Moore Institute

Creative Futures Café
2022-06-08 15:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Dublin) | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
The Creative Futures research group is excited to invite you to this in-person gathering, set up to facilitate a variety of discussions. This World Café style event offers an opportunity to connect with Creative Futures colleagues and work together to explore themes, topics, and issues of interest, including approaches to interdisciplinary research, creative methodologies, generating and evaluating creative projects and interventions, potential funding proposals and more.
We will provide refreshments, along with opportunities for participants to showcase recent work they have done on the Creative Futures space.
Inspired by the World Café format, the meeting is designed to provide time and space for interaction with colleagues from a variety of disciplines and to explore and identify potential areas of crossover, cooperation, and collaboration. This work will take place in small discussion groups and arranged so that you have the chance to interact with different groups and tackle different themes and ideas within the session.
There is no need to prepare anything in advance; this is an informal space for discussion, including, but not limited to, the following topics:

What does interdisciplinary research look like? How can wo do interdisciplinary research in the College of Arts, Social Science and Celtic Studies, and beyond? ​What are the benefits and challenges?
What kinds of research methods can support interdisciplinary approaches? Are there research methods we can use and develop in the Creative Futures space? How can these contribute to the research we are doing?
How can we engage non-academic audiences with our research, stakeholders including policy makers, community groups and those working to bring about change? How do we build those networks and how do we evaluate the results of this kind of engagement?
What funding opportunities exist for these approaches?

Registration
Please register by Monday, 6th June, using the link provided below:
https://forms.office.com/r/aTnKw6b2aG
If you have any questions about the event, please contact Dr Orla Lehane orla.lehane@nuigalway.ie or Dr Maria Roca Lizarazu maria.rocalizarazu@nuigalway.ie.

Paradigm shifting and the centrality of justice in pathways to low carbon economies
2022-09-07 16:00 - 17:00 | online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Paradigm shifting and the centrality of justice in pathways to low carbon economies
by Professor Lorraine Elliott, Professor Emerita (and previously Professor of International Relations) in the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs at the Australian National University
The debate about how to manage climate change has increasingly been linked to expectations about net-zero emissions, low carbon economies, decarbonisation strategies, and efforts to define a green economy model. Green economy principles call for pathways to low carbon growth that are environmentally sustainable, resource efficient and socially equitable in their practices and that deliver sustainability, efficiency and equity in its outcomes. This presentation explores how and why social justice must be at the heart of such transitions if they are to be transformative rather than simply adaptive, and if they are to give priority to the human security/insecurity dimensions of climate impacts and responses. It identifies three dimensions of (environmental/climate) justice – procedural justice, distributive justice and recognition justice – and offers some thoughts about what it might look like to make such principles meaningful in transition policies and practice across sectors such as energy (and perhaps agriculture), and cross-cutting issues such as jobs, employment, and investment. (NB: The geographic focus will be Southeast Asia and I look forward to the insights of colleagues with experience in other regions of the world).
All welcome!

Sport & Exercise Research Group Seminar: Lance Armstrong and suiveur reporting in Libération, 1999–2013: A Case Study in Sports Journalism
2022-09-13 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
As national institution and site of memory for France for over a century, the Tour de France is a privileged locus for investigating the interactions between sport and cultural meaning. Literary journalism chronicling the race has a long history of representing the multiple meanings and dimensions of physical performance, particularly of heroic champions, in the Tour. During the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries the Tour itself and French culture more widely were destabilised by the ambiguous hero Lance Armstrong, and, in a context of guarded reporting on the facts of doping, literary journalism was able to give a creative account of complex sporting performances. Based on an article co-authored by Hugh Dauncey and Ruadhán Cooke, this discussion examines the journalism of Jean-Louis Le Touzet in Libération as an example of suiveur reporting in the tradition of Antoine Blondin, and will attempt to show how the freedom enabled by literary journalism allowed Le Touzet to accurately reflect academic perspectives on Armstrong, politics, culture and sport.
Ruadhán Cooke teaches French in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. Research interests include the overlaps between sport and literature, sports journalism and the cultural impact of sport.
All Welcome!

Book launch: One Hundred Years of Irish Language Policy, 1922-2022
2022-09-15 17:30 - 18:30 | online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Ba mhór ag Institiúid de Móra tú a bheith i láthair nuair a sheolfaidh an tOllamh Regina Uí Cholltáin, An Coláiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath an leabhar One Hundred Years of Irish Language Policy, 1922-2022 leis an Dr John Walsh, Scoil na dTeangacha, na Litríochtaí agus na gCultúr, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe.
Beidh an ócáid ar siúl Déardaoin 15 Meán Fómhair 2022 ag 5.30 i seomra G010, Áras Taighde Uí Argadáin.
The Moore Institute invites you to attend the launch by Professor Regina Uí Chollatáin, UCD, of One Hundred Years of Irish Language Policy, 1922-2022 by Dr John Walsh, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Galway.
The event will take place on Thursday, 15 September 2022 at 5.30pm in room G010, Hardiman Research Building.
Contact: Dr John Walsh – john.walsh@nuigalway.ie
Registration
Please register via Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/402354782987

Irish Travellers / Mincéirs & the State, 1922-2022
2022-09-16 09:00 - 2022-09-17 17:30 | Aula Maxima, the Quadrangle / Spotlight Panels, Hardiman Building, G010, G011 and Bridge Room
Irish Travellers / Mincéirs and the State, 1922-2022
This two-day conference will examine Irish Travellers’ experiences of discrimination since the foundation of the state, paying particular attention to the state’s role in perpetuating disadvantage. It will be a multi-disciplinary and participative conference, with presentations in a variety of formats, and featuring local, national and international perspectives. There will be contributions from Traveller / Mincéir activists and advocates, historians, folklorists, psychologists, sociologists, artists, cultural theorists and others.
Conference Programme
» View or Download the Programme PDF

Conference Registration
To attend this Conference, please register via Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/irish-travellers-minceirs-the-state-1922-2022-tickets-409595199267

Eve of Conference:
Thursday 15th September
8.30-9.30 pm: The Cube, Áras na Mac Léinn
Drama Performance:
‘Ireland Shed a Tear’ with Michael Collins
The Carrickmines tragedy brought a public outpouring of grief, and, it seemed at the time, a lot of soul searching about the way Travellers are treated by mainstream society and the state. People lined the streets during funerals. Politicians and religious leaders wrung their hands. Newspapers gave blanket coverage. But it was no wake-up call, Michael Collins now wryly observes. It did not reset a dysfunctional relationship.
Registration
If you wish to attend the Drama Performance in the Cube on Thursday, 15th September 8.30-9.30p, please register HERE.

Conference Recordings
Playlist of all the Conference recordings is available at: Irish Travellers / Mincéirs & the State, 1922-2022 (Conference) – YouTube
Individual sessions’ recordings are available below.

Conference Podcasts
The Conference podcasts are available on the Moore Institute Podcast Channel at: The Moore Institute Podcast • A podcast on Anchor

IRC Postgraduate Scholarship Information Session
2022-09-20 12:00 - 13:00 | online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The Moore Institute will host an information session for the IRC Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme on Tuesday, September 20 at 12pm. The session will be led by Prof. Dan Carey, Director of the Moore Institute with contributions from Dr. Lindsay Reid, Vice Dean for Graduate Studies in the College of Arts, Social Sciences & Celtic Studies and Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha, IRC postgraduate scholarship awardee.

Sport & Exercise Research Group Seminar: Sport, Celebrity, Media and National Identity
2022-09-20 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Sports events are powerful vehicles for the construction, reproduction and, less frequently, the negotiation or contestation of national identity. The increasingly complex interplay between broadcast, print and new media is central to the ways in which sporting celebrities become emblematic of national identity and objects of collective emotional investment for committed and casual sports fans alike. Occasionally, competing perspectives on individuals and teams may highlight internal tensions and divides within the nation at key political and cultural conjunctures, as evidenced, for instance, by the England team’s ‘taking the knee’ protest at Euro 2020. With reference to selected Irish national and international sports celebrities, and drawing on a variety of theoretical perspectives, concepts and methods, this lecture explores the interplay between media representation and sporting celebrities’ self-presentation via social media in the construction, negotiation and contestation of national identity. It will focus particularly on how national identity intersects with gender and race.
Marcus Free is a lecturer in Media and Communication Studies in Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, and has worked previously in the universities of Sunderland and Wolverhampton. He has published widely in international journals and scholarly collections on the intersections of sport, gender, race and national identity in film, print and broadcast media. He is co-author of The Uses of Sport: A Critical Study (2005) and co-editor of Sport, the Media and Ireland: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2020).

History Research Seminar: Religion and Violence in Early Modern Europe
2022-09-21 16:00 - 17:30 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Abstract
August 2022 marked the 450th anniversary of the Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, long regarded as the archetype of religious violence and fanaticism in Europe. In this talk, Prof. Stuart Carroll will reflect on the enduring relationship between religion and violence through history. It is commonplace to argue that religion is the cause of violence and until recently it was fashionable to argue that early modern Catholic violence was rooted in festive popular culture and structured by the rituals of traditional religious practice. Prof. Carroll will argue in this general lecture that recent research casts doubt on this assumption and will propose instead that the violence was largely the work of a small groups of heavily armed para-militaries led by the social elite, whose ideological fervour and level of organization looks forward to the horrors of the twentieth century. He will then explore the implications of the new research for European history more broadly.
Speaker Biography
Stuart Carroll is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of York. He has wide interests in the history of early modern Europe and the history of violence and is the recipient of multiple prizes for his publications. His books include Cultures of Violence: Interpersonal Violence in Historical Perspective (ed.), Martyrs and Murderers: The Guise Family and the Making of Europe, Blood and Violence in Early Modern France and Noble Power during the French Wars of Religion: the Guise Affinity and the Catholic Cause in Normandy. He is currently working on a book project entitled ‘The Origins of Civil Society’, drawing on sources in French, German and Italian and English, and recently edited the Cambridge World History of Violence, vol. 3.
https://www.york.ac.uk/history/staff/profiles/carroll/#research-content
Registration
To attend via Zoom, please register at: https://forms.office.com/r/zNGhJNUVj3
For those of you not able to attend in person, the talk will also be streamed on Zoom: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/97628504834.
This seminar is organised jointly with the Centre for the Study of Religion at the Moore Institute, University of Galway. The talk will be followed by a reception to mark the beginning of the new academic year.
All are welcome!

‘The Intelligence War against the IRA’
2022-09-22 13:00 - 14:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
The School of Political Science and Sociology and the Power, Conflict and Ideologies Research Cluster invite you to a research seminar with:
Dr. Thomas Leahy, Cardiff University,
‘The Intelligence War against the IRA’
In The Hardiman Building, Room G011
Thursday 22nd of September, 2022
1-2pm
All Welcome!

About:
Dr Thomas Leahy is a senior lecturer in British/Irish politics and contemporary history at Cardiff University in Wales. His first book on ‘The intelligence war against the IRA’ was published with Cambridge University Press. It was awarded the Political Studies of Ireland Brian Farrell book prize 2021 and was also shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society’s Whitfield prize 2021. He is currently working on the Irish Government and Northern Ireland conflict legacy and recently published a new article with Eleanor Leah Williams on informers and conflict legacy.

Sport & Exercise Research Group Seminar: Sport and Film: An American Dream?
2022-09-27 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
This lecture will examine the relationship between sport and film internationally, with a particular focus on the American experience. It will draw on the extensive research undertaken by Dr. Seán Crosson (author of Sport and Film (Routledge, 2013)) on the subject, and will chart the history of sport cinema, analysing the important role the genre has played in the United States above all in popularising and affirming a key ideology in American life: the American Dream.
Dr. Seán Crosson is Senior Lecturer in Film in the Huston School of Film & Digital Media, Leader of the Sport & Exercise Research Group within the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, and Co-Director of the BA Performance and Screen Studies programme. His main research interest is the representation of sport in film, the subject of his monographs, Sport and Film (Routledge, 2013) and Gaelic Games on Film: From silent films to Hollywood hurling, horror and the emergence of Irish cinema (Cork University Press, 2019).

Sourcing Science Advice: What can we learn from Europe and beyond?
2022-09-29 14:00 - 15:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Online discussion of how academics, researchers and policymakers can work together effectively to create evidence based public policy.
About this event

As the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science seeks views on a consultation on the Sourcing of Science Advice for Irish public policymakers and government departments, this online discussion will investigate possible lessons that could be learned from Europe in this area. It will seek to examine case studies of how science advice is shared with policymakers across Europe and will ask if Ireland can learn lessons from these examples. This consultation and the subsequent decisions it will lead to mark a pivotal moment in redefining the relationship between researchers and policymakers and the Academy believes it is imperative that the experience of the research community should strongly inform developments in this area.
Attendees will have an opportunity to pose questions to the panellists and views shared will help inform the Royal Irish Academy submission to the department on this topic. In advance of the online discussion, attendees are invited to read the consultation paper and the roadmap previously published by RIA and the IRC on this topic.
Speakers invited:
• Chair: Daniel Carey, MRIA
• Jaakko Kuosmanen, Science Advice Initiative of Finland
• Celine Tschirhart, ALLEA- SAPEA Scientific Policy Officer
• David Mair, Head of Knowledge for Policy Unit, Joint Research Centre
• David J. Phipps, Assistant Vice President Research Strategy and Impact at York University
Note: These online discussions build on previous online sessions held in early 2021 which can be viewed here.
Read our Data Protection Policy in relation to the handling of your data for booking this event.

Registration
Please register via Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/sourcing-science-advice-what-can-we-learn-from-europe-and-beyond-tickets-424049622837

Book launch: Language, Policy and Territory
2022-09-29 17:00 - 18:30 | online via Zoom
You are invited to the launch of the edited volume Language, Policy and Territory: A Festschrift for Colin Williams on Thursday 29th September at 5.00 on Zoom. Dr John Walsh (School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures) is a co-editor along with Wilson McLeod, Rob Dunbar and Kathryn Jones.
Registration
Please register in advance here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FsObDBVVQU2xlbRk7AYK6A
Description
Digwyddiad i ddathlu cyhoeddiad y llyfr ‘Language, Policy and Territory’
Mae’r Comisiynwyr Iaith Gwyddeleg a Chymraeg Rónán Ó Domhnaill a Gwenith Price yn lansio’n ffurfiol gyfrol sy’n dathlu cyfraniad arbennig Yr Athro Colin Williams i’r maes Polisi a Chynllunio Iaith. Mae’r llyfr yn datblygu damcaniaethau polisi a rheoleiddio iaith ac yn ystyried heriau polisi iaith yng Nghymru, Iwerddon, Yr Alban, Canada a Chatalonia.
Event to celebrate the publication of the book ‘Language, Policy and Territory’
The Irish and Welsh Language Commissioners Rónán Ó Domhnaill and Gwenith Price are formally launching a book that celebrates Professor Colin Williams’ contribution to the field of Language Policy and Planning. This book contains chapters on theorising language policy & regulation and investigates language policy challenges in Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Canada and Catalonia
Ócáid chun foilsiú an leabhair ‘Language, Policy and Territory’ a cheiliúradh
Tá Coimisinéirí Teanga na hÉireann agus na Breataine Bige, Rónán Ó Domhnaill agus Gwenith Price, chun leabhar a cheiliúrann obair mhór an Ollaimh Colin Williams ar son an pholasaí agus na pleanála teanga a sheoladh go foirmeálta. Cuimsíonn an leabhar seo caibidlí faoi theoiric an pholasaí agus an rialúcháin teanga agus fiosraíonn sé dúshláin pholasaí teanga sa Bhreatain Bheag, in Éirinn, in Albain, i gCeanada agus sa Chatalóin.
Tachartas a chomharrachadh foillseachadh an leabhair ‘Language, Policy and Territory’
Tha Coimisinearan na Gaeilge agus na Cuimris, Rónán Ó Domhnaill agus Gwenith Price, a’ cur air bhog leabhar a chomharraicheas saothair luachmhor an Ollaimh Colin Williams ann am poileasaidh agus planadh cànain. Anns an leabhar gheibhear 19 caibideilean air teòiridh poileasaidh is riaghladh cànain agus dùbhlain an lùib poileasaidh cànain anns a’ Chuimrigh, Èirinn, Alba, Canada agus Catalonia.
Language, Policy and Territory
A Festschrift for Colin H. Williams

"Translating food: recipes for intercultural communication"
2022-09-29 17:00 - 19:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
“Translating food: Recipes for intercultural communication”
How can we use food to build bridges and unite communities?
Introduction by
Becky Whay, Vice-President International, University of Galway
Conversations with
Melting Pot Luck Galway
MASI – Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland
Emily Anderson Centre for Translation Research and Practice, University of Galway

THE TANGIBILITY OF TRANSLATION
2022-09-30 09:30 - 16:30 | QA132 – MONS. JOHN HYNES BOARDROOM, QUADRANGLE, UNIVERSITY OF GALWAY
Registration
To join this event online via Zoom, please register at: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_k4LqNo3-T66twZYcDZhIfQ

Sport & Exercise Research Group Seminar: Sport and Identity: from local pastimes to global games
2022-10-04 12:00 - 14:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Sport and Identity: from local pastimes to global games (Professor Philip Dine)
[Please note this lecture will be delivered virtually; Guest link: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/fc49a00ba2444cd785a4752fe96ec33a ]
How does sport shape society? From local origins in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, modern sports were first nationally and then internationally regulated, enabling novel personal interactions and unprecedented cultural exchanges. This sporting internationalization was to culminate in such global mega-events as the Olympic Games and the football World Cup. These most intensely mediatized spectacles today attract television audiences in their billions, as the apex of modern sport’s complex network of tangible and intangible exchanges. Mobilizing enormous resources based on strategic alliances between national sports industries, international governing bodies and transnational media corporations, they are amongst the modern world’s most powerful producers of locally and globally resonant meanings. In terms of its availability, sport has now achieved near-saturation coverage, certainly within the developed world. Yet, paradoxically, sport’s traditional emphasis on the local has, if anything, been reinforced by the challenges of globalization. This seminar seeks to explore sport’s social significance by offering a case study of France, focusing on the contribution of organized games to the historical construction and continuing reconfiguration of a variety of local, national and, increasingly, transnational identities.
Philip Dine was Personal Professor in the Discipline of French at the University of Galway until September 2022. He has published widely on representations of the French empire, particularly decolonization, in fields ranging from children’s literature to professional sport. Further projects have targeted sport and identity-construction in France and the Francophone world.

The School of Political Science and Sociology Research Seminar: ‘The Politics of Ailment - A new approach to care’
2022-10-05 13:00 - 14:00 | CA 110, Cairnes Building, University of Galway
The School of Political Science and Sociology invite you to a research seminar with:
Dr. Hanna-Kaisa Hoppania
‘The Politics of Ailment – A new approach to care’
CA 110, Cairnes Building, University of Galway
Wednesday 5th of October, 2022
1-2pm
All Welcome!

“The Politics of Ailment – A New Approach to Care” is a new book, published by Policy Press, written by a team of Finnish care researchers, the Viva Collective. Co-author of the book, Dr. Hanna-Kaisa Hoppania of the School of Political Science and Sociology will be discussing the Politics of Ailment.
The book introduces the concept of ailment as a new theoretical tool for the field of care studies and social sciences more widely. As care theorist Joan Tronto has written, not all relevant concepts already appear within the lexicon of political and social theory, and ‘we must expand the terrain to include concepts that are traditionally excluded from politics in order to see how their inclusion changes the contours of political life’ (Tronto 2018 , 139).
In this talk Dr. Hoppania will present the main argument of the book, which discusses humans as ailing beings, and traces ailment in social and care policies and in the context of profitmaking and care labour. She will also explain the Viva collective’s method of thinking and writing together.

History Research Seminar: Monticello as Machine: Thomas Jefferson and the Architecture of Enslavement
2022-10-05 16:00 - 17:30 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Dr W. Bernard Carlson
(AgInnovation/TechInnovation. University of Galway)
Monticello as Machine:
Thomas Jefferson and the Architecture of Enslavement

Abstract
As Le Corbusier, the father of modern architecture, once said, “A house is a machine for living in.” In this paper, we will look at Thomas Jefferson’s famous home, Monticello as a machine in the sense that he designed the house [and its gadgets] to structure the relationships he had with his enslaved workers, women, and children. Viewed in this way, Monticello reveals how buildings and technology reify the implicit and explicit values of their designers. In addition, Monticello provides us with an opportunity to discuss the responsibility that historians have to respond to and shape the larger discourse around technology, race, and social justice.
Registration
To attend via Zoom, please register at: https://forms.office.com/r/L8q6S0VR6s
For those of you not able to attend in person, the talk will also be streamed on Zoom: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/92791195238

This talk is part of the University of Galway History Research Seminar series.
For further details, contact Dr Kevin O’Sullivan (kevin.k.osullivan@universityofgalway.ie)

Celebrating ERC and IRC Humanities Projects at the Moore Institute
2022-10-06 13:00 - 14:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Join us for an event to celebrate 8 major ERC and IRC humanities projects in the Moore Institute. PIs on 2 ERC consolidator grants and 6 IRC Laureate grants will describe their work and the distinctive challenges of leading teams conducting shared research exploring the medieval period to the present day.

Speakers include: Dr. Jacopo Bisagni (Laureate), Dr. Andrea Ciribuco (Laureate), Dr. Anna Gasperini (Laureate), Dr. Pádraic Moran (Laureate), Dr. Erin McCarthy (Laureate), An tOll. Rióna Ní Fhrighil (Laureate), Prof. Anne O’Connor (ERC), Prof. David O’Shaughnessy (ERC).

All welcome.

Irish Studies Seminar Series: “Granny’s Things”: Personal Objects as Gateways into a Life Story
2022-10-06 16:00 - 17:30 | Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies, 4 Distillery Road
Irish Studies Seminar Series
Centre for Irish Studies, School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies
University of Galway
“Granny’s Things”: Personal Objects as Gateways into a Life Story,
Kelly Norah Drukker
(Michael Smith Visiting Scholar, Concordia University, Montreal)

Ms Kelly Norah Drukker, PhD Humanities Program – Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture, Concordia University, Montreal
Seminar Title: “Granny’s Things”: Personal Objects as Gateways into a Life Story
Guest Respondent: Professor Anne Byrne, School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway.
Seminar Abstract: “Granny’s Things”: Personal Objects as Gateways into a Life Story
A rosary, a cashier’s pin, a Hudson’s seal fur coat. These are objects that have constellated around the life of my late grandmother, Rose, from childhood until her later years.
Drawing from the fields of oral history, memory studies, and creative nonfiction, my research-creation project-in-progress asks, how can personal objects help us access a life story after a loved one is no longer here to tell it? How, through placing personal objects at the centre of family oral history interviews, might we gain deeper insight into the circumstances of a family member’s life, and decode meanings otherwise overlooked? When narrating the more difficult aspects of a family member’s story, can using objects as an entry point help with some of the ethical issues surrounding representation of someone who can no longer speak for themselves? For creative writers, how can personal objects influence the telling, and resist definitions pinned down by words?
Through family oral history interviews, nonfiction writing, and by drawing upon the work of artists and theorists who focus on objects of memory, my project investigates the potential personal objects have to lend insight into a loved one’s life story, and charts their evolving meaning, over time.

Book launch: A Vehicle for Change: Popular Representations of the Automobile in 20th-Century France
2022-10-06 17:30 - 18:30 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Tugtar cuireadh duit teacht go dtí Institiúid de Móra áit a seolfaidh an tOllamh Paul Rouse ón gColáiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath mo leabhar.
I am delighted to invite you to the Moore Institute where Professor Paul Rouse from UCD will launch my book.
Déardaoin, 6 Deireadh Fómhair 2022 ag 5.30pm i seomra G011, Áras Taighde Uí Argadáin.
Thursday, 6 October 2022 at 5.30pm in room G011, Hardiman Research Building.
Contact: eamon.ocofaigh@ollscoilnagaillimhe.ie
Registration
If you would like to attend this event, please register via Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launch-a-vehicle-for-change-tickets-415615094937

Ukraine: Empire, War and Migration Symposium at University of Galway / An Úcráin: Impireacht, Cogadh agus Imirce Siompóisiam in Ollscoil na Gaillimhe
2022-10-07 - 2022-10-08 | online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Ukraine: Empire, War and Migration
Symposium at University of Galway
7-8 Oct. 2022
Centre for Investigation of Transnational Encounters (CITE), Moore Institute
G010, Hardiman Research Building

Fri. 7 Oct.
1:30-3:30 Session 1: Russian Invasion of Ukraine, 2014-2022
Chair: Dan Carey, Director, Moore Institute
Taras Kuzio (National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy) ‘Russian Chauvinism and Imperialism: How Putin’s Obsession with Ukraine Led to the Invasion’

Donnacha Ó Beacháin (DCU) ‘What have we learned from Russia’s war in Ukraine?’

Tetyana Lokot (DCU) ‘Grassroots citizen resistance in Russia’s war on Ukraine: civic networks, digital spaces and participatory warfare’

Maria Falina (DCU) ‘Accountability, responsibility and abuse of history in contemporary Russia’

Brendan Flynn (UG) ‘Plus ça change: Does the Ukraine War unseat Irish foreign policy and Ireland’s ambiguous neutrality?’

3:30-4:00 Tea/Coffee

4:00-5:30 Session 2: Irish-Ukrainian Parallels
Chair: Donnacha Ó Beacháin (DCU)
Irish launch of Ireland and Ukraine: Studies in Comparative Imperial and National History, ed. Stephen Velychenko, Joseph Ruane, and Ludmilla Hrynevych (Stuttgart: ibidem, 2022)
Diarmuid Ó Giolláin (University of Notre Dame) ‘Irish and Ukrainian: history, sociolinguistics and politics’
Liam Kennedy (QUB), ‘Famine as Genocide? Ukraine and Ireland’
Róisín Healy (UG), ‘Nationalism in Ireland and Western Ukraine before World War I’
Andy Bielenberg (UCC) ‘War and revolution in Ireland and Ukraine 1916-1923: some comparisons’
Stephen Howe, Emeritus Professor in the History and Cultures of Colonialism at Bristol University, ‘Putin’s Vision and the Idea of Empire’
Response by Joseph Ruane, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at University College Cork and co-editor of Ireland and Ukraine

Sat. 8 Oct.
9:30-11:15 Session 3: Ireland’s Brain Gain – Forum for Ukrainian Humanities Researchers in Ireland
Chair: Tetyana Lokot (DCU)

‘Morality and Chaos: How a Human Ought to React to Chaotic Phenomena’
Oleksandr Kulyk (Professor of Philosophy, Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, currently in Kerry) – to be delivered in English

‘The impact of the Soviet regime’s repressive policy on the psychological state of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church members in Ukraine (1920 – 1930s)’
Olesia Zhytkova (independent scholar, Kyiv, currently in Cork) – to be delivered in English

‘Ukrainian-Japanese relations: the Japanese Consulate in Odesa (1889-1937)’
Svitlana Pavlenko (Deputy Director, Museum of Dnipro City History, currently in Roscommon) – to be delivered in English

‘The Consequences of the Russian Policy of Linguocide in Ukraine’
Halyna Klimchuk (Senior Lecturer in Ukrainian Language, National Pedagogical Academy of Ukraine, Kyiv, currently in Dublin) – to be delivered in Ukrainian

Note: This session has been facilitated by the generous support of the Ukraine Subgroup of University of Galway Management Team.

11:15 Tea/Coffee

11:45-13:00 Session 4: Reflections on Ukrainian Forced Emigration
Chair: Róisín Healy (UG)

Sylvie Mossay (UG) ‘Ukrainian emigration to Belgium after World War II: A personal case study’

Taras Kuzio (National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy) ‘Growing up Ukrainian in Postwar Britain’

Aneta Stepien (MU) ‘Recent Ukrainian immigration to Poland through a gender lens’

Organised by Dr. Róisín Healy, History Department, University of Galway.
Limited spaces available for outside visitors. For more information, please write to roisin.healy@universityofgalway.ie

An Úcráin: Impireacht, Cogadh agus Imirce
Siompóisiam in Ollscoil na Gaillimhe
7-8 Deireadh Fómhair 2022
An tIonad Imscrúdaithe ar Theagmhálacha Trasnáisiúnta (CITE), Institiúid de Móra
G010, Áras Taighde Uí Argadáin

Dé hAoine, an 7 Deireadh Fómhair
1:30-3:30 Seisiún 1: Ionradh na Rúise ar an Úcráin, 2014-2022
Cathaoirleach: Dan Carey, Stiúrthóir, Institiúid de Móra
Taras Kuzio (Acadamh Mohyla, Ollscoil Náisiúnta Chív) ‘Russian Chauvinism and Imperialism: How Putin’s Obsession with Ukraine Led to the Invasion’

Donnacha Ó Beacháin (DCU) ‘What have we learned from Russia’s war in Ukraine?’

Tetyana Lokot (DCU) ‘Grassroots citizen resistance in Russia’s war on Ukraine: civic networks, digital spaces and participatory warfare’

Maria Falina (DCU) ‘Accountability, responsibility and abuse of history in contemporary Russia’

Brendan Flynn (Ollscoil na Gaillimhe) ‘Plus ça change: Does the Ukraine War unseat Irish foreign policy and Ireland’s ambiguous neutrality?’

3:30-4:00 Tae/Caife

4:00-5:30 Seisiún 2: Cosúlachtaí idir Éire agus an Úcráin
Cathaoirleach: Donnacha Ó Beacháin (DCU)
Ireland and Ukraine: Studies in Comparative Imperial and National History, eagí. Stephen Velychenko, Joseph Ruane, agus Ludmilla Hrynevych (Stuttgart: ibidem, 2022) á sheoladh in Éirinn
Diarmuid Ó Giolláin (Ollscoil Notre Dame) ‘Irish and Ukrainian: history, sociolinguistics and politics’
Liam Kennedy (Ollscoil na Banríona), ‘Famine as Genocide? Ukraine and Ireland’
Róisín Healy (Ollscoil na Gaillimhe), ‘Nationalism in Ireland and Western Ukraine before World War I’
Andy Bielenberg (Coláiste na hOllscoile, Corcaigh) ‘War and revolution in Ireland and Ukraine 1916-1923: some comparisons’
Stephen Howe, Ollamh Emeritus le Stair agus Cultúir an Choilíneachais in Ollscoil Bhriostó, ‘Putin’s Vision and the Idea of Empire’
Freagra ó Joseph Ruane, Ollamh Emeritus le Socheolaíocht i gColáiste na hOllscoile, Corcaigh agus comheagarthóir ar Ireland and Ukraine

Dé Sathairn, an 8 Deireadh Fómhair
9:30-11:15 Seisiún 3: Daoine Oilte ag teacht go hÉirinn – Fóram do Thaighdeoirí Daonnachtaí na hÚcráine in Éirinn
Cathaoirleach: Tetyana Lokot (DCU)

‘Morality and Chaos: How a Human Ought to React to Chaotic Phenomena’
Oleksandr Kulyk (Ollamh le Fealsúnacht, Ollscoil Náisiúnta Oles Honchar Dnipro, i gCiarraí faoi láthair) – le tabhairt i mBéarla

‘The impact of the Soviet regime’s repressive policy on the psychological state of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church members in Ukraine (1920 – 1930s)’
Olesia Zhytkova (scoláire neamhspleách, Cív, i gCorcaigh faoi láthair) – le tabhairt i mBéarla

‘Ukrainian-Japanese relations: the Japanese Consulate in Odesa (1889-1937)’
Svitlana Pavlenko (Leas-Stiúrthóir, Músaem Staire Chathair Dnipro, i Ros Comáin faoi láthair) – le tabhairt i mBéarla

‘The Consequences of the Russian Policy of Linguocide in Ukraine’
Halyna Klimchuk (Léachtóir Sinsearach le hÚcráinis, Acadamh Oideolaíochta Náisiúnta na hÚcráine, Cív, i mBaile Átha Cliath faoi láthair) – le tabhairt in Úcráinis

Tabhair faoi deara: Tá an seisiún seo á chur ar fáil le tacaíocht fhlaithiúil ó Fhoghrúpa na hÚcráine ar Fhoireann Bainistíochta Ollscoil na Gaillimhe.

11:15 Tae/Caife

11:45-13:00 Seisiún 4: Machnamh ar Eisimirce Éigeantach na hÚcráine
Cathaoirleach: Róisín Healy (Ollscoil na Gaillimhe)

Sylvie Mossay (Ollscoil na Gaillimhe) ‘Ukrainian emigration to Belgium after World War II: A personal case study’

Taras Kuzio (Acadamh Mohyla, Ollscoil Náisiúnta Chív) ‘Growing up Ukrainian in Postwar Britain’

Aneta Stepien (MU) ‘Recent Ukrainian immigration to Poland through a gender lens’

Arna eagrú ag an Dr Róisín Healy, Roinn na Staire, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe.
Spásanna teoranta ar fáil do chuairteoirí seachtracha. Má tá suim agat teacht, scríobh chuig roisin.healy@universityofgalway.ie

Sport & Exercise Research Group Seminar: When Fanaticism turns Toxic: Sentiment Analysis of Social Media Commentary on Amateur Sport in Ireland
2022-10-11 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
When Fanaticism turns Toxic: Sentiment Analysis of Social Media Commentary on Amateur Sport in Ireland
Dr. Michael Lang, Associate Professor in Business Information Systems, University of Galway

Abstract
Sports organisations perform an invaluable function in Irish society, promoting positive physical and mental health and helping young persons develop important life skills and attitudes, the benefits of which extend far beyond the field of play. For the greater part, these organisations depend on unpaid volunteers and amateur athletes who freely give of their time for such reasons as loyalty to their local communities, enthusiasm for sport, interest in youth development, desire to give something back, and social enjoyment. Unfortunately, this spirit of volunteerism is coming under threat from the dark side of social media. Leading figures within the GAA, LGFA, FAI, IRFU, Basketball Ireland and other sporting organisations have strongly come out against the worrying trend of growing abuse of players, managers and officials on social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. This paper uses a sample of GAA-related tweets and posts drawn from the period 2012 to 2022. Using data analytics techniques, the nature and incidence of negative comments are analysed. The paper concludes by briefly discussing actions that can be taken to address this growing scourge, including internal disciplinary actions by sporting organisations, responsible journalistic practices, and recourse to existing and emerging national and international legislation.
Biography
Michael Lang is an Associate Professor in Business Information Systems within the School of Business & Economics at University of Galway. His principal research interests are Information Systems Education, Data Analytics and Cybersecurity. He is currently the Information Technology Officer of Mayo GAA.

Book Launch: THE PATH TO MASS EVIL Hannah Arendt and Totalitarianism Today
2022-10-11 17:00 - 18:00 | online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
You are invited to the Launch of Michael Hardiman’s
The Path to Mass Evil: Hannah Arendt and Totalitarianism Today (Routledge, 2022)

Guest Speaker: Prof. Felix Ó Murchadha, University of Galway

University of Galway History Seminar: A Century of Irish Agriculture: A Policy Driven Sector
2022-10-12 16:00 - 17:30 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Professor Cathal O’Donoghue
(University of Galway)
A Century of Irish Agriculture:
A Policy Driven Sector

Abstract
In this paper we have assembled a time-series of agricultural statistics over the past century to describe many of the important trends of what has been an important sector in Ireland over the course of the past century. The paper explores trends in land use trade-offs between tillage and pasture and describes growth in animals numbers, the substitution between different types of animals. Over the century the Irish agricultural sector has moved from a sector with a high subsistence dimension with up to 40% of output consumed on farms to a modern international exporting sector, much less reliant on the traditional trading partner the UK. The paper tracks mechanisation of the sector and the huge reduction in labour and significant restructuring over the century. We emphasise the importance of public policy, not just in relation to price and income supports, but also importantly in relation to trade and production restrictions. The century perspective highlights some recurring trends where export restrictions have seen resilience and recovery after they are eased.
If you have any questions about the seminar, please contact Dr Kevin O’Sullivan kevin.k.osullivan@universityofgalway.ie.

What Are Futures Techniques and How Can You Work With Them?
2022-10-14 11:00 - 13:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
The Creative Futures Research Group invites you to attend a futures techniques workshop with futurist Andrew Curry.
This practical workshop includes an introduction to futures thinking and how it differs from/complements other types of thinking.
After an introduction to futures models, participants will have the opportunity to explore and apply these, working in small groups.
There will be time for reflection and questions at the end of the session.
Andrew Curry has worked as a futurist for twenty years, leading a wide range of projects across the commercial sector, the public sector, and the non-profit sector. He joined SOIF in 2019 from the Futures Practice of Kantar Consulting, where he was until 2018 managing editor of the company’s Future Perspectives thought leadership series, and co-hosted its podcast, The Future of Consumption.
He has worked with clients across the private, public and non-profit sectors. He was also lead author of the Henley Centre’s 2001 report for the Cabinet Office, “Understanding Best Practice in Strategic Futures.” He has published widely on futures subjects, including – with Anthony Hodgson – the first academic paper on the Three Horizons method. Andrew is a member of the Advisory Board of Lancaster University’s Institute of Social Futures and served for five years as Vice Chair of the Association of Professional Futurists.
Registration
Please register for this event here: https://forms.office.com/r/4SeJx61M0z
Contact:
If you have any questions about this event, please contact Dr Orla Lehane orla.lehane@universityofgalway.ie or Dr Maria Roca Lizarazu maria.rocalizarazu@universityofgalway.ie

Sport & Exercise Research Group Seminar: Exercise Physiology in evaluation of fitness and exercise prescription
2022-10-18 12:00 - 14:00 | Online, via Zoom
Exercise Physiology in evaluation of fitness and exercise prescription
Dr. Ananya Gupta, Discipline of Physiology, School of Medicine
Please note that the seminar will be delivered online, via Zoom instead. Please join at: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/91318855652

In this seminar Dr. Ananya Gupta will talk about the benefits of physical activity (PA), the evidence supporting PA and the recommended guidelines for PA in a healthy adult. In addition she will also discuss the importance of exercise physiology and how it can be applied in exercise testing in the evaluation of health, fitness and performance. We will also briefly discuss the basic principles underlying exercise prescription in healthy clients as well as in a clinical setting.
Dr. Ananya Gupta is a lecturer in the Discipline of Physiology. She is the Director of the MSc program in Exercise Physiology and Application in Therapy. She is also the founder and director of the Exercise Physiology Core Facility (EPCF) located in the Human Biology Building which is an integral part of the Discipline of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Galway. The Facility is committed to a tripartite mission in which to advance the knowledge and practice of exercise physiology through supporting and advancing exercise physiology reesearch, providing professional training and mentorship to the next generation of exercise physiologists and to increase awareness about the importance of physical activity and physical fitness in lifelong health amongst the general population.

For further information on the Sport & Exercise Research Group, please visit: https://mooreinstitute.ie/research-group/sport-identity-representation/

Navigating Archival Research - Skills, Tools, and Methods
2022-10-18 14:00 - 15:00 | Library Training Room PC Suite, University of Galway
There are over 400 archive collections in the Library, dating from the 14th century to the present day. Archives of writers, academics, activists, film-makers, musicians, organisations, local landed estates and families.
This session will introduce users to conducting archival research, how to find, search, request, and use manuscript and digital archive collections offered by the Library, how to navigate copyright/citation of archival material, what supports are offered from the Archives team, and how to build your research question and argument.
This a good opportunity to learn about the records of the unique landscape of Connemara and the Aran Islands through the maps and records of cartographer Tim Robinson and archaeologist, Etienne Rynne and discover local family history through landed estate records from the 18th century!
Registration
Registration is required. Please register at: https://universityofgalway.libcal.com/event/3942411#

Date: Tuesday, October 18, 2022
Time:14:00 – 15:00
Time Zone: UK, Ireland, Lisbon Time (change)
Location: Library Training Room PC Suite (Map )
Campus: Galway

University of Galway History Seminar: Ecologies of Typhoid and Geographies of Knowledge in 19th Century Ireland
2022-10-19 16:00 - 17:30 | Online, via Zoom
Dr Emily Webster
(Durham University)
Ecologies of Typhoid and Geographies of Knowledge in 19th Century Ireland

Abstract
In 1880, Charles Cameron, Medical Officer of Health for the City of Dublin, was nearly laughed out of a meeting of the British Medical Association for a paper he read entitled “Typhoid from Oysters.” Despite Cameron’s assertion that he had “no doubt whatever that oysters were very frequently the means of communicating enteric fever,” using his home city of Dublin as a case study, the connection between the two would not be widely accepted by the British medical community until nearly twenty-five years – and several shellfish-borne typhoid outbreaks – later. Cameron’s observation of this trend decades before it was widely accepted in British medical circles was not, I argue, simply a stroke of particular epidemiological genius, but an observation grounded in the unique ecology of typhoid fever in Dublin. Drawing on a combination of public health records, geospatial data, and popular media, this paper will explore parallel epidemics of typhoid fever in Dublin and Belfast at the end of the nineteenth century that, through epidemiological investigation, were traced at least in part to local shellfish populations. It will argue that these epidemics were the result of a confluence of unique factors, including ecological characteristics like topography, rainfall, and river basin ecology; and social and urban environmental characteristics such as housing placement, water systems, sewage systems, class, industry, and local dietary practices. Through this confluence of features, Salmonella enterica typhi found a niche in these major Irish cities.
Registration
This talk will be delivered online, via Zoom. Please register here for the link: https://forms.office.com/r/AqUWfutAzq
The seminar will also be livestreamed in Room 1001, Hardiman Research Building (Bridge Seminar Room).

ITALIANGRAM: Docenti e content creator si incontrano. Webinar per la promozione della lingua e della cultura italiana nell'era dei social
2022-10-19 18:00 - 19:00 | Online, via Zoom
ITALIANGRAM
Docenti e content creator si incontrano:
Webinar per la promozione della lingua e della cultura italiana nell’era dei social
In collaborazione con l’Istituto Italiano di cultura di Dublino
This webinar (in Italian) is organised in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Dublin, as part of the 2022 Settimana della lingua italiana nel mondo (Week of the Italian Language in the World). It is a roundtable bringing together Irish-based teachers of Italian, and social media content creators, to discuss how social media like Instagram or TikTok can be used to promote Italian culture and language.
Registration
To attend this webinar, please register online at: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fnOrg0pjRZ-qrNWmdoSi0g

The School of Political Science and Sociology Research Seminar: ‘BioEconomy and Society’
2022-10-20 13:00 - 14:00 | Cairnes Building, CA110, University of Galway
The School of Political Science and Sociology invite you to a research seminar with:
Dr. phil. Alexander I. Stingl, Mag. Art.
‘BioEconomy and Society’
Cairnes Building, CA110
Thursday 20th of October, 2022
1-2pm
All Welcome!

Bio-Economy Works in Ecosystem Services, Biotechnology, and Global Political Economy: Elaborating a new field for the social sciences and situating my research program.
About:
The Bio-Economy is a recent and extremely powerful policy agenda, which is, however, existing mostly outside of the public consciousness. Originating in the discourse on “ecosystems” but being concretized institutionally and “coined” by European Union bureaucrats, this discursive formation and transnational policy network has problematic historic roots in a regime of exploitation while it affects the current transformation of the Global Political Economy as a whole. Respectively, I continually make the case for understanding the Bio-Economy as an emerging field that deserves more attention in the social sciences. In a 45-minute tour de force, I will sketch the stakes of the Bioeconomy in terms of its effects on ecosystem services, agro- and biotechnology, and the Global Political Economy, while marking important connections to its epistemic origins that it shares with the genealogy of the social sciences. I will, thereby and in conclusion, provide an introduction and overview to my currently ongoing and future research program.
