Moore Institute

Open Rehearsal: Come Dance With Me in Ireland: A Pilgrimage to Yeats Country by Patrick Ball and Peter Glazer (Visiting Fellows)
2018-05-24 12:00 UTC | O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, Studio 1, NUI Galway, Ireland
Open Rehearsal
Come Dance With Me in Ireland: A Pilgrimage to Yeats Country
Featuring Patrick Ball, Celtic Harp
A new play with music
by Moore Institute fellows Patrick Ball and Peter Glazer in the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance 24th of May (Thursday) at 12pm.
Please join us for an open rehearsal of this work in progress. Patrick will be performing Act 1 of the play, which combines storytelling, poetry, and traditional harp tunes played on the cláirseach, the brass wire strung harp of bardic times. We will also be showing images by Galway photographer Damien Stenson, which will accompany the show in its final form.
Come Dance With Me In Ireland tells the story of an older couple returning to Ireland after emigrating to the US in their 20s, and finding themselves again in the landscape and poetry of W.B. Yeats.
For more information please contact Peter Glazer prg@berkeley.edu and/or Patrick Ball patrick@patrickball.com

‘On the ten-stringed psaltery’: musical instruments as symbols in the Middle Ages
2018-05-24 10:00 - 16:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Musical instruments abound in medieval iconography and literature, so much so that modern craftsmen were able to build replicas of medieval instruments working from images and texts. But did medieval artists and writers always intend to depict or describe real instruments? In this colloquium, five speakers will explore a number of medieval iconographic and textual case-studies where musical instruments are not treated at all, or not only, as real objects, but rather as symbols and allegories referring to poetic, scholarly or religious notions
The organisation of this colloquium is supported by the Research Support Scheme of the College of Arts Social Sciences and Celtic Studies (NUI, Galway) and by the Galway Early Music Festival 2018.
Speakers: Dr Jacopo Bisagni (NUI, Galway); Dr Ann Buckley (Trinity College, Dublin); Dr Isabelle Marchesin (Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris); Mr Michael Shields (NUI, Galway); Dr Olivier Szerwiniack (Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens).
Programme
10am: Welcome address by Dr Aidan Thomson
Morning session (chair: Prof. Michael Clarke) 10.30am – 11.15am:
Jacopo Bisagni, ‘The instrumental captions in Angers, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 18: their Insular background and their meaning.’
11.15am – 12 : Isabelle Marchesin, ‘Textual and visual exegesis: matter and form in instrumental representations of the Dardanus images.’
12 – 12.45pm: Olivier Szerwiniack, ‘Textual problems in the Epistula ad Dardanum.’
12.45 – 2pm: Light buffet lunch (free of charge)
Afternoon session (chair: Dr Mark Stansbury)
2 – 2.45pm: Ann Buckley, ‘The materiality and symbolism of musical instruments in medieval Irish iconography.’
2.45 – 3.30pm: Michael Shields, ‘Why hide music technologies in an allegorical paradise? Eberhard von Cersne’s Der Minne Regel (ca.1400).’
3.30 – 4pm: Final discussion (with tea & coffee)

'Criticism and the Making of the Catholic Enlightenment: Rethinking the Career of Jean Hardouin, S.J. (1646-1729)' by Dr. Daniel Watkins, (Visiting Fellow from Baylor University)
2018-05-22 13:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Recent scholarship has recognized that contributions to the European Enlightenment came from figures beyond the small collection of radical French philosophes traditionally identified as its architects. In an investigation of the life and career of the French Jesuit and classical scholar Jean Hardouin, Daniel Watkins will speak about the “Catholic Enlightenment” and the reasons that some Catholic theologians and scholars participated in the intellectual debates that were at the centre of the Enlightenment. In so doing, he will argue that the Catholic Enlightenment emerged from reactions to not only “secular” writers but also to controversial and provocative authors within the Church. For Dr. Baylor’s academic webpage, please see: https://www.baylor.edu/history/index.php?id=943127
For Dr. Baylor’s academic webpage, please see: https://www.baylor.edu/history/index.php?id=943127

Palimpsest and Creolité: Representations of Slave women in the Caribbean in the long eighteenth century by Kerry Sinanan (Visiting Fellow)
2018-05-18 16:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
This talk examines representations of slave women, focusing especially on representations of breasts and breastfeeding, in order to read fully the tensions and contradictions between economics, ‘race’, sexuality and maternity in plantation slavery. The sources reveal the impossible position of the female slave who is at once a mother and a commodity to be exploited for labor and sex, existing in a world which denies her maternal feelings while depending on her capacity for reproduction. The talk focuses on a range of visual texts, focusing on the work of Agostino Brunias in particular.

‘A Linen Market with a Linen-stall and Vegetable Seller in the West Indies’, Agostino Brunias ca. 1780. With thanks to the Yale Center for British Art.

‘The impact of deforestation on Irish culture: a sylva sylvarum for treeless places’ by Paul Carter (Visiting Fellow from RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia)
2018-05-17 11:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
The key practical question buried in the title of my Moore Fellowship project is: reafforestation. An explanation of the context of this study is necessary. The challenge, though, is methodological. Managerialist initiatives to arrest deforestation use cost-benefit arguments that ignore the affective and symbolic role woodlands occupy in the collective psyche. But, if we say that creativity must play a primary role in a ‘reafforestation’ that is psycho-socially as well as ecologically recuperative, we are under pressure to spell out how this will manifest itself. Apropos of the psychic as well as environmental deforestation experienced under colonisation, ‘There was a proverb in the sixteenth century that the Irish could never be tamed while the leaves were on the trees.’ But the concrete front yard apron, the design default position of residential occupancy in Ireland, hardly suggests the postcolonial recuperation of a despoiled collective identity. A first step, creatively, as well as silviculturally, is a qualified detachment from the ‘wild wood’ myth: reafforestation is coeval with the cultivation of trees and, poetically speaking, may precede any thought of Arden or even Raftery’s Killeaden. Yeats’s symbolic landscape owes at least as much to Lady Gregory’s planting program as to her folklore studies – a point I shall bring out. My topic is decidedly unruly; it ignores national and nationalist boundaries; its geography follows the Irish colonial diaspora; or it invites European comparativism. Managing the potential of this enquiry is a sign of its importance; the conversation emerging from this seminar will be, I hope, an important part of its development.
Paul Carter is a writer and artist. His forthcoming books are Decolonisjng Governance: Archipelagic Thinking (Routledge) and Amplifications: poetic migration, auditory memory (Bloomsbury). He is Professor of Design (Urbanism), School of Architecture and Urban Design, RMIT University, Melbourne and in May 208 is a Visiting Fellow at the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, NUI Galway.

'Trump, Irish America and the New Right' - Renowned New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd and founder of IrishCentral, Niall O’Dowd will lead a discussion of the new right phenomenon
2018-05-15 17:30 - 19:00 | Ground Floor, Aula Maxima
One of the most striking recent developments in American politics has been the emergence of Irish Americans associated with the Right and their participation in (or support for) the Trump administration. The traditional expectation that Irish Americans align themselves with the Democratic Party (led by the Kennedy family and figures like Tip O’Neill) has been overturned, first by conservative commentators on Fox News like Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity, and then by prominent members of the Trump election team and cabinet (past and present), including Steve Bannon, Michael Flynn, John Kelly, Sean Spicer, Mick Mulvaney, Kelly-Anne Conway, and others. In the wider Republican leadership, Paul Ryan and Kevin McCarthy, among others, play an important part in this emerging trend.
This event is designed to develop a better a better understanding of this transformation, what values animate it, and how significant it is for American (and world) politics.
Maureen Dowd, a major American commentator on political questions as columnist for The New York Times (and The Irish Times), and Irish journalist Niall O’Dowd (founder of Irishcentral) will lead a discussion of this phenomenon. A panel of contributors will also participate: Dr. Kathleen Cavanaugh (NUI Galway), Mr. Larry Donnelly (NUI Galway), Prof. Eileen Gillooly (Columbia University) and Dr. Charlotte McIvor (NUI Galway). The event will be chaired by Prof. Daniel Carey, Director of the Moore Institute at NUI Galway.
Important Notice
While the event is free, attendees must register in advance due to space restrictions. Register here.
Visitor Information
There is very limited paid parking on the grounds of NUI Galway.
On-street parking is available nearby. Pay & Display and permit holder parking available at the Park & Ride facility, North Campus, NUI Galway located just off the main Galway-Oughterard-Clifden Road.
About Maureen Dowd

Maureen Dowd, winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary on Bill Clinton’s impeachment woes, became a columnist on The New York Times Op-Ed page in 1995 after having served for a decade as a correspondent in the paper’s Washington bureau. She was a White House correspondent for Bush I and Clinton and has covered nine U.S. presidential elections, the Irish peace referendum, and elections in France and England. She has written extensively on those countries as well as Saudi Arabia, and has reported on issues of gender around the globe for 30 years. Ms. Dowd has written three New York Times bestsellers: “Bushworld,” “Are Men Necessary?” and “The Year of Voting Dangerously: The Derangement of American Politics.” She is the recipient of the Breakthrough Award from “Women, Men and Media” at Columbia University, the Matrix Award and the Damon Runyon award for outstanding contributions to journalism, and has been named Glamour magazine’s Woman of the Year. In 2017 the National Society of Newspaper Columnists awarded her with its highest honor, the Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award. Her work has appeared in Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Mademoiselle, Harper’s Bazaar, Sports Illustrated and Family Circle. She is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and the Times’s Styles section. NUI Galway awarded an honorary D Litt to Maureen Dowd in 2012.
About Niall O’Dowd

Niall O’Dowd, a native of Tipperary, is Founder of Irish Voice Newspaper, Irish America Magazine and Irish Central.com which has 3 million users every month. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, UCD for his role in the Irish peace process, acting as the mediator between Sinn Fein and the White House. He was also awarded the Presidential Award for Distinguished Service by President Michael D. Higgins in 2015.
The Washington Post magazine recently published a profile of him and his work titled The Negotiator. Former President Bill Clinton has named him as the person who first got him involved in the Irish peace process. Personally close to the Clintons, he was a member of Hillary Clinton’s Finance Committee in 2008 and 2016.
He was an adjunct professor at the Columbia School of Journalism from 2010 to 2012. He also founded the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform and has lobbied for over two decades for a fair and principled immigration policy in the US. In March 2018 he was named as one of the nine most influential Irish-born people who emigrated to the US. A former schoolteacher in Ireland he emigrated to the US in 1979.

Ireland Illustrated (1680-1860), a database of images and text
2018-05-15 11:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
For catering purposes, please RSVP to mooreinstitute@nuigalway.ie

ILLUSTRATED TALK: Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington (1877-1946) - Modern Irishwomen Lecture Series
2018-05-12 14:30 - 15:30 | Education Room, Galway City Museum

Women, Ageing and Life Narrative.
2018-05-10 - 2018-05-11 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
10th May from 1:15 pm – 7pm
11th May from 9:15am – 3pm

Irish Renaissance Seminar - Renaissance Prose: New Directions
2018-05-05 01:30 - 17:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

Álvaro Seiça (Visiting Fellow) - Kinetic Poetry: From Screening to Running Interactive Language
2018-05-03 14:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
The third event of the Spring 2018 series of Digital Scholarship Seminar takes place on Thursday 3 May at 2pm, and features a paper on kinetic poetry, a form of poetry that relies on spatiotemporal transitions as expressive literary and visual layers, by Álvaro Seiça, Visiting Moore Institute Fellow from the University of Bergen. The talk presents the rich history of kinetic poetry, by addressing the areas of experimental and digital poetry, as language goes from projected to interactive media.. As ever, all are welcome.
Kinetic Poetry: From Screening to Running Interactive Language
Kinetic poetry is a form of poetry that relies on spatiotemporal transitions as expressive literary and visual layers. Throughout the twentieth-century, kinetic poems have been composed with varied media, such as celluloid film, video, holography, and computers. This unified and untold history of kinetic poetry is presented for the first time in Álvaro Seiça’s PhD study setInterval: Time-Based Readings of Kinetic Poetry (2017). As it is unveiled, the origins of kinetic poetry can be traced back to the Dadaists. When Marcel Duchamp staged rotoreliefs in the 35mm film Anémic Cinéma (1926), he arguably set a precedent for questioning the role of documentary film, textual art in motion, and poetry.
This lecture presents this rich history of kinetic poetry, by addressing the areas of experimental and digital poetry, as language goes from projected to interactive media. The lecture is a screening session, as well as a discussion of modes of kinetic writing. First, it discusses kinetic poetry’s cultural and technological history, by putting forward the argument that digital poetics is deeply influenced by the 1950-80s experimental practices and transmedia approaches, which included film, video, and computers. Second, it presents other timelines of kinetic writing, such as those of animation film and movie titles. Finally, it presents practical methods for reading digital kinetic poems, by elaborating on the notion of “deformance” and the methods of modification. The lecture draws from Seiça’s 2017 PhD study, which goes beyond techno-positivistic discourses on digital poetry by discussing the larger intersections of literature with technology, politics, and society.
Dr Álvaro Seiça is a writer and researcher. He holds a PhD in Digital Culture from the University of Bergen (2018). He published the poetry books Ensinando o Espaço (2017), Ö (2014), permafrost (2012), and the scholarly book Transdução (2017). Seiça has been a PhD Fellow at the University of Bergen (UiB), where he taught courses in electronic literature and digital humanities. He edits the ELMCIP Knowledge Base. His PhD dissertation “setInterval(): Time-Based Readings of Kinetic Poetry” (2017) was hosted by the Electronic Literature Research Group at UiB, and advised by Scott Rettberg and Chris Funkhouser. In 2018, he is starting a 3-year postdoctoral project entitled “The Art of Deleting” at UiB and UCLA, which is funded by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship. @AlvaroSeica / alvaroseica.net
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Inaugural Lecture Series - Professor Brian McGuire's
2018-05-03 13:00 - 15:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
“Online therapies for people with chronic health conditions: Prospects and challenges.”
In this talk, Prof. Brian McGuire from School of Psychology will describe the growing use of internet-based psychological therapies to help people with chronic health conditions to cope and adapt to their conditions. He will describe the research carried out in his group to help people with conditions such as chronic muscular pain and chronic headache, chronic fatigue following cancer, multiple sclerosis and other chronic conditions. His talk will describe the potential benefits of these therapies as well some of the challenges in making them more widely available.
Brian McGuire is a Professor of Clinical Psychology. He is a graduate of NUI Galway and has also completed a Masters Degree in Clinical Psychology (Sydney), a Diploma in Criminology (Sydney), a Diploma in Health Science (Clinical Teaching, NUI Galway) and a PhD in clinical psychology (Sydney). He worked initially as a research psychologist in brain injury rehabilitation in London. He then moved to Sydney where he spent the next 10 years lecturing in psychology at several universities and working as a clinical psychologist. His clinical work was initially in the area of learning disability and challenging behaviour, before he moved into private practice where his work focused on medicolegal assessment and the rehabilitation of persons with chronic pain, acquired brain impairment, and those recovering from work and motor accidents. It was in that context that his interest in symptom magnification and malingering developed and he completed his PhD in that area. After leaving Australia, Brian was Consultant Clinical Psychologist in brain injury rehabilitation where he co-ordinated the clinical services of several in-patient rehabilitation units in the north of England. After returning to Ireland, Brian worked with the Galway Association learning disability service. He joined NUI, Galway in 2003 and was the Director of the Doctor of Psychological Science programme in Clinical Psychology until 2014 when he took up his post as HRB Research Leader in Population Health. In addition, he is Director of the Doctor of Psychological Science for Qualified Clinicians and Joint Director of the Centre for Pain Research.

Seminar: ‘The Ocean Archive: Atlantic History and Heritage by Kayak’ by Moore Institute Visiting Fellow & Irish Studies' Scholar Dr. David Gange
2018-05-02 11:00 - 12:00 | Centre for Irish Studies
We are delighted to invite you to a seminar discussion on Irish and archipelagic coastal heritages by Dr David Gange, University of Birmingham (Moore Institute Visiting Fellow 2017-18 and Irish Studies’ Scholar) entitled, ‘The Ocean Archive: Atlantic History and Heritage by Kayak’. His book, The Frayed Atlantic Edge: A Historian’s Journey from Shetland to the Channel will be published by Harper Collins in 2019.
David will be joined in conversation by Dr Lillis Ó Laoire (Gaeilge, OÉ Gaillimh) and Mr Eoin Warner (Documentary Presenter, Éire Fhiáin: An Chósta Thiar, 2017).
The session will be moderated by Dr Nessa Cronin (Irish Studies, NUI Galway), and will take place at 11am, Wednesday 2 May, Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies, Distillery Road, NUI Galway.

Tomás Ó Neachtain, this year’s Sean-nós Singer in Residence, hosted by the Centre for Irish Studies
2018-05-01 18:00 - 21:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Tomás Ó Neachtain, this year’s Sean-nós Singer in Residence, hosted by the Centre for Irish Studies.

Theatre as Intercultural Dialogue?: Migration, Interculturalism and Theatre in Europe Today
2018-04-27 14:00 - 16:00 | G001 (Ground Floor), Human Biology Building (HBB)
A panel that will be facilitated by Charlotte McIvor. These companies will be in residence with me at the O’Donoghue for two days prior for an intensive practice-sharing exchange closed to core participants only. Introduced by Professor Anne Scott, Vice-President for Equality & Diversity. This panel gathers practitioners from four of Europe’s leading intercultural theatre companies to discuss the role of performance as an intervening force in ongoing debates about migration, minority representation and cultural diversity in the European Union and beyond.

Centre for Antique, Medieval and Pre-Modern Studies (CAMPS) Research Labs.
2018-04-27 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Michael Shields: How Frauenlob saw light. A German poet’s look at immateriality, rainbows and Aristotelian physics in 1300.

EDEN All Island Postgraduate Conference
2018-04-27 10:00 - 2018-04-28 18:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
EDEN 2018: Borders and Bodies is an all-island interdisciplinary postgraduate conference with speakers drawn from across the humanities and featuring plenary talks by Prof Dan Rebellato (Royal Holloway, London) and Prof Margaret Kelleher (UCD). This event is free and all are welcome to attend. The full conference schedule and registration links can be found at edenconf.wordpress.com.

The European Union and The Northern Ireland Peace Process.
2018-04-27 09:00 - 17:00 | O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance
Information: https://eupeacenuig.weebly.com – Twitter EUpeaceNUIG

Book Launch Event hosted by Postdoctoral Researcher Cassie Smith-Christmas.
2018-04-26 18:30 | Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Middle Street, Galway.
There will be a joint book launch of Professor Tadhg O hIfearnain and Dr. John Walsh’s new book ‘Meon Folaithe’ as well as Dr. Cassie Smith-Christmas’s own book (edited with Noel P. O Murchadha, Michael Hornsby, and Mairead Moriarty) ‘New Speakers of Minority Languages: Linguistic Ideologies and Practices.’.
This event is following: “Siompóisiam: Understandings of Language and Community” to find out more information, please click the following link: http://mooreinstitute.ie/event/siompoisiam-understandings-of-language-and-community/

Hilary Bishop, Visiting Fellow (Liverpool John Moores University) talk on ‘Irish Mass Rocks’.
2018-04-26 14:00 - 16:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
‘Sliding Rock’ Mass Rock, Shantalla, Galway City.
We are delighted to invite you to a seminar by Moore Institute Visiting Fellow and Irish Studies Scholar, Dr Hilary Bishop on ‘Irish Mass Rocks’ at NUI Galway next week.
The history of Catholicism is an essential component in the history of modern Ireland. As locations of a distinctively Catholic faith, Mass Rocks are important historical, ritual and counter-cultural sites. Their continued use reflects, and helps reconstruct and legitimise, contemporary Irish identity whilst providing a tangible and experiential connection to Irish heritage and tradition. Based on initial research in counties Cork, Mayo and Galway, this paper will challenge a number of accepted assumptions concerning the nature and location of Mass Rock sites and explore the language, memory and ritual use of Mass Rocks in Ireland.
Biography:
Dr Hilary Bishop studied at the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool and now works at Liverpool John Moores University. She is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and holds a Willard Potts and Don Jordan Emerging Scholar Award from the American Conference for Irish Studies (West) in San Francisco.
To find out more information on Hilary Bishop see the following link http://mooreinstitute.ie/visiting-fellows-scheme/ and her research-dedicated website: www.findamassrock.com.

Dr. Jason Nelson and Alinta Krauth (Visiting Fellows)
2018-04-26 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Come along to see the accumulation of Moore Institute Visiting Fellowships by Dr. Jason Nelson and Alinta Krauth.
Dr. Jason Nelson and Alinta Krauth will be discussing the projects that they have been engaging with over the past three weeks during their stay at NUI, including but not limited to: digital art, digital poetry, art video games, mixed reality, projection mapping, geological and plant-based biofeedback, sound art, projecting glacial movements, interactive scholarship, engagements with place and environment across hemispheres, spaces and interfaces of digital literature and art, hidden projection.

Siompóisiam: Understandings of Language and Community.
2018-04-26 10:00 - 17:00 | Aras na Gaeilge NUIG, Ireland
Followed by a Book Launch in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop for Professor Tadhg O hIfearnain and Dr. John Walsh’s new book ‘Meon Folaithe’ as well as Dr. Cassie Smith-Christmas’s own book (edited with Noel P. O Murchadha, Michael Hornsby, and Mairead Moriarty) ‘New Speakers of Minority Languages: Linguistic Ideologies and Practices.’

Post-Graduate Philosophy Conference
2018-04-25 | Old Moore Institute, Ireland
The event is an International Graduate Conference in Philosophy with Keynote Speaker, Professor. Andrew Haas (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow).
The event will be followed by the launch of Tsarina Doyle’s Nietzsche’s Metaphysics of the Will to Power: The Possibility of Value (Cambridge University Press 2018): https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/nietzsches-metaphysics-of-the-will-to-power/00456388778CD14380989DB824093872
Registration is at 9 am. For further details, contact: Dr. Tsarina Doyle (tsarina.doyle@nuigalway.ie).

“How to Improve the Visibility and Impact of your Research” by Joe Reilly, Research Impact Librarian, NUI Galway
2018-04-24 14:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Joe Reilly joins NUIG in its newly created Research Impact Librarian. He’ll be helping NUIG scholars understand how to make their work more visible around the world. Joe is a veteran librarian who’s worked in the USA, Middle East, Switzerland and Asia. He is also from a Humanities background, having completed his PhD in Anthropology, focusing on scientific racism and colonialism. He is the author of Teaching the ‘Native’: Behind the Architecture of an Unequal Education System (HSRC Press: 2016).
[This talk will also be streamed live online at http://nuig.dvc.heanet.ie/flex.html?roomdirect.html&key=ATHUEtkFYw ]

English Research Day
2018-04-23 14:00 - 18:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

Multiphase optimization strategy (MOST) workshop: the Optimization of Behavioral and Biobehavioral Interventions.
2018-04-23 10:00 - 2018-04-24 17:00 | Room G065, School of Psychology, NUI Galway

The launch of Liz Quirkes and Colm Keegan's poetry collection.
2018-04-20 18:30 | The Black Gate Cultural Centre, 14 Francis Street, Galway City

Welfare Histories Reading Group
2018-04-20 15:00 - 16:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Welfare Histories Reading Group
The Welfare Histories Reading Group provides a forum for staff and postgraduate students to discuss ideas of poverty, development, and ‘improvement’ in a global historical context. Our interests are very diverse, and we would very much welcome the involvement of new members from any discipline. Our next meeting is on Friday 20 April, when we will discuss the relationship between the concepts of charity and justice. If you’re interested in coming along, or simply wish for further details, including readings, contact Dr Kevin O’Sullivan (kevin.k.osullivan@nuigalway.ie).

Centre for Antique, Medieval and Pre-Modern Studies (CAMPS) Research Labs.
2018-04-20 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building

Galway Theatre Festival: Art-making session about Irish politics
2018-04-19 17:00 - 19:00 | O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance
As part of the Galway Theatre Festival production of Two Truths, a project of my PhD Gaming Audiences into Theatre, this focus group will respond to dis-attributed statements made by Irish politicians and political parties by materialising their affective responses onto full-size maps of the body. These maps will become the materials for the theatre production in which players will pick five policies to govern Ireland.
The focus group will not be discussing politics but instead exploring the ways in which affective response can be transferred via visual art. This art will be created using materials like oil pastels and acrylics. Past participants have described it as ‘relaxing’, ‘informative’, and ‘insightful’.
The more diverse opinions and experiences participants in the focus groups bring, the more options players in Two Truths will have. Sarah Hoover encourages everyone to share the project widely and bring a friend!
For more information on the focus group or the Two Truths project:
s.hoover1@nuigalway.ie, 083.164.0751
www.playtestgalway.wordpress.com
