Moore Institute

Echo (Humanities Research Forum) - International Women
2012-03-09 16:00 (Europe/Dublin)
CIARA GRIFFIN
(NUI Galway)
‰Û÷Poignancies of Nourishment: The Gastropoetics of Sara Suleri‰۪s
Meatless Days‰۪

ELLEN McWILLIAMS

Visiting Fellow, Moore Institute (Bath Spa University)
‰Û÷Women, Exile, and Censorship in John McGahern‰۪s
The Leavetaking‰۪
NOTE DATE: 4pm Friday 9th March 2012
Applied Optics Seminar Room
All welcome. Wine served.
ECHO brings together researchers of all disciplines to discuss their work in a friendly and rigorous environment. Contact: adrianpaterson@yahoo.com or see our website: http://echoforum.wordpress.com

Moore Institute Workshop 2011-12: Gender, Identities and Discourses: Art, Archives and Public Sphere: Memories in the West of Ireland.
2012-03-09 09:00
Description of Workshop
The main aim of the workshop is to examine questions of art, archives and public memories as represented and relevant in west of Ireland contexts. Participants will include academics, students, artists, local researchers and producers of radio and film. Workshop participants will work with existing materials in relation to women, gender and the west of Ireland, such as photographs, diaries, letters, newspaper reports, private papers and film. Through further collaborative effort, the workshop aims to generate new interpretations and reflections and will present new ideas through the media of radio, exhibition, illustrated texts and film documentary. It will demonstrate how to approach archival resources and historical evidence in a way that is creative, productive and public. A combination of the critical and the creative will reconfigure the contexts in which public memories and identities are shaped. The approach, therefore, will strengthen the field of gender-related research and will augment the visibility of the West of Ireland as a creative research location.

Dr Emma Nic CÌÁrthaigh, Department of Early and Medieval Irish, UCC 'Tadhg Mac Bruaideadha's specula principis for Donnchadh ÌÒ Briain: possible motives and influences'
2012-03-08 17:00

History Graduate Research Seminar Series 2011-12: The Making and Re-Making of Charles Stewart Parnell, 1846-1880 - Ged Martin
2012-03-07 16:00
7 March Ged Martin
The Making and Re-Making of Charles Stewart Parnell, 1846-1880

SiobhÌÁn Armstrong - 'From manuscript to music: unearthing historical Gaelic music from manuscripts & early printed sources'
2012-03-05 16:00
CAMPS, the MA in Medieval Studies and Galway Early Music proudly present
SiobhÌÁn Armstrong
Historical Harpist and Founder of The Historical Harp Society of Ireland
in two public and academic events
Seminar
‰Û÷From manuscript to music: unearthing historical Gaelic music from manuscripts & early printed sources’
Monday 5th March, 4-6 p.m, Moore Institute Seminar Room
Concert
‰Û÷Discovering gold: medieval to 18th century harp music from the old Gaelic world’
Monday 5th March, 1 p.m., Chapel of the Poor Clares’ Convent, Nun’s Island
(Tickets ‰âÂ10/‰âÂ7 at the as a contribution to the Galway Early Music Festival: see www.galwayearlymusic.com)

History Graduate Research Seminar Series 2011-12: A Comparison of Syncretism in Lakota Catholic Congresses and Gullah Camp Meetings - RÌ_nÌÁn de Bhaldraithe
2012-02-29 16:00
29 Feb. RÌ_nÌÁn de Bhaldraithe
A Comparison of Syncretism in Lakota Catholic Congresses
and Gullah Camp Meetings

Professor Donatella Badin -TCC Seminar Series - "Looking at Italy through Green Glasses: Irish travellers on the Grand Tour"
2012-02-28 16:00

Rome, Vivarium, Bobbio - centres of learning in Early Medieval Europe? - Professor Richard Sharpe
2012-02-28 15:00 | Optics Seminar Room, Ireland
VISITING SEMINARRome, Vivarium, BobbioCentres of Learning in EarlyMedieval Europe?
PROF. RIChARD ShARPEUniversity of Oxford
TUES 28 FEBRUARYOptics Seminar RoomSeminar: 3 – 4 pmTea/Coffee & Discussion: 4 – 5 pm

'After After Cardenio'. Professor Jane Taylor
2012-02-28 13:00
The paper will consider the making of a show commissioned by Renaissance scholar, Stephen Greenblatt. Greenblatt commissioned some twelve playwrights worldwide to each make a version of the so-called “missing” Shakespeare play, Cardenio. Such a project surely was imagined by Greenblatt as primarily a text-based work. My paper will discuss the making of a puppet play, After Cardenio, that necessarily destabilized the relation between text and performance, in a celebration of the player. The theoretical questions addressed will concern the idea of the dispersed body, and the body/soul (object/subject) dialectic in puppetry performance. The show I have written and directed “After Cardenio,” deals expressly with Locke’s propositions about identity and number, as staged in his Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Locke was himself engaged, via a community of medical research, in a marvellous event, the apparent resurrection of a young woman whose body had been given over for an anatomy in Oxford in 1650, after she had been hanged for an alleged infanticide. Earlier this year I presented a paper at a puppetry conference in Connecticut, explored the Lockean propositions about identity, as a theoretical and philosophical problem; however this paper uses the making of my play to locate that debate within event, the body, medical history and performance. It also engages with questions around the infant, the woman’s body and reproduction within theological and legal disputes in the early modern era.
seminar
For the past several decades, Jane Taylor has been involved in cultural critique and public scholarship as well as creative writing. In 1987 she and David Bunn co-edited From South Africa (TriQuarterly Magazine; and U of Chicago Press). In 1996 she designed and curated “FAULT LINES”, a series of cultural responses to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that followed the end of Apartheid in South Africa. As part of this program she wrote the playtext, Ubu and the Truth Commission, for South African artist/director William Kentridge and the Handspring Puppet Company. In 2000 she wrote the libretto for a new opera for Kentridge, The Confessions of Zeno, a work that was performed at the Lincoln Centre in New York as well as at the MCA in Chicago. She has two published novels, Of Wild Dogs (which won the prestigious Olive Schreiner Prize for new fiction in South Africa) and The Transplant Men (a work of fiction that is grounded in the first heart transplant, an event that took place in South Africa. In 2009 she edited Handspring Puppet Company, a substantial study of the celebrated performance company from South Africa. She is currently of the Board of Advisors for Dokumenta 2012

Ruaidhri O Flaithbheartaigh through his letters - Professor Richard Sharpe
2012-02-27 19:00
ÌøåÈåÀC A M P S Prof. Richard Sharpe University of Oxford Ruaidhri O Flaithbheartaigh through his letters A Learned Gaelic Chief & his Friend from Oxford in 1700
MON 27th FEBRUARY, 7 pm Fottrell Theatre, NUI Galway Arts Millenium Building

History Graduate Research Seminar Series 2011-12: Evictions on the Glinsk-Creggs estate of Allan Pollok - Pauline Scott
2012-02-22 16:00
22 Feb. Pauline Scott
Evictions on the Glinsk-Creggs estate of Allan Pollok

From Manuscript to Music: SiobhÌÁn Armstrong
2012-02-20 16:00
Centre for Antique Medieval & Pre-Modern Studies
Seminar:
From Manuscript to Music: Unearthing Historical Gaelic Music from Manuscripts & Early Printed Source
SiobhÌÁn Armstrong: Historical harpist and founder of The Historical Harp Society of Ireland.
Discovering Gold: Medieval to 18th century harp music from the Old Gaelic World
Monday, March 5th at 1pm, Tickets ‰âÂ10/‰âÂ7
Chapel of the Poor Clares, Nun’s Island

History Graduate Research Seminar Series 2011-12:Apostles of Agricultural Reform: The Ballinasloe Agricultural Improvement Society in Transnational Perspective - Cathal Smith
2012-02-15 16:00
15 Feb. Cathal Smith
Apostles of Agricultural Reform: The Ballinasloe Agricultural Improvement Society in Transnational Perspective

ECHO Humanities Research Seminar - ECHO goes Eco
2012-02-10 16:00
ECHO goes ECO
Join us as we consider the philosophical & political questions that matter about life, the universe, and everything.
Lucy Bingham McAndrew
‰Û÷What “good” is life?
Ecophilosophy and the search for an inter-specific ethic’
Mark Ryan
‰Û÷A Philosophical Examination of Public Opinion
and Environmental Risk’
All welcome, fermented fruit from the vine will be served.
ECHO brings together researchers of all disciplines to discuss their work in a friendly and rigorous environment.Contact: adrianpaterson@yahoo.com or see our website:
http://echoforum.wordpress.com/

Creativity, cultural industries and regional development - Dominic Power
2012-02-09 13:00
As part of the Moore Institute Visiting Fellowship Scheme
Dominic Power
(Professor in Economic Geography, Centre for research on Innovation and Industrial Dynamics, Uppsala University , Sweden)
Will give a talk entitled
Creativity, cultural industries and regional development.
Moore Institute, Thursday 9 February 2012, 13.00 – 14.15
ALL WELCOME
Dominic Power is a leading international expert in the area of creative and culture-based industries, innovation and public policy, and regional industrial competitiveness. He has published over 60 articles, books, and reports on these topics and has lectured at major scientific and policy conferences around the world.
Dominic’s research agenda focuses on the geographical foundations of business competencies and competitiveness and on the economic geography of contemporary economic change. Principally a series of interlinked projects on the cultural industries form the main focus of his research work.
Dominic has worked as a creative strategy consultant to several Fortune 500 companies and many other creative businesses. www.creativebusiness.org
Dominic has worked as a policy advisor to various European governments and regional authorities: including Swedish Innovation Authority, the Nordic Council of Ministers, Innovation Norway, Icelandic Government, the Nordic Innovation Center, the European Commission DG Enterprise and Industry.

History Graduate Research Seminar Series 2011-12: Treasure from the Bog: The Faddan More Psalter - John Gillis
2012-02-08 16:00
8 Feb. John Gillis (TCD)
Treasure from the Bog: The Faddan More Psalter

Life after the PhD: a series of conversations with visiting scholars
2012-02-06 16:00
Life after the PhD: a series of conversations with visiting scholars Monday 6 February 2012 4.00-5.30pm in the Moore Institute Seminar Room James M. Smith, Boston College This is the first in a new series of talks for PhD students in the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities. They will take the form of informal discussions with visiting scholars to the College about ‰Û÷life after the PhD’, with each visiting speaker sharing insights into the challenges and opportunities for career development beyond the PhD. In the first session we are pleased to welcome James M. Smith, currently a visiting scholar in the Moore Institute, from the English Department, Boston College. Jim will talk about how his training as a graduate student prepared him for a career in academia. He will address various aspects of professional development for doctoral candidates, e.g., choosing a dissertation topic, conferencing, publishing, the job search, life as a junior faculty member, growing your career, etc. This will be an informal presentation leading hopefully to conversation and a question and answer session. All are welcome and there will be light refreshments provided. Please rsvp to Kate Thornhill: kate.thornhill@nuigalway.ie

History Graduate Research Seminar Series 2011-12: Gaelic Possessions: The cultural significance of Deeds No: XIV & XV, c.1360 -1425, from James Hardiman's Ancient Irish Deeds and Writing relating to Landed Property in Thomond - Lorna Moloney
2012-02-01 16:00
1 Feb.Lorna Moloney
Gaelic Possessions: The cultural significance of Deeds No: XIV & XV,c.1360 -1425, from James Hardiman‰۪s Ancient Irish Deeds and Writing relating to Landed Property in Thomond

The Peerage in the Historiography of Tudor Ireland - Gerald Power
2012-01-25 16:00
25 Jan. Gerald Power
The Peerage in the Historiography of Tudor Ireland
History Graduate Research Seminar Series
Followed by the launch of Dr. Power’s book:
A European Frontier Elite: The Nobility of the English Pale in Tudor Ireland, 1496-1566, The Formation of Europe, vol. 4, (Hannover, 2012)

History Graduate Research Seminar Series 2011-12: 'Found in a 'dying' condition': Nurse-children in Ireland, 1872-1952 - Sara-Anne Buckley
2012-01-18 16:00
18 Jan. Sara-Anne Buckley
‰Û÷Found in a “dying” condition’: Nurse-children in Ireland, 1872-1952

Moore Institute Workshop 2011-12:Eco-poetry now! Reading, writing and understanding poetry in an age of environmental crises
2012-01-13 09:00
Eco-poetry Now!
Reading,Writing and Understanding Poetry in an Age of Environmental Crises.
Workshop, hosted by the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Gender Arc, UL Alliance
Friday, 13th of January, Moore Institute, NUI Galway
9.00 ‰ÛÒ 9.35 GearÌ_id Denvir (NUIG): Guth Ì_n talamh anÌ_os – A Voice from the Land:The Ecopoetics of Gaeltacht Oral Poetry.
9.40 ‰ÛÒ 10.15 Margaret Mills- Harper (UL) Inside/Outside: Space in Contemporary Poetry by Irish Women
10.20 ‰ÛÒ 10.55 Adrian Paterson (NUIG): Yeats’ Trees
Coffee break
11.15 – 11.50 Sanghita Sen (Presidency College Calcutta): Nature as Divine ‰ÛÒ India, the Upanishads, Tagore‰۪s poetry
11.55 ‰ÛÒ 12.30 Helen Phelan (UL) Herrad of Landsberg’sHortus Deliciarum/ Garden of Delights and Somatic Epistemology.
Lunch Break
14.00 ‰ÛÒ 14.35Christian Schmitt-Kilb (University of Rostock): Ecopoetic Prose: Paul Farley’s and Michael Symmons Roberts’ Edgelands (2011)
14.40 – 15.15 Roman Bartosch (University of Cologne) ‘The Reverie will Do’ ‰ÛÒ Critical World Making, Poetry and Ethics
Graduate Panel:
15.20 ‰ÛÒ 16.00Hanne Hasenkamp: Floods, Arks and Climate Change in Contemporary Fiction
16.05 ‰ÛÒ 16.25 Sabine Lenore MÌ_ller: The fallacy of the fallacy – Exploring the Ontological Claims of Ruskin’s’Pathetic Fallacy’ and Modern Eco-poetry’s Counterclaims
Coffee break
16.45 ‰ÛÒ 17.45 Poetry Workshop with Fred Johnston (Western Writers’ Center, (Ionad
ScrÌ_bhneoiri ChaitlÌ_n Maude)
20.00 SeanÌ_s, Folk and Poetry Event in Kai Restaurant, Sea Road
(please email tina-karen.pusse@nuigalway.ie for details)

Dr. Eamon Maher: 'Tracing the Imprint of Catholicism on the 20th Century Irish Novel'
2011-12-07 13:00
Dr. Eamon Maher (Institute of Technology Tallaght), ‘Tracing the Imprint of Catholicism on the 20th Century Irish Novel’, Moore Institute Seminar Room, Wednesday 7th December, 1pm

'Converting Monks into Friars': Creating Public Scholars in the Digital Age
2011-12-06 12:45
Moore Institute Lecture
Dr Kate Laity (Fulbright Visiting Fellow in Digital Humanities)
‰Û÷Converting Monks into Friars: Creating Public Scholars in the Digital Age‰۪
1pm, Tuesday 6th December, Moore Institute seminar room
All welcome
Coffee and sandwiches provided from 12.45pm

Moore Institute Workshop 2011-12:Writing on the Edges of Empire: MA Graduate Workshop
2011-11-30 09:00
Description of Workshop
An MA Research Methods workshop will take place in the Moore Institute on Wednesday 30th November with students from the NUIG MA in Culture and Colonialism and the UL MA in English. The workshop will strengthen the ties between NUIG and the University of Limerick, both at graduate and research level, since it is also in connection with the Gender ARC, as well as the associated research cluster “InterSects: Women and Nation 1880-1920” The workshop will consist of panels in which speakers from NUIG, UL and UCD reflect on their research, highlighting research processes as much as content; a discussion of IRCHSS funding and Ph.D. possibilities to which current Ph.D. candidates will contribute; and a group workshop for the MA students. The aim of the workshop is to deepen graduate students’ understanding of the nature and possibilities of academic research and to help students formulate ideas for their dissertations. An important aspect of the workshop will be the particular challenges which archival, textual and contextual research present to researchers working on marginalised, non-conventional and/or geographically distant source material, as well as the challenges posed by interdisciplinary research models. Participants will include Professor Margaret Harper (UL); Dr Tina O’Toole (UL), Dr Anne Mulhall (UCD), Professor Sean Ryder (NUIG), Dr Muireann O’Cinneide (NUIG) and Professor Tadhg Foley (NUIG, Emeritus).

MA Graduate Workshop
2011-11-30 00:00
Mastering Research on the Edge: MA Research Methods Workshop
An MA Research Methods workshop will take place in the Moore Institute on Wednesday 30th November with students from the NUIG MA in Culture and Colonialism and the UL MA in English. The workshop will strengthen the ties between NUIG and the University of Limerick, both at graduate and research level, since it is also in connection with the Gender ARC, as well as the associated research cluster “InterSects: Women and Nation 1880-1920” The workshop will consist of panels in which speakers from NUIG, UL and UCD reflect on their research, highlighting research processes as much as content; a discussion of IRCHSS funding and Ph.D. possibilities to which current Ph.D. candidates will contribute; and a group workshop for the MA students. The aim of the workshop is to deepen graduate students’ understanding of the nature and possibilities of academic research and to help students formulate ideas for their dissertations. An important aspect of the workshop will be the particular challenges which archival, textual and contextual research present to researchers working on marginalised, non-conventional and/or geographically distant source material, as well as the challenges posed by interdisciplinary research models. Participants will include Professor Margaret Harper (UL); Dr Tina O’Toole (UL), Dr Anne Mulhall (UCD), Professor Sean Ryder (NUIG), Dr Muireann O’Cinneide (NUIG) and Professor Tadhg Foley (NUIG, Emeritus).

Professor Timothy White: 'Lessons from the Northern Irish Peace Process'
2011-11-28 17:00
Professor Timothy White (Xavier University), ‰Û÷Lessons from the Northern Irish Peace Process‰۪, Moore institute Seminar Room, Monday 28th November, 5pm

An Edition of the Collectio Canonum Hibernensis
2011-11-28 15:00
RESEARCH WORKSHOP PRESENTATION BY DR ROY FLECHNER
‰ÛÏAN EDITION OF THE COLLECTIO CANONUM HIBERNENSIS‰۝
Moore Institute Seminar Room, 3 p.m., Monday 28th November
Reception to follow
Michael Clarke/DÌÁibhÌ_ ÌÒ CrÌ_inÌ_n
For further information on Roy Flechner and his forthcoming edition of the Hibernensis see
http://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/flechner.htm

History Graduate Seminar Series
2011-11-23 16:00
From Dust to Dust: Death and Burial at Clonmacnoise, ad 800-1200

The Rory Kavanagh Bursary
2011-11-17 17:00
THE RORY KAVANAGH BURSARY
The Bursary has been made possible by a generous donation from the family of the late Rory Kavanagh (1971-1996), a 1993 B.A. graduate of National University of Ireland, Galway. Rory spent the 1991-1992 academic year in Italy at the University of Bologna under the ERASMUS Student Mobility Programme. This Bursary is awarded annually to allow a student of Italian spend a year at a university in Italy. It is awarded to a fulltime undergraduate student of Italian who passes the second year examinations in Arts or Commerce.

The St. Gall Glosses to Priscian
2011-11-17 10:00
PROFESSOR PIERRE-YVES LAMBERT‰۪S VISIT
Thursday November 17th
10 a.m. ‰ÛÒ 12 p.m.: Postgraduate seminar, ‰Û÷The St Gall Glosses to Priscian‰۪
SiobhÌÁn McKenna Theatre (AM214).
5 p.m.: Lecture, ‰Û÷The Old Breton glosses on Bede in the manuscript Angers 477‰۪
MÌÁirtÌ_n ÌÒ Tnuthail theatre, Arts Millennium Building.
See further
http://www.ephe.sorbonne.fr/details/2032-lambert-pierre-yves-linguistique-et-philologie-celtiques.html
http://www.univ-brest.fr/Recherche/Laboratoire/CRBC/cherch/lambepie.htm.
Jacopo Bisagni/Michael Clarke
