Moore Institute

CALM Seminar Series 2021-2022: "Saibhreas and society: intergenerational language transmission in Irish-speaking, Kurdish-speaking, and Polish-speaking families"
2021-09-30 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Online
This talk will explore a model developed to give a holistic account of caregivers’ goals for successful intergenerational language transmission, referred to as the ‘saibhreas’ model. This model was developed within an autochthonous minority language context (Irish in Corca Dhuibhne, Co. Kerry with the ’Sustaining Minoritized Languages in Europe’ initiative), but the talk will show the relevance of the model to conceptualising intergenerational transmission of heritage languages, specifically the Polish and Kurdish languages in Ireland through the project Languages, Families, and Society. The talk will outline the various challenges families encounter in reaching their goals for successful intergenerational language transmission and will discuss possible societal interventions that could help mitigate these obstacles.
Speaker: Dr. Cassie Smith-Christmas, NUI Galway. Part of the CALM (Centre for Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism) Seminar Series for 2021-2022.
Registration
To attend this online webinar via Zoom, please register HERE.

The Future of the Humanities: Challenges and Opportunities
2021-10-08 16:00 - 17:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
This autumn the UCD Humanities Institute celebrates its 20th anniversary. We can look back over a successful history. Generations of PhDs and postdoctoral fellows have benefitted from the unique research environment offered by the Humanities Institute . Hundreds of conferences, workshops and Distinguished Guest Lectures have placed the Humanities Institute on the national and international maps, and collaborations with external partners and with the other research institutes in UCD have created a vibrant interdisciplinary network spanning the Humanities, Social Sciences and STEM areas. Our Soundcloud is attracting a growing public audience. So there is much to celebrate.
And yet, in recent years the humanities have come under pressure, nationally and internationally. Celebrating the humanities therefore also means articulating a vision for the 21st century.
We would like to invite you to the following special lecture:
Professor Dan Carey (MRIA, Director of the Moore Institute, NUI Galway)
The Future of the Humanities: Challenges and Opportunities
Daniel Carey is a board member of the Irish Research Council and has served as chair of the Irish Humanities Alliance (2014-16). He has held grants from the Mellon Foundation, the IRC, the AHRC, British Academy, MHRA, and other sources, and has mentored 12 postdoctoral fellows funded by Marie Skłodowska Curie actions, the IRC, and other schemes. His current research is a major international project to edit the work of Richard Hakluyt (www.hakluyt.org) and has published widely on intellectual history, colonialism, and economic thought.
Registration
Register for free on Eventbrite. The Zoom link for this talk will be emailed to all registered participants the day before the event.

Being in the air: An intellectual and aesthetic history of climate
2021-10-19 16:00 - 17:30 | Moore Institute Seminar Room G010
Current conceptualizations of climate and climate change are dominated by the abstract idea of climate as “the average weather.” This scientific understanding needs to be complemented by a cultural concept of climate which has a long tradition from Antiquity to the Enlightenment. In order to understand what it means to “be in the air” culturally, politically, and medically, we need a cultural conception of climate as an environment. This talk by Professor Eva Horn, University of Vienna, provides historical and literary examples of what it might mean to understand the air from the inside, as an element of individual, social, and cultural life.

Political Science and Sociology Research Seminar: "Beyond the Binary: Civic Parties in Post-Agreement Northern Ireland"
2022-03-02 13:00 - 14:00 | Room 306, Aras Moyola
This is an in-person event held in is room 306 in Aras Moyola, NUI Galway.

About this event

This presentation will outline a book currently being developed about civic parties in deeply divided societies, focusing on the case of Northern Ireland after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. The book explores the place of civic parties – those that organize on the basis of issues, allegiances and identity categories other than ethno-national – within a political space structured along binary ethno-national lines. In particular, it addresses the puzzle of how these parties have managed to survive and grow in post-Agreement Northern Ireland in the context of a consociational power-sharing system explicitly designed to accommodate ethno-national groups. The book assesses the opportunities and barriers civic parties encounter in the power-sharing landscape and the strategies they have used to navigate those structures. Through an in-depth examination of the case of Northern Ireland, which is placed in dialogue with evidence from other post-conflict cases, the book aims to elucidate the phenomenon of civic parties in deeply-divided places and their potential to contribute to post-conflict transitions.
Cera Murtagh is Assistant Professor in Irish Politics and Comparative Politics at Villanova University and Visiting Scholar in the School of Political Science and Sociology and the Moore Institute at NUI Galway in 2021-22. Her research concerns conflict and peace and gender politics, focusing particularly on the mobilization of civic political parties and movements in deeply divided societies. Her work has been published in a number of journals including International Political Science Review and Nations and Nationalism. Dr Murtagh previously worked as Research Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast on an Economic and Social Research Council project entitled Exclusion amid Inclusion: Power-Sharing and Non-Dominant Minorities. She holds a PhD and an MSc from the University of Edinburgh and a BA from NUI Galway. She previously worked as a political journalist in Edinburgh and political researcher in the Scottish Parliament.
Registration
To attend, please register via Eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-the-binary-civic-parties-in-post-agreement-northern-ireland-tickets-276925891797

Arts in Action presents: Julie Comparini & Yonit Kosovske Performing the Song Cycle ‘Watershed’
2022-03-02 13:00 - 14:00 | Emily Anderson Concert Hall (Aula Maxima Upper)
Hermit Songs (1953) by Samuel Barber
Watershed (2020) by Ailís Ní Ríain
Watershed is a new song cycle for voice and piano inspired by the natural bodies of water and land in Ireland’s midwest region and along the Atlantic coast. With music by renowned Irish composer Ailís Ní Ríain and text by Ballina-Killaloe resident, poet Jessica Brown, it is a song cycle inextricably rooted in place and in nature. Central to the song-texts – which are taken from Jessica’s superb collection, And Say (Revival Press, Limerick 2019) – are themes informed by the writer’s personal interaction with water and the surrounding landscapes in counties Clare and Tipperary: Holy Island, the hills of Moylussa and Tountinna overlooking Lough Derg, the dunes of Fanore, the Burren cliffs, and the forest paths of the Galtees and the Silvermines.
Musicians Julie Comparini and Yonit Kosovske perform this new work as part of a contemporary Art Song programme titled Lough Derg 1& 2 in which they present two song cycles, new and slightly older: Aislís Ní Ríain’s Watershed (2020) alongside Samuel Barber’s Hermit Songs (1953) composed on texts by medieval monks and poets writing about Lough Derg in Donegal. The Watershed song cycle was made possible through funding received from the Arts Council Music Commissions Award in 2020. The Watershed CD, produced by Now and Then Media, was released in November 2021 and features the song cycle, poetry readings, and field recordings of soundscapes along and near Lough Derg in County Clare.

Julie Comparini, mezzo-soprano | Yonit Kosovske, piano
Registration
Tickets available on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/julie-comparini-yonit-kosovske-tickets-274654708627

History Research Seminar Series: "Peace of Mind: Social Psychiatry, Universal Basic Income and Preventing Mental Illness in the USA"
2022-03-02 16:00 - 17:00 | Online, via Zoom
Professor Matthew Smith (University of Strathclyde)
Peace of Mind: Social Psychiatry, Universal Basic Income and Preventing Mental Illness in the USA
Abstract
Following the Second World War, a new, interdisciplinary and preventive approach to psychiatry gained influence in the US.  Social psychiatry involved teams of social scientists and psychiatrists which explored the environmental causes of mental illness.  Although social psychiatry triggered deinstitutionalisation and the community mental health movement, it is little known or understood today.  By exploring the four most important social psychiatry research projects, this paper argues that not only should social psychiatry feature more in the historiography of twentieth-century mental health and psychiatry, but it also should inform current attempts to prevent mental illness, redirecting us to focus more on addressing systemic factors, such as poverty, inequality and social isolation, through progressive policies, such as Universal Basic Income (UBI).
Speaker Biography
Professor Matthew Smith is Professor in History at the University of Strathclyde and the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare. He is the author of three monographs: An Alternative History of Hyperactivity: Food Additives and the Feingold Diet (Rutgers University Press, 2011); Hyperactive: The Controversial History of ADHD (Reaktion, 2012); and Another Person’s Poison: A History of Food Allergy (Columbia University Press, 2015), which was reviewed in the New York Times and given honourable mention in the Association of American Publishers’ Prose Awards for 2016. He is currently working on a monograph project on the history of social psychiatry in the United States. Funded by an AHRC Early Career Fellowship, this project investigates how American psychiatrists and social scientists viewed the connection between mental illness and social deprivation during the decades that followed the Second World War. This funding has resulted in a special issue of Palgrave Communications (co-edited with Lucas Richert) and two edited volumes, Deinstitutionalisation and After: Post-War Psychiatry in the Western World (2016) and Preventing Mental Illness: Past, Present and Future (2018), both co-edited by Despo Kritsotaki and Vicky Long, and published in the Palgrave series, Mental Health in Historical Perspective. Professor Smith also currently co-leads (with Mike Danton) a Scottish Universities Insight Initiative project called Peace of Mind: Exploring Universal Basic Income’s Potential to Improve Mental Health.
Registration
To attend, please register at: https://forms.office.com/r/mhpkVrqy0s.
This event will take place online, via Zoom: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/98951084778.

The Crisis in Ukraine: history, politics, and prospects
2022-03-04 13:00 - 14:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, HRB
Moore Institute Flash Seminar
The Crisis in Ukraine: history, politics, and prospects
Friday, March 4 @ 1.00pm
THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, HRB, NUI Galway
With:
Dr Brendan Flynn, School of Political Science & Sociology, NUI Galway
Dr Róisín Healy, School of History and Philosophy, NUI Galway
Dr Ekaterina Yahyaoui, Vice-Dean for Research, College of Business, Public Policy and Law and a Lecturer in the Irish Centre for Human Rights, School of Law, NUI Galway

Event Recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytcSTwZ1TbA

The Irish Association for Russian, Central and East European Studies presents a virtual roundtable on the Russian invasion of Ukraine
2022-03-08 17:00 - 18:00 | Online
The Irish Association for Russian, Central and East European Studies and the Moore Institute presents a virtual roundtable on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Roundtable speakers:

Dr Tetyana Lokot, Ukrainian resistance and mobilisation: national and transnational dynamics and decolonial histories, DCU
Maciej Curpyś, Putin’s Historical Propaganda and the reality of Ukrainian Nationalism, NUI Galway
Dr Róisín Healy, Ireland and Ukraine: Historical Parallels, NUI Galway
Dr Aneta Stępień, The failure of anti-Ukrainian propaganda in Poland, NUI Maynooth
Dr Maria Falina, How can they believe it? Thinking behind Putin’s propaganda in Russia, DCU

Chair of the panel: Dr John Paul Newman, NUI Maynooth
Registration
To attend, please register at: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/…/WN_M70V2Pu0SpqbG29SuPG-jw

Event Recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q5bXvkzX1c

Creative Futures Research Group: Work in progress session
2022-03-09 13:00 - 14:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
The Creative Futures research team invites you to attend the second of our series of work-in-progress sessions. These are intended as an informal space in which colleagues can share their latest research and think through how it might connect to Creative Futures themes and methods.
We have scheduled two exciting mini-presentations from colleagues across a range of disciplines with added time for questions and answers. Our presenters on March 9th are:

Dr Maura Farrell (School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies)
Dr John Walsh (School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures)

The work-in-progress sessions are open to anyone with an interest in the areas of Creative Futures.
Registration

If you would like to attend, please register in advance via the following link by 8 March 2022
https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpc–vpj4jGtBGoeATjOn9dtatN2olu5k_
This link is for registration purposes only. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing a separate link for joining the meeting.

History Research Seminar Series: ‘My Father Sold Me’: Listening to the Voices of Enslaved Girls in Republican China
2022-03-09 13:00 - 14:00 | Online, via Zoom
Dr Isabella Jackson (Trinity College Dublin)
‘My Father Sold Me’: Listening to the Voices of Enslaved Girls in Republican China
Abstract
In republican China (1912-1949), it was common practice for poor parents to sell daughters to wealthy families via middlemen for unpaid domestic labour. Being female, poor, cut off from their natal families, and performing menial work, these were some of the lowest status and most vulnerable children in society. Yet the voices of a small number of such girls speak from police records, newspaper reports, oral history records and memoirs, while many more remain voiceless. By examining what they said, we gain new insights into their own understanding of their lives. And by interrogating why some could not speak, we reveal how age dictated who enjoyed personhood under the law and in the public realm.
Speaker Biography
Dr Isabella Jackson is Assistant Professor in Chinese History at Trinity College Dublin. She is Principal Investigator on the project, CHINACHILD: Slave-Girls and the Discovery of Female Childhood in Twentieth-Century China, which is funded by an Irish Research Council Laureate Grant. Together with a team of researchers, she is researching how controversies over keeping unpaid domestic servants (binü婢女 or mui tsai) reflect changing and expanding conceptions of Chinese childhood. Dr Jackson’s previous publications focus on the global and regional networks that shaped the treaty ports, which were opened to foreign traders by force in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including her monograph, Shaping Modern Shanghai: Colonialism in China’s Global City (Cambridge University Press, 2017), and her work on interconnections between China and the British World, especially her research on Sikh policemen who worked in the Settlement. She is also editor (with Robert Bickers) of Treaty Ports in Modern China: Law, Land and Power (Routledge, 2016).
Registration
To attend, please register at: https://forms.office.com/r/4xyESpkWNw
This event will take place online, via Zoom: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/99212470960.

Arts in Action presents: Grandmothers, Goddesses, Gradys & Great Actresses by Up Up Up
2022-03-09 13:00 - 14:00 | The Cube, Bailey Allen Hall
Arts in Action presents:
Grandmothers, Goddesses, Gradys & Great Actresses by Up Up Up
Sound. Sex. Knickers. Candles. Emigration. Revolution. Religion. Madness, Bodies. Hair. Cessair. Brigid. Sinéad. Pegeen. Contour lines. Gaol bars. Stage boards.
Emma O’Grady is a theatre artist; actor, writer and production manager based in Galway. She produces art under the name Up Up Up and collaborates with people to create theatre, film and art inspired by true events, real lives and shared histories. Her first play What Good is Looking Well When You’re Rotten on the Inside? – based on tapes recorded by her grandfather during the last month of his life – was produced to critical acclaim in 2017 and continues to tour. In 2020 she created a documentary web-series Mad, Bad & Dangerous: A Celebration of Difficult Women. She was a participant on Druid FUEL 2021 and recipient of an Arts Council Theatre Bursary 2020, Baboró and Branar Bursary Award 2021 and Abbey Theatre Commemoration Bursary 2021.
Tickets
Tickets available on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/grandmothers-goddesses-gradys-great-actresses-tickets-288446961627

Political Science and Sociology Research Seminars: "More smoke, admittedly, than flame’? Ireland-Wales relations after Brexit"
2022-03-09 13:00 - 14:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, HRB
This is an in-person event in GO10, Hardiman Research Building (Moore Institute).

About this event

This paper is a political-sociological exploration of the forms of connection and rupture, collaboration and conflict that define relationships across the Irish Sea at a time of constitutional and political change on ‘these islands’. The aim is to examine the history and consequences of Ireland-Wales relations, their contemporary tensions and ongoing attempts to renew and recast them. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with those involved in contemporary nationalist politics in Wales and Ireland, the paper will explore, in particular, whether and in what ways the projects of Irish (re)unification and constitutional change in Wales overlap, and with what implications. The paper will thus provide a case study in changing transnationalist politics in post-Brexit, post-Covid Europe.
Jonathan Evershed is the Newman Fellow in Constitutional Futures at the Institute for British-Irish Studies (IBIS) and School of Politics and International Relations (SPIRe), University College Dublin (UCD). His work engages questions of postcolonial identity and constitutionalism in post-Brexit British and Irish politics. He is the author of Ghosts of the Somme: Commemoration and Culture War in Northern Ireland (University of Notre Dame Press, 2018) and co-author (with Mary C. Murphy, UCC) of A Troubled Constitutional Future: Northern Ireland after Brexit (Agenda Publishing, 2022).

Registration
To attend this event, please register via Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/more-smoke-admittedly-than-flame-ireland-wales-relations-after-brexit-tickets-291209705067

Food Pharmacies and Food Addiction: Shifting Food-Drug Interpretations in Allopathic Medicine, Psychology, and Psychiatry
2022-03-09 16:00 - 18:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Presented by Joey Tuminello (Assistant Professor of Philosophy at McNeese State University)
Abstract
In this presentation, Gadamerian philosophical hermeneutics is applied to identify and examine interpretations of the ontological categories of ‘food’ and ‘drugs’ in allopathic medicine, psychology, and psychiatry, unearthing the implicit interpretive modes in these views to draw attention to emerging patterns of interpretation.
Bio:
Prof. Joey Tuminello is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA. Joey’s research interests include the philosophies of food, medicine, animals, and environment through the lenses of hermeneutics, pragmatism, and Jainism.
Registration:
To attend this event online via Zoom, please join here: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/93901994176?pwd=[REDACTED]

ENLIGHT Lecture Series: "Tackling Climate Change: Migration and Climate Change”
2022-03-09 17:00 - 18:00 | Online, via Zoom
ENLIGHT Lecture Series “Tackling Climate Change: Migration and Climate Change” March 9th, 5-6pm (Irish Time) / 6-7pm CET
Dr Su-Ming Khoo, Associate Professor, Head of Sociology, School of Political Science and Sociology and Chair, Socio-Economic Impact Research Cluster, Ryan Institute and Environment and Development and Sustainability Research Cluster, Whitaker Institute, will contribute to this lecture focusing on Migration and Climate Change together with panellists from Göttingen Ghent and Uppsala universities.
Registration
Click here for further details and registration links to both the lecture and the online networking event afterwards which is hosted by the University of Göttingen.

Book Launch: 'Mootsy and the Awfully Big Bite', and, 'Everyone Must Stay at Home'
2022-03-10 17:00 - 18:00 | The Moore Institute Seminar Room G010 Ground floor The Hardiman Research Building, Ireland
The School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, NUI Galway cordially invites you to the launch of Mootsy and the Awfully Big Bite – Lindsay Myers and Tara Canniffe, and, Everyone Must Stay at Home – Bláithín Breathnach (2BLG1).
The books will be launched by Professor Peter Hunt (Professor Emeritus in Children’s Literature, Cardiff University, UK).

Open Scholarship Café: Podcasts and deflationary technology as means of opening up learning
2022-03-15 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
Dr. Kieran Fitzpatrick

Podcasts and deflationary technology as means of opening up learning

About this event

In this Café, Dr Kieran Fitzpatrick will explore the idea of the deflationary impact of technology in higher education through a discussion of a podcast he launched called Body Politics, which builds on his experiences of teaching the history of science and medicine to undergraduates in medicine. The podcast emerged from the thought that cheap (broadcasting) technology should make it easier than ever to promote the transmission of ideas through teaching and learning. Technology itself enables informal, “asynchronous” learning beyond the classroom: while making breakfast, during the morning or evening commute, on a run etc. In short, podcasting represents a new way to teach and communicate well about the past.
To date, and without a lot of promotional effort, Body Politics been downloaded just over a thousand times, and formed the basis for an article published on RTE’s Brainstorm. Dr. Fitzpatrick will discuss his ambition to turn the podcast into a hub for refining and adapting notions of professionalism in the healthcare sciences.
This will be a virtual session with link emailed prior to starting.
Speaker bio
Dr. Kieran Fitzpatrick is an historian and educator, with interests in how to create and promote well-founded and rich cultures of expertise and professionalism in highly-skilled, scientific organisations. After completing his doctorate with the financial assistance of Wellcome at St John’s College, Oxford in 2017, he was selected as the NUI Research Fellow in the Humanities at NUI Galway’s Moore Institute in 2018. More recently he joined the Research Office at NUI Galway.
Registration
To attend this event, please register via Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/deflated-in-a-good-way-podcasts-as-a-medium-for-teaching-learning-tickets-267387612547?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

Book Launch: Charles Macklin and the Theatres of London
2022-03-23 13:00 - 14:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, HRB
Book Launch: Charles Macklin and the Theatres of London
Edited by Ian Newman, Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame and David O’Shaughnessy, Professor in the School of English and Creative Arts at NUI Galway.
Organised by the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, part of the Notre Dame’s School of Global Affairs.
Guest Speaker: Professor Aileen Douglas, Trinity College Dublin.
Moore Institute Seminar Room (G010), Hardiman Research Building (HRB), NUI Galway
23rd March 2022 @ 1.00pm

History Research Seminar Series: "Theatronomics The Business of Theatre, 1737-1809"
2022-03-23 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Professor David O’Shaughnessy (NUI Galway)
Theatronomics: The Business of Theatre, 1737-1809
Abstract
Eighteenth-century literary studies now acknowledges the centrality of the theatre to Georgian cultural and political life. However, scholars have virtually ignored its remarkable and voluminous financial archive. Account-books, ledgers, and ephemeral manuscript folios contain rich data on ticket sales, audience members, revenues, actor salaries, repayments to investors, costume, scenery and other costs: this is richly detailed source material that needs to be understood. This paper will first present a sketch of a new research project that will apply financial and econometric analysis to this data to write a new history of eighteenth-century theatrical culture (1732-1809). It will discuss how financial data for Covent Garden and Drury Lane will be analysed using econometric methods in order to incorporate the theatres’ underlying commercial operations to future research. Secondly, it will offer a case-study of how such an approach might help us test prevailing ideas in the field of eighteenth-century theatre by looking at the financials around Charles Macklin’s The Man of the World (Covent Garden, 1781), infamously the only play of the period to be twice refused a performance licence for its political satire.
Speaker Biography
Professor David O’Shaughnessy is personal professor at the School of English and Creative Arts, NUI Galway. He has published widely, including William Godwin and the Theatre (2010); a special issue of the journal Eighteenth-Century Life titled Networks of Aspiration: the London Irish of the Eighteenth Century (2015); a volume of essays titled The Censorship of Eighteenth-Century Theatre: Playhouses and Prohibition, 1737-1843 (in progress); and two additoinal edited collections of essays, Ireland, Enlightenment and the English Stage, 1740-1820 (2019) and Charles Macklin and the Theatres of London (2022). He has held fellowships at University of Oxford, University of Warwick, the Huntington Library and Caltech. His current projects include a new edition of Oliver Goldsmith’s collected works (8 volumes) for Cambridge University Press on which he is working with Michael Griffin (UL). This follows their Letters of Oliver Goldsmith for Cambridge University Press (2019). In 2020, he was awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant (€2m) to work on the finances of London theatres. This project brings together a postdoctoral team of humanities and economic scholars to apply econometric analysis to the financial archives of Covent Garden and Drury Lane. The project will apply these economic methodologies so that new perspectives on the careers of managers, playwrights, actors, and plays emerge.
Registration
This semester will take place in-person at 4.00pm on Wednesday, 23 March 2022 in Room 1001, Hardiman Building, NUI Galway (Bridge Seminar Room). The paper will also be streamed simultaneously online, via Zoom: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/96778848118. Please note, Covid-19 practices will be in line with prevailing university guidance, which includes wearing masks in seminar rooms.
Register for the livestream at: https://forms.office.com/r/f6dLqyNPvV

FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES IN COMPUTATIONAL LITERARY STUDIES. Information session
2022-03-24 14:00 - 15:00 | Online, via Zoom
FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES IN COMPUTATIONAL LITERARY STUDIES
Information session
Are you someone who works in or is interested in Computational Literary Studies?
Do you have collaborators who work in Computational Literary Studies whom you would like to invite to NUI Galway?
The CLS INFRA project is offering a range of paid Transnational Access Fellowships to visit partner institutions, including NUI Galway, across Europe.
Fellowships have a duration of 4-12 weeks and applications open twice per year until 2024.
Interested in learning more about these Fellowship Opportunities?
Join Dr Justin Tonra, CLS INFRA project lead for NUI Galway, for an Information Session covering:

How to apply & how to support colleagues’ applications
Fellowship terms & conditions
Eligibility
Fellowship payments

Registration
To attend this information session, please join online via Zoom at: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/3766156359?pwd=[REDACTED]

Public Interview with Martin Doyle, Books Editor, The Irish Times
2022-03-24 16:00 - 17:00 | Ó Tnuthail Theatre, Arts Millennium Building, AMB 1023
Aodh Ó Coileáin, Acadamh, will conduct a public interview with Martin Doyle, Books Editor, The Irish Times, on his career in journalism, in Ireland and Britain, on Thursday next 24 March, at 4.00 pm in the Ó Tnuthail Theatre, Arts Millennium Building, AMB 1023.
Before joining The Irish Times in 2007, Martin Doyle worked for various newspapers in Britain: Irish World, Irish in Britain News, Irish Post (arts editor, deputy editor, editor), The Times (subeditor), Irish Daily Mail.
The event is hosted by Cumarsáid, Acadamh/ Discpline of Journalism and Communication.

Martin Doyle, Books Editor, The Irish Times
Cuirfidh Aodh Ó Coileáin, Cumarsáid, an tAcadamh, agallamh poiblí ar Martin Doyle, Eagarthóir Leabhar, The Irish Times faoina ghairm san iriseoireacht in Éirinn agus sa Bhreatain, Déardaoin seo chugainn 24 Márta, 4pm i dTéatar Mháirtín Uí Thnúthail, AMB1023 (Áras na Mílaoise).
Sula ndeachaigh sé ag obair don Irish Times in 2007, scríobh Martin Doyle do nuachtáin éagsúla sa Bhreatain: Irish World, Irish in Britain News, Irish Post (eagarthóir ealaíne, leaseagarthóir), The Times (foeagarthóir), Irish Daily Mail.
Tá an ócáid á reachtáil ag Cumarsáid, an tAcadamh/Discpline of Journalism and Communication.

COLLABORATIVE WORKSHOP: Learned and vernacular interactions in the medieval North and West
2022-03-25 15:00 - 17:00 | online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
COLLABORATIVE WORKSHOP: Learned and vernacular interactions in the medieval North and West. The session includes a lecture by Dr Mikael Males “Irish words in Old Norse: true loans or stylistic markers?”
Organised by Norse Philology at the University of Oslo and Ancient Classics & CAMPS at NUI Galway.
All welcome – further information michael.clarke@nuigalway.ie

‘The Israeli Occupation of Palestine: Is International Law Closer to Power than to Justice?’
2022-03-28 12:00 - 13:30 | online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The Irish Centre for Human Rights is pleased to invite you to the following talk:
‘The Israeli Occupation of Palestine: Is International Law Closer to Power than to Justice?’
by
Professor Michael Lynk
Professor Michael Lynk is the current United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinians territories occupied since 1967, a position he has held since 2016. He is Associate Professor of Law at Western University in London, Ontario, where he teaches labour law, constitutional law and human rights law. Professor Lynk has written widely on labour law and human rights issues in Canada, and he has also published articles on the application of international law to the Middle East conflict. He will shortly publish his final report as Special Rapporteur.
This is an in person event and attendees are asked to wear masks.

Sources and Voices: Archives, Writing, and the Irish Diaspora
2022-03-28 14:30 - 17:15 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
NUI Galway Library and The Moore Institute:
Sources and Voices: Archives, Writing, and the Irish Diaspora
A free online webinar – 28 March 2022
2.30pm – 5.15pm (NOTE: All times are GMT)

This webinar draws together academics, archivists, and researchers across a number of disciplines, including History, English, Irish Language, and related disciplines, with a focus on recovering and exploring the connections, voices, and sources of the Irish-American diaspora. Through a number of recent publications and ongoing digital humanities projects, a range of new histories, as explored by the contributors, have drawn on previously neglected or underknown archival sources, providing new insights into the experience and representation of the Irish-American diaspora. This webinar will showcase recent research into these publications, projects, as well as of the sources and voices of the diaspora recovered in the process.
Schedule
2.30pm – Welcome and Introduction
Panel One – 2.40pm
Beth O’Leary Anish : Irish American Fiction in the Post-World War II Years: Representations of a Community in Transition.
Patrick O’Mahoney: The Writings of Eoin Ua Cathail, Gaelic Revivalist and American Frontiersman.
Máire Nic an Bhaird: Douglas Hyde, Ireland, and the U.S.A.
Sophie Cooper (Queen’s University, Belfast) Emerging from the Sidelines: Reconsidering “the” nineteenth-century Irish-American archive.
Chair – Barry Houlihan
Panel Two: 4pm
Letter Writing and the Diaspora – The Kerby Miller Archive at NUI Galway
Daniel Carey (Moore Institute, NUI Galway)
Kieran Hoare (NUI Galway Library)
Breandán Mac Suibhne (Acadamh na hOllscolaiochta Gaeilge / NUI Galway)
Chair – Róisín Healy
5.15pm Closing Remarks
Speaker Biographies
Panel 1:
Dr Patrick Mahoney, or Pádraig Fhia Ó Mathúna, is a researcher on the Fionn Folklore Project at Harvard University and a visiting fellow in Irish Studies at Queen’s University Belfast. He is the editor and translator of Recovering an Irish Voice from the American Frontier: The Prose Writings of Eoin Ua Cathail (UNT Press), which is based on research carried out while a Fulbright scholar at NUI Galway Library Archives.
Dr Sophie Cooper is a lecturer in Liberal Arts at Queen’s University Belfast where she also researches histories of migration, gender and religion, focusing on Ireland and its diaspora. Sophie’s first monograph, Forging Identites in the Irish World: Melbourne and Chicago, c.1830-1922, was recently published by Edinburgh University Press. Her publications also include articles in Social History and Women’s History Review where Sophie uses urban history and material culture approaches to explore the experiences of Irish women at home and abroad.
Dr Máire Nic an Bhaird is a lecturer in Irish Language and Literature and History of Education in the Froebel Department, Maynooth University. Her areas of teaching and research include; the life and work of Douglas Hyde, Censorship of Irish Language Literature (1920-1960), Children’s Literature in the Irish Language, Education for the Science-Society nexus, History of Education. Her teaching is grounded in a pedagogy of community engaged learning and she has won teaching bursaries and awards for the creation of teaching materials and programmes connected with MU modules that she coordinates. Máire is leading the university’s central role in the UCD-led €2 million Horizon Europe EdBioEc project. This multi-actor project comprises a pan-European consortium of 15 partners from across education, science and technology and the wider society.
Dr Beth O’Leary Anish, Ph.D. is Professor of English at the Community College of Rhode Island. Her book Irish American Fiction from World War II to JFK: Anxiety, Assimilation, and Activism was published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2021. She successfully defended her dissertation Writing Irish America: Communal Memory and the Narrative of Nation in Diaspora at the University of Rhode Island in 2017. She has also been published in the New Hibernia Review. Beth is active in the American Conference for Irish Studies, for which she is currently president of the New England region.
Panel 2
Professor Daniel Carey, MRIA, is Director of the Moore Institute for the Humanities and Social Studies at NUI Galway and Professor of English in the School of English and Creative Arts. He is a Vice-President of the Royal Irish Academy and is current acting Director of the Irish Research Council. He was also Chair of the Irish Humanities Alliance 2014-16.
Kieran Hoare is an archivist at NUI Galway Library.
An tOllamh Breandán Mac Suibhne is a historian of society and culture in modern Ireland (PhD, Carnegie Mellon, 1999). His award-winning book The End of Outrage: Post-Famine Adjustment in Rural Ireland (Oxford University Press) was awarded Irish Times Irish Non-Fiction Book of the Year in 2017. His other publications include two major annotated editions, viz. John Gamble’s Society and Manners in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Field Day, 2011) and, with David Dickson, Hugh Dorian’s The Outer Edge of Ulster: A Memoir of Social Life in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Donegal (2000, 20001). Mac Suibhne is currently at work on two book projects, including a study of Brian Friel’s mother’s people in south-west Donegal and the other concerns what the Irish poor did to and for each other “in the time of the Famine”. Mac Suibhne is also working to develop an online database that will facilitate access to Kerby A. Miller’s vast collection of transcripts of Irish emigrant letters.
Registration

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Event Recording

History Research Seminar Series: "Antiquaries, Archivists and the Origins of an Historical Profession in Ireland: Perspectives from the Beyond 2022 Project"
2022-03-30 16:00 - 17:00 | Online, via Zoom
Dr Peter Crooks (Trinity College Dublin)
Antiquaries, Archivists and the Origins of an Historical Profession in Ireland: Perspectives from the Beyond 2022 Project
Speaker Biography
Dr Peter Crooks is Founding Director of Beyond 2022: Ireland’s Virtual Record Treasury, an all-island and international collaboration to create a virtual reality reconstruction of the Public Record Office of Ireland, and its collections, which were destroyed at the outbreak of the Irish Civil War in 1922. His primary research interest is in Ireland in the period 1171-1541 and, arising from that, in the wider ‘English world’ or ‘Plantagenet empire’ of which Ireland formed an integral part. Before returning to Trinity in 2013, he was a Past and Present Society Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research and a Lecturer in Late Medieval History at the University of East Anglia. He is currently completing a monograph entitled England’s First Colony: Power, Conflict and Colonialism in the Lordship of Ireland, 1361–1460. He has published widely on Irish and British medieval Irish history and have been commissioned to serve as editor of the forthcoming Cambridge History of Britain, vol. 2: 1100–1500.
Registration
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This event will take place online, via Zoom: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/98504205141.

Political Science and Sociology Research Seminar: Humanitarian expressions of solidarity during the Cold War
2022-03-31 13:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
This is an in-person event held in the Hardiman Research Building’s Bridge Seminar Room, THB-1001 (1st floor).

About this event

Humanitarian expressions of solidarity during the Cold War: a comparison of how the volatile security situation in Honduras conditioned the engagements of Oxfam and Médecins Sans Frontières with the principle of neutrality in the Salvadoran refugee camps, 1980-1982.
In the Salvadoran refugee camps in Honduras, NGOs encountered a Cold War humanitarian crisis that posed a very specific challenge to humanitarian action. What was the role of humanitarian actors when faced with a refugee population often treated as criminals by the host government? How should humanitarians have reacted when it turned out that the refugee camps at the border between El Salvador and Honduras were not in fact spaces of refuge at all, but spaces of danger, where the refugees remained targets of military harassment and violence, and where there was no guarantee that refugees would be safe from camp incursions by the Honduran or Salvadoran military, and their para-military accomplices? What is the meaning of the humanitarian principle of ‘neutrality’ in such a context?
This paper will compare the interventions of Oxfam and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to examine how the particularly volatile security conditions in the Salvadoran refugee crisis determined the parameters of humanitarian action. How did both NGOs engage with the principle of neutrality differently, and in what ways were their actions either constrained or pushed to reflect a more radical stance by security considerations? How far was each NGO willing to go in adopting a more contextual understanding of ethical action that reflected the imperatives of solidarity and human rights? This paper will examine the initial phase of the humanitarian relief programme, from 1980 to 1982, in which both Oxfam and MSF established and crystallised their roles in the humanitarian programme in the face of intense controversy over allegations of collusion by World Vision with the Honduran army, and the question of relocation of camps away from the border against the refugees’ wishes. In so doing, it will focus on how the security situation itself directly affected each organisation’s decision-making process, arguing that it simultaneously had the effect of radicalising and constraining humanitarian expressions of solidarity in Honduras.
Maria Cullen is a fourth year PhD candidate in the History Department at NUI Galway, working under the supervision of Dr. Kevin O’Sullivan. Her research is supported by the Irish Research Council (Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship) and the National University of Ireland (NUI Travelling Studentship). The PhD project is a comparative study of the approach to ethical humanitarian action adopted by Médecins Sans Frontières and Oxfam in the 1980s. In particular, it looks at the issues surrounding the integration of human rights discourse into humanitarian relief within the polarised political context of the Cold War.
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Irish Studies Seminar Series, 2021-22: “An Uneven Score: Gender Balance Investigation for Publicly Funded Composer Opportunities on the Island of Ireland (2004-2019)”
2022-03-31 14:00 - 15:00 | Online, via Zoom
“An Uneven Score: Gender Balance Investigation for Publicly Funded Composer Opportunities on the Island of Ireland (2004-2019)”
by Laura Watson (Dept. of Music, Maynooth University) and Michael Lydon (Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway)
Laura and Michael will speak on “An Uneven Score: Gender Balance Investigation for Publicly Funded Composer Opportunities on the Island of Ireland (2004-2019)”, in relation to an ongoing research project investigating the gender balance of publicly-funded composer opportunities on the island of Ireland from 2004-2019.
Ms Róisín Maher (Cork School of Music, MTU and PhD Scholar at DCU) and Dr Aileen Dillane (Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick) will join conversation as Guest Respondents, with Dr Verena Commins (Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway) as expert Chair for the session.
Abstract
This seminar outlines an ongoing research project investigating the gender balance of publicly funded composer opportunities on the island of Ireland from 2004-2019. The Research Project is being conducted over two phases by the Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland (CMC) and Sounding the Feminists (STF) in partnership. Upon a successful completion of Phase One, the project’s Research Associate Dr Michael Lydon began Phase Two in December 2021. Phase Two of this project is funded by the Arts Council of Ireland/An Chomhairle Ealaíon, through CMC Strategic Funding.
The completion of Phase One was achieved by Dr Ciara Murphy, resulting in ‘Scoping the Project Report’. This detailed report considers the feasibility of the project, while also establishing an authoritative list of funding and commissioning organisations that offer specific composer funded opportunities, while determining the availability of relevant records for the project. Phase Two is scheduled for completion in September 2022, at which point a detailed report will reveal the gender balance of composer funded opportunities on the island of Ireland.
The seminar begins by establishing the impetus behind the project, while offering a brief insight into Sounding the Feminists. Next, it considers the finding from Phase One, before focusing on Phase Two. Specially, this entails outlining the methodology, the progress of the project, while also considering any initially challenges. Ultimately, the seminar presents preliminary findings from this necessary investigation into the gender balance of publicly funded composer opportunities on the island of Ireland from 2004-2019.
Contemporary Music Centre (https://www.cmc.ie/)
Sounding the Feminists (https://www.soundingthefeminists.com/)
Biography
Dr Laura Watson is Associate Professor of Music at Maynooth University, where she also directs the MA Musicology. She has published on early twentieth-century French music, with a monograph Paul Dukas: Composer and Critic (2019), a coedited volume Paul Dukas: Legacies of a French Musician (2019), and journal articles. Her studies of music and texts presently focus on popular musicians’ memoirs, with research recently published in the journal Popular Music and Society and in edited volumes. Current projects centre on women, feminism, and music, including the forthcoming coedited book Women and Music in Ireland (Boydell, 2022). Laura is a co-founder and member of the Sounding the Feminists Working Group, a small volunteer collective which leads national initiatives to address gender inequality in music and partners with stakeholders to achieve these goals. Laura is International Research Collaborator on the AHRC-funded Women and Musical Leadership Online Network (WMLON). Laura has been elected to the Council of the Society for Musicology in Ireland.
Dr Michael Lydon is a Research Associate for the Contemporary Music Centre (Ireland) and Sounding the Feminists. He is also a Lecturer in Popular Music Studies and Gender and Irish Music at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Michael is the former Communications Officer for the European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS), and the current Reviews Editor of Ethnomusicology Ireland. His research areas include Contemporary Music; Popular Music Studies; Popular Culture Studies; and Sound Studies.
Róisín Maher is a PhD student at DCU whose research examines the representation of women composers on undergraduate music history programmes in Ireland. She is a lecturer at MTU Cork School of Music since 2004, having previously taught at Trinity College Dublin, Mary Immaculate College Limerick, and the National College of Ireland. She is the co-founder and Artistic Director of Finding a Voice, a concert series that showcases and celebrates music by women composers, around the weekend of International Women’s Day. In addition to her academic work, a parallel career in arts management has involved her working with organisations including Universal Edition Music Publishers, Opera North, Opera Theatre Company, RTÉ Lyric fm, the Contemporary Music Centre, Crash Ensemble, East Cork Early Music Festival, and the Irish Association of Youth Orchestras.
Dr Aileen Dillane is an Ethnomusicologist and Senior Lecturer in Music at the Irish World Academy, University of Limerick. She is Co-director of the Centre for the Study of Popular Music and Popular Culture, a recently designated priority research centre in UL. Aileen is the PI on the HERA-funded project ‘FestiVersities: Music Festivals, Public Space, and Cultural Diversity’. As part of this project, the team is looking at the politics of space and participation in music festivals from an intersectional lens.
Registration
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CALM seminar: The CEFR at 20: What have we gained from it?
2022-03-31 16:00 - 17:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
CALM seminar: The CEFR at 20: What have we gained from it?
Dr Dorothy Ní Uigín, NUI Galway
The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages was developed by the Council of Europe in the 1990s and published officially in 2001, with its principal aim being to establish transparency in language competency. While the CEFR is widely used throughout Europe and beyond, it is on occasion over-simplified, with people focusing on the one-page, six-level grid (A1 – C2) that describes the Framework, without really interrogating how it can be best used in language testing and assessment, and in authentic language learning. This talk hopes to move beyond the ‘grid’, and will focus on three aspects in particular of the CEFR and its influence over the past 20 years: language testing and self-assessment; language and cultural competences and lesser-spoken / heritage languages and the Framework. This investigation will help us to answer the question posed in the title of the talk: what have we gained from the CEFR?
Biographical Note
Dr Dorothy Ní Uigín is the Director of the Teaching of Irish in Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge, NUI Galway, where the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) was first adopted for Irish-language courses in 2005. She has a particular interest in language acquisition, translation, academic writing and integrity, as well as bilingualism and biculturalism. She has also published widely on the history of Irish-language journalism.
Registration
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Video Recording

Modern Literary Theory and the Classics
2022-03-31 17:00 - 18:00 | AMB-G065 (Arts Millennium Building)
Prof. Brian Arkins (Discipline of Classics, emeritus) is scheduled to give a talk at 5pm on Thursday 31 March 5pm in room AMB-G065.
“Modern Literary Theory and the Classics”
All welcome!

Book Launch: The NGO Moment: The Globalisation of Compassion from Biafra to Live Aid
2022-03-31 17:30 - 18:30 | online via Zoom
Book Launch
The NGO Moment: The Globalisation of Compassion from Biafra to Live Aid
(Cambridge University Press, 2021)
by Dr Kevin O’Sullivan (Lecturer in History, NUI Galway)
Guest Speakers

Michaël Neuman (Director of Studies at Centre de Réflexion sur l’Action et les Savoirs Humanitaires, Médecins sans Frontières)
Professor Silvia Salvatici (Professor of Contemporary History, University of Florence)
Professor Andrew Thompson (Professor of Global and Imperial History and a Professorial Fellow of Nuffield College, University of Oxford)
Dr Sinéad Walsh (Climate Director, Irish Aid, Department of Foreign Affairs)

Organised by the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies.
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Event Recording

Creative Futures Research Group: Lunchtime Reading Group on Anticipatory Memory
2022-04-06 13:00 - 14:00 | Online, via Zoom
We will be running a third reading group session on April 6th, which will look at the topic of “Anticipatory Memory” and will be facilitated by Dr Kevin O’Sullivan from the History Department. We will read the following text:
Rob Nixon, ‘All Tomorrow’s Warnings’, Sydney Review of Books, 18 Sept. 2020
https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/review/the-future-we-choose/
The reading group is open to anyone with an interest in the themes of Creative Futures, speculative thinking and speculative non-fiction.
Registration
If you would like to attend, please register in advance via the following link by April 5th, 2022:
https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwlcO-gqDosGtDnrTxPoQhDSd_Gud8aSovm
This links is for registration purposes only. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing a separate link for joining the meeting.
