Moore Institute

YAQUI & BÉAL: YOEME AND IRISH IN CONVERSATION
2023-05-06 13:30 - 15:00 (Europe/Dublin) | BANK OF IRELAND THEATRE, University of Galway
A Fulbright Ireland project, Yaqui and Béal: Yoeme and Irish in Conversation is a theatrical exploration of commonalities between Native Americans and Native Irish. Part scripted/part devised, this dramatic piece combines family legends and wisdom from Irish and Yoeme elders, with conceived work that includes audience input. This performance is being composed by theatre-makers from University of Galway Master’s program.
Age: All ages.
Post Show
Chair: Dr Nessa Cronin (Moore Institute, Centre for Irish Studies, UoG)
Panel: Esther Almazon (Playwright, Fulbright scholar); Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley (History, UoG), Mary Harney (PhD scholar, Irish Centre for Human Rights, UoG), Owen Ward (Office for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, UoG)
Supported by:
Department of Theatre, University of Galway
BOOKING: YAQUI & BÉAL: YOEME AND IRISH IN CONVERSATION – Galway Theatre Festival

ESTHER ALMAZÁN
Award: Fulbright U.S. Student Award
Institution: Arizona State University
Year: 2022

Esther AlmazA¡n (Yoeme/Yaqui) is a Tucson Native who earned her MFA in dramatic writing from her home institution, Arizona State University. As a theatre artist, she has received the Kennedy Center Latinx Playwriting Award for Distinguished Achievement, the ariZoni Theatre Awards of Excellence, is a Eugene OaNeill NPC semi-finalist, and a recipient of the Gammage Theatre Scholar Award. At NUI, Galway,A EstherA will conduct her research project,A Yaqui and BA©aloideas: Yoeme and Irish in Conversation, exploring the mutual understanding of overcoming adversity between Native Irish and Native Americans. Her Fulbright performing arts project, presented at NUIas OaDonoghue Theatre, will memorialize the Irish/Native American connection of generosity and mutual support in a devised theatre production incorporating family legends of surviving hardships through difficulties such as the COVID-19 pandemic, colonization, and mass migration.

The School of Education Research Seminar ‘Getting Impact with your Publications’
2023-05-10 15:00 - 16:00 | School of Education, Nuns Island (room G005, aka “the STC”)
Please join the School of Education, Nuns Island (room G005, aka “the STC”); 3-4pm on Wed 10th May for the SOE Research Seminar ‘Getting Impact with your Publications’.
Associate Professor Sarah Prestridge (https://experts.griffith.edu.au/9530-sarah-prestridge) a visiting scholar with Prof. Tony Hall will present on the talk.

CAMPS Labs 2023 Programme
2023-05-12
For times and venues see CAMPS Research Labs website: https://www.universityofgalway.ie/camps/labs/

CANCELLED! CAMPS Lab: 'The seven parts of sword-fighting. A linguistic analysis of Leeds, Royal Armouries, I.33’
2023-05-12 12:00 - 13:30 | The Cube, Áras na Mac Léinn, University of Galway
CANCELLED!
CAMPS Lab: ‘The seven parts of sword-fighting. A linguistic analysis of Leeds, Royal Armouries, I.33’
Jacopo Bisagni (Ancient Classics, University of Galway) will be presenting on ‘The seven parts of sword-fighting. A linguistic analysis of Leeds, Royal Armouries, I.33’.
‘Unlike most medieval works on the art of combat, which were typically composed in vernacular languages (especially German and Italian), the fencing manual for sword and buckler preserved in the manuscript Leeds, Royal Armouries, I.33 was instead written in Latin. However, this is a kind of Latin very distant from the Classical ‘norm’: indeed, the language of I.33 brings us closer to the dimensions of Late Medieval orality and education, opening a fascinating window onto the instructional language of a fourteenth-century ecclesiastical fencing master. But what does the Latin of I.33 reveal about its author, its date, and its milieu? And how can we come to a deeper and more objective understanding of its technical vocabulary? After introducing I.33 in the wider context of Late Medieval combat manuals, I will try and show how possible answers to these and other questions may be found by focussing especially on the semantic study of this text’s lexicon, as well as on the analysis of its phraseology and bilingualism.’
After the talk, Jacopo Bisagni and Andrew Ó Donnghaile will provide a practical demonstration of some of the sword-fighting techniques described in the first six folios of I.33.

Digital Humanities Foundations series
2023-05-16 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
A series of talks surveying digital approaches to Humanities research.
Co-ordinated by the Moore Institute’s Digital Humanities Research Group (DHRG), with the support of the Moore Institute’s Digital Lab and the Library’s Digital Scholarship and Archives units.
Tue 16 May 12pm
Introduction to planning and building digital projects
David Kelly
Enquiries to: padraic.moran@universityofgalway.ie
https://mooreinstitute.ie/research-group/digital-humanities/
Register here for access via Zoom: https://forms.office.com/e/hLCr0TgLh2

Fulbright Senior Specialist Presentation: Institutional Change in the United States Context
2023-05-16 16:00 - 17:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, HRB, University of Galway
Fulbright Senior Specialist Presentation: Institutional Change in the United States Context
Rachel Yoho, CDP, PhD
As part of the Fulbright program and a focus on international exchange, this talk focuses on what it means to be working in higher education today and particularly when focused on institutional change in higher education. We will explore the United States context of social issues and politics, including how these are currently impacting higher education. Specifically, we will discuss George Mason University, a large public research-intensive university in Virginia (and near Washington DC). This university has institution-wide initiatives surrounding anti-racism and inclusive excellence as well as community engagement. The presentation will cover the implementation of these initiatives, particularly on institutional change around teaching and learning in higher education.
Dr. Yoho is a faculty member with an affiliation in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy and serves full time as the anti-racist and inclusive teaching specialist in the Stearns Center for Teaching and Learning at George Mason University.
Disclaimer: This presentation is not an official U.S. Department of State presentation. The views expressed in this presentation are entirely those of its author and do not represent the views of the U.S. Department of State or any of its partner organizations and also do not represent George Mason University or the Fulbright Program.​
ALL WELCOME!

Translating the Landscape-one-day methodological workshop for early career researchers in the humanities, social studies, and visual arts
2023-05-18 | Burren College of Art’s campus, Ballyvaughan
Translating the Landscape
“Translating the Landscape” is a one-day methodological workshop for early career researchers in the humanities, social studies, and visual arts, taking place on 18 May 2023 at the Burren College of Art’s campus in Ballyvaughan. The workshop is developed as a collaboration between the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies at the University of Galway and the Burren College of Art. The objectives of the workshop are:

Discuss different ways of creating knowledge on the relation between human culture, human languages, and the landscape;
Explore links between creative arts and social/cultural research to create transdisciplinary paths towards a deeper understanding of place;
Foster reflection on the researchers’ ethical responsibilities towards human relationship with the environment.

The workshop is aimed at early career researchers (PhD candidates, recent PhD graduates, postdoctoral researchers) in any field of humanities and social studies. Previous knowledge or work in ecocritical/ecological approaches is not required. The workshop will encourage researchers to reflect on how ecological thought and different types of attention to the landscape can be incorporated into their methodologies. The workshop intends to provide food for thought for both the participants’ current and future research projects.
“Translating the Landscape” will rely on expertise from the Burren College (and especially the staff from the MFA/MA in Art & Ecology), from the University of Galway (especially from the School of Languages and the School of Philosophy), and other guest speakers, to engage participants in practical activities situated in the Burren landscape, such as:

Sensory walks;
Map-making and other creative map-based activities;
Explorations via photography;
Group discussions.

Through the workshop, we aim to generate discussions and transdisciplinary conversations between participants and practitioners on how to think ecologically in the humanities, social studies, and visual art.
“Translating the landscape” is free of charge to University of Galway/Burren College students, staff, and recent graduates. Transportation to and from the University of Galway will be provided, as well as lunch.
If you are interested, please contact the organizers Andrea Ciribuco (andrea.ciribuco@universityofgalway.ie), Michela Dianetti (m.dianetti1@nuigalway.ie), Lucy Elvis (lucy.elvis@universityofgalway.ie), Eileen Hutton (ehutton@burrencollege.ie), Maria Roca Lizarazu (maria.rocalizarazu@universityofgalway.ie) by 28 February 2023.

Living amidst conflict and insecurity
2023-05-18 10:00 - 18:30 | Room CA117, Aras Cairnes, University of Galway
Living amidst conflict and insecurity
Workshop Program
This one-day research workshop at the University of Galway brings together scholars in the field – including Roger Mac Ginty (Durham University) Caitríona Dowd (Dublin City University), Niall Ó Dochartaigh (University of Galway), and Sarah Jenkins (University of Galway) – alongside Early Career Researchers from Ulster University and University College Dublin to explore the broad themes of everyday peace, resistance and conflict in a wide range of contexts. It is organised by the Power, Conflict & Ideologies Research Cluster of the School of Political Science and Sociology at Galway with the support of the Political Studies Association of Ireland’s Peace and Conflict Specialist Group.
Almost one quarter of the world’s population live in fragile, insecure, or conflict-affected states. Yet amidst uncertainty, individuals, communities, local leaders, and groups often develop innovative ways to navigate everyday life, to mitigate violence, to open channels of communication, and to build peace. Failure to fully understand and engage with these local, bottom-up efforts can overlook important opportunities for peace and can undermine the effectiveness of peacebuilding interventions. This event will bring together researchers from the political and social sciences to explore these dynamics in diverse contexts around the world and will examine the various avenues to peace, justice, and reconciliation from a range of different perspectives.
Those interested in attending the event should register by emailing sarah.jenkins@universityofgalway.ie.

PROGRAMME (living amidst conflict may 2023)
10am-10.30am: Registration and welcome
10.30am-11.45am: Panel 1 – Gender, race, and sexualities in peace and conflict
Chair: Niall Ó Dochartaigh
Papers:
Caitríona Dowd (DCU) – Gendered dimensions of hunger in peacebuilding
Marianna Espinos Blasco (Ulster University) – Seeing gender and race in peace and security: The politics of (in)visibility in the Women, Peace and Security agenda
Yuliang Lu (UCD) – Peace and conflict in a queer colour: A case study of how Chinese NGOs fight anti-LGBT violence
11.45am-12.00pm: Break
12pm-1.30pm: Panel 2: Avenues to peace and justice
Chair: Sarah Jenkins
Papers:
Dana Guy (UCD) – From the battlefield to the battle on the feed: How do Israelis use social media to construct, communicate and engage with alternative narratives about the conflict with the Palestinians?
Kelsey Rhude (University of Galway) – Alternative approaches to post-conflict peace and justice: Analysing the interconnections between local justice, peacebuilding and reconciliation in post-conflict Liberia
Niall Ó Dochartaigh (University of Galway) – Back-channel negotiations in the Northern Ireland Conflict
1.30pm – 2.15pm: Lunch
2.15-3.45pm: Panel 3: Everyday peace and conflict: representations and practices
Chair: Caitríona Dowd
Papers:
Dave Banks (UCD) – Integrated team sport and intergroup relations in a post-conflict society: The case of club rugby in Northern Ireland
Sarah Jenkins (University of Galway) – Everyday peace and democracy: Navigating violent elections and ethnic politics in Kenya
Michael Breslin (UCD) – Feud violence in Ireland and Northern Ireland: A sociological analysis
Maria Guilia Molinaro Vitale (UCD) – Responsibilities of contemporary representations of war: Merlau-Ponty, Sontag, and Hollywood
3.45pm-4pm: Break
4pm-5.30pm: Keynote and round table: Everyday peace
Roger Mac Ginty (Durham University): Everyday peace
6.15pm – Book Launch: Deniable Contact: Back-channel negotiation in Northern Ireland by Niall Ó Dochartaigh. Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Middle Street, Galway.
Organised by the Power, Conflict and Ideologies Research Cluster of the School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway, with the support of the Political Studies Association of Ireland Specialist Group on Peace and Conflict.
Contact: Dr Sarah Jenkins, sarah.jenkins@universityofgalway.ie

School of Political Science and Sociology Distinguished Lecture: A Feminist Theory of Refusal
2023-05-18 14:00 - 16:00 | THB-G011 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
School of Political Science and Sociology Distinguished Lecture
Professor Bonnie Honig
Brown University
A Feminist Theory of Refusal

This event is hybrid, please contact suming.khoo@universityofgalway.ie to register for Zoom link.
ALL WELCOME!

Centre for Irish Studies Seminar: Heroes of the Gaelic World in the Digital Age: The Fionn Folklore Database
2023-05-18 15:00 - 16:00 | Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies, Distillery Road, University of Galway
Heroes of the Gaelic World in the Digital Age: The Fionn Folklore Database
Dr Pádraig Fhia Ó Mathúna
You are warmly invited to attend an in-person seminar with Dr Pádraig Fhia Ó Mathúna, ‘The Fionn Folklore Database: Irish Myths in the Digital Age’ on Thursday 18 May. The seminar will take place in the Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies, Distillery Road. This seminar is based on Pádraig’s bilingual postdoctoral work with the Fionn Folklore Database Digital Humanities Project, in association with Harvard University and University College Dublin. Full details are available below.
The Fionn Folklore Database (fionnfolklore.org) is a collaborative project between Harvard University and the Irish Government’s Emigrant Support Scheme. The site contains the details of approximately 3,500 orally collected tales, poems, songs and proverbs relating to Fionn mac Cumhaill and the legendary Fianna. In addition to the stories themselves, the site contains a number of educational tools, including glossaries, character lists, digital maps, and summaries, which help to make these legends accessible for a new generation. In this talk, project researcher Pádraig Fhia Ó Mathúna will provide insight into the site’s background and resources, conveying how everyone from researchers to teachers, writers, and the general public can benefit from this innovative digital humanities initiative.
Dr Pádraig Fhia Ó Mathúna is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Fionn Cycle Folklore Project with Harvard University and University College Dublin, and a researcher for the ÚRSCÉAL digital humanities project based in the University of Galway.
A former Fulbright Scholar at the University of Galway, he was a Caspersen Doctoral Fellow at Drew University, and was awarded the Tadhg Foley MA Fellowship from the University of Galway, where he completed his MA in Irish Studies (2013). His book ‘From a Land Beyond the Wave’: Connecticut’s Irish Rebels, 1798-1916 (2017) won the Connecticut League of History Organizations’ Publication Prize (2018). His research focuses primarily on the interactions between Irish-American nationalists, indigenous peoples, and other ethno-political groups in the North American Borderlands and the Caribbean during the mid-nineteenth century. As a Fulbright scholar in the archives at University of Galway, Pádraig conducted research on the writings of nineteenth century Irish emigrant Eoin Ua Cathail, and published a critical volume of the translated works of Irish language writer Eoin Ua Cathail, entitled Recovering an Irish Voice from the American Frontier: The Prose Writings of Eoin Ua Cathail in 2021.

Book launch: Deniable Contact: Back-Channel Negotiation in Northern Ireland
2023-05-18 18:15 - 19:00 | Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Middle Street, Galway
Prof. Roger MacGinty will launch the recently published paperback edition of ‘Deniable Contact: Back-Channel Negotiation in Northern Ireland’ by Niall Ó Dochartaigh, of the School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway.

Notions Exchange: A transatlantic arts dialogue
2023-05-24 12:00 - 13:30 | Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies, University of Galway
Notions Exchange: A transatlantic arts dialogue
Erick Boustead (Minnesota) and Emma McKeagney (Dublin)
Engage with a group of artists from Ireland and North America/Turtle Island about an exciting exchange they’ve been developing over the last few years. The group includes University of Galway, Irish Studies Masters graduates Emma McKeagney and Erick Boustead, along with Martina Hynan (PhD Candidate), Ariel Tilson, Abby Sunde, and Sinéad O’Neill-Nicholl. They will share stories of how the conversation started in the Irish Studies Masters program and how they’ve been collaborating since, as well as sharing of personal work. Themes will include relationship to place, (de)colonization, roots/rootlessness, diaspora/motherland, and more.

Bealtaine Online Discussion Series 2023
2023-05-24 15:00 - 16:00 | Online
Bealtaine Online Discussion Series 2023
The Bealtaine Discussion Series 2023 is devised and presented in association with Dr. Michaela Schrage-Frueh (School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures) and Dr. Maggie O’Neill (Irish Centre for Social Gerontology) from the University of Galway.
Please register via the following Eventbrite links:
May 10, 3-4 pm
Generational Drama: Intergenerational Relationships, Representation and Culture
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/generational-drama-intergenerational-relationships-representation-culture-tickets-607557088607?aff=ebdssbdestsearch&keep_tld=1
May 17, 3-4 pm
No Country for Old Men: Ageing, Men and Identity
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/no-country-for-old-men-ageing-men-and-identity-tickets-607561973217
May 24, 3-4 pm
We Care a Lot: Representations of ‘Care’
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/we-care-a-lot-representations-of-care-tickets-607576245907?aff=ebdsreoeymlcollection

Fráma Eile: Never No More by Maura Laverty
2023-05-25 15:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies, University of Galway & virtually via Zoom
Description:
The Fráma Eile roundtable series, organised by PhD students in the Centre for Irish Studies and Roinn na Gaeilge, explores new approaches to framing established texts (in both English and Irish), material objects, and artwork in the Irish Studies canon.
This roundtable discusses Never No More by Maura Laverty. Speakers will highlight aspects of the text which have escaped critical attention to date, as well as suggest new reading methods and consider how Never No More has been framed in the academy to date.
This event will be bilingual.
All are welcome, and after presentations, the floor will be open to contributions and comments from all in attendance.
To attend virtually via Zoom: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/98577269081?pwd=[REDACTED]

Beyond ‘victim’ and ‘perpetrator’ working in the grey zone of the modern academy: the paradoxical ‘problem spaces’ of implicated post-colonial scholars in exile
2023-05-30 16:00 - 18:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Beyond ‘victim’ and ‘perpetrator’ working in the grey zone of the modern academy: the paradoxical ‘problem spaces’ of implicated post-colonial scholars in exile
Jo Dillabough, Professor, Sociology & Sociology of Education
If self-reflexive critical postcolonial intellectuals view themselves as implicated in machinations of power beyond their control, then arguably such recognition should produce political subjectivities and political actions that seek to operate beyond the confines of the academy. This recognition itself would generate a striving towards alternative forms of knowledge production, ’epistemic attachments’ and ‘public belongings’ which engage diverse communities (academic, social, political, activist) driven by a desire to address global injustices. Drawing upon interview data collected from Turkish and Syrian scholars living in exile in Europe and the UK, I will discuss the different ways in which implication is navigated by exiled scholars who carry first-hand experience of conflict, detainment, and forced displacement in authoritarian regimes. Revealing the different ‘problem spaces’ the postcolonial exilic intellectual inhabits and the temporalities of injustice they grapple with in navigating power, crises, and the modern academy, I seek to demonstrate more concretely the conceptual specificity and analytical purchase of the ‘implicated postcolonial critical intellectual’ —in contradistinction from the institutionalised authorial assertions made by those who live within the governing rationales of the ’reasoned’ academy. An important intervention is to therefore explore, albeit indirectly, the ways in which intellectuals reveal HE experiences of conflict through the figure of the exilic scholar whilst simultaneously confronting the bio-politically driven nation-building forces of university life and as a living embodiment of wider transnational ‘imperial blueprints’ (see Arendt, 1950). In so doing, a number of questions arise for us as researchers. How can such moments, captured through memory research in HE, help us to identify the central mediating structural and affective relations between modern state institutions driven by authoritarianism – in this case HE and conflict – and the politics of memory work (see Al-Azmeh, 2021)? What might be the associated dilemmas emerging from research seeking to expose human experience derived from spaces of exile through HE and in articulating a sense of meaning through wounded memory? And how do we re-represent memory of ‘totalitarian crimes against humanity’ in relational, dialogical and multi-directional ways (see Rothberg, 2015) rather than as a singular or essentialised story of a ‘national tragedy’ and a revered sacred identity in HE, thereby challenging ‘monumentalizing victim narratives’ or, as Nietzsche claimed in a much earlier historical moment, as a critical historiography of a ‘monumental crises of humanity’, modernity and its associated modern institutions (see Felman, 2001).
Professor Jo-Anne Dillabough, University of Cambridge
Jo-Anne Dillabough is Professor in Sociology and Sociology of Education, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. She has been a visiting scholar at universities in Australia, Argentina, Norway, Finland, Italy, Portugal and Sweden and was the former David Lam Chair in Multicultural Education, UBC. Recent chapter and article publications include: Higher Education, Violent Modernities and the ‘Global Present’: The Paradox of Politics and New Populist Imaginaries in HE, Authorial power, authoritarianism, and exiled intellectuals: Syria and Turkey (with Al-Azmeh, forthcoming) and Identity as Other and the Promise of the Narrative Imagination in Educational Theorising: Arendt and Ricoeur (Bloomsbury, 2020, editors Gunter, H. & Veck, W.), Her work focuses largely on the spatialisation of youth disadvantage in ‘global cities’; sociology of education; urban youth histories, race and colonial transformations; history and memory studies and education; and Higher Education, State Crises and Populist Imaginaries (Syria, Turkey, South Africa). She is lead investigator (with Elizabeth Buckner, Susan Robertson & Liz Maber) on a large 2020 ESRC grant entitled Higher Education, Political Crises and States of Conflict. Dillabough is currently working on a monograph on the work of Hannah Arendt and 21st century populist imaginaries.

Digital Humanities Research Group Spring Seminar 2023
2023-05-31 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Digital Humanities Research Group
Spring Seminar 2023

Wed 31 May 12pm
Niamh Reilly (Political Science & Sociology, University of Galway)
Memoirs, politics and histories: open-source annotated republishing as method
Rana Roshdy (Dublin City University)
Advancing terminology through corpus and statistical regression modelling: a multi-methodological analysis of lexical variation in Islamic legal discourse
Registration: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wqDd3k9zSAuMB2U8P96IRg

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Truth and Contemplation
2023-05-31 16:00 - 18:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Centre for the Study of Religion in conjunction with the Discipline of Philosophy and the Moore Institute
Presents
Truth and Contemplation
a lecture by
Prof. Kevin Hart, University of Virginia
This will be a hybrid event. Those who cannot be present but wish to register online can do so here.
Kevin Hart is a theologian, philosopher and poet. He is currently Edwin B. Kyle Professor of Christian Studies and Chair of the Religious Studies Department at the University of Virginia. As a theologian and philosopher, Hart’s work engages with the “theological turn” in phenomenology, with a focus on figures like Maurice Blanchot, Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-Luc Marion and Jacques Derrida. He has received multiple awards for his poetry, including the Christopher Brennan Award and the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry twice. Harold Bloom has described him as the “most outstanding Australian poet of his generation”, and one of “the major living poets in the English language”.
Inquiries: please contact Felix Ó Murchadha (felix.omurchadha@universityofgalway.ie).

'The Sport in European Cinema Database: From Rogues of the Turf (UK 1910) to Russian Sport Cinema'
2023-06-07 18:00 - 19:00 | Webinar
‘The Sport in European Cinema Database: From Rogues of the Turf (UK 1910) to Russian Sport Cinema’
with Dr. Seán Crosson
Wednesday June 7, 6pm (Irish time) / 7pm (CET)

All welcome at: uvic-cat.zoom.us/j/96387596986
Sport cinema has been among the most enduring and popular genres within American cinema; however, limited research has been undertaken as yet of the European experience. Though a less prominent feature of European cinema, the European sports film has had a long history dating back to the earliest Lumière brothers productions. This paper provides some initial findings from the research undertaken of European sport cinema as part of the establishment of an online database on the subject – now available at https://sportandfilm.eu/. The paper argues for the importance of these depictions as a significant component of European cinema providing sometimes unique insights into the development of sport and society across the continent. Some salient points regarding sport in European film (and the development of the genre) will be identified, with particular attention paid to the increasing importance of sport cinema within the Russian context and its role in grooming a domestic audience for the prevailing political discourse in that country, and military action in Ukraine.

Open Scholarship Café: E-textbook emergency: OER to the rescue?
2023-06-08 12:00 - 13:30 | THB-G011 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
Open Scholarship Café: E-textbook emergency: OER to the rescue? In-Person / Online

Students in Galway and elsewhere are at an ever-sharpening point of an affordability crisis that threatens their education. The fatalistic common-place that ‘students don’t buy their textbooks’ or required readings conceals the fact that among those who ‘don’t’ are those who don’t because they can’t – and the latter can only be growing in number. Students’ ability to purchase textbooks declines as affordable accommodation options shrink and the price of groceries grow and grow; students who can’t access education resources are at a disadvantage. Can Open Educational Resources (OER) help make sure that all students have access to essential learning materials like textbooks?
Among their other uses – they make use of open licenses allowing them to be revised and remixed – OER are free to use and redistribute, suggesting themselves as possible strategies in addressing overlapping crises of affordability in higher education. The COVID-era shift to online, for example, included a rapid shift towards ebooks from print textbooks. While useful in overcoming the limitations of print, this shift has exposed weaknesses in prevailing models of ebook provision – including runaway inflation in terms of ebook and ebook platform pricing and license terms that are not favourable in terms of providing reliable, equitable access to students. These factors have put pressure on university libraries and their budgets, with attendant knock-on effects for staff and students who depend on these learning resources for their studies and for their student success.
The speakers:
1. Ronán Kennedy (University of Galway Library, Head of Collections): #ebooksos – a primer
The academic ebook market has long been a cause for concern due to market manipulation, excessive pricing and exploitation of events such as COVID-19. #ebooksos was conceived as a call for action to investigate the academic ebook market and has gathered international momentum. This paper will give a brief overview of the rationale behind #ebooksos, as well as offering suggestions for alternative routes to academic content provision in teaching, learning and research.
2. Marguerita McGovern (University of Galway Lecturer, School of Political Science & Sociology): ‘Lights, camera, action!’ Extending the brief. – The use of videos and podcasts within eBooks.
The making of an E-book series for Social Work students that helps them to see beyond the written text and experience the spoken word of professionals in their field of expertise.
3. Jacqueline Murphy (University of Galway, Lecturer School of Political Science and Sociology): Opening the Sociological Imagination
Creating an open textbook for first-year sociological students. The aim of this project is to use education technology to create an accessible and interactive learning object. This talk will focus on two interconnected themes- the capacity of OER to promote equity and inclusivity in Irish Education whilst being mindful of the importance of building critical analysis skills so students can question, evaluate and analyze the sea of information available to them.

Related LibGuide: Open Educational Resources (OER) by Kristopher Meen

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Open Scholarship Café: Predatory publishing - How to identify questionable journals
2023-06-16 12:00 - 13:30 | THB-G011 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
Open Scholarship Café: Predatory publishing – How to identify questionable journals In-Person / Online

This is a hybrid event! We would like to meet you in person in the Hardiman Building, G010 (on ground floor) where we will finish with a free slice of fresh vegetarian pizza! But if you can’t join us on campus you are very welcome to join us online for the presentation and discussion. Please choose below if you join us in person or online. We need to know for catering purposes!

Publish or Perish! This is the world many researchers find themselves in. Questionable and sometimes fraudulent actors try to take advantage of the pressure on authors by offering to publish their research for a fee, but without the proper checks and processes expected from academic journals. These outlets are labelled predatory journals, and they seem to multiply in number year on year! They are seen by many as a genuine threat to the Open Access movement because they weaken the credibility of genuine OA journals.
The aim of this Open Scholarship Café is to look at the phenonomen of predatory publishing in a critical way. Is this real threat to academics or are we in a stage of “moral panic”? We will look at how to detect signs of predatory behaviour and how you can check if a journal adheres to academic standards. One of the tools we will look at is the Think Check Submit website.
The Café also aims to draw on the knowledge and experiences of the participants with regards to publishing. To draw on real world examples please forward emails of potentially predatory journals to Hardy (hardy.schwamm@universityofgalway.ie) in advance of the Café so we can look at them jointly.
The facilitator:
Hardy Schwamm is the Open Scholarship Librarian at University of Galway Library. Hardy is a member of the IReL Steering Group that negotioates Open Access agreements with publishers. Hardy is also interested in how the scholarly communications landscape is going to develop given the technological and policy changes of the last few years. This is the first time he is organising a sessin looking at the phenomenon of predatory publishing and he hopes participants will share experiences with him.

Related LibGuide: Publishing your research by Rosie Dunne
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IX SILAS Conference at University of Galway: ‘Reimaginings and Reconstructions’ Ireland, Latin America, Spain and the Caribbean in Times of Change and Uncertainty
2023-06-21 - 2023-06-23 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
IX SILAS Conference at University of Galway
‘Reimaginings and Reconstructions’
Ireland, Latin America, Spain and the Caribbean in Times of Change and Uncertainty
Keynote: Professor Kerby Miller
“The Travels of Timothy: The Amazing Adventures and Woeful Escapades of a Young Irishman in North and South America, 1920-1924”
Chair: Professor Breandán MacSuibhne

Welcome to SILAS 2023, the Society for Irish Latin America Studies conference, entitled:
‘Reimaginings and Reconstructions’
Ireland, Latin America, Spain and the Caribbean in Times of Change and Uncertainty.
This 3-day event at the Moore Institute will explore re-imaginings and reconstructions on personal, micro, or macrolevels and that connect Ireland, Latin American and the Caribbean in a real or an imagined sense.
Following on a virtual SILAS conference in Peru in 2021, we are delighted to bring together in person scholars, researchers, students, and creatives from Ireland, Latin America, Spanish speaking North America, the Caribbean and Iberia. The first biannual SILAS conference took place at the Centre for Irish Studies, University of Galway, in 2007. This will be a hybrid event with in-person and virtual presentations.
IX SILAS Conference Programme 21-23 June 2023
Bienvenidos a SILAS 2023, la conferencia de la Society for Irish Latin America Studies, titulada:
‘Reimaginaciones y reconstrucciones’
Irlanda, América Latina, España y el Caribe en tiempos de cambio e incertidumbre
Este evento de 3 días en el Instituto Moore explorará reimaginaciones y reconstrucciones a nivel personal, micro o macro y que conectan a Irlanda, América Latina y el Caribe en un sentido real o imaginario.
Luego de una conferencia virtual de SILAS en Perú en 2021, estamos encantados de reunir en persona a académicos, investigadores, estudiantes y creativos de Irlanda, América Latina, América del Norte de habla hispana, el Caribe e Iberia. La primera conferencia bianual SILAS tuvo lugar en el Centro de Estudios Irlandeses de la Universidad de Galway, en 2007. Este será un evento híbrido con presentaciones presenciales y virtuales.
Registration:
SILAS 2023 Conference | University of Galway Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies (clr.events)

Documentary Theatre: New Perspectives and Practices
2023-06-23 10:00 - 17:00 | The O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, University of Galway
“On 23rd June, 2023, the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama Theatre and Performance will host a 1-day symposium Documentary Theatre: New Perspectives and Practices.
The event will feature international scholars in the field of documentary theatre, with two panel sessions followed by a roundtable discussion. It will run from 10am to 5pm.
Registration
This symposium is free to all, with lunch and refreshments provided.
Register now at Eventbrite.
The event is generously funded by the Irish Research Council, and is organised by Dr Luke Lamont, IRC Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Galway, with the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance.”
Full Programme below (available as pdf here)

Globalization, Landscape, and Environment in Modern Ireland, 1922-2022
2023-06-29 - 2023-06-30 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & streamed live on Zoom
Globalization, Landscape, and Environment in Modern Ireland, 1922-2022
University of Galway
Room G010 (Ground Floor)
Hardiman Research Building
Moore Institute for the Humanities and Social Studies

Workshop Programme
29 June 2023
11.00 Tea/Coffee and Arrival
11.30 Panel 1
Eric Sandweiss (Indiana University)
‘However picturesque a survival…’ Remaking Claddagh in post-independence Ireland
Mo Moulton (University of Birmingham)
The global politics of bringing the milk to the creamery: Irish co-operative dairy societies and mobility in the Irish landscape, 1922-1972
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Panel 2
Conor McCabe (Queen’s University, Belfast)
Comprador Ireland and globalised capitalism: a theoretical framework
Trisha Kessler (University of Cambridge)
Modern factories for a modern nation: Jewish refugees, 1930s protectionism and the performance of modernity
Patrick Bresnihan (Maynooth University) & Patrick Brodie (University College Dublin)
From toxic industries to green extractivism: rural environmental struggles, multinational corporations, and Ireland’s postcolonial ecological regime
16.00 Break
16.15 Panel 3
Deirdre Foley (University College Cork)
Addressing gender-based violence and marital breakdown in the Republic, c.1977-1981
Erika Hanna (University of Bristol)
Damp, Condensation, and Acid rain in Ireland, 1970-1990
17.45 End of Day 1

30 June 2023
09.00 Panel 4
Aoife O’Leary McNeice (University of Exeter)
A social and environmental history of the River Lee Hydro Electric Scheme 1952-1957
Lily Toomey (Trinity College Dublin)
Ireland’s peatlands in global perspective
Sinéad Mercier (University College Dublin)
Tracing the development of Irish energy law in the Anthropocene
11.00 Break
11.15 Industrial Galway tour at Galway City Museum
12.30 Lunch
13.15 Panel 5
Maeve McGandy (University of Galway)
Tracing landscapes of climate adaptation across scales
Kevin O’Sullivan (University of Galway)
Living the future? Cloughjordan ecovillage and islands of sustainability
14.45 Roundtable – Where to Next?
15.30 Close of Workshop

Organisers
If you are interested in attending, please contact the organisers at:
Dr Erika Hanna (University of Bristol) erika.hanna@bristol.ac.uk
Dr Kevin O’Sullivan (University of Galway) kevin.k.osullivan@universityofgalway.ie
Thanks
This workshop is generously funded by University of Galway College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies Strategic Research Development Scheme and the International Strategic Fund, University of Bristol, with additional support from the Department of History, University of Galway.

Social Network Analysis of Career Trajectories in Polish Literature After 1989
2023-07-03 14:00 - 15:00 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Talk by Visiting CLS INFRA Fellow
Dr Maciej Maryl
Social Network Analysis of Career Trajectories in Polish Literature After 1989
The project aims to provide insights into literary reception of the Polish authors after the cultural transition of 1989 by applying social network analysis (SNA) methods to analyse relationships mined from bibliographical and textual data. The project will produce several case studies on the material derived from Polish Literary Bibliography (PBL) and the Corpus of Literary Discourse 1822-2022 (KDL). The case studies will employ network analysis and visualisation techniques to study the relationships between the actors of literary life and provide data-stories of career trajectories and success (or failure) patterns of particular writers (with a focus on Olga Tokarczuk).
Dr Maciej Maryl is Assistant Professor and founding Director of the Digital Humanities Centre at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is a Visiting Translational Access Fellow on the CLS INFRA project.
For further details, please contact Emily Ridge emily.ridge@universityofgalway.ie or Justin Tonra justin.tonra@universityofgalway.ie.

The Mary Robinson Climate Conference
2023-07-05 - 2023-07-07 | The Mary Robinson Centre, Victoria House, Emmet Street, Ballina, Co. Mayo, Ireland, F26 NT93
COMMUNITIES CREATING CHANGE

Climate change is the defining socio-economic force of the 21st century. The Mary Robinson Climate Conference is an inclusive multidisciplinary forum bringing together voices from all sectors of academia and society to share climate experiences and discuss pathways for a sustainable future. The Mary Robinson Climate Conference theme for 2023 is Communities Creating Change.
The Mary Robinson Climate Conference takes place 5-7 July in Ballina, Co Mayo, delivered by The Mary Robinson Centre in partnership with Ballina 2023, Mayo County Council and University of Galway, sponsored by IPB Insurance.

Registration & Programme available HERE

The Fráma Eile roundtable series
2023-07-06 15:00 - 17:00 | Centre for Irish Studies, University of Galway and ZOOM
The Fráma Eile roundtable series, organised by PhD students in the Centre for Irish Studies and Roinn na Gaeilge, explores new approaches to framing established texts (in both English and Irish), material objects, and artwork in the Irish Studies canon.
This roundtable discusses the poetry collection Eireaball Spideoige by Seán Ó Ríordáin. Speakers will highlight aspects of the text which have escaped critical attention, as well as suggest new reading methods and consider how Eireaball Spideoige has been framed in the academy to date.
This event will be bilingual.
All are welcome, and after presentations, the floor will be open to contributions and comments from all in attendance.
To attend virtually via Zoom: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/92993408389?pwd=[REDACTED]

Geography Research Seminar on Culture and Sustainability
2023-07-12 14:00 - 15:00 | AC113 Geography Seminar room, University of Galway
Geography Research Seminar on Culture and Sustainability
Professor Janet Stephenson, Otago University, New Zealand
2pm Wednesday July 12th, AC113 Geography Seminar room

How does culture relate to sustainability? Janet Stephenson draws from her new book Culture and Sustainability to show how cultural analysis can help with sustainability endeavours in research and policy. She introduces the cultures framework, a well-tested approach for analysing culture at any scale and in any context. Using examples of its diverse applications around the world, Stephenson illustrates how culture can in some circumstances be highly resistant to change, and in other circumstances can change rapidly. Cultural analysis can assist with policy development and reveal why some policy interventions have unintended consequences. Understanding sustainability problems through a cultural lens can bring new insights into the potential for transformational change.
Bio
Janet Stephenson is a research professor at the Centre for Sustainability, an interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Otago, New Zealand. A social scientist, she is interested in the challenges of transitioning to a sustainable future and the influence of culture in seemingly intractable problems. Much of her research in recent years has focused on energy and transport issues as well as the challenges of climate change adaptation for place-based communities. Her recent book Culture and Sustainability draws on one-and-a-half decades of research to offer theoretical and analytical insights into the role of culture in sustainability transitions.

ENLIGHT Lecture on "Digital Revolution & Society"
2023-07-12 14:00 - 15:00 | online lecture
ENLIGHT Lecture on “Digital Revolution & Society”
Wednesday, 12th July 2023, 15.00-16.00 CET
Registration: https://uni-goettingen.de/en/654488.html

“Digital Revolution & Society”, will be livestreamed online on July 12th at 3 pm CET. Please find the details here: https://enlight-eu.org/university-about-us/news-events/158-news/777-enlight-lecture-digital-revolution-society
Gain insights into the dynamic interplay between technology and society and learn more about the evolving digital landscape. Broaden your perspective with the expertise of our speakers:

Itziar Alkorta (University of the Basque Country): Five crucial challenges on AI regulation
Cornelia Connolly (University of Galway): The Robotic Revolution…social robots in education explored
Chris Warin (University of Göttingen): Usable privacy in extended reality in the era of the metaverse

Networking event after the lecture for researchers from ENLIGHT universities
Each lecture is followed by a networking event for the scientific community. In the brand-new virtual space, the researchers from ENLIGHT universities can not only continue the discussion on the lecture`s topic but also use the opportunity to identify common research interests. This event serves as a platform for developing new ideas for future cooperation within the network. The ENLIGHT team supports this process by providing insights on funding opportunities. Researchers from all stages are more than welcome to join in! Please register here.

Irish Performance and Social Change: Politics and Aesthetics
2023-07-12 14:00 - 16:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & streamed live on Zoom
Dr. Ciara Murphy and Dr. Emer O’Toole have both recently published books on the relationship between Irish theatre and social change. Dr. Murphy’s book encapsulates The Troubles, the Peace Process, Second-Wave Feminism, the Celtic Tiger, social revolution, and the COVID-19 pandemic. It uses lenses of place, performance form, and social context to complicate narratives of nationhood. Dr. O’Toole’s study ranges from the decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1993 to the repeal of the 8th amendment in 2018. It has an aesthetic focus, asking what happens to beauty, meaning, and affect when artists’ aims are activist.
This event will begin as a conversation between the authors, then open up to a broader discussion with attendees. All welcome. If you’d like to read some of the texts beforehand but don’t have access, please get in touch with Dr. O’Toole at emer.otoole@concordia.ca.
Dr Emer O’Toole, Associate Professor, School of Irish Studies, Concordia University, Montreal.
Dr Ciara Murphy, Assistant Lecturer, Department of Creative Arts, Media, and Music, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Dundalk.

Good Practice in terms of Developing Educational Provision and Teaching in a Minoritised Language at University Level: Examples from Ireland and Wales
2023-07-27 13:00 - 14:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
Good Practice in terms of Developing Educational Provision and Teaching in a Minoritised Language at University Level: Examples from Ireland and Wales
In this presentation, I will share best practice in terms of developing educational provision and teaching in a minoritised language at university level. The good practice discussed in this presentation emerge from focus groups that were conducted with lecturers and students in Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge as well as other universities in Ireland and Wales.
I will discuss good practice in terms of encouraging students to study in a minoritised language; developing provision and teaching in a minoritised language; supporting students and marking assessments that are presented in a minoritised language and normalizing the use of minoritised languages among students.
Biography
Dr Siôn Llewelyn Jones is a lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, who is responsible for developing and delivering Welsh medium educational provision in the School of Social Sciences. In addition to carrying out research exploring the experiences of lecturers and students of Welsh-medium and Irish-medium provision in higher education, Siôn has also conducted other research on the Welsh language and education including the impact of Welsh-medium schooling on young people’s aspirations.
The talk will be streamed simultaneously on Zoom: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/96096037513
