Reading by German writer Katja Lange-MÌÄå_ller
2014-11-10 14:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
German at NUI Galway is pleased to announce the visit of the writer
Katja Lange-MÌ_ller to NUI Galway
on Monday, 10 November.
The reading will be in German.
All are welcome.
For more information please contact Geraldine.smyth@nuigalway.ie

Digital Scholarship Seminar: Mr Daniel Powell (visiting speaker, King's College London & University of Victoria) - Towards a typology of the open editition
2014-11-11 12:00
Mr Daniel Powell (visiting speaker, King’s College London & University of Victoria)
Towards a typology of the open editition
Respondent: Dr Justitin Tonra (English, NUI Galway)
Presentatitions during the first hour of each seminar are followed by discussion and exchange overa light lunch in the second.
For further informatition, contact: Dr PÌÁdraic Moran (padraic.moran@nuigalway.ie), or Dr Justitin Tonra (justitin.tonra@nuigalway.ie)
www.nuigalway.ie/digital-seminar ‰ۢ www.facebook.com/nuigdss

Archaeology research seminar series: Yolande O'Brien on: *Landscape Learning, Wayfinding and Cognitive Mapping: the Process of Creating Routeways*
2014-11-11 16:00
Archaeology research seminar series:
Yolande O’Brien on:*Landscape Learning, Wayfinding and Cognitive Mapping: the Process of Creating Routeways*
All welcome!
maggie.ronayne@nuigalway.ie

Gender ARC lunchtime seminar series: Dr. Sarah-Anne Buckley, Department of History, NUI Galway 'Divorce Irish Style': attitudes to and experiences of deserted wives in Ireland, 1922-1987
2014-11-12 13:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland

History Graduate Research Seminar Series: Mahon Murphy (LSE), German Colonial settlers in internment in the British Empire during the First World War
2014-11-12 16:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Mahon Murphy (LSE),G011
German Colonial settlers in internment
in the British Empire during the First World War.
for more information please contact caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie

PROFESSOR MICK MOLONEY Music Department New York University (NYU)
2014-11-13 18:00
PROFESSOR MICK MOLONEY
Music Department New York University (NYU)
Arts in Action in association with
THE MOORE INSTITUTE
Mick Moloney combines the careers of professional musician, folklorist, musicologist, teacher and arts presenter and advocate. He holds a Ph.D. in Folklore and Folklife from the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught ethnomusicology, folklore and Irish studies courses at the University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown University and Villanova University and currently teaches at New York University in the Irish Studies Program and the Music Dept. In 2008 he won the Golden Dozen Award for teaching excellence at NYU. He is an accomplished singer as well as an instrumentalist and possesses a vast storehouse of songs and instrumental pieces from the Irish and Irish-American tradition.In a presentation rich with audio visual illustrations and live performance Mick Moloney traces the amazing story of the evolution of Old Time American, Country and Bluegrass Music and tap dance from his rich multi-cultural tapest

Reading: Maria Elsner, Essen University, will read, in German, from MÌÁn'arÌ_la-Trilogy
2014-11-18 14:00
Discipline of German, NUIG
Maria Elsner,
will read, in German, from MÌÁn’arÌ_la-Trilogy
Maria Elsner started to write her first novel Das BÌ_ndnis von MÌÁn’rÌ_la – Die Sprache des Feuers (“The Alliance of MÌÁn’rÌ_la – The Language of Fire”) when she was 12. After three years of work the book was published and in 2015 the second volume of the MÌÁn’arÌ_la-Trilogy will be released.
The book is an adventurous Fantasy-Novel about what friendship, love and loyalty can set against the everlasting war between good and evil, fire and ice. It tells about an alliance of the nine planets of our solar system and their desperate attempt to protect our lives from the coming of an abysmal nothingness, a dark hole full of gloom and death. Nine children were chosen to lead this alliance with fortitude, among them Kara, an unsuspecting girl of our planet, the Earth, who never saw herself being involved into a war. It therefore is a story about the power of hope and the eternal desire of every living entity for freedom.
But the vastness of the universe is coming …
Maria studies Music and English at Essen University. At the moment she is on an internship in German at NUI Galway.
For more information please contact geraldine.smyth@nuigalway.ie

Archaeology research seminar series: Lynda McCormack on: Negotiating the Liminal at Knowth - "A Study of Space and Ritual in the Boyne Valley"
2014-11-18 16:00
Archaeology research seminar series:
Lynda McCormack on:
Negotiating the Liminal at Knowth – “A Study of Space and Ritual in the Boyne Valley”
All welcome!
maggie.ronayne@nuigalway.ie

Gender ARC Public Lecture - Autumn 2014: Martine Storti 'Enjeux de la question des femmes au XXIÌÄå¬me siÌÄå¬cle en France et dans le monde'
2014-11-18 16:00
Gender ARC Public Lecture – Autumn 2014
Martine Storti
‰Û÷Enjeux de la question des femmes au XXI̬me si̬cle
en France et dans le monde’
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Martine Storti is an author, leading activist in the women’s movement in France, and a former philosophy teacher, journalist and political advisor. Her books and essays include : Un chagrin politique, de mai 68 aux ann̩es 80, L’Harmattan, Paris, 1996; Cahiers du Kosovo, l’urgence de l’̩cole, Textuel, Paris, 2001; 32 jours de mai, Le Bord de l’eau, Latresne, 2006 ; L’arriv̩e de mon p̬re en France, Michel de Maule, Paris, 2008 ; Je suis une femme, pourquoi pas vous? 1974-1979 : quand je racontais le mouvement des femmes dans Lib̩ration. Ed Michel de Maule. Mars 2010 ; Le f̩minisme ÌÊ l’̩preuve des mutations g̩opolitiques, with Fran̤oise Picq. iXe ̩ditions. 2012.
Martine Storti was part of the women’s movement in France in the early 70’s and has not stopped fighting for the rights of women and speaking on issues of women’s rights in France and abroad. She is president of two associations åÇ 40 ans de MLF åÈ and åÇ F̩minisme et g̩opolitique åÈ.
Please note that the talk will be in French.
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Co-sponsored by Global Women’s Studies, Gender ARC &
NUI Galway French Society
Light refreshments – all welcome!
To RSVP or for further information: Gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie (Global Women’s Studies) or Sylvie.lannegrand@nuigalway.ie (Gender ARC and Discipline of French)

Book launch of Ovidian Bibliofictions and the Tudor Book, by Dr. Lindsay Reid, School of Humanities
2014-11-18 17:30
Invitation to Book Launch
You are cordially invited to the launch of Ovidian Bibliofictions and the Tudor Book by Dr. Lindsay Reid, School of Humanities,
on Tuesday, November 18th at 5:30pm, Room G010, Hardiman Research Building.
The book will be launched by Dr. Jane Grogan, Senior Lecturer in English at UCD and former NUI Fellow with the Moore Institute.
All welcome!
RSVP to mooreinstitute@nuigalway.ie

Language Games: A Seminar on Language and Literature
2014-11-19 14:00
Language Games is a seminar dedicated to all matters relating to language and literature, including linguistics, translation, language instruction, and literary experiments and their reception.
All Welcome
Organisers:
Irina Ruppo Malone (English/Academic Writing Centre, James Hardiman Library)
irina.ruppo@nuigalway.ie
Siobhan Purcell (English)
siobhanmpurcell@gmail.com

History Graduate Research Seminar Series: Geraldine Curtin (Hardiman Library, NUIG),Straitjackets and ribbons: Discipline in early Irish reformatories
2014-11-19 16:00
Geraldine Curtin(Hardiman Library, NUIG),G010Straitjackets and ribbons: Discipline in early Irish reformatories.
for more information please contact caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie

Book Launch - Leo Keohane - Captain Jack White Imperialism, anarchism & the Irish Citizen army
2014-11-19 17:30
Merrion Press, the Centre for Irish Studies & the Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour and Class request the pleasure of your company at a reception to celebrate the launch of
Captain Jack White Imperialism, anarchism & the Irish Citizen army
byLeo keohaneWith Special Guest Speaker
PÌÁdraig yeates
Journalist, trade unionist and author of the definitive Lockout: Dublin 1913
RSVP: info@iap.ie | 045 895562

Verne Harris, Director of Research and Archive at the Nelson Mandela Foundation on Post-Apartheid, Post Mandela
2014-11-20 13:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Verne Harris, Director of Research and Archive at the Nelson Mandela Foundation
lecture on
Post-Apartheid, Post Mandela.
Verne Harris offers a reflection on reckoning with pasts and making futures in South Africa. He interrogates inter alia the country’s continuing transition to democracy, the unfinished work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the legacy of Nelson Mandela.
Director of Research and Archive at the Nelson Mandela Foundation, Verne Harris was Mandela’s archivist from 2004 to 2013. He is an honorary research fellow with the University of Cape Town, participated in a range of structures which transformed South Africa’s apartheid archival landscape, including the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and is a former Deputy Director of the National Archives. Widely published, he is probably best-known for leading the editorial team on the best-seller Nelson Mandela: Conversations with Myself. He is the recipient of archival publication awards from Australia, Canada and South Africa, and both his novels were short-listed for South Africa’s M-Net Book Prize. He has served on the Boards of Archival Science, the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation, the Freedom of Expression Institute, and the South African History Archive
For more information please contact tflorath@web.de

Department of Archaeology guest speaker - Professor Mike Parker Pearson, University College London: The Bronze Age Mummies of Cladh Hallan, Outer Hebrides
2014-11-20 16:30 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Department of Archaeology guest speaker
Professor Mike Parker Pearson from the Institute of Archaeology at University College London will lecture on:
The Bronze Age Mummies of Cladh Hallan, Outer Hebrides
All welcome!
for more information please contact maggie.ronayne@nuigalway.ie

CAMPS lab: Dr. Cathy Swift, Irish Studies, University of Limerick - 'Confession, Penitence and the Anamchara'
2014-11-21 12:00
Dr. Cathy Swift, Irish Studies, University of Limerick
‘Confession, Penitence and the Anamchara‘
Followed by discussion & light lunch
Everyone welcome – FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch
For more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie

Gender ARC Public Lecture - Kris McDaniel-Miccio - 'Fundamental rights and gender-motivated violence in the United States and Ireland: Lessons from recent legal battles and policy approaches'
2014-11-21 12:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Gender ARC Public Lecture – Autumn 2014
Kris McDaniel-Miccio
‰Û÷Fundamental rights and gender-motivated violence in the United States and Ireland: Lessons from recent legal battles and policy approaches’
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Kris McDaniel-Miccio is Professor of Law at Sturm College of Law, University of Denver. She is an expert in comparative law, focusing on family law in the U.S. and the Republic of Ireland and the respective jurisdictions’ legal and cultural positions on same sex-marriage and male intimate violence. Professor McDaniel-Miccio is currently a Visiting Research Professor at TCD undertaking research on lesbian and transgender identity in law and culture in the U.S. and Ireland. Previously, she was a Fulbright Scholar at UCD and was awarded an Honorary Life Membership of the Law Society, UCD Chapter. Forthcoming publications include: ‘Confronting the Gendered State: A Feminist Response to Gender Inequality and Gender Violence In the United States and the Irish Republic, Wisc. J. Law, Gender & Society, (2015) and ‘An American in St. Patrick’s Court: Gender-Violence, Gender Inequality and the Irish Feminist Response, in Domestic Violence: A Comparative Approach (Oxford Univ. Press 2016). Professor McDaniel-Miccio has written extensively, consulted widely and served as an expert on numerous legal cases involving gender-motivated violence, including a U.S. Supreme Court case, Castle Rock v Gonzales, which raised serious issues regarding the fundamental right to bodily integrity in cases involving male intimate violence. Professor McDaniel-Miccio and her wife were the lead plaintiffs in the same sex marriage lawsuit brought against the State of Colorado that on October 7, 2014, resulted in the extinguishment of the state’s gay marriage ban.
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To RSVP or for further information: Gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie
Co-sponsored by Global Women’s Studies and Gender ARC
Light refreshments – all welcome

History Graduate Research Seminar Series: Therese Moylan (IADT & NUIG), A Yard of Counter Is Better Than A Farm of Land: Business-women in twentieth-century Ireland
2014-11-26 16:00
Therese Moylan(IADT & NUIG),A Yard of Counter Is Better Than A Farm of Land:Business-women in twentieth-century Ireland.
for more information please contact caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie

Digital Scholarship Seminar
2014-11-27 12:00
Dr Aidan Kane (Economics, NUI Galway),
Dr Patrick A. Walsh (UCD)
&
Dr Eoin Magennis (InterTrade Ireland)
Creatiting a database of Irish internatitional trade 1698-1829
Dr MÌÁirÌ_n Mac Carron (History, NUI Galway)
What are the potentitial benefifits of applying mathematitical network theory to Humanitities sources?
Presentatitions during the first hour of each seminar are followed by discussion and exchange overa light lunch in the second.
For further informatition, contact: Dr PÌÁdraic Moran (padraic.moran@nuigalway.ie), or Dr Justitin Tonra (justitin.tonra@nuigalway.ie)
www.nuigalway.ie/digital-seminar ‰ۢ www.facebook.com/nuigdss

Symposium: 'The Human Rights Scholar-Activist or Activist-Scholar?'' and Launch of Professor Kevin Boyle Archive
2014-11-28 10:00
Symposium: “The Human Rights Scholar-Activist or Activist-Scholar?” and Launch of Professor Kevin Boyle Archive
28th November 2014, NUI Galway
The family of the late Professor Kevin Boyle, co-founder of the Irish Centre for Human Rights (ICHR), has kindly deposited the Kevin Boyle archive at the James Hardiman Library, NUI Galway. This important archive has much to say about the pursuit of human rights in Ireland, the UK and internationally. The Archive will be launched at a series of events at NUI Galway on the 28th November 2014. A day-long symposium, organised by the ICHR and the School of Law, will bring together leading human rights scholars and activists to address the theme “The Human Rights Scholar-Activist or Activist-Scholar” and will also explore issues of human rights, archives and memorialisation. The keynote speaker is Professor Sir Nigel Rodley, Chairperson of the UN Human Rights Committee.
Panel Speakers Include:
Brice Dickson
Michael Farrell
Tom Hadden
Fran̤oise Hampson
Barry Houlihan
Bernadette McAliskey
Marie McGonagle
Tarlach McGonagle
Donncha O’Connell
PÌ_l O’Dochartaigh
Michael O’Flaherty
Louis Boyle
Video input/message from Mary Robinson
All are welcome.
Following the Symposium, the Archive of the late Professor Boyle, catalogued and available at the Hardiman Library at NUI Galway, will be officially launched by MÌÁire Whelan, S.C., Attorney General.
For further information: humanrights@nuigalway.ie To register for Symposium: www.conference.ie

CAMPS lab: Prof. MÌÁirÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha, Old & Middle Irish, NUI Galway 'A Solution from Irish Tradition to the Enigma of an Old English Poem, the So-called "Wulf and Eadwacer'"
2014-11-28 12:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Prof. MÌÁirÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha, Old & Middle Irish, NUI Galway
‘A Solution from Irish Tradition to the Enigma of an Old English Poem, the So-called “Wulf and Eadwacer'”
Followed by discussion & light lunch
Everyone welcome – FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch
For more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie

IMBAS: NUIG's International Medievalist Postgraduate Conference, November 28-30th
2014-11-28 15:30
Imbas: NUIG’s International Medievalist Postgraduate Conference
Venue: Hardiman Research Building
This year’s theme: ‘East – West and the Middle Ages’
Begins: 3.30pm, Friday 28th November, through Saturday until 1pm Sunday 30th November
Wine Reception: 6 – 7pm, Friday 28th November
Keynote Speaker: Dr L̩an NÌ_ Chl̩irigh, Trinity College, Dublin: ‘East Meets West: the crusades and the twelfth-century’ from 7 – 8pm, Friday 28th November
Admission Fee: 20 Euro All welcome……
Website: http://www.nuigalway.ie/imbas/
for more information please contact imbasnuig@gmail.com

Dr. Lucy-Ann Buckley, School of Law, NUI Galway Gender, autonomy and family agreements: lessons for Ireland from Canada?
2014-12-03 13:00
Dr. Lucy-Ann Buckley, School of Law, NUI Galway
Gender, autonomy and family agreements: lessons for Ireland from Canada?
Date/Time: Wednesday 3 December, 1.00-2.00pm
Venue: Room 1001, The Hardiman Building, NUI Galway
Contact details: Gender ARC Research Seminar and Public Lecture Series coordinator: Emma BrÌ_nnlund, e.brannlund1@nuigalway.ie or Gillian Browne, Centre for Global Women’s Studies, Gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie

Spanish Department guest talk - Prof. Jeremy Munday (Leeds) on Translation Studies.
2014-12-03 18:00
Spanish Department guest speaker
Professor Jeremy Munday (Leeds)
will give a guest talk on
Translation Studies
For more information please contact geraldine.smyth@nuigalway.ie

Digital Scholarship Seminar
2014-12-09 12:00
Prof. Patrick Lonergan (Drama & Theatre Studies, NUI Galway)
Digital Humanitities and Theatre History: Re-thinking the role of women writers at theAbbey Theatre
Ms Ellen McCabe (Huston School, NUI Galway)
‰Û÷Let the frame of things disjoint’: Ambiguity in the digital age and the consequences foreducatition
Presentatitions during the first hour of each seminar are followed by discussion and exchange overa light lunch in the second.
For further informatition, contact: Dr PÌÁdraic Moran (padraic.moran@nuigalway.ie), or Dr Justitin Tonra (justitin.tonra@nuigalway.ie)
www.nuigalway.ie/digital-seminar ‰ۢ www.facebook.com/nuigdss

Journalism Guest Speaker Series: In conversation with Ms Hilary Martyn, Editor, The Galway Independent
2015-01-14 11:00
Journalism Guest Speaker Series:
In conversation with Ms Hilary Martyn, Editor, The Galway Independent
For more information please contact bernadette.osullivan@nuigalway.ie

Journalism Guest Speaker Series: In conversation with Ms Lorna Siggins, The Irish Times -Western and Marine Correspondent
2015-01-21 11:00
Journalism Guest Speaker Series:
In conversation with Ms Lorna Siggins, The Irish Times -Western and Marine Correspondent
For more information please contact bernadette.osullivan@nuigalway.ie

Archaeology Guest Lecture: Distinguished Research Professor in Archaeology Alasdair Whittle, Cardiff University on The Times of their Lives: Why Does Building Precise Chronologies for the European Neolithic Matter?
2015-01-21 11:00
Archaeology guest lecture by Distinguished Research Professor in Archaeology
Alasdair Whittle, Cardiff University.
Professor Whittle will speak on:
The Times of their Lives: Why Does Building Precise Chronologies for the European Neolithic Matter?
(Please come before 11am; lecture will begin promptly because there is a class following at 12).
All welcome!
for more information please contact maggie.ronayne@nuigalway.ie

History Graduate Research Seminar Series: Carla Lessing 'Ethnic Silence': Swedish perceptions of 'Finnishness' in the 16th and 17th centuries
2015-01-21 16:00
History Graduate Research Seminar Series

Carla Lessing
‘Ethnic Silence’: Swedish perceptions of ‘Finnishness’
in the 16th and 17th centuries.

for more information please contact caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie

Inaugural Prof. Turlough Fitzgerald Memorial Lecture
2015-01-22 12:00
Professor Richard Reynolds Deputy Head, Division of Brain Sciences,Wolfson Neuroscience LaboratoriesImperial College London
“Knowledge, gifting and passion: a recipe for success in Neuroscience”
Organised by the Discipline of Anatomy, School of Medicine and the Galway Neuroscience Centre, in remembrance of the outstanding contributions that the late Professor Turlough Fitzgerald made to Neuroscience and Anatomy research and teaching at UCG/NUIG.
Professor Richard Reynolds Bioprofile: Professor Richard Reynolds studied Pharmacology at King’s College London from 1975 to 1981 before embarking on a career in MS research and has now been Professor of Cellular Neuroscience at Imperial College, London, for the last 13 years. He is the Scientific Director of the UK Multiple Sclerosis Tissue Bank and also heads an MS research unit at the Hammersmith Hospital. Professor Reynolds has been carrying out MS related research for the last 30 years and current research in the unit is designed to gain an understanding of the mechanisms involved in both neurodegeneration and repair processes in the brain in MS. This research is dependent on a supply of well characterised human brain tissue that has been collected by the UK MS Tissue Bank because of the desire of the MS community to contribute to the research in a practical way. This work has led him to be involved in teaching both science and medical students about MS and to travel around the British Isles helping people with the illness understand what is happening to them. At home he enjoys cooking, relaxing with his family, playing the guitar and travelling. Richard is married to Jane, has four children, three grandchildren, and lives in Oxfordshire.
Lunch provided after the lecture
For more information contact david.finn@nuigalway.ie
