Rome, Vivarium, Bobbio - centres of learning in Early Medieval Europe? - Professor Richard Sharpe
2012-02-28 15:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Optics Seminar Room, Ireland
VISITING SEMINARRome, Vivarium, BobbioCentres of Learning in EarlyMedieval Europe?
PROF. RIChARD ShARPEUniversity of Oxford
TUES 28 FEBRUARYOptics Seminar RoomSeminar: 3 – 4 pmTea/Coffee & Discussion: 4 – 5 pm

Professor Donatella Badin -TCC Seminar Series - "Looking at Italy through Green Glasses: Irish travellers on the Grand Tour"
2012-02-28 16:00

History Graduate Research Seminar Series 2011-12: A Comparison of Syncretism in Lakota Catholic Congresses and Gullah Camp Meetings - RÌ_nÌÁn de Bhaldraithe
2012-02-29 16:00
29 Feb. RÌ_nÌÁn de Bhaldraithe
A Comparison of Syncretism in Lakota Catholic Congresses
and Gullah Camp Meetings

SiobhÌÁn Armstrong - 'From manuscript to music: unearthing historical Gaelic music from manuscripts & early printed sources'
2012-03-05 16:00
CAMPS, the MA in Medieval Studies and Galway Early Music proudly present
SiobhÌÁn Armstrong
Historical Harpist and Founder of The Historical Harp Society of Ireland
in two public and academic events
Seminar
‰Û÷From manuscript to music: unearthing historical Gaelic music from manuscripts & early printed sources’
Monday 5th March, 4-6 p.m, Moore Institute Seminar Room
Concert
‰Û÷Discovering gold: medieval to 18th century harp music from the old Gaelic world’
Monday 5th March, 1 p.m., Chapel of the Poor Clares’ Convent, Nun’s Island
(Tickets ‰âÂ10/‰âÂ7 at the as a contribution to the Galway Early Music Festival: see www.galwayearlymusic.com)

History Graduate Research Seminar Series 2011-12: The Making and Re-Making of Charles Stewart Parnell, 1846-1880 - Ged Martin
2012-03-07 16:00
7 March Ged Martin
The Making and Re-Making of Charles Stewart Parnell, 1846-1880

Dr Emma Nic CÌÁrthaigh, Department of Early and Medieval Irish, UCC 'Tadhg Mac Bruaideadha's specula principis for Donnchadh ÌÒ Briain: possible motives and influences'
2012-03-08 17:00

Moore Institute Workshop 2011-12: Gender, Identities and Discourses: Art, Archives and Public Sphere: Memories in the West of Ireland.
2012-03-09 09:00
Description of Workshop
The main aim of the workshop is to examine questions of art, archives and public memories as represented and relevant in west of Ireland contexts. Participants will include academics, students, artists, local researchers and producers of radio and film. Workshop participants will work with existing materials in relation to women, gender and the west of Ireland, such as photographs, diaries, letters, newspaper reports, private papers and film. Through further collaborative effort, the workshop aims to generate new interpretations and reflections and will present new ideas through the media of radio, exhibition, illustrated texts and film documentary. It will demonstrate how to approach archival resources and historical evidence in a way that is creative, productive and public. A combination of the critical and the creative will reconfigure the contexts in which public memories and identities are shaped. The approach, therefore, will strengthen the field of gender-related research and will augment the visibility of the West of Ireland as a creative research location.

Echo (Humanities Research Forum) - International Women
2012-03-09 16:00
CIARA GRIFFIN
(NUI Galway)
‰Û÷Poignancies of Nourishment: The Gastropoetics of Sara Suleri‰۪s
Meatless Days‰۪

ELLEN McWILLIAMS

Visiting Fellow, Moore Institute (Bath Spa University)
‰Û÷Women, Exile, and Censorship in John McGahern‰۪s
The Leavetaking‰۪
NOTE DATE: 4pm Friday 9th March 2012
Applied Optics Seminar Room
All welcome. Wine served.
ECHO brings together researchers of all disciplines to discuss their work in a friendly and rigorous environment. Contact: adrianpaterson@yahoo.com or see our website: http://echoforum.wordpress.com

TCC Seminar Series - 'Labour historiography and the 'decade of centenaries' - Professor Emmet O'Connor, University of Ulster
2012-03-13 16:00
‰Û÷Labour historiography and the ‰ÛÏdecade of centenaries‰۝‰۪ is the topic a seminar presentation by Emmet O‰۪Connor at the Moore Institute on Tuesday, 13 March at 4 pm
Dr O‰۪Connor‰۪s seminar is part of this semester‰۪s Texts, Cultures and Contexts seminar series at the Moore
The seminar will be followed at 5.15 pm by the launch of the latest issue of the journal Saothar, a special issue on women, edited by NUI Galway lecturers, Mary Clancy (Global Women‰۪s Studies) and John Cunningham (History)
Emmet O‰۪Connor, a graduate of NUI Galway, is a senior lecturer in history at Magee College in Derry (University of Ulster). He has published widely and influentially over several decades on Irish labour history.A new and greatly expanded edition of his classic A labour history of Ireland (Gill & Macmillan, 1992) has recently been published by UCD Press.

History Graduate Research Seminar Series 2011-12: Aldfrith: a marginalised king in Bede's HistoriaEcclesiastica? - Sarah McCann
2012-03-14 16:00
14 March Sarah McCann
Aldfrith: a marginalised king in Bede’s HistoriaEcclesiastica?

Early Modern Europe and India: Politics, Philosophy, and Representation
2012-03-15 09:00
Early Modern Europe and India: Politics, Philosophy, and Representation
Newman House, UCD & Chester Beatty Library, 15-16 March 2012
Thursday : Newman House, 85-86 St Stephen‰۪s Green
10.45 Welcome and opening remarks
11.00 Sanjay Subrahmanyam (UCLA)
‰Û÷Orientalism, Realpolitik, and the Foundation of the Compagnie des Indes‰۪
11.45 Joan-Pau Rubi̩s (London School of Economics)
‰Û÷Libertine readings of Hinduism‰۪
12.30 Lunch
2.00 Fr̩d̩ric Tinguely (Universit̩ de Gen̬ve)
‰Û÷Difference and Dissimulation: French Representations of Fakirs in the XVIIth Century‰۪
2.45 Faith Beasley (Dartmouth College, New Hampshire)
‰Û÷ ‰Û÷Le joli philosophe‰۪: Fran̤ois Bernier and 17th-century French salon culture‰۪
3.30 Coffee
4.00 Kapil Raj (EHESS, Paris)
‰Û÷The Stranger and the Wanderer: Two Standpoints for Representing South Asia in John Marshall (c.1640-1677) and Edward Ives (d.1786)‰۪
4.45 Antje FlÌ_chter (University of Heidelberg)
‰Û÷JÌ_rgen Andersen and Johann Albrecht von Mandelslo in Mughal India: German travelogues published by Adam Olearius and their Perception in German Discourse‰۪
5.30 pm Reception
Friday : Chester Beatty Library, Dublin Castle
10.00 Timothy Walker (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth)
‰Û÷Hybridized Indo-Portuguese Medical Culture (1560-1830)‰۪
10.45 Michiel van Groesen (University of Amsterdam)
‰Û÷Americans in Agra: Robert Coverte, Johan Theodore de Bry, and the European Iconography of Mughal India‰۪
11.30 Dan Carey (NUI Galway)
Closing remarks : Edward Terry‰۪s India
12.00 Tour of Chester Beatty Library collections
12.45 Lunch, Silk Road Caf̩, Chester Beatty Library
Organised by Prof Dan Carey (NUI Galway); Prof Jane Conroy (NUI Galway); Dr Derval Conroy (UCD); Dr Jane Grogan (UCD)
Supported by the Moore Institute, NUI Galway; the Andrew Mellon Foundation; UCD seed-funding; the French Embassy.

"All Dressed Up: Irish Historical Pageantry", Professor Joan Dean
2012-03-15 16:00

Keith Busby will be a Moore Institute visiting fellow in March and will give a lecture at 6pm on 'The French of Medieval Ireland and the Ireland of the French' - Prof. Keith Busby
2012-03-15 18:00
Keith Busby will be a Moore Institute visiting fellow in March and will give a lecture at 6pm on Thursday 15th March. The topic of his lecture will be ‰ÛÏThe French of Medieval Ireland and the Ireland of the French‰۝

History Graduate Research Seminar Series 2011-12: When Saints Die: Corporate Identity and Myth-making after Vincent de Paul: The Congregation of the Mission as a case study - Sean Smith
2012-03-21 16:00
21 March Sean Smith
When Saints Die: Corporate Identity and Myth-making after Vincent de Paul: The Congregation of the Mission as a case study

Dr Roisin McLaughlin, School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies 'Early Irish Satire'
2012-03-22 17:00

Dr James Smith (Boston College) -'A Book's Afterlife: The Ryan Report, and State Interaction with the Magdalene Laundries'
2012-03-22 18:00
The Department of History, NUI, Galway, and the Moore Institute invite you to a talk by
Dr James Smith (Boston College)
Titled “A Book’s Afterlife: The Ryan Report, and State Interaction with the Magdalene Laundries“
Thursday 22, March at 18.00 in AC201
James M. Smith is an Associate Professor in the English Department and Irish Studies Program at Boston College. He has published articles in Signs, The Journal of the History of Sexuality, Ìäire-Ireland, and ELH. His book, Ireland’s Magdalen Laundries and the Nation’s Architecture of Containment (Notre Dame 2007: Manchester 2008) was awarded the 2007 Donald Murphy prize for distinguished first book from the American Conference for Irish Studies. He serves on the Advisory Committee of Justice for Magdalenes (JFM), where he co-wrote the groups’ submission to the Irish Human Rights Commission. His submission, “Justice for Magdalenes: A Narrative of State Interaction,” is currently being considered by Ireland’s Minister for Justice and the Irish Government’s Inter-Departmental Committee on the Magdalene Laundries. He also co-edited a special double issue of Eire-Ireland addressing Irish Childhood (44: 1&2 [2009]) and edited Two Irish National Tales: Maria Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent and Sydney Owenson’s The Wild Irish Girl (Boston, 2005).
ALL WELCOME

Gender and Irish Society in the 19th and 20th century
2012-03-23 00:00
Gender and Irish society in the 19th and 20th century:
New perspectives and new ideas
Two-day conference – 23rd and 24th of March, 2012
Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences
National University of Ireland, Galway
Funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS)
This two-day conference, funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences ‰Û÷New Ideas‰۪ Scheme, will examine the theme of gender in Irish society in the 19th and 20th centuries. The conference will take place at the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies at the National University of Ireland Galway and bring togetheracademics, early career researchers and postgraduates working in the fields of history, gender studies, children studies, English literature, sociology, film studies and related areas.
Conference programme: Friday 23rd of March
9.00-9.30: Registration
9.30-11.00: Panel 1: Gender and Irish literature I
Chair: Dr Marion Krauthaker-Ringa, NUIG
o Declan O’Keeffe – The young writer’s saint – Women writers in the Irish Monthly.
o Laura Pomeroy – ‘Untroubled by Leaves’: constructions of nature in Mary Devenport O’Neill’s poetry
o Rebecca Anne Barr – The kind of boy I liked: gender, boyhood and masculinity in the work of Forrest Reid
11.00-11.30: Tea/coffee break
11.30-1.00: Panel 2: Gender and religion
Chair: Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley, NUIG
o Evelyn Glynn – Magdalene Matters
o Sean Brady – Sectarianism, religion and masculinity: Northern Ireland after 1921
o Yafa Shanneik – Irish women converting to Islam in the late 20th century
1.00-2.00: Lunch
2.00-3.30: Panel 3: Gender and Irish culture
Chair: Dr Tomas Finn, NUIG
o Eleanor O’Leary – Women, desire and modernity in 1950s Ireland
o Finola Doyle-O’Neill – The role and representation of women on Irish television in the 1960s
o Claire McGing – Gender and candidate success in Irish general elections
3.30-3.45: Tea/coffee
3.45-5.15: Panel 4: Gender and work
Chair: Dr John Borgonovo, UCC
o Mary Hawkins – No fire in their room? General nurses and local government, 1922-42
o Mary Muldowney – Costlier than the male? The gendered nature of pension provision for women railway workers in 1930s Ireland
o Kevin G Davison and Amy McDonald – The Irish male teacher and role models for boys: contradictions of desire and panic
5.15-6.00: Keynote address by Dr. Myrtle Hill, QUB
8.00: Conference dinner at the Harbour Hotel
Conference programme: Saturday 24th of March
9.30-11.00: Panel 5: Women’s movements
Chair: Dr Caitriona Clear, NUIG
o Gillian McLelland – Margaret Byers and Women’s Work for Women
o John Borgonovo – Gender, nationalism and the Cumann na mBan in Cork, 1914-22
o James Curry – ‰Û÷All workers, all women, divided by our own near-sightedness’: an examination of the gender ideology of the Irish Women Workers’ Union, 1911-1915
11.00-11.30: Tea/coffee break
11.30-1.30: Panel 6: Gender and parenting
Chair: Dr Kevin Davison, NUIG
o Emma O’Toole – Promoting health, strength and beauty to their offspring – Women’s role in the management and nurture of their infants in early nineteenth century Ireland’
o Sarah-Anne Buckley – Gendering blame? An examination of gender in cases involving offences against children in Ireland, 1900-1950
o Mary Murphy – From male bread winner to mother-worker: Gender and Irish social security
o Aidan Cooney – Irish fathers parenting experiences with their disabled child, an exploratory study
1.30-2.30: Lunch
2.30-4.00: Panel 7: Gender and Irish literature II
Chair: Dr Rebecca Anne Barr, NUIG
o Katharina Walter – Pomegranates and other temptations: the myth of Ceres and Proserpine in contemporary Irish women’s poetry
o Nguyen Nhat Tuan – In Search of Contemporary Irish man: representations of masculinity in Irish chick lit and its Vietnamese translation
o Marion Krauthaker-Ringa – Love the sinner, hate the saint! Tortured feminine psyche in Edna O’Brien’s 2011 Short Stories
4.00-4.15: Closing remarks: Dr Laura Kelly, NUIG

Dealing with the (un)familiar: Italians' uncanny perceptions of otherness, in Italy and abroad - Dr Francesco Ricatti, University of the Sunshine Coast
2012-03-26 16:00
Francesco Ricatti
Cassamarca Senior Lecturer, University of the Sunshine Coast
Dealing with the (un)familiar: Italians’ uncanny perceptions of otherness, in Italy and abroad
It has often been argued, in academic studies as well as in media and public discourse, that Italian hostility towards immigrants is largely due to a sort of amnesia about Italy’s past as a country of emigration. In other words the scarce sensitivity towards the needs and rights of contemporary immigrants and refugees to Italy, and the scarce appreciation for their contributions to Italian society and economy, would relate to Italians’ inability or unwillingness to remember that they had been migrants themselves. This interpretation mirrors a similar understanding of Italian supposed amnesia about its colonial past. Against this prevailing interpretation of the relationship between emigration and immigration in Italy, this paper will argue that memories of Italian emigration have not been forgotten and that Italian hostility towards immigrants is to be related to a much more complex attempt by Italians to cope with manifestations of otherness, both in Italy and abroad. Employing the psychoanalytical frame of the uncanny -drawing inspiration from the Freudian suggestions about the unheimliche, and later interpretations by philosophers such as Martin Heidegger, Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva and Slavoj ÌÉå_iÌÉå_ek- I will argue that at least since Italian unification there has been a consistent and peculiar Italian way of reacting to the void between the imaginary unity of the nation and its actual fragmentation (due to both its geopolitical history and to mass migration). My argument is that otherness and fragmentation are constituent elements of any Italian identity, and that instead of being enjoyed, celebrated and nurtured they have been too often repressed. As a result of this repression, new and recurring manifestations of difference are threatening for Italians not simply because they challenge the (imaginary) unity of their nation and their local community, but above all because they mirror the alterity, the otherness that already exists within the nation (and within the community, the family and the individual). It is here that the concept of the uncanny becomes particularly pertinent, expressing the emotional reaction in front of something or someone that is stranger and other and yet at the same time familiar, precisely because of his/her otherness.
Francesco Ricatti is Cassamarca Senior Lecturer at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. He coordinates the Italian language program and teaches migration history. He is the author of Embodying Migrants: Italians in Postwar Australia (Bern, Peter Lang, 2011). He has published various book chapters on migration and on football, as well as articles in academic journals, including Australian Journal of Politics and History, History Australia, Annali d’Italianistica and (forthcoming in 2012) Women’s History Review and Modern Italy. He is the co-editor with Penny Morris and Mark Seymour of a recently published volume on Politica ed emozioni nella storia d’Italia dal 1848 a oggi (Rome, Viella, 2012), and a forthcoming special issue of the journal Modern Italy on Emotions in Italy.

TCC Seminar Series - Dr. Shahidha Bari, Queen Mary University of London: Objects, Interiors and Authority: Rethinking the Arabian Nights in English
2012-03-27 16:00
TCC Seminar Series
Dr. Shahidha Bari , Lecturer in Romanticism at Queen Mary University of London
Objects, Interiors and Authority: Rethinking the Arabian Nights in English
Venue: The Moore Institute
March 27th at 16:00

History Graduate Research Seminar Series 2011-12: 'The Misery Index': Irish vs. Polish Peasants in the Nineteenth Century - RÌ_isin Healy
2012-03-28 16:00
28 March RÌ_isÌ_n Healy
‰Û÷The Misery Index’: Irish vs. Polish Peasants in the Nineteenth Century

English Graduate Research Day
2012-03-29 09:45
EnglishGRADUATE RESEARCH DAY
9.45am-11.00 chair: Dr Rebecca Barr
Rosemary Gallagher
‰Û÷All this happened, more or less’: the auto-biographicality of humour in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat’s Cradle and Sirens of Titan
Rebecca Downes
Rehabilitating the Real: J.M. Coetzee’s Aesthetics of Finitude
CiarÌÁn Dowd
‰Û÷Not chaos itself lay outside of that matrix’: Deterministic Chaos in Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy.
11.00 COFFEE
11.30-12.45pm chair: Dr Riana O’Dwyer
Mair̩ad NÌ_ ChualÌÁin
S̩tanta’s journey from its rural birthplace to the urban capital
Mair̩ad NÌ_ ChroinÌ_n
Questions of Time in Mobile Digital Theatre
Lisa Fitzgerald
Archiving the West: Druid Theatre’s Role in Performing our Cultural Identity
1.00-1.50 chair: Dr John Kenny
Meaghan Connell
‰Û÷As for your Irish luchorpÌÁn’: Hiberno-English, literary dialect, and corpus linguistics
SiobhÌÁn Purcell
A disability to achieve abstraction: The Feeble and the Able in The Fables of Finnegans Wake
1:50 Lunch
2.30-3.45 chair: Dr ClÌ_odhna Carney
Paul Rooney
Banking Fraud in Serial Numbers: Commodification, the Marketplace, and Arthur Griffiths’ Fast and Loose (1885)
Conor Montague
A Class Apart: Moore, Joyce and the Baptism of Dedalus.
Chant̩ Mouton Kinyon
Literature, Nationhood, and Authenticity: Postcoloniality in the Irish and Harlem Renaissances

3.45 COFFEE

4.15-5.30 chair: Professor Joan Dean
Neassa Doherty
Portraits of the Stage Irishman: two visual representations of Teague by the Dublin Group (c. 1740-1775)
Ayla Zachary
‰Û÷A Stranger In Your Native Land’: Irish-Americans in American Irish Melodrama
Ciara O’Dowd
Archives and Truths: Researching Irish Theatre History of the 1930s

Moore Institute Workshop 2011-12, The Speckled Ground: Hybridity in Irish and Galician Cultural Production
2012-03-30 09:00
Proposed Dates (tentative): March 30-31st 2012
Description of Workshop
According to the Romans, the most western point of land in North Western Spain represented Finisterre (Fisterra), the end of the known world. The region of Galicia shares many cultural and historical features with Ireland. In March 2012, academics, translators, poets and musicians from NUI, Galway and the Amergin Centre for Irish Studies, will come together to celebrate our shared cultural experiences and investigate the diversity of cultural production in Galicia and Ireland.
PROGRAMME OF EVENTS
FRIDAY, 30th MARCH, 2012 Venue: The Moore Institute Seminar Room9 : 3 0 am ‰ÛÒ 1 0 : 0 0 am STUDENT REGISTRATION
9 : 3 0 am ‰ÛÒ 1 0 : 0 0 am INSTITUTIONAL OFFICIAL OPENING with President Dr. James J. Browne
10:00 am – 11:00 am CULTURE AND POLITICS Chair: Mel BolandMedia cultural production in Ireland and Galicia. Language Policy and Acceptance in Television. – Rub̩n Jarazo ́lvarez.Irish political and literary influence on Galicia. – Jos̩ Manuel Est̩vez- SaÌÁ.Hybridity and multimedia curricula design for language learners. ‰ÛÒ Pablo Cancelo LÌ_pez.
11:00 am ‰ÛÒ 12:00 am PLENARYIdir DhÌÁ ThÌ_r: An Toise TrasnÌÁisi̼nta i bhFicsean Comhaimseartha na Gaeilge/ The Transnational Dimension in Contemporary Irish-language Fiction. – MÌÁirÌ_n Nic Eoin.Chair: Lillis ÌÒ Laoire
12.00 am ‰ÛÒ 12:30 am COFFEE BREAK
12:30 am ‰ÛÒ 13:30 pm TRADITIONAL CLOTHING Chair: Mary Cawley‰ÛÏStitches in Time‰۝. Exhibition and Commentary on Traditional Clothing in Inis OÌ_rr. – Active Senior Women‰۪s Group.Redeeming Traditional Dress in Irish and Galician Literature. ‰ÛÒ NoemÌ_ Pereira Ares and Sara Legazpi FernÌÁndez13:30 pm ‰ÛÒ 14:30 pm LUNCH
14:30 pm – 15:30 pm TRANSLATING AND WRITING Chair: Lorna ShaughnessyThe life of the shape-shifter: what is lost and found when moving between languages. – Celia de Fr̩ine.‰ÛÏTen ar de forasteira‰۝. Villar Ponte‰۪s Galician Translation of W.B. Yeats‰۪ Cathleen Ni Houlihan ‰ÛÒ Elisa Serra Porteiro.Ag d̩anamh aistri̼chÌÁn ar Martin McDonagh / Translating Martin McDonagh. – MicheÌÁl ÌÒ Conghaile.
15:30 pm ‰ÛÒ 16:00 pm COFFEE BREAK
16:00 pm ‰ÛÒ 17:00 pm LITERARY PRODUCTION Chair: Rub̩n JarazoGalician-language crime fiction: An overview. ‰ÛÒ David Clark.The Irish cultural industry in Celtic Tiger and post- Celtic Tiger novels. ‰ÛÒ Margarita Est̩vez SaÌÁ.Galician and Irish landscapes: Constructing cultural identity in Galician poetry and Irish drama. ‰ÛÒ Jos̩ Miguel Alonso GirÌÁldez.17:00 pm ‰ÛÒ 18:00 pm MUSIC AND FILM Chair: Louis de PaorCuimhne Bob Quinn: Caoineadh Nua-AoisÌ_/Bob Quinn Remembering the past: a modernist lament. – Muiris ÌÒ Meara.Continuity and Change in Irish Traditional Music: Cultural Transmission at the Willie Clancy Summer School. ‰ÛÒ Verena Commins.Music festivals in the Celtic World: The ‰Û÷Festival de Ortigueira‰۪ as a case study of cultural production. ‰ÛÒ Marco V̩lez Barreiro.
19:00 pm ‰ÛÒ 20:00 pm CHARLIE BYRNES BOOKSHOP BOOK LAUNCH and TRI-LINGUAL POETRY READINGAntonio Ra̼l de Toro Santos (ed.) ‰Û÷Breogan‰۪s Lighthouse‰۪: An Anthology of Galician Literature (London: Francis Boutle Publishers, 2010. pp. 654).Mary O‰۪Donnell, and Manuela Palacios (eds.) To the Winds Our Sails: Irish Writers Translate Galician Poetry. (Salmon Poetry, 2010, pp. 170).Manuel Rivas. The Disappearance of Snow. Trans. Lorna Shaughnessy. (Shearsman Books, 2012)
RECEPTION
SATURDAY, 31st MARCH, 201210:00 am ‰ÛÒ 12:00 am MOORE INSTITUTEFROM CARRAROE TO A CORUÌÔA: ‰ÛÏDÌÁ mbÌ_nnse thall sa SpÌÁinn / Were I beyond in Spain‰۝ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION ON TRANSLATING SONGS
12:00 am ‰ÛÒ 13:00 pm LUNCH
CARRAROE LIBRARY – BUS TO CARRAROE16:00 pm CONCERT.Performance of Irish and Galician Songs translated by S̩amus ÌÒ CoileÌÁin and MarcoV̩lez, performed by Lillis ÌÒ Laoire and Marco V̩lez, with an Introduction to GalicianMusic.

New Approaches to Drama Studies
2012-03-30 15:00
To mark the end of the semester, the MA in Drama and Theatre Studies and BA Connect in Theatre and Performance programmes are hosting a special event entitled
NEW APPROACHES TO DRAMA STUDIES
SPEAKERS:
Professor Nicholas Grene (Trinity College Dublin)
Professor Steve Wilmer (Trinity College Dublin)
Dr Hugh Denard (King’s College London)
ROOM AM110, Arts Millennium Building, Friday 30 March 2012.
15.00 – 16.30
ALL WELCOME
Professor Grene will give a paper entitled ‰Û÷Against Eloquence: Irish Drama at Century’s End’. The paper will focus on the work of Martin McDonagh, Conor McPherson and Enda Walsh.
Professor Wilmer will give a paper called “National Theatres in a Changing World”.
Dr Denard will be discussing digital technology and theatre studies, including his recent Digital Reconstruction of the Abbey Theatre http://blog.oldabbeytheatre.net/posts/project
This event is supported by the IRCHSS ‰Û÷New Ideas’ scheme

Dr. Caoimhe Nic DhÌÁibh̩id -University of Cambridge - '"They bear names honoured forever in Ireland": The children of the Rising' - TCC Seminar Series
2012-04-03 16:00

TCC Seminar Series - Professor Paul Carter - Deaking University Melbourne - Turbulent Zones: the poetics of sustaining places in unsustainable times
2012-04-12 16:00

Hakluyt Workshop 13th/14th April
2012-04-13 09:00
Hakluyt Workshop NUI Galway
For editors of volumes 1-4 of the critical edition of Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations (1598-1600), 14 vols, under contract to Oxford University Press. General editors: Daniel Carey and Claire Jowitt
Supported by the Research Support Fund, NUI Galway
Venue: Moore Institute seminar room
Friday 13 April 2012
9.15 Welcome and Style Guide matters
9.45-11 Prof. Sebastian Sobecki (Groningen), editor volumes 1 and 2
11-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-12.45 Dr. Felicity Stout (Nottingham Trent University), editor volume 4
12.45-2.00 Lunch
2.00-3.15 Prof. Anna AgnarsdÌ_ttir (University of Iceland), editor volume 4
3.15-3.30 Coffee break
3.30-4.45 Dr. Angela Byrne (University of Toronto, editor volume 2
4.45-5.30 Prof. Michael Brennan (Leeds University), editor volume 4
Saturday 14 April 2012
9.15-10.30 Dr. Ladan Niayesh (University of Paris VII), editor volume 3
10.45-12.00 Prof. Ralph Cleminson (University of Portsmouth, editor volume 3)
12-12.15. Wrap up: milestones and way forward
Organised by:
Prof. Daniel Carey (Moore Institute and School of Humanities, NUI Galway)
Additional Delegates:
Dr. Anders Ingram (postdoctoral fellow on the Hakluyt project, NUI Galway)
Prof. Will Ryan (Hakluyt edition editorial board and Hakluyt Society)

Professor Roberto GonzÌÁlez EchevarrÌ_a - Yale University - 'El Aleph: a kaleidoscope of Borges's fiction'
2012-04-19 16:00

Workshop: 'Beyond the Island: Transnational approaches to research in the humanities'
2012-04-20 09:00
April 20th and 21st 2012
Description of Workshop
This interdisciplinary conference brings together scholars of History, Political Science, Law and English to discuss the merits and limitations of transnational and global studies. In recent years, scholars have increasingly recognized the limitations of the nation-state as a framework of analyses and as a result transnational and global approaches have moved to the top of research agendas across many countries. At the same time, explorations in this area have been largely overlooked in Irish universities. This conference will debate the merits of transnational vistas for understanding the important themes of diaspora, nationalism, political violence, and human rights in the Irish past and present, and will compare how transnational approaches move beyond or differ from established fields such as the Atlantic world, imperial studies, world history, comparative studies, and so on. The conference papers cover a broad geographical scope and stretch across a long chronology, from late-medieval to contemporary history. Guest speakers will include, among others, Kevin Kenny (Boston College), Kiran Patel (Maastricht), Timothy Meagher (CUA, Washington), Carl Levy (Goldsmiths, London) and Irene Bueno (Leiden).
Beyond the Island: Transnational Approaches to History
An int e r d i s c i p l ina r y c on f e r en c e 20- 2 1 Ap r i l 2 0 1 2
C o n t a c t : n i a l l . w h e l e h a n @ n u i g alwa y . i e
DAY ONE FRIDAY 20 APRIL
9.30 Welcome
9.45-10.00 Opening Remarks
10.00-11.00 ‰Û÷Diaspora: An Introduction‰۪ Kevin Kenny (History, Boston College)
11.00-11.30 COFFEE
11.30-13.00 Panel 1 Challenging transnational chronologies
‰Û÷Shaping ideas about the Eastern lands: the Avignon Papacy in transnational perspective‰۪
Irene Bueno (History, Leiden University)
‰Û÷Massacres and Moderation in the Atlantic World‰۪
Eamon Darcy (History, Trinity College Dublin)
‰Û÷State Power and the Inculcation of Religious change: the cases of Stuart Ireland and Habsburg Hungary considered‰۪
Tadhg O hAnnrachain (History, University College Dublin)
13.00-14.00 LUNCH
14.00-16.15 Panel 2 Transnational communities: diasporas from above and below
‰Û÷Irish America without Ireland? Irish Americans and Ireland in the Twentieth Century‰۪
Timothy Meagher (History, Catholic University of America, Washington)
‰Û÷Irish Convicts in Van Diemen’s Land‰۪
Hamish Maxwell-Stewart (History, University of Tasmania)
‰Û÷Irish merchants and ‰ÛÏthe cloak of neutrality‰۝ – trans-imperial commercial exchange at St. Croix, Danish West Indies during the Seven Years‰۪ War (1756-63)‰۪
Orla Power (History, National University of Ireland, Galway)
‰Û÷Between Poland and Ireland: Exploring the integration of Polish migrants in Dublin and their ties to the origin country‰۪
Antje Roeder (Sociology, Trinity College Dublin)
16.15‰ÛÒ16.30 COFFEE
16.30-18.00 Panel 3 Transnational lives and political activism
‰Û÷The Transnational Turn in the Study of Anarchism (1860s to 1940s)‰۪
Carl Levy (Politics, Goldsmiths, University of London)
‰Û÷Thomas IsmaÌÀl Urbain: cr̩ole, ‰ÛÏhomme de couleur‰۝ and a key figure behind Emperor Napol̩on III‰۪s Algerian Arab Kingdom‰۪
Sheila Walsh (French, National University of Ireland, Galway)
‰Û÷Conflict and collecting: Ulster, Ceylon and the imperial career of Sir James Emerson Tennent‰۪
Jonathan Wright (History, Trinity College Dublin)
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DAY TWO SATURDAY 21 APRIL
9.30-11.30 Panel 4 Europe and Ireland
‰Û÷Irish ̩migr̩s in France and their influence in Ireland during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries‰۪
Marian Lyons (History, National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
‰Û÷Count Cavour‰۪s 1844 Essay on Ireland: Agrarian Reform and Liberal Politics through Anglo-Italian Eyes‰۪
Enrico Dal Lago (History, National University of Ireland, Galway)
‰Û÷A Call to Action in Ireland? The January Uprising of 1863 in Congress Poland‰۪
RÌ_isÌ_n Healy (History, National University of Ireland, Galway)
‰Û÷Fionnuala in France: the transnational education of Irish girls in the nineteenth century‰۪
Ciaran O‰۪Neill (History, Trinity College Dublin)
11.30-12.00 COFFEE
12.00-13.30 Panel 6 Transnational advocacy: solidarities in the wider world
Of rice and men: Writing the history of non-governmental aid in the post-war era‰۪
Kevin O‰۪Sullivan (History, University College Dublin/University of Birmingham)
‰Û÷Irish diplomacy and the development of international human rights law: the politics and principles of advocating against torture‰۪
Michelle Farrell (Law, National University of Ireland, Galway)
‰Û÷Assessing the influence of NGOs on asylum policies in Europe‰۪
Irial Glynn (History, University College Dublin)
13.30-14.30 LUNCH
14.30-16.00 Panel 7 Transnational frameworks for national matters
‰Û÷How America discovered Sweden: New Deal History in a Global Perspective‰۪
Kiran Patel (History, Maastricht University)
‰Û÷The Mirage of Global Civility: Nationalism and Violence in Late Modernity‰۪
SiniÁa MaleÁeviÌãåà (Sociology, University College Dublin)
Concluding Remarks
Timothy Meagher

Beyond the Island: Transnational Approaches to History
2012-04-20 09:00
Beyond the Island: Transnational Approaches to History
The Moore Institute Seminar Room
April 20th and 21st 2012
This interdisciplinary conference brings together scholars of History, Political Science, Law and English to discuss the merits and limitations of transnational and global studies. In recent years, scholars have increasingly recognized the limitations of the nation-state as a framework of analyses and as a result transnational and global approaches have moved to the top of research agendas across many countries. At the same time, explorations in this area have been largely overlooked in Irish universities. This conference will debate the merits of transnational vistas for understanding the important themes of diaspora, nationalism, political violence, and human rights in the Irish past and present, and will compare how transnational approaches move beyond or differ from established fields such as the Atlantic world, imperial studies, world history, comparative studies, and so on. The conference papers cover a broad geographical scope and stretch across a long chronology, from late-medieval to contemporary history. Guest speakers will include, among others, Kevin Kenny (Boston College), Kiran Patel (Maastricht), Timothy Meagher (CUA, Washington), Carl Levy (Goldsmiths, London) and Irene Bueno (Leiden). Further details contact: niall.whelehan@nuigalway.ie
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Beyond the Island: Transnational Approaches to History
2012-04-21 09:00
Beyond the Island: Transnational Approaches to History
The Moore Institute Seminar Room
April 20th to 21st, 2011
This interdisciplinary conference brings together scholars of History, Political Science, Law and English to discuss the merits and limitations of transnational and global studies. In recent years, scholars have increasingly recognized the limitations of the nation-state as a framework of analyses and as a result transnational and global approaches have moved to the top of research agendas across many countries. At the same time, explorations in this area have been largely overlooked in Irish universities. This conference will debate the merits of transnational vistas for understanding the important themes of diaspora, nationalism, political violence, and human rights in the Irish past and present, and will compare how transnational approaches move beyond or differ from established fields such as the Atlantic world, imperial studies, world history, comparative studies, and so on. The conference papers cover a broad geographical scope and stretch across a long chronology, from late-medieval to contemporary history. Guest speakers will include, among others, Kevin Kenny (Boston College), Kiran Patel (Maastricht), Timothy Meagher (CUA, Washington), Carl Levy (Goldsmiths, London) and Irene Bueno (Leiden).
