Professor Paul Crowther, Book Launch - 'The Phenomenology of Art, exploding Deleuze, illuminating Style.'
2012-05-21 15:00 (Europe/Dublin)
Professor Paul Crowther will be launching his new book ‘The Phenomenology of Art, exploding Deleuze, illuminating Style.’

MÌÁire Mhac an tSaoi Symposium
2012-05-23 09:00
MÌ_or̼ilt an pharÌ_iste: comhdhÌÁil lae ar fhilÌ_ocht MhÌÁire Mhac an tSaoi, OÌä Gaillimh
Beidh comhdhÌÁil lae ar shaothar MhÌÁire Mhac an tSaoi ÌÁ reachtÌÁil ag Ionad an L̩inn Ìäireannaigh, Ollscoil na hÌäireann, Gaillimh, D̩ C̩adaoin 23 Bealtaine 2012. TÌÁ MÌÁire Mhac an tSaoi ar dhuine de mhÌ_rfhilÌ_ na hÌäireann sa bhfichi̼ haois agus chuir an ch̩ad leabhar filÌ_ochta a d’fhoilsigh sÌ_ Margadh na Saoire i 1956 cor nua i litrÌ_ocht na Gaeilge leis an l̩iri̼ a thug s̩ ar ghn̩ithe de shaol is de thaithÌ_ phrÌ_obhÌÁideach na mnÌÁ. TrÌ_ocha bliain sara dtÌÁinig gl̼in nua banfhilÌ_ chun cinn sa Bh̩arla agus sa Ghaeilge, Eavan Boland agus Nuala NÌ_ Dhomhnaill ina measc, bhÌ_ guth ÌÁ thabhairt ag MÌÁire Mhac an tSaoi do ghn̩ithe de shaol collaÌ_ na mnÌÁ a bhÌ_ faoi thost roimhe sin den gcuid is mÌ_ sa litrÌ_ocht agus sa tsaol.
‰Û÷C̩ go n-aithnÌ_onn filÌ_ agus l̩irmheastÌ_irÌ_ tÌÁbhacht agus tionchar a cuid filÌ_ochta,’ a deir Louis de Paor, Sti̼rthÌ_ir Ionad an L̩inn Ìäireannaigh, ‰Û÷is dÌ_igh liom gurb ̩ seo an ch̩ad chomhdhÌÁil atÌÁ tiomnaith ar fad dÌÁ cuid saothair a scagadh. Beidh cuid de na l̩irmheastÌ_irÌ_ is fearr sa Ghaeilge i lÌÁthair chun anailÌ_s a dh̩anamh ar a saothar is tÌÁimid ag s̼il le dÌ_ospoireacht bhrÌ_omhar.’‰Û÷There is truth to experience here, a forthrightness about passion and transgression that is thrilling and exemplary,’ a d̼irt Seamus Heaney nuair a foilsÌ_odh dÌ_rbheathaisn̩is MhÌÁire Mhac an tSaoi’s The Same Age as the State, sa bhliain 2003. Sheol Fiach Mac Conghail, Sti̼rthÌ_ir Amharclann na Mainistreach, eagrÌÁn dhÌÁtheangach dÌÁ cuid dÌÁnta An ParÌ_iste MÌ_or̼ilteach/The Miraculous Parish ag Ì_cÌÁid mhÌ_r i gCaisleÌÁn Bhaile ́tha Cliath i mÌ_ na Samhna 2011.
I measc na gcainteoirÌ_ a bheidh ag labhairt ag an gcomhdhÌÁil in OÌä Gaillimh, tÌÁ Mich̩al Mac Craith, Margaret Mac Curtain, MÌÁire NÌ_ AnnrachÌÁin, MÌÁirÌ_n Nic Eoin, CaoimhÌ_n Mac Giolla L̩ith, RÌ_Ì_na NÌ_ Fhrighil, Eil̩an NÌ_ ChuilleanÌÁin agus Patricia Coughlan, agus beidh a gcuid cainte ÌÁ thaifeadadh ag RTÌä le craoladh amach sa bhliain.TÌÁ cead isteach go dtÌ_ an chomhdhÌÁil saor in aisce agus fÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch.
The Miracle of the Parish: MÌÁire Mhac an tSaoi symposium at NUI GalwayOn Wednesday 23 May, the Centre for Irish Studies at NUI Galway will host a symposium on the work of MÌÁire Mhac an tSaoi, one of the most significant Irish poets of the twentieth century, and the most important living poet in Irish. With MÌÁirtÌ_n ÌÒ DireÌÁin and SeÌÁn ÌÒ RÌ_ordÌÁin, she revolutionised the practice of poetry in Irish in the 1940s and 50s and paved the way for a new generation of women poets who emerged in Irish and in English in the 1970s and 80s. A generation before Nuala NÌ_ Dhomhnaill and Eavan Boland, and in more difficult circumstances, MÌÁire Mhac an tSaoi gave voice to the intimate and subversive aspects of women’s experience in poems that challenged the moral orthodoxies of the time.
‰Û÷Although her work and influence is acknowledged by poets and critics alike,’ according to Louis de Paor, Director of the Centre for Irish Studies, ‰Û÷this is the first such event dedicated entirely to her work and includes contributions from some of the finest scholars and critics of poetry in Irish. Given her connection with the University where she was appointed Honorary Professor of Irish Studies in 2004, and her uncle Monsignor PÌÁdraig de Br̼n, served with such distinction as president, we are delighted to recognise her unique contribution to Irish writing.’
MÌÁire Mhac an tSaoi’s autobiography The Same Age as the State, published in 2003, was described by Seamus Heaney as ‰Û÷thrilling and exemplary’ and a bilingual selection of her poems An ParÌ_iste MÌ_or̼ilteach/The Miraculous Parish was launched by Fiach Mac Conghail, Director of the Abbey Theatre, at a gala event in Dublin Castle in November 2011.Invited speakers to the NUI Galway symposium include Mich̩al Mac Craith, Margaret Mac Curtain, MÌÁire NÌ_ AnnrachÌÁin, MÌÁirÌ_n Nic Eoin, CaoimhÌ_n Mac Giolla L̩ith, RÌ_Ì_na NÌ_ Fhrighil, Eil̩an NÌ_ ChuilleanÌÁin and Patricia Coughlan, and the proceedings will be recorded by RTÌä radio for broadcast later in the year.Admission to all sessions is free and everyone is welcome to attend.Sa Seomra SeimineÌÁir in Institi̼id de MÌ_rdha, OÌä, Gaillimh a reachtÌÁlfar na seisi̼in ar fad.MÌ_or̼ilt an pharÌ_iste: comhdhÌÁil lae ar fhilÌ_ocht MhÌÁire Mhac an tSaoiD̩ C̩adaoin 23 Bealtaine 2012Ionad an L̩inn Ìäireannaigh, Ollscoil na hÌäireann, Gaillimh
9.00-10.15rn ‰Û÷The same age as the state ach nÌ_ mÌ_r an fhilÌ_ocht chomh maith’, An tOllamh MicheÌÁl Mac Crait (ColÌÁiste San Isidore)
‰Û÷MÌÁire Mhac an tSaoi: idir dhÌÁ fheimineachas’, An tOllamh Margaret Mac Curtain (UCD)
10.15-11.30rn ‘”V̩nus toute enti̬re, ÌÊ sa proie attach̩e . . .”: an grÌÁ agus an tsaoirse i bhfilÌ_ocht MhÌÁire Mhac a’ tSaoi’, An tOllamh MÌÁire NÌ_ AnnrachÌÁin (UCD)
‰Û÷An guth mÌÁthartha i bhfilÌ_ocht MhÌÁire Mhac an tSaoi’, An tOllamh MÌÁirÌ_n Nic Eoin (ColÌÁiste PhÌÁdraig, Droim Conrach)
11.30-11.45 Caif̩
11.45-1.00in ‰Û÷”Ceann Bliana” agus Eile’, An Dr CaoimhÌ_n Mac Giolla L̩ith (UCD)
‘CÌ_iri̼ na cuimhne i saothar MhÌÁire Mhac a’ tSaoi’, An Dr RÌ_Ì_na NÌ_ Fhrighil (ColÌÁiste PhÌÁdraig, Droim Conrach)
1.00-2.00in LÌ_n
2.00 -3.15in An tOllamh Eil̩an NÌ_ ChuilleanÌÁin (TCD)
‰Û÷”Aibigh, a mhian, i ndiamhaireacht na gile”: na mianta collaÌ_ i saothar Mhaire Mhac an tSaoi’, An tOllamh Patricia Coughlan (UCC)
3.30-4.30in Clabhs̼r

'Cuba under RaÌÄå¼l: is the Revolution 'over'?' - Professor Antoni Kapcia,University of Nottingham.
2012-05-28 18:00
‰ÛÏCuba under Ra̼l: is the Revolution ‰Û÷over‰۪?‰۝
By Antoni Kapcia, Professor in Latin American Studies at the University of Nottingham, U.K.
Professor Kapcia is a distinguished expert in modern and contemporary Cuban history and politics. He has published extensively in the field, including Cuba: Island of Dreams (2000), Cuba in Revolution: a History since the Fifties (2008). His forthcoming book examines literary culture in Cuba since 1959.

Joyce's Galway, Galway's Joyce: A Centenary to Celebrate - Frank Shovlin, the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool
2012-06-01 20:00 | The Nun’s Island Theatre, Ireland
The Moore Institute is pleased to promote a lecture on James Joyce and Galway by Dr. Frank Shovlin of the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool, and incoming Leverhulme Fellow at the Moore Institute during the next academic year. The lecture will take place on Friday, June 1 at 8pm at the Nun‰۪s Island Theatre
Living and working in Liverpool since 2000, Frank Shovlin is from the West of Ireland. He was educated at University College Galway where he took his BA and MA degrees before moving on to St John’s College, Oxford where he completed a D. Phil. in 2000. His research interests include the Irish literary magazine, on which he published a monograph in 2003; the Irish literary revival; the life and work of James Joyce; the history of reading in twentieth-century Ireland; and the history of the book.

Destroying the 'silver linings': The American media and the Vietnam War, 1968-71 - With guest speaker Gavin Wilk, University of Limerick
2012-06-05 12:30
The Galway American Studies Forum Presents…
Destroying the ‰Û÷silver linings’: The American media and the Vietnam War, 1968-71
With guest speaker Gavin Wilk, University of Limerick
Tuesday, 5th June, 12.30 – 2pm
in
The Moore Institute Seminar Room
Everyone Welcome.
Abstract: This paper will demonstrate through relevant examples how the American media, from the 1968 Tet Offensive to the publication of the Pentagon Papers in 1971, offered a subjective and unfiltered view of the Vietnam War to the American public. During this period, the American media abandoned a previously close connection with the military and government and instead moved independently through various mediums to denounce the Vietnam War. This dramatic period transformed the way American journalists cover conflicts and also significantly altered the relationship between the American media, government and military officials.
About Gavin Wilk: A Visiting Lecturer in History at the University of Limerick, Gavin recently completed a PhD in History and was an IRCHSS Postgraduate Scholar from 2008-11. His thesis examines the militant Irish republican movement in the United States from 1923 to 1939 and focuses on the important role of Irish Republican Army (IRA) veterans in the US-based Irish republican movement. Gavin has completed a number of articles for reference works in American history, including a recent contribution of fourteen articles to the M.E. Sharpe publication, America in World History, an encyclopaedia which presents American history through an international context.
For more see http://gasforum.blogspot.com/

Moore Institute Workshop 2011-12: Wise Practices, Imagination and the Toleration of Diversity
2012-06-16 09:30
Saturday 16th June
Description of Workshop
The idea of wisdom is currently attracting renewed attention as a source of innovative ideas and practices for social organisation. This workshop addresses two deficits in the associated debates, accentuating contributions derived from observed ‰Û÷wise‰۪ practices in the West of Ireland. Wisdom is generally regarded as a form of reasoning which responds to pressing life-problems without clear solutions in either expert or everyday knowledge. This workshop explores a) how such forms of reasoning can operate under conditions of social and intellectual diversity; b) the role of imagination in envisaging novel solutions.
Since Socrates‰۪ time, commentators on wisdom have commended slowness to rush to judgement, even in dilemmas which initially seem clear. Contemporary work on wisdom foregrounds tolerance and a capacity to understand how others see the world differently from oneself, while remaining committed to one‰۪s own core values. However, closer studies of what people really mean when they believe they are being tolerant show strong tendencies to expect others to converge with their own ideas under more apposite temporal or social circumstances.
Papers at the workshop respond to this observation and to evidence collected in Galway and Connemara, analysing selected local practices as effecting forms of social wisdom which illustrate more genuine forms of tolerance. It also draws on empirical and theoretical research into confronting cultural diversity both in Galway City and in Canada. Finally, we focus on the role in both wisdom and tolerance of uses of the imagination in comprehending other (world-)views, explored in historical travel literature and the sociology of tourism, and to the roles in ‰Û÷wise‰۪ discourse of Irish proverbs, triads and epigrams.

Conference - Frontier and border regions in early modern Europe - June 21st and 22nd
2012-06-21 09:00
History, School of HumanitiesThe Moore Institute
Frontier and border regions in early modern Europe
21-22 June 2012
Thursday 21 June (Moore Institute Seminar Room)
09.00 ‰ÛÒ 09.20
Raingard EÌÙer, University of Groningen, the Netherlands;
Steven Ellis, National University of Ireland, Galway
Introduction
09.20 ‰ÛÒ 10.10
Steven Ellis, National University of Ireland, Galway
‰Û÷Ireland‰۪s ‰ÛÏlost‰۝ English region: the English Pale in early Tudor times‰۪
10.10 ‰ÛÒ 11.00
Gerald Power, Metropolitan University, Prague, Czech Republic
‰Û÷The English Pale as a region in later Tudor Ireland‰۪
11.00 ‰ÛÒ 11.20 Coffee break
11.20 ‰ÛÒ 12.10
Chris Maginn, Fordham University, New York, USA
‰Û÷Beyond the Pale: the making of the kingdom of Ireland‰۪
12.30 ‰ÛÒ 13.40 Buffet lunch
13.40 ‰ÛÒ 14.30
Diana Newton, University of Teesside, UK
‰Û÷The trials and tribulations of a border saint: Saint Cuthbert and the Reformation‰۪
14.30 ‰ÛÒ 15.20
Andy Sargent, National University of Ireland, Galway,
‰Û÷Ruling the borders:the Elizabethan government and the English west march‰۪
15.30 ‰ÛÒ 16.00 Afternoon tea
16.00 ‰ÛÒ 16.50
Anna Groundwater, University of Edinburgh, UK
‰Û÷Renewing the Anglo-Scottish border: reassessing 16th-century frontier societies‰۪
17.00 Book launch
Raingard EÌÙer, The Politics of Memory:the Writing of Partition in the seventeenth-century Low Countries (Brill, 2012);
Christopher Maginn, William Cecil, Ireland, and the Tudor State (Oxford, 2012)
19.00 Conference dinner
Friday 22 June (Applied Optics Seminar Room)
09.00 ‰ÛÒ 09.50
GÌ_nther Lottes, University of Potsdam, Germany
‰Û÷Living with borders: the case of the Holy Roman Empire‰۪
09.50 ‰ÛÒ 10.40
Bertrand Forclaz, University of Neuch̢tel, Switzerland
‰Û÷Identities at the crossroads of borders: two allied territories of the Swiss Confederation during the Thirty Years War‰۪
10.40 ‰ÛÒ 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 ‰ÛÒ 11.50
Raingard EÌÙer, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
‰Û÷Not so united:Dutch provinces between the Republic and the Holy Roman Empire‰۪
12.00Buffet lunch

Book launches - Raingard Esser and Christopher Maginn
2012-06-21 17:00
RaingardEsser, The Politics of Memory:the Writing of Partition in the seventeenth-century Low Countries (Brill, 2012);
Christopher Maginn, William Cecil, Ireland, and the Tudor State (Oxford, 2012)

Colonialism within Europe: Fact or Fancy? 22nd-23rd June
2012-06-22 00:00
Colonialism within Europe: Fact or Fancy?
Conference at NUI Galway, 22-23 June 2012
Provisional Conference Programme
Fri., 22nd June 2012
9.00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9.15-10.30 Session 1 The Irish Experience
Nicholas Canny, Dept. of History, NUI Galway
‰ÛÏWas Ireland a colony? The history of a debate‰۝
Bogdan Murgescu, Dept. of History, University of Bucharest
‰ÛÏA Colonial Periphery? Ireland and Romania in the Early Modern Era‰۝
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-13.00 Session 2: North-South Relations
Piotr Szlanta, Dept. of History, University of Warsaw
‰ÛÏThe Russian bear in the land of the Persian lion. The patterns of subjection 1890-1914‰۝
Enrico Dal Lago, Dept. of History, NUI Galway
‰ÛÏItalian National Unification and the Mezzogiorno: A Case of Internal Colonialism?‰۝
Clemens Ruthner, Dept. of Germanic Studies, Trinity College Dublin
‰ÛÏAustria‰۪s Only ‰ÛÏColony‰۝: Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1878-1918‰۝
Commentator: Ulrike Lindner, Dept. of History, University of Bielefeld
13.00-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.30 Humboldt Foundation Programmes by either member of Humboldt staff or Prof. DÌÁibhÌ_ ÌÒ CrÌ_inÌ_n, Dept. of History, NUI, Galway
14.30-16.30 Session 3: German Peripheries
Detmar Klein, Dept. of History, University College Cork
‰ÛÏGerman-Annexed Alsace and Imperial Germany: A Process of Colonisation?‰۝
Nils Langer, Dept. of German, Bristol University
‰ÛÏGermany and the Danes: Language Politics in Schleswig-Holstein‰۝
RÌ_isÌ_n Healy, Dept. of History, NUI Galway
‰ÛÏGermans and Poles in Poznania and West Prussia‰۝
Commentator: TBA
16.30-17.00 Coffee
17.00-18.00 Keynote Address: Mark von Hagen, Dept. of History, University of Arizona
19.00 Conference Dinner
Sat., 23 June 2012
9.30-11.00 Session 4: Contested Territories in the Interwar Period
Christoph Mick, Dept. of History, University of Warwick
‰ÛÏColonialism in the Polish Eastern borderlands, 1919-1939″
Guido Hausmann, Dept. of History, University of Munich
‰ÛÏMaps of the Borderlands: Russia and the Ukraine‰۝
Commentator: Mridu Rai, Dept. of History, Trinity College Dublin
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-13.00 Session 5: Sovietization as Colonization
Paul McNamara, Dept. of History, NUI Galway
‰ÛÏPolonization and Sovietization in Poland‰۪s Recovered Territories‰۝
Balazs Apor, Centre for European Studies, Trinity College Dublin
‰ÛÏPolitical Rituals and the Sovietization of Hungary‰۝
Commentator: Ulf Engel, Centre for African Studies/Global and European Studies Institute, University of Leipzig
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.15 Session 6: Colonial Practices
Alan Kramer, Dept. of History, Trinity College Dublin
‰ÛÏThe Colonial Origins of the Concentration Camp‰۝
Second speaker to be arranged
15.15 Closing Discussion

Gender, spirituality, politics and society
2012-06-27 12:00
You are warmly invited to
A Gender ARC Summer Seminar
Gender, spirituality, politics and society
Hosted by: Gender, Discourse, Identities Cluster of Gender ARC and Global Women’s Studies, School of Political Science and Sociology
Venue: Moore Institute Seminar Room
Date: Wed June 27
Time: 12.00pm-2.00pm
PROGRAMME
Nikky-Guninder Singh, Crawford Family Professor of Religion, Colby College, Maine, USA
“Contesting subjectivities: a feminist interpretation of Sikh scripture”
Rita O’Donoghue, Irish Studies, NUI Galway
“The Profane versus the sacred: women, priests, and other-worldly forces in the archives of the National Folklore Collection”
EilÌ_s Ward, School of Political Science and Sociology, NUI Galway
“Ethics, gender and vulnerability: a perspective from Buddhist thought”
Vesna Malesevic, School of Political Science and Sociology, NUI Galway
“Secularisation, de-secularisation, neo-secularisation: recent debates in the sociology of religion”
Moderator: Niamh Reilly, Global Women’s Studies, NUI Galway
All welcome!
Please rsvp: gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie
www.genderarc.org

'Medieval Irish Seafaring: realities and visions'
2012-07-04 18:00
IOMRAMHA / VOYAGES
Three Talks on Medieval and Modern Seafaring
organized by Prof. MairÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha
All in SPEAKERS’ CORNER, GLOBAL VILLAGE, the CLADDAGH, GALWAY
(enter from Nimmo’s Pier or Grattan Road; it may take 5-10 minutes to reach the Speakers’ Corner)
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Wednesday 4 July, 6pm,
‰Û÷Medieval Irish Seafaring: realities and visions’
Speaker: Prof. MÌÁirÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha, School of Humanities, NUIG.
Chair: Mary O’Malley, Poet.
MÌÁirÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha will speak on the endurance of medieval Irish seafarers, including those who sailed the Atlantic as Christian missioners, the visions and images that sustained them, and the iconic status of figures such as Brendan the Navigator.
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Thursday, 5 July, 6pm
‰Û÷”A RÌ_ na Foidhne, glac iad ar lÌÁimh”: ́r mBÌÁid D̼chais agus an tIascach”‘
Cainteoir (i nGaeilge): An Dr CrÌ_ostÌ_ir Mac CÌÁrthaigh, AircÌ_vÌ_ Sinsearach, Cnuasach Bh̩aloideas Ìäireann, UCD.
Cathaoirleach: An Dr PÌÁdraig ÌÒ H̩alaÌ_, ScolÌÁire Gaeilge agus B̩aloidis, NUIG.
CrÌ_ostÌ_ir Mac CÌÁrthaigh is editor of the magnificent and monumental Traditional Boats in Ireland: History, Folklore and Construction (Cork 2008). He has published extensively on aspects of Irish oral literature, vernacular architecture and the material culture of Atlantic island communities. His talk, which will be in Irish, will focus on boats, fishing, and some of the associated beliefs and oral traditions of the west of Ireland.
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Friday 6 July, 6pm,
‰Û÷Science and the Age of Discovery: Spain, Portugal, and the International Atlantic in the 15th-16th Centuries’
Speaker: Dr Edward Collins, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville/UCD.
Chair: Dr Enrico Dal Lago, Historian, NUIG.
Edward Collins will present an overview of the scientific aspects of the Portuguese and Spanish discoveries in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, particularly the role of international transfer of knowledge in the areas of cartography, cosmography and the piloting of ships in the Atlantic. It will examine the importance of this transfer in advancing the scientific knowledge that propelled the expeditions of, among others, Prince Henry ‘the navigator’ in Portugal, and Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan in Spain.
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Sponsored by NUI, Galway and Ì_darÌÁs na Gaeltachta
Further information from the Organiser, Prof. MairÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha
Ollamh le Sean- agus MeÌÁn-Ghaeilge / Professor of Old and Middle Irish, Scoil na nDaonnachtaÌ_/ School of Humanities, Ollscoil na hÌäireann, Gaillimh / NUI Galway.

''A RÌ_ na Foidhne, glac iad ar lÌÁimh': ÌÄår mBÌÁid DÌÄå¼chais agus an tIascach''
2012-07-05 18:00
Thursday, 5 July, 6pm
‰Û÷‰ÛÏA RÌ_ na Foidhne, glac iad ar lÌÁimh‰۝: ́r mBÌÁid D̼chais agus an tIascach‰۝‰۪
Cainteoir (i nGaeilge): An Dr CrÌ_ostÌ_ir Mac CÌÁrthaigh, AircÌ_vÌ_ Sinsearach, Cnuasach Bh̩aloideas Ìäireann, UCD.
Cathaoirleach: An Dr PÌÁdraig ÌÒ H̩alaÌ_, ScolÌÁire Gaeilge agus B̩aloidis, NUIG.
CrÌ_ostÌ_ir Mac CÌÁrthaigh is editor of the magnificent and monumental Traditional Boats in Ireland: History, Folklore and Construction (Cork 2008). He has published extensively on aspects of Irish oral literature, vernacular architecture and the material culture of Atlantic island communities. His talk, which will be in Irish, will focus on boats, fishing, and some of the associated beliefs and oral traditions of the west of Ireland.

'Science and the Age of Discovery: Spain, Portugal, and the International Atlantic in the 15th-16th Centuries'
2012-07-06 18:00
Friday 6 July, 6pm,
‰Û÷Science and the Age of Discovery: Spain, Portugal, and the International Atlantic in the 15th-16th Centuries‰۪
Speaker: Dr Edward Collins, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville/UCD.
Chair: Dr Enrico Dal Lago, Historian, NUIG.
Edward Collins will present an overview of the scientific aspects of the Portuguese and Spanish discoveries in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, particularly the role of international transfer of knowledge in the areas of cartography, cosmography and the piloting of ships in the Atlantic. It will examine the importance of this transfer in advancing the scientific knowledge that propelled the expeditions of, among others, Prince Henry ‘the navigator’ in Portugal, and Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan in Spain.

'Ptolemy in Arabic and in Latin'
2012-07-12 17:00
CAMPS & the Foundations of Irish Culture project
Research lab by Dr David Juste, University of Sydney
‰ÛÏPtolemy in Arabic and in Latin‰۝
Thursday 12th July, 5 p.m.
Moore Institute Seminar Room, NUI Galway
Dr Juste will talk about his Ptolemy research and especially about the project funded by the Forschungsprogramm der Union der deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften (the Union of German Academies of Science). The project, ‘Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus’, which was submitted by Dr David Juste and two colleagues, Benno van Dalen and Dag Nikolaus Hasse. They heard last month that it has been granted funding for 25 years, with all funds and positions as requested, including five full-time research scholars.
The lab should be of interest to medievalists, historians of science, cartographic historians, astronomers, Classicists, mathematicians, and historians of science. It is held in connexion with the 4th International Conference on the Science of Computus, which will be taking place in the Moore Institute, 13-15 July. The lab is presented by CAMPS in conjunction with the PRTLI 4-funded ‘Foundations of Irish Culture’ project.
Dr Juste describes the project as follows:
Claudius Ptolemy (c. 100-170 AD) was one of the most important scientific figures in the ancient world, and one of the most influential scientists of all time. While he was also the author of treatises on geography, optics and harmonics, his fame primarily stems from two works on the science of the stars: (1) the (astronomical) ‘Almagest’, which provides comprehensive mathematical models explaining all celestial movements in a geocentric universe; and (2) the (astrological) ‘Tetrabiblos’, which provides the first systematic account of the relationships between the celestial and terrestrial worlds, as well as a philosophical justification for the practice of astrology.
The ‘Almagest’ and the ‘Tetrabiblos’ remained the fundamental texts on the science of the stars for some 1,500 years. Both were translated several times into Arabic and Latin, and were heavily commented upon, glossed, discussed, and also criticised and improved upon, in the Islamic world and in Christian Europe. Until the 17th century, no important work on either astronomy or astrology was written without reference to Ptolemy.
Further information from the organiser:
Prof. DÌÁibhÌ_ ÌÒ CRÌÒIN̍N,
Department of History,
National University of Ireland, Galway
Tel.: (+353-91) 492697
Fax: (+353-91) 494556

4th International Conference on the Science of Computus, 13th-15th July
2012-07-13 09:00
Galway Computus Conference 2012-
Speakers & Papers
1. LeofrancHolford-Strevens (England) Fratresnostri qui tuncRomaefuere: aneglected problem in Bede, De temporumratione, cap. 47
2. Masako Ohashi (Japan) Who was the author of the Letter to King Nechtan of the Picts (ad 710)?
3. Brigitte Englisch (Germany) Der Komputusdes Victorius von Aquitanien: einForschungsproblem?
4. Caitlin Corning (USA) ‰Û÷The more things change, the more they stay the same’: The Easter dating controversy at the World Council of Churches (1997-2012)
5.John Contreni (USA) A fresh look at Herwagen’sBridfertiRamesiensisGlossae: the glosses on Bede’s Denaturarerum
6. Daniel McCarthy (Ireland) An assessment of the Zeitz Table in the context of the Latercus
7. LucianaCuppo (Italy) Squaring the circle: the wind-diagram in BAV Reg. Lat. 2077 and the encounter with Isidore
8. David Howlett (England) Some dating-clauses in Hiberno-Latin computistical manuscripts
9.L.S. (SÌÁndor)Chardonnens (Netherlands) Correlations between layout, structure & setting of prognostics in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts
10. Megan McNamee (USA) Picturing number in Byrhtferth of Ramsey’s Enchiridion
11. MarilinaCesario (N. Ireland) Significacionesventorum in noctenatalisdominiet in ceteris xii noctibusvsque ad epiphaniam: the English tradition of wind prognostication (12th-15th centuries)
12. Ulrich Voigt (Germany) Rediscovering Paul of Middelburg (1446-1534)
13. Faith Wallis (Canada) Sortes Sanctorum andAleaCeli: dating &divination in some insular computusmanuscripts
14. Wesley Stevens (Canada) Walafrid Strabo’s study of the computus
15. Colin Ireland (Ireland) Taking sides atthe Synod of Whitby (ad 664)
16. David Juste (Australia) The origins of the Latin prognostica, 800-1100
17. James Palmer (Scotland) An 8th-c. Irish computus in Lombardy and the end of the world
18. Alden Mosshammer (USA)Two computistical texts: ExpositioBissexti and Quo tempore initium mundi
19. PavelKuzenkov (Russia) The Alexandrian Computus and the Era of Annianus
20. AnastasiosIoannides (USA) The computistical work of MatthewVlastares
21. C.P.E. Nothaft (Germany) The date of the Passion in Early Medieval computistics: the strange case of the Victorian-Dionysiac ‰Û÷hybrid’ table in the Sirmond Computus
22. Immo Warntjes (Germany) Iberian computistics, 6th-8th century
23. Roy Liuzza (USA)Wheels within wheels: further observations on The Sphere of Life & Death
24. DÌÁibhÌ_ ÌÒ CrÌ_inÌ_n (Ireland) The Historia Paschalis in Kiev, Narodni Bibl., MS. I. 5876
25. David Pelteret (England) The provenance and purpose of the computus in the Red Book of Darley (CCCC, MS. 422)
26. Richard Landes (USA) Computistical and chronological activity at the approach of the millennial years 6000/800 and 1000
27. Werner Bergmann (Germany) BruhrechnenimMittelalter. Der ursprÌ_nglicheCalculus des Victorius von Aquitanien
Further Information: Prof. DÌÁibhÌ_ ÌÒ CrÌ_inÌ_n, History, NUI, Galway
daibhi.ocroinin@nuigalway.ie
www.nuigalway.ie/history/computusconference.html

Los San Patricios. The Irish Soldiers of Mexico
2012-09-10 16:00
The Moore Institute in collaboration with Spanish, NUI Galway, and The Mexican Embassy present
Dr Michael Hogan
‰Û÷Los San Patricios. The Irish Soldiers of Mexico‰۪
On Monday Sept 10th, 2012 at 4pm. The Seminar Room, The Moore Institute
Dr Hogan‰۪s talk will be followed by a book launch and reception.

Book Launch by GearÌ_id Barry: The Disarmament of Hatred: Mark Sangnier, French Catholicism and the Legacy of the First World War, 1914-45
2012-09-11 18:30
You are cordially invited to GearÌ_id Barry‰۪s book launch at the Moore Institute, on Tuesday 11th September next, 6.30pm
Further information on his new book The Disarmament of Hatred (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) is available at http://www.nuigalway.ie/history/recentpub.html
Should you wish to attend, please RSVP to gearoid.barry@nuigalway.ie by Thursday, September 6.

Visiting Fellow Seminar: A presentation and discussion moderated by Ann Heymann - Musical traditions that inform the performance practice of Early Irish poetry
2012-09-13 17:00
Musical traditions that inform
the performance practice of
Early Irish poetry
A presentation and discussionmoderated by Ann Heymann
Thursday 13 September, 5 – 7p.m.MOORE INSTITUTE SEMINAR ROOM
Everyone is welcome
Ann Heymann is a visiting fellow of the Moore Institue from September to December 2012.
Please see http://www.annheymann.com/ for more information about Ann Heymann.

History Graduate Research Seminar Series: James Curry - The cartoons of Ernest Kavanagh (1884-1916)
2012-09-19 16:00
19 Sept.James Curry
The cartoons of Ernest Kavanagh (1884-1916)

Instructions, Questions and Directions: Learning to Observe in Scientific Travel, 1550-1870
2012-09-21 00:00
Instructions, Questions and Directions:
Learning to Observe in Scientific Travel, 1550-1870
International conference
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
21-22 September 2012
The proliferation of inquiries, questionnaires, and directions for scientific travellers is a defining feature of the early modern period, ranging from Humanist agendas for Continental journeys to formal initiatives by Spanish authorities concerned with colonial administration. Exceptional growth in this practice occurred in a variety of seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth-century contexts. This conference explores the traditions and preoccupations behind this activity in a series of different locations.
“Texts, Contexts, Culture” is funded under the Higher Education Authority, under PRTLI4 http://www.hea.ie
The conference is supported by generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (http://www.mellon.org).
Friday September 21st
9.15 Registration and Welcome by Lorraine Daston and Daniel
Carey
Session 1: Assessing the New World
Maria Portuondo (Johns Hopkins University)
Conquistadors as Scientific Observers: Early Spanish Instructions for Travellers
Juan Pimentel (CCHS Madrid)
How to Inventory the New World: Instructions for Scientific Expeditions in Eighteenth-Century Spanish America
10.45-11.15 Coffee
11.15 Session 2: Travellers and Historians
Daniel Carey (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Questions of Travel: Shaping Knowledge in the Early Modern Period
Ida Pugliese (European University Institute)
Exchange and Dissemination of Information during the Enlightenment: Questionnaires as a Historical Research Method
13.00 Lunch
14.15 Session 3: Collection and Direction
DÌÁniel MargÌ_csy (Hunter College, CUNY)
Tourist Guides as Instructions: Baron von Uffenbach and the Infrastructure of Travel in Early Modern Europe
Dominik Collet (University of G̦ttingen)
Collecting Cultures: Global Networks in Early Museums
15.45-16.00 Coffee
16.00 Session 4: Networks and Signposts
Staffan MÌ_ller-Wille (University of Exeter)
Spreading the Gospel: Linnaean Paper Technologies and their Reception
Neil Safier (University of British Columbia)
How to Pack for a Philosophical Voyage in South America: Domenico Vandelli’s Rules for the Eighteenth-Century Road
Saturday September 22nd
9.30 Session 5:‰Û÷Mankind’, Gender and Travel
Sven Trakulhun (University of Zurich)
Theories of Travel and the Universal Study of Man in Eighteenth-Century G̦ttingen: A. L. Schl̦zer’s Lectures on Travel in Context
Carl Thompson (Nottingham Trent University)
Recovering Women’s Scientific Travel and its Instructional Literature
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30 Session 6: Method and Motive in the 19th Century
Pierre-Yves Lacour (C.R.I.S.E.S., Universit̩ Paul Val̩ry, Montpellier-3)
Search and Seizure: Instructions for Confiscation under the French Revolution
GÌÁbor Gell̩ri (National University of Ireland, Galway)
A Classified Methodology: Count d’Hauterive’s Observational Training for Apprentice Diplomats (1826?)
13.00 Lunch
14.15 Session 7: The Victorian Moment
Paul White (University of Cambridge)
Feeling Victorian: Darwin’s Queries on Expression and the Imperial Archive
Eavan O’Dochartaigh (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Expanding the Boundaries of the Known World: Instructions to Draughtsmen on the Franklin Search Expeditions

CAMPS Research Lab: 'Who was Ailill Moshaulum?' by Clodagh Downey
2012-09-21 12:00

Benedict Anderson on Nationalism and Time
2012-09-21 16:00
Benedict Anderson on Nationalism and Time Venue: MY001, Aras Moyola, NUI Galway Time: 4pm-5.30pm, Fri 21 September Sponsored by the School of Political Science and Sociology and the Moore Institute Benedict Anderson is Aaron L. Binenkorb Professor Emeritus of International Studies, Government & Asian Studies at Cornell University, and is best known for his celebrated book ‘Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism’ (1983). Prof. Anderson is a world leading theorist of nationalism and an expert on South East Asian politics and culture. He is the author of numerous books including ÕJava in a Time of Revolution; Occupation and Resistance, 1944-1946 Õ(1972), ÕIn the Mirror: Literature and Politics in Siam in the American Eraå_ (1985). Õ Language and Power: Exploring Political Cultures in Indonesiaå_ (1990), ÕThe Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism, Southeast Asia, and the Worldå_ (1998), Õ Violence and the State in Suharto’s Indonesiaå_ (2001), ÕUnder Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imaginationå_ (2005) and most recently ÕThe Fate of Rural Hell: Asceticism and Desire in Buddhist Thailandå_ (2012). For further information contact niall.odochartaigh@nuigalway.ie

Book Lauch by Professor Paul Crowther
2012-09-24 16:00
BOOK LAUNCH
‘ Meanings of Abstract Art: Between Nature and Theory’ (Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies)
edited by Paul Crowther and Isabel Wunsche
This new edited collection (with two chapters by Paul Crowther) will be launched in the Moore Institute Seminar Room on Monday September 24th at 4pm.
Everyone welcome !

Performance Matters
2012-09-25 18:00
Contemporary Irish Theatre Discussion Group
Enquiries – PerformanceMattersNUIG@gmail.com

Los espaÌÄå±oles en los libros de viajes: viajeros britÌÁnicos e irlandeses en la EspaÌÄå±a democrÌÁtica (1978-2010) by Dr Sara Matoses Ja̩n Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera, Valencia
2012-09-26 11:00
The School of Languages, Literatures
and Cultures (Spanish)
is pleased to present a Lecture* on
Los espa̱oles en los libros de viajes:
viajeros britÌÁnicos e irlandeses en la
Espa̱a democrÌÁtica (1978-2010)
Dr Sara Matoses Ja̩n
Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera, Valencia
ÌøåÀå_Bienvenida!
*The lecture will be given in Spanish with the use of English-language slides; PEA Points are available for attendance by BA Final Year Spanish students

History Graduate Research Seminar Series 2012/13: Cathal Smith - Second Landlordism: 19th-century Irish landlordism in comparative perspective
2012-09-26 16:00
26 Sept.Cathal Smith
Second Landlordism: 19th-century Irish landlordism in comparative perspective

Book Launch by Enrico Dal Lago
2012-09-26 17:30
You are cordially invited to the launch of American Slavery, Atlantic Slavery, and beyond: The U.S. “Peculiar Institution” in International Perspective
by Enrico Dal Lago.
The book will be launched by Prof. Nicholas Canny, in the Seminar Room of the Moore Institute
on Wednesday, 26th September at 5:30 pm

Launch of The Galway American Studies Forum
2012-09-27 17:00
Please join us
for
the official launch
of
The Galway American Studies Forum
on
Thursday, 27th September at 5pm
in the
Moore Institute Seminar Room.
All are welcome. Refreshments will be served.
The Galway American Studies Forum brings together postgraduate researchers and staff to explore the inter-disciplinary nature of the field to its full potential.
At this, our official launch, we hope to increase awareness of the Forum among staff and students of relevant departments. We can meet other scholars who share our interests and discuss our expectations for the Forum.
For more information see gasforum.blogspot.ie

Performance Matters - Irish Theatre Discussion Group
2012-10-02 18:00
‘Performance Matters’
Contemporary Irish Theatre Discussion Group
Topic: Marina Carr, By the Bog of Cats

History Graduate Research Seminar Series 2012/13 - Ian Kenneally - Westmeath, 1918-1921: the role of the IRA and the response of the Crown forces
2012-10-03 16:00
3 Oct.Ian Kenneally
Westmeath, 1918-1921: the role of the IRA and the response of the Crown forces
