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 (Europe/Dublin) | 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.

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

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 - Feminist Storytelling Network, NUI Galway: Staging the Incarcerated Female Body: Records and Representations
2020-03-19 10:00 - 16:30 | 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 - School of Political Science & Sociology Seminar Series: Deliberative mini-publics in the democratic system
2020-03-19 13:00 - 14:00 | Room 333, Aras Moyola
by Jane Suiter (Dublin City University)
Democracy is more than deliberation and deliberative mini-publics do not make a democracy. Yet mini-publics are proliferating not just in Ireland but in Scotland, Belgium, France and elsewhere. This paper uses the example of the Irish Constitutional Convention and Citizens’ Assembly to ask how mini-publics can be located within a broader democratic system and looks at (potential) linkages of mini-publics with other democratic practices and actors such as voting, referendums, parliaments, political parties, social movements, media, or the public sphere in a ‘hybrid’ form of representative democracy which can accommodate and couple both electoral and sortition driven representation.
Jane Suiter is an Associate Professor in the School of Communications at Dublin City University. Jane’s expertise lies mainly in the area of the public sphere; and in particular participation and deliberation. Her current research focus is on citizens’ assemblies and on disinformation. She is Senior Research Fellow on the Irish Citizen Assembly (2019-2020) (2016-2018) and the Irish Constitutional Convention (2012-2014) and a founder member of We the Citizens (2011), Ireland’s first deliberative experiment. She is a member of the Research Advisory Group on the Scottish Citizens’ Assembly. In 2019 she was the recipient of the Brown Democracy Medal from the McCourtney Institute of Democracy at Penn State and theDCU President’s Award for Research. Her latest book (with David M. Farell) is ReimaginingDemocracy: Lessons in Deliberative Democracy from the Irish Frontline published by Cornell University Press. She has published in 30 plus journals including Representation, International Journal of Political Science, Electoral Studies, Politics and the International Journal of Communication.

EDEN Peer Review Workshop
2020-03-19 15:00 | TBD
Back by popular demand!
We are pleased to announce the Spring 2020 EDEN Peer Review workshop, to be held on Thursday, 19th of March, 15.00 (venue tbc).
This is an excellent chance to get feedback on works in progress in any form and at any stage of development. Whether it is a chapter draft, a journal article or a conference paper, take the opportunity to run your writing by a warm and supportive audience of your peers!
The deadline for writing submissions will be Friday, 6th of March 2020. We are also happy to accept expressions of interest for those that may not have writing but would still like to participate by acting as peer reviewers.
Submission Guidelines:

Researchers at any stage of their PhD may submit a piece for review.
Submissions can be any form (ex. academic essay, journal article, conference paper, thesis chapter).
Submissions may be at any stage of completion (ex. first draft, final draft, selection from a larger piece).
Submissions must be a maximum of 7,000 words.
All those submitting pieces for review will be expected to attend the peer review session and act as a peer reviewer as well.

Reviewer Guidelines:

Anyone is welcome to act as a peer reviewer!
Peer reviewers must commit to reading one writing submission and writing a peer review for that submission.
We ask peer reviewers to read Patrick Lonergan’s article on reviewing (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10486801.2015.992246) and to conform to the best practices as outlined in this article.
The written peer reviews should be 750-1,500 words with a printed copy brought into the session to give to the author.
All those reviewing are expected to attend the peer review workshop session.

The deadline for expressions of interest (either submission or peer review) is Friday 6h March 2020. To apply, email eden.nuigalway@gmail.com with ‘EDEN Peer Review Session’ as the subject line. Those submitting pieces to be workshopped should attach the piece to be reviewed with their expression of interest.
Working groups will be assigned and reviewers will receive their pieces for review by Monday, 9th March.
If you have any questions, please contact Máiréad directly or at eden.nuigalway@gmail.com. We look forward to hearing from you!

POSTPONED - School of Political Science & Sociology Seminar Series: 'Conflicting political obligations: A response to philosophical anarchism'
2020-03-26 13:00 - 14:00 | Room 333, Aras Moyola
by Allyn Fives (Power, Conflict and Ideologies)
This paper addresses two key aspects of A. John Simmons’s philosophical anarchism. First, as a value pluralist, he maintains that obligations are not conclusive reasons for action, whereas overridden obligations are nonetheless genuine obligations. As a result, we can be faced with genuine moral conflicts concerning our political obligations. Second, according to his anarchist position on the grounds of political obligation, citizens have obligations only when they have voluntarily entered into cooperative arrangements which they benefit from. Therefore, most citizens of most modern states do not have political obligations. And that means actual conflicts between obligations will be extremely rare.
In response to Simmons, Jonathan Wolff and George Klosko have each argued that most citizens of modern states do have political obligations, and this can be shown by considering the diversity of grounds for obligations, including mutual self-interest, fairness, justice, and the common good. However, they also conclude that, although there is a plurality of obligations, conflicts between them are extremely rare.
In this paper, I try to show that Wolff and Klosko succeed in rejecting Simmons’s anarchist position on the grounds of political obligations, but fail to reject his value pluralist position on moral conflict. The implication is that citizens are bound by diverse requirements, including obligations to protect citizens from harm, to promote the common good, and to diminish unjust inequalities. Not only that, conflicts between such obligations are not rare but are, instead, one of the characteristic features of political life for citizens of modern states.

POSTPONED - CAMPS: The Scandinavian Diaspora in Ireland and Britain, 790-1200
2020-03-27 12:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
by Russell Ó Riagáin
More info to follow …

History Research Seminar Series: Count Strzelecki: a Pole and a British Subject by Dr. Pawel Hamera
2020-04-01 16:00 - 18:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
In Association with the Polish Embassy in Ireland
As part of symposium to launch the exhibition, “Paul Strzelecki: A Forgotten Irish Hero of the Great Irish Famine” on view in foyer of Hardiman Research Building.

POSTPONED - Workshop: Working with images in Python for research
2020-04-14 10:00 - 13:00 | The Moore Institute Seminar Room G010 Ground floor The Hardiman Research Building, Ireland
This workshop demonstrates the use of Python to work with images. The focus is images used in research. Two concepts of 1) data visualisation and 2) image processing using APIs are explored and demonstrated. The workshop will provide demonstration data and image sets to work with during the workshop. You can also bring your own data or images to explore.
Data visualisation will focus on using Matplotlib, Pandas, and Seaborn. While image processing will the Microsoft Vision API. The workshop will start by giving an overview of working with images in Python and getting up and running using Anaconda.
Registration
Register to attend the workshop on Eventbrite.
Learning Objectives

Introduction to Python
Setup a working Python environment for research on your laptop
Learn about working with images in Python
Visualise data using Python
Create animations using time series data for use in research output and communication
Understand how to use an API to process images
Create new data using an image processing API

Workshop facilitator and speaker
Cillian Joy works in the NUI Galway Library on Digital Publishing and Innovation. His primary focus is the digital library strategy and programme of work to enable digital scholarship. Key areas for Cillian are project management, solutions to deliver new digital initiatives, integration, and interoperability. Cillian has a primary degree in Experimental Physics and a Masters in Information Systems and Computer Science. In the past Cillian worked as a Project Manager, Principal Technical Specialist, and for Web development and hosting companies.
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

School of Political Science & Sociology Seminar Series: 'Humanitarian aid in a hostile environment: Medecins Sans Frontieres and Oxfam in the post-Khmer Rouge Cambodian crisis'
2020-04-16 13:00 - 14:00 | Room 333, Aras Moyola
by Maria Cullen (History, NUIG)

School of Political Science & Sociology Seminar Series: 'Ireland after Brexit'
2020-04-23 01:00 - 14:00 | Room 333, Aras Moyola
by Kate Hayward (Queen’s, Belfast)

Covid-19 Response webinar - 'Data, Ethics and the Covid-19 Crisis'
2020-04-23 16:00 - 17:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Update: A video recording of this session is now available.

The second seminar in our Covid-19 Response series, this session will explore questions of surveillance and social benefit in the midst of the corona virus pandemic, including data gathering and contact tracing apps, and the advantages, risks, and ethical challenges.
Panelists

Mathieu d’Aquin (Director of Insight and the Data Science Institute, NUI Galway)
Heike Felzmann (Philosophy, NUI Galway)
Rob Kitchin (Geography, Maynooth University)
Karlin Lillington (Irish Times)
Linnet Taylor (Law, Tilburg University)

The session will be chaired by Moore Institute Director, Prof Dan Carey.
Registration
You can register to join via Zoom at: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_N1Tl_BxRRSyrgMJGd4WcPQ. As there are a limited number of spaces available on Zoom, the session will also be broadcast live on our Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/mooreinstitute/live.
The seminar will also be broadcast on FlirtFM.

James Hardiman 200 years on: Commemorating The History of the Town and County of the Town of Galway
2020-04-29 15:00 - 16:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Update: A video and audio recording of this webinar is now available

This year marks the bicentenary of the publication of James Hardiman’s classic History of the Town and County of the Town of Galway. This webinar explores Hardiman as a scholar of music, poetry, folklore and history. The panellists will assess his work as a historian and as collector of songs, discuss the Galway of his lifetime and his association with the university, interspersed with performances.
The panellists are all contributors to a forthcoming book, commemorating Hardiman’s History and exploring artistic and cultural life in his adopted city over the past two hundred years.
Attend
Please click this URL to join:
https://zoom.us/j/98661921246?pwd=[REDACTED]
Contributors

Marie Boran (Special Collections Librarian, James Hardiman Library, NUI Galway)
Dr Ciaran McDonough (Moore Institute, NUI Galway)
Dr Jimmy O’Brien Moran (Lecturer, Waterford Institute of Technology, and noted piper)
Prof. Lillis Ó Laoire (Roinn na Gaeilge, NUI Galway, and noted traditional singer
Dr Nollaig Ó Muraíle (formerly Roinn na Gaeilge, NUI Galway)

Host
Dr John Cunningham (Director of MA History programme/Moore Institute, NUI Galway)
Hardiman and Beyond: the Arts and Culture in Galway, 1820-2020, edited by John Cunningham and Ciaran McDonough (Arden), will be available in the autumn.

POSTPONED: School of Political Science & Sociology Seminar Series: 'An Integrated Model of Polish parenting in Ireland'
2020-04-30 13:00 - 14:00 | Room 333, Aras Moyola
by Carmen Kealy (UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre)

COVID-19 Response Webinar - Education during Covid-19: precarity, privilege, purpose
2020-04-30 16:00 - 17:00 | Online
Update: Video & audio recordings of this session are now available

The Covid-19 crisis has led to the mass closure of educational institutions and an ensuing scramble to provide schooling at home. Aspects of the education system normally taken for granted have come into relief in the midst of a new sense of precarity. This seminar looks at pressing concerns emerging from current research on education provision, such as the exacerbation of existing educational inequities and the pivot to technology. We also consider longer-term implications and ask whether this could be an opportunity to reimagine education and schooling.
Participants

Manuela Heinz (chair)
Cornelia Connolly
Tony Hall
Ian Munday
Clíona Murray

All of the School of Education at NUI Galway.
Registration
You can register to join via Zoom at: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_q2fOTnv6QiKzLBAV6aLqfA. As there are a limited number of spaces available on Zoom, the session will also be broadcast live on our Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/mooreinstitute/live, and will be broadcast by FlirtFM on FM radio and audio web-stream.

Writing during the Covid-19 crisis: three Irish writers discuss the pandemic and its impact on their work
2020-05-04 20:00 - 21:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
In this webinar, three contemporary Irish authors – Sinéad Gleeson, Mike McCormack, and Mark O’Connell – discuss the challenges, dislocations and opportunities of writing during the Covid-19 crisis. What new questions has the crisis posed and how has it affected their work and lives?

Panelists
Sinéad Gleeson is an essayist and short story writer. Her debut essay collection, Constellations: Reflections from Life, won Non-Fiction Book of the Year at 2019 Irish Book Awards.
Mike McCormack is the author of two collections of short stories Getting it in the Head and Forensic Songs, and three novels Crowe’s Requiem, Notes from a Coma and Solar Bones, winner of the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize and the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award.
Mark O’Connell is the author of Notes from an Apocalypse, and To Be a Machine, which received the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize and the 2019 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.
The session will be chaired by Daniel Carey, Director of the Moore Institute.
Attendance
To register in advance for this webinar follow this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1DerSFs3QHOZUN_432Rgyg. As capacity on Zoom is limited, the session will also be broadcast live on the Moore Institute Facebook page.

School of Political Science & Sociology Seminar Series: '"Levelling up" or coming apart?; the UK's constitutional future after Brexit'
2020-05-07 13:00 - 14:00 | Room 333, Aras Moyola
by Mike Kenny (Cambridge)

CAMPS Webinar: Ireland’s Vikings in Twelfth-Century Historical Writing by Patrick Wadden
2020-05-15 14:00 - 15:00
Dr Patrick Wadden is an Associate Professor of History at Belmont Abbey College, North Carolina, where he teaches a range of courses on medieval topics. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin and Oxford University and has previously taught in the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. He has published on a variety of topics related to the history and culture of early Ireland, in both history and Celtic studies journals. He is also currently the president of the Celtic Studies Association of North America. He is currently a Fulbright Scholar, researching conceptions of Irish identity in the early medieval period.
To join the event please email Dr. Catherine Emerson catherine.emerson@nuigalway.ie the day before the event.

Covid-19 Response webinar: Slavery, Race and Covid-19
2020-05-19 16:00 - 17:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Update: Recordings of this session are now available.

The unfolding coronavirus crisis has revealed deep structures of inequality manifested in the death toll in the United States and other countries. This seminar examines patterns of racism and legacies of slavery that have informed the pandemic, especially in the US and UK.
Participants

Enrico Dal Lago (History, NUI Galway)
Eric Foner (History, Columbia University)
Koritha Mitchell (English, Ohio State University)
Kerry Sinanan (English, University of Texas at San Antonio)

The session will be chaired by Moore Institute Director, Prof Daniel Carey.
Registration
You can register to join via Zoom at: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_s9PtfCcSTt-wTO5bbxOg-w. The session will also be broadcast live on our Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/mooreinstitute/live.

Galway and the creative arts: performance and representation
2020-05-21 19:30 - 20:30 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Update: Video and audio recordings of this session are now available

Panellists in this webinar will examine the ways in which Galway has been represented historically in art and literature, and discuss the development of theatre and traditional music in the city since the 1960s. The discussion will be interspersed with live musical performances.
Panellists

Anna Falkenau, musician and ethnomusicologist, Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway
Gerard Hanberry, poet, musician, and creative writing tutor at NUI Galway
Anne Hodge, Curator of Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Ireland
Professor Lionel Pilkington, School of English and Creative Arts, NUI Galway

Each panellist is a key contributor to a forthcoming book, Hardiman and After: the Arts and Culture in Galway, which is edited by John Cunningham and Ciaran McDonough.
The discussion will be moderated by John Cunningham, Director of MA History, and Moore Institute.
Attendance
Register to attend using Zoom at: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Y6OpxLmOSLifHPGOdUzjuw, or view the event live on the Moore Institute’s Facebook page at: https://facebook.com/mooreinstitute/live

G2020/NUIG: Conference: Translating the Neighbourhood: Migration, dialogue and spaces of translation in the 21st century
2020-05-28 - 2020-05-29 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Keynotes:
Prof. Loredana Polezzi (Cardiff) – Prof. Sherry Simon (Concordia)
Urban spaces have always been places of translation (Simon 2012; Meylaerts and Gonne 2014; Cronin and Simon 2014), where encounters between languages and cultures have given birth to both conflict and exchange. In the last few decades, increasingly diverse urban environments have emerged, making coexistence between different communities a key contemporary issue. As a multi-disciplinary event, this conference explores urban spaces (cities and towns) as areas of translation, of dialogue and silence, communication and interaction.
This conference is specifically preoccupied with translation in society and beyond the text: translation as the managing of difference, a tool for inclusion or exclusion within the context of the contemporary urban space. As a multi-disciplinary, multi-media event, the conference intends to explore the different instances where people perform translation on the social stage in response to the many challenges and stimuli of 21st century globalization. Some of these translations are performed by professionals, some by non-professionals; some are intended to impact policy or contribute to a public debate, while others may last the short space of an oral exchange.
The conference “Translating the Neighbourhood: Migration, dialogue and spaces of translation in the 21st century” takes place within the scope of the IRC and MSCA funded project “Language Integration and New Communities in Multicultural Societies”. We welcome papers that explore different instances of translation and dialogue, including but not limited to:
• translation and asylum;
• translation and minorities;
• translation in specific places (shops, cafés, streets, markets);
• translation and education in multilingual settings;
• language biographies of newcomers;
• translation and public performance (e.g. multicultural theatre);
• translingual art in/about the city;
• translation policy in urban spaces;
• formal vs. informal translation and interpreting;
• absent spaces of translation
The conference will take place in Galway – a bilingual city and the 2020 European Capital of Culture. During the first day, speakers will present their research, followed by keynote addresses by Prof. Loredana Polezzi (Cardiff University) and Prof. Sherry Simon (Concordia University). On the second day, practitioners, artists, performers and activists who work in the field will collaboratively conduct workshops and demonstrations of translation in the neighbourhood.
For further information, please contact the organisers Andrea Ciribuco and Anne O’Connor at: andrea.ciribuco@nuigalway.ie and anne.oconnor@nuigalway.ie

Ireland, Borders, and Covid-19 - Covid-19 Response Webinar
2020-05-28 16:00 - 17:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Update: Video and audio recordings of this session are now available.

This panel brings together perspectives from Sociology, Political Science and Public Health to examine debates surrounding boundaries and pandemic-control in Ireland and their relationship to pandemic controls in Britain, Europe and the wider world. It examines the extent, and the limitations, of an all-Ireland approach, the significance of variation within the United Kingdom, and the nature of borders within and around post-pandemic Ireland.
As the Covid-19 pandemic spread rapidly across the world in the early weeks and months of 2020, new kinds of boundaries were established while existing borders took on a new significance: from the self-regulated two-metre boundary that now surrounds every individual, to the local, regional, and inter-state boundaries that are being deployed to control the spread of the virus.
Two distinctively different kinds of boundary are of particular significance in the case of Ireland: the natural boundary of the sea and the island’s contested but porous land border. In common with other islands, Ireland enjoys a natural ‘isolation’ that can be used to help control the spread of disease, offering the possibility of following the path New Zealand has taken to create a zone that is almost free of the virus. Brexit had already pushed the Irish border to the heart of debate on the future UK-EU relationship as it became a line of new international significance. The experience of the coronavirus crisis will further complicate all analysis of the future of Ireland’s borders, not least by underlining the fact that borders are not only lines of division but points of connection too.
Panellists

Dr. Katy Hayward (Queen’s University Belfast)
Prof. Niall Ó Dochartaigh (NUI Galway)
Dr. Gabriel Scally (Bristol)

Chair: Prof Daniel Carey (NUI Galway)
Registration
You can register to join via Zoom at: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AVqWyP_SR-yYcrHSXXiANw. The session will also be broadcast live on our Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/mooreinstitute/live.

Art and Digital Technology in a Time of Crisis - Covid-19 Response webinar
2020-06-03 16:00 - 17:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Update: Video & audio recordings of this session are now available.

The current public health restrictions implemented in many regions around the world, such as social distancing, have led to increased reliance on digital technologies. Creative work is no exception. In this panel, artistic practitioners and scholars discuss how the current crisis informs engagement with digital technology along with the possibilities and limitations of creative practice that arise at this time.
Participants

Dr. Leonie Bradbury (Emerson College)
Prof. Noel Fitzpatrick (TU Dublin/Gradcam)
Dr. Conor McGarrigle (TU Dublin)
Dr. Máiréad Ní Chróinín (NUI Galway)

Chair: Dr EL Putnam (NUI Galway)
Registration
You can register to join via Zoom at: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85711327188?pwd=[REDACTED] The session will also be broadcast live on our Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/mooreinstitute/live.
About the series
This webinar is part of a series developed through the Moore Institute’s COVID-19 Response Group. Video and audio recordings of the previous sessions are available on the group’s webpage.

CASSCS New Professors' Inaugural Lecture Series: Professor AnnMarie Groarke
2020-06-11 14:00 - 15:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
‘What Enhances or Hinders Psychological Adjustment to Chronic Illness for women and men?
A programme of research’
Prof. AnnMarie Groarke
Personal Professor, School of Psychology
Professor AnnMarie Groarke will present key results from her programme of research on psychological adjustment in patients with cancer and arthritis. Given individual variability in response to diagnosis and treatment of illness the focus of this research has been to identify factors that enhance or disrupt adaptation. Specifically, it highlights the importance of stress appraisal and stress management on quality of life. Coping strategies, illness beliefs and psychological protective attributes that are useful and adaptive are also identified.
While diagnosis of serious illness is associated with emotional distress, positive psychological change can also occur in the aftermath of highly stressful events. Some findings on when and why this post-traumatic growth might occur for women with breast cancer will be discussed. The potential impact of prostate cancer and its treatment on men’s sense of manhood and identity is also a focus of interest. Implications for patient care and self-management will be considered.
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AnnMarie Groarke was appointed Personal Professor in School of Psychology in 2019. Her main research interests and publications are in health psychology and focus on psychological adjustment to illness particularly understanding factors that predict variability in adaptation. Over the last number of years she has conducted a programme of collaborative research with colleagues in Psychology and cancer specialists at Galway University Hospital to examine the psychological impact of breast cancer and prostate cancer. Her funded research in cancer has examined patient experiences during biopsy, diagnosis, treatment and post treatment phases. In addition a clinical trial demonstrated the efficacy of a cognitive-behavioural stress management programme for women with breast cancer, was the largest RCT in this area to date in Ireland and one of the first in Europe. She was also involved in setting up postgraduate programmes in health psychology here and NUI Galway is now an internationally renowned centre of excellence in this area. She spent time as a Visiting Scholar (2014 and 2018) at the leading Centre for Psycho-Oncology Research at University of Miami, USA. She served as Head of School of Psychology for eight years (2009- 2017), three yeas as Vice Dean (2003-2006) and is currently Deputy Dean in CASSCS. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Cancer Care West since 2012.
Registration
The lecture will be broadcast live on Zoom. You can register to attend at: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_808oOsxkRp-PX2PqL8NBcw. The event will also be broadcast live on the Moore Institute’s Facebook page at: https://facebook.com/mooreinstitute/live.

Universities and the Covid-19 Crisis: Problems, Prospects and Pathways
2020-06-11 16:30 - 17:30 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Update: Video & audio recordings of this session are now available

Immense challenges face universities as a result of Covid-19, including the move to online education, the financial impact of the crisis, and the implications for internationalisation and recruitment. Universities have also made vital contributions in research and provided repositories of much needed expertise. This panel discussion features four university presidents (representing Bristol, St. Andrews, NUI Galway, and Uppsala) who will discuss their response to the pandemic and assessment of its impact in planning for the future.
Panellists

Prof. Eva Åkesson (Rector, Uppsala University, Sweden)
Prof. Hugh Brady (Vice-Chancellor, University of Bristol, UK)
Prof. Sally Mapstone (Principal and VC, University of St. Andrews, Scotland)
Prof. Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh (President, National University of Ireland, Galway)

Chair: Prof. Daniel Carey (Director, Moore Institute, NUI Galway)
Registration
No registration required. The session will be broadcast live on the NUI Galway Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/nuigalway/live.
About the series
This webinar is part of a series developed through the Moore Institute’s COVID-19 Response Group. Video and audio recordings of the previous sessions are available on the group’s webpage.

Normal People: A View from the West
2020-06-17 16:00 - 17:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Update: Video and audio recordings of this session are now available.

Sally Rooney’s novel Normal People (2018) and its 12-part TV adaptation this year have generated a remarkable response in Ireland, the UK, the US and beyond. This online discussion considers the book, its representation in the series directed by Lenny Abrahamson and Hetti Macdonald, and the cultural phenomenon associated with them.
Panellists

Keith Duggan (Irish Times)
Patrick Lonergan (NUI Galway)
Mehar Luthra (NUI Galway)
Charlotte McIvor (NUI Galway)

Diane Negra (UCD)
Adrian Paterson (NUI Galway)
Maria Tivnan (NUI Galway)
Justin Tonra (NUI Galway)
Tony Tracy (NUI Galway)

Chair: Daniel Carey (NUI Galway)
Registration
The lecture will be broadcast live on Zoom. You can register to attend at: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XVW_4LGXQNeuxBM7ixGZAw. The event will also be broadcast live on the Moore Institute’s Facebook page at: https://facebook.com/mooreinstitute/live.

Philosophy and the Pandemic: reasoning in unreasonable times
2020-06-18 16:00 - 17:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Update: Video and audio recordings of this session are now available.

As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, fundamental philosophical questions have come into sharp focus. In this panel discussion, faculty members from the discipline of philosophy at NUI Galway will discuss a range of issues related to these times of change and uncertainty, including the role and rhetoric of expertise; “states of exception” and governance; the trust invested in decision-makers; the nature of goodwill in a moment of crisis; how we engage in reasoning about uncertainty and catastrophic outcomes; and the nature of nostalgia and how we (mis)remember the past.
Panellists

Lucy Elvis
Heike Felzmann
Felix Ó Murchadha
Nick Tosh

All of NUI Galway.
Chair: Daniel Carey, Moore Institute.
Registration
You can register to join via Zoom at: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rwMBOX_QQCK9ooyGiBOIIg. The session will also be broadcast live on our Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/mooreinstitute/live.
About the series
This webinar is part of a series developed through the Moore Institute’s COVID-19 Response Group. Video and audio recordings of the previous sessions are available on the group’s webpage.

Sport and Covid-19
2020-06-25 16:00 - 17:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Update: Audio and video recordings of this session are now available.

The advent of the Covid-19 crisis has brought unprecedented challenges to all areas of social, cultural, and economic life. As one of the most popular cultural practices, sport has been particularly impacted with the cancellation since mid-March of most sporting events in countries across the world. Sport has nonetheless continued to occupy an important place in people’s lives and in the contemporary media landscape. This webinar brings together a range of speakers engaging with sport from a variety of perspectives, including sports history, sports governance and policy, sports practitioners and representative organisations, sport and the media, and gender and sport, to consider the impact of the pandemic on sport in Ireland and internationally.
Participants

Professor Paul Rouse, UCD, one of the leading experts on the history of Irish sport
Dr Mary O’Connor, CEO of the Federation of Irish Sport, and All-Ireland winning player and All-Star with Cork in camogie and Gaelic football
Dr Niamh Kitching, Mary Immaculate College, whose work focuses on gender equality and sport, including female athletes and coaches
Dr Marcus Free, Mary Immaculate College, who specialises on media and sport
Dr Borja García, Loughborough University, an authority on sports policy and governance and member of the European Commission’s expert group on sport policy

The webinar will be chaired by Dr Seán Crosson of the Huston School of Film and Digital Media at NUI Galway, and leader of the Sport and Exercise Research Group in the Moore Institute.
Registration
You can register to join via Zoom at: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_V16dtmjsRZqClBp51kVmzQ. The session will also be broadcast live on our Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/mooreinstitute/live.
About the series
This webinar is part of a series developed through the Moore Institute’s COVID-19 Response Group. Video and audio recordings of the previous sessions are available on the group’s webpage.

Literature, Narrative, and Covid-19
2020-07-01 14:00 - 15:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
This webinar, arising from NUI Galway’s participation in the new ENLIGHT consortium of European universities, concentrates on literature and narrative in relation to the current crisis. Daniel Carey will be joined by Marysa Demoor, Ghent University (Belgium), Stephen Donovan (Uppsala University, Sweden), and Raili Marling (University of Tartu, Estonia) to discuss in Daniel Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year and The Storm; coverage of epidemics in 19th-century periodicals; and the representation of epidemics as looming but invisible crises in fiction.
For more information, see:
https://enlight-eu.org/index.php/university-about-us/news-events/347-enlight-lecture-literature-narrative-and-covid-19-1-july-2020
To join, please use this link on the day: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/91802407670.
