Moore Institute

Philosophy Seminar Series
2018-02-19 14:00 - 16:00 UTC | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Philosophy Seminar Series.
The format for the afternoon is three twenty minute papers, each followed by ten to fifteen minutes for questions/comments and a brief break for tea/coffee.
The running order is John Roe with “Kant’s Faith – Reasonable or Merely Rational”; Greg Crowley with “Shades of Truth”; and Johnny O’Rourke with “Wittgenstein’s Phenomenology Revisited”. Michael Hardiman has agreed to chair the session and keep us to time and the point. We have also allowed a few minutes at the end for any further comments or queries.
Each of the speakers will provide the audience with a summary of their paper and/or it’s most significant quotes.

Jan Wagner and Matthew Sweeney - Poems
2018-02-19 17:00 - 19:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

Gender Arc Research Seminar (Irish Women Historians and Life Writing, 1900-1960)
2018-02-20 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
This seminar will be hosted by Nadia Smith who is a current Visiting Fellow who received her PhD in modern Irish history from Boston College.
Nadia Smith will be presenting on “Irish Women Historians and Life Writing, 1900-1960,” as part of her ongoing research on Irish women historians and academics in the NUI in the twentieth century. As a Moore Institute fellow, she is currently examining the archival sources on the lives of women academics at NUI Galway [then UCG], including personal life writing, such as diaries and memoirs, as well as academic texts. Her talk will discuss the women historians’ life writing in relation to diary scholarship and life writing by other educated, middle-class women in Ireland and Britain in the twentieth century, and consider elements such as literary devices and extratextual material in diaries and memoirs that help shape the life-writer’s self-portrait.
Contact information: smithum@bc.edu

Archaeology Seminar - From the Trowel to the Trenches: Archaeology as Social Activism
2018-02-20 16:00 - 17:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Guest Lecture: Dr Christopher P. Barton, Assistant Professor Department of History, Francis Marion University and Fulbright Visiting Scholar in the School of Geography and Archaeology for 2018.
Title: From the Trowel to the Trenches: Archaeology as Social Activism
Contemporary economic, environmental, political, and social injustices are modern manifestations of past practices; they are legacies of marginalization. It is from the study of the everyday that we can better understand both our past and present circumstances. Archaeology is in a unique position to provide invaluable discourse on both the recent past and its lasting effects today. The core methodologies and data of archaeology–the archaeological, ethnographic, and historical records–situate the field as an interdisciplinary research endeavor armed with a broad methodological and theoretical arsenal to use the craft in support of social activism.

Chris Barton PhD is a visiting US Fulbright Scholar from Francis Marion University in South Carolina. He is interested in the archaeology of Irish racialisation during the Irish Diaspora and Great Famine. Professor Barton’s work focuses on the confluence of race and class as intertwined social structures that were used to marginalize the rural Irish. Additionally, he is in the early stages of developing a community-based archaeological project that focuses on resistance, improvisation, and identity on the Great Blasket Island, County Kerry.

Smart Study 20th, 21st and 22nd of February.
2018-02-20 17:30 - 2018-02-22 19:00 | Seminar Rooms G010 & G011, Hardiman Research Building
Note Taking & Study Skills
February 20th, 5:30-7:00pm, G011 Library Lobby

Learn practical study skills that make a real difference
Practical note-taking for lectures and study
Organise your study and limit distractions

Troubled by Procrastination
Wednesday Feb 21st , 5:30 – 7:30pm, G010 Library Lobby

Identify how procrastination recruits you into ineffective habits
Develop tools and skills to resist the influence of procrastination
Playful but powerful way to deal with a difficult problem

Transition to Employment – Employer Panel
Facilitator: Career Development Centre
Thursday February 22nd , 1-2pm, GO10 Library Lobby beside soft seating.
Open to students with a disability or mental health challenge. Meet employers who demonstrate inclusion and diversity towards disability and mental health and hear from graduates employed with disability/mental health challenges. #getjobready
Contact: James Mc Cormack james.mccormack@nuigalway.ie

LÉACHT UÍ EITHIR
2018-02-21 14:00 - 15:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Aisling Ní Churraighín (Roinn na Gaeilge) and Eoin Byrne (Centre for Irish Studies), the 2017 recipients of Sparánacht Uí Eithir will be presenting on their research. All welcome.
SPARÁNACHT UÍ EITHIR
This bursary was established in 1995 in memory of Breandán Ó hEithir, through donations from his friends. The broadcaster, journalist and writer was a former student of NUI Galway.
The bursary is valued at €1,500 and will be awarded each year to a fulltime PhD student in the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies. The award may be made in Year 1 – 4 of the student’s programme.

I mbliana, beidh Aisling Ní Churraighín (Roinn na Gaeilge) agus Eoin Byrne (Ionad an Léinn Éireannaigh), chomhbhuaiteoirí na Sparánachta (2017), ag tabhairt páipéar ar a gcuid taighde. Fáilte roimh chách.
SPARÁNACHT UÍ EITHIR
Bunaíodh an sparánacht seo i 1995 i gcuimhne ar Bhreandán Ó hEithir, craoltóir, iriseoir, scríbhneoir agus iar-mhac léinn de chuid na hOllscoile le síntiúis óna chairde.
Is fiú €1,500 an sparánacht agus bronnfar í gach bliain ar mhac léinn lánaimseartha dochtúireachta i gColáiste na nDán, na nEolaíochtaí Sóisialta agus an Léinn Cheiltigh atá sa chéad/dara/tríú/ceathrú bliain dá c(h)úrsa.

History Seminar - Liam Alex Heffron
2018-02-21 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Liam Alex Heffron
No Revolution – Igniting War in North Mayo, 1917-1923.

Thinking Continental: Writing the Planet One Place at a Time - Book Launch
2018-02-22 16:00 - 18:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Thinking Continental: Writing the Planet One Place at a Time
Edited by Tom Lynch, Susan Naramore Maher, Drucilla Wall, and O. Alan Weltzien.
(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017)
Following an introduction by Dr Louis de Paor, Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway, the volume will be launched by Professor Bríona Nic Dhiarmada, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame.

In response to the growing scale and complexity of environmental threats, this volume collects articles, essays, personal narratives, and poems by more than forty authors in conversation about ‘thinking continental’—connecting local and personal landscapes to universal systems and processes—to articulate the concept of a global or planetary citizenship.
Reckoning with the larger matrix of biome, region, continent, hemisphere, ocean, and planet has become necessary as environmental challenges require the insights not only of scientists but also of poets, humanists, and social scientists. Thinking Continental braids together abstract approaches with strands of narrative and poetry, showing how our imaginations can encompass the planetary while also being true to our own concrete life experiences in the here and now.
You are welcome to join us for the launch of Thinking Continental where writers and scholars such as Nessa Cronin, Susan Millar Dumars, Tom Lynch, Susan Naramore Maher, Joan McBreen, Barry Johnston, Fabiana Dimpflmeier and Drucilla Wall, will read from their contributions to the volume.
http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/university-of-nebraska-press/9780803299580/
For further information contact: Dr Nessa Cronin nessa.cronin@nuigalway.ie

EDEN ‘Methodologies’ Session
2018-02-22 17:00 - 19:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
We all use different methodologies to get the work done, but what if we’re missing something we’ve never thought of before? Come to our February session on research methodologies and see if you can find something new to put in your research toolkit. Our panel of speakers will outline research methodologies in the areas of: Oral History; Digital Humanities; Practice as Research; and Archives.
Speakers:

Aisling Ní Churraighín from the Irish Department (Oral History);
Ionna Kvernitou from English (Digital Humanities);
Aisling Smith from the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, and
Barry Houlihan, Archivist and English Researcher (Archives)

For more information email eden.nuigalway@gmail.com

Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine
2018-02-26 18:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine
Alex de Waal
Tufts University & Executive Director, World Peace Foundation
6.30 pm, Monday, 26 February 2018
Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Alex de Waal is Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation. Considered one of the foremost experts on Sudan and the Horn of Africa, his scholarly work and practice has also probed humanitarian crisis and response, human rights, HIV/AIDS and governance in Africa, and conflict and peace-building. He is the author of several influential publications, including The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa (Polity Press, 2015) and Famine Crimes: Politics and the Disaster Relief Industry in Africa (James Curry, 1997). In this lecture, he will discuss his new book, Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine (Wiley, 2018), and why man-made famine and the political decisions that could end it for good must once again become a top priority for the international community.

Andy Kellogg: The Early Medieval Royal Assembly Sites at Gamla Uppsala and Magh Adhair.
2018-02-27 17:00 - 19:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Andy Kellogg
The Early Medieval Royal Assembly Sites at Gamla Uppsala and Magh Adhair: A Comparative Study of their Settlement and Landscape Contexts.
The Yngling dynasty in Svealand, Sweden and the Dál Cais dynasty in what is now Co. Clare may have shared a common approach in the way they legitimized their right to be kings. The valorization of a pedigree is a common phenomenon among the royal families of the medieval period and it may have been done by those two dynasties with a common purpose. The re-use of prehistoric monuments as places of royal assembly is a witness of their importance to kings during the early medieval period. This prehistoric archaeology had an importance in the choice of the location for early medieval assembly sites. By looking at the assembly landscape contexts, we can gain a better understanding of the early medieval conception of kingship. Comparing the two dynasties and their assembly sites at Gamla Uppsala and Magh Adhair may lead to the identification of common approaches in the establishment of the two sites and how their landscapes were used.
Royal Inauguration assembly site of Magh Adhair and the royal burial mounds of Gamla Uppsala:

Archives and Special Collections 2017 report and Donation of rare issues of the Connaught Journal.
2018-02-27 17:30 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
The Library is hosting the launch of the Archives and Special Collections 2017 report and Donation of rare issues of the Connaught Journal and it will take place on Tuesday 27th at 17:30 in the Bridge Room, Hardiman Research Building followed by a reception.
To register for the events please use the following links – Archives & Special Collections Event, Jane Burns Lecture

Jane Burns on Understanding Altmetrics to determine where your research is gaining attention.
2018-02-28 10:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The Library is hosting a lecture by Jane Burns on Understanding Altmetrics to determine where your research is gaining attention.
To register for the events please use the following links – Archives & Special Collections Event, Jane Burns Lecture

History Seminar - Dr. Charlotte Chopin (Visiting Fellow).
2018-02-28 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Dr Charlotte Chopin (University of London Institute in Paris)
Settler colonialism and the press in late 19th-century French Algeria.

Italian, School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures
2018-02-28 17:30 - 19:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Italian
School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures
The Moore Institute
Charles Burdett, University of Bristol
Transnational Time: Reading Post War Representations of the Italian Presence in East Africa
Working from recent theoretical writing on time and the concept of the spectral, the paper begins by questioning how we can talk about transnational temporalities. The paper then looks at some of the ways in which the Italian colonial and post-colonial presence in Eritrea and Ethiopia, with all its complexities and haunting legacies, has been represented in fiction by Gabriella Ghermandi, Erminia Dell’Oro and Nicky Di Paolo.
Charles Burdett is Professor of Italian at the University of Bristol. The principal areas of his research are: Italian culture under Fascism; the representation of colonialism; travel writing; theories of inter-cultural contact. An important part of his work concerns the theoretical frame through which we consider transnational contact and the implications for the disciplinary field of Modern Languages of the study of cultural translation in all its forms. He is one of the investigators in the large grant, ‘Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Mobility, Identity and Translation in Modern Italian Cultures’ that is a beacon project for the AHRC’s ‘Translating Cultures’ theme. He is the author of Journeys through Fascism: Italian Travel Writing between the Wars (paperback 2010). His most recent book is Italy, Islam and Islamic World: Representations and Reflections from 9/11 to the Arab Uprisings (2016). He is currently working on a monographic study, The Representation of the Italian Empire and its Afterlife: Utopia, Time, and Memory.

Gender Arc Research Seminar
2018-03-01 11:00 - 12:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Gender Arc Research Seminar
“Understanding, Mapping and Negotiating the Politicisation of Evidence Based Policy Research:
The Case of Research on Lone Parent Labour Market Activation in Ireland”
by Dr Michelle Millar, Dr Rosemary Crosse and Dr John Canavan.
NUI Galway School of Political Science and Sociology and UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre.

Monica Mulrennan (Visiting Fellow) School of Geography
2018-03-01 12:00 - 13:00 | B.S. Mac Aodha Seminar Room 113, Discipline of Geography, NUI Galway, Ireland
Beyond Fishing: the connection of Indigenous Torres Strait Islander (northern Australia) Women to sea space
Monica E. Mulrennan,
Department of Geography, Planning and Environment,
Concordia University, Montreal
Documentation of the knowledge and practices of indigenous fishing societies has tended to focus on the contribution of men while the activities of women have been overlooked or, at best, narrowly described. Focusing on a small island community in eastern Torres Strait (northern Australia), and drawing on interviews, questionnaire surveys and participant observation, this presentation explores the nature and extent of indigenous Torres Strait Islander women’s engagement in fishing activities as well as their related knowledge, practices and motivations. In addition to debunking the myth of their limited participation in commercial fishing, the findings reveal the deeply-felt personal attachments and connections these women have to “solwata”. These are reflected in the extent to which the rhythms of the sea shape and define their daily routines, life histories and understanding of territory. The presentation concludes with a call for greater attention to the connections indigenous women have to sea space and for fisheries management to accommodate and support their increased participation in the formulation and implementation of contemporary fisheries policy.

Transition to Employment - CV Workshop
2018-03-01 13:00 - 14:00 | Careers Seminar Room
Transition to Employment – CV Workshop
Thursday March 1st, 1-2pm, Careers Seminar Room.
Open to students with a disability or mental health challenge. Hints and tips on how to tailor your CV to highlight your strengths. #getjobready

Matthew Noone (Visiting Fellow) Listening to Irish music as Indian raga.
2018-03-06 10:00 - 12:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Listening to Irish music as Indian raga: an arts practice research project
Dr. Matthew Noone (UL) and Dr. Lillis Ó Laoire (NUIG)
This research project focuses on the supposition of Irish-Indian musical connections, most notably the idea of sean-nos singing bearing a strong resemblance to Indian classical music (Ó Ríada, 1962; Feehan, 1982; Quinn, 1987). It is an extension of previous research in exploring Irish traditional music and Orientalist discourse through an Arts Practice and performance based methodology (Noone, 2016). This research will use the collaborative artistic practice of two musicians (Matthew Noone on the North Indian lute called sarode and sean-nos singer Lillis O Laoire) as a case study to explore the veracity of Irish-Indian musical sympathies. A background to the theoretical implications of this research will be presented through an interdisciplinary lens of Irish studies, Orientalist discourse and ethnomusicology. This seminar will also feature performances of re-interpretations of traditional songs written by 18th century Irish poet Tómas Ó Casaide.

EDEN Lunchtime Series - ‘Surviving the Viva’
2018-03-06 13:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
‘Surviving the Viva’
Whether it is looming large or safely in the distance, it’s never too early to start preparing for your viva! Postgraduates at all stages of their career are warmly invited to bring their lunches to Room 1001 to learn about the viva process from invited speakers Dr Charlotte McIvor (Drama, Theatre and Performance), Dr Caitriona Clear (History) and Dr Ciaran McDonough (Irish Studies). They will be discussing the logistics of the viva, top tips for preparing, and how to make the most of the experience.
EDEN: Early Doctoral Exchange Network
Steering Committee 2017/2018: Lorraine Grimes (History), Ed Kearns (English/Digital Arts and Humanities), Ciara L. Murphy (Drama), Justine Nakase (Drama), Aisling Ní Churraighín (Irish Studies), John Singleton (English)

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MA Medieval Studies Events 6th and 7th March.
2018-03-06 14:00 - 2018-03-07 11:00 | NUI Galway / Various locations in Galway
Tues 6th March, 2-4 PM
Visiting Seminar (rsvp required), Dr Niamh Whitfield: ‘Early Irish Metalwork’
Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building.
contact/rsvp: kim.loprete@nuigalway.ie

Wed 7th March, 9-11 AM
Visiting Seminar (rsvp required), Dr Niamh Whitfield: ‘The Book of Durrow & the ‘Northumbrian Problem”
Archaeology Reading Room/Library in Archaeology Department
contact/rsvp: kim.loprete@nuigalway.ie
Contact: Dr Kimberly A. LoPrete – kim.loprete@nuigalway.ie

Archaeology Seminar
2018-03-06 16:00 - 17:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The next postgraduate seminar will be given by Frank J. Hall who is a Galway doctoral research scholar in Archaeology.
Title: The fortified houses and stronghouses of Connacht, c.1580-1650: gentry houses or the continuation of the castle tradition into post-medieval Ireland?
Contact Maggie Ronaynce – maggie.ronayne@nuigalway.ie

Digital Scholarship Seminar 38: Deirdre Ní Chonghaile
2018-03-07 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Duplicates & doppelgängers: Generating digital solutions to cataloguing, accessibility and network-analysis challenges
A NUI Postdoctoral Fellow in Irish/Celtic Studies affiliated with Roinn na Gaeilge and based in the Moore Institute, Deirdre Ní Chonghaile aims to generate discussion of some of her digital humanities research challenges with the Digital Scholarship Seminar. She will highlight three archival collections and three challenges: cataloguing the Irish recordings of Sidney Robertson Cowell (1955-57), dispersed and duplicated across two institutions; designing an open-access digital archive o…f the wax cylinder recordings of Prof. Tomás Ó Máille (1909-1938); and generating a research strategy for the digital re-imagining of the Rev. Murphy collection of song manuscripts and annotated print journal An Gaodhal (1884-1920s), which represents an unprecedented contribution to the network-mapping of sean-nós song practice in pre-literate, print and transatlantic contexts. Together, these challenges present a rare opportunity to investigate how digital functionalities can facilitate our efforts to trace and demonstrate the relationships between oral, literary and performance practices of Irish traditional music.
Dr Deirdre Ní Chonghaile (BA Oxon, MA Oxon, PhD) is NUI Fellow in Irish/Celtic Studies at the Moore Institute in NUI Galway. Previously, she was NEH Keough Fellow at the University of Notre Dame, Alan Lomax Fellow in the Library of Congress, and Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at NUI Galway, where she also worked more recently with the Digital Cultures Initiative. She is currently preparing a book on music-collecting in Ireland and researching a recently uncovered collection of sean-nós song manuscripts created in Pennsylvania, the Rev. Daniel J. Murphy Collection, which constitutes the largest extant manuscript collection of Irish song ever to have been created by independent collectors.
Contact Padraic Moran on padraic.moran@nuigalway.ie

Máirtín Ó Direáin: Fathach File/Reluctant Modernist exhibition
2018-03-07 15:00 - 16:30 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland

Graduate Research Seminars in History 2017-18
2018-03-07 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Graduate Research Seminars in History 2017-18
Andrew Ó Donghaíle
Contracting Peace in Early Medieval Ireland
Contact: Gearóid Barry – gearoid.barry@nuigalway.ie

Gender Arc - International Women's Day and International Women's History Month.
2018-03-07 17:00 - 2018-03-09 17:00 | NUI Galway / Various locations in Galway
7th March
School of Education Research Seminar Series
“Exploring Sexuality and Gender Identity in the Irish Education System”
Speaker: Dr. Aoife Neary, School of Education, University of Limerick
5pm: Wednesday, 7 March 2018
Venue: AM214 Siobhán McKenna Theatre, Arts Millennium Building, NUI Galway.
Biography: Dr Aoife Neary joined UL School of Education 2014. She currently has a funded research partnership with the Transgender Equality Network of Ireland. Drawing on feminist, queer and affect theory, her work explores the politics of gender and sexuality as they are lived, constructed and configured in schools and society. Her recent book entitled LGBT-Q Teachers, Civil Partnership and Same-sex Marriage: The Ambivalences of Legitimacy is published with Routledge. RSVP by 5 March 2018 to caroline.casey@nuigalway.ie, 091 495985

8th March
University Women’s Network – International Women’s Day Lecture – 2018
“Excellence in higher education through gender equality: a personal and professional reflection”
Keynote Address: Máire Geoghegan-Quinn
Date/time: Thursday 8 March/12.30-14.00
Venue: Siobhan McKenna Theatre, Art Millennium Building
During her parliamentary career from 1975 to 1997, Dr. Geoghegan-Quinn became Ireland’s first female cabinet minister since the foundation of the State when she was appointed Minister for the Gaeltacht in 1979. She also served as Minister for Justice, Minister for Tourism, Transport and Communications, Minister for European Affairs, and Minister of State in the Department of Education. As EU Commissioner, she pioneered the development and delivery of Horizon 2020, the world’s largest public research funding programme.Most recently, she chaired the HEA Expert Group who conducted the extensive National Review of Gender Equality in Irish Higher Education Institutions.
9th March
The Irish Centre for Human Rights in association with Gender Arc at NUI Galway
“Abortion Law Reform”
Date time: Friday, March 9th 2018/ 11.00am-2.00pm
Venue: Aula Maxima, NUI Galway
As the mooted date for a referendum on Article 40.3.3 of the Constitution draws closer, this event draws together a number of prominent human rights advocates and academics to consider the challenges and possibilities of abortion law in a post-Eighth Amendment Ireland.
Speakers:
Professor Carol Sanger, Barbara Aronstein Black Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and author of About Abortion: Terminating Pregnancy in the 21st Century
Les Allamby, Chief Commissioner Northern Irish Human Rights Commission
Dr Eilionóir Flynn, Director of the Centre for Disability Law and Policy , NUI Galway
Dr Claire Murray, School of Law, University College Cork
Professor Siobhán Mullally, Director, Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway.
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/about-abortion-the-law-and-politics-of-reform-tickets-43025789294
9th March
The Centre for Global Women’s Studies, School of Political Science and Sociology
Invites you to the 10th Anniversary Celebration of the MA in Gender, Globalisation and Rights, coinciding with International Women’s Day and the 100th anniversary for women’s suffrage in Ireland.
Speakers will include former and current students and staff and will feature a student-produced documentary on the ways in which the MA has helped our students to ‘press for progress’ on gender equality issues.
Date/time: Friday March 9th, 3.00-5.00pm, with a reception (including birthday cake!) to follow
Venue: AM243 lecture theatre, Aras Moyola
All are welcome but please RSVP for catering purposes to m.geoghehan7@nuigalway.ie
Main Contact: genderarc@nuigalway.ie

College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Celtic Studies New Professors’ Inaugural Lecture series
2018-03-08 17:00 - 19:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Dean of College, Professor Cathal O’Donoghue will speak on the subject of “Recognising Diversity and Complexity in Policy Formation”.
Professor O’Donoghue has been from 2016, the Dean of Arts and Social Sciences at NUI Galway and Professor of Public and Social Policy. Prior to this he was since 2005, Head of Teagasc’s (Irelands Agriculture and Food Development Authority) Rural Economy and Development Programme, one of the 4 research programmes of Teagasc. He was a member of the Fund Council of CGIAR, a $1 billion a year International Agri-Food Research organisation from 2014-2016. From 2012-2014, he was CEO of the Irish Government’s Commission for the Economic Development of Rural Areas 2012-2014, Chairman of the Irish Sport Horse Strategy Committee 2013-2015, President of the International Microsimulation Association 2011-2015 and is on the Executive of the UK Agricultural Economics Society.
In his inaugural lecture, Professor O’Donoghue will draw upon the results of his research career to date to describe the methodologies he has developed and conclusions he has drawn for policy analysis and design and to reach out to new collaborators in inter-disciplinary research. His research aims to understand how policy impacts across the population, incorporating the breadth of diversity that exists in different population groups. His field of research is in the area of Micro-Simulation Modelling, where for 25 years , he has developed tools to simulate the impact of public policy on Micro distributions (individuals, Families, Farms). Fundamentally these are tools to understand complexity. Policy formation involves understanding complexity via complexity of policy, complexity of population structure and complexity of behavioural response. In addition, other dimensions that can be considered include spatial and temporal complexity. In this lecture, Professor O’Donoghue will discuss how the development of these tools have been used to consider policy questions such as anti-poverty, environmental, labour market, education, agricultural and rural policy. His work is currently focusing on the interaction between land-use change and demographic both in a contemporary setting and in understanding historical land use drivers of demographic changes.
Contact: Dr. Seán Crosson – Sean.Crosson@nuigalway.ie

Centre for Antique, Medieval and Pre-Modern Studies (CAMPS) Research Labs.
2018-03-09 12:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room GO10 GO11 and Room 1001(The Bridge)., Ireland
Christine Neer: Love is a Battlefield? An Informal Exploration of Gendered Spaces in Medieval Irish Tochmarca (‘Wooing Tales’).
Contact: Catherine Emerson – catherine.emerson@nuigalway.ie

Ruud van den Beuken (Visiting Fellow)
2018-03-14 14:00 - 16:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Let’s Give the Mantle of Harlequin a Brush: Current Research on the Dublin Gate Theatre

Dr Ruud van den Beuken, who is working at the Moore Institute as a visiting research fellow, will discuss current research on the Dublin Gate Theatre, including the establishment of a Gate Theatre Research Network (co-founded by the Dutch Research Council, Charles University Prague and NUIG), the digitisation of the Gate’s archives at the James Hardiman Library, and his book project on cultural memory and national identity formation in drama by original Gate playwrights such as Denis Johnston and Mary Manning.
Ruud van den Beuken is a lecturer in the Department of English Language & Culture at Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands). He was awarded the Irish Society for Theatre Research’s (ISTR) New Scholars’ Prize (2015) for his research on postcolonial mythological plays, and in April 2017, he received his PhD (cum laude) for his thesis on cultural memory and national identity formation at the Dublin Gate Theatre. He is the Assistant Director of the NWO-funded Gate Theatre Research Network and the recipient of the 2017 Education Award for best junior lecturer in the Faculty of Arts at Radboud. He is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the Moore Institute.
Contact: Dr Ruud van den Beuken – ruud.vandenbeuken@ru.nl

Brian Arkins (Professor Emeritus, Classics)
2018-03-14 16:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The Modern Reception of Horace
The talk will discuss the treatment of Horace in Nazi-occupied Crete and during World War I; Pound, Eliot, Housman on Horace; Nietzsche on Horace’s style; Horace’s tags, esp. carpe diem; Irish connections, in Yeats, Joyce, MacNeice, Longley, Boland; Dowson’s splendidly awful poem; and Hopkin’s translations.
All welcome.
Contact: Padraic Moran- padraic.moran@nuigalway.ie
