'Trump, Irish America and the New Right' - Renowned New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd and founder of IrishCentral, Niall O’Dowd will lead a discussion of the new right phenomenon
2018-05-15 17:30 - 19:00 UTC | Ground Floor, Aula Maxima
One of the most striking recent developments in American politics has been the emergence of Irish Americans associated with the Right and their participation in (or support for) the Trump administration. The traditional expectation that Irish Americans align themselves with the Democratic Party (led by the Kennedy family and figures like Tip O’Neill) has been overturned, first by conservative commentators on Fox News like Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity, and then by prominent members of the Trump election team and cabinet (past and present), including Steve Bannon, Michael Flynn, John Kelly, Sean Spicer, Mick Mulvaney, Kelly-Anne Conway, and others. In the wider Republican leadership, Paul Ryan and Kevin McCarthy, among others, play an important part in this emerging trend.
This event is designed to develop a better a better understanding of this transformation, what values animate it, and how significant it is for American (and world) politics.
Maureen Dowd, a major American commentator on political questions as columnist for The New York Times (and The Irish Times), and Irish journalist Niall O’Dowd (founder of Irishcentral) will lead a discussion of this phenomenon. A panel of contributors will also participate: Dr. Kathleen Cavanaugh (NUI Galway), Mr. Larry Donnelly (NUI Galway), Prof. Eileen Gillooly (Columbia University) and Dr. Charlotte McIvor (NUI Galway). The event will be chaired by Prof. Daniel Carey, Director of the Moore Institute at NUI Galway.
Important Notice
While the event is free, attendees must register in advance due to space restrictions. Register here.
Visitor Information
There is very limited paid parking on the grounds of NUI Galway.
On-street parking is available nearby. Pay & Display and permit holder parking available at the Park & Ride facility, North Campus, NUI Galway located just off the main Galway-Oughterard-Clifden Road.
About Maureen Dowd

Maureen Dowd, winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary on Bill Clinton’s impeachment woes, became a columnist on The New York Times Op-Ed page in 1995 after having served for a decade as a correspondent in the paper’s Washington bureau. She was a White House correspondent for Bush I and Clinton and has covered nine U.S. presidential elections, the Irish peace referendum, and elections in France and England. She has written extensively on those countries as well as Saudi Arabia, and has reported on issues of gender around the globe for 30 years. Ms. Dowd has written three New York Times bestsellers: “Bushworld,” “Are Men Necessary?” and “The Year of Voting Dangerously: The Derangement of American Politics.” She is the recipient of the Breakthrough Award from “Women, Men and Media” at Columbia University, the Matrix Award and the Damon Runyon award for outstanding contributions to journalism, and has been named Glamour magazine’s Woman of the Year. In 2017 the National Society of Newspaper Columnists awarded her with its highest honor, the Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award. Her work has appeared in Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Mademoiselle, Harper’s Bazaar, Sports Illustrated and Family Circle. She is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and the Times’s Styles section. NUI Galway awarded an honorary D Litt to Maureen Dowd in 2012.
About Niall O’Dowd

Niall O’Dowd, a native of Tipperary, is Founder of Irish Voice Newspaper, Irish America Magazine and Irish Central.com which has 3 million users every month. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, UCD for his role in the Irish peace process, acting as the mediator between Sinn Fein and the White House. He was also awarded the Presidential Award for Distinguished Service by President Michael D. Higgins in 2015.
The Washington Post magazine recently published a profile of him and his work titled The Negotiator. Former President Bill Clinton has named him as the person who first got him involved in the Irish peace process. Personally close to the Clintons, he was a member of Hillary Clinton’s Finance Committee in 2008 and 2016.
He was an adjunct professor at the Columbia School of Journalism from 2010 to 2012. He also founded the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform and has lobbied for over two decades for a fair and principled immigration policy in the US. In March 2018 he was named as one of the nine most influential Irish-born people who emigrated to the US. A former schoolteacher in Ireland he emigrated to the US in 1979.

‘The impact of deforestation on Irish culture: a sylva sylvarum for treeless places’ by Paul Carter (Visiting Fellow from RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia)
2018-05-17 11:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
The key practical question buried in the title of my Moore Fellowship project is: reafforestation. An explanation of the context of this study is necessary. The challenge, though, is methodological. Managerialist initiatives to arrest deforestation use cost-benefit arguments that ignore the affective and symbolic role woodlands occupy in the collective psyche. But, if we say that creativity must play a primary role in a ‘reafforestation’ that is psycho-socially as well as ecologically recuperative, we are under pressure to spell out how this will manifest itself. Apropos of the psychic as well as environmental deforestation experienced under colonisation, ‘There was a proverb in the sixteenth century that the Irish could never be tamed while the leaves were on the trees.’ But the concrete front yard apron, the design default position of residential occupancy in Ireland, hardly suggests the postcolonial recuperation of a despoiled collective identity. A first step, creatively, as well as silviculturally, is a qualified detachment from the ‘wild wood’ myth: reafforestation is coeval with the cultivation of trees and, poetically speaking, may precede any thought of Arden or even Raftery’s Killeaden. Yeats’s symbolic landscape owes at least as much to Lady Gregory’s planting program as to her folklore studies – a point I shall bring out. My topic is decidedly unruly; it ignores national and nationalist boundaries; its geography follows the Irish colonial diaspora; or it invites European comparativism. Managing the potential of this enquiry is a sign of its importance; the conversation emerging from this seminar will be, I hope, an important part of its development.
Paul Carter is a writer and artist. His forthcoming books are Decolonisjng Governance: Archipelagic Thinking (Routledge) and Amplifications: poetic migration, auditory memory (Bloomsbury). He is Professor of Design (Urbanism), School of Architecture and Urban Design, RMIT University, Melbourne and in May 208 is a Visiting Fellow at the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, NUI Galway.

Palimpsest and Creolité: Representations of Slave women in the Caribbean in the long eighteenth century by Kerry Sinanan (Visiting Fellow)
2018-05-18 16:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
This talk examines representations of slave women, focusing especially on representations of breasts and breastfeeding, in order to read fully the tensions and contradictions between economics, ‘race’, sexuality and maternity in plantation slavery. The sources reveal the impossible position of the female slave who is at once a mother and a commodity to be exploited for labor and sex, existing in a world which denies her maternal feelings while depending on her capacity for reproduction. The talk focuses on a range of visual texts, focusing on the work of Agostino Brunias in particular.

‘A Linen Market with a Linen-stall and Vegetable Seller in the West Indies’, Agostino Brunias ca. 1780. With thanks to the Yale Center for British Art.

'Criticism and the Making of the Catholic Enlightenment: Rethinking the Career of Jean Hardouin, S.J. (1646-1729)' by Dr. Daniel Watkins, (Visiting Fellow from Baylor University)
2018-05-22 13:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Recent scholarship has recognized that contributions to the European Enlightenment came from figures beyond the small collection of radical French philosophes traditionally identified as its architects. In an investigation of the life and career of the French Jesuit and classical scholar Jean Hardouin, Daniel Watkins will speak about the “Catholic Enlightenment” and the reasons that some Catholic theologians and scholars participated in the intellectual debates that were at the centre of the Enlightenment. In so doing, he will argue that the Catholic Enlightenment emerged from reactions to not only “secular” writers but also to controversial and provocative authors within the Church. For Dr. Baylor’s academic webpage, please see: https://www.baylor.edu/history/index.php?id=943127
For Dr. Baylor’s academic webpage, please see: https://www.baylor.edu/history/index.php?id=943127

‘On the ten-stringed psaltery’: musical instruments as symbols in the Middle Ages
2018-05-24 10:00 - 16:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Musical instruments abound in medieval iconography and literature, so much so that modern craftsmen were able to build replicas of medieval instruments working from images and texts. But did medieval artists and writers always intend to depict or describe real instruments? In this colloquium, five speakers will explore a number of medieval iconographic and textual case-studies where musical instruments are not treated at all, or not only, as real objects, but rather as symbols and allegories referring to poetic, scholarly or religious notions
The organisation of this colloquium is supported by the Research Support Scheme of the College of Arts Social Sciences and Celtic Studies (NUI, Galway) and by the Galway Early Music Festival 2018.
Speakers: Dr Jacopo Bisagni (NUI, Galway); Dr Ann Buckley (Trinity College, Dublin); Dr Isabelle Marchesin (Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris); Mr Michael Shields (NUI, Galway); Dr Olivier Szerwiniack (Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens).
Programme
10am: Welcome address by Dr Aidan Thomson
Morning session (chair: Prof. Michael Clarke) 10.30am – 11.15am:
Jacopo Bisagni, ‘The instrumental captions in Angers, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 18: their Insular background and their meaning.’
11.15am – 12 : Isabelle Marchesin, ‘Textual and visual exegesis: matter and form in instrumental representations of the Dardanus images.’
12 – 12.45pm: Olivier Szerwiniack, ‘Textual problems in the Epistula ad Dardanum.’
12.45 – 2pm: Light buffet lunch (free of charge)
Afternoon session (chair: Dr Mark Stansbury)
2 – 2.45pm: Ann Buckley, ‘The materiality and symbolism of musical instruments in medieval Irish iconography.’
2.45 – 3.30pm: Michael Shields, ‘Why hide music technologies in an allegorical paradise? Eberhard von Cersne’s Der Minne Regel (ca.1400).’
3.30 – 4pm: Final discussion (with tea & coffee)

Open Rehearsal: Come Dance With Me in Ireland: A Pilgrimage to Yeats Country by Patrick Ball and Peter Glazer (Visiting Fellows)
2018-05-24 12:00 | O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, Studio 1, NUI Galway, Ireland
Open Rehearsal
Come Dance With Me in Ireland: A Pilgrimage to Yeats Country
Featuring Patrick Ball, Celtic Harp
A new play with music
by Moore Institute fellows Patrick Ball and Peter Glazer in the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance 24th of May (Thursday) at 12pm.
Please join us for an open rehearsal of this work in progress. Patrick will be performing Act 1 of the play, which combines storytelling, poetry, and traditional harp tunes played on the cláirseach, the brass wire strung harp of bardic times. We will also be showing images by Galway photographer Damien Stenson, which will accompany the show in its final form.
Come Dance With Me In Ireland tells the story of an older couple returning to Ireland after emigrating to the US in their 20s, and finding themselves again in the landscape and poetry of W.B. Yeats.
For more information please contact Peter Glazer prg@berkeley.edu and/or Patrick Ball patrick@patrickball.com

‘Textual problems in the Epistula ad Dardanum.’ by Olivier Szerwiniack ( Visiting Fellow from Université de Picardie Jules Verne)
2018-05-24 12:00 - 13:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Olivier Szerwiniack talk is part of Dr.Jacopo Bisagni event: ‘On the ten-stringed psaltery’: musical instruments as symbols in the Middle Ages.
Olivier Szerwiniack will talk about the textual problems of the short letter known as Epistula ad Dardanum de diversis generibus musicorum (Letter to Dardanus about different kinds of musical instruments).

Welfare Histories Reading Group.
2018-05-29 15:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
The Welfare Histories Reading Group provides a forum for staff and postgraduate students to discuss ideas of poverty, development, and ‘improvement’ in a global historical context. Our interests are very diverse, and we would very much welcome the involvement of new members from any discipline. Our next meeting is on 29th May, when we will discuss the relationship between the concepts of charity and justice. If you’re interested in coming along, or simply wish for further details, including readings, contact Dr Kevin O’Sullivan (kevin.k.osullivan@nuigalway.ie).

From Voice to Resonance: Distrupting Symbolic Violence Through Liberatory Arts Research by Alison Baker (Visiting Fellow from Victoria University, Australia)
2018-05-30 12:00 - 13:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Drawing on a research collaboration with New Change, an arts collective of young African Australian women in Melbourne’s west, I explore youth voice and resonance in the context of racialised symbolic violence. Through the lens of liberation psychology, this talk will explore how arts and cultural practices, particularly sound, can create disruptions and dialogue.

Sex Trafficking in the Motor City: The Construction of an International Infrastructure to Police Migration for Sex, and its Enforcement in Detroit, USA, 1924-1944 by Jessica Pliley (Visiting Fellow from Texas State University)
2018-05-30 15:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building

Modernist Studies Ireland
2018-05-30 17:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
This semester’s final session of NUI Galway’s research forum for Modernist Studies Ireland, ‘Works in Progress’, takes place on 30 April, 5-6 pm, in the Bridge Room. IRC Postgraduate Scholar Melinda Szűts will be talking about the influence of early modern theatre spaces on the development of Irish stagecraft at the turn of the century, in the context of the Elizabethan Revival and the Irish Literary Revival. Her paper focuses on the changes W. B. Yeats’s new concept of space dramaturgy brought to performance practice and architecture in the Abbey and Peacock stages, and how these changes influenced the culture politics of the Irish national theatre.
‘Modernist Studies Ireland: Works in Progress’ provides a monthly platform to foster the dialogic exchange of current research on modernism/modernity, as conducted here at NUIG and elsewhere on this island. It a regular opportunity for early career and senior researchers to disseminate their work and discuss it within the scholarly community at NUIG.

Living The Stories We Create: Education in the age of Post-truth by Ellen McCabe (Visiting Fellow, Independent Scholar)
2018-06-05 14:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Narrative forms, play a vital role in human enrichment and development. Through them we acquire a sense not only of our environment, but of our own identity. The recent shift from a society dominated by print, to one where digital media prevails invites us to consider the consequences for storytelling. What new stories have grown from this transition? How have these influenced contemporary expectations of storytelling? In the event of such profound change, how will education seek to address this?
Dr Ellen Mc Cabe received her PhD in Digital Arts and Humanities at NUI Galway. Her research explores what it means to be fully literate in the digital era and considers how education must respond to this at a conceptual, systemic and classroom level. Ellen’s work is located at the nexus of disciplinary perspectives from digital media, narrative theory, pedagogy, and drama and theatre studies. Her cross-sectoral focus is reflected in projects created for the National Theatre UK, including a digital exhibition examining the history of Greek Tragedy at the theatre, as well as a series of educational films for A-level students based on The National’s production of King Lear directed by Sam Mendes. Ellen received the International Award for Excellence from the Common Ground Technology, Knowledge & Society Community for her paper entitled, “Storytelling and the Dissolution of Categories”. This paper was published in Volume 10 of the Technology Knowledge and Society Collection. She has also published a series of articles for The Guardian and The Irish Times.

Irish architectural history and classical traditions by Dr Judith Hill (Moore Institute Visiting Fellow 2017-18 and Irish Studies’ Scholar)
2018-06-06 12:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Irish architectural history and classical traditions by Dr Judith Hill (Moore Institute Visiting Fellow 2017-18 and Irish Studies’ Scholar) – ‘Keep the past for pride’: What role did classicism play in the making of commemorative monuments in newly Independent Ireland? Dr Hill will be joined on the day by Dr Pádraic Moran (Classics) who will act as respondent to the seminar, and by Dr Nessa Cronin (Irish Studies) who will moderate the discussion.
Dr Judith Hill is an architectural historian and author. She was recently awarded a doctorate on late eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Gothic revival in Ireland from Trinity College Dublin. She has previously published Lady Gregory: An Irish Life (2005), and Irish Public Sculpture: A History (1998), and is currently working on a study of the politics of public monuments and their links to classical models.
Judith was awarded a Moore Institute Vising Research Fellow at National University of Ireland Galway 2017–2018 to undertake the research on classicism in twentieth-century Irish monuments.
Beidh fáilte roimh chách!

'The History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland' Annual Conference
2018-06-07 - 2018-06-08 | Seminar Rooms G010 & G011, Hardiman Research Building
The 2018 H-WRBI Annual Conference will take place at the National University of Ireland (NUI), Galway at the Moore Institute on Thursday 7 June and Friday 8 June. Please see programme for the event on the following link: https://historyofwomenreligious.org/conf_programme/
Call for Papers
The conference will explore the history of women religious across a broad chronological timeframe, from medieval to modern. We invite proposals (for 20-minute papers) that engage with the theme, ‘Space, Place and the History of Women Religious’. Proposals might consider, for example:

International and Transnational Perspectives
Buildings and Architectural Planning
Lived Experiences of Space
Mobility and Geography
Visualisations/Imagery of Space
Archives, Women Religious and Space
Gendered/Contested Space
Space, Place and Identity

We invite both individual and panel proposals. Proposals from postgraduate students are particularly welcome. Please send abstracts (max. 200 words), together with a short biography (100 words) to hwrbi.conference@gmail.com by Friday 9 February 2018

Violence, Space, and The Political - Critical theory conference
2018-06-07 - 2018-06-09 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Violence, Space, and The Political – Critical theory conference
Hosted by the Power, Conflict and Ideologies Research Cluster,
School of Political science and Sociology
In this, multi-disciplinary, conference we wish to think through the imbrications of violence, space, and the political. Given that our present conjuncture is one constituted by innumerable sites of apartheid, exclusion, oppression, and indeed, resistance(s), such an interrogation is both crucial and potentially productive in re-thinking questions of power and radical politics. In this zeitgeist the contingency of hitherto relatively stable configurations of power have been rendered visible through the failing allure of liberal democratic politics and the dislocation conjured by its attendant ‘spectral dance of capital’ (Žižek, 2008). A void has been rift from which a plurality of discourses have proliferated that seek to address this moment of crises by either caging/bounding or expanding the social. That is, at stake in many contemporary political projects currently gaining traction is the redrawing of frontiers, the very bounds of inclusion and exclusion – from international borders and multilevel governance, to the remaking of frontiers within existing polities. Violence/antagonism, in various iterations, is central to the (re)inscription of these frontiers (Laclau and Mouffe, 1985). Not only evident in ostensibly bellicose projects that seek to uphold, contest, or expand regimes of power through violent struggle, violence is imbricated in an other, perhaps more foundational or ‘originary’ sense (Arendt, 1963; Derrida, 1990). The redrawing of boundaries reconfigures differential relationships of power and propriety, which designate who has the right to speak sovereignly in a given space, who is a worthy and noble victim, and who is not, who is differentially exposed to systemic, symbolic and subjective forms of violence, whose live is ‘grievable’ and whose is not (Butler, 2009). By keeping the question of the spatial in view, both its making and breaking, we keep a focus, not only the concrete practices of disruption, the democratic potentialities of space (Dikeç, 2015), new forms of liberation, domination, and property, but also the various spatio-political imaginaries that guide them.
Registration closes at noon on Monday 4th June. For those who haven’t done so already please Register here:
https://www.violencespaceandthepolitical.com/register
For further information please contact the conference organisers by email (violenceandspace@gmail.com)

'Dorothy Arundell's Pilgrimate: Two Narratives, Two Countries, Two Modes of Spirituality and One Mission' by Elizabeth Patton (Visiting Fellow from John Hopkins University) part of the ‘The History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland’ Annual Conference.
2018-06-08 11:30 - 13:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

ILLUSTRATED TALK: Dora Maguire (1889-1931) - Modern Irishwomen Lecture Series
2018-06-09 14:30 - 15:30 | Education Room, Galway City Museum
As part of the Modern Irishwomen lecture series , Dr James Curry on the often-forgotten nurse and republican activist Dora Maguire (1889-1931), remembered in one Dublin newspaper obituary as the ‘Friend of the Poor’.
Modern Irishwomen Lecture Series
1918 was a landmark year for women in Ireland and Britain, with legislation beginning the process of their inclusion in politics. Famously, in December 1918, Constance de Markievicz became the first women elected to the British House of Commons, only to abstain from taking her seat as a member of Sinn Féin. To mark the centenary of this pivotal year in women’s history, Galway City Museum is hosting a series of monthly lectures – curated Dr James Curry and supported by the Moore Institute, NUIG – on Markievicz and seven other ‘Modern Irishwomen’.

‘INTeRACT for Health: Increasing Integrated Knowledge Translation Capacity for Impact’
2018-06-12 10:00 - 17:00 | Room G065, School of Psychology, NUI Galway
Information: The HBCRG has recently received funding for a project called ‘INTeRACT for Health: Increasing Integrated Knowledge Translation Capacity for Impact’. The aim of the project is to enhance knowledge translation capacity nationally, and to develop capacity and skill to impact on outcomes of importance. A one day workshop on integrated Knowledge Translation and Implementation will be organised to involve members of the HBCRG, health partners from the Health and Wellbeing Division and the National Diabetes Clinical Programme and other interested Irish stakeholders. The event will be facilitated by Prof Maureen Dobbins, an experienced knowledge translation ‘broker’ and nursing professor from McMaster in Canada. For the event, Maureen will provide an introduction to the theme of knowledge translation, followed by presentations describing successful examples of knowledge translation from national and international speakers, leaving time for group discussion.

George Moore: Transnational and Cosmopolitan Networks on the Page and Canvas
2018-06-14 - 2018-06-16 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
George Moore: Transnational and Cosmopolitan Networks on the Page and Canvas
The Ninth International George Moore Conference will take place in NUI Galway from Thursday 14th – Friday 15th June at the Moore Institute: HRB G010.
The stimulus of Impressionism and Realism, both in art and literature, on George Moore (1852-1933), led him on a quest to infuse English and Irish writing with state-of-the-art literary themes and forms. Moore’s initial works were informed by Realism and Naturalism. His time in Paris deeply influenced his literary style and aspirations, and gave him a self-consciously avant-garde perspective. His participation in diverse social, musical, and cultural spheres prompted him to explore areas that were untraditional and ground-breaking. Thus, Moore’s oeuvre is replete with transnational flavours derived from his experience of literary and artistic circles in cosmopolitan cities. This conference will highlight the importance of West of Ireland landscapes and connections to Moore’s transnational aesthetic and cultural visions.
The conference includes a keynote by Dr Brendan Fleming, University of Buckingham, on ‘Memory and Modernity in George Moore’s Reminiscences of the Impressionist Painters (1906) and Memoirs of My Dead Life (1906)’ (5pm Thursday 14th) and a reception and exhibition of works associated with Moore from the Hardiman Library (6pm Thursday 14th).
For further information, see https://georgemoore2018.wordpress.com/ or contact Mark Corcoran M.Corcoran9@nuigalway.ie or Muireann O’Cinneide muireann.ocinneide@nuigalway.ie

The 4th Annual Behavioural Science and Mobile Technology: Innovations and Implementation Conference
2018-06-14 09:00 - 17:00 | Arts Millenium Building, NUI Galway.
The NUI Galway mHealth research group (based in the School of Psychology) is hosting an international and interdisciplinary conference on Mobile Health (mHealth) in Galway. The event includes expert keynote speakers, short presentations on innovative research, a round table discussion and poster presentations. This event is for researchers, practitioners, policy makers, industry partners and those representing patient groups.The conference brings together those interested in the potential of developments at the interface of behavioural science, health and mobile technology to bring about improvements in individual and population health.Click HERE to register your attendance. Registration is FREE
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The Digital Repository of Ireland is holding an Introductory Training.
2018-06-14 10:30 - 15:00 | James Hardiman Library, PC Suite (Nursing & Midwifery).
The Digital Repository of Ireland is holding an Introductory Training event on Thursday, June 14, from 10:30am – 3pm in the James Hardiman Library, PC Suite (Nursing & Midwifery).
The training is geared towards existing and potential digital collections curators who may be interested in depositing those collections into DRI. The training gives an overview of how DRI is structured, the basic principles of digital archiving, and a chance to see a live demo of the repository ingest process. The event is free, and you can register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dri-repository-training-galway-tickets-45641768759
You can find out more about DRI and the supports and services they offer researchers on the DRI website here: http://www.dri.ie/research-data-and-dri
The contact for this event is Dr. Lisa Griffith, Programme Manager, DRI – l.griffith@ria.ie; 01 609 0674.

A seminar to mark the acquisition of the Conradh na Gaeilge archive.
2018-06-15 | Aula Maxima Lower, NUI Galway, Ireland
Reáchtálfar siompóisiam lae dar teideal ‘125 Bliain ag Fás? An Athbheochan agus Conradh na Gaeilge’ san Aula Maxima (thíos staighre), OÉ Gaillimh, ó 9.30am-4.00pm, Dé hAoine 15 Meitheamh. Is í seo príomhócáid na hollscoile le haghaidh Bhliain na Gaeilge agus is é Uachtarán na hÉireann, Micheál D. Ó hUigínn, a thabharfaidh an príomhaitheasc. Eolas ag: www.conference.ie.
In association with the Library, there will be a seminar to mark the acquisition of the Conradh na Gaeilge archive. This will be attended by President Higgins, who will give the keynote address. The event will be in Irish and is the university’s main contribution to Bliain na Gaeilge 2018.

Two upcoming events taking place at the Notre Dame Kylemore Abbey Global Centre.
2018-06-20 - 2018-06-21 | Notre Dame Kylemore Abbey Global Centre
Both events are free and open to the public.
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Insular Manuscripts. Networks of Knowledge, Now & Then: Digital Potential.
2018-06-21 - 2018-06-22 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
This event, the second of three international workshops funded by The Leverhulme Trust, is being hosted by Professor Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, one of 6 Co-Investigators on the project. The first workshop was held in April 2018 in London, and the third will be held in Vienna in June 2019. The project focuses on the corpus of manuscripts written in Ireland, England or in English or Irish monasteries on the Continent between c. 650–850. The Network seeks to bring together curators of major manuscript collections and academics with research interests in Insular Manuscripts. This workshop, being held in Dublin and in Galway, focuses on ways that digital technologies can enhance the study of this corpus of manuscripts.
See more information: https://www2.le.ac.uk/projects/insularmss

Glossing cultural change: Comparative perspectives on manuscript annotation, c. 600–1200 CE
2018-06-21 08:45 - 2018-06-22 17:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Glossing, the practice of annotating manuscripts between the lines and/or in the margins, was a widespread cultural practice wherever books were being read, studied and taught. As an indication of this, the Network for the Study of Glossing currently has 85 members with research interests in glossed manuscripts written in Arabic, Breton, Chinese, German, Greek, Egyptian, English, French, Hebrew, Hittite, Irish, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Sanskrit, Turkish, and Welsh.
This two-day conference brings together 24 speakers (from 15 countries), working in a variety of fields, to discuss aspects of glossing from a comparative perspective. A particular focus will be on how glosses engage with and reflect the dynamics of contemporary cultural change, rather than acting merely as passive repositories of inherited tradition.
See more information and schedule on the following link: http://www.nuigalway.ie/classics/events/glossing2018/

Symposium to mark launch of Finnish Famine Exhibition, Foyer, James Hardiman Library
2018-06-21 13:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland

New Professors' Inaugural Lecture Series with Professor Niamh Reilly: The social and political thought of Tom Kettle: Recovering a distinctive Irish Thinker
2018-06-21 17:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The social and political thought of Tom Kettle: Recovering a distinctive Irish Thinker
Tom Kettle (1880-1916) is not very well known in Ireland today. Yet, historian Senia Pašeta notes he ‘was associated with almost every major political and cultural development’ during his lifetime. He was a gifted public intellectual, essayist, journalist, nationalist MP (1906-1910) and a soldier killed in the Battle of the Somme in 1916. In the first decade of the 20th century competing visions of future independent Ireland had vied for space, from ‘Irish-Irelander’ to cosmopolitan. Kettle stood for constitutional democracy and a non-sectarian, self-governing Irish nation and cautioned against the insular tendencies of cultural nationalism. After his death, many appreciations lamented the loss of his brilliance — as a thinker and writer, and especially as an orator. Following the 1916 Rising and the turn to separatist nationalism, Kettle was almost forgotten. Recently, he has figured more prominently in public discourse than at any time since his death. In this limited narrative, he is invoked as a conciliatory figure who demonstrates the possibility of combining the identities of ‘British soldier’, ‘Irish patriot’ and ‘European’ and is largely constructed as a precursor to Ireland’s contemporary business-friendly ‘centre-right’. However, there is a larger and more complex story to be told about Tom Kettle. He was a vocal advocate for the rights women and labour and a Catholic intellectual who supported the separation of Church and State. Although his qualities as an activist thinker were widely recognised during his lifetime, Kettle’s extensive writings and speeches have been largely ignored since. This lecture draws on continuing research into the social and political thought of Tom Kettle. It outlines the expansive scope of his thinking and influences, and his ideas about democracy and social justice, Irish nationalism and unionism, national development, religion and religious identity, militarism and internationalism — all of which, it is argued, remain salient today.

Niamh Reilly is Established Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Galway. She has published widely on issues of gender and human rights; feminist political and social theory; religion and gender in the public sphere; transnational women’s movements and the United Nations; and women, peace and security. Her book, Women’s Human Rights: Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalizing Age (Polity Press, 2009) was selected as an “Outstanding Academic Title for 2010” by the American Library Association/CHOICE. She is co-author of Demanding Accountability: The Global Campaign and Vienna Tribunal for Women’s Human Rights (UNIFEM 1994) (with Distinguished Professor Charlotte Bunch, Rutgers University). Niamh has many years’ experience working with United Nations processes and Civil Society Organisations internationally and has served as an independent expert on the Irish government’s Department of Foreign Affairs’ Standing Committee on Human Rights (1997-1999) and its Consultative Group to draft Ireland’s National Action Plan on UN Security Council 1325 (2010-2011). Before joining NUI Galway in 2007, Niamh was a Research Council of the UK Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Transitional Justice Institute, University of Ulster and a postdoctoral fellow in Women’s Studies and Politics at the University of Limerick Ireland. Niamh is co-founder (with Dr. Breda Gray) the NUI Galway-UL research network Gender ARC. Her research interests focus on the theory and practice of gender, human rights and international politics. Her most recent book is an edited collection (with S Scriver) entitled Religion, Gender and the Public Sphere (Routledge 2014). She is editor of The Human Rights of Women (Springer, Major Reference Works, forthcoming 2018). In the context of Ireland’s decade of centenaries (1912-1922), she is currently preparing a book on the political and social thought of Thomas Kettle (1880-1916).

Laser-scanning and Photogrammetry Workshop
2018-07-04 10:00 - 13:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Laser-scanning and Photogrammetry Workshop

Hosted by
Discipline of Archaeology, School of Geography and Archaeology, NUI Galway
Presented by
Gary Devlin Discovery Programme (Centre for Archaeology and Innovation Ireland, Dublin)
Joe Fenwick Discipline of Archaeology (School of Geography and Archaeology, NUI Galway)
Ryan Lash Inishark Archaeological Field Project (University of Notre Dame, USA)
Robert Shaw Discovery Programme (Centre for Archaeology and Innovation Ireland, Dublin)

Open Discussion: Online Culture Wars
2018-07-06 12:00 - 15:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Since Angela Nagle published her book Kill All Normies: The Online Culture Wars from Tumblr and 4chan to the Alt-Right and Trump (2017), in which Nagle investigates how right-wing internet activists have declared war on so-called “Social Justice Warriors”, things have not calmed down. Instead such attacks are slowly and steadily seeping into the mainstream. New coalitions have since been built between Conservatives, Liberitarians, and classic Liberals – who, under normal circumstances, do not have much in common. Now they do, since they are united in their opposition to “Identity Politics” and “Feminism”. On July 14 it is expected that a discussion among culture war protagonists – Sam Harris, Douglas Murray and Jordon Peterson – titled “Winning the War of Ideas” will fill Dublin’s 3Arena.
In the week before this event, Gender ARC at NUI Galway invites everybody interested to come together for a facilitated open discussion on topics including (but not limited to): discourse paradigms presented in these debates, possible responses from the progressive left, communication problems, self-reflection, campus politics, free speech and its limits, theories and strategies, how to negotiate these terrains as a feminist, and many more.
We look forward to addressing a wide number of issues. Hope to see many of you there.

ILLUSTRATED TALK: Maeve Cavanagh MacDowell (1878-1960)
2018-07-14 14:30 - 15:30 | Education Room, Galway City Museum
