Moore Institute

Book Launch by Dr Laura Kelly - Irish women in medicine, c.1880s-1920s: origins, education and careers
2013-04-24 18:00 (Europe/Dublin)
Irish women in medicine, c.1880s-1920s: origins, education and careers
(Manchester University Press, 2013)
by Dr Laura Kelly
Wednesday, 24th of April at 6pm
Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and
Social Studies, NUI Galway
Guest speakers: Dr Caitriona Clear (NUI Galway) and
Professor Gearoid O‰۪Tuathaigh (NUI Galway)
The launch will be followed by a wine reception.
For more information contact laura.kelly@ucd.ie

CAMPS Lab: Dr. Kimberly LoPrete - 'Historians and Character(s): The Case of Stephen of Blois'
2013-04-19 12:00
Historians and Character(s):
The Case of Stephen of Blois
A presentation and discussion
moderated by Dr Kimberly LoPrete
FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch – Everyone is welcome
For more information contact jacopo.bisagni@nuigalway.ie

Complexity and Collaboration: Professor Eve Mitleton-Kelly, London School of Economics
2013-04-18 19:30
Complexity and Collaboration
Professor Eve Mitleton-Kelly, London School of Economics
Event Details
This public talk will introduce and evaluate a variety of qualitative and quantitative tools and methods which can be used to apply complexity theory to organisational change in different environments. Professor Eve Mitleton-Kelly will discuss how insights from complexity theory can help tackle apparently intractable problems with organisational transformation, and demonstrate the application of complexity theory in practice. This talk will benefit people in education, health, the community & voluntary sector and business, who are dissatisfied with traditional approaches to organisational change and academics who would like to learn more about the application of complexity theory in practice.
No previous knowledge of complexity theory is required to benefit from this inspiring speaker.
Professor Mitleton-Kelly is founder and Director of the Complexity Research Programme at the London School of Economics; Fellow of the Royal Institution; member of the Scientific Advisory Board to the ‰Û÷Next Generation Infrastructures Foundation’, Delft University of Technology; on the Editorial Board of the Journal of ‰Û÷Emergence: Complexity & Organisations’; was Coordinator of Links with Business, Industry and Government of the European Complex Systems Network of Excellence, Exystence (2003-2006); Director of the UK Complexity Society; and Executive Coordinator of SOL-UK (London) (Society for Organisational Learning) 1977-2008. She has developed a theory of complex social systems and an integrated methodology using both qualitative and quantitative tools and methods. The theory is being used for teaching at universities around the world, including three EPSRC-funded short courses at LSE, to train researchers; two courses at Beijing (Jan. 2010 & Apr. 2011) to train senior government officials; and short courses at Schumacher College, Devon, UK.
To book a place please email mary.bernard@nuigalway.ie on or before Tuesday 16th April

Professor Julia O'Connell Davidson, University of Nottingham - Debt, Sex and Slavery: Anti-Trafficking Discourse and Depoliticisation?
2013-04-18 17:00
Gender ARC Public Lecture
Public lecture by Dr. O‰۪Connell Davidson
Debt, Sex and Slavery: Anti-Trafficking Discourse and Depoliticisation?
5.00pm Thursday April 18th
Venue: Alexander Board Room, Quadrangle
Julia O‰۪Connell Davidson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham. Her research and publishing over the past two decades has focused on prostitution, sex tourism, child migration, and trafficking. Between 2001 and 2006, with Professor Bridget Anderson of Oxford University, she coordinated research on ‰ÛÏthe demand side of trafficking‰۝ with a particular focus on the sex and domestic work sectors. She is author of Prostitution, Power and Freedom (Polity, 1998) and Children in the Global Sex Trade (Polity, 2005) and is currently writing a book on Modern Slavery and the Margins of Freedom.
Co-sponsored by the Gender, Discourse and Identity research group of Gender ARC at the Moore Institute and Global Women‰۪s Studies
Supported by the NUI Galway Millennium Conference Fund
For more information contact gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie

Prof. Joanna Story, University of Leicester: Alcuin's Epitaph for Pope Hadrian I in Old St Peter's.
2013-04-18 16:00
Prof. Joanna Story
University of Leicester
Alcuin’s Epitaph for Pope Hadrian I in Old St Peter’s
For more information contact mairin.maccarron@nuigalway.ie

Digital Scholarship Seminar
2013-04-18 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, Thursday 18 April 2013
Adrian Grant (Moore Institute)Historians and new technologies
Alison McNamara (School of Education)An examination of gesture-based devices in the mathematics post-primary classroom in Ireland
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
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Community Engaged Research - Experiences of CARL at University College, Cork Dr. Kenneth Burns, CARL (Community-Academic Research Links), University College Cork
2013-04-17 10:00
Community Engaged Research – Experiences of CARL at University College, Cork
Dr. Kenneth Burns, CARL (Community-Academic Research Links), University College Cork
Event 1: Meeting with members of academic staff
Time: 10.00am – 11.30am
Venue: Moore Institute Seminar Room, NUI Galway
Event Details
This meeting will provide an opportunity for members of academic staff to have informal conversations with Dr. Burns on community engaged research with regard to students doing dissertations on topics related to research needs of civil society and third sector organisations. It will include discussion of administrative aspects such as creating and managing research partnerships, the establishment/membership of an Advisory Board, Ethical Approval, issues relating to intellectual property.
To book a place please email Mary Bernard on or before Monday 15th April
Event 2: Lunch-time Seminar
Time: 12.30pm – 2.00pm
Venue: Moore Institute Seminar Room, NUI Galway
Event Details
This lunch-time seminar will provide an overview of CARL at UCC and examine particular aspects of community engaged research, including issues relating to ethics, the selection of students and community partners and the lessons learned about community engaged research in CARL. This event should be of interest to community partners and staff and students of the university.
To book a place please email Mary Bernard on or before Monday 15th April
Dr. Kenneth Burns is a college lecturer and Deputy Director of the Master of Social Work course at University College Cork. He has worked as a social worker and social work team leader in child protection and welfare and continues to support practice in this area. He is also a founding member of Community-Academic Research Links. Through CARL Community-Academic Research Links, he is participating in a European Commission Seventh Framework Programme (EU FP7) project called Public Engagement with Research and Research Engagement with Society (PERARES). His main research and teaching interests are in child protection policy and practice, staff retention, career pathways for newly-qualified social workers, child care proceedings in the District Court, professional supervision and community-based research (Science Shops).

Professor GÌÄå_nther Lottes, University of Potsdam - 'Medievalism as a European political language'
2013-04-11 16:00
Professor GÌ_nther Lottes, University of Potsdam
‘Medievalism as a European political language’

Community Knowledge Initiative (CKI) Workshop - Doing community-based research: Professor Budd Hall & Professor Darlene Clover
2013-04-11 10:00
Workshop – Doing Community-based Research
Professor Budd Hall & Professor Darlene Clover
Event Details
This day-long workshop will be co-facilitated by Professors Darlene Clover and Budd Hall and will look at the practical issues involved in establishing and sustaining community-university research partnerships. This event should be of interest to university staff and students and those involved in community and voluntary organisations.
Professor Budd Hall is Co-Chair of the UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education and Professor of Community Development in the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria and Secretary of the Global Alliance on Community-Engaged Research, Budd was the founding Director of the University of Victoria Office of Community-based Research and Senior Fellow, Centre for Global Studies. Former Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria, Budd Hall has served as the Chair of the Adult Education Department at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education or the University of Toronto from 1995-2001 and as the Secretary-General of the International Council for Adult Education from 1979-1991. Budd has worked in Nigeria, Tanzania, Venezuela, Brazil, Chile, Germany, Thailand, Yemen, Uganda, England, and the United States. He has done both theoretical and practical work for almost 40 years in various aspects of community-based adult education and learning and participatory research. He has served as President, Chair or Vice-President of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education, International Council for Adult Education, Canadian Network for Democratic Learning, the Canadian Commission for UNESCO and the Coady International Institute Advisory Board. He is a member of the International Adult Education Hall of Fame and was selected for the 2005 Canadian Bureau of International Education Innovation in International Education Award. He is the husband of Dr. Darlene Clover, father of Dana and Shawn Hall, Grandfather of Quincy Pugh Hall and Ashton Edward Hall. He is also a poet.
Darlene E. Clover is Professor in the Faculty of Education, University of Victoria, Canada. Before coming to the university in the early 2000s, she coordinated a global programme on environmental adult education for the International Council for Adult Education (ICAE). Her areas of teaching in the university include community, cultural and ecological leadership, adult, feminist and arts-based education and participatory and arts-based research methods. Darlene has spent many years exploring and promoting the activist work of community-based educator-artists. Her current studies (and activist work) focus on the Human Library project in Victoria and Ottawa and other critical adult education work in libraries, galleries and museums in Canada and the United Kingdom. Her most recent books include The arts and social justice: Recrafting adult education and community cultural leadership (NIACE, 2007) and Lifelong learning, the arts and community cultural development and the contemporary university: International Perspectives (In Press, Manchester University Press).
For further information please contact Ann Lyons.
To book a place please email Mary Bernard on or before Tuesday 9th April
The Community Knowledge Initiative (CKI) fosters community university partnerships that aim to promote the principles and practices of civic engagement and democracy.
Information also available on the CKI website

History Graduate Seminar Series: Conor Morrissey - Advanced Protestant Nationalists in Ireland, c. 1900-1923
2013-03-27 16:00
Conor Morrissey
Advanced Protestant Nationalists in Ireland, c. 1900-1923
Contact: daibhi.ocroinin@nuigalway.ie

A weekly seminar on the Middle Irish Tale Airec menman Iraird maic Coisse
2013-03-27 12:00, 2013-03-20 12:00
A weekly seminar on the Middle Irish Tale
Airec menman Iraird maic Coisse
‘The Stratagem of Irard mac Coisse’
led by Prof. MÌÁirÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha (School of Humanities)
Every Wednesday at 12.00 noon
beginning Wednesday 23 January 2013
in the Moore Institute Seminar Room
The 10th-century Connacht poet Irard mac Coisse is titled ‘prÌ_m̩ices Ìärenn ‘Ireland’s foremost poet’ in his annalistic obituary (‰ÛÊ990). Among his patrons were such leading Irish figures as the king of Tara, Domnall (‰ÛÊ980) ̼a N̩ill, and his queen, Der FÌÁil (‰ÛÊ1010). Poems he wrote in their honour are among his extant works. The most important text attributed to him is the long allegorical tale Airec menman Iraird Coisse. Many scholars have commented on its great significance for understanding Gaelic literary tradition.
In Week 1 and 2, a literary context for this work will be outlined. Thereafter, transcripts of the manuscript witnesses will be compared with the aim of making a critical edition.
For further information, please contact MÌÁirÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha
(mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie / 087-7502095 )
FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch
SeimineÌÁr seachtaini̼il (trÌ_ Bh̩arla) ar an Sc̩al MeÌÁn-Ghaeilge
Airec menman Iraird maic Coisse
(‘Strait̩is Ioraird Mhic Coise’)
faoi sti̼ir an Oll. MÌÁirÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha (Scoil na nDaonnachtaÌ_)
Gach C̩adaoin ag 12.00 nÌ_n

Performance Matters - Irish Theatre Discussion Group
2013-03-26 18:00
Performance Matters
Irish Theatre Discussion Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/
We will be discussing Caryl Churchill’s The Skriker (1994).
For more information please contact lisa.fitzgerald@nuigalway.ie or m.nichualain5@nuigalway.ie

Chaucer's Poetry Words, authority and ethics - ClÌ_odhna Carney & Frances McCormack EDITORS
2013-03-26 17:30
FOUR COURTS PRESS ‰ۢ BOOK LAUNCH
You are cordially invited to the launch of
Chaucer‰۪s Poetry
Words, authority and ethicsClÌ_odhna Carney & Frances McCormack
editors
5.30 p.m. on Tuesday 26 March 2013 in the Moore seminar room, NUI Galway, Galway This book will be launched by MÌÁirÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha, Professor of Old and Middle Irish at NUI Galway.
To learn more about this book, see:
http://www.fourcourtspress.ie/product.php?intProductID=1066

Professor Patrick Joyce - "What is the state? Rethinking state history".
2013-03-26 15:00
Professor Patrick Joyce, Professor of History, University of Manchester and Professorial Fellow in History, University of Edinburgh
Spring 2013: Moore Fellow, Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Professorial Fellow in History, University of Edinburgh and
Emeritus Professor of History, University of Manchester,
www.patrickjoyce.info
email:patrick.joyce@manchester.ac.uk

Dr. Lorraine Kelly, Spanish, SLLC, NUI Galway: 'Narcoliterature: gender, violence and impunity'
2013-03-22 13:00
Dr. Lorraine Kelly, Spanish, SLLC, NUI Galway
‰Û÷Narcoliterature: gender, violence and impunity‰۪
Time/Date: 1.00pm, Friday 22 March, 2013
Venue: Moore Institute, NUI Galway
Sponsored by the Gender, Discourse and Identities cluster Gender ARC, Moore Institute

Geopolitics & Justice Research Cluster 50th Anniversary Symposium
2013-03-22 09:15
Geopolitics & Justice Research Cluster 50th Anniversary Symposium
22 March, 9.15 am ‰ÛÒ 4.30 pm
Moore Institute, NUIGalway
To mark the 50th anniversary of Geography at NUI Galway, the Geopolitics and Justice Research Cluster will host a symposium on Friday, March 22nd, in the Moore Institute. The Geopolitics and Justice cluster unites interests that seek to critically interrogate practices of interventionism, development and securitization in our contemporary world along with their consequent contested forms of governmentality and justice. A common research concern lies in theorising and insisting upon more humane, nuanced and critical human geographies, and in considering urgent issues of economic, environmental and social justice.
The symposium will include overviews of current cluster research which spans key global issues respectinggeopolitics and security, structural injustices and poverty, humanitarianism and human rights, environmental and social justice, and hunger and food security. The cluster‰۪s broader public academic concerns of civic engagement, field-based learning, and public geographies and representation will also feature. To this end, the day sets out to combine academic speakers from Geography, History and Politics with development practitioners from Irish Aid, Christian Aid and NUI Galway‰۪s Community Knowledge Initiative, who will all address shared concerns of interventionism, development and justice.
Student presentations from Geography‰۪s MA in Environment, Society and Development on the theme of ‰Û÷transformative geopolitics and justice‰۪ will also form a key element of the proceedings, and signals the importance of a vibrant graduate research community integrally feeding into the enterprise and ongoing development of our research cluster. Finally, we are delighted to have as plenary speaker from the School of Geography and the Centre for the Study of Global Security and Development at Queen Mary, University of London, Dr Simon Reid-Henry.
For more information please see http://www.nuigalway.ie/geography/research/gj.html

" The Sound So Melting": Ireland's Medieval Harp and Its Music
2013-03-21 17:00
‰ÛÏThe Sound So Melting…‰۝:
Ireland‰۪s Medieval Harp and Its Music:
A Seminar/concert event given by historical harpist Siobhan Armstrong in celebration of the first European Day of Early Music.
In co-operation with Galway Early Music and The Historical Harp Society of Ireland and under the umbrella of the European Early Music Network REMA.
This event will be live-streamed on U-Sophia.com as part of a European-wide day of Early Music.
For more information contact: maura.ocroinin@nuigalway.ie

Dr Niamh Thornton, University of Ulster, Coleraine - Macho, Macho Men (and Women): MarÌ_a F̩lix and Emilio 'el indio' FernÌÁndez in Mexican Films of the Revolution
2013-03-21 14:00
Macho, Macho Men (and Women): MarÌ_a F̩lix and Emilio ‰Û÷el indio‰۪ FernÌÁndez in Mexican Films of the Revolution
Dr Niamh Thornton, University of Ulster, Coleraine
Mexican film has repeatedly returned to the bellicose period of the Revolution (1910-20) as a source of inspiration for both plot and setting. The archetypal image of the Mexican macho can be found in the display, performances and wardrobe employed in these films, which appears, at first glance to be rigid and reactionary. Yet, they reveal an ever-increasing anxiety about men and women‰۪s roles that are worked through in a complex interplay between star text and the films‰۪ narrative, visual and audio cues, and, consequently frequently challenge convention.
Emilio ‰Û÷el indio‰۪ FernÌÁndez directed and acted in some of these films of the Revolution, whilst Maria F̩lix often had a starring role. Their films are of varying quality and have received mixed critical reception.Some, such as, Flor Silvestre (Emilio ‰Û÷el indio‰۪ FernÌÁndez, 1943) and Enamorada (Emilio ‰Û÷el indio‰۪ FernÌÁndez, 1946) are among the most celebrated films of the so-called Golden Age (1930-50).Others have been critically denigrated, such as La Cucuracha (Ismael RodrÌ_guez, 1958), Juana Gallo (Miguel ZacarÌ_as, 1960), and La Bandida (Roberto RodrÌ_guez, 1962).However, all of these engage with ideas about gender that are complicated by the often controversial personal lives of both FernÌÁndez and F̩lix, their performances on screen and the evolving nature of the public discourse about gender roles. In these films, masculinity and femininity has defined rules, which are often referred to in the plot and dialogue, yet these are transgressed and problematized repeatedly.
In order to illustrate this evolution and explore the density of the issues alluded to, this presentation will consider two contrasting films Enamorada and La Cucuracha, and consider how the attempts to allegorise gender roles is often countered by narrative, audio-visual techniques, performances and the star texts of both of these actors.

Digital Scholarship Seminar
2013-03-21 12:00
Digital Scholarship Seminar
Announcing the inaugural series of a new 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, Thursday 21 March 2013
Marina Ansaldo (Moore Institute)Reading East: From concept to live online resource
Meaghan Connell (English, School of Humanities)The Corpus of Hiberno-English Literary Dialect: preliminary results and analysis
12-1pm, Thursday 18 April 2013
Adrian Grant (Moore Institute)Historians and new technologies
Alison McNamara (School of Education)An examination of gesture-based devices in the mathematics post-primary classroom in Ireland
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
Each DSS event will take place in the Moore Institute Seminar Room. Presentations will be followed by informal discussion (1-2pm) over a light lunch (TBC).
Contact:
PÌÁdraic Moran (Classics, School of LLC) | padraic.moran@nuigalway.ieJustin Tonra (English, School of Humanities) | justin.tonra@nuigalway.ie
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Disability Support Service - iPad Training
2013-03-21 11:00, 2013-03-19 11:00
iPad Training
Specifically to using the following applications; Email, Notability, iAnnotate, Blackboard, and Skydrive/dropbox
This training is open to all current iPad users and those considering purchasing one. Please bring your iPad with you to this training if you own one.
For more information, please contact:
Denise Keaveney Disability Support Service Assistive Technology Office James Hardiman Library 091 49 2744

History Graduate Seminar Series: Daniel Knegt - 'Quelle Europe?' French Intellectuals between Liberalism, Internationalism and Fascism, 1930-1950
2013-03-20 16:00
Daniel Knegt
‘Quelle Europe?’ French Intellectuals between Liberalism, Internationalism and Fascism, 1930-1950
Contact: daibhi.ocroinin@nuigalway.ie

Book Launch by Dr Kevin O'Sullivan: Ireland, Africa and the end of empire: small state identity in the Cold War, 1955-75
2013-03-19 18:00
Book Launch
Ireland, Africa and the end of empire: small state identity in the Cold War, 1955-75
(Manchester UP)
The book will be launched by RÌ_isÌ_n Healy (Head of History at NUIG) and Peadar King, a documentary filmmaker who produces the RTÌä television series, What in the World?, and has just published a book of the same name, subtitled Political travels in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
For more information contact kevin.k.osullivan@nuigalway.ie

ECHO Seminar. Dramatic Licenses: with David Clare & Siobhan O'Gorman
2013-03-15 16:00
ECHO Seminar.
Dramatic Licenses:
with David Clare & Siobhan O’Gorman

CAMPS research lab: Dr James Clackson - Linguistic variation: Searching for spoken variation in written texts
2013-03-15 12:00
Linguistic variation: Searching for spokenvariation in written texts
A guest lecture by Dr James Clackson
Reader in Comparative Philology, University of Cambridge
Friday 15 March 2013, 12.00‰ÛÒ1.00
followed by lunch 1.00‰ÛÒ2.00
Moore Institute Seminar Room
FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch/Everyone welcome!

Theatre Projects
2013-03-14 18:00
THEATRE PROJECTS
A weekley meeting to discuss and plan the creation of opportunities for projects within DramSoc
for productions as well as workshops and other social events
contact n.barre8@nuigalway.ie

Margaret Heavey Memorial Lecture 2013
2013-03-14 17:00
Margaret (Ma) Heavey was a member of staff in Classics from 1931 to 1977, Professor in Ancient Classics from 1958 and Dean of Arts 1970-1976.
The annual Margaret Heavey Memorial Lecture will take place this year on Thurs 14 March 5pm in the ÌÒ Tn̼thail Theatre (Arts Millennium Building).
Dr James Clackson (Cambridge) will give a talk entitled “How many languages were spoken in the ancient world?”. All welcome.
see www.nuigalway.ie/classics/heavey

"The Ghosts of the Past: La familia de Pascual Duarte in the Twenty-first Century" by Dr Ross Woods (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
2013-03-13 18:00
“The Ghosts of the Past: La familia de Pascual Duarte in the Twenty-first Century”.
Dr Ross Woods from the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
This seminar revisits Camilo Jos̩ Cela‰۪s La familia de Pascual Duarte, the work generally regarded as heralding the rebirth of the Spanish novel upon its publication in 1942. By examining the historical perspective from which criticism of the novel has emerged, Dr Woods offers a reassessment of the text in light of recent scholarship on representations of the past in Spanish literature. In doing so, he argues that Cela‰۪s disengagement with history in the narrative creates a distancing effect which enables readers to critically engage with the past. Ultimately, this talk aims to pose the following question: how should we be reading this novel in the twenty-first century?
For more information contact mel.boland@nuigalway.ie

History Graduate Seminar Series: M̩idhbhÌ_n NÌ_ ÌÄå_rdail - Irish-Language Manuscripts & Books in the 18th century
2013-03-13 16:00
M̩idhbhÌ_n NÌ_ Ì_rdail
Irish-Language Manuscripts & Books in the 18th century
contact: daibhi.ocroinin@nuigalway.ie
