Moore Institute

History Graduate Research Seminar Series
2012-10-31 16:00 (Europe/Dublin)
Kevin O’Sullivan
‘A Global Nervous System’: the rise and rise of European humanitarian NGOs, 1945-85

ECHO Workshop: How to survive a viva
2012-11-01 13:00
ECHO
Humanities Research Forum
ECHO is a regular humanities research forum taking place on Thursday in the Moore Institute, with Workshops discussing research strategies, and Seminars for research papers of all kinds. Everyone at all levels across the College of Arts is invited, and requests for future events and seminar paper submissions are hugely welcome.
For more information contact: adrian.paterson@nuigalway.ie or charlotte.mcivor@nuigalway.ie or see our website: http://echoforum.wordpress.com

Beckett Reading Group
2012-11-06 17:00
Beckett Reading Group
All readings will be kept short, as this reading group is meant to inspire not increase the work that everyone is doing. We will be concentrating on his radio and television plays for our first meetings. We hope that considering the implications of these works as texts will lead to stimulating discussion. We hope to foster a dialogue about how these texts are studied as ‰Û÷texts‰۪, rather than or alongside the medium in which they were incepted. Group members are welcome to bring critical pieces into discussion, but there is no pressure to do so. In fact, coming with visceral reactions that form critical inquiry as discussions progress is encouraged. Email Kristin Jones at k.jones1@nuigalway.ie and David Delaney d.delaney2@nuigalway.ie with any questions.
The dates and first few readings are as follows:
Week Two: 6 Nov. All That Fall
Week Three: 20 Nov. ‰Û_but the clouds‰Û_
Week Four: 4 Dec. Nacht und TrÌ_ume
We will reconvene in Semester 2.

Performance Matters - Irish Theatre Discussion Group
2012-11-06 18:00
Performance Matters
Irish Theatre Discussion Group
For more information contact lisa.fitzgerald@nuigalway.ie or m.nichualain5@nuigalway.ie

The Doing Writing Series: A Reading and Open Interview by Kevin Barry, author of Dark Lies the Island and City of Bohane
2012-11-07 20:00

ECHO Workshop:Research strategies
2012-11-08 13:00

Moore Institute Seminar Series - Professor Nicholas Canny
2012-11-08 15:00
Professor Nicholas Canny
Sources and Resources seminar
The Haliday Collection; a printed source for the seventeenth Century

CAMPS Research Lab: 'Weaving and Spinning: intercultural metaphors and some Irish particularities' by MÌÁirÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha
2012-11-09 12:00

Performance Matters - Irish Theatre Discussion Group
2012-11-13 18:00, 2012-11-27 18:00, 2012-12-04 18:00
Performance Matters
Irish Theatre Discussion Group
For more information please contact lisa.fitzgerald@nuigalway.ie or m.nichualain5@nuigalway.ie

History Graduate Research Seminar Series
2012-11-14 16:00
Kieran Hoare
Fifty Shades of Grey (Merchant): Trading networks in later medieval Connacht

The Doing Writing Series - Reading and Interview with Claire Keegan
2012-11-14 20:00
The Doing Writing Series
A new series of readings and open interviews with contemporary authors whichwill focus on various aspects of the doing of writing, from ideas aboutcomposition and artistic practice to working habitsand professional development
CLAIRE KEEGAN
Claire Keegan‰۪s first collection of stories, Antarctica(1999), won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Hersecond collection, Walk the Blue Fields (2007), won theEdge Hill Prize for Short Stories. Her short story ‰Û÷Foster‰۪was selected by Richard Ford as the winner of the DavyByrnes Irish Writing Award in 2009 and it wassubsequently published in The New Yorker. A revised andexpanded version of Foster was published as a standalonework by Faber and Faber in 2010 and it continues toattract high critical acclaim
Presented byThe English Department The Moore InstituteThe BA with Creative WritingFurther information john.kenny@nuigalway.ie

Beckett Reading Group
2012-11-20 17:00
Beckett Reading Group
All readings will be kept short, as this reading group is meant to inspire not increase the work that everyone is doing. We will be concentrating on his radio and television plays for our first meetings. We hope that considering the implications of these works as texts will lead to stimulating discussion. We hope to foster a dialogue about how these texts are studied as ‰Û÷texts‰۪, rather than or alongside the medium in which they were incepted. Group members are welcome to bring critical pieces into discussion, but there is no pressure to do so. In fact, coming with visceral reactions that form critical inquiry as discussions progress is encouraged. Email Kristin Jones at k.jones1@nuigalway.ie and David Delaney d.delaney2@nuigalway.ie with any questions.
Week Three: 20 Nov. ‰Û_but the clouds‰Û_
Week Four: 4 Dec. Nacht und TrÌ_ume
We will reconvene in Semester 2.

Performance Matters -Irish Theatre Discussion Group
2012-11-20 18:00

Imbas 2012: Diversity in the Middle Ages: Political, Social, and Cultural
2012-11-23 14:00
Imbas 2012: Diversity in the Middle Ages: Political, Social, and Cultural
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23rd
2:00-4:30 – Registration and Tea
4:30-6:00 – Panel 1: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern: Mythology in Transition
Chair: Dr. PÌÁdraic Moran
Peter Kelly
NUI, Galway
Look but Do Not Touch: Trees and Transformation in Ovid and Beyond
Sandra Hartl
University of Bamberg
Diverse Arthurian Sources of Inspiration in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Works
Jennifer Farrell
University College Dublin
From Diana to Merlin: Dramatic Unity and the Art of Suspense in Historia Regum Britanniae
6:00-7:00 – Wine Reception
7:00-8:00 – Keynote lecture: Dr. Clare Stancliffe
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24th
10:00-11:30 – Panel 2: Power Struggles: Kings, Warlords, and Tyrants
Chair: Dr. Mark Stansbury
John Latham
University of Leeds
‘For Assur Comes with them’: Reassessing the Alan Presence in Hispania, 409-418
Simon Egan
University College Cork
The Struggle for the Scottish Crown and the Politics of the Wider Gaelic World, c. 1400-1437
Chris Doyle
NUI, Galway
The War Within: Diverse Loyalties in the Later Roman Empire AD 395-423
11:30-12:00 – Tea & coffee break
12:00-1:30 – Panel 3: Ritual and its Purpose in Medieval Ireland
Chair: Prof MÌÁirÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha
Eoin ÌÒ Donnchadha
University College Dublin
Ridicule and Rituals: An Examination of the Diverse Supernatural Abilities Attributed to Filid in Sanas Cormaic
David Burke
University of Durham
“What did it avail him to live virtuously?”: Penance, Bloodshed, and the Monastery of Tallaght
Elaine Farrell
University College Dublin
Food Taboos in Early Medieval Ireland
1:30-3:00 – Lunch provided by Imbas
3:00-4:30 Panel 4: Symbol and Significance: Exegesis in the Middle Ages
Chair: Dr. Jacopo Bisagni
Sarah Corrigan
NUI, Galway
Are delphines always dolphins?: ambiguous sea creatures and their terminology in the Hisperica famina
Nathan Millin
University College Dublin
Stairway to Heaven: Jacob’s Ladder as Moral and Religious Instruction in Early Christian Ireland
Christa Mannen
Recipient of Western Michigan University – NUI, Galway Conference Exchange Grant in Medieval Studies
Journey to the Center of the Ark: Noah as a Bridge through Space and Time in the Holkham Bible Picture Book
4:30-5:00 – Tea & coffee break
5:00-6:30 – Panel 5: Bede: Miracles, Gender, and Education
Chair: Prof DÌÁibhÌ_ ÌÒ CrÌ_inÌ_n
Jenny Coughlan
University College Cork
Persuading Pagan Partners: Engendering Conversion in the Histories of Bede and Gregory of Tours
David O’Mahony
University College Cork
Moving Gradually Toward Perfection: Bede and the Need for Different Teaching Methods
Eoghan Ahern
University of Cambridge
Primitivism and Eschatology in the Miracles of Bede
8:30 Dinner at the House Hotel
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25th
10:00-11:30 – Panel 6: Literary Representations of Social Change in Medieval England
Chair: Dr. Frances McCormack
Sarah Nangle
University College Dublin
Harmonizing Dissonance: Music and Politics in Chaucer’s Parliament of Fowls
Edel Mulcahy
University College Cork
‘Vowed in Diuerse Pilgrimages’: The Role of Pilgrimage in Middle English Courtesy Literature and Exemplary Narratives
11:30-12:00 – Tea & coffee break in Smokey’s
12:15 Bus for Claregalway Castle departs from Quadrangle

Workshop: Spatiality and Symbolic Expression
2012-11-26 09:30
Spatiality and Symbolic Expression
A workshop on the connections
between patterns of place and space
and a variety of forms
of literary and cultural expression
Moore Institute, NUI Galway
26 November 2012
“Place may be the first of all concepts; it may be the oldest of all words.”
– N. Scott Momaday
9.30 Opening (Prof Ulf Strohmayer) & Introduction to Workshop
10.00 Space, Time and the Articulation of our Place in the World: the Philosophical Context (Felix ÌÒ Murchadha)
10.30 Geographies of the Imagination: Ethics and Aesthetics in some Gaelic Songs of Place (Lillis ÌÒ Laoire)
11.00 Discussion
11.15 Coffee
11.30 The Collective Spaces of Language (Paolo Bartoloni)
12.00 Op weg naar Broxeele: the Production of Shared Spaces (Catherine Emerson)
12.30 Discussion
12.45 Lunch
2.00 Symbol, Situatedness and the Individuality of Literary Space (Bill Richardson)
2.30 Between a Rock and No-place: the Home as Fragile Utopia in Cinema (Conn Holohan)
3.00 Keynote Address:
Lips in Language and Space: Imaginary Places in James Dawson’s Australian Aborigines (Paul Carter)
3.45 Discussion and Review
4.30 Close of Workshop
Note on the Keynote Speaker: Paul Carter (Deakin University, Australia) is the author of many books including The Road to Botany Bay (1987, 2010), The Lie of the Land (1996), Repressed Spaces (2002), Material Thinking (2004), Dark Writing (2008). His new book is The Meeting Place: a history, theory and practice of encounter, to be published in 2012. He also writes regularly for Lettre International. He is also a sound artist and public artist. His public space designs include Relay (Sydney Olympics, 2000, with Ruark Lewis), Nearamnew (Federation Square, Melbourne, with Lab architecture studio) and Golden Grove (University of Sydney, 2007-2009 with Taylor Cullity Lethlean). Born in the UK, educated at Oxford, Paul has lived in Melbourne since the early 1980s; he is currently Chair of Creative Place Research, Deakin University.
Sponsored by the Moore Institute, the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies and the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, NUI Galway.

Book Launch: George Moore, Dublin, Paris, Hollywood
2012-11-28 17:00

'Keeping an Even Pace with the Harp' - Ann Heymann
2012-11-29 14:00
‘Keeping an Even Pace with the Harp’
Rhythmic experiments in the performance of an 11th century didatic poem.
A discussion moderated by Ann Heymann, Moore Institute visiting fellow,
with clÌÁirseach and voice examples

ECHO Seminar: Birthplace & Displaced: Women in C19th Ireland - Charlotte McIvor & Riana O'Dwyer
2012-11-29 16:00

CAMPS Research Lab: 'The terminology of woodwind instruments in Old and Middle Irish' by Jacopo Bisagni
2012-11-30 12:00

Public Concert - Guth Binn 7 T̩ada ÌÒir ̢åÛå¢ Bardic Voices, Horns And Medieval Harps - with Ann & Charlie Heymann, Lillis ÌÒ Laoire and Simon Dwyer
2012-11-30 19:00
Guth Binn 7 T̩ada ÌÒir ‰ۢ Bardic Voices, Horns and medieval harps
On Friday, November 30th at 7 pm, NUI Galway’s Aula Maxima will resound with the ancient sounds of early Irish harp, voice and horn. Gold-strung clÌÁirseachs played by Ann Heymann will accompany 7th-18th century Gaelic poems (including genres of laoi, rosc and amhrÌÁn) sung by Charlie Heymann and Lillis ÌÒ Laoire. For contrast, early Welsh poetry by the famous poets Aneirin and Taliesin, will be performed, accompanied by horsehair harp, crwth and various lyres. Adding to the musical soundscape are Simon O’Dwyer’s pre-historic and medieval horns, bells and pipes. A wine reception follows the concert, allowing for an opportunity to meet the performers and get a closer look at the instruments.
Ann Heymann is renowned for having recreated specialized techniques that articulate the voice of the clÌÁirseach. Her visionary use of gold wire, which is based both on evidence in the literature and in the physical construction of the clÌÁirseach, has restored to the instrument a brilliant rich voice. Husband Charlie, a graduate of Northwestern University’s inaugural ethnomusicology programme, is both a vocalist and instrumentalist, and for over thirty-five years the couple have performed and taught across four continents. The couple is currently at NUI Galway, Ann having been awarded a Moore Institute Fellowship to study the use of the harp in the performance of early Irish poetry. Lillis ÌÒ Laoire, lecturer in Irish and Head of School, Languages, Literatures and Cultures at NUI, Galway, is an award winning Gaelic singer, scholar, and writer from the Gaelic speaking region of Donegal. He teaches courses in Gaelic language, culture and folklore at NUI, Galway, and his publications include ‘On a Rock in the Middle of the Ocean: Songs and Singers in Tory Island, Ireland’ (2005). Simon O’Dwyer has brought the sound of ancient Irish horns, bells and pipes to audiences around the globe. Author of “Prehistoric Music of Ireland”, O’Dwyer documents both his research and his making of these reproduction instruments. This event is free and open to the public and takes place in the Aula Maxima, NUI, Galway, on Friday, the 30 November at 7:00 pm.

Beckett Reading Group
2012-12-04 17:00
Beckett Reading Group
All readings will be kept short, as this reading group is meant to inspire not increase the work that everyone is doing. We will be concentrating on his radio and television plays for our first meetings. We hope that considering the implications of these works as texts will lead to stimulating discussion. We hope to foster a dialogue about how these texts are studied as ‰Û÷texts‰۪, rather than or alongside the medium in which they were incepted. Group members are welcome to bring critical pieces into discussion, but there is no pressure to do so. In fact, coming with visceral reactions that form critical inquiry as discussions progress is encouraged. Email Kristin Jones at k.jones1@nuigalway.ie and David Delaney d.delaney2@nuigalway.ie with any questions.
Week Four: 4 Dec. Nacht und TrÌ_ume
We will reconvene in Semester 2.

ECHO Workshop: Research funding proposals
2012-12-06 16:00

School of Physics Seminar Programme 2012-2013 - Massive Star Formation in the Milky Way
2012-12-10 15:00
Massive Star Formation in the Milky Way
New surveys at infrared and radio wavelengths are providing the means
to systematically search our Galaxy for new massive stars in the process
of forming. Although rare, massive stars have a profound affect on their
environment and the evolution of galaxies. The methodologies and
outstanding questions concerning the physical processes in massive star
birth will be discussed.
The speaker is Prof. Melvin Hoare. He obtained his PhD in 1988
at UCL and after periods at Oxford and Heidelberg, joined the star
formation group at Leeds. He performs multi-wavelength
observations of massive star formation, has led various radio
surveys of the galactic plane and is on the science
working group for the next generation Square
Kilometre Array project.

Performance Matters Irish Theatre Discussion Group
2012-12-11 18:00

CAMPS Research lab: 'Saint Clement of Rome and his submarine shrine in the F̩lire ÌÒengusso' by Sarah Corrigan
2012-12-14 12:00

Performance Matters Irish Theatre Discussion Group
2013-01-15 18:00
Performance Matters
Irish Theatre Discussion Group
15 January – Mark Ravenhill’s Shopping and F**king
https://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/
Scripts are available, just email PerformanceMattersNUIG@gmail.com
For more information please contact lisa.fitzgerald@nuigalway.ie or m.nichualain5@nuigalway.ie

History Graduate Research Seminars 2012-13 - Dara FOLAN 'An Connachtach' / 'The Connachtman', 1907-1908, and the Irish-Ireland campaign in the West of Ireland
2013-01-16 16:00
Dara Folan
‘An Connachtach‘ / ‘The Connachtman’, 1907-1908, and the Irish-Ireland campaign in the West of Ireland

Public Lecture by Dr Niamh Whitfield - 'Making the 'Tara' Brooch: Craftsmen's Hidden Skills'
2013-01-17 16:00
Public Lecture by Dr Niamh Whitfield
‰Û÷Making the ‰ÛÏTara‰۝ Brooch: Craftsmen‰۪s Hidden Skills‰۪,
It is based in part on her own microscopic analysis of the brooch and includes unpublished photographs
.
