Moore Institute

Katherine Philips 350: Writing, Reputation, Legacy
2014-06-26 00:00 (Europe/Dublin)
Katherine Philips 350: Writing, Reputation, Legacy
Katherine Philips as ‰Û÷Orinda’
This conference to celebrate the life and works of Katherine Philips – poet, dramatist and letter-writer – will take place in Dublin, Ireland, on 26-28 June, 2014. The event will mark the 350th anniversary of the publication of her Poems (1664) and of her death the same year.
The conference venue is to be Marsh’s Library.
Plenary lectures will be given by Professor Elizabeth Hageman (University of New Hampshire), Professor Sarah Prescott (Aberystwyth University) and Linzi Simpson (Smock Alley Theatre).
The conference organisers are Dr Marie-Louise Coolahan (National University of Ireland, Galway) and Dr Gillian Wright (University of Birmingham).
Special event: a visit to Smock Alley Theatre, where the first production of Philips’s playPompey was staged in February 1663.
For the conference programme, click here. To register for the conference, click here.
Accommodation is available at numerous hotels throughout the city (Marsh’s Library is near St Stephen’s Green and St Patrick’s Cathedral), or try Trinity College, Dublin. It is advisable to book early.
To contact the organisers, please email katherinephilips350@gmail.com or click here.

The Emergency: Ireland in Wartime, Friday 27th and Saturday 28th June 2014
2014-06-27 09:45 | The Hardiman Research Building G010 and G011 seminar rooms, Ireland
The Emergency: Ireland inWartimeNational University of Ireland, GalwayMoore InstituteHardiman Research Building27-28 June 2014
Conference Programme
Friday 27 June
09.45 Welcome
10.00 – 11.30 Panel 1: HIGH DIPLOMACY
Paul McNamara (NUI, Galway)
Sean Lester, Irish Diplomat in Peacetime and Wartime, 1934-46
Steven Murphy (University College Cork)
Irish Neutral Diplomacy in World War II
Barry Whelan (NUI, Maynooth)
Behind the green curtain: Spanish perceptions of neutral Ireland during the Second WorldWar
11.30 – 12.00 Coffee Break
12.00 – 13.00 KEYNOTE
Mervyn O’Driscoll (University College Cork)
The Forgotten Dimension: Positive Neutrality and Irish Post-War Relief to Europe withparticular reference to Germany
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch Break
14.00 – 15.15 Panels 2 & 3
Panel 2: WARTIME SHORTAGES IN AN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT (Room G010)
Bryce Evans (Liverpool Hope University)
Farewell to Plato’s Cave
Peter Rigney (Trinity College Dublin)
The Wartime Irish railway system: problems and perspectives
Panel 3: EXILES IN IRELAND (Room G011)
Gisela Holfter (University of Limerick)
German-speaking refugees in Ireland, 1933-45
Neasa McGarrigle (Trinity College Dublin)
Academic Refugees in Emergency Ireland
15.15 – 15.30 Coffee Break
15.30 – 16.30 KEYNOTE
Brian Girvin (Glasgow University)
De Valera’s Achievement and the Politics of Irish Neutrality 1939-49
17.00 – 19.00 FILM SCREENING -The Enigma of Frank Ryan
Followed by roundtable discussion with Desmond Bell and Fearghal McGarry
20.00 – 21.30 CONFERENCE KEYNOTE – ROBERT FISK (venue, Radisson Hotel)
Saturday 28 June
09.45 -11.00 Panel 4: A LAND OF OPPORTUNITY?
Jackie UÌ_ Chionna (NUI, Galway)
The College President called us “my Americans,” everyone else called us “the Yanks”: The G.I.Bill and American medical students at University College Galway
Bozena Cierlick (University College Cork)
“I think we should do all in our to help, as neither the British nor the Americans are likely to doanything for these people” (Alfred O’Rahilly)
Deirdre Mulrooney (University College Dublin)
Emergency encounters of the cultural kind: bohemian refugees in Emergency Dublin, from the Ballets Jooss to Erina Brady’s Irish School of Dance Art
11.00 – 11.15 Coffee Break
11.15 – 12.45 Panels 5 & 6
Panel 5: BRITAIN’S WAR IN AN IRISH CONTEXT (Room G010)
Pat McCarthy (Military History Society of Ireland)
Battle, Blitz, Blockade and Weather Forecast: the Luftwaffe and Neutral Ireland, 1940-1945
Steven O’Connor (Trinity College Dublin)
We are all Paddy’s: Irish identity in the British forces, 1939-1945
Joseph Quinn (Trinity College Dublin)
The Irish Experience of War: stories and testimonies of volunteers from Neutral Ireland whoserved in the British Armed Forces during the Second World War
Panel 6: EMPLOYMENT OPTIONS – IRELAND AND THE UNITED KINGDOM (Room G011)
Mary Muldowney (Trinity College Dublin)
The impact of class and gender on women’s paid work during the Second World War
Jennifer Redmond (NUI, Maynooth)
Wartime immigrants: Exploring the Irish diaspora in World War II Britain
Mary Hawkins (NUI, Galway)
‰Û÷Business as usual?’ central Hospital Galway Nurses during the Second World War
12.45 – 13.45 Lunch Break
13.45 – 14.45 KEYNOTET.
Ryle DwyerIrish Neutrality: the distortion of a convenient fiction
14.45 – 15.00 Coffee Break
15.00 – 16.30 Panels 7 & 8
Panel 7: NEUTRALITY DISCOURSES (Room G010)
Bernard Kelly (Edinburgh University)
Who are we neutral against? The Irish myth of the Second World War
Karen Devine (Dublin City University)
Debunking the ‰Û÷Unneutral Thesis’
Lili Zach (NUI, Galway)
Irish perceptions of small nation-states in the context of the Second World War
Panel 8: ACTIVISTS AND THE NEWS AGENDA (Room G011)
Leo Keohane (NUI, Galway)
CIVIC – Council for Investigation of Vatican Influence and Censorship: A Protestant anarchist’sperspective on the Catholic Church in 1941
Kevin McCarthy (University College Cork)
The G2 surveillance of Robert Briscoe, 1939-1945
James O’Donnell (NUI, Galway)
War News in Ireland: the effect of censorship and news supply restrictions on the coverage andcomment of the Dunkirk evacuation and D-Day landings in Irish newspapers – a case study
16.30 – 16.45 Coffee Break
16.45 – 17.45 KEYNOTE
Michael Kennedy (Royal Irish Academy)
“Men that came in with the sea”: the discovery of war dead along the Irish coast, 1939-194517.45 -18.00
Concluding Remarks
The Conference Organisers are grateful to the following NUI Galway benefactors for theirkind support:
Millennium Fund
Community Knowledge Initiative
School of Humanities
Research Incentivisation Scheme
College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Celtic Studies
Department of History
Moore Institute
Thanks also to the NUI Galway student History Society, An Cumman Staire, and the DonegalCounty Museum for their generous assistance.

Irish Conference of Medievalists (Dublin) 1st to 3rd July
2014-07-01 00:00
28th ICM
UCD
July 1st – July 3rd 2014
For conference programme please see
http://www.irishmedievalists.com/

International Chartism Conference 2014: Ireland and British Democracy - July 4th and 5th
2014-07-04 09:30 | The Hardiman Research Building G010 and G011 seminar rooms, Ireland
The Moore Institute, along with the Society for the Study of Labour History, is hosting the nineteenth-annual Chartism conference on 5 July 2014. The conference theme – ‰Û÷Ireland & British Democracy’ – points to the movement of people and ideas in the battle for political rights, and the conference will explore the (positive and negative) ways in which Irish nationalism and Chartism coalesced in the mid-nineteenth century. There will be a public talk by Professor David Lloyd (University of California, Riverside) in the Mechanics Institute (Middle Street) on Friday, July 4th at 7.30pm to launch the conference.
‘There will be a public talk by Professor Luke Gibbons (NUI, Maynooth) in the Mechanics Institute (Middle Street) on Friday, July 4th at 7.30pm to launch the conference.’
For conference details, including the programme, see: http://galwaychartismday2014.wordpress.com/
To register, email: timothy.keane@nuigalway.ie

Ted Hughes Weekend, July 11th - 13th 2014
2014-07-11 00:00
Ted Hughes weekend
July 11th – 13th 2014
The upcoming Ted Hughes weekend celebrating poetry and place in a stunning location at Doonreagan house in Connemara promises to be a very exciting event featuring leading scholars and poets. All are welcome.
See the website for details and full programme http://www.tedhughesweekend.com
NB Students:there are special rates for students including the full programme and lunch and refreshments at ‰âÂ25. Courtesy of Robert Jocelyn and the Department of English FREE RETURN TRANSPORT on Saturday morning and evening (12th July) from the NUI Galway campus has been arranged. Please email adrian.paterson@nuigalway.ie to avail of this offer – ASAP as places are limited: first come first served, and by Wed 2nd July at the latest.
A celebration of the role played by Connemara in the life and work of Ted Hughes will take place at Doonreagan, Cashel, Co. Galway
Doonreagan in the heart of Connemara, where the future Poet Laureate Ted Hughes went to live in the 1960s, turned out to be a landmark in his personal life and work. This year’s theme will be
Ted Hughes and the Countryside
With Gerry Dawe, Harry Clifton, Mark Wormald, Terry Gifford, Gillian Groszewski, Neil Roberts and Adrian Paterson
www.tedhughesweekend.com
Contact doonreagan@gmail.com or telephone 095 31049095 31049
NB Student rates available & FREE transport for NUI Galway students from

5th International Conference on the Science of Computus July 11-13, 2014
2014-07-11 16:00
5th International Conference on the Science of Computus July 11 – 13, 2014
http://www.nuigalway.ie/history/Computus_Conference/computusconference2014.html
The Science of Computistics – the mathematics required to calculate the date of Easter, and related topics (incl. astronomical observations and calculations) – straddles the fields of mathematics and astronomy, biblical interpretation and cosmology, empirical astronomical observation, and the perennial quest to understand the concepts of Time and Time-Reckoning. ‘Since in the 7th century the leading experts on the computus were the Irish’ (the verdict of Leofranc Holford-Strevens, The History of Time, a very short introduction [Oxford 2005] 56) it was entirely appropriate that the first landmark conference devoted to this topic should have taken place in Galway, as it did in 2006. It brought together, for the first time, the leading scholars in this field from all over the world, and the conference papersprovided a panorama of Early Medieval scientific knowledge, both in Ireland and in the rest of Western Europe, during the period of the so-called ‘Dark Ages’. That first Conference was an outstanding success, and the proof is in the fact that we have had four others since, and are now looking forward to the fifth this coming July. In fact, the study of computistics has become synonymous with Galway, with the result that NUIG has become the permanent home for the Conference
The previous Science of Computus conferences in Galway highlighted

The transmission of Late Antique Mathematical Knowledge in Ireland & Europe The Development of Astronomy in Early Medieval Ireland & Europe The Irish role in the development of Computistical Mathematics The use of computistics for purposes of prognostication

The Proceedings of the 1st (2006) Conference and of the 2nd (2008) have already been published, while those of the 3rd (2010) Conference will shortly go to press. The papers, as a rule, appeal equally to those interested in the history of science in Ireland and Europe, and in the origins of present-day mathematical and astronomical ideas, specialist scholars and the wider public.
This year’s image is the zodiac from the Aratea manuscript in Boulogne, Boulogne Ms 188, f. 30v.
Friday, July 11
16:00 -16:30 Welcome to the Conference
16:30-18:00 Session 1
Charles Burnett: The Abacista, companion to the Computista
Susan Rankin: Remembering the calendar: singing Nonae Aprilis
Michal Choptiany: Late-17th-century Cracow manuscripts of computes: Cracow, Jagiellonian Libr., MS. 3377, and Warsaw, Nat. Libr., MS. 9102 II
18:15 Book Launches
Saturday, July 12
9:30 – 11:00 Session 2
Immo Warntjes: Hermannus Contractus and the revolution of computes in the 12th century
Alfred Lohr: Computus und computer. Prinzipien und Methoden bei der Editon er Computi von Abbo, Gerland, Roger von Hereford und Constabularius
C.P.E. Nothaft: Arabic Science and Natural Computus in 12th-century England. Computus Constabularii and its context
11:00 – 11:30 Tea / Coffee
11:30 – 13:00 Session 3
Leofranc Holford-Strevens: The computistical fragment in Brussels, KBR, MS. 10127-44 (s. VIII ex), fols 80r-82r
Ivana Dobcheva: Were computistae stargazers? The shared readership of computistics and star-catalogues, with a special emphasis on Aratea manuscripts
Jacopo Bisagni: A newly-discovered Irish (?) copy of the Sphere of Life and Death
13:00 – 15:00 Lunch
15:00 – 16:30 Session 4
Michael Norris: Digital resources and the classification of the manuscripts of Bede’s De natura rerum
MÌÁirÌ_n Mc Carron: The origins of Bede’s Anno Mundi dating
Ulirch Voigt: Did the Venerable Bede understand the 532-year cycle? 16:30 – 17:00 Tea / Coffee
17:00 – 18:30 Session 5
Robert Gallagher: The intellectual context of the ‘Metrical Calendar of Hampson’
Tony Harris: The language of medieval ocmputus and the surprising vocabulary of Aelfric’s De temporibus anni
Christian Etheridge: The venerable Bede in a 12thcentury Icelandic context: from discoverer of Iceland to computistical authority
Sunday, July 13
9:30 – 11:00 Session 6
Dan Mac Carthy: Changing perspectives upon the Paschal tract of Anatolius, Bishop of Laodicea
Luciani Cuppo: Something old, something new. An Insular twist on the Roman Easter prologue of AD 395
Alden Mosshammer: A neglected Iberian Computus: Paris, BNF, MS lat. 609
11:00 – 11:30 Tea / Coffee
11:30 – 13:00 Session 7
James Palmer: Irish computistics in 8th-century Lombardy
David Ganz: Milan, Bibl. Ambr., MS. f 60 sup.: an 8th-century Irish compendium
David Howlett: Dicuill on Astronomy

Islands in a Global Context: The 7th International Insular Art Conference July 16th to 20th
2014-07-16 14:00
Islands in a Global Context
The 7th International Insular Art Conference
For more information please see http://iiac7galway.wordpress.com/

New Research On Tudor Ireland
2014-07-17 13:00
New Research on Tudor Ireland
Thursday 17th July 2014
National University of Ireland, Galway
A workshop hosted by the Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway
The National University of Ireland, Galway, has a rich tradition of scholarship on late medieval and early modern Ireland and its wider, transnational contexts. This workshop brings together current teachers and students, former graduates and current holders of Moore Institute Visiting Fellowships to present new research into the constitutional, political and social history of sixteenth-century Ireland, and to discuss sources and fresh approaches to the subject.
Venue: Moore Institute Seminar Room (TBH G010)
Programme:
Session I, 13.00-15.00: New Research on Tudor Ireland
Chair: Professor S.G. Ellis (NUI, Galway)
Dr Gerald Power (Metropolitan University Prague / Moore Institute Fellow): ‰Û÷The New English in Ireland before 1534‰۪
Kieran Hoare (Archivist, James Hardiman Library, NUI, Galway): ‰Û÷The Pale economy in early Tudor Ireland‰۪
Professor Chris Maginn (Fordham University / Moore Institute Fellow): ‰Û÷One State or Two: Ireland and England under the Tudors‰۪
Session II, 15.30-16.45: Exploring Source Material
Using sources and digital technology for research on Tudor Ireland: a practical demonstration and roundtable discussion led by the speakers and facilitated by Professor Ellis.

Creating and Exploiting Digital Collections
2014-07-29 09:30
Creating and Exploiting Digital Collections
0930 Opening address and launch of the James Hardiman Library’s Digital Scholarship Enablement Strategy Consultation (Prof. PÌ_l ÌÒ Dochartaigh, Registrar and Deputy President, NUI Galway)
0945 Digital scholarship in the Moore Institute (Prof. Daniel Carey, Director, Moore Institute for the Humanities and Social Studies)
1010 Supporting digital projects in the humanities and social sciences (David Kelly, Research Technologist, Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Research)
1035 The impact of the Abbey Theatre Digital Archive on drama and theatre research and teaching (Dr. Charlotte McIvor, School of Humanities)
1100 Coffee
1130 The evolution of UCD Digital Library (Dr. John Howard, University Librarian and Adjunct Professor, UCD School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin)
1200 Digital projects and collaborations locally and nationally (DÌ_nall ÌÒ BraonÌÁin, PrÌ_omhfheidhmeannach agus An Dr. Seathr̼n ÌÒ Tuairisg, RiarthÌ_ir Aonaid na TeicneolaÌ_ochta Faisn̩ise, Acadamh na hOllscolaÌ_ochta Gaeilge)
1230 Developing a library infrastructure to enable digital scholarship (Cillian Joy, Digital Library Developer, James Hardiman Library)
1300 Lunch
1400 Creative arts programmes and research at the University of Ulster (Professor Paul Moore, Head, School of Creative Arts and Technologies, University of Ulster)
1430 The Insight Centre for Data Analytics: linked data, semantic web and other research (Prof Stefan Decker, Director, Insight@NUI Galway)
1500 Duanaire: a treasury of digital data for Irish economic history (Dr. Aidan Kane, Lecturer, J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics)
1530 Tea
1550 Digital humanities and other programmes at the Huston School of Film and Digital Media (speaker tbc, Huston School of Film and Digital Media)
1610 Where Insight @ NUI Galway meets ‘digital humanities 1610’ WhereNUI Galway meets Insight(Dr. Bahareh Heravi, Group Leader, Digital Humanities and Journalism, Insight@NUI Galway)
1630 Wrap-up: common themes and future possibilities (John Cox, University Librarian)

The End of Outrage; or, Master McGlynn and The Molly Maguires: The Politics of Post-Famine Adjustment - BreandÌÁn Mac Suibhne,Centenary College, New Jersey and Moore Institute visiting fellow
2014-07-30 14:00
BreandÌÁn MacSuibhne
The End of Outrage; or, Master McGlynn and The Molly Maguires: The Politics of Post-Famine Adjustment

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Performance Matters - Irish Theatre Discussion Group
2014-09-25 13:00
Performance Matters
Irish Theatre Discussion Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/
This week we’re going to be tackling Lucy Prebble’s Enron. The script is available to all NUI Galway students and can be accessed through the Drama Online portal at the NUIG Library website.
If anyone needs some help accessing the play script (or directions etc.) just email PerformanceMattersNUIG@gmail.com or contact us through our facebook page.
For more information please contact lisa.fitzgerald@nuigalway.ie or m.nichualain5@nuigalway.ie
All theatre practitioners, theorists and students are welcome to attend

Tim Robinson Symposium - Interpreting Landscape
2014-09-30 10:30
Interpreting Landscape
Moore Institute International Symposium
Tuesday 30 September 2014
Aula Maxima, The Quadrangle, National University of Ireland, Galway
Booking essential: http://www.nuigalway.ie/mooreinstitute
PROGRAMME
10.30 Registration and coffee/tea, Aula Maxima, Quadrangle
11.00 Welcome by Daniel Carey, Director of the Moore Institute
11.05 Chair: Daniel Carey, NUI Galway
John Wylie, Exeter University: ‰Û÷So near and yet so far: the distances of landscape’
Discussion
11.50 Chair: Rod Stoneman, NUI Galway
Justin Carville, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art and Design, ‰Û÷Lines of sight and historical topographies: Photography, anthropology and archaeology in the west of Ireland’
12.20 Nicolas F̬ve, photographer, ‰Û÷The last loop of lightness: A photographic stance on Tim Robinson’s Connemara’
Discussion
12.50 Lunch break and opportunity to visit the exhibition ‰Û÷Interpreting landscape: Tim Robinson and the west of Ireland’ / ‰Û÷Rian̼ tal̼n: Tim Robinson agus iarthar na hÌäireann’ in the Atrium, Hardiman Research Building. A display of other archives relating to landscape can be viewed in the nearby Special Collections Reading Room.
14.00 Chair: Conor Newman, NUI Galway
Nessa Cronin, NUI Galway, ‰Û÷Interpreting island space: Gender, science, and empire in the life and work of Maude Jane Delap (Valentia Island, 1866-1953)’
14.30 John Elder, Middlebury College, Vermont, ‰Û÷Dwelling on the edge’
Discussion
15.15 Short break
15.30 Screening of ‰Û÷Unfolding the landscape’, a film in which Tim Robinson is interviewed by Vincent Woods, with Nicolas F̬ve
16.30 Close of symposium
Everybody who is registered to attend the symposium is invited to the following event in Room G010 and the Atrium, Hardiman Research Building:
16.30 Launch by Vincent Woods of Connemara and Elsewhere by John Elder, Nicolas F̬ve and Tim Robinson, ed. Jane Conroy (Royal Irish Academy, 2014), followed by a reading by Tim Robinson
Please click on the link below to register for this event
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Nautical Science, Navigation, and the Exploration of the Atlantic - The XVII Reunion of the International Committee for the History of Nautical Science: October 2-4
2014-10-02 09:15
The XVII Reunion of the International Committee for the History of Nautical Science
Please see http://arsnauticaxvii.wordpress.com/ for details about this conference.
For more information please contact edward.collins@ucd.ie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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