Moore Institute

Language Games: A Seminar on Language and Literature
2014-09-24 14:00 (Europe/Dublin)
Language Games:
A Seminar on Language and Literature
Language Games is dedicated to all matters relating to language and literature, including linguistics, translation, language instruction, and literary experiments in language and their reception.
The round-table format of the seminar is designed to allow participants to share and workshop their ideas, stimulating further discussion and new insights on their subject.
We will generally avoid formal presentations.
We plan to have a flexible programme based on the interests of the group, in other words, we may dedicate several workshops to a particular topic or text, or move at a faster pace should we receive a large number of proposals for workshops
Our first meeting will take place on Wednesday at 24 September at 2pm in Room 1003 (on the first floor of the James Hardiman Research Building) and will begin with a discussion of selected passages of Ulysses and proposals for future workshops
We hope you can attend and would also like to invite you to submit proposals and ideas for future workshops by email. These should not be conceived as formal papers, but as round-table discussions of specific texts or other materials. Please send a short (max 100 word) proposal to irina.ruppo@nuigalway.ie
Irina Ruppo Malone (English/Academic Writing Centre, James Hardiman Library)
Siobhan Purcell (English)
Dr Irina Ruppo Malone
Academic Writing Centre James Hardiman Library NUI Galway Ext: 5697

Professor Charles Hirschman - Census Classifications and Racial Ideology in Malaysia
2014-09-04 14:00
VISITING SPEAKER
Thursday, 4th Sept 2.00 -4.00 pm
Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Professor Charles Hirschman
Census Classifications and Racial Ideology in Malaysia
The official classifications of ethnicity used in population censuses are generally thought to be non-controversial administrative products that reflect commonly understood population categories. Cultural and phenotypical differences are, however, are rarely unambiguous, and the creation and revision of ethnic categories often reveals the assumptions of dominant groups that shape government policy. Tracing changes in ethnic classifications in Malaysian censuses from the colonial era to the present shows the imprint of ideology on how groups are defined and measured.
Professor Charles Hirschman is the Boeing International Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at the Department of Sociology, University of Washington. He is the author of numerous works on the sociology of race, ethnicity, immigration, demography and education in Southeast Asia and the United States.
School of Political Science & Sociology
Power, Conflict & Ideology Research Cluster

Professor Brendan O'Leary: public lecture on 'Power-sharing in deeply divided places with special reference to Iraq and Northern Ireland'
2014-08-27 16:00
Professor Brendan O’Leary: public lecture on ‰Û÷Power-sharing in deeply divided places with special reference to Iraq and Northern Ireland’, NUI Galway, 27 August, 2014. Part of the President’s of Ireland’s ‰Û÷Ethics Initiative’
Distinguished Irish political scientist Professor Brendan O’Leary of the University of Pennsylvania, Visiting Fellow at the Moore Institute,will give a public lecture on ‰Û÷Power-sharing in deeply divided places with special reference to Iraq and Northern Ireland’ in NUI Galway at 4pm on Wednesday 27 August, 2014. This talk is part of the President of Ireland’s ‰Û÷Ethics Initiative’, and is organised by the Conflict, Rights and Security Research Cluster of the Whitaker Institute in association with the Moore Institute. All are welcome.
Brendan O’Leary is Lauder Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of numerous highly regarded books and articles on conflict and peacemaking and has been deeply and directly involved in efforts to secure peace and design new structures of government in Northern Ireland and Iraq. He was born in Cork, Ireland and his childhood and teenage years were mostly spent in Nigeria, Sudan, and Northern Ireland.
Before coming to Penn, O’Leary was on the faculty of the London School of Economics and Political Science between 1983 and 2003, where he had been Professor of Political Science, head of its Government Department, and an elected Academic Governor. Between 2012 and 2014 he is also Professor of Political Science at Queen’s University Belfast. ̢åÛå¬̢åÛå¬O’Leary’s professorial career has been combined with political advisory work. He was a political advisor to the British Labour Shadow Cabinet on Northern Ireland between 1987-8 and 1996-7, advising Kevin McNamara and the late Marjorie (“Mo”) Mowlam. He advised Irish, British, and American ministers and officials and the Irish-American Morrison delegation during the Northern Ireland peace process, appearing as an expert witness before the US Congress, and being a guest at the White House. His ideas on power-sharing are said to have been extremely influential, and his work with Prof. John McGarry on police reform was singled out in the press for influencing the commission on police reform which reported in 1999. O’Leary has also worked as a constitutional advisor for the European Union and the United Nations in the promotion of confederal and federal re-building of Somalia, and for the United Kingdom’s Department of International Development in constitutional consultancies on power-sharing in coalition governments in Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa, and in Nepal. Between 2003 and 2009 he was regularly an international constitutional advisor to the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq, assisting in the negotiation of the Transitional Administrative Law (2004); electoral systems design (2004-5); the Constitution of Iraq (2005), and the Constitution of the Kurdistan Region (2005-). He has been an expert witness on Iraq to branches of the US Government, and to the United Kingdom’s Iraq Commission. For the UN he contributed to its 2004 United Nations Human Development Report on Culture and Liberty. In 2009-2010 O’Leary was seconded to the UN as the Senior Advisor on Power-Sharing in the Standby Team of the Mediation Support Unit of the Department of Political Affairs.
The lecture is open to the public, but early attendance is advised. It will begin at 4 p.m. (sharp) on Wednesday 27 August in the Aula Maxima, NUI Galway.
For further information contact Dr. Niall O Dochartaigh at niall.odochartaigh@nuigalway.ie

Dr. Mahesh Radhakrishnan, (Australian National University) South Indian Carnatic singing and sean-nÌ_s- an ethnographic, musical and linguistic comparison of two distinct performance traditions
2014-08-08 11:00
Dr. Mahesh Radhakrishnan,
Australian National University
South Indian Carnatic singing and sean-nÌ_s–
an ethnographic, musical and linguistic comparison of two distinct performance traditions
Abstract: Despite sharing some interesting linguistic and cultural connections in a very distant past, South Indian and Irish musical cultures have emerged from highly distinct contexts and influences. Drawing on doctoral research within the respective cultures as practiced in Australia, this seminar presents a comparison of Carnatic and sean-nÌ_s singing from the perspectives of anthropology, ethnomusicology and linguistics. In the process, some interesting theoretical insights emerge about performance and the relationship between music and language.
Biography:
Mahesh Radhakrishnan is a language and music scholar with a research interest in the performance of language, linguistic diversity, language ideology, interaction and the intersections between language and music in singing. He holds a PhD in Linguistics from Macquarie University, Sydney, for a thesis on Irish traditional singing and South Indian classical Carnatic singing in Australia. He has conducted linguistic research on Tamil, Irish, English, Telugu, Sanskrit and Jawoyn, an Australian Aboriginal language.
Mahesh is also a singer, musician and composer with over 20 years of training and experience in the Carnatic tradition and he has explored a range of styles, particularly Irish traditional sean-nÌ_s and instrumental music. He has directed and advised on music for stage productions and leads the worldy folk music group Tapestries of Sound which he founded in 2002.
Mahesh is currently a Visitor in the School of Anthropology at the Australian National University and is collaborating with Dr. Lillis ÌÒ Laoire on a project titled ‰Û÷Irish language, sean-nÌ_s and linguistic ecologies of traditional performance’
For more information contact lillis.olaoire@nuigalway.ie

New Work on Irish Literature. Speakers: Nessa Cronin (NUI Galway), Ronan McDonald (Moore Institute visiting fellow from the university of New South Wales), Mary Mullen (Moore Institute visiting fellow from Texas Tech university), and Frank Shovlin (Moore
2014-07-31 11:00
New Work on Irish Literature
Speakers: Nessa Cronin (NUI Galway),
Ronan McDonald (Moore Institute visiting fellow from the university of New South Wales),
Mary Mullen (Moore Institute visiting fellow from Texas Tech university),
Frank Shovlin (Moore Institute visiting fellow from the university Liverpool).

The End of Outrage; or, Master McGlynn and The Molly Maguires: The Politics of Post-Famine Adjustment - BreandÌÁn Mac Suibhne,Centenary College, New Jersey and Moore Institute visiting fellow
2014-07-30 14:00
BreandÌÁn MacSuibhne
The End of Outrage; or, Master McGlynn and The Molly Maguires: The Politics of Post-Famine Adjustment

Creating and Exploiting Digital Collections
2014-07-29 09:30
Creating and Exploiting Digital Collections
0930 Opening address and launch of the James Hardiman Library’s Digital Scholarship Enablement Strategy Consultation (Prof. PÌ_l ÌÒ Dochartaigh, Registrar and Deputy President, NUI Galway)
0945 Digital scholarship in the Moore Institute (Prof. Daniel Carey, Director, Moore Institute for the Humanities and Social Studies)
1010 Supporting digital projects in the humanities and social sciences (David Kelly, Research Technologist, Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Research)
1035 The impact of the Abbey Theatre Digital Archive on drama and theatre research and teaching (Dr. Charlotte McIvor, School of Humanities)
1100 Coffee
1130 The evolution of UCD Digital Library (Dr. John Howard, University Librarian and Adjunct Professor, UCD School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin)
1200 Digital projects and collaborations locally and nationally (DÌ_nall ÌÒ BraonÌÁin, PrÌ_omhfheidhmeannach agus An Dr. Seathr̼n ÌÒ Tuairisg, RiarthÌ_ir Aonaid na TeicneolaÌ_ochta Faisn̩ise, Acadamh na hOllscolaÌ_ochta Gaeilge)
1230 Developing a library infrastructure to enable digital scholarship (Cillian Joy, Digital Library Developer, James Hardiman Library)
1300 Lunch
1400 Creative arts programmes and research at the University of Ulster (Professor Paul Moore, Head, School of Creative Arts and Technologies, University of Ulster)
1430 The Insight Centre for Data Analytics: linked data, semantic web and other research (Prof Stefan Decker, Director, Insight@NUI Galway)
1500 Duanaire: a treasury of digital data for Irish economic history (Dr. Aidan Kane, Lecturer, J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics)
1530 Tea
1550 Digital humanities and other programmes at the Huston School of Film and Digital Media (speaker tbc, Huston School of Film and Digital Media)
1610 Where Insight @ NUI Galway meets ‘digital humanities 1610’ WhereNUI Galway meets Insight(Dr. Bahareh Heravi, Group Leader, Digital Humanities and Journalism, Insight@NUI Galway)
1630 Wrap-up: common themes and future possibilities (John Cox, University Librarian)

New Research On Tudor Ireland
2014-07-17 13:00
New Research on Tudor Ireland
Thursday 17th July 2014
National University of Ireland, Galway
A workshop hosted by the Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway
The National University of Ireland, Galway, has a rich tradition of scholarship on late medieval and early modern Ireland and its wider, transnational contexts. This workshop brings together current teachers and students, former graduates and current holders of Moore Institute Visiting Fellowships to present new research into the constitutional, political and social history of sixteenth-century Ireland, and to discuss sources and fresh approaches to the subject.
Venue: Moore Institute Seminar Room (TBH G010)
Programme:
Session I, 13.00-15.00: New Research on Tudor Ireland
Chair: Professor S.G. Ellis (NUI, Galway)
Dr Gerald Power (Metropolitan University Prague / Moore Institute Fellow): ‰Û÷The New English in Ireland before 1534‰۪
Kieran Hoare (Archivist, James Hardiman Library, NUI, Galway): ‰Û÷The Pale economy in early Tudor Ireland‰۪
Professor Chris Maginn (Fordham University / Moore Institute Fellow): ‰Û÷One State or Two: Ireland and England under the Tudors‰۪
Session II, 15.30-16.45: Exploring Source Material
Using sources and digital technology for research on Tudor Ireland: a practical demonstration and roundtable discussion led by the speakers and facilitated by Professor Ellis.

Islands in a Global Context: The 7th International Insular Art Conference July 16th to 20th
2014-07-16 14:00
Islands in a Global Context
The 7th International Insular Art Conference
For more information please see http://iiac7galway.wordpress.com/

5th International Conference on the Science of Computus July 11-13, 2014
2014-07-11 16:00
5th International Conference on the Science of Computus July 11 – 13, 2014
http://www.nuigalway.ie/history/Computus_Conference/computusconference2014.html
The Science of Computistics – the mathematics required to calculate the date of Easter, and related topics (incl. astronomical observations and calculations) – straddles the fields of mathematics and astronomy, biblical interpretation and cosmology, empirical astronomical observation, and the perennial quest to understand the concepts of Time and Time-Reckoning. ‘Since in the 7th century the leading experts on the computus were the Irish’ (the verdict of Leofranc Holford-Strevens, The History of Time, a very short introduction [Oxford 2005] 56) it was entirely appropriate that the first landmark conference devoted to this topic should have taken place in Galway, as it did in 2006. It brought together, for the first time, the leading scholars in this field from all over the world, and the conference papersprovided a panorama of Early Medieval scientific knowledge, both in Ireland and in the rest of Western Europe, during the period of the so-called ‘Dark Ages’. That first Conference was an outstanding success, and the proof is in the fact that we have had four others since, and are now looking forward to the fifth this coming July. In fact, the study of computistics has become synonymous with Galway, with the result that NUIG has become the permanent home for the Conference
The previous Science of Computus conferences in Galway highlighted

The transmission of Late Antique Mathematical Knowledge in Ireland & Europe The Development of Astronomy in Early Medieval Ireland & Europe The Irish role in the development of Computistical Mathematics The use of computistics for purposes of prognostication

The Proceedings of the 1st (2006) Conference and of the 2nd (2008) have already been published, while those of the 3rd (2010) Conference will shortly go to press. The papers, as a rule, appeal equally to those interested in the history of science in Ireland and Europe, and in the origins of present-day mathematical and astronomical ideas, specialist scholars and the wider public.
This year’s image is the zodiac from the Aratea manuscript in Boulogne, Boulogne Ms 188, f. 30v.
Friday, July 11
16:00 -16:30 Welcome to the Conference
16:30-18:00 Session 1
Charles Burnett: The Abacista, companion to the Computista
Susan Rankin: Remembering the calendar: singing Nonae Aprilis
Michal Choptiany: Late-17th-century Cracow manuscripts of computes: Cracow, Jagiellonian Libr., MS. 3377, and Warsaw, Nat. Libr., MS. 9102 II
18:15 Book Launches
Saturday, July 12
9:30 – 11:00 Session 2
Immo Warntjes: Hermannus Contractus and the revolution of computes in the 12th century
Alfred Lohr: Computus und computer. Prinzipien und Methoden bei der Editon er Computi von Abbo, Gerland, Roger von Hereford und Constabularius
C.P.E. Nothaft: Arabic Science and Natural Computus in 12th-century England. Computus Constabularii and its context
11:00 – 11:30 Tea / Coffee
11:30 – 13:00 Session 3
Leofranc Holford-Strevens: The computistical fragment in Brussels, KBR, MS. 10127-44 (s. VIII ex), fols 80r-82r
Ivana Dobcheva: Were computistae stargazers? The shared readership of computistics and star-catalogues, with a special emphasis on Aratea manuscripts
Jacopo Bisagni: A newly-discovered Irish (?) copy of the Sphere of Life and Death
13:00 – 15:00 Lunch
15:00 – 16:30 Session 4
Michael Norris: Digital resources and the classification of the manuscripts of Bede’s De natura rerum
MÌÁirÌ_n Mc Carron: The origins of Bede’s Anno Mundi dating
Ulirch Voigt: Did the Venerable Bede understand the 532-year cycle? 16:30 – 17:00 Tea / Coffee
17:00 – 18:30 Session 5
Robert Gallagher: The intellectual context of the ‘Metrical Calendar of Hampson’
Tony Harris: The language of medieval ocmputus and the surprising vocabulary of Aelfric’s De temporibus anni
Christian Etheridge: The venerable Bede in a 12thcentury Icelandic context: from discoverer of Iceland to computistical authority
Sunday, July 13
9:30 – 11:00 Session 6
Dan Mac Carthy: Changing perspectives upon the Paschal tract of Anatolius, Bishop of Laodicea
Luciani Cuppo: Something old, something new. An Insular twist on the Roman Easter prologue of AD 395
Alden Mosshammer: A neglected Iberian Computus: Paris, BNF, MS lat. 609
11:00 – 11:30 Tea / Coffee
11:30 – 13:00 Session 7
James Palmer: Irish computistics in 8th-century Lombardy
David Ganz: Milan, Bibl. Ambr., MS. f 60 sup.: an 8th-century Irish compendium
David Howlett: Dicuill on Astronomy

Ted Hughes Weekend, July 11th - 13th 2014
2014-07-11 00:00
Ted Hughes weekend
July 11th – 13th 2014
The upcoming Ted Hughes weekend celebrating poetry and place in a stunning location at Doonreagan house in Connemara promises to be a very exciting event featuring leading scholars and poets. All are welcome.
See the website for details and full programme http://www.tedhughesweekend.com
NB Students:there are special rates for students including the full programme and lunch and refreshments at ‰âÂ25. Courtesy of Robert Jocelyn and the Department of English FREE RETURN TRANSPORT on Saturday morning and evening (12th July) from the NUI Galway campus has been arranged. Please email adrian.paterson@nuigalway.ie to avail of this offer – ASAP as places are limited: first come first served, and by Wed 2nd July at the latest.
A celebration of the role played by Connemara in the life and work of Ted Hughes will take place at Doonreagan, Cashel, Co. Galway
Doonreagan in the heart of Connemara, where the future Poet Laureate Ted Hughes went to live in the 1960s, turned out to be a landmark in his personal life and work. This year’s theme will be
Ted Hughes and the Countryside
With Gerry Dawe, Harry Clifton, Mark Wormald, Terry Gifford, Gillian Groszewski, Neil Roberts and Adrian Paterson
www.tedhughesweekend.com
Contact doonreagan@gmail.com or telephone 095 31049095 31049
NB Student rates available & FREE transport for NUI Galway students from

International Chartism Conference 2014: Ireland and British Democracy - July 4th and 5th
2014-07-04 09:30 | The Hardiman Research Building G010 and G011 seminar rooms, Ireland
The Moore Institute, along with the Society for the Study of Labour History, is hosting the nineteenth-annual Chartism conference on 5 July 2014. The conference theme – ‰Û÷Ireland & British Democracy’ – points to the movement of people and ideas in the battle for political rights, and the conference will explore the (positive and negative) ways in which Irish nationalism and Chartism coalesced in the mid-nineteenth century. There will be a public talk by Professor David Lloyd (University of California, Riverside) in the Mechanics Institute (Middle Street) on Friday, July 4th at 7.30pm to launch the conference.
‘There will be a public talk by Professor Luke Gibbons (NUI, Maynooth) in the Mechanics Institute (Middle Street) on Friday, July 4th at 7.30pm to launch the conference.’
For conference details, including the programme, see: http://galwaychartismday2014.wordpress.com/
To register, email: timothy.keane@nuigalway.ie

Irish Conference of Medievalists (Dublin) 1st to 3rd July
2014-07-01 00:00
28th ICM
UCD
July 1st – July 3rd 2014
For conference programme please see
http://www.irishmedievalists.com/

The Emergency: Ireland in Wartime, Friday 27th and Saturday 28th June 2014
2014-06-27 09:45 | The Hardiman Research Building G010 and G011 seminar rooms, Ireland
The Emergency: Ireland inWartimeNational University of Ireland, GalwayMoore InstituteHardiman Research Building27-28 June 2014
Conference Programme
Friday 27 June
09.45 Welcome
10.00 – 11.30 Panel 1: HIGH DIPLOMACY
Paul McNamara (NUI, Galway)
Sean Lester, Irish Diplomat in Peacetime and Wartime, 1934-46
Steven Murphy (University College Cork)
Irish Neutral Diplomacy in World War II
Barry Whelan (NUI, Maynooth)
Behind the green curtain: Spanish perceptions of neutral Ireland during the Second WorldWar
11.30 – 12.00 Coffee Break
12.00 – 13.00 KEYNOTE
Mervyn O’Driscoll (University College Cork)
The Forgotten Dimension: Positive Neutrality and Irish Post-War Relief to Europe withparticular reference to Germany
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch Break
14.00 – 15.15 Panels 2 & 3
Panel 2: WARTIME SHORTAGES IN AN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT (Room G010)
Bryce Evans (Liverpool Hope University)
Farewell to Plato’s Cave
Peter Rigney (Trinity College Dublin)
The Wartime Irish railway system: problems and perspectives
Panel 3: EXILES IN IRELAND (Room G011)
Gisela Holfter (University of Limerick)
German-speaking refugees in Ireland, 1933-45
Neasa McGarrigle (Trinity College Dublin)
Academic Refugees in Emergency Ireland
15.15 – 15.30 Coffee Break
15.30 – 16.30 KEYNOTE
Brian Girvin (Glasgow University)
De Valera’s Achievement and the Politics of Irish Neutrality 1939-49
17.00 – 19.00 FILM SCREENING -The Enigma of Frank Ryan
Followed by roundtable discussion with Desmond Bell and Fearghal McGarry
20.00 – 21.30 CONFERENCE KEYNOTE – ROBERT FISK (venue, Radisson Hotel)
Saturday 28 June
09.45 -11.00 Panel 4: A LAND OF OPPORTUNITY?
Jackie UÌ_ Chionna (NUI, Galway)
The College President called us “my Americans,” everyone else called us “the Yanks”: The G.I.Bill and American medical students at University College Galway
Bozena Cierlick (University College Cork)
“I think we should do all in our to help, as neither the British nor the Americans are likely to doanything for these people” (Alfred O’Rahilly)
Deirdre Mulrooney (University College Dublin)
Emergency encounters of the cultural kind: bohemian refugees in Emergency Dublin, from the Ballets Jooss to Erina Brady’s Irish School of Dance Art
11.00 – 11.15 Coffee Break
11.15 – 12.45 Panels 5 & 6
Panel 5: BRITAIN’S WAR IN AN IRISH CONTEXT (Room G010)
Pat McCarthy (Military History Society of Ireland)
Battle, Blitz, Blockade and Weather Forecast: the Luftwaffe and Neutral Ireland, 1940-1945
Steven O’Connor (Trinity College Dublin)
We are all Paddy’s: Irish identity in the British forces, 1939-1945
Joseph Quinn (Trinity College Dublin)
The Irish Experience of War: stories and testimonies of volunteers from Neutral Ireland whoserved in the British Armed Forces during the Second World War
Panel 6: EMPLOYMENT OPTIONS – IRELAND AND THE UNITED KINGDOM (Room G011)
Mary Muldowney (Trinity College Dublin)
The impact of class and gender on women’s paid work during the Second World War
Jennifer Redmond (NUI, Maynooth)
Wartime immigrants: Exploring the Irish diaspora in World War II Britain
Mary Hawkins (NUI, Galway)
‰Û÷Business as usual?’ central Hospital Galway Nurses during the Second World War
12.45 – 13.45 Lunch Break
13.45 – 14.45 KEYNOTET.
Ryle DwyerIrish Neutrality: the distortion of a convenient fiction
14.45 – 15.00 Coffee Break
15.00 – 16.30 Panels 7 & 8
Panel 7: NEUTRALITY DISCOURSES (Room G010)
Bernard Kelly (Edinburgh University)
Who are we neutral against? The Irish myth of the Second World War
Karen Devine (Dublin City University)
Debunking the ‰Û÷Unneutral Thesis’
Lili Zach (NUI, Galway)
Irish perceptions of small nation-states in the context of the Second World War
Panel 8: ACTIVISTS AND THE NEWS AGENDA (Room G011)
Leo Keohane (NUI, Galway)
CIVIC – Council for Investigation of Vatican Influence and Censorship: A Protestant anarchist’sperspective on the Catholic Church in 1941
Kevin McCarthy (University College Cork)
The G2 surveillance of Robert Briscoe, 1939-1945
James O’Donnell (NUI, Galway)
War News in Ireland: the effect of censorship and news supply restrictions on the coverage andcomment of the Dunkirk evacuation and D-Day landings in Irish newspapers – a case study
16.30 – 16.45 Coffee Break
16.45 – 17.45 KEYNOTE
Michael Kennedy (Royal Irish Academy)
“Men that came in with the sea”: the discovery of war dead along the Irish coast, 1939-194517.45 -18.00
Concluding Remarks
The Conference Organisers are grateful to the following NUI Galway benefactors for theirkind support:
Millennium Fund
Community Knowledge Initiative
School of Humanities
Research Incentivisation Scheme
College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Celtic Studies
Department of History
Moore Institute
Thanks also to the NUI Galway student History Society, An Cumman Staire, and the DonegalCounty Museum for their generous assistance.

Katherine Philips 350: Writing, Reputation, Legacy
2014-06-26 00:00
Katherine Philips 350: Writing, Reputation, Legacy
Katherine Philips as ‰Û÷Orinda’
This conference to celebrate the life and works of Katherine Philips – poet, dramatist and letter-writer – will take place in Dublin, Ireland, on 26-28 June, 2014. The event will mark the 350th anniversary of the publication of her Poems (1664) and of her death the same year.
The conference venue is to be Marsh’s Library.
Plenary lectures will be given by Professor Elizabeth Hageman (University of New Hampshire), Professor Sarah Prescott (Aberystwyth University) and Linzi Simpson (Smock Alley Theatre).
The conference organisers are Dr Marie-Louise Coolahan (National University of Ireland, Galway) and Dr Gillian Wright (University of Birmingham).
Special event: a visit to Smock Alley Theatre, where the first production of Philips’s playPompey was staged in February 1663.
For the conference programme, click here. To register for the conference, click here.
Accommodation is available at numerous hotels throughout the city (Marsh’s Library is near St Stephen’s Green and St Patrick’s Cathedral), or try Trinity College, Dublin. It is advisable to book early.
To contact the organisers, please email katherinephilips350@gmail.com or click here.

'Women, Conflict and Transitional Justice: two case studies - Bangladesh and Kenya" - Mayesha Alam, Georgetown Institute for Women Peace and Security and Moore Institute visiting fellow
2014-06-25 12:00
Global Women’s Studies
In association with the
Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies
Gender ARC – Gender, Discourse and Identity Cluster
is pleased to invite you to a Summer Seminar with
Mayesha Alam
“Women, Conflict and Transitional Justice: two case studies – Bangladesh and Kenya”
Wednesday June 25th – 12.00-2.00 pm
THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room
Free event – all welcome – light lunch provided!
To reserve a place, email: Gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie
Mayesha Alam is the Assistant Director of the Georgetown Institute for Women Peace and Security WAshington, DC, and in this role, manages the Institute’s various projects, including the Profiles in Peace oral histories project, major convenings, in-house research, the Hillary R. Clinton Fellowship program, the Summer Graduate Research Fellows program, and the online repository. She is also in charge of operations at the Institute and supports the Executive Director in fundraising and building external relations. Mayesha co-teaches a graduate seminar on Women, Peace and Security with Ambassador Verveer in the School of Foreign Service. She is the author of Women and Transitional Justice: Progress and Persistent Challenges(Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Originally from Bangladesh, Mayesha received her M.A. in Conflict Resolution at Georgetown University, during which she specialized on gender mainstreaming in peacebuilding, security and post-conflict reconstruction as well as human rights more broadly. She has previously worked in the U.S. and internationally for The World Bank, the United Nations and a number of NGOs. Mayesha received her B.A. in international relations and biology from Mount Holyoke CollegeShe is currently a Moore Institute Visiting Fellow, co-hosted by Global Women’s Studies at NUI Galway.
For more information please contact gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie

Chaucer at Galway II: Chaucer and realism - 25th and 26th June, 2014
2014-06-25 09:30
Chaucer at Galway II: Chaucer and Realism
wednesday 25th– thursday 26th June, 2014
Venue: Hardiman Research Building, Room G011
Program
Wednesday 25th June 2014
9.30-10am: Registration (Hardiman Research Building, Room GO11)
10.00-11.00am:
Sarah Nangle (UCD): Music, Rationality and Chaucer’s Unnatural Birdsongs
Simonne Berry (Trinity): The ‰Û÷Substaunce’ of Sound: Musical Instruments in Chaucer’s House of Fame
11.00-11.30am: coffee
11.30am-1.00pm:
Frances McCormack (Galway): Chaucer and the Theology of Emotion
Darragh Greene (UCD): ‰Û÷What is this world?’: Chaucer and Metaphysics
Brendan O’Connell (Trinity): Nought That Was Aught: The Death of Good, Fair Whyte
1.00-2.30pm: lunch
2.30-3.30pm:
John Scattergood (Trinity): ‰Û÷Degree’, ‘estaat’ and ‘array’ in the Canterbury Tales: the Limits of Chaucer’s Realism
3.30-4.00pm: coffee
4.00-5.30pm:
Malte Urban (Queen’s): Chaucer on screen
Rod Stoneman (Galway): Chaucer, Pasolini and Resistance
5.30-6.00pm: drinks reception and formal welcome
6.00-7.00pm:
Paul Strohm (Columbia), Chaucer on the Waterfront
8.00pm: dinner in Nimmo’s restaurant, near the Spanish Arch
Thursday 26th June
10.00 -11.30am:
ClÌ_odhna Carney (Galway) ‰Û÷One of the greatest tragedies of my life…’: is there a Chaucerian realism?
Oya BayiltmiÌÉåÙ ÌÐÌãåÙÌ_tcÌ_ (Hacettepe University, Ankara): A Change in Chaucerian Aesthetics: From The Tale of Sir Thopas to The Tale of Melibee
Catherine Emerson (Galway): ‘The Lady and the Lamprey’, from Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles and connections to Arabian Nights and Shipman’s Tale
11.30am-12.00pm: coffee
12.00-1.00pm:
Piero Boitani (Rome), The Realism of Dante and the Realism of Chaucer
1.00 – 2.30pm: lunch
2.30-4.00pm:
David Clare (Galway): The Influence of Chaucer and Irish Mythology on C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia
Jennifer Alberghini (CUNY): The Hybrid Contours of English in Chaucer’s Time: Anglo-Norman Speakers in the Canterbury Tales
Niamh Pattwell (UCD):Exploring Ancrene Wisse in Frank McGuinness’s Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me
4.00-4.30pm: coffee
4.30-5.30pm:
Francisco Rozano-Garcia (Galway): Opposites Reconciled: The Wife of Bath’s Fictional Subjectivity
Huiyi Bao (UCD) Poetic Reality of the Night Sky: Chaucer’s Erratik Sterres
For more information please contact cliona.carney@nuigalway.ie
Chaucer at Galway is grateful to the following for generous support: Millennium Fund, Office of the Registrar and Deputy President, MA in Medieval Studies, Centre for Antique, Medieval and Pre-Modern Studies (CAMPS), Moore Institute, College of Arts, English Department (all at the National University of Ireland, Galway).

'A Brief History of Liberty ̢åÛåÓ and its Lessons' by Professor Philip Pettit of Princeton University
2014-06-17 16:00
You are invited to attend an upcoming public lecture in NUI Galway on
‰Û÷A Brief History of Liberty – and its Lessons’
by
Professor Philip Pettit of Princeton University.
Professor Pettit is one of the foremost contemporary philosophers and political theorists,renowned for his revival and development of republicanism within political philosophy and for his contribution to public debate on liberty, democracy, equality and social justice. This talk is part of the President of Ireland’s Ethics Initiative and will be attended byPresident Michael D. Higgins.
Speaker Professor Pettit, originally from Ballygar Co. Galway, is L.S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University, where he teaches philosophy and political theory. Among his books are The Common Mind (1996), Republicanism (1997), The Economy of Esteem (2004), with G. Brennan; Made with Words (2008); A Political Philosophy in Public Life, with JL Marti (2010); and Group Agency(2011) with C. List. Professor Pettit is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as of academies in his two countries of citizenship: Ireland and Australia. His most recent book On the People’s Terms (2012) is published by Cambridge University Press. It is based on the 2009 Albertus Magnus Lectures in Cologne, and the 2010 Seeley lectures in Cambridge. Also forthcoming is a book with W.W.Norton for a general audience, entitled Just Freedom: A Moral Compass for a Complex World. He is giving the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Berkeley in 2014-15.
Topic: Professor Pettit will give a public lecture on ‰Û÷A Brief History of Liberty – and its Lessons’. The talk is part of the President of Ireland’s Ethics Initiative and is organised by the Power, Conflict & Ideologies Research Cluster of the School of Political Science & Sociology in association with the Whitaker Institute.
If you are interested in attending this free event please RSVP here (it takes only a moment).
The event is open to the public and all are welcome. We look forward to seeing you there
Niall O Dochartaigh,
Jonathan Heaney,
Jenny Dagg
School of Political Science and Sociology
NUI Galway

Book launch of Niall ÌÒ CiosÌÁin, Ireland in Official Print Culture, 1800-1850: A New Reading of the Poor Inquiry (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2014).
2014-06-16 17:45

Readers, Purveyors, Creators, and Users: Studying Victorian Print Consumption in 2014 - June 16th and 17th
2014-06-16 09:00
Readers, Purveyors, Creators, and Users: Studying Victorian Print Consumption in 2014
16-17 June 2014 Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway Deadline for Proposals: 16 April 2014.
Plenary speakers Dr Stephen Colclough, Bangor University. Dr Niall ÌÒ CiosÌÁin, National University of Ireland, Galway. Nineteenth-century studies continues to engender some of the most dynamic scholarship in the study of historical readership with works like Leah Price’s How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain (2012) featuring some of the most thought-provoking commentary on reader encounters with print to emerge in recent times.
Conceptualisations of the functions print commodities served for various groups of nineteenth-century consumers grow increasingly nuanced. Much of this research into the history of reading has been fuelled by mass digitization endeavours like Google Books and digital humanities projects like The Reading Experience Database. However, while such resources offer significant possibilities, the conditions under which one now engages with this primary material can give rise to questions of context, materiality, and access. Accordingly, this two-day conference will seek to appraise the current state of the field and offer a forum for twenty-minute papers that address any aspect of the consumption and production of Victorian print culture matter, historical or contemporary. It is also envisaged that an edited collection published by an international academic house will result from the conference. Possible topics upon which submissions are welcome include but are certainly not limited to:
åá Historical readers and reading practices of the Victorian period
åá Readership and issues of gender and/or sexuality: e.g. constructions of “the woman reader”; “masculine” reading matter; and “queer” reading experiences.
åá Periodical and/or serial circulation and consumption in territories like nineteenth-century Britain, Ireland, Canada, the Antipodes, and Asia
åá The publication, dissemination, and consumption of books and/or series in nineteenth-century Britain, Ireland, Canada, the Antipodes, and Asia
åá Transnational print culture in the nineteenth century: national and global identities
åá Methodological concerns in the study of the history of reading
åá Consumers, producers, and Victorian visual culture
åá Disposable literature and ephemera of the Victorian age
åá Scholarly editing projects and nineteenth-century culture
åá The planning, design, and use of digital resources in the study of nineteenth-century print culture, including debates surrounding open access and paywalls.
Please send a proposal of no more than 300 words together with a short biography (c. 100 words) to victorianprintconsumption2014@gmail.com by 16 April 2014. Decisions will be announced in early May. Postgraduates and early career scholars are particularly welcome. Questions about any aspect of the conference should be addressed to victorianprintconsumption2014@gmail.com This conference is made possible by the generous support of The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing. and The Digital Arts and Humanities Programme at the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Programme
*All plenaries and panels take place in the Moore Institute Seminar Room: G011- Hardiman Building, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Monday 16 June
9.00-9.30: Registration in Hardiman Building Foyer
9.30-11.00: Plenary 1: Dr Stephen Colclough (Bangor University)
“‰Û÷Miss Cathy’s riven th’ back off “Th’ Helmet uh Salvation”‘: Representing Book Destruction in Mid-Victorian Print Culture’
Chair: Elizabeth Tilley
11.00-11.30: Tea/Coffee
11.30-1.00: Panel 1-Mass Print Media and Nineteenth-Century Audiences
Chair: Anna Gasperini
John Hinks (University of Leicester), “‰Û÷Within the reach of the whole reading public’: the genesis of the cheap series from 1825”
Jessica Hindes (Royal Holloway), “‰Û÷What a lot of print for the money’: G.W.M. Reynolds’s Mysteries of London and the question of artistic value”
Ruth Doherty (Trinity College Dublin), “Reading Reynolds: The Mysteries of London as ‰Û÷microscopic survey'”
1.00-2.00: Lunch
2.00-3.30: Panel 2-The Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press
Chair: Paul Rooney
Clara Dawson (University of Birmingham), “Poetic Gems: Valuations of Poetry in the Periodical Press”
Declan O’Keefe (Clongowes Wood College), “A Man for Others and a Beacon in the Twilight: Fr. Matthew Russell S.J. and The Irish Monthly“
Michael Connerty (Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology), “‘We have nothing like that in Ireland, Mr. Punch’: Percy French’s The Jarvey and the Victorian Humour Magazine”
3.30-4.00: Tea/Coffee
4.00-5.30: Panel 3-Studying Nineteenth-Century Reception in 2014
Chair: Justin Tonra
Isabel Corfe (NUI, Galway), “Images of Ireland in the Nineteenth-century English Broadside”
Shuhita Bhattacharjee (University of Iowa and Presidency University, India), “Passionate Idols and Proliferating Objects: Consumption and Materialization in Marsh’s The Goddess: A Demon”
6.00: Wine reception- College Bar, NUI, Galway.
Tuesday 17 June
9.30-11.00: Plenary 2: Dr Niall ÌÒ CiosÌÁin (NUI, Galway)
“Publishing and reading in the Celtic languages in 19th-century North America and Australia”
Chair: Muireann O’Cinneide
11.00-11.30: Tea/Coffee
11.30-1.00: Panel 4-Spaces, Places, and Times in Victorian Print Culture
Chair: John Hinks
Kevin James (University of Guelph), “‰Û÷[I]diotic attempts at feeble and sometime fetid wit’: Captive Readers, Captive Writers, and the Victorian Visitors’ Book”
Quentin J. Broughall (National University of Ireland, Maynooth), “Retrospective steampunk? The decline and fall of the British Empire (1881), (1884) and (1905)”
1.00-2.00: Lunch
2.00-3.30: Panel 5-Illustration and Interpictoriality in Victorian Culture
Chair: Neassa Doherty
Carey Gibbons (Courtauld Institute of Art), “Bringing the Book to Life: Arthur Hughes’s Illustrations for Tennyson’s Enoch Arden”
Eavan O’Dochartaigh (NUI, Galway), “From Pencil to Publication: Evolving Representations of the Canadian Arctic in the Mid-Nineteenth Century”
Laura Strout (University of Michigan), “Intertextual Images: The Illustrations of William Wells Brown’s Clotel“
3.30-4.00: Tea/Coffee
4.00-5.25: Panel 6-Nineteenth-Century Spheres of Print: Reading, Gender, and Identity
Chair: Quentin J. Broughall
Deirdre Brady (University of Limerick), “Reading practices of an intellectual woman: Rosamond Jacob (1888-1960) and her personal diaries”
Katie Garner (University College Cork), “More than a ‰Û÷book for boys’? Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur and the Victorian Girl Reader”
5.25-5.40: Conference close
5.45-6.45: Book launch of Niall ÌÒ CiosÌÁin, Ireland in Official Print Culture, 1800-1850: A New Reading of the Poor Inquiry (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2014).
7.30: Conference Dinner: Vina Mara Restaurant, Middle Street, Galway.
For more information please contact p.rooney2@nuigalway.ie

Small Nations and Colonial Peripheries in World War I: Europe and the Wider World
2014-06-13 09:00
Small Nations and Colonial Peripheries in World War I:
Europe and the Wider World
National University of Ireland, Galway
Friday 13th-Saturday 14th June 2014
The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum of debate for transnational and comparative approaches to the history of small European nations and Europe‰۪s colonial peripheries in World War I in the context of the epochal changes brought by the collapse of large imperial states. Our aim is to reach a more nuanced understanding of the complex relationship between the peripheral regions of Europe and her empires and Europe‰۪s metropolitan core through the comparative and transnational analysis of the contribution of European, Asian and African peripheries to the war effort in World War I.
Prof. Michael S. Neiberg, an eminent scholar of World War I, will deliver the keynote address. Prof. Neiberg has written extensively on the multiple theatres and global reach of the War, most notably in Fighting the Great War: A Global History (Harvard, 2006) and Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I (2011).
Scholars are invited to submit papers on themes focusing on social, political, or economic aspects of Europe‰۪s small nations and colonial regions during World War I.
Themes covered may include the following:

Colonial troops serving in Europe
Troops of ethnic European minority populations serving in Europe
Troops of ethnic European minority populations serving in overseas colonies
Experiences of populations of independent small nations in Europe
Experiences of populations of ethnic minorities within European multiethnic states
Experiences of indigenous and settler populations of European overseas empires

åáOfficial attempts to mobilise popular support across all ethnic groups in Europe and in the overseas colonies

Support for or resistance to such mobilisation efforts and their different outcomes

Papers may address the following geographical regions:

Peripheries of European multi-ethnic empires in Europe
Peripheries of European belligerent powers to the east and south of Europe
Europe‰۪s overseas colonies

The workshop is an initiative of RÌ_isÌ_n Healy, Enrico Dal Lago, and GearÌ_id Barry at the History Department, NUI Galway, and will be held in June 2014 in order to mark the beginning of the commemorations for the hundredth anniversary of the start of World War I.
Prospective participants should send a paper title and a 300-word abstract, accompanied by a 1-page CV to enrico.dallago@nuigalway.ie by the deadline of 28 February 2014. They will be notified of acceptance by mid-March 2014.
For conference porgramme please see http://www.nuigalway.ie/history/documents/finalsmall_nations_final_programme.pdf

'Saints, Relics, and Sacred Space in Continental Europe in the Middle Ages: Some Archaeological Observations' by Eleonora Destefanis, Universita del Piemonte orientale Amedeo Avogadro, Vercelli, Italy and Moore Institute visiting fellow
2014-06-12 14:30

Ringling North Library bequest
2014-06-06 14:15
Ringling North Library Bequest
The University recently received a very generous bequest of a selection of volumes from the private Library of Henry Ringling North. The attached flyer offers some additional information. Some family members will visit the University on Friday 6 June and, as part of the event to mark this bequest, we will assemble in the Special Collections and Archives Reading Room in the Hardiman Research Building at 1415. Some volumes from the Ringling North Library will be on display and there will be expert commentary on some of the subjects in the collection by Dr. Padraig Lenihan, Professor Catherine O‰۪Brien and Mary Hawkes Greene (Burren College of Art). Refreshments will be served afterwards at c1500. If you would like to attend, please RSVP to John at john.cox@nuigalway.ie.
Contact:
John Cox
University Librarian
James Hardiman Library
X3712

New Voices Conference 2014: A Multi-Disciplinary Postgraduate and Early Career Scholars Conference - 5th to 7th June, 2014
2014-06-05 12:00 | The Hardiman Research Building G010 and G011 seminar rooms, Ireland
New Voices Conference 2014Multi-Disciplinary Postgraduate and Early Career Scholars Conference
5th to 7th June, 2014
After the first New Voices conference in 1999, P.J. Mathews published an edited collection of the speakers’articles, New Voices in Irish Criticism. In the introduction, Mathews notes the text “can be taken as a snapshotof the current state of Irish studies.” The collection of articles presented reflect the work of the Irish academyat the end of the twentieth century as well as Mathews’ and Declan Kiberd’s joint efforts to showcase not onlythe new voices in Irish criticism but also the ways in which those scholars were challenging the boundaries ofIrish criticism. In establishing this forum, Mathews and Kiberd emphasized the necessity for young scholarswithin the Irish academy to interact with one another, across universities and, most importantly, acrossdisciplines.More than ever it is important that early career scholars connect with their peers and future colleagues. Theacademic market is a challenging field, especially for young scholars. This conference seeks to establish anintellectual exchange that will only strengthen in the years to come.In that vein, National University of Ireland, Galway will proudly host the 2014 New Voices conference. Weinvite papers from all departments and encourage collaborative papers, new media, and panel ideas. We alsoinvite paper proposals from early career scholars outside of Ireland who focus on Irish Studies. Theparticipants at the inaugural New Voices conference presented papers on far-reaching topics, from theorizingthe novel to politics and revival. This year we seek papers that broaden what Irish Studies means, reflecting onthe legacy of the New Voices conference and the themes and issues which continue to resonate in itssubsequent iterations.We welcome proposals for twenty-minute papers, in English or in Irish, from all disciplines in relation to Irishstudies. We especially invite submissions which broaden definitions and push scholarly boundaries. Topicsmay include but are certainly not limited to:
Representations of the Irish Body-The Irish Body in film/literature/art-Irish Physicalities-Trauma and the Body
Irish Modernisms-Urbanity/Cosmopolitanism-Modernity in 20th century Ireland-Myth-making in Irish literature-(Post)Modern (Post)Colonial Ireland
Ireland and Place-The landscape of Ireland-The seascape around Ireland
Hidden Narratives-The Irish in Europe-The Role of Ireland in the World Wars-Cultural Memory
Comparative Ireland-Interdisciplinarity in Irish Studies-Inter/Trans-National Irishness
Performing Ireland-(Re)Presentations of Identity-Global Performances/Perspectives
Literature-Ireland and Eco-criticism-Urban versus Pastoral-Centre and the Peripheral/Borderlands
Alternative Cultures-Marginalised narratives-‘Queerness’ in Irish literature-Masculinites/Femininities-Race and ‰Û÷Otherness’ in Ireland-Ireland and the Diaspora
Deadline for abstracts: 31 January, 2014Please send abstracts of 250-300 words to newvoices2014@nuigalway.ie. Please also include affiliation and ashort biography (no more than 50 words). If you have any other questions, feel free to email us.
Confirmed Plenary Speakers:Nessa Cronin, National University of Ireland, GalwayOona Frawley, National University of Ireland, MaynoothDeclan Kiberd, University of Notre DamePJ Matthews, University College DublinLionel Pilkington, National University of Ireland, Galway
We would like to gratefully acknowledge the generous support of the NUI Galway community. The NewVoices Conference 2014 is sponsored by the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities & Social Studies,the College of Arts, Social Sciences, & Celtic Studies, the Discipline of English Studies, the Center for Dramaand Theatre Studies, the School of Humanities, the Huston School of Film & Digital Media, the Center forIrish Studies, the School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures, the Acadamh na hOllscolaÌ_ochta Gaeilge, andthe NUI Galway Millennium Fund.
http://www.conference.ie/Conferences/index.asp?Conference=346
Proposed New Voices Schedule Day One – Thursday, 5th June 12.00 – 12.30 Registration
12.30-1.30 Opening Address by Nessa Cronin
1.30-1.45 Break
1.45 -3.15 Session One
A: Decade of Commemorations
Michelle O’Connor – “Vocabulary and Imagery in the Decade of Commemorations”
Richard McGuire – “JG Farrell’s Troubles and the Literature of the Post-Colonial Nation”
Nina Holmes – “Prescribing Ideologies: Irish Government Health Campaigns (1950s-1980s)”
B: Representing the West of Ireland
Jeannine Kraft – “Framing Perception: Contemporary Irish Photography and the Trope of the ‰Û÷West'”
Deirdre Ni Chonghaile – “Embodying Homage and Outrage: MÌÁirtÌ_n ÌÒ DireÌÁin’s ÌÒmÌ_s do John Millington Synge“
Amy Mitchell – “Blurred Lines: Gendered Wordplay in Three Poems by SeÌÁn ÌÒ RÌ_ordÌÁin”
3.15 – 3.30 Break
3.30 – 5.00 Session Two
A. Irish Classicism
Fion Lau – “The Classical-Reference Problem: Intertexts in Brian Friel’s Translations” Eileen Coughlan – “Concepts of Irishness in the Irish Language Movement in Northern Ireland”
Lisa Caulfield – “O’Grady’s Resurrected Hero: C̼chulain”
B. Siting Beckett
David Clare – “‰Û÷turn wick low’: Samuel Beckett’s Increasingly Dark Depictions of Co. Wicklow”
David McKinney – “‘Unsolved Mysteries’: Hawthorn and Child (2012)by Keith Ridgway and Murphy (1938)by Samuel Beckett”
Matthew McFrederick – “Beckett and the Royal Court: The George Devine Years (1957-1965)”
5.00 – 5.15 Break
5.15 – 6.15 Closing remarks by Lionel Pilkington
6.30 – 8.30 Drinks reception in Huston Film School
Day Two – Friday, 6th June 9.30 – 10.30 Opening address by Oona Frawley
10.30 – 10.45 Break
10.45 – 12.15 Session Three
A: Considering Space, Place, and Character
Mark McGahon – “Not a Caricature, but a Character: Another Look at Mr. Deasy and the ‰Û÷Nestor’ Episode of Ulysses“
Niamh McGabhann – “A bright and dark land: space, freedom and the body in Edna O’Brien’s ‰Û÷Irish Revel'”
Siobhan Nevin – “A Long Division: The Big House as a Symbol of Discord in Nineteenth Century Irish Literature”
B: Irish Representations, Local and Global
Anna Zaluczkowska – “Writing a New Northern Ireland – Post troubles film/TV and transmedia production”
Jennifer Arthur – “The Emigration of Irish Showjumping”
Elizabeth De Young – “Along the Interface: A Walk Around the Lower Cliftonville-Lower Oldpark Peace Wall in Belfast”
12.15 – 1.30 Lunch
1.30 – 3.00 Session Four
A: Challenging Masculinities
Jim Grady – “Alienation and nihilism in the 21st Century Irish Short Story”
Carole Quigley – “Beckett the Feminist”
Barry Houlihan – “Not our Line of Territory: The Evolution, Death and Resurrection of ‘Mr. Roche’ and the Gay Character on the Irish Stage”
B. Theorising Place
Isabel Corfe – “Reflections of Irishness in Nineteenth-Century England”
Francesca Scapato – “‘I told you, Ben, it’s not as simple as all that’: Val Mulkerns’s Dublin in mid-20th century Ireland
Michael Paye – “From East to West: Encoding the Capitalist “Ecological Regime” in The Silver Darlings and Gillespie“
3.00 – 3.15 Break
3.15 – 4.45 Session Five
A: Observing Comedy
Ciara Connelly – “‰Û÷Skobie O’Gill and the Lidl People’: Ross O’Carroll-Kelly as Irish Social Critique”
Katherine O’Keefe – “Doyle and Dev: Refiguring the image of the Irish Family in Roddy Doyle’s The Snapper”
Lee Vahey – “Vivian Mercier’s The Irish Comic Tradition: A Reappraisal”
B: Observing Death
Barry Ryan – “James Joyce’s “The Dead” and the Legitimacy of the Living”
Rachel Price Cooper – “Waking the Dead: Greek Precedents and Gendered Embodiment On the Early Abbey Stage” Huiwen Shi – “‘Failed’ Funeral Elegies: The Elegiac, the Gothic and the Ironic in Heaney’s ‰Û÷Widgeon Poems'”
4.45 – 5.00 Break
5.00 – 6.00 Closing remarks by PJ Matthews
6.30 – 7.30 Cultural Event
8.30 Conference Dinner at Ard Bia
Day Three – Saturday, 7th June 9.30 – 10.30 Opening remarks by Declan Kiberd 10.30 – 10.45 Break
10.45 – 12.15 Session Six
A. Patterning Migration
Luke Kirwan – “Cork’s Trans-Atlantic Trade in the Early Nineteenth Century”
Sarah Goek – “Irish Encounters with British Modernity: Identities in Process, 1945-70”
Jesse Weaver – “‰Û÷The Lost and the Lonely’: Race, Gender and Representations of the Irish Diaspora in Enda Walsh’s The Walworth Farce“
B: Identity in Practice
Mairead Ni Chualain – “From the Ampitheatre to the Cube”
Rachel Flynn – “Releasing/Realising Through Narrative Modes as Artist Researcher”
Sarah Hoover – “Presentations of Identity: Self on Display”
12.15 – 1.30 Lunch
1.30 – 3.00 Session Seven
A. New Irishness
Elizabeth Howard – “Red Kettle Theatre Company and Waterford in the 1980s”
Laura Dooley – “‘The New Ireland’: Representations of Otherness in Irish Young-Adult Fiction
David Doolin – “My Family, My Mother, My Father: Representations of Irish American Communalism in Shameless“
B. Representing the Maternal
Claire Brophy – “The Mother’sBbody: Space and Place in the Writing of Anne Enright”
Mikyung Park – “A Token of Triumph?: Against Fetishistic Nostalgia for Male Myth in Teresa Deevy’s One-Act Plays, In Search of Valour (1931) and The King of Spain’s Daughter (1935)”
Katerina Koulianou – “The Maternal Body in Undressing My Mother“
3.00 – 3.15 Break
3.15 – 4.45 Session Eight A: Catholicism and Modernity
Ciara O’Dowd – “How the Women of the Abbey Theatre found Their Rhythm in New York City” Barry Sheppard – “Fighting Modernity? Agrarian Communitarianism in Ireland and Britain in the 1930s” Sonya Perkins – “‘Where and What is Ireland?’: The Capuchin Annual 1930-1945″
B: Theatre of Testimony
Kristi Good – “Uncovering Hidden Narratives: Changing the Face of Irish Identity Through Testimony”
Ashley Christine Soutor – “The Dynamic Energy of Truth and Story in Northern Ireland’s Theatre of Witness”
4.45 – 5.00 Break
5.00 – 6.00 Roundtable discussion (Nessa Cronin, Oona Frawley, Declan Kiberd, PJ Matthews, Lionel Pilkington)

'Rebel Girls': Rosie Hackett and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
2014-05-28 20:30
‘Rebel Girls’: Rosie Hackett and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
On this Wednesday (28 May, 8.30), the Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour & Class (ICHLC) presents two short talks in the Town Hall, Galway, under the title ‘Rebel Girls’: Rosie Hackett and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. Speakers are James Curry (Moore Inst.) and Meredith Meagher (Univ. of Notre Dame). Tickets, ‰âÂ3 (‰âÂ2 concession).
A new bridge over the Liffey has just been named after Rosie Hackett (1892-1960), a working class woman associated with the early labour movement in Dublin. Hackett was certainly remarkable, an activist of the Irish Women Workers Union while still a teenager. Historian James Curry has thoroughly researched Hackett‰۪s life and he will give a full account of it.
The life of a contemporary of Hackett‰۪s, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890-1961) will be introduced by Meredith Meagher. Gurley Flynn, whose radical career in the American labour movement also began while she was still a teenager was born in Boston, the daughter of a Loughrea woman, Ann Gurley. At 17, she became a full-time organiser for the Industrial Workers of the World, and she remained a political and social activist for the rest of her life. She died while visiting the USSR, and was honoured there with a state funeral. Gurley Flynn took the title of her autobiography, Rebel Girl, from the title of a song written about her by her comrade, Joe Hill.
Contact:
John Cunningham (ICHLC)
School of Humanities (History)
NUI Galway
http://www.nuigalway.ie/history/cunningham/index.html

Book Launch: Daniel Carey, ed., Money and Political Economy in the Enlightenment (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2014).
2014-05-22 17:15
Book launch by Professor Carl Wennerlind(Barnard College, Columbia University and Moore Institute visiting fellow)
of:
Daniel Carey, ed., Money and Political Economy in the Enlightenment (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2014).
Wine will be served.

Professor Carl Wennerlind (Barnard College, Columbia University): 'The Political Economy of Moral Refinement'
2014-05-22 16:00
Carl Wennerlind (Barnard College, Columbia University and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow):
‰Û÷The Political Economy of Moral Refinement‰۪
Followed by a launch at 5.15pm by Prof. Wennerlind of:
Daniel Carey, ed., Money and Political Economy in the Enlightenment (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2014).
Wine will be served.

Book Launch: 'Frontier and Border Regions in Early Modern Europe' Edited by Raingard Esser and Steven G Ellis.
2014-05-19 16:30

Reading Poetry: Philip Sidney from Astrophil and Stella by ClÌ_odhna Carney
2014-05-15 18:00

Guerrilla Digitisation: An Introduction to Bookscanning
2014-05-13 11:00
The Moore Institute will host a free one-day workshop, Guerrilla Digitisation: An Introduction to Bookscanning, from 11am-4pm on Monday, May 12.
Led by Meaghan Connell (PhD student, English Department), this workshop is an introduction to the process of digitising texts using only low-cost materials. Digitised texts can be very useful to the humanities researcher; before you can use any kind of computational analysis, you must first create a machine-readable version of your text(s). With machine-readable texts, you can run corpus analyses, create concordances and collocations, and even perform stylometry analyses. If your work involves any computational analysis, or if you want to look into including computational analysis in your work, this workshop may be useful to you.
This workshop is aimed at scholars in the Arts and Humanities, both postgrad students and faculty. This is a hands-on workshop – we will be going through the build of a budget bookscanner and the entire process of scanning, post-processing, and optical character recognition. If you want to build your own budget bookscanner at the workshop, you will need to bring certain materials. Basic computer literacy is a must, but a gentle introduction to the specific software we’ll be using will be provided.
Spaces are limited for this workshop, so you are advised to register your interest by emailing m.connell3@nuigalway.ie as soon as possible.
