Moore Institute

'Women, Conflict and Transitional Justice: two case studies - Bangladesh and Kenya" - Mayesha Alam, Georgetown Institute for Women Peace and Security and Moore Institute visiting fellow
2014-06-25 12:00 (Europe/Dublin)
Global Women’s Studies
In association with the
Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies
Gender ARC – Gender, Discourse and Identity Cluster
is pleased to invite you to a Summer Seminar with
Mayesha Alam
“Women, Conflict and Transitional Justice: two case studies – Bangladesh and Kenya”
Wednesday June 25th – 12.00-2.00 pm
THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room
Free event – all welcome – light lunch provided!
To reserve a place, email: Gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie
Mayesha Alam is the Assistant Director of the Georgetown Institute for Women Peace and Security WAshington, DC, and in this role, manages the Institute’s various projects, including the Profiles in Peace oral histories project, major convenings, in-house research, the Hillary R. Clinton Fellowship program, the Summer Graduate Research Fellows program, and the online repository. She is also in charge of operations at the Institute and supports the Executive Director in fundraising and building external relations. Mayesha co-teaches a graduate seminar on Women, Peace and Security with Ambassador Verveer in the School of Foreign Service. She is the author of Women and Transitional Justice: Progress and Persistent Challenges(Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Originally from Bangladesh, Mayesha received her M.A. in Conflict Resolution at Georgetown University, during which she specialized on gender mainstreaming in peacebuilding, security and post-conflict reconstruction as well as human rights more broadly. She has previously worked in the U.S. and internationally for The World Bank, the United Nations and a number of NGOs. Mayesha received her B.A. in international relations and biology from Mount Holyoke CollegeShe is currently a Moore Institute Visiting Fellow, co-hosted by Global Women’s Studies at NUI Galway.
For more information please contact gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie

Chaucer at Galway II: Chaucer and realism - 25th and 26th June, 2014
2014-06-25 09:30
Chaucer at Galway II: Chaucer and Realism
wednesday 25th– thursday 26th June, 2014
Venue: Hardiman Research Building, Room G011
Program
Wednesday 25th June 2014
9.30-10am: Registration (Hardiman Research Building, Room GO11)
10.00-11.00am:
Sarah Nangle (UCD): Music, Rationality and Chaucer’s Unnatural Birdsongs
Simonne Berry (Trinity): The ‰Û÷Substaunce’ of Sound: Musical Instruments in Chaucer’s House of Fame
11.00-11.30am: coffee
11.30am-1.00pm:
Frances McCormack (Galway): Chaucer and the Theology of Emotion
Darragh Greene (UCD): ‰Û÷What is this world?’: Chaucer and Metaphysics
Brendan O’Connell (Trinity): Nought That Was Aught: The Death of Good, Fair Whyte
1.00-2.30pm: lunch
2.30-3.30pm:
John Scattergood (Trinity): ‰Û÷Degree’, ‘estaat’ and ‘array’ in the Canterbury Tales: the Limits of Chaucer’s Realism
3.30-4.00pm: coffee
4.00-5.30pm:
Malte Urban (Queen’s): Chaucer on screen
Rod Stoneman (Galway): Chaucer, Pasolini and Resistance
5.30-6.00pm: drinks reception and formal welcome
6.00-7.00pm:
Paul Strohm (Columbia), Chaucer on the Waterfront
8.00pm: dinner in Nimmo’s restaurant, near the Spanish Arch
Thursday 26th June
10.00 -11.30am:
ClÌ_odhna Carney (Galway) ‰Û÷One of the greatest tragedies of my life…’: is there a Chaucerian realism?
Oya BayiltmiÌÉåÙ ÌÐÌãåÙÌ_tcÌ_ (Hacettepe University, Ankara): A Change in Chaucerian Aesthetics: From The Tale of Sir Thopas to The Tale of Melibee
Catherine Emerson (Galway): ‘The Lady and the Lamprey’, from Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles and connections to Arabian Nights and Shipman’s Tale
11.30am-12.00pm: coffee
12.00-1.00pm:
Piero Boitani (Rome), The Realism of Dante and the Realism of Chaucer
1.00 – 2.30pm: lunch
2.30-4.00pm:
David Clare (Galway): The Influence of Chaucer and Irish Mythology on C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia
Jennifer Alberghini (CUNY): The Hybrid Contours of English in Chaucer’s Time: Anglo-Norman Speakers in the Canterbury Tales
Niamh Pattwell (UCD):Exploring Ancrene Wisse in Frank McGuinness’s Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me
4.00-4.30pm: coffee
4.30-5.30pm:
Francisco Rozano-Garcia (Galway): Opposites Reconciled: The Wife of Bath’s Fictional Subjectivity
Huiyi Bao (UCD) Poetic Reality of the Night Sky: Chaucer’s Erratik Sterres
For more information please contact cliona.carney@nuigalway.ie
Chaucer at Galway is grateful to the following for generous support: Millennium Fund, Office of the Registrar and Deputy President, MA in Medieval Studies, Centre for Antique, Medieval and Pre-Modern Studies (CAMPS), Moore Institute, College of Arts, English Department (all at the National University of Ireland, Galway).

'A Brief History of Liberty ̢åÛåÓ and its Lessons' by Professor Philip Pettit of Princeton University
2014-06-17 16:00
You are invited to attend an upcoming public lecture in NUI Galway on
‰Û÷A Brief History of Liberty – and its Lessons’
by
Professor Philip Pettit of Princeton University.
Professor Pettit is one of the foremost contemporary philosophers and political theorists,renowned for his revival and development of republicanism within political philosophy and for his contribution to public debate on liberty, democracy, equality and social justice. This talk is part of the President of Ireland’s Ethics Initiative and will be attended byPresident Michael D. Higgins.
Speaker Professor Pettit, originally from Ballygar Co. Galway, is L.S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University, where he teaches philosophy and political theory. Among his books are The Common Mind (1996), Republicanism (1997), The Economy of Esteem (2004), with G. Brennan; Made with Words (2008); A Political Philosophy in Public Life, with JL Marti (2010); and Group Agency(2011) with C. List. Professor Pettit is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as of academies in his two countries of citizenship: Ireland and Australia. His most recent book On the People’s Terms (2012) is published by Cambridge University Press. It is based on the 2009 Albertus Magnus Lectures in Cologne, and the 2010 Seeley lectures in Cambridge. Also forthcoming is a book with W.W.Norton for a general audience, entitled Just Freedom: A Moral Compass for a Complex World. He is giving the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Berkeley in 2014-15.
Topic: Professor Pettit will give a public lecture on ‰Û÷A Brief History of Liberty – and its Lessons’. The talk is part of the President of Ireland’s Ethics Initiative and is organised by the Power, Conflict & Ideologies Research Cluster of the School of Political Science & Sociology in association with the Whitaker Institute.
If you are interested in attending this free event please RSVP here (it takes only a moment).
The event is open to the public and all are welcome. We look forward to seeing you there
Niall O Dochartaigh,
Jonathan Heaney,
Jenny Dagg
School of Political Science and Sociology
NUI Galway

Book launch of Niall ÌÒ CiosÌÁin, Ireland in Official Print Culture, 1800-1850: A New Reading of the Poor Inquiry (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2014).
2014-06-16 17:45

Readers, Purveyors, Creators, and Users: Studying Victorian Print Consumption in 2014 - June 16th and 17th
2014-06-16 09:00
Readers, Purveyors, Creators, and Users: Studying Victorian Print Consumption in 2014
16-17 June 2014 Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway Deadline for Proposals: 16 April 2014.
Plenary speakers Dr Stephen Colclough, Bangor University. Dr Niall ÌÒ CiosÌÁin, National University of Ireland, Galway. Nineteenth-century studies continues to engender some of the most dynamic scholarship in the study of historical readership with works like Leah Price’s How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain (2012) featuring some of the most thought-provoking commentary on reader encounters with print to emerge in recent times.
Conceptualisations of the functions print commodities served for various groups of nineteenth-century consumers grow increasingly nuanced. Much of this research into the history of reading has been fuelled by mass digitization endeavours like Google Books and digital humanities projects like The Reading Experience Database. However, while such resources offer significant possibilities, the conditions under which one now engages with this primary material can give rise to questions of context, materiality, and access. Accordingly, this two-day conference will seek to appraise the current state of the field and offer a forum for twenty-minute papers that address any aspect of the consumption and production of Victorian print culture matter, historical or contemporary. It is also envisaged that an edited collection published by an international academic house will result from the conference. Possible topics upon which submissions are welcome include but are certainly not limited to:
åá Historical readers and reading practices of the Victorian period
åá Readership and issues of gender and/or sexuality: e.g. constructions of “the woman reader”; “masculine” reading matter; and “queer” reading experiences.
åá Periodical and/or serial circulation and consumption in territories like nineteenth-century Britain, Ireland, Canada, the Antipodes, and Asia
åá The publication, dissemination, and consumption of books and/or series in nineteenth-century Britain, Ireland, Canada, the Antipodes, and Asia
åá Transnational print culture in the nineteenth century: national and global identities
åá Methodological concerns in the study of the history of reading
åá Consumers, producers, and Victorian visual culture
åá Disposable literature and ephemera of the Victorian age
åá Scholarly editing projects and nineteenth-century culture
åá The planning, design, and use of digital resources in the study of nineteenth-century print culture, including debates surrounding open access and paywalls.
Please send a proposal of no more than 300 words together with a short biography (c. 100 words) to victorianprintconsumption2014@gmail.com by 16 April 2014. Decisions will be announced in early May. Postgraduates and early career scholars are particularly welcome. Questions about any aspect of the conference should be addressed to victorianprintconsumption2014@gmail.com This conference is made possible by the generous support of The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing. and The Digital Arts and Humanities Programme at the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Programme
*All plenaries and panels take place in the Moore Institute Seminar Room: G011- Hardiman Building, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Monday 16 June
9.00-9.30: Registration in Hardiman Building Foyer
9.30-11.00: Plenary 1: Dr Stephen Colclough (Bangor University)
“‰Û÷Miss Cathy’s riven th’ back off “Th’ Helmet uh Salvation”‘: Representing Book Destruction in Mid-Victorian Print Culture’
Chair: Elizabeth Tilley
11.00-11.30: Tea/Coffee
11.30-1.00: Panel 1-Mass Print Media and Nineteenth-Century Audiences
Chair: Anna Gasperini
John Hinks (University of Leicester), “‰Û÷Within the reach of the whole reading public’: the genesis of the cheap series from 1825”
Jessica Hindes (Royal Holloway), “‰Û÷What a lot of print for the money’: G.W.M. Reynolds’s Mysteries of London and the question of artistic value”
Ruth Doherty (Trinity College Dublin), “Reading Reynolds: The Mysteries of London as ‰Û÷microscopic survey'”
1.00-2.00: Lunch
2.00-3.30: Panel 2-The Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press
Chair: Paul Rooney
Clara Dawson (University of Birmingham), “Poetic Gems: Valuations of Poetry in the Periodical Press”
Declan O’Keefe (Clongowes Wood College), “A Man for Others and a Beacon in the Twilight: Fr. Matthew Russell S.J. and The Irish Monthly“
Michael Connerty (Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology), “‘We have nothing like that in Ireland, Mr. Punch’: Percy French’s The Jarvey and the Victorian Humour Magazine”
3.30-4.00: Tea/Coffee
4.00-5.30: Panel 3-Studying Nineteenth-Century Reception in 2014
Chair: Justin Tonra
Isabel Corfe (NUI, Galway), “Images of Ireland in the Nineteenth-century English Broadside”
Shuhita Bhattacharjee (University of Iowa and Presidency University, India), “Passionate Idols and Proliferating Objects: Consumption and Materialization in Marsh’s The Goddess: A Demon”
6.00: Wine reception- College Bar, NUI, Galway.
Tuesday 17 June
9.30-11.00: Plenary 2: Dr Niall ÌÒ CiosÌÁin (NUI, Galway)
“Publishing and reading in the Celtic languages in 19th-century North America and Australia”
Chair: Muireann O’Cinneide
11.00-11.30: Tea/Coffee
11.30-1.00: Panel 4-Spaces, Places, and Times in Victorian Print Culture
Chair: John Hinks
Kevin James (University of Guelph), “‰Û÷[I]diotic attempts at feeble and sometime fetid wit’: Captive Readers, Captive Writers, and the Victorian Visitors’ Book”
Quentin J. Broughall (National University of Ireland, Maynooth), “Retrospective steampunk? The decline and fall of the British Empire (1881), (1884) and (1905)”
1.00-2.00: Lunch
2.00-3.30: Panel 5-Illustration and Interpictoriality in Victorian Culture
Chair: Neassa Doherty
Carey Gibbons (Courtauld Institute of Art), “Bringing the Book to Life: Arthur Hughes’s Illustrations for Tennyson’s Enoch Arden”
Eavan O’Dochartaigh (NUI, Galway), “From Pencil to Publication: Evolving Representations of the Canadian Arctic in the Mid-Nineteenth Century”
Laura Strout (University of Michigan), “Intertextual Images: The Illustrations of William Wells Brown’s Clotel“
3.30-4.00: Tea/Coffee
4.00-5.25: Panel 6-Nineteenth-Century Spheres of Print: Reading, Gender, and Identity
Chair: Quentin J. Broughall
Deirdre Brady (University of Limerick), “Reading practices of an intellectual woman: Rosamond Jacob (1888-1960) and her personal diaries”
Katie Garner (University College Cork), “More than a ‰Û÷book for boys’? Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur and the Victorian Girl Reader”
5.25-5.40: Conference close
5.45-6.45: Book launch of Niall ÌÒ CiosÌÁin, Ireland in Official Print Culture, 1800-1850: A New Reading of the Poor Inquiry (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2014).
7.30: Conference Dinner: Vina Mara Restaurant, Middle Street, Galway.
For more information please contact p.rooney2@nuigalway.ie

Small Nations and Colonial Peripheries in World War I: Europe and the Wider World
2014-06-13 09:00
Small Nations and Colonial Peripheries in World War I:
Europe and the Wider World
National University of Ireland, Galway
Friday 13th-Saturday 14th June 2014
The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum of debate for transnational and comparative approaches to the history of small European nations and Europe‰۪s colonial peripheries in World War I in the context of the epochal changes brought by the collapse of large imperial states. Our aim is to reach a more nuanced understanding of the complex relationship between the peripheral regions of Europe and her empires and Europe‰۪s metropolitan core through the comparative and transnational analysis of the contribution of European, Asian and African peripheries to the war effort in World War I.
Prof. Michael S. Neiberg, an eminent scholar of World War I, will deliver the keynote address. Prof. Neiberg has written extensively on the multiple theatres and global reach of the War, most notably in Fighting the Great War: A Global History (Harvard, 2006) and Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I (2011).
Scholars are invited to submit papers on themes focusing on social, political, or economic aspects of Europe‰۪s small nations and colonial regions during World War I.
Themes covered may include the following:

Colonial troops serving in Europe
Troops of ethnic European minority populations serving in Europe
Troops of ethnic European minority populations serving in overseas colonies
Experiences of populations of independent small nations in Europe
Experiences of populations of ethnic minorities within European multiethnic states
Experiences of indigenous and settler populations of European overseas empires

åáOfficial attempts to mobilise popular support across all ethnic groups in Europe and in the overseas colonies

Support for or resistance to such mobilisation efforts and their different outcomes

Papers may address the following geographical regions:

Peripheries of European multi-ethnic empires in Europe
Peripheries of European belligerent powers to the east and south of Europe
Europe‰۪s overseas colonies

The workshop is an initiative of RÌ_isÌ_n Healy, Enrico Dal Lago, and GearÌ_id Barry at the History Department, NUI Galway, and will be held in June 2014 in order to mark the beginning of the commemorations for the hundredth anniversary of the start of World War I.
Prospective participants should send a paper title and a 300-word abstract, accompanied by a 1-page CV to enrico.dallago@nuigalway.ie by the deadline of 28 February 2014. They will be notified of acceptance by mid-March 2014.
For conference porgramme please see http://www.nuigalway.ie/history/documents/finalsmall_nations_final_programme.pdf

'Saints, Relics, and Sacred Space in Continental Europe in the Middle Ages: Some Archaeological Observations' by Eleonora Destefanis, Universita del Piemonte orientale Amedeo Avogadro, Vercelli, Italy and Moore Institute visiting fellow
2014-06-12 14:30

Ringling North Library bequest
2014-06-06 14:15
Ringling North Library Bequest
The University recently received a very generous bequest of a selection of volumes from the private Library of Henry Ringling North. The attached flyer offers some additional information. Some family members will visit the University on Friday 6 June and, as part of the event to mark this bequest, we will assemble in the Special Collections and Archives Reading Room in the Hardiman Research Building at 1415. Some volumes from the Ringling North Library will be on display and there will be expert commentary on some of the subjects in the collection by Dr. Padraig Lenihan, Professor Catherine O‰۪Brien and Mary Hawkes Greene (Burren College of Art). Refreshments will be served afterwards at c1500. If you would like to attend, please RSVP to John at john.cox@nuigalway.ie.
Contact:
John Cox
University Librarian
James Hardiman Library
X3712

New Voices Conference 2014: A Multi-Disciplinary Postgraduate and Early Career Scholars Conference - 5th to 7th June, 2014
2014-06-05 12:00 | The Hardiman Research Building G010 and G011 seminar rooms, Ireland
New Voices Conference 2014Multi-Disciplinary Postgraduate and Early Career Scholars Conference
5th to 7th June, 2014
After the first New Voices conference in 1999, P.J. Mathews published an edited collection of the speakers’articles, New Voices in Irish Criticism. In the introduction, Mathews notes the text “can be taken as a snapshotof the current state of Irish studies.” The collection of articles presented reflect the work of the Irish academyat the end of the twentieth century as well as Mathews’ and Declan Kiberd’s joint efforts to showcase not onlythe new voices in Irish criticism but also the ways in which those scholars were challenging the boundaries ofIrish criticism. In establishing this forum, Mathews and Kiberd emphasized the necessity for young scholarswithin the Irish academy to interact with one another, across universities and, most importantly, acrossdisciplines.More than ever it is important that early career scholars connect with their peers and future colleagues. Theacademic market is a challenging field, especially for young scholars. This conference seeks to establish anintellectual exchange that will only strengthen in the years to come.In that vein, National University of Ireland, Galway will proudly host the 2014 New Voices conference. Weinvite papers from all departments and encourage collaborative papers, new media, and panel ideas. We alsoinvite paper proposals from early career scholars outside of Ireland who focus on Irish Studies. Theparticipants at the inaugural New Voices conference presented papers on far-reaching topics, from theorizingthe novel to politics and revival. This year we seek papers that broaden what Irish Studies means, reflecting onthe legacy of the New Voices conference and the themes and issues which continue to resonate in itssubsequent iterations.We welcome proposals for twenty-minute papers, in English or in Irish, from all disciplines in relation to Irishstudies. We especially invite submissions which broaden definitions and push scholarly boundaries. Topicsmay include but are certainly not limited to:
Representations of the Irish Body-The Irish Body in film/literature/art-Irish Physicalities-Trauma and the Body
Irish Modernisms-Urbanity/Cosmopolitanism-Modernity in 20th century Ireland-Myth-making in Irish literature-(Post)Modern (Post)Colonial Ireland
Ireland and Place-The landscape of Ireland-The seascape around Ireland
Hidden Narratives-The Irish in Europe-The Role of Ireland in the World Wars-Cultural Memory
Comparative Ireland-Interdisciplinarity in Irish Studies-Inter/Trans-National Irishness
Performing Ireland-(Re)Presentations of Identity-Global Performances/Perspectives
Literature-Ireland and Eco-criticism-Urban versus Pastoral-Centre and the Peripheral/Borderlands
Alternative Cultures-Marginalised narratives-‘Queerness’ in Irish literature-Masculinites/Femininities-Race and ‰Û÷Otherness’ in Ireland-Ireland and the Diaspora
Deadline for abstracts: 31 January, 2014Please send abstracts of 250-300 words to newvoices2014@nuigalway.ie. Please also include affiliation and ashort biography (no more than 50 words). If you have any other questions, feel free to email us.
Confirmed Plenary Speakers:Nessa Cronin, National University of Ireland, GalwayOona Frawley, National University of Ireland, MaynoothDeclan Kiberd, University of Notre DamePJ Matthews, University College DublinLionel Pilkington, National University of Ireland, Galway
We would like to gratefully acknowledge the generous support of the NUI Galway community. The NewVoices Conference 2014 is sponsored by the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities & Social Studies,the College of Arts, Social Sciences, & Celtic Studies, the Discipline of English Studies, the Center for Dramaand Theatre Studies, the School of Humanities, the Huston School of Film & Digital Media, the Center forIrish Studies, the School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures, the Acadamh na hOllscolaÌ_ochta Gaeilge, andthe NUI Galway Millennium Fund.
http://www.conference.ie/Conferences/index.asp?Conference=346
Proposed New Voices Schedule Day One – Thursday, 5th June 12.00 – 12.30 Registration
12.30-1.30 Opening Address by Nessa Cronin
1.30-1.45 Break
1.45 -3.15 Session One
A: Decade of Commemorations
Michelle O’Connor – “Vocabulary and Imagery in the Decade of Commemorations”
Richard McGuire – “JG Farrell’s Troubles and the Literature of the Post-Colonial Nation”
Nina Holmes – “Prescribing Ideologies: Irish Government Health Campaigns (1950s-1980s)”
B: Representing the West of Ireland
Jeannine Kraft – “Framing Perception: Contemporary Irish Photography and the Trope of the ‰Û÷West'”
Deirdre Ni Chonghaile – “Embodying Homage and Outrage: MÌÁirtÌ_n ÌÒ DireÌÁin’s ÌÒmÌ_s do John Millington Synge“
Amy Mitchell – “Blurred Lines: Gendered Wordplay in Three Poems by SeÌÁn ÌÒ RÌ_ordÌÁin”
3.15 – 3.30 Break
3.30 – 5.00 Session Two
A. Irish Classicism
Fion Lau – “The Classical-Reference Problem: Intertexts in Brian Friel’s Translations” Eileen Coughlan – “Concepts of Irishness in the Irish Language Movement in Northern Ireland”
Lisa Caulfield – “O’Grady’s Resurrected Hero: C̼chulain”
B. Siting Beckett
David Clare – “‰Û÷turn wick low’: Samuel Beckett’s Increasingly Dark Depictions of Co. Wicklow”
David McKinney – “‘Unsolved Mysteries’: Hawthorn and Child (2012)by Keith Ridgway and Murphy (1938)by Samuel Beckett”
Matthew McFrederick – “Beckett and the Royal Court: The George Devine Years (1957-1965)”
5.00 – 5.15 Break
5.15 – 6.15 Closing remarks by Lionel Pilkington
6.30 – 8.30 Drinks reception in Huston Film School
Day Two – Friday, 6th June 9.30 – 10.30 Opening address by Oona Frawley
10.30 – 10.45 Break
10.45 – 12.15 Session Three
A: Considering Space, Place, and Character
Mark McGahon – “Not a Caricature, but a Character: Another Look at Mr. Deasy and the ‰Û÷Nestor’ Episode of Ulysses“
Niamh McGabhann – “A bright and dark land: space, freedom and the body in Edna O’Brien’s ‰Û÷Irish Revel'”
Siobhan Nevin – “A Long Division: The Big House as a Symbol of Discord in Nineteenth Century Irish Literature”
B: Irish Representations, Local and Global
Anna Zaluczkowska – “Writing a New Northern Ireland – Post troubles film/TV and transmedia production”
Jennifer Arthur – “The Emigration of Irish Showjumping”
Elizabeth De Young – “Along the Interface: A Walk Around the Lower Cliftonville-Lower Oldpark Peace Wall in Belfast”
12.15 – 1.30 Lunch
1.30 – 3.00 Session Four
A: Challenging Masculinities
Jim Grady – “Alienation and nihilism in the 21st Century Irish Short Story”
Carole Quigley – “Beckett the Feminist”
Barry Houlihan – “Not our Line of Territory: The Evolution, Death and Resurrection of ‘Mr. Roche’ and the Gay Character on the Irish Stage”
B. Theorising Place
Isabel Corfe – “Reflections of Irishness in Nineteenth-Century England”
Francesca Scapato – “‘I told you, Ben, it’s not as simple as all that’: Val Mulkerns’s Dublin in mid-20th century Ireland
Michael Paye – “From East to West: Encoding the Capitalist “Ecological Regime” in The Silver Darlings and Gillespie“
3.00 – 3.15 Break
3.15 – 4.45 Session Five
A: Observing Comedy
Ciara Connelly – “‰Û÷Skobie O’Gill and the Lidl People’: Ross O’Carroll-Kelly as Irish Social Critique”
Katherine O’Keefe – “Doyle and Dev: Refiguring the image of the Irish Family in Roddy Doyle’s The Snapper”
Lee Vahey – “Vivian Mercier’s The Irish Comic Tradition: A Reappraisal”
B: Observing Death
Barry Ryan – “James Joyce’s “The Dead” and the Legitimacy of the Living”
Rachel Price Cooper – “Waking the Dead: Greek Precedents and Gendered Embodiment On the Early Abbey Stage” Huiwen Shi – “‘Failed’ Funeral Elegies: The Elegiac, the Gothic and the Ironic in Heaney’s ‰Û÷Widgeon Poems'”
4.45 – 5.00 Break
5.00 – 6.00 Closing remarks by PJ Matthews
6.30 – 7.30 Cultural Event
8.30 Conference Dinner at Ard Bia
Day Three – Saturday, 7th June 9.30 – 10.30 Opening remarks by Declan Kiberd 10.30 – 10.45 Break
10.45 – 12.15 Session Six
A. Patterning Migration
Luke Kirwan – “Cork’s Trans-Atlantic Trade in the Early Nineteenth Century”
Sarah Goek – “Irish Encounters with British Modernity: Identities in Process, 1945-70”
Jesse Weaver – “‰Û÷The Lost and the Lonely’: Race, Gender and Representations of the Irish Diaspora in Enda Walsh’s The Walworth Farce“
B: Identity in Practice
Mairead Ni Chualain – “From the Ampitheatre to the Cube”
Rachel Flynn – “Releasing/Realising Through Narrative Modes as Artist Researcher”
Sarah Hoover – “Presentations of Identity: Self on Display”
12.15 – 1.30 Lunch
1.30 – 3.00 Session Seven
A. New Irishness
Elizabeth Howard – “Red Kettle Theatre Company and Waterford in the 1980s”
Laura Dooley – “‘The New Ireland’: Representations of Otherness in Irish Young-Adult Fiction
David Doolin – “My Family, My Mother, My Father: Representations of Irish American Communalism in Shameless“
B. Representing the Maternal
Claire Brophy – “The Mother’sBbody: Space and Place in the Writing of Anne Enright”
Mikyung Park – “A Token of Triumph?: Against Fetishistic Nostalgia for Male Myth in Teresa Deevy’s One-Act Plays, In Search of Valour (1931) and The King of Spain’s Daughter (1935)”
Katerina Koulianou – “The Maternal Body in Undressing My Mother“
3.00 – 3.15 Break
3.15 – 4.45 Session Eight A: Catholicism and Modernity
Ciara O’Dowd – “How the Women of the Abbey Theatre found Their Rhythm in New York City” Barry Sheppard – “Fighting Modernity? Agrarian Communitarianism in Ireland and Britain in the 1930s” Sonya Perkins – “‘Where and What is Ireland?’: The Capuchin Annual 1930-1945″
B: Theatre of Testimony
Kristi Good – “Uncovering Hidden Narratives: Changing the Face of Irish Identity Through Testimony”
Ashley Christine Soutor – “The Dynamic Energy of Truth and Story in Northern Ireland’s Theatre of Witness”
4.45 – 5.00 Break
5.00 – 6.00 Roundtable discussion (Nessa Cronin, Oona Frawley, Declan Kiberd, PJ Matthews, Lionel Pilkington)

'Rebel Girls': Rosie Hackett and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
2014-05-28 20:30
‘Rebel Girls’: Rosie Hackett and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
On this Wednesday (28 May, 8.30), the Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour & Class (ICHLC) presents two short talks in the Town Hall, Galway, under the title ‘Rebel Girls’: Rosie Hackett and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. Speakers are James Curry (Moore Inst.) and Meredith Meagher (Univ. of Notre Dame). Tickets, ‰âÂ3 (‰âÂ2 concession).
A new bridge over the Liffey has just been named after Rosie Hackett (1892-1960), a working class woman associated with the early labour movement in Dublin. Hackett was certainly remarkable, an activist of the Irish Women Workers Union while still a teenager. Historian James Curry has thoroughly researched Hackett‰۪s life and he will give a full account of it.
The life of a contemporary of Hackett‰۪s, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890-1961) will be introduced by Meredith Meagher. Gurley Flynn, whose radical career in the American labour movement also began while she was still a teenager was born in Boston, the daughter of a Loughrea woman, Ann Gurley. At 17, she became a full-time organiser for the Industrial Workers of the World, and she remained a political and social activist for the rest of her life. She died while visiting the USSR, and was honoured there with a state funeral. Gurley Flynn took the title of her autobiography, Rebel Girl, from the title of a song written about her by her comrade, Joe Hill.
Contact:
John Cunningham (ICHLC)
School of Humanities (History)
NUI Galway
http://www.nuigalway.ie/history/cunningham/index.html

Book Launch: Daniel Carey, ed., Money and Political Economy in the Enlightenment (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2014).
2014-05-22 17:15
Book launch by Professor Carl Wennerlind(Barnard College, Columbia University and Moore Institute visiting fellow)
of:
Daniel Carey, ed., Money and Political Economy in the Enlightenment (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2014).
Wine will be served.

Professor Carl Wennerlind (Barnard College, Columbia University): 'The Political Economy of Moral Refinement'
2014-05-22 16:00
Carl Wennerlind (Barnard College, Columbia University and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow):
‰Û÷The Political Economy of Moral Refinement‰۪
Followed by a launch at 5.15pm by Prof. Wennerlind of:
Daniel Carey, ed., Money and Political Economy in the Enlightenment (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2014).
Wine will be served.

Book Launch: 'Frontier and Border Regions in Early Modern Europe' Edited by Raingard Esser and Steven G Ellis.
2014-05-19 16:30

Reading Poetry: Philip Sidney from Astrophil and Stella by ClÌ_odhna Carney
2014-05-15 18:00

Guerrilla Digitisation: An Introduction to Bookscanning
2014-05-13 11:00
The Moore Institute will host a free one-day workshop, Guerrilla Digitisation: An Introduction to Bookscanning, from 11am-4pm on Monday, May 12.
Led by Meaghan Connell (PhD student, English Department), this workshop is an introduction to the process of digitising texts using only low-cost materials. Digitised texts can be very useful to the humanities researcher; before you can use any kind of computational analysis, you must first create a machine-readable version of your text(s). With machine-readable texts, you can run corpus analyses, create concordances and collocations, and even perform stylometry analyses. If your work involves any computational analysis, or if you want to look into including computational analysis in your work, this workshop may be useful to you.
This workshop is aimed at scholars in the Arts and Humanities, both postgrad students and faculty. This is a hands-on workshop – we will be going through the build of a budget bookscanner and the entire process of scanning, post-processing, and optical character recognition. If you want to build your own budget bookscanner at the workshop, you will need to bring certain materials. Basic computer literacy is a must, but a gentle introduction to the specific software we’ll be using will be provided.
Spaces are limited for this workshop, so you are advised to register your interest by emailing m.connell3@nuigalway.ie as soon as possible.

Reading Poetry: Sin̩ad Morrissey '1801' by Adrian Paterson
2014-05-08 18:00

AD/BC: Music Archaeology Symposium
2014-05-08 10:00
AD/BC: Music Archaeology Symposium
A fascinating one-day series of talks forming an introduction to the academic background to the concerts and workshops of the 2014 Galway Early Music Festival, May 8-11. Eight international speakers will cover topics as wide-ranging as evidence for music and instruments in classical Rome, prehistoric instruments in Scandinavia, medieval tuning systems, Old Irish vocabulary for musical instruments, and medieval song and dance performance. The Symposium is aimed at a non-specialist academic and public audience. Speakers include Michael Shields, German, NUI Galway, and Jacopo Bisagni, Classics, NUI Galway, as well as a number of international speakers. Organised by Medieval Studies, NUI Galway, and Galway Early Music Festival. In partnership with EMAP (European Music Archaeology Project), support by the Culture Programme of the EU. Details of the Symposium and The Galway Early Music Festival attached. Information on Symposium and Galway Early Music Festival available at: www.galwayearlymusic.com.
http://galwayearlymusic.com/events/colloquium-archaeomusicological-research/
For more information please contact maura.ocroinin@nuigalway.ie

Dr. H̩lÌÄå¬ne Lecossois (Universit̩ du Maine) and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow - 'J. M. Synge: The Primitive on the Modern Stage'.
2014-05-07 16:00

School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures Research Day
2014-05-07 09:30
School of Languages,Literatures and Cultures
Research Day
Programme
9.30am ‰ÛÒ 10am: reception with tea and coffee & Welcome from Professor PÌ_l ÌÒ Dochartaigh
10 ‰ÛÒ 11 am: Panel 1 (Chair: Clodagh Downey)
Padraic MORAN(Classics): ‰Û÷Historical and international context for translingual reading‰۪
Lesa NÌ_ MHUNGHAILE(Gaeilge):‰Û÷Irish language speakers in the Ottawa Valley: evidence from the 1901 Canadian Census‰۪
Sheila WALSHE (French):‰Û÷Performative Identity and l‰۪Entre-deux in the writings of Thomas IsmaÌÀl Urbain (1812-1884)‰۪
11 ‰ÛÒ 11.30am: Coffee break

11.30 ‰ÛÒ 12.30 pm: Panel 2 (Chair: Tina Pusse)

Michael SHIELDS (German):‰Û÷Splitting and finding the self in collective voices. What happens to the lyric ‰Û÷I‰۪ in late medieval lyric?‰۪
Mark STANSBURY(Classics): ‰Û÷Points of difference: Punctuation in AdomnÌÁn‰۪s Vita Columbae‰۪
Jennifer WOOD (Spanish): ‰Û÷Rafael Alberti‰۪s First LiricografÌ_as‰۪
12.30 ‰ÛÒ 2 pm: Lunch break

2 ‰ÛÒ 3pm: Panel 3 (Chair: Mark Stansbury)

Pilar ALDERETE-DIEZ(Spanish):‰Û÷Time and Space in language teaching & learning at third level‰۪
Cathal KILCLINE (French): ‰Û÷Sport, migration and commemoration in contemporary France‰۪
Anne O‰۪CONNOR, Michele MILAN, Jos̩ BROWNRIGG GLEESON MARTINEZ (Italian):
‰Û÷Translation in 19th century Ireland‰۪
3 ‰ÛÒ 3.30 pm: Coffee break
3.30 ‰ÛÒ 4.30pm: Open discussion (Chair: Sylvie Lannegrand): future research directions, Teaching & Research, access to funding, question of peer-reviewed journals, etc.

Workshop on communicating research using video with Eileen Lauster
2014-05-06 12:00
WORKSHOP ON COMMUNICATING RESEARCH USING VIDEO
With Eileen Lauster
Moore Institute
Tuesday 6 May 2014, 12-1pm
The Moore Institute and the Digital Scholarship Seminar will host a
workshop exploring strategies for disseminating research activity using
video content. The workshop will be lead by Eileen Lauster, Research
Assistant at the Responding to Child to Parent Violence project
(www.rcpv.eu) in the School of Political Science and Sociology and an
experienced film-maker and editor (www.busterdrive.com).
The workshop will introduce how to create video content with graphical,
still image, audio and live action material, and how to edit this
material using YouTube’s built-in tools. It will include both practical
tips and broader communication strategies.
Places are limited, and those interested in participating should e-mail
eileen.lauster@nuigalway.ie. Please include a few lines about your
research project and whether there are particular aspects of video
production that you would like to cover.
Deadline for signing up: FRIDAY 8 APRIL 2014

Dr. Sylvie Lannegrand, French Department NUI Galway- 'Politics and sexuality in Personal Diaries: two case studies'
2014-04-25 13:00
DR. SYLVIE LANNEGRAND, FRENCH
‰ÛÏPolitics and sexuality in Personal Diaries: two case studies‰۝
For more information please contact gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie

2014 IAAS Annual Conference: 'Created Equal?' - April 25th and 26th
2014-04-25 10:00
Friday 25 & Saturday 26 April ‰ÛÒ 2014 IAAS Annual Conference: ‰ÛÏCreated Equal?‰۝
For full programme of events and to register for the conference see: www.iaas.ie/iaas-annual-conference/
(Contact: IAASConference@gmail.com)

Pushing Form: Innovation and Interconnection in Contemporary European Performance 25 - 26 April 2014
2014-04-25 09:00
Pushing Form: Innovation and Interconnection in Contemporary European Performance
Keynotes: Sodja Lotker and Milija Gluhovic
How does the present reality of European theatre and performance challenge traditional assumptions? And howspecifically does formal innovation provide the space for critiques of power that may rework the concept of ‰ÛÏEurope‰۝ as realizedthrough performance? How has performance responded to neoliberalism and globalization in the wake of the most recentworld economic crisis, and how does its specifically European context set the terms of this response?
This conference queries what it means to define the field of European performance.
www.conference.ie/conferences/index.asp?conference=245
For registration information please contact
siobhanmogorman@gmail.com, miriamhaughton@hotmail.com, charlotte.mcivor@nuigalway.ie

Public Lecture: Dr Frank Shovlin, Univeristy of Liverpool and Moore Institute visiting fellow - 'The Invention of Liam O'Flaherty'
2014-04-24 18:00 | Galway City Library, Ireland
For more information please contact fshovlin@liverpool.ac.uk

Humanities Book Sale
2014-04-24 11:00
EVERY BOOK A FIVER OR LESS
in the
First Great Humanities Book Sale,
GS011
(The Hardiman Research Building) NUI,Galway.
Academic books (all disciplines with lots of history, English & women/gender); fiction; non-fiction; children‰۪s/young adult; some old books. Quality book CDs & DVDs also available.
All proceeds will go toA Night for Kathleen: In February this year, Kathleen Neylan passed away when a fire broke out at her home in Knocknacarra. Kathleen’s family and friends have come together to organize some events and raise some money so that her 16-year-old daughter, now orphaned, can concentrate on rebuilding her life without worrying about ongoing expenses.
See also A Night for Kathleen in Monroe‰۪s, Friday May 23, with Galway bands Stomping Ground and No Stairway (Led Zeppelin Tribute Band).Tickets E10, watch local papers/noticeboards for more details or contact CC below.
Caitriona Clear, History Department. E-mail: caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie.
SPECIAL THANKS TO THE MOORE INSTITUTE AND TO CATHERINE MCCURRY, COLLEGE OF ARTS, AND TO ALL WHO DONATED BOOKS, CDs, DVDs.

Workshop: Computational Stylometry: An Introduction
2014-04-24 10:00
Computational Stylometry: An Introduction
Moore Institute, NUI Galway, 24 April 2014
This one-day workshop led by Dr Francesca Benatti (Open University) is a hands-on introduction to stylometric analysis using Stylo, a tool created for use in the statistical programming language R.
What is Computational Stylometry?Computational stylometry (or stylistics) is the study of how the stylistic features of texts can be measured through computer-aided statistical methods.
How is it used?Regularly used in the field of authorship attribution, Computational Stylometry has potential applications to a wide range of fields and disciplines that examine texts. In addition to authorship attribution, Computational Stylometry may be used to investigate relationships between texts in such areas as gender, genre, and chronology.
For example?J. K. Rowling was recently exposed as the author of the pseudonymous novel, The Cuckoo’s Calling, thanks to the Computational Stylometric work of Patrick Juola. A professor of computer science, Juola also runs a private consulting firm that applies stylometric techniques to disputed documents and in psychological profiling for the legal professions. Similar techniques have aided historical research by verifying the authenticity of letters written during the American Civil War, and sought to reveal how pronouns and other function words reveal personality traits and relationship roles.
What does the workshop involve?It will include an introduction to the history and theory of stylometry, and will focus on the practical application of the Stylo package. Alongside examples of Stylo’s use, participants will complete hands-on practical exercises with the tool. A set of sample texts will be supplied, but participants are free to bring their own texts in plain text or TEI XML format.
What is the schedule for the day?10.00-10.30 Introduction to Stylometry10.30-11.00 Installation of R and Stylo; settings and options11.00-11.30 The stylo function; hands-on practice11.30-12.00 Tea break12.00-13.00 The oppose function; hands-on practice13.00-14.00 Lunch14.00-14.30 Case study: authorship attribution and the Christabel review14.30-15.30 The classify function; hands-on practice15.30-16.00 Open session: practice / discussion / Q and A
I am interested, but am not sure this is for me…Computational stylometry can be either a means or an end. While is it used to identify authors andverify documents, it can also be employed for more exploratory purposes: for identifying patternsand sequences within a text or group of texts. If your work involves analysing texts, this workshopmay be useful to you.
Do I need to be a programmer to learn this?No. This workshop is led by and aimed at scholars in the Arts and Humanities. Some experience withcomputer-aided text-analysis will be a benefit, but nothing other than general digital literary isrequired.
Anything else I should know?Attendance is free. Places are limited on this workshop, however, so you are advised to register yourinterest as soon as possible. Attendees will be required to bring their own laptops: R and Stylo willnot work on mobile devices.
Ok, you’ve sold me. What do I do now?Contact Justin Tonra (justin.tonra@nuigalway.ie) to register your interest in participating. Youshould mention any previous experience you have had with text-mining or text-analysis, anddescribe how the workshop relates to your own work.

Juan RamÌ_n Jim̩nez: Reflections at the Centenary of Platero y yo
2014-04-15 09:00
Juan RamÌ_n Jim̩nez:
Reflections at the Centenary of Platero y yo
Chair: Jos̩ Luis PenÌ_n (UCD)
This panel discussion on the Nobel-Prize winning Spanish poet, Juan RamÌ_n Jim̩nez, takes place within the context of the Annual Conference of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland.
It includes a screening of the documentary Los viajes de Juan RamÌ_n Jim̩nez (26 minutes; in Spanish) and is followed by a round table discussion on the occasion of the centenary of the publication of Platero y yo (1914).
All welcome.

Medieval Studies Postgraduate Studies Day
2014-04-14 09:00
Medieval Studies Postgraduate Research Day.
For more information please contact kim.loprete@nuigalway.ie

CAMPS Lab: Kim LoPrete, Medieval History, NUIG: 'Bertrada of Montfort and the sources: A mirror for historians'
2014-04-11 12:00
Followed by discussion & light lunch
Everyone welcome ‰ÛÓ FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch

ECHO seminar: Peter Kelly - Reduced to Tears: Liquefaction and the permeable body in Ovid's Metamorphoses - Lindsay Ann Reid -Medieval Emotion Scripts and Renaissance Playscripts: "Passioning" like Ariadne in The Two Gentlemen of Verona
2014-04-08 17:00
PASSION PLAY
PETER KELLY
Reduced to Tears: Liquefaction and the permeable body in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
LINDSAY ANN REID
Medieval Emotion Scripts and Renaissance Playscripts: “Passioning” like Ariadne in The Two Gentlemen of Verona
ECHO brings together researchers of all disciplines to discuss research questions in a cordial environment.
Contact: adrian.paterson@nuigalway.ie or see our website: http://echoforum.wordpress.com
