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Performance Matters - Irish Theatre Discussion Group - David Harrower's Blackbird
2013-09-24 18:00 (Europe/Dublin)
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
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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.

Performance, Nation and Globalization Summer School Funded by the Irish Research Council National University of Ireland, Galway 17-18 July 2013
2013-07-17 00:00
Performance, Nation and Globalization Summer School
Funded by the Irish Research Council
National University of Ireland, Galway
17-18 July 2013
This two-day Summer School explores the interrelationships between performance and nation in an era of increasing globalization. We will consider major international dramatists such as J.M Synge and David Greig, but the discussion will also take in other forms of performance, including the Eurovision Song Contests, recent American TV drama including Mad Men and Breaking Bad, and new devised work from Ireland by such companies as Brokentalkers and Anu Productions.
The event takes place at National University of Ireland, Galway, and coincides with the Galway Arts Festival (www.galwayartsfestival.com). Participation in the event is free. While the event is open to all, we particularly welcome applications from the following people:
åáAny Ireland-based PhD students and post-doctoral fellows working on Drama, Theatre and/or Performance Studies.
åáAny international PhD students and post-doctoral fellows working on Irish theatre and/or performance
åáAny Ireland-based MA students with definite plans to undertake a PhD in an area relevant to the theme of summer school
åáAny Ireland-based academics who may wish to develop new courses or research on areas relevant to the theme of the summer school.
To apply for a place on the programme, please send an email, outlining your reasons for applying, to david.clare@nuigalway.ie andPatrick.lonergan@nuigalway.ie. Deadline for applications is 15 June 2013.
PROVISIONAL TIMETABLE
Wednesday 17 July
14.00: Introduction and Welcome
14.15 ‰ÛÒ 15.45 ‰ÛÒ Session 1

Shaun Richards, ‰Û÷Were You Off East, Young Fellow ‰Û_?‰۪: The InternationalPlayboy of the Western World
David Clare ‰ÛÏIrish Writers, Ally Croker, Bridget and the Countess of Sligo: Hibernian Presences in Goldsmith‰۪s She Stoops to Conquer‰۝

16.00 ‰ÛÒ 17.30: Session 2

Karen Fricker ‰ÛÏTerry Wogan, Melancholy Britain, and the Eurovision Song Contest‰۝
Erin Hurley, ‰ÛÏSubjects and Objects: The Personal is Political‰۝

Thursday 18 July
9.30 ‰ÛÒ 11.00: Session 3

Shannon Steen, ‰ÛÏPacific Neoliberalism: Foxconn, Mike Daisey, and the Performative Imperative‰۝
Vicky Angelaki, ‰ÛÏGlobal Products and Local Targets: Reception, Perception and the Internationalized Audience‰۝

11.00 ‰ÛÒ 11.30:Coffee
11.30 ‰ÛÒ 13.00: Session 4

Clare Wallace, ‰ÛÏPerforming, processing and resisting‰ÛÓthe nation and globalization in the work of David Greig‰۝
Charlotte McIvor ‰ÛÏIreland, China, Belgium, Finland: Brokentalkers and the Transnational Connectivities of Post-Celtic Tiger Performance.‰۝

13.00 ‰ÛÒ 14.00 ‰ÛÒ Break.
14.00 ‰ÛÒ 16.15: Session 5

Patrick Lonergan, ‰ÛÏFaust and the Credit Crunch‰۝
Aoife Monks, ‰ÛÏVirtuosity, Mobility and Homesickness in Performance‰۝
Brian Singleton, ‰ÛÏThe Routes to Memory: Site-Specific Performance in Ireland and Global/Social Capital‰۝

16.15‰ÛÒ conclusion of workshop
ABSTRACTS
Vicky Angelaki, ‰ÛÏGlobal Products and Local Targets: Reception, Perception and the Internationalized Audience‰۝
The talk will explore the factors determining our identities and sensibilities as spectators (on an individual basis) and audiences (at the collective level). Much has been said about globalization and its effect on aspects of quotidian life as well as artistic production and consumption. My paper will probe to what extent there has genuinely been an impact on our viewing and responding habits. It will also explore the question of whether we have moved beyond cultural stereotypes and into an era of rigorousness and agility, reaping the benefits of mobility, the wealth of information and educational possibilities available, but also of the artistic border-crossing that characterizes our time. The paper will interrogate to what extent the internationalized art product has served to liberate us in a certain way, or whether we are essentially reproducing the old familiar national and classed perspectives. Can it be argued that we are experiencing a new, hyper-aware state, or are we forever bound to local frames of reference and what are their respective benefits and pitfalls? Ultimately, the talk will seek to problematize exchange and reception, addressing the question of how issues of perception are especially urgent today.
Suggested Reading:
Bourdieu, Pierre. ‰Û÷The Sense of Distinction‰۪. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. Trans. Richard Nice. London and New York: Routledge, 1986. 260-317. Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. ‰Û÷The Crisis of Understanding‰۪. Adventures of the Dialectic. Trans. Joseph Bien. Evanston: Northwestern UP, 1973. 9-29. Wickstrom, Maurya. ‰Û÷Introduction‰۪. Performing Consumers: Global Capital and Its Theatrical Seductions. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2006. 1-12.
David Clare, ‰ÛÏIrish Writers, Ally Croker, Bridget and the Countess of Sligo: Hibernian Presences in Goldsmith‰۪s She Stoops to Conquer‰۝
When critics discuss the ways in which Oliver Goldsmith‰۪s Irish background influenced the writing of She Stoops to Conquer, they usually focus on two aspects of the play. First, the plot is built around an incident (mistaking a country gentleman‰۪s home for an inn) that allegedly happened to Goldsmith himself while he was still living in Ireland. Second, in the play, Goldsmith (like later, London-based, Irish writers) attempts to portray hypocrisy as a peculiarly English vice. While these ‰Û÷Irish‰۪ aspects of the work are certainly important, there are other, more explicit, references to Goldsmith‰۪s native country in the play. I will carefully analyse them in this paper, since they are routinely ignored by critics.
Among these Irish references are the moment when Goldsmith has a character allude directly to Farquhar‰۪s The Beaux Stratagem and when his depiction of the character of Hardcastle betrays the influence of Sterne‰۪s Tristram Shandy. The Irish song, ‰ÛÏAlly Croker‰۝, is used in a way that links Ireland to the Orient, a connection that Goldsmith and other Irish writers have frequently made over the past two and a half centuries. The Hardcastles have a cook maid named after the Irish St. Bridget, thereby placing a (possibly) Irish servant in an English home. Finally, the Countess of Sligo is one of the ladies name-checked by Marlow during his courtship of Kate, one of a series of reflections on the Anglo-Irish in the work.
In this paper, I will also consider the ‰Û÷Irish‰۪ elements that have been either accentuated or imposed upon the play in recent Dublin productions (The Gate Theatre‰۪s in 1995, The Abbey‰۪s in 2003, and Smock Alley‰۪s in 2012).
Karen Fricker, ‰ÛÏTerry Wogan, Melancholy Britain, and the Eurovision Song Contest‰۝
‰Û÷Europe’s favourite TV show‰۪ (as its producers brand the Eurovision Song Contest [ESC]) has much to tell us about the relationship between nation, identity, feelings, and politics in the expanded, 21st century Europe. Founded in 1956 to test the newly-created capacity to share live television signals between countries, the ESC has become a significant symbolic contact zone between European cultures: an arena for European identification in which both national solidarity and participation in a European identity are confirmed, and a site where cultural struggles over the meanings, frontiers, and limits of Europe are enacted. This presentation focuses specifically on the United Kingdom‰۪s fraught relationship to the ESC, arguing that this relationship reflects deep-seated British anxieties about the place of the UK in the context of the evolving Europe, but is also symptomatic of a particular strand of postcolonial melancholia (after Paul Gilroy) and a nostalgic mode of engagement with the British colonial past and imperial supremacy. I focus in particular on Sir Terry Wogan‰۪s increasingly conservative ESC commentary for the BBC over several decades, showing how it mediated and constructed a particular vision of Europe and the UK‰۪s place in relation to it. If we shift our perspective from the UK‰۪s nostalgia and look at its participation in the ESC in its own right, however, we can see that its recent Eurovision entries offer a portrait of a lively and diverse society attempting to adapt to a cultural showcase whose codes and conventions are rapidly changing.
Erin Hurley, ‰ÛÏSubjects and Objects: The Personal is Political‰۝
It is a commonplace, and a truism, to say that ‰ÛÏQuebecois theatre‰۝ began in the late 1960s with the politically engaged, nationalist dramaturgy of Michel Tremblay. Contemporary Quebecois theatre, however, seems to be marked by a turn away from the political or collective, an orientation that marked its birth and efflorescence. Of late, critics and scholars have remarked a clear turn toward the personal or individual. Louis Patrick Leroux and Herv̩ Guay itemize the ‰ÛÏsubjective affirmations‰۝ of contemporary Quebecois theatre both within the dramatic universes presented by playwrights and in institutional discourses of theatre culture. They suggest that such subjective affirmations ‰ÛÒ that is, critical affirmations of the theatre‰۪s own success, performative affirmations of the particularized subject (especially in solo performance), and institutional and dramatic affirmations of playwrights‰۪ personal aesthetics and singular imaginaries ‰ÛÒ have multiplied in recent years.
And yet, we might remark another, seemingly contrary turn in contemporary performance: a turn toward the object, the subject‰۪s presumed ‰ÛÏother‰۝. Consider, for instance, the following protagonists from productions in recent Montreal theatre seasons as featured in venues ranging from a children‰۪s theatre to an experimental house to a puppet festival to a fine arts museum: A child‰۪s white dress. A drawing of a birthmark on a stick. Three life-sized automata. Animated mannequins. Dancing kitchen utensils. A wax figure. Two school-desks. [1]
The shows from which these characters are drawn, and others like them that put the object in the position of the dramatic and theatrical subject, interest me for two reasons. First, by putting an object in the position of the ‰ÛÏspeaking subject‰۝ of a ‰ÛÏcharacter‰۝, they evince a complex relation to the subjective affirmations and affirmations of subjectivity that are trending contemporary Quebecois theatre. Second, they allow us to read an occulted history of Quebecois theatre in which women‰۪s performance is featured and assumptions around the political value of autonomy versus heteronomy are undone. How might we reconcile the incursion of objects ‰ÛÒ these things without speech, without voice, without subjectivity proper ‰ÛÓ into a theatre culture where ‰ÛÏdramaturgies of subjectivity‰۝ seem in favour? What might these objets d̩sincarn̩s tell us about artistic engagement, the shifting Quebecois collective, and it theatre history?
Three recent solo performances by women featuring performing objects will feed my analysis: Joseph-la-tache [Joseph-the-Birthmark] by Catherine Vidal (2010), La robe blanche [The White Dress] by Pol Pelletier (2012), and Le Salon Automate[The Salon Automaton] by Nathalie Claude (2008). Through these pieces, I explore the discourse of the object on the subject of the Subject. How are on-stage subject-object (that is, self-other) relations figured in contemporary Quebec theatre? What might these relations intimate about stage-audience and art-society relations? And what are their engagements with the world around the subject, beyond the theatre?
Patrick Lonergan, ‰ÛÏFaust and the Credit Crunch‰۝
A vareity of cultural responses to the global credit crunch (2008-) are already evident, from novels about banking (such as John Lanchester‰۪s Capital) to revivals of plays that explore issues of wealth (such as a recent NT production of Timon of Athens). This paper explores how one of the defining charateristics of cultural responses to the credit crunch has been a significant increase in new performances that draw on the Faust motif, which is often directly taken from work by Goethe, Marlowe, Mann, Bulgakov and others. This paper explores the significance of this motif for contemporary performance. I briefly explore new work by dramatists such as Conor McPherson, Marina Carr, Mark O‰۪Rowe David Mamet and David Greig, before analyzing in some detail the impact of the Faust motif on contemporary American television, particularly in Mad Men, Damagesand Breaking Bad. The aim of the paper is to consider those works as responses to our changing understanding of issues such as indebtedness, austerity, personal value and ‰ÛÒ in particular ‰ÛÒ the nation.
Suggested Reading/Viewing:
Conor McPherson, The Seafarer, David Greig, The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart.
Damages Season 1, episodes 1-3; Mad Men season 1; Breaking Bad (all seasons).
Charlotte McIvor ,‰ÛÏIreland, China, Belgium, Finland: Brokentalkers and the Transnational Connectivities of Post-Celtic Tiger Performance‰۝
This talk queries Dublin-based theatre company Brokentalkers‰۪ focus on the role of transnational networks as the future of innovation in the Irish arts through an analysis of their works, In Real Time (2008) and Track (2006). In Real Time and Track present two overlapping stories of the role of the transnational in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland. In Real Time animates European networks via an act of artistic collaboration, while Track stages an encounter with Dublin that brings participants on an exploration of the City Centre through the perspective of the Chinese community, both long-term residents and recent arrivals, living in Ireland. In Real Time literally enacts an inter-EU network physically manifested through actors‰۪ live and virtual bodies in theatrical time and space. Conversely, Track challenges discourses of Irish nationalism and forces recognition of transnational networks of migrants in Ireland that reach outside the space of the nation and the EU.
Aoife Monks, ‰ÛÏVirtuosity, Mobility and Homesickness in Performance‰۝
It was in the 18th Century that the virtuoso emerged as a category of performance (rather than a connoisseur and collector of fine art as in previous centuries). This was the moment in which virtuosity came to embody superhuman performance, emerging in a performer capable of apparently magical (if not demonic) transcendence of the material conditions of the stage. This paper investigates the relationship between the birth of the virtuoso and the emergence of the emotional category of nostalgia ‰ÛÒ homesickness ‰ÛÒ and suggests that they might both be viewed as symptoms of the disorienting affects of industrial modernity. Furthermore, I will ask whether virtuosity (as a category of performance, and later a quality ascribed to particular forms of work) and nostalgia might grow out of, and enable, global mobility. It may be no coincidence then, that the virtuosic performers that I will draw on in this paper ‰ÛÒ Dion Boucicault and Dan Bryant in the 19th Century and Michael Flatley and Jean Butler in the 20th Century ‰ÛÒ have all traded in nostalgia, wedding performances that inspire terror and awe with the longing for ‰Û÷home‰۪. I will examine how the material conditions of labour in these two periods produce forms of virtuosity and nostalgia in performance.
Suggested reading:
Gabriele Brandstetter, ‰Û÷The Virtuoso’s Stage: A Theatrical Topos‰۪, Theatre Research International, Volume 32: Issue 02 (July 2007), pp 178-195.
Paulo Virno, A Grammar of the Multitude: For an Analysis of Contemporary Forms of Life, Trans. by Isabella Bertoletti, James Cascaito, Andrea Casson (New York: SEMIOTEXT(E), 2004), particularly Chapter Four: ‰ÛÏLabor, Action, Intellect : Day Two‰۝ [accessible at: http://www.generation-online.org/c/fcmultitude3.htm].
Svetlana Boym, The Future of Nostalgia (New York: Basic Books, 2001).
Shaun Richards, ‰ÛÏ‰Û÷Were You Off East, Young Fellow ‰Û_?‰۪: The International Playboy of the Western World‰۝
George Ritzer‰۪s concepts of ‰Û÷something‰۪ (indigenously conceived) and ‰Û÷nothing‰۪ (centrally conceived) appears to duplicate simple ‰Û÷positive/negative‰۪ binaries of the local and the global. However, he adds the significant qualification that even the most local product is touched by the global, so making it ‰Û÷glocal‰۪. This paper will address the ‰Û÷glocal‰۪ aspect of theatre through productions of Playboy of the Western World from the Abbey production in 1907 and its US tour in 1911, to the work of Druid Theatre, Galway, Pan Pan Theatre‰۪s production in Beijing, the Roddy Doyle and Bisi Adigun adaptation, and Desperate Optimists‰۪ play-boy.
Shannon Steen, ‰ÛÏPacific Neoliberalism: Foxconn, Mike Daisey, and the Performative Imperative‰۝
This presentation examines how the inter-embeddedness of Foxconn‰۪s labor structures, Mike Daisey‰۪s theatrical monologue The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, and Apple Corporation‰۪s attempt to shape advanced capitalism with a human face instantiates what we might term Pacific Neoliberalism ‰ÛÒ a set of political imperatives predicated on unique forms of economic and cultural flows within and across the Pacific Basin. I use this trio of objects to explore how neoliberalism in general is itself a performative project, and how its Pacific Basin variant instantiates particular ideologies of creativity and labor distinctive from those of its Atlantic counterpart.
Suggested Readings:
Wendy Brown, ‰ÛÏNeoliberalism and the End of Liberal Democracy.‰۝ Theory & Event, 7:1.
Mike Daisey, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs. Downloaded from http://mikedaisey.blogspot.com/p/monologues.html.
David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Catherine Kingfisher and Jeff Maskovsky, ‰ÛÏThe Limits of Neoliberalism.‰۝ In Critique of Anthropology, Vol. 28 (2): 115-126.
Lara D. Nielsen and Patricia Ybarra (eds). Neoliberalism and Global Theatres: Performance Permutations. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 (see especially essays by Margaret Werry, Eng-Beng Lim, and Patricia Ybarra).
Brian Singleton, ‰ÛÏThe Routes to Memory: Site-Specific Performance in Ireland and Global/Social Capital‰۝
Celebrated contemporary site-specific performance, most notably in the work of the UK‰۪s Punchdrunk, has been branded by Michael McKinnie as ‰Û÷monopolistic‰۪ as it trades on the theatrical efficacy of spatial disuse. Touring their work most recently to New York that monopolism has further begun to trade their theatrical efficacy/spatial disuse paradigm as global capital. Contextualising their work historically we place Punchdrunk among celebrated European companies such as Brith Gof of Wales, Dogtroep of The Netherlands and La Fura dels Baus of Catalunya, all of whom engaged similar global performance routes. But what of Irish site-specific performance? Certainly festivalised productions such as Playgroup‰۪s Berlin Love Tour (2010), Junk Ensemble‰۪s Bird with Boy (2011) and Wilfredd‰۪s Farm (2012) operate within similar paradigms though arguably with less global potential. Anu Productions Monto trilogy (2010-12), however, resists the efficacy/disuse paradigm. The company‰۪s site-specificity lies in their social capital of having emerged from and engaged with the lives and histories of an inner-city Dublin community‰۪s spaces and places in very material ways. Rooted in the materiality of their social history, Anu Productions‰۪ performances also address the issue of site-specific performance as speaking to but also resistant to the globalization of Irish theatre.
Clare Wallace, ‰ÛÏPerforming, processing and resisting‰ÛÓthe nation and globalization in the work of David Greig‰۝
My proposed presentation derives from research I have been doing on the work of Scottish playwright David Greig. Since the 1990s Greig has produced an extensive body of work both as a writer and in collaboration with the Suspect Culture theatre company which he co-founded. As part of a new generation of Scottish writers whose work emerged at the end of the twentieth century, Greig has actively participated in the ongoing re-imagining of Scotland in the wake of devolution. However, critics at times have seemed slightly disgruntled at the apparent lack of familiar Scottish co-ordinates in some of his work. Greig is not alone in his ambivalence about signposting national specificity in his writing and theatre making. Nadine Holdsworth (2008) for instance has noted how relationships between place and identity are prominent features of Scottish playwriting more generally and contends that ‰Û÷there is a marked trend amongst many contemporary Scottish playwrights and theatre-makers to theatricalize multifarious sites, geological formations and landscapes as a way of articulating the diversity of Scotland‰۪ (126). Yet, what makes Greig‰۪s work a fascinating field of investigation is the way this ambivalence about national specificity is coupled with an ongoing attempt to address a wider set of economic and cultural conditions catalysed by globalization and broach forms of transnational identity within the amorphous context of the contemporary. ‰Û÷Theatre doesn‰۪t change the world‰۪ Greig has claimed, but ‰Û÷if the battlefield is the imagination, then the theatre is a very appropriate weapon in the armoury of resistance‰۪ because it cannot be ‰Û÷globally commodified,‰۪ since it is founded on possibility, contingency, changeability and is ‰Û÷accessible to everybody.‰۪ With reference to selected plays and interviews, this presentation would chart how Greig‰۪s ideas about how theatre can or should engage with questions of nation and globalization have evolved since he began writing and would attempt to position this work in relation to wider debates about theatre and globalization.
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Dr Patrick Lonergan
Programme Director, MA in Drama and Theatre Studies; BA in Drama, Theatre and Performance; BA Connect with Performing Arts Studies
English, School of Humanities
National University of Ireland, Galway
Ireland
patrick.lonergan@nuigalway.ie
http://www.nuigalway.ie/english/patrick_lonergan.html
@NUIGDrama
Phone +353 91 49 2631

Postgraduate Hispanic Studies Conference 2013, June 28th and 29th
2013-06-28 00:00
The Postgraduate Hispanic Studies Conference of Ireland and the UK 2013 will take place in the Moore Institute on the 28th and 29th of June. The plenary speakers are Professor Bill Richardson, Head of the Spanish Department at NUI Galway, who will give a lecture entitled: “The Path Not Taken: Borges, Labyrinths, and the Location of Translation”; Dr. Chris Harris from the University of Liverpool who will deliver a talk on “Latin American Literature and Feminist Theory: Do Men and Masculinities Matter?”; and Clare Murphy who will speak on ‘Storytelling in South America’.
Dr. Mel Boland of the Spanish Department in NUI, Galway will also be launching his recent publication, Displacement in Isabel Allende’s Fiction, 1982-2000 (Hispanic Studies: Culture and Ideas) during the conference on Friday, 28 June 2013 in The Moore Institute.
For further information about the conference you may refer to the following Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/events/202983149775588/, or alternatively: http://hispanic-conference.com
Postgraduate Hispanic Studies Conference of Ireland and the UK, 2013 Programme
Day 1: Friday, 28 June, 2013

Time

Event

Location

08.30-09.15

Registration

Moore Institute Seminar Room

9.15-9.30

Conference Opening by Dr. Lillis O Laoire and Dr. Lorna Shaughnessy

Moore Institute Seminar Room

9.30-10.30

Plenary: Prof. Bill Richardson (NUI Galway)
Title: ‰Û÷The Path Not Taken: Borges, Labyrinths, and the Location of Translation‰۪

Moore institute Seminar Room
Introduced by Dr. Lorna Shaughnessy

10.30-10.45

Tea/Coffee break

Moore Institute Seminar Room

10.45-11.45

Panel 1: Translations
Owen Harrington FernÌÁndez (NUI Galway)
Title: ‰Û÷Indexing Identity in Translation: Character Idiolect and Sociolect in the Spanish Translation of John Updike’s ‘Rabbit Redux’‰۪
Dr. Patricia Holmes (NUI Galway)
Title: ‰Û÷C̩sar Aira: innovation and experimentation in process and narrative‰۪

Moore Institute Seminar Room
Chair: Bego̱a Sangrador-Vegas

11.45-12.00

Tea/Coffee break

Moore Institute Seminar Room

12.00.13.30

Panel 2: Spanish Historiography
Mark McKinty (Queens‰۪ University Belfast)
Title: ‰Û÷Origen y progresos: NicolÌÁs FernÌÁndez de MoratÌ_n‰۪s Carta histÌ_rica as the start of the modern bullfighting debate‰۪
Francis Kelly (University College Cork)
Title: ‰Û÷Tales of a Knight Errant or Universal Soldier of Golden Age Spain?‰۪
Antonio Rojas (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Title: ‰Û÷The Spanish Golden Age, Baroque and GÌ_ngora‰۪

Moore Institute Seminar Room
Chair: Ivan Kenny

13.30-15.00

Lunch

An Bhialann

15.00-16.00

Plenary: Clare Muireann Murphy
Title: ‰Û÷Storytelling y cuentos; the power of words‰۪

Moore Institute Seminar Room
Chair: Dr. Kate Quinn

16.15-16.30

Tea/ Coffee break

Moore Institute Seminar Room

16.30-17.30

Panel 3:The Arts of Storytelling
Kate Dunn (University of Edinburgh)
Title: ‰Û÷How can the Poem Testify? Speaking and the Unspeaking in Alicia Partnoy‰۪s Venganza de la manzana‰۪
Diletta Panero (NUI Galway)
Title: ‰Û÷Generational Storytelling in Chilean Narrative: Isabel Allende and Marta Blanco‰۪

Moore Institute Seminar Room
Chair: Dr. Niamh McNamara

18.00-19.00

Book Launch
Dr Mel Boland of NUI Galway will launch Displacement in Isabel Allende’s Fiction, 1982-2000 (Hispanic Studies: Culture and Ideas) (2013)

Moore Institute Seminar Room
Introduced by Dr. Chris Harris

The conference dinner will take place at 20.00 in Vi̱a Mara, 19 Middle St, Galway.
Day 2: Saturday, 29 June, 2013

Time

Event

Location

9.30-10.30

Panel 1: Southern Cone Narratives
Dr. David Conlon (NUI Galway)
Title: ‰Û÷The Trauma of Nature in Zama by Antonio Di Benedetto‰۪
C̩ire Broderick(NUI Galway)
‰Û÷Negotiating the Fragments in Gustavo FrÌ_as‰۪ Tres nombres para Catalina: la do̱a de CampofrÌ_o‰۪

Moore Institute Seminar Room
Chair: Jennie Galvin

10.30-10.45

Tea/Coffee break

Moore Institute Seminar Room

10.45-12.15

Panel 2: Analysing Spanish Visual Media
Mirna Vohnsen (University College Dublin)
Title: ‰Û÷The Metamorphis of the Jewish Character in Argentine Cinema‰۪
Ivan Kenny (NUI Galway)
Title: ‰Û÷Images of Entropy in The Exterminating Angel by Luis Bu̱uel‰۪
Ruth Miriam Cereceda Gaton (BISC Queen‰۪s University)
Title: ‰Û÷Marinero en tierra: anÌÁlisis de la cultura marinera del norte de Espa̱a en la obra y la persona del pintor Eduardo Sanz fraile‰۪

Moore Institute Seminar Room
Chair: Diletta Panero

12.15-12.30

Tea/Coffee break

Moore Institute Seminar Room

12.30-13.30

Panel 3: Historical Memory and Contemporary Spain
Imogen Bloomfield
(University of Hull)
Title: ‰Û÷Spain‰۪s (Un)Dead Children: A Haunting Presence in Historical Memory‰۪
Aisling O‰۪Connor (University of Limerick)
Title: ‰Û÷A postgenerational perspective on Republican women and Spain‰۪s stolen babies: BenjamÌ_n Prado‰۪s Mala gente que camina (2006)‰۪

Moore Institute Seminar Room
Chair: Owen Harrington-FernÌÁndez

13.30-15.00

Lunch

37 West

15.00-16.00

Plenary: Dr. Chris Harris
(University of Liverpool)
Title: ‰Û÷Latin American Literature and Feminist Theory: Do Men and Masculinities Matter?‰۪

Moore Institute Seminar Room
Chair: Prof. Bill Richardson

16.00-16.15

Tea/Coffee break

Moore Institute Seminar Room

16.15-17.45

Panel 4: Representations of Violence, Gender Roles and Drug trafficking in Popular Culture in Mexico and the Borderlands
Dr. Niamh McNamara (University College Cork)
Title: ‰Û÷Drugs, Violence and Ambiguity: Breaking Bad on the U.S. ‰ÛÒ Mexico border‰۪
Jennie Galvin (NUI Galway)
Title: ‰Û÷El Movimiento Alterado: narrating a world of gender hierarchies, drugs and violence‰۪
Dr. Yolanda Reyes
(University College Dublin)
Title: ‰Û÷Hypermasculinity, Violence and the re-enacted ‰ÛÏMacho‰۝ in XXI Century Mexican Cinema‰۪

Moore Institute Seminar Room
Chair: C̩ire Broderick

17.45-18.30

Round table discussion and conference close

Moore Institute Seminar Room

Conference on 'Gender and Sexuality in the Crime Genre'
2013-06-22 09:00
June 22nd and 23rd
Conference on
‘Gender and Sexuality in the Crime Genre’.
Organisers Dr Kate Quinn, NUIG
and Dr Marieke Krajenbrink, UL.
For more information contact kate.quinn@nuigalway.ie
Friday 21st June
Registration: 9:00-9:30
9:30-11:00 Parallel Session 1
Scandinavian Crime I: Women Crime Writers

Chair:

Noir Men and Women I
Chair:

Paula Arvas (Helsinki)
Is there a glass ceiling for Finnish women crime writers?

Deborah Walker (Auckland)
Fatal men in classic French film noir

Jacky Collins (Northumbria)
The ‰Û÷Irene Huss’ novels by Helene Tursten

Martin Rosenstock (Kuwait)
Sterile Erotics in the Interwar Period: Marek Krajewski’s Death in Breslau (1999)

Jane Rosenbaum (Rider)
Nina Borg The Boy in the Suitcase and the gendering of heroes and victims

Maysaa Jaber (Baghdad)
Opening the “Forbidden Box”: female criminality and agency in the works of James M. Cain

11:00-11:30 Coffee
11:30-13:00 – Parallel Session 2

Scandinavian Crime II: The Millennium Trilogy.
Chair:

Noir Men and Women II
Chair:

V̩ronique Kwak (Taiwan National Cheng-chi University)
From victim to victimizer: Corporeal suffering as spatial transcendence of genders in the case of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl who Played with Fire

Linda Crawford (Salve Regina)
Men writing women in noir: Paco Ignacio Taibo II and Luis Sep̼lveda

Deepthi Sebastian (QUB)
The dissonant body of Lisbeth Salander

Veronika PitukovÌÁ (Masaryk University)
Hard-boiled Mike Hammer and seductive babes

Kerstin Bergman (Lund)
The women who are hated by men: Women victims and Heroes in the Millennium Trilogy

Richard Williams (Independent Scholar)
Interrogating the alleged misogyny of Gardner’s portrayal of Bertha Cool

13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 – Parallel Session 3

French Crime
Chair:

New incarnations and the ongoing influence of Sherlock Holmes
Chair:

Meryem BelkaÌød
Women written and women writers in modern French crime fiction

Palle Schantz Lauridsen (Copenhagen)
Holmes & Watson: Friendship, bromance, and sexuality, 1887-2014

Eva Robustillo-BayÌ_n (Seville)
French women detectives in contemporary French crime fiction: Louise Morvan and Gloria Parker-Simmons

Malcah Effron (Case Western Reserve, Ohio)
Holmes’s female companions: Re-figuring Watson as a woman

Andrea Hynynen (Abo Akademi University, Finland and Universit̩ Paris 13)
Size matters: challenging gender and sexual norms through the detective’s body – a comparison of Fred Vargas’s and Pierre Lemaitre’s crime novels

Antoine Dech̻ne (Li̬ge/CIPA/Belspo)
Gender and sexuality in the metaphysical thriller: the case of Paul Auster

16:00-16:30 Coffee
16:30-18:00 – Parallel Session 4

Masculinities
Chair:

18th and 19th-century constructions of the female criminal
Chair:

Dominique Jeannerod (QUB)
Putting the killer to rest: Gender and generic exhaustion in Manchette’s The Prone Gunman

Anna C. Jenkin (Sheffield)
‰Û÷Sensation, seduction and submission: representations of murderous wives in eighteenth-century London and Paris’

Jeffrey Halpern (Rider)
‰Û÷When worlds collide: images of masculinity in the novels of Tony Hillerman’

Shampa Roy (Delhi)
Errant Wives and Wanton Widows: Gender and Crime in the Crime Narratives of one of the first crime writers in Bengal

Louise Vincent (Rhodes)
Gender and Sexuality in South African Twenty-first Century Crime Fiction

Joanne Simpson (University of Ulster)
‰Û÷Mad, bad and pathetic: engendering evil in the Victorian novel’

18:15-19:15 Keynote by Dr Andrew Pepper of QUB (Academic and Crime Writer)
‘Appropriating the Nineteenth Century: The New Economy of Work and Sex in Crime Fiction’
19:15 Wine Reception and Formal Welcome
Saturday 22nd June
09:30-11:00 Parallel Session 5

Women in Contemporary International Crime Fiction
Chair:

Partners in crime.
Chair:

Liala Khronopoulo (St Petersburg)
‰Û÷”Weak” and “strong” women characters in contemporary Japanese crime stories

Eva Erdmann (Freiburg)
Masculine/feminine – detecting couples in crime fiction: from Miss Marple/Hercule Poirot to Sarah Lund/Jens=Peter Raben

Madhumita Chakraborty (Delhi)
Women in Bangla detective fiction

Arco van Ieperen (PWSZ)
The equilibrium of the sexes: gender equality in Robert B. Parker’s Spenser series

Patricia Plummer (Duisburg-Essen)
Female sleuths: a survey of contemporary trends

Linda Ledford-Miller (Scranton)
Just hot enough: gender roles and sexuality in J. D. Robb’s detective series

11:00-11:30 Coffee
11:30-13:00 Parallel Session 6

Deadly Affairs
Chair:

Screening Gender I
Chair:

Silvia Ammary (John Cabot University, Rome)
Poe’s beautiful dead women: males’ fictional ideals

Eduardo ObradÌ_ (Cantabria)
This is a man’s world: the women of the game in The Wire

Tina Pusse (NUIG)
H. H. Jahnn’s The Wooden Ship trilogy

Noel O’Shea (UL)
Performing masculinity in the films of Michael Mann

Joel Phillips (Rider)
Love Triangle as Mise en Abyme in Wesley Stace’s Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer

Natascha Haarstick (Ruprecht-Karls-UniversitÌ_t Heidelberg)
Female investigators in the German TV series Tatort

13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Parallel Session 7

Italian Crime Writers and Gender
Chair:

Screening Gender II
Chair:

Carol Nicholson (Rider)
Ockham’s Razor, Women, and God: Philosophical Themes in The Name of the Rose

Henrietta Phillips (Birmingham)
Competition, narcissism and the spectacle of British “Northern” masculinity in pop-cultural accounts of Ian Brady and Peter Sutcliffe

Elizabeth Scheiber (Rider)
Bending Gender and Genre: Changing Gender Roles in Italian Crime Fiction

Samantha Lindop (Queensland)
Deadly Lesbians and the Contemporary Cinematic Crime Thriller

Barbara Pezzotti (Independent Scholar)
Blame it on the Tranny: Transvestism and Transgender in Andrea G. Pinketts’s Crime Fiction

Kylo-Patrick Hart (Texas Christian University)
Queering the Crime ‰Û÷Splatter Film’: The Case of William Friedkin’s Cruising

16:00-16:30 Coffee
16:30-18:00 Parallel Session 8

True Crimes and Criminals Revisited
Chair:

Screening Gender III: Psychology
Chair:

Dunlaith Bird (Oxford/ENS Paris)
Bodies in the Bosphorus: true crime and travel writing

Rachel MagShamhrÌÁin (University College Cork)
The Female Thief in Marnie: Poor or Poorly?

Marian Lara-Ja̩n and Jean-Philippe Imbert (DCU)
Bleeding Borders, Bleeding Bodies: Violence and Sexuality in Desert Blood (Alicia Gaspar De Alba, 2005)

Jacqui Miller (Liverpool Hope)
‰Û÷He certainly wasn’t a pervert‘: (A)sexuality, Abnormal Psychology, and Criminality in the novels of Patricia Highsmith and their filmed adaptations

Katarina Gregersdotter (Ume̴ University, Sweden)
Gender, sexuality and the power of storytelling in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace

Sujata Moorti (Middlebury, Vermont)
Crime on your mind: Scientific identities

18:00-19:00 Keynote: Professor Lisa Downing (Birmingham)
‰Û÷Romancing the Cannibal: Genre and Gender Trouble in Thomas Harris’s Hannibal (1999)’
20:00 or 20:30: Conference Dinner in the Radisson Blu Hotel (Time to be confirmed)

Landed estates & Irish society
2013-06-13 14:00
Landed estates & Irish society
Moore Institute, NUI Galway
13 – 14 June 2013
(Revised Programme)
Thursday 13 June
2.15 William Smyth (Professor Emeritus, UCC), ‰Û÷Landlordism, Evictions and the Great Famine’
Chair: James Harrold (Arts Officer, Galway City)
3.45. Singular figures of landed background
Pauline Scott (NUI Galway), ‘Agent, tenant, advocate & agitator: Michael Kelly & the Burke & Pollok estates’
Leo Keohane (NUI Galway), ‰Û÷”Quare folk”: the Whites of Whitehall’
Madeline O’Neill (NUI Galway), ‰Û÷Senator Colonel Maurice Moore of Moore Hall’
Chair: Gerard Moran (NUI Maynooth)
7.00. Reception marking Patrick Melvin’s Estates and landed society in Galway (Dublin: de B̼rca, 2012). Speaker: Tadhg Foley.
Introduced by Marie Mannion (Heritage Officer, Co. Galway)
8 pm. Philip Bull (Visiting Fellow, An Foras Feasa, NUI Maynooth & La Trobe University, Melbourne)
‘A nineteenth-century Irish estate: New records for the history of Irish landed estates’
Chair: Noel Wilkins (President Galway Arch. & Hist. Society)
Friday 14 June
10.00. Texts, cultures and contexts: new scholarship.
Joanne McEntee (NUI Galway) ‰Û÷Squires and Solicitors: an important relationship in 19th century Ireland’
Conor Montague (NUI Galway), ‘The Light of Evening, Lissadell’
Laura Vickers (NUI Galway) ‘”A well abused set of men”: The land agent in nineteenth century Ireland’
Chair: John Cunningham (NUI Galway)
2.00. Accessing the estate record.
Marie Boran (NUI Galway), ‰Û÷”Can you help me to find out?” The Landed Estates database, five years on’
Brigid Clesham (NUI Galway), ‘Solicitors’ Collections – an unrecognised source?’
Chair: Adrian Frazier (NUI Galway)
3.00. Class, gender and landed society
Adrian Grant (NUI Galway) ‰Û÷Using landed estate records to better understand the rural Irish worker: some findings from the estates of Connacht and Ulster.’
Maeve O’Riordan (UCC) ‘The social and cultural world of women of the Munster landed class, 1860-1914’
Chair: Laurence Marley (NUI Galway)
4.30. Olwen Purdue (Queen’s, Belfast), ‘”The price of our loyalty”: the Northern Ireland Land Act of 1925’
5.15 Closing remarks from GearÌ_id ÌÒ Tuathaigh (NUI Galway)
Conference organisers: Marie Boran; John Cunningham; Joanne McEntee
Registration free; inquiries to john.cunningham@nuigalway.ie
* Event supported by HEA under PRTLI Cycle 4 *

Dr Fred Freeman, Hon. Fellow in English at the University of Edinburgh - 'A fiddler and a poet' : Songs of Robert Burns
2013-06-07 11:00
‰Û÷I am a fiddler and a poet’ : Robert Burns as a song-writer
This illustrated talk is designed to introduce a wholly unknown Robert Burns to the general public. For over 200 years Burns has been misrepresented as Scotland’s national ‰Û÷poet’, yet he was primarily a song-writer, composing upwards of 400 songs.
Most of the songs have been lying in abeyance since 1796 though they are of a quality which should easily have established Burns as one of the greatest song-writers of the 18th-century. The presentation considers why this did not happen as it explores the activities of George Thomson, Burns’s second editor, in commissioning Viennese/German composers – Pleyel, Kozeluch, van Weber, Hummel, Haydn, Beethoven, etc. – to recast Burns’s folk composition into an alien classical mould which put paid to it, almost irrevocably. Much of the approach considers Burns’s background as a fiddler and folk musician, quite generally; his innovative use of folk dance/instrumental forms (strathspeys, reels, jigs, slip jigs, hornpipes); his curious method of composition – always from the tune to the words; his seminal theory of ‰Û÷ballad simplicity’ which relates to language, form, rhythm, tonality and more.
The lecture is both informative and entertaining, with numerous musical examples played throughout the presentation – drawn from Freeman’s THE COMPLETE SONGS OF ROBERT BURNS (12 vols, Linn Records 1996-2003).
Biography of Dr Fred Freeman
Sometime Fellow in English at University of Edinburgh, I am a graduate of Aberdeen and Edinburgh universities (Ph.D. Edinburgh). I have 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. I had 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.
I am author of a book on the 18th-century Edinburgh poet, Robert Fergusson (EUP 1984) and a children’s book on the Paisley poet, Robert Tannahill (2009); have published over 100 articles on Scottish literature, folk music and history. I am on the official Live Literature Scotland authors’ list for grants.
Over the past decade I have drawn upon my 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).
fwfreeman@talk21.com

Dr. Fred Freeman, Hon. Fellow in English at the University of Edinburgh- The Irish In Scotland : Robert Tannahill
2013-06-06 16:00
LECTURE – 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 – 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, a short biography
Sometime Fellow in English at University of Edinburgh, I am a graduate of Aberdeen and Edinburgh universities (Ph.D. Edinburgh). I have 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. I had 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.
I am author of a book on the 18th-century Edinburgh poet, Robert Fergusson (EUP 1984) and a children’s book on the Paisley poet, Robert Tannahill (2009); have published over 100 articles on Scottish literature, folk music and history. I am on the official Live Literature Scotland authors’ list for grants.
Over the past decade I have drawn upon my 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).

Mission and Frontiers: Perspectives on Early Modern Missionary Catholicism
2013-06-04 00:00
Mission and Frontiers: Perspectives on Early Modern Missionary Catholicism
National University of Ireland, Galway, 4th and 5th June, 2013
When, in 1893, Frederick Turner spoke of a phenomenon that ‰Û÷broke the bonds of custom, offered new experiences, [and] called out new institutions and activities‰۪, he was referring to the American frontier, but his description can be aptly applied to the missionary challenges the Catholic church encountered at the ‰Û÷frontiers‰۪ of mission in the early modern era.These were places and spaces with amorphous cultural and/or politico-geographical boundaries, unsettled or changing ‰Û÷certainties‰۪, and innovations stemming from the shifting realities of contact and diffusion which those involved in mission experienced within and without Europe.This symposium will seek to examine afresh the contours of mission in frontier zones, exploring the character and impact of missionary activity at the boundaries of Catholic culture and geography.
Possible topics for consideration include but arenot limited to:
åáDefining the meaning and applicability of frontier in relation to early modern Catholicism
åáExploring the meanings of ‰Û÷mission church‰۪ and ‰Û÷missionary Catholicism‰۪
åáCompetition and co-operation in the competition for souls
åáCohesion and difference, relating to gender, native ‰Û÷church‰۪, and inter-religion contacts
åáColonial religion and the ‰Û÷process‰۪ of imperial empire-making
åáCentre and periphery ‰ÛÒ authority and autonomy in missionary enterprises
Registration is FREE.If interested in attending the symposium and/or in offering a paper, please contact the event organisers:
Dr Alison Forrestal
Dr Sean Smith
alison.forrestal@nuigalway.ie
s.smith12@nuigalway.ie

Symposium Programme

Tuesday, 4 June 2013
11.00 Welcome and Opening Remarks, Alison Forrestal (NUIG)
11.15-13.00 Session 1
Luke Clossey (Simon Fraser University)
“Comparative Perspectives on Frontier and Mission in Early Modern Islam and Catholicism.”
Sean Smith (NUIG)
“Mortification in a frontier zone: survival versus salvation in Madagascar, 1648-1674.”
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 – Session 2:
Karin Velez (Macalester College)
“With wonderful lamentation”: Soliciting Tears on Jesuit Frontiers in the Italian Marche, Huron and Moxos Missions, 1560-1760.”
Thierry Issartel (Lyc̩e Louis-Barthou, Pau)
“At a corner of the Kingdom…” The Pyr̩n̩es: missions across a religious border in tension (16th and 17th centuries).”
15.30-15.45 Coffee
15.45- 17.15- Session 3
Andrew Redden (University of Liverpool)
“Not So Good Shepherds?: Reluctant Jesuit Martyrs on the c.17th Chilean Frontier.”
Gauvin Bailey (Queen’s University)
“Missionaries and Global Artistic Exchange in Catholic America 1520-1650: Spanish America, Brazil, and Nouvelle-France.”
19.00 Conference Dinner
Wednesday, 5 June 2013
10.00-11.30 – Session 4:
Megan Armstrong (McMaster University)
“Catholic Frontier or Homeland? The Custody of the Holy land as a Site of Missionary Competition, 1600-1700.”
Andrew McCormick (l’Institut national des langues et civilisation orientale) “Pierre-Fran̤ois Viguier, the Congregation of the Mission and the Gallican conquest of the Levant.”
Coffee 11.30-11.45
11.45 – 13.00 – Session 5
John McCafferty (UCD)
“Apostolical Missioner: Nicholas Archbold, Capuchin (d. 1645).”
Margaret Brennan (University of Illinois)
“Seducers come from Hell”? Paul Harris’s Polemic against Regular Missionary Privilege in Post-Tridentine Ireland.”
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.15- Session 6
Felicia Rosu (Leiden University)
“Helping Transylvania: Jesuit missions in late 16th-century Eastern Europe.”
Tadhg O’Hannrachain (UCD)
“Nullum aliud emolumentum quaerere quam salutem animarum”? Catholic Missionary activity in the Turkish Balkans in the early seventeenth century.”
15.15-15.30 Coffee
15.30- 16.30 Session 7
Ronnie Po-chia Hsia (Penn State University)
“Missionary Frontiers: A Comparison of Colonial Latin America and Portuguese Asia in the early modern era.”

Global Women's Studies Summer Seminar with Caroline Bettinger Lopez, Human Rights Clinic, University of Miami, School of Law
2013-05-24 14:00
Global Women‰۪s Studies Summer Seminar
With
Caroline Bettinger Lopez,
Human Rights Clinic, University of Miami, School of Law
“Bringing human rights home: Strategies to fight domestic violence and other gender-based violations”
Friday May 24 – 2.00-3.30 pm
Moore Institute Seminar Room
Free event – all welcome!
To reserve a place, email: Gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie
Caroline Bettinger-LÌ_pez is an Associate Professor of Clinical Legal Education and Director of the Human Rights Clinic at the University of Miami School of Law. Her scholarship, advocacy, and teaching focus on international human rights law and advocacy including the implementation of human rights norms at the domestic level. Her main regional focus is the US and Latin America, and her principal areas of interest include violence against women, gender and race discrimination, immigrants’ rights, and clinical legal education. Bettinger-LÌ_pez regularly litigates and engages in other forms of advocacy in the Inter-American Human Rights system, federal and state courts and legislative bodies, and the United Nations. Most notably, along with colleagues at the Human Rights Clinic of Columbia Law School and the American Civil Liberties Union, Bettinger-LÌ_pez was a leading member of the legal team that represented Jessica Lenahan (formerly Gonzales) in the landmark case Jessica Gonzales v. United States of America. Gonzales, whose daughters were abducted by her estranged husband in 1999 and killed after the police repeatedly refused to enforce her domestic violence restraining order against him, went before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in March 2007 and again in October 2008, after all domestic avenues of justice were closed to her.

Workshop - Media, Culture and Empire
2013-05-24 12:00
Workshop – Media, Culture and Empire
24 May 2013 – 12pm-5.30pm
Venue – Room STC.S78, St Clements Building, Clare Market, London School of Economics
12-1pm Simon J. Potter, University of Bristol ‰ÛÒ ‰Û÷Jingoism and the British Press at the fin de si̬cle‰۪
R. S. Coffey, LSE ‰ÛÒ ‰Û÷‰ÛÏThe Paladins of Fleet Street‰۝: The British press, the Colonial Office and the ‰ÛÏBlantyre riot‰۝, 1960‰۪
1pm-2pm Lunch
2pm-3pm Benedict Greening, LSE ‰ÛÒ ‰Û÷The Royal Gazette newspaper and the last hangings on British soil‰۪
James O‰۪Donnell, NUI, Galway ‰ÛÒ ‰Û÷News, Networks and the Nation-State: the decolonisation of Irish news supply?’
3-3.30pm Coffee
3.30-4.30pmFiona Bateman, NUI, Galway ‰ÛÒ ‰Û÷‰ÛÏThis Unfortunate Affair‰۝: Ireland and Biafra 1967-70‰۪
Charlotte Riley, UCL ‰ÛÒ ‰Û÷‰ÛÏNo Longer Isolated‰۝: Broadcasting in the post-war British African Empire‰۪
4.30-5.30pmJoanna Lewis, LSE ‰ÛÒ ‰Û÷Empires of Sentiment, Africa and the ‰ÛÏHeart of the Nation‰۝: Newspaper coverage of the death and funeral of David Livingstone‰۪
Lionel Pilkington, NUI, Galway – ‰Û÷Performing Ireland and the Postcolonial Body‰۪
This is a joint workshop organised by the National University of Ireland, Galway and the London School of Economics. There is no charge to register but if you would like to attend please email Dave Finn (dave.finn@nuigalway.ie), ideally before 20 May.
Directions:
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/mapsAndDirections/campusMap.pdf
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/mapsAndDirections/travellingToLSE.aspx
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/mapsAndDirections/LSElocationMap.pdf

English Graduate Research Day
2013-05-23 09:20
English Graduate Research Day 2013 –
all welcome –
come along and enjoy coffee and accumulated fruits of research!
9.20-10.45
Meaghan Connell
‰Û÷The Language of Irish Theatre: Corpus Findings and Analysis‰۪
Mikyung Park
‰Û÷Gregory’s Disavowal: the Making of a Public Persona in Spreading the News (1904)‰۪
Mairead Ni Chroinin
‰Û÷Mobile Computing as Postdramatic Theatre‰۪
10.45 COFFEE BREAK
11.00-12.00
Ciara O Dowd
‰Û÷Subverting the Script: Ria Mooney & Elizabeth Connor on the Abbey Stage‰۪
Des Lally
‰Û÷Actors and Architects: The Relationship of the Gate Theatre with the Architectural Firm of Scott Tallon Walker‰۪
12.00 COFFEE BREAK
12.20-1.20
Siobhan Purcell
‰Û÷Beckett Deformed‰۪
Rosemary Gallagher
‰Û÷Puns, Hijinks, and Slapstick in Catch-22: Not Another Black Humour Reading‰۪
1.20-2.20 LUNCH
2.20-3.45
Anna Gasperini
‰Û÷The Foreign Roots of Local Myths – the Global and the Local in Victorian Sensation Fiction‰۪
Paul Rooney
‰Û÷Deciphering the Codes to The Notting Hill Mystery (1862-63): Hybridity, Periodical Coding, and Readership in Once a Week‰۪
Eavan O Dochartaigh
‰Û÷Image and Text of the Arctic Search Expeditions 1848-59: Methodology, Theory and Questions‰۪
3.45 COFFEE BREAK
4.15-5.35
Kathleen Pacious
‰Û÷And How Does That Make You Feel?” Empathetic Engagement and Ethical Receptivity in George Eliot‰۪s Daniel Deronda‰۪
Ciaran Dowd
‰Û÷‰ÛÏBarren, silent, godless‰۝: the Paratactic World of Cormac McCarthy‰۪
Rebecca Downes
‰Û÷Putrefaction, Purgation, Purification: Death and Denial in Andrew Miller’s Pure‰۪

School of Humanities Research Day
2013-05-20 09:30
School of Humanities Research Day
9.30am: Welcome from Dr Edward Herring, Dean of the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies,
9.45 ‰ÛÒ 11.00 am:Panel 1 (Chair: Tsarina Doyle)
Lionel Pilkington (English) ‰ÛÏCapitalism and Irish Theatre‰۝
Sean Crosson (Huston School) ‰ÛÏSport and Film‰۝
Rod Stoneman (Huston) ‰ÛÏThe Politics of the Visual‰۝
11.00 ‰ÛÒ 11.25 am: Coffee break
11.25 – 12.15 Panel 2 (Chair: Mary Harris)
MÌÁirÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha (Old and Middle Irish and Celtic Studies) ‰ÛÏResearch in Medieval Irish: the local and larger context‰۝
Padraig Lenihan (History) ‰ÛÏBellum Civile: A Latin epic poem of the Williamite War (1689‰ÛÒ91)‰۝
12.15 ‰ÛÒ 1.00pm: Research Funding (Chair: Steven Ellis)
Professor Lokesh Joshi, Vice-President for Research
1.00 ‰ÛÒ 2.00pm: Lunch break
2.00 ‰ÛÒ 3.15pm: Panel 3 (Chair: Louis de Paor)
Richard Hull (Philosophy) ‰ÛÏFarewell to ‰Û÷the disabled‰۪? Re-thinking our categorisations‰۝
Enrico Dal Lago (History) ‰ÛÏFighting for Two Souths: Southern Italian Soldiers in the Confederacy‰۝
TomÌÁs Finn (History) ‰ÛÏPublic intellectuals and modern Ireland‰۝
3.15 ‰ÛÒ 3.45pm: Coffee break
3.45 ‰ÛÒ 4.35 pm: Panel 4 (Chair: Marie-Louise Coolahan )
Niall ÌÒ Ciosan (History) ‰ÛÏPopular publishing and reading in the Celtic languages, 1700-1900‰۝
Justin Tonra (English) ‰ÛÏPoetry by the Book, Poetry by Numbers‰۝

Digital Scholarship Seminar
2013-05-14 12:00
Digital Scholarship Seminar
Research seminar for researchers working in any branch of the arts and humanities who are engaged in the creation and/or exploitation of digital resources in the course of their research.
12-1pm, Tuesday 14 May 2013
Deirdre NÌ_ Chonghaile (Moore Institute)AmhrÌÁin ́rann – Aran Songs: Collaborating to create a digital-friendly music resource
Patricia Prieto Blanco (Huston School)Digital materiality and the constitution of spaces of familial interaction through photography
Presentations will be followed by informal discussion (1-2pm) over a light lunch.
Contact:
PÌÁdraic Moran (Classics, School of LLC) | padraic.moran@nuigalway.ieJustin Tonra (English, School of Humanities) | justin.tonra@nuigalway.ie
www.facebook.com/nuigdss

Charlotte Headrick, Oregon State University: Giving her the respect she deserves: Patricia Burke Brogan and Eclipsed
2013-05-13 16:00
Professor Charlotte Headrick, Professor and Director, Theatre Arts, Oregon State University
A production history of the play with a focus on the Irish tours
Giving her the respect she deserves:
Patricia Burke Brogan and Eclipsed
All Welcome

Galway Early Music Festival - A Bronze-Age Musician
2013-05-09 16:00
A Bronze-Age Musician
Simon & Maria O’Dwyer of Ancient Music Ireland
Ancient Music Ireland is delighted to present the first ever public viewing of an interpretation of a Late Bronze-Age hoard from West Clare. The original bronze items including parts of a horn, chain, sword, axes, rings and disc pin were recovered from a bog at Boolybrien, Co. Clare in 1930. We will include our interpretation of the items as parts of an outfit worn by a musician in the bronze-age. The presentation will discuss the links between spoken and musical performance and occasion, through the examination of the decorative aspects of the hoard. This event will also include detailed images of the items and practical demonstration using accurate reproductions and tunes composed for and played on bronze-age horns.
This event is part of The Galway Early Music Festival, May 9-12: “Word Play: Which came first, words or music”. A fascinating programme of medieval, renaissance and baroque music. For programme and ticket booking: www.galwayearlymusic.com. Browse the e-brochure HERE.
For more information contact maura.ocroinin@nuigalway.ie

Vikings in Pamplona and other stories by Dr Ann Christys
2013-05-07 17:30

What is mission? by Prof Ian Wood University of Leeds
2013-05-07 14:00

Digital Day - Professor Dan Schiller, University of Illinois
2013-05-07 13:00
Moore Institute
Huston School of Film & Digital Media
DIGITAL DAYS: Dan Schiller

1.00 on Tuesday 7th May, Main Room Huston School.
Digital Depression: the Crisis of Digital Capitalism
The economic downturn of the early 1970s engendered massive, sustained corporate investment in ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies,) as a many sided attempt to renew profitable growth.Core components of this response included financialisation, the restructuring of the production system, and the recomposition of the communications industry as a leading site of economic dynamism.The vaunted ‰Û÷Information Age‰۪, however, turned out to herald a new and deeper financial-economic crisis – a digital depression with which we continue to live.How may the newly contentious geopolitics of information play out? May we expect the communications sector to reprise its earlier role in renewing growth and profitability?
2.30 on Tuesday 7th May, Main Room Huston School.
Rosa Luxemburg’s Internet?
Both the state and capital have been crucial for the evolving political economy of the Internet. Drawing on the thought of the Polish Marxist Rosa Luxemburg, We should inquire as to how states are supporting commodification projects built around the Internet; how they are contending with one another in this process; and how communication processes are related to the historical reconstitution of the global working class.
Professor Dan Schiller is a historian of information and communications at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The author of half a dozen books and many research articles, he has written extensively on the development and current structure of digital capitalism‰ÛÓthe system of market relationships that is predicated increasingly on networks. His current research focuses on the role of information and communications in today’s financial/economic crisis, and on the history of U.S. telecommunications infrastructures.

Research Day of the School of Languages
2013-05-02 09:00
School of Languages,
Literatures and Cultures
Research Day
PROGRAMME
9am ‰ÛÒ 9.30am: Welcome reception with tea and coffee ‰ÛÒ Welcome from Prof. Lokesh Joshi
9.30 ‰ÛÒ 10.30am: Panel 1 (Chair: John Walsh)
Jason O‰۪Rorke (Classics): ‰Û÷At the school of the grammaticus: literary education in Late Antiquity‰۪Aoife Connolly (French): ‰Û÷Performing the Pied-Noir Family‰۪Tina-Karen Pusse (German): ‰Û÷From Ego to Eco: Transcultural Ecologies‰۪
10.30 ‰ÛÒ 11am: Coffee break
11am ‰ÛÒ 12: Panel 2 (Chair: Jacopo Bisagni)Catherine Emerson (French): ‰Û÷Gegraueert en oic dyveerssche ymagyen: Uses of Code-Switching in Dutch and French‰۪Mark Stansbury (Classics): ‰Û÷Irish Script and Irish Identity at Luxeuil‰۪EilÌ_s NÌ_ Dh̼ill (Gaeilge): ‰Û÷An Sc̩alaÌ_ocht i gCorca Dhuibhne / Storytelling in West Kerry‰۪
12 ‰ÛÒ 2pm: Lunch break
2 ‰ÛÒ 3pm: Panel 3 (Chair: Mel Boland)Barry Nevin (French): ‰Û÷Narrative Spaces in the Films of Jean Renoir‰۪PÌÁdraic Moran(Classics): ‰Û÷Planning for Digital Projects‰۪Laura Incalcaterra McLoughlin (Italian): ‰Û÷Italian in blended learning: Diploma in Italian online‰۪
3 ‰ÛÒ 3.30pm: Coffee break
3.30 ‰ÛÒ 4.30pm: Closing session (Chair: Sylvie Lannegrand)
An open discussion of future research strategies for the School.
For more informatin contact jacopo.bisagni@nuigalway.ie

Professor Sarah Covington, City University New York - "Broken churches, martyred priests: Religious memorializations of Oliver Cromwell in Ireland, 1650-1800"
2013-04-29 16:00
CAMPS is pleased to host a paper by Professor Sarah Covington, City University New York,
“Broken churches, martyred priests: Religious memorializations of Oliver Cromwellin Ireland, 1650-1800”
All welcome.
For More Information contact: elizabeth.fitzpatrick@nuigalway.ie

IQUA (Irish Quaternary Association) Spring Meeting and AGM2013
2013-04-27 09:30
IQUA Spring Meeting 2013
Hosted by the Palaeoenvironmental Reseasrch Unit, School of Geography and Archaeology, the Irish Quaternary Association presents their Spring Meeting, involving a series of short talks and posters on Quarternary-based research.
To be followed by the IQUA Annual General Meeting
ALL WELCOME
ENTRY FREE
Sunday 28th: Optional fieldtrip led by MIchael Gibbons to Ballycaughan Bay ara c. 10:30-3:00pm
For further details see : www.iqua.ie
Programme: IQUA Spring Meeting and AGM 2013
Saturday 27th
9.30 Registration
10.00 Welcome to the 2013 IQUA Spring Meeting and AGM
10.05 Michael Gibbons (Walkwest) Bualadh isteach: the drowned archaeological landscapes of the Burren coast
10.25 Maria Long (Newtownshandrum, Cork) Poulnabrone portal tomb -terrestrial Mollusca
10.45 Keynote talk: Michael O‰۪Connell (NUIG) Palaeoecology: distant places,new perspectives
11.15 ‰ÛÒ 11.35 Coffee/Tea & poster session
11.35 Michael Dempster*, Paul Dunlop, Mark Cooper and Andreas Scheib (UU) Investigating the geochemical relationship between till and soil in Northern Ireland: fieldwork and results
11.55 Benjamin Th̩baudeau and Robin Edwards (TCD) Any luck? Early results on recent vibrocores off the north coast of Ireland
12.15 Michelle McKeown (NUIG) A palaeolimnological assessment of the influence of climate change and human impacts on lakes in Western Ireland
12.35 Stephen Galvin (NUIG) Identifying volcanic signals in Irish temperature observations and tree-ring chronologies
12.55 Thor McVeigh (NUIG) Negotiating the difficulties of synchronizing archaeological and climatic/environmental dating evidence
1.15 ‰ÛÒ 2.15 Lunch
2.15 Sebastian Von Engelbrechten, Fraser Mitchell* and Pete Coxon (TCD) A new Irish interglacial site: Knocknacran, Co Monaghan
2.35 Pete Coxon*, Gareth J. Tye, Adrian P. Palmer, Ian Candy and Mark Hardiman (TCD) Annually-resolved natural climate variability during MIS11. Where the wild-fires are… and Homo heidelbergensis
2.55 Ro Charlton*, Wim Hoek, Mark Macklin, Kim Cohen, Paul Gibson and Dorothy George (NUIM) Lateglacial and Holocenepalaeoenvironmental change recorded in the peat floodplains and palaeochannels of the lower River Suck
3.15 Anthony Beese (Carraigex Ltd., Cork) Investigations of Cork’s origins
3.45 pm Annual General Meeting followed by a wine reception
PostersCarlos Chique (NUIG) Reconstructing historic and prehistoric eutrophication trends in a polluted freshwater lake
Eugene Costello (NUIG) Transhumance in Irish settlement and society, c.1500-1900 A.D.
Christina Connolly Johnston and Kieran Hickey (NUIG) The impacts of hurricanes on Ireland and Western Europe
Seamus McGinley (NUIG) On the trails of the ‰Û÷Invisible People‰۪: new approaches to understanding human settlement and climate change in the Irish Iron Age
Karen Taylor (NUIG) Palaeolimnological impacts of early prehistoric farming at Lough Dargan, County Sligo, Ireland
Sunday 28th
Optional fieldtrip to Ballyvaughan Bay Area led by Michael Gibbons. The fieldtrip will focus on a range of sites, including a group of cairns on Ballyvaughan Bay, a seaweed farm visible in the inter-tidal zone on Aughinish Island (the best preserved example in the country) and a complex of midden sites on Kinvara Bay. The middens stretch over hundreds of metres and are found on both sides of Kinvara Bay. Some contain bone. If the tides are right we will visit Mulrooney Island (a tidal inlet).Depart Galway 10.30 and finish c.15.00.
For more information please contact aaron.potito@nuigalway.ie
