Moore Institute

Threesis 2015 Heat 4: Applied Social Sciences and Public Policy
2015-10-08 13:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
THREESIS: Open Your Mind…and Get to the Point!!
Join us as NUI Galway researchers use their 3 minutes to Get to the Point and Open Your Mind!
Come along and support your colleagues!
Threesis 2015 Heat 4: Applied Social Sciences and Public Policy
For more information please contact ena.brophy@nuigalway.ie

History Graduate Research Seminar Series: Diarmuid Wheeler, Tudor policy in the midlands territories of Leix and Offaly 1530-1603
2015-10-07 16:00
History Graduate Research Seminar Series
Diarmuid Wheeler
Tudor policy in the midlands territories of Leix and Offaly 1530-1603.
FÌÁilte roimh cÌÁch
for more information please contact caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie

Gender Arc Research Seminar Series: '1916: Home: 2016': Commemorating the Past, Performing the Future. - Dr. Miriam Haughton and Dr. Charlotte McIvor, Department of Drama, Theatre and Performance at NUI Galway
2015-10-07 16:00
Gender ARC and Global Women’s Studies at NUI Galway are pleased to invite you to the opening seminar of the Autumn 2015 Gender ArcResearch Seminar Series:
“1916: Home: 2016”: Commemorating the Past, Performing the Future
Dr. Miriam Haughton and Dr. Charlotte McIvor
Department of Drama, Theatre and Performance at NUI Galway
Abstract: This presentation introduces ‰Û÷1916: Home: 2016′ a national and international programme
of multi-disciplinary research and creative arts projects. ‰Û÷1916: Home: 2016′ focuses on two key
anniversaries occurring in 2016 within the frame of Ireland’s current Decade of Centenaries: the
centenary of Easter Rising and the 20-year anniversary of the closing of the Republic of Ireland’s last
Magdalene Laundry. By grouping events together in time in October 2016 throughout the island of
Ireland and internationally (with events also taking place in Canada, the UK, the United States, and
Brazil), ‰Û÷1916: Home: 2016′ will create spaces to reflect on a spectrum of stories that expose hidden
lives and narratives, both in Ireland and elsewhere, from 1916 to 2016 and beyond.
Miriam Haughton is a lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance at the National University of
Ireland, Galway. Her monograph Staging Trauma: Bodies in Shadow is forthcoming with the
Palgrave MacMillan series, ‰Û÷Contemporary Performance InterActions’. She co-edited the ISTR
journal Irish Theatre International, themed ‰Û÷Perform, or Else’ (2014), and the collection Radical
Contemporary Theatre Practices by Women in Ireland (2015). She has published multiple essays in
international journals, including Modern Drama (‰Û÷Honorable Mention’, Outstanding Articles 2015),
New Theatre Quarterly, and Irish Studies Review. Miriam is a supporting member of the National
Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI), an executive committee member of the Irish Society for
Theatre Research (ISTR), and a member of the feminist working group of the International
Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR).
Charlotte McIvor is a lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at NUI Galway and Director of
Postgraduate Studies in Drama. She has previously taught at the University of California, Berkeley,
California College of the Arts and Santa Clara University. Her research specialisations include
intercultural performance at the intersection of migration and critical race and gender studies. She
has just completed an Irish Research Council funded project, ‰Û÷Interculturalism, Migration and
Performance in Contemporary Ireland’ and her monograph, Migration and Performance in
Contemporary Ireland: Towards A New Interculturalism, is forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan.
Her publications include Staging Intercultural Ireland: Plays and Practitioner Perspectives (coedited
with Matthew Spangler) and Devised Performance in Irish Theatre: Histories and
Contemporary Practice (co-edited with SiobhÌÁn O’Gorman). Her work has appeared in Modern
Drama and Irish University Review among others and multiple edited collections including ‰Û÷That
Was Us’ Essays on Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance.

Drama Theatre and Performance speaker series: Sonya Kelly (actor, comedian and playwright)
2015-10-07 13:00
THIS WEEK IN THE DRAMA, THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE SPEAKER SERIES:
Sonya Kelly (actor, comedian and playwright)
Sonya studied Drama and Classics at Trinity College, Dublin.
Her theatre work includes THE HEIRESS, LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, A CHRISTMAS CAROL, LADY WINDERMERES’ FAN, AS YOU LIKE IT, THE ODD COUPLE (Gate Theatre) THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT, THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD (Druid Theatre) THE SEAGULL (Corn Exchange) WIRED TO THE MOON (Fishamble) RHINOCEROUS, THE WAITING ROOM (Kabosh Theatre) THE IDIOTS AND ONE (Pan Pan) and ZAP! (Project Brand New). Dublin Fringe work includes THE HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES, THE TRUTH OF THE MOON and WHEELCHAIR ON MY FACE.
Film, television and radio work includes; THE MARRIAGE, THE CASSIDYS, MARRY ME, THE BEAUTY BEAST, PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY, DAMAGE and ROMANTIC ROAD, a two-part television feature directed by Michael Karen. Sonya also writes and performs in David McSavage’s very popular THE SAVAGE EYE sketch show.
As solo artist, Sonya has performed her own work in Ireland, the UK and America. She was shortlisted for The UK Funny Women Awards at the Comedy Store in 2006.
2012 saw Sonya do a national tour of THE WHEELCHAIR ON MY FACE, produced by Fishamble Theatre. It was written by Sonya and developed as part of Show In A Bag in association with ITI, Absolut Fringe and Fishamble Theatre Company. The show has, and continues to travel internationally. In 2013 it was listed as Critic’s pick in The New York Times. Sonya was also the Winner of the Scotsman Fringe First Award for this show at the Edinburgh Festival (2012).
Most recently, Sonya appeared in CARE, directed by Sophie Motley, and the self-penned memoir HOW TO KEEP AN ALIEN, directed by Gina Moxley, both at the Project Arts Centre.
Sonya will next appear in a touring production of HOW TO BE AN ALIEN, with performances in Paris, London, at the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and throughout Ireland.
For more information please contact charlotte.mcivor@nuigalway.ie

German Reading Group
2015-10-07 11:00, 2015-09-23 11:00
German Reading Group
Room 1003
Every wednesday 11-1
For more information please contact lucy.m.elvis@gmail.com

Human Rights in ASEAN in times of democracy drawbacks by Dr.Sriprapha Petcharamesree (Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies, Mahidol University)
2015-10-06 13:00
Lunchtime Seminar Series:
Human Rights in ASEAN in times of democracy drawbacks
Tuesday, 6th of October 2015, from 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm, Seminar Room, Irish Centre for Human Rights
by Dr.Sriprapha Petcharamesree (Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies, Mahidol University).
Dr.Sriprapha Petcharamesree is currently a full time faculty member at the IHRP, Mahidol University. She is also chairing the SHAPE-SEA Program (Strengthening Human Rights and Peace Research and Education in Southeast Asia) which is very much needed. She has served as the Thai Representative to the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights between 2009-2012. She is one of a very few scholars studying and advocating for better promotion and protection of human rights in ASEAN.
ASEAN is moving towards an ASEAN Community by the end of 2015. Not only the integration poses many challenges for ASEAN peoples but the national politics in ASEAN Member States are going through a rather volatile situation ranging from the uncertainty of elections in Myanmar in November 2015 to frequent protestations against ruling parties in Malaysia and military regime in Thailand as well as restrictions of freedoms in other ASEAN members. The “democracy drawbacks” or “democratic recession” in ASEAN has serious impacts on the human rights of ASEAN people.
Dr.Sriprapha will share her experiences and insights on human rights in ASEAN and analyse how, if at all, the existing ASEAN human rights regime could deal with the political challenges and human rights violations in the region.
All are welcome!
For more Information please contact ilangayan@googlemail.com

Performance Matters - Irish Theatre Discussion Group
2015-10-05 18:00
Performance Matters
Irish Theatre Discussion Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/
This weeks discussion: Chekhov Lizardbrain by Pig Iron Theatre Company
For more information please contact n.barre8@nuigalway.ie
All theatre practitioners, theorists and students are welcome to attend

Threesis 2015 Heat 3: Environment, Marine and Energy
2015-10-05 13:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
THREESIS: Open Your Mind…and Get to the Point!!
Join us as NUI Galway researchers use their 3 minutes to Get to the Point and Open Your Mind!
Come along and support your colleagues!
Threesis 2015 Heat 3: Environment, Marine and Energy
For more information please contact ena.brophy@nuigalway.ie

The Discipline of Spanish, NUI Galway, in collaboration with ISLA Expandido, presents Bombal (Dir. Marcelo Ferrari, Chile 2011)
2015-10-01 17:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
The Discipline of Spanish, NUI Galway, in collaboration with ISLA Expandido, presents
Bombal
(Dir. Marcelo Ferrari, Chile 2011)
A film based on the life and works of the Chilean author MarÌ_a Luisa Bombal
Introduced by Dr. LucÌ_a Guerra Cunningham (University of California, Irvine)
and followed by a question and answer session.
Thursday, 1 October at 5p.m.
Moore Institute Seminar Room,
Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway
In association with Gender Arc and the Space, Place and Identity Research Cluster, NUI Galway
For more information please contact lorraine.kelly@nuigalway.ie

Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour and Class Seminar Series - Thomas Piketty- wealth and income inequality - Terrence McDonough (NUIG) and Cian McMahon (NUIG)
2015-10-01 16:00
Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour and Class Seminar Series
Theme: Thomas Piketty – wealth and income inequality
Terrence McDonough (NUIG) and Cian McMahon (NUIG)
For more information please contact jamesthomasodonnell@gmail.com

Threesis 2015 Heat 2: Informatics, Data Analytics, Physical and Computational Sciences
2015-10-01 13:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
THREESIS: Open Your Mind…and Get to the Point!!
Join us as NUI Galway researchers use their 3 minutes to Get to the Point and Open Your Mind!
Come along and support your colleagues!
Threesis 2015 Heat 2: Informatics, Data Analytics, Physical and Computational Sciences
For more information please contact ena.brophy@nuigalway.ie

Book Launch: Steven G.Ellis Defending English Ground War & Peace in Meath & Northumberland, 1460-1542 (Oxford University Press, 2015)
2015-09-30 17:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Steven G.Ellis Defending English Ground War & Peace in Meath & Northumberland, 1460-1542 (Oxford University Press, 2015)
A key duty of the Renaissance monarchy was the defence of its subjects. For the English monarchy, the subject’s rule and defence from enemies beyond the long-landed frontiers in Ireland and the English far-north proved an intractable problem. It was not, however, a duty which was accorded a high priority by successsive Yorkist and early Tudor kings, not is it an aspect of state formation which has attracted much attention from modern historians. This
study assesses traditional arrangements for defending English ground, the impact of the frontier on border society, and the way in which the topography and patterns of settlement in border regions shaped the character of the march and border itself.
Defending English Ground focuses on two English shires, Meath and Northumberland, in a period during which the ruling magnates of these shires who had hitherto supervised border rule and defence were mostly unavailable to the crown. Unwilling to foot the cost of large garrisons and extended fortifications, successive kings increasingly shifted the costs of defence onto the local population, prompting the border gentry and minor peers to organize themselves through county communities for the rule and defence of the region. This strategy was generally successful in Ireland where the military threat presented by ‘the wild Irish’ was not so formidable, but in the English far-north Tudor reform, centralized control, and the burden of defence against the Scots soon led to ‘the decay of the borders’.
Oxford University Press
Defending English ground: war and peace in Meath and Northumberland, 1460-1542. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2015, xxi + 210pp.

History Graduate Research Seminar Series: Raingard Esser, 'Local Baronios' in a contested border region: history, hagiography and politics in Upper Guelders in the seventeenth century.
2015-09-30 16:00
History Graduate Research Seminar Series
Raingard Esser,
“Local Baronios” in a contested border region: history, hagiography and politics in Upper Guelders in the seventeenth century.
To be followed by book launch.
for more information please contact caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie

Drama, Theatre and Performance Speaker Series: Andrew Flynn, Artistic Director of Decadent Theatre
2015-09-30 14:00
This week in the Drama, Theatre and Performance Speaker Series: Andrew Flynn, Artistic Director of Decadent Theatre
Andrew Flynn has been the Artistic Director of Decadent Theatre Company since 2000. In his role, Andrew orchestrates the arranging of our theatre show by curating and unifying various endeavours and aspects of production. His function as the Artistic Director is to ensure the quality and completeness of theatre production and to lead the members of the creative team into realizing their artistic vision for it.
Educated in NUIG, Andrew began his theatre career in Druid Theatre. He learnt from the best during this time, being Assistant Director to Garry Hynes for three years. Andrew is also the Director of Theatre at Galway Arts Centre and a lecturer of theatre studies in NUIG. Andrew has a personal interest in classic and contemporary Irish theatre, preferring plays to be couched in the culture and accents of his native West of Ireland.
Andrew’s directing portfolio is rich and varied: Defender of the Faith, Midsummer, A Skull in Connemara, Cavalcaders, Eden, Port Authority, Doubt, Faith Healer, The Seafarer, Juno And The Paycock, Pumpgirl, Translations, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, Belfast, Learning to Love Doreen Nolan, Desert Places, The Lieutenant Of Inishmore, Translations, The Weir, Janets Table, Tejas Verdes, Talking to Terrorists.
for more information please contact charlotte.mcivor@nuigalway.ie

Journalism guest speaker series: Jennifer Pozner, Women in Media and News
2015-09-28 17:00
Jennifer Pozner, Women in Media and News
A conversation with New York-based media analyst Jennifer Pozner, author of “Reality Bites Back: the troubling truth about guilty pleasure TV”, a critical analysis of reality television. We’ll be discussing the intersection of gender, race, and media, among other topics.
More info: http://www.realitybitesbackbook.com/about-the-author/ and https://twitter.com/jennpozner

Threesis 2015 Heat 1: Biomedical Science and Engineering
2015-09-28 13:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
THREESIS: Open Your Mind…and Get to the Point!!
Join us as NUI Galway researchers use their 3 minutes to Get to the Point and Open Your Mind!
Come along and support your colleagues!
Threesis 2015 Heat 1: Biomedical Science and Engineering
For more information please contact ena.brophy@nuigalway.ie

Performance Matters - Irish Theatre Discussion Group
2015-09-28 13:00
Performance Matters
Irish Theatre Discussion Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/
We will be discussing Killer Joe by Tracy Letts for this week’s session
For more information please contact n.barre8@nuigalway.ie
All theatre practitioners, theorists and students are welcome to attend

Journalism: Roundtable: FlirtFM@20: Twenty years of Irish student radio
2015-09-25 13:00
Journalism Roundtable Discussion
Roundtable: FlirtFM@20: Twenty years of Irish student radio
A diverse panel, including Paula Healy (Flirt FM), Louise Clarke (iRadio), John Nolan (Claremorris Community Radio), and Emma Goode (NUI Galway) discuss their experiences working with Flirt FM, and the role of student and community radio in contemporary Irish society
For more information please contact Andrew.obaoill@nuigalway.ie

Italian Studies - an evening devoted to Valerio Magrelli
2015-09-24 18:00
School of Languages,Literatures and Cultures
Italian Studies
Narrative and Poetic Explorations between Body and Mind: An Encounter with Valerio Magrelli
Programme
6:00 pm: Welcome (Professor Paolo Bartoloni, NUIG, Head of Italian Studies)
6:10 pm: Introducing Valerio Magrelli (Mario Inglese, NUIG, Research Scholar, Italian)
6:20 pm: Conversation on the Challenges of Translating Valerio Magrelli (Clarissa Botsford,
Translator of Nel condominio di carne, Einaudi, 2003 and Parlor Press, 2015)
6:50 pm: Nel condominio della prosa (In the Condominium of Prose) (Valerio Magrelli, Poet and
Novelist)
7:30 pm: Q & A Session
Light Refreshments
The event will take place in English and Italian. Selections of Valerio Magrelli’s works will be read in English and in the original.
ALL WELCOME
For more information please contact mario_inglese@yahoo.com

Public Round Table on New Speakers of Irish
2015-09-24 16:30
Public Round Table on New Speakers of Irish
IS ÌÒĆID PHOIBL̍ ̍ SEO / THIS IS A PUBLIC EVENT
D̩ardaoin 24̼ MeÌÁn FÌ_mhair Ì_ 4.30-6.30 san Aula Maxima, OÌä Gaillimh /
Thursday 24th September from 4.30-6.30 in the Aula Maxima, NUI Galway
Aula Maxima, NUI Galway
ReÌÁchtÌÁlfar an pain̩al poiblÌ_ seo ar nuachainteoirÌ_ na Gaeilge mar chuid de chruinni̼ den ghr̩asÌÁn Eorpach COST atÌÁ i mbun taighde ar nuachainteoirÌ_ go ginearÌÁlta agus ar nuachainteoirÌ_ teangacha mionlaigh ar nÌ_s na Gaeilge.
Pl̩ifidh tri̼r nuachainteoirÌ_ as ÌÁiteanna ̩ags̼la ar fud na hÌäireann agus cainteoir Gaeltachta amhÌÁin an c̼lra teanga atÌÁ acu, a dtaithÌ_ ar labhairt na Gaeilge nÌ_ an Bh̩arla, a gcaidreamh le cainteoirÌ_ eile Gaeilge agus a dtuairimÌ_ i leith na f̩ini̼lachta.
Is ̩ an Dr. John Walsh, Ceann Roinne na Gaeilge in OÌä Gaillimh, a dh̩anfaidh cathaoirleacht ar an seisi̼n. TÌÁ an Dr. Walsh ina chomh̼dar (i gcomhar leis an Ollamh Bernadette O’Rourke, Ollscoil Heriot-Watt agus an Dr. Hugh Rowland, OÌä Gaillimh) ar thuarascÌÁil taighde faoi nuachainteoirÌ_ na Gaeilge a bhfuil Foras na Gaeilge ag tac̼ lena hullmh̼. Foilseofar an tuarascÌÁil mÌ_ Dheireadh FÌ_mhair 2015.
Is i nGaeilge a reÌÁchtÌÁlfar an pain̩al poiblÌ_ seo agus cuirfear ateangaireacht go B̩arla ar fÌÁil.
Gabhaimid buÌ_ochas le ColÌÁiste na nDÌÁn, na nEolaÌ_ochtaÌ_ SÌ_isialta agus an L̩inn Cheiltigh, le Scoil na dTeangacha, na LitrÌ_ochtaÌ_ agus na gCult̼r agus leis an Aonad Aistri̼chÌÁin agus Ateangaireachta, OÌä Gaillimh.
Chun tuilleadh eolais a fhÌÁil, d̩an teagmhÌÁil leis an eagraÌ_ an Dr. John Walsh.
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This public panel on new speakers of Irish will be held as part of a meeting of a COST network of European academics researching new speakers, including those of minority languages such as Irish.
Three new speakers of Irish from various parts of Ireland and one speaker from the Gaeltacht will discuss their language background, their experience of learning Irish or English, their relationship with other Irish speakers and their thoughts on identity and belonging.
The session will be chaired by Dr. John Walsh, Head of the Department of Irish in NUI Galway. Dr. Walsh is a joint author (with Prof. Bernadette O’Rourke, Heriot-Watt University and Dr. Hugh Rowland, NUI Galway) of a forthcoming research report on new speakers of Irish, supported by Foras na Gaeilge. The report will be launched in October 2015.
This event will be held in Irish with interpretation to English provided.
We acknowledge the support of the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies, the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures and the Translation and Interpretation Unit, NUI Galway.
For further information please contact the event organiser Dr. John Walsh.
Further information can be found at http://www.nspk.org.uk/

History Graduate Research Seminar Series: Conor McNamara and Martin O'Donoghue, to be chaired by Dr Mary Harris, History and commemoration
2015-09-23 16:00
History Graduate Research Seminar Series
Conor McNamara and Martin O’Donoghue,
to be chaired by Dr Mary Harris,
History and commemoration
for more information please contact caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie

Drama, Theatre and Performance Speaker Series -Charlotte McIvor, 'Migration, Performance and Contemporary Ireland'
2015-09-23 14:00
Drama, Theatre and Performance Speaker Series
Charlotte McIvor
‘Migration, Performance and Contemporary Ireland’
This talk lays out my study of the effect of large-scale immigration and interculturalism as social policy on Irish theatre and performance post-1990s. It investigates Ireland’s translation of interculturalism as social policy into aesthetic practice and situates the wider implications of this ‰Û÷new interculturalism’ for theatre and performance studies at large.
How did inward-migration change most of what can be assumed about Irish theatre and performance and its relationship to national identity? By using case studies that include theatre, dance, photography, and activist actions, this talk introduces a new paradigm for the study of Irish theatre and performance while contributing to the wider investigation of migration and performance.
for more information please contact charlotte.mcivor@nuigalway.ie

Performance Matters - Irish Theatre Discussion Group
2015-09-21 18:00
Performance Matters
Irish Theatre Discussion Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/
This week we will be discussing
Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa
For more information please contact n.barre8@nuigalway.ie
All theatre practitioners, theorists and students are welcome to attend

Arts in Action Launch
2015-09-21 16:30 | James Hardiman Library, Ireland
Official launch of the 2015/16 Arts in Action Programme in association with the James Hardiman Library.
The programme will be launched by Mr Cathal Goan.
We look forward to seeing you all.

A Musical Evening of the Poems of Oscar Wilde set to music by Susanne Thea and Malinovsky
2015-09-17 19:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
A Musical Evening of the Poems of Oscar Wilde set to music by Susanne Thea and Malinovsky
For more information please contact monica.crump@nuigalway.ie

EDEN (English and Drama Exchange Network), a student-led research exchange network for English and Drama postgraduate students
2015-09-17 16:30
EDEN (English and Drama Exchange Network),
a student-led research exchange network for
English and Drama postgraduate students
For more information please contact Justine Nakase at j.nakase1@nuigalway.ie

The launch of the second English edition of Giacomo Leopardi's Zibaldone with Prof. Franco D'Intino and Prof. Michael Caesar
2015-09-17 16:00
Lo Zibaldone, Leopardi and Translation
Organized by: Italian Institute of Culture and NUI Galway
The launch of the second English edition of Giacomo Leopardi’s Zibaldone with Prof. Franco D’Intino and Prof. Michael Caesar.
Published in the USA and UK – after seven years of work – the first complete translation in English of the Zibaldone, the personal notebook written by Giacomo Leopardi between 1817 and 1832. A team of English and American professional translators collaborated to the project lead by Franco D’Intino (University of Rome “La Sapienza”) and Michael Caesar (University of Birmingham), under the auspices of the Centro Nazionale di Studi Leopardiani. The work is not only a translation, but an actual English “edition” featuring critical and philological apparatuses, notes, indexes and an extensive introduction.
This essential book will change our understanding of the origins of modern culture. It is an extraordinary, epochal publication.
Although all things great and beautiful and alive have been extinguished from the world, our inclination toward them remains. Though we may be denied these things, nothing has or ever could stop us from wanting them. Young people have not lost that longing which drives them to seek a life for themselves and to scorn nothingness and monotony. (Zib. 195-196)
Giacomo Leopardi was the greatest Italian poet of the nineteenth century and was recognized by readers, from Nietzsche to Beckett, as one of the towering literary figures in Italian history. To many, he is the finest Italian poet after Dante. He was also a prodigious scholar of classical literature and philosophy, and a voracious reader in numerous ancient and modern languages. For most of his writing career, he kept an immense notebook, known as the Zibaldone, or ‘hodgepodge,’ as Harold Bloom has called it, in which he put down his original, wide-ranging, radically modern responses to his reading. Published at the turn of the twentieth century, it has been recognized as one of the foundational books of modern culture, and its 4,500-plus pages have never been fully translated into English until now.
Franco D’Intino is Professor of Modern Italian Literature at the University of Rome “La Sapienza,” where he graduated in Italian literature and where he also completed his doctoral research on Leopardi in the context of European Romanticism. His main areas of research are theory and history of the genre “autobiography” and the work of Giacomo Leopardi. He is Director of the Leopardi Centre, based in the Italian Department at the University of Birmingham, and Director of the Laboratorio Leopardi, based in the School for Advanced Studies (SSSAS) at “La Sapienza.”
Michael Caesar is Emeritus Serena Professor of Italian at the University of Birmingham (UK). He has published widely on poetic improvisation and performance and its interaction with orality and literacy in 18th-19th century Italy, on literary theory (Gaetano Della Volpe, Eco and Joyce, the neo-avantgarde, Franco Moretti), and on key modern Italian authors, among them Elsa Morante, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italo Calvino, and Gianni Celati. His most recent essay on Leopardi, ‘Voice, Speaking, Silence in Leopardi’s Verse’, is forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism (Oxford University Press).
For more information please contact anne.oconnor@nuigalway.ie

Book Launch: The Age of Lincoln and Cavour: Comparative Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century American and Italian Nation-Building By Enrico Dal Lago
2015-09-16 17:30 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
You are cordially invited to the launch of
The Age of Lincoln and Cavour:Comparative Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century American and Italian Nation-Building
By Enrico Dal Lago
The book will be launched by
Prof. Daniel Carey
For more information please contact enrico.dallago@nuigalway.ie

Prof. Alan Stewart (Columbia University / Centre for Editing Lives and Letters) Writing a life in early modern England: the case of Richard Stonley
2015-09-15 17:00
Prof. Alan Stewart (Columbia University / Centre for Editing Lives and Letters)Writing a life in early modern England: the case of Richard Stonley
Moore Institute “BRIDGE” seminar Room
(Hardiman Research Building 1001)
NUI Galway
5pm Tuesday 15 September
