Agresso Information Session for Students, Postdoctoral Fellows & Budget Holders
2017-11-27 11:00 - 12:00 UTC | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Staff from the Accounting Office will give an information session on the new requirements for purchasing and claiming expenses.

Using SciVal to enhance the presentation of your research metrics and overall Research profile
2017-11-29 10:00 - 11:00 | AM107, Ground Floor, Arts Millennium Building
The Seminar will be given by Matt Walker of Elsevier and will cover the functionality of SciVal and how to use it to promote your research profile and better present your research metrics in your CV and grant applications. SciVal offers quick, easy access to the research performance of 7,500 research institutions and 220 nations worldwide. A ready-to-use solution with unparalleled power and flexibility, SciVal enables you to visualize research performance, benchmark relative to peers, develop collaborative partnerships and identify emerging areas of research. Topics covered will include how researchers can utilise SciVal to:

Tell the story of your research output,
Identify opportunities to enhance your research performance
Enhance presentation of your research output
Support your funding applications,
General overview on SciVal’s functionality including helping identify potential co-collaborators, topics of momentum to inform strategic planning.

Collections as Data - Hackathon / Collaborative Workshop
2017-11-29 10:00 - 2017-11-30 17:00
Join us for a 2-day Collaborative Workshop / Hackathon / Exploration of creativity using humanities research data.

Do you use research strategies like text or data mining, social network analysis, machine learning, or geocoding in your research?
Do you have subject expertise in cataloguing records, digital humanities, or working with digital collections found in libraries, archives, or cultural heritage institutions?
Can you apply your design skills or artistic talents to visualise complex datasets, help researchers gain new insights, or engage with non-specialist audiences?
Are you curious about any of these things?

NUI Galway, through the Moore Institute and the NUI Galway Library, has developed expertise in the creation of digital archives and research-led collections. The Insight Centre for Data Analytics are world-leaders in the interpretation and analysis of data.
With digital archives and data collections drawn from humanities research as your foundation, you will collaborate in small groups of researchers and practitioners over two days to explore and create. You will walk away with a community of support, and an idea of the possibilities of using collections as data.
The plan
Over this free two-day hands-on hackathon-style event, you will explore what people from diverse backgrounds can create when they work together.
You will work in groups of 3 people. Each group will consist of a humanities researcher, a developer / engineer, and an artist / designer. Over the course of the two days, you will work on a collection of your choice to produce an output that draws on the team’s range of interests, ideas and skills.
We will provide mentors to help you along the way, facilities to work in (including an on-site MakerSpace, if required), and food and drinks to keep you going. For those coming from outside Galway, we will have a limited number of bursaries available to cover travel within Ireland and accommodation.
Sample Collections
Some examples of datasets produced by researchers at NUI Galway that you could work with include:

Duanaire – a collection of datasets related to Irish economic history. One example is Customs15, which is made up of quantitative trade data spanning over 100 years, with data on locations and types of goods, along with high-resolution digitised images of the original source manuscripts.
Earlier Latin Manuscripts – A collection of data and high-resolution images of Latin manuscripts published before the year 800.
Landed Estates – Data, including location and images, on landed estates and historic houses in Ireland (c.1700 – 1914).
Tim Robinson Archive – An index describing 567 town-lands in Aran and Connemara. This draws together information on the language of local place-names, folktales, and historical, geological, archaeological and botanical information from each town-land.

You are welcome to suggest external collections to work on, either as part of a stand-alone project, or with a view to integrating it with a collection developed by researchers at NUI Galway. We will also provide a list of suggested collections closer to the event.
Interested?
Notice: All places at the workshop have been allocated. If you would like to join a waiting list, please add your details to the Expression of Interest form. (Updated, 24/10/17).
We have a limited number of places available for this event; applications will be reviewed in order to ensure a balance in the skills and interests of participants. If you are interested in applying to participate, please complete the Expression of Interest form, and we will be in touch.
Attendees will need to be available to participate on both days of the event, on November 29th and 30th.
Once we finalise sponsorship arrangements, we will be in a position to confirm the number and value of available travel bursaries.
If you have any questions, please contact David Kelly (david.d.kelly@nuigalway.ie) at the Moore Institute, NUI Galway.
Supported by

Imbas Conference 'Misinterpretation and Misunderstanding of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages'
2017-12-01 - 2017-12-03 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Imbas Conference ‘Misinterpretation and Misunderstanding of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages’
December 1st-3rd, G010, Moore Institute, NUI Galway

Imbas is an annual interdisciplinary postgraduate conference focused on Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. This year’s Keynote will be delivered by Prof. Dorothy Kim, assistant Professor of English at Vassar College, New York.
https://www.nuigalway.ie/imbas/

Moore Institute - Update meeting for staff of CASSCS
2017-12-01 11:00 - 12:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Prof. Daniel Carey, Director of the Moore Institute, will provide an update on MI activities todate and priorities for the future. The meeting will provide an opportunity for staff to have an input into the scheduling of these and other priorities, going forward.
Contact: Martha Shaughnessy – martha.shaughnessy@nuigalway.ie

The Civic University Symposium
2017-12-02 10:00 - 16:00 | MY243 Lecture Theatre, Aras Moyola, NUI Galway
YOU ARE WARMLY INVITED TO
The Civic University Symposium: Reimagining the University for Public Purpose
The inaugural event of the Critical Higher Education Studies (CHES) research group, supported by CELT and the School of Political Science and Sociology Public and Civic Engagement Programme, with keynote speech from Prof Vanessa Andreotti and contributions from Prof Ronaldo Munck and Dr Karen Pashby.
Date: Saturday 2nd December
Time: 10am-4pm
Venue: MY243 Lecture Theatre, Aras Moyola, NUI Galway
All welcome but places are limited.
To RSVP and for more information please see
https://civic_university_symposium.eventbrite.ie

What is the purpose of higher education? Is higher education a public good – and if so, how do we understand the claim that this requires a private cost, and therefore a private gain? Is the knowledge produced by higher education a public good – and if so, how do we understand this in relation to the tendency to lock this knowledge behind paywalls demanded by private publishing companies, and the exclusion of the Global South? Does higher education contribute to building a democratic citizenry – and if so, how does this relate to the increase in performative demands on teaching and research? What are the ethical responsibilities of higher education in the Global North in relation to the majority of the world?

This symposium marks the first public event organised by the Critical Higher Education Studies (CHES) research group, and aims to initiate a generative conversation about the transformations of higher education, and its role in creative re-imaginations of the university, its spaces, mission, activities and purposes, with equality, inclusion and rights as fundamental commitments.

Speakers
Prof Vanessa Andreotti is a professor at the Department for Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia and holds a Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change. She was a post-doctoral fellow at NUI Galway from 2006 to 2008. Her research traces systemic and historical patterns of reproduction of global inequalities and examines how these patterns relate to political and affective economies of knowledge production. She has extensive experience working with governments, NGOs, professional associations and local communities in areas of education related to global justice, community engagement, internationalization and indigenous knowledge systems. Many of her publications are available at: https://ubc.academia.edu/VanessadeOliveiraAndreotti.

Prof Ronaldo Munck is Head of Civic Engagement at DCU and a Visiting Professor of International Development at the University of Liverpool and St. Mary’s University, Nova Scotia. He has authored or edited more than 30 books on various topics related to globalisation, international development and social movements as well as over 100 academic journal articles. He is the founding chair of the Development Studies Association of Ireland and of Campus Engage, the national platform for civic engagement in Ireland. He serves on the editorial boards of a number of international journals and has led a range of research consortiums around social engagement/innovation themes. For further details see: http://www.dcu.ie/community/people/ronaldo-munck.shtml

Dr Karen Pashby is Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University in the Department of Childhood, Youth and Education Studies and the Education and Social Research Institute. Drawing on her experience as a secondary school teacher and teacher educator, her research considers the critical intersections of multicultural and global education, internationalisation of curricula and pedagogy, and the complexities of including youth voice in discussions of global citizenship. For more information see: http://www2.mmu.ac.uk/cyes/staff/profile/index.php?id=2637

Archaeology Book Launch 'Islands in a Global Context'
2017-12-05 16:00 - 17:30 | Room 202, Archaeology Department, NUI Galway

Bronagh McShane 'Visualising the Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Nuns’ Letters'
2017-12-06 12:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
The final event of the Autumn 2017 series of Digital Scholarship Seminar takes place on Wednesday 6 December at 12pm, and features a talk on network analysis of early modern nuns’ correspondence by Bronagh McShane, Postdoctoral Researcher at RECIRC: The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550-1700. The paper discusses network analysis methodology, challenges, and consequences with respect to an archive of letters written during the seventeenth century by and about members of the English Benedictine convent in Brussels. As ever, all are welcome.
12pm | Wednesday 6 December 2017 | Hardiman Building 1001 (The Bridge) | Facebook event page
Bronagh McShane (RECIRC, NUIG) Visualising the Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Nuns’ Letters Preserved in the Archive of the Archdiocese of Mechelen (AAM) in Belgium are hundreds of letters written during the seventeenth century by and about members of the English Benedictine convent in Brussels. This paper discusses the methodology for applying network visualisation tools to data gathered from this archive, some of the challenges involved in doing so, and how the application of digital and visual approaches can open up new ways of understanding the reception and circulation of early modern women’s writing. Bronagh McShane is a historian specialising in the history of women, religion and confessionalisation in early modern Ireland and Europe. She is currently a Post-doctoral Researcher on the project ‘RECIRC: The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550-1700’, led by Prof. Marie-Louise Coolahan at the National University of Ireland Galway, and funded by the European Research Council. Bronagh has published articles on aspects of her research in British Catholic History and Archivium Hibernicum and is contributing to a forthcoming collection on New Directions in Early Modern Irish History (contracted with Routledge). In 2018, she will hold a National University of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities at the Moore Institute, NUI Galway.

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Gender ARC Seminar “The Political is Personal: Mary Sheehy Kettle and the story of The Ways of War (1917)” by Speaker Prof. Niamh Reilly
2017-12-06 13:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
“The Political is Personal: Mary Sheehy Kettle and the story of The Ways of War (1917)”
Speaker: Prof. Niamh Reilly, School of Political Science and Sociology
Introduction by Dr. Muireann O’Cinneide, English/School of Humanities
Supported by the IRC New Foundations 2017 Decade of Centenaries Scheme
Mary Sheehy (1884-1967) was born into a prominent nationalist family in Ireland, a daughter of David Sheehy, Irish Party MP, and sister of Hanna Sheehy Skeffington. Over her lifetime, she became well-known as a leading women’s movement activist, an advocate for “nationalist veterans” of World War I, and a determined champion of social and economic justice, especially on behalf of women and children. In 1908, Mary Sheehy married Tom Kettle (1880-1916), then viewed by many to be a “rising star”; a young Irish Party MP (1906-1910), gifted journalist, essayist, orator and vocal supporter of women’s rights. Both were part of an emerging, university-educated generation, many Catholic, who expected to play a leading role in the “new Ireland”. As is now well known, events surrounding the 1916 rising radically altered the trajectory of Irish history. The story of how Tom Kettle came to spend the final weeks of his life in 1916 in France, with the Dublin Fusiliers fighting in the Allied War effort, is laden with poignancy and paradoxes. One of his last acts in France was to change his will asking that Mary be his literary executor and to send scribbled notes outlining a book of essays that he hoped would be published, which he wrote on the warfront in 1916 and earlier, as a war correspondent, in Belgium when the country was first invaded in 1914. This paper traces the story of that book, The Ways of War, published 100 years ago, in which Mary S. Kettle is the main protagonist. It is a story of the pair’s enduring political and intellectual partnership and Mary S Kettle’s struggle to establish herself as a post-1916 political actor in her own right and to vindicate Tom Kettle’s reputation after his death. As such it offers a unique window on how the dramatic transformation of the post-1916 political terrain in Ireland, and its new nationalist narrative, was encountered by those whom it eclipsed.

Guided walk on campus to learn about Gender-Based Violence in Education
2017-12-06 14:00 - 16:00 | Emily Anderson Concert Hall., NUI Galway
Global Women’s Studies and the MA in Gender, Globalisation and Rights programme, School of Political Science and Sociology, NUI Galway
2-4pm Guided Walk – Join us for a guided walk on campus with stops to learn more about Gender-Based Violence in Education in Ireland and internationally. The Guided Walk begins and ends at the Emily Anderson Concert Hall.

Talks by:
Lindsey Bacigal, MA in Gender, Globalisation and Rights
Dr. Amie Lajoie, School of Political Science and Sociology,
Dr. Kieran Kennedy, School of Medicine/Sexual Assault Treatment Unit
Dr. Nata Duvvury, Global Women’s Studies.

4-4:30pm Ceremonial Lighting of the Quadrangle (Emily Anderson Concert Hall) as part of the ‘Orange the World’ Campaign.

Addresses by:

Prof. Niamh Reilly, School of Political Science and Sociology,
Prof. Anne Scott, Vice-President of Equality and Diversity,
NUI Galway President, Dr. James Browne.

4:30-5:30pm – Bake Sale in aid of Galway Rape Crisis (Emily Anderson Concert Hall)

"Office Hours" Drop-in Service
2017-12-07 12:00 - 13:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
For postgraduate research students and academic staff with questions or ideas about:

Using digital technologies to support research
Communicating and promoting their work
Accessing funding to enable their work.

Meet with staff from the Moore Institute, Whitaker Institute, NUI Galway Library and the Research Office. No appointment is necessary.
From 12pm – 1pm in The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building.

Levi Hanes 'Research Exhibition'
2017-12-11 13:00 - 2017-12-16 16:00 | Art Gallery, Quadrangle, NUI Galway
The 11-16th December 2017 exhibition at the newly refurbished Art Gallery, in the Quadrangle, NUI Galway will present recent artworks by Levi Hanes. The artworks were developed over the course of an Irish Research Council funded, practice-based PhD at the Huston School of Film & Digital Media as a part of the Digital Arts & Humanities programme considering the role of slapstick and critical aesthetic theory in contemporary art. The Research Exhibition will consist of artworks featured in the thesis including large and small-scale prints, painted objects, freestanding sculptures, a floor installation and video.
The exhibition is generously supported by the NUI Galway Arts Office and will run from Monday 11 through Saturday 16 December.
Opening hours: Monday 1pm – 5pm, Tuesday – Saturday 12pm – 4pm. The gallery is currently not wheelchair accessible.

EDEN: Christmas Lightning Presentation
2017-12-14 17:00 - 18:30 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
All current postgraduate students are invited to present their research at EDEN’s Lightning Presentation Session on Thursday 14th December.
The Lightning Presentations session is a chance for you to showcase your research, practice your presentation skills, and apply the tips and hints from gained throughout the year –all in five minutes!
You can present on any aspect of your work in any way you would like–as long as it is five minutes or less! Attendance is open and staff are encouraged to join, so this is a great chance to share your research with a wider audience and network with your peers.
Click here for the full guide to the Lightning Presentation session.
The deadline to register to present is this Friday, December 8th, by 5 pm. Please express any technical needs at this time as well.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us directly or at eden.nuigalway@gmail.com.
We look forward to seeing all the great work currently being undertaken!

Feminist Storytelling Working Group
2018-01-17 10:30 - 17:30 | O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, NUI Galway, Ireland
Feminist Storytelling Working Group
PI: Dr Miriam Haughton
Date/Venue: 17 January 2018, O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance
Sponsored by: The College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Celtic Studies, the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, and Gender Arc, NUI Galway

Registration: This is a free event but places are limited. To reserve a place, please email ‘miriam.haughton@nuigalway.ie’ by 8 January 2018. Research topics under discussion are accessible online or will be emailed in advance.
Workshop Overview
This is the second of a series of workshops reflecting on significant moments of feminism and gender equality as they are represented or addressed via diverse modes of storytelling in an interdisciplinary forum. Considering feminism and gender in both Irish and international contexts, these workshops draw from institutional and international expertise to review points of urgency and change in relation to gendered experience from perspectives of history, law, culture, politics, and the arts. The aim of the workshop is to situate the trajectory and legacy of storytelling and narratives in modern contexts that illuminate gendered experience, utilising the methodology and principles of feminism. Chairs will introduce topics, which are then open to the floor for discussion, analysis and debate.
Guiding Themes: Performance, Gender and Change; Gender and Leadership; Gender and the Law; Gender and Family
Schedule
10.45 – 11.00: Registration
11.00 – 11.30: Dr Miriam Haughton, Workshop Introduction: Storytelling and Feminist Politics (DTP, NUI Galway)
11.30 – 12.15: Professor Linda Connolly, From Suffrage to The Irish Women’s Liberation Movement (Director, Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute)
12:15 – 1.00: Lunch, O’Donoghue Centre
1.00 – 1.45: Dr Kevin O’Sullivan, Gender and Humanitarian History (History, NUI Galway)
1.45 – 2.30: Orla O’Connor, The National Women’s Council of Ireland: The Agenda Today (Director, National Women’s Council of Ireland)
2.30 – 2.45: Break
2.45 – 3.30: Dr Andrew Ó Baoill, Gender and the Media (English/Journalism, NUI Galway)
3:30 – 4. 15: Ailbhe Smyth, Repeal the 8th Campaign (Convenor, Coalition to Repeal the Eighth Amendment)
4.15 – 4.30: Break
4.30 – 5.15: Professor Jen Harvie, Performance, Gender and Leadership (Drama, Queen Mary, University of London)

Recommended Reading
Bardon, Sarah, and Hugh Linehan, ‘Anti-harassment Measures for Arts Sector Announced’, Irish Times, 9 November 2017, viewed 30 November 2017 at: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/anti-harassment-measures-for-arts-sector-announced-1.3284789
Black, Allida, ‘Are Women “Human”? The UN and the Struggle to Recognize Women’s Rights as Human Rights’, in Akira Irite, Petra Goedde, and William I. Hitchcock, eds, The Human Rights Revolution: An International History, Oxford: Oxford UP, 2012, pp. 133-155.
Coalition to Repeal the Eighth Amendment, www.repealeight.ie
Connolly, Linda and O’Toole, Tina, Documenting Irish Feminisms, Dublin: Woodfield Press, 2013.
Everyday Stories, www.everydaystories.org
Harvie, Jen, ‘The Abuse of Power’, in Peter Eckersall and Helena Grehan, eds, The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics, Oxon: Routledge, forthcoming 2018.
Haughton, Miriam, ‘“Them the Breaks”: #WakingTheFeminists and Staging the Easter/Estrogen Rising’, Contemporary Theatre Review, vol 28, no.1, forthcoming 2018.
Mitchell, Caroline. “Women’s (Community) Radio as a Feminist Public Sphere”, Javnost – The Public, Vol. 5 , Iss. 2,1998, pp.73-85.
National Women’s Council of Ireland, www.nwci.ie
O’Toole, Fintan, ‘If Theatre Is Not a Safe Space, What Is Left?’, Irish Times, 4 November 2017, viewed 30 November 2017

Trump: One Year On A pop-up discussion on the first year of the Trump presidency
2018-01-22 12:00 - 13:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Trump: One Year On A pop-up discussion on the first year of the Trump presidency
12-1pm
Monday 22 January
Moore Institute Seminar Room (G010 Hardiman Research Building)

Participants:
Thamil Ananthavinayagan (Human Rights)
Clíodhna Carney (English)
Kathleen Cavanaugh (Human Rights)
Kathy Powell (Soc & Pol)
Mark Stansbury (Classics)

All welcome!

Archaeology Research Seminar on 'The cantred of Tyrmany in Connacht (where the Oscalli dwell)' by Daniel Curley
2018-01-23 16:00 - 17:30 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Title: ‘The cantred of Tyrmany in Connacht (where the Oscalli dwell)’ – Identifying the archaeology of the O’Kelly lordship of Uí Maine, by Daniel Curley

The O’Kelly lordship of Uí Maine is an oft-referenced but poorly understood political and territorial unit. The boundaries of this territory are routinely described as being consistent with south Roscommon and east Galway. However, the lack of research into the medieval O’Kellys has resulted in an uneven account of the areas they inhabited and controlled, where they sited their caputs, and ultimately, how they interacted with the other Gaelic and Anglo-Norman players in high and late medieval Connacht.
The main aim of my research is to explore the formation, character and development of the O’Kelly lordship of Uí Maine from the emergence of the sept to the kingship in c. 1100, to the demise of the O’Kelly fortunes by c.1600. This research will be undertaken through a multidisciplinary approach, embracing the disciplines of archaeology, history and historical geography, in order to understand the archaeological fabric of this lordship.
As the awardee of an IRC Employment-Based Research Scholarship, a key deliverable from the completed research will be the inclusion of a tourism potential study on the resources and possibilities available to garner an economic gain from this cultural heritage, in an area almost exclusively of rural character. As such, a case study comparison will be attempted between the rural heritage tourism model of the mid-Roscommon area, centred on Rathcroghan Visitor Centre, and the similarities, differences, opportunities and threats that may be apparent between that landscape and the Uí Maine cultural landscape for tourism growth and development.
In my first seminar on the subject of my PhD research, I will explain the approach that I have taken to date, as I attempt to reconstruct this lordship. Focus will be given to a brief discussion on, and critique of, the traditionally-cited boundaries of the territory. This will be followed by an account of the present state of scholarship on the subject as well as highlighting the sources I have thus far consulted. I will then discuss my findings so far, as I go about identifying the caputs of this high and late medieval lordship, concluding with an outline of my intentions going forward.

Modernisms in Conversation
2018-01-25 17:00 - 19:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
NUI Galway has a growing research community working on diverse aspects of modernist fiction, drama, periodical culture, and essays. We are proud to welcome Moore Institute visiting fellow Prof Sara Crangle, who will speak about her work on Mina Loy, and respond to papers by NUI Galway researchers. In this way we will gain a broad insight into the work being conducted on modernism in our university, and create a dialogue in the session between its participants, and between them and the audience.

The papers and speakers will be:
Mina Loy’s Sentimental Contraband – Prof. Sara Crangle (English, University of Sussex)

Modern Drama and the Rise of European Fascism: The Theatre of Gabriele D’Annunzio, Luigi Pirandello and W. B. Yeats – Zsuzsi Balázs (Drama, Theatre and Performance)

Flux in Fixity: Literary Modernism’s Media Theory and Revisionary Technique – Tiana Fischer (English)

Fluffy Ruffles: Debating, reproducing, and fashioning the American New Woman – Gaby Fletcher (English)

F.R. Higgins, Daniel Corkery and ‘Minor’ Literature – Eoghan Ryan (English)

Recovering Yeats’s performance texts: composition in the manuscripts of At the Hawk’s Well – Melinda Szűts (Drama, Theatre and Performance)

As always, all are welcome to continue the conversation in McGinn’s afterwards!

Streetwise Istanbul: Seeing 'Other' As Self
2018-01-30 12:30 - 14:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

Book Launch 'From Ego to Eco. Mapping Shifts from Anthropocentrism to Ecocentrism' Sabine Müller, Tina-Karen Pusse and Eoin Flannery
2018-02-01 16:00 - 17:30 | Seminar Room GO11, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
You are invited to the launch of
Sabine Müller, Tina-Karen Pusse
From Ego to Eco. Mapping Shifts from Anthropocentrism to Ecocentrism

by Dr Eoin Flannery
(SL, English Literature, UL)

On Thursday, February 1st at 4pm
GO 11, Hardiman Building

'How European was English Prose in 1700'
2018-02-01 16:00 - 18:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

Centre for Antique, Medieval and Pre-Modern Studies (CAMPS) Research Labs.
2018-02-02 12:00 - 14:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
Jessica Cooke: A Reappraisal of the Vita Secunda of Saint Fursa: the Irish Origins of a Continental Saint

Irish Centre for Human Rights
2018-02-05 16:00 - 18:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
The Irish Centre for Human Rights invites you to a public talk on Universal Periodic Review, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identities
By Diana Carolina Prado Mosquera
Diana is the United Nations Programme Officer at ILGA (The International LGBTQI+ Association). Originally from Colombia, Diana holds a master’s in human rights law and spent several years working as International Affairs Adviser to the Colombian government, wherein she was responsible for overseeing the country’s submissions to the second cycle of the Universal Periodic Review. As UN Programme Officer at ILGA, Diana works with states to ensure that the rights of gender- and sexuality-based minorities have a substantive presence in the UPR process.
Discussants for this talk are Aengus Carroll (author of ILGA’s State-Sponsored Homophobia Report), and Sandra Duffy (PhD researcher, Irish Centre for Human Rights; co-author of ILGA’s Trans Legal Mapping Report).

Archaeology Postgraduate Seminar - Chelsea Ryan
2018-02-07 16:00 - 17:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Chelsea Ryan
1st Year Doctoral Candidate in Archaeology
Conveying Identity Through Place: Understanding Bronze Age People and Society via Nucleated Settlements
Irish Bronze Age (2200-600BC) settlement studies are dominated by research on roundhouse farmsteads and hillforts. This seminar demonstrates that an in-depth study of a third settlement type, nucleated settlements (domestic villages), will enhance our understanding of Bronze Age society. A focus on the concepts of landscape and place as tools for understanding a site’s role will provide a more nuanced comprehension of settlement relationships and further context for individual and community identity as explicitly expressed in the Irish Bronze Age.

Goal Setting and Motivation Workshop
2018-02-07 18:00 - 19:30 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building

Open Research Data and Critical Data Studies
2018-02-08 13:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Open Research Data and Critical Data Studies: The Building City Dashboards Project.

Digital Scholarship Seminar
2018-02-14 14:00 - 16:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
The first event of the Spring 2018 series of Digital Scholarship Seminar takes place on Wednesday 14 February at 2pm, and features a stylometric interrogation of the study of authorship in nineteenth-century periodicals by Francesca Benatti, Research Fellow in Digital Humanities with The Open University. Following on from her talk on the Digital Humanities project, A Question of Style: individual voices and corporate identity in the Edinburgh Review, 1814-1820 at DSS last year, this presentation will reflect on the progress of the project, in the particular areas of corpus creation, methodological evaluation, and analysis of preliminary results. As ever, all are welcome.
Francesca Benatti (Open University)
Authorship, genre and style in the Edinburgh Review and Quarterly Review, 1814-20
This seminar presents an interrogation of the study of authorship in nineteenth-century periodicals through the Digital Humanities project, A Question of Style: individual voices and corporate identity in the Edinburgh Review, 1814-1820, which was funded by a Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Field Development Grant in 2017. Together with my colleague David King, we are working to assess the assumption that early nineteenth-century periodicals succeeded in creating, through a “transauthorial discourse”, a unified corporate voice that hid individual authors behind an impersonal public text (Klancher 1987).
Dr Francesca Benatti is a Research Fellow in Digital Humanities with The Open University specialising in digital literary studies. Her digital research interests include stylometry, text analysis, digital editions and their applications to the study of literature. Her literary research interests are the writings of Irish author Thomas Moore (1789-1852), nineteenth-century periodicals, book history and comic books. She runs the CHASE Arts and Humanities in the Digital Age doctoral training programme and is one of the editors of the Thomas Moore Archive.
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History Seminar
2018-02-14 16:00 - 17:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
14 Feb.
Dr Martin O’Donoghue (National Library of Ireland)
Commemoration of Parnell & Davitt in the Irish Free State.

Lindsay Myers Book Launch
2018-02-15 17:00 - 21:30 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
INVITATION
You are invited to the launch of:
Lindsay Myers
UN FANTASY TUTTO ITALIANO
Le declinazioni del fantastico nella letteratura
italiana per l’Infanzia dall’Unita al XXI secolo
by Prof. Laura Tosi
(Ca’ Foscari,Venice)

WHAI Spring Seminar 2018: New Directions in Early Modern Irish Women’s History
2018-02-16 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building

WHAI Spring Seminar 2018: New Directions in Early Modern Irish Women’s History.
2018-02-16 09:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The seminar is free to attend but advance registration is necessary.
To register via Eventbrite, click here.
To download the seminar programme, click here**
The WHAI is delighted to announce its annual Spring Seminar which will take place at the Moore Institute, NUI Galway on Friday 16 February 2018.
This one-day interdisciplinary symposium will bring together leading and emerging scholars from a variety of disciplines currently engaged in cutting-edge research on the history of early modern Irish women. Keynote lectures will be delivered by Professor Mary O’Dowd (QUB) and Professor Jane Ohlmeyer (TCD). Other confirmed speakers include Sparky Booker (QUB), Felicity Maxwell (NUIG), Frances Nolan (UCD), Clodagh Tait (MIC, UL), Evan Bourke (NUIG) and Jane Maxwell (TCD).
To download the seminar poster, please click here.
