Moore Institute

Performance Matters - Irish Theatre Discussion Group
2014-10-30 13:00 (Europe/Dublin)
Performance Matters
Irish Theatre Discussion Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/
This week we will be discussing ‘In the Blood’ by Suzan Lori Parks.
If anyone needs some help accessing the play script (or directions etc.) just email PerformanceMattersNUIG@gmail.comor contact us through our facebook page.
For more information please contact lisa.fitzgerald@nuigalway.ie or m.nichualain5@nuigalway.ie
All theatre practitioners, theorists and students are welcome to attend

History Graduate Research Seminar Series: Raina Howe (NUIG) - The Ordnance Survey Letters of the Antiquarians 1834-41.
2014-10-29 16:00
Raina Howe (NUIG)
The Ordnance Survey Letters of the Antiquarians 1834-41.

Gender ARC lunchtime seminar series: Women and Disability -Laura Serra, Human Rights Institute "Bartolom̩ de las Casas", Charles III University of Madrid and Centre for Disability Law and Policy, NUI Galway
2014-10-29 13:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Gender ARC and Global Women’s Studies at NUI Galway are pleased to invite you to a research seminar:
Women and Disability Laura Serra, Human Rights Institute “Bartolom̩ de las Casas”, Charles III University of Madrid and Centre for Disability Law and Policy, NUI Galway Date: Wednesday 29 October Time: 1.00-2.00pm Venue: Room G011, Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway
Laura Serra is a PhD student at the at the Human Rights Institute “Bartolom̩ de las Casas” at Charles III University of Madrid and is a recipient of a scholarship from the Government of Spain. She has a degree in Law from the National University of Mar del Plata, Argentina. Ms. Serra has a background in Human Rights research in Argentina and Spain. She has also worked as a lawyer at the Department for the Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Discrimination, Mar del Plata, Argentina. Currently she is a visting researcher at the Centre for Disability Law and Policy, NUI Galway.

Archaeology research seminar series: Thor McVeigh -Winter Solstice Feasting at Newgrange - seasons, cosmologies, geography, and ritual
2014-10-28 16:00
Doctoral student in Archaeology and Galway scholarship holder Thor McVeigh will give a research seminar on
*Winter Solstice Feasting at Newgrange – seasons, cosmologies, geography, and ritual*
All welcome!
maggie.ronayne@nuigalway.ie

Threesis Heats: Humanities in Context
2014-10-28 13:00 | Aras na Mac Leinn, Ireland
THREESIS: Open Your Mind…and Get to the Point!!
Join us as NUI Galway researchers use their 3 minutes to Get to the Point and Open Your Mind!
Come along and support your colleagues!
For more information contact clodagh.barry@nuigalway.ie

School of Education, NUI Galway: Research Seminar Series (RSS) 2014-2015
2014-10-24 10:00
School of Education, NUI Galway: Research Seminar Series (RSS) 2014-2015
Diversity in Initial Teacher Education and Teaching
Diversity in Initial Teacher Education, and in Teaching, featuring two presentations:
The Cultural Diversification of the Teaching Profession: How Effective is it?
Prof. Ninetta Santoro, Strathclyde University,Glasgow,Scotland
http://www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/courses/education/staff/santoroninettaprofessor/
Diversity in Initial Teacher Education (DITE) in Ireland: A Rationale and Initial Analysis.
Dr. Elaine Keane, Dr. Manuela Heinz, and Dr. Conor Foley, School of Education, NUI Galway
http://www.nuigalway.ie/education/research/dite/dite.html
The event will be officially opened by Prof. Chris Curtin, Vice-President for Innovation and Performance,NUI Galway and seminar attendees will be welcomed by Dr. Mary Fleming, Head, School of Education.
1. The Cultural Diversification of the Teaching Profession: How Effective Is It?
Teaching and educating for social justice features strongly in how many teachers envision the purpose oftheir work. However, despite the best of teacher intentions, some culturally diverse groups of pupils aredisadvantaged by, and within schooling systems that fail to address their needs. Black students, immigrantsand refugees are often marginalised by ineffective education practices and thus, denied access to the socialand material resources that facilitate their full participation in society. One way of addressing this problem inmany places in the world has been to diversify the teaching profession so that it is more representative of thecultural makeup of the student population. Such a strategy is based on assumptions that teachers who are ofethnic and racial minority are well placed to act as role models for minority students, will understandstudents’ cultural practices and beliefs and how they shape them as learners, and will contribute diversecultural perspectives to school curricula. Drawing on research I have conducted over a 10 year period, as wellas the work of key scholars in the field, I suggest that the diversification of the profession is potentiallycounterproductive unless teachers drawn from the dominant cultural ‘mainstream’ work in partnership withtheir culturally and ethnically diverse colleagues to address practices that sustain inequality and injusticewithin education. This requires all teachers to be culturally responsive and critically aware practitioners. Iconclude by arguing the need for a critical teacher education, that is, teacher education that developsteachers’ critical awareness about how relations of power and historical and socio-political discoursesconstruct ‘difference’, education, teachers and teaching.
2. Diversity in Initial Teacher Education (DITE) in Ireland: A Rationale and Initial Analysis
The DITE team will present on their national Irish Research Council-funded research project, Diversity inInitial Teacher Education (DITE) in Ireland, which explores the socio-demographic profile, diversityexperiences and career motivations of both applicants and entrants to initial teacher education programmesin Ireland. In our presentation, we examine the rationale for and design of the project, along with initialfindings from the first implementation of the online questionnaire. In addition, we consider the secondimplementation of the questionnaire, and outline our next steps in the project.
RSVP to caroline.casey@nuigalway.ie by Monday, 13th October 2014

History Graduate Research Seminar Series: Eleanor O'Leary (NUIM), Teenage Culture in 1950s Ireland.
2014-10-22 16:00
Eleanor O’Leary (NUIM),
Teenage Culture in 1950s Ireland.

Language Games: A Seminar on Language and Literature
2014-10-22 14:00
Language Games is a seminar dedicated to all matters relating to language and literature, including linguistics, translation, language instruction, and literary experiments and their reception.
This week’s workshop will be chaired by Dr Anne Karhio and will explore the work of Daniil Kharms (1905 – 1942).
Questions and proposals for workshops can be sent to
irina.ruppo@nuigalway.ie
Organisers:
Irina Ruppo Malone
(English/Academic Writing Centre, James Hardiman Library)
Siobhan Purcell (English)

Gender ARC lunchtime seminar series: The Rhetoric and the Reality of being a Female Accountant in Ireland: Exploring Gender Barriers
2014-10-22 13:00
Gender ARC and Global Women’s Studies
at NUI Galway are pleased to invite you to a lunchtime seminar:
The Rhetoric and the Reality of being a Female Accountant in Ireland: Exploring Gender Barriers
Dr. Antoinette Flynn, Department of Accounting and Finance, Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick.
Abstract: This study is set in the context of a steady rise in the total proportion of female members across the six chartered accountancy bodies worldwide. Little is known about the career progression experiences of these new female accountants, or of their aspirations for senior management positions. This study investigates the perceptions of both male and female accountants on a range of previously identified gender progression barriers. We find evidence of a divergence between the perception and the reality of the lived-experience of female accountants, across the gender divide. It is clear that rather than address corporate cultural barriers the rhetoric of being a female accountant does not meet the reality. These findings contribute to the existing Irish accounting gender research and augment the female management and career development literature.
Paper co-authored by: Dr. Antoinette Flynn, Emily Kate Earlie, and Dr. Christine Cross, University of Limerick.
For questions, please contact Gender ARC LSS coordinator: Emma BrÌ_nnlund, e.brannlund1@nuigalway.ie

CAMPS lab: Prof. Brian Arkins, Classics, NUI Galway - 'Augustine on the Body and on Sex'
2014-10-17 12:00
Prof. Brian Arkins, Classics, NUI Galway
‘Augustine on the Body and on Sex’
Followed by discussion & light lunch
Everyone welcome – FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch
For more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie

SÌ_le de Cl̩ir (UL) - Perspectives on Popular Religion: Limerick city in the mid-20th century.
2014-10-15 16:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
October 15: SÌ_le de Cl̩ir (UL)
Perspectives on Popular Religion:
Limerick city in the mid-20th century.
For more information please contact caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie

Launch by the Registrar of RECIRC: The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women's Writing, 1550-1700'
2014-10-14 18:15
Message from Dr. Marie-Louise Coolahan
Dear Colleagues
As Principal Investigator of the recently funded ERC Consolidator Grant ‰Û÷RECIRC: The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550-1700′ , on behalf of the RECIRC team, I would like to invite you to its formal launch by the Registrar, on
Tuesday, October 14
at 6.15pm
Moore Institute Seminar Room, Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The RECIRC project will produce a large-scale, quantitative analysis of the reception and circulation of women’s writing from 1550 to 1700. The results will enable analysis of how texts, ideas and reputations gained traction in the early modern period. The focus includes writers who were read in Ireland and Britain as well as women born and resident in Anglophone countries.
The project is made up of four Work Packages and involves the contribution of five newly appointed researchers and one PhD student, all of whom are now based at NUIG. They are:
Work Package 1: Transnational Religious Networks – Dr. Emilie Murphy
Work Package 2: The International Republic of Letters – Dr. Felicity Maxwell and Evan Bourke
Work Package 3: The Manuscript Miscellany as Instrument of Circulation and Site of Reception – Dr. Sajed Chowdhury & Dr. Erin McCarthy
Work Package 4: Transmission Trails and Book Ownership – Dr. Mark Empey
We hope you are free to join us for the event and we look forward to seeing you there.

Book Launch - Nation/Nazione Irish Nationalism and the Italian Risorgimento
2014-10-14 17:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Book Launch of
Nation/NazioneIrish Nationalism and the Italian Risorgimento
edited byAnne O’Connor, Colin Barr & Michele Finelli
Guest Speaker: H. E. Mr. Giovanni Adorni
BraccesiItalian Ambassador to Ireland
Please RSVP to anne.oconnor@nuigalway.ie

Archaeology research seminar series: John Waddell on 'The Archaeology of the Otherworld'
2014-10-14 16:00
Archaeology research seminar series:
John Waddell on
‘The Archaeology of the Otherworld’
Venue: Seminar room G010 Hardiman Research Building
maggie.ronayne@nuigalway.ie

Prof. Robert Mankin (University of Paris 7, Paris-Diderot) 'Hume and the Politics of Sickness and Dying'
2014-10-13 13:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Prof. Robert Mankin
(University of Paris 7, Paris-Diderot)
‰Û÷Hume and the Politics of Sickness and Dying’
1pm. Monday 13 October 2014.
G011 seminar room, the Hardiman research building

Professor Jonathan Wolff, as part of the President of Ireland's Ethics Initiative will deliver a public lecture on 'Social Equality and Poverty'
2014-10-10 16:00
The discipline of Philosophy is delighted to welcome Professor Jonathan Wolff to NUI, Galway, as part of the President of
Ireland’s Ethics Initiative. He will deliver a public lecture on ‘Social Equality and Poverty’, to which you are warmly invited.
Date: Friday 10th October, 2014.
Time: 4pm.
Venue: Aula Maxima Lower.
Title: ‘Social Equality and Poverty’.
A note about the Lecture:
A society of equals is a society that avoids a range of destructive asymmetrical social relations, including domination, exploitation, snobbery, servility and social exclusion. But how, in the highly unequal societies in which we live, can we begin to make progress on eliminating social inequality? This talk explores how thinking about relative poverty can help illuminate one highly important aspect of social inequality: social exclusion. At the same time reflecting on relative poverty, and the steps people take to overcome it, can help us to understand some of the considerable structural obstacles that stand in the way of achieving a society of equals.
A note about Professor Jonathan Wolff:
Jonathan Wolff is Professor of Philosophy and Dean of Arts and Humanities at University College London. He is the author of several books on political philosophy, including Disadvantage (with Avner de-Shalit) 2007, Ethics and Public Policy 2011, and The Human Right to Health. He has been a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, the Gambling Review Body, and the Board of Science of the British Medical Association. He writes a regular column on higher education for the Guardian.
We look forward to seeing you there on Friday 10th
Ann O’Higgins
Philosophy,
School of Humanities,
Room 311, First Floor,
Tower One.
Email: ann.ohiggins@nuigalway.ie
Phone: 353 91 492382

CAMPS lab: Dr Jacopo Bisagni, Classics, NUI Galway - 'The Newly-Discovered Hiberno-Breton Computus Parisinus of AD 754'
2014-10-10 12:00
Dr Jacopo Bisagni, Classics, NUI Galway
‘The Newly-Discovered Hiberno-Breton Computus Parisinus of AD 754′
Followed by discussion & light lunch
Everyone welcome – FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch
For more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie

Using NUIG Archives for Postgraduate Research: An Introduction
2014-10-08 15:00
Using NUIG Archives for Postgraduate Research: An Introduction
This event, featuring short presentations led by academics at NUIG, will show the potential for research in a range of archival and print collections held by the James Hardiman Library. It is designed for MA students, new and prospective PhD researchers, and anyone interested in finding out more about the diverse possibilities for original research. Participants include John Cunningham (History), Miriam Haughton (Drama), John Kenny (English), Deirdre NÌ_ Chonghaile (Moore Institute), M̩abh NÌ_ FhuhartÌÁin (Irish Studies), Lionel Pilkington (English), Ian Walsh (Drama), and John Walsh (Gaeilge), with members of the archival staff of the Hardiman Library: John Cox, Kieran Hoare, Barry Houlihan, Olivia Lardner, Aisling Keane, and Niall McSweeney.

Language Games: A Seminar on Language and Literature
2014-10-08 14:00
Language Games:
A Seminar on Language and Literature
Language Games is a seminar dedicated to all matters relating to language and literature, including linguistics, translation, language instruction, and literary experiments in language and their reception.
The round-table format of the seminar is designed to allow participants to share and workshop their ideas, stimulating further discussion and new ideas on their subject.
We will generally avoid formal presentations.
We plan to have a flexible programme based on the interests of the group, in other words, we may dedicate several workshops to a particular topic or text, or move more swiftly should we receive a large number of proposals for workshops
Our second meeting will take place on Wednesday 8 October September at 2pm in Room 1003 (in the James Hardiman Research Building) and will include a discussion of selected passages of Ulysses and proposals for future workshops. All are welcome to attend
Questions and proposals for workshops can be sent to irina.ruppo@nuigalway.ie
Organisers:
Irina Ruppo Malone (English/Academic Writing Centre, James Hardiman Library)
Siobhan Purcell (English)

CAMPS lab: Mr Exequiel Monge, Old & Middle Irish, NUI Galway - 'Eoin Bruinne, the Runaway Bridegroom: Constructing John the Evangelist in Early Medieval Ireland'
2014-10-03 12:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Mr Exequiel Monge, Old & Middle Irish, NUI Galway
‘Eoin Bruinne, the Runaway Bridegroom: Constructing John the Evangelist in Early Medieval Ireland’
Followed by discussion & light lunch
Everyone welcome – FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch
For more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie

Distinguished Public Lecture Series 'The 1914 WWI Christmas Truce and Flanders Peace Field - Learning from humanity and society' Presented by Don Mullan, author, humanitarian and media producer
2014-10-02 18:00
Institute for Lifecourse and Society
“The 1914 WWI Christmas Truce and Flanders Peace Field – Learning from humanity and society“
Presented by
Don Mullan – author, humanitarian and media producer
Chaired by
Professor Pat Dolan – UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, NUI Galway
The Institute for Lifecourse and Society, NUI Galway, in collaboration with the School of History will host a Distinguished Lecture by journalist, author and humanist, Don Mullan.The lecture will tell the story of the 1914 unofficial Christmas Truce during World War 1, and its implications for Youth peace movements.In the lecture he will draw parallels with his own experience of growing up in war-torn Derry during the ‘Troubles’
For more information on Don Mullan and this lecture visit: www.nuigalway.ie/ilas/events
This lecture is free but advanced booking is required.
RSVP: to grainne.larkin@nuigalway.ie or by telephone 091 495734, by Monday 29th September.

Nautical Science, Navigation, and the Exploration of the Atlantic - The XVII Reunion of the International Committee for the History of Nautical Science: October 2-4
2014-10-02 09:15
The XVII Reunion of the International Committee for the History of Nautical Science
Please see http://arsnauticaxvii.wordpress.com/ for details about this conference.
For more information please contact edward.collins@ucd.ie

Tim Robinson Symposium - Interpreting Landscape
2014-09-30 10:30
Interpreting Landscape
Moore Institute International Symposium
Tuesday 30 September 2014
Aula Maxima, The Quadrangle, National University of Ireland, Galway
Booking essential: http://www.nuigalway.ie/mooreinstitute
PROGRAMME
10.30 Registration and coffee/tea, Aula Maxima, Quadrangle
11.00 Welcome by Daniel Carey, Director of the Moore Institute
11.05 Chair: Daniel Carey, NUI Galway
John Wylie, Exeter University: ‰Û÷So near and yet so far: the distances of landscape’
Discussion
11.50 Chair: Rod Stoneman, NUI Galway
Justin Carville, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art and Design, ‰Û÷Lines of sight and historical topographies: Photography, anthropology and archaeology in the west of Ireland’
12.20 Nicolas F̬ve, photographer, ‰Û÷The last loop of lightness: A photographic stance on Tim Robinson’s Connemara’
Discussion
12.50 Lunch break and opportunity to visit the exhibition ‰Û÷Interpreting landscape: Tim Robinson and the west of Ireland’ / ‰Û÷Rian̼ tal̼n: Tim Robinson agus iarthar na hÌäireann’ in the Atrium, Hardiman Research Building. A display of other archives relating to landscape can be viewed in the nearby Special Collections Reading Room.
14.00 Chair: Conor Newman, NUI Galway
Nessa Cronin, NUI Galway, ‰Û÷Interpreting island space: Gender, science, and empire in the life and work of Maude Jane Delap (Valentia Island, 1866-1953)’
14.30 John Elder, Middlebury College, Vermont, ‰Û÷Dwelling on the edge’
Discussion
15.15 Short break
15.30 Screening of ‰Û÷Unfolding the landscape’, a film in which Tim Robinson is interviewed by Vincent Woods, with Nicolas F̬ve
16.30 Close of symposium
Everybody who is registered to attend the symposium is invited to the following event in Room G010 and the Atrium, Hardiman Research Building:
16.30 Launch by Vincent Woods of Connemara and Elsewhere by John Elder, Nicolas F̬ve and Tim Robinson, ed. Jane Conroy (Royal Irish Academy, 2014), followed by a reading by Tim Robinson
Please click on the link below to register for this event
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Performance Matters - Irish Theatre Discussion Group
2014-09-25 13:00
Performance Matters
Irish Theatre Discussion Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/
This week we’re going to be tackling Lucy Prebble’s Enron. The script is available to all NUI Galway students and can be accessed through the Drama Online portal at the NUIG Library website.
If anyone needs some help accessing the play script (or directions etc.) just email PerformanceMattersNUIG@gmail.com or contact us through our facebook page.
For more information please contact lisa.fitzgerald@nuigalway.ie or m.nichualain5@nuigalway.ie
All theatre practitioners, theorists and students are welcome to attend

Yves Navarre : Une vie ÌÄåÊ ̩crire - September 25th and 26th, 2014
2014-09-25 09:00
Yves Navarre : Une vie ÌÊ ̩crire
En hommage ÌÊ la vie et ÌÊ l’Òuvre d’Yves Navarre (1940-1994)
This international conference held at NUI, Galway is the first event of its kind to be devoted to the French writer Yves Navarre (1940-1994) on the 20th anniversary of his death. It brings together academics and practitioners from a variety of backgrounds (performing arts, writing, publishing) in order to reflect on the multi-faceted talent of a writer whose wide body of works transcends generic borders to explore very personal experiences, conflicting feelings and obsessions, while retaining universal significance and appeal. The presentations will deal with Navarre’s life and works (poems, plays, novels), the publication and reception of his writings, and also his unpublished Diary, a fascinating document held in BAnQ, Biblioth̬que et Archives nationales du Qu̩bec, which gives an interesting insight into the man and the writer. This event will be of interest to all those interested in French literature, the place of homosexuality in writing, and autobiographical practices. For additional information please contact Sylvie Lannegrand, organiser of the event : sylvie.lannegrand@nuigalway.ie
9h – 10h
Accueil des participants et ouverture du colloque : Lillis ÌÒ Laoire
Sylvie Lannegrand : ‰Û÷Une vie ÌÊ ̩crire’
Jean Perrenoud : ‰Û÷Yves Navarre vingt ans apr̬s’
10h – 11h30
Lectures et analyses
Morwena Denis : ‰Û÷Je vis oÌ_ je m’attache ‘ : une vie en ab̨me’
Michto Rex : ‰Û÷Del’H̫tel Styx ÌÊ Caron, requiem pour des feuilles mortes’
11h30 – 13h
L’̩criture autobiographique
Catherine Viollet : ‰Û÷Une vie de chat : ̩criture f̩line ou fugue ÌÊ deux voix’
V̩ronique Mont̩mont : ‰Û÷La n̩buleuse autobiographique’
13h
Repas ÌÊ l’Universit̩ de Galway
14h30 – 16h
L’̩dition : exp̩riences et t̩moignages
Henri Dhellemmes : ‰Û÷Editer Yves Navarre aujourd’hui’
Dominique Dussidour : ‰Û÷Merci d’avoir laiss̩ le h ÌÊ verandah‘
suivi d’une lecture de La Gobeuse d’̢mes,nouvelle in̩dite
17h – 18h
Spectacle
Bruno Bisaro : Le Bureau des Enfants perdus
19h
D̨ner ÌÊ L’Artisan, Quay Street, Galway
Vendredi 26 septembre
9h – 10h30
Lectures et analyses
Bertrand Placines: ‰Û÷Le jardin d’acclimatation : un roman polyphonique sur l’attachement åÈ
Jean Perrenoud : ‰Û÷Po̬mes et Chansons’
10h30 – 12h
Ecriture et Homosexualit̩
Patrick Dubuis : ‰Û÷L’homosexualit̩ dans l’Òuvre d’Yves Navarre’
Sylvie Lannegrand : ‰Û÷Le Journal in̩dit’
12h – 13h
R̩ception de l’Òuvre
Philippe Leconte : ‰Û÷R̩ception de l’Òuvre d’Yves Navarre’
13h
Repas ÌÊ l’Universit̩ de Galway, suivi d’une sortie dans le Connemara
Une exposition de photos, de livres et de manuscrits se tiendra dans le hall de la Biblioth̬que de l’Universit̩, ÌÊ c̫t̩ de la salle de conf̩rence G010
Remerciements

A tous ceux gr̢ce ÌÊ qui l’Òuvre continue de vivre, et aux participants :
Bruno Bisaro, com̩dien
Henri Dhellemmes, H&O ̩diteur
Morwena Denis, universitaire
Patrick Dubuis, directeur de la revue Inverses
Dominique Dussidour, ̩crivain
Sylvie Lannegrand, universitaire
Philippe Leconte, libraire
V̩ronique Mont̩mont, universitaire
Jean Perrenoud, ayant droit
Bernard Placines, m̩decin
Michto Rex, ̩crivain, peintre, sculpteur
Catherine Viollet, charg̩e de recherches.
Au personnel de la Biblioth̬que de NUI Galway, pour avoir facilit̩ l’exposition de manuscrits, livres, tapuscrits, lettres et objets ayant appartenu ÌÊ Yves Navarre.
A Odette et Jean-Fran̤ois Perrenoud, pour leur soutien et leur confiance, et ÌÊ Jean Perrenoud, ayant droit, responsable de l’exercice moral de l’Òuvre d’Yves Navarre.
Aux institutions et associations suivantes, pour leur g̩n̩reux soutien :
Ambassade de France en Irlande
ACSI (Association irlandaise d’̩tudes canadiennes)
National University of Galway, Moore Institute (Millennium Fund)
Pour tout renseignement concernant cet ̩v̩nement, veuillez contacter :
Sylvie Lannegrand, School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures,
National University of Ireland, Galway, Irlande
sylvie.lannegrand@nuigalway.ie

Language Games: A Seminar on Language and Literature
2014-09-24 14:00
Language Games:
A Seminar on Language and Literature
Language Games is dedicated to all matters relating to language and literature, including linguistics, translation, language instruction, and literary experiments in language and their reception.
The round-table format of the seminar is designed to allow participants to share and workshop their ideas, stimulating further discussion and new insights on their subject.
We will generally avoid formal presentations.
We plan to have a flexible programme based on the interests of the group, in other words, we may dedicate several workshops to a particular topic or text, or move at a faster pace should we receive a large number of proposals for workshops
Our first meeting will take place on Wednesday at 24 September at 2pm in Room 1003 (on the first floor of the James Hardiman Research Building) and will begin with a discussion of selected passages of Ulysses and proposals for future workshops
We hope you can attend and would also like to invite you to submit proposals and ideas for future workshops by email. These should not be conceived as formal papers, but as round-table discussions of specific texts or other materials. Please send a short (max 100 word) proposal to irina.ruppo@nuigalway.ie
Irina Ruppo Malone (English/Academic Writing Centre, James Hardiman Library)
Siobhan Purcell (English)
Dr Irina Ruppo Malone
Academic Writing Centre James Hardiman Library NUI Galway Ext: 5697

Professor Charles Hirschman - Census Classifications and Racial Ideology in Malaysia
2014-09-04 14:00
VISITING SPEAKER
Thursday, 4th Sept 2.00 -4.00 pm
Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Professor Charles Hirschman
Census Classifications and Racial Ideology in Malaysia
The official classifications of ethnicity used in population censuses are generally thought to be non-controversial administrative products that reflect commonly understood population categories. Cultural and phenotypical differences are, however, are rarely unambiguous, and the creation and revision of ethnic categories often reveals the assumptions of dominant groups that shape government policy. Tracing changes in ethnic classifications in Malaysian censuses from the colonial era to the present shows the imprint of ideology on how groups are defined and measured.
Professor Charles Hirschman is the Boeing International Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at the Department of Sociology, University of Washington. He is the author of numerous works on the sociology of race, ethnicity, immigration, demography and education in Southeast Asia and the United States.
School of Political Science & Sociology
Power, Conflict & Ideology Research Cluster

Professor Brendan O'Leary: public lecture on 'Power-sharing in deeply divided places with special reference to Iraq and Northern Ireland'
2014-08-27 16:00
Professor Brendan O’Leary: public lecture on ‰Û÷Power-sharing in deeply divided places with special reference to Iraq and Northern Ireland’, NUI Galway, 27 August, 2014. Part of the President’s of Ireland’s ‰Û÷Ethics Initiative’
Distinguished Irish political scientist Professor Brendan O’Leary of the University of Pennsylvania, Visiting Fellow at the Moore Institute,will give a public lecture on ‰Û÷Power-sharing in deeply divided places with special reference to Iraq and Northern Ireland’ in NUI Galway at 4pm on Wednesday 27 August, 2014. This talk is part of the President of Ireland’s ‰Û÷Ethics Initiative’, and is organised by the Conflict, Rights and Security Research Cluster of the Whitaker Institute in association with the Moore Institute. All are welcome.
Brendan O’Leary is Lauder Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of numerous highly regarded books and articles on conflict and peacemaking and has been deeply and directly involved in efforts to secure peace and design new structures of government in Northern Ireland and Iraq. He was born in Cork, Ireland and his childhood and teenage years were mostly spent in Nigeria, Sudan, and Northern Ireland.
Before coming to Penn, O’Leary was on the faculty of the London School of Economics and Political Science between 1983 and 2003, where he had been Professor of Political Science, head of its Government Department, and an elected Academic Governor. Between 2012 and 2014 he is also Professor of Political Science at Queen’s University Belfast. ̢åÛå¬̢åÛå¬O’Leary’s professorial career has been combined with political advisory work. He was a political advisor to the British Labour Shadow Cabinet on Northern Ireland between 1987-8 and 1996-7, advising Kevin McNamara and the late Marjorie (“Mo”) Mowlam. He advised Irish, British, and American ministers and officials and the Irish-American Morrison delegation during the Northern Ireland peace process, appearing as an expert witness before the US Congress, and being a guest at the White House. His ideas on power-sharing are said to have been extremely influential, and his work with Prof. John McGarry on police reform was singled out in the press for influencing the commission on police reform which reported in 1999. O’Leary has also worked as a constitutional advisor for the European Union and the United Nations in the promotion of confederal and federal re-building of Somalia, and for the United Kingdom’s Department of International Development in constitutional consultancies on power-sharing in coalition governments in Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa, and in Nepal. Between 2003 and 2009 he was regularly an international constitutional advisor to the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq, assisting in the negotiation of the Transitional Administrative Law (2004); electoral systems design (2004-5); the Constitution of Iraq (2005), and the Constitution of the Kurdistan Region (2005-). He has been an expert witness on Iraq to branches of the US Government, and to the United Kingdom’s Iraq Commission. For the UN he contributed to its 2004 United Nations Human Development Report on Culture and Liberty. In 2009-2010 O’Leary was seconded to the UN as the Senior Advisor on Power-Sharing in the Standby Team of the Mediation Support Unit of the Department of Political Affairs.
The lecture is open to the public, but early attendance is advised. It will begin at 4 p.m. (sharp) on Wednesday 27 August in the Aula Maxima, NUI Galway.
For further information contact Dr. Niall O Dochartaigh at niall.odochartaigh@nuigalway.ie

Dr. Mahesh Radhakrishnan, (Australian National University) South Indian Carnatic singing and sean-nÌ_s- an ethnographic, musical and linguistic comparison of two distinct performance traditions
2014-08-08 11:00
Dr. Mahesh Radhakrishnan,
Australian National University
South Indian Carnatic singing and sean-nÌ_s–
an ethnographic, musical and linguistic comparison of two distinct performance traditions
Abstract: Despite sharing some interesting linguistic and cultural connections in a very distant past, South Indian and Irish musical cultures have emerged from highly distinct contexts and influences. Drawing on doctoral research within the respective cultures as practiced in Australia, this seminar presents a comparison of Carnatic and sean-nÌ_s singing from the perspectives of anthropology, ethnomusicology and linguistics. In the process, some interesting theoretical insights emerge about performance and the relationship between music and language.
Biography:
Mahesh Radhakrishnan is a language and music scholar with a research interest in the performance of language, linguistic diversity, language ideology, interaction and the intersections between language and music in singing. He holds a PhD in Linguistics from Macquarie University, Sydney, for a thesis on Irish traditional singing and South Indian classical Carnatic singing in Australia. He has conducted linguistic research on Tamil, Irish, English, Telugu, Sanskrit and Jawoyn, an Australian Aboriginal language.
Mahesh is also a singer, musician and composer with over 20 years of training and experience in the Carnatic tradition and he has explored a range of styles, particularly Irish traditional sean-nÌ_s and instrumental music. He has directed and advised on music for stage productions and leads the worldy folk music group Tapestries of Sound which he founded in 2002.
Mahesh is currently a Visitor in the School of Anthropology at the Australian National University and is collaborating with Dr. Lillis ÌÒ Laoire on a project titled ‰Û÷Irish language, sean-nÌ_s and linguistic ecologies of traditional performance’
For more information contact lillis.olaoire@nuigalway.ie

New Work on Irish Literature. Speakers: Nessa Cronin (NUI Galway), Ronan McDonald (Moore Institute visiting fellow from the university of New South Wales), Mary Mullen (Moore Institute visiting fellow from Texas Tech university), and Frank Shovlin (Moore
2014-07-31 11:00
New Work on Irish Literature
Speakers: Nessa Cronin (NUI Galway),
Ronan McDonald (Moore Institute visiting fellow from the university of New South Wales),
Mary Mullen (Moore Institute visiting fellow from Texas Tech university),
Frank Shovlin (Moore Institute visiting fellow from the university Liverpool).
