Moore Institute

Horizon 2020 - Whats in it for me?
2013-10-21 14:00 (Europe/Dublin)
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

Performance Matters - Irish Theatre Discussion Group - David Harrower's Blackbird
2013-09-24 18:00
Performance Matters
Irish Theatre Discussion Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/
We will be discussing David Harrower’s Blackbird which coincidentally is being performing by Mephisto theatre company for the Galway theatre festival (4th,5th Oct.)
http://www.mephistotheatre.com/blackbird-by-david-harrower/
For more information please contact lisa.fitzgerald@nuigalway.ie or m.nichualain5@nuigalway.ie
All theatre practitioners, theorists and students are welcome to attend
If you need a copy of the script or directions to the venue please email PerformanceMattersNUIG@gmail.com.

CKI Seminar - Community Mapping: Creating Common Ground Locally and Globally - Maeve Lydon, University of Victoria, Canada
2013-09-19 12:30
CKI Seminar – Community Mapping: Creating Common Ground
Locally and Globally
Maeve Lydon, University of Victoria, Canada
Date: Thursday 19th September 2013
Time: 12.30 ‰ÛÒ 2.30pm (Tea/Coffee available from 12.15pm)
Venue: Moore Institute Seminar Room, NUI Galway
The seminar is free but it is necessary to book your place on or before Tuesday 17th September, with Ann Lyons
Event Details
Community‰ÛÒbased mapping is an educational, planning and research tool for participatory and sustainable community development. It enables people to mobilise assets, capture the power of place, visualise engagement and re-present scenarios for change. Maeve Lydon, the presenter from the University of Victoria, Canada, will share the story of the work of the Community Mapping Collaboratory and the Common Ground Community Mapping Network in Canada (www.mapping.uvic.ca).
The presentation will include how the Community Mapping Collaboratory (CMC) integrates community mapping into research, student curriculum/ field work and community projects, while building strong planning and development partnerships with local governments, neighbourhoods, funders, and the community and voluntary sector. Specific projects include sustainability, neighbourhood and city planning, child, youth and citizen engagement, arts and culture strategies, food security inventories, and the development of sustainable local economy. How the CMC uses high tech- high touch applications and open-source, GIS and CIS (geographic and community information systems) will also be included, with discussion of tools and techniques which community and campus groups can easily use. Finally, Maeve will share global connections in her role as advisor and Canadian hub/resource for the Green Map System (www.greenmap.org), based in New York, who have supported more than 750 print and on-line green mapping initiatives around the world, with many in Ireland, the UK and other parts of Europe.
Maeve Lydon (whose parents were born and raised in Galway and father graduated from UCG!) is the Associate Director of the Institute for Studies and Innovation in Community-University Engagement (CUE) and staff with Community Based Research Canada (CBRC), based at the University of Victoria on the west coast of Canada. She has a background in community and international development, education and social change. Maeve is the Project and Partnership Coordinator with the Community Mapping Collaboratory, which was recently awarded a Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) Partnerships Development Grant to deepen research and networking related to community mapping locally, nationally and globally. Her MA Thesis was entitled (Re)Presenting the Living Landscape: Community Mapping as a Tool for Transformative Learning and Planning – Abstract and access to full document available here.
The Community Knowledge Initiative (CKI) fosters community university partnerships that aim to promote the principles and practices of civic engagement and democracy.

History Graduate Research Seminar Series - MÌÁirÌ_n Mac Carron - The Venerable Bede and the origins of AD-Dating
2013-09-18 16:00
MÌÁirÌ_n Mac Carron
The Venerable Bede and the origins of AD-Dating

Landlords, tenants and their estates in Ireland: 1600-2013 - September 13th and 14th 2013
2013-09-13 09:00
Friday 13 September 2013
9.00-9.30 Registration and Welcome (Moore Seminar Room)
9.30-11.00 Panel 1
Panel 1 (a) Transnational estate histories?
Chair: Dr. Enrico Dal Lago(Moore Seminar Room)
What can Irish plantations in the French, British and Danish Caribbean tell us about landed
estates in Ireland? (Dr. Orla Power, TCD)
Second Slavery, Second Landlordism, and Modernity: Nineteenth-Century Irish Landed
Estates in Comparative Perspective (Cathal Smith, NUI Galway)
Scottish and Irish estate histories, c. 1800-c.1922: trans-regional, trans-national, trans-
imperial?(Dr. Annie Tindley, University of Dundee)
Panel 1 (b) Social networks and the changing face of the gentry in Ireland
Chair: Dr. Jackie UÌ_Chionna(Optics Room)
An Ordered Society, Social networking of the Power Elites 1850-1880: Case Study Thomas
Conolly and Castletown, Co Kildare (Suzanne Pegley, NUI Maynooth)
‰Û÷Aggressive busybody’: Arthur Hugh Smith Barry (1843-1925) and the purpose of the Irish
gentry(Dr. Ian d’Alton, Independent scholar)
From Soldiers To Scholars: The social metamorphosis of an Irish landed family (Michael
Murphy, NUI Maynooth)
11.00-11.30 Tea and Coffee
11.30-12.30 Plenary
Chair: (TBC)
Northern perspectives: challenges, opportunities and the Ulster landed
Estate(Dr. Olwen Purdue, QUB) (venue: TBC)
12.30-1.30 Lunch
1.30-3.00 Panel 2
Panel 2 (a) Agrarian and labour disturbances mid nineteenth century rural Ireland
Chair: Dr. John Cunningham (Moore Seminar Room)
‰Û÷The law of Captain Rock is more powerful’ (Terry Dunne, NUI Maynooth)
Distress and agitation in the west: labour unrest on the Mahon estate in 1831 (Dr. Adrian
Grant, NUI Galway)
The agrarian disturbances of 1849-1852; landlord/tenant conflict on the South Ulster
borderlands (KerronO’Luain, QUB)
Panel 2 (b) Landed estate questions: management, finance, and legacy
Chair: DrTomÌÁs Finn(Optics Room)
Pacifying the estate: the challenge of managing the Landed Estate (Laura Vickers, NUI Galway)
Capitalising on the Irish ‰Û÷Land Question’: Irish Land Bonds, 1891-1938
(Nathan Foley-Fisher, US Federal Reserve and Dr. Eoin McLaughlin, University of Edinburgh)
The Big House: From private home to public space (Emer Crooke, NUI Maynooth)
3.00-3.30 Tea and Coffee
3.30-5.00 Panel 3
Panel 3 (a) Archives and estates
Chair: Kieran Hoare (venue: TBC)
Analysing the big house network in Ulster: a brief enquiry (Bethany Sinclair, PRONI)
The Quit Office Crown Estate papers as a source for the study of Nineteenth Century Irish
history (Dr. Kevin Forkan, NAI)
Townlands.csv, the core data of the Down Survey of Ireland project (David Brown, TCD)
5.15-6.15 Plenary
Chair: (TBC)
From Bonfire to Sperm Whale: Interpreting Historic Houses Through
their Archives (Professor Christopher Ridgway) (venue: TBC)
6.30-7.30 Wine reception
Launch of ‰Û÷Irish Landed Estates Special Interest Group’
(Moore Seminar Room)
8.30 Conference dinner for speakers
Saturday 14 September 2013
9.30-11.00 Panel 4
Panel 4 (a) Religious divides and estate life during the 1700s and 1800s
Chair: (TBC) (Moore Seminar Room)
Estates and their tenants: A case study of the Morristown Lattin and Castle Leslie estates in
the eighteenth century (Dr. Emma Lyons, UCD)
‰Û÷I should have no objections to your having guns’ – The influence of Orange landlords over
their tenant Orangemen in 1830s Ulster (Dr. Daragh Curran, NUIM)
‰Û÷Unless he be a Catholic and his name begin with O’, he is to be denounced as an alien’: The
O’Conor Don and Catholic Landlordism in Victorian Ireland (Dr. Aidan Enright, Independent scholar)
Panel 4 (b) Women and the landed estate
Chair: Dr. Sarah Anne Buckley (Optics Room)
The Marchioness of Ormond’s return from exile and the Butler Estate (Dr. John Jeremiah
Cronin, Independent scholar)
‰Û÷The Landlord Class is Slowly Bleeding to Death': Gender, Philanthropy and Social
Conservatism in Victorian Ireland (Dr. Andrew G. Newby, University of Helsinki)
Lady Godfrey's Mill' Ch̢telaines of a Kerry Estate(Dr. John Knightly, Independent scholar)
11.00-11.30 Tea and Coffee
11.30-12.30 Plenary
Chair: Dr. Mary Harris
The Landed (E)state in the Nineteenth Century
(Professor Ewen A. Cameron, University of Edinburgh) (venue: TBC)
12.30-1.30 Lunch
1.30-3.00 Panel 5
Panel 5 (a) Disorder and a reordering of Ireland during the 1600s and 1700s
Chair: Dr. Padraig Lenihan (Moore Seminar Room)
Landlords, tenants and Cromwellians (Dr. John Cunningham, TCD)
Tenant/ landlord relations during the 1641 Rebellion in King’s and Queen’s Counties
(PÌÁdraigLawlor, TCD)
A New Order? Landowners, middlemen and the fight for land in East Clare, 1690-1740
(Teresa Shoosmith, NUIGalway)
Panel 5 (b) Paternalism, power, and pedagogy: landlords, servants, and tenants,
Chair: Dr. Andrew Newby (Optics Room)
Servants on Landed Estates in Eighteenth Century Ireland (Teri Brandon, UCC)
Education, paternalism and power on an Irish landed estate, 1820-1870 (Dr. Kevin McKenna,
independent scholar)
Landlords and Libraries (Pamela Emerson, University of Ulster)
3.00-3.30 Tea and Coffee
3.30-4.00
Chair: (TBC)
William Sharman Crawford: the landlord as land reformer
(Professor Peter Gray, QUB) (venue: TBC)
Conference close
For more information on this conference please contact j.mcentee@live.ie
Conference fee
The conference registration fee is 20 euro for two days and 10 euro for one.
Irish Landed Estates Special Interest Group
As part of the conference proceedings, we are delighted to announce that an Irish landed Estates Special Interest Group will be launched. The group will act as a branch of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland (SSNCI). The SSNCI committee has agreed to this decision.
Publication of Conference proceedings
As part of our output for the Irish Landed Estates Special Interest Group we intend to publish conference proceedings. This will provide a wonderful opportunity to young scholars to have their work published. At present we are considering either a special journal edition or an edited book.
Lunch and snacks at break times will be provided for all guests on both days.
Twitter users may use the following: #landlordmoore

History Graduate Research Seminar Series - Ciaran McDonough, 'Antiquarianism as a Gentleman's Hobby, 1800-1867'
2013-09-11 16:00
Ciaran McDonough,
‘Antiquarianism as a Gentleman’s Hobby, 1800-1867’

MA Medieval Studies & CAMPS: Reception to launch the new academic year
2013-09-04 16:00
MA Medieval Studies & CAMPS: Reception to launch the new academic year.
All ‰Û÷medievalists‰۪– newly-arrived, established, self-identified — are invited to get to know each other and learn about activities of interest to the wider community of scholars concerned with the Antique, Medieval and Pre-Modern worlds at NUIG.
For more information contact kim.loprete@nuigalway.ie

IRC Information Session
2013-09-04 13:00
The Moore Institute will host an information session on the IRC Research Project Grants Scheme on Wednesday, September 4 at 1pm in the Moore Institute seminar room (Room 203). The expectation will be that those interested in applying to the scheme will have read, in advance, the Terms & Conditions that apply (available here http://www.research.ie/funding/research-project-grants-scheme-2013); this will allow us to spend the majority of the time answering the more focused questions that applicants will have at this stage of the process. Prof. Patrick Lonergan, who currently holds a project grant award, will also be available for advice on the application process.

Workshop - Teaching Transnational History: Transnational Ireland International Research Network
2013-08-31 00:00
Workshop – Teaching Transnational History: Transnational Ireland International Research Network, Moore Institute, NUI Galway, 31 August 2013
This workshop is the latest in the ‰Û÷Transnational Ireland’ international research network (http://transnationalireland.com), whose aim is to re-articulate the political, social and cultural history of Ireland within its broader international and global contexts. This workshop will focus on the complex issue of ‘teaching transnational history’. A series of discussion-based sessions in the morning – based on pre-circulated papers – will explore pedagogical approaches to history beyond the traditional framework of the nation-state. The afternoon will focus on the presentation of new research on the ‘transnational Ireland’ theme.
Spaces for this event are limited. Should you wish to attend, please contact Kevin O’Sullivan (kevin.k.osullivan@nuigalway.ie) for further details.

CAMPS lab: 'Did Old Irish have a middle voice?'
2013-08-23 12:00
‰Û÷Did Old Irish have a middle voice?‰۪
A presentation and discussionmoderated by Esther Le Mair
Friday 23 August, 12.00 ‰ÛÒ 1.00(followed by lunch, 1.00 ‰ÛÒ 2.00)
MOORE INSTITUTE SEMINAR ROOM
FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch ‰ÛÒ Everyone is welcome
For more information contact jacopo.bisagni@nuigalway.ie

Ireland and Masculinities conference, August 19th and 20th
2013-08-19 00:00
Symposium Schedule
Monday, 19 August 2013
9.00 – 9.30am – Registration and coffee
9.30-11.00am – Panel 1: Legal Musculature.

Kevin McKenna (Independent Scholar) “Primogeniture, strict settlement and the rituals of masculinity on an Irish landed estate, 1855-1890”
James Ward (Ulster)“Caught in a contract: Congreve, Farquhar and Contractarian Masculinities”
Dara Purvis (Penn State)“Masculinity, Marriage, and Fatherhood in the Twentieth Century”

11.15-12.45 – Panel 2: Irishmen Abroad and the Irish as “Other”.

Norma Clarke (Kingston) “Oliver Goldsmith and his ‘brothers of the quill’ in London, 1757-1763”
Peter Buckingham (Linfield College) “Thomas A. Hickey: Irish Masculinity on Two Continents”
Ciaran McDonough (NUI Galway) “Antiquarianism as a ‰Û÷Gentleman’s Hobby'”

12.45-2pm – Lunch
2.00-3.30pm – Panel 3: Protestants on Parade

Jim MacPherson (Highlands and the Islands)“Irish Protestant Masculinities and Orangewomen in Scotland and Canada, 1890 – 1930”
James Golden (Cambridge)“Irish Anglican Political Masculinities: Disestablishment and Protestant Democracy, 1860-70”
Pamela McKane (York, Ontario)“‰Û÷No idle sightseers’: The Ulster Women’s Unionist Council and the masculine world of politics during the Ulster Crisis”

3.30-3.45 – Coffee
3.45-5.45pm – Round Table
Chair: Sean Brady (Birkbeck, London)
Fidelma Ashe (Ulster)
Jane McGaughey (Concordia)
Sonya Rose (Michigan)
5.30-7pm – Wine reception sponsored by NUIG Centre for Irish Studies
7.30 CONFERENCE DINNER – Harbour Hotel
***
Tuesday, 20 August 2013
9.45- 10.15am – Coffee
10.15 – 11.45am – Panel 1: Patriotism and the Pastoral

Lee Morrissey (Clemson)“Masculinity, modernity, and, yes, shepherds: Spenser and Milton”
Cliona O’Gallchoir (University College Cork)“Patriotism, Masculinity and Irish Economic Discourse in the eighteenth century”
Aidan Beatty (Chicago)“Fianna FÌÁil, Masculinity, and the Irish Agrarian Man”

12:00-1:30pm -Panel 2: Performing Irishness

Charlotte McIvor (NUI Galway)“Staging Intercultural Masculinities: Yeats, Tagore, Pearse and Modern(ist) Theatre Aesthetics at the Abbey Theatre”
Ed Madden (South Carolina)“Bachelor Trouble, Troubled Bachelors”
Declan William Kavanagh (Kent)“Bog Men: Performing Irishness in Seven Years’ War Political Literature”

1.30-2.30pm – Lunch
2.30-4.00pm – Panel 3: Masculinities and Material Constraints: Incarceration, Childhood and Clothing

Conseulo Concepcion (Glasgow) “Clothing, Gender and Colonial Policy in Early Modern Ireland”
Mary Hatfield (Trinity College, Dublin)“Games for boys: childhood, masculinity and play in Ireland”
Rosa Gilbert (Birkbeck, London)“Special Category Imprisonment and Masculinity in Northern Ireland in the 1970s”

4.00pm – Closing remarks
For more informatin please see
http://irelandandmasculinitiesinthelongueduree.wordpress.com.
