Moore Institute

Launch of 'Irish Archives' Journal
2023-10-10 18:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Dublin) | The National University of Ireland, Merrion Square, Dublin 2

World Crime Fiction and Comparison: Back to the Future
2023-10-05 17:00 - 18:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & streamed live on Zoom
Guest Lecture: Thursday 5th of October at 5 p.m. in THB-G010
World Crime Fiction and Comparison: Back to the Future
Stewart King. Monash University

Abstract
The transnational turn in literary studies has transformed the field of crime fiction, challenging the hegemony of British and American models as the defining features of the genre. The increasing transnationalisation of the field has occurred through studies on discrete national traditions, postcolonial and “international” crime fiction and, most recently, through the application of a world literature framework. While these studies have taught us much about the situated practice of crime fiction worldwide, the circulation and translation of specific texts as well as the historical and ongoing dialogues between writers and texts across national, cultural, linguistic and temporal borders, there are still important questions to be answered, specifically how we engage with, understand and incorporate different crime fiction traditions within a genre that is still largely characterised by British and American works. This article argues that in the shift from national to world literature studies, crime fiction scholarship has to a large extent skipped over comparative literary approaches and that it is precisely these approaches that can help us to more fully comprehend the diverse practice of this global genre.
Bio: Stewart King is an Associate Professor in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University, Australia, and is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities. Originally trained in Spanish and Catalan literary studies, since 2013 he has pioneered the study of crime fiction as world literature. His contributions to crime fiction studies include the monograph, Murder in the Multinational State: Crime Fiction from Spain (Routledge, 2019) and the co-edited collections: Criminal Moves: Modes of Mobility in Crime Fiction (Liverpool UP, 2019), The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction (2020), winner of the 2020 ICFA Book prize, and The Cambridge Companion to World Crime Fiction (2022). He is currently the co-editor of Crime Fiction Studies (Edinburgh UP).

University of Galway History Research Seminar: Ireland in the Ottoman press, 1914-1918
2023-10-04 16:00 - 17:30 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
University of Galway History Research Seminar
Ireland in the Ottoman press, 1914-1918
Dr Merve Doğan Kader
Abstract
In this study the news about Ireland in the Ottoman press between 1914-1918, that is, during the First World War, is analysed. In the first months of 1914, it is seen that the Curragh Incident was reported in detail in the Ottoman newspapers. After the outbreak of the war, the press of the Ottoman state, which was one of the Central Powers, included news about Britain and the Entente states, which were its enemies. Therefore, both the Home Rule Bill and other events in Ireland were reported in the newspapers at the end of 1914 and throughout 1915. It is observed that the most news about Ireland during the war appeared in 1916. The reason for this was the Easter Rising in Ireland. Ottoman newspapers covered every detail about the Easter Rising and supported the Irish in this matter. Throughout 1917 and 1918, the rise of Sinn Fein following the Easter Rising was frequently emphasised and the measures taken by the British on the island were highly criticised.
Speaker Biography
Dr Merve Doğan Kader is a lecturer in History at Biruni University. She completed her PhD at Celal Bayar University in 2021. She has written in Turkish and in English on Irish relations with the Ottoman Empire, including an article (with Seán Patrick Smyth) in History Ireland (2020) on Kemalist support for the Irish War of Independence.
Registration
This is an in-person event, in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway (ground floor). For those of you not able to attend in person, the talk will also be streamed on Zoom: https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/j/92995054484.
To attend via Zoom, please register at: https://forms.office.com/e/T6uHWQeJvu
This talk is part of the University of Galway History Seminar series and organised jointly with the Centre for the Study of Religion at the Moore Institute.
Image: Detail from Ralph Stockman Tarr and Frank Morton McMurry, New Introductory Geography (MacMillan, 1916), p. 152, via Wikimedia Commons: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1916_political_map_of_Europe.jpg

'On Constellations of Populism’
2023-10-04 13:00 - 14:00 | Room 331, Aras Moyola, University of Galway
‘On Constellations of Populism’
Oliver Simpson (Lancaster University)
One of the consistently slippery and illusive aspects of populism for social and political research is specifying exactly what the term designates. Attempts to define populism as a political ideology often leave one with a definition so broad it seems to apply to all politics, or a definition so narrow it can be undermined with a few empirical examples. To be sure, populism is a highly politicized term, often used by apologists for the status quo who claim populism is an aberration of the “normal” operations of democratic politics. The use of the term populism to conjure up the image of a dangerous and regressive mob presenting an external threat to the internal order ironically mirrors what is generally understood to be the populist framing of politics: to find an external enemy (refugees, immigrants, the poor) to which all social problems can be attributed. In this respect populism can be simultaneously attributed to the exterior and interior of politics today. In this context, rather than trying to resolve the paradoxes, ambiguities and indistinctions of populism as a signifier, I instead focus on and intensify these very inconsistencies and ambiguities as a productive feature for thinking populisms multiple instantiations across a range of historical, intellectual, and literary milieus. I argue populism can be understood as a constellation of concepts which are as follows: perversion, superstition, carnival, spectacle, sovereignty, the masses. My use of the term constellations I take in part from Walter Benjamin’s introduction to The Origin of German Tragic Drama in which he argues that in order to grasp an idea which cannot be directly represented one must explore the concepts that gather themselves around this idea (Benjamin 1995:37). Constellations then have their actual contents, the key concepts and a virtual excess, the idea of populism they animate, mobilise and refract depending on their proximities to one another within a given context. Populism is the virtual idea and the constellations of concepts I develop throughout the thesis are a map through which this idea can be understood and framed in a manner that is not reducible to the deadlock I outlined above characteristic of the contemporary political situation and the meaning of populism within it.
All welcome!

Poetry and Poetic Form
2023-09-28 14:30 - 18:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway

Handbook of Glossing workshop
2023-09-28 09:15 - 2023-09-29 17:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & streamed live on Zoom
Handbook of Glossing workshop
University of Galway, 28–29 September 2023
Background
The Handbook of Glossing will be a new publication that will document, for the first time, the full extent of the practice of glossing internationally, while providing outlines of new theoretical and conceptual frameworks that can be used by researchers both engaged in individual fields and working comparatively. It will be a multi-authored work, drawing on expertise from specialists in a wide range of fields.
The Handbook of Glossing workshop will be held at the University of Galway over 28–29 September 2023. The workshop will provide the opportunity for 29 contributors from 17 different countries to present early versions of their chapters. Contributors will be encouraged to use their presentations to discuss areas of difficulty, in order to explore solutions in a collaborative environment.
Venue: Hardiman Research Building, room G-010 (ground floor).
If you would like to attend via Zoom, please register online before end of 26 September.
A link will be e-mailed on 27 September.

PROGRAMME
Thursday 28 September 2023
9:15 Welcome
9:30 Session 1
Project overview
Pádraic Moran (University of Galway) & Matthew Zisk (Tohoku University)
Typologies of glossing
Alderik Blom (University of Marburg)
Editing glosses
Susan Boynton (Columbia University) & Evina Steinová (independent)
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Session 2
Modern glossing practices
Aimée Lahaussois (CNRS/Université Paris Diderot)
Latin glossing tradition
Franck Cinato (CNRS/Uni. Paris Diderot) & Mariken Teeuwen (Huygens Institute)
Irish, Welsh, Breton glossing tradition
Bernhard Bauer (University of Graz)
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Session 3
English glossing tradition
Patrizia Lendinara (University of Palermo)
Continental Germanic glossing tradition
Andreas Nievergelt (University of Zürich)
Slavic glossing tradition
Dorota Masłej & Tomasz Mika (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Session 4
Greek glossing tradition
Filippomaria Pontani (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
Coptic glossing tradition
So Miyagawa (University of Kyoto/NINJAL)
Hebrew glossing tradition
Elvira Martín-Contreras (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científica, Madrid)
Friday 29 September 2023
9:30 Session 5
Arabic glossing tradition
Stefanie Brinkmann (Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig)
Sanskrit glossing tradition
Camillo Formigatti (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna)
Dunhuang glossing tradition
Jing Feng (Peking University)
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Session 6
Chinese glossing tradition
Bruce Rusk (University of British Columbia) & Yinzong Wei (Wuhan University)
Korean glossing tradition
Ross King (University of British Columbia)
Vietnamese glossing tradition
Thi Thu Huyen Nguyen (Tohoku University)
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Session 7
Japanese glossing tradition
Teiji Kosukegawa (Toyama University)
Romance glossing tradition
Michelle Troberg (University of Toronto) & John Whitman (Cornell University)
Disciplinary perspectives: law
Carolina Gual Silva (Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro)
15:30 Coffee
16:00 Session 8
Disciplinary perspectives: linguistics
John Whitman (Cornell University)
Disciplinary perspectives: religious studies
Jesse Keskiaho (University of Helsinki)
17:00 Concluding discussion

Strzelecki Exhibition Launch Symposium
2023-09-27 15:00 - 18:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
Strzelecki Exhibition Launch Symposium
3pm-6pm, Wed., 27 Sept. 2023
Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway

The next event in the University of Galway History Research Seminar series will take place at 3.00pm on Wednesday, 27 September 2023 [note the earlier than usual start time]. This is an in-person event, in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway (ground floor). For those of you not able to attend in person, the talks will also be streamed on Zoom: https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/j/92456821259.
This seminar is organised jointly with the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Dublin and the Centre for the Investigation of Transnational Encounters (CITE) at the Moore Institute, University of Galway. The symposium will be followed at 5.30pm by the launch of the associated exhibition, ‘A Forgotten Polish Hero of the Great Irish Famine: Paul Strzelecki’s Struggle to Save Thousands’, in the foyer of the Hardiman Building. All are welcome!

3:00-3:05 Opening Remarks

3:05-3:35 Dr. Emily Mark-Fitzgerald (UCD) and Prof. Peter Gray (QUB)
Commemorating Paul Strzelecki (1797-1873): Australian Explorer and Irish Humanitarian

3:35-3:55 Dr. Róisín Healy (University of Galway)
Famine on Strzelecki’s Doorstep: Starving Poles in Partitioned Poland

3:55-4:15 Prof. Breandán MacSuibhne (University of Galway)
‘The greatest weapon for taming either the bold or the timid’? The Effects of Hunger in the Great Famine

4:15-4:40 Tea/Coffee

4:40-4:55 Dr. Niall Ó Ciosáin (University of Galway)
Private charity and public relief during the Great Famine

4:55-5:10 Dr. John Cunningham (University of Galway)
Feeding the Children: Pawel Strzelecki, the British Relief Association, and the National Schools

5:10-5:30 Aoife O’Leary McNeice (University of Exeter)
‘To preserve from moral evils and promiscuous assemblages’: female relief workers and the Great Famine

5:30 Exhibition Launch

Open Scholarship Café - Open Access Publishing
2023-09-27 12:00 - 13:00 | THB-G011 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
Open Access Publishing – everything you need to know In-Person / Online

Open Scholarship Café – Open Access Publishing
In recent years, the rapidly evolving world of scholarly communication has been subjected to several divisive issues, but none as hotly debated as the transition to Open Access publishing. It seems to be a good idea but also a bit daunting and you might have heard about large fees in order to publish Open Access? And how is this useful for you as a researcher and author? If these are the questions you are asking yourself then this hybrid Open Scholarship Café (in-person & on MS Teams) is for you!
Open Access is an academic publishing model which makes research freely available to read, avoiding subscriptions or paywalls. Open Access comes in many flavours and this session will focus on the Library’s recent Open Access agreements (also called transformative agreements) with a number of publishers that allow you as the author to publish Open Access without cost to you.
No previous knowledge or publishing experience is needed for this session! The University of Galway Open Scholarship Librarian Hardy Schwamm will introduce the rationale and process of these Open Access agreements, and the context in which these agreements have been developed. We will also look briefly at Green Open Access and how you can publish your research using our institutional repository ARAN.
At the end of this session you will:

Understand the need for Open Access publishing
Know how to benefit from the Open Access agreements that are available to you
Be familiar with the options that Green Open Access provides

This hybrid Open Scholarship Café will be for PhD students, early career researchers, researchers who recently joined the University of Galway and everyone who wants to find out more about Open Access.
Open Scholarship Cafés are organised by the Library of the University of Galway in partnership with the Open Scholarship Community Galway.
Image used by Chaosheng Zhang.

Related LibGuide: Open Access Publishing by Trish Finnan
Registration
Registration is required. There are 45 in-person seats available. There are 25 online seats available. Please register at the link below.
https://universityofgalway.libcal.com/calendar/workshopsevents/oaintroduction

Algeria: Pasts, Presents and Futures
2023-09-22 10:50 - 16:45 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Algeria: Pasts, Presents and Futures

10.50am: Welcome
11am–12pm: Panel 1 – Cinema, memory and trous de mémoire
Dr Aoife Connolly (TU Dublin): ‘Le retour: returning to images of the Algerian war’.
Dr Barry Nevin (TU Dublin): ‘Du non-visible et du non-représentable’: crises of classical narration in Muriel ou le temps d’un retour (Resnais, 1963)’.
12pm–12.15pm: Break
12.15pm–1.15pm: Keynote 1
Dr Patrick Crowley (UCC): ‘Algerian allegories. Aesthetics, anticolonialism and the future of past revolutions’.
1.15pm–2.15pm: Lunch
2.15pm–3.15pm: Panel 2 – Political and literary legacies
Dr Mairéad Ní Bhriain (Mary Immaculate College): ‘Il faut tuer de Gaulle: “Petit-Clamart” and the fight for l’Algérie française’.
Dr Clíona Hensey (University of Limerick): ‘Généalogie d’un territoire: mapping and unearthing Algerian landscapes in Zahia Rahmani’s curatorial and literary œuvre’.
3.15pm–3.30pm: Break
3.30pm–4.45pm: Keynote 2, followed by roundtable discussion
Prof. Philip Dine (University of Galway): ‘Reading and writing “Algeria”: history, remembrance, renewal’.

Attendance is free, but please register with Aoife Connolly (aoife.connolly@tudublin.ie) or Barry Nevin (barry.nevin@tudublin.ie) in advance.

Book Launch: 'The Censorship of Eighteenth-Century Theatre: Playhouses and Prohibition, 1737–1843'
2023-09-21 18:00 - 19:00 | online via Zoom
You are cordially invited to the online launch of ‘The Censorship of Eighteenth-Century Theatre: Playhouses and Prohibition, 1737–1843′ edited by Prof. David O’Shaughnessy, School of English and Creative Arts, on Thursday, September 21 at 6pm.
Please use the following link to join the event:
https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jM90nh9ASgivATeit3nsQQ
We look forward to seeing you there.

Launch of the University of Galway’s Centre for Creative Technologies
2023-09-21 17:00 - 20:00 | O’Donoghue Centre Foyer, University of Galway
The University of Galway’s Centre for Creative Technologies will be officially launched by President Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh.
Venue: O’Donoghue Centre Foyer
Date & Time: 5pm on the 21st September
Supported by the University’s Strategic Fund, the Centre fosters research and teaching activities that explore and develop links between creative practice and technology.
Join Digital Artist in Residence James Riordan (Brú Theatre) on the evening, as he chats through what he and his interdisciplinary artist collaborators have been exploring over his two-week residency with the Centre, along with showcasing some of the centre’s new technologies.
Please register your attendance using the following link:
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/launch-of-centre-for-creative-technologies-tickets-718610111187?aff=oddtdtcreator

The Fráma Eile roundtable series
2023-09-21 16:00 - 17:30 | Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies, University of Galway or online via Zoom
The Fráma Eile roundtable series, organised by PhD students in the Centre for Irish Studies and Roinn na Gaeilge, explores new approaches to framing established texts (in both English and Irish), material objects, and artwork in the Irish Studies canon.
This roundtable discusses photographs, memory and the archive. This event will be bilingual.
All are welcome, and after presentations, the floor will be open to contributions and comments from all in attendance.
To attend virtually via Zoom: https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/j/98029406829

‘Artificial Intelligence: Ethical Aspects’: an ENLIGHT lecture
2023-09-20 13:00 - 14:00 | online via Zoom
The rapid development of AI and its expanding application areas are not only raising new questions but also awakening more and more uncertainties. In the upcoming lecture, four experts from ENLIGHT universities, including Heike Felzmann, University of Galway, will share their insights from current research on AI and Ethics.
All are welcome to join the lecture. You can register and participate in a Zoom Session or tune in on the ENLIGHT Youtube Channel where the lecture will be broadcasted live.
Presenters:

Heike Felzmann (University of Galway): Engagement with Artificial Agents
Mikael Laaksoharju & Thomas Lennerfors (Uppsala University): “What is the problem to which AI chatbots are the solution? AI ethics through Don Ihde’s embodiment, hermeneutic, alterity, and background relationships”
Nathan Wood (University of Göttingen): Autonomous Weapons and Responsibility for War Crimes

IRC Postgraduate Information Session
2023-09-15 13:00 - 14:30 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & streamed live on Zoom
The Moore Institute will host an information session on the
IRC Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme
on Friday, September 15 @ 1:00pm in Room G010
Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building.
The session will be facilitated by Dr. Lindsay Reid, Vice Dean for Graduate Studies.
Full details on the funding call can be found here.
Closing date for applications is 12 October, 2023 @ 4pm.
We would encourage all interested applicants and potential supervisors to attend.
Should anyone wish to attend online, please contact us directly and we will forward a link.

Book Launch: The Prehistoric Archaeology of Ireland
2023-09-14 17:30 - 18:30 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & streamed live on Zoom
Invitation
Dr Carleton Jones and the Moore Institute
cordially invite you to the launch by Conor Newman of the new edition of
The Prehistoric Archaeology of Ireland
Author: Professor John Waddell

University of Galway History Research Seminar: Edward Carpenter’s Irish World: Socialism, Spiritualism and Queer Sexuality in Ireland, 1890s-1920s
2023-09-13 16:00 - 17:30 | online-only event, streamed via Zoom
University of Galway History Research Seminar
Dr Maurice J. Casey (Queen’s University Belfast)
Edward Carpenter’s Irish World:
Socialism, Spiritualism and Queer Sexuality in Ireland, 1890s-1920s

Abstract
Was there a sexual revolution within the Irish revolution? While recent work has sought to uncover experiences of queer sexuality in early twentieth century Ireland, less has been said about how Irish intellectuals and political radicals discussed and imagined sexual modernity. Ireland’s ‘revolutionary generation’ emerged precisely as terms like ‘homosexual’, ‘lesbian’ and ‘invert’ began to circulate within closed intellectual networks in Europe and beyond. By focusing on the Irish people and migrant intellectuals within Ireland who encountered the works of the socialist sage of sexuality Edward Carpenter (1844-1929), this talk will explore how new conceptions of human sexuality were discussed and encountered within Ireland in the decades before and after independence.
The protagonists of this talk are a collection of largely obscure and loosely interlinked figures. They include Chester A. Arthur III, the assertively queer grandson of a US President who joined the Dublin republican social elite during the Irish Civil War, Lily Kirkpatrick, an Irish artist who fell in love with the English feminist Edith Ellis in 1890s Cornwall, and Arthur Kingsley Porter, a Harvard academic who grappled with his sexuality in his adopted home of Donegal in the late 1920s. Alongside these central characters, we will discuss their Irish friends, among them many much better known figures, including Charlotte Despard, Ella Young, George Russell (‘AE’) and Jim Larkin. Following these interconnected lives, this talk traces the contours of an ephemeral space in early twentieth century Ireland where queer identities were discussed and even accepted.
Speaker Biography
Maurice J. Casey is a Research Fellow in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen’s University Belfast, where he works on the AHRC-funded project ‘Queer Northern Ireland: Sexuality before Liberation’. His first book Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of World Revolution will be published by Footnote Press in late 2024. Exploring the social circle of an Irish woman who lived in a Moscow hotel in the 1920s, the book traces a 20th century story that lies at the intersection of Irish history, queer history and the history of international communism.
Registration
This is an online-only event, streamed via Zoom: https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/j/91293716806.
To attend, please register at: https://forms.office.com/e/nNfYbQz28C
All are welcome!
This talk is part of the University of Galway History Seminar series.
Image: Chester A. Arthur III, queer grandson of a US President, on a horse, outside a cottage destroyed by “the ‘Tans”, in Kerry, during the Civil War.

University of Galway History Research Seminar: Documenting the History of Popular Religious Print in Early Modern Italy: Printed prayers, c.1460-1660
2023-09-06 15:30 - 17:30 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
University of Galway History Research Seminar
Documenting the History of Popular Religious Print in Early Modern Italy:
Printed Prayers, c.1460-1660
Dr Katherine Tycz
University of Galway

Abstract
In this paper, I will discuss the preliminary outcomes of my Printed Prayers in Italy, c. 1460–1660 research project, which has been undertaken during an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Galway (2021–2023). This presentation will explore how this project’s goal of aggregating cheap devotional pamphlets, broadsheets, and popular prints from early modern Italy and analysing them as a corpus reveals information about the production, distribution, and consumption of cheap religious print in early modern Italy.
Popular pious print has thus far received less scholarly attention than elite devotional books and theological treatises from Italy in this period. However, scholarship of Italian book history has recently revived interest in exploring the ephemeral print production of the early modern print world. My research focuses on those that were devotional in nature, a subset that has still received less comprehensive attention. To-date, I have catalogued more than 350 examples of printed prayers and have performed a close analysis of about half of these examples. Many of the examples catalogued do not include full bibliographic information regarding printers, publication places, or dates. This presentation will highlight how my Printed Prayers project’s approach of comprehensively documenting these printed prayers in a database coupled with close material, visual, and textual analysis of textual contents, typefaces, page design, and images allows us to better understand their place in book history and early modern culture.
Speaker Biography
Katherine Tycz is an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow in the Discipline of Italian at the University of Galway, where she is based in the Moore Institute. Katherine’s interdisciplinary research engages with early modern Italian devotional practices and material culture, focusing on the material text. From 2018-2019, Katherine was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wolf Humanities Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Katherine earned her PhD in Italian from the University of Cambridge in 2018.She has taught Italian literature, the history of medieval and Renaissance religion, and the history of material culture and decorative arts. Katherine has also worked on curatorial and collections research projects for permanent collections and for exhibitions in museums in the US and UK. She has published on Italian decorative arts and material culture, women in early modern Italy, early modern devotional objects and practices, print culture, and daily life in Renaissance Europe.
Registration
This is an in-person event, in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway (ground floor). For those of you not able to attend in person, the talk will also be streamed on Zoom: https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/j/98858688716. To attend via Zoom, please register at: https://forms.office.com/e/2vsTD6QxRE.
This seminar is organised jointly with the Centre for the Study of Religion at the Moore Institute, University of Galway.
The talk will be preceded at 3.30pm by a reception to mark the beginning of the new academic year. All are welcome!
A copy of the full seminar programme for Semester 1, 2023-24, is available here: University_Of_Galway_History_Seminar_2023-24_Semester_01.
Image: Detail from Boekverkoper, Simon Guillain (II), after Annibale Carracci (etching, 1646), Rijksmuseum: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-P-2015-26-926.

The Local and the Global in Early Modern English Writing
2023-09-01 - 2023-09-02 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & streamed live on Zoom
The Local and the Global in Early Modern English Writing
University of Galway, 1st-2nd September 2023
Hardiman Research Building
Room THB-G010 (Ground Floor)

Registration is free and all are welcome; please email Dr Maria Shmygol (maria.shmygol@universityofgalway.ie) by 28th August to save your spot and advise of any dietary requirements.
This symposium is supported by a Society for Renaissance Studies Small Conference Grant.

Good Practice in terms of Developing Educational Provision and Teaching in a Minoritised Language at University Level: Examples from Ireland and Wales
2023-07-27 13:00 - 14:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
Good Practice in terms of Developing Educational Provision and Teaching in a Minoritised Language at University Level: Examples from Ireland and Wales
In this presentation, I will share best practice in terms of developing educational provision and teaching in a minoritised language at university level. The good practice discussed in this presentation emerge from focus groups that were conducted with lecturers and students in Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge as well as other universities in Ireland and Wales.
I will discuss good practice in terms of encouraging students to study in a minoritised language; developing provision and teaching in a minoritised language; supporting students and marking assessments that are presented in a minoritised language and normalizing the use of minoritised languages among students.
Biography
Dr Siôn Llewelyn Jones is a lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, who is responsible for developing and delivering Welsh medium educational provision in the School of Social Sciences. In addition to carrying out research exploring the experiences of lecturers and students of Welsh-medium and Irish-medium provision in higher education, Siôn has also conducted other research on the Welsh language and education including the impact of Welsh-medium schooling on young people’s aspirations.
The talk will be streamed simultaneously on Zoom: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/96096037513

Irish Performance and Social Change: Politics and Aesthetics
2023-07-12 14:00 - 16:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & streamed live on Zoom
Dr. Ciara Murphy and Dr. Emer O’Toole have both recently published books on the relationship between Irish theatre and social change. Dr. Murphy’s book encapsulates The Troubles, the Peace Process, Second-Wave Feminism, the Celtic Tiger, social revolution, and the COVID-19 pandemic. It uses lenses of place, performance form, and social context to complicate narratives of nationhood. Dr. O’Toole’s study ranges from the decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1993 to the repeal of the 8th amendment in 2018. It has an aesthetic focus, asking what happens to beauty, meaning, and affect when artists’ aims are activist.
This event will begin as a conversation between the authors, then open up to a broader discussion with attendees. All welcome. If you’d like to read some of the texts beforehand but don’t have access, please get in touch with Dr. O’Toole at emer.otoole@concordia.ca.
Dr Emer O’Toole, Associate Professor, School of Irish Studies, Concordia University, Montreal.
Dr Ciara Murphy, Assistant Lecturer, Department of Creative Arts, Media, and Music, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Dundalk.

ENLIGHT Lecture on "Digital Revolution & Society"
2023-07-12 14:00 - 15:00 | online lecture
ENLIGHT Lecture on “Digital Revolution & Society”
Wednesday, 12th July 2023, 15.00-16.00 CET
Registration: https://uni-goettingen.de/en/654488.html

“Digital Revolution & Society”, will be livestreamed online on July 12th at 3 pm CET. Please find the details here: https://enlight-eu.org/university-about-us/news-events/158-news/777-enlight-lecture-digital-revolution-society
Gain insights into the dynamic interplay between technology and society and learn more about the evolving digital landscape. Broaden your perspective with the expertise of our speakers:

Itziar Alkorta (University of the Basque Country): Five crucial challenges on AI regulation
Cornelia Connolly (University of Galway): The Robotic Revolution…social robots in education explored
Chris Warin (University of Göttingen): Usable privacy in extended reality in the era of the metaverse

Networking event after the lecture for researchers from ENLIGHT universities
Each lecture is followed by a networking event for the scientific community. In the brand-new virtual space, the researchers from ENLIGHT universities can not only continue the discussion on the lecture`s topic but also use the opportunity to identify common research interests. This event serves as a platform for developing new ideas for future cooperation within the network. The ENLIGHT team supports this process by providing insights on funding opportunities. Researchers from all stages are more than welcome to join in! Please register here.

Geography Research Seminar on Culture and Sustainability
2023-07-12 14:00 - 15:00 | AC113 Geography Seminar room, University of Galway
Geography Research Seminar on Culture and Sustainability
Professor Janet Stephenson, Otago University, New Zealand
2pm Wednesday July 12th, AC113 Geography Seminar room

How does culture relate to sustainability? Janet Stephenson draws from her new book Culture and Sustainability to show how cultural analysis can help with sustainability endeavours in research and policy. She introduces the cultures framework, a well-tested approach for analysing culture at any scale and in any context. Using examples of its diverse applications around the world, Stephenson illustrates how culture can in some circumstances be highly resistant to change, and in other circumstances can change rapidly. Cultural analysis can assist with policy development and reveal why some policy interventions have unintended consequences. Understanding sustainability problems through a cultural lens can bring new insights into the potential for transformational change.
Bio
Janet Stephenson is a research professor at the Centre for Sustainability, an interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Otago, New Zealand. A social scientist, she is interested in the challenges of transitioning to a sustainable future and the influence of culture in seemingly intractable problems. Much of her research in recent years has focused on energy and transport issues as well as the challenges of climate change adaptation for place-based communities. Her recent book Culture and Sustainability draws on one-and-a-half decades of research to offer theoretical and analytical insights into the role of culture in sustainability transitions.

The Fráma Eile roundtable series
2023-07-06 15:00 - 17:00 | Centre for Irish Studies, University of Galway and ZOOM
The Fráma Eile roundtable series, organised by PhD students in the Centre for Irish Studies and Roinn na Gaeilge, explores new approaches to framing established texts (in both English and Irish), material objects, and artwork in the Irish Studies canon.
This roundtable discusses the poetry collection Eireaball Spideoige by Seán Ó Ríordáin. Speakers will highlight aspects of the text which have escaped critical attention, as well as suggest new reading methods and consider how Eireaball Spideoige has been framed in the academy to date.
This event will be bilingual.
All are welcome, and after presentations, the floor will be open to contributions and comments from all in attendance.
To attend virtually via Zoom: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/92993408389?pwd=[REDACTED]

The Mary Robinson Climate Conference
2023-07-05 - 2023-07-07 | The Mary Robinson Centre, Victoria House, Emmet Street, Ballina, Co. Mayo, Ireland, F26 NT93
COMMUNITIES CREATING CHANGE

Climate change is the defining socio-economic force of the 21st century. The Mary Robinson Climate Conference is an inclusive multidisciplinary forum bringing together voices from all sectors of academia and society to share climate experiences and discuss pathways for a sustainable future. The Mary Robinson Climate Conference theme for 2023 is Communities Creating Change.
The Mary Robinson Climate Conference takes place 5-7 July in Ballina, Co Mayo, delivered by The Mary Robinson Centre in partnership with Ballina 2023, Mayo County Council and University of Galway, sponsored by IPB Insurance.

Registration & Programme available HERE

Social Network Analysis of Career Trajectories in Polish Literature After 1989
2023-07-03 14:00 - 15:00 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Talk by Visiting CLS INFRA Fellow
Dr Maciej Maryl
Social Network Analysis of Career Trajectories in Polish Literature After 1989
The project aims to provide insights into literary reception of the Polish authors after the cultural transition of 1989 by applying social network analysis (SNA) methods to analyse relationships mined from bibliographical and textual data. The project will produce several case studies on the material derived from Polish Literary Bibliography (PBL) and the Corpus of Literary Discourse 1822-2022 (KDL). The case studies will employ network analysis and visualisation techniques to study the relationships between the actors of literary life and provide data-stories of career trajectories and success (or failure) patterns of particular writers (with a focus on Olga Tokarczuk).
Dr Maciej Maryl is Assistant Professor and founding Director of the Digital Humanities Centre at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is a Visiting Translational Access Fellow on the CLS INFRA project.
For further details, please contact Emily Ridge emily.ridge@universityofgalway.ie or Justin Tonra justin.tonra@universityofgalway.ie.

Globalization, Landscape, and Environment in Modern Ireland, 1922-2022
2023-06-29 - 2023-06-30 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & streamed live on Zoom
Globalization, Landscape, and Environment in Modern Ireland, 1922-2022
University of Galway
Room G010 (Ground Floor)
Hardiman Research Building
Moore Institute for the Humanities and Social Studies

Workshop Programme
29 June 2023
11.00 Tea/Coffee and Arrival
11.30 Panel 1
Eric Sandweiss (Indiana University)
‘However picturesque a survival…’ Remaking Claddagh in post-independence Ireland
Mo Moulton (University of Birmingham)
The global politics of bringing the milk to the creamery: Irish co-operative dairy societies and mobility in the Irish landscape, 1922-1972
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Panel 2
Conor McCabe (Queen’s University, Belfast)
Comprador Ireland and globalised capitalism: a theoretical framework
Trisha Kessler (University of Cambridge)
Modern factories for a modern nation: Jewish refugees, 1930s protectionism and the performance of modernity
Patrick Bresnihan (Maynooth University) & Patrick Brodie (University College Dublin)
From toxic industries to green extractivism: rural environmental struggles, multinational corporations, and Ireland’s postcolonial ecological regime
16.00 Break
16.15 Panel 3
Deirdre Foley (University College Cork)
Addressing gender-based violence and marital breakdown in the Republic, c.1977-1981
Erika Hanna (University of Bristol)
Damp, Condensation, and Acid rain in Ireland, 1970-1990
17.45 End of Day 1

30 June 2023
09.00 Panel 4
Aoife O’Leary McNeice (University of Exeter)
A social and environmental history of the River Lee Hydro Electric Scheme 1952-1957
Lily Toomey (Trinity College Dublin)
Ireland’s peatlands in global perspective
Sinéad Mercier (University College Dublin)
Tracing the development of Irish energy law in the Anthropocene
11.00 Break
11.15 Industrial Galway tour at Galway City Museum
12.30 Lunch
13.15 Panel 5
Maeve McGandy (University of Galway)
Tracing landscapes of climate adaptation across scales
Kevin O’Sullivan (University of Galway)
Living the future? Cloughjordan ecovillage and islands of sustainability
14.45 Roundtable – Where to Next?
15.30 Close of Workshop

Organisers
If you are interested in attending, please contact the organisers at:
Dr Erika Hanna (University of Bristol) erika.hanna@bristol.ac.uk
Dr Kevin O’Sullivan (University of Galway) kevin.k.osullivan@universityofgalway.ie
Thanks
This workshop is generously funded by University of Galway College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies Strategic Research Development Scheme and the International Strategic Fund, University of Bristol, with additional support from the Department of History, University of Galway.

Documentary Theatre: New Perspectives and Practices
2023-06-23 10:00 - 17:00 | The O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, University of Galway
“On 23rd June, 2023, the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama Theatre and Performance will host a 1-day symposium Documentary Theatre: New Perspectives and Practices.
The event will feature international scholars in the field of documentary theatre, with two panel sessions followed by a roundtable discussion. It will run from 10am to 5pm.
Registration
This symposium is free to all, with lunch and refreshments provided.
Register now at Eventbrite.
The event is generously funded by the Irish Research Council, and is organised by Dr Luke Lamont, IRC Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Galway, with the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance.”
Full Programme below (available as pdf here)

IX SILAS Conference at University of Galway: ‘Reimaginings and Reconstructions’ Ireland, Latin America, Spain and the Caribbean in Times of Change and Uncertainty
2023-06-21 - 2023-06-23 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
IX SILAS Conference at University of Galway
‘Reimaginings and Reconstructions’
Ireland, Latin America, Spain and the Caribbean in Times of Change and Uncertainty
Keynote: Professor Kerby Miller
“The Travels of Timothy: The Amazing Adventures and Woeful Escapades of a Young Irishman in North and South America, 1920-1924”
Chair: Professor Breandán MacSuibhne

Welcome to SILAS 2023, the Society for Irish Latin America Studies conference, entitled:
‘Reimaginings and Reconstructions’
Ireland, Latin America, Spain and the Caribbean in Times of Change and Uncertainty.
This 3-day event at the Moore Institute will explore re-imaginings and reconstructions on personal, micro, or macrolevels and that connect Ireland, Latin American and the Caribbean in a real or an imagined sense.
Following on a virtual SILAS conference in Peru in 2021, we are delighted to bring together in person scholars, researchers, students, and creatives from Ireland, Latin America, Spanish speaking North America, the Caribbean and Iberia. The first biannual SILAS conference took place at the Centre for Irish Studies, University of Galway, in 2007. This will be a hybrid event with in-person and virtual presentations.
IX SILAS Conference Programme 21-23 June 2023
Bienvenidos a SILAS 2023, la conferencia de la Society for Irish Latin America Studies, titulada:
‘Reimaginaciones y reconstrucciones’
Irlanda, América Latina, España y el Caribe en tiempos de cambio e incertidumbre
Este evento de 3 días en el Instituto Moore explorará reimaginaciones y reconstrucciones a nivel personal, micro o macro y que conectan a Irlanda, América Latina y el Caribe en un sentido real o imaginario.
Luego de una conferencia virtual de SILAS en Perú en 2021, estamos encantados de reunir en persona a académicos, investigadores, estudiantes y creativos de Irlanda, América Latina, América del Norte de habla hispana, el Caribe e Iberia. La primera conferencia bianual SILAS tuvo lugar en el Centro de Estudios Irlandeses de la Universidad de Galway, en 2007. Este será un evento híbrido con presentaciones presenciales y virtuales.
Registration:
SILAS 2023 Conference | University of Galway Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies (clr.events)

Open Scholarship Café: Predatory publishing - How to identify questionable journals
2023-06-16 12:00 - 13:30 | THB-G011 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
Open Scholarship Café: Predatory publishing – How to identify questionable journals In-Person / Online

This is a hybrid event! We would like to meet you in person in the Hardiman Building, G010 (on ground floor) where we will finish with a free slice of fresh vegetarian pizza! But if you can’t join us on campus you are very welcome to join us online for the presentation and discussion. Please choose below if you join us in person or online. We need to know for catering purposes!

Publish or Perish! This is the world many researchers find themselves in. Questionable and sometimes fraudulent actors try to take advantage of the pressure on authors by offering to publish their research for a fee, but without the proper checks and processes expected from academic journals. These outlets are labelled predatory journals, and they seem to multiply in number year on year! They are seen by many as a genuine threat to the Open Access movement because they weaken the credibility of genuine OA journals.
The aim of this Open Scholarship Café is to look at the phenonomen of predatory publishing in a critical way. Is this real threat to academics or are we in a stage of “moral panic”? We will look at how to detect signs of predatory behaviour and how you can check if a journal adheres to academic standards. One of the tools we will look at is the Think Check Submit website.
The Café also aims to draw on the knowledge and experiences of the participants with regards to publishing. To draw on real world examples please forward emails of potentially predatory journals to Hardy (hardy.schwamm@universityofgalway.ie) in advance of the Café so we can look at them jointly.
The facilitator:
Hardy Schwamm is the Open Scholarship Librarian at University of Galway Library. Hardy is a member of the IReL Steering Group that negotioates Open Access agreements with publishers. Hardy is also interested in how the scholarly communications landscape is going to develop given the technological and policy changes of the last few years. This is the first time he is organising a sessin looking at the phenomenon of predatory publishing and he hopes participants will share experiences with him.

Related LibGuide: Publishing your research by Rosie Dunne
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Open Scholarship Café: E-textbook emergency: OER to the rescue?
2023-06-08 12:00 - 13:30 | THB-G011 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
Open Scholarship Café: E-textbook emergency: OER to the rescue? In-Person / Online

Students in Galway and elsewhere are at an ever-sharpening point of an affordability crisis that threatens their education. The fatalistic common-place that ‘students don’t buy their textbooks’ or required readings conceals the fact that among those who ‘don’t’ are those who don’t because they can’t – and the latter can only be growing in number. Students’ ability to purchase textbooks declines as affordable accommodation options shrink and the price of groceries grow and grow; students who can’t access education resources are at a disadvantage. Can Open Educational Resources (OER) help make sure that all students have access to essential learning materials like textbooks?
Among their other uses – they make use of open licenses allowing them to be revised and remixed – OER are free to use and redistribute, suggesting themselves as possible strategies in addressing overlapping crises of affordability in higher education. The COVID-era shift to online, for example, included a rapid shift towards ebooks from print textbooks. While useful in overcoming the limitations of print, this shift has exposed weaknesses in prevailing models of ebook provision – including runaway inflation in terms of ebook and ebook platform pricing and license terms that are not favourable in terms of providing reliable, equitable access to students. These factors have put pressure on university libraries and their budgets, with attendant knock-on effects for staff and students who depend on these learning resources for their studies and for their student success.
The speakers:
1. Ronán Kennedy (University of Galway Library, Head of Collections): #ebooksos – a primer
The academic ebook market has long been a cause for concern due to market manipulation, excessive pricing and exploitation of events such as COVID-19. #ebooksos was conceived as a call for action to investigate the academic ebook market and has gathered international momentum. This paper will give a brief overview of the rationale behind #ebooksos, as well as offering suggestions for alternative routes to academic content provision in teaching, learning and research.
2. Marguerita McGovern (University of Galway Lecturer, School of Political Science & Sociology): ‘Lights, camera, action!’ Extending the brief. – The use of videos and podcasts within eBooks.
The making of an E-book series for Social Work students that helps them to see beyond the written text and experience the spoken word of professionals in their field of expertise.
3. Jacqueline Murphy (University of Galway, Lecturer School of Political Science and Sociology): Opening the Sociological Imagination
Creating an open textbook for first-year sociological students. The aim of this project is to use education technology to create an accessible and interactive learning object. This talk will focus on two interconnected themes- the capacity of OER to promote equity and inclusivity in Irish Education whilst being mindful of the importance of building critical analysis skills so students can question, evaluate and analyze the sea of information available to them.

Related LibGuide: Open Educational Resources (OER) by Kristopher Meen

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