Moore Institute

Archaeological Society and CAMPS - Public Lecture with Dr Niamh Whitfield ''More like the work of fairies than that of human beings'': Filigree from Ireland and Scotland in the early Middle Ages''
2016-03-08 19:00 (Europe/Dublin)
Dr Niamh Whitfield – Public Lecture
‘More like the work of fairies than that of human beings”: Filigree from Ireland and Scotland in the early Middle Ages”.

MA Medieval Studies and CAMPS present Dr Niamh Whitfield -Seminar 'Early Irish Metalwork'.
2016-03-08 15:00
Dr Niamh Whitfield is making her annual visit to NUI Galway (sponsored by MA Medieval Studies and CAMPS).
‘Early Irish Metalwork’
Tuesday 8th March 3pm – 5pm in Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building.
Places are available but must be booked in advance with Dr.Kimberly LoPrete, History. kim.loprete@nuigalway.ie

Digital Scholarship Seminar Series/Early Modern Research Seminar - Anders Ingram' The Business of Books: Quantifying the Career of George Bishop, Stationer (c.1538 - 1611)'
2016-03-08 12:00
The third event of this series of Digital Scholarship Seminar is co-hosted with the Early Modern Research Seminar, and takes place on Tuesday 8 March at 12pm in Hardiman Building Room 1001. Anders Ingram, who recently completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Moore Institute, will present a paper that brings computational and quantitative methods to bear on the study of book history. The paper focuses on the printing career of George Bishop, a leading figure in the sixteenth-century London book trade. Lunch will be provided and, as ever, all are welcome.
12-2pm // Tuesday 8 March // Room 1001 (First Floor) Hardiman Research Building // Facebook event page
Anders Ingram
The Business of Books: Quantifying the Career of George Bishop, Stationer (c.1538-1611).
George Bishop was a leading figure in the turn of the sixteenth century London book trade. Bishop served as master of the Stationers Company an exceptional five times. He was defacto Royal Printer, alongside his partner Ralph Newberry, as Christopher Barker’s deputy, in the years 1588-1600. Over the course of his career he maintained lengthy relationships with major figures in the European book trade such as the Antwerp printer Christophe Plantin and the Cologne booksellers the Birckmans. Perhaps most importantly he published editions of Chaucer, Fox, Camden, Hakluyt, Holinshed, Stow, and numerous other prominent and important authors.
This paper draws upon a database I have built of the publication details and physical characteristics of Bishops 583 extant imprints, alongside archival evidence, to reconstruct the career of this prominent bookseller/publisher, his partnerships, and his evolving business practices and network. I will also address some of the methodological issues which arise studying early publishers such as Bishop whose accounts books do not survive.

CAMPS Lab, Prof. Barry Lewis, School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies 'Saints Genealogies in Medieval Wales: A Comparison with the Irish Corpus'
2016-03-04 12:00
CAMPS Lab, Prof. Barry Lewis, School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies ‘Saints Genealogies in Medieval Wales: A Comparison with the Irish Corpus’

2016 Margaret Heavey Memorial Lecture 'The Enigmatic Aspects of Hisperica Famina' by Prof Andy Orchard (Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo Saxon, Pembroke College, Oxford)
2016-03-03 17:00 | Charles McMunn Theatre (Arts/Science Concourse) NUI Galway, Ireland
‘The Enigmatic Aspects
of the Hisperica Famina‘
Prof. Andy Orchard
(Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon,
Pembroke College, Oxford)
The collection of mysterious seventh-century Latin poems known as Hisperica Famina have puzzled-and outraged-readers for decades. They were reviled by the scholar and patriot EÌ_in MacNeill, who memorably called them the ‰Û÷luxuriant culture-fungus of decay’, but they were admired by Umberto Eco, who likened them to a Medieval version of Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake. Above all, however, they have remained a mystery. Were they truly written in Ireland? Or Britain? Or even Brittany? What is the origin of their obscure, labyrinthine and inventive language? Are they serious or an elaborate literary joke?
Prof. Andy Orchard from Oxford University will address some of the questions that still surround this fascinating and perplexing group of poems in his 2016 Margaret Heavey Memorial Lecture, “The Enigmatic Aspects of the Hisperica Famina“. Prof. Orchard is an eminent Medievalist and Anglo-Saxonist who, among his numerous publications, also produced an important re-assessment of the texts in question (‰Û÷The Hisperica Famina as Literature’, in The Journal of Medieval Latin 10 (2000), pp. 1-45).
Prof. Orchard’s lecture will take place at 5 p.m. Thursday, 3 March, in the Charles McMunn Theatre (Arts/Science Concourse), NUI Galway, as part of the Margaret Heavey Memorial Lectures series. These lectures are annual events hosted by the Discipline of Classics in NUI, Galway to commemorate the life and work of Margaret Heavey (1908-1980), Lecturer and then Professor of Classics at UCG between 1931 and 1977, as well as Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 1970 to 1976.
The lecture is kindly sponsored by the NUIG College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies, the Discipline of English, and the Classics Society.

ICHLC Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour and Class, Seminar
2016-03-03 16:00
Speaker – Michael Foley (DIT) ‘Journalism the last refuge for the middle class boy: the professionalisation of journalism in 19th Century Ireland’. Chaired by Prof Tadhg Foley (NUIG)

Public Lecture ' Remembering and Unremembering: Liam Mellows and Easter Week 1916 in Galway'
2016-03-02 20:00
Remembering and Unremembering: Liam Mellows, Easter 1916 and County Galway
Dr Conor McNamara, Moore Institute 1916 Scholar in Residence, will be giving a public lecture on Wednesday 2nd March at Lackagh Community Centre at 8 PM.
The lecture is entitled, Remembering and Unremembering: Liam Mellows and Easter Week 1916 in Galway.

Public Lecture by Professor Elena Agazzi (Bergamo) 'Returning home to lost countries and landscapes with ruins: Germany after 1945 seen with today's eyes'.
2016-03-02 18:00
Professor Elena Agazzi (Bergamo)
Returning home to lost countries and landscapes with ruins: Germany after 1945 seen with today’s eyes
Lecture in English
Elena Agazzi is Full Professor of German at the University of Bergamo (Italy) and one of the most renowned scholars in German studies in Italy. She is a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation and a member of many academic associations. She was involved in the joint German-Italian project “Re-establishing culture 1945-1961”. Her research interests include classical, romantic and contemporary German literature, and the relationship of literature with figurative arts and sciences from the 18th to the 20th Centuries. She translated works by Goethe, Schlegel, D̦blin, Benn, and others into Italian.
2 March 2016, 6 pm
James Hardiman Building, G011 Seminar RoomThe lecture will be in English

SPI Seminars: Space, Place and Identity Research Cluster Seminar Series: Catherine Emmerson (French, NUIG), '''Ung gentil homme de Bourgoigne nagueres'' : Locality and Identity in the Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles'
2016-03-02 14:00
SPI Seminars: Space, Place and Identity Research Cluster Seminar Series: Catherine Emmerson (French, NUIG), ”’Ung gentil homme de Bourgoigne nagueres” : Locality and Identity in the Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles’

School of Humanitites: Symposium on the Phenomenology of Theatre and Film
2016-02-29 12:30
Schedule
12.30 Introductions by Prof Patrick Lonergan (Drama, Theatre and Performance), Prof. Felix ÌÒ Murchadha (Philosophy)Prof.Rod Stoneman (Huston School of Film and Digital Media)
1.15 Prof.Paul Crowther (Discipline of Philosophy, NUIG) ‘Hyperbodiment and Aesthetic Meaning in Film’
2.15 Coffee Break
2.30 Prof. Shaun Richards (St. Mary’s University): ‘An almost instant communion becomes a trap’: Irish stage sets and the Question of Phenomenology.
3.30 Dr .Dylan Trigg (University of Memphis and UCD). ‘The Dream of Anxiety in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive’
4.30 Coffee Break
4.45 Roundtable
5.30 Close

The Centre for Antique, Medieval and Pre-Modern Studies (CAMPS) presents '3rd Annual Medieval Studies Lecture' by Joseph.F.Nagy, Prof of Celtic Studies, University of California
2016-02-26 12:00
The Centre for Antique, Medieval and Pre-Modern Studies (CAMPS) is delighted to announce that this year’s Annual Medieval Studies Lecture will be delivered by
Joseph F. Nagy,
Professor of Celtic Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles,
on Friday, 26 February, at 12.00 noon,
in the Moore Institute, Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Title: ‘Hunting Mythical Pigs from Calydon to Caledonia’
Please note that booking is essential for this event
(by sending an email to: mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie)

Professor Joseph F. Nagy is one of the foremost scholars of Celtic literature, folklore, and mythology, and particularly acclaimed for his writings on the Fenian traditions (FiannaÌ_ocht) of Ireland and Scotland, and on issues of liminality. His pioneering works include The Wisdow of the Outlaw: The Boyhood Deeds of Finn in Gaelic Narrative Tradition (1985), Conversing with Angels and Ancients: Literary Myths of Medieval Ireland (1997), and the essay collection Writing Down the Myths (2013). He is a founder of the Celtic Studies Association of North America, and former editor of its Yearbook. This is a rare opportunity to hear Prof. Nagy in Ireland.

Duine de mhÌ_rscolÌÁirÌ_ litrÌ_ocht, bh̩aloideas agus mhiotaseolaÌ_ocht na gCeilteach ̩ an tOllamh Joseph F. Nagy. TÌÁ cl̼ faoi leith bainte amach aige dÌÁ shaothar scrÌ_ofa ar thraidisi̼in na FiannaÌ_ochta in Ìäirinn agus in Albain, agus ar cheisteanna tairseach̼lachta. Ar na leabhair cheannrÌ_daÌ_ocha leis tÌÁ The Wisdow of the Outlaw: The Boyhood Deeds of Finn in Gaelic Narrative Tradition (1985), Conversing with Angels and Ancients: Literary Myths of Medieval Ireland (1997), agus an baili̼chÌÁn aistÌ_ Writing Down the Myths (2013). BhÌ_ s̩ ar bhunaitheoirÌ_ an Celtic Studies Association of North America, agus ina eagarthÌ_ir ar Yearbook an chomhaltais. Deis neamhchoitianta Ì_ seo leis an Ollamh Nagy a chlos in Ìäirinn.

CAMPS Lab, All-day Research Seminar, ''Territorial Boundaries and Topographies of Power''
2016-02-25 12:00
CAMPS Lab, All-day Research Seminar, ”Territorial Boundaries and Topographies of Power’

History Post Graduate Research Seminar - Conor Reidy 'Borstals and Inebriate Reformatories in Early Twentieth Century Ireland'
2016-02-24 16:00

SPI Seminars: Space, Place and Identity Research Cluster Seminar Series: Ulf Strohmayer (Geography, NUIG), 'Parisian Abbatoirs: A Foucauldian Approach'
2016-02-24 14:00
SPI Seminars: Space, Place and Identity Research Cluster Seminar Series: Ulf Strohmayer (Geography, NUIG), ‘Parisian Abbatoirs: A Foucauldian Approach’

Drama, Theatre and Performance Speaker Series: Reinhard Kuhnert, Actor and Writer
2016-02-24 14:00
Drama, Theatre and Performance Speaker Series: Reinhard Kuhnert, Actor and Writer
‘Theatre in Germany before and after Reunification: Experiences of a Playwright working in two political systems’
Born in East-Berlin, Reinhard Kuhnert studied Creative Writing and Drama in Leipzig. Since 1967 he workied as a playwright, actor and director at theatres in East-Germany. In 1983 he requested permission to leave East-Germany, as all his plays, radio plays, television plays, songs and lyrics were banned from public performances. In 1985 he emigrated to West-Germany and continued to work with theatre companies in Germany, Ireland and other countries. From 1994 – 2007 he had a second domicile in Galway where he was guest lecturer at NUI Galway for a while. He was very successful as a narrator for audiobooks and in dubbing, lending his voice to actors such as Kevin Spacey, Pierce Brosnan and James Woods. In 2013 he published the novel Abgang ist allerwÌ_rts, a book about everyday life in the 1980s in a little village in the GDR.

Performance Matters: Irish Theatre Discussion Group
2016-02-23 14:00

Digital Scholarship Seminar: Greta Franzini (Gottingen Centre for Digital Humanities) presents a paper on 'Study and automatic detection of text reuse occurring in historical texts'
2016-02-23 12:00
Greta Franzini, University of G̦ttingen / University College London
Grimms MÌ_rchen: Investigating an intertextual puzzle of fairy tales.
As the name suggests, the Electronic Text Reuse Acquisition Project (eTRAP) concerns itself with the study and automatic detection of text reuse, and particularly that occurring in historical texts. Text reuse takes various forms, ranging from verbatim quotations to paraphrasing and allusions, and can happen within one language or across multiple languages. Historical texts pose numerous challenges to automatic reuse detection due to the fragmentary and inconsistent survival of works, but also because of the synchronic and diachronic evolution of language. Unlike modern texts where sources are quoted and cited, historical texts are not always so transparent, thus opening up exciting opportunities for intertextual research.
Our case study, the famous fairy tale collection Kinder-und HausmÌ_rchen by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, is a prime example of textual and cultural collision. The Brothers collected and adapted their stories from earlier works, some of them dating as far back as the seventh century BC. The text reuse units contained in their tales, the motifs, allow us to digitally investigate cross-cultural parallels at both small and larger scales. Our analysis of motifs is aided by two additional datasets: a corpus of 36,000 digitised personal letters belonging to the Grimm family and a list of the books owned by the Brothers. These textual resources give us a window into the writing of the tales, helping us better understand the puzzle of intertextual relations between the Grimm collection and their predecessors or followers. The letters disclose conversations the Brothers had between themselves and with their acquaintances, while the books carry their sources of knowledge and inspiration.
This talk will elaborate on the aims, methods and progress of this new research project, with a view to eliciting a rich discussion on the potential of automatic text reuse detection for the study of intertextuality at scale.
Greta Franzini completed her Classics BA and Digital Humanities MA degrees at King’s College London. Greta is currently completing a PhD at the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities and works as a full-time researcher at the G̦ttingen Centre for Digital Humanities. Greta’s interests lie within the fields of Classical philology, Manuscript Studies and Textual Criticism. Previously, she worked as a Research Associate at the Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig. As of July 2015, Greta is an Executive Board member of Digital Medievalist and Associate Editor of the Digital Medievalist Journal.

ICHLC Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour and Class - Public Debate: 'James Connolly: life, death and legacy'.
2016-02-18 20:00
ICHLC Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour & Class
Public Debate: ‰Û÷James Connolly: life, death, & legacy’
Contributors: Peter Buckingham, Emmet O’Connor,
Theresa Moriarty, Brian Hanley,
This event, part of NUI Galway’s Ìäire ÌÁ
M̼scailt programme, is held in association
with the Galway Council of Trade Unions

The Moore Institute and the MA in Culture & Colonialism Speaker Series present a talk by Dr.David O 'Shaughnessy, Assistant Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin:
2016-02-18 16:15
‘Charles Macklin and the Question of Ethnic Resistance’. by Dr.David O’Shaughnessy, Assistant Professor of Eighteenth- Century Studies at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin.

Early Modern Reserach Seminar: Dr Imke Lichterfeld, Dept of English, American and Celtic Studies, University of Bonn - '''What are you made of?' Joan of Arc and Margaret of Anjou in Shakespeare's Henry VI''
2016-02-17 16:00
Early Modern Reserach Seminar: Dr Imke Lichterfeld, Dept of English, American and Celtic Studies, University of Bonn – ”’What are you made of?’ Joan of Arc and Margaret of Anjou in Shakespeare’s Henry VI”

History Graduate Research Seminar Series - Frank Towers ' The Slave Power's Grassroots: Proslavery Politics and the American Civil War'
2016-02-17 16:00
History Graduate Research Seminar Series (HGRSS) – Frank Towers, ‘The Slave Power’s Grassroots:Proslavery Politics and the American Civil War.

SPI Seminars: Space, Place and Identity Research Cluster Seminar Series: Patricia Garcia (Translation Studies, U.Nottingham), 'Human Spatiality and the Fantastic: Transgressions of Literary Realism'
2016-02-17 13:00
SPI Seminars: Space, Place and Identity Research Cluster Seminar Series: Patricia Garcia (Translation Studies, U.Nottingham), ‘Human Spatiality and the Fantastic: Transgressions of Literary Realism’.
“Human Spatiality and the Fantastic:
Transgressions of Literary Realism”
by
Dr. Patricia GarcÌ_a
(Translation Studies/Spanish, U. Nottingham)
Wednesday, 17 February at 1 p.m.
Moore Institute Seminar Room – GO10,
Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway
Thanks to the Spatial Turn in the Humanities and Social Sciences we now know that space is not a simple container of our existence: our spatial abilities perform a crucial role in our construction and perception of reality. In literature, space is a dimension that typically generates verisimilitude. The reader can identify that the action is set in a realistic fictional world thanks to a variety of spatial markers. However, how does space intervene in the transgression of literary realism? This talk will start with a reflection on the concepts of space and place in Postmodernity in order to explore four fundamental categories of space in narratives of the fantastic: body, boundary, hierarchy and world.
SPI Seminars – Space, Place and Identity Research Cluster Seminar Series
Please note change of time to 1 p.m.

Screening of Documentary Film, 'All Politics is Local' by Dr Chris Eipper, Australian Anthropologist.
2016-02-16 14:00
ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL
ABSTRACT
In Ireland, “If you’re hungry enough, you’ll dig up the tar on the road with your teeth to get a vote.” It’s not only the other parties that are a threat to you, it’s your running mate. Indeed, it’s the internal rivalry that can be the most bitter and acrimonious, as well as the most entertaining. Based upon three decades of ethnographic research, All Politics is Local is the first feature-length documentary depiction of Irish politicians from an ethnographic (rather than a journalistic) perspective. A narrative of the 2007 electoral campaign in Cork South-West, it portrays the fray from within. As such, it aims to make an academic contribution to Irish studies that is designed to inform and explain as well as to entertain.

Yeats and the West, Exhibition Closing with Prof Margaret Mills Harper (University of Limerick) 'Yeats and the problem of Crazy Jane'
2016-02-15 17:00
Yeats & the West
Exhibition Closing
with
Prof. Margaret Mills Harper
(University of Limerick)
‰Û÷Yeats & the problem of Crazy Jane’
Refreshments will be served
yeatsandthewest.org
Margaret Mills Harper is Glucksman Professor of Contemporary Writing in English at the University of Limerick.
She is the author of The Aristocracy of Art: Joyce and Wolfe (1990), and Wisdom of Two: The Spiritual and Literary Collaboration of George and W. B. Yeats ( 2006). She has co-edited two of the four volumes of Yeats’s “Vision” Papers (1992 and 2001) and both the 1925 and 1937 versions of Yeats’s A Vision (2008, 2015), both of which draw on their spritualist revelations.

CAMPS Lab - Dr Sabine Asmus, Celtic Studies, Universitat Leipzig ' The Celtic Otherworld'
2016-02-12 12:00
CAMPS Lab – Dr Sabine Asmus, Celtic Studies, Universitat Leipzig ‘The Celtic Otherworld’.

The Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Speaker Series presents: Christina Wilson (University of Connecticut, Fullbright Sholar) - 'Sam Shepard's America on the Irish Stage and in the Archive'
2016-02-11 14:00
As part of a special series “Mining the Theatre Archives @NUIG”
On their website, the Abbey Theatre includes Sam Shepard in a roundup of playwrights whose work they have “premiered and nurtured.” As the only non-Irish writer on this list, Shepard’s appeal to the Abbey (and their appeal to him) is curious. Drawing from materials in the archive, this talk will situation Shepard’s presence within a longer history of American playwrights on the stage of Ireland’s national theatre before turning to a reading of Shepard’s specific concerns. In both his revision of canonical works and creation of new plays for the Abbey, I argue that Shepard presents a much older relationship between the US and Ireland–one that begins in the Ulster Plantation and the subsequent first wave of Irish immigrants to colonial America. Consistently invoking the historical present, Shepard uses this figure of the Scots-Irish to critique the violent and mythological foundations of America in the wake of the War on Terror.
Christina Wilson is a PhD candidate from the English Department of the University of Connecticut and a Visiting Fulbright Student Scholar in Theatre Studies at NUIG. Her dissertation, Scots-Irish Frontiers across 20th- and 21st-century American Literature, traces how the Scots-Irish figure is used as metaphor in various cultural texts. Previous publications have appeared in Irish Studies Review, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, and the book Imagining Human Rights in Twenty-First-Century Theatre: Global Perspectives.

NUIG Feminist Society - screening the acclaimed Swedish - Danish film 'We Are The Best'
2016-02-10 20:00
NUIG Feminist Society screening the acclaimed Swedish- Danish film ‘We Are The Best’

History Graduate Research Seminar Series: Deirdre Fennell, 'The Best of Times, The Worst of Times? The Fitzwilliam Family and Tudor Ireland 1558 - 1575'.
2016-02-10 16:00
History Graduate Research Seminar Series: Deirdre Fennell, ‘The Best of Times, The Worst of Times? The Fitzwilliam Family and Tudor Ireland 1558 – 1575’.

SPI Seminar: Space, Place and Identity Research Cluster Seminar Series: Ivan Kenny (Spanish, NUIG)' Liminal Spaces in Mexican Literature and Film:Juan Rulfo and Luis Bunuel'.
2016-02-10 14:00
SPI Seminars: Space, Place and Identity Research Cluster Seminar Series: Ivan Kenny (Spanish, NUIG) ‘ Liminal Spaces in Mexican Literature and Film:Juan Rulfo and Luis Bunuel’

Drama, Theatre and Performance Speaker Series: Jane Daly, Co-Director, Irish Theatre Institute
2016-02-10 14:00
Jane Daly, Co-Director, Irish Theatre Institute
Irish Theatre Institute
Irish Theatre Institute (ITI), (formerly known as Theatre Shop), is a resource organisation that supports and acknowledges the achievements and ambition of Irish theatre artists and companies across all aspects of theatre practice. ITI has pioneered networking, information provision and on-line research tools and has become a key resource organisation for the Irish theatre. ITI’s mission is to create opportunities abroad and strengthen resources at home for theatre artists, companies, venues and festivals.
ITI is a resource organisation for the professional Irish theatre sector, promoting Irish theatre production companies, festivals, venues and theatre artists in an international and all-island context. Irish Theatre Institute also researches and promotes the Irish play repertoire through PLAYOGRAPHYIreland an online searchable catalogue of all new Irish writing in English and Irish since 1901.
ITI’s objective is to create opportunities abroad and to strengthen resources at home and its key strands of activity fall into three distinct yet complementary areas:
Information Provision, Support & Mentoring Services,

Research, Online Projects & Publications

International Networking, Promotion & Showcasing
