Moore Institute

NUIG Classics book launch-Amrae Coluimb Chille: a critical edition by Jacopo Bisagni
2019-06-18 14:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Jacopo Bisagni, Amrae Coluimb Chille: a critical edition, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (Early Irish Text Series, vol. I), Dublin 2019. Pp. xvi + 524. €35
https://books.dias.ie/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=9_41&products_id=398
Amrae Coluimb Chille is a complex and fascinating Old Irish text. A unique tour de force of linguistic inventiveness, the Amrae laments the death of Colum Cille and praises equally his monastic perfection and his intellectual achievements, his asceticism and his pastoral leadership, his rejection of the secular world and his descent from a noble lineage.
This book provides the first ever complete critical edition of Amrae Coluimb Chille. The introduction offers a full study of the text’s manuscript transmission, language and style, as well as a discussion of its historical context. The Old Irish text is accompanied by a new English translation and is followed by a detailed commentary, a glossary and several appendices.

Feminist Economics, Irish Finance, and the Commons
2019-06-17 13:30 - 17:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
This workshop, led by Conor McCabe, author of Money (Sireacht): Longings for Another Ireland (2018), will look at writers such as Silvia Federici, Maria Mies, Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Nancy Fraser, and Selma James, and the application of their ideas and analysis to an Irish context in terms of combating the new enclosures of financialisation in housing, health, education, transport and energy. It will explore the institutional economic class interests that exist in Ireland, and alternatives to same in the spheres of paid labour and social reproduction.
Capitalism does not willingly pay for the reproduction of the labour it exploits. Social democracy forced it to somewhat contribute to this reproduction through legislation and general taxation, but from the 1970s onwards these very supports have been under profound attack by capitalism, in particular finance capital. The slashing of corporation and capital taxes is the slashing of capital’s contribution to the social reproduction of human labour. Austerity as the new normal is a continuation of this process – one where ‘class struggle includes struggle over social reproduction: for universal health care and free education, for environmental justice and access to clean energy, and for housing and public transportation.
The need for capitalism to enclose social reproduction for profit-seeking purposes makes the issue one that contains the potential for a genuine counter-attack against it. This workshop will explore this potential in terms of activist strategies and organisation.
Cooperation among movements for societal change is nothing new; but the purpose of that cooperation, and its power, appears to have been forgotten. The way capitalism seeks profit and maintains power has an effect on the shape of our resistance to it. The ideas of social movement unionism and feminist economics serve to shine a light on ways of thinking and organisation that will complement the actions by those who wish to transform capitalism.
Dr. Conor McCabe is a research associate with UCD Equality Studies Centre.. He has written extensively on Irish finance and is involved in activist education, working with political, trade union, and community groups.

Developing Enabling Policies for Digital and Open Teaching and Learning
2019-06-13 10:30 - 15:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
A participatory workshop for all engaged in institutional policy development with respect to digital and open teaching and learning.

This workshop is open to all in Irish higher education, particularly those engaged in institutional policy development with respect to digital and open teaching and learning.
Workshop participants will have the opportunity to review and discuss various digital/open policies and policymaking approaches and consider approaches that are relevant to their own contexts. The workshop will also share policy resources, including the National Forum’s Guide to Developing Enabling Policies for Digital Teaching and Learning. Overall, the focus will be on policymaking approaches that are effective, inclusive and responsive across all aspects: policy elements, core processes and partners, consideration of risks and beneﬁts, policy implementation and review.
The workshop will be facilitated by Dr. Catherine Cronin (Strategic Education Developer, National Forum) and guest speakers will include Dr. Tony Murphy (Head , Quality Enhancement and Innovation in Teaching and Learning, Dublin Business School), Dr. Fiona Chambers (Head, School of Education, University College Cork), Dave Sammon (Professor, Information Systems), and John Cox (University Librarian, National University of Ireland Galway).
To Register please click Here
Workshop programme:
10:30 Arrival and Coffee/tea/fruit/pastries
11:00 Introduction and welcome
11:15 Presentation and discussion: Developing an Open Access policy – John Cox (NUIG)
11:50 Exploration of National Forum guide: Developing enabling policies for digital teaching and learning and related resources – Tony Murphy (DBS) and Catherine Cronin (National Forum)
12:20 Presentation and discussion: Developing a Lecture Recording policy – Tony Murphy (DBS)
13:00 Lunch
13:30 Presentation and discussion: Using design thinking to develop and consolidate university-wide policies – Fiona Chambers and Dave Sammon (UCC)
14:10 Workshop activity: Understanding policy challenges (common and context-specific), marshalling resources and support, charting steps forward, and sharing progress
15:20 Wrap-up and close
This workshop supports the strategic aims of the National Forum in 2019-21 to inform and support the development of national and institutional policies related to teaching and learning in an open digital world. The workshop will build on resources already created by the National Forum, in particular the Guide to Developing Enabling Policies for Digital Teaching and Learning.

‘Thinking Through the Skin: Touching Northern Irish Short Fiction’
2019-06-12 16:30 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
Talk by Moore Visiting Fellow Caroline Magennis
‘This talk will offer an overview of the depiction of Northern Irish skin in recent short story collections, particularly Bernie McGill’s Sleepwalkers (2013) and
Roisin O’Donnell’s Wild Quiet (2016). Drawing on work by Laura Marks, Abbie Garrington, Virginia Woolf, Sara Ahmed and others, this paper seeks to examine
how we might engage with this new representation of the body and the potential of the haptic to be a mode of both self-knowledge and transmission. In these
short stories, moments of connection through touch are lingered on and memories of touch past are pivotal. White Northern Irish skin is not valorised or
celebrated, but often cast as something fragile and permeable that absorbs the toxic quality of the atmosphere. Scars are everywhere, and language is a fleshy
mechanism involving lips, tongues and teeth. This talk will argue that recent short stories continue to move the Northern Irish body away from its
representational dead end as over-deterministic symbol of the conflict. Rather than just the body in pain, skin is revealed to be a complex medium that yields

Summer School In Visual Analytics, 2019
2019-06-10 09:00 - 2019-06-14 17:00 | Insight Centre for Data Analytics, IDA Business Park, Lower Dangan, Galway, Ireland
Organised by the Knowledge Discovery Unit (KDU) at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, the Moore Institute and the Lero Software Research Centre, NUI Galway.
Running from the 10th – 14th of June at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, NUI Galway, Ireland, the KDU Visual Analytics Summer School will provide students, researchers, academics and industry professionals with an opportunity to come together to learn, share experiences and to develop new cross-disciplinary partnerships. Over the course of this 5 day-long summer school participants will:

learn from key researchers in the field,
take part in hands-on sessions to deepen these learnings, and
work together on case-study oriented mini-projects.

The target audiences include postgraduate students and early career researchers in the fields of data analysis, visualisation, digital humanities, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), business and IT. This diverse group of disciplines is important, as it will enable interdisciplinary approaches to both the mini-projects within the workshop, and to future collaborative research projects. We are also keen to include participants drawn from local industry and the civil service, especially those whose role includes data-led decision-making.
Registration & further information
Fees: €250 early bird registration (before May 1st) / €350 regular
Online registration now open at http://vass.datascienceinstitute.ie/registration/
For further information please contact the organisers at vass@insight-centre.org or visit vass.datascienceinstitute.ie

Third Galway Conference of Irish Studies 2019 “What is it to dwell?”: Home(s) in Irish Studies
2019-06-07 - 2019-06-08 | G010 and Room 1001,The Bridge Room , The Hardiman Research Building
We are delighted to host the Third Galway Conference of Irish Studies on the theme of home(s) in Irish Studies and extend a warm welcome to the Moore Institute community!
Dr. Sindy Joyce will give our first plenary lecture, ‘Mincéirí Cena: Travellers and Mobile Spaces, Home as a Place, Space and Mobility’, on Friday 7 June at 17.15 in Room G010.
Join us in Charlie Byrne’s on Saturday at 8 June at 18.30 for our second plenary with Melatu Uche Okorie, Oein de Bhairduin & Skein Press.
For our full schedule see: https://gcis2019.wordpress.com.

‘The Party’s Splendor Fell to the Floor’: Suicide and Failure in Bowen and Woolf
2019-06-06 16:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
Talk by Moore Visiting Fellow Bridget English
Bio:
Dr. Bridget English is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She received her PhD in English from Maynooth University in Ireland, where she also lectured. She is a specialist in modern and contemporary Irish literature and culture, with particular research interests in theories of the novel, modernism, and the medical humanities. She is the author of Laying Out the Bones: Death and Dying in the Modern Irish Novel (Syracuse U.P. 2017). Additional publications include book chapters on John McGahern, Anne Enright, and a forthcoming chapter on Irish crime fiction. She is currently working on a book project titled, “Self-Destructive Modernisms: Suicide, Medicine, and Failure in the Modernist Novel.”

Spotlight on Research Lecture Series-'Why Consent? Why Multidiscliplinary? Why Now?: Making the Case for the Active Consent Programme’s Multi-Sectoral Plan for 2019-2023'
2019-06-06 13:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Dr Charlotte McIvor (Drama and Theatre Studies), Dr. Pádraig Mac Neela,
Dr Siobhán O’Higgins & Kate Dawson (School of Psychology)

Abstract
This talk theorises the signature approach of the Active Consent programme team comprised of researchers from Psychology, Health Promotion, and Drama and Theatre Studies in relationship to the current policy and educational landscape around sexual health education and assault prevention in Ireland and internationally. Working together since 2014, this team designs evidence-informed tools (based on survey and qualitative data), including workshops and creative arts interventions, which in turn facilitate dialogue regarding consent and sexual health. The team’s embrace of consent as an active, positive educational paradigm – inclusive of all genders, all relationships and all sexualities – is intended to empower young people as active agents in the negotiation of their sexual relationships. Now funded between 2019-2023 by the Lifes2good Foundation with support from the National University of Ireland, Galway, the Active Consent programme has set the objective of unifying third-level, secondary school and sporting organisations’ provision of consent-focused sexual health education. This talk will reflect on the team’s learning since 2014 in partnership with young people, trends in third-level Irish sexual health data that they have observed over this period, and why they believe that a multi-disciplinary approach, which considers interdependent educational and community sectors, is essential for sustainable change in social and personal attitudes towards consent within sexual relationships in a post-#MeToo era. The team will describe the importance of sexual consent as a window on young people’s openness in talking about sensitive topics, and the scope to expand this conversation into mental health and the use of alcohol and drugs.
Dr Pádraig MacNeela leads the SMART Consent project and Active Consent programme. He is a senior lecturer at the School of Psychology, NUI Galway, where he has worked since 2004. He works mainly on youth research, especially in relation to sexual health, mental health, and alcohol use, and on community research projects. He began working on sexual health initiatives following a project with RCNI in 2013 and served on the board of management of Galway Rape Crisis Centre 2014-18. He is co-investigator on the multidisciplinary YOULead doctoral training scheme on youth mental health 2018-2022 and the NUI Galway Resilience Project / Student Information Project – both of which demonstrate the importance of expanding the conversation about sexual health into other areas of well-being in young people’s lives.
Dr Charlotte McIvor is a Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at NUI Galway in the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance. She is the author of the book Migration and Performance in Contemporary Ireland: Towards A New Interculturalism, and multiple articles and edited collections focused on contemporary performance, identity, and interculturalism. Other creative projects on sexual consent include an original devised play 100 Shades of Grey co-created with NUI Galway students and co-direction of Lucy’s House Party (with Mick Ruane) for the Manuela Riedo Foundation’s Manuela Programme secondary school education project on sexual consent.
Dr Siobhán O’Higgins is research fellow on the Active and SMART Consent programme, School of Psychology. A sexologist and sexual health promoter, Siobhán has worked, since 1990, developing and evaluating programmes on sexuality and relationships – for third level students, primary and secondary pupils, parents, prisoners and those with intellectual disabilities. Her PhD in 2011, explored secondary school children’s perceptions on what young people need to know and how they would like to be taught about sexuality and relationships and teachers’ ideas on how to meet those needs. The insights and knowledge gained during her PhD were translated into practice in the WISER programme, presently delivered in over 50 schools in the West of Ireland. She developed the SMART Consent workshop and train the trainer programme with Dr MacNeela to raise awareness and challenge existing worrying social norms about how to be a sexually active young person.
Kate Dawson is currently finishing her PhD research in the School of Psychology on Pornography. Since completing her Masters in Health Promotion she has been delivering workshops in schools as a sexuality and relationship educator on the WISER programme and co-created the website for that intervention.

Whitaker PhD Forum 2019
2019-06-06 09:30 - 16:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The Whitaker Institute for Innovation and Societal Change on Thursday, 6th June will host its fourth annual PhD Forum in the Hardiman Research Building at NUI Galway.
The Forum is a one-day event for PhD students, which aims to provide students with a day to interact and network with each other, to gain helpful advice about the PhD process, and to celebrate their research.
The event is suited to students at all stages of their PhD studies. Participants will have an opportunity to meet and interact with other PhD students, to gain advice from PhD supervisors and other University colleagues, to share their PhD experiences, and to get suggestions and ideas to support their research.
This is a full day event. In the morning, PhD students will receive coaching in managing their personal PhD experience. An additional session will feature advice on research careers and preparing a development plan. In the afternoon, there will be a session on PhD regulations and the PhD Viva. There will also be a special session on the introduction to research data management.
The day will also include a poster display of PhD research in the Hardiman Foyer.
The draft agenda for the day is available here.
This is a free event and open to all PhD students. Coffee and lunch will be provided. Students attending will also receive a pack with an updated and extremely helpful Viva guide, as well as other resources.
Registration is essential, as places are limited. Please register here by Thursday 30th May to ensure your place on the day.

2019 Sophia Network Meeting
2019-06-01 - 2019-06-02 | Seminar Rooms G010 and G011 Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
The Sophia Network Meeting will take place in Galway at the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) on the 1st and 2nd of June, and as a bonus, the NUIG invites delegates to a P4C Symposium on the 31st of May. The SOPHIA Network Meeting this year is being co-hosted by Philosophy, NUI Galway Philosophical Dialogue Project – NUI Galway, Little Rainbow Academy Ireland and Curo.
If you would like to join us, please register here
Venue and Location
The 2019 Network meeting will take place in conference rooms at the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG), University Road, Galway, Ireland.

Preliminary Programme
Friday 31st May: P4C Symposium at NUIG – Academic papers over two sessions. Followed by and Evening Open Public Panel: ‘What is Education for? The Role of Philosophy in Contemporary Ireland’.
Saturday 1st June: Day 1 of Sophia network meeting, workshops and papers (Lunch and refreshments provided). Followed by an optional joint dinner for delegates in the evening (booked by hosts, delegates pay their own meals & drinks) at Massimo Gastro Pub, 10 William Street.
Sunday 2nd June: Day 2 of Sophia Network meeting, workshops and papers (lunch and refreshments provided).
To see the timetable below more clearly, or to download and store it, please click on the picture.

Future Landscapes a mixed Reality showcase
2019-05-31 17:00 - 21:00 | The Cornstore, Middle Street, Galway
The exhibition is the result of the 4 week intensive Future Landscapes workshop created in conjunction with the School of Machines, Making and Make-Believe and Galway 2020.
The aim of the workshop was to allow participants to develop the skills to explore the use of immersive technologies, such as Virtual and Augmented Reality, within the context of Landscape, both seen and unseen. This can include, for example, the augmentation of physical landscapes, and creating immersive experiences related to social and political landscapes.
There are a number of staff participating in the workshop who we know would greatly appreciate your support – we look forward to seeing you there!
This capacity-building project is part-funded through a Higher Education Authority (HEA) project on Digital Literacy in Irish Humanities, and through Galway 2020’s Digital Programme.

"Getting it Down and Writing it Up: William Petty and Ireland's Contemporary Ambitions for Clinical Research"
2019-05-30 16:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Talk by Helen Sonner Moore visiting Fellow 2019
William Petty is well known for conducting the Down Survey and for his contributions to the development of statistics, demographics, and economics. However, his methods in the Down Survey can also be seen to have anticipated many of the methodologies used today in the conduct and management of clinical trials. This paper will contextualise contemporary efforts to create global standards for clinical research against William Petty’s methodological innovations in the seventeenth‑century Down Survey – and suggest that recognizing Petty’s connection to the rise of clinical trials raises interesting possibilities at NUIG for a practical response to the call by the Irish Humanities Alliance for ‘intensive engagement’ in developing interdisciplinary research between the sciences and the humanities.

'The New Mythological Image of Ovidian Myrrha in William Barksted’s Myrrha, The Mother of Adonis: Or, Lustes Prodigies (1607)'
2019-05-28 17:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
This talk will be given by Moore Visiting Fellow Dr Agnès Lafont (University Paul Valery – Montpellier 3, France)
Abstract: William Barksted in Myrrha, The Mother of Adonis: Or, Lustes Prodigie (1607) uses the classical story of Myrrha (Ovid, Metamorphoses 10) in similar and divergent ways to create an erotic epyllion. This early modern adaptation of the Ovidian story offers a case point of the re-reading of the classical tradition of daughter-father incest to see whether there are no enjoyable feelings attached to this destructive erotic pulsion and how the moral reading of the fable can be subverted to titillate an early modern male reader. Barksted clearly knew his Ovid and the stock moralisations inherited from the Ovid Moralisé tradition and he uses them to probe erotic psyche. By tapping into subterraneuous connections, the Myrrha story mirrors and decontracts desire and lust while simultaneously redefining the process of mythopoetics in the early modern genre of erotic narratives.

A Foucauldian-Feminist Approach to Countering Sexual Violence and Sexual Humiliation by Prof. Dianna Taylor
2019-05-28 14:00 - 16:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Abstract
Humiliation is a definitive but, within the discipline of philosophy, under-theorized harm of sexual violence against women. This talk draws upon the late work of Michel Foucault in order to provide an account of sexual humiliation resulting from sexual violence, as well as to posit ways in which sexual violence and sexual humiliation might be effectively countered. Given that sexual humiliation manifests within the relation of self-to-self, such countering calls for creation of new and subversive modes of self-relation. The talk provides insight into what these alternative, counter-humiliating modes of self-relation might look like by analyzing specific instances of verbal and embodied feminist anti-sexual violence protest.
Speaker Biography
Dianna Taylor is Professor of Philosophy at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. She has co-edited two volumes of essays, Feminism and the Final Foucault (University of Illinois Press, 2004) and Feminist Politics: Identity, Difference, Agency (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007), and is editor of Michel Foucault: Key Concepts (Acumen Publishers, 2010). Her book, Sexual Violence and Humiliation: A Foucauldian-Feminist Perspective, is forthcoming with Routledge.

''Cultural Renaissance and Anti Colonialism in India and Ireland''
2019-05-27 14:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
Talk By Dr Jyoti Atwal Moore Visiting Fellow 2019

Atwal suggests that India and Ireland were both trying to identify symbols to create a national ideal in late nineteenth century. Theatre and music provided a fertile ground for this purpose. Through the Dublin life of James Cousins, W.B Yeats, Lady Gregory and Synge; and through exploration of early years of Abbey Theatre and Irish National Theatre Society, she plans to capture this synergy. The leaders of the Abbey Theatre also embodied vegetarianism and occult. There were regular readings of the Hindu text ‘Bhagawat Gita’ in Dublin circles and promotion of vegetarian restaurants. There has been no study to look at these interactions as potential arenas of forging nationalisms through esoteric universalism and anti-colonial politics.
She shall be focusing on the poet and play writerJames Cousins, who was married to Margaret Elizabeth Cousins (co-founder of the Irish Women’s Franchise League). They both moved to India in 1915 at the invitation of the Theosophist or a humanitarian worker or an anti coloniafl activist in India. Both were fiercelycommitted to voting rights campaign for women and other forms of public service; and most significantly they joined in the Gandhian challenge to colonialism after 1920s. The couple stayed in Dublin from 1902 till 1915 and actively participated in several sessions of occult and planchette writing with Yeats and his group. The politics of women’s voting rights (intertwined with British suffragettes) and anti-colonialism were the two main political agendas of the couple.

Riddling Discourse and Construction of Knowledge in Ancient Greek Literature and Early Irish Saga: The Case of Ogam
2019-05-27 12:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
Dr Federica Scicolone (King’s College London) Moore Visiting Fellow 2019
This talk will consider a widespread motif in archaic Greek poetry, the so-called ‘contest of wisdom’ between wise men, usually bards or poets (e.g. Calchas and Mopsus in fr. 278 M-W; the Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi), in relation to the Hellenistic and later practice of ‘riddle’ funerary epigrams, from both literary and inscriptional contexts (AP 7.422 and 429; SGO 09/05/17): here the passer-by is challenged by the deceased to decode the symbols carved on the tombstone, and the resolution of the riddle depends entirely on the passer’s-by insight and sophia. The selected case studies will be compared with few references to Ogam enigmatic inscriptions in early Irish saga (e.g. the Táin, 220ff.; Tochmarc Étaíne §18; Sanas Cormaic §1018) in order to observe that, similarly as in the examined Greek texts, the use of Ogam in literary contexts may serve the purpose of testing the interlocutors (and, through them, the readers) and of initiating them into wisdom by means of riddling discourse.

Odd Man Out History, Fiction and Film
2019-05-25 10:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
10.00 am
Screening Odd Man Out (1947) will take place in The Houston school of Film and Digital Media NUIG
1.00–2.30 pm
Chair Niall Ó Dochartaigh, National University of Ireland, Galway
Romancing ‘the Organisation’
Odd Man Out and Contemporary Discourses on the IRA
John Ó Néill, Treason Felony Blog / Litter Press
‘That may be true, but …’
The Inspiration for Odd Man Out—A Consideration of a Suggestion
Breandán Mac Suibhne, Centenary University, New Jersey
3.00–4.30 pm
Chair Catherine Morris, National University of Ireland, Galway
Out of What?
Carol Reed, Odd Man Out, and post-War Malaise
Ruth Barton, Trinity College, Dublin
‘Which Side I’m Neutral On’
I See a Dark Stranger, Ireland, and post-WW2 British Cinema
Luke Gibbons, National University of Ireland, Maynooth

‘Sorry, not sorry’ – Apology and denial in communicating armed struggle, with examples from the Provisional IRA
2019-05-24 15:15 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
This talk will be given by Moore Visiting Fellow Dr Sanjin Uležić (Centre on Social Movement Studies (Cosmos), Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence),as part of the ’Violence, Space and the Archives’ conference. Full conference programme and further details available at
https://ghussey3.wixsite.com/violencespacearchive

Print Culture and the Galway Poor Clares, 1600-1800
2019-05-24 14:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
A talk by Moore Visiting Fellow Jaime Goodrich
Abstract: This talk will offer an introduction to the rare books owned by the Galway Poor Clares, who recently reacquired several dozen volumes lent to the Franciscan House of Studies in Killiney during the 1970s. In addition to providing an overview of the current collection’s scope and history, I will discuss evidence of book circulation and ownership among the Galway nuns. Finally, I will consider the broader significance of this collection for scholars working on early modern print history. As a particularly rich corpus of early modern Franciscan texts, the rare books of the Galway Poor Clares should become a key resource for historians and literary scholars interested in monastic libraries, convent reading practices, and Franciscan spirituality during the 17th century.

Oral history and private archives in researching Irish Republican prisoners in Portlaoise Prison, 1973-1985
2019-05-23 09:15 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
This talk will be given by Moore Visiting Fellow Dr Dieter Reinisch (University of Vienna/Webster University) as part of the ’Violence, Space and the Archives’ conference.
Full conference programme and further details available at
https://ghussey3.wixsite.com/violencespacearchive

Image: Harvey/McCaughey/Smith Cumann Sinn Féin minute book, Portlaoise Prison, July 1982-January 1983

Geopolitics and Justice Cluster Seminar-'Technology as a Geographical Keyword'
2019-05-22 16:00 | B.S. Mac Aodha Seminar Room 113, Discipline of Geography, NUIG
by Prof. Scott Kirsch
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Abstract
While for centuries technology referred to a systematic study of the ‘practical arts’ – typically in the form of a book or technical manual – the term’s usage has expanded so dramatically that today we think nothing of the same word being used to describe a set of methods, a specific piece of machinery, or the totality of our collective means and capabilities. From a textbook to an ethnological category, and from mechanical objects to infrastructural networks and large technological systems, historical geographers, in turn, have been left to explain the world technology has “made.” Through a materialist keyword approach to the career of technology, this paper raises questions about what it means to think of things, processes, and relations as technological, and explores the implications of the idea of technology – understood in terms of its integrative, meaning-making, cultural work – for the histories and geographies that we produce.
Bio
Scott Kirsch (kirsch@email.unc.edu) is Professor of Geography at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests include the politics and culture of technology; nuclear landscapes; 19th- and 20th-century US science; history of scientific exploration and cartography; US geopolitics and empire, especially in the Philippines and Asia/Pacific; and geographies of war and peace. He is author of Proving Grounds: Project Plowshare and the Unrealized Dream of Nuclear Earthmoving (Rutgers University Press, 2005) and editor (with Colin Flint) of Reconstructing Conflict: Integrating War and Post-War Geographies (Routledge 2011). He is currently writing a book about America’s “insular empire” in the Philippines.

The Maamtrasna Murder Case: Politics, Language, Identity
2019-05-22 15:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
A panel discussion and response by
Prof. Margaret Kelleher
Speakers: Conor Hanley, Niall Ó Ciosáin, Ciarán Ó
Cofaigh, Anne O’Connor, John Walsh & Mary Harris
(chair)

Future democrats/democratic futures? Trump, 2020, and what lies ahead for American and European polities
2019-05-20 17:00 - 18:30 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
Hosted by The NUI Galway MA in Culture and Colonialism and the Moore Institute and Discussion lead by James Mcdermott Senior Member of the U.S. house of representatives.
Jim McDermott is a Senior Member of the U.S. House of Representatives with over 40 years of public service in the federal and state government. As a Democratic Member of Congress (Washington’s 7th Congressional District) from 1989-2016, he was a champion of issues relating to social justice, healthcare, veterans’ reintegration, and foreign affairs and international engagement. He is particularly known for his prescient opposition to the Iraq War, which earned him the sobriquet of “Baghdad Jim” from Conservative media. He also served in the U.S. Navy Medical Corps, working with casualties returning from Vietnam.
Jim McDermott’s discussion will address a wide range of contemporary political issues, particularly the effects of Donald Trump on the American electoral and representative system, the prospects of Democrat candidates in the 2020 election, and the wider question of what lies ahead for America and Europe in this period of rising ethno-nationalism and political upheaval.

Empire, Gender and Global Development
2019-05-20 14:00 - 16:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Colonialism, Development, and the Cooperative Movement in Ireland and India
Dr Mo Moulton
(Lecturer in the History of Race & Empire, University of Birmingham)

Manhood, Transcontinental Networks, and the Baha’i Faith Movement in Cameroon
Dr Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoué
(Assistant Professor of African History, Baylor University)

This seminar is supported by the Moore Institute Visiting Fellowship scheme, in association with the Conflict, Humanitarianism & Security Research Cluster, Whitaker Institute.
Contact: Dr Kevin O’Sullivan (kevin.k.osullivan@nuigalway.ie).

IMBAS OPEN RESEARCH DAY 2019
2019-05-18 11:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The Imbas committee is holding an open research day ahead of the tenth Imbas conference later this year. Imbas is an interdisciplinary postgraduate conference in Medieval Studies at NUI Galway. This event will showcase ongoing research in disciplines related to Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.
All welcome

Modernist Legacies and Futures:
2019-05-17 09:30 | Seminar Rooms G010 & G011, Hardiman Research Building
Modernist Studies Ireland
National University of Ireland Galway
Plenary Speaker: Dr Ben Levitas, Goldsmiths University of London
Opening address: Prof Daniel Carey
The inaugural conference of Modernist Studies Ireland, ‘Modernist Legacies and Futures’ seeks to bring together Irish and international scholars to initiate an exchange and review of current research, trends, and findings in modernist studies.
We ask scholars to consider how modernists created or negated the future in their work? Did modernist artists conceive of the future as a prerequisite of the work itself and, if so, how did they attempt to secure their legacy? What does the digital landscape achieve for modernism studies? What future does modernist studies have? If modernism was a radical attempt to reshape culture and art did it succeed and how can we as scholars perpetuate this radicalism? Do current attempts to democratise the study of literature and unsettle canonicity impact future research? What modernisms are missing from the field of modernist study? What does modernism mean to minority languages, cultures, and to a
non-western canon?

Modernist Studies Ireland (MSI) is a new organisation that aims to facilitate the sharing of interests, research, and pedagogical approaches to modernism and modernity in the Republic and Northern Ireland. We very much welcome new members to helps us shape the goals and initiatives of MSI. Our current activities include a monthly Works in Progress seminar series.
Further information about the organisation, our monthly events and the full CFP can be found here: https://modstudiesireland.wordpress.com
The conference is sponsored by the Moore Institute and the Explore Fund.

Psychology Matters Day :The Psychology of Brexit -Prof. Brian Hughes
2019-05-16 19:00 | Arts Millenium Building, AM250 – Colm O’Heocha Theatre
Unlike most cultural upheavals, Brexit is not the result of accidental tragedy or spontaneous economic turmoil. Rather, Brexit was contrived by politicians, was voted for by citizens, and is now being implemented by bureaucrats. Brexit did not ‘just happen’; it exists because people decided to make it exist. It is therefore hugely influenced by a myriad of psychological factors as experienced across many social groups. Brexit is the combined reflection of a multitude of perceptions, preferences, choices, self-images, attitudes, ideas, assumptions, and reasoned (or ill-reasoned) conclusions.
This lecture will examine the Psychology of Brexit. We will look at the psychological factors that influenced the dawn of Brexit, such as optimism biases, causal attribution errors, and illusions of control. We will consider how cognitive dissonance, social stereotypes, and motivated irrationality help otherwise groundless beliefs to thrive in everyday culture, leading to group polarisation, rejectionism, and echo-chamber reasoning. We will see how individual political figures become associated with ideas, and how cultural biases (such as sexism) shape how politicians are portrayed and perceived. And we will consider the psychological impact of Brexit: its effect on social attitudes, future thinking, and collective and individual mental health.
We will conclude by examining how Ireland views Brexit. Are we Irish capable of an objective assessment of the Brexit project? Are we aware of our own biases when seeking to summarise its progress? And does Brexit help focus Irish minds on positive ideas such as collaborative problem-solving — or does it provoke unhealthy social attitudes such as nationalistic self-regard, delusional optimism, and passive coping?
As with its origins and progress, the future impact of Brexit will be shaped by its psychological aspects. This lecture will show how psychology research can shed light on events such as Brexit and position us best to learn from them.
Speaker
Brian Hughes is a Professor of Psychology at NUI Galway. He is a Fellow and former President of the Psychological Society of Ireland. A prolific researcher in the field of mental stress and health, Brian is a prominent advocate for scientific psychology, evidence-based policy, scientific outreach and the role of psychology in society. His latest book is Psychology in Crisis (London: Palgrave, 2018).
See https://www.psychologicalsociety.ie/event/Psychology-of-Brexit-with-Prof-Brian-Hughes

Inis Airc art exhibition by Pádraic Reaney.
2019-05-14 17:00 | Ground Floor Hardiman Research Building
You are welcome to join us at a wine reception for the opening of the Inis Airc art exhibition by Pádraic Reaney.
Inis Airc is artist Pádraic Reaney’s response to the changing form of Inishark, an island off the west Galway coast. It uniquely captures a crumbling cultural landscape as the uninhabited island, which once supported a community of over 200 people, returns to nature.
This exhibition is funded by the Discipline of Geography, NUIG, for the 7th EUGEO Congress in conjunction with the 51st Conference of Irish Geographers, which is co-chaired by Dr Frances Fahy and Dr Kathy Reilly and will take place from the 15-18th of May. The exhibition will be open to all 500 conference delegates throughout the duration of the conference and is open to all staff, students and visitors to our University from May 7th until May 28th, 2019. Our thanks to Richard Scriven (Geography), Dan Carey and the Moore Institute for all of their work and support in preparation for this exhibition.

NUIG Classics book launch De origine scoticae linguae, a new edition by Pádraic Moran of a seventh-century Irish scholarly text on the origins of the Irish language.
2019-05-14 17:00 | The staff Club, NUIG
To be launched by Prof. Dáibhí Ó Cróinín.
All welcome. (Refreshments will be served.)

De Origine Scoticae Linguae (O’Mulconry’s Glossary): An early Irish linguistic tract, edited with a related glossary, Irsan, Corpus Christianorum, Lexica Latina Medii Aevi 7 (Turnhout, Brepols: 2019)
A new edition of the earliest etymological study of a European vernacular language.
De Origine Scoticae Linguae (also known as O’Mulconry’s Glossary) is a text originating in seventh-century Ireland that provides etymologies for c. 880 Irish words, mostly drawn from Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Its Latin prologue declares its affiliation to the Graeco-Roman linguistic tradition, claiming an origin for the Irish language in the Greek dialects Attic, Doric and Aeolic. The glossary attests to the transmission and reception of the Latin grammatical tradition in Ireland and shines light in particular on the Irish knowledge of Greek and Hebrew. The text also represents a milestone in the history of European linguistics, as the earliest etymological study of a European vernacular language.
The glossary was published once before, by Whitley Stokes in 1898. This new edition provides the first translation and textual commentary, clarifying the sense of difficult entries and discussing sources. The introduction analyses the structure and contents, origins and development, linguistic issues, and relationships to other texts. The text is edited here along with a shorter related glossary of 232 entries, entitled Irsan, which includes shared material and sheds further light on its development.

Cultural Climates - Public Seminar - 'Fostering Art for Sustainability - Time for a New Cultural Policy?'
2019-05-14 16:00 - 18:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Iain Biggs, Flight/Paths: (Her bones…) 2018.
Cultural Climates is a two-part lecture and public forum which explores how research and policy in relation to climate change can be engaged with across the cultural and arts sectors in Ireland today. In particular, it explores how culture and the arts are key to addressing issues associated with the climate emergency, and how the arts and sustainability sectors need to be more integrated in their approach to addressing social, political and environmental challenges in the Age of the Capitalocene. The presentations from Dr Iain Biggs and Dr Cathy Fitzgerald will be followed by a public forum and discussion on what role the arts and cultural sectors can, and need to, play in addressing the issues of ecological crisis in this a time of climate emergency.
Cultural Climates: This public seminar emerges from research, teaching and public engagement events in the areas of Irish Studies, Art, Geography and socially-engaged research developed between Dr Nessa Cronin at NUI Galway and Professor Karen E. Till and Professor Gerry Kearns at Maynooth University since 2012.
Supported by the Centre for Irish Studies, Moore Institute, and the Research Support Scheme, CASSCS, NUI Galway, 2018-19 and the Irish Research Council’s Creative Connections Scheme. In association with the EUGEO International Conference and the Conference of Irish Geographers, NUI Galway, 15-18 May 2019.
