Moore Institute

School of Psychology Research Seminar: How to be an Academic in a World on Fire: Talk & Hands-On Workshop
2024-02-26 12:30 - 15:00 (Europe/Dublin) | G065 AMBE, University of Galway
School of Psychology Research Seminar: How to be an Academic in a World on Fire
Talk & Hands-On Workshop
Dr. Clare Kelly, Trinity College Dublin
Monday 26th February 12:30-15:00
(lunch included)
G065 AMBE, University of Galway
Addressing the climate crisis requires radical and urgent action at all levels of society. Universities are ideally positioned to lead such action but are largely failing to do so. At the same time, many academic scientists find their work impeded by corporatization and bureaucracy, a loss of academic freedom, overwork, casualisation, and poor mental health. In this talk, I will describe a recent paper that draws on Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics framework to rethink academia, which increasingly transgresses human and planetary limits while failing to provide a socially just foundation for its communities. In response, we suggest seven new principles for reimagining the norms of academic practice (Urai & Kelly, 2023). Based on these principles, we propose a call to action, and encourage academics to take concrete steps towards a thriving scientific enterprise that both works better for people and responds to the climate crisis.
Do you want to learn more? Following the talk, a hands on workshop (see https://anneurai.net/doughnut-academia/) will support participants to take concrete steps toward action. Participants will analyse current academic norms through a doughnut lens to identify and rethink unhelpful practices and to identify actions that will institute new ones. Activities will equip participants with new knowledge, motivation, and allegiances that will support them to take action – in their local context and as part of the global community.
Sign up for the workshop (and reminder!) here: https://forms.gle/Speanj9xkeZiyuJ46
Clare Kelly PhD is an Associate Professor in the School of Psychology and Department of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, and a Principal Investigator at Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience (https://immalab.wordpress.com/). Clare is a developmental cognitive neuroscientist whose research to date has largely focused on using translational brain imaging techniques to better understand psychiatric conditions such as depression by tracing the origins of these conditions in the developing brain. More recently, Clare’s focus has broadened to include teaching, research, and advocacy on the climate and biodiversity crisis. She was recently awarded a Sustainability Leadership Award and a Teaching Award for her undergraduate teaching on the psychology of the climate crisis. Working with Anne Urai (https://anneurai.net/), she argues that many aspects of scientific culture and practice act as a barrier to climate action, and that we need reimagine academia in a way that works better for people and enables climate action.

ILAS International Research Training Series - 2023/24
2024-02-27 09:30 - 16:00 | ILAS – Room 2015, University of Galway
ILAS International Research Training Series – 2023/24
Unlocking the Potential of Empirical Research: An Introduction to R
for Statistical Analysis and Data Visualisation
Description:
This immersive research session goes through R programming, a powerful tool for statistical analysis, data manipulation, and visualisation. This session aims to showcase the versatility of R in empirical research, focusing on its applications in economics and health sciences. Participants will learn to import diverse datasets, create basic graphs, generate descriptive statistics, and draw meaningful inferences. By the end of the session, attendees will gain the skills to tackle R’s capabilities to analyse data and creatively apply their expertise to address specific research questions across various disciplines. Take advantage of this opportunity to elevate your research capabilities with R!
Course Instructor: Luis Garcia-Covarrubias, University of Galway

Luis currently serves as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the J E Cairnes School of Business and Economics, University of Galway. Prior to this role, Luis held the position of Research Statistics Officer at the University Hospital Galway. Luis’ primary focus in research revolves around agricultural and environmental economics. Luis is passionate about employing econometrics and data science across various disciplines, including but not limited to labour economics, education, and medical science. His teaching experience spans both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, where he has lectured on economics-related subjects. Beyond academia, Luis held the role of Chief Data Officer at an NGO in Mexico and Latin America from 2015 to 2019. Feel free to explore more about Luis’ professional background and research interests at www.luisgarciacovarrubias.com
Register Here
Note: Please only register if you can attend as places are limited.

Centre for Creative Technologies Masterclass Series: Co-Designing Socially Engaged Research: The Approach of Immersive Empathy
2024-02-27 12:00 - 13:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & streamed live on Zoom
Co-Designing Socially Engaged Research: The Approach of Immersive Empathy

Part of the Masterclasses @ Centre for Creative Technologies collection.

Introducing the methods used on the Immersive Empathy project along with some of the ethical questions raised by socially engaged research.

This event will also be streamed via Zoom – if you would prefer to attend online, register at: https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Pe258ixkQGmJUdxCY4I_DQ
Much has been written about the power of virtual reality to put the viewer in someone else’s shoes and increase empathy towards those who experience social marginalization. However the wave of humanitarian VR films that have been produced in recent years has also raised questions about who gets to tell their stories and on whose terms they are invited to speak. Whilst viewers of virtual reality films can find themselves transported to a Syrian refugee camp or a slum in Kenya, critics have argued that such films act less as challenges to inequalities than as a form of misery tourism.
The Immersive Empathy Project is an initiative of researchers within the disciplines of film, drama, psychology, business and digital humanities at the University of Galway that responds to both the potential and the criticisms of immersive reality as a tool for social change. Working with clients of Galway Simon who have experienced homelessness, it situates the principles of co-creation and consent at the heart of its storytelling process. Over the course of several months, it involved a series of workshops that empowered the participants to tell their own stories and to translate those personal narratives into an immersive film, Lost & Found, exploring the experience of homelessness from the perspective of those who have lived it.
This masterclass will introduce participants to the methodologies employed on the Immersive Empathy project along with some of the ethical questions raised by socially engaged research.
The Immersive Empathy project has received funding from the Irish Research Council, Science Foundation Ireland, and the Illuminate fund, run by the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies at University of Galway.

Registration:
Co-Designing Socially Engaged Research: The Approach of Immersive Empathy Tickets, Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 12:00 PM | Eventbrite

Launch: Building Children’s Futures: Using Children’s Rights to Recover from the Global Pandemic. The Children’s Report
2024-02-28 14:00 - 16:00 | online via Zoom
Launch: Building Children’s Futures: Using Children’s Rights to Recover from the Global Pandemic. The Children’s Report
We are delighted to invite you to the launch of a new children’s research report, conducted by UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway in partnership with Foróige, and published as part of the wider ‘Building Children’s Futures: Using Children’s Rights to Recover from the Global Pandemic’ project.
The ‘Building Children’s Futures: Using Children’s Rights to Recover from the Global Pandemic’ project is funded by the EU Commission and is being led by the Children’s Rights Alliance in partnership with the Department of Children Equality Disability Integration and Youth, Tusla, Ireland’s Child and Family Agency and Children and Young People’s Services Committees (CYPSC), Eurochild, UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway, and Foróige. Using Ireland as a case study, the project aims to document how child participation structures worked during the Covid-19 pandemic and identify best practices in Covid-19 responses in Europe. The project will explore how a child rights-based approach, utilising Child Rights Impact Assessments (CRIAs), can be embedded in decision-making in times of emergency.
The launch of this research report, taking place online via Zoom on Wednesday 28 February 2024, will feature a fantastic line up of speakers:
Chair:
Karen Hannify, Director of Marketing, Communications and External Relations at Foróige.
Speakers:

Kevin McCarthy – Secretary General of the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Dr Danielle Kennan – Senior Researcher at UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway
Representatives from the Children and Young Person’s Advisory Group

Please join us for the online launch on Wednesday 28th February 2024 from 2pm – 4pm.
Please register to attend here.
We look forward to seeing you at the launch!
#BuildingChildrensFutures

Irish Studies Seminar: “Embedded in Zeitgeist, Embodying Zeitgeist: Traditional Music and Arts Developments in Galway, 1971-1981”
2024-02-29 16:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies, School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies, 4 Distillery Road, University of Galway, and on zoom
Irish Studies Seminar Series, 2023-24 (in person, and on zoom)
Dr Anna Falkenau, “Embedded in Zeitgeist, Embodying Zeitgeist: Traditional Music and Arts Developments in Galway, 1971-1981”
Focusing on the urban site of Galway City, this paper explores the embeddedness of Irish traditional music and arts events in the zeitgeist of the 1970s. Described in a national context as “a decade of cultural, social and economic transition” (Verena Commins 2014), on a local level, Galway “awakened from a sleepy town a happening arts town” (Kernan Andrews 2013). Throughout my paper, I explore the pathway of key actor Ollie Jennings, active in Galway’s changing cultural landscape from the mid 1970s. My analysis shows that Galway’s vibrant scene of Irish traditional and folk music-making in public houses and other public spaces – only in place since the early 1970s – was at the root of inceptive arts developments during this decade. My discussion further reveals that it was a concoction of agency and circumstance that enabled Ollie Jennings’ success as music and arts promoter; his actions were at once embedded in zeitgeist, but also embodied it. Ultimately, I put forward a re-interpretation of Galway’s recent socio-cultural history.
Dr Anna Falkenau
A recipient of a Freyer-Hardiman scholarship from the University of Galway, Anna Falkenau is currently concluding doctoral research on micro and macro flows in the development of Irish traditional music in Galway City between 1961 and 1981. She previously received her Master of Arts in Music from Wesleyan University, Connecticut, USA (2004) and graduated from University College Cork (BMus, 2002). Publications to date include a core chapter entitled “‘It was in the Air’: Irish Traditional Music in Galway, 1960-1979,” contributed to Hardiman & Beyond: The Arts and Culture of Galway Since 1820, edited by John Cunningham and Ciaran McDonagh. Anna Falkenau is also an active performer of Irish traditional music (violin). She has released two critically acclaimed albums: her solo CD Féileacán na Saoirse – The Butterfly of Freedom (2014) and I Can Hear You Calling with five-string banjo player Lena Ullman (2017), both albums receiving four-star reviews in The Irish Times. www.annafalkenau.com
This seminar will take place in the Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies, School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies, 4 Distillery Road, University of Galway, and on zoom here: https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/j/99430390639?pwd=[REDACTED]

Webinar hosted by the Irish Society for Theatre Research: Irish Circus and Performance: From Heritage to Practice
2024-02-29 16:00 - 17:00 | online via Zoom
Webinar hosted by the Irish Society for Theatre Research
Title: Irish Circus and Performance: From Heritage to Practice
Date: 29 February
Time: 4pm to 5pm
Via Zoom
Registration and info: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/irishsocietyfortheatreresearch/1168313
Contact: barry.houlihan@universityofgalway.ie

Award-winning Japanese film director Kazuhiro SODA coming to University of Galway
2024-02-29 16:00 - 17:15 | MAIRTIN O’TNUTHAIL THEATRE [Arts Millennium 1023]
Award-winning Japanese film director Kazuhiro SODA coming to University of Galway and PALAS
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 29TH
Renowned Japanese documentary filmmaker, Kazuhiro SODA is visiting Galway for a workshop and a screening of his award-winning documentary ZERO (2020). His visit is presented by the School of English Media and Creative Arts, University of Galway in association with the East Asia Film Festival Ireland [www.eaffi.ie]
Soda is a multi-award-winning director, screenwriter, cinematographer, producer, and author. After spending several years in New York producing documentaries for NHK [Japanese national broadcaster], he returned to his native Japan to direct his first ‘Observational Film’ – a term and approach to filmmaking that he would make his own through his ‘ten rules.’
CAMPAIGN (2007) went on to win the prestigious Peabody Award for Best Documentary.
Subsequent films garnered additional awards including MENTAL (Best Documentary, Busan International Film Festival 2008); PEACE (Best Documentary, Hong Kong International Film Festival 2010) and ZERO (Ecumenical Prize, Berlin International Film Festival 2020). His latest film, THE CATS OF GEOKOGO SHRINE premieres at the Berlinale Film Festival in March 2024.
ZERO – screening on Feb 29th at PALAS cinema – is Soda’s most widely celebrated film to date.
It follows the final months in the working life of Dr. Yamamoto, the humane psychiatrist first encountered in MENTAL. Within a culture where mental disorders are often derided and stigmatised, Yamamoto has created a space of refuge and support for his patients where they are permitted and empowered to be themselves. The resulting film opens up a space for questioning attitudes to mental illness and standardised treatments and is by turns both touching and humorous.
Now 80 years of age and carer to his beloved wife Yoshiko, Yamamoto must retire and say goodbye to his patients. A loving look at care and ageing, the film exemplifies Soda’s non-judgmental and deeply humane approach to his subjects, offering themes and insights that resonate far beyond their local context.

On Thursday, Feb 29th there will be a discussion with Soda about his work in MAIRTIN O’TNUTHAIL THEATRE [Arts Millennium 1023] 4:00-5:15 pm

This will be followed by a screening of the film ZERO at the PÁLÁS cinema at 6:00 pm and a Q&A between the director and Dr Tony Tracy [Huston School of Film].

Student tickets are just €5 – but please register with tony.tracy@universityofgalway.ie in advance!
Tickets for ZERO screening are available at hkps://www.palas.ie/film/zero-director-qa-with-kazuhirosoda
For more information on Kazuhiro Soda’s films and work, visit: https://www.kazuhirosoda.com

International Women's Day 2024: Life under Occupation. Women's Experiences of Living in the Palestinian Territories
2024-03-04 14:00 - 16:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
International Women’s Day 2024
Centre for Global Women’s Studies
Discipline of Gender and Women’s Studies
School of Political Science and Sociology
Date: 4th March 2024, 2:00 – 4:00 pm (GMT)
G010, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, H91 REW4 or online via Zoom
Áine Treanor
In 2022, Áine spent three months in the West Bank as a Human Rights monitor. During her time there, she witnessed housing demolitions, extreme military control and an apartheid system facing Palestinians living under military occupation. In her testimony, Áine tells the story of a rural community threatened with the expansion of an illegal Israeli settlement, the violence and harassment they face by both settlers and Israeli soldiers, and the women shepherds who are fighting for their livelihoods and their right to exist.
Zeina Alazzeh
Zeina Alazzeh is a Palestinian first-year Ph.D. researcher at the University of Galway, specializing in EU relations with Palestine. Zeina’s academic journey in Ireland began with a Master’s degree in International Public Policy and Diplomacy at the University College of Cork, where she developed a keen understanding of international relations. She currently works as a Communication and Policy Officer at the Mission State of Palestine in Dublin. Before her current role, Zeina worked as a Research and Teaching Assistant at Birzeit University in Palestine, where she contributed to the academic and intellectual development of Palestinian students. Her commitment to her work is rooted in her personal experiences as a woman, having been raised in the West Bank and bearing witness to the challenges faced under occupation. Checkpoints, daily raids, demolition, and continuous harassment of Israeli soldiers to her people and loved ones have shaped her passion for promoting peace and justice.
Registration:
https://forms.office.com/e/EZQacxpBNt

Remembering and Restoring the Past to Ensure the Future: Religious Sites of Minneapolis and St. Paul
2024-03-05 16:00 - 17:00 | online seminar
You are warmly invited to an online seminar with Marilyn J. Chiat, Ph.D. and Jeanne Halgren Kilde, Ph.D. on 5th March 2024 at 4pm GMT:
Remembering and Restoring the Past to Ensure the Future: Religious Sites of Minneapolis and St. Paul
This online seminar is a collaboration between the Centre for the Study of Religion at University of Galway and the Material and Cultural Heritages of Religion in Ireland research network (MCHRI).
To register, please use this link: https://forms.office.com/e/2JWyg9CrAA
If you have any difficulty in registering, please contact alison.forrestal@universityofgalway.ie
Topic and Speakers:
(Image: Synagogue erected in 1926 by the Tifereth B’nai Jacob congregation, Purchased in 1957 by the First Church of God in Christ. Approved by the Minnesota State Historical Preservation Office for nomination to the National Register for Historic Places. Image from the Houses of Worship project website.)
What do the histories of, and the continued research on, various local congregations and houses of worship in Minneapolis-St. Paul teach us about how communities are created, relationships are built, and how inter- and intra- congregational interactions are lived out? In this presentation, Dr. Marilyn J. Chiat and Dr. Jeanne Halgren Kilde will introduce their Twin Cities Houses of Worship Project, which has collected data on over 250 congregations and over 500 sites related to religious and ethnic groups who settled and developed nine neighborhoods along the Mississippi River in St. Paul and Minneapolis between 1849 and 1924. They will also focus on one case study, a building erected by Orthodox Jews and later purchased by Black Pentecostals, exploring the distinctive but overlapping histories of the two congregations and discussing the importance of historical research of this kind in bringing historians, preservationists, community leaders, activists, and others together across lines of religious and ethnic difference in the effort to restore, remember, and revitalize historic houses of worship in our region.
Guest speakers:
Marilyn J. Chiat, Ph.D. received her doctorate in Art History from the University of Minnesota. Her dissertation on ancient synagogue architecture was published by Brown University under the title Handbook of Synagogue Architecture. Her focus is on the role religious architecture plays in communities, providing insight into the history of congregants and the larger cultural context in which they exist. She has published and lectured widely on this topic here and abroad. Among her other publications is America’s Religious Architecture: Sacred Places for Every Community, commissioned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and published by John Wiley & Sons, The Sacred Traveler: Chicago and Illinois, part of the Sacred Traveler Series published by Paulist Press, and North American Churches from Chapels to Cathedrals, published by Publications International.

Jeanne Halgren Kilde, Ph.D. Director Emerita of the Religious Studies Program at the University of Minnesota. A cultural historian of religion in the United States, Kilde holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Minnesota. Her primary research focus is on religious space and architecture. Among her publications are the monographs When Church Became Theatre: The Transformation of Evangelical Architecture and Worship (Oxford University Press, 2002); and Sacred Power, Sacred Space: An Introduction to Christian Architecture (Oxford University Press, 2008); and the edited volume, the Handbook of Religious Space and Place (Oxford University Press, 2022). With Marilyn Chiat, she is co-lead researcher on the Houses of Worship in the Twin Cities Project. She is also working on a study of the development of “spirituality” and “spiritual” architecture in the 1950s and 1960s.

Digital Humanities Research Group seminar: ‘Two new resources for manuscript studies: network graphs, linked open data, open-access publishing, natural language processing’
2024-03-06 12:00 - 14:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
The second Digital Humanities Research Group seminar of this semester will take place on Wednesday 6 March 12pm in room THB-G010 (Hardiman Research Building).
Pádraic Moran, Classics, University of Galway
‘Two new resources for manuscript studies: network graphs, linked open data, open-access publishing, natural language processing.’
This talk will discuss Digital Humanities aspects of work in progress on two online resources for the study of early manuscript culture: Manuscripts with Irish Associations (MIrA) <http://www.mira.ie> and Gloss Corpus <http://www.glossing.org/glosscorpus>. The former is an online catalogue, with images, for manuscripts either originating in Ireland or written by Irish scribes abroad, or associated with Ireland in other ways. The latter is a collaborative resource for digital editions of glosses, that is, short texts written between the lines and in the margins of manuscripts. I will provide a short introduction to both resources, with some comments on technical infrastructure and digital sustainability. For MIrA, I will discuss the deployment of network graphs and critical issues surrounding their interpretation. I will also outline current efforts to a create an international network of Linked Open Data for early medieval Latin manuscripts. For Gloss Corpus, I will explain the concept and practice of open-access publishing as applied here and discuss plans for the application of data analytics using natural language processing.
You may register to attend via Zoom here:
https://forms.office.com/e/CvkPkh39sJ
Full programme:
https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/digital-humanities-research-seminar-series-spring-2024/

University of Galway History Research Seminar: Rethinking Veterancy from the Colonies
2024-03-06 16:00 - 17:30 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & streamed live on Zoom
University of Galway History Research
Rethinking Veterancy from the Colonies
Dr Dónal Hassett (University College Cork)

Biography
Dr Dónal Hassett is Senior Lecturer in French at University College Cork. His research has two main focuses: the history of the French Empire, in particular North Africa, and the legacies of conflict, especially veteran studies. He is primarily interested in how those who participated in military conflicts in the colonial world grappled with the legacies of war in peacetime. His work seeks to bring together the approaches used by historians of the colonial word with the analyses of those who study veterancy to lay the foundations for a global history of the war veteran. He has published widely on these topics and his first monograph, Mobilizing Memory: The Great War and the Language of Politics in Colonial Algeria, 1918-1939, appeared in August 2019 with Oxford University Press. Dónal was also recently awarded an ERC Starting Grant of €1.2 million for a project titled COLVET – Ex-soldiers of Empire: Colonial Veterancy of the Interwar World.
Registration
This is a hybrid event. The paper will be delivered in-person, in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway (ground floor) and livestreamed simultaneously on Zoom: https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/j/92657616291.
Seminars are not recorded.
To attend via Zoom, please register at: https://forms.office.com/e/vuiCM5FvtH
This talk is part of the University of Galway History Seminar series and is co-hosted with the Centre for the Investigation of Transnational Encounters (CITE).
The event will be followed by a reception with tea, coffee, and pastries. All are welcome!

Bridging Generational Perspectives - Networking Event for Graduate Students & Early Career Researchers
2024-03-07 19:00 - 21:00 | online via Zoom
Networking Event for Graduate Students & Early Career Researchers
Join OHNI for this free virtual networking event on the theme of ‘Bridging Generational Perspectives’ at 7pm on Thursday, 7 March. This networking opportunity is targeted at graduate students and early career researchers. Whether you’re just starting out or you’re battling to finish your dissertation or first book this is a chance to share experiences and gain insights.
Registration is FREE and open to all. Register using the form below. After you register you’ll receive a link to join the event via Zoom.
If you have any further questions, please contact info@oralhistorynetworkireland.ie
Registration: Networking Event for Graduate Students & Early Career Researchers – Oral History Network of Ireland (oralhistorynetworkireland.ie)

CAMPS LAB: Dicuil – an Irish and Carolingian Universalist and his Intellectual Legacy: an introduction to the DICUIL project
2024-03-08 12:00 - 14:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
Centre for Antique, Medieval, and Pre-modern Studies (CAMPS) LAB:
Dicuil – an Irish and Carolingian Universalist and his Intellectual Legacy: an introduction to the DICUIL project
Christian Schweizer
IRC Fellow | Classics | University of Galway
8 March 2024
12 noon
THB-G010 & online via Zoom
If you wish to join online, please complete this form: https://forms.office.com/e/ngxdR3UBRy?origin=lprLink
Lunch to follow
All welcome!

Seimineáir Thaighde. Roinn na Gaeilge
2024-03-11 13:00 - 14:00 | Room 214, Áras na Gaeilge
Seimineáir Thaighde
Roinn na Gaeilge
26 February: Liam Edwards, Ulster University, will discuss his research on judicial review across the devolved nations of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. (This talk will be in English).
4 March: Dr. Cassie Christmas-Smith will discuss her research project GAELFAM (SFI-IRC Pathway Award), which investigates the everyday linguistic experiences of families who reside in the Irish Gaeltacht and who use a language other than/in addition to Irish or English in the home. (This talk will be in Irish)
11 March: Dr. Colm Mac Gearailt will discuss his research project CARTLANN (HEA North-South Research Programme). This project investigates Irish-language media and activism. (This talk will be in Irish)
All talks will take place in Room 214, Áras na Gaeilge, 1-2pm.

POSTPONED! Margaret Heavey Memorial Lecture 2024
2024-03-12 18:00 - 20:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Regrettably, we have had to postpone the Margaret Heavey Memorial Lecture planned for 12 March. We hope to hold the lecture on a future date.
Margaret Heavey Memorial Lecture 2024
Prof. Isabelle Torrance (University of Aarhus)
“A Trip to the Moon: Lucian, Irish Satire and Migration History”
For background on the lecture series (and details for access via Zoom) see here:
https://www.universityofgalway.ie/classics/events/heavey/
Abstract:
A Trip to the Moon by Mr Murtagh McDermot is a little-studied 18th-century Irish satire, published hot on the heels of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. It reports extraordinary encounters with animal-human hybrids, the lunar monarch and his court, Pythagoreans, an underwater cave where poetry is created with anvils and hammers, the discovery of the Philosopher’s stone, and a moon language learned by ingesting boiled books.
This talk will introduce the text and will put forward three interconnected arguments on classical reception, political satire, and migration history. First, the significance of Lucian’s Vera Historia (True History) for framing the narrative will be mapped out. Second, the insistence on Irish identity and politics within this satire will be highlighted as distinctive within 18th-century Irish Utopian literature. Finally, it will be suggested that the imagined experiences of migration satirized in A Trip to the Moon should be read against the backdrop of the first large waves of migration from Ulster to North America.

CANCELLED! Sonraí – Irish Data Stewardship Network roadshow
2024-03-13 11:00 - 13:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances the following event has to be cancelled.
Sonraí – Irish Data Stewardship Network aims to establish a national network which will foster, enable, and advocate for the development of research data management and data stewards nationally and are hosting a series of roadshows in research performing organisations across Ireland with the aim of raising awareness of the role of data stewards, highlighting the need for more and to help those involved in research, helping existing researchers working with data to recognise their activities as data stewardship.
Do you generate or manage research data? Have you written a data management plan? Could you be a data steward?
Join the Sonraí Irish Data Stewardship Roadshow to hear more about the work of the network, to discuss in groups the role of data stewards and what you see as the role of our new network.
Agenda: Introduction to Sonraí – Irish Data Stewardship Network
Breakout groups
· Could you be a data steward? What does data stewardship mean to you?
· Which of these activities do you carry out within your current role?
· What would you like to see Sonraí doing? How best can Sonraí support your research?
Discussion
· Reflect on the breakout session
· Next steps locally
· Next steps nationally
Lunch (tea/coffee/sandwiches) will be served.
For any queries about the event, please contact local organiser Trish Finnan trish.finnan@universityofgalway.ie or Sonraí Project Lead Dr Aoife Coffey aoife.coffey@ucc.ie
Registration: https://universityofgalway.libcal.com/event/4182887

Centre for Creative Technologies Masterclass Series: A Singular Harmony: on the Kinematics of Creativity & the Language of Intel
2024-03-13 12:00 - 14:00 | Studio 3, O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, University of Galway
A Singular Harmony: on the Kinematics of Creativity & the Language of Intel

Part of the Masterclasses @ Centre for Creative Technologies collection

Dr Cissie Fu, Head of School, McNally School of Fine Arts at Lasalle University of the Arts Singapore
Join us for the next in the masterclass series run by the Centre for Creative Technologies, where we welcome Dr Cissie Fu, Head of School, McNally School of Fine Arts at Lasalle University of the Arts Singapore.

Abstract
“We are pressed into lines, just as lines are the accumulation of such moments of pressure,” writes Sara Ahmed in Queer Phenomenology (2006), to which this anachronistic rejoinder from Virginia Woolf’s “Craftsmanship” (1937) rings resonant, still: “[Some words] show no trace of the strange, of the diabolical power which words possess when they are not tapped out by a typewriter but come fresh from a human brain.”
By tracing the geometries of movement that liberate various structures of form and metre, this masterclass invites us to risk intervention through variable foot and cadence units, towards crafting invention with more-than-human intelligences, algorithmic or heuristic, artificial or indigenous. Let us consider the conditions under which, in the poetic prose of William Carlos Williams’s Kora in Hell – Improvisations XXII (1970), “a thing known passes out of the mind into the muscles” and compose lines of flight that converge and diverge into a neuropolyphony.
Speaker Biography
Dr Cissie Fu (AB Harvard; MSt, MSc, DPhil Oxford) is a political theorist and co-founder of the Political Arts Initiative, which invites 21st-century imag-e-nations of the political through digital technology and the creative and performing arts.
Born in Hong Kong, Cissie taught and performed across cultural and educational institutions in Asia, Europe, UK, and the Americas. She recently joined University of the Arts Singapore as Head of the McNally School of Fine Arts at LASALLE College of the Arts, after having served as Dean of the Faculty of Culture + Community at Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver and earlier as Director of Studies at Leiden University College in The Hague.
Cissie’s research connects politics, philosophy, and performance. Her interests in relational aesthetics and decolonial action, combined with her experiments in experiential and transformative organisational design, inform her approach to institution-building as a creative, critical and communal cultural practice.
Registration
Please register via Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/a-singular-harmony-on-the-kinematics-of-creativity-the-language-of-intel-tickets-855863188837

University of Galway History Research Seminar: Manuscripts at the Margins: How social network analysis can help find non-elite readers
2024-03-13 16:00 - 17:30 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & streamed live on Zoom
University of Galway History Research Seminar
Manuscripts at the Margins: How social network analysis can help find non-elite readers
Professor Erin McCarthy (University of Galway)

Biography
Professor Erin McCarthy is Established Professor of English Literature and Computational Humanities. She is also the Principal Investigator of the Irish Research Council and European Research Council-funded project “STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse, 1475-1700.” The project, which runs from September 2022 to August 2028, computationally maps and models the movement of English poetry through early modern social networks. It will apply insights from network analysis and graph theory to provide the most comprehensive overview of the circulation of early modern English verse in manuscript to date. Erin is the author of Doubtful Readers: Print, Poetry, and the Reading Public (Oxford University Press, 2020), which was named an Outstanding Academic Title by CHOICE in 2021. She is currently completing a second monograph, “The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing in Manuscript Miscellanies, 1550-1700,” with Marie-Louise Coolahan and Sajed Chowdhury. Her scholarship has also appeared in the journals John Donne Journal, SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, the Review of English Studies, and Criticism as well edited collection, reference works, and online publications.
Registration
This is a hybrid event. The paper will be delivered in-person, in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway (ground floor) and livestreamed simultaneously on Zoom: https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/j/98745002996 .
Seminars are not recorded.
To attend via Zoom, please register at: https://forms.office.com/e/QmgxeDyxst
This talk is part of the University of Galway History Seminar series.

Unusual Gestures: Talk by Photographer Lorraine Tuck (Neurodivergence Festival 2024)
2024-03-14 12:00 - 13:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
A one hour talk and discussion on the photography exhibition ‘Unusual Gestures’.
Irish Artist Lorraine Tuck’s newly commissioned work tells the story of a family living with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and intellectual disability. Curated and produced by PhotoMuseum Ireland this intensely moving and emotionally powerful photographic exhibition had its world premiere in the Printworks space at Galway International Arts Festival.
The Commission and Touring Exhibition are supported by The Arts Council.
https://lorrainetuck.ie

The Launch of Elaine Feeney’s new collection of poems, All the Good Things You Deserve (Vintage, 2024)
2024-03-19 17:00 - 18:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Join us for the Launch of Elaine Feeney’s new collection of poems,
All the Good Things You Deserve (Vintage, 2024)
Tuesday 19 March at 5pm
Hardiman Research Building seminar room THB-G010
In this volume of new work, Elaine Feeney juxtaposes violence, hurt and the tyranny of shame with love, beauty and the transformative possibilities of art, asking how we love, trust and create in the aftermath of trauma.
Elaine Feeney (School of English, Media & Creative Arts) has published three poetry collections. She is author of the novels As You Were and How to Build a Boat (2023), nominated for the Booker Prize.

Discipline of Gender and Women’s Studies; Gender Net Plus MIG-GBV concluding event, celebrating Nelson Mandela Week
2024-03-22 14:30 - 16:30 | THB-G011 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
Roundtable: Engaging with media and challenging gender-based violence: foregrounding migrant women’s perspectives
And launch of: Stories of Migrant Women in Ireland: Surviving Gender-based Violence – a collection of first-person accounts by participants in the EU/IRC Gender Net Plus MIG-GBV research project (2019-2023)
Chair: Susan McKay, Press Ombudsman
Roundtable speakers:

Dr Salome Mbugua CEO, AkiDwA, the national network of migrant women
Shamim Malekmian, Journalist, Dublin Inquirer
Emma DeSouza, Writer, campaigner and Co-facilitator, Northern Ireland Civic Initiative
Dr Nasrin Khandoker, CyberSocial Research Lab, UCC, previously MIG-GBV postdoctoral researcher

Registration:
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Children’s Studies Research Seminar: “Home is Where the Cat is: Kinship and Community in Recent Children’s Literature about the Holocaust"
2024-03-26 15:00 - 16:00 | School of Education (Nuns Island) G023 Seminar Room 2, University of Galway
Children’s Studies Research Seminar
“Home is Where the Cat is: Kinship and Community in Recent Children’s Literature about the Holocaust”
Professor Janneke van de Stadt (Williams College, USA)

Abstract:
Animals abound in children’s literature and the picturebook genre is no exception. Focused on the particular role and function of their respective feline characters, my presentation will compare three picture books and one graphic novel spanning the first two decades of the 21st century through what is a less-commonly utilized interpretive lens in Holocaust studies: indigenous cultural theories of human dependence on animals for psycho-social, spiritual, and existential survival. Through such themes as shelter, bonding, and nourishment, on both physical and metaphysical levels, I examine how these books broaden and complicate received notions of family, community, and belonging.

ISTR Postgraduate Forum
2024-04-04 16:00 - 17:00 | Online
ISTR Postgraduate Forum
Introduction
The Irish Society for Theatre Research (ISTR) is hosting a forum for PhD researchers in the field of Drama, Theatre, and Performance. This online event offers participants an opportunity to receive feedback on their research from established academics. It aims to forge connections between international postgraduate researchers and to encourage discussions that lead to future collaborations and exchanges.
Format
Participants deliver a short (7 minute) presentation on their dissertation or research project. They then invite questions and guidance from a panel of established academics. A variety of approaches are welcome – one participant might choose to outline the overall argument of their dissertation, another might focus on a single chapter, case study, or problem that they are exploring, while others might choose to discuss challenges that they are facing with research methods or documentation. The aim is not to test participants, but rather to provide a positive and supportive space for exchanging knowledge.
Date and Time
Date: Thursday 4 April, 4pm (GMT)/ 1pm (UTC)
Location: Online
How to Apply
Please email a short (max 200 word) proposal to the people listed below before Friday 22 March, 6pm. The proposal should introduce your dissertation or research project and provide an outline of the topic that you will address. Please also include a short (50 word) bio.
Dr Alinne Fernandes – alinne.fernandes@ufsc.br
Clara Mallon – claramallon@hotmail.com
Dr Finian O’Gorman – finian.ogorman@universityofgalway.ie

Iris Murdoch Conference: Literature and Philosophy in Dialogue
2024-04-12 - 2024-04-13 | Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University
Iris Murdoch: Literature and Philosophy in Dialogue
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Date: April 12-13, 2024
Place: Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University
PROGRAMME OF THE IRIS MURDOCH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
78 years after Iris Murdoch’s first visit to Paris, and as her scholarship continues to grow outside the United Kingdom, Paris 1 Panthéon-SorbonneUniversity is delighted to host the first Iris Murdoch International Conference in Paris.
The core theme of this event hosted in the heart of Paris, is Iris Murdoch’s dual nature as a philosopher and novelist. This conference will give the chance for scholars working on her literature and those working on her philosophy to get together in various panels and workshops.
Along with the relationship between literature and philosophy, this conference is also an opportunity to focus on the figures who influenced Murdoch, her position within moral philosophy and contemporary ethics, her literary style, her relationship with metaethics, existentialism, and phenomenology, as well as the close ties between art, aesthetics, education, and healing.
Organisers: Camille Braune (Ph.D.Candidate in Philosophy, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University) and Michela Dianetti (PhD Candidate in Italian Studies, University of Galway)
Partners: The doctoral School of Philosophy of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Paris 1 Panthéon-SorbonneUniversity, the Iris Murdoch Society, and the Irish Research Council.
For any enquiries, please contact the conference organisers: Camille Braune (Camille.Braune@etu.univ-paris1.fr) and Michela Dianetti (M.Dianetti1@universityofgalway.ie).

Gníomhaíochas, an Ghaeilge agus na Meáin
2024-04-12 - 2024-04-13 | Ollscoil na Gaillimhe
COMHDHÁIL: #MeáinÉireannCnaG #meáin2024
COMHDHÁIL – Gníomhaíochas, An Ghaeilge agus na Meáin- Clár críochnaithe
Ollscoil na Gaillimhe:
12-13 Aibreán 2024
Ó bunaíodh Conradh na Gaeilge, breis agus 130 bliain ó shin, anuas go dtí ár linn féin, tá ról lárnach na meán cumarsáide le tabhairt faoi deara i ngníomhaíochas na teanga. Mar chuid den tionscadal CARTLANN – comhthionscadal idir Ollscoil na Gaillimhe agus Ollscoil Uladh atá á mhaoiniú ag an Údarás um Ard-Oideachas faoin gClár Taighde Thuaidh-Theas – beidh an chomhdháil GNÍOMHAÍOCHAS, AN GHAEILGE AGUS NA MEÁIN á reáchtáil in Ollscoil na Gaillimhe ar an 12-13 Aibreán 2024. Díríonn an chomhdháil seo ar an earraíocht a bhain grúpaí éagsúla pobail, chomh maith le gníomhaithe teanga, as na meáin chumarsáide mar ardán chun eolas a scaipeadh agus mar ábhar feachtasaíochta.
Tugann an chomhdháil suntas do ról na meán (idir theilifís, raidió, nuachtáin agus na meáin dhigiteachta) i saol phobal na Gaeilge agus i saol mhuintir na Gaeltachta ach go háirithe. Chuige sin, pléitear stair na bhfeachtas craolacháin san fhichiú aois, an nasc idir na meáin agus stádas na Gaeilge sa tsochaí, chomh maith le téamaí ábhartha eile a bhaineann le cúrsaí pobail, teanga agus cultúir.
Tá fáilte roimh chách freastal, go háirithe lucht léinn na Gaeilge, na staire agus na meán, agus pobal na Gaeilge i gcoitinne.
Dréacht (sealadach) de chlár na comhdhála faoi iamh.
Fáilte roimh chách. Cláraigh anseo: https://forms.office.com/e/W35LcYzm2y

CLÁR NA COMHDHÁLA
EOCHARCHAINTEOIRÍ:
Rosemary Day:
‘An Ghaeilge agus na Meáin: Teanga, Tionchar, Todhchaí’
Regina Uí Chollatáin
‘Todhchaí nó tórramh na meán Gaeilge? Tuar dóchais i roghanna pinn agus teanga.’

AOICHAINTEOIRÍ
Colm Mac Gearailt:
“CHUIGE SEO ATÁIMÍD” ‘Feachtais Chonradh na Gaeilge ar son teilifís ghaeilge sna 1970idí is sna 1980idí.’
Hugh Rowland:
‘Aighneas idir an LFM agus RTÉ sna 1960idí: Léargas ón gCartlann.’

Niall Comer
‘“Ag fógairt fáin ar Ghallaibh”- Comhaltas Uladh agus na meáin Bhéarla.’
Dubhán Ó Longáin
“Rinncí gallda” agus “Spiorad na Gaedhilge”: Teanga, Gaelachas, agus Éireannachas in An tUltach
Síobhra Aiken
‘Na meáin agus gluaiseacht na Gaeilge i Meiriceá’
Iarfhlaith Watson:
‘An fhéiniúlacht, an duine aonair agus an réimse poiblí: ról na meán.’

Aoife Whelan
‘Saothrú na nua-litríochta san Irish Independent’
Dónall Ó Braonáin:
‘Reg Hindley, Breandán Ó hEithir agus a gcuid tuartha teangeolaíochta: foinsí, cartlanna, fráma tagartha’

Dorothy Ní Uigín:
‘Conradh na Gaeilge, Glún na Buaidhe & Inniu’

Aodh Ó Coileáin:
‘¡Dejadme retornar! Spreagadh cartlainne? Amharclannaíocht, scannánaíocht, sciuird chun na Spáinne.’

PAINÉAL CAINTE is Cuimhní Cinn: Gníomhaíocht teanga agus feachtasaíocht craolacháin ó na 1970idí.
Ciarán Ó Feinneadha (Feachtas Náisiúnta Teilifíse, FREAGRA,…)
Íte Ní Chionnaith (Iar-Uachtarán Chonradh na Gaeilge; Urlabhraí Teilifíse an Chonartha sna 1980idí,…)
Breandán Mac Gearailt (Cumann Cearta Sibhialta Ghaeltacht Chorca Dhuibhne; Údarás na Gaeltachta)
Cuan Ó Seireadán (Áisitheoir): (Eagraí Polaitíochta RTÉ/RnaG; Iar-Choimeádaí Chonradh na Gaeilge.)

Cláraigh anseo: https://forms.office.com/e/W35LcYzm2y

MAPPING ATTENTION: YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND TOMORROW
2024-04-18 - 2024-04-19 | University of Galway
This project explores attention through literature. Join us in Galway, April 2024 for an international conference Attention, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow.
MAPPING ATTENTION: YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND TOMORROW

Abstracts are invited for paper presentations for an interdisciplinary conference on the theories, practices and beneficiaries of attention. Anxiety about, critique of, and interventions into the ‘attention economy’ are widely discussed in philosophical scholarship, educational theory and cultural studies. This conference, which is part of the AIRE Attentive Inquiry Reclaiming Environment research project, funded by the Irish Research Council New Foundations Award aims to explore attention in three areas: theories of attention, practices of attention and beneficiaries of attention. This project, inspired by the shared focus on attention as a selfless gaze oriented toward reality in Weilian and Murdochian accounts, is creating a Community of Inquiry focused on Murdoch’s novel The Unicorn as a vehicle for thinking about home, environment and care. Reflections on, and results of, this research will be shared within the conference.
KEY DATES:
Deadline for submissions: Midnight GMT Monday 8th January EXTENDED DEADLINE FRIDAY JANUARY 19th
Confirmation of acceptance: Monday 29th January
Conference dates: Thursday April 18th* – Friday April 19th
*The conference will commence at 10am on the 18th

Full project website is available here: AIRE – Attentive Inquiry Reclaiming Environment (wordpress.com)

Translation Studies Network of Ireland (TSNI) Conference 2024
2024-04-25 - 2024-04-26 | THB-G010 & THB-G011 Moore Institute Seminar Rooms, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Translation Studies Network of Ireland Conference Programme
25-26 April 2024
University of Galway
We are delighted to host the 4th annual conference of the Translation Studies Network of Ireland at the University of Galway, on April 25-26, 2024. This year, the theme of the conference is “Translation and Creativity”, which mirrors our city’s proud tradition of combining grass roots creativity with the delivery of sophisticated arts and creative spectacles.
The way in which translation has intersected with creativity ranges from the Romantic stereotype of the creator as individual genius to the ultimate frontier of deep learning and machine translation. In this conference we wish to explore linguistic, cultural, modal, disciplinary, multimedia and performative creativity as it translates between forms, languages, people, approaches and media.
If just before the turn of the millennium translation was seen as mainly dependent on the distance from the original, as well as on print as the medium of choice, it has steadily acquired a more dialogic and re-creational dimension, becoming an integral part of the creative writing process to the point to which it can even create new literature in computer-mediated environments. With more attention paid to re-writing processes and sociolinguistic factors, the “creative wave” in translation studies has encompassed processes such as self-translation, re-translation, multimodality, hybridity and artistic expression. Finally, and without exhausting the wealth of areas in which translators’ creativity plays a seminal role, migration in the 21st century and other significant population displacements have increased our awareness of the importance of translation for new community building and have drastically reshaped the dynamics between norms and creativity.
In this conference we welcome any contributions introducing interdisciplinary approaches or mixed methods to study translation and creativity, and we also welcome presentations which showcase creative practice in translation.
A non-exhaustive list of possible topics for presentations includes:

Translation and/as creative writing
Translation, creative media and multimodality
Creativity in translation processes/workflows
Machine translation and creativity
Interdisciplinarity as creative approach
Creativity and interpreting
Translation as an art form
Translation/ creativity/ environment
Minority approaches to translation as creativity
Beyond (in)visibility: claiming translators’ identity as creative individuals
Playfulness in translation
Translation, transcreation and adaptation in multimodal contexts
Translation, adaptation and subversion across different art forms
Creative approaches to translation research methodology
Limits and possibilities of human and computational creativity
Translation as creative approach in resilient community building
Creativity in volunteer or professional settings
Creativity and translation shift: novelty, acceptability, fluency and flexibility
Socio-political agendas promoted or challenged by creative translational acts.

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME is now available HERE.
There will also be a dedicated posters display during the conference.

ISTR Conference 2024 – Call for Papers
2024-05-24 - 2024-05-25 | Villanova University, Villanova Pennsylvania, USA
ISTR Conference 2024 – Call for Papers
New Horizons – Race and Performance
Villanova University, Villanova Pennsylvania, USA, May 24-25, 2024
The host of the conference, David Cregan, OSA, Ph.D. will organize an ISTR webinar in 2024 to share conference details and planning travel.
Keynotes:
James Ijames MFA, 2023 Pulitzer Prize Winner for his play Fat Ham
https://www.jamesijames.com/
Justine Nakase Ph.D., theatre maker and scholar based in Portland, OR. She received her PhD from the University of Galway, where her research focused on race and identity in contemporary Irish performance.
New Horizons – Race and Performance:
This conference invites interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary scholars and artists, including but not limited to: theatre and literary historians, dramaturgs, anthropologists, cultural critics, casting agents, and theatre administrators engaged or interested in Irish identity in theatre and performance. The conference aims to advance the centuries old dialogue of race and identity in Irish culture and representation, with an emphasis on current evolutions in identity and multiculturalism. We hope to explore new horizons by asking questions such as, but not limited to: How has the postcolonial narrative evolved in Irish drama and performance and is it still applicable? Is it possible that the repetition of narratives of oppression have locked artistic expression in the theatre into limitations of realism and identity, thus limiting the possibilities of more diverse practices and more diverse articulations of identity? Is Irish theatre and performance racist? What is beginning to emerge in the expression of Irish theatre and performance? What is actually happening in Irish theatre, and what more still needs to happen in response to diversity and inclusion? New Horizons welcomes new epistemologies, practices, and emergent possibilities in all aspects of theatre and performance.
ISTR 2024 hopes to engage querying conversations around emergent global realities and opportunities within Irish theatre scholarship and practice. The shifting nature of the globalization of identities, migrant refugees, climate change migration, economic instability, gender inequality, homophobia, human trafficking, and ubiquitous political instability, to name but a few, are shifting human consciousness, understanding, and practices. The resulting shifts in rapidly changing continental populations at an ever accelerating rate are continually challenging more flexible notions and practices of what we call identity politics. Hosting the conference in the United States provides an opportunity explore the hybridization of identities indicative of the ‘melting pot’ notion is the USA. Through scholarly research, human experience, and prophetic visioning, we hope to contribute new and diverse epistemologies, both intellectual and practical to encourage and promote an evolution in Irish theatre and performance reflective of the basic reality of the human family. We invite papers and presentations, conversations and debates, that name the current realities, and envision the potentiality of a new world vision of respect and dignity advanced by the arts.
Please email abstracts of 250 words by March 15, 2024, including a brief bio: david.cregan@villanova.edu
Please click below for initial travel information and details.
https://www1.villanova.edu/university/student-life/family/visit.html

Galway Conference of Irish Studies 2024: Slow Violence X Irish Studies - Call for Contributions
2024-06-05 - 2024-06-07 | The Centre for Irish Studies, University of Galway
Galway Conference of Irish Studies 2024
Slow Violence X Irish Studies – Call for Contributions
5-7 June 2024
We welcome written abstracts and practice-based submissions in English, Irish, and French, inspired by the theme of slow violence, for the Galway Conference of Irish Studies 2024.
Coined over ten years ago in the influential Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (2011), Rob Nixon challenged readers to consider the incremental and cumulative effects of “slow violence,” expanding on more limited conceptualisations of violence as sensational, explosive, and episodic. Nixon’s expansive term was initially employed to describe the “attritional lethality” of gradual, and often invisible, forms of environment violence, such as deforestation and oil spills; yet, at the interdisciplinary nexus of Irish Studies, the conference’s conveners suggest that “slow violence” can be a theoretical springboard not only for conversations about the status and future of the environment in Ireland, but also myriad social, political, and cultural “long emergencies.”
Please read our Call for Papers (available in English, Irish, and French) for further details.
All are available here: https://www.universityofgalway.ie/colleges-and-schools/arts-social-sciences-and-celtic-studies/geography-archaeology-irish-studies/disciplines/irish-studies/news/galwayconferenceofirishstudies2024/callforcontributions/
Please submit your 250 word proposal and a brief bio (~50 words) by 15 December, 2023 to irishstudies24@gmail.com.
