Moore Institute

Riddling Discourse and Construction of Knowledge in Ancient Greek Literature and Early Irish Saga: The Case of Ogam
2019-05-27 12:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
Dr Federica Scicolone (King’s College London) Moore Visiting Fellow 2019
This talk will consider a widespread motif in archaic Greek poetry, the so-called ‘contest of wisdom’ between wise men, usually bards or poets (e.g. Calchas and Mopsus in fr. 278 M-W; the Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi), in relation to the Hellenistic and later practice of ‘riddle’ funerary epigrams, from both literary and inscriptional contexts (AP 7.422 and 429; SGO 09/05/17): here the passer-by is challenged by the deceased to decode the symbols carved on the tombstone, and the resolution of the riddle depends entirely on the passer’s-by insight and sophia. The selected case studies will be compared with few references to Ogam enigmatic inscriptions in early Irish saga (e.g. the Táin, 220ff.; Tochmarc Étaíne §18; Sanas Cormaic §1018) in order to observe that, similarly as in the examined Greek texts, the use of Ogam in literary contexts may serve the purpose of testing the interlocutors (and, through them, the readers) and of initiating them into wisdom by means of riddling discourse.

Odd Man Out History, Fiction and Film
2019-05-25 10:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
10.00 am
Screening Odd Man Out (1947) will take place in The Houston school of Film and Digital Media NUIG
1.00–2.30 pm
Chair Niall Ó Dochartaigh, National University of Ireland, Galway
Romancing ‘the Organisation’
Odd Man Out and Contemporary Discourses on the IRA
John Ó Néill, Treason Felony Blog / Litter Press
‘That may be true, but …’
The Inspiration for Odd Man Out—A Consideration of a Suggestion
Breandán Mac Suibhne, Centenary University, New Jersey
3.00–4.30 pm
Chair Catherine Morris, National University of Ireland, Galway
Out of What?
Carol Reed, Odd Man Out, and post-War Malaise
Ruth Barton, Trinity College, Dublin
‘Which Side I’m Neutral On’
I See a Dark Stranger, Ireland, and post-WW2 British Cinema
Luke Gibbons, National University of Ireland, Maynooth

‘Sorry, not sorry’ – Apology and denial in communicating armed struggle, with examples from the Provisional IRA
2019-05-24 15:15 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
This talk will be given by Moore Visiting Fellow Dr Sanjin Uležić (Centre on Social Movement Studies (Cosmos), Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence),as part of the ’Violence, Space and the Archives’ conference. Full conference programme and further details available at
https://ghussey3.wixsite.com/violencespacearchive

Print Culture and the Galway Poor Clares, 1600-1800
2019-05-24 14:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
A talk by Moore Visiting Fellow Jaime Goodrich
Abstract: This talk will offer an introduction to the rare books owned by the Galway Poor Clares, who recently reacquired several dozen volumes lent to the Franciscan House of Studies in Killiney during the 1970s. In addition to providing an overview of the current collection’s scope and history, I will discuss evidence of book circulation and ownership among the Galway nuns. Finally, I will consider the broader significance of this collection for scholars working on early modern print history. As a particularly rich corpus of early modern Franciscan texts, the rare books of the Galway Poor Clares should become a key resource for historians and literary scholars interested in monastic libraries, convent reading practices, and Franciscan spirituality during the 17th century.

Oral history and private archives in researching Irish Republican prisoners in Portlaoise Prison, 1973-1985
2019-05-23 09:15 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
This talk will be given by Moore Visiting Fellow Dr Dieter Reinisch (University of Vienna/Webster University) as part of the ’Violence, Space and the Archives’ conference.
Full conference programme and further details available at
https://ghussey3.wixsite.com/violencespacearchive

Image: Harvey/McCaughey/Smith Cumann Sinn Féin minute book, Portlaoise Prison, July 1982-January 1983

Geopolitics and Justice Cluster Seminar-'Technology as a Geographical Keyword'
2019-05-22 16:00 | B.S. Mac Aodha Seminar Room 113, Discipline of Geography, NUIG
by Prof. Scott Kirsch
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Abstract
While for centuries technology referred to a systematic study of the ‘practical arts’ – typically in the form of a book or technical manual – the term’s usage has expanded so dramatically that today we think nothing of the same word being used to describe a set of methods, a specific piece of machinery, or the totality of our collective means and capabilities. From a textbook to an ethnological category, and from mechanical objects to infrastructural networks and large technological systems, historical geographers, in turn, have been left to explain the world technology has “made.” Through a materialist keyword approach to the career of technology, this paper raises questions about what it means to think of things, processes, and relations as technological, and explores the implications of the idea of technology – understood in terms of its integrative, meaning-making, cultural work – for the histories and geographies that we produce.
Bio
Scott Kirsch (kirsch@email.unc.edu) is Professor of Geography at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests include the politics and culture of technology; nuclear landscapes; 19th- and 20th-century US science; history of scientific exploration and cartography; US geopolitics and empire, especially in the Philippines and Asia/Pacific; and geographies of war and peace. He is author of Proving Grounds: Project Plowshare and the Unrealized Dream of Nuclear Earthmoving (Rutgers University Press, 2005) and editor (with Colin Flint) of Reconstructing Conflict: Integrating War and Post-War Geographies (Routledge 2011). He is currently writing a book about America’s “insular empire” in the Philippines.

The Maamtrasna Murder Case: Politics, Language, Identity
2019-05-22 15:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
A panel discussion and response by
Prof. Margaret Kelleher
Speakers: Conor Hanley, Niall Ó Ciosáin, Ciarán Ó
Cofaigh, Anne O’Connor, John Walsh & Mary Harris
(chair)

Future democrats/democratic futures? Trump, 2020, and what lies ahead for American and European polities
2019-05-20 17:00 - 18:30 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
Hosted by The NUI Galway MA in Culture and Colonialism and the Moore Institute and Discussion lead by James Mcdermott Senior Member of the U.S. house of representatives.
Jim McDermott is a Senior Member of the U.S. House of Representatives with over 40 years of public service in the federal and state government. As a Democratic Member of Congress (Washington’s 7th Congressional District) from 1989-2016, he was a champion of issues relating to social justice, healthcare, veterans’ reintegration, and foreign affairs and international engagement. He is particularly known for his prescient opposition to the Iraq War, which earned him the sobriquet of “Baghdad Jim” from Conservative media. He also served in the U.S. Navy Medical Corps, working with casualties returning from Vietnam.
Jim McDermott’s discussion will address a wide range of contemporary political issues, particularly the effects of Donald Trump on the American electoral and representative system, the prospects of Democrat candidates in the 2020 election, and the wider question of what lies ahead for America and Europe in this period of rising ethno-nationalism and political upheaval.

Empire, Gender and Global Development
2019-05-20 14:00 - 16:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Colonialism, Development, and the Cooperative Movement in Ireland and India
Dr Mo Moulton
(Lecturer in the History of Race & Empire, University of Birmingham)

Manhood, Transcontinental Networks, and the Baha’i Faith Movement in Cameroon
Dr Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoué
(Assistant Professor of African History, Baylor University)

This seminar is supported by the Moore Institute Visiting Fellowship scheme, in association with the Conflict, Humanitarianism & Security Research Cluster, Whitaker Institute.
Contact: Dr Kevin O’Sullivan (kevin.k.osullivan@nuigalway.ie).

IMBAS OPEN RESEARCH DAY 2019
2019-05-18 11:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The Imbas committee is holding an open research day ahead of the tenth Imbas conference later this year. Imbas is an interdisciplinary postgraduate conference in Medieval Studies at NUI Galway. This event will showcase ongoing research in disciplines related to Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.
All welcome

Modernist Legacies and Futures:
2019-05-17 09:30 | Seminar Rooms G010 & G011, Hardiman Research Building
Modernist Studies Ireland
National University of Ireland Galway
Plenary Speaker: Dr Ben Levitas, Goldsmiths University of London
Opening address: Prof Daniel Carey
The inaugural conference of Modernist Studies Ireland, ‘Modernist Legacies and Futures’ seeks to bring together Irish and international scholars to initiate an exchange and review of current research, trends, and findings in modernist studies.
We ask scholars to consider how modernists created or negated the future in their work? Did modernist artists conceive of the future as a prerequisite of the work itself and, if so, how did they attempt to secure their legacy? What does the digital landscape achieve for modernism studies? What future does modernist studies have? If modernism was a radical attempt to reshape culture and art did it succeed and how can we as scholars perpetuate this radicalism? Do current attempts to democratise the study of literature and unsettle canonicity impact future research? What modernisms are missing from the field of modernist study? What does modernism mean to minority languages, cultures, and to a
non-western canon?

Modernist Studies Ireland (MSI) is a new organisation that aims to facilitate the sharing of interests, research, and pedagogical approaches to modernism and modernity in the Republic and Northern Ireland. We very much welcome new members to helps us shape the goals and initiatives of MSI. Our current activities include a monthly Works in Progress seminar series.
Further information about the organisation, our monthly events and the full CFP can be found here: https://modstudiesireland.wordpress.com
The conference is sponsored by the Moore Institute and the Explore Fund.

Psychology Matters Day :The Psychology of Brexit -Prof. Brian Hughes
2019-05-16 19:00 | Arts Millenium Building, AM250 – Colm O’Heocha Theatre
Unlike most cultural upheavals, Brexit is not the result of accidental tragedy or spontaneous economic turmoil. Rather, Brexit was contrived by politicians, was voted for by citizens, and is now being implemented by bureaucrats. Brexit did not ‘just happen’; it exists because people decided to make it exist. It is therefore hugely influenced by a myriad of psychological factors as experienced across many social groups. Brexit is the combined reflection of a multitude of perceptions, preferences, choices, self-images, attitudes, ideas, assumptions, and reasoned (or ill-reasoned) conclusions.
This lecture will examine the Psychology of Brexit. We will look at the psychological factors that influenced the dawn of Brexit, such as optimism biases, causal attribution errors, and illusions of control. We will consider how cognitive dissonance, social stereotypes, and motivated irrationality help otherwise groundless beliefs to thrive in everyday culture, leading to group polarisation, rejectionism, and echo-chamber reasoning. We will see how individual political figures become associated with ideas, and how cultural biases (such as sexism) shape how politicians are portrayed and perceived. And we will consider the psychological impact of Brexit: its effect on social attitudes, future thinking, and collective and individual mental health.
We will conclude by examining how Ireland views Brexit. Are we Irish capable of an objective assessment of the Brexit project? Are we aware of our own biases when seeking to summarise its progress? And does Brexit help focus Irish minds on positive ideas such as collaborative problem-solving — or does it provoke unhealthy social attitudes such as nationalistic self-regard, delusional optimism, and passive coping?
As with its origins and progress, the future impact of Brexit will be shaped by its psychological aspects. This lecture will show how psychology research can shed light on events such as Brexit and position us best to learn from them.
Speaker
Brian Hughes is a Professor of Psychology at NUI Galway. He is a Fellow and former President of the Psychological Society of Ireland. A prolific researcher in the field of mental stress and health, Brian is a prominent advocate for scientific psychology, evidence-based policy, scientific outreach and the role of psychology in society. His latest book is Psychology in Crisis (London: Palgrave, 2018).
See https://www.psychologicalsociety.ie/event/Psychology-of-Brexit-with-Prof-Brian-Hughes

Inis Airc art exhibition by Pádraic Reaney.
2019-05-14 17:00 | Ground Floor Hardiman Research Building
You are welcome to join us at a wine reception for the opening of the Inis Airc art exhibition by Pádraic Reaney.
Inis Airc is artist Pádraic Reaney’s response to the changing form of Inishark, an island off the west Galway coast. It uniquely captures a crumbling cultural landscape as the uninhabited island, which once supported a community of over 200 people, returns to nature.
This exhibition is funded by the Discipline of Geography, NUIG, for the 7th EUGEO Congress in conjunction with the 51st Conference of Irish Geographers, which is co-chaired by Dr Frances Fahy and Dr Kathy Reilly and will take place from the 15-18th of May. The exhibition will be open to all 500 conference delegates throughout the duration of the conference and is open to all staff, students and visitors to our University from May 7th until May 28th, 2019. Our thanks to Richard Scriven (Geography), Dan Carey and the Moore Institute for all of their work and support in preparation for this exhibition.

NUIG Classics book launch De origine scoticae linguae, a new edition by Pádraic Moran of a seventh-century Irish scholarly text on the origins of the Irish language.
2019-05-14 17:00 | The staff Club, NUIG
To be launched by Prof. Dáibhí Ó Cróinín.
All welcome. (Refreshments will be served.)

De Origine Scoticae Linguae (O’Mulconry’s Glossary): An early Irish linguistic tract, edited with a related glossary, Irsan, Corpus Christianorum, Lexica Latina Medii Aevi 7 (Turnhout, Brepols: 2019)
A new edition of the earliest etymological study of a European vernacular language.
De Origine Scoticae Linguae (also known as O’Mulconry’s Glossary) is a text originating in seventh-century Ireland that provides etymologies for c. 880 Irish words, mostly drawn from Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Its Latin prologue declares its affiliation to the Graeco-Roman linguistic tradition, claiming an origin for the Irish language in the Greek dialects Attic, Doric and Aeolic. The glossary attests to the transmission and reception of the Latin grammatical tradition in Ireland and shines light in particular on the Irish knowledge of Greek and Hebrew. The text also represents a milestone in the history of European linguistics, as the earliest etymological study of a European vernacular language.
The glossary was published once before, by Whitley Stokes in 1898. This new edition provides the first translation and textual commentary, clarifying the sense of difficult entries and discussing sources. The introduction analyses the structure and contents, origins and development, linguistic issues, and relationships to other texts. The text is edited here along with a shorter related glossary of 232 entries, entitled Irsan, which includes shared material and sheds further light on its development.

Cultural Climates - Public Seminar - 'Fostering Art for Sustainability - Time for a New Cultural Policy?'
2019-05-14 16:00 - 18:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Iain Biggs, Flight/Paths: (Her bones…) 2018.
Cultural Climates is a two-part lecture and public forum which explores how research and policy in relation to climate change can be engaged with across the cultural and arts sectors in Ireland today. In particular, it explores how culture and the arts are key to addressing issues associated with the climate emergency, and how the arts and sustainability sectors need to be more integrated in their approach to addressing social, political and environmental challenges in the Age of the Capitalocene. The presentations from Dr Iain Biggs and Dr Cathy Fitzgerald will be followed by a public forum and discussion on what role the arts and cultural sectors can, and need to, play in addressing the issues of ecological crisis in this a time of climate emergency.
Cultural Climates: This public seminar emerges from research, teaching and public engagement events in the areas of Irish Studies, Art, Geography and socially-engaged research developed between Dr Nessa Cronin at NUI Galway and Professor Karen E. Till and Professor Gerry Kearns at Maynooth University since 2012.
Supported by the Centre for Irish Studies, Moore Institute, and the Research Support Scheme, CASSCS, NUI Galway, 2018-19 and the Irish Research Council’s Creative Connections Scheme. In association with the EUGEO International Conference and the Conference of Irish Geographers, NUI Galway, 15-18 May 2019.

GREEN THINKING: HOW 20TH CENTURY BRITISH ENVIRONMENTAL LITERATURE SHAPES THE STORY OF CLIMATE CHANGE
2019-05-14 14:00 - 16:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
The Gender ARC (Gender, Discourse and Identity) at the Moore Institute presents
DR KELLY SULTZBACH, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, LA CROSSE
US Fulbright Scholar through the Fulbright Inter-country Program

This talk considers how the experience of a muddy, apocalyptic war and the metroland octopus of suburban development influenced the pastoral imagination of environmental writing between the wars. It addresses popular literature and nature writing, much of it penned by veterans of the First World War, including Edmund Blunden, J.B. Priestly, and R.C. Sherriff. Their stories raise messy questions about rural nostalgia, preservation and prejudice, as well as the fickleness of human nature when confronted with choices about our own consumerist desires and what is best for a thriving countryside. These stories are less engaged with the progressive posthumanism of contemporary scholarship; instead, they illuminate some of the more contested social struggles of 21st century climate change: What kinds of narratives motivate people to support environmental agendas? Are the reasons most of us love and cherish nature compatible with preserving it? How do we create stories that don’t just speak to fellow activists, but subtly, compellingly, begin to listen to and cultivate wider fields of green public thinking? Using examples from both my published work and new research, this talk will explore the continued relevance of environmental modernism to a 21st century Anthropocene awareness.

Phantom Islands of the North Atlantic
2019-05-13 11:00 | Hardiman Research Building Room G011, Ireland
In this talk award-winning poet and practice-led researcher J. R. Carpenter will present her research on an Island of Demons which appeared on maps off Newfoundland in the early 1500s. This research informs her current research at the Moore Institute on the islands of St Brendan and Hy Brasil.

MSCA Individual Fellowships 2019
2019-05-10 09:30 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Dr. Geraldine Canny, NCP Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, and Dr. Emmett Marron, succesful MSCA Fellow, will give advice and tips for applicants submtting to the upcoming MSCA Individual Fellowship call closing on the 11th of September 2019.
The presentations will start at 9:30am, followed by a Q&A, with the session finishing at 11:00am.
This opportunity is not to be missed if you are preparing or mentoring an applicant planning to submit for funding under the 2019 MSCA call.
Places are limited. Pre-Booking is essential to ensure your place. This event is organised by the Moore Institute & the Research Office.

Gaelic Games on Film: From silent films to Hollywood hurling, horror and the emergence of Irish cinema-by Seán Crosson
2019-05-09 17:30 | Huston Main, Huston School of Film and Media
Introduced by Professor Philip Dine
All welcome

This study provides the first major monograph examination of filmic representations of Gaelic games, charting these representations from the earliest years of the twentieth century, including silent films such as Knocknagow (1918) to more recent productions Michael Collins (1996) and The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006). Among the areas examined are newsreel depictions of Gaelic games; Hollywood’s fascination with hurling in the mid-20th century (including in the work of Oscar-winning director John Ford), which led to a range of productions featuring the sport culminating with the Oscar-nominated short Three Kisses (Paramount, 1955); the importance of the depictions of Gaelic games to the emergence of a distinctive Irish film culture post WWII; and the role of Gaelic games in contemporary cinema.
Seán Crosson is Co-Director of the MA (Sports Journalism and Communication) and Director of Graduate Research and Teaching in the Huston School of Film & Digital Media, National University of Ireland Galway. His previous publications include Sport and Film (Routledge, 2013) and (as co-editor) Sport, Representation and Evolving Identities in Europe (Peter Lang, 2010).

Modernist Studies Ireland Works in Progress
2019-05-09 16:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
Tom Walker, Trinity College Dublin
W.B. Yeats, Scholastic Aestheticism, and Cultural Authority in Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Chris Collins, University of Nottingham
‘The man went queer in his head’: Synge and the cultural politics of mental health, 1871-1909
Refreshments will be served!
[NB UPDATE: change of 2nd speaker & venue]
Join us for exiting talks by two current Moore Institute Visiting Fellows. Part of MSI’s Works in Progress series, these talks come ahead of the inaugural MODERNIST STUDIES IRELAND conference Fri 17 Sat 18 May 2019 in the Hardiman Research Building. Full programme to follow. https://modstudiesireland.wordpress.com/
Dr Tom Walker is Ussher Assistant Professor in Irish Writing at Trinity College Dublin.
Dr Walker’s monograph Louis MacNeice and the Irish Poetry of his Time was published 2015 by Oxford University Press. This drew on extensive archival research on both sides of the Irish Sea and the Atlantic to illuminate MacNeice’s considerable contact with Irish literary networks and with contemporaneous Irish poetry. It was awarded the 2015 Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on Literature by the American Conference for Irish Studies. Other publications include research on the work of John McGahern, the place of the literary within Northern Irish writing, the radio poetry of Richard Murphy, and Irish-British poetic relations at mid-century. He has also recently co-edited a special issue of the journal Modernist Cultures on ‘Collaborative Poetics’.
His current research project is provisionally entitled ‘Yeats and the Writing of Art’. It examines the work of W.B. Yeats through the prism of nineteenth and twentieth-century art writing – encompassing the many textual forms through which art spectatorship and writing were combined during the period, ranging from aesthetic philosophy to art history to exhibition reviews to ekphrastic poems. The project was supported by an Irish Research Council New Horizons Research Project Grant.
Dr Chris Collins is Assistant Professor of Drama at the University of Nottingham.
Dr Collins has published widely on Irish theatre, including two monographs on the work of Irish writer, J.M. Synge (Theatre and Residual Culture [Palgrave: 2016], and J.M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World [Routledge: 2016]). He is currently writing his third book entitled J.M. Synge and The Time of His Life, which considers how Synge’s writings offer an alternative social history of Ireland during the playwright’s lifetime. Synge witnessed and wrote about profound changes to Irish society and culture during his short lifetime: 1871-1909. This was a Victorian age of progress, and everything needed to be clocked: from the time it took the Galway train to travel to Dublin, to those cultures of the empire that had supposedly failed to evolve. Synge had a keen interest in how progress should be measured, and his plays and prose offer unique perspectives on the measurement of time and the modernisation of Irish society. Synge’s fascination with time also had a particular personal appeal. As early as 1899 Synge knew he was dying young. Immediately thereafter he set about travelling Ireland, writing prose, verse and plays about spaces and places that were rapidly changing in front of his eyes. A mixture of biography, social history and critical analysis of his plays and prose, the significance of this project is that it will explore how Synge staged and wrote about linear and non-linear time in the Ireland of his time, both as a reflection on modernisation and as a coping mechanism for the finiteness of time in his personal life.
Chris will be using his time at the Moore Institute to consult the digital archives of Synge’s diaries, journals and notebooks, as well as Abbey Theatre and Druid Theatre digital archives.
NB Dr Antonio Bibbò of the Unversity of Manchester, originally advertised as speaker, has kindly agreed to give a talk later in the academic year. He is currently completing a monograph titled Reception and Perception of Irish Culture in Early Twentieth-Century Italy: Imagining Ireland in Italy. During his time at the Moore Institute, Dr Bibbò intends to investigate understudied aspects of the literary relationship between Italy and Ireland at the beginning of the twentieth century.

The School of Humanities Equality, Diversity and Progression (EDP) Committee - 'Reflecting on past, present and ongoing issues'
2019-05-08 11:00 - 13:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
11.00: Introductory Remarks: Professor Felix Ó Murchadha, Head of the School of Humanities
11.05: Panel One: Precarious Work, Progression and Equality
Chair: Prof Lionel Pilkington
Speakers: Maggie Ronayne (SIPTU), Karen Walsh, Ciara Murphy (PhD representative), Dr Felicity Maxwell (Moore Institute), Eibhlín Seoighthe (SU)
11.55: Tea/Coffee
12.05: Panel Two: Gender, Disability and Minority Groups
Chair: Dr Andrew Ó Baoill
Speakers: Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley, Michelle Mitchell (School of Education), Dr Frances McCormack, Owen Mac an Bhaird (Mincéir Whiden Society)
12.45: Further Issues to be addressed from the floor, Moderator: Dr Fiona Bateman
Closing Remarks: Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley, Chair of the School of Humanities Equality, Diversity and Progression Committee
13.00: Refreshments and light lunch provided by the School of Humanities. The event was organised by the School of Humanities EDP committee.

ALL WELCOME – for further details contact sarahanne.buckley@nuigalway.ie

Public meeting about Galway city Irish Language Plan- Cruinniú poiblí faoi Phlean Gaeilge chathair na Gaillimhe
2019-05-07 19:30 | Seminar Rooms G010 & G011, Hardiman Research Building
A public meeting about the Galway City Irish Language Plan will be held on Tuesday May 7th at 7.30pm in rooms G010 & G011, Hardiman Research Building, National University of Ireland, Galway. The meeting aims to provide another chance to people in Galway to give their opinions about the Irish Language Plan being prepared by NUI Galway on behalf of Galway City Council and Gaillimh le Gaeilge. So that everyone can take part regardless of language background, two meetings will be held simultaneously, one in Irish and the other in English. All are welcome. More information: www.nuigalway.ie/gaeilgebheo

Reáchtálfar cruinniú poiblí faoi Phlean Gaeilge Chathair na Gaillimhe Dé Máirt 7 Bealtaine ag 7.30pm i seomraí G010 & G011, Áras Taighde Uí Argadáin, Ollscoil na hÉireann Gaillimh. Tá sé mar aidhm ag an gcruinniú deis eile a thabhairt do phobal na cathrach a dtuairimí a léiriú faoin bPlean Gaeilge atá á ullmhú ag OÉ Gaillimh ar son Chomhairle Cathrach na Gaillimhe agus Ghaillimh le Gaeilge. Ionas go mbeidh deis ag gach duine páirt a ghlacadh beag beann ar chúlra teanga, beidh dhá chruinniú ar siúl ag an am céanna, ceann i nGaeilge agus ceann i mBéarla. Tá fáilte roimh chách. Tuilleadh eolais: www.nuigalway.ie/gaeilgebheo

The Dark Stuff:Stories from the Peatlands
2019-05-07 16:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

Future Landscapes Workshop: Enhancing Seen & Unseen Landscapes with Mixed Reality
2019-05-07 - 2019-05-31 | Moore Institute, Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway, Galway
UPDATE: Applications for the fee-waiver scholarships available via the Moore Institute and Galway 2020 are now closed

Future Landscapes is an intensive four-week, full-time workshop created in conjunction with the School of Machines, Making and Make-Believe and Galway 2020.
The aim of the workshop is to allow participants to develop the skills to explore the use of immersive technologies, such as Virtual and Augmented Reality, within the context of Landscape, both seen and unseen. This may include, for example, the augmentation of physical landscapes, or creating immersive experiences related to social or political landscapes. Technical experience is not a prerequisite for participating in the course.
Overview
Compelling us all is an interest in creatively exploring vast landscapes in the physical world and of the mind while gaining an understanding of the potentials of augmented-, virtual-, and mixed reality through a myriad of critical, conceptual, and hands-on approaches.
Using technology to imagine unknown realities can inspire new ways of looking at the world. In designing new forms of interactive and tactile experiences, artistic creation and storytelling, what could we add or augment to our surroundings to develop new narratives about landscapes, be them physical, social, or mental, that permeate our lives? What forms of play and togetherness might we be able to create and sustain? Could thoughtful discourse on landscapes and realities empower us into making impactful change?
Course Description
Mixed Reality (MR) refers to a suit of technologies that anchors virtual objects in a space, allowing for the possibility of “real” interaction with those objects. With Augmented Reality (AR), in addition to superimposing images and 3D models over the camera feed, these toolkits offer the opportunity to map physical spaces, understand ambient lighting and track the position of a phone in space. Pokemon Go used these techniques to capture the public interest and brought AR into the mainstream, but it begs the question, what else can we do with this technology? In this class, we’ll explore the spectrum of what these tools have to offer.
These techniques are just a starting point for what may be possible. There is much experimentation to be done by utilising the other capabilities of handheld devices to stream live data, communicate with others, and incorporate information from built in sensors.
Although various types of augmented and virtual reality systems have existed for some time, recent advances in mobile technology platforms provide us more powerful ways of creating and sharing these experiences with a wider audience. So as the technology is advancing, what happens when we bring conceptual ideas and criticality to the fore?
The primary tool of this program will be Unity 3D. We will work with the ARKit and Vuforia libraries. As we engage the potential of these new tools, we will also take a critical perspective discussing the shortcomings and challenges of future technologies.
In this course, you will be introduced to:

Critical and conceptual development of projects *
Creative development with Unity3D *
Scripting in Unity3D to create interactivity *
Introduction to ARKit (iOS) and Vuforia *
Attaching virtual objects to real image markers *
Creating both AR and VR experiences *
Recording and placing sounds inside a virtual AR space *
Designing an AR space that can be shared and explored with multiple people at the same time *
Building mixed reality experiences *
An amazing network and community of like-minded creative beings and potential future collaborators

* No previous experience necessary
Course Outline
Week 1: Introductions, concepts, narratives, play, and critical discourse.
Week 2: Tools and techniques for creating interactive experiences in Unity
Week 3: Advanced tools and techniques for creating interactive experiences in Unity. Adding physicality into our work through props and found artefacts.
Week 4: Preparing talks, presentations, and Mixed Reality experiences for final showcase open to the public
Who is this program for?
This workshop is geared toward anyone involved in creative projects (such as architects, designers, makers, artists, musicians, performers) and members of the arts and humanities research community, that wish to begin incorporating mixed reality experiences into their work or practice.
This course approaches mixed reality from an introductory level. A basic knowledge of programming (in any language/platform) is encouraged, *but not required*.
Application Process
Participation in the course is subject to an application process and interview, which will be conducted by the School of MA.
An online application form for the programme, and details of fees for participation in this 4-week full-time course are available on the course registration page.
NUI Galway Scholarship Opportunities
For staff, students and researchers currently affiliated with the College of Arts at NUI Galway, there are a number of fee-waiver scholarships available. These scholarships are generously funded through a HEA project on “Digital Literacy in Irish Humanities”. You must indicate on the application form if you wish to be considered for one of these scholarships.
A number of fee-waiver scholarships are also available via Galway 2020 for professionals working in the Arts, technology, or research and living in Galway, Ireland. You can indicate on the application form if you wish to be considered for one of these scholarships.
Applications for these fee-waiver scholarships will close on February 28th
Questions
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact David Kelly (david.d.kelly@nuigalway.ie) at the Moore Institute, NUI Galway.

Joint Book Launch for Victoria Brownlee and Lindsay Reid
2019-05-02 17:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
All Welcome

Archives in the Digital Age - Digital Scholars' Workshop Series
2019-04-30 12:00 - 13:00 | The Moore Institute Seminar Room G010 Ground floor The Hardiman Research Building, Ireland
Archives in the Digital Age – balancing evolving expectations against the realities of resource allocation and legislation – Aisling Keane, G010, 12-1pm Tuesday, 30th April.

NUI Galway is rich in archival collections that provide primary source material for subjects that include the Irish language, the landscape of the West of Ireland, theatre and literary collections, political collections relating to Northern Ireland. Increasingly, we make material available digitally, and work with staff / researchers to maximise the value and impact of this investment. This can be through their use in teaching programmes, employing technologies available to us to conduct statistical analysis on their contents, and work with local partners on data visualisation tools. There is a greater expectation on archives and libraries to deliver on services like this.
This talk will give an overview of the landscape of digital archives projects in Ireland at the moment, specifically the types of resources and infrastructure these projects require, legislation such as copyright and data protection that influence these, and the types of organisations that fund these projects.
It will also present the resources and support available at NUI Galway for anyone interested in working with us on these projects.

Registration
Please register to attend using Eventbrite.

About the Workshop Series
Developing skills with digital technologies can be a challenge for researchers interested in digital and open scholarship.
To help, the Library, in partnership with the Moore Institute, presents a series of informal workshops to share practice-based expertise, know-how, and experience in technologies and methods, that will enhance your experience of newer forms of scholarship.
Events in this semester’s series include:

Planning & Building Digital Projects – David Kelly, G010, 12-1pm Thursday, 31st January
Introduction to Research Data Management and related supports at NUI Galway – Trish Finnan, G010, 12-1pm Wednesday 27th February
Creating Digital Exhibitions with Omeka – Cillian Joy, G011, 12-1pm Thursday 28th March
Archives in the digital age – balancing evolving expectations against the realities of resource allocation and legislation – Aisling Keane, G010, 12-1pm Tuesday, 30th April.

'Irish Country Furniture 1700-2000:Revising and Recycling'
2019-04-29 16:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
By Claudia Kinmonth Moore Institute Visiting Fellow

Poetry Reading 'Не надо людям с людьми на земле бороться. People on this earth don’t have to fight with each other. - Marina Tsvetaeva: from ‘I know the truth’ (1915)
2019-04-26 15:30 - 17:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
Potluck Eastern European and Slavic Poetry Reading Circle
Facilitated by Emily Tock, MLIS, MALP, Government of Ireland Post-graduate Scholar PhD student in the Discipline of English
As this is a potluck format, attendees are encouraged to bring their own favourite Eastern European and Slavic verse to share in this informal roundtable.
For more info, contact e.tock1@nuigalway.ie

Gizella Dömötör: Detail of Nagybánya, 1915.
https://www.hung-art.hu/frames-e.html?/english/a/anna/index.html

France / Algeria: Gender, Memory, Identity
2019-04-25 16:00 - 17:30 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
This panel discusses the relationship between gender, memory and national identity in cultural texts focusing on Franco-Algerian relations. The three speakers will situate specific literary texts and films within the broader contexts of French colonialism and decolonisation with a view to reflecting on the legacy of France’s colonial empire and on how cultural discourses surrounding l’Algérie française have alternately supported and challenged France’s perception of itself.
Aoife Connolly (TU Dublin): ‘Macho Men? Shifting Perceptions of Settler Identity Post-Algerian Independence’.
Barry Nevin (TU Dublin / Moore Institute Visiting Research Fellow): ‘(Re)Visions of the Outre-mer: Looking at the Male Imperial Gaze in Jacques Feyder’s Cinéma Colonial’.
Cliona Hensey (NUI Galway): ‘Transgenerational transmission and the “mnemonic imagination” in writing by descendants of Harkis’.
Mairéad Ní Bhriain (Mary Immaculate College, UL): ‘L’Affaire Djamila Boupacha: Torture and the assertion of the female voice during the Algerian War’.
Chair: Prof. Philip Dine (French, NUI Galway)

‘The Letters of John McGahern: 1970’
2019-04-25 16:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Professor Frank Shovlin
of the Institute for Irish Studies, Liverpool
‘The Letters of John McGahern: 1970’
