Moore Institute

History Graduate Research Seminar Series: James Curry - The cartoons of Ernest Kavanagh (1884-1916)
2012-09-19 16:00 (Europe/Dublin)
19 Sept.James Curry
The cartoons of Ernest Kavanagh (1884-1916)

Visiting Fellow Seminar: A presentation and discussion moderated by Ann Heymann - Musical traditions that inform the performance practice of Early Irish poetry
2012-09-13 17:00
Musical traditions that inform
the performance practice of
Early Irish poetry
A presentation and discussionmoderated by Ann Heymann
Thursday 13 September, 5 – 7p.m.MOORE INSTITUTE SEMINAR ROOM
Everyone is welcome
Ann Heymann is a visiting fellow of the Moore Institue from September to December 2012.
Please see http://www.annheymann.com/ for more information about Ann Heymann.

Book Launch by GearÌ_id Barry: The Disarmament of Hatred: Mark Sangnier, French Catholicism and the Legacy of the First World War, 1914-45
2012-09-11 18:30
You are cordially invited to GearÌ_id Barry‰۪s book launch at the Moore Institute, on Tuesday 11th September next, 6.30pm
Further information on his new book The Disarmament of Hatred (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) is available at http://www.nuigalway.ie/history/recentpub.html
Should you wish to attend, please RSVP to gearoid.barry@nuigalway.ie by Thursday, September 6.

Los San Patricios. The Irish Soldiers of Mexico
2012-09-10 16:00
The Moore Institute in collaboration with Spanish, NUI Galway, and The Mexican Embassy present
Dr Michael Hogan
‰Û÷Los San Patricios. The Irish Soldiers of Mexico‰۪
On Monday Sept 10th, 2012 at 4pm. The Seminar Room, The Moore Institute
Dr Hogan‰۪s talk will be followed by a book launch and reception.

4th International Conference on the Science of Computus, 13th-15th July
2012-07-13 09:00
Galway Computus Conference 2012-
Speakers & Papers
1. LeofrancHolford-Strevens (England) Fratresnostri qui tuncRomaefuere: aneglected problem in Bede, De temporumratione, cap. 47
2. Masako Ohashi (Japan) Who was the author of the Letter to King Nechtan of the Picts (ad 710)?
3. Brigitte Englisch (Germany) Der Komputusdes Victorius von Aquitanien: einForschungsproblem?
4. Caitlin Corning (USA) ‰Û÷The more things change, the more they stay the same’: The Easter dating controversy at the World Council of Churches (1997-2012)
5.John Contreni (USA) A fresh look at Herwagen’sBridfertiRamesiensisGlossae: the glosses on Bede’s Denaturarerum
6. Daniel McCarthy (Ireland) An assessment of the Zeitz Table in the context of the Latercus
7. LucianaCuppo (Italy) Squaring the circle: the wind-diagram in BAV Reg. Lat. 2077 and the encounter with Isidore
8. David Howlett (England) Some dating-clauses in Hiberno-Latin computistical manuscripts
9.L.S. (SÌÁndor)Chardonnens (Netherlands) Correlations between layout, structure & setting of prognostics in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts
10. Megan McNamee (USA) Picturing number in Byrhtferth of Ramsey’s Enchiridion
11. MarilinaCesario (N. Ireland) Significacionesventorum in noctenatalisdominiet in ceteris xii noctibusvsque ad epiphaniam: the English tradition of wind prognostication (12th-15th centuries)
12. Ulrich Voigt (Germany) Rediscovering Paul of Middelburg (1446-1534)
13. Faith Wallis (Canada) Sortes Sanctorum andAleaCeli: dating &divination in some insular computusmanuscripts
14. Wesley Stevens (Canada) Walafrid Strabo’s study of the computus
15. Colin Ireland (Ireland) Taking sides atthe Synod of Whitby (ad 664)
16. David Juste (Australia) The origins of the Latin prognostica, 800-1100
17. James Palmer (Scotland) An 8th-c. Irish computus in Lombardy and the end of the world
18. Alden Mosshammer (USA)Two computistical texts: ExpositioBissexti and Quo tempore initium mundi
19. PavelKuzenkov (Russia) The Alexandrian Computus and the Era of Annianus
20. AnastasiosIoannides (USA) The computistical work of MatthewVlastares
21. C.P.E. Nothaft (Germany) The date of the Passion in Early Medieval computistics: the strange case of the Victorian-Dionysiac ‰Û÷hybrid’ table in the Sirmond Computus
22. Immo Warntjes (Germany) Iberian computistics, 6th-8th century
23. Roy Liuzza (USA)Wheels within wheels: further observations on The Sphere of Life & Death
24. DÌÁibhÌ_ ÌÒ CrÌ_inÌ_n (Ireland) The Historia Paschalis in Kiev, Narodni Bibl., MS. I. 5876
25. David Pelteret (England) The provenance and purpose of the computus in the Red Book of Darley (CCCC, MS. 422)
26. Richard Landes (USA) Computistical and chronological activity at the approach of the millennial years 6000/800 and 1000
27. Werner Bergmann (Germany) BruhrechnenimMittelalter. Der ursprÌ_nglicheCalculus des Victorius von Aquitanien
Further Information: Prof. DÌÁibhÌ_ ÌÒ CrÌ_inÌ_n, History, NUI, Galway
daibhi.ocroinin@nuigalway.ie
www.nuigalway.ie/history/computusconference.html

'Ptolemy in Arabic and in Latin'
2012-07-12 17:00
CAMPS & the Foundations of Irish Culture project
Research lab by Dr David Juste, University of Sydney
‰ÛÏPtolemy in Arabic and in Latin‰۝
Thursday 12th July, 5 p.m.
Moore Institute Seminar Room, NUI Galway
Dr Juste will talk about his Ptolemy research and especially about the project funded by the Forschungsprogramm der Union der deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften (the Union of German Academies of Science). The project, ‘Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus’, which was submitted by Dr David Juste and two colleagues, Benno van Dalen and Dag Nikolaus Hasse. They heard last month that it has been granted funding for 25 years, with all funds and positions as requested, including five full-time research scholars.
The lab should be of interest to medievalists, historians of science, cartographic historians, astronomers, Classicists, mathematicians, and historians of science. It is held in connexion with the 4th International Conference on the Science of Computus, which will be taking place in the Moore Institute, 13-15 July. The lab is presented by CAMPS in conjunction with the PRTLI 4-funded ‘Foundations of Irish Culture’ project.
Dr Juste describes the project as follows:
Claudius Ptolemy (c. 100-170 AD) was one of the most important scientific figures in the ancient world, and one of the most influential scientists of all time. While he was also the author of treatises on geography, optics and harmonics, his fame primarily stems from two works on the science of the stars: (1) the (astronomical) ‘Almagest’, which provides comprehensive mathematical models explaining all celestial movements in a geocentric universe; and (2) the (astrological) ‘Tetrabiblos’, which provides the first systematic account of the relationships between the celestial and terrestrial worlds, as well as a philosophical justification for the practice of astrology.
The ‘Almagest’ and the ‘Tetrabiblos’ remained the fundamental texts on the science of the stars for some 1,500 years. Both were translated several times into Arabic and Latin, and were heavily commented upon, glossed, discussed, and also criticised and improved upon, in the Islamic world and in Christian Europe. Until the 17th century, no important work on either astronomy or astrology was written without reference to Ptolemy.
Further information from the organiser:
Prof. DÌÁibhÌ_ ÌÒ CRÌÒIN̍N,
Department of History,
National University of Ireland, Galway
Tel.: (+353-91) 492697
Fax: (+353-91) 494556

'Science and the Age of Discovery: Spain, Portugal, and the International Atlantic in the 15th-16th Centuries'
2012-07-06 18:00
Friday 6 July, 6pm,
‰Û÷Science and the Age of Discovery: Spain, Portugal, and the International Atlantic in the 15th-16th Centuries‰۪
Speaker: Dr Edward Collins, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville/UCD.
Chair: Dr Enrico Dal Lago, Historian, NUIG.
Edward Collins will present an overview of the scientific aspects of the Portuguese and Spanish discoveries in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, particularly the role of international transfer of knowledge in the areas of cartography, cosmography and the piloting of ships in the Atlantic. It will examine the importance of this transfer in advancing the scientific knowledge that propelled the expeditions of, among others, Prince Henry ‘the navigator’ in Portugal, and Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan in Spain.

''A RÌ_ na Foidhne, glac iad ar lÌÁimh': ÌÄår mBÌÁid DÌÄå¼chais agus an tIascach''
2012-07-05 18:00
Thursday, 5 July, 6pm
‰Û÷‰ÛÏA RÌ_ na Foidhne, glac iad ar lÌÁimh‰۝: ́r mBÌÁid D̼chais agus an tIascach‰۝‰۪
Cainteoir (i nGaeilge): An Dr CrÌ_ostÌ_ir Mac CÌÁrthaigh, AircÌ_vÌ_ Sinsearach, Cnuasach Bh̩aloideas Ìäireann, UCD.
Cathaoirleach: An Dr PÌÁdraig ÌÒ H̩alaÌ_, ScolÌÁire Gaeilge agus B̩aloidis, NUIG.
CrÌ_ostÌ_ir Mac CÌÁrthaigh is editor of the magnificent and monumental Traditional Boats in Ireland: History, Folklore and Construction (Cork 2008). He has published extensively on aspects of Irish oral literature, vernacular architecture and the material culture of Atlantic island communities. His talk, which will be in Irish, will focus on boats, fishing, and some of the associated beliefs and oral traditions of the west of Ireland.

'Medieval Irish Seafaring: realities and visions'
2012-07-04 18:00
IOMRAMHA / VOYAGES
Three Talks on Medieval and Modern Seafaring
organized by Prof. MairÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha
All in SPEAKERS’ CORNER, GLOBAL VILLAGE, the CLADDAGH, GALWAY
(enter from Nimmo’s Pier or Grattan Road; it may take 5-10 minutes to reach the Speakers’ Corner)
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Wednesday 4 July, 6pm,
‰Û÷Medieval Irish Seafaring: realities and visions’
Speaker: Prof. MÌÁirÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha, School of Humanities, NUIG.
Chair: Mary O’Malley, Poet.
MÌÁirÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha will speak on the endurance of medieval Irish seafarers, including those who sailed the Atlantic as Christian missioners, the visions and images that sustained them, and the iconic status of figures such as Brendan the Navigator.
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Thursday, 5 July, 6pm
‰Û÷”A RÌ_ na Foidhne, glac iad ar lÌÁimh”: ́r mBÌÁid D̼chais agus an tIascach”‘
Cainteoir (i nGaeilge): An Dr CrÌ_ostÌ_ir Mac CÌÁrthaigh, AircÌ_vÌ_ Sinsearach, Cnuasach Bh̩aloideas Ìäireann, UCD.
Cathaoirleach: An Dr PÌÁdraig ÌÒ H̩alaÌ_, ScolÌÁire Gaeilge agus B̩aloidis, NUIG.
CrÌ_ostÌ_ir Mac CÌÁrthaigh is editor of the magnificent and monumental Traditional Boats in Ireland: History, Folklore and Construction (Cork 2008). He has published extensively on aspects of Irish oral literature, vernacular architecture and the material culture of Atlantic island communities. His talk, which will be in Irish, will focus on boats, fishing, and some of the associated beliefs and oral traditions of the west of Ireland.
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Friday 6 July, 6pm,
‰Û÷Science and the Age of Discovery: Spain, Portugal, and the International Atlantic in the 15th-16th Centuries’
Speaker: Dr Edward Collins, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville/UCD.
Chair: Dr Enrico Dal Lago, Historian, NUIG.
Edward Collins will present an overview of the scientific aspects of the Portuguese and Spanish discoveries in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, particularly the role of international transfer of knowledge in the areas of cartography, cosmography and the piloting of ships in the Atlantic. It will examine the importance of this transfer in advancing the scientific knowledge that propelled the expeditions of, among others, Prince Henry ‘the navigator’ in Portugal, and Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan in Spain.
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Sponsored by NUI, Galway and Ì_darÌÁs na Gaeltachta
Further information from the Organiser, Prof. MairÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha
Ollamh le Sean- agus MeÌÁn-Ghaeilge / Professor of Old and Middle Irish, Scoil na nDaonnachtaÌ_/ School of Humanities, Ollscoil na hÌäireann, Gaillimh / NUI Galway.

Gender, spirituality, politics and society
2012-06-27 12:00
You are warmly invited to
A Gender ARC Summer Seminar
Gender, spirituality, politics and society
Hosted by: Gender, Discourse, Identities Cluster of Gender ARC and Global Women’s Studies, School of Political Science and Sociology
Venue: Moore Institute Seminar Room
Date: Wed June 27
Time: 12.00pm-2.00pm
PROGRAMME
Nikky-Guninder Singh, Crawford Family Professor of Religion, Colby College, Maine, USA
“Contesting subjectivities: a feminist interpretation of Sikh scripture”
Rita O’Donoghue, Irish Studies, NUI Galway
“The Profane versus the sacred: women, priests, and other-worldly forces in the archives of the National Folklore Collection”
EilÌ_s Ward, School of Political Science and Sociology, NUI Galway
“Ethics, gender and vulnerability: a perspective from Buddhist thought”
Vesna Malesevic, School of Political Science and Sociology, NUI Galway
“Secularisation, de-secularisation, neo-secularisation: recent debates in the sociology of religion”
Moderator: Niamh Reilly, Global Women’s Studies, NUI Galway
All welcome!
Please rsvp: gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie
www.genderarc.org

Colonialism within Europe: Fact or Fancy? 22nd-23rd June
2012-06-22 00:00
Colonialism within Europe: Fact or Fancy?
Conference at NUI Galway, 22-23 June 2012
Provisional Conference Programme
Fri., 22nd June 2012
9.00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9.15-10.30 Session 1 The Irish Experience
Nicholas Canny, Dept. of History, NUI Galway
‰ÛÏWas Ireland a colony? The history of a debate‰۝
Bogdan Murgescu, Dept. of History, University of Bucharest
‰ÛÏA Colonial Periphery? Ireland and Romania in the Early Modern Era‰۝
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-13.00 Session 2: North-South Relations
Piotr Szlanta, Dept. of History, University of Warsaw
‰ÛÏThe Russian bear in the land of the Persian lion. The patterns of subjection 1890-1914‰۝
Enrico Dal Lago, Dept. of History, NUI Galway
‰ÛÏItalian National Unification and the Mezzogiorno: A Case of Internal Colonialism?‰۝
Clemens Ruthner, Dept. of Germanic Studies, Trinity College Dublin
‰ÛÏAustria‰۪s Only ‰ÛÏColony‰۝: Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1878-1918‰۝
Commentator: Ulrike Lindner, Dept. of History, University of Bielefeld
13.00-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.30 Humboldt Foundation Programmes by either member of Humboldt staff or Prof. DÌÁibhÌ_ ÌÒ CrÌ_inÌ_n, Dept. of History, NUI, Galway
14.30-16.30 Session 3: German Peripheries
Detmar Klein, Dept. of History, University College Cork
‰ÛÏGerman-Annexed Alsace and Imperial Germany: A Process of Colonisation?‰۝
Nils Langer, Dept. of German, Bristol University
‰ÛÏGermany and the Danes: Language Politics in Schleswig-Holstein‰۝
RÌ_isÌ_n Healy, Dept. of History, NUI Galway
‰ÛÏGermans and Poles in Poznania and West Prussia‰۝
Commentator: TBA
16.30-17.00 Coffee
17.00-18.00 Keynote Address: Mark von Hagen, Dept. of History, University of Arizona
19.00 Conference Dinner
Sat., 23 June 2012
9.30-11.00 Session 4: Contested Territories in the Interwar Period
Christoph Mick, Dept. of History, University of Warwick
‰ÛÏColonialism in the Polish Eastern borderlands, 1919-1939″
Guido Hausmann, Dept. of History, University of Munich
‰ÛÏMaps of the Borderlands: Russia and the Ukraine‰۝
Commentator: Mridu Rai, Dept. of History, Trinity College Dublin
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-13.00 Session 5: Sovietization as Colonization
Paul McNamara, Dept. of History, NUI Galway
‰ÛÏPolonization and Sovietization in Poland‰۪s Recovered Territories‰۝
Balazs Apor, Centre for European Studies, Trinity College Dublin
‰ÛÏPolitical Rituals and the Sovietization of Hungary‰۝
Commentator: Ulf Engel, Centre for African Studies/Global and European Studies Institute, University of Leipzig
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.15 Session 6: Colonial Practices
Alan Kramer, Dept. of History, Trinity College Dublin
‰ÛÏThe Colonial Origins of the Concentration Camp‰۝
Second speaker to be arranged
15.15 Closing Discussion

Book launches - Raingard Esser and Christopher Maginn
2012-06-21 17:00
RaingardEsser, The Politics of Memory:the Writing of Partition in the seventeenth-century Low Countries (Brill, 2012);
Christopher Maginn, William Cecil, Ireland, and the Tudor State (Oxford, 2012)

Conference - Frontier and border regions in early modern Europe - June 21st and 22nd
2012-06-21 09:00
History, School of HumanitiesThe Moore Institute
Frontier and border regions in early modern Europe
21-22 June 2012
Thursday 21 June (Moore Institute Seminar Room)
09.00 ‰ÛÒ 09.20
Raingard EÌÙer, University of Groningen, the Netherlands;
Steven Ellis, National University of Ireland, Galway
Introduction
09.20 ‰ÛÒ 10.10
Steven Ellis, National University of Ireland, Galway
‰Û÷Ireland‰۪s ‰ÛÏlost‰۝ English region: the English Pale in early Tudor times‰۪
10.10 ‰ÛÒ 11.00
Gerald Power, Metropolitan University, Prague, Czech Republic
‰Û÷The English Pale as a region in later Tudor Ireland‰۪
11.00 ‰ÛÒ 11.20 Coffee break
11.20 ‰ÛÒ 12.10
Chris Maginn, Fordham University, New York, USA
‰Û÷Beyond the Pale: the making of the kingdom of Ireland‰۪
12.30 ‰ÛÒ 13.40 Buffet lunch
13.40 ‰ÛÒ 14.30
Diana Newton, University of Teesside, UK
‰Û÷The trials and tribulations of a border saint: Saint Cuthbert and the Reformation‰۪
14.30 ‰ÛÒ 15.20
Andy Sargent, National University of Ireland, Galway,
‰Û÷Ruling the borders:the Elizabethan government and the English west march‰۪
15.30 ‰ÛÒ 16.00 Afternoon tea
16.00 ‰ÛÒ 16.50
Anna Groundwater, University of Edinburgh, UK
‰Û÷Renewing the Anglo-Scottish border: reassessing 16th-century frontier societies‰۪
17.00 Book launch
Raingard EÌÙer, The Politics of Memory:the Writing of Partition in the seventeenth-century Low Countries (Brill, 2012);
Christopher Maginn, William Cecil, Ireland, and the Tudor State (Oxford, 2012)
19.00 Conference dinner
Friday 22 June (Applied Optics Seminar Room)
09.00 ‰ÛÒ 09.50
GÌ_nther Lottes, University of Potsdam, Germany
‰Û÷Living with borders: the case of the Holy Roman Empire‰۪
09.50 ‰ÛÒ 10.40
Bertrand Forclaz, University of Neuch̢tel, Switzerland
‰Û÷Identities at the crossroads of borders: two allied territories of the Swiss Confederation during the Thirty Years War‰۪
10.40 ‰ÛÒ 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 ‰ÛÒ 11.50
Raingard EÌÙer, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
‰Û÷Not so united:Dutch provinces between the Republic and the Holy Roman Empire‰۪
12.00Buffet lunch

Moore Institute Workshop 2011-12: Wise Practices, Imagination and the Toleration of Diversity
2012-06-16 09:30
Saturday 16th June
Description of Workshop
The idea of wisdom is currently attracting renewed attention as a source of innovative ideas and practices for social organisation. This workshop addresses two deficits in the associated debates, accentuating contributions derived from observed ‰Û÷wise‰۪ practices in the West of Ireland. Wisdom is generally regarded as a form of reasoning which responds to pressing life-problems without clear solutions in either expert or everyday knowledge. This workshop explores a) how such forms of reasoning can operate under conditions of social and intellectual diversity; b) the role of imagination in envisaging novel solutions.
Since Socrates‰۪ time, commentators on wisdom have commended slowness to rush to judgement, even in dilemmas which initially seem clear. Contemporary work on wisdom foregrounds tolerance and a capacity to understand how others see the world differently from oneself, while remaining committed to one‰۪s own core values. However, closer studies of what people really mean when they believe they are being tolerant show strong tendencies to expect others to converge with their own ideas under more apposite temporal or social circumstances.
Papers at the workshop respond to this observation and to evidence collected in Galway and Connemara, analysing selected local practices as effecting forms of social wisdom which illustrate more genuine forms of tolerance. It also draws on empirical and theoretical research into confronting cultural diversity both in Galway City and in Canada. Finally, we focus on the role in both wisdom and tolerance of uses of the imagination in comprehending other (world-)views, explored in historical travel literature and the sociology of tourism, and to the roles in ‰Û÷wise‰۪ discourse of Irish proverbs, triads and epigrams.

Destroying the 'silver linings': The American media and the Vietnam War, 1968-71 - With guest speaker Gavin Wilk, University of Limerick
2012-06-05 12:30
The Galway American Studies Forum Presents…
Destroying the ‰Û÷silver linings’: The American media and the Vietnam War, 1968-71
With guest speaker Gavin Wilk, University of Limerick
Tuesday, 5th June, 12.30 – 2pm
in
The Moore Institute Seminar Room
Everyone Welcome.
Abstract: This paper will demonstrate through relevant examples how the American media, from the 1968 Tet Offensive to the publication of the Pentagon Papers in 1971, offered a subjective and unfiltered view of the Vietnam War to the American public. During this period, the American media abandoned a previously close connection with the military and government and instead moved independently through various mediums to denounce the Vietnam War. This dramatic period transformed the way American journalists cover conflicts and also significantly altered the relationship between the American media, government and military officials.
About Gavin Wilk: A Visiting Lecturer in History at the University of Limerick, Gavin recently completed a PhD in History and was an IRCHSS Postgraduate Scholar from 2008-11. His thesis examines the militant Irish republican movement in the United States from 1923 to 1939 and focuses on the important role of Irish Republican Army (IRA) veterans in the US-based Irish republican movement. Gavin has completed a number of articles for reference works in American history, including a recent contribution of fourteen articles to the M.E. Sharpe publication, America in World History, an encyclopaedia which presents American history through an international context.
For more see http://gasforum.blogspot.com/

Joyce's Galway, Galway's Joyce: A Centenary to Celebrate - Frank Shovlin, the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool
2012-06-01 20:00 | The Nun’s Island Theatre, Ireland
The Moore Institute is pleased to promote a lecture on James Joyce and Galway by Dr. Frank Shovlin of the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool, and incoming Leverhulme Fellow at the Moore Institute during the next academic year. The lecture will take place on Friday, June 1 at 8pm at the Nun‰۪s Island Theatre
Living and working in Liverpool since 2000, Frank Shovlin is from the West of Ireland. He was educated at University College Galway where he took his BA and MA degrees before moving on to St John’s College, Oxford where he completed a D. Phil. in 2000. His research interests include the Irish literary magazine, on which he published a monograph in 2003; the Irish literary revival; the life and work of James Joyce; the history of reading in twentieth-century Ireland; and the history of the book.

'Cuba under RaÌÄå¼l: is the Revolution 'over'?' - Professor Antoni Kapcia,University of Nottingham.
2012-05-28 18:00
‰ÛÏCuba under Ra̼l: is the Revolution ‰Û÷over‰۪?‰۝
By Antoni Kapcia, Professor in Latin American Studies at the University of Nottingham, U.K.
Professor Kapcia is a distinguished expert in modern and contemporary Cuban history and politics. He has published extensively in the field, including Cuba: Island of Dreams (2000), Cuba in Revolution: a History since the Fifties (2008). His forthcoming book examines literary culture in Cuba since 1959.

MÌÁire Mhac an tSaoi Symposium
2012-05-23 09:00
MÌ_or̼ilt an pharÌ_iste: comhdhÌÁil lae ar fhilÌ_ocht MhÌÁire Mhac an tSaoi, OÌä Gaillimh
Beidh comhdhÌÁil lae ar shaothar MhÌÁire Mhac an tSaoi ÌÁ reachtÌÁil ag Ionad an L̩inn Ìäireannaigh, Ollscoil na hÌäireann, Gaillimh, D̩ C̩adaoin 23 Bealtaine 2012. TÌÁ MÌÁire Mhac an tSaoi ar dhuine de mhÌ_rfhilÌ_ na hÌäireann sa bhfichi̼ haois agus chuir an ch̩ad leabhar filÌ_ochta a d’fhoilsigh sÌ_ Margadh na Saoire i 1956 cor nua i litrÌ_ocht na Gaeilge leis an l̩iri̼ a thug s̩ ar ghn̩ithe de shaol is de thaithÌ_ phrÌ_obhÌÁideach na mnÌÁ. TrÌ_ocha bliain sara dtÌÁinig gl̼in nua banfhilÌ_ chun cinn sa Bh̩arla agus sa Ghaeilge, Eavan Boland agus Nuala NÌ_ Dhomhnaill ina measc, bhÌ_ guth ÌÁ thabhairt ag MÌÁire Mhac an tSaoi do ghn̩ithe de shaol collaÌ_ na mnÌÁ a bhÌ_ faoi thost roimhe sin den gcuid is mÌ_ sa litrÌ_ocht agus sa tsaol.
‰Û÷C̩ go n-aithnÌ_onn filÌ_ agus l̩irmheastÌ_irÌ_ tÌÁbhacht agus tionchar a cuid filÌ_ochta,’ a deir Louis de Paor, Sti̼rthÌ_ir Ionad an L̩inn Ìäireannaigh, ‰Û÷is dÌ_igh liom gurb ̩ seo an ch̩ad chomhdhÌÁil atÌÁ tiomnaith ar fad dÌÁ cuid saothair a scagadh. Beidh cuid de na l̩irmheastÌ_irÌ_ is fearr sa Ghaeilge i lÌÁthair chun anailÌ_s a dh̩anamh ar a saothar is tÌÁimid ag s̼il le dÌ_ospoireacht bhrÌ_omhar.’‰Û÷There is truth to experience here, a forthrightness about passion and transgression that is thrilling and exemplary,’ a d̼irt Seamus Heaney nuair a foilsÌ_odh dÌ_rbheathaisn̩is MhÌÁire Mhac an tSaoi’s The Same Age as the State, sa bhliain 2003. Sheol Fiach Mac Conghail, Sti̼rthÌ_ir Amharclann na Mainistreach, eagrÌÁn dhÌÁtheangach dÌÁ cuid dÌÁnta An ParÌ_iste MÌ_or̼ilteach/The Miraculous Parish ag Ì_cÌÁid mhÌ_r i gCaisleÌÁn Bhaile ́tha Cliath i mÌ_ na Samhna 2011.
I measc na gcainteoirÌ_ a bheidh ag labhairt ag an gcomhdhÌÁil in OÌä Gaillimh, tÌÁ Mich̩al Mac Craith, Margaret Mac Curtain, MÌÁire NÌ_ AnnrachÌÁin, MÌÁirÌ_n Nic Eoin, CaoimhÌ_n Mac Giolla L̩ith, RÌ_Ì_na NÌ_ Fhrighil, Eil̩an NÌ_ ChuilleanÌÁin agus Patricia Coughlan, agus beidh a gcuid cainte ÌÁ thaifeadadh ag RTÌä le craoladh amach sa bhliain.TÌÁ cead isteach go dtÌ_ an chomhdhÌÁil saor in aisce agus fÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch.
The Miracle of the Parish: MÌÁire Mhac an tSaoi symposium at NUI GalwayOn Wednesday 23 May, the Centre for Irish Studies at NUI Galway will host a symposium on the work of MÌÁire Mhac an tSaoi, one of the most significant Irish poets of the twentieth century, and the most important living poet in Irish. With MÌÁirtÌ_n ÌÒ DireÌÁin and SeÌÁn ÌÒ RÌ_ordÌÁin, she revolutionised the practice of poetry in Irish in the 1940s and 50s and paved the way for a new generation of women poets who emerged in Irish and in English in the 1970s and 80s. A generation before Nuala NÌ_ Dhomhnaill and Eavan Boland, and in more difficult circumstances, MÌÁire Mhac an tSaoi gave voice to the intimate and subversive aspects of women’s experience in poems that challenged the moral orthodoxies of the time.
‰Û÷Although her work and influence is acknowledged by poets and critics alike,’ according to Louis de Paor, Director of the Centre for Irish Studies, ‰Û÷this is the first such event dedicated entirely to her work and includes contributions from some of the finest scholars and critics of poetry in Irish. Given her connection with the University where she was appointed Honorary Professor of Irish Studies in 2004, and her uncle Monsignor PÌÁdraig de Br̼n, served with such distinction as president, we are delighted to recognise her unique contribution to Irish writing.’
MÌÁire Mhac an tSaoi’s autobiography The Same Age as the State, published in 2003, was described by Seamus Heaney as ‰Û÷thrilling and exemplary’ and a bilingual selection of her poems An ParÌ_iste MÌ_or̼ilteach/The Miraculous Parish was launched by Fiach Mac Conghail, Director of the Abbey Theatre, at a gala event in Dublin Castle in November 2011.Invited speakers to the NUI Galway symposium include Mich̩al Mac Craith, Margaret Mac Curtain, MÌÁire NÌ_ AnnrachÌÁin, MÌÁirÌ_n Nic Eoin, CaoimhÌ_n Mac Giolla L̩ith, RÌ_Ì_na NÌ_ Fhrighil, Eil̩an NÌ_ ChuilleanÌÁin and Patricia Coughlan, and the proceedings will be recorded by RTÌä radio for broadcast later in the year.Admission to all sessions is free and everyone is welcome to attend.Sa Seomra SeimineÌÁir in Institi̼id de MÌ_rdha, OÌä, Gaillimh a reachtÌÁlfar na seisi̼in ar fad.MÌ_or̼ilt an pharÌ_iste: comhdhÌÁil lae ar fhilÌ_ocht MhÌÁire Mhac an tSaoiD̩ C̩adaoin 23 Bealtaine 2012Ionad an L̩inn Ìäireannaigh, Ollscoil na hÌäireann, Gaillimh
9.00-10.15rn ‰Û÷The same age as the state ach nÌ_ mÌ_r an fhilÌ_ocht chomh maith’, An tOllamh MicheÌÁl Mac Crait (ColÌÁiste San Isidore)
‰Û÷MÌÁire Mhac an tSaoi: idir dhÌÁ fheimineachas’, An tOllamh Margaret Mac Curtain (UCD)
10.15-11.30rn ‘”V̩nus toute enti̬re, ÌÊ sa proie attach̩e . . .”: an grÌÁ agus an tsaoirse i bhfilÌ_ocht MhÌÁire Mhac a’ tSaoi’, An tOllamh MÌÁire NÌ_ AnnrachÌÁin (UCD)
‰Û÷An guth mÌÁthartha i bhfilÌ_ocht MhÌÁire Mhac an tSaoi’, An tOllamh MÌÁirÌ_n Nic Eoin (ColÌÁiste PhÌÁdraig, Droim Conrach)
11.30-11.45 Caif̩
11.45-1.00in ‰Û÷”Ceann Bliana” agus Eile’, An Dr CaoimhÌ_n Mac Giolla L̩ith (UCD)
‘CÌ_iri̼ na cuimhne i saothar MhÌÁire Mhac a’ tSaoi’, An Dr RÌ_Ì_na NÌ_ Fhrighil (ColÌÁiste PhÌÁdraig, Droim Conrach)
1.00-2.00in LÌ_n
2.00 -3.15in An tOllamh Eil̩an NÌ_ ChuilleanÌÁin (TCD)
‰Û÷”Aibigh, a mhian, i ndiamhaireacht na gile”: na mianta collaÌ_ i saothar Mhaire Mhac an tSaoi’, An tOllamh Patricia Coughlan (UCC)
3.30-4.30in Clabhs̼r

Professor Paul Crowther, Book Launch - 'The Phenomenology of Art, exploding Deleuze, illuminating Style.'
2012-05-21 15:00
Professor Paul Crowther will be launching his new book ‘The Phenomenology of Art, exploding Deleuze, illuminating Style.’

Armed Conflict in Comparative Perspective
2012-05-18 09:00
Armed Conflict in Comparative Perspective
Time / Date / Venue: 9.00am – 5.00pm, Friday 18 May, Aula Maxima, National University of Ireland, Galway.
A conference of the Centre for the Study of Nationalism and Organised Violence featuring:

Prof. Kristine H̦glund (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Prof. Stathis Kalyvas (Yale University, USA)
Prof. Eric Kaufmann (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Prof. Tom Lodge (University of Limerick, Ireland)
Prof. SiniÁa MaleÁeviÌãåà (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Dr Niall ÌÒ Dochartaigh (National University of Ireland Galway)
Prof. Brendan O’Leary (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Prof. Martin Shaw (Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals/University of Sussex, UK)

This multidisciplinary conference brings together leading scholars working on aspects of armed conflict from a range of disciplinary perspectives. It addresses key issues of concern to sociologists, political scientists and historians studying inter-state wars, civil wars, armed conflicts, urban violence and insurgencies.
This conference is supported by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Moore Institute and the Institute for Business, Social Sciences and Public Policy, NUI Galway.
All are welcome. For more information and to register to attend, please contact stacey.scriver@nuigalway.ie

Talking Peace: A seminar on communication, contact and dialogue aimed at reducing or ending violence in Northern Ireland
2012-05-16 10:00
A seminar on communication, contact and dialogue aimed at reducing or ending violence in Northern Ireland that bringstogether key actors with direct experience of mediation and decision-making in the Irish peace process, including Sir Kenneth; Larry and Shauna Duddy; Dr. Maurice Hayes; Jim Gibney; Dr. Harold Good; Rev. Chris Hudson Bloomfield and Dr. Martin Mansergh. Prof. Brendan O’Leary (University of Pennsylvania) will act as respondent.
The symposium in the afternoon brings participants in the witness seminar together with leading academics working on the politics of conflict and peace in Northern Ireland, including Prof. James McAuley (University of Huddersfield); Dr. Niall(NUI Galway); Dr. Graham Spencer (University of Portsmouth); Dr. Katy Hayward (Queen’s O Dochartaigh University Belfast); Prof. Jonathan Tonge (University of Liverpool); Prof. Robert White (Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis).
To register for attendance please contact; stacey.scriver@nuigalway.ie.
The seminar is part of the Creativity at the Edge series, hosted by the Moore Institute at NUI Galway. It is supported by the Irish Research
Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Moore Institute and the School of Political Science and Sociology, NUI Galway.
Organisers: Dr. Niall O Dochartaigh (NUI Galway), Prof. Ian McBride (King’s College London), and Prof Sean Ryder (NUI Galway).
Hosted by the Centre for the Study of Nationalism and Organised Violence.

Wood Architecture in the Early Middle Ages
2012-05-02 14:30
Wood architecture in the Early Middle Ages: A northern building technique
Prof. Eleonora Destefanis & Dr. Gabriele Ardizio
UniversitÌÊ degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale
Wednesday 2nd May, 2.30pm
Venue: The Moore Institute

Workshop: 'Networks and Identities in the Catholic Reformation'
2012-04-27 09:00
Globalisation, Empire, and Culture
Part of the Texts, Contexts, Cultures research programme.
Supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
27th April, 2012
Moore Institute Seminar Room
Workshop: ‰Û÷Networks and Identities in the Catholic Reformation’
Programme
9-10am
Alison Forrestal, National University of Ireland, Galway
‰Û÷Exploiting Sources of Patronage in the French Catholic Reformation: Vincent de Paul on the Royal Council of Ecclesiastical Affairs, 1643-52′
10-11am
Elizabeth Tingle, University of Plymouth
‰Û÷Indulgences after Luther: The Fall and Rise of Pardons in Counter-Reformation France’
11-11.15am
Coffee
11.15-12.15pm
Paul Shore, Brandon University
‰Û÷The Muslim Body in the Baroque Jesuit Imagination’
12.15-1.15pm
Tadhg O’hAnnrachÌÁin, University College Dublin
‰Û÷Cardinal P̩ter PÌÁzmÌÁny and the Guide to the Divine Truth’
1.15-2pm
Lunch
2-3pm
Barbara Diefendorf, Boston University
‰Û÷How the Spanish Carmelites Became French: Teresian Identity and the Competition between Paris and Pontoise’
3-4pm
Eric Nelson, Missouri State University
‰Û÷Remembering the Martyrdom of Saint Francis of Paola: History, Collective Memory and Minim Identity in the Seventeenth Century’
4-4.15pm
Coffee
4.15-5pm
Silvia Mostaccio, Universit̩ Catholique de Louvain
‰Û÷Between Obedience and Conscience: A Cultural Challenge for the Society of Jesus during Acquaviva’s Generalate’
5-6.15pm
Responses from commentators, Simon Ditchfield, University of York, and PÌÁdraig Lenihan, NUIG
Roundtable discussion

Over the Irish Sea Symposium - 26th and 27th April, 2012, UCD
2012-04-26 00:00
A Symposium of the Atlantic Archipelagos Research Project
Over the Irish Sea
April 26th-27th 2012, University College Dublin
Keynote SpeakersProfessor Margaret Cohen (Stanford University)author of The Novel and the Sea (2010)Sponsored by the Moore Institute, NUI Galway
Professor Claire Connolly (Cardiff University)author of A Cultural History of the Irish Novel, 1790-1829 (2011)
‰Û÷Over the Irish Sea’ is a symposium organised to sharenew research about literary conceptions of, and crossings of,the Irish Sea in the modern period in Irish, English, Welsh, andScottish literatures.
The symposium will reflect on contemporaryarchipelagic and maritime methodologies in literary and cultural studies, and examine howsuch methodologies might re-orient and re-shape studies of the literatures of the British and Irish Isles.Further details of the symposium can be found at www.overtheirishsea.org Places at the symposium are limited, so please contact the organiser to register your interest in attending (email: john.brannigan@ucd.ie) as soon as possible. Registration is required for attendance.The ‰Û÷Over the Irish Sea’ symposium is supported by UCD College of Arts and Celtic Studies, UCD School of English, Drama and Film, UCD John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies, NUI Galway Moore Institute, and the University of Exeter. It is part of the Atlantic Archipelagos Research Project (AARP).

GearÌ_id ÌÒ Tuathaigh - 'Public History and the professional historian: an Irish perspective.'
2012-04-25 13:00
The Moore Institute is pleased to promote the following C̼irt event:
A highlight of the C̼irt International Festival of Literature this week will be the lecture on this coming Wednesday, April 25 at 1 pm, in the Aula Maxima, by GearÌ_id ÌÒ Tuathaigh, entitled, ‘Public History and the professional historian: an Irish perspective.’
Prof. ÌÒ Tuathaigh will discuss the likely demands on, and expectations of, historians in the course of the ‰Û÷decade of centenaries,’ which is now beginning. His lecture will be of especial interest to anyone researching any aspect of the Irish revolution, but it will also be of general interest.
ADM. ‰âÂ8 (‰âÂ6 concession): BOOKING, 091-569777

Gender and Academic Work
2012-04-24 13:00
Gender and Academic Work
24th April 2012Venue: NUI Galway Moore Institute Seminar Room1-5pmThe experiences of women in academic work have long been a source of debate.Research over the previous thirty years has shown us that, for example, aspects of workplace culture in higher education organizations effectively constrain women’s career advancement. Issues including homophily and related difficulties in findinghelpful mentors and role models, along with unintended exclusion from informal social groups. These act to hamper women’s participation in important networks. Moreover, commentators have argued that academia itself is founded on inherentlypatriarchical systems and structures, and that these emerge in the gendering of the division of labour in relation to teaching, research and administrative roles, along with working practices that present obstacles to fulfilling familial responsibilities and caring roles. In contrast to this, for others, universities remain ‰Û÷gender blind’, with career advancement and participation ostensibly open to all. In this seminar we are fortunate to bring together scholars from Ireland and the UK who will present recent empirical findings and new theoretical insights in this area.
All are welcome. Please contact Kate Kenny kate.kenny@nuigalway.ie to reserve a place.
The seminar is organized by NUI Galway’s Work Society and Governance cluster, and the Public Policies and Gender cluster (Gender ARC).
Schedule
1.00 WelcomeMarianna Fotaki, Reader in health policy and organisation studies.Manchester Business School, University of Manchester.Of women, gender and inequality in academe: Bringing feminism back to dispel yet another wicked issue
2.00 Tea and Coffee
2.30Kelly Coate, Lecturer in teaching and learning in Higher Education and Vice Dean (Graduate Studies) in the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies, NUI Galway.Indicators of esteem: Gender and prestige in academic work
3.30 Pat O’Connor, Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Limerick.Organisational Culture in University Senior Management: A Cross National Perspective
4.30 Discussion and reflection: Anne Byrne, Lecturer at School of Political Science and Sociology, NUI Galway.
5.00 Close
Please join us for an informal dinner after the workshop
PAPER ABSTRACTS:Of women, gender and inequality in academe: Bringing feminism back to dispel yet another wicked issueMarianna FotakiWomen’s underrepresentation in senior ranks across academic disciplines is welldocumented. Yet, the majority of analyses of women’s discrimination in academiacontinue to focus on the institutionally-oriented approaches, and the importance ofstructural barriers of patriarchy. This leaves the issue of subjectivity untheorised andimpedes our understanding of gendered academic institutions at work. The aim of thisarticle is to apply psychosocial approaches enabling us to think differently about thesocially situated subject. First, I draw on conceptions of women’s ‰Û÷otherness’ viaIrigaray and Kristeva, and then turn to Butler’s (1997) idea of subject-ion, which issustained and reproduced as an instrument of the subject becomingness and theprecondition for her agency. Second, I apply the critique of post-feminism byMcRobbie (2009), with an intention to rehabilitate the demands of feminism aspertinent to dispelling the logic of inequality and subordination of women inacademia as yet another ‰Û÷wicked issue’. The findings of a study looking into theexperiences of women in management and business schools in England are thendiscussed in light of the proposed theory.
Indicators of esteem: Gender and prestige in academic workKelly CoateThis paper draws on recent work on the prestige economy in relation to academicmotivation by developing a gendered notion of prestige. Blackmore and Kandiko(2011) have proposed a framework for interpreting aspects of academic work whichmotivate academics to achieve success. Aside from financial gain, they propose thatacademics are motivated by the work itself and factors related to prestige. Given thatwomen are less well represented at senior levels in academia, there is a question as towhether there are gendered aspects to these motivational factors. Far from suggestingthat women are less motivated than men, I will use a feminist materialist analysis toargue that women, for a number of socio-cultural reasons, find it harder to enter theprestige economy in order to gain the indicators of esteem that they can trade forfurther advancement to their careers. Data from a recent survey of academics atNUIG on career progression will be used to illustrate how the prestige economyoperates to the advantages of those who have access to the masculine, homosocialculture within this context.
Organisational Culture in University Senior Management: A Cross National PerspectivePat O’ConnorOrganisational culture is typically presented as meritocratic in universities. In thatcontext the under-representation of women in university senior management can beseen as reflecting that absence of merit. It will be suggested that such a conclusionignores the gendering of definitions of merit in academia and the importance of socialcapital in accessing such positions. Using data collected in a cross national study, anddrawing on Sinclair’s (1998) analytical model, the paper will present a typologyinvolving denial; identification of women as ‘the problem’; incremental adjustmentand commitment to a new culture. It will be suggested that, using this model, it ispossible to position the eight countries in the cross national study (i.e. Australia; NewZealand; Portugal; UK; Turkey; South Africa; Sweden and Ireland). The paper willconclude by suggesting that the organisational culture of Irish universities at seniormanagement level is not unrelated to the disinterest of the state in this issue. Thewider implications of the study for the perpetuation of gender as a social structure(Reisman, 2004), with a particular focus on Ireland will be briefly discussed.
The event is supported by the Institute for Business, Social Sciences and Public Policy at NUIGalway, and

Dr. Marianna Fotaki - TCC Seminar Series - University of Manchester - Of women, gender and inequality in academe: Bringing feminism back to dispel yet another wicked issue
2012-04-24 13:00
Marianna Fotaki, Reader in health policy and organisation studies.Manchester Business School, University of Manchester.Of women, gender and inequality in academe: Bringing feminism back todispel yet another wicked issue

Professor Claire Culleton - Kent State University - 'Life after the PhD: a series of conversations with visiting scholars'
2012-04-23 16:00
Life after the PhD: a series of conversations with visiting scholars We are pleased to announce the second event of the ‰Û÷Life after the PhD‰۪ seminar series. Claire Culleton, a visiting Moore Institute Fellow, is a Professor of English at Kent State University. She has written three books: Names and Naming in Joyce; Working-Class Culture, Women, and Britain, 1914-1921; and Joyce and the G-Men: J. Edgar Hoover‰۪s Manipulation of Modernism. She is General Editor of an Irish Studies book series at Palgrave Macmillan USA and will talk with doctoral students about her experience as an editor reading book proposals, prospectuses, and manuscripts. She will discuss strategies for turning one‰۪s dissertation into a book, identifying prospective presses, ‰ÛÏshopping‰۝ the book around to publishing houses, and marketing and promoting one‰۪s scholarship. You might call this An Insider‰۪s Guide to getting an editor‰۪s attention. All welcome. Please rsvp to Kate Thornhill (kate.thornhill@nuigalway.ie)

Beyond the Island: Transnational Approaches to History
2012-04-21 09:00
Beyond the Island: Transnational Approaches to History
The Moore Institute Seminar Room
April 20th to 21st, 2011
This interdisciplinary conference brings together scholars of History, Political Science, Law and English to discuss the merits and limitations of transnational and global studies. In recent years, scholars have increasingly recognized the limitations of the nation-state as a framework of analyses and as a result transnational and global approaches have moved to the top of research agendas across many countries. At the same time, explorations in this area have been largely overlooked in Irish universities. This conference will debate the merits of transnational vistas for understanding the important themes of diaspora, nationalism, political violence, and human rights in the Irish past and present, and will compare how transnational approaches move beyond or differ from established fields such as the Atlantic world, imperial studies, world history, comparative studies, and so on. The conference papers cover a broad geographical scope and stretch across a long chronology, from late-medieval to contemporary history. Guest speakers will include, among others, Kevin Kenny (Boston College), Kiran Patel (Maastricht), Timothy Meagher (CUA, Washington), Carl Levy (Goldsmiths, London) and Irene Bueno (Leiden).

Beyond the Island: Transnational Approaches to History
2012-04-20 09:00
Beyond the Island: Transnational Approaches to History
The Moore Institute Seminar Room
April 20th and 21st 2012
This interdisciplinary conference brings together scholars of History, Political Science, Law and English to discuss the merits and limitations of transnational and global studies. In recent years, scholars have increasingly recognized the limitations of the nation-state as a framework of analyses and as a result transnational and global approaches have moved to the top of research agendas across many countries. At the same time, explorations in this area have been largely overlooked in Irish universities. This conference will debate the merits of transnational vistas for understanding the important themes of diaspora, nationalism, political violence, and human rights in the Irish past and present, and will compare how transnational approaches move beyond or differ from established fields such as the Atlantic world, imperial studies, world history, comparative studies, and so on. The conference papers cover a broad geographical scope and stretch across a long chronology, from late-medieval to contemporary history. Guest speakers will include, among others, Kevin Kenny (Boston College), Kiran Patel (Maastricht), Timothy Meagher (CUA, Washington), Carl Levy (Goldsmiths, London) and Irene Bueno (Leiden). Further details contact: niall.whelehan@nuigalway.ie
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