Moore Institute

Book launch: Language, Policy and Territory
2022-09-29 17:00 - 18:30 (Europe/Dublin) | online via Zoom
You are invited to the launch of the edited volume Language, Policy and Territory: A Festschrift for Colin Williams on Thursday 29th September at 5.00 on Zoom. Dr John Walsh (School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures) is a co-editor along with Wilson McLeod, Rob Dunbar and Kathryn Jones.
Registration
Please register in advance here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FsObDBVVQU2xlbRk7AYK6A
Description
Digwyddiad i ddathlu cyhoeddiad y llyfr ‘Language, Policy and Territory’
Mae’r Comisiynwyr Iaith Gwyddeleg a Chymraeg Rónán Ó Domhnaill a Gwenith Price yn lansio’n ffurfiol gyfrol sy’n dathlu cyfraniad arbennig Yr Athro Colin Williams i’r maes Polisi a Chynllunio Iaith. Mae’r llyfr yn datblygu damcaniaethau polisi a rheoleiddio iaith ac yn ystyried heriau polisi iaith yng Nghymru, Iwerddon, Yr Alban, Canada a Chatalonia.
Event to celebrate the publication of the book ‘Language, Policy and Territory’
The Irish and Welsh Language Commissioners Rónán Ó Domhnaill and Gwenith Price are formally launching a book that celebrates Professor Colin Williams’ contribution to the field of Language Policy and Planning. This book contains chapters on theorising language policy & regulation and investigates language policy challenges in Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Canada and Catalonia
Ócáid chun foilsiú an leabhair ‘Language, Policy and Territory’ a cheiliúradh
Tá Coimisinéirí Teanga na hÉireann agus na Breataine Bige, Rónán Ó Domhnaill agus Gwenith Price, chun leabhar a cheiliúrann obair mhór an Ollaimh Colin Williams ar son an pholasaí agus na pleanála teanga a sheoladh go foirmeálta. Cuimsíonn an leabhar seo caibidlí faoi theoiric an pholasaí agus an rialúcháin teanga agus fiosraíonn sé dúshláin pholasaí teanga sa Bhreatain Bheag, in Éirinn, in Albain, i gCeanada agus sa Chatalóin.
Tachartas a chomharrachadh foillseachadh an leabhair ‘Language, Policy and Territory’
Tha Coimisinearan na Gaeilge agus na Cuimris, Rónán Ó Domhnaill agus Gwenith Price, a’ cur air bhog leabhar a chomharraicheas saothair luachmhor an Ollaimh Colin Williams ann am poileasaidh agus planadh cànain. Anns an leabhar gheibhear 19 caibideilean air teòiridh poileasaidh is riaghladh cànain agus dùbhlain an lùib poileasaidh cànain anns a’ Chuimrigh, Èirinn, Alba, Canada agus Catalonia.
Language, Policy and Territory
A Festschrift for Colin H. Williams

Sourcing Science Advice: What can we learn from Europe and beyond?
2022-09-29 14:00 - 15:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Online discussion of how academics, researchers and policymakers can work together effectively to create evidence based public policy.
About this event

As the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science seeks views on a consultation on the Sourcing of Science Advice for Irish public policymakers and government departments, this online discussion will investigate possible lessons that could be learned from Europe in this area. It will seek to examine case studies of how science advice is shared with policymakers across Europe and will ask if Ireland can learn lessons from these examples. This consultation and the subsequent decisions it will lead to mark a pivotal moment in redefining the relationship between researchers and policymakers and the Academy believes it is imperative that the experience of the research community should strongly inform developments in this area.
Attendees will have an opportunity to pose questions to the panellists and views shared will help inform the Royal Irish Academy submission to the department on this topic. In advance of the online discussion, attendees are invited to read the consultation paper and the roadmap previously published by RIA and the IRC on this topic.
Speakers invited:
• Chair: Daniel Carey, MRIA
• Jaakko Kuosmanen, Science Advice Initiative of Finland
• Celine Tschirhart, ALLEA- SAPEA Scientific Policy Officer
• David Mair, Head of Knowledge for Policy Unit, Joint Research Centre
• David J. Phipps, Assistant Vice President Research Strategy and Impact at York University
Note: These online discussions build on previous online sessions held in early 2021 which can be viewed here.
Read our Data Protection Policy in relation to the handling of your data for booking this event.

Registration
Please register via Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/sourcing-science-advice-what-can-we-learn-from-europe-and-beyond-tickets-424049622837

Sport & Exercise Research Group Seminar: Sport and Film: An American Dream?
2022-09-27 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
This lecture will examine the relationship between sport and film internationally, with a particular focus on the American experience. It will draw on the extensive research undertaken by Dr. Seán Crosson (author of Sport and Film (Routledge, 2013)) on the subject, and will chart the history of sport cinema, analysing the important role the genre has played in the United States above all in popularising and affirming a key ideology in American life: the American Dream.
Dr. Seán Crosson is Senior Lecturer in Film in the Huston School of Film & Digital Media, Leader of the Sport & Exercise Research Group within the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, and Co-Director of the BA Performance and Screen Studies programme. His main research interest is the representation of sport in film, the subject of his monographs, Sport and Film (Routledge, 2013) and Gaelic Games on Film: From silent films to Hollywood hurling, horror and the emergence of Irish cinema (Cork University Press, 2019).

‘The Intelligence War against the IRA’
2022-09-22 13:00 - 14:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
The School of Political Science and Sociology and the Power, Conflict and Ideologies Research Cluster invite you to a research seminar with:
Dr. Thomas Leahy, Cardiff University,
‘The Intelligence War against the IRA’
In The Hardiman Building, Room G011
Thursday 22nd of September, 2022
1-2pm
All Welcome!

About:
Dr Thomas Leahy is a senior lecturer in British/Irish politics and contemporary history at Cardiff University in Wales. His first book on ‘The intelligence war against the IRA’ was published with Cambridge University Press. It was awarded the Political Studies of Ireland Brian Farrell book prize 2021 and was also shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society’s Whitfield prize 2021. He is currently working on the Irish Government and Northern Ireland conflict legacy and recently published a new article with Eleanor Leah Williams on informers and conflict legacy.

History Research Seminar: Religion and Violence in Early Modern Europe
2022-09-21 16:00 - 17:30 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Abstract
August 2022 marked the 450th anniversary of the Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, long regarded as the archetype of religious violence and fanaticism in Europe. In this talk, Prof. Stuart Carroll will reflect on the enduring relationship between religion and violence through history. It is commonplace to argue that religion is the cause of violence and until recently it was fashionable to argue that early modern Catholic violence was rooted in festive popular culture and structured by the rituals of traditional religious practice. Prof. Carroll will argue in this general lecture that recent research casts doubt on this assumption and will propose instead that the violence was largely the work of a small groups of heavily armed para-militaries led by the social elite, whose ideological fervour and level of organization looks forward to the horrors of the twentieth century. He will then explore the implications of the new research for European history more broadly.
Speaker Biography
Stuart Carroll is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of York. He has wide interests in the history of early modern Europe and the history of violence and is the recipient of multiple prizes for his publications. His books include Cultures of Violence: Interpersonal Violence in Historical Perspective (ed.), Martyrs and Murderers: The Guise Family and the Making of Europe, Blood and Violence in Early Modern France and Noble Power during the French Wars of Religion: the Guise Affinity and the Catholic Cause in Normandy. He is currently working on a book project entitled ‘The Origins of Civil Society’, drawing on sources in French, German and Italian and English, and recently edited the Cambridge World History of Violence, vol. 3.
https://www.york.ac.uk/history/staff/profiles/carroll/#research-content
Registration
To attend via Zoom, please register at: https://forms.office.com/r/zNGhJNUVj3
For those of you not able to attend in person, the talk will also be streamed on Zoom: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/97628504834.
This seminar is organised jointly with the Centre for the Study of Religion at the Moore Institute, University of Galway. The talk will be followed by a reception to mark the beginning of the new academic year.
All are welcome!

Sport & Exercise Research Group Seminar: Sport, Celebrity, Media and National Identity
2022-09-20 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Sports events are powerful vehicles for the construction, reproduction and, less frequently, the negotiation or contestation of national identity. The increasingly complex interplay between broadcast, print and new media is central to the ways in which sporting celebrities become emblematic of national identity and objects of collective emotional investment for committed and casual sports fans alike. Occasionally, competing perspectives on individuals and teams may highlight internal tensions and divides within the nation at key political and cultural conjunctures, as evidenced, for instance, by the England team’s ‘taking the knee’ protest at Euro 2020. With reference to selected Irish national and international sports celebrities, and drawing on a variety of theoretical perspectives, concepts and methods, this lecture explores the interplay between media representation and sporting celebrities’ self-presentation via social media in the construction, negotiation and contestation of national identity. It will focus particularly on how national identity intersects with gender and race.
Marcus Free is a lecturer in Media and Communication Studies in Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, and has worked previously in the universities of Sunderland and Wolverhampton. He has published widely in international journals and scholarly collections on the intersections of sport, gender, race and national identity in film, print and broadcast media. He is co-author of The Uses of Sport: A Critical Study (2005) and co-editor of Sport, the Media and Ireland: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2020).

IRC Postgraduate Scholarship Information Session
2022-09-20 12:00 - 13:00 | online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The Moore Institute will host an information session for the IRC Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme on Tuesday, September 20 at 12pm. The session will be led by Prof. Dan Carey, Director of the Moore Institute with contributions from Dr. Lindsay Reid, Vice Dean for Graduate Studies in the College of Arts, Social Sciences & Celtic Studies and Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha, IRC postgraduate scholarship awardee.

Irish Travellers / Mincéirs & the State, 1922-2022
2022-09-16 09:00 - 2022-09-17 17:30 | Aula Maxima, the Quadrangle / Spotlight Panels, Hardiman Building, G010, G011 and Bridge Room
Irish Travellers / Mincéirs and the State, 1922-2022
This two-day conference will examine Irish Travellers’ experiences of discrimination since the foundation of the state, paying particular attention to the state’s role in perpetuating disadvantage. It will be a multi-disciplinary and participative conference, with presentations in a variety of formats, and featuring local, national and international perspectives. There will be contributions from Traveller / Mincéir activists and advocates, historians, folklorists, psychologists, sociologists, artists, cultural theorists and others.
Conference Programme
» View or Download the Programme PDF

Conference Registration
To attend this Conference, please register via Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/irish-travellers-minceirs-the-state-1922-2022-tickets-409595199267

Eve of Conference:
Thursday 15th September
8.30-9.30 pm: The Cube, Áras na Mac Léinn
Drama Performance:
‘Ireland Shed a Tear’ with Michael Collins
The Carrickmines tragedy brought a public outpouring of grief, and, it seemed at the time, a lot of soul searching about the way Travellers are treated by mainstream society and the state. People lined the streets during funerals. Politicians and religious leaders wrung their hands. Newspapers gave blanket coverage. But it was no wake-up call, Michael Collins now wryly observes. It did not reset a dysfunctional relationship.
Registration
If you wish to attend the Drama Performance in the Cube on Thursday, 15th September 8.30-9.30p, please register HERE.

Conference Recordings
Playlist of all the Conference recordings is available at: Irish Travellers / Mincéirs & the State, 1922-2022 (Conference) – YouTube
Individual sessions’ recordings are available below.

Conference Podcasts
The Conference podcasts are available on the Moore Institute Podcast Channel at: The Moore Institute Podcast • A podcast on Anchor

Book launch: One Hundred Years of Irish Language Policy, 1922-2022
2022-09-15 17:30 - 18:30 | online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Ba mhór ag Institiúid de Móra tú a bheith i láthair nuair a sheolfaidh an tOllamh Regina Uí Cholltáin, An Coláiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath an leabhar One Hundred Years of Irish Language Policy, 1922-2022 leis an Dr John Walsh, Scoil na dTeangacha, na Litríochtaí agus na gCultúr, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe.
Beidh an ócáid ar siúl Déardaoin 15 Meán Fómhair 2022 ag 5.30 i seomra G010, Áras Taighde Uí Argadáin.
The Moore Institute invites you to attend the launch by Professor Regina Uí Chollatáin, UCD, of One Hundred Years of Irish Language Policy, 1922-2022 by Dr John Walsh, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Galway.
The event will take place on Thursday, 15 September 2022 at 5.30pm in room G010, Hardiman Research Building.
Contact: Dr John Walsh – john.walsh@nuigalway.ie
Registration
Please register via Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/402354782987

Sport & Exercise Research Group Seminar: Lance Armstrong and suiveur reporting in Libération, 1999–2013: A Case Study in Sports Journalism
2022-09-13 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
As national institution and site of memory for France for over a century, the Tour de France is a privileged locus for investigating the interactions between sport and cultural meaning. Literary journalism chronicling the race has a long history of representing the multiple meanings and dimensions of physical performance, particularly of heroic champions, in the Tour. During the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries the Tour itself and French culture more widely were destabilised by the ambiguous hero Lance Armstrong, and, in a context of guarded reporting on the facts of doping, literary journalism was able to give a creative account of complex sporting performances. Based on an article co-authored by Hugh Dauncey and Ruadhán Cooke, this discussion examines the journalism of Jean-Louis Le Touzet in Libération as an example of suiveur reporting in the tradition of Antoine Blondin, and will attempt to show how the freedom enabled by literary journalism allowed Le Touzet to accurately reflect academic perspectives on Armstrong, politics, culture and sport.
Ruadhán Cooke teaches French in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. Research interests include the overlaps between sport and literature, sports journalism and the cultural impact of sport.
All Welcome!

Paradigm shifting and the centrality of justice in pathways to low carbon economies
2022-09-07 16:00 - 17:00 | online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Paradigm shifting and the centrality of justice in pathways to low carbon economies
by Professor Lorraine Elliott, Professor Emerita (and previously Professor of International Relations) in the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs at the Australian National University
The debate about how to manage climate change has increasingly been linked to expectations about net-zero emissions, low carbon economies, decarbonisation strategies, and efforts to define a green economy model. Green economy principles call for pathways to low carbon growth that are environmentally sustainable, resource efficient and socially equitable in their practices and that deliver sustainability, efficiency and equity in its outcomes. This presentation explores how and why social justice must be at the heart of such transitions if they are to be transformative rather than simply adaptive, and if they are to give priority to the human security/insecurity dimensions of climate impacts and responses. It identifies three dimensions of (environmental/climate) justice – procedural justice, distributive justice and recognition justice – and offers some thoughts about what it might look like to make such principles meaningful in transition policies and practice across sectors such as energy (and perhaps agriculture), and cross-cutting issues such as jobs, employment, and investment. (NB: The geographic focus will be Southeast Asia and I look forward to the insights of colleagues with experience in other regions of the world).
All welcome!

Creative Futures Café
2022-06-08 15:00 - 17:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
The Creative Futures research group is excited to invite you to this in-person gathering, set up to facilitate a variety of discussions. This World Café style event offers an opportunity to connect with Creative Futures colleagues and work together to explore themes, topics, and issues of interest, including approaches to interdisciplinary research, creative methodologies, generating and evaluating creative projects and interventions, potential funding proposals and more.
We will provide refreshments, along with opportunities for participants to showcase recent work they have done on the Creative Futures space.
Inspired by the World Café format, the meeting is designed to provide time and space for interaction with colleagues from a variety of disciplines and to explore and identify potential areas of crossover, cooperation, and collaboration. This work will take place in small discussion groups and arranged so that you have the chance to interact with different groups and tackle different themes and ideas within the session.
There is no need to prepare anything in advance; this is an informal space for discussion, including, but not limited to, the following topics:

What does interdisciplinary research look like? How can wo do interdisciplinary research in the College of Arts, Social Science and Celtic Studies, and beyond? ​What are the benefits and challenges?
What kinds of research methods can support interdisciplinary approaches? Are there research methods we can use and develop in the Creative Futures space? How can these contribute to the research we are doing?
How can we engage non-academic audiences with our research, stakeholders including policy makers, community groups and those working to bring about change? How do we build those networks and how do we evaluate the results of this kind of engagement?
What funding opportunities exist for these approaches?

Registration
Please register by Monday, 6th June, using the link provided below:
https://forms.office.com/r/aTnKw6b2aG
If you have any questions about the event, please contact Dr Orla Lehane orla.lehane@nuigalway.ie or Dr Maria Roca Lizarazu maria.rocalizarazu@nuigalway.ie.

Restorying Ageing: Older Women and Life Writing
2022-05-24 14:00 - 18:00 | Online, via Zoom
This webinar brings together researchers, writers and the public as part of the Bealtaine Festival 2022. Through presentations, discussions and readings, the online event will explore the empowering potential of women’s creativity and life writing, and the importance of recognising the diversity of women’s experiences as they grow older, experiences which are so often stereotyped in literature and culture.
Speakers: Ashton Applewhite, Prof. Molly Andrews, Dr Mary McGill, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Dr Áine Ní Léime, Helen O’Rahilly, & participants from a life writing workshop for women aged 50 and older.
Organisers: Dr Michaela Schrage-Frueh (School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures), Dr Margaret O’Neill (Irish Centre for Social Gerontology) and Karen Hanrahan (University of Brighton/Moore Institute), in partnership with Age & Opportunity and with funding from the Irish Research Council.
Attendance is free but booking is crucial:
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/restorying-ageing-older-women-and-life-writing-tickets-311983570257

Video recording

Media, Sport and Ireland Symposium 2022
2022-05-19 - 2022-05-20 | online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The Media, Sport and Ireland International Symposium will take place on 19 and 20 May 2022. Organised by the Sport & Exercise Research Group, NUIG in association with the Department of Media and Communication Studies, Mary Immaculate College, the venue for this blended event is the Moore Institute, NUI Galway.
On behalf of the Sport & Exercise Research Group, NUIG in association with the Department of Media and Communication Studies, Mary Immaculate College, we are pleased to announce that the final programme for the symposium is now available to view and download here.
The book of abstracts will be available shortly.
Due to the number and quality of abstract submissions, the symposium has been extended to two days. It will be a blended event. The campus venue is G010, Hardiman Research Building/Moore Institute, NUI Galway (number 20 on the campus map).
Registration
Those wishing to attend the symposium either on campus or online should contact the organisers in advance at the following email address: msinuig2022@gmail.com. Links for the panels will be provided to online attendees in advance.
Further Information
This symposium brings together sports scholars from across the humanities and social sciences whose work is variously concerned with the contemporary and historical cultural significance of sport, and which deals with the interplay between sport, the media and cultural industries and the lived experience of sport as popular culture in Ireland and across the Irish diaspora. It extends the ‘Sport, Media and the Cultural Industries in Ireland’ symposium, hosted in Dublin City University in 2018, and the subsequent collection Sport, the Media and Ireland: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (eds. Neil O’Boyle and Marcus Free). Panels will cover a variety of topics of national and international significance, including

Online hate and sport
Media and gender inequality in sport
The impact of Covid-19 on sport and sport media
Media, migration and sport
Transnational marketing and the reception of sport
Media representations of ‘reform’ in sport

Organising Committee:

Dr Seán Crosson, NUI Galway
Dr Marcus Free, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick
Dr Niamh Kitching, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick
Dr Katie Liston, University of Ulster
Dr Neil O’Boyle, Dublin City University

The event website is available here: https://www.mic.ul.ie/media-sport-and-ireland-symposium-2022

From Erin to Anthracite: Irish Immigrants in the ‘Hard Coal’ Region of Northeastern Pennsylvania
2022-05-09 16:00 - 17:00 | online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
From Erin to Anthracite: Irish Immigrants in the ‘Hard Coal’ Region of Northeastern Pennsylvania
by Dr Thomas Mackaman (King’s College, Pennsylvania)

"Victorian Town and Gown Prostitution: Cambridge Spinning House and the Domestication of 'Fallen Women'"
2022-05-09 14:00 - 15:00 | AC202, Arts/Science Concourse, NUI Galway
“Victorian Town and Gown Prostitution: Cambridge Spinning House and the Domestication of ‘Fallen Women'”
by Dr. Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz (University of Málaga, Spain)
Registration
To register, please email sarah-anne.buckley@nuigalway.ie

Book Launch: Theatre and Archival Memory: Irish drama and Marginalised Histories 1951-1977
2022-05-05 16:00 - 17:00 | online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
NUI Galway Library
Book Launch
Theatre and Archival Memory: Irish Drama and Marginalised Histories 1951-1977
By Dr. Barry Houlihan
Launched by Professor Lionel Pilkington, NUI Galway
Guest Speaker – Lelia Doolan
Refreshments Provided

Creative Futures Research Group: Work in progress session
2022-05-04 13:00 - 14:00 | Online, via Zoom
The Creative Futures research team invites you to attend the third of our series of work-in-progress sessions. These are intended as an informal space in which colleagues can share their latest research and think through how it might connect to Creative Futures themes and methods.
We have scheduled two exciting mini-presentations from colleagues across a range of disciplines with added time for questions and answers. Our presenters on 4th May are:

Professor Patrick Lonergan, Drama and Theatre Studies
Dr Andrea Ciribuco, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Registration
The work-in-progress sessions are open to anyone with an interest in the areas of Creative Futures. If you would like to attend, please register in advance via the following link by 3rd May 2022:
https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEufuygrjMrH9fWp8bcTXo9lq420eXv38zh
This link is for registration purposes only. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing a separate link for joining the meeting.
If you have any questions, please get in touch with Maria.RocaLizarazu@nuigalway.ie or orla.lehane@nuigalway.ie

RIA Seminar Series 'Ireland 2030' Panel 1: Technology and Irish Culture
2022-05-04 09:30 - 13:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
What would we like Ireland to look like in 2030? In what kind of society do we want to live, on both sides of the Border? This seems like a simple question. 2030 is just eight years away, so surely politicians, intellectuals, journalists, and the public are busy imagining our future. But this is not really happening. Initiatives like Project 2040, a national development plan for the Republic of Ireland, have in the past several years been overshadowed by emergencies that have demanded all our attention: climate change, Brexit, the Covid pandemic, and now the war in Ukraine. These emergencies have forced us to into a reactive, crisis-response mode of thinking. There is a sense that events are unfolding so fast that we can hardly keep up. This raises the question: Are we still shaping our future? Or are we merely adapting, breathlessly, to the rapid changes which characterize life in the twenty-first century?
The RIA seminar series ‘Ireland 2030’ is an attempt to think about ways in which meaningful human agency can be regained, specifically on the island of Ireland and in a time of globally accelerated change. We understand human agency as the ability to shape the lives we live as opposed to merely reacting to the economic, technological, and political demands of the moment; human agency also entails the primacy of persons over systems. Climate change, Brexit, the coronavirus pandemic, and the war in Ukraine can be seen as the catalysts for our initiative: these events have all shattered current horizons and frameworks, calling for new ways of thinking and acting. The challenge now is not to attempt to return to ‘normality’ but to rethink what this normality should be. — Philipp W. Rosemann MRIA
Panel 1: Technology and Irish Culture (May 4, 9:30–13:00)
9.30 Welcome Address: Philipp Rosemann, MRIA
9.45 Alan Titley MRIA, University College Cork
On the Need and Use of Getting Irish Literature into the Future
10.30 Ola Majekodunmi, journalist and broadcaster
Being an Irish-speaker in an online community
11.15 Break
11.30 Dr Deirdre Ní Chonghaile, coordinator of the project Amhráin Árann
“ag teacht le cuan”: language equity, cultural heritage, and the digital frontier
12.15 Professor Kevin Scannell, Saint Louis University
Artificial Intelligence in minority language contexts: a new digital divide?
On the one hand, global technology is a driver of relentless homogenization, which threatens to level culturally distinctive patterns of thinking and acting. In Ireland, such homogenization poses a particular challenge for the future of the Irish language. On the other hand, the same global technologies offer new opportunities for speakers of minority languages to assert agency and autonomy. So, for example, while traditional oral arts were steadily eclipsed by global mass media in the twentieth century, they have been revitalized in the twenty-first century by digital communication technologies and the global reach of archival digitization projects. What is the way forward here? More generally, what are the conditions for another ‘Celtic revival’ in the globalized twenty-first century? And, should we want one?
Booking for this seminar and further information on the series is available at: https://www.ria.ie/ireland-2030

Irish Studies Seminar Series, 2021-22: The “Irish Highlands”: Alexander Nimmo, Coastal Environments and Travel in Nineteenth-Century Connemara
2022-05-03 16:00 - 17:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
The “Irish Highlands”: Alexander Nimmo, Coastal Environments and Travel in Nineteenth-Century Connemara
by Dr Anna Pilz, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh (2020-2022) with a 3-month secondment in Irish Studies at the Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway (March-May 2022).
Abstract
Travel texts from the 1820s and 1830s increasingly drew attention to Connemara, with a notable focus on the rich natural “resources” the region offered to contemporary visitors and commentators. Tourists with an appetite for natural curiosities, sporting and/or the “picturesque” were encouraged to explore what became tagged as the “Irish Highlands”. While the texts framed Ireland’s Atlantic coastal environments as an opportunity for improvement and the development of regional industries, colonial infrastructural developments sprang up. This paper takes the Scottish engineer Alexander Nimmo’s work with and along the Atlantic coast as a touchstone to explore the intersecting themes of the development of tourism and regional industry in cultural productions from travel texts to periodical and visual culture.
Biography
Dr Anna Pilz is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh (2020-2022) with a 3-month secondment in Irish Studies at the Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway (March-May 2022). Her research focuses on narratives of environmental change in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century cultural productions from and about Ireland, particularly in relation to woodlands and coastscapes. Pilz’s current project Coastal Routes investigates a rich archive of Romantic-era travel writing on Ireland and Scotland’s Atlantic coasts (Grant Agreement No. 890850). Together with Seán Hewitt, she co-edited a Special Issue of Nineteenth-Century Contexts on the theme of ‘Ecologies of the Atlantic Archipelago’ (2021). She previously held research fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (LMU, Munich), and an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship at University College Cork.
Respondents

Dr Muireann Ó Cinnéide, School of English and Creative Arts, NUI Galway
Dr David Gange, Department of History, University of Birmingham

This webinar is part of the Centre for Irish Studies Seminar series.
Registration
Register to attend on Zoom at: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fTFsHjLqTf6JAtasI7MJww

‘After Violence, An Experience of God’s Presence: An Introduction to Plural Ontological Realism’
2022-04-27 16:00 - 17:00 | Online, via Zoom
You are cordially invited to the inaugural lecture of the
Centre for the Study of Religion at NUI Galway, in association with the Moore Institute
Opening Remarks
Professor Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh, President, NUI Galway
Professor Dan Carey, Director, Moore Institute
Guest Speaker
Professor Robert Orsi, Northwestern University
‘After Violence, An Experience of God’s Presence: An Introduction to Plural Ontological Realism’
Registration
This event will be online, on Zoom: registration at
https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FKUKZt1vTESzu7hEbrBIbA
Professor Robert Orsi is an internationally renowned scholar of religion, past President of the American Academy of Religion and former Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Harvard University. His most recent book, the widely acclaimed History and Presence (Harvard University Press, 2016), was a Choice Outstanding Academic Title.
His scholarship draws on history, ethnography and psychological theories of imagination and intersubjectivity to study historical and contemporary religious practices. In this talk, he will explore questions of method and theory for the study of religion in an academic setting, asking how scholars should approach worlds of religious practice, feeling, and understanding that may be not only alien to them but also profoundly distressing, perhaps even frightening. What interpretative frames might be brought to help us understand them? And how might scholars help others to confront similar challenges?
For further details, please contact: Prof. Alison Forrestal alison.forrestal@nuigalway.ie or Prof. Felix Ó Murchadha felix.omurchadha@nuigalway.ie
Centre for the Study of Religion

Presentation of the Making Europe: Columbanus and His Legacy Volumes
2022-04-27 16:00 - 17:00 | Online, via Zoom https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/91318855652
The three volume set from Presses Universitaires de Rennes marks the culmination of the Columbanus: Life and Legacy Project (C. Newman & M. Stansbury; PRTLI and Mellon Foundation) and its international iteration Making Europe: Columbanus and His Legacy launched in 2010. Scholars from Ireland, France, Italy, Switzerland, the UK and America contribute over 60 papers on the worlds (Irish and continental) of St. Columbanus, historical contexts, sources and archaeology.
Professor Jean-Michel Picard (emeritus UCD), president of the international scientific committee, will speak on the project.

Columbanus and Identity in Early Medieval Europe
Formation and Transmission
Newman Conor (Directeur), Stansbury Mark (Directeur), Marron Emmet (Directeur)

Gilgamesh in Conversation
2022-04-22 18:00 - 19:30 | Galway City Museum
What makes ancient myths so appealing to the modern imagination? Beyond the search for the texts themselves in tablets, scrolls, and manuscripts, new translations and retellings of ancient myths populate the best-seller lists around the world.
“Gilgamesh in Conversation” is a round-table interview with Marina Carr (writer, Macnas presents Gilgamesh), Michael Clarke (author, Achilles Beside Gilgamesh: Mortality and Wisdom in Early Epic Poetry), and Noeline Kavanagh (director, Macnas presents Gilgamesh), three individuals who have delved into the ancient Mesopotamian epic of Gilgamesh and found new meaning in its narrative.
Join host Dan Carey for an exploration of what it is about ancient myth, and the figure of Gilgamesh in particular, that speaks so powerfully to people across the millennia.
A Q&A session will follow the interview.
Marina Carr is a Playwright. She is Associate Professor in the School of English at Dublin City University.
Michael Clarke is Professor of Classics at NUI Galway.
Noeline Kavanagh is the Artistic Director of Macnas, the Galway-based performance and theatre spectacle company.
Dan Carey is a Professor in English and Creative Arts and Director of the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies at NUI Galway.
Registration
Book a ticket for the in-person event of ‘Gilgamesh in Conversation’ at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/gilgamesh-in-conversation-in-person-ticket-tickets-289782215407
Register for the YouTube live-stream of ‘Gilgamesh in Conversation’ at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/gilgamesh-in-conversation-youtube-live-stream-tickets-289774462217
Presented by the Discipline of Classics and the Moore Institute, NUI Galway

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Launch of: Legacies of the Magdalen Laundries: Commemoration, gender and the postcolonial carceral state
2022-04-12 16:00 - 17:00 | Studio 2, O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, NUI Galway
We would like to invite you to the Launch of:
Legacies of the Magdalen Laundries: Commemoration, gender and the postcolonial carceral state
Edited by Miriam Haughton, Mary McAuliffe, and Emilie Pine
Guest Speaker: Catherine Connolly, T.D
Chair: Professor Dan Carey, Moore Institute, NUI Galway
40% Launch Discount Code: ‘MAGDALEN40’, valid online at Manchester University Press until 19 April 2022.

Co-sponsored by the School of English and Creative Arts, and the Moore Institute, NUI Galway.

HDCA THEMATIC GROUP ON HUMAN SECURITY WEBINAR: New Threats to Human Security in the Anthropocene
2022-04-12 14:00 - 16:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
HDCA THEMATIC GROUP ON HUMAN SECURITY WEBINAR: New Threats to Human Security in the Anthropocene
12 April 2022, 1400-1600 GMT (0900-1100 EDT)
The Human Development Report Office of the UNDP published in February this year its Special Report on Human Security: New Threats to Human Security in the Anthropocene (https://hdr.undp.org/en/2022-human-security-report). This major report of 188 pages sets out the intertwined threats of human and environmental security the world is facing, and the urgent need for global solidarity in the Anthropocene. Professor John Morrissey from Geography was one of the contributing authors. You can watch a summary of the report here.
On 12 April 2022, the Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA) will hold a webinar on the report, which will feature presentations from the leader of the report team at the UNDP, Dr Heriberto Tapi, and three of the authors:

Andrew Crabtree (Copenhagen Business School)
Oscar Gómez (Asia Pacific University)
John Morrissey (National University of Ireland, Galway)

Chair: Des Gasper (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Webinar registration:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/webinar-on-the-2022-undp-hdro-special-report-on-human-security-tickets-311330336417
Further details on the webinar can be found on the HDCA website:
https://hd-ca.org/event/webinar-on-the-2022-undp-hdro-special-report-on-human-security

Bone and Marrow/Cnámh agus Smior
2022-04-08 16:00 - 17:00 | Online, via Zoom https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/91318855652
Prof. Alan Titley (UCC)
Bone and Marrow/Cnámh agus Smior
In conversation with Prof. Samuel Fisher (Catholic University of America)
Join us for this event marking the publication of Bone and Marrow/Cnámh agus Smior: An Anthology of Irish Poetry from Medieval to Modern, ed. Samuel K. Fisher and Brian Ó Conchubhair (Wake Forest UP, 2022). Alan Titley, novelist, columnist, playwright and translator, will discuss Irish-language verse across the centuries with the volume’s co-editor, Samuel Fisher.
Alan Titley is author of numerous works of fiction in Irish, a recent translation of Cré na Cille (The Dirty Dust, Yale 2015), short story collections, plays such as Tagann Godot, and works of criticism. He is emeritus Professor of Modern Irish at University College Cork.

Editing and Authority: Authors and Printers in Late Medieval France
2022-04-08 14:00 - 15:00 | Online, via Zoom https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/91318855652
Hugh Gallagher and Eleanor Lynch (students on the MA in Medieval Studies) will be presenting their final project from the Palaeography module.
The title of their presentation is:
Editing and Authority: Authors and Printers in Late Medieval France

Online Launch of Conference ‘Irish Travellers/Mincéirs and the State 1922-2022: The Struggle for Equality’
2022-04-08 10:00 - 12:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
An online webinar on 8th April and conference this Autumn, hosted by NUI Galway as part of the Decade of Centenaries Programme.

Message from President Michael D. Higgins;
Collaboration between Traveller activists and allies and the National University of Ireland Galway, welcomed by university president, Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh;
Supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media as part of the Decade of Centenaries Programme 2012 – 2023;
Contributors include Senator Eileen Flynn, Patrick Nevin, Elaine Martin, Dr Sindy Joyce, Dr Aoife Bhreatnach, Dr Mary Harris, Vincent Browne, Owen Patrick Ward, Trish Reilly, Rosaleen McDonagh.

On 16th and 17th September 2022, NUI Galway will host a conference examining ‘Irish Travellers/Mincéirs and the State 1922 – 2022: The Struggle for Equality’. On 8th April, an online launch event for the conference will be held by NUI Galway, comprising music and a webinar discussing sources for the history of Irish Travellers and the psychodynamics in Irish society that maintain racism towards Travellers in the Irish State.
The Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin T.D. welcomed the announcement of these events: ‘I am very pleased to be able to support this important conference reflecting on the experiences of Irish Travellers/Mincéirs since the foundation of the independent Irish State. Events such as this, grounded in original research and scholarship, have been welcomed by the Expert Advisory Group on Centenary Commemorations. The ethos of the Decade of Centenaries Programme is inclusive, authentic, meaningful and respectful commemoration and this provides a timely opportunity to include a community, often historically overlooked in the commemorative narrative”.
Registration
To attend this online webinar, please register at: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VKsry2J4QfW-tuRwQJRc4Q.

Image: Preparing for Cahirmee Horse Fair, Buttevant, Co. Cork, 1954
Running Order:
10:00
Chair: Dr Mary Harris, NUI Galway
Welcoming Address: President Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh
Address: President Michael D. Higgins
Performance: Trish Reilly
Formal Launch: Senator Eileen Flynn
Call for Participation: Owen Ward, NUI Galway
Performance: Rosaleen McDonagh
11.00
Panel Discussion:
Chair: Vincent Browne
Panel: Patrick Nevin
Elaine Martin
Dr Sindy Joyce
Dr Aoife Bhreatnach
Rose Marie Maughan
12:00
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Supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.

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Talk by Samuel Fisher: The Gaelic and Indian Origins of the American Revolution
2022-04-07 16:00 - 17:00 | Online, via Zoom https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/91318855652
Samuel Fisher
(Asst. Professor, Department of History, Catholic University of America)
The Gaelic and Indian Origins of the American Revolution
Samuel Fisher is author of The Gaelic and Indian Origins of the American Revolution: Diversity and Empire in the British Atlantic, 1688-1783, which will appear with Oxford University Press in July. This paper summarises the argument of the book which offers a new explanation of the origins of the American Revolution. Drawing on Irish- and Scots-Gaelic language and Native American sources, he shows how colonized peoples tried to reshape empires in their own image, and how their partial success convinced American colonists to leave the British empire.

Political Science and Sociology Research Seminar: Encounters between peacemaking practice & conflict resolution theory in NI
2022-04-07 13:00 - 14:00 | Online, via Zoom https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/91318855652
This is an in-person event held in the Hardiman Research Building’s Bridge Seminar Room, THB-1001 (1st floor).
About this event

Anna Tulin-Brett & Niall Ó Dochartaigh: Appropriating peace theory: encounters between peacemaking practice and conflict resolution theory in Northern Ireland.
Conflict resolution originated as an activist discipline, but theorists of peace and conflict transformation have had a more limited impact on peacemaking practice than initially hoped. The resultant ‘gap between theory and practice’ (Deutsch & Coleman 2000) has stimulated a vibrant research literature concerned to analyse that gap and to close it. This paper interrogates the relationship between theoretical approaches and theorists of peace and conflict transformation on the one hand and those directly involved in conflicts as peacemakers or as protagonists on the other, exploring how theorists and theories of conflict transformation were incorporated by key actors during a particularly violent phase of the Northern Ireland conflict. It examines this relationship through a comparative study of two theory-seeking engagements. The first is that of Public Servant and Chairman of the Community Relations Commission in Northern Ireland, Dr Maurice Hayes, in the application of the ‘controlled communication’ approach developed by peace theorist John Burton and the second is the case of secret intermediary Brendan Duddy who drew on his work with the Tavistock Institute to inform his practice as a mediator between the IRA and the British government. The paper concludes with a preliminary analysis of the intricate relationship between theorists and practitioners in times of conflict and argue that not only did these theoretical approaches reach local practitioners and policy makers who were focused on local conflict management, but the theories also reached key figures involved in high-level secret negotiations between key parties to the conflict.
Anna Tulin Brett is a PhD candidate on her final year at the School of Political Science and Sociology, NUIG. Her thesis looks at how specific models of peace theory have been appropriated and deployed by policy makers and practitioners working with peacemaking and peacebuilding in Northern Ireland. Anna currently holds two Masters. One in International Cooperation and Crisis Management from Uppsala University, Sweden and one in Psychoanalytic Studies with the School of Psychology, Trinity College, Dublin.
Niall Ó Dochartaigh is Personal Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland Galway and Director of the new MA in Public Policy. He has published extensively on the Northern Ireland conflict, on peace negotiations and on territorial conflict. His publications include Civil Rights to Armalites, a study of the escalation of conflict in Northern Ireland, and Dynamics of Political Change in Ireland co-edited with Katy Hayward and Elizabeth Meehan. His new book, Deniable Contact: Back-channel Negotiation in the Northern Ireland Conflict was published in 2021 by Oxford University Press.
Registration
To attend this event, please register via Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/encounters-between-peacemaking-practice-conflict-resolution-theory-in-ni-tickets-309910790517
