Early Modern Reserach Seminar: Dr Imke Lichterfeld, Dept of English, American and Celtic Studies, University of Bonn - '''What are you made of?' Joan of Arc and Margaret of Anjou in Shakespeare's Henry VI''
2016-02-17 16:00 (Europe/Dublin)
Early Modern Reserach Seminar: Dr Imke Lichterfeld, Dept of English, American and Celtic Studies, University of Bonn – ”’What are you made of?’ Joan of Arc and Margaret of Anjou in Shakespeare’s Henry VI”

The Moore Institute and the MA in Culture & Colonialism Speaker Series present a talk by Dr.David O 'Shaughnessy, Assistant Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin:
2016-02-18 16:15
‘Charles Macklin and the Question of Ethnic Resistance’. by Dr.David O’Shaughnessy, Assistant Professor of Eighteenth- Century Studies at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin.

ICHLC Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour and Class - Public Debate: 'James Connolly: life, death and legacy'.
2016-02-18 20:00
ICHLC Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour & Class
Public Debate: ‰Û÷James Connolly: life, death, & legacy’
Contributors: Peter Buckingham, Emmet O’Connor,
Theresa Moriarty, Brian Hanley,
This event, part of NUI Galway’s Ìäire ÌÁ
M̼scailt programme, is held in association
with the Galway Council of Trade Unions

Digital Scholarship Seminar: Greta Franzini (Gottingen Centre for Digital Humanities) presents a paper on 'Study and automatic detection of text reuse occurring in historical texts'
2016-02-23 12:00
Greta Franzini, University of G̦ttingen / University College London
Grimms MÌ_rchen: Investigating an intertextual puzzle of fairy tales.
As the name suggests, the Electronic Text Reuse Acquisition Project (eTRAP) concerns itself with the study and automatic detection of text reuse, and particularly that occurring in historical texts. Text reuse takes various forms, ranging from verbatim quotations to paraphrasing and allusions, and can happen within one language or across multiple languages. Historical texts pose numerous challenges to automatic reuse detection due to the fragmentary and inconsistent survival of works, but also because of the synchronic and diachronic evolution of language. Unlike modern texts where sources are quoted and cited, historical texts are not always so transparent, thus opening up exciting opportunities for intertextual research.
Our case study, the famous fairy tale collection Kinder-und HausmÌ_rchen by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, is a prime example of textual and cultural collision. The Brothers collected and adapted their stories from earlier works, some of them dating as far back as the seventh century BC. The text reuse units contained in their tales, the motifs, allow us to digitally investigate cross-cultural parallels at both small and larger scales. Our analysis of motifs is aided by two additional datasets: a corpus of 36,000 digitised personal letters belonging to the Grimm family and a list of the books owned by the Brothers. These textual resources give us a window into the writing of the tales, helping us better understand the puzzle of intertextual relations between the Grimm collection and their predecessors or followers. The letters disclose conversations the Brothers had between themselves and with their acquaintances, while the books carry their sources of knowledge and inspiration.
This talk will elaborate on the aims, methods and progress of this new research project, with a view to eliciting a rich discussion on the potential of automatic text reuse detection for the study of intertextuality at scale.
Greta Franzini completed her Classics BA and Digital Humanities MA degrees at King’s College London. Greta is currently completing a PhD at the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities and works as a full-time researcher at the G̦ttingen Centre for Digital Humanities. Greta’s interests lie within the fields of Classical philology, Manuscript Studies and Textual Criticism. Previously, she worked as a Research Associate at the Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig. As of July 2015, Greta is an Executive Board member of Digital Medievalist and Associate Editor of the Digital Medievalist Journal.

Performance Matters: Irish Theatre Discussion Group
2016-02-23 14:00

SPI Seminars: Space, Place and Identity Research Cluster Seminar Series: Ulf Strohmayer (Geography, NUIG), 'Parisian Abbatoirs: A Foucauldian Approach'
2016-02-24 14:00
SPI Seminars: Space, Place and Identity Research Cluster Seminar Series: Ulf Strohmayer (Geography, NUIG), ‘Parisian Abbatoirs: A Foucauldian Approach’

Drama, Theatre and Performance Speaker Series: Reinhard Kuhnert, Actor and Writer
2016-02-24 14:00
Drama, Theatre and Performance Speaker Series: Reinhard Kuhnert, Actor and Writer
‘Theatre in Germany before and after Reunification: Experiences of a Playwright working in two political systems’
Born in East-Berlin, Reinhard Kuhnert studied Creative Writing and Drama in Leipzig. Since 1967 he workied as a playwright, actor and director at theatres in East-Germany. In 1983 he requested permission to leave East-Germany, as all his plays, radio plays, television plays, songs and lyrics were banned from public performances. In 1985 he emigrated to West-Germany and continued to work with theatre companies in Germany, Ireland and other countries. From 1994 – 2007 he had a second domicile in Galway where he was guest lecturer at NUI Galway for a while. He was very successful as a narrator for audiobooks and in dubbing, lending his voice to actors such as Kevin Spacey, Pierce Brosnan and James Woods. In 2013 he published the novel Abgang ist allerwÌ_rts, a book about everyday life in the 1980s in a little village in the GDR.

History Post Graduate Research Seminar - Conor Reidy 'Borstals and Inebriate Reformatories in Early Twentieth Century Ireland'
2016-02-24 16:00

CAMPS Lab, All-day Research Seminar, ''Territorial Boundaries and Topographies of Power''
2016-02-25 12:00
CAMPS Lab, All-day Research Seminar, ”Territorial Boundaries and Topographies of Power’

The Centre for Antique, Medieval and Pre-Modern Studies (CAMPS) presents '3rd Annual Medieval Studies Lecture' by Joseph.F.Nagy, Prof of Celtic Studies, University of California
2016-02-26 12:00
The Centre for Antique, Medieval and Pre-Modern Studies (CAMPS) is delighted to announce that this year’s Annual Medieval Studies Lecture will be delivered by
Joseph F. Nagy,
Professor of Celtic Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles,
on Friday, 26 February, at 12.00 noon,
in the Moore Institute, Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Title: ‘Hunting Mythical Pigs from Calydon to Caledonia’
Please note that booking is essential for this event
(by sending an email to: mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie)

Professor Joseph F. Nagy is one of the foremost scholars of Celtic literature, folklore, and mythology, and particularly acclaimed for his writings on the Fenian traditions (FiannaÌ_ocht) of Ireland and Scotland, and on issues of liminality. His pioneering works include The Wisdow of the Outlaw: The Boyhood Deeds of Finn in Gaelic Narrative Tradition (1985), Conversing with Angels and Ancients: Literary Myths of Medieval Ireland (1997), and the essay collection Writing Down the Myths (2013). He is a founder of the Celtic Studies Association of North America, and former editor of its Yearbook. This is a rare opportunity to hear Prof. Nagy in Ireland.

Duine de mhÌ_rscolÌÁirÌ_ litrÌ_ocht, bh̩aloideas agus mhiotaseolaÌ_ocht na gCeilteach ̩ an tOllamh Joseph F. Nagy. TÌÁ cl̼ faoi leith bainte amach aige dÌÁ shaothar scrÌ_ofa ar thraidisi̼in na FiannaÌ_ochta in Ìäirinn agus in Albain, agus ar cheisteanna tairseach̼lachta. Ar na leabhair cheannrÌ_daÌ_ocha leis tÌÁ The Wisdow of the Outlaw: The Boyhood Deeds of Finn in Gaelic Narrative Tradition (1985), Conversing with Angels and Ancients: Literary Myths of Medieval Ireland (1997), agus an baili̼chÌÁn aistÌ_ Writing Down the Myths (2013). BhÌ_ s̩ ar bhunaitheoirÌ_ an Celtic Studies Association of North America, agus ina eagarthÌ_ir ar Yearbook an chomhaltais. Deis neamhchoitianta Ì_ seo leis an Ollamh Nagy a chlos in Ìäirinn.

School of Humanitites: Symposium on the Phenomenology of Theatre and Film
2016-02-29 12:30
Schedule
12.30 Introductions by Prof Patrick Lonergan (Drama, Theatre and Performance), Prof. Felix ÌÒ Murchadha (Philosophy)Prof.Rod Stoneman (Huston School of Film and Digital Media)
1.15 Prof.Paul Crowther (Discipline of Philosophy, NUIG) ‘Hyperbodiment and Aesthetic Meaning in Film’
2.15 Coffee Break
2.30 Prof. Shaun Richards (St. Mary’s University): ‘An almost instant communion becomes a trap’: Irish stage sets and the Question of Phenomenology.
3.30 Dr .Dylan Trigg (University of Memphis and UCD). ‘The Dream of Anxiety in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive’
4.30 Coffee Break
4.45 Roundtable
5.30 Close

SPI Seminars: Space, Place and Identity Research Cluster Seminar Series: Catherine Emmerson (French, NUIG), '''Ung gentil homme de Bourgoigne nagueres'' : Locality and Identity in the Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles'
2016-03-02 14:00
SPI Seminars: Space, Place and Identity Research Cluster Seminar Series: Catherine Emmerson (French, NUIG), ”’Ung gentil homme de Bourgoigne nagueres” : Locality and Identity in the Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles’

Public Lecture by Professor Elena Agazzi (Bergamo) 'Returning home to lost countries and landscapes with ruins: Germany after 1945 seen with today's eyes'.
2016-03-02 18:00
Professor Elena Agazzi (Bergamo)
Returning home to lost countries and landscapes with ruins: Germany after 1945 seen with today’s eyes
Lecture in English
Elena Agazzi is Full Professor of German at the University of Bergamo (Italy) and one of the most renowned scholars in German studies in Italy. She is a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation and a member of many academic associations. She was involved in the joint German-Italian project “Re-establishing culture 1945-1961”. Her research interests include classical, romantic and contemporary German literature, and the relationship of literature with figurative arts and sciences from the 18th to the 20th Centuries. She translated works by Goethe, Schlegel, D̦blin, Benn, and others into Italian.
2 March 2016, 6 pm
James Hardiman Building, G011 Seminar RoomThe lecture will be in English

Public Lecture ' Remembering and Unremembering: Liam Mellows and Easter Week 1916 in Galway'
2016-03-02 20:00
Remembering and Unremembering: Liam Mellows, Easter 1916 and County Galway
Dr Conor McNamara, Moore Institute 1916 Scholar in Residence, will be giving a public lecture on Wednesday 2nd March at Lackagh Community Centre at 8 PM.
The lecture is entitled, Remembering and Unremembering: Liam Mellows and Easter Week 1916 in Galway.

ICHLC Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour and Class, Seminar
2016-03-03 16:00
Speaker – Michael Foley (DIT) ‘Journalism the last refuge for the middle class boy: the professionalisation of journalism in 19th Century Ireland’. Chaired by Prof Tadhg Foley (NUIG)

2016 Margaret Heavey Memorial Lecture 'The Enigmatic Aspects of Hisperica Famina' by Prof Andy Orchard (Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo Saxon, Pembroke College, Oxford)
2016-03-03 17:00 | Charles McMunn Theatre (Arts/Science Concourse) NUI Galway, Ireland
‘The Enigmatic Aspects
of the Hisperica Famina‘
Prof. Andy Orchard
(Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon,
Pembroke College, Oxford)
The collection of mysterious seventh-century Latin poems known as Hisperica Famina have puzzled-and outraged-readers for decades. They were reviled by the scholar and patriot EÌ_in MacNeill, who memorably called them the ‰Û÷luxuriant culture-fungus of decay’, but they were admired by Umberto Eco, who likened them to a Medieval version of Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake. Above all, however, they have remained a mystery. Were they truly written in Ireland? Or Britain? Or even Brittany? What is the origin of their obscure, labyrinthine and inventive language? Are they serious or an elaborate literary joke?
Prof. Andy Orchard from Oxford University will address some of the questions that still surround this fascinating and perplexing group of poems in his 2016 Margaret Heavey Memorial Lecture, “The Enigmatic Aspects of the Hisperica Famina“. Prof. Orchard is an eminent Medievalist and Anglo-Saxonist who, among his numerous publications, also produced an important re-assessment of the texts in question (‰Û÷The Hisperica Famina as Literature’, in The Journal of Medieval Latin 10 (2000), pp. 1-45).
Prof. Orchard’s lecture will take place at 5 p.m. Thursday, 3 March, in the Charles McMunn Theatre (Arts/Science Concourse), NUI Galway, as part of the Margaret Heavey Memorial Lectures series. These lectures are annual events hosted by the Discipline of Classics in NUI, Galway to commemorate the life and work of Margaret Heavey (1908-1980), Lecturer and then Professor of Classics at UCG between 1931 and 1977, as well as Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 1970 to 1976.
The lecture is kindly sponsored by the NUIG College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies, the Discipline of English, and the Classics Society.

CAMPS Lab, Prof. Barry Lewis, School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies 'Saints Genealogies in Medieval Wales: A Comparison with the Irish Corpus'
2016-03-04 12:00
CAMPS Lab, Prof. Barry Lewis, School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies ‘Saints Genealogies in Medieval Wales: A Comparison with the Irish Corpus’

Digital Scholarship Seminar Series/Early Modern Research Seminar - Anders Ingram' The Business of Books: Quantifying the Career of George Bishop, Stationer (c.1538 - 1611)'
2016-03-08 12:00
The third event of this series of Digital Scholarship Seminar is co-hosted with the Early Modern Research Seminar, and takes place on Tuesday 8 March at 12pm in Hardiman Building Room 1001. Anders Ingram, who recently completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Moore Institute, will present a paper that brings computational and quantitative methods to bear on the study of book history. The paper focuses on the printing career of George Bishop, a leading figure in the sixteenth-century London book trade. Lunch will be provided and, as ever, all are welcome.
12-2pm // Tuesday 8 March // Room 1001 (First Floor) Hardiman Research Building // Facebook event page
Anders Ingram
The Business of Books: Quantifying the Career of George Bishop, Stationer (c.1538-1611).
George Bishop was a leading figure in the turn of the sixteenth century London book trade. Bishop served as master of the Stationers Company an exceptional five times. He was defacto Royal Printer, alongside his partner Ralph Newberry, as Christopher Barker’s deputy, in the years 1588-1600. Over the course of his career he maintained lengthy relationships with major figures in the European book trade such as the Antwerp printer Christophe Plantin and the Cologne booksellers the Birckmans. Perhaps most importantly he published editions of Chaucer, Fox, Camden, Hakluyt, Holinshed, Stow, and numerous other prominent and important authors.
This paper draws upon a database I have built of the publication details and physical characteristics of Bishops 583 extant imprints, alongside archival evidence, to reconstruct the career of this prominent bookseller/publisher, his partnerships, and his evolving business practices and network. I will also address some of the methodological issues which arise studying early publishers such as Bishop whose accounts books do not survive.

MA Medieval Studies and CAMPS present Dr Niamh Whitfield -Seminar 'Early Irish Metalwork'.
2016-03-08 15:00
Dr Niamh Whitfield is making her annual visit to NUI Galway (sponsored by MA Medieval Studies and CAMPS).
‘Early Irish Metalwork’
Tuesday 8th March 3pm – 5pm in Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building.
Places are available but must be booked in advance with Dr.Kimberly LoPrete, History. kim.loprete@nuigalway.ie

Archaeological Society and CAMPS - Public Lecture with Dr Niamh Whitfield ''More like the work of fairies than that of human beings'': Filigree from Ireland and Scotland in the early Middle Ages''
2016-03-08 19:00
Dr Niamh Whitfield – Public Lecture
‘More like the work of fairies than that of human beings”: Filigree from Ireland and Scotland in the early Middle Ages”.

MA Medieval Studies and CAMPS present Dr Niamh Whitfield - Seminar - 'The Book of Durrow and the 'Northumbrian Problem''.
2016-03-10 09:00
Dr Niamh Whitfield is making her annual visit to NUI Galway (sponsored by MA Medieval Studies and CAMPS).
‘The Book of Durrow and the’Northumbrian Problem”
Thursday 10th March 9am – 11am in Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building.
Places are available but must be booked in advance with Dr.Kimberly LoPrete, History. kim.loprete@nuigalway.ie

Drama, Theatre and Performance - Crisis, Migration and Performance Symposium
2016-03-11 08:30
‰Û÷Crisis, Migration and Performance’Symposium
11-12 March 2016
For more information or to register,
contact crimigper@gmail.com or
charlotte.mcivor@nuigalway.ie.
For a full schedule, visit
http://micipnuigalway.weebly.com/crisismigration-and-performance-symposiumschedule.html
Sponsored by Drama and Theatre Studies and the Moore Institute.
Keynotes:
Emma Cox (Royal Holloway, London)
‰Û÷Processional Aesthetics: Performing Irregular Transit in Europe’
Alison Jeffers (University of Manchester)
‰Û÷Civil listening and hospitable stages: the role of participation in refugee theatre practices’
This symposium explores how theatre and performance practices from the professional to community level
make visible the relationship between experiences of migration and routes of global inequality in Europe and
beyond from both historical and contemporary perspectives.

CAMPS Lab - Dr Jacopo Bisagni, Classics Dept, NUI Galway - 'The newly discovered Irish compustica in the Vatican manuscript Reg.lat.123'
2016-03-11 12:00
CAMPS Lab – Dr Jacopo Bisagni, Classics Dept, NUI Galway – ‘The newly discovered Irish compustica in the Vatican manuscript Reg.lat.123’

Drama, Theatre and Performance Speaker Series :Lynne Parker, Artistic Director, Rough Magic Theatre
2016-03-16 14:00

Prof Laurent Jaffro (Moore Institute Visitng Fellow) delivering a lecture on'Jonathon Swift, Weak Agents, and Economics as Second-Best Ethics'
2016-03-21 16:00
This lecture discusses economics as a compromise ethics suitable to the weakness of human nature, engaging with Gulliver’s Travels and other texts by Swift.

Galway 2020, presentation ' Virtual Capital of Culture'
2016-03-22 10:00
Galway2020 will give a presentation on their “Virtual Capital of Culture” project. The aim of the presentation is to give some background to the project, and to encourage researchers to submit proposals for projects that use a set of emerging technologies to explore Galway2020’s European themes of Language, Landscape and Migration.
More About the Project
Galway2020 recently introduced one of Galway’s most ambitious projects as part of the bid to become the European Capital of Culture – ‰Û÷Window of the World’. This project initially entitled the ‰Û÷Virtual Capital of Culture‘ is based around the use of Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Holography and 3D projection mapping to:

̢åÑå Explore the application of these emerging technologies and mediums to immerse people in entirely new artistic experiences, tell stories in completely new ways and look at the world from new perspectives.
̢åÑå Revolutionise the way people remotely experience culture in virtual environments and open up our programme of events to 500m citizens across Europe.

They are interested in projects inspired by Galway2020’s European themes of Language, Landscape and Migration, and are particularly interested in exploring these European themes through both the local Galway context and the lens of wider European experience.
With the overlap between these themes and the research interests of many researchers associated with the Moore Institute, there is a fantastic opportunity to partner with external technology providers and producers to create interesting work as part of the proposed 2020 programme.
Further details from: David Kelly – david.d.kelly@nuigalway.ie

Moore Institute Visiting Fellow, Maurice Fitzpatrick introduces a screening of his BBC documentary film ' The Boys of St Columb's'.
2016-04-07 14:30
“The Boys of St. Columb’s – the story of how an emancipatory education act led to the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s in Northern Ireland”.
Filmmaker, Lecturer and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow Maurice Fitzpatrick introduces a screening of his BBC documentary film, The Boys of St Columb’s, about a new generation of leaders who reshaped the social and political future of Northern Ireland, including Nobel Prize winning writer Seamus Heaney and John Hume. He is currently in production on a documentary feature film, In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America. The screening is followed by a question and answer session.
Introduced by Dr Niall O Dochartaigh, School of Political Science and Sociology
Speaker bio
Maurice Fitzpatrick is an Irish and Japanese-educated film-maker, writer and lecturer. He wrote and produced the BBC documentary film The Boys of St Columb’s, which is about how educational reform in Northern Ireland helped break the vicious cycle of sectarian violence by raising a new generation of leaders who would go on to reshape the social and political future of Northern Ireland – the film tells the story through prominent Irish leaders including Nobel Prize winning writer Seamus Heaney and John Hume, who won the Nobel Prize for his role in the Northern Ireland peace process.
Maurice has just finished another documentary film as writer and director for the BBC about Brian Friel’s play ‘Translations’ which focuses on the role of (mis)communication and language in a clash between two different cultures. He has published articles on Kurosawa’s cinematic interpretation of Shakespeare, on modern novels, on travel, and a book ‰Û÷The Boys of St Columb’s’. He is currently a lecturer at the University of Cologne. Before that, he lived in Tokyo from 2004-2011 where he lectured at Keio University, Japan’s oldest university. He has also been a guest lecturer at various universities in North America and Europe.
He is currently in production on a documentary feature film, In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America. The film chronicles the support of John Hume’s approach to politics in Northern Ireland in co-ordination with senior political figures in US and Irish Foreign Affairs. A taste of what the film will become, including a recent interview with President Bill Clinton, is viewable here:
https://vimeo.com/149822873

Moore Institute Visiting Fellow, Dr Guy Cuthbertson ' It's a long way to Tipperary: Ireland, Edward Thomas and World War One'
2016-04-07 15:00
Moore Institute Visiting Fellow Dr Guy Cuthbertson (Liverpool Hope University) will be giving a talk entitled ‘ Its’s a long way to Tipperary: Ireland, Edward Thomas and World War One’ on Thursday 7th April at 3pm in Seminar Room GO10 in the HRB.
Dr Cuthbertson is the author of an acclaimed biography of war poet Wilfred Owen, published by Yale University Press in 2014. His project at the Moore Institute focussses on Edward Thomas’s connection with the West of Ireland and the Celtic Revival. The talk is open to members of the public as well as members of the University.

Moore Institute Visiting Fellow Dr Colin Reid, Northumbria University presents: 'Constitutional Resistance as Legal Defence: Irish Lawyers and the 1848 Rebellion'.
2016-04-08 11:00
Moore Institute Visiting Fellow Dr Colin Reid, Northumbria University presents: ‘Constitutional Resistance as Legal Defence: Irish Lawyers and the 1848 Rebellion’.

CAMPS Lab, Dr Jessica Cooke, Centre for Antique, Medieval and Pre-Modern Studies, NUIG 'The Annaghdown Doorway and King Ruaidhri Ua Conchobhair:Tuarastal and Patronage in Twelfth Century Connacht'
2016-04-08 12:00
CAMPS Lab, Dr Jessica Cooke, Centre for Antique, Medieval and Pre-Modern Studies, NUIG ‘The Annaghdown Doorway and King Ruaidhri Ua Conchobhair:Tuarastal and Patronage in Twelfth Century Connacht’
