Moore Institute

Recent Archaeological finds in the Val di Trebbia: Reconsidering the landscape setting of the Monastery of Bobbio - by Dott. sa Roberta Conversi - Soprintendeza per i Beni Archeologici dell'Emilia Romangna
2013-10-18 10:00 (Europe/Dublin)
As part of the ongoing collaboration with the UniversitÌÊ degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale, The Columbanus Life and Legacy Project is delighted to announce details of two guest lectures to be held this coming Friday from 10 a.m. in the Moore Institute Seminar Room. Dott.ssa Roberta Conversi is head of the Archaeology Division of the Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici dell’Emilia Romagna, based in the Museum of Parma. Over the past few years she has overseen excavation on a number of early medieval sites in the Val di Trebbia, the results of which have the potential to greatly alter our perception of the landscape setting in which the Monastery of Bobbio was founded by Saint Columbanus.
For more information please contact marronemmet@gmail.com

Travel, Science, and the Question of Observation: 1580-1800
2013-10-18 09:15
Travel, Science, and the Question of Observation: 1580-1800
In the early modern period, the emergence of travel as a means of information gathering on natural history, demography, government, and religion was accompanied by the use of questionnaires to orient observation. This conference investigates the development of techniques of information gathering of this kind and the networks on which they relied. Papers address the integral role of travel in the process of scientific exchange as well as to the ways that information itself traveled in British, French, Spanish, and Swedish contexts.
The conference is supported by generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (http://www.mellon.org) and by the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University, with the assistance of the Moore Institute for the Humanities and Social Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway. The ‰ÛÏTexts, Contexts, Culture‰۝ project is funded under the Higher Education Authority, under PRTLI4.
International conference
Heyman Center for the Humanities
Columbia University
October 18-19, 2013
Friday October 18
Second Floor Common Room, Heyman Center,
Columbia University
9.15Registration and Welcome (Daniel Carey & Eileen Gillooly)
Session 1: Home and abroad in British questionnaires
Chair: Eileen Gillooly (Columbia University)
Elizabeth Yale (Western Carolina University)
Preparing the ground: topographical query lists and the formation of ‰ÛÏBritain‰۝ as an object of scientific study in the seventeenth century
Asheesh Siddique (Columbia University)
Questionnaires, paperwork, and the problem of governance in the late eighteenth-century British Atlantic Enlightenment
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30Session 2: Techniques of inquiry in the 17th century
Chair: Alan Stewart (Columbia University)
Daniel Carey (National University of Ireland, Galway)
John Locke‰۪s anthropology of religion ‰ÛÒ questions and answers
Carl Wennerlind (Barnard College)
Nature‰۪s secrets revealed: Urban HiÌ_rne‰۪s questionnaire and the restoration of Atlantis
1.00Lunch
2.00Session 3: Enlightenment agendas
Chair: DÌÁniel MargÌ_csy (Hunter College, CUNY)
Nicholas Dew (McGill University)
‰ÛÏA Modell to regulate your Travels by‰۝: from wish list to expedition in the early Enlightenment
Matthew Jones (Columbia University)
Re-inventing the (calculating) wheel: imitation, emulation and nescience in the Enlightenment
3.30-4.00 Coffee break
4.00Session 4:The New World as an object of study
Chair: Martin J. Burke (CUNY)
Ida Federica Pugliese (Marie Curie Fellow, NUI Galway)
An Inquiry into the 13 Colonies: Barb̩-Marbois‰۪s queries and French commercial strategy during the American War of Independence
Cameron Strang (Penick Scholar, Smithsonian Institution)
Indian vocabularies and un-disciplining knowledge in the early United States
Saturday October 19
501 Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University
9.15Session 5: Travel, observation and population
Chair: Lynn Festa (Rutgers University)
Ted McCormick (Concordia University)
Observations that traveled: Graunt‰۪s Observations and the uses of quantification in Cotton Mather‰۪s New England
Joyce Chaplin (Harvard University)
T.R. Malthus, travel literature, and the world‰۪s populations
10.45-11.15 Coffee break
11.15Session 6: Early modern information networks
Chair: Maria Portuondo(Johns Hopkins University)
Jorge Ca̱izares-Esguerra (University of Texas at Austin)
Early modern networks and contingency: Jesuits, souls, geopolitics, and research projects
Paula Findlen (Stanford University)
How information travels: lessons from the early modern republic of letters
Ann Blair (Harvard University), Commentary
1.00Lunch

Journaux Personnels / Personal Diaries - seminar in French (a Ulysses collaborative Franco-Irish project)
2013-10-17 16:00
Seminar in French
Thursday 17th October, 4p.m.
Moore Institute seminar room, NUIG
A ‰Û÷Ulysses‰۪ collaborative project between Ireland and France
JOURNAUX PERSONNELS : åÇ Le corps ÌÊ l‰۪̩preuve åÈ
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Marion Krauthaker (University of Sunderland / NUIG)
åÇ Le journal de Mary Martin: quotidien et ̩preuves d’une m̬re irlandaise
pendant la premi̬re guerre mondiale åÈ.
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V̩ronique Mont̩mont (Universit̩ de Lorraine, ATILF/CNRS)
åÇ H̩l̬ne Hoppenot ou le goÌÈt de la libert̩ åÈ
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Catherine Viollet (ITEM-CNRS ENS Paris)
åÇ Micheline Bood, journaux 1939-1947 åÈ
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Sylvie Lannegrand (NUIG)
åÇ Jocelyne Fran̤ois : une vie, un geste, un engagement åÈ
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For more information please contact sylvie.lannegrand@nuigalway.ie

History Graduate Research Seminar Series - Jennifer Wood - Soldiers' Memories of the Falklands/Malvinas War
2013-10-16 16:00
Jennifer Wood
Soldiers’ Memories of the Falklands/Malvinas War

Website Launch - Irish Manuscripts on the Continent, AD 600-AD 850 and Laser-based Profilometry of Medieval Irish Monuments
2013-10-11 12:00
Website Launch
Irish Manuscripts on the Continent, AD 600-AD 850 andLaser-based Profilometry of Medieval Irish Monuments
Moore Institute, NUIG
12pm
Friday, 11th October, 2013
Complimentary lunch to follow
To be launched by Prof. DÌÁibhÌ_ ÌÒ CrÌ_inÌ_n,
Department of History,
National University of Ireland, Galway
FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch!
For more information please contact meadhbh.nicanairchinnigh@nuigalway.ie

From Ego to Eco III: Seeking Shelter or dwelling in the Open? - Examining Ecocritical Approaches to Human Habitation
2013-10-11 10:00
We cordially invite you to participate in the third ‰ÛÏFrom Ego to Eco‰۝ Symposium ant the 11th of October, 10-6, Moore Institute, NUI Galway, hosted by German/ The School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. This time we focus on the nature/culture divide of human habitation. A detailed programme will be circulated shortly
Seeking Shelter or dwelling in the Open? ‰ÛÒ Examining Ecocritical Approaches to Human Habitation
From a socio-historical point of view, the human need for shelter seems unquestionable. For millennia humans have built dwelling places to shelter themselves and their belongings from exposure to the threats posed by their environments. But whereas fences and shelters once seemed essential to our survival, in an age of over-population and ecological crises, in which mankind figures as the single biggest threat to the well-being of the ecosphere, it is the environment which seems in need of being sheltered from us. Our faith in the fence seems inexhaustible: Where once we shut nature out, we now shut nature in, in nature reserves and conservation zones trying to exempt species and habitats from destruction. These exemptions, however, are little more than an alibi for ever greater exploitation and eradication of wilderness on the outside. In the face of the fact that we cannot save the planet by trying to save ourselves, literature and philosophy ask new and provocative questions: Can we acknowledge and approve of our contingencies with and exposures to the environment? Are we ready to face the open, in which we participate regardless of how and where we live: the water cycle, the atmosphere and the earth? Are we willing yet to extend the privilege of the sanctity of life beyond humanity to other species? Both literature and philosophy respond to these questions by reflecting on modes of habitation and imaginatively conceiving them anew. From return-to-wilderness narratives and post-apocalyptic scenarios of exposure, to the outright refusal to tell the human self from its non-human environments in poetry via prosopopeia, literature abounds with depictions of life outside conventional modes of shelteredness. On the other hand, literature reflects on the parameters, conditions and consequences of settlement, migration and diaspora and their implications for humans and environments. Already the myth of the expurgation of mankind from Eden, which Caroline Merchant describes as the ‰ÛÏperhaps [‰Û_] most important mythology humans have developed to make sense of their relationship to the earth,‰۝ depicts a ‰ÛÏturning away‰۝ of humans from the presence of the immanent perambulating divine. (3) What of the tradition of ‰ÛÏrecovery of Eden‰۝ narratives, then – are they help or hindrance on our way to reconciled dwelling? Giorgio Agamben in the majority of his works (i.e. Homo Sacer [1995], The Open ‰ÛÒ of Man and Animal [2004], Profanations [2007]) discusses the consequences and implications of the sacred as a practice of dividing and setting apart within man ‰ÛÏgood life‰۝ (human, worthy of protection, endowed with a human ‰ÛÏface‰۝) and ‰ÛÏbare life‰۝ (exposed and ready to be killed, animal). This caesura, according to Agamben, posits the concentration camp as the foundational paradigm of Western political life and not as its exception. These thoughts seem to us urgently relevant to thinking about shelteredness and openness in literature and environmental thought.
10:00 Registration and Welcome
Keynote:
10:30-11:30 Axel Goodbody (University of Bath)
Heimat, Shelter and the Place of Humans in the World: Jenny Erpenbeck’s Heimsuchung
Panel 1:
11: 30 ‰ÛÒ 12:00 Conn Holohann (NUI Galway)
In Praise of Error: Cosmopolitan Space in the Films of Claire Denis‰۪
12:00-12:30 David Conlon (NUI Maynooth)
Technology as environment and refuge in Ricardo Piglia’s The Absent City
12:30- 13:00 Michael Sauter (Augsburg University)
Seeking Shelter, Building Fires: London, McCarthy, ‰Û_and LukÌÁcs?
13:00- 14:00Lunch Break
Keynote:
14:00-15:00Tim Wenzell (Virginia Union University)
Green Deity: Nature as mind in Robert Graves The White Goddess
Panel 2:
15:00- 15: 30Heike Schwarz, (Augsburg University)
‰ÛÏIs anyone seeing this?‰۝: Ecopsychopathology, Ecocalypse or Environmental Madness in American Fiction and Jeff Nicholå«s Take Shelter (2011)
15:30- 16:00Sabine Lenore MÌ_ller (Leipzig University)
“The house door left unshut” – Environmental Modernism and the Open in R. M. Rilke and W. B. Yeats
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30Roundtable Discussion

Finnegans Wake reading group
2013-10-10 13:00
If you like gossiping, poetry, languages, puns, puzzles, jokes, double entendres or even avant-garde tomes, you might like Finnegans Wake. Despite its scurrilous critical reputation, James Joyce’s final workis not as difficult as it would first appear and,when read as part of a group, can be a hugely rewarding experience. It is our hope to read the text episodically, playing close attention to the rhythm and musicality of the piece; we aim to stress the looseness of the text without resort to lucidity.
No prior experience of Joyce is necessary and the meetings will be very informal so everyone is very welcome.
Consider joining our Facebook group to keep abreast of news, dates and any strange Joycean ephemera that we find. ( https://www.facebook.com/groups/359211964211176/ )

History Graduate Research Seminar Series -Padraic Kenney (Indiana) - 'The Prison has become a Political Battlefield'. How World War I transformed political imprisonment in Europe
2013-10-09 16:00
Padraic Kenney (Indiana)
‘The Prison has become a Political Battlefield’. How World War I transformed political imprisonment in Europe

Digital Humanities and Journalism Seminar
2013-10-09 12:00
Digital Scholarship Seminar and INSIGHT @ NUIGalway present:
Digital Humanities and Journalism Seminar.
12-2pm, Wednesday 9 October, Moore Institute Seminar Room.
The first event of the Autumn/Winter series of DSS is a lunchtime seminar to showcase the work of INSIGHT @ NUIGalway(formerly DERI NUIGalway) INSIGHT in Digital Humanities and Journalism, and to provide a vision of future collaborations between technology and humanities researchers.
The speakers will demonstrate how Humanities faculty and researchers can benefit from collaboration with INSIGHT @ NUIGalway‰۪s semantic web experts and collaboration with INSIGHTDigital Humanities and Journalism group, citing examples from previous collaborations and potential future projects. There will be an opportunity to meet INSIGHT @ NUIGalway researchers and discuss potential collaborations over lunch (generously provided by the Moore Institute).
The following is the list of speakers:
Professor Stefan Decker, Director of INSIGHT @ ‘NUIGalway: ‘From Digital’ Enterprise DirectorNUIGalway: ‘From of INSIGHTto INSIGHT.’
Dr. Sandra Collins, Director of the Digital Repository of Ireland: ‘Digital Repository of Ireland.’
Dr. Bahareh Heravi, Team leader of Digital Humanities and Journalism at INSIGHT @ ‘NUIGalway: ‘Future Newsrooms’ and JournalismNUIGalway: ‘Future at INSIGHTCivic Journalism.’
Professor Siegfried Handschuh, Stream leader at INSIGHT @ ‘NUIGalway: ‘Quick and’ Dirty leaderNUIGalway: ‘Quick at INSIGHTExamples of Text Analytics Applications for Digital Humanities.’
Dr. Paul Buitelaar, Stream leader at INSIGHT @ ‘NUIGalway: ‘Towards Extracting’ Author leaderNUIGalway: ‘Towards at INSIGHTNetworks from Secondary Literature’ and ‘Using Semantic Similarity on Poetic Corpora.’
For further information these talks, and on Digital Humanities and Journalism at INSIGHT @ ‘NUIGalway.

Dr Fred Freeman (Fellow, English, University of Edinburgh) -Culture and Colonialism: A Tribute to Hamish Hederson
2013-10-09 11:00
CULTURE AND COLONIALISM
FRED FREEMAN
on Hamish Henderson
Hamish Henderson (1919-2002), poet and songwriter, was one of the outstanding cultural and political figures of the twentieth century. He accepted the surrender of Italy during World War II, won the Somerset Maugham prize for his war elegies (which bear comparison with Wilfred Owen or Siegfried Sassoon), and helped found the University of Edinburgh‰۪s School of Scottish Studies. His songs were sung by British soldiers and Italian partisans to battle in the 1940s, and by the freedom fighters of South Africa in the 1960s, and recognised by Nelson Mandela, E.P. Thomson, Alan Lomax, Pete Seeger, & Bob Dylan.
11am Wednesday 9th October
Arts Millennium AM 203
All welcome
CULTURE AND COLONIALISM:
A TRIBUTE TO HAMISH HENDERSON
Drawing musical and poetical examples from Dr Fred Freeman‰۪s CD tribute album, the talk considers in context one of the outstanding figures of the twentieth century: a man who accepted the surrender of Italy during World War II; won the Somerset Maugham Prize for his war elegies (which bear comparison with Siegfried Sassoon or Wilfred Owen); was a prime mover for the founding the School of Scottish Studies; and influenced, quite directly, the course of twentieth-century history. His songs (like BALLAD OF THE D-DAY DODGERS, BANKS OF SICILY, RIVONIA & THE FREEDOM COME ALL YE) were sung by British soldiers and Italian partisans in the field of battle during WW II and by the freedom fighters of S. Africa throughout the 1960s. His achievement has been fully acknowledged by Nelson Mandela, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, E. P. Thomson and others.
Hamish Henderson worked for some years for Workers Education in Northern Ireland, after WW II, and his songs like THE FREEDOM COME ALL YE have been recorded by several groups like The Dubliners.
Dr. Fred Freeman (Fellow, English, University of Edinburgh)
Dr. Fred Freeman is an internationally acclaimed scholar and researcher on the song traditions of Scotland. He has published over 100 articles, together with books and comprehensive CD collections, documenting the rich history of Scotland‰۪s song poets and their work.

Dr. Fred Freeman (Fellow, English, University of Edinburgh) - The Irish In Scotland : Robert Tannahill
2013-10-08 17:00
In conjunction with the Moore Institute, the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, and the MA in Culture and Colonialism, ECHO: the humanities research forum presents two compelling talks:
THE IRISH IN SCOTLAND
FRED FREEMAN
on Robert Tannahill
Robert Tannahill of Paisley (1774-1810) was a weaver, poet, and songwriter of over 100 songs of a quality comparable to Burns, employing Irish melodies and subject matter to describe the emigrant experience and the colours and sounds of early industrialization.
5pm Tuesday 8th October
Applied Optics Seminar Room
All welcome. Wine served.
LECTURE ‰ÛÒ THE IRISH IN SCOTLAND : ROBERT TANNAHILL
After releasing THE COMPLETE SONGS OF ROBERT BURNS (12 vols, Linn Records 1996-2003) I turned my attention to a sadly neglected artist: Robert Tannahill of Paisley (1774-1810).Tannahill was a weaver, a song-writer and poet who wrote over 100 songs of a quality comparable to Burns.
This illustrated lecture, drawing musical examples from my COMPLETE SONGS OF ROBERT TANNAHILL, concentrates on a unique collection of songs ‰ÛÒ with their Irish melodies and subject matter written in defence of the early 19th-century Irish emigrants to Scotland.A total non-sectarian, Tannahill, in his own way, contributed a great deal to changing perceptions of the downtrodden Irish as they settled into their new country; and, at the same time, he left us with a lovely body of Irish song.
Moreover, as an early Romantic artist, he was far ahead of his time.His unique, urban Paisley songs movingly provide a critical insight into both the despair and the dynamism of early industrialisation. And his use of the comic and the grotesque certainly does look forward to Blake with its mixed message in relation to the working classes: figures both corrupted and enervated by urban life and, simultaneously, morally and socially liberated from the constraints of their ‰Û÷betters‰۪.
The McPeake family of Northern Ireland based their famous folk song, ‰Û÷The Wild Mountain Thyme‰۪, directly upon the Paisley poet‰۪s ‰Û÷The Braes o Balquhidder‰۪; and, over the past 200 years, his works have been published in various Irish and Northern Irish editions.
Dr. Fred Freeman (Fellow, English, University of Edinburgh)
Dr. Fred Freeman is an internationally acclaimed scholar and researcher on the song traditions of Scotland. He has published over 100 articles, together with books and comprehensive CD collections, documenting the rich history of Scotland‰۪s song poets and their work.
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Sometime Fellow in English at University of Edinburgh, he is a graduate of Aberdeen and Edinburgh universities. He taught Scottish literature at The School of Scottish Studies and in the English Department of Edinburgh; held postdoctoral posts (several times over) at The Advanced Studies Institute, The School of Scottish Studies, the English Department, University of Edinburgh. He held a postdoctoral appointment at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford for two years in the late ‰Û÷80s, concentrating on ethnic minority writers in Scotland.
Freeman is the author of a book on the 18th-century Edinburgh poet, Robert Fergusson (Edinburgh UP 1984) and a children’s book on the Paisley poet, Robert Tannahill (2009); and has published over 100 articles on Scottish literature, folk music and history. He is on the official Live Literature Scotland authors’ list for grants.
Over the past decade Freeman has drawn upon his extensive musical background, producing over 42 (internationally acclaimed) CDs – amongst them: “THE COMPLETE SONGS OF ROBERT BURNS” (13 Cds, 12 vols, Linn Records 1996-2003); (for Scottish Borders Region) “BORDERS FIDDLES”, “BORDERS SANGSTERS”, “BORDERS BOXES”, “BORDERS PIPES”; “BORDERS YOUNG PIPERS” (1999-2012); “A’THE BAIRNS O’ ADAM – A TRIBUTE TO HAMISH HENDERSON” (Greentrax 2004); “A’ ADAM’S BAIRNS” National Library of Scotland, 2008); numerous solo CDs – “YONT THE TAY” (Jim Reid) which won BBC’s ‰Û÷Best Singer of the Year 2005′; “THE COMPLETE SONGS OF ROBERT TANNAHILL” – Vols I, II & III (with 2 vols still to come).

CAMPS Lab: Elva Johnston, School of History and Archives, UCD - 'Literacy and conversion in early medieval Ireland: a reassessment'
2013-10-04 12:00
Elva Johnston, School of History and Archives, UCD
‰Û÷Literacy and conversion in early medieval Ireland: a reassessment‰۪

History Graduate Research Seminar Series -Carla Lessing - 'The Civil English and the Wild Irish'. Tudor and Stewart concepts of civility
2013-10-02 16:00
Carla Lessing
‘The Civil English and the Wild Irish’. Tudor and Stewart concepts of civility

Early Modern Travel: Theory and Practice, International Conference 27-28th September
2013-09-27 09:00
Early Modern Travel: Theory and Practice
In the early modern period the development of inquiries, questionnaires, and directions for travel proliferated in an attempt to make travel a useful and productive activity. This conference explores the widespread effort to provide instruction, as well as the travel practices that emerged in response to and in tension with these demands in the domains of natural history and cultural and political observation. Travel developed as a scholarly enterprise and was also incorporated into wider debates among humanists and other authorities evaluating religion, military conflict, and commercial expansion. The conference breaks down the separation between European and ‰Û÷exotic‰۪ travel (in the Ottoman Empire, Persia, Arabia) and challenges conventional periodization by describing traditions from the Renaissance to Enlightenment.
Participants from Ireland, the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Denmark, and Brazil, will discuss figures ranging from Hakluyt to Montaigne, Knolles, La Loub̬re and Michaelis.
‰ÛÏTexts, Contexts, Culture‰۝ is funded under the Higher Education Authority, under PRTLI4 http://www.hea.ie
Friday 27 September

9.15Registration and Welcome
Session 1: 16th Century agendas
Chair: Jane Grogan (UCD)
Edward Collins (UCD/Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville)
‰Û÷Marriage, Union, and the Transfer of Knowledge in the Maritime Enterprises of Spain, Portugal and England in the Sixteenth Century‰۪
Ladan Niayesh (Paris 7)
‰Û÷From Travel Guide to Collection of Exempla: Andrew Borde‰۪s The First Book of the Introduction of Knowledge (1547)‰۪
10.45 Coffee and tea break
11.15Session 2: Networks, politics, and instructional strategies
Chair: Daniel Carey (NUI Galway)
Sebastian Sobecki (Groningen)
‰Û÷Innocent Espionage: Robert Cecil‰۪s Network and John Peyton‰۪s Travels in Central Europe, 1598-1603‰۪
Paola Molino (Austrian National Library)
‰Û÷The Importance of Being ‰ÛÏInstructed‰۝ in the Late 16th-Century Scholarly World‰۪
12.30Lunch
2.00bus departure for Claregalway
14.45Session 3: The Arabian Voyage, 1761-1767
Chair: Ida Pugliese (NUI Galway/Marie Curie IEF)
Daniel Carey (NUI Galway),
‰۪J.D. Michaelis‰۪s Instructions for the Arabian Voyage: Contexts and Continuities‰۪
Anne Haslund Hansen (National Museum Denmark), ‰Û÷Between Image and Text: Carsten Niebuhr‰۪s Publications from the Arabian Voyage, 1761-1767‰۪
16.00Coffee and tea break
16.30Session 4: Irish itineraries
Chair: John Waddell (NUI Galway)
Peter Harbison (RIA): ‰Û÷Beranger and Bigari‰۪s Tour of Connacht in 1779‰۪
17.30Reception (Claregalway Castle)
19.30Conference Dinner (Claregalway Castle)

Saturday 28 September

9.15 Session 5: Travel and the art of observation
Chair: Ladan Niayesh (Paris 7)
Luciana Villas B̫as (Rio de Janeiro/Free University Berlin)
‰Û÷The Ends of Travel Writing in Michel de Montaigne‰۪s Journal de Voyage (1580-1581)‰۪
Sven Trakulhun (Zurich)
‰Û÷The Scientific Traveller: Simon de La Loub̬re‰۪s Du Royaume de Siam (1691)‰۪
Julia B̦ttcher (Regensburg)
‰Û÷The Instructed Naturalist: Travel Instructions and the 18th-Century Norm of Observational Practice‰۪
11.15Coffee and tea break
11.45Session 6: Ottomans, Persians and early modern scholarship
Chair: Lindsay Reid (NUI Galway)
Jane Grogan (University College Dublin)
‰Û÷‰ÛÏEngrossed by Experience‰۝ at the King of Persia‰۪s Court: Xenophon‰۪s Travels‰۪
Anders Ingram (NUI Galway)
‰Û÷Sixteenth-Century English Perspectives on the Ottoman Empire: Richard Knolles and Richard Hakluyt‰۪
13.15Lunch

For more information please contact daniel.carey@nuigalway.ie

Seeing the World: Travel, Text, Image - International conference 27-28 September 2013
2013-09-27 09:00
Seeing the world: Travel, text, image
Authors of travel narratives attempting to convey in words their discoveries and observations increasingly turned to images to support their text. In this they were encouraged by publishers and the public, developing in time a dedicated art industry and new book forms. This conference focuses attention on the various uses of graphic art in topographical and ethnographical writing by travellers from the Early Modern period to the present, and the relationship between text and image.
The topics proposed by the participants, from Italy, Switzerland, America, France, Greece and Ireland, range from the iconography of specific areas, such as Switzerland, the Eastern Mediterranean, the Western Mediterranean, Ireland, to the work of particular individuals, notably Jonathan Fisher, Luttrell Wynne, Beranger and Bigari in Ireland and W.H.J. Browne in the Arctic. Among the areas covered are the National Library of Ireland‰۪s resources for research on travel, the implications of evolving media for both text and image, including their online presence. Present-day topographical writing and the images it engenders are the focus of a session devoted to Tim Robinson‰۪s Connemara trilogy.
‰Û÷Texts, Contexts, Cultures‰۪ is funded by the Higher Education Authority, under PRTLI4 (http://www.hea.ie). This conference is supported by generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (http://www.mellon.org).
Friday 27 September
Optics seminar room (beside Moore Institute)
9.15Registration and Welcome
9.30Session 1: Irish Itineraries 1
Chair: Lillis ÌÒ Laoire (NUI Galway)
Gerard Long (National Library of Ireland) ‰Û÷Travel accounts in the collections of the National Library of Ireland‰۪
Nessa Cronin (NUI, Galway) ‰Û÷‰۝New roads, new seats, new plantations‰۝: The road as contact zone in late eighteenth-century Ireland‰۪
10.45Coffee and tea break
11.15Session 2: Constructing images: the Levant, the Alps
Chair: Sylvie Lannegrand (NUI, Galway)
Irini Apostolou (University of Athens)‰Û÷Le voyage en images au Levant: ̩changes et rivalit̩s franco-britanniques au XVIIIe si̬cle‰۪
Claude Reichler (Universit̩ de Lausanne) ‰Û÷Imaging the Alps: travel books and the history of viewing‰۪
12.30Lunch
14.00 Coach to Claregalway
Claregalway Castle
14.45Session 3: Developing the picturesque
Chair: Phil Dine (NUI, Galway)
Finola O‰۪Kane (University College Dublin)
‰Û÷Making Ireland picturesque: Jonathan Fisher’s Tour of Killarney‘
Gabor Gell̩ri (Aberystwyth University)
‰Û÷An unknown creator of picturesque Ireland: Luttrell Wynne, the Gentleman of Oxford‰۪
16.00Coffee and tea break
16.30Session 4: Irish itineraries 2
Chair: John Waddell (NUI, Galway)
Peter Harbison (Royal Irish Academy)
‰Û÷Beranger and Bigari‰۪s tour of Connacht in 1779‰۪ (Plenary)
17.30 Reception (Claregalway Castle)
Saturday 28 September
Moore Institute seminar room
9.15Session 5: Changing media
Chair: Jane Conroy
Eavan ÌÒ Dochartaigh(NUI, Galway)
‰۪‰۝Faithful Delineations: The Travels and Images of W.H.J. Browne‰۝‰۪
Tania Manca (UniversitÌÊ di Cagliari)
‰Û÷The transition from engraving to photograph: the Western Mediterranean and Africa‰۪
Marina Ansaldo (University College Dublin)
‰Û÷The ‰ÛÏIreland Illustrated‰۝ online database‰۪
11.15Coffee and tea break
11.45 Session 6: Beyond the picturesque
Chair: Nessa Cronin (NUI, Galway)
John Elder (Middlebury College, Vermont)
‰Û÷Solas/Dolas and Tim Robinson’s Escape from the Picturesque‰۪
Nicolas F̬ve (St Patrick‰۪s College, Dublin)
‰Û÷Travelling light: a photographic journey through Robinson‰۪s Connemara‰۪
13.15Lunch

Finnegan's Wake reading group
2013-09-26 13:00
The NUI, Galway Finnegans Wake reading group is starting up again this September.
Our first meeting will be 1-2pm in the Moore Institute Seminar Room, Thursday 26th September. If you like gossiping, poetry, languages, puns, puzzles, jokes, double entendres or even avant-garde tomes, you might like Finnegans Wake. Despite its scurrilous critical reputation, James Joyce’s final workis not as difficult as it would first appear and,when read as part of a group, can be a hugely rewarding experience. It is our hope to read the text episodically, playing close attention to the rhythm and musicality of the piece; we aim to stress the looseness of the text without resort to lucidity.
No prior experience of Joyce is necessary and the meetings will be very informal so everyone is very welcome.
Join us on the 26th or consider joining our Facebook group to keep abreast of news, dates and any strange Joycean ephemera that we find. ( https://www.facebook.com/groups/359211964211176/ )

History Graduate Research Seminar Series - CiarÌÁn Wallace (TCD) Drawing on minor sources: satirical cartoons in 'The Leprecaun Cartoon Monthly', 1905-1915
2013-09-25 16:00
25 Sept.CiarÌÁn Wallace (TCD)
Drawing on minor sources: satirical cartoons in ‘The Leprecaun Cartoon Monthly’, 1905-1915

Performance Matters - Irish Theatre Discussion Group - David Harrower's Blackbird
2013-09-24 18:00
Performance Matters
Irish Theatre Discussion Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/
We will be discussing David Harrower’s Blackbird which coincidentally is being performing by Mephisto theatre company for the Galway theatre festival (4th,5th Oct.)
http://www.mephistotheatre.com/blackbird-by-david-harrower/
For more information please contact lisa.fitzgerald@nuigalway.ie or m.nichualain5@nuigalway.ie
All theatre practitioners, theorists and students are welcome to attend
If you need a copy of the script or directions to the venue please email PerformanceMattersNUIG@gmail.com.

CKI Seminar - Community Mapping: Creating Common Ground Locally and Globally - Maeve Lydon, University of Victoria, Canada
2013-09-19 12:30
CKI Seminar – Community Mapping: Creating Common Ground
Locally and Globally
Maeve Lydon, University of Victoria, Canada
Date: Thursday 19th September 2013
Time: 12.30 ‰ÛÒ 2.30pm (Tea/Coffee available from 12.15pm)
Venue: Moore Institute Seminar Room, NUI Galway
The seminar is free but it is necessary to book your place on or before Tuesday 17th September, with Ann Lyons
Event Details
Community‰ÛÒbased mapping is an educational, planning and research tool for participatory and sustainable community development. It enables people to mobilise assets, capture the power of place, visualise engagement and re-present scenarios for change. Maeve Lydon, the presenter from the University of Victoria, Canada, will share the story of the work of the Community Mapping Collaboratory and the Common Ground Community Mapping Network in Canada (www.mapping.uvic.ca).
The presentation will include how the Community Mapping Collaboratory (CMC) integrates community mapping into research, student curriculum/ field work and community projects, while building strong planning and development partnerships with local governments, neighbourhoods, funders, and the community and voluntary sector. Specific projects include sustainability, neighbourhood and city planning, child, youth and citizen engagement, arts and culture strategies, food security inventories, and the development of sustainable local economy. How the CMC uses high tech- high touch applications and open-source, GIS and CIS (geographic and community information systems) will also be included, with discussion of tools and techniques which community and campus groups can easily use. Finally, Maeve will share global connections in her role as advisor and Canadian hub/resource for the Green Map System (www.greenmap.org), based in New York, who have supported more than 750 print and on-line green mapping initiatives around the world, with many in Ireland, the UK and other parts of Europe.
Maeve Lydon (whose parents were born and raised in Galway and father graduated from UCG!) is the Associate Director of the Institute for Studies and Innovation in Community-University Engagement (CUE) and staff with Community Based Research Canada (CBRC), based at the University of Victoria on the west coast of Canada. She has a background in community and international development, education and social change. Maeve is the Project and Partnership Coordinator with the Community Mapping Collaboratory, which was recently awarded a Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) Partnerships Development Grant to deepen research and networking related to community mapping locally, nationally and globally. Her MA Thesis was entitled (Re)Presenting the Living Landscape: Community Mapping as a Tool for Transformative Learning and Planning – Abstract and access to full document available here.
The Community Knowledge Initiative (CKI) fosters community university partnerships that aim to promote the principles and practices of civic engagement and democracy.

History Graduate Research Seminar Series - MÌÁirÌ_n Mac Carron - The Venerable Bede and the origins of AD-Dating
2013-09-18 16:00
MÌÁirÌ_n Mac Carron
The Venerable Bede and the origins of AD-Dating

Landlords, tenants and their estates in Ireland: 1600-2013 - September 13th and 14th 2013
2013-09-13 09:00
Friday 13 September 2013
9.00-9.30 Registration and Welcome (Moore Seminar Room)
9.30-11.00 Panel 1
Panel 1 (a) Transnational estate histories?
Chair: Dr. Enrico Dal Lago(Moore Seminar Room)
What can Irish plantations in the French, British and Danish Caribbean tell us about landed
estates in Ireland? (Dr. Orla Power, TCD)
Second Slavery, Second Landlordism, and Modernity: Nineteenth-Century Irish Landed
Estates in Comparative Perspective (Cathal Smith, NUI Galway)
Scottish and Irish estate histories, c. 1800-c.1922: trans-regional, trans-national, trans-
imperial?(Dr. Annie Tindley, University of Dundee)
Panel 1 (b) Social networks and the changing face of the gentry in Ireland
Chair: Dr. Jackie UÌ_Chionna(Optics Room)
An Ordered Society, Social networking of the Power Elites 1850-1880: Case Study Thomas
Conolly and Castletown, Co Kildare (Suzanne Pegley, NUI Maynooth)
‰Û÷Aggressive busybody’: Arthur Hugh Smith Barry (1843-1925) and the purpose of the Irish
gentry(Dr. Ian d’Alton, Independent scholar)
From Soldiers To Scholars: The social metamorphosis of an Irish landed family (Michael
Murphy, NUI Maynooth)
11.00-11.30 Tea and Coffee
11.30-12.30 Plenary
Chair: (TBC)
Northern perspectives: challenges, opportunities and the Ulster landed
Estate(Dr. Olwen Purdue, QUB) (venue: TBC)
12.30-1.30 Lunch
1.30-3.00 Panel 2
Panel 2 (a) Agrarian and labour disturbances mid nineteenth century rural Ireland
Chair: Dr. John Cunningham (Moore Seminar Room)
‰Û÷The law of Captain Rock is more powerful’ (Terry Dunne, NUI Maynooth)
Distress and agitation in the west: labour unrest on the Mahon estate in 1831 (Dr. Adrian
Grant, NUI Galway)
The agrarian disturbances of 1849-1852; landlord/tenant conflict on the South Ulster
borderlands (KerronO’Luain, QUB)
Panel 2 (b) Landed estate questions: management, finance, and legacy
Chair: DrTomÌÁs Finn(Optics Room)
Pacifying the estate: the challenge of managing the Landed Estate (Laura Vickers, NUI Galway)
Capitalising on the Irish ‰Û÷Land Question’: Irish Land Bonds, 1891-1938
(Nathan Foley-Fisher, US Federal Reserve and Dr. Eoin McLaughlin, University of Edinburgh)
The Big House: From private home to public space (Emer Crooke, NUI Maynooth)
3.00-3.30 Tea and Coffee
3.30-5.00 Panel 3
Panel 3 (a) Archives and estates
Chair: Kieran Hoare (venue: TBC)
Analysing the big house network in Ulster: a brief enquiry (Bethany Sinclair, PRONI)
The Quit Office Crown Estate papers as a source for the study of Nineteenth Century Irish
history (Dr. Kevin Forkan, NAI)
Townlands.csv, the core data of the Down Survey of Ireland project (David Brown, TCD)
5.15-6.15 Plenary
Chair: (TBC)
From Bonfire to Sperm Whale: Interpreting Historic Houses Through
their Archives (Professor Christopher Ridgway) (venue: TBC)
6.30-7.30 Wine reception
Launch of ‰Û÷Irish Landed Estates Special Interest Group’
(Moore Seminar Room)
8.30 Conference dinner for speakers
Saturday 14 September 2013
9.30-11.00 Panel 4
Panel 4 (a) Religious divides and estate life during the 1700s and 1800s
Chair: (TBC) (Moore Seminar Room)
Estates and their tenants: A case study of the Morristown Lattin and Castle Leslie estates in
the eighteenth century (Dr. Emma Lyons, UCD)
‰Û÷I should have no objections to your having guns’ – The influence of Orange landlords over
their tenant Orangemen in 1830s Ulster (Dr. Daragh Curran, NUIM)
‰Û÷Unless he be a Catholic and his name begin with O’, he is to be denounced as an alien’: The
O’Conor Don and Catholic Landlordism in Victorian Ireland (Dr. Aidan Enright, Independent scholar)
Panel 4 (b) Women and the landed estate
Chair: Dr. Sarah Anne Buckley (Optics Room)
The Marchioness of Ormond’s return from exile and the Butler Estate (Dr. John Jeremiah
Cronin, Independent scholar)
‰Û÷The Landlord Class is Slowly Bleeding to Death': Gender, Philanthropy and Social
Conservatism in Victorian Ireland (Dr. Andrew G. Newby, University of Helsinki)
Lady Godfrey's Mill' Ch̢telaines of a Kerry Estate(Dr. John Knightly, Independent scholar)
11.00-11.30 Tea and Coffee
11.30-12.30 Plenary
Chair: Dr. Mary Harris
The Landed (E)state in the Nineteenth Century
(Professor Ewen A. Cameron, University of Edinburgh) (venue: TBC)
12.30-1.30 Lunch
1.30-3.00 Panel 5
Panel 5 (a) Disorder and a reordering of Ireland during the 1600s and 1700s
Chair: Dr. Padraig Lenihan (Moore Seminar Room)
Landlords, tenants and Cromwellians (Dr. John Cunningham, TCD)
Tenant/ landlord relations during the 1641 Rebellion in King’s and Queen’s Counties
(PÌÁdraigLawlor, TCD)
A New Order? Landowners, middlemen and the fight for land in East Clare, 1690-1740
(Teresa Shoosmith, NUIGalway)
Panel 5 (b) Paternalism, power, and pedagogy: landlords, servants, and tenants,
Chair: Dr. Andrew Newby (Optics Room)
Servants on Landed Estates in Eighteenth Century Ireland (Teri Brandon, UCC)
Education, paternalism and power on an Irish landed estate, 1820-1870 (Dr. Kevin McKenna,
independent scholar)
Landlords and Libraries (Pamela Emerson, University of Ulster)
3.00-3.30 Tea and Coffee
3.30-4.00
Chair: (TBC)
William Sharman Crawford: the landlord as land reformer
(Professor Peter Gray, QUB) (venue: TBC)
Conference close
For more information on this conference please contact j.mcentee@live.ie
Conference fee
The conference registration fee is 20 euro for two days and 10 euro for one.
Irish Landed Estates Special Interest Group
As part of the conference proceedings, we are delighted to announce that an Irish landed Estates Special Interest Group will be launched. The group will act as a branch of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland (SSNCI). The SSNCI committee has agreed to this decision.
Publication of Conference proceedings
As part of our output for the Irish Landed Estates Special Interest Group we intend to publish conference proceedings. This will provide a wonderful opportunity to young scholars to have their work published. At present we are considering either a special journal edition or an edited book.
Lunch and snacks at break times will be provided for all guests on both days.
Twitter users may use the following: #landlordmoore

History Graduate Research Seminar Series - Ciaran McDonough, 'Antiquarianism as a Gentleman's Hobby, 1800-1867'
2013-09-11 16:00
Ciaran McDonough,
‘Antiquarianism as a Gentleman’s Hobby, 1800-1867’

MA Medieval Studies & CAMPS: Reception to launch the new academic year
2013-09-04 16:00
MA Medieval Studies & CAMPS: Reception to launch the new academic year.
All ‰Û÷medievalists‰۪– newly-arrived, established, self-identified — are invited to get to know each other and learn about activities of interest to the wider community of scholars concerned with the Antique, Medieval and Pre-Modern worlds at NUIG.
For more information contact kim.loprete@nuigalway.ie

IRC Information Session
2013-09-04 13:00
The Moore Institute will host an information session on the IRC Research Project Grants Scheme on Wednesday, September 4 at 1pm in the Moore Institute seminar room (Room 203). The expectation will be that those interested in applying to the scheme will have read, in advance, the Terms & Conditions that apply (available here http://www.research.ie/funding/research-project-grants-scheme-2013); this will allow us to spend the majority of the time answering the more focused questions that applicants will have at this stage of the process. Prof. Patrick Lonergan, who currently holds a project grant award, will also be available for advice on the application process.

Workshop - Teaching Transnational History: Transnational Ireland International Research Network
2013-08-31 00:00
Workshop – Teaching Transnational History: Transnational Ireland International Research Network, Moore Institute, NUI Galway, 31 August 2013
This workshop is the latest in the ‰Û÷Transnational Ireland’ international research network (http://transnationalireland.com), whose aim is to re-articulate the political, social and cultural history of Ireland within its broader international and global contexts. This workshop will focus on the complex issue of ‘teaching transnational history’. A series of discussion-based sessions in the morning – based on pre-circulated papers – will explore pedagogical approaches to history beyond the traditional framework of the nation-state. The afternoon will focus on the presentation of new research on the ‘transnational Ireland’ theme.
Spaces for this event are limited. Should you wish to attend, please contact Kevin O’Sullivan (kevin.k.osullivan@nuigalway.ie) for further details.

CAMPS lab: 'Did Old Irish have a middle voice?'
2013-08-23 12:00
‰Û÷Did Old Irish have a middle voice?‰۪
A presentation and discussionmoderated by Esther Le Mair
Friday 23 August, 12.00 ‰ÛÒ 1.00(followed by lunch, 1.00 ‰ÛÒ 2.00)
MOORE INSTITUTE SEMINAR ROOM
FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch ‰ÛÒ Everyone is welcome
For more information contact jacopo.bisagni@nuigalway.ie

Ireland and Masculinities conference, August 19th and 20th
2013-08-19 00:00
Symposium Schedule
Monday, 19 August 2013
9.00 – 9.30am – Registration and coffee
9.30-11.00am – Panel 1: Legal Musculature.

Kevin McKenna (Independent Scholar) “Primogeniture, strict settlement and the rituals of masculinity on an Irish landed estate, 1855-1890”
James Ward (Ulster)“Caught in a contract: Congreve, Farquhar and Contractarian Masculinities”
Dara Purvis (Penn State)“Masculinity, Marriage, and Fatherhood in the Twentieth Century”

11.15-12.45 – Panel 2: Irishmen Abroad and the Irish as “Other”.

Norma Clarke (Kingston) “Oliver Goldsmith and his ‘brothers of the quill’ in London, 1757-1763”
Peter Buckingham (Linfield College) “Thomas A. Hickey: Irish Masculinity on Two Continents”
Ciaran McDonough (NUI Galway) “Antiquarianism as a ‰Û÷Gentleman’s Hobby'”

12.45-2pm – Lunch
2.00-3.30pm – Panel 3: Protestants on Parade

Jim MacPherson (Highlands and the Islands)“Irish Protestant Masculinities and Orangewomen in Scotland and Canada, 1890 – 1930”
James Golden (Cambridge)“Irish Anglican Political Masculinities: Disestablishment and Protestant Democracy, 1860-70”
Pamela McKane (York, Ontario)“‰Û÷No idle sightseers’: The Ulster Women’s Unionist Council and the masculine world of politics during the Ulster Crisis”

3.30-3.45 – Coffee
3.45-5.45pm – Round Table
Chair: Sean Brady (Birkbeck, London)
Fidelma Ashe (Ulster)
Jane McGaughey (Concordia)
Sonya Rose (Michigan)
5.30-7pm – Wine reception sponsored by NUIG Centre for Irish Studies
7.30 CONFERENCE DINNER – Harbour Hotel
***
Tuesday, 20 August 2013
9.45- 10.15am – Coffee
10.15 – 11.45am – Panel 1: Patriotism and the Pastoral

Lee Morrissey (Clemson)“Masculinity, modernity, and, yes, shepherds: Spenser and Milton”
Cliona O’Gallchoir (University College Cork)“Patriotism, Masculinity and Irish Economic Discourse in the eighteenth century”
Aidan Beatty (Chicago)“Fianna FÌÁil, Masculinity, and the Irish Agrarian Man”

12:00-1:30pm -Panel 2: Performing Irishness

Charlotte McIvor (NUI Galway)“Staging Intercultural Masculinities: Yeats, Tagore, Pearse and Modern(ist) Theatre Aesthetics at the Abbey Theatre”
Ed Madden (South Carolina)“Bachelor Trouble, Troubled Bachelors”
Declan William Kavanagh (Kent)“Bog Men: Performing Irishness in Seven Years’ War Political Literature”

1.30-2.30pm – Lunch
2.30-4.00pm – Panel 3: Masculinities and Material Constraints: Incarceration, Childhood and Clothing

Conseulo Concepcion (Glasgow) “Clothing, Gender and Colonial Policy in Early Modern Ireland”
Mary Hatfield (Trinity College, Dublin)“Games for boys: childhood, masculinity and play in Ireland”
Rosa Gilbert (Birkbeck, London)“Special Category Imprisonment and Masculinity in Northern Ireland in the 1970s”

4.00pm – Closing remarks
For more informatin please see
http://irelandandmasculinitiesinthelongueduree.wordpress.com.

Performance, Nation and Globalization Summer School Funded by the Irish Research Council National University of Ireland, Galway 17-18 July 2013
2013-07-17 00:00
Performance, Nation and Globalization Summer School
Funded by the Irish Research Council
National University of Ireland, Galway
17-18 July 2013
This two-day Summer School explores the interrelationships between performance and nation in an era of increasing globalization. We will consider major international dramatists such as J.M Synge and David Greig, but the discussion will also take in other forms of performance, including the Eurovision Song Contests, recent American TV drama including Mad Men and Breaking Bad, and new devised work from Ireland by such companies as Brokentalkers and Anu Productions.
The event takes place at National University of Ireland, Galway, and coincides with the Galway Arts Festival (www.galwayartsfestival.com). Participation in the event is free. While the event is open to all, we particularly welcome applications from the following people:
åáAny Ireland-based PhD students and post-doctoral fellows working on Drama, Theatre and/or Performance Studies.
åáAny international PhD students and post-doctoral fellows working on Irish theatre and/or performance
åáAny Ireland-based MA students with definite plans to undertake a PhD in an area relevant to the theme of summer school
åáAny Ireland-based academics who may wish to develop new courses or research on areas relevant to the theme of the summer school.
To apply for a place on the programme, please send an email, outlining your reasons for applying, to david.clare@nuigalway.ie andPatrick.lonergan@nuigalway.ie. Deadline for applications is 15 June 2013.
PROVISIONAL TIMETABLE
Wednesday 17 July
14.00: Introduction and Welcome
14.15 ‰ÛÒ 15.45 ‰ÛÒ Session 1

Shaun Richards, ‰Û÷Were You Off East, Young Fellow ‰Û_?‰۪: The InternationalPlayboy of the Western World
David Clare ‰ÛÏIrish Writers, Ally Croker, Bridget and the Countess of Sligo: Hibernian Presences in Goldsmith‰۪s She Stoops to Conquer‰۝

16.00 ‰ÛÒ 17.30: Session 2

Karen Fricker ‰ÛÏTerry Wogan, Melancholy Britain, and the Eurovision Song Contest‰۝
Erin Hurley, ‰ÛÏSubjects and Objects: The Personal is Political‰۝

Thursday 18 July
9.30 ‰ÛÒ 11.00: Session 3

Shannon Steen, ‰ÛÏPacific Neoliberalism: Foxconn, Mike Daisey, and the Performative Imperative‰۝
Vicky Angelaki, ‰ÛÏGlobal Products and Local Targets: Reception, Perception and the Internationalized Audience‰۝

11.00 ‰ÛÒ 11.30:Coffee
11.30 ‰ÛÒ 13.00: Session 4

Clare Wallace, ‰ÛÏPerforming, processing and resisting‰ÛÓthe nation and globalization in the work of David Greig‰۝
Charlotte McIvor ‰ÛÏIreland, China, Belgium, Finland: Brokentalkers and the Transnational Connectivities of Post-Celtic Tiger Performance.‰۝

13.00 ‰ÛÒ 14.00 ‰ÛÒ Break.
14.00 ‰ÛÒ 16.15: Session 5

Patrick Lonergan, ‰ÛÏFaust and the Credit Crunch‰۝
Aoife Monks, ‰ÛÏVirtuosity, Mobility and Homesickness in Performance‰۝
Brian Singleton, ‰ÛÏThe Routes to Memory: Site-Specific Performance in Ireland and Global/Social Capital‰۝

16.15‰ÛÒ conclusion of workshop
ABSTRACTS
Vicky Angelaki, ‰ÛÏGlobal Products and Local Targets: Reception, Perception and the Internationalized Audience‰۝
The talk will explore the factors determining our identities and sensibilities as spectators (on an individual basis) and audiences (at the collective level). Much has been said about globalization and its effect on aspects of quotidian life as well as artistic production and consumption. My paper will probe to what extent there has genuinely been an impact on our viewing and responding habits. It will also explore the question of whether we have moved beyond cultural stereotypes and into an era of rigorousness and agility, reaping the benefits of mobility, the wealth of information and educational possibilities available, but also of the artistic border-crossing that characterizes our time. The paper will interrogate to what extent the internationalized art product has served to liberate us in a certain way, or whether we are essentially reproducing the old familiar national and classed perspectives. Can it be argued that we are experiencing a new, hyper-aware state, or are we forever bound to local frames of reference and what are their respective benefits and pitfalls? Ultimately, the talk will seek to problematize exchange and reception, addressing the question of how issues of perception are especially urgent today.
Suggested Reading:
Bourdieu, Pierre. ‰Û÷The Sense of Distinction‰۪. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. Trans. Richard Nice. London and New York: Routledge, 1986. 260-317. Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. ‰Û÷The Crisis of Understanding‰۪. Adventures of the Dialectic. Trans. Joseph Bien. Evanston: Northwestern UP, 1973. 9-29. Wickstrom, Maurya. ‰Û÷Introduction‰۪. Performing Consumers: Global Capital and Its Theatrical Seductions. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2006. 1-12.
David Clare, ‰ÛÏIrish Writers, Ally Croker, Bridget and the Countess of Sligo: Hibernian Presences in Goldsmith‰۪s She Stoops to Conquer‰۝
When critics discuss the ways in which Oliver Goldsmith‰۪s Irish background influenced the writing of She Stoops to Conquer, they usually focus on two aspects of the play. First, the plot is built around an incident (mistaking a country gentleman‰۪s home for an inn) that allegedly happened to Goldsmith himself while he was still living in Ireland. Second, in the play, Goldsmith (like later, London-based, Irish writers) attempts to portray hypocrisy as a peculiarly English vice. While these ‰Û÷Irish‰۪ aspects of the work are certainly important, there are other, more explicit, references to Goldsmith‰۪s native country in the play. I will carefully analyse them in this paper, since they are routinely ignored by critics.
Among these Irish references are the moment when Goldsmith has a character allude directly to Farquhar‰۪s The Beaux Stratagem and when his depiction of the character of Hardcastle betrays the influence of Sterne‰۪s Tristram Shandy. The Irish song, ‰ÛÏAlly Croker‰۝, is used in a way that links Ireland to the Orient, a connection that Goldsmith and other Irish writers have frequently made over the past two and a half centuries. The Hardcastles have a cook maid named after the Irish St. Bridget, thereby placing a (possibly) Irish servant in an English home. Finally, the Countess of Sligo is one of the ladies name-checked by Marlow during his courtship of Kate, one of a series of reflections on the Anglo-Irish in the work.
In this paper, I will also consider the ‰Û÷Irish‰۪ elements that have been either accentuated or imposed upon the play in recent Dublin productions (The Gate Theatre‰۪s in 1995, The Abbey‰۪s in 2003, and Smock Alley‰۪s in 2012).
Karen Fricker, ‰ÛÏTerry Wogan, Melancholy Britain, and the Eurovision Song Contest‰۝
‰Û÷Europe’s favourite TV show‰۪ (as its producers brand the Eurovision Song Contest [ESC]) has much to tell us about the relationship between nation, identity, feelings, and politics in the expanded, 21st century Europe. Founded in 1956 to test the newly-created capacity to share live television signals between countries, the ESC has become a significant symbolic contact zone between European cultures: an arena for European identification in which both national solidarity and participation in a European identity are confirmed, and a site where cultural struggles over the meanings, frontiers, and limits of Europe are enacted. This presentation focuses specifically on the United Kingdom‰۪s fraught relationship to the ESC, arguing that this relationship reflects deep-seated British anxieties about the place of the UK in the context of the evolving Europe, but is also symptomatic of a particular strand of postcolonial melancholia (after Paul Gilroy) and a nostalgic mode of engagement with the British colonial past and imperial supremacy. I focus in particular on Sir Terry Wogan‰۪s increasingly conservative ESC commentary for the BBC over several decades, showing how it mediated and constructed a particular vision of Europe and the UK‰۪s place in relation to it. If we shift our perspective from the UK‰۪s nostalgia and look at its participation in the ESC in its own right, however, we can see that its recent Eurovision entries offer a portrait of a lively and diverse society attempting to adapt to a cultural showcase whose codes and conventions are rapidly changing.
Erin Hurley, ‰ÛÏSubjects and Objects: The Personal is Political‰۝
It is a commonplace, and a truism, to say that ‰ÛÏQuebecois theatre‰۝ began in the late 1960s with the politically engaged, nationalist dramaturgy of Michel Tremblay. Contemporary Quebecois theatre, however, seems to be marked by a turn away from the political or collective, an orientation that marked its birth and efflorescence. Of late, critics and scholars have remarked a clear turn toward the personal or individual. Louis Patrick Leroux and Herv̩ Guay itemize the ‰ÛÏsubjective affirmations‰۝ of contemporary Quebecois theatre both within the dramatic universes presented by playwrights and in institutional discourses of theatre culture. They suggest that such subjective affirmations ‰ÛÒ that is, critical affirmations of the theatre‰۪s own success, performative affirmations of the particularized subject (especially in solo performance), and institutional and dramatic affirmations of playwrights‰۪ personal aesthetics and singular imaginaries ‰ÛÒ have multiplied in recent years.
And yet, we might remark another, seemingly contrary turn in contemporary performance: a turn toward the object, the subject‰۪s presumed ‰ÛÏother‰۝. Consider, for instance, the following protagonists from productions in recent Montreal theatre seasons as featured in venues ranging from a children‰۪s theatre to an experimental house to a puppet festival to a fine arts museum: A child‰۪s white dress. A drawing of a birthmark on a stick. Three life-sized automata. Animated mannequins. Dancing kitchen utensils. A wax figure. Two school-desks. [1]
The shows from which these characters are drawn, and others like them that put the object in the position of the dramatic and theatrical subject, interest me for two reasons. First, by putting an object in the position of the ‰ÛÏspeaking subject‰۝ of a ‰ÛÏcharacter‰۝, they evince a complex relation to the subjective affirmations and affirmations of subjectivity that are trending contemporary Quebecois theatre. Second, they allow us to read an occulted history of Quebecois theatre in which women‰۪s performance is featured and assumptions around the political value of autonomy versus heteronomy are undone. How might we reconcile the incursion of objects ‰ÛÒ these things without speech, without voice, without subjectivity proper ‰ÛÓ into a theatre culture where ‰ÛÏdramaturgies of subjectivity‰۝ seem in favour? What might these objets d̩sincarn̩s tell us about artistic engagement, the shifting Quebecois collective, and it theatre history?
Three recent solo performances by women featuring performing objects will feed my analysis: Joseph-la-tache [Joseph-the-Birthmark] by Catherine Vidal (2010), La robe blanche [The White Dress] by Pol Pelletier (2012), and Le Salon Automate[The Salon Automaton] by Nathalie Claude (2008). Through these pieces, I explore the discourse of the object on the subject of the Subject. How are on-stage subject-object (that is, self-other) relations figured in contemporary Quebec theatre? What might these relations intimate about stage-audience and art-society relations? And what are their engagements with the world around the subject, beyond the theatre?
Patrick Lonergan, ‰ÛÏFaust and the Credit Crunch‰۝
A vareity of cultural responses to the global credit crunch (2008-) are already evident, from novels about banking (such as John Lanchester‰۪s Capital) to revivals of plays that explore issues of wealth (such as a recent NT production of Timon of Athens). This paper explores how one of the defining charateristics of cultural responses to the credit crunch has been a significant increase in new performances that draw on the Faust motif, which is often directly taken from work by Goethe, Marlowe, Mann, Bulgakov and others. This paper explores the significance of this motif for contemporary performance. I briefly explore new work by dramatists such as Conor McPherson, Marina Carr, Mark O‰۪Rowe David Mamet and David Greig, before analyzing in some detail the impact of the Faust motif on contemporary American television, particularly in Mad Men, Damagesand Breaking Bad. The aim of the paper is to consider those works as responses to our changing understanding of issues such as indebtedness, austerity, personal value and ‰ÛÒ in particular ‰ÛÒ the nation.
Suggested Reading/Viewing:
Conor McPherson, The Seafarer, David Greig, The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart.
Damages Season 1, episodes 1-3; Mad Men season 1; Breaking Bad (all seasons).
Charlotte McIvor ,‰ÛÏIreland, China, Belgium, Finland: Brokentalkers and the Transnational Connectivities of Post-Celtic Tiger Performance‰۝
This talk queries Dublin-based theatre company Brokentalkers‰۪ focus on the role of transnational networks as the future of innovation in the Irish arts through an analysis of their works, In Real Time (2008) and Track (2006). In Real Time and Track present two overlapping stories of the role of the transnational in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland. In Real Time animates European networks via an act of artistic collaboration, while Track stages an encounter with Dublin that brings participants on an exploration of the City Centre through the perspective of the Chinese community, both long-term residents and recent arrivals, living in Ireland. In Real Time literally enacts an inter-EU network physically manifested through actors‰۪ live and virtual bodies in theatrical time and space. Conversely, Track challenges discourses of Irish nationalism and forces recognition of transnational networks of migrants in Ireland that reach outside the space of the nation and the EU.
Aoife Monks, ‰ÛÏVirtuosity, Mobility and Homesickness in Performance‰۝
It was in the 18th Century that the virtuoso emerged as a category of performance (rather than a connoisseur and collector of fine art as in previous centuries). This was the moment in which virtuosity came to embody superhuman performance, emerging in a performer capable of apparently magical (if not demonic) transcendence of the material conditions of the stage. This paper investigates the relationship between the birth of the virtuoso and the emergence of the emotional category of nostalgia ‰ÛÒ homesickness ‰ÛÒ and suggests that they might both be viewed as symptoms of the disorienting affects of industrial modernity. Furthermore, I will ask whether virtuosity (as a category of performance, and later a quality ascribed to particular forms of work) and nostalgia might grow out of, and enable, global mobility. It may be no coincidence then, that the virtuosic performers that I will draw on in this paper ‰ÛÒ Dion Boucicault and Dan Bryant in the 19th Century and Michael Flatley and Jean Butler in the 20th Century ‰ÛÒ have all traded in nostalgia, wedding performances that inspire terror and awe with the longing for ‰Û÷home‰۪. I will examine how the material conditions of labour in these two periods produce forms of virtuosity and nostalgia in performance.
Suggested reading:
Gabriele Brandstetter, ‰Û÷The Virtuoso’s Stage: A Theatrical Topos‰۪, Theatre Research International, Volume 32: Issue 02 (July 2007), pp 178-195.
Paulo Virno, A Grammar of the Multitude: For an Analysis of Contemporary Forms of Life, Trans. by Isabella Bertoletti, James Cascaito, Andrea Casson (New York: SEMIOTEXT(E), 2004), particularly Chapter Four: ‰ÛÏLabor, Action, Intellect : Day Two‰۝ [accessible at: http://www.generation-online.org/c/fcmultitude3.htm].
Svetlana Boym, The Future of Nostalgia (New York: Basic Books, 2001).
Shaun Richards, ‰ÛÏ‰Û÷Were You Off East, Young Fellow ‰Û_?‰۪: The International Playboy of the Western World‰۝
George Ritzer‰۪s concepts of ‰Û÷something‰۪ (indigenously conceived) and ‰Û÷nothing‰۪ (centrally conceived) appears to duplicate simple ‰Û÷positive/negative‰۪ binaries of the local and the global. However, he adds the significant qualification that even the most local product is touched by the global, so making it ‰Û÷glocal‰۪. This paper will address the ‰Û÷glocal‰۪ aspect of theatre through productions of Playboy of the Western World from the Abbey production in 1907 and its US tour in 1911, to the work of Druid Theatre, Galway, Pan Pan Theatre‰۪s production in Beijing, the Roddy Doyle and Bisi Adigun adaptation, and Desperate Optimists‰۪ play-boy.
Shannon Steen, ‰ÛÏPacific Neoliberalism: Foxconn, Mike Daisey, and the Performative Imperative‰۝
This presentation examines how the inter-embeddedness of Foxconn‰۪s labor structures, Mike Daisey‰۪s theatrical monologue The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, and Apple Corporation‰۪s attempt to shape advanced capitalism with a human face instantiates what we might term Pacific Neoliberalism ‰ÛÒ a set of political imperatives predicated on unique forms of economic and cultural flows within and across the Pacific Basin. I use this trio of objects to explore how neoliberalism in general is itself a performative project, and how its Pacific Basin variant instantiates particular ideologies of creativity and labor distinctive from those of its Atlantic counterpart.
Suggested Readings:
Wendy Brown, ‰ÛÏNeoliberalism and the End of Liberal Democracy.‰۝ Theory & Event, 7:1.
Mike Daisey, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs. Downloaded from http://mikedaisey.blogspot.com/p/monologues.html.
David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Catherine Kingfisher and Jeff Maskovsky, ‰ÛÏThe Limits of Neoliberalism.‰۝ In Critique of Anthropology, Vol. 28 (2): 115-126.
Lara D. Nielsen and Patricia Ybarra (eds). Neoliberalism and Global Theatres: Performance Permutations. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 (see especially essays by Margaret Werry, Eng-Beng Lim, and Patricia Ybarra).
Brian Singleton, ‰ÛÏThe Routes to Memory: Site-Specific Performance in Ireland and Global/Social Capital‰۝
Celebrated contemporary site-specific performance, most notably in the work of the UK‰۪s Punchdrunk, has been branded by Michael McKinnie as ‰Û÷monopolistic‰۪ as it trades on the theatrical efficacy of spatial disuse. Touring their work most recently to New York that monopolism has further begun to trade their theatrical efficacy/spatial disuse paradigm as global capital. Contextualising their work historically we place Punchdrunk among celebrated European companies such as Brith Gof of Wales, Dogtroep of The Netherlands and La Fura dels Baus of Catalunya, all of whom engaged similar global performance routes. But what of Irish site-specific performance? Certainly festivalised productions such as Playgroup‰۪s Berlin Love Tour (2010), Junk Ensemble‰۪s Bird with Boy (2011) and Wilfredd‰۪s Farm (2012) operate within similar paradigms though arguably with less global potential. Anu Productions Monto trilogy (2010-12), however, resists the efficacy/disuse paradigm. The company‰۪s site-specificity lies in their social capital of having emerged from and engaged with the lives and histories of an inner-city Dublin community‰۪s spaces and places in very material ways. Rooted in the materiality of their social history, Anu Productions‰۪ performances also address the issue of site-specific performance as speaking to but also resistant to the globalization of Irish theatre.
Clare Wallace, ‰ÛÏPerforming, processing and resisting‰ÛÓthe nation and globalization in the work of David Greig‰۝
My proposed presentation derives from research I have been doing on the work of Scottish playwright David Greig. Since the 1990s Greig has produced an extensive body of work both as a writer and in collaboration with the Suspect Culture theatre company which he co-founded. As part of a new generation of Scottish writers whose work emerged at the end of the twentieth century, Greig has actively participated in the ongoing re-imagining of Scotland in the wake of devolution. However, critics at times have seemed slightly disgruntled at the apparent lack of familiar Scottish co-ordinates in some of his work. Greig is not alone in his ambivalence about signposting national specificity in his writing and theatre making. Nadine Holdsworth (2008) for instance has noted how relationships between place and identity are prominent features of Scottish playwriting more generally and contends that ‰Û÷there is a marked trend amongst many contemporary Scottish playwrights and theatre-makers to theatricalize multifarious sites, geological formations and landscapes as a way of articulating the diversity of Scotland‰۪ (126). Yet, what makes Greig‰۪s work a fascinating field of investigation is the way this ambivalence about national specificity is coupled with an ongoing attempt to address a wider set of economic and cultural conditions catalysed by globalization and broach forms of transnational identity within the amorphous context of the contemporary. ‰Û÷Theatre doesn‰۪t change the world‰۪ Greig has claimed, but ‰Û÷if the battlefield is the imagination, then the theatre is a very appropriate weapon in the armoury of resistance‰۪ because it cannot be ‰Û÷globally commodified,‰۪ since it is founded on possibility, contingency, changeability and is ‰Û÷accessible to everybody.‰۪ With reference to selected plays and interviews, this presentation would chart how Greig‰۪s ideas about how theatre can or should engage with questions of nation and globalization have evolved since he began writing and would attempt to position this work in relation to wider debates about theatre and globalization.
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Dr Patrick Lonergan
Programme Director, MA in Drama and Theatre Studies; BA in Drama, Theatre and Performance; BA Connect with Performing Arts Studies
English, School of Humanities
National University of Ireland, Galway
Ireland
patrick.lonergan@nuigalway.ie
http://www.nuigalway.ie/english/patrick_lonergan.html
@NUIGDrama
Phone +353 91 49 2631

Postgraduate Hispanic Studies Conference 2013, June 28th and 29th
2013-06-28 00:00
The Postgraduate Hispanic Studies Conference of Ireland and the UK 2013 will take place in the Moore Institute on the 28th and 29th of June. The plenary speakers are Professor Bill Richardson, Head of the Spanish Department at NUI Galway, who will give a lecture entitled: “The Path Not Taken: Borges, Labyrinths, and the Location of Translation”; Dr. Chris Harris from the University of Liverpool who will deliver a talk on “Latin American Literature and Feminist Theory: Do Men and Masculinities Matter?”; and Clare Murphy who will speak on ‘Storytelling in South America’.
Dr. Mel Boland of the Spanish Department in NUI, Galway will also be launching his recent publication, Displacement in Isabel Allende’s Fiction, 1982-2000 (Hispanic Studies: Culture and Ideas) during the conference on Friday, 28 June 2013 in The Moore Institute.
For further information about the conference you may refer to the following Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/events/202983149775588/, or alternatively: http://hispanic-conference.com
Postgraduate Hispanic Studies Conference of Ireland and the UK, 2013 Programme
Day 1: Friday, 28 June, 2013

Time

Event

Location

08.30-09.15

Registration

Moore Institute Seminar Room

9.15-9.30

Conference Opening by Dr. Lillis O Laoire and Dr. Lorna Shaughnessy

Moore Institute Seminar Room

9.30-10.30

Plenary: Prof. Bill Richardson (NUI Galway)
Title: ‰Û÷The Path Not Taken: Borges, Labyrinths, and the Location of Translation‰۪

Moore institute Seminar Room
Introduced by Dr. Lorna Shaughnessy

10.30-10.45

Tea/Coffee break

Moore Institute Seminar Room

10.45-11.45

Panel 1: Translations
Owen Harrington FernÌÁndez (NUI Galway)
Title: ‰Û÷Indexing Identity in Translation: Character Idiolect and Sociolect in the Spanish Translation of John Updike’s ‘Rabbit Redux’‰۪
Dr. Patricia Holmes (NUI Galway)
Title: ‰Û÷C̩sar Aira: innovation and experimentation in process and narrative‰۪

Moore Institute Seminar Room
Chair: Bego̱a Sangrador-Vegas

11.45-12.00

Tea/Coffee break

Moore Institute Seminar Room

12.00.13.30

Panel 2: Spanish Historiography
Mark McKinty (Queens‰۪ University Belfast)
Title: ‰Û÷Origen y progresos: NicolÌÁs FernÌÁndez de MoratÌ_n‰۪s Carta histÌ_rica as the start of the modern bullfighting debate‰۪
Francis Kelly (University College Cork)
Title: ‰Û÷Tales of a Knight Errant or Universal Soldier of Golden Age Spain?‰۪
Antonio Rojas (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Title: ‰Û÷The Spanish Golden Age, Baroque and GÌ_ngora‰۪

Moore Institute Seminar Room
Chair: Ivan Kenny

13.30-15.00

Lunch

An Bhialann

15.00-16.00

Plenary: Clare Muireann Murphy
Title: ‰Û÷Storytelling y cuentos; the power of words‰۪

Moore Institute Seminar Room
Chair: Dr. Kate Quinn

16.15-16.30

Tea/ Coffee break

Moore Institute Seminar Room

16.30-17.30

Panel 3:The Arts of Storytelling
Kate Dunn (University of Edinburgh)
Title: ‰Û÷How can the Poem Testify? Speaking and the Unspeaking in Alicia Partnoy‰۪s Venganza de la manzana‰۪
Diletta Panero (NUI Galway)
Title: ‰Û÷Generational Storytelling in Chilean Narrative: Isabel Allende and Marta Blanco‰۪

Moore Institute Seminar Room
Chair: Dr. Niamh McNamara

18.00-19.00

Book Launch
Dr Mel Boland of NUI Galway will launch Displacement in Isabel Allende’s Fiction, 1982-2000 (Hispanic Studies: Culture and Ideas) (2013)

Moore Institute Seminar Room
Introduced by Dr. Chris Harris

The conference dinner will take place at 20.00 in Vi̱a Mara, 19 Middle St, Galway.
Day 2: Saturday, 29 June, 2013

Time

Event

Location

9.30-10.30

Panel 1: Southern Cone Narratives
Dr. David Conlon (NUI Galway)
Title: ‰Û÷The Trauma of Nature in Zama by Antonio Di Benedetto‰۪
C̩ire Broderick(NUI Galway)
‰Û÷Negotiating the Fragments in Gustavo FrÌ_as‰۪ Tres nombres para Catalina: la do̱a de CampofrÌ_o‰۪

Moore Institute Seminar Room
Chair: Jennie Galvin

10.30-10.45

Tea/Coffee break

Moore Institute Seminar Room

10.45-12.15

Panel 2: Analysing Spanish Visual Media
Mirna Vohnsen (University College Dublin)
Title: ‰Û÷The Metamorphis of the Jewish Character in Argentine Cinema‰۪
Ivan Kenny (NUI Galway)
Title: ‰Û÷Images of Entropy in The Exterminating Angel by Luis Bu̱uel‰۪
Ruth Miriam Cereceda Gaton (BISC Queen‰۪s University)
Title: ‰Û÷Marinero en tierra: anÌÁlisis de la cultura marinera del norte de Espa̱a en la obra y la persona del pintor Eduardo Sanz fraile‰۪

Moore Institute Seminar Room
Chair: Diletta Panero

12.15-12.30

Tea/Coffee break

Moore Institute Seminar Room

12.30-13.30

Panel 3: Historical Memory and Contemporary Spain
Imogen Bloomfield
(University of Hull)
Title: ‰Û÷Spain‰۪s (Un)Dead Children: A Haunting Presence in Historical Memory‰۪
Aisling O‰۪Connor (University of Limerick)
Title: ‰Û÷A postgenerational perspective on Republican women and Spain‰۪s stolen babies: BenjamÌ_n Prado‰۪s Mala gente que camina (2006)‰۪

Moore Institute Seminar Room
Chair: Owen Harrington-FernÌÁndez

13.30-15.00

Lunch

37 West

15.00-16.00

Plenary: Dr. Chris Harris
(University of Liverpool)
Title: ‰Û÷Latin American Literature and Feminist Theory: Do Men and Masculinities Matter?‰۪

Moore Institute Seminar Room
Chair: Prof. Bill Richardson

16.00-16.15

Tea/Coffee break

Moore Institute Seminar Room

16.15-17.45

Panel 4: Representations of Violence, Gender Roles and Drug trafficking in Popular Culture in Mexico and the Borderlands
Dr. Niamh McNamara (University College Cork)
Title: ‰Û÷Drugs, Violence and Ambiguity: Breaking Bad on the U.S. ‰ÛÒ Mexico border‰۪
Jennie Galvin (NUI Galway)
Title: ‰Û÷El Movimiento Alterado: narrating a world of gender hierarchies, drugs and violence‰۪
Dr. Yolanda Reyes
(University College Dublin)
Title: ‰Û÷Hypermasculinity, Violence and the re-enacted ‰ÛÏMacho‰۝ in XXI Century Mexican Cinema‰۪

Moore Institute Seminar Room
Chair: C̩ire Broderick

17.45-18.30

Round table discussion and conference close

Moore Institute Seminar Room

Conference on 'Gender and Sexuality in the Crime Genre'
2013-06-22 09:00
June 22nd and 23rd
Conference on
‘Gender and Sexuality in the Crime Genre’.
Organisers Dr Kate Quinn, NUIG
and Dr Marieke Krajenbrink, UL.
For more information contact kate.quinn@nuigalway.ie
Friday 21st June
Registration: 9:00-9:30
9:30-11:00 Parallel Session 1
Scandinavian Crime I: Women Crime Writers

Chair:

Noir Men and Women I
Chair:

Paula Arvas (Helsinki)
Is there a glass ceiling for Finnish women crime writers?

Deborah Walker (Auckland)
Fatal men in classic French film noir

Jacky Collins (Northumbria)
The ‰Û÷Irene Huss’ novels by Helene Tursten

Martin Rosenstock (Kuwait)
Sterile Erotics in the Interwar Period: Marek Krajewski’s Death in Breslau (1999)

Jane Rosenbaum (Rider)
Nina Borg The Boy in the Suitcase and the gendering of heroes and victims

Maysaa Jaber (Baghdad)
Opening the “Forbidden Box”: female criminality and agency in the works of James M. Cain

11:00-11:30 Coffee
11:30-13:00 – Parallel Session 2

Scandinavian Crime II: The Millennium Trilogy.
Chair:

Noir Men and Women II
Chair:

V̩ronique Kwak (Taiwan National Cheng-chi University)
From victim to victimizer: Corporeal suffering as spatial transcendence of genders in the case of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl who Played with Fire

Linda Crawford (Salve Regina)
Men writing women in noir: Paco Ignacio Taibo II and Luis Sep̼lveda

Deepthi Sebastian (QUB)
The dissonant body of Lisbeth Salander

Veronika PitukovÌÁ (Masaryk University)
Hard-boiled Mike Hammer and seductive babes

Kerstin Bergman (Lund)
The women who are hated by men: Women victims and Heroes in the Millennium Trilogy

Richard Williams (Independent Scholar)
Interrogating the alleged misogyny of Gardner’s portrayal of Bertha Cool

13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 – Parallel Session 3

French Crime
Chair:

New incarnations and the ongoing influence of Sherlock Holmes
Chair:

Meryem BelkaÌød
Women written and women writers in modern French crime fiction

Palle Schantz Lauridsen (Copenhagen)
Holmes & Watson: Friendship, bromance, and sexuality, 1887-2014

Eva Robustillo-BayÌ_n (Seville)
French women detectives in contemporary French crime fiction: Louise Morvan and Gloria Parker-Simmons

Malcah Effron (Case Western Reserve, Ohio)
Holmes’s female companions: Re-figuring Watson as a woman

Andrea Hynynen (Abo Akademi University, Finland and Universit̩ Paris 13)
Size matters: challenging gender and sexual norms through the detective’s body – a comparison of Fred Vargas’s and Pierre Lemaitre’s crime novels

Antoine Dech̻ne (Li̬ge/CIPA/Belspo)
Gender and sexuality in the metaphysical thriller: the case of Paul Auster

16:00-16:30 Coffee
16:30-18:00 – Parallel Session 4

Masculinities
Chair:

18th and 19th-century constructions of the female criminal
Chair:

Dominique Jeannerod (QUB)
Putting the killer to rest: Gender and generic exhaustion in Manchette’s The Prone Gunman

Anna C. Jenkin (Sheffield)
‰Û÷Sensation, seduction and submission: representations of murderous wives in eighteenth-century London and Paris’

Jeffrey Halpern (Rider)
‰Û÷When worlds collide: images of masculinity in the novels of Tony Hillerman’

Shampa Roy (Delhi)
Errant Wives and Wanton Widows: Gender and Crime in the Crime Narratives of one of the first crime writers in Bengal

Louise Vincent (Rhodes)
Gender and Sexuality in South African Twenty-first Century Crime Fiction

Joanne Simpson (University of Ulster)
‰Û÷Mad, bad and pathetic: engendering evil in the Victorian novel’

18:15-19:15 Keynote by Dr Andrew Pepper of QUB (Academic and Crime Writer)
‘Appropriating the Nineteenth Century: The New Economy of Work and Sex in Crime Fiction’
19:15 Wine Reception and Formal Welcome
Saturday 22nd June
09:30-11:00 Parallel Session 5

Women in Contemporary International Crime Fiction
Chair:

Partners in crime.
Chair:

Liala Khronopoulo (St Petersburg)
‰Û÷”Weak” and “strong” women characters in contemporary Japanese crime stories

Eva Erdmann (Freiburg)
Masculine/feminine – detecting couples in crime fiction: from Miss Marple/Hercule Poirot to Sarah Lund/Jens=Peter Raben

Madhumita Chakraborty (Delhi)
Women in Bangla detective fiction

Arco van Ieperen (PWSZ)
The equilibrium of the sexes: gender equality in Robert B. Parker’s Spenser series

Patricia Plummer (Duisburg-Essen)
Female sleuths: a survey of contemporary trends

Linda Ledford-Miller (Scranton)
Just hot enough: gender roles and sexuality in J. D. Robb’s detective series

11:00-11:30 Coffee
11:30-13:00 Parallel Session 6

Deadly Affairs
Chair:

Screening Gender I
Chair:

Silvia Ammary (John Cabot University, Rome)
Poe’s beautiful dead women: males’ fictional ideals

Eduardo ObradÌ_ (Cantabria)
This is a man’s world: the women of the game in The Wire

Tina Pusse (NUIG)
H. H. Jahnn’s The Wooden Ship trilogy

Noel O’Shea (UL)
Performing masculinity in the films of Michael Mann

Joel Phillips (Rider)
Love Triangle as Mise en Abyme in Wesley Stace’s Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer

Natascha Haarstick (Ruprecht-Karls-UniversitÌ_t Heidelberg)
Female investigators in the German TV series Tatort

13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Parallel Session 7

Italian Crime Writers and Gender
Chair:

Screening Gender II
Chair:

Carol Nicholson (Rider)
Ockham’s Razor, Women, and God: Philosophical Themes in The Name of the Rose

Henrietta Phillips (Birmingham)
Competition, narcissism and the spectacle of British “Northern” masculinity in pop-cultural accounts of Ian Brady and Peter Sutcliffe

Elizabeth Scheiber (Rider)
Bending Gender and Genre: Changing Gender Roles in Italian Crime Fiction

Samantha Lindop (Queensland)
Deadly Lesbians and the Contemporary Cinematic Crime Thriller

Barbara Pezzotti (Independent Scholar)
Blame it on the Tranny: Transvestism and Transgender in Andrea G. Pinketts’s Crime Fiction

Kylo-Patrick Hart (Texas Christian University)
Queering the Crime ‰Û÷Splatter Film’: The Case of William Friedkin’s Cruising

16:00-16:30 Coffee
16:30-18:00 Parallel Session 8

True Crimes and Criminals Revisited
Chair:

Screening Gender III: Psychology
Chair:

Dunlaith Bird (Oxford/ENS Paris)
Bodies in the Bosphorus: true crime and travel writing

Rachel MagShamhrÌÁin (University College Cork)
The Female Thief in Marnie: Poor or Poorly?

Marian Lara-Ja̩n and Jean-Philippe Imbert (DCU)
Bleeding Borders, Bleeding Bodies: Violence and Sexuality in Desert Blood (Alicia Gaspar De Alba, 2005)

Jacqui Miller (Liverpool Hope)
‰Û÷He certainly wasn’t a pervert‘: (A)sexuality, Abnormal Psychology, and Criminality in the novels of Patricia Highsmith and their filmed adaptations

Katarina Gregersdotter (Ume̴ University, Sweden)
Gender, sexuality and the power of storytelling in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace

Sujata Moorti (Middlebury, Vermont)
Crime on your mind: Scientific identities

18:00-19:00 Keynote: Professor Lisa Downing (Birmingham)
‰Û÷Romancing the Cannibal: Genre and Gender Trouble in Thomas Harris’s Hannibal (1999)’
20:00 or 20:30: Conference Dinner in the Radisson Blu Hotel (Time to be confirmed)
