Moore Institute

Ian McBride, Kings College London and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow -Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland
2015-05-12 13:00 (Europe/Dublin)
The recent controversy over the ‰Û÷Boston Project’ tapes has demonstrated that the unfinished business of the Troubles still has the power to disrupt political progress in Northern Ireland; but it also reveals the attempts of disparate republican voices to establish the dominant narrative of ‰Û÷armed struggle’. This talk examines the memoirs of former IRA men (Sean O’Callaghan, Eamon Collins, Gerry Bradley, Brendan Hughes), focusing on varieties of disenchantment with the republican campaign and the anticipated futures that have fuelled republican activism. It will explore the particular political junctures that have shaped these works and the difficulties they present as sources for historians.
About the Speaker
Ian McBride is Professor of Irish and British History at King’s College London. He has written on various aspects of modern Irish history. His forthcoming works include Irish Political Writings 1: TheCambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift (2016) and The Princeton History of Modern Ireland, co-edited with Richard Bourke (2015). Since editing History and Memory in Modern Ireland (Cambridge, 2001) he has been interested in contemporary uses of the past. His current research focuses on debates over truth and reconciliation in Northern Ireland since 1998, and the relationship between political violence, representations of the past and professional historiography.
Organised by the Conflict, Humanitarianism and Security Research Custer
For more information please contact niall.odochartaigh@nuigalway.ie

Dr Kevin James is Associate Professor of History at the University of Guelph and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow - 'Take my advice, go to Mongan's Hotel': Sport, Charity, and Tourism in late-Victorian Rural Co. Galway
2015-05-11 19:00
Dr Kevin James, University of Guelph and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow
‘Take my advice, go to Mongan’s Hotel’: Sport, Charity, and Tourism in late-Victorian Rural Co. Galway
A free public lecture entitled ‰Û÷Take my advice, go to Mongan’s Hotel: Sport, Charity, and Tourism in Late-Victorian Connemara’ will be held in Galway city on Monday, 11 May at 7 pm. The lecture will be delivered by Dr Kevin James, Associate Professor of History at the University of Guelph, Ontario, and will take place in the Galway City Library in Augustine St, under the auspices of NUI Galway’s Moore Institute
Mongan’s Hotel in Carna, Co. Galway, was an historic site of pilgrimage for the sporting tourist in the nineteenth century, and served as a social, commercial, and cultural hub of the district. In the 1890s, initiatives aimed at alleviating distress and developing the district’s economy highlighted the important role of the hotel and its proprietor, Martin Mongan. He forged connections between the locality and organisations and markets farther afield – notably in Manchester. The evidence appears in the hotel’s historic visitors’ book.
This public lecture will look at how Mongan’s provided a venue for tourism, a magnet for sports enthusiasts, and a site for charitable activity.
Professor Daniel Carey, Director of the Moore Institute at NUI Galway, said: “Kevin James’s work has opened up new vistas on the history of travel to Co. Galway. Visitors’ books offer an intriguing glimpse into a lost world in the nineteenth century.” Dr Kevin James is author of Tourism, Land and Landscape in Ireland: The Commodification of Culture. In spring 2014, he held a Moore Institute Visiting Research Fellowship to support his research at the James Hardiman Library, NUI Galway.
For more information contact : Dr John Cunningham, Department of History, NUI Galway at john.cunningham@nuigalway.ie or phone 091 493902.

Andrew Laurence-King - Play, Work/Chaos, Ordomedieval Opera? Bringing 13th Century Life to Performance in Ludus Danielis (MS Egerton 2615)
2015-05-11 16:00
Public Lecture
Andrew Laurence-King
Play, Work/Chaos, Ordomedieval Opera? Bringing 13th Century Life to Performance in Ludus Danielis (MS Egerton 2615)
FÌÁilte Roimh ChÌÁch!
For more information please contact kim.loprete@nuigalway.ie

School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures Reserach Day
2015-05-07 09:30
School of Languages,Literatures and Cultures Reserach Day
PROGRAMME
9.30 – 10am: Reception with tea and coffee & Welcome from Professor PÌ_l ÌÒ Dochartaigh
10 – 11 am: Panel 1 (Chair: Tina-Karen Pusse)
Barry NEVIN (French): Ida (1935) Revisited: Post-war Trauma and the Looming Threat of Fascism in Jean Renoir’s Front Populaire Output’
Maura STEWART (French): ‰Û÷Le Pen, Sarkozy and the battle over Joan of Arc’
Paolo BARTOLONI (Italian): ‰Û÷Things That Matter: Objects in Italian Life and Culture’
11 – 11.30am: Break
11.30 – 12.30 pm: Panel 2 (Chair: Mel Boland)
Jennifer WOOD (Spanish): ‰Û÷Echoes of Medieval Elegies in the Poetry of the Falklands War’
Deirdre BYRNES (German): ‰Û÷The Recovery of Marginalised Voices: Exploring the Permanent Exhibition at the Berlin-Hohensch̦nhausen Memorial’
12.30 – 2 pm: Lunch break
2.00 – 3.00pm: Panel 3 (Chair: Mark Stansbury)
Chris DIXON (Spanish): ‰Û÷Translating the Wild West’
Marie BLOM (French): ‰Û÷The Translatability of Hiberno-English into French with the works of Roddy Doyle as a case study’.
3.00 – 4.00pm: Open discussion (Chair: Sylvie Lannegrand): Brief presentation by Ivan Kenny (Spanish) on Early Career Researchers followed by more general discussion on research-related matters.
For more information please contact Suzanne.gilsenan@nuigalway.ie

Special Collections Lunchtime Lectures Series -Dr. Micheline Sheehy Skeffington,Early floras and natural history guides -what can we learn?
2015-05-06 13:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Special Collections Lunchtime Seminar Series
Dr. Micheline Sheehy Skeffington
Early floras and natural history guides -what can we learn?
Dr. Micheline Sheehy Skeffington will look at some of the unusual, rare and key natural history books in Special Collections and explain the significance of a selection of these.Some examples will be on display during the talk.
For more information please contact olivia.lardner@nuigalway.ie

Gender ARC Public Lecture: Sylvia Walby, Distinguished Professor, UNESCO Chair of Gender Research Department of Sociology, Lancaster University -Preventing gender based violence against women: Can this be mainstreamed?
2015-05-05 18:00
Gender ARC and Global Women’s Studies at NUI Galway are pleased to invite you to a public lecture:

Sylvia Walby, Distinguished Professor, UNESCO Chair of Gender Research
Department of Sociology, Lancaster University
Preventing gender based violence against women: Can this be mainstreamed?

All Welcome
Refreshments will be served – please RSVP to Gillian Browne (gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie) Abstract: Preventing violence against women requires reforms in all social institutions. It cannot be solved by a narrow focus on one domain, such as the criminal justice system. The policy device of ‰Û÷gender mainstreaming’ has potential to reach into all policy domains; but it has not yet been successful. How should the necessary transformations be theorised; how can they be put into practice? What are the strengths and limits of gender mainstreaming? Is estimating the ‰Û÷cost’ of violence against women to economy and society a way forward, reaching parts of policy and political institutions that no feminist action could otherwise reach? This talk explores the dilemmas in the current debates on how best to prevent violence against women and reaches a decisive conclusion. Sylvia Walby is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and UNESCO Chair in Gender Research, Lancaster University, UK. She has been advising on the cost of gender-based violence for the European Institute for Gender Equality and UK Home Office. She is leading an ESRC funded project: ‰Û÷Is domestic violence increasing or decreasing? She is currently working on the measurement of gender-based violence for the Council of Europe to assist the implementation of the Istanbul Convention’s Article 11. Recent books include: Globalization and Inequalities: Complexity and Contested Modernities (Sage 2009) and The Future of Feminism (Polity 2011). Her next book is the jointly authored Stopping Rape: Towards a Comprehensive Policy (forthcoming Policy Press 2015), which draws on work for the European Parliament. This will be followed by Crisis for Polity Press (forthcoming 2015). Her website is: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/sociology/profiles/Sylvia-Walby For questions, please contact Gender ARC Seminar and Public Lecture Series coordinator: Emma BrÌ_nnlund, e.brannlund1@nuigalway.ie

CAMPS lab: Dr Kieran O'Conor, Archaeology, NUIG - 'New Work on Rindoon Castle, County Roscommon'.
2015-05-01 12:00
Dr Kieran O’Conor, Archaeology, NUIG
‘New Work on Rindoon Castle, County Roscommon’.
Followed by discussion & light lunch
Everyone welcome – FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch
For more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie

Digital Scholarship Seminar: Franck Cinato (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris) Collaborative Digital Editing: Experience from the Liber Glossarum Project
2015-04-30 17:00
Digital Scholarship Seminar:
Franck Cinato (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris)
Collaborative Digital Editing: Experience from the Liber Glossarum Project
Abstract: This presentation will share experience from a large-scale project to produce a new collaborative digital edition of the Liber Glossarum, a vast encyclopaedic dictionary (c. 30,000 entries) compiled in a female monastery in northern France around the end of the eighth century. Despite its status a foundational educational resource throughout the Middle Ages, the text has been neglected by scholars due to the absence to date of any complete edition. The scale of the project requires the involvement of specialists throughout Europe, and the core of the project is a website providing a collaborative platform. http://liber-glossarum.linguist.univ-paris-diderot.fr/
Bio: Dr Franck Cinato is a researcher at the CNRS, Paris. He completed a doctorate in 2010 on early medieval glossing at the Ìäcole Pratique des Hautes Ìätudes, Paris. He also has an interest in experimental archaeology, and in 2009 co-published an edition of the earliest European manual on the art of sword-fighting.
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For further informatition, contact: Dr PÌÁdraic Moran (padraic.moran@nuigalway.ie),
or Dr Justitin Tonra (justitin.tonra@nuigalway.ie)
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The 12th Annual Irish Theatrical Diaspora Conference - April 30th and May 1st
2015-04-30 09:00
NUI Galway Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, the Irish Theatrical Diaspora Project (ITD), and the Gate Theatre present:
The 12th Annual
IRISH THEATRICAL DIASPORA CONFERENCE
Theme: DUBLIN’S GATE THEATRE
30 April and 1 May 2015
The Gate Theatre, Parnell Square, Dublin 1
Since the Gate Theatre was founded by Hilton Edwards and MicheÌÁl Mac LiammÌ_ir in 1928, it has been a vital and essential presence in Dublin theatrical life. The Gate has given us outstanding, landmark productions (including the legendary Juno and the Paycock from 1986, the first Salom̩ in English in 1928, and world premieres of classic plays by Denis Johnston and Brian Friel), brilliant festivals (including the performance of all 19 stage plays by Samuel Beckett in 1991 and four festivals dedicated to the work of Harold Pinter), and daring tours (to China, Egypt, Israel, and beyond); it has also launched the careers of internationally-renowned actors (including Orson Welles, James Mason, and Michael Gambon), and important Gate productions have featured some of Ireland and Britain’s most famous actors (including SiobhÌÁn McKenna, David Kelly, Kenneth Branagh, Ralph Fiennes, CiarÌÁn Hinds, John Hurt, Liam Neeson, Stephen Rea, and – memorably – Sin̩ad, Sorcha, and Niamh Cusack alongside their father, Cyril, in Chekhov’s Three Sisters).
Given the immense importance of the Gate’s contribution to Irish theatrical culture, it has received less critical attention than it deserves. As such, this year’s Irish Theatrical Diaspora Conference will be dedicated to examining the Gate and the theatre practitioners associated with it – not just the celebrated artists mentioned above but also unsung figures such as Lord and Lady Longford, Mary Manning, Mainie Jellett, and Harry Kernoff. The conference will feature a public interview with Michael Colgan (the theatre’s artistic director and the man behind many of its greatest achievements) and performances from actors associated with the Gate (such as Barry McGovern, Bryan Murray, and Michael James Ford); the programme will also include academic panels and plenary sessions which explore the theatre’s past, present and future. Surprisingly, this will be the first academic conference devoted entirely to the Gate.
To register for this conference – or to obtain more information about it – please write to Dr. David Clare (david.clare@nuigalway.ie) or Des Lally (desmlally@gmail.com). The conference is free of charge but space is limited, so advance registration is required.
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
THURS., 30 April 2015
9.00am-9.20am: Registration GATE THEATRE CAFÌä / Tea and Coffee served
9.20am-9.30am: Opening Remarks GATE AUDITORIUM
9.30am-10.30am: PLENARY SESSION – Richard Pine (Durrell School of Corfu) on “Micheal Mac LiammÌ_ir, the Exotic-Erotic, and the Gate Theatre’s place in Irish Theatre Studies” GATE AUDITORIUM
10.30am-11.00am: Tea and Coffee GATE THEATRE CAFÌä AND BAR
11.00-12.30pm: PANEL ONE – MAC LIAMMÌÒIR AND EDWARDS (Chair: Miriam Haughton of NUI Galway) GATE AUDITORIUM
Thomas Madden (NUIM) – “Letting Mac LiammÌ_ir Speak”
Ruud van den Beuken (Radboud University Nijmegen) – “A Future Femme Fatale: Prospective Memory Structures in MicheÌÁl Mac LiammÌ_ir’s Diarmuid and GrÌÁinne“
Des Lally (NUI Galway) – “The Fictionalization of Hilton Edwards and MicheÌÁl Mac LiammÌ_ir in Paul Smith’s Novel Stravaganza!“
12.30pm-1.30pm: Lunch Break
1.30pm-3.00pm: PANEL TWO – BECKETT (Chair: Feargal Whelan of UCD) GATE AUDITORIUM
Trish McTighe (University of Reading) – “‰Û÷Be again, be again’: The Gate’s Beckett Country”
David Clare (NUI Galway) – “The Gate Theatre’s Beckett Festivals: Tensions between the Local and the Global”
Aoife Lynch (UCD) – “Beckett’s Endgame, Entropy, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics”
3.00pm-3.45pm: Rehearsed Reading of The Old Tune, by Samuel Beckett (after Robert Pinget), starring Barry McGovern and Bryan Murray (presented with support from the Irish Research Council) GATE AUDITORIUM
3.45pm-4.00pm: Tea and Coffee GATE THEATRE CAFÌä AND BAR
4.00pm-5.30pm: PANEL THREE – NEGLECTED PLAYWRIGHTS (Chair: Des Lally of NUI Galway) GATE AUDITORIUM
Paige Reynolds (Holy Cross) – “Mary Manning at the Gate”
Feargal Whelan (UCD) – “Lord Longford’s Yahoo: Swift and Anglo-Irish nationalism in the 1930s”
Virginie Girel-Pietka (CECILLE, Universit̩ Lille 3) – “Denis Johnston at the Gate”
6.00pm-7.00pm: PLENARY SESSION – Public Interview with Michael Colgan (conducted by Vincent Woods of RTÌä) THE GATE LAB
FRI., 1 May 2015
9.00am-9.20am: Registration GATE THEATRE CAFÌä / Tea and Coffee served
9.20am-9.30am: Organiser Remarks GATE AUDITORIUM
9.30am-11.00am: PANEL FOUR -WILDE AND SHAW (Chair: David Clare of NUI Galway) GATE AUDITORIUM
Audrey McNamara (UCD) – “The Actress Meets the Bishop at the Gate: SiobhÌÁn McKenna in Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan“
Noreen Doody (St. Patrick’s College, DCU) – “‰Û÷Our only thorough playwright’: Oscar Wilde and the Gate Theatre, Dublin”
Ian R. Walsh (NUI Galway) – “Patrick Mason, the Anglo-Irish Playwright, and the Gate Theatre”
11.00am-11.30am: Tea and Coffee GATE THEATRE CAFÌä AND BAR
11.30am-12.30pm: Rehearsed reading of Bernard Shaw’s O’Flaherty, V.C., starring Michael James Ford (presented with support from the Irish Research Council) GATE AUDITORIUM
12.30pm-2.00pm: Lunch Break
2.00pm – 3.30pm: PANEL FIVE – DESIGN AND STAGING (Chair: Patrick Lonergan of NUI Galway) GATE AUDITORIUM
Elaine Sisson (IADT) – “Experiment and the Free State: The Gate Theatre and European Modernism 1928-1937”
SiobhÌÁn O’Gorman (TCD) – “From the Neo-Elizabethan to the Brechtian? Edwards and MacLiammoir’s Scenography post-1950”
Joe Vanek (Set and Costume Designer) – “Innocence and Beyond: Four Designs for Frank McGuinness Plays at the Gate”
3.30pm-4.00pm: Tea and Coffee GATE THEATRE CAFÌä AND BAR
4.00pm-5.30pm: PANEL SIX – FRIEL (Chair: Thomas Conway of Druid/NUI Galway) GATE AUDITORIUM
Emilie Pine(UCD) – “Angry Young Men: Brian Friel, Tom Murphy, Arnold Wesker”
Anthony Roche (UCD) – “Friel at the Gate: Lovers in Dublin and New York”
Graham Price (UCD) – “Faith Healer, Bracha Ettinger and the Art-Encounter-Event”
6.00pm-7.00pm: PLENARY SESSION – Public interview with Christopher Fitz-Simon (conducted by Nicholas Grene of TCD) THE GATE LAB

CAMPS lab: Dr Kim LoPrete, History, NUIG - 'War, Monastic Conversion, and the Politics of Ecclesiastical Reform in 1070s' France'
2015-04-24 12:00
Dr Kim LoPrete, History, NUIG‘War, Monastic Conversion, and the Politics of Ecclesiastical Reform in 1070s’ France’
Followed by discussion & light lunch
Everyone welcome – FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch
For more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie

'A Peculiar Society'? Ireland, 1970s-1990s - April 24th and 25th 2015
2015-04-24 10:30
A Peculiar Society? Ireland, 1970s-1990s
Programme
PROGRAMME
‰Û÷A peculiar society’? Ireland, 1970s-1990s
Moore Institute, Hardiman Research Building,National University of Ireland Galway24-25 April 2015
‰Û÷Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century’ (John McGahern)
24 April 201510.30 – Registration
11.15 – Welcome and Introductory Remarks: A Peculiar Society?
11.30 – Parallel Sessions 11a. Urban VoicesErika Hanna (University of Edinburgh)Discovering ghosts in Dublin’s derelict spaces: the Urban Folklore Project, 1979-80
Elizabeth DeYoung (University of Liverpool)Belfast in the 1970s: deindustrialisation, development, and ‰Û÷the Troubles’
Marina NÌ_ DhubhÌÁin (NUI Galway)Performing oral history: some methodological challenges in staging the real
1b. The International ContextCiarÌÁn O’Driscoll (University College Dublin)Accession into troubled waters: Ireland and the Common Fisheries Policy of the EU
Marie-Violaine Louvet (Toulouse 1, Capitole University)The Ireland-Israel Friendship League: Israel supporters in Irish civil society, 1970s-1990s
Gerald Power (Metropolitan University Prague)Irish newspaper reporting on the Falklands War
13.00 – Lunch
13.45 – Parallel Sessions 22a. Managing Political ChangeJohn Mulqueen (Trinity College Dublin)The rhetoric of class politics and the Cold War: from Sinn F̩in to Workers’ Party
TomÌÁs Finn (NUI Galway)The praxis of power: Patrick Lynch and the Irish state
Elaine Byrne (Global Irish Studies Centre)1970s-1990s: an era of delayed accountability. Why?
2b. Theatréine Phillips (Burren College of Art, NUI Galway)Performance art in Ireland: a history
Barry Houlihan (NUI Galway)Citizens, streets and stages: Irish theatre in the 1970s
Patrick Lonergan (NUI Galway)From Rolo to Anglo: advertising at the Abbey Theatre from the 1970s to the 1990s
15.15 – Break
15.45 – Parallel Sessions 33a. MovementsKevin Ryan (NUI Galway)‰Û÷The revolution is us’: art and politics in Ireland, 1974-1993
Connal Parr (University of Oxford)Filling the void left by politics: the Field Day Theatre movement
Kevin O’Sullivan (NUI Galway)Global citizens? Humanitarianism, belonging, and the Dunnes Stores strike, 1984-87
3b. Northern Ireland: The Political ContextSeÌÁn McKillen (University of Limerick)The rise of constitutional nationalism and the fracturing of the Unionist political orthodoxy, 1970-1998
James Greer (Queen’s University, Belfast)Northern Ireland and the 1975 EEC referendum
Stuart Aveyard (Queen’s University, Belfast)Social policy in Northern Ireland and the Labour government, 1974-79
17.15 – Close of Day 1
20.00 – History Ireland Hedge School: Ireland in the 1970sMechanics Institute, Middle Street, GalwayParticipants: Sarah-Anne Buckley, Brian Hanley, Tom Inglis, Mary KennyChair: Tommy Graham
25 April 201509.00 – Parallel Sessions 44a. New FearsBarry Sheppard (Queen’s University, Belfast)Fearing a social explosion? The Church, the media and ‰Û÷satanic cults’ in Ireland
Cian Anthony Manning (University College Cork)Carnsore Point: the birthplace of environmentalism and popular protest in Ireland
Maeve Casserly (National Library of Ireland)Radharc: a television history
4b. Youth and the TroublesGareth Mulvenna (Queen’s University, Belfast)‰Û÷Our boys of tomorrow’: Tartan gangs and Loyalist paramilitarism in early 1970s Belfast
Angela Stephanie Mazzetti (Queen’s University, Belfast)The long-term impact of ‰Û÷growing-up’ during ‰Û÷the Troubles’ on coping behaviours
Paddy McMenamin (Independent Scholar)Armed struggle and the ‰Û÷beautiful game’, Belfast 1970
10.30 – Break
10.45 – Parallel Sessions 55a. MusicM̩abh NÌ_ FhuarthÌÁin (NUI Galway)‰Û÷Lisdoonvarna’: A model of festivity for a ‰Û÷peculiar society’
Verena Commins (NUI Galway)‰Û÷Blurring and erasure’? De-nationalising Irish traditional music practices, 1970s-1990s
SeÌÁn Shanagher (Ballyfermot College of Further Education)Clubbing, dance music and Ireland in the 1990s
5b. Public HistoryDominic Bryan (Queen’s University, Belfast)Parades and the decline of the civic in 1970s Belfast
Margaret O’Callaghan (Queen’s University, Belfast)Commemoration during conflict: commemorating 1916 in 1976
Gillian McIntosh (Queen’s University, Belfast)When is a jubilee not a jubilee: the creation of Ulster ’71
12.15 – Lunch
13.00 – Parallel Sessions 66a. Gender and SexualityNina Holmes (Kingston University, London)Representations of women in Irish government health pamphlets, 1970s-1980s
Orla Egan (University College Cork)Cork’s LGBT community, 1970s to 1990s
6b. Northern Ireland: The View from the SouthGerard Madden (NUI Galway)Responses in the west of Ireland to civil rights protest in Northern Ireland, 1968-72
Brian Hanley (Independent Scholar)‰Û÷Are we trying to create a new Chile here?’ The Sunday World versus the National Coalition
Stephen Kelly (Liverpool Hope University)A peculiar peacemaker: Charles J. Haughey and the early stages of the peace process, 1986-1992
14.30 – Break
15.00 – Parallel Sessions 77a. MulticulturalismMichael Kennedy (Royal Irish Academy)‰Û÷All the Raj’: how the Indian restaurant went mainstream in 1980s and 1990s Ireland
VukaÁin Nedeljkovic (Dublin Institute of Technology)A peculiar society: asylum seekers in Ireland
7b. Culture and the Early TroublesMartin McCleery (Independent Scholar)The evolution of the early Troubles outside of Belfast and Derry
Jonathan Hannon (NUI Galway)Punk and Northern Ireland in the 1970s
DaithÌ_ ÌÒ CorrÌÁin (St Patrick’s College, Dublin City University)‰Û÷Negotiating the non-negotiable’: the Northern Ireland Troubles and the development of inter-church relations in Ireland
16.30 – RoundtableTom Inglis (University College Dublin)Mary KennyGearÌ_id ÌÒ Tuathaigh (NUI Galway)
17.30 – Close of Conference
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Registration: ‰âÂ20 (‰âÂ10 students & unwaged).
For further details, please contact the conference organisers Sarah-Anne Buckley, TomÌÁs Finn, & Kevin O’Sullivan (Discipline of History, National University of Ireland, Galway).
A pdf version of this programme is available here.

Public Lecture: Peter Killeen, Arizona State University and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow: What is Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and where does it come from?
2015-04-23 18:00
What is Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and where does it come from?
The simplest definition of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) consists of a list of the typical symptoms. Professor Killeen provides a more comprehensive definition that informs us of the events that trigger ADHD in both its acute and chronic manifestations; the neurobiology that underlies it; and the evolutionary forces that have kept it in the germ line of our species. These factors are organized in terms of Aristotle’s four kinds of “causes,” or explanations: formal, efficient, material, and final. By providing this more complete picture of the syndrome, we gain a deeper understanding and the potential to identify novel approaches to accommodate and remediate the behavior of people with ADHD.
Professor Peter Killeen is currently a visiting fellow at the Moore Institute in NUI Galway. He is emeritus professor of psychology at Arizona State University, and has also been visiting scholar at the University of Texas, Cambridge University, and the Centre for Advanced Study, Oslo.
Professor Killeen has made landmark contributions to a remarkable number of fields in the behavioral sciences, including the experimental study of learning, decision-making, timing and memory. His major work includes the development of incentive theory, culminating in the mathematical principles of reinforcement (Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 1994), and the behavioral theory of timing (Psychological Review, 1988). He also developed a novel statistical technique (pRep) that was adopted by Psychological Science, one of the foremost journals in psychology. Professor Killeen’s quantitative and conceptual developments have enriched psychology and the world beyond.

Medieval Studies Postgraduate Research Day.
2015-04-23 14:00
Medieval Studies Postgraduate Research Day
For more information please contact kim.loprete@nuigalway.ie

Public Lecture: Claudia Kinmonth, Moore Institute Visiting Fellow: Revising Irish Country Furniture 1700-1950, Piggins, Noggins & Fowl Indoors
2015-04-22 17:30
Public Lecture
by
Claudia Kinmonth, Moore Institute Visiting Fellow
Revising Irish Country Furniture 1700-1950
Piggins, Noggins & Fowl Indoors
All welcome
For more information please contact kate.thornhill@nuigalway.ie

Panel Discussion: Smoking: Are e-cigarettes part of the problem or part of the solution?
2015-04-22 15:00
Smoking: Are e-cigarettes part of the problem or part of the solution?
A panel discussion
According to the WHO, tobacco use kills more than 5 million people per year. It is responsible for 1 in 10 adult deaths. Among the five greatest risk factors for mortality, it is the single most preventable cause of death. Recently, e-cigarettes have been introduced that provide nicotine in vapour form. The question that the panel will discuss is whether e-cigarettes are part of the solution to the problem of smoking-related mortality or not.
The panel will consider
the commercial interests that are served by making e-cigarettes more or less available
Panel members
Professor Peter Killeen is currently a visiting fellow at the Moore Institute in NUI Galway. He is emeritus professor of psychology at Arizona State University, and has also been visiting scholar at the University of Texas, Cambridge University, and the Centre for Advanced Study, Oslo.
Professor David Finn is Professor of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Science Foundation Ireland Principal Investigator, Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Centre for Pain Research and Leader of the Galway Neuroscience Centre at NUI Galway.
Dr Brendan Kennelly is a lecturer in health economics at NUI Galway. He was also a Visiting Professor in the Department of Economics at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania from August 2002 to December 2003 and from January 2010 to August 2011. He has published articles on welfare economics, public choice, the welfare state and health economics.

Dr. Per Landgren (Oxford) , 'A Forgotten Key Concept in Early Modern Science: The Aristotelian Concept of historia'
2015-04-21 17:30

Prof. Alexis Tadie, Universit̩ Paris-Sorbonne - 'What is a Quarrel?'
2015-04-21 17:30

Language Games: A Seminar on Language and Literature
2015-04-21 16:00
‘Language Games’: An AWC Seminar on Language and Literature.
All welcome.
This week’s seminar will deal with W.B. Yeats’s A Vision
Texts for discssion will be provided at the meeting.
Contact: irina.ruppo@nuigawlay.ie

ÌÒ Briain Annual Public Lecture - Prof Jan Pedersen, University of Stockholm, 'Subtitling Cultural References: When Mr Rodgers became Donald Duck
2015-04-20 18:30
ÌÒ Briain Annual Public Lecture – Prof Jan Pedersen,
University of Stockholm, ‘Subtitling Cultural
References: When Mr Rodgers became Donald Duck
One of the classic translation problems is cultural references, and when it comes to subtitling the constraints are quite severe: not only is there a shift from spoken to written mode but there is also the question of polysemiotics. In a polysemiotic text, such as a film or a TV programme, the subtitles have to coexist with other semiotic channels, with which they should ideally cohere. This talk presents a model for analysis (and production) of ways in which Extralinguistic Cultural References (ECRs) can be rendered in subtitling. It also explains how Mr Rogers became Donald Duck.
For more information please contact suzanne.gilsenan@nuigalway.ie

Book Launch: Paolo Bartoloni, Sapere di scrivere. Svevo e gli ordigni di La coscienza di Zeno, Il Carrubo.
2015-04-16 18:00
Book Launch
Paolo Bartoloni, Sapere di scrivere. Svevo e gli ordigni di La coscienza di Zeno, Il Carrubo.
The book will be launched by Dr Giuseppe Stellardi, The University of Oxford; with an introduction by Daniel Carey.The book launch and all talks will be in English.
For more information please contact Paolo Bartoloni at italian@nuigalway.ie

Moore Institute Visiting Fellow Lecture - Prof. Alexis Tadi̩ (University of Paris-Sorbonne & Moore Institute Visiting Fellow) - 'How Can We Talk about Syria?'
2015-04-16 16:00
Moore Institute Visiting Fellow Lecture
Prof. Alexis Tadi̩
(University of Paris-Sorbonne &
Moore Institute Visiting Fellow)
‰Û÷How Can We Talk about Syria?’
4pm, Thursday 16 April
Moore Institute Seminar Room (G010)
Hardiman Research Building
For more information please contact daniel.carey@nuigalway.ie

Conflict, Humanitarianism and Security Research Seminar: Moore Institute Visiting Fellow Prof. Adrian Guelke (Queen's University Belfast) - Haass and Hart: Recent US mediation in Northern Ireland
2015-04-15 14:00
Conflict, Humanitarianism and Security
Research Seminar
Moore Institute Visiting Fellow
Prof. Adrian Guelke (Queen’s University Belfast)
Haass and Hart: Recent US mediation in Northern Ireland
For more information please contact daniel.carey@nuigalway.ie

Special Collections Lunchtime Lectures: Arts of travel: from Renaissance to Romanticism-a talk by Prof. Daniel Carey, Moore Institute
2015-04-15 13:00
Special Collections Lunchtime Lectures series Arts of travel: from Renaissance to Romanticism
by Prof. Daniel Carey, Moore Institute
For more information please contact olivia.lardner@nuigalway.ie

Special Collections Lunchtime Lectures Series:Arts of travel: from Renaissance to Romanticism, a look at historical travel literature with Prof. Daniel Carey, Moore Institute
2015-04-15 13:00
Special Collections Lunchtime Lectures Series
Arts of travel: from Renaissance to Romanticism, a look at historical travel literature with Prof. Daniel Carey, Moore Institute
For more information please contact olivia.lardner@nuigalway.ie

Gender ARC Lunchtime Seminar Series:Tanya Watson, PhD Candidate, Political Science and Sociology, NUI Galway Woman of the Farm: Property Ownership and Gender on Family Farms in Ireland
2015-04-15 13:00
Gender ARC Lunchtime Seminar Series

Tanya Watson, PhD Candidate, Political Science and Sociology, NUI Galway
Woman of the Farm: Property Ownership and Gender on Family Farms in Ireland

All Welcome
For more information please contact gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie

CAMPS Research Lab: Dr Brian Frykenberg, Andover, Massachusetts and Moore Institute visiting fellow - 'St Mo-Ling as Prophet in the Poem "TÌÁinic rath"'
2015-04-15 12:00
CAMPS Reserach lab:
Dr Brian Frykenberg
Andover, Massachusetts and Moore Institute visiting fellow
‘St Mo-Ling as Prophet in the Poem “TÌÁinic rath“‘
Everyone welcome – FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch
For more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie

Camps Research Lab: Prof. Westley Follett. Univ. of Southern Mississippi and Moore Institute visiting fellow - 'Recovering a Lost Library: the Mac AodhagÌÁin collection at Ballymacegan, Co. Tipperary'
2015-04-14 18:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
CAMPS resesarch lab
Prof. Westley Follett
Univ. of Southern Mississippi and Moore Institute Visiting fellow
‘Recovering a Lost Library: the Mac AodhagÌÁin collection at Ballymacegan, Co. Tipperary’
Everyone welcome – FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch
For more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie

Digital Scholarship Seminar: Gabriel Bodard (King's College London) Standards for Networking Ancient Prosopographies: Data and Relations in Greco-Roman Names
2015-04-14 12:00
Digital Scholarship Seminar:
Gabriel Bodard (King’s College London)
Standards for Networking Ancient Prosopographies: Data and Relations in Greco-Roman Names
For further informatition, contact: Dr PÌÁdraic Moran (padraic.moran@nuigalway.ie),
or Dr Justitin Tonra (justitin.tonra@nuigalway.ie)
www.nuigalway.ie/digital-seminar ‰ۢ www.facebook.com/nuigdss

CAMPS Research Lab: Dr Brian Frykenberg, Andover, Massachusetts and Moore Institute visiting fellow -'The Provenance & Language of the Anecdota Suibne Poems'
2015-04-14 12:00
CAMPS resesarch lab
Dr Brian Frykenberg
Andover, Massachusetts (Independent scholar, Celtic Studies) and Moore Institute visiting fellow’The Provenance & Language of the Anecdota Suibne Poems’
Everyone welcome – FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch
For more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie

Launch of Duanaire
2015-04-14 11:00
You are cordially invited to the launch of
Duanaire: a treasury of digital data for Irish economic history
The event will be chaired by Dr Marie-Louise Coolahan (School of Humanities, NUI Galway) and opened by the President of NUI Galway, Dr James Browne, followed by a short presentation by Dr Aidan Kane on the Duanaire project. The keynote address will be:
“The Information Revolution in History”
Professor Peter M. Solar (Vesalius College, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Peter Solar has made major contributions to the field of European economic history, including seminal studies of the pre-famine Irish economy, and the European cotton and linen industries, amongst other subjects. In recent years he has worked especially on maritime economic history, with a particular focus on constructing a unique database of British and Irish steamships, and on the use of sources such as Lloyd’s Registers of Shipping to illuminate technological and industrial change.
The event will conclude at 12noon with light refreshments to follow.
The event is free, but as numbers are limited, please register if you will be attending.
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About Duanaire
Duanaire aims to open up a wealth of Irish economic history data, and in particular, Irish historical fiscal and trade data, by making accessible online a range of datasets in flexible forms for diverse audiences. Duanaire is led by Dr Aidan Kane (Economics at NUI Galway) and partners with the Whitaker Institute, the Moore Institute, and the James Hardiman Library at NUI Galway.
Two key projects currently underway at Duanaire are
Detailed data on 18th century Irish public finances
major project now underway to digitize, capture and make available very detailed data (at port level) on Ireland’s international trade in the 18th century
For more details and to register your attendance please click here: http://www.eventbrite.ie/e/launch-of-duanaire-a-treasury-of-digital-data-for-irish-economic-history-registration-16137470609
For more information please contact gwen.ryan@nuigalway.ie
