Gender Arc Seminar: Headscarves at Work: The Court of Justice of the EU, the US and the Idea of Neutrality
2018-11-15 13:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
Gender Arc Seminar: Headscarves at Work: The Court of Justice of the EU, the US and the Idea of Neutrality
By Dr Ioanna Tourkochoriti
Thursday 15 November, 1-2pm
The Hardiman Research Building, R1001 (the Bridge Room)

The Rory Kavanagh Bursary Presentation
2018-11-15 17:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The Rory Kavanagh Bursary Presentation
Final Year Italian student and recipient of the Rory Kavanagh Bursary, Éilis Gillespie, will make a presentation about her experience during the Erasmus Year Abroad in Italy. The Registrar and Deputy President will introduce the evening.

EDEN's Write Club
2018-11-15 17:00 - 18:30 (Europe/Dublin)
Write Club!
EDEN’s Write Club is back for a mid-November writing session! Have you been looking to get that chapter draft, article, or conference paper started? Has your writing has taken a little bit of a back step due to the growing demands of the semester?
Come along and join us in the Bridge Room from 5.00-6.30pm on Thursday 15th November where we will simply WRITE and have (quick 5 minute) chats about what we are working on and exchange writing tips or rants!
This is not a peer-review session where feedback will be offered, but a writing session where we will write as a group to the same clock. EDEN’s Write Club takes its title and inspiration from Dr. Ian Walsh who established Write Club three years ago year as a weekly writing group which is usually held in the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama,Theatre and Performance which was passed onto us by Ciara L. Murphy and Justine Nakase. In this session, we will use the Pomodoro Technique where we will write for 25 minutes, and take a break for 5 minutes (x3).
Come and give it a try! Just bring yourself and your laptop!

CIORCAL SCRÍBHNEOIREACHTA
2018-11-15 18:00, 2018-11-22 18:00, 2018-11-29 18:00 - 19:00, 2018-12-06 18:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
An bhfuil suim agat i scríbhneoireacht na Gaeilge? An bhfuil tú ag iarraidh do shaothar féin a roinnt le daoine, agus aiseolas a fháil, nó d’obair a phlé go neamhfhoirmiúil le daoine eile a bhfuil Gaeilge acu? Nó an bhfuil tú ag iarraidh éisteacht le scríbhneoirí eile ag léamh a saothar amach os ard? Má tá, déan cinnte go dtagann tú chun ár gciorcal scríbhneoireachta, a bheas ar siúl achan Déardaoin ag a 6 i seomra an Droichid in Institúid de Mórdha. Beidh muid ag súil le fáilte a chur roimh achan duine a bhfuil Gaeilge agus fonn scríbhneoireachta acu!

Celtic Sociolinguistics Symposium III
2018-11-16 - 2018-11-17 | Friday: Aras na Gaeilge. Saturday: G010, The Hardiman Research Building
The third biennial Celtic Sociolinguistics Symposium will take place at NUIG in November 16th-17th 2018. As in the previous two Celtic Sociolinguistics symposia, we have attracted a diversity of scholars working in various areas related to linguistic and sociocultural aspects of one (or more) of the six Celtic languages. This year’s theme is ‘Communities in Conversation,’ a theme which seeks to facilitate further collaboration between academics and the many different social actors working towards the maintenance of one (or more) of the Celtic languages within the community. Over the two days, we will have over fifteen paper presentations, four plenaries delivered by Dr. Holly Kennard (Oxford Univeristy), Dr. Noel Ó Murchadha (Trinity College Dublin), Dr Gwennan Higham (Swansea University) and Dr. Stuart Dunmore (University of Edinburgh), and a media panel organised by Dr. John Walsh (NUIG). More information, including the programme, can be found on our website.

Centre for Antique, Medieval and Pre-Modern Studies, Research Labs (CAMPS) Research Labs.
2018-11-16 12:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Pádraic Moran: Translating the Greek Bible in the Ninth Century: Evidence of Glossed Irish Manuscripts
Noémi Farkas Biblical Exempla in Sedulius Scottus’ De rectoribus Christianis.

Digital Scholarship Seminar 43: Peter Stokes
2018-11-20 12:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Arts Millennium Psychology Building G067
Digital Scholarship Seminar 43: Peter Stokes
12pm | Tues 20 Nov 2018 | Arts Millennium/Psychology Building G067
Peter Stokes (Paris, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Université PSL)
Modelling texts and manuscripts: some digital approaches to material texts
Palaeographers, codicologists and indeed textual editors have long engaged with technological developments and the challenges that they present, and recent years are no exception to that. Developments in digital imaging, the internet, the availability of powerful computers and new algorithms in machine vision and artificial intelligence: all these are already transforming the way we study and understand books and the texts they contain. Nevertheless, real questions remain here. What does it mean to represent a material object digitally: what do we gain and lose, and when does it matter? Where are the foreseeable limits to what the computer can achieve? Conversely, are we fully taking advantage of all the computer has to offer? Are we driving the technology, or is it leading us? This talk will discuss these issues through consideration of some recent developments in the application of digital and computational methods to historical books and writing, focussing particularly on the recently completed ‘Exon’ project on the Exon Domesday survey of South-West England.

Creative Coding Meet-up
2018-11-20 15:00 - 16:00, 2018-12-04 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Dublin) | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
This semester we’re going to run a weekly session for those interested in learning “creative coding”. This approach is a good way for those without any coding experience to develop a foundation in programming. The sessions will use online resources (see below) to guide self-directed learning.

Creative coding is a different discipline than programming systems. The goal is to create something expressive instead of something functional. Interaction design, information visualization and generative art are all different types of creative coding – which has become a household term describing artworks articulated as code. (via Awesome Creative Coding )

What can I expect?

This is a peer support group, not an instructor-led workshop / class.
It’s an opportunity to schedule some time each week to develop your coding skills, and to get some help, if you need it.
There are a collection of tutorial videos (bring headphones), online courses and reference material linked to in the “Further Details” section below, for you to work through at your own pace.

If you have no coding experience, and aren’t sure where or how to start, someone will help you.
Come along, meet people who are also learning to code, and get help if you run into any problems. Showing what you’re working on would be great too.
Further details
You can find further details, and learning resources, at: https://github.com/dh-nuigalway/Creative-Coding-Meetup. We are planning on hosting the sessions on Tuesdays from 3pm – 4pm, in the “Bridge Room”, on the first floor of the Hardiman Research Building.
Any questions?: Contact David Kelly (david.d.kelly@nuigalway.ie)

Talk on Islam and Comparative Theology “The People of The Book, ahl al-kitāb: A Modern Comparative Theological Exploration” by Richard Kimball (TCD)
2018-11-20 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
This paper examines the use of the Qur’ānic term ahl al-kitāb by several contemporary Muslim and Christian scholars in the context of our increasingly interconnected and pluralist societies. The Arabic term ahl al-kitāb is frequently translated as the People of the Book. The People of the Book are the religious communities that the Qur’ān identifies as following divine revelation in the form of a book. Traditionally these communities are Jews, Christians, Sabians and to a lesser extent Zoroastrians. Sometimes the Qur’ān praises these communities and their sacred texts and other times they are criticised. Therefore, what the Qur’ān has to say about these communities and their texts is highly contextual, requiring nuanced understanding of any verse in question.
For Islamic scholars, the application of the Qur’ānic commentary tradition, known as tafsīr allows for an authoritative link to the past that anchors their contribution in modern discourse. Variations from past interpretations of particular social issues, due to modern social pressures like participation as equal citizens in multi-faith and multi-cultural societies, often follow formal reflection on past scholarship, combined with the introduction of new modern contexts as variables in the decision-making process. The research subsequently demonstrates the resilience of the parameters set within the traditional commentary for Muslim interlocutors. Therefore, this paper posits, greater awareness by Christians of the application of the traditional commentary, can play an important role in the development of improved dialogue and cooperation, whereby each may respect the other as fully Muslim and fully Christian.

Key words: ahl al-kitāb, asbâb an-nuzûl, bid‘ah, fitra, hadīth, People of the Book, ra’y, sahabah, tafsīr, tabi’un, taqlīd.

Modernist Studies Ireland's: Works in Progress
2018-11-20 18:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
Modernist Studies Ireland’s monthly forum for new on-going work in Irish modernist studies—Works in Progress—cordially invites you to its third session of this autumnal season, taking place on Tuesday, 20th Nov., from 6-8 pm in The Bridge Room (THB), as per usual with nibbles and wine. This seminar will open to view the much understudied literary modernism of Irish language writers in the twentieth century. We’re honoured to welcome two speakers from NUI Galway’s Centre for Irish studies for the occasion. Hardiman and IRC scholar Eoin Byrne will be speaking about ‘Semantic Succour: The Languages of Irish Modernism’ in the context of the works of Samuel Beckett, Máirtín Ó Cadhain, and Brian Ó Nualláin (Flann O’Brien), illuminating the late-modernist cultural production during Ireland’s postcolonial moment. A multilingual approach to this cultural moment, Eoin’s paper posits, not only strengthens the New Modernist Studies’ ‘vertical expansion’; it also helps in better sketching the blurred borders between modernist and postmodernist aesthetics more generally. Our second speaker is IRC and Hardiman scholar Síobhra Aiken, who recently curated the exhibition Máirtín Ó Direáin: Fathach File/Reluctant Modernist, held in NUI Galway from March-July 2018, and currently on tour. Síobhra’s talk, entitled ‘“Ní file ach filíocht an bhean”: Towards a Gendered Reading of Irish Language Modernist Poetry’, will put the gendered streak of Irish language modernist poetry centre stage. Please join us for what promises to be a most intriguing event, keen to shine a light on many severely neglected dimensions of Irish modernism and its critical apprehension.

Dr Michael O’Dowd, NUIG The Speculum Matricis midwifery manual 1670 and my research journey
2018-11-21 16:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building

Geopolitics and Justice Cluster: Human Security Talk
2018-11-22 16:00 (Europe/Dublin) | B.S. Mac Aodha Seminar Room 113, Discipline of Geography, NUI Galway, Ireland
Dorothy Estrada-Tanck (University of Murcia, Spain)
“Human security and international human rights law in the Mediterranean crisis”
Abstract:
The unspeakable tragedy faced by thousands of migrant persons dying at sea trying to reach the European Mediterranean coast from the Middle East and North Africa has resulted in nearly 2,000 registered deaths in 2018. This situation, deriving from the protection gaps and deficient and unjust migration policies of national, EU and international legal systems, compel us to propose novel theoretical frameworks for thought and action. Human security has been advanced as the protection of the vital core of all human lives in ways that enhance human freedoms and human fulfillment, and safeguarding people from critical and pervasive threats and situations. I make the argument that a human security approach adds significant value to the traditional purely legal analysis of human rights. Drawing on UN and European human rights law and jurisprudence, I will explore the concrete ways in which this may play out in practice. I contend that human security and human rights can act together as a blueprint to address the Mediterranean crisis in a more just and efficient manner, and thus address one of the greatest challenges of our time.
About the speaker: Dorothy Estrada-Tanck is Assistant Professor of International Law at the University of Murcia, Spain. She holds a PhD in Law from the European University Institute, an MSc in Political Theory from LSE and a law degree (Mexico City). She enjoys broad academic and professional experience in the United Nations, State bodies and NGOs in Mexico, Italy, the U.S. and Spain, focusing on issues of human rights, gender, and socio-economic justice. She is the author of Human Security and Human Rights under International Law: The Protections Offered to Persons Confronting Structural Vulnerability (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2016).
Contact details: +34 868883259; dorothyestrada@um.es

History Graduate Research Seminar
2018-11-28 16:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
History Graduate Research Seminar
Michael Loughman, NUIG
Oliver J. Flanagan TD (1920-87), monetary reformer

Agresso Information Session for PHD Students,
2018-11-29 11:00 - 12:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
The Moore Institute will be holding an Informative session on a accounts and this will be hosted by Martha Shaughnessy
this is an open session so all are welcome to attend.

Modernist Studies Ireland
2018-11-29 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
Research Seminar Organised by Modernist Studies Ireland Works in Progress

Republic Of Conscience
2018-11-30 13:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
For catering purposes, please RSVP laoighseach.nichoistealbha@oegaillimh.ie

Colúnaí agus eagarthóir liteartha leis an Irish Times é Fintan O’Toole. I measc na ngradam a bronnadh air tá European Press Prize (Commentator Award), Orwell Prize for Journalism, agus Ireland Journalism Awards Broadsheet Columnist of the Year. Bhronn Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh, dochtúireacht oinigh air sa bhliain 2017. Rinne Faber & Faber a choimisiúnú le beathaisnéis oifigiúil Seamus Heaney, buaiteoir Nobel, a scríobh.
Fintan O’Toole is columnist and literary editor for the Irish Times. Among the accolades he has received to date are the European Press Prize (Commentator Award), the Orwell Prize for Journalism, and Ireland Journalism Awards Broadsheet Columnist of the Year. He was awarded an honorary doctorate of laws by NUI Galway in 2017. He has been commissioned by Faber & Faber to write the official biography of Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney.

Information and Q&A session with Jim Carroll, Editor of RTÉ Brainstorm
2018-12-05 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
You are invited to attend an information and Q&A session with Jim Carroll, Editor of RTÉ Brainstorm on Wednesday, 5 December from 12pm-1pm in Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building.
Academics and Researchers of all levels are welcome to attend and hear more about how to communicate your work to a wider national audience through RTÉ Brainstorm.
To see NUI Galway article contributions to date, visit: https://www.rte.ie/eile/nui-galway/
For more about RTÉ Brainstorm, visit: https://www.rte.ie/eile/brainstorm/2017/0602/879925-brainstorm-submission/
For further information, contact Gwen O’Sullivan, Press and Information Executive, Press Office, NUI Galway at gwen.osullivan@nuigalway.ie or 091 495695.

"Open Science, Ireland and the Digital Repository of Ireland: where are we at and where are we going?"
2018-12-06 13:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Presentation by Natalie Harrower, Director of Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI)

The NUI Galway Research Data Working Group is delighted to host a presentation by Dr Natalie Harrower, Director of the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI). Natalie’s presentation will describe the work of the DRI in research data management, the report on Turning FAIR Data into Reality of which she is a co-author and recent international and national developments including the Draft National Statement on the Transition to an Open Research Environment issued by the National Open Research Forum.
Booking is essential – please book here

Irish Studies’ Seminar Series 2018-19
2018-12-06 16:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies, Distillery Road
“Hear The Band which is more powerful than the Atom Bomb!”
Labour, Aesthetics, and Irish Sit Down Dance Orchestras, 1940 – 1960

Professor Rebecca Miller, IACI-NUI Galway Visiting Fellow in Irish Studies, 2018-19. Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway.

Image: Noel Coade (compère) with unknown band and dancers, Dublin, ca. 1955. (Courtesy of the family of Noel Coade).
From the mid-1920s to the 1960s, audiences on both sides of the border flocked to parish and commercial dance halls to dance to big band jazz, popular music, and other styles as played by Irish “sit down” dance bands and orchestras. Well known touring groups such as the Mick Delahunty Orchestra, the Maurice Mulcahy Band, and the Gay McIntyre Band, as well as smaller, semi-professional dance bands such as the Brideside Serenaders (Tallow) and many others performed from sheet music of American big band jazz standards that were arranged and published in London and then imported to Ireland and Northern Ireland. They also played a range of other music, including Dixieland jazz, popular Irish songs, old time waltzes, and the occasional céilí dance.
Focusing primarily on sit down dance band musicians who were active in the post-World War II years, I argue that these musicians functioned, in part, as laborers whose job it was to keep their audiences dancing. As such, they engaged with their audiences’ fascination with American popular music and culture while at the same time, reflected Irish locality and musical aesthetics.
Using ethnographic interviews and archival sources, I also trace how these musicians, increasingly came to see themselves also as entertainers and artists. It was this changing perception that in part informed the emergence of the showband era of the 1960s/1970s and ultimately Ireland’s popular music industry.
Rebecca Miller is Professor of Music at Hampshire College, in Amherst, Massachusetts, and the 2018-2019 IACI-NUI Galway, Visiting Fellow in Irish Studies. Dr. Miller received a MA from Wesleyan University and the PhD in ethnomusicology from Brown University.
The author of Carriacou String Band Serenade: Performing Identity in the Eastern Caribbean (Wesleyan University Press, 2008), Professor Miller has published articles and chapters on traditional and popular music in both Ireland and in the USA. A recipient of Fulbright and Whiting Fellowships, among others, she is currently completing a book on Irish popular music, specifically Irish dance bands/orchestras and showbands.

The European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) is holding its inaugural conference
2018-12-07 - 2018-12-09 | Seminar Room G010, G011 and Room 1001 “The Bridge” in the Hardiman Research Institute and The Arts Millennium Building
The European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) is holding its inaugural conference in the Arts Millennium Building and The Moore Institute at NUI Galway from 7 to 9 December 2018. The general theme of the conference is “Data in Digital Humanities”. Keynote speakers include Elisabeth Burr (University of Leipzig) and Leonid Borodkin (Lomonosov Moscow State University). A roundtable session on the theme of data and digital humanities will be curated by Christof Schöch (University of Trier). Over 130 papers will be presented on issues such as the transformation of data for cultural heritage, use of data analytics in literary studies, natural language processing, data visualisation and modelling, and much more. Local committee chair Sean Ryder says: “We look forward to welcoming European and other international researchers who are working at the cutting edge of digital humanities research and practice. This conference will help us to understand the new roles that data is playing in arts and humanities scholarship and teaching, and its impact in the worlds of cultural heritage and the curation of knowledge.

Further details may be found at the conference website: eadh2018.eadh.org; or by contacting Sean Ryder at eadh.conference.2018@gmail.com

Jamie Canavan on Irish poet and dramatist Eva Gore-Booth (1870-1926). - Modern Irishwomen Lecture Series
2018-12-08 12:30 - 15:30 UTC | Education Room, Galway City Museum
Jamie Canavan on Irish poet and dramatist Eva Gore-Booth (1870-1926), younger sister of Constance Markievicz and a committed suffragist and labour activist.

Modern Irishwomen series
2018-12-08 14:30 (Europe/Dublin) | Education Room, Galway City Museum
The final talk in the Modern Irishwomen series in the museum will be given by a PhD student from NUIG, Jamie Canavan, on Saturday 8th December, 2:30pm.

https://www.galwaycitymuseum.ie/event/illustrated-talk-eva-goore-booth-1870-1926/

'The Boyne and Aughrim Compared' by Dr. Pádraig Lenihan
2018-12-11 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The Retired Staff Association is pleased to present ”The Boyne and Antrim Compared’ by Dr. Pádraig Lenihan.

Inaugural Lecture Series
2018-12-13 17:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Professor Enrico Dal Lago
“The Social Origins of Agrarian Violence in Comparative Perspective: The First Ku Klux Klan in South Carolina and the Early Mafia in Sicily, 1865-1875”
A comparative historical project focusing on the events and transformations that occurred in the United States in the period after the American Civil War and in Italy in the period after national unification can help us understand better the deep economic, social, and political changes experienced by the rural areas of the nineteenth-century Euro-American world.
This is especially true with regard to the U.S. South and southern Italy after 1865 and in relation to issues such as the agrarian elites’ ideologies and practices of power and the labour relations that characterized the agrarian countryside of the two regions – one of which was a former slave society, while the other one was a long-term free labour society. My aim in implementing the methodology of comparative history in this project is to research the specific ways in which the agrarian elites in the U.S. South and southern Italy, despite the temporary loss of power they experienced in the aftermath of the American Civil War and of Italian national unification, managed to maintain a tight grip on the agrarian working classes of the two southern regions – i.e., freed African Americans and free southern Italian peasants – preventing them from moving beyond the social status quo. In this lecture, I compare the Reconstruction U.S. South with post-unification southern Italy by investigating specifically the reasons behind the origin and expansion of violent practices of agrarian vigilantism and criminal activity in the cotton-producing regions of upcountry South Carolina and in the citrus-growing regions of coastal western Sicily. In comparable terms, in both the cases of upcountry South Carolina and coastal western Sicily, those violent practices were tightly related to both a regional agrarian past and the specific historical circumstances of the period between 1865 and 1875. Also in comparable terms, those practices led to the creation of two particular traditions of illegal violent activity – the first Ku Klux Klan and the early Mafia – which, although very different in character, served a similar purpose of controlling the agrarian workforce in areas characterized by the production of highly valuable cash-crops.
For more information please see
http://www.nuigalway.ie/colleges-and-schools/arts-social-sciences-and-celtic-studies/lecture-series/#Enrico

Bellies, Bowels and Entrails: Book Launch
2018-12-13 18:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland

CIORCAL SCRÍBHNEOIREACHTA
2018-12-13 18:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Dublin) | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
