Symposium: 'The Human Rights Scholar-Activist or Activist-Scholar?'' and Launch of Professor Kevin Boyle Archive
2014-11-28 10:00 (Europe/Dublin)
Symposium: “The Human Rights Scholar-Activist or Activist-Scholar?” and Launch of Professor Kevin Boyle Archive
28th November 2014, NUI Galway
The family of the late Professor Kevin Boyle, co-founder of the Irish Centre for Human Rights (ICHR), has kindly deposited the Kevin Boyle archive at the James Hardiman Library, NUI Galway. This important archive has much to say about the pursuit of human rights in Ireland, the UK and internationally. The Archive will be launched at a series of events at NUI Galway on the 28th November 2014. A day-long symposium, organised by the ICHR and the School of Law, will bring together leading human rights scholars and activists to address the theme “The Human Rights Scholar-Activist or Activist-Scholar” and will also explore issues of human rights, archives and memorialisation. The keynote speaker is Professor Sir Nigel Rodley, Chairperson of the UN Human Rights Committee.
Panel Speakers Include:
Brice Dickson
Michael Farrell
Tom Hadden
Fran̤oise Hampson
Barry Houlihan
Bernadette McAliskey
Marie McGonagle
Tarlach McGonagle
Donncha O’Connell
PÌ_l O’Dochartaigh
Michael O’Flaherty
Louis Boyle
Video input/message from Mary Robinson
All are welcome.
Following the Symposium, the Archive of the late Professor Boyle, catalogued and available at the Hardiman Library at NUI Galway, will be officially launched by MÌÁire Whelan, S.C., Attorney General.
For further information: humanrights@nuigalway.ie To register for Symposium: www.conference.ie

CAMPS lab: Prof. MÌÁirÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha, Old & Middle Irish, NUI Galway 'A Solution from Irish Tradition to the Enigma of an Old English Poem, the So-called "Wulf and Eadwacer'"
2014-11-28 12:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Prof. MÌÁirÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha, Old & Middle Irish, NUI Galway
‘A Solution from Irish Tradition to the Enigma of an Old English Poem, the So-called “Wulf and Eadwacer'”
Followed by discussion & light lunch
Everyone welcome – FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch
For more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie

IMBAS: NUIG's International Medievalist Postgraduate Conference, November 28-30th
2014-11-28 15:30
Imbas: NUIG’s International Medievalist Postgraduate Conference
Venue: Hardiman Research Building
This year’s theme: ‘East – West and the Middle Ages’
Begins: 3.30pm, Friday 28th November, through Saturday until 1pm Sunday 30th November
Wine Reception: 6 – 7pm, Friday 28th November
Keynote Speaker: Dr L̩an NÌ_ Chl̩irigh, Trinity College, Dublin: ‘East Meets West: the crusades and the twelfth-century’ from 7 – 8pm, Friday 28th November
Admission Fee: 20 Euro All welcome……
Website: http://www.nuigalway.ie/imbas/
for more information please contact imbasnuig@gmail.com

Dr. Lucy-Ann Buckley, School of Law, NUI Galway Gender, autonomy and family agreements: lessons for Ireland from Canada?
2014-12-03 13:00
Dr. Lucy-Ann Buckley, School of Law, NUI Galway
Gender, autonomy and family agreements: lessons for Ireland from Canada?
Date/Time: Wednesday 3 December, 1.00-2.00pm
Venue: Room 1001, The Hardiman Building, NUI Galway
Contact details: Gender ARC Research Seminar and Public Lecture Series coordinator: Emma BrÌ_nnlund, e.brannlund1@nuigalway.ie or Gillian Browne, Centre for Global Women’s Studies, Gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie

Spanish Department guest talk - Prof. Jeremy Munday (Leeds) on Translation Studies.
2014-12-03 18:00
Spanish Department guest speaker
Professor Jeremy Munday (Leeds)
will give a guest talk on
Translation Studies
For more information please contact geraldine.smyth@nuigalway.ie

Digital Scholarship Seminar
2014-12-09 12:00
Prof. Patrick Lonergan (Drama & Theatre Studies, NUI Galway)
Digital Humanitities and Theatre History: Re-thinking the role of women writers at theAbbey Theatre
Ms Ellen McCabe (Huston School, NUI Galway)
‰Û÷Let the frame of things disjoint’: Ambiguity in the digital age and the consequences foreducatition
Presentatitions during the first hour of each seminar are followed by discussion and exchange overa light lunch in the second.
For further informatition, contact: Dr PÌÁdraic Moran (padraic.moran@nuigalway.ie), or Dr Justitin Tonra (justitin.tonra@nuigalway.ie)
www.nuigalway.ie/digital-seminar ‰ۢ www.facebook.com/nuigdss

Journalism Guest Speaker Series: In conversation with Ms Hilary Martyn, Editor, The Galway Independent
2015-01-14 11:00
Journalism Guest Speaker Series:
In conversation with Ms Hilary Martyn, Editor, The Galway Independent
For more information please contact bernadette.osullivan@nuigalway.ie

Journalism Guest Speaker Series: In conversation with Ms Lorna Siggins, The Irish Times -Western and Marine Correspondent
2015-01-21 11:00
Journalism Guest Speaker Series:
In conversation with Ms Lorna Siggins, The Irish Times -Western and Marine Correspondent
For more information please contact bernadette.osullivan@nuigalway.ie

Archaeology Guest Lecture: Distinguished Research Professor in Archaeology Alasdair Whittle, Cardiff University on The Times of their Lives: Why Does Building Precise Chronologies for the European Neolithic Matter?
2015-01-21 11:00
Archaeology guest lecture by Distinguished Research Professor in Archaeology
Alasdair Whittle, Cardiff University.
Professor Whittle will speak on:
The Times of their Lives: Why Does Building Precise Chronologies for the European Neolithic Matter?
(Please come before 11am; lecture will begin promptly because there is a class following at 12).
All welcome!
for more information please contact maggie.ronayne@nuigalway.ie

History Graduate Research Seminar Series: Carla Lessing 'Ethnic Silence': Swedish perceptions of 'Finnishness' in the 16th and 17th centuries
2015-01-21 16:00
History Graduate Research Seminar Series

Carla Lessing
‘Ethnic Silence’: Swedish perceptions of ‘Finnishness’
in the 16th and 17th centuries.

for more information please contact caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie

Inaugural Prof. Turlough Fitzgerald Memorial Lecture
2015-01-22 12:00
Professor Richard Reynolds Deputy Head, Division of Brain Sciences,Wolfson Neuroscience LaboratoriesImperial College London
“Knowledge, gifting and passion: a recipe for success in Neuroscience”
Organised by the Discipline of Anatomy, School of Medicine and the Galway Neuroscience Centre, in remembrance of the outstanding contributions that the late Professor Turlough Fitzgerald made to Neuroscience and Anatomy research and teaching at UCG/NUIG.
Professor Richard Reynolds Bioprofile: Professor Richard Reynolds studied Pharmacology at King’s College London from 1975 to 1981 before embarking on a career in MS research and has now been Professor of Cellular Neuroscience at Imperial College, London, for the last 13 years. He is the Scientific Director of the UK Multiple Sclerosis Tissue Bank and also heads an MS research unit at the Hammersmith Hospital. Professor Reynolds has been carrying out MS related research for the last 30 years and current research in the unit is designed to gain an understanding of the mechanisms involved in both neurodegeneration and repair processes in the brain in MS. This research is dependent on a supply of well characterised human brain tissue that has been collected by the UK MS Tissue Bank because of the desire of the MS community to contribute to the research in a practical way. This work has led him to be involved in teaching both science and medical students about MS and to travel around the British Isles helping people with the illness understand what is happening to them. At home he enjoys cooking, relaxing with his family, playing the guitar and travelling. Richard is married to Jane, has four children, three grandchildren, and lives in Oxfordshire.
Lunch provided after the lecture
For more information contact david.finn@nuigalway.ie

Gender ARC Lunchtime Seminar Series: Dr. Julie Gaucher, PhD in French Literature and Sport History, University of Lyon 1 Writing the Sportswomen: Between Tradition and Modernity
2015-01-22 13:00
Gender ARC Lunchtime Seminar Series
Dr. Julie Gaucher,PhD in French Literature and Sport History, University of Lyon 1
Writing the Sportswomen: Between Tradition and Modernity
This New Character in French Literature from 1920’s to 1950’s
Abstract: Till now, Gender Studies rarely focused on the fictive character of the sportswoman. Though it is an emblematic figure that makes visible the social norms and points out the rules of gendered relations. It also shows the mutations and/or the resistances to modernity. In the first part of the twentieth century, literature was fascinated by this new figure, and tried to understand and surround its identity. Descriptions and narrations hesitated between the respect of a traditional femininity and the construction of new gendered references.

This presentation will study French fictions about sports like poems and novels, including popular literature. We will focus on the first part of the twentieth century, when modernity implicated a new gendered order. On one hand, sportswoman could appear as a symbol of emancipation: this character was in link with the ‰Û÷tomboy’. On the other hand, this figure could be understood as an original translation of the traditional ideal of femininity: sportswomen could represent mothers and wives of exception. Thus this article will aim at showing how, through a series of stylistic, narrative and semiotic processes, the fiction tried to understand one of the new female models. Dr Julie Gaucher’s research falls within an approach of Cultural History, in the intersection of different disciplines: French Literature, History of Sport, Gender and Women History. Her investigations focus on models of gender proposed in Sport Literature. In other words, she tries to define the characteristic and the values of femininities and masculinities in this specific corpus, from 1920’s to 1950’s. Her recent investigations question the representation of the body in graphic novels.
All Welcome
For more information please contact gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie

Moore Institute Visiting Fellow Lecture: Dr Shelley Troupe, NUI Maynooth - "From Druid/Murphy to DruidMurphy"
2015-01-27 13:00
Moore Institute Visiting Fellow Lecture
Dr Shelley Troupe, NUI Maynooth
“From Druid/Murphy to DruidMurphy“
All welcome
For more information contact Shelley.Troupe@nuim.ie

Language Games: A Seminar on Language and Literature
2015-01-27 16:00
Language Games
Language Games is a seminar dedicated to all matters relating to language and literature, including linguistics, translation, language instruction, and literary experiments and their reception.
All Welcome
Questions and proposals for workshops can be sent to
irina.ruppo@nuigalway.ie
Organisers:
Irina Ruppo Malone
(English/Academic Writing Centre, James Hardiman Library)
Siobhan Purcell (English)

'What translation means to me' - Roundtable discussion
2015-01-27 18:00
‰Û÷What translation means to me’:
A roundtable of translation and interpretation practitioners in Ireland will discuss their work and their philosophy of translation.
The roundtable will include Gabriel Rosenstock – poet and translator; Lorna Shaughnessy – poet, lecturer and Spanish translator; ́ine NÌ_ Sh̼illeabhÌÁin – Head of translation Services DCU; Susan Folan – Interpreter, European Union and Director MA in Consecutive Interpreting, NUI Galway, and Ulrike Fuehrer – Head of Interpreting, Context Translation, Galway
For more information please contact anne.oconnor@nuigalway.ie

Gender ARC Lunchtime Seminar Series:Dr. Elaine Keane, Education, NUI Galway 'Some done - A lot more to do': Lessons from Research on Widening Participation in Higher Education & to the Professions
2015-01-28 13:00
Gender ARC Lunchtime Seminar Series

Dr. Elaine Keane, Education, NUI Galway
‰Û÷Some done – A lot more to do’: Lessons from Research on Widening Participation in Higher Education & to the Professions

All Welcome
For more information please contact gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie

History Graduate Research Seminar Series:Susanne Lachenicht. Negotiating Asylum in Europe and the Atlantic World in the 17th and 18th centuries.
2015-01-28 16:00
History Graduate Research Seminar Series

Susanne Lachenicht.
Negotiating Asylum in Europe and the Atlantic World in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Followed by Dr Lachenicht’s launch of
RÌ_isÌ_n Healy & Enrico Dal Lago (eds.)
The Shadow of Colonialism on Europe’s Modern Past
(Palgrave Macmillan 2014)
for more information please contact caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie

Book Launch - The Shadow of Colonialism on Europe's Modern Past
2015-01-28 17:00
You are cordially invited to the launch of
The Shadow of Colonialism on Europe’s Modern Past
Edited by RÌ_isÌ_n Healy and Enrico Dal Lago
The book will be launched by
Prof. Susanne Lachenicht
(Univeristy of Bayreuth)
The book launch will be preceded by Prof. Lachenicht’s lecture on
“Negotiating Asylum in Europe and the Atlantic World in the 17th and 18th Centuries”
For more information please contact enrico.dallago@nuigalway.ie

5th Babel Public Lecture Series: Dr Coralline Dupuy: Victimisation and retaliation in Charles Perrault's fairy tales
2015-01-28 18:30 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
5TH BABEL PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES
Dr Coralline Dupuy:
Victimisation and retaliation in Charles Perrault’s fairy tales
This talk will examine the issue of language and power shift in Charles Perrault’s fairy tales. In particular, what do Perrault’s tales tell the readers about victimization and oppression? What is the link between the use (and abuse) of language and the changes in power status in the tales?
The Babel Lectures is an initiative of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, NUI Galway, which intends to reinforce the connection with Galway through an annual series of lectures especially designed to promote creative exchange and dialogues between academics and the community.
Entrance is free, and everybody is welcome.
For more information please contact suzanne.gilsenan@nuigalway.ie

CAMPS lab: An tOllamh RuairÌ_ ÌÒ hUiginn, NUI Maynooth - 'Marriage, Law, and Tochmarc Emire'
2015-01-30 12:00
An tOllamh RuairÌ_ ÌÒ hUiginn, NUI Maynooth
‘Marriage, Law, and Tochmarc Emire’
Followed by discussion & light lunch
Everyone welcome – FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch
For more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie

GUIDE (Galway University Integration Through Drama and Education) Symposium
2015-01-31 10:00
GUIDE (Galway University Integration Through Drama and Education) Symposium
Kunle Animashaun (Camino Productions)
Delphine Coudray (Oulala Productions)
Elaine Keane and Manuela Heinz (NUI Galway) Jenny Macdonald (From the Inside Out, Tallaght Community Arts) Chrissie Poulter (Trinity College, Dublin) Fiona Quinn (Friars’ Gate Theatre Company, Limerick) Piaras Mac Ìäinri (NUI Cork)
This symposium brings together leading academics and theatre practitioners who work with migrant students in Ireland to explore best practice in using theatre techniques as tools for transition to and within higher education.
Free admission (Pre-registration required)
Refreshments and lunch will be served.
This symposium is made possible by the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, the Irish Research Council and the Moore Institute
To register for this free event, please visit:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/guide-galway-university-integration-through-drama-and-education-symposium-tickets-14524951521
Provisional Schedule:
10-10:30am. Welcome.
10:30 – 11:45am. Session I. Institutional Contexts for Migrant Students in Higher Education (Seminar Room G010)
Chair: Jason King
Speakers: Elaine Keane (NUI Galway), ‰Û÷Exploring Diversity in Initial Teacher Education (DITE) in Ireland – A National Project’
Piaras Mac Ìäinri (NUI Cork), ‰Û÷Institutional Barriers for Migrant Students to Transition to Third Level Education in Ireland’
Chrissie Poulter (Trinity College Dublin), ‰Û÷In-Visibility: Borrowing from Drama training to fast-track the welcome and soothe the sensitivity … in/to third-level education’
11:45am – 12pm. Coffee, Tea, and Biscuits (G010)
12pm – 1:30pm. Session II. Theatre Practitioner Case Studies (G010)
Chair: Marianne NÌ_ Chinn̩ide
Speakers: Fiona Quinn (Friars’ Gate Theatre Company),
‰Û÷Integration and the ensemble: coming together through collaborative creative processes’
Jenny Macdonald (Tallaght Community Arts), ‰Û÷From the Inside Out: Me Emerging…Using drama and storytelling to express and share the experiences of youth migrants to Ireland’
Kunle Animashaun (Camino Productions), ‰Û÷Fragments: Documenting memories and life experiences verbatim’
Delphine Coudray (Oulala Productions), ‰Û÷Oulala Productions: It Doesn’t Rub Off (2014)’
1:30pm – 2:30pm. Lunch. (GO10)
2:30pm – 4pm. Session III: Breakout workshops (Seminar Rooms G010 and G011, Room 1001, Bank of Ireland Theatre)
Groups will be assigned following the lunch break.
4pm – 4:15pm. Coffee, Tea, and Biscuits (G010)
4:15-5:30pm. Session IV: Roundtable Discussion and Conclusion (G010)
Chair: Charlotte McIvor
For further information, please feel to contact us at charlotte.mcivor@nuigalway and jason.king@nuigalway.ie.

Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour and Class (ICHLC) public lecture - Prof. Helena Sheehan (DCU) - SYRIZA: Storming the Citadel? Greece's new governing party: where it came from; where it's going
2015-02-03 16:00
The Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour and Class (ICHLC) is delighted to host a public lecture by
Prof. Helena Sheehan (Emerita DCU) on
‘SYRIZA: Storming the Citadel? Greece’s new governing party: where it came from; where it’s going’.
Prof. Sheehan will discuss the origins of Greece’s new governing party, its policies and perspectives – and its prospects.
ICHLC/Moore Institute: free lecture; all welcome
For more information please contact john.cunningham@nuigalway.ie

Dr Niamh Whitfield - Public Lecture: 'Ornament on the Ardagh Chalice: Hidden Meanings?'
2015-02-03 19:00
Dr Niamh Whitfield, currently based in London, will be presenting a series of lectures and seminars on Early Irish Art, 3rd-5th February 2015, in the Moore Institute, at the invitation of the MA in Medieval Studies and CAMPS (Centre for Antique, Medieval & Pre-Modern Studies).
Dr Niamh Whitfield
Public Lecture: ‰Û÷Ornament on the Ardagh Chalice: Hidden Meanings?’
The Ardagh chalice is an Irish version of a two-handled calix ministerialis, from which eucharistic wine was given to the congregation during Mass. It is often assumed that the patterns used to ornament it lack meaning and are purely decorative. This talk will challenge that assumption, and aims to show how the chalice’s liturgical function explains its design and particularly the symbolism of its decoration.
All interested postgraduates, staff and other researchers are invited to attend, but should contact Dr Kim LoPrete, kim.loprete@nuigalway.ie, in advance in order to ensure that materials are available for everyone.

Dr Niamh Whitfield - Seminar: Early Irish Manuscripts: The Book of Durrow & the Northumbrian Question
2015-02-04 11:00
Dr Niamh Whitfield, currently based in London, will be presenting a series of lectures and seminars on Early Irish Art, 3rd-5th February 2015, in the Moore Institute, at the invitation of the MA in Medieval Studies and CAMPS (Centre for Antique, Medieval & Pre-Modern Studies).
Dr Niamh Whitfield
Seminar: Early Irish Manuscripts: The Book of Durrow & the Northumbrian Question
All interested postgraduates, staff and other researchers are invited to attend, but should contact Dr Kim LoPrete, kim.loprete@nuigalway.ie, in advance in order to ensure that materials are available for everyone.

Special Collections Lunchtime Lectures Series - "Bodies of knowledge : the early days of anatomy in Galway" by Alexander Black, Anatomy, School of Medicine.
2015-02-04 13:00
The Special Collections Lunchtime Lectures Series continues with “Bodies of knowledge : the early days of anatomy in Galway”
by Alexander Black, Anatomy, School of Medicine.
Anatomy was one of the founding departments of Queen’s College Galway in the 1840s. At the time anatomy was seen as a rather distasteful, if necessary, field of study, and had yet to be completely separated from its sibling discipline physiology. Anatomy is a visual and tactile subject, and perhaps relies on images and illustrations more than any other academic discipline. This talk will cover the early days of anatomy in Galway, and will illustrate the importance of anatomy to society, society to anatomy, and medical imaging to medicine. Some anatomy material from the Old Library Collection will be on display during the talk.
All are welcome
For more information please contact olivia.larnder@nuigalway.ie

History Graduate Research Seminar Series: Madeline O'Neill, From Carnacon to Cape Town: Colonel Maurice Moore, An Unremembered Envoy, 1921
2015-02-04 16:00
History Graduate Research Seminar Series

Madeline O’Neill,
From Carnacon to Cape Town:
Colonel Maurice Moore, An Unremembered Envoy, 1921
for more information please contact caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie

Professor Peadar Kirby, University of Limerick: 'The Latin American New Left: towards a post-neoliberalism?'
2015-02-05 12:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Professor Peadar Kirby, University of Limerick: ‰Û÷The Latin American New Left: towards a post-neoliberalism?’
For more information please contact suzanne.gilsenan@nuigalway.ie

Charles Barr - Hitchcock, a Researcher's Tale
2015-02-05 14:30
Charles Barr – Hitchcock, a Researcher’s Tale
Alfred Hitchcock’s films continue to be so widely shown, discussed and analysed that ‰Û÷Hitchcock fatigue’ is understandable – do we really need more books about him? But some parts of his life and work have remained unexplored. A new book, filling some major gaps, will be published in March: Hitchcock, Lost and Found: The Forgotten Films. Co-author Charles Barr tells the story behind it: the motivation, the long research process in Europe and America, the findings, and the way these alter our sense of Hitchcock and of his place in film history.
His main research area continues to be British and Irish cinema history; he was co-writer, with its presenter Stephen Frears, of Channel 4’s centenary history, Typically British (1996). He also has work in progress on the Swedish director Victor Sjostrom and on the Hollywood melodramas of John M.Stahl. Prof Barr taught for many years at the University of East Anglia, helping to develop one of the pioneer centres for Film Studies at undergraduate and postgraduate level, and he has since held Visiting Professor posts in St Louis, Dublin and Galway. He was Adjunct Professor at Huston School of Film and Digital Media 2011-13. Prior to this he was Director of the Program in Film and Media at Washington University in St Louis. For thirty years he was based at the University of East Anglia (1976 to 2006) where he initiated and helped to build one of the UK’s leading centres for Film and TV Studies at undergraduate and graduate level.
Charles Barr is the recipient of a Moore Institute Visiting Research Fellowship.
For more information please contact rod.stoneman@nuigalway.ie

Performance Matters - Irish Theatre Discussion Group
2015-02-06 12:00
Performance Matters
Irish Theatre Discussion Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/
For more information please contact lisa.fitzgerald@nuigalway.ie or m.nichualain5@nuigalway.ie
All theatre practitioners, theorists and students are welcome to attend

Language Games: A Seminar on Language and Literature
2015-02-10 16:00
‘Language Games’: An AWC Seminar on Language and Literature.
All welcome.
Texts for discssion will be provided at the meeting.
Contact: irina.ruppo@nuigawlay.ie
