Moore Institute

POSTPONED - Feminist Storytelling Network, NUI Galway: Staging the Incarcerated Female Body: Records and Representations
2020-03-19 10:00 - 16:30 (Europe/Dublin) | Mick Lally Theatre, Druid, Ireland
TO BE RESCHEDULED AT A LATER DATE

Sponsored by: NUI Galway College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies Research Support Scheme, Drama and Theatre Studies, Gender ARC
Registration: Tickets (free) available on Eventbrite.
For queries, please email Dr Miriam Haughton: ‘miriam.haughton@nuigalway.ie’.
For information on upcoming or past FSN events, please check the website and social media: feministstorytelling.ie, @feministstories
Overview
This symposium considers official records and cultural representations regarding women’s experience in modern Ireland and Northern Ireland. In recent decades, urgent histories led by scholars, artists and activists have shed new insights into the systemic practices of incarcerating ‘deviant’ or ‘Othered’ women, the threats faced by women due to the legal dominion that prescribes female embodiment, the trafficking and illegal adoption of children, and, the significance of centring these experiences as part of modern discourse and consciousness. Decades of historical enquiry, performance, poetry, literature, visual and fine art, documentary and recorded media capture both testimonial accounts and creative response. In this way, they act as another type of canon, one that explores the darker moments of Irish life, where women’s experience – physically, emotionally, sexually, culturally – was oppressed, threatened and violated, in explicit and insidious ways
Areas of enquiry will include, but are not limited to, institutionalisation in Magdalen Laundries, Mother and Baby Homes, psychiatric institutions and prisons, and the threats faced by those engaging in sex work or termination of pregnancies. However, the interpretation of ‘incarceration’ will also extend to instances of limiting, censoring and suppressing histories, ideologies and experiences. Throughout the symposium, students will deliver intermittent performance art encounters that become embedded into the event, contributing to and reflecting the dialogue.
Schedule
10am: Registration, Mick Lally Theatre, Druid
Beginning of performance art encounters throughout the theatre
10.15: Opening Remarks
Professor Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh, President, NUI Galway
Dr Miriam Haughton, Drama and Theatre Studies
10.45 – 11.30: The Tuam Oral Histories Project
Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley and Dr John Cunningham, History, NUI Galway
11.30 – 12.15: Women and Illegal Adoption
Conall Ó Fátharta, Journalist, Irish Examiner
12.15 – 1.00: Archiving institutionalisation: Legacies and Limitations
Dr Barry Houlihan, Archivist, NUI Galway
1.00 – 2.00: Light lunch provided
Performance encounters ongoing
2.00 – 2.45: Performing Women’s ‘Deviant’ Bodies
Dr Áine Phillips, Lecturer and Performance Artist (Burren College of Art)
2.45 – 3.15: Writing Women’s Internal Landscapes
Elaine Feeney, Poet and Novelist
3.15 – 4.00: Bodies of Evidence: Reading Mad Flesh
Dr Anna Harpin (Warwick)
4.00 – 4.30: Concluding remarks
Recommended Reading and Viewing
Lee Daniels (dir), Precious, Lionsgate, 2009
Caelainn Hogan, Republic of Shame, Penguin, 2019
Conall Ó Fátharta, ‘State’s Reaction is to Deny, Delay and to Buy Silence’, The Irish Examinerhttps://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/specialreports/states-reaction-is-to-deny-delay-and-to-buy-silence-890976.html
Catherine Corless, ‘The Home’, Journal of the Old Tuam Society, 2012. (A copy of this can be emailed in advance to all registered attendees)
Elaine Feeney, ‘History Lesson’ in Rise, Salmon Poetry, 2017. Accessible online: https://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=427&a=187
Kara Fox, ‘For decades, Ireland’s mother and baby homes were shrouded in secrecy.’ CNN, 9 September 2019. https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/07/europe/ireland-mother-and-baby-homes-intl/index.html

POSTPONED - Modernist Studies Ireland: Works in Progress: ‘The Plagiarist's Philosophy: Coincidence in James Joyce and Malcolm Lowry’ and ‘Archival Remnants of Joyce’s Leopoldina and Woolf’s Orlanda’
2020-03-16 16:00 - 18:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
TO BE RESCHEDULED AT A LATER DATE
Modernist Studies Ireland is delighted to re-launch its Works in Progress series with a double act on Monday, 16th March, at 4 pm in THB—GO11. You are cordially invited to join us for what promises to be two fantastic talks by early career researchers, shining a light on new research in Joyce studies as well as genetic criticism. Our speakers are Emily Bell, NUIG alumna and now doctoral researcher at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and Casey Lawrence, a PhD candidate at Trinity College Dublin.
Emily’s talk, entitled ‘The Plagiarist’s Philosophy: Coincidence in James Joyce and Malcolm Lowry’, will offer an imaginative solution to conceptualising intertextuality in Joyce’s oeuvre in connection with the late modernist Malcolm Lowry. It considers both the individual and dependent intertextualities of the works of Joyce and Lowry—two writers preoccupied by coincidence—as well as the impact this has on the possibility of originality.
Casey’s talk, elucidating the ‘Archival Remnants of Joyce’s Leopoldina and Woolf’s Orlanda’, combines genetic study with a gender-critical approach in her analysis of how early drafts of Joyce’s and Woolf’s works independently push the boundaries of grammatical and sexual gender. Here, Joyce and Woolf, her talk reveals, conflate the two (grammar and sex) and in so doing attempt to see beyond the binary, so that man-becoming-woman is no longer fantasy, but indeed part of the grammar of our everyday lives.

POSTPONED - G2020/NUIG: 'Understanding Capitals of Culture'
2020-03-13 10:30 - 18:30 | Aula Maxima, Quadrangle Building, NUI Galway
Hosted by the Centre for Creative Arts Research, Moore Institute, this will be the first of four seminars hosted by NUI Galway during 2020 as part of the European Capital of Culture. Produced in partnership with Galway 2020, each seminar will bring together a mix of academics, practitioners, policy makers and funders to discuss various aspects of what it means to be a Capital of Culture.
Programme

10.30 – 11am – Coffee and Registration
11 – 11.10am – Welcome Address – President Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh (NUIG)
11.10 – 11.30am – Opening Address: Galway, European Capital of Culture
Helen Marriage (Creative Director, Galway2020)
11.30 – 1pm – Understanding Capitals of Culture
Keynote: Franco Bianchini (University of Hull)
Franco Bianchini in conversation with Helen Marriage (Artichoke) Chair: Pat Collins (NUIG)
1 – 2pm LUNCH
2 – 3pm – Understanding Galway as a Capital of Culture (roundtable discussion)
James Harrold (GCC), Marilyn Gaughan-Reddan (G2020), Sharon O’Grady (GCC), Niceol Blue (Galway Buskers Community) Chair: Dan Carey (NUIG)
3 – 4pm – Developing Cultural Sector Capacity (roundtable discussion)
Niamh NicGhabhann (University of Limerick), Monica Corcoran (Arts Council), Steven Hadley (NUIG), Paul Fahy (Galway International Arts Festival) Chair: Charlotte McIvor (NUIG)
4 – 4.30pm – COFFEE AND COMFORT BREAK
4.30 – 5.30pm – Understanding Cultural Value
Keynote: Ben Walmsley (University of Leeds/Centre for Cultural Value)
Ben Walmsley in conversation with: Tania Banotti (Creative Ireland) Chair: Steven Hadley (NUIG)
5.30 – 6.30pm – WINE RECEPTION & Announcement of NUIG/MI European Associate of Centre for Cultural Value (Address: Dan Carey and Ben Walmsley)
Saturday 14 March (evening, circa 6–9.30pm, exact times TBC)
The following day, courtesy of Galway2020, there will be an organised trip to see Kari Kola’s ‘Savage Beauty’ installation at Lough na Fooey, Connemara https://galway2020.ie/en/projects/savage-beauty/
The trip will last circa 3.5hrs in total, departing from/returning to Galway city centre.
All delegates and speakers are welcome to attend but please note that places are limited and must be booked in advance by emailing Galway2020@nuigalway.ie
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Please note that filming/photography will be taking place at the conference for documentation and archival purposes.
TICKETING INFORMATION
If you wish to attend this event, please register at this link.
Please note: Lunch is included with your conference ticket. If you have particular dietary requirements please inform the event organisers via Galway2020@nuigalway.ie so that your preference can be registered. Tickets are limited by capacity and are subject to availability.
GREEN CONFERENCING
We are committed to a ‘reduce, reuse and recycle’ approach as part of the event. Therefore, we encourage delegates to attend using public transport or car pool with other conference delegates to reduce emissions. Please bring ‘keep cups’ for tea and coffee served on the day and water bottles. Water refilling stations will be available on site for delegates. The event schedule is available in digital format via the Moore Institute website to reduce paper and ink usage. We are asking delegates to recycle and bring their own lanyards on the day.
ACCESS INFORMATION
Accessible lifts and ramps are available at all conference locations and seating is accessible for wheelchair users and those with impaired mobility.
All events take place in the Moore Institute, which can be accessed by both steps and a ramp. Entrance for all users is via the main entrance which is fully wheelchair accessible.
The Moore Institute welcomes Assistance Dogs. If you have an assistance dog, please advise us via Galway2020@nuigalway.ie
Conference brochure material is available by digital download only but we are happy to provide specific materials for those that require them (Braille, Larger or specific print). A signing/subtitle facility will also be made available to those patrons with impaired hearing.
If you have a particular requirement please or need more information please contact us via Galway2020@nuigalway.ie and we will be happy to provide assistance.
DIRECTIONS TO VENUE
The seminar will take place in the Moore Institute Seminar Room (G010), on the Ground Floor of the Hardiman Research Building at NUI Galway. The seminar room is located opposite the main library turnstiles.
Google Map to Hardiman Research Building: https://goo.gl/maps/ehwoZkdKEFrbeG3b6
ANY QUERIES?
For further information including speaker profiles please see http://bit.ly/G2020Sem1
For anything else please email Galway2020@nuigalway.ie

KEYNOTE SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
HELEN MARRIAGE
Helen Marriage is Director of Artichoke and Creative Director of Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture. Artichoke works with artists to reimagine public spaces, aiming to appeal to the widest possible audience and has created some of the most celebrated outdoor art in recent times, including the Lumiere light festivals, The Sultan’s Elephant, Antony Gormley’s One & Other Fourth Plinth commission and PROCESSIONS, a mass participation artwork celebrating 100 years since some women won the right to vote. Helen’s previous work includes a seven-year period as Director of the Salisbury Festival. She created the first Arts & Events programme for Olympia & York, the developers of Canary Wharf in London, was an Associate Director of the London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT), and managed a variety of independent artists at Artsadmin in the early 1980s. In 2012, she was awarded a Loeb Fellowship at Harvard Graduate School of Design, a prestigious fellowship awarded to individuals working in the area of urban design and planning. Her appointment was an acknowledgement of the impact Artichoke has made on the way mass public art events are negotiated and staged.  She was awarded an MBE for services to the arts in the New Year’s Honours list in 2016.
PROFESSOR FRANCO BIANCHINI
Franco Bianchini is Professor of Cultural Policy and Director of the Institute for Research on Culture and the Creative Industries at the University of Hull, UK. From 2007-2016 he was Professor of Cultural Policy and Planning at Leeds Beckett University, UK. From 2010-2014 he was a member of the team preparing the successful bid by the city of Matera, in Southern Italy, for the title of European Capital of Culture for 2019. His books include Focus on Festivals (co-edited with C. Newbold, C. Maughan and J. Jordan, Goodfellow, 2015), Urban Mindscapes of Europe (co-edited by G. WeissSussex with F. Bianchini, Rodopi, 2006) and Planning for the Intercultural City (with J. Bloomfield, Comedia, 2004). His research interests range from the role of culture in urban regeneration (with a particular focus on port cities and on European Cities/Capitals of Culture), to cultural diversity and interculturalism as resources for innovation in urban policy, and the development of urban cultural strategies in the context of the current political, economic and environmental crises.
PROFESSOR BEN WALMSLEY
Ben is Professor of Cultural Engagement in the School of Performance and Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds and Director of the national Centre for Cultural Value. Prior to his academic career, he worked as a Producer at the National Theatre of Scotland. Since 2014 Ben has been the Academic Director of the Arts Fundraising and Philanthropy Programme, which is now one of Arts Council England’s National Portfolio Organisations. Ben is the Co-Editor of Arts and the Market and has published widely on arts marketing, arts management, cultural policy and cultural value. His monograph Audience Engagement in the Performing Arts: A critical analysis was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2019.
PARTICIPANTS
Tania Banotti (Director, Creative Ireland)
Niceol Blue (Overview and Outreach Driver, Galway Buskers Community)
Prof Dan Carey (Director, Moore Institute, NUI Galway)
Dr Pat Collins (Lecturer in Economic Geography, NUI Galway)
Monica Corcoran (Strategic Development Manager, Arts Council)
Paul Fahy (Artistic Director, Galway International Arts Festival)
Marilyn Gaughan-Reddan, (Head of Programme, Galway 2020),
Dr Steven Hadley (Research Fellow, NUI Galway)
James Harrold (Arts Officer, Galway City Council),
Dr Niamh NicGhabhann (Assistant Dean, Research for the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Course Director of the MA Festive Arts, University of Limerick)
Dr Charlotte McIvor (Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies, NUI Galway)
Sharon O’Grady (Arts Officer, Galway County Council)
ANY QUERIES?
Please email: Galway2020@nuigalway.ie

School of Political Science & Sociology Seminar Series: Agitating for political rights: local and visiting suffragists of the West of Ireland
2020-03-12 13:00 - 14:00 | Room 333, Aras Moyola
By Mary Clancy (Global Women’s Studies)
At a time of heightened international debate about democratic and social change during the early decades of the twentieth century, the place of the woman citizen remained contentious. The demand to extend the parliamentary franchise to qualified women, debated in Westminster, for instance, since the mid-19th century, was politically and socially divisive despite the democratic inevitability of its objective. Argument in favour of Irish Home Rule (especially from 1886) complicated the politics of the suffrage debate. The West of Ireland tends to be ignored in analyses of the suffrage campaign. However, it is an exceptionally important and interesting space in which to study how and why the question of political rights for women was visible and, on occasion, volatile. From north Mayo to Galway, local and visiting activists organised in civic and public spaces, powerful representatives of an ignored political class. In reconstructing this history of regional suffrage activism, the talk evaluates the nature of the agitation, and the impact of a complex effort that embodied international ideals of women’s rights, local political perspectives and memories of earlier women’s activism within the region.
Mary Clancy, School of Political Science and Sociology, NUI Galway. Publications include (forthcoming), with C Beaumont and L Ryan, ‘Networks as “Laboratories of experience”: exploring the life cycle of the Irish suffrage movement and its aftermaths in Ireland, 1870-1937’, Women’s History Review and ‘Women’s suffrage in the West of Ireland: Different influences and Life-stories in Histories of Citizenship’, Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, 2018, (70), pp.119-130.

RTÉ Brainstorm: Workshops
2020-03-12 10:00 | Room 118 Research and Innovation Centre, NUIG
Registration necessary.
Over 200 articles written by our research community have been published on the RTÉ Brainstorm website. Jim Carroll, the editor of RTÉBrainstorm, will be on campus to explain how NUIGalway staff and research students can contribute to Brainstorm. He will also deliver insights into pitching content for a public audience and developing media profiles.
Workshop times:
10am-11am
11:30am-12:30pm
1pm-2pm
2:30pm-3:30pm
Places are limited so booking is essential – researchers, including PhD and Master’s students, please register via www.nuigalway.ie/rdc.
Other categories of staff can e-mail marina.ansaldo@nuigalway.ie to register.

History Research Seminar Series: When and where was “Early America”? by Prof. Peter Cooper Mancall
2020-03-11 16:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Peter C. Mancall is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at the University of Southern California. His books include Hakluyt’s Promise: An Elizabethan’s Obsession for an English America (2007), Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson—A Tale of Mutiny and Murder in the Arctic (2009), and, the just-released The Trials of Thomas Morton: An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England. He is currently at Oxford as the Harmsworth Professor of American History and completing a book entitled “American Origins,” which will be volume one of the Oxford History of the United States.

Italian - School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures - Between silence and translation: Italy at the time of the ‘refugee crisis’ by Anne O’Connor & Andrea Ciribuco, NUI Galway
2020-03-11 13:00 - 14:00 | Hardiman Research Building Room G011, Ireland
Between 2013 and 2018, approximately 700,000 individuals have crossed the Mediterranean to seek asylum in Italy. The LINCS project (Language Integration and New Communities in a multicultural Society) explores the role of language and translation in their lives, as they forge links with the Italian society and make sense of the new environment.
Andrea Ciribuco is Postdoctoral Fellow in Italian at NUI Galway, funded by the IRC and Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions. His research focuses on language and cultural identity in migratory contexts. He is the author of The Autobiography of a Language: Emanuel Carnevali’s Italian/American Writing (2019).
Anne O’Connor is Senior Lecturer in Italian in NUI Galway. Her research interests include translation and migration, translation history, and religion and translation.

Retired Staff Association Lecture Series: The Connemara marble and its cross-Atlantic connections: A review of its use as an ornamental building stone during the Gilded Age
2020-03-10 12:00 - 13:00 | Room AMB-G065, Psychology Wing, Arts Millennium Building
by Professor Martin Feely, Earth & Ocean Sciences, NUI Galway

Workshop: Video production for scholars
2020-03-10 10:00 - 13:00 | The Moore Institute Seminar Room G010 Ground floor The Hardiman Research Building, Ireland
The aim of this workshop is to provide participants with the tools and confidence to create video content using the technology already in their pockets – their smart phones. This content can be utilised for anything from conference, event or course promotion, to effective communication of complex research topics. The session will cover basic composition, photography, videography, interview and editing skills. There will be a brief photo and video break during which participants will put what they’ve learned to the test, followed by critique and feedback. We will also touch on basic principles of GDPR and model release consent to ensure participants’ content can be used and disseminated as required.
Registration
Register to attend the workshop on Eventbrite.
Learning Objectives

Learn photo composition
Learn cinematography techniques
Learn video editing skills
Understand the unique challenges of mobile storytelling
Create the correct content for the correct audience
Understand GDPR & model release consent basics for content creators

Workshop facilitator and speaker
Eileen Kennedy is Library Digital Experience Developer at NUI Galway. She manages the library MakerSpace and looks after the library’s online presence. Eileen has a BA in Film Studies and English from Boston College and an MA in Digital Media from NUI Galway.
Are you a Digital Scholar?
Developing skills with digital technologies can be a challenge for researchers interested in digital and open scholarship.
To help, the Library, in partnership with the Moore Institute, presents a series of informal workshops to share practice-based expertise, know-how, and experience in technologies and methods, that will enhance your experience of newer forms of scholarship.
The series
26 November 2019 – Web maps, data visualisation, and mapping with Neatline. David Kelly and Cillian Joy. G010, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00
17 December 2019 – Managing digital collections. Objects, metadata, ingestion, and access. Aisling Keane. G010, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00
14 January 2020 – Scanathon. Crowd-sourced digitisation. Aisling Keane. G011, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00
18 February 2020 – Online and digital identity for scholars. Blaneth McSharry & Grainne McGrath. G010, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00
10 March 2020 – Video production for scholars. Eileen Kennedy. G010, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00
14 April 2020 – Working with images in Python for research. Cillian Joy. G010, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00

International Women's Day and RECIRC: Guided Tour of Readers and Reputations: The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550-1700
2020-03-07 11:00 | Foyer the Hardiman Research Building, Ireland
What impact did women writers make in history? When is a female author (not) a female author? Join us as we explore these questions in a guided tour of the ‘Readers & Reputations’ exhibition, to celebrate International Women’s Day, on Saturday 7 March 2020.
The exhibition, sponsored by the Irish Research Council, showcases the work of the RECIRC project on early modern women’s writing, funded by the European Research Council (ERC) – the first literature project in Ireland to be awarded ERC funding. The project’s leader, Prof. Marie-Louise Coolahan, and two researchers, Dr. Felicity Maxwell and Dr. Bronagh McShane, will discuss the ways women gained controversial and exemplary reputations and invite visitors to explore the interactive exhibits.
Tours will meet inside the entrance to the Hardiman Research Building (next to the library), NUI Galway, at 11am and 1pm, Saturday 7 March.
http://www.nuigalway.ie/recircexhibition/

CAMPS: Old English Poetry in Medieval European Perspective: The Exeter Book, the House of Wessex and Carolingian Models
2020-03-06 12:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
by Francisco Rozano-García.

Italian - School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures - 'Heritage Film, Neapolitan Style' by Ruth Glynn, University of Bristol
2020-03-04 17:00 - 18:00 | Hardiman Research Building Room G011, Ireland
This paper explores how recent films addressing Naples – the Manetti Bros’ Ammore e malvita (2017) and Ferzan Özpetek’s Napoli velata (2017) – work to counter the ‘Gomorra-effect’ and rehabilitate the city in cinematic representation. It explores the politics of heritage film, the genre’s relationship with popular culture and Naples’s place in the national imaginary.
Ruth Glynn A graduate of NUIG, Ruth Glynn is Professor of Modern Italian Culture at the University of Bristol. Current research addresses Naples and its place in the national cultural imaginary, from the Allied Occupation of the city to the present. Major publications include Women, Terrorism, and Trauma in Italian Culture (2013).

History Seminar Series: Orphans, refugees and Scandinavian relief in the Middle East, 1920-1935 by Prof. Inger Marie Okkenhaug
2020-03-04 16:00 - 18:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Inger Marie Okkenhaug is a Professor of History at Volda University College, Norway, and is currently a visiting fellow at the Moore Institute. She specializes in the history of missionary and humanitarian activity in the Middle East. She has published extensively on these topics, most notably, the monograph, “The Quality of Heroic Living, of High Endeavour and Adventure.”Anglican Mission, Women and Education in Palestine, 1888-1948 (2002). Okkenhaug´s latest book, En norsk filantrop”. Bodil Biørn og armenerne, 1905-1934 (2016), deals with Norwegian mission and humanitarian work among the Armenians in the years from 1905 to 1940.

Values and Identities Seminar: The Changing Virtues of the Hosting Language: Notes on the Philosophy of Translation by Dr. Gerald Cipriani
2020-03-02 15:00 | Tom Duddy Seminar Room, Philosophy Department Morrisroe House, Distillery Road
Dr. Gerald Cipriani will present a paper, ‘The Changing Virtues of the Hosting Language: Notes on the Philosophy of Translation’, as part of the Values and Identities seminar series on Monday 2nd March.
Depending on whether translation leans toward objective rendering or subjective interpretation it will have different truth-functions. This paper reflects on the issues of truth-function at stake on both sides of the ‘hosting’ language (translation) when seeking to understand ‘otherness’ (original language). The paper will draw from particular examples of translation of Chinese thought such as the literal renderings of the Classics in Western languages, Li Zehou’s concept of ‘subjectenity’ (zhutixing 主體性), and sinologist François Jullien’s Western-inverted ‘deconstruction’. The point here is not to establish validity in translation, but to describe what are the cognitive and ethical implications when understanding in translation.
Gerald Cipriani teaches philosophy at NUI, Galway. He is the Editor of Culture and Dialogue (Brill) and Co-Editor of Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology (Routledge). Currently Honorary Professor to the UNESCO Chair at the Russian Research Institute of Cultural and Natural Heritage, Moscow. Previous publications in interpretive philosophy of art, cultural ethics of French personalism and the Kyoto School, and Chinese environmental aesthetics.

CAMPS: Shady Ladies in Medieval Iceland
2020-02-28 12:00 - 2020-03-06 14:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Rosemary Power speaking on Shady ladies from Ireland to Iceland and this will be followed on 6th March by Francisco Rozano-García speaking on Old English Poetry in Medieval European Perspective: The Exeter Book, the House of Wessex and Carolingian Models.

School of Political Science & Sociology Seminar Series: 'The Four Dimensions of Power: Empowerment, Domination and Democracy'
2020-02-27 13:00 - 14:00 | Room 333, Aras Moyola
This seminar is based upon Prof Haugaard’s forthcoming book The Four Dimensions of Power: Empower, Domination and Democracy (MUP – July 2020), which explores the nature and workings of social and political power, through four dimensions, throwing into relief different aspects of power related phenomena. The analysis constitutes a new framework that builds upon contemporary theoretical perspectives of power, including the work of Hannah Arendt, Steven Lukes, Michel Foucault, Amy Allen, Clarissa Hayward, Anthony Giddens, Pierre Bourdieu, Stewart Clegg, James Scott, Gene Sharp, John Searle and Ludwig Wittgenstein. The first dimension of power concerns agency between actors, including analysis of coercion, violence and authority. The second dimension involves structural bias, conflict and resistance, including both revolutionary and non-violent resistance. The third dimension concerns tacit knowledge, uses of truth, and reification. This book moves beyond critique of ideology, developing Foucauldian/Nietzschean theories of power/knowledge without nihilistic relativism by distinguishing different types of truth claim. The fourth dimension concerns the power to create social subjects, drawing both genealogical theory, Norbert Elias on restraint and Orlando Patterson on social death in slavery.
As both a sociologist and political theorist, I distinguish sociological from normative claims. While the four dimensions stem from sociological theory, I will also explore a normative pragmatist power-based political theory of democracy and rights. This has significant implications for critiques of contemporary populism and neo-liberalism.
Mark Haugaard is Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. He is the founder editor of the Journal of Political Power, published by Routledge, and a book series, Social and Political Power, with Manchester University Press. He has published extensively upon power, and his most recent publications includes ‘What is authority?’ Journal of Classical Sociology, 2018(2): 104-132 and (forthcoming) The Four Dimensions of Power, 2020, Manchester University Press

Book Launch: Bede and Time by Maírín MacCarron
2020-02-26 17:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Bede and Time is published in the Routledge series Studies in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland and provides the first integrated analysis of Bede’s thought on time. This approach allows for a greater understanding of Bede’s writings on time, and illuminates the place of time and chronology in his other works, including his creation of Anno Domini-dating as a historical chronology in his most famous work, The Ecclesiastical History of the English People. My book argues that in innovatively combining computus, theology and history, Bede transformed his contemporaries’ understanding of time and chronology.
About the Author:
Máirín MacCarron is Lecturer in Digital Humanities at University College Cork, having previously worked in the Dept of History at the University of Sheffield and held the NUI/Dr Garret FitzGerald postdoctoral fellowship at NUI Galway. She is Co-Investigator of the Leverhulme Trust-funded project, ‘Women, Conflict and Peace: Gendered Networks in Early Medieval Narratives’.

History Research Seminar Series: Sons of Legends: The Politics and Implications of Irish Dynastic Frameworks by Neil Gordan
2020-02-26 16:00 - 18:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Neil is the third year of the Medieval Studies PhD programme and is working with Prof. Dáibhí Ó’Cróinín. The recipient of an IRC Postgraduate Scholarship, Neil is writing a thesis entitled “Built to Last: The Construction and the Benefits of Uí Néill Dynastic Identity in Early Medieval Ireland”.

Launch of MA Sports Journalism and Communication
2020-02-25 13:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
NUI Galway hosts a lunchtime seminar on sports journalism at 1pm on Tuesday 25 February in G010, Moore Institute/Hardiman Research Building to announce the launch of the new MA Sports Journalism and Communication programme from September 2020.
Panel to feature:Keith Duggan
(Chief Sports Writer, The Irish Times)
Máire Treasa Ní Dhubhghaill
(Presenter, Rugbaí Beo , TG4)
Mike Finnerty
(Sky Sports & Mayo News)
Cliona Foley
(Freelance Sports Journalist)
Light refreshments will be provided.
RSVP: journalism@nuigalway.ie
Further information on programme at: https://www.nuigalway.ie/courses/taught-postgraduate-courses/sports-journalism-and-communication.html

Seminar: 'Serial Encounters: Ulysses and the Little Review' by Dr Clare Hutton (Loughborough University)
2020-02-24 16:00 - 17:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Why and when was Joyce’s Ulysses first deemed controversial and how did Joyce respond? This paper, based on Dr Hutton’s OUP monograph, looks at the circumstances in which Joyce’s work was first serialised in the US, and the nature of the post-serial revisions which Joyce made to the text.
Dr Clare Hutton is Senior Lecturer in English at Loughborough University, and author of Serial Encounters: Ulysses and the Little Review (OUP, 2019) and editor of The Irish Book in English, 1891-2000 (OUP, 2011). She is currently Visiting Fellow at TCD’s Long Room Hub, and is working on a new trade book, Women and the Making of Ulysses.

Values and Identities Seminar: Retrospection and Revaluation in Nietzsche: Overcoming our Evolution in the Pursuit of Freedom
2020-02-24 15:00 | Tom Duddy Seminar Room, Philosophy Department Morrisroe House, Distillery Road
Ashling McEvaddy, IRC funded PhD candidate in Philosophy, will present a paper, ‘Retrospection and Revaluation in Nietzsche: Overcoming our Evolution in the Pursuit of Freedom’ as part of the Values and Identities seminar series on Monday 24th February
Time: 3 pm
Venue: Tom Duddy seminar room, Philosophy Building, Morrisroe House, 19 Distillery Road
ALL WELCOME
Abstract: For Nietzsche, in order to qualify as ‘free’ individual, one must be capable of self-regulation and self-creation, of legislating one’s own values. Such freedom is a future possibility, but only if we first overcome our past evolution, and its current presence within us. Nietzsche sees the evolution of man as a ‘herd animal’ as a necessary stage of early human development, but its necessity is of temporal and sociohistorical specificity. Our failure to move beyond this stage prevents further evolution, evolution that is necessary if we are to ever attain the status of a ‘free spirit’ (freigeist). In this paper, I explore how it is that we have remained so entrenched in this herd mentality, and the necessity of undergoing a genealogical study of our evolution to both become aware of the dangers of remaining in this state, and to acquire the means to move beyond it. In order to appreciate Nietzsche’s positive account of evolution, I also look at his negative account – what evolution is not – for his rejection of the prevalent 19th century teleological and moral-foundationalist evolutionary models plays a crucial role, both in the explanation of our stunted development thus far, as well as in the formation of his positive account as grounded in his Will to Power ontology and his understanding of the world as Becoming. This genealogical study is necessary for the possibility of freedom as it is only by means of acknowledging our problematic relationship to the past, and its continued affectivity within us, that we become aware of the fact that we are not actually free at all. This realization in turn awakens us to the necessity of overcoming this arrested state if we are to ever attain genuine freedom.
https://mooreinstitute.ie/research-group/values-identities/

Seminar: The Alchemical Prince: Enlightenment, Freemasonry, and Cultural Nationalism In Eighteenth-Century Naples
2020-02-19 17:00 - 18:00 | Hardiman Research Building Room G011, Ireland
In this paper, Prof. Enrico Dal Lago, NUI Galway will focus on the life and achievements of Raimondo Di Sangro, Prince of San Severo (1710-1771). A high profile member of the court nobility in the eighteenth-century Kingdom of Naples, San Severo was a polymath, with interests that spanned the entire spectrum of human knowledge, from the sciences to the arts and to the ancient civilisations and languages. However, he is best remembered for his unorthodox interest in Alchemy and his affiliation to Freemasonry, of which the San Severo Chapel in Naples is a clear proof, since – I argue – it is really a disguised representation of a Masonic temple. As a result of San Severo’s connection with esoteric thought and practices, his popular image remains that of a magician, famously immortalised by Benedetto Croce. However, I argue that, behind this image lay a profoundly inquisitive mind, representative, together with Pietro Giannone and Giambattista Vico, among others, of the extraordinary period of the Neapolitan Enlightenment. Each in their own field, these prolific and innovative intellectuals, supported by the Bourbon Kings, created the backbone of a distinctive eighteenth-century cultural tradition, which became the foundation of the idea of a Neapolitan nation.
Enrico Dal Lago is Professor of American History at NUI Galway. He has written extensively on comparative slavery, on the United States in the era of the American Civil War, on Italy in the age of Risorgimento, and on the U.S. South and the Italian Mezzogiorno. His research interests focus particularly on nation-building in social, political, and cultural terms and in comparative perspective. His latest publication is Civil War and Agrarian Unrest: The Confederate South and Southern Italy (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

History Research Seminar Series: 'Milesians and Manifest Destiny: A Borderlands History of American Fenianism (1865-1871)'
2020-02-19 16:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
This seminar will be given by Patrick J. Mahoney, a Fulbright Scholar at the Moore Institute and History Department and a PhD candidate at Drew University (New Jersey). His book ‘From a Land Beyond the Wave’: Connecticut’s Irish Rebels 1798-1916 won the Connecticut League of History Organizations’ Publication Prize (2018). He is currently translating and editing a volume of the 19th-century American frontier writings of Eoin Ó Cathail.

Seminar: Mobilizing Digital Tools for Academic Research: The State Funding for Social Movements Project
2020-02-18 14:00 - 15:00 | The Moore Institute Seminar Room G010 Ground floor The Hardiman Research Building, Ireland
A seminar by Moore Institute Visiting Fellow, Prof Dominique Clément, University of Alberta

The State Funding for Social Movements research team brings together scholars from universities across Canada in history, political science and sociology. Our team has developed an innovative new database (database.statefunding.ca) and digital archive that lists grants from governments in Canada to non-governmental organizations since 1960. Our project demonstrates, among other things, how digital tools enable small teams of scholars to collect immense amounts of data using modest resources. At the same, it raises important methodological questions around the viability of such projects, the availability of university resources, and the applicability of digital technologies to certain research topics.
Our project has produced a new resource that will benefit policy-makers, community organizations, and researchers. It aims to help the non-profit sector by:

(a) synthesizing and mobilizing best practices for digitizing and processing documents;
(b) creating data dissemination strategies;
(c) providing information on how to obtain data from governments; and
(d) creating websites and open-access databases that are relevant to policy-makers and community organizations.

Policy makers will also benefit from this resource. There is no framework for organizing or sharing data on funding for non-governmental organizations in Canada. Even current data is so poorly organized (and sometimes not digitized) that ministries or cities lack a coherent picture of their own current or past practices. Our online portal will provide a forum to compare data across jurisdictions.
Speaker Bio
Dominique Clément is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta and a member of the Royal Society of Canada (CNSAS). He is an internationally recognized authority and Canada’s leading expert on the history of social movements and human rights. He is the author of Canada’s Rights Revolution, Equality Deferred, Human Rights in Canada and Debating Rights Inflation. Clément has been a Visiting Scholar in Australia, Belgium, China, Ireland and the United Kingdom. His websites, HistoryOfRights.ca and statefunding.ca, serve as research and teaching portals on the study of human rights and social movements.

Workshop: Online and digital identity for scholars
2020-02-18 10:00 - 13:00 | The Moore Institute Seminar Room G010 Ground floor The Hardiman Research Building, Ireland
This workshop will explore the ideas of online and digital identity from a scholarly perspective. Participants will learn how tools such as blogging, twitter and a ‘domain of one’s own’ can allow them to professionally connect, share and network online. We will discuss the challenges of developing an ‘authentic online voice’, and explore the benefits of having an active, managed online presence.
Registration
Register to attend the workshop on Eventbrite.
Learning Objectives
At the end of this workshop, participants will:

Understand the potential benefits of having a managed online identity
Have examined and compared a variety of social and online tools
Map their current online presence with the Visitor and Residents mapping approach
Develop a personalised approach to online networking
Have explored case studies of how to enhance their online identity in a higher education context
Workshop facilitators and speakers

Blaneth McSharry has worked as a Learning Technologist at NUI Galway for the past six years, with industry experience in graphic design and marketing. She was the lead developer on the “All Aboard” project and the originator of their popular ‘Metro Map’ approach to developing digital skills and confidence. She has produced extensive multimedia teaching materials, and has initiated and supported several digital badging implementations. She has designed and facilitated workshops and training sessions, and integrated a range of technology solutions into educational contexts. Over the past three years, she has co-ordinated the Digital Champions initiative, a staff-student partnership on campus which aims to increase the digital confidence of staff and students.
Grainne McGrath (to follow)
Are you a Digital Scholar?
Developing skills with digital technologies can be a challenge for researchers interested in digital and open scholarship.
To help, the Library, in partnership with the Moore Institute, presents a series of informal workshops to share practice-based expertise, know-how, and experience in technologies and methods, that will enhance your experience of newer forms of scholarship.

The series
26 November 2019 – Web maps, data visualisation, and mapping with Neatline. David Kelly and Cillian Joy. G010, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00
17 December 2019 – Managing digital collections. Objects, metadata, ingestion, and access. Aisling Keane. G010, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00
14 January 2020 – Scanathon. Crowd-sourced digitisation. Aisling Keane. G011, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00
18 February 2020 – Online and digital identity for scholars. Blaneth McSharry & Grainne McGrath. G010, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00
10 March 2020 – Video production for scholars. Eileen Kennedy. G010, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00
14 April 2020 – Working with images in Python for research. Cillian Joy. G010, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00

CAMPS: Medieval Notions of Æsthetics: Beauty, Truth and Climactic Symmetry in the Moral Fables of Robert Hennyson
2020-02-14 12:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
by Dermot Burns.
More info to follow …

Pop Up Event: Irish General Election
2020-02-13 14:00 - 15:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The following panelists will discuss the outcome of this transformative vote.
Panelists:
Dr. Eoin Daly (School of Law)
Prof. Kate Kenny (School of Business)
Prof. Niall Ó Dochartaigh (School of Political Science & Sociology)

Book Launch: Prof. Niamh Reilly will launch 'The Legacy of the Irish Parliamentary Party in Independent Ireland, 1922-1949' by Martin O'Donoghue
2020-02-12 17:30 - 18:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Martin O’Donoghue is Lecturer in Irish and British History at the University of Northumbria. He graduated with a PhD in History from NUI Galway in 2016 funded by scholarships from the Irish Research Council and the College of Arts. He subsequently held positions at the National Library of Ireland and the University of Limerick. Martin’s research examines the dynamics of political activism in modern Ireland, the relationship with British rule, key developments in the Irish revolution, and the memory of Irish Party leaders in politics and culture. Prof. Niamh Reilly, established professor of Political Science and Sociology at NUI Galway, will launch his book, The Legacy of the Irish Parliamentary Party in Independent Ireland, 1922-1949 (Liverpool University Press, 2019).

Book Launch: Raymond Queneau's Dubliners: Bewildered by Excess of Love by Jim Gosling
2020-02-12 17:00 - 18:00 | Hardiman Research Building Room G011, Ireland
You are cordially invited to the launch of a new book by Jim Gosling, Raymond Queneau’s Dubliners: Bewildered by Excess of Love. The book is a study of two comic-erotic novels by Queneau set in Ireland, drawing on Joycean influences.
Jim is emeritus professor of biochemistry and former Director of Quality at NUI Galway.
Prof. Adrian Frazier will launch the book.
There will be a display of relevant books collected by Jim as he worked on the project and some pertinent items from the Hardiman catalogue, curated by Barry Houlihan.
Refreshments served!

History Research Seminar Series: “Liberty from Empire? The Irish and the Hispanic Atlantic during the Age of Revolutions”
2020-02-12 16:00 - 18:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
This seminar will be given by José Brownrigg-Gleeson. José is an IRC Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at the Moore Institute and History Dept. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Salamanca (Spain) and previously worked at the University of Notre Dame’s Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies (USA) and at the University of Winchester (UK). He is currently working on a monograph examining the role of Latin America in the development of Irish perceptions of imperialism, decolonization and modernity during the Age of Revolutions (1776–1848). His paper draws on this project and is entitled “Liberty from Empire? The Irish and the Hispanic Atlantic during the Age of Revolutions”.
Book Launch: Prof. Niamh Reilly will launch The Legacy of the Irish Parliamentary Party in Independent Ireland, 1922-1949 (Liverpool University Press, 2019) by Martin O’Donoghue immediately after the seminar.

Martin O’Donoghue is Lecturer in Irish and British History at the University of Northumbria. He graduated with a PhD in History from NUI Galway in 2016 funded by scholarships from the Irish Research Council and the College of Arts. He subsequently held positions at the National Library of Ireland and the University of Limerick. Martin’s research examines the dynamics of political activism in modern Ireland, the relationship with British rule, key developments in the Irish revolution, and the memory of Irish Party leaders in politics and culture. Prof. Niamh Reilly, established professor of Political Science and Sociology at NUI Galway, will launch his book, The Legacy of the Irish Parliamentary Party in Independent Ireland, 1922-1949 (Liverpool University Press, 2019).
