Moore Institute

Finnegans Wake reading group
2013-11-07 13:00, 2013-10-24 13:00 (Europe/Dublin)
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)

Performance Matters - Irish Theatre Discussion Group
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.

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
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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.
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V̩ronique Mont̩mont (Universit̩ de Lorraine, ATILF/CNRS)
åÇ H̩l̬ne Hoppenot ou le goÌÈt de la libert̩ åÈ
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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/ )

History Graduate Research Seminar Series -Padraic Kenney (Indiana) - 'The Prison has become a Political Battlefield'. How World War I transformed political imprisonment in Europe
2013-10-09 16:00
Padraic Kenney (Indiana)
‘The Prison has become a Political Battlefield’. How World War I transformed political imprisonment in Europe

Digital Humanities and Journalism Seminar
2013-10-09 12:00
Digital Scholarship Seminar and INSIGHT @ NUIGalway present:
Digital Humanities and Journalism Seminar.
12-2pm, Wednesday 9 October, Moore Institute Seminar Room.
The first event of the Autumn/Winter series of DSS is a lunchtime seminar to showcase the work of INSIGHT @ NUIGalway(formerly DERI NUIGalway) INSIGHT in Digital Humanities and Journalism, and to provide a vision of future collaborations between technology and humanities researchers.
The speakers will demonstrate how Humanities faculty and researchers can benefit from collaboration with INSIGHT @ NUIGalway‰۪s semantic web experts and collaboration with INSIGHTDigital Humanities and Journalism group, citing examples from previous collaborations and potential future projects. There will be an opportunity to meet INSIGHT @ NUIGalway researchers and discuss potential collaborations over lunch (generously provided by the Moore Institute).
The following is the list of speakers:
Professor Stefan Decker, Director of INSIGHT @ ‘NUIGalway: ‘From Digital’ Enterprise DirectorNUIGalway: ‘From of INSIGHTto INSIGHT.’
Dr. Sandra Collins, Director of the Digital Repository of Ireland: ‘Digital Repository of Ireland.’
Dr. Bahareh Heravi, Team leader of Digital Humanities and Journalism at INSIGHT @ ‘NUIGalway: ‘Future Newsrooms’ and JournalismNUIGalway: ‘Future at INSIGHTCivic Journalism.’
Professor Siegfried Handschuh, Stream leader at INSIGHT @ ‘NUIGalway: ‘Quick and’ Dirty leaderNUIGalway: ‘Quick at INSIGHTExamples of Text Analytics Applications for Digital Humanities.’
Dr. Paul Buitelaar, Stream leader at INSIGHT @ ‘NUIGalway: ‘Towards Extracting’ Author leaderNUIGalway: ‘Towards at INSIGHTNetworks from Secondary Literature’ and ‘Using Semantic Similarity on Poetic Corpora.’
For further information these talks, and on Digital Humanities and Journalism at INSIGHT @ ‘NUIGalway.

Dr Fred Freeman (Fellow, English, University of Edinburgh) -Culture and Colonialism: A Tribute to Hamish Hederson
2013-10-09 11:00
CULTURE AND COLONIALISM
FRED FREEMAN
on Hamish Henderson
Hamish Henderson (1919-2002), poet and songwriter, was one of the outstanding cultural and political figures of the twentieth century. He accepted the surrender of Italy during World War II, won the Somerset Maugham prize for his war elegies (which bear comparison with Wilfred Owen or Siegfried Sassoon), and helped found the University of Edinburgh‰۪s School of Scottish Studies. His songs were sung by British soldiers and Italian partisans to battle in the 1940s, and by the freedom fighters of South Africa in the 1960s, and recognised by Nelson Mandela, E.P. Thomson, Alan Lomax, Pete Seeger, & Bob Dylan.
11am Wednesday 9th October
Arts Millennium AM 203
All welcome
CULTURE AND COLONIALISM:
A TRIBUTE TO HAMISH HENDERSON
Drawing musical and poetical examples from Dr Fred Freeman‰۪s CD tribute album, the talk considers in context one of the outstanding figures of the twentieth century: a man who accepted the surrender of Italy during World War II; won the Somerset Maugham Prize for his war elegies (which bear comparison with Siegfried Sassoon or Wilfred Owen); was a prime mover for the founding the School of Scottish Studies; and influenced, quite directly, the course of twentieth-century history. His songs (like BALLAD OF THE D-DAY DODGERS, BANKS OF SICILY, RIVONIA & THE FREEDOM COME ALL YE) were sung by British soldiers and Italian partisans in the field of battle during WW II and by the freedom fighters of S. Africa throughout the 1960s. His achievement has been fully acknowledged by Nelson Mandela, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, E. P. Thomson and others.
Hamish Henderson worked for some years for Workers Education in Northern Ireland, after WW II, and his songs like THE FREEDOM COME ALL YE have been recorded by several groups like The Dubliners.
Dr. Fred Freeman (Fellow, English, University of Edinburgh)
Dr. Fred Freeman is an internationally acclaimed scholar and researcher on the song traditions of Scotland. He has published over 100 articles, together with books and comprehensive CD collections, documenting the rich history of Scotland‰۪s song poets and their work.

Dr. Fred Freeman (Fellow, English, University of Edinburgh) - The Irish In Scotland : Robert Tannahill
2013-10-08 17:00
In conjunction with the Moore Institute, the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, and the MA in Culture and Colonialism, ECHO: the humanities research forum presents two compelling talks:
THE IRISH IN SCOTLAND
FRED FREEMAN
on Robert Tannahill
Robert Tannahill of Paisley (1774-1810) was a weaver, poet, and songwriter of over 100 songs of a quality comparable to Burns, employing Irish melodies and subject matter to describe the emigrant experience and the colours and sounds of early industrialization.
5pm Tuesday 8th October
Applied Optics Seminar Room
All welcome. Wine served.
LECTURE ‰ÛÒ THE IRISH IN SCOTLAND : ROBERT TANNAHILL
After releasing THE COMPLETE SONGS OF ROBERT BURNS (12 vols, Linn Records 1996-2003) I turned my attention to a sadly neglected artist: Robert Tannahill of Paisley (1774-1810).Tannahill was a weaver, a song-writer and poet who wrote over 100 songs of a quality comparable to Burns.
This illustrated lecture, drawing musical examples from my COMPLETE SONGS OF ROBERT TANNAHILL, concentrates on a unique collection of songs ‰ÛÒ with their Irish melodies and subject matter written in defence of the early 19th-century Irish emigrants to Scotland.A total non-sectarian, Tannahill, in his own way, contributed a great deal to changing perceptions of the downtrodden Irish as they settled into their new country; and, at the same time, he left us with a lovely body of Irish song.
Moreover, as an early Romantic artist, he was far ahead of his time.His unique, urban Paisley songs movingly provide a critical insight into both the despair and the dynamism of early industrialisation. And his use of the comic and the grotesque certainly does look forward to Blake with its mixed message in relation to the working classes: figures both corrupted and enervated by urban life and, simultaneously, morally and socially liberated from the constraints of their ‰Û÷betters‰۪.
The McPeake family of Northern Ireland based their famous folk song, ‰Û÷The Wild Mountain Thyme‰۪, directly upon the Paisley poet‰۪s ‰Û÷The Braes o Balquhidder‰۪; and, over the past 200 years, his works have been published in various Irish and Northern Irish editions.
Dr. Fred Freeman (Fellow, English, University of Edinburgh)
Dr. Fred Freeman is an internationally acclaimed scholar and researcher on the song traditions of Scotland. He has published over 100 articles, together with books and comprehensive CD collections, documenting the rich history of Scotland‰۪s song poets and their work.
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Sometime Fellow in English at University of Edinburgh, he is a graduate of Aberdeen and Edinburgh universities. He taught Scottish literature at The School of Scottish Studies and in the English Department of Edinburgh; held postdoctoral posts (several times over) at The Advanced Studies Institute, The School of Scottish Studies, the English Department, University of Edinburgh. He held a postdoctoral appointment at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford for two years in the late ‰Û÷80s, concentrating on ethnic minority writers in Scotland.
Freeman is the author of a book on the 18th-century Edinburgh poet, Robert Fergusson (Edinburgh UP 1984) and a children’s book on the Paisley poet, Robert Tannahill (2009); and has published over 100 articles on Scottish literature, folk music and history. He is on the official Live Literature Scotland authors’ list for grants.
Over the past decade Freeman has drawn upon his extensive musical background, producing over 42 (internationally acclaimed) CDs – amongst them: “THE COMPLETE SONGS OF ROBERT BURNS” (13 Cds, 12 vols, Linn Records 1996-2003); (for Scottish Borders Region) “BORDERS FIDDLES”, “BORDERS SANGSTERS”, “BORDERS BOXES”, “BORDERS PIPES”; “BORDERS YOUNG PIPERS” (1999-2012); “A’THE BAIRNS O’ ADAM – A TRIBUTE TO HAMISH HENDERSON” (Greentrax 2004); “A’ ADAM’S BAIRNS” National Library of Scotland, 2008); numerous solo CDs – “YONT THE TAY” (Jim Reid) which won BBC’s ‰Û÷Best Singer of the Year 2005′; “THE COMPLETE SONGS OF ROBERT TANNAHILL” – Vols I, II & III (with 2 vols still to come).

CAMPS Lab: Elva Johnston, School of History and Archives, UCD - 'Literacy and conversion in early medieval Ireland: a reassessment'
2013-10-04 12:00
Elva Johnston, School of History and Archives, UCD
‰Û÷Literacy and conversion in early medieval Ireland: a reassessment‰۪

History Graduate Research Seminar Series -Carla Lessing - 'The Civil English and the Wild Irish'. Tudor and Stewart concepts of civility
2013-10-02 16:00
Carla Lessing
‘The Civil English and the Wild Irish’. Tudor and Stewart concepts of civility

Early Modern Travel: Theory and Practice, International Conference 27-28th September
2013-09-27 09:00
Early Modern Travel: Theory and Practice
In the early modern period the development of inquiries, questionnaires, and directions for travel proliferated in an attempt to make travel a useful and productive activity. This conference explores the widespread effort to provide instruction, as well as the travel practices that emerged in response to and in tension with these demands in the domains of natural history and cultural and political observation. Travel developed as a scholarly enterprise and was also incorporated into wider debates among humanists and other authorities evaluating religion, military conflict, and commercial expansion. The conference breaks down the separation between European and ‰Û÷exotic‰۪ travel (in the Ottoman Empire, Persia, Arabia) and challenges conventional periodization by describing traditions from the Renaissance to Enlightenment.
Participants from Ireland, the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Denmark, and Brazil, will discuss figures ranging from Hakluyt to Montaigne, Knolles, La Loub̬re and Michaelis.
‰ÛÏTexts, Contexts, Culture‰۝ is funded under the Higher Education Authority, under PRTLI4 http://www.hea.ie
Friday 27 September

9.15Registration and Welcome
Session 1: 16th Century agendas
Chair: Jane Grogan (UCD)
Edward Collins (UCD/Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville)
‰Û÷Marriage, Union, and the Transfer of Knowledge in the Maritime Enterprises of Spain, Portugal and England in the Sixteenth Century‰۪
Ladan Niayesh (Paris 7)
‰Û÷From Travel Guide to Collection of Exempla: Andrew Borde‰۪s The First Book of the Introduction of Knowledge (1547)‰۪
10.45 Coffee and tea break
11.15Session 2: Networks, politics, and instructional strategies
Chair: Daniel Carey (NUI Galway)
Sebastian Sobecki (Groningen)
‰Û÷Innocent Espionage: Robert Cecil‰۪s Network and John Peyton‰۪s Travels in Central Europe, 1598-1603‰۪
Paola Molino (Austrian National Library)
‰Û÷The Importance of Being ‰ÛÏInstructed‰۝ in the Late 16th-Century Scholarly World‰۪
12.30Lunch
2.00bus departure for Claregalway
14.45Session 3: The Arabian Voyage, 1761-1767
Chair: Ida Pugliese (NUI Galway/Marie Curie IEF)
Daniel Carey (NUI Galway),
‰۪J.D. Michaelis‰۪s Instructions for the Arabian Voyage: Contexts and Continuities‰۪
Anne Haslund Hansen (National Museum Denmark), ‰Û÷Between Image and Text: Carsten Niebuhr‰۪s Publications from the Arabian Voyage, 1761-1767‰۪
16.00Coffee and tea break
16.30Session 4: Irish itineraries
Chair: John Waddell (NUI Galway)
Peter Harbison (RIA): ‰Û÷Beranger and Bigari‰۪s Tour of Connacht in 1779‰۪
17.30Reception (Claregalway Castle)
19.30Conference Dinner (Claregalway Castle)

Saturday 28 September

9.15 Session 5: Travel and the art of observation
Chair: Ladan Niayesh (Paris 7)
Luciana Villas B̫as (Rio de Janeiro/Free University Berlin)
‰Û÷The Ends of Travel Writing in Michel de Montaigne‰۪s Journal de Voyage (1580-1581)‰۪
Sven Trakulhun (Zurich)
‰Û÷The Scientific Traveller: Simon de La Loub̬re‰۪s Du Royaume de Siam (1691)‰۪
Julia B̦ttcher (Regensburg)
‰Û÷The Instructed Naturalist: Travel Instructions and the 18th-Century Norm of Observational Practice‰۪
11.15Coffee and tea break
11.45Session 6: Ottomans, Persians and early modern scholarship
Chair: Lindsay Reid (NUI Galway)
Jane Grogan (University College Dublin)
‰Û÷‰ÛÏEngrossed by Experience‰۝ at the King of Persia‰۪s Court: Xenophon‰۪s Travels‰۪
Anders Ingram (NUI Galway)
‰Û÷Sixteenth-Century English Perspectives on the Ottoman Empire: Richard Knolles and Richard Hakluyt‰۪
13.15Lunch

For more information please contact daniel.carey@nuigalway.ie

Seeing the World: Travel, Text, Image - International conference 27-28 September 2013
2013-09-27 09:00
Seeing the world: Travel, text, image
Authors of travel narratives attempting to convey in words their discoveries and observations increasingly turned to images to support their text. In this they were encouraged by publishers and the public, developing in time a dedicated art industry and new book forms. This conference focuses attention on the various uses of graphic art in topographical and ethnographical writing by travellers from the Early Modern period to the present, and the relationship between text and image.
The topics proposed by the participants, from Italy, Switzerland, America, France, Greece and Ireland, range from the iconography of specific areas, such as Switzerland, the Eastern Mediterranean, the Western Mediterranean, Ireland, to the work of particular individuals, notably Jonathan Fisher, Luttrell Wynne, Beranger and Bigari in Ireland and W.H.J. Browne in the Arctic. Among the areas covered are the National Library of Ireland‰۪s resources for research on travel, the implications of evolving media for both text and image, including their online presence. Present-day topographical writing and the images it engenders are the focus of a session devoted to Tim Robinson‰۪s Connemara trilogy.
‰Û÷Texts, Contexts, Cultures‰۪ is funded by the Higher Education Authority, under PRTLI4 (http://www.hea.ie). This conference is supported by generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (http://www.mellon.org).
Friday 27 September
Optics seminar room (beside Moore Institute)
9.15Registration and Welcome
9.30Session 1: Irish Itineraries 1
Chair: Lillis ÌÒ Laoire (NUI Galway)
Gerard Long (National Library of Ireland) ‰Û÷Travel accounts in the collections of the National Library of Ireland‰۪
Nessa Cronin (NUI, Galway) ‰Û÷‰۝New roads, new seats, new plantations‰۝: The road as contact zone in late eighteenth-century Ireland‰۪
10.45Coffee and tea break
11.15Session 2: Constructing images: the Levant, the Alps
Chair: Sylvie Lannegrand (NUI, Galway)
Irini Apostolou (University of Athens)‰Û÷Le voyage en images au Levant: ̩changes et rivalit̩s franco-britanniques au XVIIIe si̬cle‰۪
Claude Reichler (Universit̩ de Lausanne) ‰Û÷Imaging the Alps: travel books and the history of viewing‰۪
12.30Lunch
14.00 Coach to Claregalway
Claregalway Castle
14.45Session 3: Developing the picturesque
Chair: Phil Dine (NUI, Galway)
Finola O‰۪Kane (University College Dublin)
‰Û÷Making Ireland picturesque: Jonathan Fisher’s Tour of Killarney‘
Gabor Gell̩ri (Aberystwyth University)
‰Û÷An unknown creator of picturesque Ireland: Luttrell Wynne, the Gentleman of Oxford‰۪
16.00Coffee and tea break
16.30Session 4: Irish itineraries 2
Chair: John Waddell (NUI, Galway)
Peter Harbison (Royal Irish Academy)
‰Û÷Beranger and Bigari‰۪s tour of Connacht in 1779‰۪ (Plenary)
17.30 Reception (Claregalway Castle)
Saturday 28 September
Moore Institute seminar room
9.15Session 5: Changing media
Chair: Jane Conroy
Eavan ÌÒ Dochartaigh(NUI, Galway)
‰۪‰۝Faithful Delineations: The Travels and Images of W.H.J. Browne‰۝‰۪
Tania Manca (UniversitÌÊ di Cagliari)
‰Û÷The transition from engraving to photograph: the Western Mediterranean and Africa‰۪
Marina Ansaldo (University College Dublin)
‰Û÷The ‰ÛÏIreland Illustrated‰۝ online database‰۪
11.15Coffee and tea break
11.45 Session 6: Beyond the picturesque
Chair: Nessa Cronin (NUI, Galway)
John Elder (Middlebury College, Vermont)
‰Û÷Solas/Dolas and Tim Robinson’s Escape from the Picturesque‰۪
Nicolas F̬ve (St Patrick‰۪s College, Dublin)
‰Û÷Travelling light: a photographic journey through Robinson‰۪s Connemara‰۪
13.15Lunch

Finnegan's Wake reading group
2013-09-26 13:00
The NUI, Galway Finnegans Wake reading group is starting up again this September.
Our first meeting will be 1-2pm in the Moore Institute Seminar Room, Thursday 26th September. 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.
Join us on the 26th or 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/ )

History Graduate Research Seminar Series - CiarÌÁn Wallace (TCD) Drawing on minor sources: satirical cartoons in 'The Leprecaun Cartoon Monthly', 1905-1915
2013-09-25 16:00
25 Sept.CiarÌÁn Wallace (TCD)
Drawing on minor sources: satirical cartoons in ‘The Leprecaun Cartoon Monthly’, 1905-1915
