'Medieval Irish Seafaring: realities and visions'
2012-07-04 18:00 (Europe/Dublin)
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

Disability Group Support Seminar
2012-10-04 12:00
Contact martha.higgins@nuigalway.ie for further information

English Postgraduate Welcome Day
2012-10-04 16:00
English Postgraduate Welcome Day
New PhDs tea from 4pm
Drinks for all new English postgraduates from 6pm
All welcome

Performance Matters - Contemporary Irish Theatre discussion group
2012-10-09 18:00
This week’s topic: Enda Walsh ‘Disco Pigs’

Disability Group Support Seminar -Learning Styles and Study Skills
2012-10-11 12:00

School of Physics Seminar Programme 2012-13
2012-10-11 13:00
School of Physics Seminar Programme 2012-2013
Minimally invasive optical method for assessment of brain perfusion deficits
Studies on a minimally-invasive technique allowing for assessment of brain perfusion at the bedside will be described. The method is based on time-resolved near infrared spectroscopy combined with monitoring of inflow and washout of indocyanine green (ICG) into the brain after its intravenous administration. Instrumental aspects of the time-resolved optical measurements carried out with sub-nanosecond resolution will be discussed. Techniques of monitoring of circulation of ICG based on measurements of changes in absorption as well as fluorescence of the dye excited in near infrared wavelength region will be presented.
The speaker is Prof. Adam Liebert, head of the Department of Biophysical Measurements and Imaging of the Nalecz Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering in Warsaw, Poland. He received his Ph.D. and D.Sc. in biomedical engineering from the Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His main area of interest is the application of near infrared spectroscopy in tissue oxygenation assessment and development of brain perfusion evaluation methodology based on time-resolved measurement of diffusely reflected light during injection of an optical contrast agent, as well as detection of fluorescence of the exogenous dye circulating in the tissue.

Brian Arkins - Interrogating Terms Such as 'Classical, Tradition and Decorum'
2012-10-11 16:00
Interrogating Terms Such as ” Classical, Tradition and Decorum”
The adjective ‘Classical’ now means so many things as to be useless for serious discourse. The term ‘Tradition’ – what is handed down – is the wrong kind of metaphor to apply to how a writer uses material from the past. It suggests a passive process, but the process is, rather, active. As Eliot said, “mature poets steal”.The concept of ‘Decorum’ – as supposedly found in Milton and in Virgil – cannot be mandatory. The plays of Shakespeare do not do ‘Decorum’.

CKI Seminar: Building a Framework for Evaluation in Community Settings
2012-10-12 12:30
Building a Framework for Evaluation in Community Settings
Seminar organised by the CKI, NUI Galway and Galway City Partnership
Date: Friday 12th October 2012
Time: 12.30pm – 2.30pm – Refreshments available at 12.30 pm and the seminar will start at 1.00pm
Venue: Moore Institute, NUI Galway
Who should attend: The seminar will be of interest to staff and managers of community and voluntary sector organisations, and higher education staff and students.
The seminar is free of charge but we request that you book your place, which you can do by emailing Ann Lyons at ann.lyons@nuigalway.ie Bookings should be made before Tuesday 9th October.
Seminar Details
Carrying out evaluation is an effective way to enhance the work of groups and organisations. In this seminar, Dr. Eylin Palamaro Munsell will talk about the topic of evaluation with particular reference to its place in the work of community and voluntary sector organisations. The seminar will provide an overview of evaluation and address issues such as:

What is evaluation?
Why conduct evaluation?
Who conducts evaluations?
Common Fears and Concerns about evaluation
Things to consider after the evaluation process

Dr. Eylin Palamaro Munsell has wide experience in the area of evaluation. She holds an MA in Clinical Community Psychology and a PhD in Community Health Psychology from the University of North Carolina Charlotte. She is a researcher at University College Dublin’s Geary Institute where she coordinates the evaluation of Preparing for Life, an early childhood intervention. Previous projects include the National Evaluation for Systems of Care and the Sibling Resilience Study, both of which focused on families of children with severe emotional disturbances. She has been privileged to work with children and families from a diverse set of cultural and economic backgrounds across Ireland and the U.S. Her main research interests include child and adolescent resilience, family well-being, sense of community in adverse circumstance, and mixed-methods approaches to programme evaluation.
Links to some relevant sources:
http://ctb.ku.edu/en/default.aspx http://www.cdc.gov/eval/framework/index.htm
http://www.effectiveservices.org/
For further information please contact Ann Lyons. Tel. (091) 492228 Email: ann.lyons@nuigalway.ie

Gender ARC Public Lecture:Dr. Jessica Taft, Davidson College, North Carolina
2012-10-15 16:00
You are warmly invited to a lecture by
Dr. Jessica Taft
‰Û÷Redefining girlhood: teenage activists and contemporary feminisms’
Date and Time: Monday, 15 October, 4.00pm Venue: Moore Institute, NUIG
All welcome
http://www.genderarc.org/events/event-201210-taft.htm

Beckett Reading Group
2012-10-16 17:00
Beckett Reading Group
The Beckett Reading Group will reconvene for its second year on Tuesday, October 16th from 5-6pm in the Moore Seminar Room. Everyone is very welcome!
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:
Meeting One: 16 Oct. Embers
Week Two: 6 Nov. All That Fall
Week Three: 20 Nov. …but the clouds…
Week Four: 4 Dec. Nacht und TrÌ_ume
We will reconvene in Semester 2.

Performance Matters - Contemporary Irish Theatre discussion group
2012-10-16 18:00
