Moore Institute

ECHO seminar: Manly Pursuits, Rebecca Barr - Desire, Disgust, and Indigestion in John Cleland's Memoirs of a Coxcomb, Des Lally - The Fictionalization of Hilton Edwards and MicheÌÁl MacLiammÌ_ir in Paul Smith's Novel Stravaganza!
2014-04-01 17:00 (Europe/Dublin)
you are jovially invited to an ECHO seminar symposium of chaps, rakes, bachelors, and coxcombs as we probe the mysterious world of male culture and masculinities with two bravely incisive speakers from the College of Arts. We meet at the slightly later time of 5pm on Tuesday 1st April, not without fitting tomfoolery and the usual vintnerish frolics alongside what promises to be penetrating and invigorating social and cultural criticism.
MANLY PURSUITS
REBECCA BARR
Desire, Disgust, and Indigestion in John Cleland‰۪s Memoirs of a Coxcomb
DES LALLY
The Fictionalization of Hilton Edwards and MicheÌÁl MacLiammÌ_ir in Paul Smith‰۪s Novel Stravaganza!
All welcome. Wine comradely served
ECHO brings together researchers of all disciplines to discuss research questions in a cordial environment.
Contact: adrian.paterson@nuigalway.ie or see our website: http://echoforum.wordpress.com

Philosophy Graduate Workshop: Conceptions of Causality and Freedom in the History of Metaphysics
2014-04-02 09:30
Conceptions of Causality and Freedom
in the History of Metaphysics
Graduate Student Workshop in Traditional Metaphysics
National University of Ireland, Galway
The workshop will bring together graduate scholars engaging metaphysical, epistemological and moralissues surrounding freedom and causality in the history of metaphysics broadly understood.Although there is no registration fee, do email d.parashkevova1@nuigalway.ie if you plan to attend.The workshop will take place in THB-G011 Seminar Room in the AHSSRB (new research buildingadjoining the library).
9.30Coffee and Welcome
10.00Desislava Parashkevova (NUI Galway)‰Û÷Self-Causation and Metaphysical Necessity: An Adaptation of Plato‰۪s Theory ofForms‰۪
11.00Michael Lyons (Trinity College Dublin)‰Û÷Pereboom and the Practical Reasons for Accepting Kant‰۪s Transcendental Freedom‰۪
12.00Jonathan Head (Keele)‰Û÷Schopenhauer on Freedom and the Intelligible Character‰۪
1.00Lunch, Moffetts Restaurant
2.30Morganna Lambeth (Northwestern)‰Û÷Event Perception in Kant and Heidegger‰۪
3.30Coffee
4.00Damir Cicic (Central European University)‰Û÷What is Incompatibilism?‰۪
5.00Dinner in Galway City
For more information please contact tsarina.doyle@nuigalway.ie

History Graduate Research Seminar Series: Martin O'Donoghue, 'The legacy of the Irish Parliamentary Party in Free State politics, 1922-26'
2014-04-02 16:00
History Graduate Research Seminar Series
Martin O’Donoghue,
‘The legacy of the Irish Parliamentary Party in Free State politics, 1922-26’

Professor Roger Savage, Department of Ethnomusicology, The Herb Alpert School of Music, University of California and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow - 'Music and Affect'
2014-04-03 14:00
Professor Roger Savage
Department of Ethnomusicology, The Herb Alpert School of Music, University of California and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow
‘Music and Affect’
For more information please contact lillis.olaoire@nuigalway.ie

Lucy McDiarmuid (Marie Frazee-Baldassarre Professor of English, Monclair State, NJ) - 'I'll tell Paddy on you': Women's Interesting Encounters with Men in April 1916'
2014-04-03 16:00

Copyright Reform in Ireland and Reflections on the WIPO Marrakesh Treaty Copyright, Education, and Disability: Past, Present, and Future
2014-04-04 18:00
Copyright Reform in Ireland and Reflections on the WIPO Marrakesh Treaty
Copyright, Education, and Disability: Past, Present, and Future
https://www.nuigalway.ie/cdlp/forthcoming_events.html
A seminar organized jointly by DREAM (https://www.nuigalway.ie/dream/), DISCIT (http://www.discit.edu) and the Centre for Disability Law & Policy (NUI Galway) (https://www.nuigalway.ie/cdlp/)
Main Speaker: Dr. Eoin O‰۪Dell,
Associate Professor of Law, Trinity College & Chair of the Copyright Review Committee of Ireland.
Respondents: Samantha Holman
CEO of the Irish Copyright Licensing Agency
Abigail Rekas
Marie Curie Early Stage Research Fellow
The Centre for Disability Law & Policy is pleased to announce a public seminar on copyright reform in Ireland on 4 April, 2014 at 6pm. The seminar will reflect on the recent Copyright Review Committee report, Modernising Copyright, and the new World Intellectual Property Organisation Marrakesh Treaty, aimed at creating exceptions and limitations to benefit persons who are blind, visually impaired or otherwise print disabled, as well as easing cross-border transfer of accessible format books.
Dr. Eoin O’Dell, one of the authors of the Modernising Copyright, will speak on the experiences of academics, students and persons with disabilities dealing with copyright law and practice. It will begin with an overview of the basic principles of copyright, having regard to existing legislation and precedents (copyright past). It will then look at the important current copyright issues – in particular the problems which copyright law poses for people in education and for people with a disability (copyright present). And it will conclude with how these issues might change for the better, if current reform proposals are implemented and if international treaties are implemented (copyright future).
4 April 2014 Time: 6 ‰ÛÒ 7.30pm Venue: National University of Ireland, Galway
Seminar Room THB-G010, The Hardiman Library
RSVP to Abigail.rekas@nuigalway.ie

IT in the Humanities Eleventh Annual Conference
2014-04-07 09:30
IT in the Humanities Eleventh Annual Conference
IT building, NUI, Galway, Monday, 7th April 2014

9:30Welcome IT125

9:40 ‰ÛÒ 11:10IT125

9:40 ‰ÛÒ 11:10IT204

Roddy Burns: Technology development of free language translation

Evan Flaherty*: Digital camera use in public places ‰ÛÒinvading privacy?

Tomas Malone: The preservation of languages through digitisation

Richard McKinley: Smartphone security: is the cloud the answer?

Aoife Phelan: Social media and television

Eoin Reilly: The impact of the internet on mobile phone operators

Karen Dobson: Human computer interaction and social media websites

Seamus Conroy: Cyber-warfare: Beyond Ethical Boundaries

Thomas Keehan: Online safety and social networking

Alan Forde: Cyberforensics and digital evidence

Jane Holland: Communication overload: nowhere to hide?

Marie Fahey: Wearable technology

Lorraine Togher: The representation of women online

Emer Guinane: Social media for marketing

Thomas Devery: Speech synthesis

Josh Allen: Chess algorithms

COFFEE

11:30 ‰ÛÒ 1:20IT125

11:30 ‰ÛÒ 1:20IT204

Ciaran Foley: Being rural in an information society

Killian Geaney: Technology for the gifted achiever

Leanne ODowd: How internet and gaming affects lives

Daniel Bostrom: Machine Learning

Manus Mc Comhaill: Biometrics

Dominic Burke: Animal conservation techniques

Dominic Falvery: Autonomous cars

Dermot Dunne: Technology and food production

Michael Mc Cormick: 3D printed firearms

Grainne Bhreathnach: The relationship between socialmedia and social anxiety

Eimear Daly: Bitcoin as a digital currency

Brian Conneely: Anonymous internet marketplaces

Nicholas O Fegan: Gamification

Deirdre Walsh: Second life: second personality?

Alan Mulkerrins: IT in diagnostic & intervention for medical imaging

Christopher Kelly: Technology in flood control in Ireland

Barry Quigg: The progression of thecomputing world

Niamh Briscoe: Technology for alternative energy

Brian Murphy: IT in marketing for business organizations

*as gaeilge

For more information please contact pat.byrne@nuigalway.ie

Digital Scholarship Seminar: Dr Niall ÌÒ Dochartaigh (Political Science & Sociology, NUI Galway)-Technologies of Peace, - Dr Ida Federica Pugliese (Moore Institute, NUIG) The (Dis?)advantages of Using Technologies to Enhance Qualitative Research Projects
2014-04-08 12:00
Digital Scholarship Seminar
Dr Niall ÌÒ Dochartaigh
(Political Science & Sociology, NUI Galway)
Technologies of Peace
Dr Ida Federica Pugliese
(Moore Institute, NUI Galway)
The (Dis?)advantages of Using Technologies to Enhance Qualitative Research Projects
Refreshments will be served after the talks
For further information, contact Dr PÌÁdraic Moran (padraic.moran@nuigalway.ie)
or Dr Justin Tonra (justin.tonra@nuigalway.ie).
www.facebook.com/nuigdss
www.nuigalway.ie/digital-seminar
Join the DSS mailing list

ECHO seminar: Peter Kelly - Reduced to Tears: Liquefaction and the permeable body in Ovid's Metamorphoses - Lindsay Ann Reid -Medieval Emotion Scripts and Renaissance Playscripts: "Passioning" like Ariadne in The Two Gentlemen of Verona
2014-04-08 17:00
PASSION PLAY
PETER KELLY
Reduced to Tears: Liquefaction and the permeable body in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
LINDSAY ANN REID
Medieval Emotion Scripts and Renaissance Playscripts: “Passioning” like Ariadne in The Two Gentlemen of Verona
ECHO brings together researchers of all disciplines to discuss research questions in a cordial environment.
Contact: adrian.paterson@nuigalway.ie or see our website: http://echoforum.wordpress.com

CAMPS Lab: Kim LoPrete, Medieval History, NUIG: 'Bertrada of Montfort and the sources: A mirror for historians'
2014-04-11 12:00
Followed by discussion & light lunch
Everyone welcome ‰ÛÓ FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch

Medieval Studies Postgraduate Studies Day
2014-04-14 09:00
Medieval Studies Postgraduate Research Day.
For more information please contact kim.loprete@nuigalway.ie

Juan RamÌ_n Jim̩nez: Reflections at the Centenary of Platero y yo
2014-04-15 09:00
Juan RamÌ_n Jim̩nez:
Reflections at the Centenary of Platero y yo
Chair: Jos̩ Luis PenÌ_n (UCD)
This panel discussion on the Nobel-Prize winning Spanish poet, Juan RamÌ_n Jim̩nez, takes place within the context of the Annual Conference of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland.
It includes a screening of the documentary Los viajes de Juan RamÌ_n Jim̩nez (26 minutes; in Spanish) and is followed by a round table discussion on the occasion of the centenary of the publication of Platero y yo (1914).
All welcome.

Workshop: Computational Stylometry: An Introduction
2014-04-24 10:00
Computational Stylometry: An Introduction
Moore Institute, NUI Galway, 24 April 2014
This one-day workshop led by Dr Francesca Benatti (Open University) is a hands-on introduction to stylometric analysis using Stylo, a tool created for use in the statistical programming language R.
What is Computational Stylometry?Computational stylometry (or stylistics) is the study of how the stylistic features of texts can be measured through computer-aided statistical methods.
How is it used?Regularly used in the field of authorship attribution, Computational Stylometry has potential applications to a wide range of fields and disciplines that examine texts. In addition to authorship attribution, Computational Stylometry may be used to investigate relationships between texts in such areas as gender, genre, and chronology.
For example?J. K. Rowling was recently exposed as the author of the pseudonymous novel, The Cuckoo’s Calling, thanks to the Computational Stylometric work of Patrick Juola. A professor of computer science, Juola also runs a private consulting firm that applies stylometric techniques to disputed documents and in psychological profiling for the legal professions. Similar techniques have aided historical research by verifying the authenticity of letters written during the American Civil War, and sought to reveal how pronouns and other function words reveal personality traits and relationship roles.
What does the workshop involve?It will include an introduction to the history and theory of stylometry, and will focus on the practical application of the Stylo package. Alongside examples of Stylo’s use, participants will complete hands-on practical exercises with the tool. A set of sample texts will be supplied, but participants are free to bring their own texts in plain text or TEI XML format.
What is the schedule for the day?10.00-10.30 Introduction to Stylometry10.30-11.00 Installation of R and Stylo; settings and options11.00-11.30 The stylo function; hands-on practice11.30-12.00 Tea break12.00-13.00 The oppose function; hands-on practice13.00-14.00 Lunch14.00-14.30 Case study: authorship attribution and the Christabel review14.30-15.30 The classify function; hands-on practice15.30-16.00 Open session: practice / discussion / Q and A
I am interested, but am not sure this is for me…Computational stylometry can be either a means or an end. While is it used to identify authors andverify documents, it can also be employed for more exploratory purposes: for identifying patternsand sequences within a text or group of texts. If your work involves analysing texts, this workshopmay be useful to you.
Do I need to be a programmer to learn this?No. This workshop is led by and aimed at scholars in the Arts and Humanities. Some experience withcomputer-aided text-analysis will be a benefit, but nothing other than general digital literary isrequired.
Anything else I should know?Attendance is free. Places are limited on this workshop, however, so you are advised to register yourinterest as soon as possible. Attendees will be required to bring their own laptops: R and Stylo willnot work on mobile devices.
Ok, you’ve sold me. What do I do now?Contact Justin Tonra (justin.tonra@nuigalway.ie) to register your interest in participating. Youshould mention any previous experience you have had with text-mining or text-analysis, anddescribe how the workshop relates to your own work.

Humanities Book Sale
2014-04-24 11:00
EVERY BOOK A FIVER OR LESS
in the
First Great Humanities Book Sale,
GS011
(The Hardiman Research Building) NUI,Galway.
Academic books (all disciplines with lots of history, English & women/gender); fiction; non-fiction; children‰۪s/young adult; some old books. Quality book CDs & DVDs also available.
All proceeds will go toA Night for Kathleen: In February this year, Kathleen Neylan passed away when a fire broke out at her home in Knocknacarra. Kathleen’s family and friends have come together to organize some events and raise some money so that her 16-year-old daughter, now orphaned, can concentrate on rebuilding her life without worrying about ongoing expenses.
See also A Night for Kathleen in Monroe‰۪s, Friday May 23, with Galway bands Stomping Ground and No Stairway (Led Zeppelin Tribute Band).Tickets E10, watch local papers/noticeboards for more details or contact CC below.
Caitriona Clear, History Department. E-mail: caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie.
SPECIAL THANKS TO THE MOORE INSTITUTE AND TO CATHERINE MCCURRY, COLLEGE OF ARTS, AND TO ALL WHO DONATED BOOKS, CDs, DVDs.

Public Lecture: Dr Frank Shovlin, Univeristy of Liverpool and Moore Institute visiting fellow - 'The Invention of Liam O'Flaherty'
2014-04-24 18:00 | Galway City Library, Ireland
For more information please contact fshovlin@liverpool.ac.uk

Pushing Form: Innovation and Interconnection in Contemporary European Performance 25 - 26 April 2014
2014-04-25 09:00
Pushing Form: Innovation and Interconnection in Contemporary European Performance
Keynotes: Sodja Lotker and Milija Gluhovic
How does the present reality of European theatre and performance challenge traditional assumptions? And howspecifically does formal innovation provide the space for critiques of power that may rework the concept of ‰ÛÏEurope‰۝ as realizedthrough performance? How has performance responded to neoliberalism and globalization in the wake of the most recentworld economic crisis, and how does its specifically European context set the terms of this response?
This conference queries what it means to define the field of European performance.
www.conference.ie/conferences/index.asp?conference=245
For registration information please contact
siobhanmogorman@gmail.com, miriamhaughton@hotmail.com, charlotte.mcivor@nuigalway.ie

2014 IAAS Annual Conference: 'Created Equal?' - April 25th and 26th
2014-04-25 10:00
Friday 25 & Saturday 26 April ‰ÛÒ 2014 IAAS Annual Conference: ‰ÛÏCreated Equal?‰۝
For full programme of events and to register for the conference see: www.iaas.ie/iaas-annual-conference/
(Contact: IAASConference@gmail.com)

Dr. Sylvie Lannegrand, French Department NUI Galway- 'Politics and sexuality in Personal Diaries: two case studies'
2014-04-25 13:00
DR. SYLVIE LANNEGRAND, FRENCH
‰ÛÏPolitics and sexuality in Personal Diaries: two case studies‰۝
For more information please contact gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie

Workshop on communicating research using video with Eileen Lauster
2014-05-06 12:00
WORKSHOP ON COMMUNICATING RESEARCH USING VIDEO
With Eileen Lauster
Moore Institute
Tuesday 6 May 2014, 12-1pm
The Moore Institute and the Digital Scholarship Seminar will host a
workshop exploring strategies for disseminating research activity using
video content. The workshop will be lead by Eileen Lauster, Research
Assistant at the Responding to Child to Parent Violence project
(www.rcpv.eu) in the School of Political Science and Sociology and an
experienced film-maker and editor (www.busterdrive.com).
The workshop will introduce how to create video content with graphical,
still image, audio and live action material, and how to edit this
material using YouTube’s built-in tools. It will include both practical
tips and broader communication strategies.
Places are limited, and those interested in participating should e-mail
eileen.lauster@nuigalway.ie. Please include a few lines about your
research project and whether there are particular aspects of video
production that you would like to cover.
Deadline for signing up: FRIDAY 8 APRIL 2014

School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures Research Day
2014-05-07 09:30
School of Languages,Literatures and Cultures
Research Day
Programme
9.30am ‰ÛÒ 10am: reception with tea and coffee & Welcome from Professor PÌ_l ÌÒ Dochartaigh
10 ‰ÛÒ 11 am: Panel 1 (Chair: Clodagh Downey)
Padraic MORAN(Classics): ‰Û÷Historical and international context for translingual reading‰۪
Lesa NÌ_ MHUNGHAILE(Gaeilge):‰Û÷Irish language speakers in the Ottawa Valley: evidence from the 1901 Canadian Census‰۪
Sheila WALSHE (French):‰Û÷Performative Identity and l‰۪Entre-deux in the writings of Thomas IsmaÌÀl Urbain (1812-1884)‰۪
11 ‰ÛÒ 11.30am: Coffee break

11.30 ‰ÛÒ 12.30 pm: Panel 2 (Chair: Tina Pusse)

Michael SHIELDS (German):‰Û÷Splitting and finding the self in collective voices. What happens to the lyric ‰Û÷I‰۪ in late medieval lyric?‰۪
Mark STANSBURY(Classics): ‰Û÷Points of difference: Punctuation in AdomnÌÁn‰۪s Vita Columbae‰۪
Jennifer WOOD (Spanish): ‰Û÷Rafael Alberti‰۪s First LiricografÌ_as‰۪
12.30 ‰ÛÒ 2 pm: Lunch break

2 ‰ÛÒ 3pm: Panel 3 (Chair: Mark Stansbury)

Pilar ALDERETE-DIEZ(Spanish):‰Û÷Time and Space in language teaching & learning at third level‰۪
Cathal KILCLINE (French): ‰Û÷Sport, migration and commemoration in contemporary France‰۪
Anne O‰۪CONNOR, Michele MILAN, Jos̩ BROWNRIGG GLEESON MARTINEZ (Italian):
‰Û÷Translation in 19th century Ireland‰۪
3 ‰ÛÒ 3.30 pm: Coffee break
3.30 ‰ÛÒ 4.30pm: Open discussion (Chair: Sylvie Lannegrand): future research directions, Teaching & Research, access to funding, question of peer-reviewed journals, etc.

Dr. H̩lÌÄå¬ne Lecossois (Universit̩ du Maine) and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow - 'J. M. Synge: The Primitive on the Modern Stage'.
2014-05-07 16:00

AD/BC: Music Archaeology Symposium
2014-05-08 10:00
AD/BC: Music Archaeology Symposium
A fascinating one-day series of talks forming an introduction to the academic background to the concerts and workshops of the 2014 Galway Early Music Festival, May 8-11. Eight international speakers will cover topics as wide-ranging as evidence for music and instruments in classical Rome, prehistoric instruments in Scandinavia, medieval tuning systems, Old Irish vocabulary for musical instruments, and medieval song and dance performance. The Symposium is aimed at a non-specialist academic and public audience. Speakers include Michael Shields, German, NUI Galway, and Jacopo Bisagni, Classics, NUI Galway, as well as a number of international speakers. Organised by Medieval Studies, NUI Galway, and Galway Early Music Festival. In partnership with EMAP (European Music Archaeology Project), support by the Culture Programme of the EU. Details of the Symposium and The Galway Early Music Festival attached. Information on Symposium and Galway Early Music Festival available at: www.galwayearlymusic.com.
http://galwayearlymusic.com/events/colloquium-archaeomusicological-research/
For more information please contact maura.ocroinin@nuigalway.ie

Reading Poetry: Sin̩ad Morrissey '1801' by Adrian Paterson
2014-05-08 18:00

Guerrilla Digitisation: An Introduction to Bookscanning
2014-05-13 11:00
The Moore Institute will host a free one-day workshop, Guerrilla Digitisation: An Introduction to Bookscanning, from 11am-4pm on Monday, May 12.
Led by Meaghan Connell (PhD student, English Department), this workshop is an introduction to the process of digitising texts using only low-cost materials. Digitised texts can be very useful to the humanities researcher; before you can use any kind of computational analysis, you must first create a machine-readable version of your text(s). With machine-readable texts, you can run corpus analyses, create concordances and collocations, and even perform stylometry analyses. If your work involves any computational analysis, or if you want to look into including computational analysis in your work, this workshop may be useful to you.
This workshop is aimed at scholars in the Arts and Humanities, both postgrad students and faculty. This is a hands-on workshop – we will be going through the build of a budget bookscanner and the entire process of scanning, post-processing, and optical character recognition. If you want to build your own budget bookscanner at the workshop, you will need to bring certain materials. Basic computer literacy is a must, but a gentle introduction to the specific software we’ll be using will be provided.
Spaces are limited for this workshop, so you are advised to register your interest by emailing m.connell3@nuigalway.ie as soon as possible.

Reading Poetry: Philip Sidney from Astrophil and Stella by ClÌ_odhna Carney
2014-05-15 18:00

Book Launch: 'Frontier and Border Regions in Early Modern Europe' Edited by Raingard Esser and Steven G Ellis.
2014-05-19 16:30

Professor Carl Wennerlind (Barnard College, Columbia University): 'The Political Economy of Moral Refinement'
2014-05-22 16:00
Carl Wennerlind (Barnard College, Columbia University and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow):
‰Û÷The Political Economy of Moral Refinement‰۪
Followed by a launch at 5.15pm by Prof. Wennerlind of:
Daniel Carey, ed., Money and Political Economy in the Enlightenment (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2014).
Wine will be served.

Book Launch: Daniel Carey, ed., Money and Political Economy in the Enlightenment (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2014).
2014-05-22 17:15
Book launch by Professor Carl Wennerlind(Barnard College, Columbia University and Moore Institute visiting fellow)
of:
Daniel Carey, ed., Money and Political Economy in the Enlightenment (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2014).
Wine will be served.

'Rebel Girls': Rosie Hackett and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
2014-05-28 20:30
‘Rebel Girls’: Rosie Hackett and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
On this Wednesday (28 May, 8.30), the Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour & Class (ICHLC) presents two short talks in the Town Hall, Galway, under the title ‘Rebel Girls’: Rosie Hackett and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. Speakers are James Curry (Moore Inst.) and Meredith Meagher (Univ. of Notre Dame). Tickets, ‰âÂ3 (‰âÂ2 concession).
A new bridge over the Liffey has just been named after Rosie Hackett (1892-1960), a working class woman associated with the early labour movement in Dublin. Hackett was certainly remarkable, an activist of the Irish Women Workers Union while still a teenager. Historian James Curry has thoroughly researched Hackett‰۪s life and he will give a full account of it.
The life of a contemporary of Hackett‰۪s, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890-1961) will be introduced by Meredith Meagher. Gurley Flynn, whose radical career in the American labour movement also began while she was still a teenager was born in Boston, the daughter of a Loughrea woman, Ann Gurley. At 17, she became a full-time organiser for the Industrial Workers of the World, and she remained a political and social activist for the rest of her life. She died while visiting the USSR, and was honoured there with a state funeral. Gurley Flynn took the title of her autobiography, Rebel Girl, from the title of a song written about her by her comrade, Joe Hill.
Contact:
John Cunningham (ICHLC)
School of Humanities (History)
NUI Galway
http://www.nuigalway.ie/history/cunningham/index.html

New Voices Conference 2014: A Multi-Disciplinary Postgraduate and Early Career Scholars Conference - 5th to 7th June, 2014
2014-06-05 12:00 | The Hardiman Research Building G010 and G011 seminar rooms, Ireland
New Voices Conference 2014Multi-Disciplinary Postgraduate and Early Career Scholars Conference
5th to 7th June, 2014
After the first New Voices conference in 1999, P.J. Mathews published an edited collection of the speakers’articles, New Voices in Irish Criticism. In the introduction, Mathews notes the text “can be taken as a snapshotof the current state of Irish studies.” The collection of articles presented reflect the work of the Irish academyat the end of the twentieth century as well as Mathews’ and Declan Kiberd’s joint efforts to showcase not onlythe new voices in Irish criticism but also the ways in which those scholars were challenging the boundaries ofIrish criticism. In establishing this forum, Mathews and Kiberd emphasized the necessity for young scholarswithin the Irish academy to interact with one another, across universities and, most importantly, acrossdisciplines.More than ever it is important that early career scholars connect with their peers and future colleagues. Theacademic market is a challenging field, especially for young scholars. This conference seeks to establish anintellectual exchange that will only strengthen in the years to come.In that vein, National University of Ireland, Galway will proudly host the 2014 New Voices conference. Weinvite papers from all departments and encourage collaborative papers, new media, and panel ideas. We alsoinvite paper proposals from early career scholars outside of Ireland who focus on Irish Studies. Theparticipants at the inaugural New Voices conference presented papers on far-reaching topics, from theorizingthe novel to politics and revival. This year we seek papers that broaden what Irish Studies means, reflecting onthe legacy of the New Voices conference and the themes and issues which continue to resonate in itssubsequent iterations.We welcome proposals for twenty-minute papers, in English or in Irish, from all disciplines in relation to Irishstudies. We especially invite submissions which broaden definitions and push scholarly boundaries. Topicsmay include but are certainly not limited to:
Representations of the Irish Body-The Irish Body in film/literature/art-Irish Physicalities-Trauma and the Body
Irish Modernisms-Urbanity/Cosmopolitanism-Modernity in 20th century Ireland-Myth-making in Irish literature-(Post)Modern (Post)Colonial Ireland
Ireland and Place-The landscape of Ireland-The seascape around Ireland
Hidden Narratives-The Irish in Europe-The Role of Ireland in the World Wars-Cultural Memory
Comparative Ireland-Interdisciplinarity in Irish Studies-Inter/Trans-National Irishness
Performing Ireland-(Re)Presentations of Identity-Global Performances/Perspectives
Literature-Ireland and Eco-criticism-Urban versus Pastoral-Centre and the Peripheral/Borderlands
Alternative Cultures-Marginalised narratives-‘Queerness’ in Irish literature-Masculinites/Femininities-Race and ‰Û÷Otherness’ in Ireland-Ireland and the Diaspora
Deadline for abstracts: 31 January, 2014Please send abstracts of 250-300 words to newvoices2014@nuigalway.ie. Please also include affiliation and ashort biography (no more than 50 words). If you have any other questions, feel free to email us.
Confirmed Plenary Speakers:Nessa Cronin, National University of Ireland, GalwayOona Frawley, National University of Ireland, MaynoothDeclan Kiberd, University of Notre DamePJ Matthews, University College DublinLionel Pilkington, National University of Ireland, Galway
We would like to gratefully acknowledge the generous support of the NUI Galway community. The NewVoices Conference 2014 is sponsored by the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities & Social Studies,the College of Arts, Social Sciences, & Celtic Studies, the Discipline of English Studies, the Center for Dramaand Theatre Studies, the School of Humanities, the Huston School of Film & Digital Media, the Center forIrish Studies, the School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures, the Acadamh na hOllscolaÌ_ochta Gaeilge, andthe NUI Galway Millennium Fund.
http://www.conference.ie/Conferences/index.asp?Conference=346
Proposed New Voices Schedule Day One – Thursday, 5th June 12.00 – 12.30 Registration
12.30-1.30 Opening Address by Nessa Cronin
1.30-1.45 Break
1.45 -3.15 Session One
A: Decade of Commemorations
Michelle O’Connor – “Vocabulary and Imagery in the Decade of Commemorations”
Richard McGuire – “JG Farrell’s Troubles and the Literature of the Post-Colonial Nation”
Nina Holmes – “Prescribing Ideologies: Irish Government Health Campaigns (1950s-1980s)”
B: Representing the West of Ireland
Jeannine Kraft – “Framing Perception: Contemporary Irish Photography and the Trope of the ‰Û÷West'”
Deirdre Ni Chonghaile – “Embodying Homage and Outrage: MÌÁirtÌ_n ÌÒ DireÌÁin’s ÌÒmÌ_s do John Millington Synge“
Amy Mitchell – “Blurred Lines: Gendered Wordplay in Three Poems by SeÌÁn ÌÒ RÌ_ordÌÁin”
3.15 – 3.30 Break
3.30 – 5.00 Session Two
A. Irish Classicism
Fion Lau – “The Classical-Reference Problem: Intertexts in Brian Friel’s Translations” Eileen Coughlan – “Concepts of Irishness in the Irish Language Movement in Northern Ireland”
Lisa Caulfield – “O’Grady’s Resurrected Hero: C̼chulain”
B. Siting Beckett
David Clare – “‰Û÷turn wick low’: Samuel Beckett’s Increasingly Dark Depictions of Co. Wicklow”
David McKinney – “‘Unsolved Mysteries’: Hawthorn and Child (2012)by Keith Ridgway and Murphy (1938)by Samuel Beckett”
Matthew McFrederick – “Beckett and the Royal Court: The George Devine Years (1957-1965)”
5.00 – 5.15 Break
5.15 – 6.15 Closing remarks by Lionel Pilkington
6.30 – 8.30 Drinks reception in Huston Film School
Day Two – Friday, 6th June 9.30 – 10.30 Opening address by Oona Frawley
10.30 – 10.45 Break
10.45 – 12.15 Session Three
A: Considering Space, Place, and Character
Mark McGahon – “Not a Caricature, but a Character: Another Look at Mr. Deasy and the ‰Û÷Nestor’ Episode of Ulysses“
Niamh McGabhann – “A bright and dark land: space, freedom and the body in Edna O’Brien’s ‰Û÷Irish Revel'”
Siobhan Nevin – “A Long Division: The Big House as a Symbol of Discord in Nineteenth Century Irish Literature”
B: Irish Representations, Local and Global
Anna Zaluczkowska – “Writing a New Northern Ireland – Post troubles film/TV and transmedia production”
Jennifer Arthur – “The Emigration of Irish Showjumping”
Elizabeth De Young – “Along the Interface: A Walk Around the Lower Cliftonville-Lower Oldpark Peace Wall in Belfast”
12.15 – 1.30 Lunch
1.30 – 3.00 Session Four
A: Challenging Masculinities
Jim Grady – “Alienation and nihilism in the 21st Century Irish Short Story”
Carole Quigley – “Beckett the Feminist”
Barry Houlihan – “Not our Line of Territory: The Evolution, Death and Resurrection of ‘Mr. Roche’ and the Gay Character on the Irish Stage”
B. Theorising Place
Isabel Corfe – “Reflections of Irishness in Nineteenth-Century England”
Francesca Scapato – “‘I told you, Ben, it’s not as simple as all that’: Val Mulkerns’s Dublin in mid-20th century Ireland
Michael Paye – “From East to West: Encoding the Capitalist “Ecological Regime” in The Silver Darlings and Gillespie“
3.00 – 3.15 Break
3.15 – 4.45 Session Five
A: Observing Comedy
Ciara Connelly – “‰Û÷Skobie O’Gill and the Lidl People’: Ross O’Carroll-Kelly as Irish Social Critique”
Katherine O’Keefe – “Doyle and Dev: Refiguring the image of the Irish Family in Roddy Doyle’s The Snapper”
Lee Vahey – “Vivian Mercier’s The Irish Comic Tradition: A Reappraisal”
B: Observing Death
Barry Ryan – “James Joyce’s “The Dead” and the Legitimacy of the Living”
Rachel Price Cooper – “Waking the Dead: Greek Precedents and Gendered Embodiment On the Early Abbey Stage” Huiwen Shi – “‘Failed’ Funeral Elegies: The Elegiac, the Gothic and the Ironic in Heaney’s ‰Û÷Widgeon Poems'”
4.45 – 5.00 Break
5.00 – 6.00 Closing remarks by PJ Matthews
6.30 – 7.30 Cultural Event
8.30 Conference Dinner at Ard Bia
Day Three – Saturday, 7th June 9.30 – 10.30 Opening remarks by Declan Kiberd 10.30 – 10.45 Break
10.45 – 12.15 Session Six
A. Patterning Migration
Luke Kirwan – “Cork’s Trans-Atlantic Trade in the Early Nineteenth Century”
Sarah Goek – “Irish Encounters with British Modernity: Identities in Process, 1945-70”
Jesse Weaver – “‰Û÷The Lost and the Lonely’: Race, Gender and Representations of the Irish Diaspora in Enda Walsh’s The Walworth Farce“
B: Identity in Practice
Mairead Ni Chualain – “From the Ampitheatre to the Cube”
Rachel Flynn – “Releasing/Realising Through Narrative Modes as Artist Researcher”
Sarah Hoover – “Presentations of Identity: Self on Display”
12.15 – 1.30 Lunch
1.30 – 3.00 Session Seven
A. New Irishness
Elizabeth Howard – “Red Kettle Theatre Company and Waterford in the 1980s”
Laura Dooley – “‘The New Ireland’: Representations of Otherness in Irish Young-Adult Fiction
David Doolin – “My Family, My Mother, My Father: Representations of Irish American Communalism in Shameless“
B. Representing the Maternal
Claire Brophy – “The Mother’sBbody: Space and Place in the Writing of Anne Enright”
Mikyung Park – “A Token of Triumph?: Against Fetishistic Nostalgia for Male Myth in Teresa Deevy’s One-Act Plays, In Search of Valour (1931) and The King of Spain’s Daughter (1935)”
Katerina Koulianou – “The Maternal Body in Undressing My Mother“
3.00 – 3.15 Break
3.15 – 4.45 Session Eight A: Catholicism and Modernity
Ciara O’Dowd – “How the Women of the Abbey Theatre found Their Rhythm in New York City” Barry Sheppard – “Fighting Modernity? Agrarian Communitarianism in Ireland and Britain in the 1930s” Sonya Perkins – “‘Where and What is Ireland?’: The Capuchin Annual 1930-1945″
B: Theatre of Testimony
Kristi Good – “Uncovering Hidden Narratives: Changing the Face of Irish Identity Through Testimony”
Ashley Christine Soutor – “The Dynamic Energy of Truth and Story in Northern Ireland’s Theatre of Witness”
4.45 – 5.00 Break
5.00 – 6.00 Roundtable discussion (Nessa Cronin, Oona Frawley, Declan Kiberd, PJ Matthews, Lionel Pilkington)
