'Frankfurt School: Passion, Profanation, Apocalypse' Symposium
2023-03-31 09:30 - 18:00 (Europe/Dublin) | THB-G011 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
‘Frankfurt School: Passion, Profanation, Apocalypse’ Symposium
This one-day symposium will consider the legacy of the Frankfurt School, marking the centenary of the establishment of the Institute for Social Research (Institut für Sozialforschung). The contributors will explore the contemporary relevance of the passions and aspirations of the Frankfurt School scholars.
This event is free to attend and open to all.
To book a place please email Diana Stypinska at Diana.Stypinska@universityofgalway.ie
The symposium is organized by the School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway, the Sociological Association of Ireland Social Theory Study Group, and the Department of Sociology and Criminology, University College Cork

“What has happened to this house?” Brian Friel and His Mother’s People
2023-04-03 13:00 - 14:00 | THB-G011 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
“What has happened to this house?”
Brian Friel and His Mother’s People
Breandán Mac Suibhne
Acadamh na hOllscolaiochta Gaeilge

Moderator: Daniel Carey, Director, Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies

EU public diplomacy, with the occasion of the recent publication of the Special Issue ‘Global Perspectives on European Union Public Diplomacy’
2023-04-18 11:30 - 14:30 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, HRB, University of Galway
The School of Political Science & Sociology is organizing a half-day public event on EU public diplomacy, with the occasion of the recent publication of the Special Issue ‘Global Perspectives on European Union Public Diplomacy’ in the Journal of Contemporary European Studies, co-edited by Dr Evans Fanoulis (University of Galway) and Dr Weiqing Song (University of Macau). The Special Issue can be accessed here.
The event will take place in a hybrid mode, both online and onsite.
Please, email Dr Evans Fanoulis (evans.fanoulis@universityofgalway.ie) by 15 April 2023 to register for the event, mentioning whether you will be attending online or onsite.
The event is kindly sponsored by the Discipline of Politics of the School of Political Science & Sociology, University of Galway.

School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures Research Day in memory of Dr. Mel Boland
2023-04-19 09:30 - 17:00 | THB-G011 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Research Day
In memory of Dr. Mel Boland
To join online: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/97191090627

Programme (pdf file available here SLLC Research Day Programme)
9.30 Welcome and Opening Remarks:
Rebecca Braun (Dean, CASSCS)
Chaosheng Zhang (Vice-Dean Research, CASSCS)
Anne O’Connor (Chair, Research Committee SLLC)
9.45-10.45 Session 1: Humour
Chair: Pilar Alderete Diez
• Marie Blom: Creativity in Translation: a strategy for translating humour
• Daniela Toulemonde: The subtitling into Spanish of reference and citationality-based humour in RuPaul’s Drag Race
• Ivan Kenny: El México rojo: Entropic Humour, Naturalism and Death in Luis Buñuel’s El río y la muerte and Ensayo de un crimen
10.45-11.15 Coffee
11.15-12.15 Session 2: Languages of Encounter/International Encounter
Chair: Begoña Sangrador-Vegas
• Deirdre Byrnes: Seán O’Casey in the GDR
• Sara-Louise Cooper: Marie Darrieussecq, Edouard Glissant and Gustave Flaubert: Reading Mediterranean Migration from the Caribbean
• Tony Tracy: Good Enough? Motherhood in Contemporary Irish Cinema
12.15-1.15 Lunch
1.15-2.15 Session 3: Latin America and the Canon
Roundtable Discussion
Chair: Lorraine Kelly
With contributions from: Céire Broderick; Monika Jurkiewicz; Kate Quinn; Jenny Wood
2.15-3.15 Session 4: Linguistics and Translation
Chair: Francesca Nicora
• John Walsh: New speakers of minority languages in Spain
• Andrea Ciribuco and Samantha Goodchild: International encounters in rural Ireland. Participative methods in research with culturally and linguistically diverse communities”
• Martín Veiga: Textual Mobilities: Literary Translation as Research and Creative Practice
3.15-3.30 Coffee
3.30-4.00 Dr. Mel Boland In Memoriam
Owen Harrington Fernandez (Heriot Watt University)
Dan Carey (Director of Moore Institute)
Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh (President, University of Galway)
4.00-5.00 Translation, poetry and song
Chair: Anne O’Connor
Lorna Shaughnessy: Translation between forms: from written text to visual media
Screening of Short Film Finding Mothers by Barra Convery, based on the poetry of Lorna Shaughnessy
Lillis Ó Laoire: Translating popular songs into Irish: Motivations, methods and metrics.
5.00 Concluding Remarks and Reception
Tina Pusse (Head of School, Languages, Literatures and Cultures)
Zoom Link: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/97191090627

Ukraine’s Fight for Survival. Lessons & Future Prospects - a Roundtable Discussion with the Ukrainian, Polish and Lithuanian Ambassadors to Ireland
2023-04-19 11:30 - 13:00 | IT125, IT Building, University of Galway
Ukraine’s Fight for Survival
Lessons & future Prospects – a Roundtable Discussion with the Ukrainian, Polish and Lithuanian Ambassadors to Ireland
After 420 days of heroic resistance, a free Ukraine still manages to exist although having paid an extraordinary price in suffering. This in person event brings the three Ambassadors to Ireland, from Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania, together with University of Galway academic staff and students, to jointly share reflections and insight. How can we make sense of the invasion and what it means for Ukraine, Europe, and Ireland? Or indeed our wider world? What lessons can or should be drawn, and how can we conceive of victory and the war ending? Join us for a timely and respectful discussion of one of Europe’s most pressing crises.
Registration
Please register via Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/ukraines-fight-for-survival-lessons-future-prospects-a-table-discussion-tickets-609346570997

The School of Political Science and Sociology research seminar: 'The eviction of Antonio Lopez - Slavery and Barcelona's colonial present'
2023-04-20 13:00 - 14:00 | AS203 (Arts/Science Building, River Room) University of Galway
The School of Political Science and Sociology invite you to a research seminar with:
Jonathan Hannon (Power, Conflict and Ideologies Research Cluster)
‘The eviction of Antonio Lopez – Slavery and Barcelona’s colonial present’
Thursday 20th April,
1-2pm
AS203 (Arts/Science Building, River Room)
University of Galway
All Welcome!

Knowledge, Vision, and Judgement in Early Modern English Literature
2023-04-20 14:00 - 18:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Knowledge, Vision, and Judgement in Early Modern English Literature
All are welcome to join this afternoon event, which will feature papers by:
Prof. Jane Grogan (UCD)
Dr Douglas Clark (U. de Neuchâtel)
Dr Lindsay Ann Reid (U. of Galway)
and a guest lecture by Prof. Kevin Curran (U. de Lausanne), followed by a wine reception.

CAMPS Lab: Rosemary Power, Iona Nunnery and Its Norse-Gaelic Context
2023-04-21 12:00 - 14:00 | THB-G011 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
This Lab is hybrid with Rosemary Power zooming in from Iona! Those in Galway still be meeting in HRB G010 at 12 noon, Friday 21st April, and lunch and discussion will follow as usual.
Rosemary will be speaking on ‘Iona Nunnery and Its Norse-Gaelic Context’:
This seminar paper concerns the foundation of the Augustinian nunnery on Iona in the late twelfth century, and the re-establishment of the Columban monastery as Benedictine some years later, with the consequent reusing of some of the architectural features. It also considers the site and the orientation of the buildings. While the main influence seems to have been Irish practice, the nunnery was situated within the archdiocese of Niðaróss [modern Trondheim], and the Norse influence is also considered.
If you wish to attend via Zoom, please register through this link:
https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMucuuqqDkjH9ORmyGbRpTk9fZew6-UQrrx

Open Scholarship Café: From Open Data to Open Science
2023-04-25 12:00 - 13:30 | THB-G011 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
This is an in person event in the Hardiman Building, G010 (on ground floor). No previous or specialist knowledge is needed for this Cafe. All welcome! The event will finish with a free slice of fresh vegetarian pizza!
Please bring a device (laptop, tablet) as we will do some joined activities.
Emerging technologies such as AI, Data Analytics, and Robotics are critically enabling open science, but open science is more than a technology-driven change. One of the most important ones for open science to succeed is open data.
In Ireland, the National Open Data Portal (data.gov.ie) is the main repository of Irish open data. There are many benefits to opening data and reusing data for innovation. It is considered as a critical collaboration tool for many public and private sector organizations in Ireland. Open data speeds up the research process by facilitating re-use and enriching datasets while making the most of (public) investment in the production of research data. In essence, it allows more use of the same investment and thus more scope for discovery, in particular, for addressing crosscutting research questions like most of the big challenges that affect the world. In particular, this Café will look at the COVID-19 case of public health emergencies and how Irish/global research collaborations could help address the health and societal challenges.
With all that said, shared use of data goes beyond one discipline, expanding the scope of research and diversifying perspectives. It also allows for creation of new knowledge, products, and services. Still, sharing data is impeded by lack of formal recognition as data citations are not yet standard practice and by resistance from researchers who think that open data will jeopardize their individual publishing trajectory and impact.
The aim of this Café is to understand potentials of open data and importance of research data sharing for research and innovation. In addition to that, the Café will tap into the vast amount of knowledge and experiences of the participants to shed some light on the open research data discussions in the University.
The facilitator:

Fatemeh Ahmadi Zeleti is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics at University of Galway and a scholar-in-residence at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. Fatemeh’s expertise is in the areas of application and adoption of emerging technologies, data federation, data-driven innovation, open data, capability building, and data governance/strategy. She is the open data trainer of public bodies in Ireland and is involved in the development of the National Open Data Strategy (2022-2027). She has explored the world of R&D by managing and working in various European projects (Horizon Europe, H2020, Interreg, FP7) and national projects (IRC, SFI).
Registration
Registration is required. Please register at: https://universityofgalway.libcal.com/event/4013403

RELIGION RE-IMAGINES THE WORLD, 1870-1930
2023-04-26 09:30 - 12:30 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
RELIGION RE-IMAGINES THE WORLD, 1870-1930
0930-1045: Devotions and beliefs in changing times
CHAIR: Breandán MacSuibhne, Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta, Gaillimh.
‘Peripheral Vision: Marian Apparitions in Knock/An Cnoc and Dittrichswalde/Gietzrwald in the 1870s.’ Róisín Healy, Department of History, University of Galway.
‘Martyrs and Miracles: some religious aspects of Peig’s storytelling.’ Síle de Cléir, Scoil na Gaeilge, an Bhéarla agus an Cumarsáide, University of Limerick.
1045-1115: Coffee/tea
1115-1230: Religion and mission in war and peace.
CHAIR: Alison Forrestal, Department of History, University of Galway.
‘Thora Wedel Jarsberg (1863-1930): emotions, piety, practice.’ Inger Marie Okkenhaug, Department of History, Volda University College.
‘Rebuilding or Resurrection? Preliminary thoughts on French Catholics and the reconstruction of the “devastated regions” of the First World War.’ Gearóid Barry, Department of History, University of Galway.
This event is free and open to all participants.
Thanks to the History Department for sponsoring it, the Moore Institute for housing it, and the Centre for the Study of Religion for publicising it.
Convenor: Caitriona Clear, History Department, University of Galway.
Email: caitriona.clear@universityofgalway.ie

Figuring Ecologies Reading Network (FERN) – BRAIDING SWEETGRASS by Robin Wall Kimmerer
2023-04-27 13:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Staff and students are warmly invited to attend the next gathering of the Figuring Ecologies Reading Network (FERN). We meet each month to discuss a literary or creative work on the subject of ecologies.
Next Meeting: Thursday 27 April 2023, Bridge Room, Moore Institute, 13.00-14.00
We will discuss BRAIDING SWEETGRASS by Robin Wall Kimmerer (email for readings).
All welcome!
For further information please contact:

Ashley Cahillane (School of English and Creative Arts) A.CAHILLANE1@nuigalway.ie
Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha (School of Languages, Literature and Cultures) L.NICHOISTEALBHA1@nuigalway.ie
Nessa Cronin (School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies) nessa.cronin@universityofgalway.ie
Patrick Lonergan (School of English and Creative Arts) patrick.lonergan@universityofgalway.ie
Tina-Karen Pusse (School of Languages, Literature and Cultures) tina-karen.pusse@universityofgalway.ie

The School of Political Science and Sociology Research Seminar: Language, Terminology and Representation Relating to Institutions Formerly known as 'mother and baby homes', 'county homes' and related institution
2023-04-27 13:00 - 14:00 | CA110 Cairns Building, University of Galway
The School of Political Science and Sociology invite you to the final research seminar of the 2022-2023 research seminar series, with Caroline McGregor, Carmel Devaney and Sarah-Anne Buckley.
Seminar Objectives:

To introduce the project and challenges and opportunities in relation to the methodology
To Present Selection of Findings
To raise critical awareness about terminology, language and terminology within context of Epistemic (Knowledge) injustice, Stigma and Power imbalance regarding construction and use of language, terminology and representation
To briefly highlight and ask you to publicise the Toolkit and messages for range of stakeholders
To specifically refer to what can be done by Academics, and within Academia, as a result of learning from the project.

Please note – this is the final lunch-time seminar of the 2022-2023 research seminar series.
All Welcome!

Royal Irish Academy International Affairs Annual Conference 2023: Human (in)security in an unsettled world
2023-05-02 09:30 - 17:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & streamed live on Zoom
Royal Irish Academy
International Affairs Annual Conference 2023
Human (in)security in an unsettled world
The Academy’s annual International Affairs Conference,
kindly supported by the Department of Foreign Affairs.
In our unsettled world of intersecting human and environmental crises, an urgent global governance challenge lies in actioning new visions and strategies of security. Two key tasks in addressing global security in the Anthropocene (the geologic era marked by human activity as the primary driver of environmental change) are: establishing holistic understandings of global security through effective communication of the overlapping human and environmental dimensions; and incorporating the range of component elements – from climate security to military security, from food security to health security – in formulating policies that work to transcend insecurities on the ground, promote global cooperation and advance integrated strategies of security. This conference takes up this dual challenge of envisioning a wider discourse of global security, and setting out how to address the planet’s overlapping insecurities more holistically. Papers will reflect on the multiple (in)securities of our contemporary moment, how they intersect in complex ways, and how more effective security responses can be achieved.
The conference will be followed by a reception hosted by the Secretary General of the Department of Foreign Affairs to launch the latest edition of Irish Studies in International Affairs.
TICKETS
Tickets are free, but booking is required. Both in-house attendance and live-streaming will be available, please register for either option.
Programme

Making England Irish? John Locke and the English Atlantic Empire
2023-05-02 16:00 - 18:00 | THB-G011 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
Inaugural Nicholas Canny Lecture @ the Moore Institute, University of Galway
David Armitage
Blankfein Professor of History
(Harvard University)
Making England Irish? John Locke and the English Atlantic Empire
This distinguished lecture series honours the career and contribution of Professor Nicholas Canny, emeritus chair of history and founding Director of the Moore Institute at the University of Galway, and the country’s leading interpreter of early modern Irish history and the Atlantic World.
Professor David Armitage is Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University. His many books include Civil Wars: A History in Ideas (2017), Foundations of Modern International Thought (2013), and The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (2000). He is completing an edition of John Locke’s colonial writings for the Clarendon Edition of his works.
Registration
This is a hybrid event. To attend in person, please register via Eventbrite. If you wish to join online, please email mooreinstitute@universityofgalway.ie for a Zoom link.

BALANCING ACTS ISTR 2023
2023-05-05 - 2023-05-06
BALANCING ACTS
ISTR 2023
5-6 May, University of Galway
Sponsored by the University of Galway and Irish Theatre Institute in association with Dundalk Institute of Technology
Balancing Acts Conference Schedule 5-6 May 2023

Schedule Key
PINK: PANEL/PG-ECR Workshop
GREEN: BREAK/CATERING
YELLOW: KEYNOTE

Conference Team
Miriam Haughton, Sarah Hoover, Luke Lamont, Ciara L. Murphy, Finian O’Gorman

FRIDAY 5TH MAY

PANEL 1: Performing Balance in Crisis, Care, and Covid
9.15-10.30: Studio 1, ODC
Chair: Ian R Walsh
Vicky Angelaki (Mid Sweden): Balancing Intersecting Crises: Sustainability, COVID and Climate in Crimp and Kirkwood
Sinéad O’Donnell-Carey (ATU Sligo): Where is live performance in a post-pandemic world?
Yingjun Wei (Trinity): “Hybrid organising saved us”: Hustling Feminist Theatre through the Precarity of the Covid-19 Pandemic

PANEL 2: Embodiment, Experience and Self in Contemporary Performance Practices
9.15-10.30: Studio 2, ODC
Chair: Mike Finneran
Alinne Fernandes (UFSC): Asphyxia and Isolation in Marina Carr’s ‘Grow a Mermaid’: A Brazilian Radio Play
Aoife McGrath (QUB): Shared Experiences of Care: embodied knowledge in PaR collaborations between dance and social science
Maria Tivnan (UoG): Parent as Artist/Artist as Parent: Making Work ‘work’

COFFEE: 10.30-11, SULT

Opening Remarks: Aoife Noone (GTF), Miriam Haughton (UoG), Ciara L. Murphy (DKIT)

PANEL 3: Balancing at the Intersection of Theatre and Education: Ethics, Partnerships, and Research-based Approaches
11-12.15, Studio 1, ODC
Chair: Luke Lamont (UoG)
Fiona Fearon (DKIT): The Ethics of Teaching Trauma, Criminality and Deviance in Contemporary Irish Theatre
Fiona McDonagh and Dorothy Morrissey (MIL): Teacher-artist partnerships: Navigating between education and theatre
Charlotte McIvor and Gavin Friel (UoG): “Can We Ever Really Know This Works?”:
Experimenting with Research-based Theatre as Consent Education with an Irish National Policy and Secondary School and Third-Level Education Ecology

PANEL 4: Balancing genre, tradition and the future
11-12.15, Studio 2 ODC
Chair: Finian O’Gorman (TCD)
Daithí Kearney (DKIT): Balancing Time: Seeing the past, present, future and other time in the productions of Siamsa Tíre, the National Folk Theatre of Ireland
Marianne Kennedy (UoG): Ar Ais Arís and coming back again
Sharon Phelan and Jackie Gallagher (MTU): The Use of Contemporary Dance as a Tool to Enhance Wellness in Educational Settings

12.30-1.30 Lunch – brown bag lunches available from SULT

1.00-1.45: Postgraduate/ECR Workshop with Charlotte McIvor ODC Studio 2
Job Applications and Interviews
Delegates are welcome to bring their lunch with them

1.15-2.00: ISTR AGM: All welcome
Moore Institute, G010
Delegates are welcome to bring their lunch with them

2-3: ARTIST KEYNOTE: Studio 1
Sonya Kelly in conversation with Ursula Rani Sarma
Chair: Maria Tivnan

3-3.30: BREAK

3.30-4.30: KEYNOTE LECTURE: Studio 1
David O’Shaughnessy (UoG), ‘Balancing the repertory: Richard Brinsley Sheridan, theatre manager’
Chair: Miriam Haughton

4.45-6: Book/Project Launch
Wine reception and finger food, SULT
Ciara Murphy, Performing Social Change on the Island of Ireland: From Republic to Pandemic (Routledge 2023), launched by Miriam Haughton
Paul J. Halferty and Cathy Leeney, Ed. Analysing Gender in Performance (Palgrave 2022), launched by Aoife McGrath
Miriam Haughton, IRC Laureate 2023-2025 ‘The Price of Performance: A Question of Economic Sustainability for Independent Theatre Production in Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland 2000-2020’ launched by Máiréad Ní Chróinín.
Suggested Evening Entertainment – Galway Theatre Programme Link: https://galwaytheatrefestival.com/collections/shows

SATURDAY 6TH MAY

PANEL 5: Unraveling Complexities: Perspectives on Irish Arts Practices, Funding, and Community Wellbeing
9.15-10.30: Studio 1 ODC
Chair: Alinne Fernandes
Mike Finneran (MIL): Balancing expectations and outcomes and so much else in Irish applied arts practices
Ciara O’Dowd (SGI): Should the Arts Council of Ireland be paying by the word?
Ian R. Walsh (UoG): Crossed Wires: Galway Community Circus’s LifeLine and Issues in Measuring Wellbeing

PANEL 6: Off-Balance: Inequality, Precarity, and Liveness in the Theatre Industry
9.15-10.30, Studio 2 ODC
Chair: Cathy Leeney
Abir Al-Laham (Heidelberg): Of Bodies and Spaces: Balancing Inequality in Theatre Representations
Samantha Cade (UCD): “Live” in a Pandemic: How Dublin’s Theatre Industry Addressed Work in the COVID 19 Pandemic
Eamonn Jordan (UCD): Precarious and Intersectional Class Imbalances and Inequalities

10.30-10.45: COFFEE SULT

PANEL 7: Contemporary Irish Theatre: Navigating Ethics, Aesthetics, and Auteurship
10.45-12:15, Studio 1 ODC
Chair: Sarah Hoover
David Clare (MIL): “Otherness in Ursula Rani Sarma’s Blue”
Stefanie Weenink (UoG): Gawd and Gulder: Language as a Key Marker of Identity and Irishness in Brian Friel’s Plays
Justine Zapin (UCD): Playboy, Blanco, and a Jury of One’s Peers: Balancing Drama Off and On the Irish Stage
Luke Lamont (UoG): The author on stage: auteur-ships, precarious ethics and documentary aesthetics

PANEL 8: Class, Gender, and Academic Challenges: Balancing against the odds
10.45-12.15, Studio 2 ODC
Chair: Eamonn Jordan
Alexander Coupe (Liverpool): Stitched Up: Class and Compromise in Post-Agreement Feminist Performance
Bogdan Mihai Florea (Nu Nu Theatre): Theatre, the pandemic, a bit of Treplev, some Sloterdijk, an academic journal, depression and (my) mental health in general
Finian O’Gorman (TCD): Artificial Intelligence and Irish theatres studies: How ChatGPT can turn academics into amateurs.
Helena Young (UCD): Gender Balance in Brokentalkers

12-1: Lunch SULT
Brown bag lunch

12.30-1.15: PG/ECR Workshop G010 Moore Institute with Patrick Lonergan
Publishing and Grant Applications
Delegates are welcome to bring their lunch with them

KEYNOTE Lecture: 1.15 -2.15 O’Donoghue Theatre
Danielle Bainbridge (Northwestern)
Chair: Ciara L Murphy

BREAK 2.15-2.30

KEYNOTE PANEL: 2.30-3.30 O’Donoghue Theatre
Safe to Create/Irish Theatre Institute
Panel: Louise Crowley, Olwen Dawe, Esosa Ighodaro, Ciara L. Murphy, Niamh O’Donnell
Chair: Mary McGill

3.30-3.45: BREAK

PANEL 9: Adapting Tradition: Exploring Intercultural, Philosophical and Feminist Perspectives in Theatre
3.45-5.15, Studio 1 ODC
Chair: Vicky Angelaki
Gustav Parker Hibbett (TCD): Reimagining Othello
Patrick Lonergan (UoG): Balancing Acts: Caryl Churchill and Anthropocene Feminism
Jiayu Yin (Soochow/TCD): On the “Going Out” and “Going Back” of Chinese Intercultural Theatre: Reflecting on Meng Jinghui’s Intercultural Adaptation
Chengyun Zhao (TCD): A Study of the Xiqu Features in Lin Zhaohua’s Three Sisters Waiting for Godot from the Perspective of Taoist Philosophy

PANEL 10:The art of balance: Dramaturgies of identity and ethics in contemporary Irish theatre
3.45-5.15, Studio 2 ODC
Chair: Paul J. Halferty
Chaomei Chen (TCD): Gender, Ethics, Ableism: A Dramaturgical Balancing of Contemporary Irish Identities in Ulysses 2.2
Sarah Hoover (UoG): Balancing on one heel: mixed live/digital dramaturgy in It’s True I Love You All So Much
Shonagh Hill (QUB): Moving in Feminist Solidarity

Conference Ends

CAMPS Lab: ‘When a Quarter is Analogous to Three-quarters: Quadrans in the De Divisionibus Temporum Tract of Laon, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS. 422.’
2023-05-05 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Paula Harrison (PhD Researcher, Ancient Classics, University of Galway) will be presenting on
‘When a Quarter is Analogous to Three-quarters: Quadrans in the De Divisionibus Temporum Tract of Laon, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS. 422.’

The Hiberno-Latin tract De divisionibus temporum (‘The divisions of time’) was an elementary work for the study of time reckoning (computus) during the early medieval period. This paper will explore a unit of these divisions, the quadrans or the quarter day. In particular, it will focus on an expanded version of this tract as it is transmitted in the early ninth-century manuscript Laon, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS. 422. This expansion in unique in that it preserves lesser disseminated materials which encompass both computus and grammar.

YAQUI & BÉAL: YOEME AND IRISH IN CONVERSATION
2023-05-06 13:30 - 15:00 | BANK OF IRELAND THEATRE, University of Galway
A Fulbright Ireland project, Yaqui and Béal: Yoeme and Irish in Conversation is a theatrical exploration of commonalities between Native Americans and Native Irish. Part scripted/part devised, this dramatic piece combines family legends and wisdom from Irish and Yoeme elders, with conceived work that includes audience input. This performance is being composed by theatre-makers from University of Galway Master’s program.
Age: All ages.
Post Show
Chair: Dr Nessa Cronin (Moore Institute, Centre for Irish Studies, UoG)
Panel: Esther Almazon (Playwright, Fulbright scholar); Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley (History, UoG), Mary Harney (PhD scholar, Irish Centre for Human Rights, UoG), Owen Ward (Office for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, UoG)
Supported by:
Department of Theatre, University of Galway
BOOKING: YAQUI & BÉAL: YOEME AND IRISH IN CONVERSATION – Galway Theatre Festival

ESTHER ALMAZÁN
Award: Fulbright U.S. Student Award
Institution: Arizona State University
Year: 2022

Esther AlmazA¡n (Yoeme/Yaqui) is a Tucson Native who earned her MFA in dramatic writing from her home institution, Arizona State University. As a theatre artist, she has received the Kennedy Center Latinx Playwriting Award for Distinguished Achievement, the ariZoni Theatre Awards of Excellence, is a Eugene OaNeill NPC semi-finalist, and a recipient of the Gammage Theatre Scholar Award. At NUI, Galway,A EstherA will conduct her research project,A Yaqui and BA©aloideas: Yoeme and Irish in Conversation, exploring the mutual understanding of overcoming adversity between Native Irish and Native Americans. Her Fulbright performing arts project, presented at NUIas OaDonoghue Theatre, will memorialize the Irish/Native American connection of generosity and mutual support in a devised theatre production incorporating family legends of surviving hardships through difficulties such as the COVID-19 pandemic, colonization, and mass migration.

The School of Education Research Seminar ‘Getting Impact with your Publications’
2023-05-10 15:00 - 16:00 | School of Education, Nuns Island (room G005, aka “the STC”)
Please join the School of Education, Nuns Island (room G005, aka “the STC”); 3-4pm on Wed 10th May for the SOE Research Seminar ‘Getting Impact with your Publications’.
Associate Professor Sarah Prestridge (https://experts.griffith.edu.au/9530-sarah-prestridge) a visiting scholar with Prof. Tony Hall will present on the talk.

CAMPS Labs 2023 Programme
2023-05-12
For times and venues see CAMPS Research Labs website: https://www.universityofgalway.ie/camps/labs/

CANCELLED! CAMPS Lab: 'The seven parts of sword-fighting. A linguistic analysis of Leeds, Royal Armouries, I.33’
2023-05-12 12:00 - 13:30 | The Cube, Áras na Mac Léinn, University of Galway
CANCELLED!
CAMPS Lab: ‘The seven parts of sword-fighting. A linguistic analysis of Leeds, Royal Armouries, I.33’
Jacopo Bisagni (Ancient Classics, University of Galway) will be presenting on ‘The seven parts of sword-fighting. A linguistic analysis of Leeds, Royal Armouries, I.33’.
‘Unlike most medieval works on the art of combat, which were typically composed in vernacular languages (especially German and Italian), the fencing manual for sword and buckler preserved in the manuscript Leeds, Royal Armouries, I.33 was instead written in Latin. However, this is a kind of Latin very distant from the Classical ‘norm’: indeed, the language of I.33 brings us closer to the dimensions of Late Medieval orality and education, opening a fascinating window onto the instructional language of a fourteenth-century ecclesiastical fencing master. But what does the Latin of I.33 reveal about its author, its date, and its milieu? And how can we come to a deeper and more objective understanding of its technical vocabulary? After introducing I.33 in the wider context of Late Medieval combat manuals, I will try and show how possible answers to these and other questions may be found by focussing especially on the semantic study of this text’s lexicon, as well as on the analysis of its phraseology and bilingualism.’
After the talk, Jacopo Bisagni and Andrew Ó Donnghaile will provide a practical demonstration of some of the sword-fighting techniques described in the first six folios of I.33.

Digital Humanities Foundations series
2023-05-16 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
A series of talks surveying digital approaches to Humanities research.
Co-ordinated by the Moore Institute’s Digital Humanities Research Group (DHRG), with the support of the Moore Institute’s Digital Lab and the Library’s Digital Scholarship and Archives units.
Tue 16 May 12pm
Introduction to planning and building digital projects
David Kelly
Enquiries to: padraic.moran@universityofgalway.ie
https://mooreinstitute.ie/research-group/digital-humanities/
Register here for access via Zoom: https://forms.office.com/e/hLCr0TgLh2

Fulbright Senior Specialist Presentation: Institutional Change in the United States Context
2023-05-16 16:00 - 17:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, HRB, University of Galway
Fulbright Senior Specialist Presentation: Institutional Change in the United States Context
Rachel Yoho, CDP, PhD
As part of the Fulbright program and a focus on international exchange, this talk focuses on what it means to be working in higher education today and particularly when focused on institutional change in higher education. We will explore the United States context of social issues and politics, including how these are currently impacting higher education. Specifically, we will discuss George Mason University, a large public research-intensive university in Virginia (and near Washington DC). This university has institution-wide initiatives surrounding anti-racism and inclusive excellence as well as community engagement. The presentation will cover the implementation of these initiatives, particularly on institutional change around teaching and learning in higher education.
Dr. Yoho is a faculty member with an affiliation in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy and serves full time as the anti-racist and inclusive teaching specialist in the Stearns Center for Teaching and Learning at George Mason University.
Disclaimer: This presentation is not an official U.S. Department of State presentation. The views expressed in this presentation are entirely those of its author and do not represent the views of the U.S. Department of State or any of its partner organizations and also do not represent George Mason University or the Fulbright Program.​
ALL WELCOME!

Translating the Landscape-one-day methodological workshop for early career researchers in the humanities, social studies, and visual arts
2023-05-18 | Burren College of Art’s campus, Ballyvaughan
Translating the Landscape
“Translating the Landscape” is a one-day methodological workshop for early career researchers in the humanities, social studies, and visual arts, taking place on 18 May 2023 at the Burren College of Art’s campus in Ballyvaughan. The workshop is developed as a collaboration between the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies at the University of Galway and the Burren College of Art. The objectives of the workshop are:

Discuss different ways of creating knowledge on the relation between human culture, human languages, and the landscape;
Explore links between creative arts and social/cultural research to create transdisciplinary paths towards a deeper understanding of place;
Foster reflection on the researchers’ ethical responsibilities towards human relationship with the environment.

The workshop is aimed at early career researchers (PhD candidates, recent PhD graduates, postdoctoral researchers) in any field of humanities and social studies. Previous knowledge or work in ecocritical/ecological approaches is not required. The workshop will encourage researchers to reflect on how ecological thought and different types of attention to the landscape can be incorporated into their methodologies. The workshop intends to provide food for thought for both the participants’ current and future research projects.
“Translating the Landscape” will rely on expertise from the Burren College (and especially the staff from the MFA/MA in Art & Ecology), from the University of Galway (especially from the School of Languages and the School of Philosophy), and other guest speakers, to engage participants in practical activities situated in the Burren landscape, such as:

Sensory walks;
Map-making and other creative map-based activities;
Explorations via photography;
Group discussions.

Through the workshop, we aim to generate discussions and transdisciplinary conversations between participants and practitioners on how to think ecologically in the humanities, social studies, and visual art.
“Translating the landscape” is free of charge to University of Galway/Burren College students, staff, and recent graduates. Transportation to and from the University of Galway will be provided, as well as lunch.
If you are interested, please contact the organizers Andrea Ciribuco (andrea.ciribuco@universityofgalway.ie), Michela Dianetti (m.dianetti1@nuigalway.ie), Lucy Elvis (lucy.elvis@universityofgalway.ie), Eileen Hutton (ehutton@burrencollege.ie), Maria Roca Lizarazu (maria.rocalizarazu@universityofgalway.ie) by 28 February 2023.

Living amidst conflict and insecurity
2023-05-18 10:00 - 18:30 | Room CA117, Aras Cairnes, University of Galway
Living amidst conflict and insecurity
Workshop Program
This one-day research workshop at the University of Galway brings together scholars in the field – including Roger Mac Ginty (Durham University) Caitríona Dowd (Dublin City University), Niall Ó Dochartaigh (University of Galway), and Sarah Jenkins (University of Galway) – alongside Early Career Researchers from Ulster University and University College Dublin to explore the broad themes of everyday peace, resistance and conflict in a wide range of contexts. It is organised by the Power, Conflict & Ideologies Research Cluster of the School of Political Science and Sociology at Galway with the support of the Political Studies Association of Ireland’s Peace and Conflict Specialist Group.
Almost one quarter of the world’s population live in fragile, insecure, or conflict-affected states. Yet amidst uncertainty, individuals, communities, local leaders, and groups often develop innovative ways to navigate everyday life, to mitigate violence, to open channels of communication, and to build peace. Failure to fully understand and engage with these local, bottom-up efforts can overlook important opportunities for peace and can undermine the effectiveness of peacebuilding interventions. This event will bring together researchers from the political and social sciences to explore these dynamics in diverse contexts around the world and will examine the various avenues to peace, justice, and reconciliation from a range of different perspectives.
Those interested in attending the event should register by emailing sarah.jenkins@universityofgalway.ie.

PROGRAMME (living amidst conflict may 2023)
10am-10.30am: Registration and welcome
10.30am-11.45am: Panel 1 – Gender, race, and sexualities in peace and conflict
Chair: Niall Ó Dochartaigh
Papers:
Caitríona Dowd (DCU) – Gendered dimensions of hunger in peacebuilding
Marianna Espinos Blasco (Ulster University) – Seeing gender and race in peace and security: The politics of (in)visibility in the Women, Peace and Security agenda
Yuliang Lu (UCD) – Peace and conflict in a queer colour: A case study of how Chinese NGOs fight anti-LGBT violence
11.45am-12.00pm: Break
12pm-1.30pm: Panel 2: Avenues to peace and justice
Chair: Sarah Jenkins
Papers:
Dana Guy (UCD) – From the battlefield to the battle on the feed: How do Israelis use social media to construct, communicate and engage with alternative narratives about the conflict with the Palestinians?
Kelsey Rhude (University of Galway) – Alternative approaches to post-conflict peace and justice: Analysing the interconnections between local justice, peacebuilding and reconciliation in post-conflict Liberia
Niall Ó Dochartaigh (University of Galway) – Back-channel negotiations in the Northern Ireland Conflict
1.30pm – 2.15pm: Lunch
2.15-3.45pm: Panel 3: Everyday peace and conflict: representations and practices
Chair: Caitríona Dowd
Papers:
Dave Banks (UCD) – Integrated team sport and intergroup relations in a post-conflict society: The case of club rugby in Northern Ireland
Sarah Jenkins (University of Galway) – Everyday peace and democracy: Navigating violent elections and ethnic politics in Kenya
Michael Breslin (UCD) – Feud violence in Ireland and Northern Ireland: A sociological analysis
Maria Guilia Molinaro Vitale (UCD) – Responsibilities of contemporary representations of war: Merlau-Ponty, Sontag, and Hollywood
3.45pm-4pm: Break
4pm-5.30pm: Keynote and round table: Everyday peace
Roger Mac Ginty (Durham University): Everyday peace
6.15pm – Book Launch: Deniable Contact: Back-channel negotiation in Northern Ireland by Niall Ó Dochartaigh. Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Middle Street, Galway.
Organised by the Power, Conflict and Ideologies Research Cluster of the School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway, with the support of the Political Studies Association of Ireland Specialist Group on Peace and Conflict.
Contact: Dr Sarah Jenkins, sarah.jenkins@universityofgalway.ie

School of Political Science and Sociology Distinguished Lecture: A Feminist Theory of Refusal
2023-05-18 14:00 - 16:00 | THB-G011 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
School of Political Science and Sociology Distinguished Lecture
Professor Bonnie Honig
Brown University
A Feminist Theory of Refusal

This event is hybrid, please contact suming.khoo@universityofgalway.ie to register for Zoom link.
ALL WELCOME!

Centre for Irish Studies Seminar: Heroes of the Gaelic World in the Digital Age: The Fionn Folklore Database
2023-05-18 15:00 - 16:00 | Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies, Distillery Road, University of Galway
Heroes of the Gaelic World in the Digital Age: The Fionn Folklore Database
Dr Pádraig Fhia Ó Mathúna
You are warmly invited to attend an in-person seminar with Dr Pádraig Fhia Ó Mathúna, ‘The Fionn Folklore Database: Irish Myths in the Digital Age’ on Thursday 18 May. The seminar will take place in the Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies, Distillery Road. This seminar is based on Pádraig’s bilingual postdoctoral work with the Fionn Folklore Database Digital Humanities Project, in association with Harvard University and University College Dublin. Full details are available below.
The Fionn Folklore Database (fionnfolklore.org) is a collaborative project between Harvard University and the Irish Government’s Emigrant Support Scheme. The site contains the details of approximately 3,500 orally collected tales, poems, songs and proverbs relating to Fionn mac Cumhaill and the legendary Fianna. In addition to the stories themselves, the site contains a number of educational tools, including glossaries, character lists, digital maps, and summaries, which help to make these legends accessible for a new generation. In this talk, project researcher Pádraig Fhia Ó Mathúna will provide insight into the site’s background and resources, conveying how everyone from researchers to teachers, writers, and the general public can benefit from this innovative digital humanities initiative.
Dr Pádraig Fhia Ó Mathúna is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Fionn Cycle Folklore Project with Harvard University and University College Dublin, and a researcher for the ÚRSCÉAL digital humanities project based in the University of Galway.
A former Fulbright Scholar at the University of Galway, he was a Caspersen Doctoral Fellow at Drew University, and was awarded the Tadhg Foley MA Fellowship from the University of Galway, where he completed his MA in Irish Studies (2013). His book ‘From a Land Beyond the Wave’: Connecticut’s Irish Rebels, 1798-1916 (2017) won the Connecticut League of History Organizations’ Publication Prize (2018). His research focuses primarily on the interactions between Irish-American nationalists, indigenous peoples, and other ethno-political groups in the North American Borderlands and the Caribbean during the mid-nineteenth century. As a Fulbright scholar in the archives at University of Galway, Pádraig conducted research on the writings of nineteenth century Irish emigrant Eoin Ua Cathail, and published a critical volume of the translated works of Irish language writer Eoin Ua Cathail, entitled Recovering an Irish Voice from the American Frontier: The Prose Writings of Eoin Ua Cathail in 2021.

Book launch: Deniable Contact: Back-Channel Negotiation in Northern Ireland
2023-05-18 18:15 - 19:00 | Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Middle Street, Galway
Prof. Roger MacGinty will launch the recently published paperback edition of ‘Deniable Contact: Back-Channel Negotiation in Northern Ireland’ by Niall Ó Dochartaigh, of the School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway.

Notions Exchange: A transatlantic arts dialogue
2023-05-24 12:00 - 13:30 | Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies, University of Galway
Notions Exchange: A transatlantic arts dialogue
Erick Boustead (Minnesota) and Emma McKeagney (Dublin)
Engage with a group of artists from Ireland and North America/Turtle Island about an exciting exchange they’ve been developing over the last few years. The group includes University of Galway, Irish Studies Masters graduates Emma McKeagney and Erick Boustead, along with Martina Hynan (PhD Candidate), Ariel Tilson, Abby Sunde, and Sinéad O’Neill-Nicholl. They will share stories of how the conversation started in the Irish Studies Masters program and how they’ve been collaborating since, as well as sharing of personal work. Themes will include relationship to place, (de)colonization, roots/rootlessness, diaspora/motherland, and more.

Bealtaine Online Discussion Series 2023
2023-05-24 15:00 - 16:00 | Online
Bealtaine Online Discussion Series 2023
The Bealtaine Discussion Series 2023 is devised and presented in association with Dr. Michaela Schrage-Frueh (School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures) and Dr. Maggie O’Neill (Irish Centre for Social Gerontology) from the University of Galway.
Please register via the following Eventbrite links:
May 10, 3-4 pm
Generational Drama: Intergenerational Relationships, Representation and Culture
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/generational-drama-intergenerational-relationships-representation-culture-tickets-607557088607?aff=ebdssbdestsearch&keep_tld=1
May 17, 3-4 pm
No Country for Old Men: Ageing, Men and Identity
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/no-country-for-old-men-ageing-men-and-identity-tickets-607561973217
May 24, 3-4 pm
We Care a Lot: Representations of ‘Care’
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/we-care-a-lot-representations-of-care-tickets-607576245907?aff=ebdsreoeymlcollection

Fráma Eile: Never No More by Maura Laverty
2023-05-25 15:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies, University of Galway & virtually via Zoom
Description:
The Fráma Eile roundtable series, organised by PhD students in the Centre for Irish Studies and Roinn na Gaeilge, explores new approaches to framing established texts (in both English and Irish), material objects, and artwork in the Irish Studies canon.
This roundtable discusses Never No More by Maura Laverty. Speakers will highlight aspects of the text which have escaped critical attention to date, as well as suggest new reading methods and consider how Never No More has been framed in the academy to date.
This event will be bilingual.
All are welcome, and after presentations, the floor will be open to contributions and comments from all in attendance.
To attend virtually via Zoom: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/98577269081?pwd=[REDACTED]
