Moore Institute

Launch of MA Sports Journalism and Communication
2020-02-25 13:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
NUI Galway hosts a lunchtime seminar on sports journalism at 1pm on Tuesday 25 February in G010, Moore Institute/Hardiman Research Building to announce the launch of the new MA Sports Journalism and Communication programme from September 2020.
Panel to feature:Keith Duggan
(Chief Sports Writer, The Irish Times)
Máire Treasa Ní Dhubhghaill
(Presenter, Rugbaí Beo , TG4)
Mike Finnerty
(Sky Sports & Mayo News)
Cliona Foley
(Freelance Sports Journalist)
Light refreshments will be provided.
RSVP: journalism@nuigalway.ie
Further information on programme at: https://www.nuigalway.ie/courses/taught-postgraduate-courses/sports-journalism-and-communication.html

History Research Seminar Series: Sons of Legends: The Politics and Implications of Irish Dynastic Frameworks by Neil Gordan
2020-02-26 16:00 - 18:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Neil is the third year of the Medieval Studies PhD programme and is working with Prof. Dáibhí Ó’Cróinín. The recipient of an IRC Postgraduate Scholarship, Neil is writing a thesis entitled “Built to Last: The Construction and the Benefits of Uí Néill Dynastic Identity in Early Medieval Ireland”.

Book Launch: Bede and Time by Maírín MacCarron
2020-02-26 17:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Bede and Time is published in the Routledge series Studies in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland and provides the first integrated analysis of Bede’s thought on time. This approach allows for a greater understanding of Bede’s writings on time, and illuminates the place of time and chronology in his other works, including his creation of Anno Domini-dating as a historical chronology in his most famous work, The Ecclesiastical History of the English People. My book argues that in innovatively combining computus, theology and history, Bede transformed his contemporaries’ understanding of time and chronology.
About the Author:
Máirín MacCarron is Lecturer in Digital Humanities at University College Cork, having previously worked in the Dept of History at the University of Sheffield and held the NUI/Dr Garret FitzGerald postdoctoral fellowship at NUI Galway. She is Co-Investigator of the Leverhulme Trust-funded project, ‘Women, Conflict and Peace: Gendered Networks in Early Medieval Narratives’.

School of Political Science & Sociology Seminar Series: 'The Four Dimensions of Power: Empowerment, Domination and Democracy'
2020-02-27 13:00 - 14:00 | Room 333, Aras Moyola
This seminar is based upon Prof Haugaard’s forthcoming book The Four Dimensions of Power: Empower, Domination and Democracy (MUP – July 2020), which explores the nature and workings of social and political power, through four dimensions, throwing into relief different aspects of power related phenomena. The analysis constitutes a new framework that builds upon contemporary theoretical perspectives of power, including the work of Hannah Arendt, Steven Lukes, Michel Foucault, Amy Allen, Clarissa Hayward, Anthony Giddens, Pierre Bourdieu, Stewart Clegg, James Scott, Gene Sharp, John Searle and Ludwig Wittgenstein. The first dimension of power concerns agency between actors, including analysis of coercion, violence and authority. The second dimension involves structural bias, conflict and resistance, including both revolutionary and non-violent resistance. The third dimension concerns tacit knowledge, uses of truth, and reification. This book moves beyond critique of ideology, developing Foucauldian/Nietzschean theories of power/knowledge without nihilistic relativism by distinguishing different types of truth claim. The fourth dimension concerns the power to create social subjects, drawing both genealogical theory, Norbert Elias on restraint and Orlando Patterson on social death in slavery.
As both a sociologist and political theorist, I distinguish sociological from normative claims. While the four dimensions stem from sociological theory, I will also explore a normative pragmatist power-based political theory of democracy and rights. This has significant implications for critiques of contemporary populism and neo-liberalism.
Mark Haugaard is Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. He is the founder editor of the Journal of Political Power, published by Routledge, and a book series, Social and Political Power, with Manchester University Press. He has published extensively upon power, and his most recent publications includes ‘What is authority?’ Journal of Classical Sociology, 2018(2): 104-132 and (forthcoming) The Four Dimensions of Power, 2020, Manchester University Press

CAMPS: Shady Ladies in Medieval Iceland
2020-02-28 12:00 - 2020-03-06 14:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Rosemary Power speaking on Shady ladies from Ireland to Iceland and this will be followed on 6th March by Francisco Rozano-García speaking on Old English Poetry in Medieval European Perspective: The Exeter Book, the House of Wessex and Carolingian Models.

Values and Identities Seminar: The Changing Virtues of the Hosting Language: Notes on the Philosophy of Translation by Dr. Gerald Cipriani
2020-03-02 15:00 | Tom Duddy Seminar Room, Philosophy Department Morrisroe House, Distillery Road
Dr. Gerald Cipriani will present a paper, ‘The Changing Virtues of the Hosting Language: Notes on the Philosophy of Translation’, as part of the Values and Identities seminar series on Monday 2nd March.
Depending on whether translation leans toward objective rendering or subjective interpretation it will have different truth-functions. This paper reflects on the issues of truth-function at stake on both sides of the ‘hosting’ language (translation) when seeking to understand ‘otherness’ (original language). The paper will draw from particular examples of translation of Chinese thought such as the literal renderings of the Classics in Western languages, Li Zehou’s concept of ‘subjectenity’ (zhutixing 主體性), and sinologist François Jullien’s Western-inverted ‘deconstruction’. The point here is not to establish validity in translation, but to describe what are the cognitive and ethical implications when understanding in translation.
Gerald Cipriani teaches philosophy at NUI, Galway. He is the Editor of Culture and Dialogue (Brill) and Co-Editor of Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology (Routledge). Currently Honorary Professor to the UNESCO Chair at the Russian Research Institute of Cultural and Natural Heritage, Moscow. Previous publications in interpretive philosophy of art, cultural ethics of French personalism and the Kyoto School, and Chinese environmental aesthetics.

History Seminar Series: Orphans, refugees and Scandinavian relief in the Middle East, 1920-1935 by Prof. Inger Marie Okkenhaug
2020-03-04 16:00 - 18:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Inger Marie Okkenhaug is a Professor of History at Volda University College, Norway, and is currently a visiting fellow at the Moore Institute. She specializes in the history of missionary and humanitarian activity in the Middle East. She has published extensively on these topics, most notably, the monograph, “The Quality of Heroic Living, of High Endeavour and Adventure.”Anglican Mission, Women and Education in Palestine, 1888-1948 (2002). Okkenhaug´s latest book, En norsk filantrop”. Bodil Biørn og armenerne, 1905-1934 (2016), deals with Norwegian mission and humanitarian work among the Armenians in the years from 1905 to 1940.

Italian - School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures - 'Heritage Film, Neapolitan Style' by Ruth Glynn, University of Bristol
2020-03-04 17:00 - 18:00 | Hardiman Research Building Room G011, Ireland
This paper explores how recent films addressing Naples – the Manetti Bros’ Ammore e malvita (2017) and Ferzan Özpetek’s Napoli velata (2017) – work to counter the ‘Gomorra-effect’ and rehabilitate the city in cinematic representation. It explores the politics of heritage film, the genre’s relationship with popular culture and Naples’s place in the national imaginary.
Ruth Glynn A graduate of NUIG, Ruth Glynn is Professor of Modern Italian Culture at the University of Bristol. Current research addresses Naples and its place in the national cultural imaginary, from the Allied Occupation of the city to the present. Major publications include Women, Terrorism, and Trauma in Italian Culture (2013).

CAMPS: Old English Poetry in Medieval European Perspective: The Exeter Book, the House of Wessex and Carolingian Models
2020-03-06 12:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
by Francisco Rozano-García.

International Women's Day and RECIRC: Guided Tour of Readers and Reputations: The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550-1700
2020-03-07 11:00 | Foyer the Hardiman Research Building, Ireland
What impact did women writers make in history? When is a female author (not) a female author? Join us as we explore these questions in a guided tour of the ‘Readers & Reputations’ exhibition, to celebrate International Women’s Day, on Saturday 7 March 2020.
The exhibition, sponsored by the Irish Research Council, showcases the work of the RECIRC project on early modern women’s writing, funded by the European Research Council (ERC) – the first literature project in Ireland to be awarded ERC funding. The project’s leader, Prof. Marie-Louise Coolahan, and two researchers, Dr. Felicity Maxwell and Dr. Bronagh McShane, will discuss the ways women gained controversial and exemplary reputations and invite visitors to explore the interactive exhibits.
Tours will meet inside the entrance to the Hardiman Research Building (next to the library), NUI Galway, at 11am and 1pm, Saturday 7 March.
http://www.nuigalway.ie/recircexhibition/

Workshop: Video production for scholars
2020-03-10 10:00 - 13:00 | The Moore Institute Seminar Room G010 Ground floor The Hardiman Research Building, Ireland
The aim of this workshop is to provide participants with the tools and confidence to create video content using the technology already in their pockets – their smart phones. This content can be utilised for anything from conference, event or course promotion, to effective communication of complex research topics. The session will cover basic composition, photography, videography, interview and editing skills. There will be a brief photo and video break during which participants will put what they’ve learned to the test, followed by critique and feedback. We will also touch on basic principles of GDPR and model release consent to ensure participants’ content can be used and disseminated as required.
Registration
Register to attend the workshop on Eventbrite.
Learning Objectives

Learn photo composition
Learn cinematography techniques
Learn video editing skills
Understand the unique challenges of mobile storytelling
Create the correct content for the correct audience
Understand GDPR & model release consent basics for content creators

Workshop facilitator and speaker
Eileen Kennedy is Library Digital Experience Developer at NUI Galway. She manages the library MakerSpace and looks after the library’s online presence. Eileen has a BA in Film Studies and English from Boston College and an MA in Digital Media from NUI Galway.
Are you a Digital Scholar?
Developing skills with digital technologies can be a challenge for researchers interested in digital and open scholarship.
To help, the Library, in partnership with the Moore Institute, presents a series of informal workshops to share practice-based expertise, know-how, and experience in technologies and methods, that will enhance your experience of newer forms of scholarship.
The series
26 November 2019 – Web maps, data visualisation, and mapping with Neatline. David Kelly and Cillian Joy. G010, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00
17 December 2019 – Managing digital collections. Objects, metadata, ingestion, and access. Aisling Keane. G010, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00
14 January 2020 – Scanathon. Crowd-sourced digitisation. Aisling Keane. G011, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00
18 February 2020 – Online and digital identity for scholars. Blaneth McSharry & Grainne McGrath. G010, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00
10 March 2020 – Video production for scholars. Eileen Kennedy. G010, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00
14 April 2020 – Working with images in Python for research. Cillian Joy. G010, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00

Retired Staff Association Lecture Series: The Connemara marble and its cross-Atlantic connections: A review of its use as an ornamental building stone during the Gilded Age
2020-03-10 12:00 - 13:00 | Room AMB-G065, Psychology Wing, Arts Millennium Building
by Professor Martin Feely, Earth & Ocean Sciences, NUI Galway

Italian - School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures - Between silence and translation: Italy at the time of the ‘refugee crisis’ by Anne O’Connor & Andrea Ciribuco, NUI Galway
2020-03-11 13:00 - 14:00 | Hardiman Research Building Room G011, Ireland
Between 2013 and 2018, approximately 700,000 individuals have crossed the Mediterranean to seek asylum in Italy. The LINCS project (Language Integration and New Communities in a multicultural Society) explores the role of language and translation in their lives, as they forge links with the Italian society and make sense of the new environment.
Andrea Ciribuco is Postdoctoral Fellow in Italian at NUI Galway, funded by the IRC and Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions. His research focuses on language and cultural identity in migratory contexts. He is the author of The Autobiography of a Language: Emanuel Carnevali’s Italian/American Writing (2019).
Anne O’Connor is Senior Lecturer in Italian in NUI Galway. Her research interests include translation and migration, translation history, and religion and translation.

History Research Seminar Series: When and where was “Early America”? by Prof. Peter Cooper Mancall
2020-03-11 16:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Peter C. Mancall is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at the University of Southern California. His books include Hakluyt’s Promise: An Elizabethan’s Obsession for an English America (2007), Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson—A Tale of Mutiny and Murder in the Arctic (2009), and, the just-released The Trials of Thomas Morton: An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England. He is currently at Oxford as the Harmsworth Professor of American History and completing a book entitled “American Origins,” which will be volume one of the Oxford History of the United States.

RTÉ Brainstorm: Workshops
2020-03-12 10:00 | Room 118 Research and Innovation Centre, NUIG
Registration necessary.
Over 200 articles written by our research community have been published on the RTÉ Brainstorm website. Jim Carroll, the editor of RTÉBrainstorm, will be on campus to explain how NUIGalway staff and research students can contribute to Brainstorm. He will also deliver insights into pitching content for a public audience and developing media profiles.
Workshop times:
10am-11am
11:30am-12:30pm
1pm-2pm
2:30pm-3:30pm
Places are limited so booking is essential – researchers, including PhD and Master’s students, please register via www.nuigalway.ie/rdc.
Other categories of staff can e-mail marina.ansaldo@nuigalway.ie to register.

School of Political Science & Sociology Seminar Series: Agitating for political rights: local and visiting suffragists of the West of Ireland
2020-03-12 13:00 - 14:00 | Room 333, Aras Moyola
By Mary Clancy (Global Women’s Studies)
At a time of heightened international debate about democratic and social change during the early decades of the twentieth century, the place of the woman citizen remained contentious. The demand to extend the parliamentary franchise to qualified women, debated in Westminster, for instance, since the mid-19th century, was politically and socially divisive despite the democratic inevitability of its objective. Argument in favour of Irish Home Rule (especially from 1886) complicated the politics of the suffrage debate. The West of Ireland tends to be ignored in analyses of the suffrage campaign. However, it is an exceptionally important and interesting space in which to study how and why the question of political rights for women was visible and, on occasion, volatile. From north Mayo to Galway, local and visiting activists organised in civic and public spaces, powerful representatives of an ignored political class. In reconstructing this history of regional suffrage activism, the talk evaluates the nature of the agitation, and the impact of a complex effort that embodied international ideals of women’s rights, local political perspectives and memories of earlier women’s activism within the region.
Mary Clancy, School of Political Science and Sociology, NUI Galway. Publications include (forthcoming), with C Beaumont and L Ryan, ‘Networks as “Laboratories of experience”: exploring the life cycle of the Irish suffrage movement and its aftermaths in Ireland, 1870-1937’, Women’s History Review and ‘Women’s suffrage in the West of Ireland: Different influences and Life-stories in Histories of Citizenship’, Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, 2018, (70), pp.119-130.

POSTPONED - G2020/NUIG: 'Understanding Capitals of Culture'
2020-03-13 10:30 - 18:30 | Aula Maxima, Quadrangle Building, NUI Galway
Hosted by the Centre for Creative Arts Research, Moore Institute, this will be the first of four seminars hosted by NUI Galway during 2020 as part of the European Capital of Culture. Produced in partnership with Galway 2020, each seminar will bring together a mix of academics, practitioners, policy makers and funders to discuss various aspects of what it means to be a Capital of Culture.
Programme

10.30 – 11am – Coffee and Registration
11 – 11.10am – Welcome Address – President Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh (NUIG)
11.10 – 11.30am – Opening Address: Galway, European Capital of Culture
Helen Marriage (Creative Director, Galway2020)
11.30 – 1pm – Understanding Capitals of Culture
Keynote: Franco Bianchini (University of Hull)
Franco Bianchini in conversation with Helen Marriage (Artichoke) Chair: Pat Collins (NUIG)
1 – 2pm LUNCH
2 – 3pm – Understanding Galway as a Capital of Culture (roundtable discussion)
James Harrold (GCC), Marilyn Gaughan-Reddan (G2020), Sharon O’Grady (GCC), Niceol Blue (Galway Buskers Community) Chair: Dan Carey (NUIG)
3 – 4pm – Developing Cultural Sector Capacity (roundtable discussion)
Niamh NicGhabhann (University of Limerick), Monica Corcoran (Arts Council), Steven Hadley (NUIG), Paul Fahy (Galway International Arts Festival) Chair: Charlotte McIvor (NUIG)
4 – 4.30pm – COFFEE AND COMFORT BREAK
4.30 – 5.30pm – Understanding Cultural Value
Keynote: Ben Walmsley (University of Leeds/Centre for Cultural Value)
Ben Walmsley in conversation with: Tania Banotti (Creative Ireland) Chair: Steven Hadley (NUIG)
5.30 – 6.30pm – WINE RECEPTION & Announcement of NUIG/MI European Associate of Centre for Cultural Value (Address: Dan Carey and Ben Walmsley)
Saturday 14 March (evening, circa 6–9.30pm, exact times TBC)
The following day, courtesy of Galway2020, there will be an organised trip to see Kari Kola’s ‘Savage Beauty’ installation at Lough na Fooey, Connemara https://galway2020.ie/en/projects/savage-beauty/
The trip will last circa 3.5hrs in total, departing from/returning to Galway city centre.
All delegates and speakers are welcome to attend but please note that places are limited and must be booked in advance by emailing Galway2020@nuigalway.ie
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Please note that filming/photography will be taking place at the conference for documentation and archival purposes.
TICKETING INFORMATION
If you wish to attend this event, please register at this link.
Please note: Lunch is included with your conference ticket. If you have particular dietary requirements please inform the event organisers via Galway2020@nuigalway.ie so that your preference can be registered. Tickets are limited by capacity and are subject to availability.
GREEN CONFERENCING
We are committed to a ‘reduce, reuse and recycle’ approach as part of the event. Therefore, we encourage delegates to attend using public transport or car pool with other conference delegates to reduce emissions. Please bring ‘keep cups’ for tea and coffee served on the day and water bottles. Water refilling stations will be available on site for delegates. The event schedule is available in digital format via the Moore Institute website to reduce paper and ink usage. We are asking delegates to recycle and bring their own lanyards on the day.
ACCESS INFORMATION
Accessible lifts and ramps are available at all conference locations and seating is accessible for wheelchair users and those with impaired mobility.
All events take place in the Moore Institute, which can be accessed by both steps and a ramp. Entrance for all users is via the main entrance which is fully wheelchair accessible.
The Moore Institute welcomes Assistance Dogs. If you have an assistance dog, please advise us via Galway2020@nuigalway.ie
Conference brochure material is available by digital download only but we are happy to provide specific materials for those that require them (Braille, Larger or specific print). A signing/subtitle facility will also be made available to those patrons with impaired hearing.
If you have a particular requirement please or need more information please contact us via Galway2020@nuigalway.ie and we will be happy to provide assistance.
DIRECTIONS TO VENUE
The seminar will take place in the Moore Institute Seminar Room (G010), on the Ground Floor of the Hardiman Research Building at NUI Galway. The seminar room is located opposite the main library turnstiles.
Google Map to Hardiman Research Building: https://goo.gl/maps/ehwoZkdKEFrbeG3b6
ANY QUERIES?
For further information including speaker profiles please see http://bit.ly/G2020Sem1
For anything else please email Galway2020@nuigalway.ie

KEYNOTE SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
HELEN MARRIAGE
Helen Marriage is Director of Artichoke and Creative Director of Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture. Artichoke works with artists to reimagine public spaces, aiming to appeal to the widest possible audience and has created some of the most celebrated outdoor art in recent times, including the Lumiere light festivals, The Sultan’s Elephant, Antony Gormley’s One & Other Fourth Plinth commission and PROCESSIONS, a mass participation artwork celebrating 100 years since some women won the right to vote. Helen’s previous work includes a seven-year period as Director of the Salisbury Festival. She created the first Arts & Events programme for Olympia & York, the developers of Canary Wharf in London, was an Associate Director of the London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT), and managed a variety of independent artists at Artsadmin in the early 1980s. In 2012, she was awarded a Loeb Fellowship at Harvard Graduate School of Design, a prestigious fellowship awarded to individuals working in the area of urban design and planning. Her appointment was an acknowledgement of the impact Artichoke has made on the way mass public art events are negotiated and staged.  She was awarded an MBE for services to the arts in the New Year’s Honours list in 2016.
PROFESSOR FRANCO BIANCHINI
Franco Bianchini is Professor of Cultural Policy and Director of the Institute for Research on Culture and the Creative Industries at the University of Hull, UK. From 2007-2016 he was Professor of Cultural Policy and Planning at Leeds Beckett University, UK. From 2010-2014 he was a member of the team preparing the successful bid by the city of Matera, in Southern Italy, for the title of European Capital of Culture for 2019. His books include Focus on Festivals (co-edited with C. Newbold, C. Maughan and J. Jordan, Goodfellow, 2015), Urban Mindscapes of Europe (co-edited by G. WeissSussex with F. Bianchini, Rodopi, 2006) and Planning for the Intercultural City (with J. Bloomfield, Comedia, 2004). His research interests range from the role of culture in urban regeneration (with a particular focus on port cities and on European Cities/Capitals of Culture), to cultural diversity and interculturalism as resources for innovation in urban policy, and the development of urban cultural strategies in the context of the current political, economic and environmental crises.
PROFESSOR BEN WALMSLEY
Ben is Professor of Cultural Engagement in the School of Performance and Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds and Director of the national Centre for Cultural Value. Prior to his academic career, he worked as a Producer at the National Theatre of Scotland. Since 2014 Ben has been the Academic Director of the Arts Fundraising and Philanthropy Programme, which is now one of Arts Council England’s National Portfolio Organisations. Ben is the Co-Editor of Arts and the Market and has published widely on arts marketing, arts management, cultural policy and cultural value. His monograph Audience Engagement in the Performing Arts: A critical analysis was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2019.
PARTICIPANTS
Tania Banotti (Director, Creative Ireland)
Niceol Blue (Overview and Outreach Driver, Galway Buskers Community)
Prof Dan Carey (Director, Moore Institute, NUI Galway)
Dr Pat Collins (Lecturer in Economic Geography, NUI Galway)
Monica Corcoran (Strategic Development Manager, Arts Council)
Paul Fahy (Artistic Director, Galway International Arts Festival)
Marilyn Gaughan-Reddan, (Head of Programme, Galway 2020),
Dr Steven Hadley (Research Fellow, NUI Galway)
James Harrold (Arts Officer, Galway City Council),
Dr Niamh NicGhabhann (Assistant Dean, Research for the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Course Director of the MA Festive Arts, University of Limerick)
Dr Charlotte McIvor (Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies, NUI Galway)
Sharon O’Grady (Arts Officer, Galway County Council)
ANY QUERIES?
Please email: Galway2020@nuigalway.ie

POSTPONED - Modernist Studies Ireland: Works in Progress: ‘The Plagiarist's Philosophy: Coincidence in James Joyce and Malcolm Lowry’ and ‘Archival Remnants of Joyce’s Leopoldina and Woolf’s Orlanda’
2020-03-16 16:00 - 18:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
TO BE RESCHEDULED AT A LATER DATE
Modernist Studies Ireland is delighted to re-launch its Works in Progress series with a double act on Monday, 16th March, at 4 pm in THB—GO11. You are cordially invited to join us for what promises to be two fantastic talks by early career researchers, shining a light on new research in Joyce studies as well as genetic criticism. Our speakers are Emily Bell, NUIG alumna and now doctoral researcher at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and Casey Lawrence, a PhD candidate at Trinity College Dublin.
Emily’s talk, entitled ‘The Plagiarist’s Philosophy: Coincidence in James Joyce and Malcolm Lowry’, will offer an imaginative solution to conceptualising intertextuality in Joyce’s oeuvre in connection with the late modernist Malcolm Lowry. It considers both the individual and dependent intertextualities of the works of Joyce and Lowry—two writers preoccupied by coincidence—as well as the impact this has on the possibility of originality.
Casey’s talk, elucidating the ‘Archival Remnants of Joyce’s Leopoldina and Woolf’s Orlanda’, combines genetic study with a gender-critical approach in her analysis of how early drafts of Joyce’s and Woolf’s works independently push the boundaries of grammatical and sexual gender. Here, Joyce and Woolf, her talk reveals, conflate the two (grammar and sex) and in so doing attempt to see beyond the binary, so that man-becoming-woman is no longer fantasy, but indeed part of the grammar of our everyday lives.

POSTPONED - Feminist Storytelling Network, NUI Galway: Staging the Incarcerated Female Body: Records and Representations
2020-03-19 10:00 - 16:30 | Mick Lally Theatre, Druid, Ireland
TO BE RESCHEDULED AT A LATER DATE

Sponsored by: NUI Galway College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies Research Support Scheme, Drama and Theatre Studies, Gender ARC
Registration: Tickets (free) available on Eventbrite.
For queries, please email Dr Miriam Haughton: ‘miriam.haughton@nuigalway.ie’.
For information on upcoming or past FSN events, please check the website and social media: feministstorytelling.ie, @feministstories
Overview
This symposium considers official records and cultural representations regarding women’s experience in modern Ireland and Northern Ireland. In recent decades, urgent histories led by scholars, artists and activists have shed new insights into the systemic practices of incarcerating ‘deviant’ or ‘Othered’ women, the threats faced by women due to the legal dominion that prescribes female embodiment, the trafficking and illegal adoption of children, and, the significance of centring these experiences as part of modern discourse and consciousness. Decades of historical enquiry, performance, poetry, literature, visual and fine art, documentary and recorded media capture both testimonial accounts and creative response. In this way, they act as another type of canon, one that explores the darker moments of Irish life, where women’s experience – physically, emotionally, sexually, culturally – was oppressed, threatened and violated, in explicit and insidious ways
Areas of enquiry will include, but are not limited to, institutionalisation in Magdalen Laundries, Mother and Baby Homes, psychiatric institutions and prisons, and the threats faced by those engaging in sex work or termination of pregnancies. However, the interpretation of ‘incarceration’ will also extend to instances of limiting, censoring and suppressing histories, ideologies and experiences. Throughout the symposium, students will deliver intermittent performance art encounters that become embedded into the event, contributing to and reflecting the dialogue.
Schedule
10am: Registration, Mick Lally Theatre, Druid
Beginning of performance art encounters throughout the theatre
10.15: Opening Remarks
Professor Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh, President, NUI Galway
Dr Miriam Haughton, Drama and Theatre Studies
10.45 – 11.30: The Tuam Oral Histories Project
Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley and Dr John Cunningham, History, NUI Galway
11.30 – 12.15: Women and Illegal Adoption
Conall Ó Fátharta, Journalist, Irish Examiner
12.15 – 1.00: Archiving institutionalisation: Legacies and Limitations
Dr Barry Houlihan, Archivist, NUI Galway
1.00 – 2.00: Light lunch provided
Performance encounters ongoing
2.00 – 2.45: Performing Women’s ‘Deviant’ Bodies
Dr Áine Phillips, Lecturer and Performance Artist (Burren College of Art)
2.45 – 3.15: Writing Women’s Internal Landscapes
Elaine Feeney, Poet and Novelist
3.15 – 4.00: Bodies of Evidence: Reading Mad Flesh
Dr Anna Harpin (Warwick)
4.00 – 4.30: Concluding remarks
Recommended Reading and Viewing
Lee Daniels (dir), Precious, Lionsgate, 2009
Caelainn Hogan, Republic of Shame, Penguin, 2019
Conall Ó Fátharta, ‘State’s Reaction is to Deny, Delay and to Buy Silence’, The Irish Examinerhttps://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/specialreports/states-reaction-is-to-deny-delay-and-to-buy-silence-890976.html
Catherine Corless, ‘The Home’, Journal of the Old Tuam Society, 2012. (A copy of this can be emailed in advance to all registered attendees)
Elaine Feeney, ‘History Lesson’ in Rise, Salmon Poetry, 2017. Accessible online: https://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=427&a=187
Kara Fox, ‘For decades, Ireland’s mother and baby homes were shrouded in secrecy.’ CNN, 9 September 2019. https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/07/europe/ireland-mother-and-baby-homes-intl/index.html

POSTPONED - School of Political Science & Sociology Seminar Series: Deliberative mini-publics in the democratic system
2020-03-19 13:00 - 14:00 | Room 333, Aras Moyola
by Jane Suiter (Dublin City University)
Democracy is more than deliberation and deliberative mini-publics do not make a democracy. Yet mini-publics are proliferating not just in Ireland but in Scotland, Belgium, France and elsewhere. This paper uses the example of the Irish Constitutional Convention and Citizens’ Assembly to ask how mini-publics can be located within a broader democratic system and looks at (potential) linkages of mini-publics with other democratic practices and actors such as voting, referendums, parliaments, political parties, social movements, media, or the public sphere in a ‘hybrid’ form of representative democracy which can accommodate and couple both electoral and sortition driven representation.
Jane Suiter is an Associate Professor in the School of Communications at Dublin City University. Jane’s expertise lies mainly in the area of the public sphere; and in particular participation and deliberation. Her current research focus is on citizens’ assemblies and on disinformation. She is Senior Research Fellow on the Irish Citizen Assembly (2019-2020) (2016-2018) and the Irish Constitutional Convention (2012-2014) and a founder member of We the Citizens (2011), Ireland’s first deliberative experiment. She is a member of the Research Advisory Group on the Scottish Citizens’ Assembly. In 2019 she was the recipient of the Brown Democracy Medal from the McCourtney Institute of Democracy at Penn State and theDCU President’s Award for Research. Her latest book (with David M. Farell) is ReimaginingDemocracy: Lessons in Deliberative Democracy from the Irish Frontline published by Cornell University Press. She has published in 30 plus journals including Representation, International Journal of Political Science, Electoral Studies, Politics and the International Journal of Communication.

EDEN Peer Review Workshop
2020-03-19 15:00 | TBD
Back by popular demand!
We are pleased to announce the Spring 2020 EDEN Peer Review workshop, to be held on Thursday, 19th of March, 15.00 (venue tbc).
This is an excellent chance to get feedback on works in progress in any form and at any stage of development. Whether it is a chapter draft, a journal article or a conference paper, take the opportunity to run your writing by a warm and supportive audience of your peers!
The deadline for writing submissions will be Friday, 6th of March 2020. We are also happy to accept expressions of interest for those that may not have writing but would still like to participate by acting as peer reviewers.
Submission Guidelines:

Researchers at any stage of their PhD may submit a piece for review.
Submissions can be any form (ex. academic essay, journal article, conference paper, thesis chapter).
Submissions may be at any stage of completion (ex. first draft, final draft, selection from a larger piece).
Submissions must be a maximum of 7,000 words.
All those submitting pieces for review will be expected to attend the peer review session and act as a peer reviewer as well.

Reviewer Guidelines:

Anyone is welcome to act as a peer reviewer!
Peer reviewers must commit to reading one writing submission and writing a peer review for that submission.
We ask peer reviewers to read Patrick Lonergan’s article on reviewing (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10486801.2015.992246) and to conform to the best practices as outlined in this article.
The written peer reviews should be 750-1,500 words with a printed copy brought into the session to give to the author.
All those reviewing are expected to attend the peer review workshop session.

The deadline for expressions of interest (either submission or peer review) is Friday 6h March 2020. To apply, email eden.nuigalway@gmail.com with ‘EDEN Peer Review Session’ as the subject line. Those submitting pieces to be workshopped should attach the piece to be reviewed with their expression of interest.
Working groups will be assigned and reviewers will receive their pieces for review by Monday, 9th March.
If you have any questions, please contact Máiréad directly or at eden.nuigalway@gmail.com. We look forward to hearing from you!

POSTPONED - School of Political Science & Sociology Seminar Series: 'Conflicting political obligations: A response to philosophical anarchism'
2020-03-26 13:00 - 14:00 | Room 333, Aras Moyola
by Allyn Fives (Power, Conflict and Ideologies)
This paper addresses two key aspects of A. John Simmons’s philosophical anarchism. First, as a value pluralist, he maintains that obligations are not conclusive reasons for action, whereas overridden obligations are nonetheless genuine obligations. As a result, we can be faced with genuine moral conflicts concerning our political obligations. Second, according to his anarchist position on the grounds of political obligation, citizens have obligations only when they have voluntarily entered into cooperative arrangements which they benefit from. Therefore, most citizens of most modern states do not have political obligations. And that means actual conflicts between obligations will be extremely rare.
In response to Simmons, Jonathan Wolff and George Klosko have each argued that most citizens of modern states do have political obligations, and this can be shown by considering the diversity of grounds for obligations, including mutual self-interest, fairness, justice, and the common good. However, they also conclude that, although there is a plurality of obligations, conflicts between them are extremely rare.
In this paper, I try to show that Wolff and Klosko succeed in rejecting Simmons’s anarchist position on the grounds of political obligations, but fail to reject his value pluralist position on moral conflict. The implication is that citizens are bound by diverse requirements, including obligations to protect citizens from harm, to promote the common good, and to diminish unjust inequalities. Not only that, conflicts between such obligations are not rare but are, instead, one of the characteristic features of political life for citizens of modern states.

POSTPONED - CAMPS: The Scandinavian Diaspora in Ireland and Britain, 790-1200
2020-03-27 12:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
by Russell Ó Riagáin
More info to follow …

History Research Seminar Series: Count Strzelecki: a Pole and a British Subject by Dr. Pawel Hamera
2020-04-01 16:00 - 18:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
In Association with the Polish Embassy in Ireland
As part of symposium to launch the exhibition, “Paul Strzelecki: A Forgotten Irish Hero of the Great Irish Famine” on view in foyer of Hardiman Research Building.

POSTPONED - Workshop: Working with images in Python for research
2020-04-14 10:00 - 13:00 | The Moore Institute Seminar Room G010 Ground floor The Hardiman Research Building, Ireland
This workshop demonstrates the use of Python to work with images. The focus is images used in research. Two concepts of 1) data visualisation and 2) image processing using APIs are explored and demonstrated. The workshop will provide demonstration data and image sets to work with during the workshop. You can also bring your own data or images to explore.
Data visualisation will focus on using Matplotlib, Pandas, and Seaborn. While image processing will the Microsoft Vision API. The workshop will start by giving an overview of working with images in Python and getting up and running using Anaconda.
Registration
Register to attend the workshop on Eventbrite.
Learning Objectives

Introduction to Python
Setup a working Python environment for research on your laptop
Learn about working with images in Python
Visualise data using Python
Create animations using time series data for use in research output and communication
Understand how to use an API to process images
Create new data using an image processing API

Workshop facilitator and speaker
Cillian Joy works in the NUI Galway Library on Digital Publishing and Innovation. His primary focus is the digital library strategy and programme of work to enable digital scholarship. Key areas for Cillian are project management, solutions to deliver new digital initiatives, integration, and interoperability. Cillian has a primary degree in Experimental Physics and a Masters in Information Systems and Computer Science. In the past Cillian worked as a Project Manager, Principal Technical Specialist, and for Web development and hosting companies.
Are you a Digital Scholar?
Developing skills with digital technologies can be a challenge for researchers interested in digital and open scholarship.
To help, the Library, in partnership with the Moore Institute, presents a series of informal workshops to share practice-based expertise, know-how, and experience in technologies and methods, that will enhance your experience of newer forms of scholarship.
The series
26 November 2019 – Web maps, data visualisation, and mapping with Neatline. David Kelly and Cillian Joy. G010, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00
17 December 2019 – Managing digital collections. Objects, metadata, ingestion, and access. Aisling Keane. G010, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00
14 January 2020 – Scanathon. Crowd-sourced digitisation. Aisling Keane. G011, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00
18 February 2020 – Online and digital identity for scholars. Blaneth McSharry & Grainne McGrath. G010, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00
10 March 2020 – Video production for scholars. Eileen Kennedy. G010, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00
14 April 2020 – Working with images in Python for research. Cillian Joy. G010, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00

School of Political Science & Sociology Seminar Series: 'Humanitarian aid in a hostile environment: Medecins Sans Frontieres and Oxfam in the post-Khmer Rouge Cambodian crisis'
2020-04-16 13:00 - 14:00 | Room 333, Aras Moyola
by Maria Cullen (History, NUIG)

School of Political Science & Sociology Seminar Series: 'Ireland after Brexit'
2020-04-23 01:00 - 14:00 | Room 333, Aras Moyola
by Kate Hayward (Queen’s, Belfast)

Covid-19 Response webinar - 'Data, Ethics and the Covid-19 Crisis'
2020-04-23 16:00 - 17:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Update: A video recording of this session is now available.

The second seminar in our Covid-19 Response series, this session will explore questions of surveillance and social benefit in the midst of the corona virus pandemic, including data gathering and contact tracing apps, and the advantages, risks, and ethical challenges.
Panelists

Mathieu d’Aquin (Director of Insight and the Data Science Institute, NUI Galway)
Heike Felzmann (Philosophy, NUI Galway)
Rob Kitchin (Geography, Maynooth University)
Karlin Lillington (Irish Times)
Linnet Taylor (Law, Tilburg University)

The session will be chaired by Moore Institute Director, Prof Dan Carey.
Registration
You can register to join via Zoom at: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_N1Tl_BxRRSyrgMJGd4WcPQ. As there are a limited number of spaces available on Zoom, the session will also be broadcast live on our Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/mooreinstitute/live.
The seminar will also be broadcast on FlirtFM.

James Hardiman 200 years on: Commemorating The History of the Town and County of the Town of Galway
2020-04-29 15:00 - 16:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Update: A video and audio recording of this webinar is now available

This year marks the bicentenary of the publication of James Hardiman’s classic History of the Town and County of the Town of Galway. This webinar explores Hardiman as a scholar of music, poetry, folklore and history. The panellists will assess his work as a historian and as collector of songs, discuss the Galway of his lifetime and his association with the university, interspersed with performances.
The panellists are all contributors to a forthcoming book, commemorating Hardiman’s History and exploring artistic and cultural life in his adopted city over the past two hundred years.
Attend
Please click this URL to join:
https://zoom.us/j/98661921246?pwd=[REDACTED]
Contributors

Marie Boran (Special Collections Librarian, James Hardiman Library, NUI Galway)
Dr Ciaran McDonough (Moore Institute, NUI Galway)
Dr Jimmy O’Brien Moran (Lecturer, Waterford Institute of Technology, and noted piper)
Prof. Lillis Ó Laoire (Roinn na Gaeilge, NUI Galway, and noted traditional singer
Dr Nollaig Ó Muraíle (formerly Roinn na Gaeilge, NUI Galway)

Host
Dr John Cunningham (Director of MA History programme/Moore Institute, NUI Galway)
Hardiman and Beyond: the Arts and Culture in Galway, 1820-2020, edited by John Cunningham and Ciaran McDonough (Arden), will be available in the autumn.

POSTPONED: School of Political Science & Sociology Seminar Series: 'An Integrated Model of Polish parenting in Ireland'
2020-04-30 13:00 - 14:00 | Room 333, Aras Moyola
by Carmen Kealy (UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre)
