’

Huston School of Film and Digital Media Guest Speaker
2017-01-26 14:30 - 16:30 | Huston Main, Huston School of Film and Media
Leon Butler

Leon Butler has worked across a broad range of positions in the media industry as a visual narrative designer, filmmaker, and educator. He graduated from Huston’s MA in Digital Media in 2009 and his final project animated film, Ghosts Before Dawn (2009), won the Gold Medal at the National Digital Media Awards. Since setting up his practice in 2010, he has worked with high-profile clients including the Galway International Arts Festival, who commissioned him to produce the iconic Festival Poster in 2011. He has also worked with clients as diverse as Starbucks on their global holiday campaign, Druid Theatre on a promotional film for their iconic productions, and musician Macklemore, who commissioned Leon to document his 2014 visit to Dublin’s O2 for two sold out shows. He has also developed many personal projects in animation, typography, children’s illustration and documentary. His research interest areas include adaptive interactions and experiences using available data in the public sphere and generative typography and in 2015 he completed a residency at the School of Visual Arts in New York in this field. In 2016, Leon received a ‘Certificate of Typographic Excellence’ from the Type Directors Club in New York. The Design and Craft Council of Ireland listed Leon as one of their ‘Future Makers’ for 2016. Leon has recently completed a 12-week residency in Los Angeles with digital agency 72andSunny in their 72u program. In September 2016 he was appointed as a design innovation research fellow on the Techinnovate program at NUI Galway for 2016-17.

EDEN presents: 'Patrols of the Imagination: Studies on John McGahern'.
2017-01-26 17:00 - 18:30 | Seminar Room GO11, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Featuring papers by Dr David Clare (UL), Martin Keaveney and John Singleton (English PhD Candidates, NUIG)

CAMPS Lab
2017-01-27 12:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Dr Rosemary Power (Moore Institute Visiting Fellow)
‘At the ends of Christendom: Medieval Greenland in written sources’

Launch of Digital Cultures Initiative (DCI)
2017-01-31 14:00 - 18:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
The DCI aims to bring together NUI Galway staff and students with interests or expertise in digital research and pedagogy in order to share knowledge and experience, develop new projects, and explore connections with creative, cultural and industrial partners in the fields of digital arts, humanities, social and information sciences.
The launch will be an opportunity to learn about the DCI’s aims and planned activities, and to discuss the ways in which the DCI might best serve the needs of the University and broader community. For more information on the DCI please see http://mooreinstitute.ie/dci
A light reception will follow.
Please rsvp using this link.

Sport Research Group Seminar
2017-02-01 13:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Sport and Exercise Research Group, Moore Institute, NUI Galway
Monthly Research Seminar (First Wednesday of each month)

‘A New Ireland Rises’?
Sport and the Remembering of 1916,
Dr Sean Crosson (Huston School of Film and Digital Media, NUI Galway).

History Graduate Research Seminar
2017-02-01 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Dr Darina McCarthy (Maynooth University)
‘Heinrich Bewerunge (1862 – 1923): German cleric, music professor and liturgical reform in Ireland’

Jean Ritchie Memorial Lecture
2017-02-02 13:00 - 14:00 | The Cube, Bailey Allen Hall
Henry Glassie (Professor of Folklore, Indiana University)
‘The Southern Mountain Music of Ola Belle Reed’
1–2pm
Thursday February 2nd
The Cube, Bailey Allen Hall

Henry Glassie will give the Third Annual Jean Ritchie Memorial Lecture on the Southern Mountain Music of Ola Belle Reed (1916-2002), the American folk singer, songwriter and banjo player whose work engaged with Appalachian life and traditions. She was one of the greatest ever performers of Appalachian music.

Huston School of Film and Digital Media Guest Speaker
2017-02-02 14:30 - 16:30 | Huston Main, Huston School of Film and Media
Will Collins

Will Collins is a screenwriter whose credits include the Oscar-nominated SONG OF THE SEA, the acclaimed follow-up feature to Tomm Moore’s, The Secret of Kells; Will received an ANNIE AWARD nomination for his ‘Achievement in Writing for an Animated Feature’. Will also wrote, MY BROTHERS, his award-winning live-action debut feature which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was the opening film of the Galway Film Fleadh 2010. Will won the Pitching Award at the Galway Film Fleadh in 2007 and was nominated for Best Film Script IFTA, 2015 & 2011. Will has also written for television. He has lectured in Screenwriting in NUIG and has worked as a Script Editor. Will graduated from the Huston School’s MA in Screenwriting in 2006.

Archives in Research Seminar
2017-02-02 15:00 - 17:30 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
The Archives service of the James Hardiman Library, NUI Galway are hosting a half-day seminar on the theme of ‘Archives in Research’. The seminar will feature expert speakers in various academic fields who will showcase new research projects which are based on innovative use of archival collections. The seminar will focus on a range of themes, including community and publicly-sourced records of the revolutionary period in the West of Ireland which are being digitised and being made publicly available online. Other areas addressed will be an NUI-funded project centred on creating digital access to historic traditional Irish musical scores, Irish language manuscripts and the research of the context of their collection.
A keynote paper will be delivered by Professor Frank Shovlin, Director of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool. The paper will detail the experiences of Prof. Shovlin’s study of the literary archive of celebrated writer John McGahern and the influence that archive has had on his research.
Completing the day, Dr. John Kenny (Discipline of English, NUI Galway) will launch the new book Touchstones: John McGahern’s Classical Style by Professor Shovlin.
The event is free and all are welcome to attend.
For further information please click on the following link: http://nuigarchives.blogspot.ie/2017/01/archives-in-research-seminar-and-book.html

Book Launch - The Moore Institute and the Hardiman Library
2017-02-02 17:30 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Touchstones
John McGahern’s Classical Style
by Prof Frank Shovlin (Director of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool)
Launch by
Dr John Kenny (English, NUIG)

Further information on the following link:
http://nuigarchives.blogspot.ie/2017/01/archives-in-research-seminar-and-book.html

CAMPS Lab
2017-02-03 12:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Dr Clodagh Downey (Gaeilge, OÉ Gaillimh)
‘Poetic positioning in medieval Irish poetry: the case of dindshenchas (‘the lore of prominent places’)’

Digital Scholarship Seminar Series - Spring 2017
2017-02-08 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Maria Engberg (Malmo University)
Augmented and Mixed Reality Design for Contested and Challenging Histories

History Graduate Research Seminar
2017-02-08 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Mr David Kilgannon (NUIG)
‘A most lamentable series of practices’: Accommodating the Intellectually Disabled in Ireland, 1950 – 67′.

Huston School of Film and Digital Media Guest Speaker
2017-02-09 14:30 - 16:30 | Huston Main, Huston School of Film and Media
Paul Webster

Paul Webster is an award winning director from Navan, Co. Meath. He is a graduate of the MA in Production and Direction at the Huston School of Film & Digital Media (NUIG). Paul was the winner of the Físín Pitching Award at the Dingle International Film Festival 2012 from which his film ‘Stuama’ received its funding. Paul directed the drama which won Best Irish Film at The Cork Underground Film Festival 2013. Paul went on to work in production for Element Pictures and later as script editor and writer on “Fair City”. Let Those Blues In, Paul’s documentary about Irish Blues musician, Paddy Smith, was the winner of Best Short Documentary in association with RTE at The Sky Road Film Festival, Clifden, Co. Galway in October 2015 and it was chosen as the closing short film at The Craic Fest Irish Film Festival in New York, March 2016. Paul received a €35,000 production fund from Science Foundation Ireland and The Galway Film Centre as part of their Science On Screen documentary scheme. Also in 2016, Paul co-directed Borderland, a 26 documentary exploring the refugee crisis along Europe’s Borders which will be screened during this guest session.

CAMPS Lab
2017-02-10 12:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Dr Sarah Corrigan (Classics, NUIG)
‘Through the spirit of anger’: the exegesis of the Red Sea crossing and its emulation in early Irish hagiography’

Special Screening: Meetings with Ivor (2016)
2017-02-13 19:00 - 21:00 | Eye Cinema, Galway
Special Screening: Meetings with Ivor (2016). Mon. Feb 13th Eye Cinema, 7:15 pm.
Followed by Q+A with Director Alan Gilsenan hosted by Dr. Tony Tracy (Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway).
Meetings with Ivor is an 81-minute documentary on the life and work of ground-breaking psychiatrist Ivor Browne. Browne has been a central figure in Irish mental health debates for many decades and his pioneering and often controversial work on behalf of the many who cannot speak for themselves is well-known.

Alan Gilsenan’s highly original film centres on Browne, who in his late-eighties, remains a startlingly refreshing and innovative thinker. The director – well known for his films about the institutions and individuals that have shaped Irish society – takes a unique approach to his subject, having set out to make a film on Browne ‘as radical as the man himself’.

www.meetingswithivor.com

Digital Scholarship Seminar Series - Spring 2017
2017-02-15 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Francesca Benatti (Open University)
‘A Question of Style? Stylometry, Authorship and the Edinburgh Review’

History Graduate Research Seminar
2017-02-15 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Dr Joseph Clarke (TCD)
‘A War Against God’?: Religion and Violence during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars’.

Arts, Humanities & Innovation - Speaker Series: Anatomy of a StartUp
2017-02-16 14:00 - 16:00 | The Moore Institute Seminar Room G010 Ground floor The Hardiman Research Building, Ireland
As part of the Arts, Humanities and Innovation – Connecting with Industry series, Mark Campbell, CEO of Pocket Anatomy will talk about his experience building a start-up business that has education at its core.
This series of talks is aimed at researchers from the Arts & Humanities, and will be of particular interest to PhD students considering options for future career development.
Mark’s Bio
Mark Campbell is an interaction designer, video, web and mobile software application specialist. In 2012, Mark set up a mobile app development company, Pocket Anatomy, to improve meaningful patient education in national and international healthcare systems. Receiving medical treatment is a stressful experience, and studies have shown that patients retain as little as 14% of the verbal medical information their doctor provides. Pocket Anatomy creates interactive 3D medical anatomy software solutions that provide a visual aid for doctors to explain medical procedures and conditions, and to record these sessions for later reference. The Pocket Anatomy software has won numerous international awards, as it combines Mark’s passion for video, mobile, healthcare and education.

CAMPS Lab
2017-02-17 12:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Dr Cathy Swift (University of Limerick)
‘St Nicholas of Ireland – patron saint of sailors and single women’.

Book Launch ' Frontiers, States and Identity in Early Modern Ireland and Beyond ' Essays in honour of Steven G Ellis
2017-02-20 17:00 - 19:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
‘Frontiers, states and identity in early modern Ireland and beyond’
Essays in honour of Steven G. Ellis
Christopher Maginn & Gerald Power, editors
launch by Prof Ciaran Brady (Dept of History, Trinity College Dublin)

RSVP (acceptance only) Four Courts Press | info@fourcourtspress.ie
To learn more about this book, visit the Four Courts Press website at http://www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2016/frontiers-states-and-identity-in-early-modern-ireland-and-beyond/

The scholarship of the influential historian, Steven G. Ellis, provides inspiration and coherence to this collection of original essays assembled in his honour.
Explorations of the history of Tudor Ireland form the core of the volume, but essays on late medieval Ireland, the Tudor far north and on the Netherlands and Iceland in later times stretch the chronological and geographic boundaries of early modern Ireland. For a full list of contents, see button at right.
Contributors: Raingard Esser (U Groningen), Guðmundur Hálfdanarson (U Iceland), Kieran Hoare (NUIG), Richard Hoyle (U London), Henry Jefferies (Thornhill College, Derry), Christopher Maginn (Fordham U), Joseph Mannion (ind), Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh (NUIG), Gerald Power (Metropolitan U, Prague), Andrew Sargent (NUIG), Brendan Scott (ind), Brendan Smith (U Bristol).
Christopher Maginn is professor at Fordham University, New York. His most recent book (with Steven Ellis) is The Tudor Discovery of Ireland (2015). Gerald Power is lecturer at Metropolitan University, Prague. He is the author of A European frontier elite: the nobility of the English Pale in Tudor Ireland, 1496–1566 (Hannover, 2012).
Four Courts Press. 304pp. Hardback. 978-1-84682-605-4 €55.00
http://www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2016/frontiers-states-and-identity-in-early-modern-ireland-and-beyond/
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Digital Scholarship Seminar Series - Spring 2017
2017-02-21 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Véronique Montémont (Université de Lorraine)
‘Digital Humanities Applied to Literary Studies in France’

The Spring 2017 series of Digital Scholarship Seminar continues on Tuesday 21 February with a talk by Véronique Montémont of the Université de Lorraine on digital humanities and literary studies in France. Dr Montémont’s presentation takes a twofold approach, first sketching a brief history of the discipline in France, before focusing on pertinent projects and initiatives in the fields of literature and linguistics. As ever, all are welcome.

12pm | Tuesday 21 February 2017 | Room 1001 Hardiman Research Building (The Bridge) | Facebook event page

Véronique Montémont (Université de Lorraine)
Digital Humanities Applied to Literary Studies in France
This paper aims to present an overview of what is called Digital Humanities («Humanités numériques») in France. The concept itself designates two distinctive streams, and therefore covers various issues: the first, theoretical dimension, considers digital humanities as a new paradigm able to offer a completely novel way of studying literature, linguistics or history; the other stream, more pragmatic, focuses on the various ways of producing and exploiting data. I will first sketch a brief history of this discipline in France, through a description of some pioneering projects which appeared around the 70’s. Then, I will focus on the fields of literature and linguistics, both disciplines based on the core concept of corpora. Corpora has become so crucial that a large part of projects and initiatives of Digital Humanities now concentrates on it, neglecting sometimes interpretation and hermeneutics that should remain the ultimate purpose of researchers. The last point I will discuss is the issue of teaching: despite a strong interest among academics, it remains difficult to offer a cohesive teaching program and even, in some cases, to convince students of its relevance. That raises a question: can Digital Humanities be considered and recognized as an intrinsic and promising cross-cutting discipline with its own hermeneutical purposes; or does it simply designate a technical turning point, a “moment” of knowledge, intended to reintegrate distinct research fields?

Véronique Montémont is Maître de conférences HDR (Senior Lecturer) in French language and literature. Within ATILF (Nancy, France), she is the Research Manager for the Frantext database and leader of the ‘Resources, Normalisation, Annotation and Exploitation’ research team. She is active within numerous research networks in both Nancy and Paris, including ANR Difdepo (focussed on OULIPO) and the Institute of Modern Texts and Manuscripts (ITEM-CNRS, Paris). She was Junior Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France from 2007 to 2012.

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Moore Institute Visiting Fellows Prof Chris Maginn and Dr Gerald Power will present a roundtable discussion on 'Researching Tudor Ireland - a Roundtable Discussion'.
2017-02-21 15:00 - 16:30 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
‘This 90-minute roundtable discussion is convened by Visiting Fellows at the Moore Institute Prof. Chris Maginn and Dr Gerald Power. It addresses a variety of aspects associated with research into Tudor Ireland, including sources and debates, and new or underexplored topics. The event will be of especial interest to PhD students working in this area, but could also be of interest to postgraduates (Master’s or PhD) in related fields, such as the late medieval, medieval or Stuart ages.’

History Graduate Research Seminar
2017-02-22 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
An Dr Úna Ní Bhroiméil (Mary Immaculate College, UL)
‘John Quinn – Irish American patron and powerbroker in turn of the century New York’

Seminar: 'Theatre and Translation' by MI Visiting Fellow, Dr. Alinne Fernandes
2017-02-23 15:00 - 16:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Theatre and Translation
Dr Alinne Fernandes’ talk will reflect on an ongoing practice-based research project, which aims to contribute to the dramaturgical study and dissemination of a number of Irish and Northern Irish women’s plays in Brazil. The project is motivated by the relative lack of study and translation of contemporary female voices in Irish and Northern Irish theatre, such as Patricia Burke Brogan, Christina Reid, Geraldine Aron, Anne Devlin, and Marina Carr, to name a few, and the desire to promote intercultural understanding through performance. Some of these playwrights, more noticeably Marina Carr, have enjoyed considerable success in Ireland and abroad, and yet remain un-translated and thus unknown to the Brazilian Portuguese-speaking world. In this talk, Dr Fernandez will go through her experiences working as translator and dramaturge on Carr’s By the Bog of Cats…, Mary Raftery’s No Escape, and Patricia Burke Brogan’s Eclipsed.
Bio
Dr Alinne Fernandes is a Lecturer at the Department of Modern Languages at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis, Brazil. She completed her PhD in Translation and Dramaturgy at Queen’s University Belfast in 2012, during which she translated Marina Carr’s play By the Bog of Cats… (1998) as a case study for developing a methodological framework for theatre translation. Her translation, with an introduction by Marina Carr and notes on her extensive study on the play, is forthcoming with the São Paulo-based Rafael Copetti Editor (2017, Coleção Atemporais). She has published articles on theatre translation in international peer-reviewed journals, such the Journal of Romance Studies (Berghahn Journals), Quaderns: Revista de Traducció, Cadernos de Tradução, Aletria, Tradterm, and Scientia Traductionis. She also has an article forthcoming in Dramaturgias (University of Brasília, Brazil), and a book chapter co-authored with Dr Maria Rita Viana forthcoming in Vidas Irlandesas – O Cinema de Alan Gilsenan em Contexto (2017), a collection organised by Dr Beatriz Bastos and Prof José Roberto O’Shea. Besides Carr’s By the Bog of Cats…, Fernandes has translated and worked as dramaturge on the production of several plays for performance and staged readings, such as Mary Raftery’s No Escape, Esteve Soler’s Contra el Progreso, W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory’s Cathleen ni Houlihan (with Dr Maria Rita Viana), and Patricia Burke Brogan’s Eclipsed, as well as directed several rehearsed readings. She is the Vice-Coordinator of the research cluster on Irish Studies at UFSC, ad hoc reviewer for the international journal Ilha do Desterro, and a member of the International Federal for Theatre Research.

CAMPS Lab
2017-02-24 12:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Dr Kieran O’Connor (Archaeology, NUIG)
‘Temple House Castle – from Templar castle to New English mansion’

Digital Scholarship Seminar Series - Spring 2017
2017-02-24 12:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room GO11, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Lizzy Williamson (Folger Shakespeare Library)
‘Material Texts and Digital Provenance: Opening a Digital Anthology of Early Modern English Drama’

'The Early-Modern Book as a Historical Object' by Prof. J.P. Pittion (TCD & Tours)
2017-02-28 12:00 - 13:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Prof. Jean-Paul Pittion, fellow emeritus at TCD and former professor of Renaissance Studies in the Université François Rabelais, Tours, has published widely on the history of the book, Protestant academies in France, Huguenot emigration to Ireland, intellectual history, the history of medicine and medical publishing in the early modern period.
