Moore Institute

Research Support Seminar on Preparing Major Funding Applications
2019-11-06 12:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
As part of its Academic Research Support Services initiative, the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies, in association with the Moore Institute, is hosting a series of research support and information seminars for staff this semester.
The second workshop in this series will consider the topic of Preparing Major Funding Applications.
The session will feature three speakers: Professor Nicholas Canny (Professor Emeritus, History (NUI Galway) and previously Member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council, 2011-2016), Professor Marie-Louise Coolahan (Professor of English) and Professor Gary Donohoe (Professor of Psychology), both of whom have significant experience of European funding opportunities.
The session will be chaired by Professor Dan Carey (Moore Institute) and each speaker will provide a short overview of their own experience before the session will be opened to the floor for questions.
Nicholas Canny, FBA, was Professor of History, NUI Galway, 1979-2009; President of the Royal Irish Academy, 2008-2011; and Member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council, 2011-2016. His major book is Making Ireland British, 1580-1650 (Oxford, 2001), and he is currently completing Imagining Ireland’s Pasts: Early Modern Ireland through the Centuries also for Oxford University Press.
Marie-Louise Coolahan is a Professor of English specialising in early modern literature at NUI Galway. She is the author of Women, Writing, and Language in Early Modern Ireland (Oxford University Press, 2010), as well as articles and essays about Renaissance manuscript culture, women’s writing, early modern identity, and textual transmission. Marie-Louise is currently Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded project, RECIRC: The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550-1700 (www.recirc.nuigalway.ie). She co-edited, with Gillian Wright, Katherine Philips: Form, Reception, and Literary Contexts (Routledge, 2018) and her special issue of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, ‘The Cultural Dynamics of Reception’ will be out in January 2020.
Prof. Gary Donohoe is a clinical psychologist, Professor of Psychology at NUI Galway, and Director of the Center for Neuroimaging and Cognitive Genomics (NICOG). Gary’s research focuses primarily on understanding and addressing those aspects of disability in psychosis related to cognitive deficits. In 2016 he obtained a European Research Council fellowship for his work on immune aspects of cognitive function in schizophrenia (The iRELATE program). In 2018, together with colleagues from NUI Galway, UCD, and RCSI, he received funding for a HRB Collaborative Doctoral Program in Youth Mental Health Research (the YOULEAD program). Gary has been a reviewer for multiple grant funding agencies, including the EU’s Marie Curie fellowship awards.
The Panel Chair, Professor Dan Carey, is Director of the Moore Institute, a board member of the Irish Research Council, is on the Council of the RIA and is the Irish representative on the Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) board. Dan also served as chair of the Irish Humanities Alliance (2014-16).

A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization
2019-11-01 14:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
By Barbara Katz Rothman, Professor of Sociology, CUNY in association with Gender Arc at NUI Galway
Barbara Katz Rothman, PhD, is Professor of Sociology, Public Health, Disability Studies and Women’s Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where she also runs the Food Studies concentration. This talk focuses on her book, A Bun in the Oven (2016), the first comparison of the birth and food social movements in the USA. In both movements, issues of the natural, the authentic, and the importance of ‘meaningful’ and ‘personal’ experiences get balanced against discussions of what is sensible, convenient and safe. And both movements operate in a context of commercial and corporate interests,which places profit and efficiency above individual experiences and outcomes. A Bun in the Oven brings new insight into the relationship between our most intimate, personal experiences,the industries that control them, and the social movements that resist the industrialization of life and seek to birth change.
With thanks to the Moore Institute and the Fulbright intercountry speaker scheme
ALL WELCOME!

Spotlight on Research Lecture Series: From “great” to violent: on contemporary art
2019-10-31 17:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
By Professor Paolo Bartoloni (Established Professor of Italian Studies)
Abstract
How is art measured today, and is it possible to speak of contemporary art as “great”? At the turn of the millennium many believed that art was simply commercially driven or its opposite, ephemeral. Postmodernism has often been blamed for the demise of “greatness” in art and the fading away of art’s enigma and complexity. And yet the postmodern bubble is supposed to have burst years ago, as far back as 2005, some believe (Perniola, 2015). So, what are we left with? Nothing reassuring and comfortably recognizable it seems, certainly not a name or another “ism”. Where are we, and what kind of parameters can be used to relate to contemporary art? In fact, does contemporary art still matter? It appears so since it is now “the subject of global events, tabloid coverage and mass attendance” (Mirzoeff, 2009). Art has blasted its way into the public sphere, and has become “liable to be received as a provocation to or an act of violence” (Mitchell, 1994). Has art turned from “great” to violent, yet violent to whom and for what purpose?
By looking at a series of curatorial practices in the city of Florence, this talk will rehearse some of these questions, focusing on the way in which local identity might be challenged and even violated by the assemblage of disparate art forms that bring about what the visual studies expert Nicholas Mirzoeff calls “neoculturation” (2009).
Paolo Bartoloni is Established Professor of Italian at the National University of Ireland, Galway. In May 2019 he has been elected to the Royal Irish Academy. Previously he taught in Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of Sydney where he was Founding Director of the program in International and Comparative Literary Studies.
He has published extensively on continental theory and philosophy, especially the works of Giorgio Agamben, Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, and Mario Perniola, and their impact on the reception of authors such as Blanchot, Calvino, Caproni, and Svevo. He is currently working on the interface between the Italian Renaissance and contemporary art, especially in the context of the city of Florence. He is the author of over 60 single-authored articles in edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals and of four monographs: Objects in Italian Life and Culture: Fiction, Migration, and Artificiality (Palgrave, 2016); Sapere di scrivere. Svevo e gli ordigni di La coscienza di Zeno (Il Carrubo, 2015); On the Cultures of Exile, Translation and Writing (Purdue UP, 2008); Interstitial Writing: Calvino, Caproni, Sereni and Svevo (Troubador Publishing, 2003). He has also co-edited several volumes including the thematic issue Ambiguity in Culture and Literature (CLCWeb, Purdue UP, 2010).

The reception of Hopkins by Modernist writers
2019-10-31 13:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
By Brian Arkins (retired Professor, Classics, NUI Galway.)
Abstract:
This paper analyses the reception of Hopkins by Eliot, Yeats, Stevens, Pound and Joyce.

Launch of Mobility in the Russian, Central and East European Past (2019)
2019-10-30 17:15 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Professor Dan Carey will launch this new volume of essays edited by Dr. Róisín Healy of the History Department. A reception will follow.
This edited collection reveals the enormous diversity of journeys taken into, out of and around modern Russia and central and eastern Europe by means of twelve case studies. These range from the flight of serfs from Russia to Poland-Lithuania on foot in the eighteenth century to adventure tourists from Britain exploring Russia on motor-bikes since the turn of the new millennium. Taken together, the essays challenge Orientalist stereotypes of the region as characterised by stasis and emphasise that travel was by no means limited to elites, but experienced by ordinary people, including peasants, women and those living in peripheral locations. https://www.routledge.com/Mobility-in-the-Russian-Central-and-East-European-Past-1st-Edition/Healy/p/book/9781138354524

Prospecting and bioprospecting on Russia's cotton frontier: Commodities and empire in tsarist Central Asia
2019-10-30 16:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
By Dr. Jennifer Keating (UCD) as part of NUI Galway History Research Seminar Series Semester 1, 2019-20
Recently appointed to a post at University College Dublin, Jennifer Keating is a historian of imperial Russia specialising in environmental history. She is currently completing a book manuscript that examines the role of environmental change in colonial policy, practice and resistance on Russia’s southern frontier in modern-day Central Asia from 1881 to 1916, via the region’s eco-systems, forests, fields, deserts, minerals and water sources. She is co-editor of Empty Spaces: Perspectives on emptiness in modern history (2019), a volume that explores the construction and use of tropes of emptiness in histories of land, sea and air in the modern world.

Creative Coding Meet-up
2019-10-30 15:00 - 16:00, 2019-10-23 15:00 - 16:00, 2019-10-16 15:00 - 16:00, 2019-10-09 15:00 - 16:00 | IT303, IT Building, NUI Galway, Ireland
This semester we’re going to run a weekly session for those interested in learning “creative coding”. This approach is a good way for those without any coding experience to develop a foundation in programming. The sessions will use online resources (see below) to guide self-directed learning.

Creative coding is a different discipline than programming systems. The goal is to create something expressive instead of something functional. Interaction design, information visualization and generative art are all different types of creative coding – which has become a household term describing artworks articulated as code. (via Awesome Creative Coding )

What can I expect?

This is a peer support group, not an instructor-led workshop / class.
It’s an opportunity to schedule some time each week to develop your coding skills, and to get some help, if you need it.
There are a collection of tutorial videos (bring headphones), online courses and reference material linked to in the “Further Details” section below, for you to work through at your own pace.

If you have no coding experience, and aren’t sure where or how to start, someone will help you.
Come along, meet people who are also learning to code, and get help if you run into any problems. Showing what you’re working on would be great too.
Further details
You can find further details, and learning resources, at: https://github.com/dh-nuigalway/Creative-Coding-Meetup. The sessions run on Wednesday from 3pm – 4pm, in IT 303, IT Building, NUI Galway.
Any questions?: Contact David Kelly (david.d.kelly@nuigalway.ie)

Potluck Eastern European and Slavic Poetry Reading Circle
2019-10-30 13:00 - 14:30 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
Slava Raškaj (1877-1906) Waterlily (1899)

Facilitated by Emily Tock, MLIS, MALP, Government of Ireland Post-graduate Scholar PhD student in the Discipline of English
As this is a potluck format, attendees are encouraged to bring their own favourite Eastern European and Slavic verse to share in this informal roundtable.

Sport & Exercise Research Group Lecture: Psychology and Performance in Sport
2019-10-29 13:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
By Dr Jane Walsh
Seminar topic: Psychology and Performance in Sport: The Key Characteristics and Strategies used by Elite Athletes. In this seminar Dr. Jane Walsh will look at the evidence from Sports Psychology to provide insight into the key characteristics and mental strategies used by top performers in sport. Jane will draw on recent sporting examples to illustrate how characteristics such as mental toughness and emotional stability are key factors in success and provide examples of how strategies such as goal setting and control of effort have to been used by athletes to break world records. Dr. Walsh will provide an answer the question on everyone’s mind….’Can we learn these strategies for peak performance?’ You will have to turn up to find out these answers and more about the key to success in sport (and life!).
Dr. Jane Walsh is a lecturer in Health Psychology in NUI Galway. Her research is underpinned by the theme ‘Health Behaviour for Healthy Ageing’. She is the Director of the mHealth Research Group and recently secured grants in excess of €8 million euro in EU funding to conduct research on how novel technologies can be harnessed to deliver personalized evidence-based interventions to promote healthy ageing. Jane is the Co-Leader of the Health and Wellbeing Cluster in the Whitaker Institute, a member of the Irish Cancer Society Research Advisory Board and an Associate Editor of the Journal Psychology and Health. Jane has given several keynotes both nationally and internationally on related topics including: The Physical and Psychological Benefits of Exercise and Mindset and Peak Performance in Sport. Jane is a keen triathlete and has won medals in track and field, cross country running, open water swim races and triathlons.

IRC Postdoctoral Fellowship - Information Session
2019-10-29 12:30 - 13:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The Moore Institute will host an information session on the IRC Postdoctoral Scheme, the closing date for which is on November 27, 2019.
The session will be chaired by Prof. Daniel Carey, Director of the Moore Institute. Full details on the scheme can be found here.
Reading Service
The Moore Institute will also provide a reading service for applicants for this scheme, the timeline of which is as follows:
– Notice of project title to be sent to mooreinstitute@nuigalway.ie by Monday, November 4.
– Near final draft of application, fully copy edited and with full input from the mentor to be submitted to mooreinstitute@nuigalway.ie by Friday, November 8.
Reviewed applications will be returned to applicants on or before Wednesday, November 20, 2018.

Book Launch: Navigating Ireland's Theatre Archive:Theory, Practice, Performance
2019-10-24 17:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
By Barry Houlihan
The book will be launched by Catriona Crowe, historian and archivist and former Director of Special Projects at the National Archives of Ireland. The event will take place here at the Hardiman Building – Moore Institute Seminar Room (G010) 5.30pm. Please feel free to join us for a glass of wine on the evening. All welcome!
There is also a symposium taking place for the day in advance of the launch, beginning at 10am: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/performance-and-the-archive-presence-absence-and-digital-memory-tickets-70036299457

Wisdom after Metaphysics?
2019-10-24 17:00 | Hardiman Research Building Room G011, Ireland
By Professor Markus Wörner
Abstract
The paper begins with a common-sense approach to the notion of wisdom, drawing on results of Positive Psychology. Wisdom is to be understood as a mode of being in the world based on sapiential competence informed by a general attitude of openness to (practical and theoretical) truth rather than on specialized capacities of an intellectual, moral or religious elite. It is within the competence of Homo sapiens as such. Its acquisition results in a trustworthy and adequate co-ordination of cognitive, emotional and characterological habits (intellectual and ethical virtues) which are suited to confront fundamental, existential questions concerning human reality. Wisdom comes in degrees and may increase with experience.
Biographical Note:
Markus H. Wörner is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and former Head of Department at the National University of Ireland, Galway (1986–2009). After his Lektorat in theology at the Dominican Studium Generale in Germany in 1973 and postgraduate studies in Oxford as DAAD student he completed his studies in philosophy and theology at the University of Bonn with the degree of Dr. phil. (1975). He taught fundamental theology and medieval philosophy at the Free University of Berlin (FU) while finishing his Habilitation in Philosophy (1985). He has taught as Visiting Professor at Boston College (1990) and FU Berlin (2000). His major book publications are Performative und Sprachliches Handeln (1978), Das Ethische in der Rhetorik des Aristoteles (1990), Glückendes Leben (2000), Verstehen an der Grenze (2003), and Thomas von Aquin, Summa Contra Gentiles IV (1996). He also edited four Latin/German editions of the complete Summa Contra Gentiles. His recent research focuses on rhetorical argumentation and wisdom. He is a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Performance and the Archive: Presence, Absence, and Digital Memory
2019-10-24 10:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
This symposium will address current research, practice and developments in the field of digital theatre historiography, archival curation, and memory and performance studies. The digital interface between the archive of past performance and the present is enabling new encounters between presence and absence, as well as navigating and contesting the recognised documented repertoire. The digital future of the archive presents challenges in terms of documentation of contemporary theatre practice. Processes generated and experienced through virtual and augmented reality, digital video installation and other technologically-enabled performance, effects our collective memory. The reanimated archive of aural and visual media, the corporal record of movement and space, as well as the essence and affect of live reception, present an ever-more interdisciplinary engagement with the digital and born-digital archive of performance. The symposium will discuss and question the future presence and possible absence from digital theatre archives, how we encounter and experience exhibitions and display of such records, as well as the documentation and curation of future digital performance.

The event will also include a launch of the new book: Navigating Ireland’s Theatre Archive: Theory, Practice, Performance (Peter Lang Press, 2019) edited by Dr. Barry Houlihan and launched by Catriona Crowe.

To register and for more info please click here

Fluxes, Fevers and Fighting Men: Lessons Learned
2019-10-23 16:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
By Dr. Pádraig Lenihan (NUI Galway)
As part of NUI Galway History Research Seminar Series Semester 1, 2019-20
Dr. Pádraig Lenihan of the History Department will give a lecture on the experience of writing his most recent book, Fluxes, Fevers and Fighting Men: War and Disease in Ancien Regime Europe, 1648-1789. An expert in military and medical history, Dr. Lenihan is the author of four other books, including The Last Cavalier Richard Talbot (2014) and Consolidating Conquest: Ireland 1603-1730 (2007).

The Kei Uta Collective
2019-10-22 16:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
By Professor Huhana Smith, Massey University, New Zealand as part of Irish Studies’ Seminar Series
You are invited to attend the second seminar of our Irish Studies’ Seminar Series, which is run in association with Carbon Cultures hosted by the Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway this month.
This seminar will take place at 4pm, Tuesday 22 October at Room G010, Moore Institute, Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway.
We are delighted this month to welcome the artist, scholar and curator Professor Huhana Smith to the Centre for Irish Studies, as part of an Irish Research Council New Foundations award in collaboration with Professor Karen E. Till and the Space&Place Research Collective, Department of Geography, Maynooth University. This is a follow up seminar to our Carbon Cultures Interdisciplinary Seminar we hosted earlier this year where Dr Cathy Fitzgerald was in conversation with Dr Iain Biggs on eco-social futures, and all that attended that seminar would be most welcome to attend on this occasion as well.
Huhana will be discussing her ongoing work with the Kei Uta Collective in New Zealand. This is a transdisciplinary research team that has worked together since 2014 to determine necessary adaptation toolkits and transition action plans that aim to mitigate uncontrollable climate change, its unpredictability, and prepare communities in the short term for their long term protection. The Kei Uta Collective has created unique and compelling collaborations where culture, science, design and contemporary art privilege Māori ideas of ecological and cultural sustainability, and which are location-specific to Kuku, Horowhenua, Te Ika a Maui/North Island, New Zealand.
Professor Huhana Smith is a visual artist, curator and principle investigator in research who engages in major environmental, trans-disciplinary, kaupapa Māori and action-research projects. She is co-principle investigator for research that includes mātauranga Māori methods with sciences to actively address climate change concerns for coastal Māori lands in Horowhenua-Kāpiti. Huhana actively encourages the use of art and design’s visual systems combined in exhibitions, to expand how solutions might integrate complex issues and make solutions more accessible for local communities.
We are also delighted to welcome eco-social artist Laura Donkers (University of Dundee) as our session discussant on Tuesday. Laura will explore some of the key issues that Huhana will be addressing in her lecture, and examine it in relation to her own work and experience in the Outer Hebrides and Scottish visual and ecological cultures more widely.
We would like to acknowledge the support of the Irish Research Council, Centre for Irish Studies NUI Galway, Dept. of Geography Maynooth University, School of Art Massey University, and the Research Support Scheme, CASSCS, NUI Galway, in co-hosting our seminar this month.
As usual, do spread the word as beidh fáilte roimh chách!
Le gach dea-ghuí,

Sport & Exercise Research Group: Exercise Physiology in evaluation of fitness and exercise prescription
2019-10-22 13:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
By Dr. Ananya Gupta
Seminar topic: Exercise Physiology in evaluation of fitness and exercise prescription. In this seminar Dr. Ananya Gupta will talk about the benefits of physical activity (PA), the evidence supporting PA and the recommended guidelines for PA in a healthy adult. In addition she will also discuss the importance of exercise physiology and how it can be applied in exercise testing in the evaluation of health, fitness and performance. We will also briefly discuss the basic principles underlying exercise prescription in healthy clients as well as in a clinical setting.
Dr. Ananya Gupta is a lecturer in the Discipline of Physiology. She is the Director of the MSc program in Exercise Physiology and Application in Therapy. She is also the founder and director of the Exercise Physiology Core Facility (EPCF) located in the Human Biology Building which is an integral part of the Discipline of Physiology, School of Medicine, NUI Galway. The Facility is committed to a tripartite mission in which to advance the knowledge and practice of exercise physiology through supporting and advancing exercise physiology research, providing professional training and mentorship to the next generation of exercise physiologists and to increase awareness about the importance of physical activity and physical fitness in lifelong health amongst the general population. Dr. Gupta’s research focuses on the application of exercise interventions in improving health and fitness in sports and in a clinical setting. Some ongoing projects in the lab include-
Exercise as Therapy and its Application in Cancer rehabilitation
Exercise interventions and physiologic monitoring in improving training and sports performance
Monitoring hematocrit levels as a predictor of sports performance
Management of Chemotherapy induced neutropenia in cancer patients

Digitising Cultural Heritage Workshop
2019-10-18 10:00 - 16:30 | The Moore Institute Seminar Room G010 Ground floor The Hardiman Research Building, Ireland
This day-long workshop will start by discussing issues related to the digitisation of cultural heritage; this panel will be followed by two practical sessions aimed at giving participants the skills needed to carry out their own digitisation projects.
Digitising of cultural heritage in Ireland: Open Forum
An open panel discussion on how Ireland can best meet the recommendations set out by the EU Declaration on Cooperation on Advancing Digitisation of Cultural Heritage which was launched on Digital Day 2019 and to which Ireland is a signatory. The National Monuments Service of the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht which liaises with the EU in relation to digital media will chair the session.
This will be followed by workshops on digitising cultural heritage in the areas of LiDAR, GIS, Photogrammetry, Laser Scanning and Data Management.

Please Note: This is a free event, but registration is required due to limited space.

Session 1 – Photogrammetry
In this workshop, we’ll examine the photo capture and post-processing strategies using Agisoft Metashape to generate models, but we’ll reference open source alternatives as well.
Photogrammetry has transformed the way cultural heritage assets are captured in 3D. Computational power is now such that anyone with a camera and a recent generation computer can create detailed 3D models from a collection of digital photographs of a subject. In this session we look at ways of getting the best possible results for cultural heritage objects and sites!
Session 2 – LiDAR, Photogrammetry and GIS
In this workshop, we will examine the integration of LiDAR and Photogrammetry with GIS packages.
As photogrammetry and LiDAR topographical data becomes more accessible we will look at how best to use these different techniques to enhance the digital cultural record, and to create detailed site maps.
About the Workshop
Attendees are encouraged to download a demo version of Metashape, and to bring along a camera and a laptop. Most importantly, bring something you’d like to document in 3D. It could be a childhood toy, a souvenir, a foodstuff, It works best if your “thing” isn’t shiny and has a surface texture with plenty of detail and contrast.
This workshop is scheduled as part of a programme of events around digital creativity, digital media, critical practice, in association with DH_AGE, The Moore Institute at NUI Galway, and the Department of Culture Heritage and Gealtacht, National Monuments Service
Register to attend the workshop. Further details from: www.digitalheritageage.com/workshop

Italian School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures The Moore Institute :The aesthetics of post-secular “iconoclash”: the “scandal” of religion in Castellucci and Sorrentino
2019-10-16 17:00 | Seminar Room G010
By Monica Jansen, Utrecht University
With the concepts of “scandal” (Pasolini) and “iconoclash” (Latour) this lecture investigates the tensions between religion and aesthetics created by a post-secular work of art when it enters in collision with the public sphere. For this purpose it compares the iconoclast reactions of the public to Romeo Castellucci’s performance Sul concetto di volto nel figlio di Dio in 2011 with the “contradiction” embodied by pope Pius XIII in Paolo Sorrentino’s succesfull TV-series The Young Pope (2017).
Monica Jansen is Assistant Professor in Italian Literature at the Department of Languages, Literature and Communication (TLC) – Italian language and culture, at Utrecht University. Her research interests include modernism and postmodernism studies, and more specifically new forms of cultural engagement. She investigates cultural representations of socially relevant topics such as religion, precarity, youth and migration, from an interdisciplinary, transmedial and transnational perspective.

How to be Imperial: The Case of the Global Spanish Monarchy
2019-10-16 16:00 | Hardiman Research Building Room G011, Ireland
By Prof. Felipe Fernandez Armesto (University of Notre Dame)
As part of NUI Galway History Research Seminar Series Semester 1, 2019
This week’s History Research Seminar features world-renowned scholar and intellectual Prof. Felipe Fernandez Armesto speaking on the theme, “How to be Imperial: The Case of the Global Spanish Monarchy”. Armesto is William P. Reynolds Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame and the author of over twenty books, many of which are best-sellers around the world. Most of these focus on early modern Spain and its expansion into the New World, but Armesto has also written several books on broader themes on a global scale, such as Truth: A History and Guide for the Perplexed (2010) and Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration (2006), which has been translated into 27 languages. In 2019, he published The Oxford Illustrated History of the World and Out of Our Minds: What We Think and How We Came to Think It, a history of the power of imagination. Armesto is the recipient of two honorary doctorates and the Grand Cross of the Order of Alfonso X the Wise, Spain’s highest honour for contributors to science, scholarship, education, and the arts.

Sport & Exercise Research Group Lecture: Improving Performance: Lessons from Sport
2019-10-15 13:00 - 14:30 | Hardiman Research Building Room G011, Ireland
By Professor Eamon O’Shea
In this seminar, Professor Eamon O’Shea explores the influences on performance in sport and the structures and strategies that are important in building successful and sustainable teams. A number of key influences are considered, including: values; vision; teamwork; personality; leadership; confidence; and resilience. He examines the lessons to be learned from sport in building successful teams in business, industry and academic environments. Professor O’Shea draws on a lifetime experience of winning and losing in sport to provide insights into what ultimately matters in creating sustainable cultures of performance and achievement.
Eamon O’Shea is Professor of Economics in the School of Business and Economics, founder Director of the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology (ICSG) and Director of the Centre for Economic & Social Research on Dementia at the National University of Ireland Galway. His research interests are focused on the economics of ageing, rural gerontology and dementia. His work has been influential in setting the agenda for reform of services and policies for older people in Ireland. Prof. O’Shea has also managed and coached the Tipperary senior hurling team.

CAMPS: Bobbio and the Hiberno-Latin Grammatical Tradition
2019-10-11 12:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
By Jason O’Rorke as part of CAMPS Seminar Series

EDEN's Academic Speed Dating
2019-10-10 17:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
Welcome to all new PhDs and welcome back to those returning! EDEN is back with it’s first session of the year. The theme of the evening will be academic networking, with some academic ‘speed-dating’. This is a chance to introduce yourself to your fellow NUIG PhD peers. And, as always, drinks and chats to follow at McGinn’s—all are welcome!

Hamish Henderson Centenary
2019-10-10 17:00 | Hardiman Research Building Room G011, Ireland
The Department of Music at NUI Galway welcomes Fred Freeman, Professor of Traditional Music at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and former Moore Visiting Fellow who will play tribute to Hamish Henderson with a lecture in this, the centenary of his birth. Thursday, 10th October 2019, THB-G011 Seminar Room, 5.00 pm
Drawing song and verse examples from his C D tribute album, Fred considers one of the outstanding figures of the 20th-century: a man who accepted the surrender of Italy during
WW II; won the Somerset Maugham Prize for his war elegies (which bear comparison with Siegfried Sassoon or Wilfred Owen); was a prime mover for the founding The School of
Scottish Studies; influenced, quite directly, the course of 20th-century history.
His songs (like BALLAD OF THE D-DAY DODGERS, BANKS OF SICILY, RIVONIA & THE FREEDOM COME ALL YE) were sung by British soldiers and Italian partisans in the field of battle during WW II and by the freedom fighters of S. Africa throughout the 1960s. Moreover, his theories of art and the artist (which can be seen as an extension of the ideas of Antonio Gramsci) make him somewhat unique in the history of 20th-century literature in Britain. His achievement has been fully acknowledged by Nelson Mandela, Montale, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, E. P. Thomson and others. Currently, Professor of Scottish Music at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Fred Freeman is a graduate of Aberdeen and Edinburgh universities and was Senior Associate Member of St Antony’s College, University of Oxford for two years. He is author of numerous books and articles on Scottish literature, Scots language, folk music and history; was formally recognised by the ASLS with a lifetime Honorary Fellowship in 2014. Over the past decade, he has drawn upon his extensive musical background, producing over 47 (internationally acclaimed) CDs, including the only ever recorded “COMPLETE SONGS OF ROBERT BURNS” (Linn Records) and a Hamish Henderson tribute album, “A’ the bairns o Adam”.

Renaissance Galway Seminar
2019-10-10 14:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Seminar on a unique pictorial map of Galway c. 1650
Two copies survive of a remarkable map of the city of Galway, one held by the Hardiman Library and one by TCD. The seminar marks the appearance of Paul Walsh’s study of the map, Renaissance Galway: Delineating the Seventeenth Century City (RIA, 2019). https://www.ria.ie/renaissance-galway-seminar
Speakers will discuss important features of the map, including fortifications, language, and cartographic conventions. The map will be on display in Special Collections reading room of the James Hardiman Library.
Speakers:
Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway)
Sarah Gearty (RIA)
Pádraig Lenihan (NUI Galway)
Annaleigh Margey (Dundalk IT)
Bríd McGrath (TCD)
Nollaig Ó Muraíle (NUI Galway)
Paul Walsh
Please register for this event here https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/renaissance-galway-seminar-tickets-74091400373

The Early Modern Poetry Book as an Expressive Form
2019-10-10 11:00 | Hardiman Research Building Room G011, Ireland
Book Launch by Dr. Erin McCarthy (University of Newcastle, Australia)
Dr. Erin McCarthy (formerly of the Moore Institute, where she worked as postdoc with the RECIRC project for four years, and currently Lecturer in Digital Humanities at the University of Newcastle, Australia) is returning to give a talk based on her imminent book: Doubtful Readers: Print, Poetry and the Reading Public in Early Modern England (Oxford University Press)

Book Club
2019-10-09 17:00 - 18:00 | Common Room 2nd Floor, Hardiman Research Building
First Meeting will take place October 9th
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Thinking the Empire Whole
2019-10-09 16:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
By Prof. Steve Pincus (University of Chicago)
As part of NUI Galway History Research Seminar Series Semester 1, 2019-20
Prof. Pincus describes himself as “a historian of Britain and its Empire, of comparative revolutions, comparative empires, and of northern Europe more broadly” and works mainly on the early modern period. His monographs include a comparative study of England and the Dutch Republic, England’s Glorious Revolution, and the American Declaration of Independence. He is currently working on a global history of the British Empire and a comparison of the Irish Revolution of 1782 and the American Revolution. For more details, see https://history.uchicago.edu/directory/steven-pincus
His paper on Wednesday is called “Thinking the Empire Whole”. It makes a case for getting beyond the teleologies of national and proto-national historiographies so as to capture both the dynamics of empire making and the trajectories of colonial resistance.
