Brian Arkins - Interrogating Terms Such as 'Classical, Tradition and Decorum'
2012-10-11 16:00 (Europe/Dublin)
Interrogating Terms Such as ” Classical, Tradition and Decorum”
The adjective ‘Classical’ now means so many things as to be useless for serious discourse. The term ‘Tradition’ – what is handed down – is the wrong kind of metaphor to apply to how a writer uses material from the past. It suggests a passive process, but the process is, rather, active. As Eliot said, “mature poets steal”.The concept of ‘Decorum’ – as supposedly found in Milton and in Virgil – cannot be mandatory. The plays of Shakespeare do not do ‘Decorum’.

CKI Seminar: Building a Framework for Evaluation in Community Settings
2012-10-12 12:30
Building a Framework for Evaluation in Community Settings
Seminar organised by the CKI, NUI Galway and Galway City Partnership
Date: Friday 12th October 2012
Time: 12.30pm – 2.30pm – Refreshments available at 12.30 pm and the seminar will start at 1.00pm
Venue: Moore Institute, NUI Galway
Who should attend: The seminar will be of interest to staff and managers of community and voluntary sector organisations, and higher education staff and students.
The seminar is free of charge but we request that you book your place, which you can do by emailing Ann Lyons at ann.lyons@nuigalway.ie Bookings should be made before Tuesday 9th October.
Seminar Details
Carrying out evaluation is an effective way to enhance the work of groups and organisations. In this seminar, Dr. Eylin Palamaro Munsell will talk about the topic of evaluation with particular reference to its place in the work of community and voluntary sector organisations. The seminar will provide an overview of evaluation and address issues such as:

What is evaluation?
Why conduct evaluation?
Who conducts evaluations?
Common Fears and Concerns about evaluation
Things to consider after the evaluation process

Dr. Eylin Palamaro Munsell has wide experience in the area of evaluation. She holds an MA in Clinical Community Psychology and a PhD in Community Health Psychology from the University of North Carolina Charlotte. She is a researcher at University College Dublin’s Geary Institute where she coordinates the evaluation of Preparing for Life, an early childhood intervention. Previous projects include the National Evaluation for Systems of Care and the Sibling Resilience Study, both of which focused on families of children with severe emotional disturbances. She has been privileged to work with children and families from a diverse set of cultural and economic backgrounds across Ireland and the U.S. Her main research interests include child and adolescent resilience, family well-being, sense of community in adverse circumstance, and mixed-methods approaches to programme evaluation.
Links to some relevant sources:
http://ctb.ku.edu/en/default.aspx http://www.cdc.gov/eval/framework/index.htm
http://www.effectiveservices.org/
For further information please contact Ann Lyons. Tel. (091) 492228 Email: ann.lyons@nuigalway.ie

Gender ARC Public Lecture:Dr. Jessica Taft, Davidson College, North Carolina
2012-10-15 16:00
You are warmly invited to a lecture by
Dr. Jessica Taft
‰Û÷Redefining girlhood: teenage activists and contemporary feminisms’
Date and Time: Monday, 15 October, 4.00pm Venue: Moore Institute, NUIG
All welcome
http://www.genderarc.org/events/event-201210-taft.htm

Beckett Reading Group
2012-10-16 17:00
Beckett Reading Group
The Beckett Reading Group will reconvene for its second year on Tuesday, October 16th from 5-6pm in the Moore Seminar Room. Everyone is very welcome!
All readings will be kept short, as this reading group is meant to inspire not increase the work that everyone is doing. We will be concentrating on his radio and television plays for our first meetings. We hope that considering the implications of these works as texts will lead to stimulating discussion. We hope to foster a dialogue about how these texts are studied as ‰Û÷texts’, rather than or alongside the medium in which they were incepted. Group members are welcome to bring critical pieces into discussion, but there is no pressure to do so. In fact, coming with visceral reactions that form critical inquiry as discussions progress is encouraged. Email Kristin Jones at k.jones1@nuigalway.ie and David Delaney d.delaney2@nuigalway.ie with any questions.
The dates and first few readings are as follows:
Meeting One: 16 Oct. Embers
Week Two: 6 Nov. All That Fall
Week Three: 20 Nov. …but the clouds…
Week Four: 4 Dec. Nacht und TrÌ_ume
We will reconvene in Semester 2.

Performance Matters - Contemporary Irish Theatre discussion group
2012-10-16 18:00, 2012-10-30 18:00

History Graduate Research Seminar Series
2012-10-17 16:00
Lorna Moloney
‘Making Thomond English’ – an analysis of the violent processes in shiring sixteenth-century County Clare

Disability Group Support Seminar - IT Skills for Learning
2012-10-18 12:00

ECHO: Introductory Workshop
2012-10-18 16:00
ECHO Introductory Workshop
Thinking Academic: Career Paths
Our introductory meeting is an open discussion of where to go, and where we are all going in academic life.
All welcome. Wine served.
ECHO brings together researchers of all disciplines to discuss research questions in a friendly environment.
Contact: adrian.paterson@nuigalway.ie or charlotte.mcivor@nuigalway.ie or see our website: http://echoforum.wordpress.com

Talk: Professor Peter Wells, University of Minnesota
2012-10-22 17:00
Peter Wells
Professor Peter Wells (University of Minnesota) will give a lecture sponsored by CAMPS entitled ‰Û÷Objects, Performances, and Arrangements: Ecological Psychology and the Later Prehistory of Europe‰۪.
Peter is the author of The Barbarians Speak: How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europe (Princeton 1999), Beyond Celts, Germans and Scythians: Archaeology and Identity in Iron Age Europe (Duckworth, 2001) and Creating an Imperial Frontier: Archaeology of the Formation of Rome’s Danube Borderland (forthcoming).

Performance Matters - Contemporary Irish Theatre discussion group
2012-10-23 18:00
Discussion: Mark O’Rowe’s Made in China.
All theatre practitioners, theorists and students are welcome to attend.
If you need a copy of the text email PerformanceMattersNUIG@gmail.com.

History Graduate Research Seminar Series
2012-10-24 16:00
Teresa Shoosmith
Soil, surveyors, and the joys of Photoshop: the problems of engaging with sources from the Early Modern period

ECHO Seminar: Ireland on Guard:Ali and the Corner Boys - James Curry & Leo Keohane
2012-10-25 16:00
ECHO
Humanities Research Forum
ECHO is a regular humanities research forum taking place on Thursday in the Moore Institute, with Workshops discussing research strategies, and Seminars for research papers of all kinds. Everyone at all levels across the College of Arts is invited, and requests for future events and seminar paper submissions are hugely welcome.
For more information contact: adrian.paterson@nuigalway.ie or charlotte.mcivor@nuigalway.ie or see our website: http://echoforum.wordpress.com

Reading by Amiri Baraka
2012-10-25 17:00
Reading by Amiri Baraka
‰Û÷As part of its Visiting Fellowship Scheme the Moore Institute is please to present a Reading by Amiri Baraka, an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism, on Thursday, October 25 at 5pm in the O‰۪Flaherty Theatre.
The Moore Institute acknowledges the support of the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies, the James Hardiman Library and the Galway Foundation Office for this event.
Enquiries: mooreinstitute@nuigalway.ie Tel: 091 493906′
Biography: Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka was born Everett LeRoi Jones in 1934 in Newark, NJ. After leav-ing Howard University and the Air Force, he moved to the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1957 and co-edited the avant-garde literary magazine Yugen and founded Totem Press, which first published works by Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and others.He published his first volume of poetry, Preface to a Twenty-Volume Suicide Note, in 1961 His Blues People: Negro Music in White America (1963) is still regarded as the seminal work on Afro-American music and culture. He also edited The Moderns: An Anthology of New Writing in America, published in 1963. His reputation as a play-wright was established with the production of Dutchman at Cherry Lane Theatre in New York on March 24, 1964. The controversial play subsequently won an Obie Award for Best Off-Broadway Play and was made into a film. The play was revived by Cherry Lane Theatre in January 2007 and has been reproduced around the world.
In 1965, Jones moved to Harlem where he founded the Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School. BARTS lasted only one year but had a lasting influence on the direction of Afro American Arts. BARTS sent five trucks a day into the Harlem community — art show on one truck, poetry reading from the other, music on another, drama the other – where performances would be given in a changed location each day. Vacant lots, playgrounds, and housing projects pushed art that would be Black as Bessie Smith, mass-based, revolutionary, and taken to the people; reflecting the intensity of the entire Black Liberation Movement.In 1966, when BARTS was dissolved, Baraka returned to Newark, his hometown, and set up with his wife, Amina Baraka – who was a founder of Newark’s “Loft” a local venue of contemporary – The Spirit House and The Spirit House Movers, that brought drama, music and poetry from across the country. During this period, the Barakas founded The Committee for Unified Newark (CFUN) and The Congress of Afrikan People. Both CFUN and The Congress of Afrikan People led the election of Kenneth A. Gibson as the first Black Mayor of a major northeastern city spearheaded by the 1972 Gary (IN) Convention. In 1968, Baraka co-edited Black Fire: Anthology of Afro-American Writing with Larry Neal.Amiri and Amina Baraka edited The Music: Meditations of Jazz & Blues (Morrow) and Confirmation: An Anthology of African-American Women, which won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka was published in 1984. His recent publications are Y’s/Why’s/Wise (3rd World 1992) Funk Lore (Littoral 1993), Eulogies (Marsilio, 1994), Transbluesency (Marsilio 1996), Somebody Blew Up America & Other Poems (Nehesi 2002).Amiri and Amina Baraka founded Kimako’s Blues People, a multimedia arts space, from a small theater in their Newark home. Amiri founded the jazz/poetry ensemble Blue Ark which has played at the Berlin Festival, and throughout the U.S. His Jazz opera Money, with Swiss composer George Gruntz, was performed in part at George Wein’s New York Jazz Festival in the early 90’s. Primitive World, with music by David Murray, was performed at Sweet Basil, the Nuyorican Caf̩ and the Black Drama Festival in Winston Salem, NC. His Bumpy: A Bopera with music by Max Roach was performed in 1991 at Newark Symphony Hall and at San Diego Repertory. Amiri founded the New Arkestra, a big band working to produce a living archive of this music.In the fall of 2002, Baraka, who had been named New Jersey Poet Laureate by then Governor James McGreevey, came under fire from the NJ office of the Anti-Defamation League, the New Jersey Assembly and others after a reading of his controversial poem “Somebody Blew Up America” about the 9/11 attacks. After reading the poem at the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation’s annual poetry festival in Stanhope, NJ, Baraka’s $10,000 stipend was rescinded and the Poet Laureate position eliminated in 2003 by Gov. McGreevey who resigned in disgrace in 2004. In 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Baraka’s case in which he asserted that his First Amendment rights were violated. Baraka bounced back from the melee and remains a figure in demand at international festivals, book fairs and on university campuses. Baraka is the Poet Laureate of the Newark Public Schools appoint-ed by former Superintendent Marion Bolden.Amiri Baraka’s numerous literary honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Rockefeller Foundation Award for Drama, the Langston Hughes Award from The City Col-lege of New York, and a lifetime achievement award from the Before Columbus Foundation. He was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1995. In 1994, he retired as Professor of Africana Studies at the State University of New York in Stony Brook, and in 2002 was named Poet Laureate of New Jersey and Newark Public Schools, In January 2007, his award-winning, one-act play, Dutchman, was revived at the new Cherry Lane Theatre in New York and received critical acclaim and in-ternational attention. His book of short stories, Tales of the Out and the Gone (Akashic Books) was published in late 2007. Home, his book of social essays, was re-released by Akashic Books in early 2009. Digging: The Afro American Soul of American Classical Music (Univ. of California) was also released in 2009. The Before Columbus Foundation recently announced that Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music by Amiri Baraka was selected as a winner of the 31st annual American Book Awards for 2010.

CAMPS Research Lab: 'How and why do letterforms change?' by Mark Stansbury
2012-10-26 12:00

History Graduate Research Seminar Series
2012-10-31 16:00
Kevin O’Sullivan
‘A Global Nervous System’: the rise and rise of European humanitarian NGOs, 1945-85

ECHO Workshop: How to survive a viva
2012-11-01 13:00

Beckett Reading Group
2012-11-06 17:00
Beckett Reading Group
All readings will be kept short, as this reading group is meant to inspire not increase the work that everyone is doing. We will be concentrating on his radio and television plays for our first meetings. We hope that considering the implications of these works as texts will lead to stimulating discussion. We hope to foster a dialogue about how these texts are studied as ‰Û÷texts‰۪, rather than or alongside the medium in which they were incepted. Group members are welcome to bring critical pieces into discussion, but there is no pressure to do so. In fact, coming with visceral reactions that form critical inquiry as discussions progress is encouraged. Email Kristin Jones at k.jones1@nuigalway.ie and David Delaney d.delaney2@nuigalway.ie with any questions.
The dates and first few readings are as follows:
Week Two: 6 Nov. All That Fall
Week Three: 20 Nov. ‰Û_but the clouds‰Û_
Week Four: 4 Dec. Nacht und TrÌ_ume
We will reconvene in Semester 2.

Performance Matters - Irish Theatre Discussion Group
2012-11-06 18:00
Performance Matters
Irish Theatre Discussion Group
For more information contact lisa.fitzgerald@nuigalway.ie or m.nichualain5@nuigalway.ie

The Doing Writing Series: A Reading and Open Interview by Kevin Barry, author of Dark Lies the Island and City of Bohane
2012-11-07 20:00

ECHO Workshop:Research strategies
2012-11-08 13:00

Moore Institute Seminar Series - Professor Nicholas Canny
2012-11-08 15:00
Professor Nicholas Canny
Sources and Resources seminar
The Haliday Collection; a printed source for the seventeenth Century

CAMPS Research Lab: 'Weaving and Spinning: intercultural metaphors and some Irish particularities' by MÌÁirÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha
2012-11-09 12:00

Performance Matters - Irish Theatre Discussion Group
2012-11-13 18:00
Performance Matters
Irish Theatre Discussion Group
For more information please contact lisa.fitzgerald@nuigalway.ie or m.nichualain5@nuigalway.ie

History Graduate Research Seminar Series
2012-11-14 16:00
Kieran Hoare
Fifty Shades of Grey (Merchant): Trading networks in later medieval Connacht

The Doing Writing Series - Reading and Interview with Claire Keegan
2012-11-14 20:00
The Doing Writing Series
A new series of readings and open interviews with contemporary authors whichwill focus on various aspects of the doing of writing, from ideas aboutcomposition and artistic practice to working habitsand professional development
CLAIRE KEEGAN
Claire Keegan‰۪s first collection of stories, Antarctica(1999), won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Hersecond collection, Walk the Blue Fields (2007), won theEdge Hill Prize for Short Stories. Her short story ‰Û÷Foster‰۪was selected by Richard Ford as the winner of the DavyByrnes Irish Writing Award in 2009 and it wassubsequently published in The New Yorker. A revised andexpanded version of Foster was published as a standalonework by Faber and Faber in 2010 and it continues toattract high critical acclaim
Presented byThe English Department The Moore InstituteThe BA with Creative WritingFurther information john.kenny@nuigalway.ie

Beckett Reading Group
2012-11-20 17:00
Beckett Reading Group
All readings will be kept short, as this reading group is meant to inspire not increase the work that everyone is doing. We will be concentrating on his radio and television plays for our first meetings. We hope that considering the implications of these works as texts will lead to stimulating discussion. We hope to foster a dialogue about how these texts are studied as ‰Û÷texts‰۪, rather than or alongside the medium in which they were incepted. Group members are welcome to bring critical pieces into discussion, but there is no pressure to do so. In fact, coming with visceral reactions that form critical inquiry as discussions progress is encouraged. Email Kristin Jones at k.jones1@nuigalway.ie and David Delaney d.delaney2@nuigalway.ie with any questions.
Week Three: 20 Nov. ‰Û_but the clouds‰Û_
Week Four: 4 Dec. Nacht und TrÌ_ume
We will reconvene in Semester 2.

Performance Matters -Irish Theatre Discussion Group
2012-11-20 18:00

Imbas 2012: Diversity in the Middle Ages: Political, Social, and Cultural
2012-11-23 14:00
Imbas 2012: Diversity in the Middle Ages: Political, Social, and Cultural
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23rd
2:00-4:30 – Registration and Tea
4:30-6:00 – Panel 1: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern: Mythology in Transition
Chair: Dr. PÌÁdraic Moran
Peter Kelly
NUI, Galway
Look but Do Not Touch: Trees and Transformation in Ovid and Beyond
Sandra Hartl
University of Bamberg
Diverse Arthurian Sources of Inspiration in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Works
Jennifer Farrell
University College Dublin
From Diana to Merlin: Dramatic Unity and the Art of Suspense in Historia Regum Britanniae
6:00-7:00 – Wine Reception
7:00-8:00 – Keynote lecture: Dr. Clare Stancliffe
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24th
10:00-11:30 – Panel 2: Power Struggles: Kings, Warlords, and Tyrants
Chair: Dr. Mark Stansbury
John Latham
University of Leeds
‘For Assur Comes with them’: Reassessing the Alan Presence in Hispania, 409-418
Simon Egan
University College Cork
The Struggle for the Scottish Crown and the Politics of the Wider Gaelic World, c. 1400-1437
Chris Doyle
NUI, Galway
The War Within: Diverse Loyalties in the Later Roman Empire AD 395-423
11:30-12:00 – Tea & coffee break
12:00-1:30 – Panel 3: Ritual and its Purpose in Medieval Ireland
Chair: Prof MÌÁirÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha
Eoin ÌÒ Donnchadha
University College Dublin
Ridicule and Rituals: An Examination of the Diverse Supernatural Abilities Attributed to Filid in Sanas Cormaic
David Burke
University of Durham
“What did it avail him to live virtuously?”: Penance, Bloodshed, and the Monastery of Tallaght
Elaine Farrell
University College Dublin
Food Taboos in Early Medieval Ireland
1:30-3:00 – Lunch provided by Imbas
3:00-4:30 Panel 4: Symbol and Significance: Exegesis in the Middle Ages
Chair: Dr. Jacopo Bisagni
Sarah Corrigan
NUI, Galway
Are delphines always dolphins?: ambiguous sea creatures and their terminology in the Hisperica famina
Nathan Millin
University College Dublin
Stairway to Heaven: Jacob’s Ladder as Moral and Religious Instruction in Early Christian Ireland
Christa Mannen
Recipient of Western Michigan University – NUI, Galway Conference Exchange Grant in Medieval Studies
Journey to the Center of the Ark: Noah as a Bridge through Space and Time in the Holkham Bible Picture Book
4:30-5:00 – Tea & coffee break
5:00-6:30 – Panel 5: Bede: Miracles, Gender, and Education
Chair: Prof DÌÁibhÌ_ ÌÒ CrÌ_inÌ_n
Jenny Coughlan
University College Cork
Persuading Pagan Partners: Engendering Conversion in the Histories of Bede and Gregory of Tours
David O’Mahony
University College Cork
Moving Gradually Toward Perfection: Bede and the Need for Different Teaching Methods
Eoghan Ahern
University of Cambridge
Primitivism and Eschatology in the Miracles of Bede
8:30 Dinner at the House Hotel
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25th
10:00-11:30 – Panel 6: Literary Representations of Social Change in Medieval England
Chair: Dr. Frances McCormack
Sarah Nangle
University College Dublin
Harmonizing Dissonance: Music and Politics in Chaucer’s Parliament of Fowls
Edel Mulcahy
University College Cork
‘Vowed in Diuerse Pilgrimages’: The Role of Pilgrimage in Middle English Courtesy Literature and Exemplary Narratives
11:30-12:00 – Tea & coffee break in Smokey’s
12:15 Bus for Claregalway Castle departs from Quadrangle

Workshop: Spatiality and Symbolic Expression
2012-11-26 09:30
Spatiality and Symbolic Expression
A workshop on the connections
between patterns of place and space
and a variety of forms
of literary and cultural expression
Moore Institute, NUI Galway
26 November 2012
“Place may be the first of all concepts; it may be the oldest of all words.”
– N. Scott Momaday
9.30 Opening (Prof Ulf Strohmayer) & Introduction to Workshop
10.00 Space, Time and the Articulation of our Place in the World: the Philosophical Context (Felix ÌÒ Murchadha)
10.30 Geographies of the Imagination: Ethics and Aesthetics in some Gaelic Songs of Place (Lillis ÌÒ Laoire)
11.00 Discussion
11.15 Coffee
11.30 The Collective Spaces of Language (Paolo Bartoloni)
12.00 Op weg naar Broxeele: the Production of Shared Spaces (Catherine Emerson)
12.30 Discussion
12.45 Lunch
2.00 Symbol, Situatedness and the Individuality of Literary Space (Bill Richardson)
2.30 Between a Rock and No-place: the Home as Fragile Utopia in Cinema (Conn Holohan)
3.00 Keynote Address:
Lips in Language and Space: Imaginary Places in James Dawson’s Australian Aborigines (Paul Carter)
3.45 Discussion and Review
4.30 Close of Workshop
Note on the Keynote Speaker: Paul Carter (Deakin University, Australia) is the author of many books including The Road to Botany Bay (1987, 2010), The Lie of the Land (1996), Repressed Spaces (2002), Material Thinking (2004), Dark Writing (2008). His new book is The Meeting Place: a history, theory and practice of encounter, to be published in 2012. He also writes regularly for Lettre International. He is also a sound artist and public artist. His public space designs include Relay (Sydney Olympics, 2000, with Ruark Lewis), Nearamnew (Federation Square, Melbourne, with Lab architecture studio) and Golden Grove (University of Sydney, 2007-2009 with Taylor Cullity Lethlean). Born in the UK, educated at Oxford, Paul has lived in Melbourne since the early 1980s; he is currently Chair of Creative Place Research, Deakin University.
Sponsored by the Moore Institute, the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies and the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, NUI Galway.
