Moore Institute

History Graduate Research Seminar Series - Laura O'Brien - The Bishop on the Barricades: French commemorations of the death of Archbishop Denis Affre, 1848-1871
2013-11-20 16:00 (Europe/Dublin)
Laura O’Brien
The Bishop on the Barricades: French commemorations of the death of
Archbishop Denis Affre, 1848-1871

Digital Scholarship Seminar
2013-11-20 12:00
Digital Scholarship Seminar, November 2013.
12-2pm, Wednesday 20 November, Moore Institute Seminar Room.
The second event of the Autumn/Winter series of DSS is a lunchtime seminar featuring presentations from researchers in English and Huston School (abstracts below):
Ciara Griffin (English). ‰Û÷The Author is Glitched: Media-Specificity and the Non-Western Writer.‰۪
Hilary Dully (Huston School). ‰Û÷Digital Issues in Practice-based Research.‰۪
The seminar will be followed by discussion and lunch, provided by the Moore Institute, at 1pm.
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Ciara Griffin (English). ‰Û÷The Author is Glitched: Media-Specificity and the Non-Western Writer.‰۪
Scholarly interest in the materiality of the book has accelerated alongside the proliferation of the digital-born text. The paradigmatic book at the centre of much media-specific literary analysis is often that particular object emergent from the development of print in Europe and the Occident. In this paper I examine ‰Û÷flawed‰۪ or ‰Û÷imperfect‰۪ editions (UK/India) of Bapsi Sidhwa‰۪s text Ice-Candy Man (1988) to discuss the ways that theorisations of the ‰Û÷glitch‰۪ can allow us to unpack the specific hegemonies implicit to what we mean by the ‰Û÷materiality of the book‰۪. I explore the ways in which the hidden machinery of texts has been revealed through philosophical explorations of otherness as well as those newly emerging discourses of media-specific analysis focusing on the body of the text. I argue that an integration of such subject and object-oriented approaches, through the lens of the glitch, offers new tools for theorising the non-Western or marginal author-function.
Hilary Dully (Huston School). ‰Û÷Digital Issues in Practice-based Research.‰۪
The digital revolution of the past decade has altered filmmaking and artistic practice in many interesting and profound ways.In the history of film the auteur has been accorded a degree of reverence, occupying top position in the traditional, hierarchical crewing system for the production of films, formally a collaborative process, involving the specialised creative skills of crewmembers in the film production line. Digital technology, in particular the development of desktop post-production software, has altered and disrupted the traditional filmmaking practice.What are the possibilities and pitfalls for ‰Û÷the new digital auteur,‰۪ working alone, filming on an iphone, editing on a laptop, and publishing on Youtube?And, how do these questions and issues relate to digital arts research and practice in third level institutions? This presentation will also consider the possibilities and implications of ‰Û÷fair use‰۪ and copyright law in digital arts practice and scholarship.

Performance Matters - Irish Theatre Discussion Group
2013-11-19 18:00, 2013-11-05 18:00, 2013-10-22 18:00
Performance Matters
Irish Theatre Discussion Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/
For more information please contact lisa.fitzgerald@nuigalway.ie or m.nichualain5@nuigalway.ie
All theatre practitioners, theorists and students are welcome to attend
For more information please email PerformanceMattersNUIG@gmail.com.

Threesis: Open your mind
2013-11-19 13:00
THREESIS: Open Your Mind…and Get to the Point!!
Join us as NUI Galway researchers use their 3 minutes to Get to the Point and Open Your Mind!
James Curry (Moore Institute & History) and EilÌ_s NÌ_ Dh̼ill (Gaeilge) will participate in this week‰۪s heat.
Next week‰۪s heat on November 26th will feature presentations from EilÌ_s Flanagan (Education), Fionn ÌÒ Sealbhaigh (Gaeilge) and Paul Flynn (Education).
Come along and support your colleagues!
A light lunch will be served after the presentations.

Gender ARC lunchtime seminar series - 'Reproductive health and rights: Ireland and India, historical and contemporary struggles'
2013-11-18 13:00
Global women’s Studies and Gender ARC are pleased to invite you to a lunchtime seminar:
‘Reproductive health and rights: Ireland and India, historical and contemporary struggles’
With guest speakers
Dorothea Melvin – pioneer in the Irish movement for access to contraception and the establishment of the Galway Family Planning Association in the 1970s
and
Lakshmi Lingam – Professor, School of Social Sciences and Deputy Director of Tata Institute of Social Sciences at Hyderabad, who recently completed a National Review of Maternity Protection Policies and Programmes, commissioned by the International Labour Organisation.
Light snacks and refreshments will be served
All Welcome!
RSVP (for catering numbers) to: gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie

Jorge Fondebinder , 'Translating Irish literature into Spanish: a bridge over troubled waters'
2013-11-14 18:00

ECHO Seminar: Synge Song with Tim Collins on Traditional Music Composition in East Galway and Deirdre NÌ_ Chongaile on J.M.Synge as song collector
2013-11-14 16:00
SYNGE SONG
TIM COLLINS
Inspired By Place: Traditional Music Composition
in East Galway
DEIRDRE N̍ CHONGAILE
‰Û÷Listening to this rude and beautiful poetry‰۪:
John Millington Synge as song collector in the
Aran Islands
4pm Thursday 14th November
Applied Optics Seminar Room
All welcome
ECHO brings together researchers of all disciplines to discuss research questions in a friendly environment.
Contact: adrian.paterson@nuigalway.ieor see our website:http://echoforum.wordpress.com

Geography and Archaeology inter-disciplinary seminar - Dr David Drew, Emeritus, Trinity College Dublin: 'Karst Landscapes and Archaeology'
2013-11-14 16:00

History Graduate Research Seminar Series - Michael O'Dowd - The Speculum Matricis Hybernicum (1670), Ireland's first book on midwifery published in English
2013-11-13 16:00
Michael O’Dowd
The Speculum Matricis Hybernicum (1670), Ireland’s first book on midwifery published in English

CAMPS Lab: Peter Kelly, Classics Department, NUIG - 'Suspending suicide: trees and transformation in Ovid's Metamorphoses'
2013-11-08 12:00
Peter Kelly, Classics Department, NUIG
‘Suspending suicide: trees and transformation in Ovid’s Metamorphoses‘

Finnegans Wake reading group
2013-11-07 13:00, 2013-10-24 13:00
If you like gossiping, poetry, languages, puns, puzzles, jokes, double entendres or even avant-garde tomes, you might like Finnegans Wake. Despite its scurrilous critical reputation, James Joyce’s final workis not as difficult as it would first appear and,when read as part of a group, can be a hugely rewarding experience. It is our hope to read the text episodically, playing close attention to the rhythm and musicality of the piece; we aim to stress the looseness of the text without resort to lucidity.
No prior experience of Joyce is necessary and the meetings will be very informal so everyone is very welcome.
Consider joining our Facebook group to keep abreast of news, dates and any strange Joycean ephemera that we find. ( https://www.facebook.com/groups/359211964211176/ )
For more information please contact siobhanmpurcell@gmail.com

History Graduate Research Seminar Series - Lesa NÌ_ Mhunghaile - The representation of the Pre-Colonial Gaelic past in Karl Gottlob KÌÄå_ttner's Briefe ÌÄå_ber Irland (1785)
2013-11-06 16:00
Lesa NÌ_ Mhunghaile
The representation of the Pre-Colonial Gaelic past in Karl Gottlob KÌ_ttner’s
Briefe Ì_ber Irland (1785)

Thesis Talk
2013-10-30 17:00
You are invited to the launch of
Thesis Talk
Thesis Talk is a bilingual blog created by College of Arts, Social Science & Celtic Studies PhD students under EXPLORE 2013.
The aim of the blog is to create and participate in an online postgraduate research community.
Theisis Talk/TrÌÁcht ar ThrÌÁchtais – Deis chainte dÌ_ibh si̼d atÌÁ i mbun thaighde iarch̩ime.
D̩an teagmhÌÁil linn
http://thesistalk.wordpress.com
https://www.facebook.com/thesistalk.wordpress

History Graduate Research Seminar Series - Gerry Watts, James Larkin and the Secret Service agents Sinbad and Estero.
2013-10-30 16:00
Gerry Watts
James Larkin and the Secret Service agents Sinbad and Estero.

Soir̩e:Music-Discussion-Reception, with MÌ_cheÌÁl O SÌÄå¼illeabhÌÁin
2013-10-24 20:00
Soir̩e
Music ‰ÛÒ Discussion ‰ÛÒ Reception
8pm, Maoin Cheoil na Gaillimhe, St Mary‰۪s College, St Mary‰۪s Road, Galway.
You are invited to a performance, discussion and reception; composerMÌ_cheÌÁl O S̼illeabhÌÁin will present a short recital of his music accompanied by traditional percussionist Mel Mercier (BodhrÌÁn and Bones).This will be followed by a short panel discussion of Jean Cocteau‰۪s contention ‰ÛÏThe arts are essential ‰ÛÒ if only one knew what for‰۝ with speakers who will also participate in the symposium on The Intelligence of Art at the Huston School of Film & Digital Media from 25th ‰ÛÒ 26th October. After the music and panel there will be a reception to launch the symposium.
To reserve a place please contact Shadi Abu-Ayyash: s.abu-ayyash1@nuigalway.ie
Organised by Maoin Cheoil na Gaillimhe, Burren College of Art, Huston School of Film & Digital Media, Department of English NUI Galway, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. UL NUIG alliance.

History Graduate Research Seminar Series - Raina Howe - Contested Paper-Trails - Historiography of Irish woodlands in Pre-Modern Ireland
2013-10-23 16:00
Raina Howe
Contested Paper-Trails ‰ÛÓ Historiography of Irish woodlands in Pre-Modern Ireland

Dr ÌÄålvaro Enrigue - 'Valiente clase media: dinero, letras y cursilerÌ_a'
2013-10-21 16:30

Horizon 2020 - Whats in it for me?
2013-10-21 14:00
Horizon 2020
As part of our Horizon 2020 showcase, we are hosting a focused college event ‰Û÷What is in it for me?‰۪. This event is tailored to the College of Arts, Social Sciences & Celtic Studies and the College of Business, Public Policy, & Law. Campus speakers will share their research and experience on key areas:
–Horizon 2020
–Marie Curie
–ERC
This event will benefit those who want to
åáknow more about Horizon 2020
åáfind out what is a relevant funding stream and why
åáconsidering the next step in moving their research plans and research funding to the next level
The talk will take place in the Seminar Room in the Moore Institute on the 21st October from 2-3pm. Please register here. If you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact joanne.oconnor@nuigalway.ie (2047) or clodagh.barry@nuigalway.ie (5677).

CAMPS Lab: Michael Clarke, Classics Department, NUIG - 'Reading the Middle Irish Troy alongside Flemish tapestries of the fifteenth century'
2013-10-18 12:00
Michael Clarke, Classics Department, NUIG
‘Reading the Middle Irish Troy alongside Flemish tapestries of the fifteenth century’

Early Medieval Stone and Brick Sculpture in Bobbio: Some Considerations in Light of the Italian Context - by Prof.essa Eleonora Destefanis - UniversitÌÁ degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale
2013-10-18 11:00
As part of our ongoing collaboration with the UniversitÌÊ degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale, The Columbanus Life and Legacy Project is delighted to announce details of two guest lectures to be held this coming Friday from 10 a.m. in the Moore Institute Seminar Room. Prof.ssa Eleonora Destefanis is based in the UniversitÌÊ degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale, and is a leading authority on the archaeology of the Monastery of Bobbio. She will present a study of Early Medieval stone and brick sculpture at Bobbio, the subject of her very informative 2004 publication ‰ÛÏMateriali lapidei e fittili di etÌÊ altomedievale da Bobbio‰۝. For more information please contact marronemmet@gmail.com

Recent Archaeological finds in the Val di Trebbia: Reconsidering the landscape setting of the Monastery of Bobbio - by Dott. sa Roberta Conversi - Soprintendeza per i Beni Archeologici dell'Emilia Romangna
2013-10-18 10:00
As part of the ongoing collaboration with the UniversitÌÊ degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale, The Columbanus Life and Legacy Project is delighted to announce details of two guest lectures to be held this coming Friday from 10 a.m. in the Moore Institute Seminar Room. Dott.ssa Roberta Conversi is head of the Archaeology Division of the Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici dell’Emilia Romagna, based in the Museum of Parma. Over the past few years she has overseen excavation on a number of early medieval sites in the Val di Trebbia, the results of which have the potential to greatly alter our perception of the landscape setting in which the Monastery of Bobbio was founded by Saint Columbanus.
For more information please contact marronemmet@gmail.com

Travel, Science, and the Question of Observation: 1580-1800
2013-10-18 09:15
Travel, Science, and the Question of Observation: 1580-1800
In the early modern period, the emergence of travel as a means of information gathering on natural history, demography, government, and religion was accompanied by the use of questionnaires to orient observation. This conference investigates the development of techniques of information gathering of this kind and the networks on which they relied. Papers address the integral role of travel in the process of scientific exchange as well as to the ways that information itself traveled in British, French, Spanish, and Swedish contexts.
The conference is supported by generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (http://www.mellon.org) and by the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University, with the assistance of the Moore Institute for the Humanities and Social Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway. The ‰ÛÏTexts, Contexts, Culture‰۝ project is funded under the Higher Education Authority, under PRTLI4.
International conference
Heyman Center for the Humanities
Columbia University
October 18-19, 2013
Friday October 18
Second Floor Common Room, Heyman Center,
Columbia University
9.15Registration and Welcome (Daniel Carey & Eileen Gillooly)
Session 1: Home and abroad in British questionnaires
Chair: Eileen Gillooly (Columbia University)
Elizabeth Yale (Western Carolina University)
Preparing the ground: topographical query lists and the formation of ‰ÛÏBritain‰۝ as an object of scientific study in the seventeenth century
Asheesh Siddique (Columbia University)
Questionnaires, paperwork, and the problem of governance in the late eighteenth-century British Atlantic Enlightenment
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30Session 2: Techniques of inquiry in the 17th century
Chair: Alan Stewart (Columbia University)
Daniel Carey (National University of Ireland, Galway)
John Locke‰۪s anthropology of religion ‰ÛÒ questions and answers
Carl Wennerlind (Barnard College)
Nature‰۪s secrets revealed: Urban HiÌ_rne‰۪s questionnaire and the restoration of Atlantis
1.00Lunch
2.00Session 3: Enlightenment agendas
Chair: DÌÁniel MargÌ_csy (Hunter College, CUNY)
Nicholas Dew (McGill University)
‰ÛÏA Modell to regulate your Travels by‰۝: from wish list to expedition in the early Enlightenment
Matthew Jones (Columbia University)
Re-inventing the (calculating) wheel: imitation, emulation and nescience in the Enlightenment
3.30-4.00 Coffee break
4.00Session 4:The New World as an object of study
Chair: Martin J. Burke (CUNY)
Ida Federica Pugliese (Marie Curie Fellow, NUI Galway)
An Inquiry into the 13 Colonies: Barb̩-Marbois‰۪s queries and French commercial strategy during the American War of Independence
Cameron Strang (Penick Scholar, Smithsonian Institution)
Indian vocabularies and un-disciplining knowledge in the early United States
Saturday October 19
501 Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University
9.15Session 5: Travel, observation and population
Chair: Lynn Festa (Rutgers University)
Ted McCormick (Concordia University)
Observations that traveled: Graunt‰۪s Observations and the uses of quantification in Cotton Mather‰۪s New England
Joyce Chaplin (Harvard University)
T.R. Malthus, travel literature, and the world‰۪s populations
10.45-11.15 Coffee break
11.15Session 6: Early modern information networks
Chair: Maria Portuondo(Johns Hopkins University)
Jorge Ca̱izares-Esguerra (University of Texas at Austin)
Early modern networks and contingency: Jesuits, souls, geopolitics, and research projects
Paula Findlen (Stanford University)
How information travels: lessons from the early modern republic of letters
Ann Blair (Harvard University), Commentary
1.00Lunch

Journaux Personnels / Personal Diaries - seminar in French (a Ulysses collaborative Franco-Irish project)
2013-10-17 16:00
Seminar in French
Thursday 17th October, 4p.m.
Moore Institute seminar room, NUIG
A ‰Û÷Ulysses‰۪ collaborative project between Ireland and France
JOURNAUX PERSONNELS : åÇ Le corps ÌÊ l‰۪̩preuve åÈ
***
Marion Krauthaker (University of Sunderland / NUIG)
åÇ Le journal de Mary Martin: quotidien et ̩preuves d’une m̬re irlandaise
pendant la premi̬re guerre mondiale åÈ.
***
V̩ronique Mont̩mont (Universit̩ de Lorraine, ATILF/CNRS)
åÇ H̩l̬ne Hoppenot ou le goÌÈt de la libert̩ åÈ
***
Catherine Viollet (ITEM-CNRS ENS Paris)
åÇ Micheline Bood, journaux 1939-1947 åÈ
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Sylvie Lannegrand (NUIG)
åÇ Jocelyne Fran̤ois : une vie, un geste, un engagement åÈ
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For more information please contact sylvie.lannegrand@nuigalway.ie

History Graduate Research Seminar Series - Jennifer Wood - Soldiers' Memories of the Falklands/Malvinas War
2013-10-16 16:00
Jennifer Wood
Soldiers’ Memories of the Falklands/Malvinas War

Website Launch - Irish Manuscripts on the Continent, AD 600-AD 850 and Laser-based Profilometry of Medieval Irish Monuments
2013-10-11 12:00
Website Launch
Irish Manuscripts on the Continent, AD 600-AD 850 andLaser-based Profilometry of Medieval Irish Monuments
Moore Institute, NUIG
12pm
Friday, 11th October, 2013
Complimentary lunch to follow
To be launched by Prof. DÌÁibhÌ_ ÌÒ CrÌ_inÌ_n,
Department of History,
National University of Ireland, Galway
FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch!
For more information please contact meadhbh.nicanairchinnigh@nuigalway.ie

From Ego to Eco III: Seeking Shelter or dwelling in the Open? - Examining Ecocritical Approaches to Human Habitation
2013-10-11 10:00
We cordially invite you to participate in the third ‰ÛÏFrom Ego to Eco‰۝ Symposium ant the 11th of October, 10-6, Moore Institute, NUI Galway, hosted by German/ The School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. This time we focus on the nature/culture divide of human habitation. A detailed programme will be circulated shortly
Seeking Shelter or dwelling in the Open? ‰ÛÒ Examining Ecocritical Approaches to Human Habitation
From a socio-historical point of view, the human need for shelter seems unquestionable. For millennia humans have built dwelling places to shelter themselves and their belongings from exposure to the threats posed by their environments. But whereas fences and shelters once seemed essential to our survival, in an age of over-population and ecological crises, in which mankind figures as the single biggest threat to the well-being of the ecosphere, it is the environment which seems in need of being sheltered from us. Our faith in the fence seems inexhaustible: Where once we shut nature out, we now shut nature in, in nature reserves and conservation zones trying to exempt species and habitats from destruction. These exemptions, however, are little more than an alibi for ever greater exploitation and eradication of wilderness on the outside. In the face of the fact that we cannot save the planet by trying to save ourselves, literature and philosophy ask new and provocative questions: Can we acknowledge and approve of our contingencies with and exposures to the environment? Are we ready to face the open, in which we participate regardless of how and where we live: the water cycle, the atmosphere and the earth? Are we willing yet to extend the privilege of the sanctity of life beyond humanity to other species? Both literature and philosophy respond to these questions by reflecting on modes of habitation and imaginatively conceiving them anew. From return-to-wilderness narratives and post-apocalyptic scenarios of exposure, to the outright refusal to tell the human self from its non-human environments in poetry via prosopopeia, literature abounds with depictions of life outside conventional modes of shelteredness. On the other hand, literature reflects on the parameters, conditions and consequences of settlement, migration and diaspora and their implications for humans and environments. Already the myth of the expurgation of mankind from Eden, which Caroline Merchant describes as the ‰ÛÏperhaps [‰Û_] most important mythology humans have developed to make sense of their relationship to the earth,‰۝ depicts a ‰ÛÏturning away‰۝ of humans from the presence of the immanent perambulating divine. (3) What of the tradition of ‰ÛÏrecovery of Eden‰۝ narratives, then – are they help or hindrance on our way to reconciled dwelling? Giorgio Agamben in the majority of his works (i.e. Homo Sacer [1995], The Open ‰ÛÒ of Man and Animal [2004], Profanations [2007]) discusses the consequences and implications of the sacred as a practice of dividing and setting apart within man ‰ÛÏgood life‰۝ (human, worthy of protection, endowed with a human ‰ÛÏface‰۝) and ‰ÛÏbare life‰۝ (exposed and ready to be killed, animal). This caesura, according to Agamben, posits the concentration camp as the foundational paradigm of Western political life and not as its exception. These thoughts seem to us urgently relevant to thinking about shelteredness and openness in literature and environmental thought.
10:00 Registration and Welcome
Keynote:
10:30-11:30 Axel Goodbody (University of Bath)
Heimat, Shelter and the Place of Humans in the World: Jenny Erpenbeck’s Heimsuchung
Panel 1:
11: 30 ‰ÛÒ 12:00 Conn Holohann (NUI Galway)
In Praise of Error: Cosmopolitan Space in the Films of Claire Denis‰۪
12:00-12:30 David Conlon (NUI Maynooth)
Technology as environment and refuge in Ricardo Piglia’s The Absent City
12:30- 13:00 Michael Sauter (Augsburg University)
Seeking Shelter, Building Fires: London, McCarthy, ‰Û_and LukÌÁcs?
13:00- 14:00Lunch Break
Keynote:
14:00-15:00Tim Wenzell (Virginia Union University)
Green Deity: Nature as mind in Robert Graves The White Goddess
Panel 2:
15:00- 15: 30Heike Schwarz, (Augsburg University)
‰ÛÏIs anyone seeing this?‰۝: Ecopsychopathology, Ecocalypse or Environmental Madness in American Fiction and Jeff Nicholå«s Take Shelter (2011)
15:30- 16:00Sabine Lenore MÌ_ller (Leipzig University)
“The house door left unshut” – Environmental Modernism and the Open in R. M. Rilke and W. B. Yeats
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30Roundtable Discussion

Finnegans Wake reading group
2013-10-10 13:00
If you like gossiping, poetry, languages, puns, puzzles, jokes, double entendres or even avant-garde tomes, you might like Finnegans Wake. Despite its scurrilous critical reputation, James Joyce’s final workis not as difficult as it would first appear and,when read as part of a group, can be a hugely rewarding experience. It is our hope to read the text episodically, playing close attention to the rhythm and musicality of the piece; we aim to stress the looseness of the text without resort to lucidity.
No prior experience of Joyce is necessary and the meetings will be very informal so everyone is very welcome.
Consider joining our Facebook group to keep abreast of news, dates and any strange Joycean ephemera that we find. ( https://www.facebook.com/groups/359211964211176/ )
