Moore Institute

Prof. Alan Stewart (Columbia University / Centre for Editing Lives and Letters) Writing a life in early modern England: the case of Richard Stonley
2015-09-15 17:00 (Europe/Dublin)
Prof. Alan Stewart (Columbia University / Centre for Editing Lives and Letters)Writing a life in early modern England: the case of Richard Stonley
Moore Institute “BRIDGE” seminar Room
(Hardiman Research Building 1001)
NUI Galway
5pm Tuesday 15 September

Gender ARC:'Lily and Lolly: Yeats and his Sisters' Written and performed by Sinead Murphy and Darina Gallagher
2015-09-11 15:30
Gender ARC is pleased to invite you to:
“Lily and Lolly: Yeats and his Sisters”
Written and performed by Sinead Murphy and Darina Gallagher
Reception and Performance: Friday 11 September 2015 – 3.30-5.00pm – All Welcome!!
Venue: Room G006, Institute for Lifecourse and Society, NUI Galway
Lily and Lolly is a new work of theatre that looks at the life of poet W.B. Yeats through the eyes of his sisters Lily and Lolly Yeats. Set in their Dublin printing company Cuala Press, it explores the poetry and plays they publish for their brother Willie. Through storytelling, poetry and song, Lily and Lolly opens up the relationships within the Yeats family, with their brother the artist Jack B.Yeats and their father, the portrait artist John B. Yeats. Lilly and Lolly and their all-female printing company, find themselves at the forefront of the Irish Literary Revival surrounded by the characters so important in the life of W.B.Yeats including Maud Gonne, Lady Gregory, James Joyce, AE, Sean O’Casey and John Millington Synge.
Since 2010, Sinead Murphy and Darina Gallagher (the Shannon Colleens), have been creating award-winning music-theatre productions relating to the life and works of James Joyce. In 2014, they created Here Comes Everybody : Songs from Finnegans Wake by James Joyce for Dublin City Public Libraries as part of the Bealtaine Festival to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the publication of Finnegans Wake. They have performed their shows, Songs of Joyce and Caf̩ Chantant to critical acclaim, touring nationally and internationally including Moscow, New York, Prague, Vienna, Trieste, Glasgow and Coruna.
Gender ARC supports excellence and collaboration in gender research across NUI Galway and University of Limerick.
New members and affiliates are always welcome – for more information see: www.genderarc.org
For questions regarding Gender ARC ‰Û÷Lily and Lolly’ performance and to RSVP for catering purposes, please contact Gillian Browne, gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie

Gender ARC research seminar:May-Len Skilbrei, University of Oslo, Norway 'The Sex Purchase Ban in Sweden and Norway: evaluating law-in-action'
2015-09-11 11:00
Gender ARC is pleased to invite you to a research seminar May-Len Skilbrei, University of Oslo, Norway“The Sex Purchase Ban in Sweden and Norway: evaluating law-in-action”
This seminar launches the first all-Ireland network for researchers critically engaged in the area of commercial sex and its attendant politics. A further one-day series of workshops will be held in University of Limerick on November 27th 2015. All are welcome to attend. For further details and to reserve a place, contact annmarie.joyce@ul.ie
Abstract: Much is said about the unilateral sex purchase ban in Sweden and Norway – called the Swedish or Nordic model – in debates on prostitution policies elsewhere. Claims about the laws made in these debates make it necessary to critically assess the evidence of their effects, and to understand how they operate in a larger context where social welfare provisions and other sets of legal and administrative instruments also apply.
In her talk, Skilbrei goes beyond the ideological arguments and pragmatic reasoning behind the Sex Purchase Act in both countries, to explore how the Acts are argued for and put to work today. She argues that the explicit intentions behind the acts are counteracted by how their implementation works in practice and that they have been repurposed to meet new goals. Both of these aspects of prostitution law-in-action need to be considered in debates over whether or not to ‘export’ similar Acts to new contexts.
Professor May-Len Skilbrei is based in theDepartment of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo. She researches prostitution and prostitution policies, and labour and migration. In the last decade, her research has dealt mainly with human trafficking and prostitution policies in the Nordic countries. She published a book on prostitution policies in the Nordic countries with Charlotta Holmstr̦m (Ashgate 2013). Prof. Skilbrei is Vice Chair of the European network of prostitution scholars, COST Action “Comparing European Prostitution Policies: Understanding Scales and Cultures of Governance (ProsPol)”, and is as co-editor of the Routledge book series Interdisciplinary Studies in Sex for Sale.
Followed by Gender ARC reception and network members meeting (1.00-3.00pm)

Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour & Class (ICHLC) Seminar Series
2015-09-10 16:00
The Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour & Class (ICHLC) is pleased to announce its inaugural seminar series.
The first seminar will see
David Convery,
Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the ICHLC, speak on
‘Writing and Theorising the Irish Working Class’.
All are welcome to attend.
For more information please contact david.convery@nuigalway.ie

Prof. William Maker Philosophy, Clemson University Darkness Made (In)visible: The Dialectic of Race in Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust
2015-09-09 17:00
Prof. William Maker
Philosophy, Clemson University
Darkness Made (In)visible:
The Dialectic of Race
in Faulkner’s Intruder in the Dust
Wednesday 9 September
5pm
Hardiman Research Building seminar room G011
For more information please contact daniel.carey@nuigalway.ie

Workshop - 'Researching the Irish Parliamentary Party in the Decade of Centenaries'
2015-09-04 00:00
As part of NUI Galway’s commemorative programme, Friday 4 September 2015 will see a one day workshop on
Researching the Irish Parliamentary Party in the Decade of Centenaries.
This workshop will feature speakers outlining their own particular research focus and its aims as well as commenting on perceived opportunities and/or challenges when researching the Irish Party in the build up to the centenary of the 1916 Rising. Diverse aspects of the Irish Party and its following throughout the country will be discussed while the interaction of the party with the events of 1916 and afterwards will also be considered. Speakers are invited to offer their own observations on the Decade of Centenaries. Each presentation will be followed by questions and discussion.
Confirmed Speakers: Elaine Callinan, Mary Harris, Tony King, Pat McCarthy, Conor McNamara, Martin O’Donoghue, John O’Donovan, CiarÌÁn Wallace.
Friday 4 September 2015, Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway. All Welcome.
For further information on participating and/or attending the workshop contact Martin O’Donoghue. Email: t.odonoghue2@nuigalway.ie
Programme
‰Û÷Researching the Irish Parliamentary Party in the Decade of Centenaries’
10.15 – Welcome
10.30 – 12.00
The IPP and the revolution
Elaine Callinan (Carlow College/Trinity College Dublin)
Dr Mary Harris (NUI Galway)
Dr Conor McNamara (NUI Galway)
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12.00 – 1.00 – Lunch
1.00 – 2.30
How did the Irish Party function?
Dr CiarÌÁn Wallace (Trinity College Dublin)
Dr Pat McCarthy (Author: Waterford: The Irish Revolution)
Martin O’Donoghue (NUI Galway)
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2.30- 3.00 Coffee
3.00- 4.30
Dissonance within the Home Rule movement:
Tony King (NUI Galway)
John O’Donovan (University College Cork)
4.30 – 5.00 – Final Discussion
All Welcome.

Carrie Griffin, Bristol University and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow -Ink Recipes in Domestic Culture: Women and Textual Production, 1500-1700
2015-06-24 16:00

DhÌÁ leagan D̩ag: An Sean-nÌ_s san aonÌÄå¼ haois is fiche - 24 agus 25 Meitheamh
2015-06-24 09:00
DhÌÁ leagan D̩ag:
An Sean-nÌ_s san aon̼ haois is fiche
ClÌÁr na ComhdhÌÁla
D̩ C̩adaoin 24 Meitheamh

9.00 ClÌÁr̼
9.15 Oscailt Oifigi̼il An Dr. Jeannine Woods, Ceann GnÌ_omhach na Gaeilge, OÌä Gaillimh
Pain̩al 1
9.30-11.00 Cathaoirleach: Jeannine Woods
Lillis ÌÒ Laoire OÌä Gaillimh
CÌÁ bhfuil an Sean-nÌ_s? An Miotas, An R̩altacht agus an SpÌÁs Idir Eatarthu
SÌ_le Denvir, ColÌÁiste PhÌÁdraig, Ollscoil Chathair ́tha Cliath
FÌ_or nÌ_ Fiar? Ceist na BarÌÁnt̼lachta in AmhrÌÁnÌ_ocht Dh̼chasach na Gaeilge
RÌ_isÌ_n Nic Dhonncha, ColÌÁiste Mhuire gan SmÌÁl
An tAmhrÌÁnaÌ_, An Pobal agus LÌÁithri̼ na F̩ini̼lachta
Sos
Pain̩al 2
11.30-1.00 Cathaoirleach: Aingeal NÌ_ ChualÌÁin
TrÌ_ona NÌ_ ShÌ_ochÌÁin Ollscoil Luimnigh
Eisp̩ireas, BrÌ_ agus Machnamh: an Smaointeoireacht agus an AmhrÌÁnaÌ_ocht
PÌÁdraig ÌÒ Cearbhaill Brainse na Logainmneacha
An bhfuil ̩inne inÌÁr dteannta ag triall ar an tobar?
OdÌ_ NÌ_ Ch̩illeachair Acadamh na hOllscolaÌ_ochta Gaeilge, OÌä Gaillimh
RTÌä RaidiÌ_ na Gaeltachta: SlÌÁnaitheoir an tSean-nÌ_is?
1.00 – 2.00 LÌ_n
Pain̩al 3
2.00-3.00 Cathaoirleach: RÌ_isÌ_n Nic Dhonncha
MicheÌÁl ÌÒ GionnÌÁin NeamhspleÌÁch
Fanann an braon sna clÌÁir: An duine, an ÌÁit agus na hamhrÌÁin sa lÌÁ inniu
Virginia Blankenhorn, Ollscoil Dh̼n Ìäideann
ÌÒ Chalifornia go Conamara ar lorg an tSean-nÌ_is
3.00-3.30 Sos
Pain̩al 4
3.30-4.30 Cathaoirleach: Ailbhe NÌ_ Ghearbhuigh
Ìäadaoin NÌ_ Mhuircheartaigh, ColÌÁiste PhÌÁdraig
ContrÌÁrthachtaÌ_ agus CoimhlintÌ_ ag na Feiseanna Luatha. Sc̩al na nAmhrÌÁn
Seosamh Mac Donnchadha, ColÌÁiste na nDÌÁn, Ollscoil na hÌäireann, Gaillimh.
An sean-nÌ_s: BÌÁite sa traidisi̼n nÌ_ BÌÁite ag an traidisi̼n?
7.00 Dinn̩ar na ComhdhÌÁla ÌÒstÌÁn Harbour, BÌ_thar na nDuganna, Gaillimh.
9.30 Ceol 7 AmhrÌÁnaÌ_ocht sa Chrane.
AÌ_onna speisialta: AmhrÌÁnaithe ÌÒga an Ghaelacadaimh
D̩ardaoin 25 Meitheamh
Pain̩al 5
9.15-11.15 Cathaoirleach: Lillis ÌÒ Laoire
Rob Dunbar, Ollthaigh DhÌ_n Ìöideann
Dualchas Seann-NÌ_s na GÌÊidhlig agus an Tasglann
Seumas Watson, An Clachan, Ceap Breatainn, Alba Nuadh
Ag Ìäirigh air ÌÕran an Albainn Nuaidh: Suas e!
Tiber Falzett, Ionad an EÌ_lais Eileanaich, Oilthigh Eilean a’ Phrionnsa Iomhair
SÌ_il air Seinn, Seanchas agus Meatafor am measg an t-Sluaigh
Griogair Labhruidh, Ollscoil na hÌäireann, Gaillimh.
Traidisean Seinn Ath-Chruthaichte nan GÌÊidheal Albannach
Sos
Pain̩al 6
11.45-1.15 Cathaoirleach: An Dr. Clodagh Downey, Roinn na Gaeilge
Liam ÌÒ Maoildhia Sti̼rthÌ_ir an Oireachtais
An AmhrÌÁnaÌ_ocht agus an Sean-nÌ_s ag an Oireachtas
Antaine ÌÒ FarachÌÁin Institi̼id TeicneolaÌ_ochta Bhaile ́tha Cliath
Ag lorg ÌÁite don amhrÌÁnaÌ_ocht dh̼chasach
MÌÁire Breathnach ColÌÁiste PhÌÁdraig Droim Conrach
Iomramh Aonair i dtreo an tSean-nÌ_is: Sc̩alta Ì_ fhoghlaimeoirÌ_
LÌ_n
Pain̩al 7
2.30-4.30 ModhnÌ_ir: Louis de Paor
S̼il Siar, S̼il ar Aghaidh: Pl̩ Oscailte faoin amhrÌÁnaÌ_ocht
Josie SheÌÁin Jeaic Mac Donnchadha, MÌÁire PhÌ_otair NÌ_ DhroighneÌÁin, S. NÌ_ Bheaglaoich
4.30 Clabhs̼r

ClÌÁr̼: Saor in Aisce. TÌÁille Dinn̩ir: ‰âÂ30 TeagmhÌÁil: Lillis ÌÒ Laoire ag sean.nos2015@gmail.com

Dr Jodi Schneider, INRIA Sophia Antipolis - M̩diterran̩e, France and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow -Persons, documents, models: organising and structuring information for the Web
2015-06-23 16:00
Persons, documents, models: organising and structuring information for the Web
People and documents are of enduring interest. Documents may be generated by individuals, collective groups, and administrations, on any number of topics. We are particularly interested in the relationships between people and documents. The most important relationships are creation (authors, illustrators, translators, …), usage (e.g. association copies), and topic-of (e.g. people may be the subjects of biographies).
In this lecture, we will talk about several approaches for modeling, or representing, people and documents. We pay particular attention to computer-based approaches to organization, and to organizing information for websites. We will talk briefly about TEI and XML, and the focus on my area of research expertise: modeling “linked data”, a widely adopted approach for interlinking data. Adopted by the UK and US governments and search engines such as Google and Yahoo!, linked data has also been widely used in the digital humanities and by libraries, archives, and museums. It consists in naming objects of interest (be they authors, documents, or whatnot) and using standard data formats to enable interlinking.

Dr. Peter Webster, The British Library and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow -Prospects & pitfalls in using web archives for research
2015-06-23 15:00

Derek Gladwin, University of British Columbia and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow - 'North Atlantic Poetry and Multimedia: Environmentalism, Space and Websites'
2015-06-22 16:00
Derek Gladwin, University of British Columbia and Moore Institute Visiting Research Fellow’North Atlantic Poetry and Multimedia: Environmentalism, Space and Websites’
This talk discusses the relationship between two interdisciplinary environmental and spatial approaches to literature, known as ecocriticism and geocriticism, through two interactive websites that focus on the poetry of Eavan Boland and Marlene Creates. In one website, Creates, who is an environmental poet and photographer from Newfoundland, Canada, has created a multimedia experience titled A Virtual Walk of the Boreal Poetry Garden. Across the North Atlantic, another website titled The Poetry Project: Poetry and Art from Ireland employs a similar multimedia format, incorporating short videos of place-based poetry read orally in built and non-built environments. Boland’s poem ‰Û÷In Our Own Country’, which is accompanied by Oliver Comerford’s short film Distance, is the selection from ‰Û÷The Poetry Project’ considered in this talk. What is important about these two projects is that they are meant to be experienced on the web. These online representations of environmental poetry also use elements of interest for ecocritics and geocritics alike, capturing both real and imagined spaces, while also expanding the boundaries among disciplines, genres, and platforms. Ultimately, this talk examines how these two websites demonstrate through poetry, image, and virtual experience the ability to promote environmental awareness through spatial representations of place.
Derek Gladwin is a Social Sciences and Humanities Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia. His work primarily focuses on the environmental humanities in 20th– and 21st-century literary, film, and visual cultures in Ireland, the UK, and the North Atlantic. Gladwin is author of the forthcoming book, Contentious Terrains: Boglands in the Irish Postcolonial Gothic (2016), and co-editor of Eco-Joyce: The Environmental Imagination of James Joyce (2015) and Unfolding Irish Landscapes: Tim Robinson, Culture and Environment (2015). He is currently co-editing an issue on ‰Û÷Irish Environmental Criticism’ for the Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, and will serve as an Environmental Humanities Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh in the autumn of 2015.

Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour & Class Conference - 'From Civil Rights to the Bailout: Social movements, workers agitation and left-wing activism in Ireland, 1968-2010' - 19th and 20th June
2015-06-19 13:00
From Civil Rights to the Bailout: Social movements, workers agitation, and left-wing activism in Ireland, 1968-2010
Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour & Class,
http://fromcivilrightstothebailout.wordpress.com/
Conference Overview
Friday 19 June
13.00-13.45 Registration
13.45 Welcome address
14.00-15.30 Panel 1: The context of Northern Ireland
15.30-15.45 Break
15.45-17.15 Panel 2: Varieties of Protest
19.30 Mechanics’ Institute, Middle Street: ‰Û÷Civil Rights and Union Rights: Veteran Voices from the West of Ireland’
Saturday 20 June
10.00-11.30 Panel 3: Radical Politics
11.30-11.45 Break
11.45-13.15 Panel 4: Challenging legal and cultural constraints
13.15-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Panel 5: Engaging Beyond Ireland
15.30-15.45 Break
15.45-17.45 Panel 6: Preserving History: Oral History and Archives
CLOSE OF CONFERENCE
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Registration: ‰âÂ5
This will help cover the costs which include coffee, tea and biscuits to be provided at all
breaks, and a lunch of sandwiches to be provided on Saturday. If you would like to attend,
but feel you cannot afford the registration fee, please let us know.
In order to provide for catering, we need an estimate of the number of attendees. If you would
like to attend, please contact David Convery at david.convery@nuigalway.ie and please also
make us aware of any special dietary requirements.
This conference is organised with the generous support of the Discipline of History, NUI
Galway, and the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities & Social Sciences.
For more information, please see the conference website at http://fromcivilrightstothebailout.wordpress.com

Michael Neiberg, United States Army War College and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow -Trans-Atlantic Linkages and America's Road to War, 1914-1917: New Evidence, New Conclusions.
2015-06-18 16:00

Dr Elizabeth Patton, John Hopkins University and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow - 'The production, reception and circulation of books by women in the family and affinity of Dorothy Arundell (1560-1613)'
2015-06-12 11:00

Book launch of Laura D. Kelley's The Irish in New Orleans
2015-06-11 18:00

The Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland's 21st Annual Conference - June 11 and 12
2015-06-11 09:30
The Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland’s 21st Annual Conference will take place in the Moore Institute at NUI Galway on Thursday 11th and Friday 12th June 2015. The theme of the conference is Literacy in Nineteenth-Century Ireland. For programme and further details, see www.ssnciconference2015.wordpress.com or contact the organisers, Dr Rebecca Barr, Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley and Dr Muireann O’Cinneide.
There will also be a wine reception to celebrate the launch of Laura D. Kelley’s The Irish in New Orleans – 6pm Thurs 11th June in G010.
Event sponsored by the Moore Institute and the School of Humanities.

Dianne Hall, Victoria University, Melbourne and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow - 'Gender, violence and marriage in seventeenth-century Ireland'
2015-06-10 16:00

Timothy Madigan, St. John Fisher College and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow - Thomas Duddy and Irish Thought
2015-06-03 16:00
Timothy Madigan, St. John Fisher College and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow
Thomas Duddy and Irish Thought
An examination of the life and writings of the late NUIG philosopher, author of A History of Irish Thought, and his thesis that Irish thought refuses to separate the poetic and the prosaic in the pursuit of truth–something which is exemplified in his own work as a poet, short story writer, and professional philosopher.
For more information please contact tmadigan@sjfc.edu

Moore Institute Visiting Fellow Seminar: Maria McGarrity (Long Island University) 'Exhibiting Ireland: Immigrants and Visual Culture in Derek Walcott's Joycean New World Epic' - Jack Fennell (University of Limerick) 'Thrasymachus versus Calib
2015-06-02 16:00
Moore Institute Seminar
Maria McGarrity
(Long Island University and Moore Institute)
‰Û÷Exhibiting Ireland:
Immigrants and Visual Culture in Derek Walcott’s Joycean New World Epic’
Jack Fennell
(University of Limerick and Moore Institute)
‰Û÷Thrasymachus versus Caliban: Monstrosity and the Limits of Expansion’
“Exhibiting Ireland: Immigrants and Visual Culture in Derek Walcott’s Omeros, a Joycean New World Epic”
The John C. Messenger manuscript in the Hardiman library details folklore and ethnography on Montserrat, “the Emerald Isle of the Caribbean,” in the mid twentieth century. Such a vibrant catalog of the Caribbean Irish frames Derek Walcott’s Irish textual exhibit, a highly organized and illustrated collection of Irish characters in his transatlantic epic Omeros: Major Plunkett, Maud Plunkett, and Lawrence. These characters have cultural associations not simply to Ireland but to a specific collection of historical figures that helped shape Dublin museum culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This network of allusion, inspired by the “the keeper of the Kildare street museum” that Joyce mocks in the “Circe” episode of Ulysses becomes reframed and reimagined on St. Lucia in the mid twentieth century. Walcott’s imaginary museum of the book includes several dominant cultural and political figures from Ireland, from radically different social registers and affiliations, and re-locates them to the West Indies. Walcott’s catalogue becomes a Joycean museum.
Maria McGarrity is Professor of English at Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York. She works on island geographies, primitivism, and transnational modernism in Irish and Caribbean literatures. Her two new books are just out this month: Allusions in Omeros: Notes and a Guide to Derek Walcott’s Masterpiece (University of Florida Press, 2015) and a co-edited collection, Caribbean Irish Connections: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (University of the West Indies Press, 2015). Caution: the ink may not yet be dry.

Digital Scholarship Seminar: Brad Pasanek (University of Virginia) and Moore Institute visiting fellow - Poetic Diction: Tokens and Change
2015-06-02 12:00
Digital Scholarship Seminar:
Brad Pasanek (University of Virginia) and Moore Institute visiting fellow
Poetic Diction: Tokens and Change
Digital Scholarship Seminar‘s final visiting speaker event of this series takes place next Tuesday lunchtime and features Dr Brad Pasanek from the Department of English at the University of Virginia. Dr Pasanek is a current Moore Institute Visiting Fellow, and his talk focuses on computing the language of early modern poetry. The presentation will be followed by lunch (kindly provided by the Moore Institute) at 1pm.
Abstract: “Poetic diction” is an early modern term of art, used to mark distinctions between prose and verse. It signals a belief that poets speak and write a special kind of language. But “poetic diction” is also the term selected by William Wordsworth in the preface to Lyrical Ballads to sum up and mark a break with eighteenth-century poetics. “Poetic diction,” complained Wordsworth, is “mechanical” and “artificial,” a “hubbub of words.” Poets should instead write poems, claims Wordsworth, famously, in the “real language of men.” By 1800, it would seem, the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century stock of words and phrases was well worn if not worn out.
Poetic diction, as a topic of scholarly interest, had itself become a worn one by the 1950s; but then computational methods may offer new insights into moribund topics. In particular, when I see critics compile a large “set of phrases” that occur with “wearisome iteration” or provide a short list of stock phraseology (“blushing flowers,” “cool gales,” ” lab’ring oxen,” “curling smokes,” “fleet shades,” and “dusky green”), it is the mechanical, iterative quality of the verse surveyed that most interests me. Computational methods work by iteration; and from the perspective of a computational linguist, the stock of phrases complained of by some literary critics are so many types and tokens, waiting to counted and mapped. In the current moment, in which great quantities of verse-Metaphysical, Neoclassical, Romantic-have been digitized, an opportunity to identify the stock of phrases and visualize their changing frequencies presents itself.
Bio: Brad Pasanek is an Assistant Professor in the English Department of the University of Virginia. His first book, Metaphors of Mind: An Eighteenth-Century Dictionary ships in the coming month from Johns Hopkins University Press. (Act now! Buy two, get one free.) His efforts have been described by one of his colleagues in the digital humanities, as “distant reading by hand,” and his book digests and analyzes over 10,000 of the metaphors collected online at The Mind is a Metaphor.
For further informatition, contact: Dr PÌÁdraic Moran (padraic.moran@nuigalway.ie),
or Dr Justitin Tonra (justitin.tonra@nuigalway.ie)
www.nuigalway.ie/digital-seminar ‰ۢ www.facebook.com/nuigdss

Professor Kate Nash,Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London - 'Women's rights, distant suffering and neo-imperialism'
2015-05-28 13:30 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Gender ARC and Global Women’s Studies at NUI Galway
Are pleased to invite you to a Reception & Public Lecture “Women’s rights, distant suffering and neo-imperialism” Professor Kate Nash
Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London
Abstract: Earlier this year the film ‰Û÷India’s Daughter’ was banned in India: it is illegal to show it there. It is widely agreed that at least part of the Indian government’s reasoning was that it is a form of imperialism. In responding to the ban, the Israeli born, UK-based director of the film, Leslee Udwin, claimed that, as a global citizen, she had the right to make it, and to criticise Indian society. Justifying imperialism using the rhetoric of human rights has a long and continuing history. At the same time, however, the question of how we should respond to representations of people suffering in other countries cannot be avoided. If neo-imperialism is the state of mind that ‰Û÷They need us to achieve rights; while we didn’t need them’, what can we learn from the film and its reception about women’s rights, distant suffering, and neo-imperialism?
Kate Nash is a leading political sociologist whose work focuses on the nexus of human rights, politics and culture. Professor Nash has been with the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths since 1999 where she teaches on the sociology of human rights; cultural politics; political sociology; feminist theory; citizenship; social movements; and equality and diversity. She earned a degree in Sociology at City University as a mature student, completing in 1990, and then a PhD in the Department of Government at Essex University, finishing in 1995. She is Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy at Goldsmiths, and a Fellow of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University. In 2010, Professor Nash she was Visiting Professor at the New School for Social Research, New York and Vincent Wright Professor at Sciences Po, Paris. Kate Nash is a highly-regarded, pioneering thinker on the sociology and politics of human rights in a context of globalisation. She is author of: The Political Sociology of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press, July 2015); Contemporary Political Sociology: globalization, politics, power (Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) and The Cultural Politics of Human Rights: Comparing the US and UK (Cambridge University Press, 2009). See: http://www.gold.ac.uk/sociology/staff/nash/
To RSVP and for more information: Gillian Browne, Global Women’s Studies, gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie

Gender ARC Research Workshop: Dr. Ivana Radacic, Ivo Pilar Institute, Croatia & Dr. EilÌ_s Ward, Political Science and Sociology, NUI Galway - Methods and methodologies in researching the sex trade: Ireland and Croatia considered
2015-05-28 11:00
Gender ARC is pleased to host a
Research Workshop
with
Dr. Ivana Radacic, Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia & Dr. EilÌ_s Ward, School of Political Science and Sociology, NUI Galway
“Methods and methodologies in researching the sex trade: Ireland and Croatia considered”
Followed by Gender ARC reception and public lecture with Professor Kate Nash , Goldsmiths (details to follow)
This workshop will focus on the many challenges facing anyone researching the sex trade with reference to the experience of Dr. Radacic and Dr. Ward in Croatia and Ireland respectively. It will unpack these challenges, with an emphasis on how we do knowledge production in this contentious area of public policy. We will look at data gathering tools and mechanisms and also the attendant ethical, political and epistemological aspects. It understands research in this area as necessarily creating particular sets of tensions that researchers need to acknowledge. Following opening presentations, the workshop will proceed through an open dialogue.
Biographical Notes:
Dr. EilÌ_s Ward is a member of the Management Committee of ProsPoi, the EU funded Cost Action network on prostitution policies and has been writing and researching in this area for over ten years. She recently completed a joint QUB/NUIG research project on prostitution in Northern Ireland (Huschke et al 2014), funded by the N I Department of Justice and has engaged with the policy process in the Republic of Ireland on proposed changes in its prostitution regime.
Dr. Ivana Radacic is also a member of the ProsPol management Committee and is a Research Associate at the Ivo Pilar institute and part time lecturer in the University of Zagreb. Her background is in human rights, women’s rights and feminism and she has worked as a lawyer at the European Court of Human Rights and has written on women’s righs jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights.
All Welcome
For more information please contact gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie

Inish Festival - Thursday 28th May to Sunday 31st May
2015-05-28 00:00
Inishbofin festival promises a wealth of poetry, music and ‰Û÷Island Conversations’
An innovative cultural festival, featuring the best in literature, poetry, film and music will take place on the island of Inishbofin from Thursday 28th to Sunday 31st May next. The inaugural Inish Festival – subtitled “Island Conversations”- will see international musicians, writers and artists convene in this special, secluded place for performances, talks, and conversations based around themes of insularity, isolation and the role of the arts in society. The island of Inishbofin itself has inspired a host of writers, including the poets Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Richard Murphy, and its strong musical and cultural traditions make it the ideal venue in which to examine what makes islands such special places, and examine what it is live on, or be culturally inspired by, Ireland’s offshore islands. The programme for the festival will appeal to a wide range of tastes, featuring as it does readings from writers such as Kevin Barry, Bernard O’Donoghue and Moya Cannon, concerts with Declan O’Rourke, The Voice Squad, musicians Renaud Garcia-Fons, Zoe Conway and John McIntyre, and films by Directors Pat Collins, Kieran Concannon and Alec Moore. Leading academics, such as Prof. Lee Morrissey, Prof. Daniel Carey, Dr. Adrian Paterson and Dr. Rebecca Barr will address subjects such as ‰Û÷Literary Islands’ and the concept of ‰Û÷Citizenship, Identity and the Irish Archipelago’. A highlight of the festival will be an examination of the poetry of Richard Murphy, whose ‰Û÷Sailing to an Island’ is the poem most people associate with Inishbofin. Murphy, now eighty-eight, currently lives in Sri Lanka, but a recorded interview with him by festival organiser, filmmaker and Inishbofin native, Peadar King will be a rare opportunity to hear the poet talk about his work, and the inspiration behind it. A full programme for the festival can be found at inishfestival.com. As accommodation on the island is limited, early booking is advisable.
For further information log in to www.inishfestival.com or email inishfestival@gmail.com

Charles Barr, Moore Institute Visiting Fellow - Filming O'Casey
2015-05-25 14:00
Charles Barr, Moore Institute Visiting Fellow
Filming O’Casey
Venue: Huston School Main Room
Sean O’Casey never had much respect for commercial cinema, even though he worked with two of its greatest directors. Alfred Hitchcock filmed Juno and the Paycock in England in 1929; John Ford filmed The Plough and the Stars in Hollywood in 1937. Both directors had sincere respect for the plays, and for the Abbey Theatre actors whom they took care to use in many key roles, but critics have agreed with O’Casey in disliking the results. This talk, illustrated with documents as well as extracts, examines the reasons for this hostility, while making a revisionist case for the value of both films. Hitchcock’s, as an early-sound record of, especially, Sarah Allgood’s definitive performance as Juno; Ford’s, as a legitimate, and historically fascinating, reworking of O’Casey from his own more romantic perspective on the Easter Rising of 1916. Young Cassidy (1965) provides a footnote: a loose and lively biopic of O’Casey, part-directed by Ford, partly in Dublin, towards the end of Ford’s career and of O’Casey’s life. Charles Barr has taught in the past at the Huston School as an Adjunct Professor, and is back in Galway thanks to a research grant from the Moore Institute. His talk draws on collections held in the library. He has published extensively both on Ford and on Hitchcock; his new book, co-authored for the University of Kentucky Press with the Parisian scholar Alain Kerzoncuf, is Hitchcock, Lost and Found – the Forgotten Films. There are two events at Filmbase in Dublin on the afternoon of 27th May, to discuss Educating Film-makers and to launch Charles Barr’s Hitchcock Lost and Found – The Forgotten Films: ‘Cultivating Film-makers’ Hitchcock Lost and Found
For more information please contact rod.stoneman@nuigalway.ie

Digital Material Conference - May 21 and 22 2015
2015-05-21 08:30
Digital Material is a conference that considers the intersections of digital and material cultures in the humanities.
Recent years have seen an intensification of interest in both digital and material cultures. This broad trend has been mirrored in the academy by the growing prominence of digital humanities and the renewed focus on materiality and material objects within humanities disciplines. Proposals are invited for an international interdisciplinary conference that addresses this important confluence in our contemporary culture.
Plenary speakers: Jerome McGann (University of Virginia) & Matthew G. Kirschenbaum (University of Maryland).The deadline for submitting proposals to Digital Material has now passed, and registration for the conference has opened.
Queries may be addressed to conference organiser, Justin Tonra.
Acknowledgements
Digital Material is supported by the Moore Institute and the Digital Arts and Humanites PhD Programme (DAH).For their generous assistance, thanks to: Daniel Carey, David Kelly, Julie Murphy, Martha Shaughnessy, Kate Thornhill, June Webb.
Programme
The following is a provisional conference programme, and may be subject to change (updated 7 May 2015).
Click on panel titles to read the abstracts of individual papers. Panels prefaced with an asterisk are proposed panels.
Digital MaterialProvisional Conference Programme
Thursday 21 May 2015
0830-0915: Registration & tea/coffee.
0915-0930: Opening address by Prof. PÌ_l ÌÒ Dochartaigh, Registrar and Deputy President of NUI Galway.
0930-1030: Plenary lecture:Jerome McGann (University of Virginia)“Truth and Method. Scholarship as a Science of Exceptions.”
1030-1100: Tea/coffee.
1100-1230:
Panel 1: Early Modern and Medieval Media
Giles Bergel (University of Oxford)”Affordance and Ideology: Genealogical Diagrams in Manuscript, Print and XML.”
Pip Willcox & David de Roure (University of Oxford)”‰Û÷Friends, should associate Friends’: the Social, the Material, and the Digital in Shakespeare’s First Folio.”
Alison Harper (University of Rochester)”Not Just a Text: Piers Plowman in the Medieval Multi-media Culture.”
Panel 2: Surfaces and Inscriptions
Nicola Rodger (Monash University)”Getting Thingy With It: How the Book Became a Thing.”
Marion Lam̩ (Centre Camille Jullian, Maison M̩diterran̩enne des Sciences de l’Homme / Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, CNR)”Textuality & Inscriptions: Hypothesis About Autopoietic System and Dispositive Analysis.”
Patrick Egan (University College Cork)”Developing ‰Û÷Special’ Collections and New Forms of Narrative.”
1230-1330: Lunch
1330-1500:
*Panel 3: Books/Texts/Documents Between Print, Manuscript and Digital
Brendan Dooley (University College Cork)”Angelica’s Book and the Lure of the Material.”
Nella Porqueddu (Trinity College Dublin)”Digital Materiality and Historical Research.”
Giorgio Guzzetta (University College Cork)”The Literary System Between Materiality and Virtuality.”
Panel 4: Digital Material Writ Large & Small
Roman Bleier (Trinity College Dublin)”Encoding Text and Context in the Manuscript Witnesses of Saint Patrick’s Epistles.”
Jason McElligott (Marsh’s Library)”How John Hewson Signed His Name: Or, How to Spot a Monster in a (Digital) Archive.”
Ronan Crowley (University of Passau)”Between a Micro and a Macrocosm Ineluctably Constructed: Digital Materiality at Scale.”
1530-1600: Tea/coffee
1600-1730:
Panel 5: (Digital) Archive Fever
Ì_na Bhreathnach (Dublin City University)”Crowdsourcing Irish-Language Folklore Material: the D̼chas Project.”
Penny Johnston (University College Cork)”Is Intangible Culture Different? Looking at Ideas of Digital and Immaterial in the Oral History Archive.”
Orla Egan (University College Cork)”Digitising Queer Materials.”
Panel 6: Curating & Using
Benjamin Nicoll (University of Melbourne)”Videogame Fan Sites and the Vernacular Curation of Gaming History.”
Sharon Webb & Natalie Harrower (Digital Repository of Ireland)”Curating Historical Narratives: Online Representations of History and ‰Û÷Inspiring Ireland.'”
Jeffrey P. Emanuel (Harvard University)”Digital Material: Improving Access, Intimacy, and Scholarship With New Collaborative Technologies.”
2000: Conference Dinner
Friday 22 May 2015
0800-0900: Tea/coffee
0900-1030:
Panel 7: Hybrid Literatures
Francesca Benatti (Open University)”Embodying the University of Air: Teaching Digital Literature at The Open University.”
Krista Stinne Greve Rasmussen (University of Copenhagen)”Print or Perish.”
Brianne Bilsky (United States Military Academy)”Books and Bytes: Maus in the Digital Age.”
Panel 8: Encoding Memory
Susan Schreibman (Maynooth University)”Changing the Narrative: The Digital as Un-Remembering.”
Claire Lynch (Brunel University)”Nursing the Anecdotes: Material and Digital Practices in the Archives of Lives.”
Moritz Hiller (Humboldt University Berlin)”Signs O’ the Times: Towards a Philology of Software/Code.”
1030-1100: Tea/coffee
1100-1230:
Panel 9: Seeing & Hearing
West Connolly (Trinity College Dublin)”To Be or Not To Be… Material: Digital Acts of Resistance.”
Karolina Badzmierowska (Trinity College Dublin)”Digital Materiality and Art Historical Research.”
Stephen Roddy (Trinity College Dublin)”Sonification and the Digital Divide.”
Panel 10: Beyond the Book
Simon Rowberry (University of Stirling)”1984 Redux: The Long-term Materiality of the Kindle Infrastructure.”
Patrick Smyth (City University of New York)”Ebooks and the Digital Paratext: Emerging Trends in the Interpretation of Digital Media.”
Sue Hemmens (Marsh’s Library)”‰Û÷Books are [in]finite’: Breaking the Bounds of the Information Space.”
1230-1330: Lunch
1330-1500:
*Panel 11: ‰Û÷Print/Screen’ – Expanding the Digital Library at the James Hardiman Library, NUI Galway
Aisling Keane & Kieran Hoare (NUI Galway)”Partnerships, Metadata and Possibilities: Digital Preservation in the Archives.”
Cillian Joy (NUI Galway)”Digital Preservation Workflows and Integrations.”
Niall McSweeney & Barry Houlihan (NUI Galway)”From the Cloud to the Reading-Room: Digital Archives in Research, Learning and Teaching.”
*Panel 12: A Matter of Substance, Size and Style? Remediating the Archive in the Digital Age
Michael Goodman (Cardiff University)”The Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive.”
Julia Thomas & Nicola Lloyd (Cardiff University)”Lost Visions: Retrieving the Visual Element of Printed Books.”
Anthony Mandal (Cardiff University)”Strange Case of Digital Jekyll and Remediated Hyde: Literary Narrative as Pervasive Media.”
1500-1530: Tea/coffee
1530-1700:
Panel 13: Mechanisms
Abigail De Kosnick (University of California, Berkeley)”The Media Crease: Traces of Repetitious Media Use in Hard and Soft Copies.”
Ren̩e Farrar (United States Military Academy)”Word Processor Art and the Graphical User Interface.”
Vinayak Das Gupta (Trinity College Dublin)”The Material and the Immaterial in an Age of Anxiety”
*Panel 14: Digital Materialities of the Literary Text
Ana Marques da Silva (University of Coimbra)”Performative Materialities of Language and Meaning.”
Diogo Marques (University of Coimbra)”Inter[sur]faces.”
Sandra Bettencourt (University of Coimbra)”Digital and Material Feedbacks in Steve Tomasula’s Printed Novels.”
1715-1815: Plenary lectureMatthew G. Kirschenbaum (University of Maryland)“Green-Screeners: Locating the Literary History of Word Processing.”
1815-1830: Closing remarks
Saturday 23 May 2015
1100: Excursion to Computer and Communications Museum of Ireland. (Excursion will last approximately ninety minutes).

Sara Brennan of Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh - Can Irish be Sold Outside the Gaeltacht? A Critical Sociolinguistic Investigation of the Contemporary Promotion of Irish in Business
2015-05-14 13:00
Sara Brennan of Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh
Can Irish be Sold Outside the Gaeltacht?
A Critical Sociolinguistic Investigation of the Contemporary Promotion of Irish in Business
This talk will present insights from on-going PhD research on the promotion of Irish as an economic resource for businesses in urban areas located outside the Gaeltacht. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, it will examine the dynamics and consequences of advocating the use of Irish as a valuable business tool in the traditionally Anglophone sphere of urban commerce.
For more information please contact john.walsh@nuigalway.ie

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

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

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

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