Moore Institute

Comhdháil ar Litríocht agus Chultúr na Gaeilge 2018
2018-10-05 - 2018-10-06 | Aras na Gaeilge NUIG, Ireland
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Breaking the Boundaries of Italian Arts. Introducing Italy’s videoartists by Clodagh Brook, Trinity College Dublin
2018-10-11 18:00 (Europe/Dublin) | The Hardiman Building G011 seminar room, Ireland
Clodagh Brook, Trinity College Dublin
Breaking the Boundaries of Italian Arts. Introducing Italy’s videoartists

This paper explores what motivated Italian writers and artists to shatter the borders and radically question the identity of their artforms in late 20th-century Italy. My case study here introduces some Italian videoartists, situating their questioning of artforms in a longer history that stretches back at least to Italian futurism. The talk presents the work of the AHRC project, Interdisciplinary Italy: Interart/Intermedia 1900-2020 (www.interdisciplinaryitaly.org).

Clodagh Brook is an Associate Professor of Italian at Trinity College Dublin. She was educated at Oxford University (D Phil) and at University College, Dublin (BA and MA) and was Reader at The University of Birmingham from 2000 to 2017. Clodagh leads a large AHRC funded grant, Interdisciplinary Italy 1900-2020: Interart/Intermedia, which explores the relations between arts and media in Italy and will produce 3 books, articles, pedagogical materials and an exhibition. Her publications include a monograph on Eugenio Montale (OUP, 2002), a monograph on Italian cinema (2010), as well as edited books on transmedia (2014) and on oppositional cultures under Berlusconi (2009).

ILLUSTRATED TALK: Helena Molony (1883-1967) - Modern Irishwomen Lecture Series
2018-10-13 14:30 - 15:30 UTC | Education Room, Galway City Museum
Aimee Plunkett discusses republican, feminist and trade union activist Helena Molony. Aimee Plunkett works for the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and is a former historical tour guide at the GPO Witness History Visitor Centre.
1918 was a landmark year for women in Ireland and Britain, with legislation beginning the process of their inclusion in politics. Famously, in December 1918, Constance de Markievicz became the first women elected to the British House of Commons, only to abstain from taking her seat as a member of Sinn Féin. To mark the centenary of this pivotal year in women’s history, Galway City Museum is hosting a series of monthly lectures – curated by Dr James Curry and supported by the Moore Institute, NUI, Galway – on Markievicz and seven other ‘Modern Irishwomen’.

Creative Coding Meet-up
2018-10-16 15:00 - 16:00, 2018-10-23 15:00 - 16:00, 2018-10-30 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Dublin) | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
This semester we’re going to run a weekly session for those interested in learning “creative coding”. This approach is a good way for those without any coding experience to develop a foundation in programming. The sessions will use online resources (see below) to guide self-directed learning.

Creative coding is a different discipline than programming systems. The goal is to create something expressive instead of something functional. Interaction design, information visualization and generative art are all different types of creative coding – which has become a household term describing artworks articulated as code. (via Awesome Creative Coding )

What can I expect?

This is a peer support group, not an instructor-led workshop / class.
It’s an opportunity to schedule some time each week to develop your coding skills, and to get some help, if you need it.
There are a collection of tutorial videos (bring headphones), online courses and reference material linked to in the “Further Details” section below, for you to work through at your own pace.

If you have no coding experience, and aren’t sure where or how to start, someone will help you.
Come along, meet people who are also learning to code, and get help if you run into any problems. Showing what you’re working on would be great too.
Further details
You can find further details, and learning resources, at: https://github.com/dh-nuigalway/Creative-Coding-Meetup. We are planning on hosting the sessions on Tuesdays from 3pm – 4pm, in the “Bridge Room”, on the first floor of the Hardiman Research Building.
Any questions?: Contact David Kelly (david.d.kelly@nuigalway.ie)

Embassy of Slovak Republic and Embassy of the Czech Republic: 100th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Czechoslovakia
2018-10-17 14:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Dublin) | The River Room, AS203, Arts/Science Building

NUI Galway's 5th Annual Medieval Studies Lecture: "Hidden Sins: Miraculous Mind Reading and the Confessional"
2018-10-17 19:00 (Europe/Dublin) | O hEocha Theatre (Arts Millennium Building 250)
“Hidden Sins: Miraculous Mind Reading and the Confessional”
Barbara Newman,
Professor of English, Religious Studies and Classics
Northwestern University

Shortly after the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 mandated annual confession for all Christians, a new type of miracle began to appear in saints’ Lives. Holy women and a few lay brothers–but curiously, not priests–came to be credited with miraculous mind reading. They could discern hidden, unconfessed sins by telepathy or clairvoyance, a potent form of knowledge that they used for both pastoral care and public shaming. This talk will investigate a group of mind-reading saints from the 13th-century Low Countries, asking how they exercised their charism and what ideological purposes it served.

Professor Newman (Ph.D. Yale), a past president of the Medieval Academy of America, is known for her work on medieval religious culture, comparative literature, and women’s spirituality; see further at https://www.english.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/newman-barbara.html

Among her better known books are God & the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages (2003); Frauenlob’s Song of Songs: A Medieval German Poet & His Masterpiece (2006); Sister of Wisdom: St.. Hildegard’s Theology of the Feminine (1987); Medieval Crossover: Reading the Secular against the Sacred (2013).

She is also a noted translator of Hildegard of Bingen’s collected songs, Thomas of Cantimpré’s saints’ lives, Mechthild of Hackeborn’s visionary writings, and 2 collections of 12th-century love letters.

Prof. Newman has been a Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities at Northwestern. She currently holds the John Evans Chair of Latin Language and Literature and previously held a Charles Deering McCormick Chair of Teaching Excellence (2003-06).

SSRC Visiting Fellow Lecture titled the ‘Agrarian Fascism Innovation Paradigm in Spain between 1939 -1955’ by Bruno Esperante Paramos
2018-10-19 13:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Room 333, 2nd Floor, Áras Moyola
On 19 October the Social Sciences Research Centre (SSRC) is hosting a talk by Bruno Esperante Paramos titled the ‘Agrarian Fascism Innovation Paradigm in Spain between 1939 -1955’. The talk will consider the main agrarian policies of Francoist Spain in war and peace, focusing especially on policies aimed at motorizing agriculture via the introduction of tractors. All are welcome.
About the Author: Bruno Esperante Paramos is a visiting research fellow at the Trinity Centre for Environmental Humanities. He is about to complete his PhD thesis on innovation and technological change in Galician agriculture (1890-2000) at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Galicia-Spain), where he has also been a member of HISTAGRA Research Group since 2015. His main research interests include: Rural History, Agrarian History, History of Technology, Innovation and Technological Change in agriculture

3DCamp Galway: Special Guest Pete McNally: "Creating versatile materials with Photogrammetry"
2018-10-19 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/Dublin) | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Pete McNally is a Dublin based Senior Designer/3D Generalist with Microsoft. He has worked in the Irish Game and TV industries for over 15 years, at companies like Emmy award-winning Havok and twice Oscar nominated Brown Bag Films. Pete blogs about his experiments in 3D Art at www.petemcnally.com and his work has been featured on Sketchfab and 80Level.
Register to attend at 3DCamp’s Meetup page.
About 3DCamp
3DCamp Galway is a group for anyone interested in any aspect of 3D technology (software and hardware), to meet up in an informal setting to discuss your 3D project or to listen and learn about what others are doing.

Modernist Studies Ireland’s: Works in Progress
2018-10-23 18:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Modernist Studies Ireland’s monthly forum for new work in Irish modernist studies—Works in Progress—cordially invites you to its second session of this autumn season, taking place on Tuesday, 23 Oct, from 6-8 pm in G011 (THB), as per usual with nibbles and some wine! The event seeks to shine a light on Lucia Joyce as a collaborator and significantly understudied contributor to much of the compositional work her father James Joyce undertook in the 1930s, and which led to his probably most obscurantist work, Finnegans Wake.
Our two wonderful speakers are NUI Galway alumna Dr Siobhán Purcell and Genevieve Sartor (Trinity College Dublin), who submitted her PhD thesis last month. Siobhán will kick off the session with a talk that stresses the need to recontextualise Lucia’s letterings or lettrines. Her presentation highlights overlooked instances of Lucia Joyce’s contributions—instances which are not at all liminal and silent; once ‘illuminated’, they embody presence and performativity in that they elaborate dynamics of the written text while complicating any straightforward understanding of the most basic textual elements of print culture: semantics, lettering, typeface, and authorship. At once word and image, the lettrines work as additional contextual signifiers that elaborate the polyphonic nature of Finnegans Wake. In re-contextualising Lucia Joyce’s lettrines, Siobhán’s paper suggests that reading Lucia’s contributions to these published editions also troubles our collective cultural memorializing of both James and Lucia Joyce, while giving a glimpse of how to recover the obscured and concealed contributions of women and disabled artists to modernism’s legacy.
Genevieve’s talk, on the other hand, will bring a third figure into the realm: psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. From 1975 to 1976, Lacan delivered a seminar series on James Joyce that claimed that Joyce represents a new future for psychoanalysis. Lacan believed that Joyce could have been psychotic but was able to cure this possible condition by traversing the Oedipal framework through writing Finnegans Wake. Genevieve’s presentation will contextualise Lacan’s convictions before suggesting the possibility of revising Lacan’s late work through an original and biographically-driven argument. While Lacan was presenting his seminar that praised Joyce for having overcome psychosis, the author’s allegedly schizophrenic daughter Lucia was living in Northampton as a resident of Saint Andrew’s, the sanitorium where she remained until her death in 1982. Lacan refrains from mentioning Lucia in any detail—nor did he make the effort to visit her. Similarly, there has been no scholarship on Lucia in relation to Lacan’s work on her father in either literary or Lacanian study. Through a selective look at pre-publication content in Finnegans Wake that shows how Joyce textually represented Lucia’s schizophrenia through time, this talk will show that a focus on her can shape new ways to productively advance Lacan’s work on Joyce and his claims on the future of the clinic.

"Can Human Rights Defeat Nationalism?" by Lea David.
2018-10-24 14:00 - 16:00 UTC | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The Power, Conflict and Ideologies Research Cluster (School of Political Science & Sociology), and the Irish Centre for Human Rights, are co-hosting a visit by Dr. Lea David, who is currently Marie Curie fellow (2017-2019) in the School of Sociology, UCD.
The focus of this lecture is the way in which collective memory and memorialization processes are understood within the human rights centred ideology and how such understanding affects nationalism. The basic difference between human rights and nationalist understanding and promotion of memorialization processes is that human rights stand for world-wide inclusion of all people into one moral community, whereas nationalism presumes nationally bounded collectives. For the ideology of nationalism, historical memory is perceived in terms of continuity, provides legitimacy for sovereignty, however, human rights as the grand narrative in the world polity, has provided a new definition – that of coming to terms with (one specific version of) the past – by which collectives are supposed to remember, a phenomenon coined here as “memorialization isomorphism”. Memorialization isomorphism refers to the standardized set of norms, promoted through human rights infrastructures in the world polity, through which societies are supposed to deal with the legacies of mass human rights abuses. States, in particular weak and post-conflict states with troubled pasts, are expected to conform to the international human rights norms of facing their criminal past and becoming accountable for past massive human rights abuses.
I ask here how successful memorialization isomorphism is in promoting universalist human rights values and whether memorialization isomorphism is capable of harvesting micro-solidarity in order to become an ideological cement that can overcome nationalism. Since the experience of micro-solidarity is not instinctive but rather a function of an interpretation of symbols and history, I argue that in contexts within which ethnic symbols and collective histories have played immediate roles in conflicts, and were further legitimized and embedded by peace agreements and human rights institutions, it is nationalist apparatus which has become the ultimate factor in the processes of recollecting micro-solidarity. In other words, I argue that at the world polity level, human rights have produced a norm of memorialization isomorphism that does not actually lead to the advancement of human rights values but is instead likely to further promote nationalist ideologies. Finally, I suggest we look at the current reappearance of nationalism world-wide partially as a result of a gradual and accumulative process of standardization of memory – from “duty to remember” as a moral instance onto policy-oriented “proper way to remember” and try to assess the impact such process has on the perception of the “self” and “other”.
Dr. Lea David is currently a Marie Curie fellow (2017-2019) at the School of Sociology at University College Dublin (UCD), where she is finishing her research project on Nationalism, Memory and Human Rights in the Western Balkans and in Israel/Palestine under the supervision of Prof. Siniša Malesević. For this research, she also received a prestigious Israeli Council for Higher Education Fellowship (ות”ת) for outstanding Israeli scholars. In addition, as Senior Researcher for a four-year NSF-funded research on cultural anthropology, she is currently conducting extensive research in Bosnia-Herzegovina on religious competition in a post-conflict landscape. In 2014, while at the Sociology and Anthropology Department of Ben Gurion University, Israel, Dr. David completed her PhD dissertation on the politics of memory and human rights in post-conflict Serbia. In 2014-15, she was awarded a Joint Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Anthropology Department and the Strochlitz Institute for Holocaust Research of Haifa University. In 2015-16, she won both the Fulbright fellowship and the Rabin fellowship, the latter being awarded to the best Fulbright candidate of the year in social sciences. She spent her Fulbright-Rabin fellowship conducting research at the Anthropology Department of the University of Pittsburgh. In 2016-2017, she held the Jonathan Shapira Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Sociology and Anthropology Department of Tel Aviv University. Her book manuscript “The past can’t heal us! Human rights, memory and micro-sociology” is currently under review for several academic publishers.

Centre for Antique, Medieval and Pre-Modern Studies, Research Labs (CAMPS) Research Labs.
2018-10-25 12:00 - 15:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building

CIORCAL SCRÍBHNEOIREACHTA
2018-10-25 18:00, 2018-11-01 18:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
An bhfuil suim agat i scríbhneoireacht na Gaeilge? An bhfuil tú ag iarraidh do shaothar féin a roinnt le daoine, agus aiseolas a fháil, nó d’obair a phlé go neamhfhoirmiúil le daoine eile a bhfuil Gaeilge acu? Nó an bhfuil tú ag iarraidh éisteacht le scríbhneoirí eile ag léamh a saothar amach os ard? Má tá, déan cinnte go dtagann tú chun ár gciorcal scríbhneoireachta, a bheas ar siúl achan Déardaoin ag a 6 i seomra an Droichid in Institúid de Mórdha. Beidh muid ag súil le fáilte a chur roimh achan duine a bhfuil Gaeilge agus fonn scríbhneoireachta acu!

Cover Revolution! Illustrators and the New Face of Italian Publishing.
2018-10-26 - 2018-10-28 | The Hardiman Research Building Foyer
NUI Galway is delighted to host an exhibition that celebrates contemporary Italian illustrators and their collaboration with the publishing industry.

A revolution is taking place on Italian bookstores shelves, and more and more often illustrators are being asked to use their colour palettes and distinctive marks to update publishers’ visual identities or redefine an author’s image. A handful of publishers, talented art directors, and a group of internationally acclaimed Italian illustrators, known for their original and powerful work, are responsible for this change. The idea to document this propitious moment in Italian illustration came to life after observing this phenomenon, and this exhibition brings to light the work of some of the most loved and respected Italian illustrators: Franco Matticchio, Lorenzo Mattotti, Emiliano Ponzi, Guido Scarabottolo, Gianluigi Toccafondo, and Olimpia Zagnoli.
Professor Paolo Bartoloni, Established Professor and Head of Italian at NUI Galway, said: “This exhibition provides a unique opportunity to observe the synergy between the creative practices of visual artists and those of authors, and the ways in which the written word evokes incredibly powerful and captivating images. The colours in this exhibition are vibrant, and the echoes of various styles, especially surrealism and modernism, uncanny.”

Exhibition Details

Dates

September 26 – October 28, 2018

Location

Hardiman Building foyer

Curator

Melania Gazzotti

Funder

NUI Galway; The Italian Institute of Culture, Dublin; The Italian Embassy in Ireland

Architecture At The Edge: Placemaking Symposium and Workshops
2018-10-26 09:30 - 17:00 (Europe/Dublin) | O’Donoghue Centre at NUI, Galway
This year’s Symposium focuses upon the regeneration of Nun’s Island, Improving Galway City’s public Realm and placemaking in rural towns and villages.
The event is on the last day of the Architecture At The Edge event.
It is open to the public and free but spots needs to be reserved
Links:
Register on the Event Page
Architecture At The Edge.
Architecture At The Edge: Event Guide

17/18 Equality, Diversity, & Inclusion Report Launch by Office of the Vice-President for Equality and Diversity
2018-10-26 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Rooms G010 and G011 Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
REGISTER ON EVENBRITE
Event Information
DESCRIPTION
PLEASE NOTE Visitor Information:
There is limited paid parking on the grounds of NUI Galway. On-street parking is available nearby. Pay & Display and permit holder parking available at the Park & Ride facility, North Campus, NUI Galway located just off the main Galway-Oughterard-Clifden Road.
The President of NUI Galway, Professor Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh,
in association with the Office of the Vice President for Equality and Diversity,
invite you to attend the
Launch of the 2017/18 Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Report
by Minister Mary Mitchell O’Connor T.D.,
Minister of State for Higher Education
Friday, 26 October 2018
Moore Institute Seminar Room
Hardiman Research Building
4:00 PM
Refreshments provided
Please Register Attendance
Launch Programme
Professor Anne Scott, Vice President for Equality and Diversity, NUI Galway
Professor Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh, President, NUI Galway
Mary Mitchell O’Connor T.D., Minister for Higher Education
Ms Megan Reilly, Students’ Union President, NUI Galway

NUI Galway Commemorates the Bicentenary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
2018-10-30 - 2018-11-01 | Various Locations including G010 in the Hardiman Research Building
NUI Galway Commemorates the Bicentenary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

The 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s groundbreaking novel, Frankenstein, will be celebrated this Hallowe’en with a series of free events at NUI Galway and in Galway City. A movie night, staged reading, and public lecture, organised by lecturers and students from the discipline of English at NUI Galway, take place from 30 October to 1 November, joining literary communities across the world in celebrating this most famous, and most misunderstood, of literary monsters.
Events taking place in Galway include:

Screening of Young Frankenstein will take place on Tuesday 30 October in the Black Gate Cultural Centre from 5-7pm. Tickets: https://frankenreads-movie.eventbrite.com
Staged readings from Frankenstein will take place in the O’Donoghue Theatre, NUI Galway, on Wednesday 31 October from 6-8pm. Tickets: https://frankenreads-readings.eventbrite.com
A public lecture entitled, ‘Frankenstein’s Chemistry: Vital Motion and the Science of Life’, will be delivered by Dr Mary Fairclough (York) in the Anatomy Theatre, NUI Galway, on Thursday 1 November from 7-9pm. The lecture is followed by a drinks reception at the Moore Institute. Tickets: https://frankenreads-lecture.eventbrite.com

Events are free and open to all, but tickets should be booked in advance at the links above.
Frankenreads NUIG is a branch of Frankenreads, the international celebration of the 200th anniversary of the novel for Hallowe’en 2018 organised by the Keats-Shelley Association of America. It is also part of the EXPLORE initiative at NUI Galway, where students and staff collaborate to deliver their innovative ideas and projects. Featuring staff and students from English, Frankenreads NUIG is also supported by the University’s Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Project Fund and by the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies.

EDEN – Roundtable on Precarious Employment.
2018-10-30 13:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
EDEN – Roundtable on Precarious Employment.
Casual Labour – Precarious Employment – Short Term/ Zero Hour Contracts.
Terms which have become increasingly commonplace in the decade following the 2008 economic crash.
As funding for institutes of higher education is once again under threat – and the ever-darkening cloud of Brexit – what is the impact of Casual Labour practices for students, staff and the University: In terms of both its position as a site of learning and as a business model within a competitive global market.
Join us for a wide-ranging discussion on Precarious Employment, as we attempt to identify the pitfalls of such practices and the ways of managing these ongoing conditions.
A short presentation by ECRO (Early Career Researchers Collective) will highlight the current employment conditions across NUIG.
And will be followed by a discussion between:
Ciara Murphy (O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance)
Dr. Evan Bourke ( PostDoc Researcher at The Moore Institute)
Dr. Rebecca Barr (School Of English – SIPTU Representative)

‘The Reluctant Deputy: Sir William Fitzwilliam, treasurer and governor of Tudor Ireland’ by Dr. Deirdre Fennell,
2018-10-30 16:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Dr. Deirdre Fennell, and the title is ‘The Reluctant Deputy: Sir William Fitzwilliam, treasurer and governor of Tudor Ireland’.

Gender Arc Research Seminar Series Autumn 2018: Women's Precarious Labour in Post-Socialism- Textile Production in South-East Europe
2018-10-30 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
Gender Arc Research Seminar Series Autumn 2018
Women’s Precarious Labour in Post-Socialism:
Textile Production in South-East Europe
By Dr Chiara Bonfiglioli
Chiara Bonfiglioli is a Lecturer in Gender & Women’s Studies at University College Cork. She received her MA and PhD in Gender Studies from Utrecht University. Between 2012 and 2017 she held post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Pula, and the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna. Her research addresses women’s and feminist history from a transnational perspective, with a specific focus on the former Yugoslavia and Italy. She recently completed a monograph titled Women and Industry in the Balkans: The Rise and Fall of the Yugoslav Textile Sector (forthcoming with I.B. Tauris, 2019).
For more information or to join Gender Arc at NUI Galway please email: genderarc@nuigalway.ie
Gender Arc at NUI Galway – Room 1002 HRB, Moore Institute
***ALL WELCOME ***
Coordinating Committee (2018-19): Sarah Anne Buckley (History), Miriam Haughton (Drama, Theatre and Performance), Amie Lajoie (Political Science and Sociology/Global Women’s Studies), Muireann O’Cinneide (English), Tina Karen Pusse (German), Niamh Reilly (Political Science and Sociology)

‘Stalin and the Spanish Civil War, Eighty Years On’
2018-10-30 20:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Galway Mechanics Institute, Middle Street, Galway
On Tuesday, 30 October, 8 pm, at the Galway Mechanics Institute, Middle Street, Daniel Kowalsky will speak on ‘Stalin and the Spanish Civil War, Eighty Years On’
The event is co-organised by the Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour and Class (Moore Institute, NUI Galway) and the Galway Council of Trade Unions. Free, all welcome.
Dr Kowalsky writes: Moscow’s intervention in Spain went far beyond the dispatch to the besieged Republic of state-of-the-art Soviet war matériel. An accompanying agitprop campaign, a cinematic offensive, humanitarian relief, and diplomatic rapprochement marked the Spanish Civil War as the most significant projection of Russian power into the West, up to that moment.
Because of the unavailability of archives, Cold War bias, and grievous errors by historians, the participation of the Soviet Union in the Spanish Civil War was the last great unresolved problem in modern European history. Today, over a quarter-century after the declassifications of Spanish and Russian archives, research in the field is booming, with new publications steadily fleshing out the improbable, epic drama. Dr Kowalsky’s talk will examine and probe the recent historiographic upsurge in this fascinating subject and reveal the full story of Stalin and the Spanish Civil War.
Daniel Kowalsky lecturer in European Studies at Queen’s University, Belfast, is the author of numerous books and articles on the civil war in Spain

IRC Postdoctoral Scheme: Information Session
2018-10-31 10:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The Research Office is hosting an information session for applicants to the IRC Postdoctoral Scheme. The presentation will include guidelines on the submission process, tips on how to craft a strong application, and a Q/A session.

Climate-Themed Art Exhibition by Gordon Bromley
2018-11-01 - 2018-11-30 | The Hardiman Research Building Foyer
NUI Galway’s Moore Institute and Galway University Foundation will host a climate-themed exhibition, Art on the Edge, in the Hardiman Research Building during the month of November. Featuring original artwork by NUI Galway physical geographer, Dr Gordon Bromley, the exhibition includes a mix of drawings and paintings captured from his international field research.
The exhibition will be launched at 5pm on Thursday, 1 November followed by a seminar at 6pm by Dr Bromley on The business end of climate research, showcasing ongoing climate research at NUI Galway. The event and exhibition is free and open to the public.
Art on the Edge displays science-inspired artwork from almost two decades of field research into earth’s climate system. Dr Gordon Bromley, an NUI Galway Foundation Research Leader, describes the exhibition as “bringing the public face-to-face with climate science – and climate scientists – through a lens of art.” It will feature Dr Bromley’s artwork from the high deserts of Peru to the edge of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, coupled with human artefacts (scientific and everyday items left on the ice such as drink cans, old radiosondes, and a geologic pick axe). It will also feature photographs and video footage from Dr Bromley’s field work in Antarctica, Greenland, Peru, Colombia, and Scotland, demonstrating how everyday people use our landscapes as laboratories and fostering the notion of climate science as a vital element of our community.
Speaking about the seminar, Dr Bromley from the School of Geography and Archaeology at NUI Galway, said: “The seminar will consider the consequences of climate in flux, including today’s rapid global warming. Earth’s climate is inherently changeable. Human-induced climate change represents one of the greatest uncertainties we face in the 21st Century and beyond. This topic is a highly visible source of public disquiet and political controversy, but the actual science feeding our climatologic knowledge remains mysterious to the vast majority. And it is this disconnect, between science and the public that funds it, that is the biggest challenge to our society’s effective preparation for future ‘climate shock’.
“The seminar will serve as an opportunity for us to explore exactly what climate is, how we think it behaves based on scientific research, and plausible scenarios for our future climate and sea level, highlighting the new and ongoing climate research being conducted at NUI Galway.”
Professor Daniel Carey, Director of the Moore Institute, said: “This exhibition of stunning artwork will inspire much-needed discussion and reflection on climate change. The conjunction of art and science reminds us that only by convening a wider conversation that includes the humanities and Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) can we make progress in public and academic understanding.”
As part of his international field research in these various locations, Dr Bromley primarily uses the geologic record of glaciation to establish two things: the timing and magnitude of past abrupt climate change events, and the impact of abrupt climate change on Earth’s ecosystems. He also continues to work towards understanding the cause of the ice ages and the sensitivity of our climate to carbon dioxide (for example, if CO2 concentrations double, what exactly will be the magnitude of atmospheric warming?).

Irish Studies Seminar Series: Woolfs in Ireland: The Lure of Language and Place by Anne Byrne
2018-11-01 16:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies, Distillery Road
Dr Anne Byrne (Sociology & Politics, NUI Galway) will deliver her seminar, “Woolfs in Ireland: The Lure of Language and Place”, based on her ongoing research investigating the links between Virginia and Leonard Woolf and twentieth-century Ireland. For further details on the seminar and Dr Byrne’s work in this area please see below.
The seminar will take place at 4pm, Thursday 1 November, at the Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies, Distillery Road.
Beidh an-fáilte roimh chách, and do arrive early as seating is limited!
Woolfs in Ireland: The Lure of Language and Place
The Woolfs record of their 10-day tour of Ireland in April-May 1934 neglects to mention meetings with indigenous Irish, or so it seems. From a close reading of letters and diaries, the Woolfs, particularly Virginia, experienced an unanticipated immersion in indigenous Irish culture, albeit a mediated one. The Woolfs met with Apostle, Celtic scholar and classicist George Derwent Thomson in Galway, an English intellectual with intimate knowledge of the Irish language and life on the Blasket Islands.
In Dublin, Virginia observed the cast and crew of The Man of Aran (1934), a documentary of the Aran Islands filmed by the Canadian, Robert Flaherty. Woolf’s fascination with the Irish language and the Aran Islands are the subjects of this article. I argue that experiences of immersion in Irish culture, despite herself, led to the realization that Ireland was no country for Woolf, and not only because of Irish loquacity or ‘the talk’. Virginia was animated and overwhelmed by Irish language and indigenous culture as re-represented by J.M. Synge, Thomson and the Aran Islanders. Consequently, she understood the magnitude of her separation from Ireland as artist and writer.
The distance and barrier created by an oral culture, a vernacular language, an historical and contemporary non-Anglophone literary tradition, continuing conflicts over belonging and representations of Irishness by cultural nationalists, could not be crossed without prodigious investment of time and effort and with little or no guarantee of success. Ireland, in the midst of its own history, could not offer refuge for the Woolfs, personally, professionally or politically.
Byrne, Anne and Gosling, Paul. 2018. Remnants of Mr and Mrs Woolfs Tour of Ireland, 1934 in Virginia Woolf Bulletin, 59: 24-32.
Byrne, Anne. 2018. Roger Fry and the Art of the Book, Celebrating the Centenary of  the Hogarth Press 1917-2017 Virginia Woolf Miscellany, Issue 92, Winter/Spring 2018, 25-29.
Byrne, A. 2018. Autobiography, Chocolate Creams and Letterpress Printing in Virginia Woolf Bulletin, 57 (1): 24-31.
Byrne, Anne. 2016. The Galway Art Gallery Collection and Roger Fry’s The Pond (1921) in Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 68, 181-216.
http://www.nuigalway.ie/our-research/people/political-science-and-sociology/annebyrne/

The Business End of Climate Research by Gordon Bromley
2018-11-01 18:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

Centre for Antique, Medieval and Pre-Modern Studies, Research Labs (CAMPS) Research Labs.
2018-11-02 12:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland

Threesis
2018-11-05 - 2018-11-14 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
NUI Galway’s Threesis competition is currently underway. Threesis challenges research students and postdoctoral researchers to communicate their research clearly and concisely.
80 people have signed up, training sessions have taken place, and registration has now closed. Over the coming weeks six heats will take place and our University community and the wider public are invited to be part of the audience.
All heats will take place in the Hardiman Research Library meeting room G010 over the coming weeks. Please feel free to come along and show your support for the participants!

Heat 1: 11.30am, Monday 5 November
Heat 2: 2pm, Monday 5 November
Heat 3: 2.45pm, Wednesday 7 November
Heat 4: 12pm, Monday 12 November
Heat 5: 1.45pm, Monday 12 November
Heat 6: 2.30pm, Wednesday 14 November

12 finalists will be selected from the heats to go through to the grand finale on 29 November.
Good luck to all participants!
For more information on the competition, which was initiated at NUI Galway in 2012, visit www.nuigalway.ie/threesis

IRC Postdoctoral Information Session
2018-11-05 12:30 - 13:30 (Europe/Dublin) | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
Information Event
The Moore Institute is pleased to present an information session on the IRC Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme which has a closing date of November 29, 2018 @ 4pm. We would encourage all potential mentors and applicants to attend, where possible. Full information on the scheme is available here. The session will be chaired by Prof. Dan Carey, Director of the Moore Institute.
Reading Service
The Moore Institute will also provide a reading service for applicants, the conditions of which are as follows:

Notice of project title to be sent to mooreinstitute@nuigalway.ie by November 7.
Near final draft of application, fully copy edited and with full input from the mentor to be submitted to mooreinstitute@nuigalway.ie by November 14.

We will endeavour to have all reviewed applications returned to applicants by Friday, November 23, 2018.
