Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour and Class Conference - 'Ireland and the Wobbly World'
2016-11-11 14:00 - 2016-11-12 17:30 UTC
IRISH LABOUR RADICALS AND THE INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY
‘One Big Union’ was a motto of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), founded in Chicago in 1905. Reflecting disappointment with the achievements of political Labour, the IWW was ‘syndicalist’ in advocating that working people rely on militant trade unionism (and not politics) to create a fair society. Prominently associated with the IWW’s revolutionary ‘Wobbly’ wing were Cork-born Mother Jones, Tom Glynn of Gurteen, Co. Galway, and James Connolly, an IWW organiser in New York. ‘Big Jim’ Larkin gave a graveside oration for Joe Hill, best-known of the Wobbly martyrs.
This conference will examine the contribution of Irish people to the IWW in America, Australia and South Africa, and consider the influence of the IWW’s syndicalism on bodies like the Irish Transport & General Workers’ Union and the Irish Citizen Army.

IRISH CENTRE FOR THE HISTORIES OF LABOUR AND CLASS
NUI Galway
11-12 November 2016
In association with the 1916-2016: The Promise and Challenge of National Sovereignty conference

FRIDAY, 11 NOVEMBER, Hardiman Building, GO10
Panel 1, 2.00 pm: Chair: Sarah-Anne Buckley, ICHLC
Jim Larkin, Jack Carney and the American Irish Worker (1917), James Curry
Patrick J. Read’s ‘Irishness’ and the creation of the Wobbly mythos, Matthew White
Joe Hill and Ireland, Francis Devine
Panel 2: 3.45: Chair: Prof. Terrence McDonough, ICHLC
The rebel Irish and the IWW: the roots of American syndicalism, Kristin Lawler
Sacco and Vanzetti and the radical Irish world, Niall Whelehan
From socialist to syndicalist, to communist: the political development of William Z. Foster, 1904-1922, Liam Ó Discín
8 pm Function Room, John Keogh’s, Upper Dominick Street
‘Rebel Voices: Galway Wobbly Connections‘. Chair: Catherine Connolly TD
Peter Yorke: A Galway priest and the San Francisco labor movement, Tadhg Foley
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: a Galway rebel girl, Meredith Meagher
The syndicalist trajectories of Tom Glynn and Mary Fitzgerald, John Cunningham

SATURDAY, 12 NOVEMBER, Hardiman Building, GO10
Panel 3, 10.15 am. Chair: Jamie Canavan, NUI Galway
Connolly the Marxist socialist, but what sort? Bolshevik, Menshevik or Industrial Democrat? The ideological impact of the IWW, Manus O’Riordan
Industrial unionism and social democracy: Connolly as vector of organising principles, Gavin Mendel-Gleason
‘We Irish are a working race’: Connolly and Flynn in the United States, Stephen Thornton
Panel 4, 12.00, Chair: Mary Gibbons, Galway Council of Trade Unions
Captain Jack White: syndicalist? Leo Keohane
Syndicalism as a dirty word: press coverage of radical trade unionism in early twentieth century Ireland, Donal Fallon
Patrick Quinlan: nationalist or militant IWW member? Gerry Watts
Keynote address, 2.15 pm: Chair: Tish Gibbons, Siptu
‘Romances and erasures’, David Howell
Panel 5, 3.30 pm Chair: Jackie Uí Chionna, NUI Galway
American reactions to the 1916 Rising, Luke Gibbons
Rebel women and the IWW, Teresa Moriarty
The Irish and the Mooney case: a miscarriage of justice in California, John Borgonovo
Full Conference Programme available on https://ichlc.wordpress.com

Infographics and Data Visualisation Workshop
2016-11-16 10:00 - 12:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
To register for this event click here
By Dr. Deirdre Flynn (Moore Institute) and David Kelly (Research Technologist, Moore Institute).

'Office Hours' Drop-In Service
2016-11-17 14:00 - 15:00, 2016-11-24 14:00 - 15:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
For Postgraduate Research students and academic staff with questions or ideas about:

Using digital technologies to support research
Communicating and promoting their work
Accessing funding to enable their work.

Meet with….

David Kelly, Research Technologist, Moore and Whitaker Institute.
Deirdre Flynn, Impact and Communications, Moore and Whitaker Institute
Martha Shaughnessy, Development Manager, Moore Institute.
Aisling Keane, Library Digital Publishing and Innovation.
Connell Cunningham, Library MarkerSpace
Angela Sice, Development Manager, Whitaker Institute.

Thursdays in November @ 2pm – 3pm in The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building.

Discipline of Spanish introduces Roberta Bacic lecture on 'Arpilleras: Textile Language of Testimony, Resistance and Memory'
2016-11-17 17:00 - 19:00 | The Moore Institute Seminar Room G010 Ground floor The Hardiman Research Building, Ireland
Arpilleras: Textile Language of Testimony, Resistance and Memory.
Roberta Bacic will introduce the popular art form of ‘arpilleras’, pictures made from scraps of cloth, employed in Chile under Pinochet as a means of documenting human rights abuses by the regime, and bearing witness to censored acts of resistance. Her talk will follow the journey of this art form to sites of conflict around the world, from the Middle East to Northern Ireland, and describes some the ways in which it continues to be used as a form of testimony, protest and reconciliation.

Brief Biography for Roberta Bacic:
Roberta Bacic is a Chilean Human Rights advocate and researcher who since 2007 has curated more than 90 international exhibitions of arpilleras and associated events. Over time, these
exhibitions have expanded from arpilleras from Pinochet’s Chile to include textiles narratives of loss, resistance, protest and healing from around the world. You can access her work
http://cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttextiles/ which holds and documents
her Conflict Textiles collection.
She resides in Northern Ireland.

Sibéal Conference 2016
2016-11-18 09:00 - 2016-11-19 18:00
Sibéal Conference 2016 on the theme of ‘Revolutionary Genders’.
To Register and full details see
https://revolutionarygenders.wordpress.com/home/

Infographics and Data Visualisation Workshop
2016-11-23 10:00 - 12:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
To register, please click here.
By Dr Deirdre Flynn (Moore Institute) and David Kelly (Research Technologist, Moore Institute).

History Graduate Research Seminars 2016 - 2017
2016-11-23 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Cathal Smith (NUIG) Irish Americans and American Slavery, 1815 – 1865.
All Welcome.

Talk by Prof Scott Rettberg (Digital Culture, University of Bergen).
2016-11-25 10:00 - 12:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
‘Histories and Genres of Electronic Literature’

Gender ARC - #Feminism
2016-11-28 16:00 - 19:00 | Seminar Room GO11, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
GenderARC study break: play some games that highlight feminist issues!
We have several leaders, so we will be starting new games every 30-60 minutes between 4 and 7; feel free to drop in anytime and another game will start soon.
Knowledge has a way of sinking into our bodies; we may not even be aware of the way we interpret gender expression and gender roles.
#Feminism Nano-Games are a series of 30min to 60min games designed to help us explore and discuss the way we internalise and act on our embodied knowledge – and to think about the impact of our actions.
Some of the #Feminism games give everyone a role and then we play through a scene together. Some ask us to move together according to specific gendered rules, some ask us to build a woman by committee, some to guess what emotions people are trying to portray in a selfie. It’s amazing what people learn about themselves!
Play / Test is a project of Sarah Hoover, a PhD from Drama, Theatre & Performance, and is supported by the Irish Research Council. For more info: https://playtestgalway.wordpress.com,
s.hoover1@nuigalway.ie
#Feminism is written by feminists from 11 different countries. The October 2016 Play / Test event won the People’s Choice award at Gaelcon

Digital Scholarship Seminar
2016-12-01 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Michael Hunter (Birkbeck College, University of London) ‘The Workdiaries of Robert Boyle: A Digital Edition and its Uses’
Also streamed live at https://www.facebook.com/nuigdss/

IMBAS Conference 2016 'Transformation and Preservation in Late Antiquity and Middle Ages'
2016-12-02 14:30 - 2016-12-04 18:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Please see IMBAS 2016 Programme here.
Imbas accepts papers from all disciplines with a focus on any topic from Late Antiquity until the end of the Middle Ages.
The keynote lecture will be delivered by Dr Elva Johnston (UCD).

Launch of Irish Research Council-funded website - www.ClassicIrishPlays.com
2016-12-05 17:30 - 19:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
This website was created by Dr. David Clare as part of his recently-concluded, IRC-funded postdoctoral research project, “The Hibernicising of the Anglo-Irish Playwright”. That project was based in the Moore Institute at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
www.ClassicIrishPlays.com provides scholars, theatre practitioners, and the general public with invaluable biographical information related to the major Irish playwrights whose work has entered the public domain. It provides links to where the great scripts by these playwrights can be found online, and it features new digital editions of important plays that have never been previously digitised, or that are only available in digital form behind “pay walls”.
The website will be launched by Prof. Patrick Lonergan, Director of NUI Galway’s Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, on Mon., 5 December 2016 at 5.30pm in Room G010 of the Moore Institute (located just inside the Hardiman Research Building). At the event, there will be additional input from Prof. Dan Carey, Director of the Moore Institute; David Kelly, the Moore’s Research Technologist; and, of course, Dr. Clare himself.

Irish-Jewish Literature Exhibition
2016-12-07 18:00 - 20:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
We would be delighted if you could attend the launch of an exhibition in the James Hardiman Library on Irish-Jewish Literature. The exhibition results from an AHRC-funded collaboration between NUI Galway and Ulster University. It will be launched by Mr Stanley Price, author of Somewhere to Hang My Hat: An Irish Jewish Journey and James Joyce and Italo Svevo: The Story of a Friendship.

Book Launch 'He Was Galway - Máirtín Mór McDonogh, 1860 - 1934' by Jackie Uí Chionna
2016-12-08 18:00 - 19:30 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Four Courts Press
cordially invites you to the launch of

He was Galway
Máirtín Mór McDonogh, 1860–1934
Jackie Uí Chionna

at 6 p.m. on Thursday 8 December 2016
in Room G010, The Moore Institute Seminar Room,
The Hardiman Building,
NUI Galway,
Galway

Prof. Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh will officially launch the book.
Refreshments will be provided.

RSVP (acceptance only) Four Courts Press | info@fourcourtspress.ie
To learn more about this book, visit the Four Courts Press website at http://www.fourcourtspress.ie/news/book-launch-he-was-galway/

The School of Political Science and Sociology and the Moore Institute present a workshop ' Why Higher Education still matters: a conversation about what we do everyday' with Les Back (Goldsmiths, University of London) and Kevin Ryan (School of Political Science and Sociology, NUIG)
2016-12-12 14:00 - 16:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Is a university education still relevant? What are the forces that threaten it? Should academics ever be allowed near Twitter? In Academic Diary (Goldsmiths Press 2016), Les Back has chronicled three decades of his academic career, turning his sharp and often satirical eye to the everyday aspects of life on campus and the larger forces that are reshaping it. In this session he will talk to Kevin Ryan about the writing of this book focusing on its key question – why Higher Education still matters. Commenting on topics that range from the impact of commercialization and fee increases to measurement and auditing research, the diary offers a critical analysis of higher education today. At the same time, it is a passionate argument for the life of the mind, the importance of collaborative thinking, and the reasons that scholarship and writing are still vital for making sense of our troubled and divided world. Les will read some excerpts from his diary and have a discussion with Kevin about some of the issues it raises, while also offering an opportunity for the audience to be part of the conversation.

Moore Institute Visiting Fellow Lecture
2017-01-11 09:30 - 12:00 | Room 203,Old Moore Seminar Room, Concourse, NUIG
Dr Trisia Farrelly (Massey University, New Zealand) in collaboration with Dr Frances Fahy and Dr Tom Doyle (NUIG) present
The Interdisciplinary Plastic Waste Project
Planning interdisciplinary plastic waste research for an international project

History Graduate Research Seminar
2017-01-11 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Dr Matthew J.O’Brien (Fransiscan University of Steubenville, Ohio)
‘Before There Was Trump: Irish-American Right-Wing Populism in the Twentieth Century’

Digital Publishing Brownbag Pitch - Enabling a Treasury of Economic Data
2017-01-17 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
On Tuesday, January 17th, we continue our series of lunchtime brown-bag events to focus on Duanaire, A Treasury of Digital Data for Irish Economic History.
Duanaire is the work of Dr Aidan Kane and his team. This innovate project has unearthed a wealth of Irish fiscal history data and made it accessible online in a range of formats.
Dr Kane has assembled a unique infrastructure for the imaginative curation, exploration and sharing of significant tranches of Irish economic history data. Its construction grew from collaboration between Dr Kane and his team with Moore Institute, Digital Technologist David Kelly, and the Library’s Cillian Joy, Digital Library Developer, all of whom will speak at this seminar.
Everyone is welcome to this Brown-bag Pitch and registration is free. To allow us adequately provide for catering, we request that you please register via the link below.
Venue: The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway
Date and Time: Tuesday, 17 January, 2017 at 12:00
Register at: http://tinyurl.com/zx75u65

Seminar: 'Representation of Jews in Contemporary Literature in Irish'
2017-01-18 12:00 - 13:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Dr Rióna Ní Fhrighil ( Gaeilge, OÉ Gaillimh)
‘Representation of Jews in Contemporary Literature in Irish’
the talk will be in English and
Introduction by
Prof Pól Ó Dochartaigh (Registrar and Deputy President, NUIG)

'T.K. Whitaker's Ireland: A Roundtable Discussion'
2017-01-18 13:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
T.K. Whitaker (1916-2017) has been described as ‘the architect of modern Ireland’. But what kind of country did he help to create? This panel discussion will reflect on Whitaker’s life, his influence, and the society that modernisation, Irish-style generated.
Organised by History, School of Humanities and the Moore Institute.

History Graduate Research Seminar
2017-01-18 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Mr Eoghan Moran (Queen Mary, University of London)
‘Storming the Bastille of Financial Feudalism’: Centrist Populism in the French and Spanish Republics, 1930 – 36′.

Huston School of Film and Digital Media Guest Speaker
2017-01-19 14:30 - 16:30 | Huston Main, Huston School of Film and Media
Dearbhla Glynn

Dearbhla Glynn is an award-winning artist, documentary filmmaker and teacher, specializing in explorations of conflict and its effect on women and children. Among her films are Gaza: Post Operation Cast Lead (2010) which offered a personal insight into the day-to-day living conditions faced by the Gaza Strip’s 1.5 million conflict-stricken inhabitants. Her 2013 feature film The Value of Women in The Congo documents the issue of rape and conflict in Eastern Congo and explores the experience of the victims as well as the perspective of the perpetrators behind these appalling crimes. Film maker Kirsten Sheridan described the film as “a brave and delicately handled piece of war reportage. It is hard-hitting, while showing many sides of the story. It avoids sensationalism, while never shying away from the very difficult themes. It is an important, devastating piece of human rights documentary filmmaking”. Both films won Grand Prize at the Irish Council for Civil Liberties Human Rights Film Awards.
In this session at the Huston School of Film & Digital Media, Dearbhla will screen her films and discuss her process including the considerable challenges she has faced as a documentary filmmaker.
Some of Dearbhla’s films can be found here:
https://vimeo.com/dearbhlaglynn

Children's Studies Seminar Series, School of Languages, Literature and Culture
2017-01-19 17:00 - 18:30 | Seminar Room GO11, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature
From Librarianship to Childhood Studies via Liberal Humanism, High Theory, Post-Theory, Metamodernism and Pooh Corner
Professor Peter Hunt (Cardiff University)
Over the past 50 years, children’s literature has become a vibrant and important part of university-level studies worldwide. Approaches to it have been as diverse and lively (and problematic) as the subject-matter, having to deal with multi-media texts, the responses of non-peer audiences, fundamental issues of cultural, historical and literary values and psychological, educational and political influences. This lecture provides an outline of the fascinating and entertaining directions which the criticism of texts for children has taken.

CAMPS Lab
2017-01-20 12:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Dr Peadar Ó Muirceartaigh (Abersythwyth University and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow)
‘Isidorian semiotics and an orthographic crux in Old Irish’

Moore Institute Visiting Fellow Dr Rosemary Power to give a talk
2017-01-24 12:00 - 13:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
‘Norse sources for Ireland: Telling tales and seeking sources’.

Aine Mahon (UCD): 'Bringing Philosophy into schools with the ''Philosophy for Children'' (P4C) method: What it is and how it works'.
2017-01-24 14:00 - 16:30 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building

Information session for CASSCS sfaff on European Research Council's (ERC) current and future calls for funding.
2017-01-25 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
The session will be led by the Director of the Moore Institute Prof Daniel Carey and will have contributions from Prof Nicholas Canny, former member of the ERC Scientific Council and Dr Gary Lupton, Research Office, NUIG.

History Graduate Research Seminar
2017-01-25 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Dr Joe Regan (NUIG)
‘Patrick Finney of Loughrea, Boston bounty broker in Ireland during the American Civil War’

School of Humanities Public Lecture
2017-01-25 17:30 - 19:30 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Valediction: The Conditions of the University
by Prof Rod Stoneman
with an introduction by Prof Timothy Emlyn Jones

Valediction: the Conditions of the University
Boy bitten by a Lizard, about 1594-5, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Oil on Canvas, 66 x 49.5 cm.
An undergraduate in university in England during the 1970s, returning to tertiary education after work in the television and film industries with a university post in Ireland in 2003 – I offer this valedictory talk as a review of changing conditions of engagement: reflections on moments of rupture and continuity in a varied life of commitment, pleasure and “savage indignation”.
As for Caravaggio’s luscious painting – the apprehension of the boy, the lizard’s bite, the realisation of the glass vase – I have never been able to explain to myself the relation between them.
