Launch of Sean-Nós Singer in Residence, Centre for Irish Studies, 2021
2020-12-10 19:30 (Europe/Dublin) | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Seoladh Amhránaí Sean-Nóis Cónaitheach, Ionad Léann na hÉireann, 2021
Saileog Ní Cheannabháin
Déardaoin, 10 Nollaig, 2020 ag 7.30 i.n.

Launch of Sean-Nós Singer in Residence, Centre for Irish Studies, 2021
Saileog Ní Cheannabháin
Thursday, 10 December, 2020 at 7.30pm
Attendance
The launch recording will be available on the Moore Institute’s YouTube channel, or you can watch it below.

Book Launch - Justin Tonra, Write My Name: Authorship in the Poetry of Thomas Moore
2020-12-17 16:00 - 17:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Join us for the launch of Justin Tonra’s book on Thomas Moore (1779–1852), the first monograph devoted to a celebrated poet, best known for Irish Melodies, and the major poet writing in Ireland before Yeats.
Launching the book are:

Prof. Matthew Campbell (York)
Prof. Claire Connolly (Cork)
Prof. Sean Ryder, Head of the School of English & Creative Arts at NUI Galway

To attend please register via: https://bit.ly/WMNLAUNCH

Covid 19 and the new year's challenges: vaccines, variants and critical care
2021-01-14 16:00 - 17:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
The start of 2021 has seen a deepening of the Covid-19 crisis in Ireland, Europe, and around the world. Leading authorities (Mike Ryan, Anne Moore and Alistair Nichol) will discuss major challenges, ranging from vaccines to variants and critical care.
Panellists:

Prof. Anne Moore (University College Cork)
Prof. Alistair Nichol (University College Dublin and St. Vincent’s University Hospital)
Dr. Mike Ryan (World Health Organization)
Chair: Prof. Patricia Kearney (University College Cork

To attend, please register on:

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/covid-19-and-the-new-years-challenges-vaccines-variants-critical-care-tickets-135697004393

Webinar: Q&A with Lenny Abrahamson
2021-02-09 14:00 - 15:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Huston School of Film & Digital Media and The Moore Institute present a Q & A with Lenny Abrahamson, director of Emmy nominated Normal People.
Attendance
The session will take place live on Zoom – please register to attend at: tinyurl.com/4fkuk6av. It will also be broadcast live on the Moore Institute’s Facebook page

Democracy in America
2021-02-16 15:00 - 16:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Leading American commentators will engage in a wide-ranging discussion of the political condition of the US in the aftermath of the Trump presidency and the outset of Joe Biden’s term.
Panellists:

Dan Balz, chief correspondent, The Washington Post
Prof. Stephanie McCurry (Columbia University)
Prof. Monica Miller (Barnard College)

Respondents:

Prof. Eileen Gillooly (Columbia University)
Prof. Lee Morrissey (Clemson University)

Chair: Prof. Daniel Carey (NUI Galway)
To attend please sign up using this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cYnF0HLRQIWBpFDLg8xtiA. The event will also be streamed on the Moore Institute’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/689296505096386.

"Voyagers from the Grave”: A Claddagh Calamity of 1876
2021-02-22 20:00 - 21:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Online lecture, Monday 22 February, 8 pm, by John Cunningham (History, NUI Galway) presented by Galway Archaeological & Historical Society in conjunction with Moore Institute, NUI Galway.
On Monday 13th November 1876, a hooker, the St Patrick, with a crew of four fishermen, set sail from the Claddagh towards Slyne Head. That night a tremendous storm carried the vessel 150 miles out into the Atlantic, where four days later, three survivors were rescued by a passing Swedish vessel and taken to America. Their families and neighbours had already given them all up for dead. The lecture will trace the travails of the crew of the St Patrick – Michael Moran, Patrick Moran, John Moran and Michael Smyth – and consider circumstances in the Claddagh community to which they belonged
To participate live on Zoom (the most inter-active option), please register in advance here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YH3e_mcmS62-CW-CSiGdSA . For a live stream on Facebook, go to the Moore Institute’s page https://www.facebook.com/mooreinstitute/live

Webinar: Q & A with Will Collins
2021-02-23 12:00 - 13:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Huston School of Film & Digital Media and the Moore Institute present a Q & A with Will Collins writer of Golden Globe nominated
Wolfwalkers.
Attendance
The session will take place live on Zoom – please register to attend at: https://tinyurl.com/90men51k. It will also be broadcast live on the
Moore Institute’s Facebook page

Active* Consent, USI and GRCC Launch of "Start Here" Social Media Campaign
2021-03-01 11:00 - 12:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
This campaign empowers college students and staff with basic information to respond to disclosures of sexual violence and harassment.
Join us to celebrate the launch of this partnership initiative and learn how to get involved and amplify our “Start Here” message individually and at your institution.
We welcome all learning, working and leading in the higher education sector and our colleagues in the NGO, sexual violence and rape crisis sectors to join and get involved in “Start Here”!
Further Information & Registration
For further information and registration, please visit Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/active-consent-usi-and-grcc-launch-of-start-here-social-media-campaign-tickets-142128328657

To learn more about Active* Consent, USI and GRCC’s work in this area, visit:

www.nuigalway.ie/activeconsent
https://usi.ie
https://www.galwayrcc.org

Win, Lose or Draw? Assessing the EU-UK Trade Agreement
2021-03-04 12:00 - 13:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Three leading commentators on European trade, diplomacy, and Northern Ireland will analyse the Agreement signed by the EU and UK in December. Who came out on top in the negotiations and how will the Agreement affect the future of Ireland – North and South – the UK and EU?

Panellists

Katy Hayward (Prof. of Political Sociology, Queen’s University Belfast)

David O’Sullivan (former EU Ambassador to the United States and Secretary General of the European Commission)

Carlo Trojan (former Secretary General of the European Commission; head of the European Commission Task Force on Northern Ireland; and EU Ambassador to the WTO)

Chairs: Prof. Daniel Carey and Prof. Niall Ó Dochartaigh

Sponsored by the Moore Institute in association with the MA in Public Policy at NUI Galway.
Webinar Recording

Watch the recording of this session below, or on YouTube

Silver Screens: Ageing Masculinities in Anglophone and European Cinema
2021-03-12 14:00 - 18:00 | Online
This webinar is part of an ongoing series of events organized as part of the GenderNet+ mascage project www.mascage.eu
tickets: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/silver-screens-ageing-masculinities-in-anglophone-and-european-cinemas-tickets-139834275081
in association with: Moore Institute, NUI Galway

Event organizers: Tony Tracy [Huston School of Film & Digital Media]; Michaela Schrage-Frueh [Dept of German] NUI Galway irishmascage@gmail.com

The Art of Reimagining: Culture, Universities, Cities
2021-03-15 15:00 - 16:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Hosted by Moore Institute Director Dan Carey, this webinar explores the topic of Capitals of Culture: how can universities engage in practice-based arts research and teaching? What are the challenges for Capitals of Culture amidst a global pandemic? Is what we want of cities changed forever? What role do culture and the arts play in the development of local, pan-European, and international networks of solidarity?
Panellists

Flora Carrijn, Provost of KU Leuven, who heads the Board of the University Network for European Capitals of Culture
Patrick Lonergan & Catherine Morris, co-editors of the University Network of European Capitals of Culture Spring 2021 special issue: Capitals of Culture: The Art of Reimagining

Ananya Rajoo, artist from Kerala, India, and MA student (Production & Curation), NUI Galway

Sean Ryder, Head of the School for English and the Creative Arts, NUI Galway
Eithne Verling, Director of the Museum of Galway
Karsten Xuereb, who led preparations for the European Capital of Culture in Malta (2011-2017)

Chair: Daniel Carey, Moore Institute
The webinar also serves as a launch for the University Network of European Capitals of Culture Spring online edition “European Capitals of Culture: The Art of Reimagining” edited by Patrick Lonergan and Catherine Morris. This online journal takes the place of the conference that would have happened in Galway in 2020.
Registration
To attend please register via: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_f0VjpOM-SSGN1StvwzdYAg. The session will also be streamed live on the Moore Institute’s YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXmrvs5vuVE
Webinar Recording

Webinar: Q&A with Neasa Hardiman
2021-03-16 12:00 - 13:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
The Huston School of Film & Digital Media series on media careers continues next week with a Q&A with director Neasa Hardiman. Neasa is a BAFTA winning film and television director whose credits include Happy Valley, Jessica Jones and Casualty. She has directed series for BBC, Netflix and Amazon as well as feature films such as Sea Fever (2019). Neasa will be discussing her career in film and television and the experience of directing big-budget high-profile television series such as the Marvel series Jessica Jones and Inhumans.
Registration
The talk will take place next Tuesday 16th March at 12pm. Places are limited so please register to attend on Zoom at https://tinyurl.com/27d5jym4. The session will also be streamed on the Moore Institute’s Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/mooreinstitute/live

Webinar: Anna Falkenau , “Hotspots' for Revival Sessions" - Irish Studies Seminar Series
2021-03-18 16:00 - 17:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Irish Studies Seminar Series, in association with the Moore Institute, NUI Galway.
Anna Falkenau (Freyer-Hardiman Scholar, Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway), “‘Hotspots’ for Revival Sessions”: Micro and macro flows in the emergence and development of Galway City into an urban centre of Irish traditional music-making.
Join us for our first Spring Seminar in Irish Studies with NUI Galway doctoral scholar Anna Falkenau who will speak on her current research on the relationship between urban spaces and traditional Irish music-making in Galway. We are delighted to have An tOllamh Lillis Ó Laoire (Gaeilge, OÉ Gaillmh) join us as well in the zoom room afterwards, as a respondent to this session, chaired by Dr Nessa Cronin (Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway). For further information please contact: nessa.cronin@nuigalway.ie
Attendance
Zoom registration link for seminar attendees is available here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jDXWMp45R-2q2-2OKUQBpQ. The session will be live-streamed on the Moore Institute’s Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/mooreinstitute/live
About the Speaker
A recipient of a Freyer-Hardiman scholarship from NUI Galway, Anna Falkenau is currently conducting doctoral research at the Centre for Irish Studies on local and global flows in the development of Irish traditional music in Galway City between 1961 and 1981. She previously received her Master of Arts in Music from Wesleyan University, Connecticut, USA (2004) and graduated from University College Cork (BMus, 2002). She is a contributor to the forthcoming book Hardiman and after: Galway Culture and Society, 1820-2020 with a core chapter entitled, “‘It was in the Air’: Irish Traditional Music in Galway, 1960-1979,” edited by John Cunningham and Ciaran McDonagh.

Book launch: Deniable Contact by Niall Ó Dochartaigh (Oxford University Press, 2021)
2021-03-26 17:00 - 18:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Update: Watch a Recording of the Session

Overview
Launched by Prof. Ian McBride (Foster Professor of Irish History, Oxford)
To attend, please register via: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/96749370440?pwd=[REDACTED]
Join us for a conversation between Niall Ó Dochartaigh and Ian McBride to mark the publication of Deniable Contact: Back-Channel Negotiation in Northern Ireland.
Deniable Contact provides the first full-length study of the secret negotiations and back-channels that were used in repeated efforts to end the Northern Ireland conflict. The analysis is founded on a rich store of historical evidence, including the private papers of key Irish republican leaders, recently released papers from national archives in Dublin and London, and the papers of Brendan Duddy, the intermediary who acted as the primary contact between the IRA and the British government on several occasions over a span of two decades, including papers that have not yet been made publicly available. This documentary evidence, combined with original interviews with politicians, mediators, civil servants, and republicans, allows a vivid picture to emerge of the complex maneuvering at this intersection.

Niall Ó Dochartaigh is Personal Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland Galway. He is the author of Deniable Contact: Back-channel Negotiation in Northern Ireland (2021) and Civil Rights to Armalites: Derry and the birth of the Irish Troubles (1997; 2005). He is co-editor of Political Violence in Context (2015) and Dynamics of Political Change in Ireland: Making and Breaking a Divided Island (2017).
Ian McBride
Ian McBride is the Foster Professor of Irish History at Hertford College, University of Oxford. His books include The Siege of Derry in Ulster Protestant Mythology (1997) and Scripture Politics: Ulster Presbyterians and Irish Radicalism in the Late Eighteenth Century (1998), both short-listed for the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Literary Prize; and Eighteenth-Century Ireland: The Isle of Slaves (2009). He is co-editor, with Richard Bourke, of The Princeton History of Modern Ireland (2016).

Webinar: Q&A with Adam Roche
2021-03-30 15:00 - 16:00 | Online
Huston School of Film & Digital Media and the Moore Institute present a Q&A with Adam Roche creator of The Secret History of Hollywood and Attaboy Clarence Podcasts.
Attendance
The session will take place live on Zoom – please register to attend at: https://tinyurl.com/ayv9m888.
Watch the Recording

Centre for Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism (CALM) Seminar Series: Corpus linguistics tools in language acquisition.
2021-04-15 18:00 - 19:00 | Online
Guest Speaker: Prof. Anna Bączkowska, University of Gdansk
Prof. Anna Bączkowska, University of Gdansk, will talk about the CHILDES database, which is a repository of transcripts of conversations held among adults and children.The data illustrate developmental changes occurring in language acquisition in monolingual and bilingual children. Some corpus and NLP tools which allow one to extract material from the database as well as some statistical information available through different software programs will be demonstrated. Examples will be shown and analysed by resorting to the data of bilingual and multilingual children.
Info/register: https://tinyurl.com/v8hcvt97

Event Recording

Conference: Speculative Art And Spatial Justice
2021-04-16 - 2021-04-17 | Online
How can imaginative practices create fairer and safer spaces?
About

The greatest challenges of our time – from climate crisis, global migrations, income inequality to the recent COVID-19 pandemic – can be regarded as spatial issues. The geographies of globalization – the settlements, landscapes, infrastructures, networks, supply chains, markets, and factories which make up our world – are produced unevenly in a fashion which entrenches poverty and exacerbates planetary pollution (Harvey 2000). As a result of geopolitical interventions, a great number of people have been deprived of their rights to both public and private spaces, whereas increased mobility in the developed world has undermined the established concepts of dwelling and spatial rootedness.

Addressing the overlapping issues of social oppression and spatial injustice (Soja 2010) – such as exploitation of natural resources, unsustainable urbanisation, aggressive agriculture – demands a radical transformation of local, national and global spaces. Energy transitions, investments in public infrastructures and services, provisioning of safe and affordable housing, and restoration of green and blue spaces are just some of the changes we need to see. Emergency governmental responses to COVID-19 initiated rapid and radical societal changes that would have previously been unimaginable to many.

Taking the pandemic response as one of the examples of a possible paradigm shift in terms of the kind of political action that can be imagined, this workshop emphasises the vital role of speculative fiction, film and visual art in shaping the physical world. Amid the global pandemic, and at the doorstep of climate breakdown, how can imaginative practices address and rectify spatial injustice?

Speculative literature and art – understood broadly here as a category encompassing science fiction, fantasy, eco-fiction, utopia and dystopia – have long been concerned with imagining space differently. In depicting future or alternative worlds, artists can explore the spatial dynamics of oppression, exploitation and despoliation under today’s global capitalism. Yet, is it possible to go from cultural representation to societal transformation? Can our “reflection upon the virtual guide our understanding of the real (or actual)”, as Henri Lefebvre suggested in his seminal work The Production of Space (1974)? How can we see the spaces of speculative art as potential shapers of healthier and fairer environments? Conversely, how do these artworks deny visions and narratives which erase the spatial abuses of our past, present and future?

Works cited:

Harvey, David, Spaces of Hope, Edinburgh, University Press, 2000.
Lefebvre, Henri, The Production of Space, Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith, Blackwell Publishing, 2008.
Soja, Edward, Seeking Spatial Justice, University of Minnesota Press, 2010.

For more information see: http://sasj2021.com/

The workshop will take place on April 16-17, 2021 via Zoom.
For registration please email us at sasj2021@gmail.com
or apply via registration form.
Registration deadline is April 14, 2021 at 8 PM (GMT).
Registration is free of charge.

The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature: Writing the Unspeakable
2021-04-29 16:00 - 17:00
Irish Studies’ Seminar Series-Spring 2021 – School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies, in association with the Moore Institute, NUI Galway.
Distinguished Professor in English and Disability Studies Joseph Valente, PhD, and the John and Rebecca Moores Professor of English at the University of Houston Margot Gayle Backus, PhD, will speak on their newly published book The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature: Writing the Unspeakable. The authors examine modern cultural responses to child sex abuse in Ireland. Beginning with James Joyce, they offer historically contextualized and psychoanalytically informed readings of scandal narratives by nine notable modern Irish authors who actively, pointedly, and persistently question Ireland’s responsibilities regarding its children. Through close, critical readings, a more nuanced and troubling account emerges of how Ireland’s postcolonial heritage has served to enable such abuse.
With a Foreword by Fintan O’Toole, The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature refines the debates on why so many Irish children were lost by offering insight into the lived experience of both the children and those who failed them.
Speakers

Professor Margot Backus (University of Houston)
Professor Joseph Valente (University at Buffalo, SUNY)

Chair: Dr Nessa Cronin, Centre for Irish Studies, School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies, NUI Galway.
Registration
Please register for this Zoom webinar at: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IViKcWogTpeu3Gnon1QNZA. The session will also be streamed live on the Moore Institute’s Facebook page.
Event Recording

May Day webinar: Revolution? Ireland from below, c.1919-1923
2021-04-29 20:00 - 21:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
This webinar, hosted by the Irish Centre for Histories of Labour and Class and the Moore Institute, looks at Ireland from below in the Revolutionary period. During the Irish struggle for independence, and underpinning that struggle, a number of grassroots social movements – including general strikes, land seizures, and the munitions boycott by transport workers – developed. In recent commemorative events, this aspect of the history of the period has frequently been overlooked. The panel will discuss various social struggles of 1919-1923, considering the objectives of those involved, their notions of justice and equity, and their connections with political and military organisations.
Panellists

Dr Anne Boran
Francis Devine
Dr Terry Dunne
Ms Moira Leyden
Dr Peter Rigney

MODERATOR:
Dr John Cunningham, Director – ICHLC
Followed by the launch of Peter Rigney’s How Railwaymen and Dockers Defied an Empire: The Irish Munitions Embargo of 1920, launched by Tish Gibbons.
Registration
To attend, please register via: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VfbdNcjSSD6fx9B9UIhplA. The session will also be streamed live on the Moore Institute’s Facebook page.
Event Recording

What’s happening in Myanmar? From Putsch to popular protest
2021-05-06 14:00 - 15:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Moore Institute, Centre for Global Women’s Studies, and School of Political Science Sociology webinar with Vijaya Nidadavolu
Min Aung Hlaing, the Commander-in-Chief of the Myanmar military, staged a coup d’etat on February 1st and with it Myanmar’s tentative democratic transition has been brought to a violent halt. A popular multi-centric protest that coalesced in the immediate aftermath continues to-date, taking the military and observers by surprise by its size, unity and innovativeness.
This session will provide an overview of what is happening on the ground in Myanmar and the forces behind the protest movement. Discussion will focus on the prolific protest art movement led by youth, including young women in particular.
The speaker, Vijaya Nidadavolu, is a Gender and Development specialist with years of experience in using popular culture and media for advancing gender and social justice issues. She has lived in Myanmar since 2015, but has recently left as a result of the coup.
Registration
To attend please register via: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xr1aKMFeTF6nIoLIhb3nIQ. The session will also be live-streamed on the Moore Institute’s YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvQR8_0nWZ8
Event Recording

"He [She] got this Air out of the Night”: Environments of Irish Music
2021-05-06 16:00 - 17:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Irish Studies’ Seminar Series-Spring 2021 – School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies, in association with the Moore Institute, NUI Galway.
This seminar showcases three recently graduated PhD researchers in Irish Studies, Dr Malachy Egan, Dr Michael Lydon, Dr Rory McCabe, all of whom have music culture and music-making as their central research area. In this seminar, these researchers will investigate environments of Irish music, exploring the use of noise to signal specific spaces in popular music; space and place and space in the work and approach of Seán Ó Riada; and environment and ethnography on Clare Island.
Speakers

Dr Malachy Egan
Dr Michael Lydon
Dr Rory McCabe. (PhD in Irish Studies, NUI Galway 2020-21)

Guest Respondent: Dr Ann-Marie Hanlon, Department of Creative Arts, Media and Music, Dundalk Institute of Technology.
Chair: Dr Méabh Ní Fhuartháin, Centre for Irish Studies, School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies, NUI Galway.
Registration
Please register for this Zoom webinar at: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KHjNR_vkSyKPrU0xpaOtdQ. The session will also be streamed live on the Moore Institute’s Facebook page.
Event Recording

CAMPS: 'The Crown's Ecclesiastical Creditors: Loans from the English Church to Edward II and Edward III, 1307-1377'
2021-05-07 12:00 - 13:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
CAMPS Research Labs provide a forum for staff and graduate students from all disciplines involved to come together in order to present work-in-progress and debate research issues. CAMPS Labs to date have taken a two-hour format, typically initiated with a presentation of specific research themes, questions and challenges, leading into informal and often very wide-ranging discussions.
Join us for this week’s CAMPS Lab on Friday 7th May at 12 noon.
Robin McCallum will be speaking to us on ‘The Crown’s Ecclesiastical Creditors: Loans from the English Church to Edward II and Edward III, 1307-1377’.
To join this Zoom Event, please click the following link
https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/93525513053?pwd=[REDACTED]

CAMPS: Epic Similes in In Cath Catharda, the Middle Irish version of Lucan's epic of the Roman Civil War
2021-05-14 14:00 - 15:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
CAMPS Research Labs provide a forum for staff and graduate students from all disciplines involved to come together in order to present work-in-progress and debate research issues. CAMPS Labs to date have taken a two-hour format, typically initiated with a presentation of specific research themes, questions and challenges, leading into informal and often very wide-ranging discussions.
Maio NAGASHIMA will be presenting on Friday, 14th May, on Epic Similes in In Cath Catharda, the Middle Irish version of Lucan’s epic of the Roman Civil War.
Note the later-than-usual time of 2 pm, as the speaker will be joining us from Japan.
Maio is a PhD research student at the University of Tokyo and an affiliate of the Classical Influences and Irish Culture project at the University of Aarhus, Denmark (https://clic.au.dk/people/research-affiliates/).
To join this Zoom event, please click the following link
https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/94462800978?pwd=[REDACTED]

Covid-19: The Crisis in India
2021-05-19 14:00 - 15:00 | Online
In this special webinar, colleagues living in India and observing the situation closely will report on the devastating impact of the crisis during the latest phase of the pandemic. Issues addressed will include the public health situation, the loss life, grief and funerals, rural vs. urban India, regional variation, the political response, and education.
Panellists

Prof. Kanchana Mahadevan (University of Mumbai)
Dr Sanjay Nagral (Jaslok Hospital & Research Centre, Mumbai)
Dr Srinivas Raghavendran (NUI Galway)
Aveek Sen (journalist in Kolkata)
Dr Archana Venkatesh (Clemson University)

Chair: Prof. Daniel Carey (NUI Galway)

Session Recordings
Video Recording

Audio Recording

Registration
To attend, please register via: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_omWY4L5cR0C9ts6DdGz9fg. The session will also be broadcast live on the Moore Institute’s Facebook page via https://www.facebook.com/events/899704087547026/

Webinar: Diversity in Publishing
2021-05-21 17:30 - 19:30 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Hosted by Dr Lindsay Reid and postgraduate students from the MA in Literature in Publishing, this webinar will feature Sarah Bannan (Head of Literature, The Arts Council of Ireland), Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan (arts manager, writer, and performer), and Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe (author, editor, and founder of P[l]ay It Forward Fellowships) speaking on the topic of diversity in publishing.
This event has been generously funded by the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Project Fund at NUI Galway. All are welcome!
Registration
To attend this session on Zoom, please register at: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yLnoF9sJQxmW0QT1zQvuZw. The session will be live-streamed on the Moore Institute’s Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/mooreinstitute/live.

Event Recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ObDzx0Ny6M

Naming the Traces: (Re)Constructing an Irish-Canadian Family Narrative of Emigration, Place-Making, and Return
2021-05-26 16:00 - 17:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Irish Studies’ Seminar Series-Spring 2021 – School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies, in association with the Moore Institute, NUI Galway.
On what narrative, mnemonic, and spatial scaffolding is an intergenerational family story built? How, as writers and historians, can we access the family memories that inform these stories, and reconstruct the past, despite the gaps and silences that are present in the narrative? This research-creation dissertation project addresses these questions through the medium of an intergenerational family memoir. The narrative reconstructs my great-grandmother Norah Davin’s journey in 1928 from her home in the village of Shrule, County Mayo, Ireland to Montreal, where she gave birth to my grandmother Rose in a home for unmarried mothers. It then follows several generational strands of my family’s “emplaced” memories in Montreal, focusing—in the tradition of memoirs of working-class family life by Annette Kuhn, Christine Walley, Carolyn Steedman, and Sharon O’Brien—primarily, though not exclusively, on the stories of the women in my family. Here, I reflect upon how, as an adult, I have forged my own relationship with specific regions in the west of Ireland, illustrating that despite the “estranging power of displacement” that many families experience after emigration, connections can be re-configured, and established anew.
Speaker
Ms Kelly Norah Drukker (Michael Smith Foreign Study Scholar, Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway 2021-22 and Humanities Doctoral Candidate, School of Irish Studies,Concordia University, Montreal).
Guest Respondent: Dr Barbara Lorenzkowski (Department of History,Concordia University, Montreal).
Chair: Dr Nessa Cronin, Centre for Irish Studies, School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies, NUI Galway.
Registration
Please register for this Zoom webinar at: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EOwbgP9iTVemSng6oNT-gQ. The session will also be streamed live on the Moore Institute’s Facebook page.

Session Recordings
Video Recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiPcpcMu2RU
Audio Recording
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J. M. Synge and Performance Traditions
2021-05-26 17:30 - 18:30 | Online
Panel discussion and launch of Hélène Lecossois’s Performance, Modernity and the Plays of J. M. Synge (Cambridge, 2020).
Panellists

Alice Maher (Artist)
Adrian Paterson (NUI Galway)
Shaun Richards (Staffordshire University)

Registration
To attend, please register via: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XxVRKRs7S7O6w5R7jgyGUQ

Session Recordings
Video Recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HyPNQ7R6ok
Audio Recording

W.J.T. Mitchell: Present Tense 2020 – On the Iconology of Time
2021-06-09 16:00 - 17:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
In an anachronistic gathering of images of time from ancient and modern sources, the lecture attempts to replace the ontology of time with an iconology that may provide some useful tools for keeping our bearings in the midst of our epoch.
Respondents

Jeannine Kraft (Columbus College of Art and Design, Ohio, USA),
Nessa Cronin (Irish Studies, NUI Galway)

Registration
Register for this Zoom Webinar via https://tinyurl.com/uha5fd. The session will also be broadcast live on the Moore Institute’s Facebook Page.
About the Series
Convenor: Paolo Bartoloni (Italian, NUI Galway)
Organising Committee: Paolo Bartoloni, Dan Carey, Nessa Cronin, Adrian Paterson, El Putnam, Elizabeth Tilley
Funding provided by: NUI Galway to celebrate Galway’s designation as European Capital of Culture; College of Arts Research Support Scheme.

Event Recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WFCen3FmbE&t=6s

W.J.T. Mitchell: Art, Community, and Resistance
2021-06-10 16:00 - 17:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
This lecture will survey the role of activist artistic practices in a number of different sites, including demonstrations, murals, exhibitions, archives, and educational facilities.
» Scat/Rap Counterpoint
Respondents

Timothy Stott (Trinity College Dublin),
El Putnam (Huston School of Film and Digital Media, NUI Galway)

Registration
Register for this Zoom Webinar via https://tinyurl.com/3zr7jfhk. The session will also be broadcast live on the Moore Institute’s Facebook Page.
About the Series
Convenor: Paolo Bartoloni (Italian, NUI Galway)
Organising Committee: Paolo Bartoloni, Dan Carey, Nessa Cronin, Adrian Paterson, El Putnam, Elizabeth Tilley
Funding provided by: NUI Galway to celebrate Galway’s designation as European Capital of Culture; College of Arts Research Support Scheme.

Event Recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWrzrDKFjd4&t=229s

CAMPS: 8th International Conference on the Science of Computus in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, 17-19 June 2021
2021-06-17 - 2021-06-19 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
8th International Conference on the Science of Computus in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Galway 17-19 June 2021
Since 2006, the Moore Institute of the National University of Ireland in Galway has hosted, under the direction of Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, a biannual conference on the science of computus in the Middle Ages. Computus – the mathematics required to calculate the date of Easter, and related topics – straddles the fields of mathematics and astronomy, biblical interpretation and cosmology, empirical astronomical observation, and the perennial quest to understand the concepts of time and time-Reckoning.
The core period covered by the Galway Conference stretches from the beginnings of Easter calculations in the third century to the introduction of Arabic and Greek science in the Latin West in the 12th century, but papers on the reckoning of time and its cultural context in the later Middle Ages have also always been welcome. Each conference has had a special theme (e.g., the formation of computus in Late Antiquity; the rise of prognostications in the early Middle Ages; the revolution of computus in the 11th and 12th centuries; computus in the Carolingian Age; computus and the vernacular; etc.).
The upcoming conference will start on 17 June with a special panel addressing the following fundamental conceptual question:
What is early medieval Latin science?
We are very happy to confirm that the following scholars have accepted to present in this panel: Faith Wallis (Montreal), John J. Contreni (Purdue), Philipp Nothaft (Dublin), James T. Palmer (St. Andrews).
18 June and 19 June will be devoted to thematic sessions covering topics of computistical interest from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period. The conference will end on 19 June with a show-case of three websites recently developed as part of the following three projects:
IFCE – The Irish Foundation of Carolingian Europe: the case of calendrical science (funded by the Irish Research Council Laureate Programme)
IRCABRITT – Ireland and Carolingian Brittany: Texts and Transmission (funded by the Irish Research Council Laureate Programme)
Innovating Knowledge – Isidore’s Etymologiae in the Carolingian Period (funded by the Nederlandse Wetenschapelijke Organisatie)
Registration:
This conference will be held digitally through Zoom. A link will be sent to all registered participants a day in advance, for each conference day. Please register here:
https://forms.gle/1CCaed7K1UhCsv5g8
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us at: computusgalway@gmail.com
Programme:
THURSDAY, 17 JUNE:
Session 1: ‘What is early medieval Latin science?’
15:00-15:25: James T. Palmer (St. Andrews)
15:25-15:50: Philipp Nothaft (Dublin)
16:00-16:25: Faith Wallis (Montreal)
16:25-16:50: John J. Contreni (Purdue)
16:50-18:00: Open discussion
18:30: Virtual Pub
FRIDAY, 18 JUNE:
Session 2: Eschatology
9:30-9:55: Tobit Loevenich (Dublin) – Usque ad mediam noctem: an eschatological passage in the Computus Einsidlensis
9:55-10:20: Elisa Ramazzina (Belfast) – Monsters at the end of time
10:20-10:45: Discussion
Session 3: The Carolingian Age
11:15-11:40: Christian Schweizer (Dublin) – Computus, quadrivium, and poetry in Dicuil’s Liber de astronomia
11:40-12:05: Mariken Teeuwen (Amsterdam) – Carolingian readers of Martianus and Boethius: How did they gloss the Ars arithmetica?
12:05-12:30: Discussion
Session 4: 9th and 10th – century Breton connections
14:00-14:25: Paula Harrison (Galway) – Seeing through a manuscript, darkly: illumination through computistical networks as witnessed in Laon Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 422
14:25-14:50: Jacopo Bisagni (Galway) / Immo Warntjes (Dublin) – Abbo of Fleury’s Breton lunar calendar
14:50-15:15: Discussion
Session 5: Later developments
15:45-16:10: Fathi Jarray (Tunis) – The distribution of water with timekeeping in the Islamic oasis: a shared knowledge from the Antiquity to the Modern epoch
16:10-16:35: Leofranc Holford-Strevens (Oxford) – Thomas Lydiat’s proposal for a new calendar
16:35-17:00: Discussion
18:00-19:00: Presentation of latest publications in the field
This session includes a discussion with editors of series that are interested in, or have a track record of, publishing monographs on matters computistical. We hope that this will give a sense of potential publication venues, especially to colleagues at the beginning of their careers.
19:00: Virtual Pub
SATURDAY, 19 JUNE:
Session 6: Late Antiquity
14:00-14:25: Sr. Maria Theotokos Adams, SSVM (Washington, DC) – Computus and exegesis in Eusebius of Caesarea
14:25-14:50: Daniel Mc Carthy (Dublin) – Sulpicius Severus’ construction of his 84-year paschal table
14:50-15:15: Discussion
Session 7: Websites / Databases
15:45-16:45: Presentation of the following websites:
Database of pre-AD 900 computistical manuscripts / texts / objects – Judith ter Horst (Dublin)
A descriptive handlist of Breton manuscripts, c. AD 780–1100 – Jacopo Bisagni (Galway)
Database of early medieval manuscripts of Isidore’s Etymologiae – Evina Steinová (Amsterdam)
16:45-17:15: Discussion
