School of Political Science and Sociology research seminar: “Moral obligation as a conclusive reason: On Bernard Williams’ critique of the morality system”
2023-10-25 13:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Dublin) | AS203, River Room, University of Galway
The School of Political Science and Sociology invite you to a research seminar with
Dr Allyn Fives (Discipline of Politics; Power, Conflict, and Ideologies research cluster)
“Moral obligation as a conclusive reason:
On Bernard Williams’ critique of the morality system”

Bernard Williams’ critique of the morality system, as illustrated in his reading of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, is intended to show both that real moral conflicts can arise, and that a moral obligation is merely one reason among others and can be defeated by the thick concepts of a shared ethical life. I want to advance two lines of argument. First, when Williams argues that a moral obligation can be the locus of moral conflict, a further step is required to explain why one should feel regret for not acting on a defeated reason. Second, Williams presupposes that, when a conflict is resolved, the conclusive reason will be a thick concept, but there is no compelling justification for that assumption.
Please note – the draft paper on which this talk is based is available HERE
Image: ‘At the feet of Athena, Greek warriors draw lots for the armour of Achilles’. Red figure Kylix, ca. 490 BCE. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria. Photo by Eric Lessing / Art Resource, NY.

Impact Workshop: “Be the Magpie” - postponed – a new date and further detail will be advised shortly
2023-10-25 14:00 - 15:30 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & streamed live on Zoom
postponed – a new date and further detail will be advised shortly
CASSCS colleagues are warmly invited to attend a workshop on research impact by Dr Mark Mann (University of Oxford)
WORSKHOP: “Be the Magpie”
Limited to 15 places. Registration required – please email patrick.lonergan@universityofgalway.ie to participate
In order to successfully spot potential transfer projects, staff and academics will be introduced, through examples that they will work on, to look for the following factors:

Solving a problem:

o Does the research output solve a problem for someone or something?

External influence:

O What are the factors that are outside the research group for which a research project might be relevant? This will include
 University priorities
 Funders and other key organisations
 Local and National Government priorities
 International Priorities
We will then look at the key elements that make a successful transfer possible. This will include:

Academic and university reputation
External participants already being worked with
Value created or that could be created in the future; intellectual property types and what to do with them.
The motivation of key people that will be needed to make things happen.

Academics will be invited to pair up with each other or with a research manager (depending on the balance of numbers) to look at their own research in turn to see where they fit in. To do this they will be introduced to a methodology, KT3, which is a framework which will enable to them to work out where the opportunity exists in a systematic way.
The session will be designed with fun at its core, but also aims to provide as much practical knowledge to be taken away and applied as possible. The workshop will last 90 minutes. There will, however, be the option to either extend the workshop for a further 30 minutes, or use those last 30 minutes to answer any further questions anyone may have.
MARK MANN LIMITED
Mark Mann Limited and its sister company Mark Mann OÜ were founded in 2021 to provide strategic innovation services to technology transfer offices, corporations and institutions across the UK and Europe wishing to expand and diversify their impact offering. The clients of these companies have so far include (selected by relevance for this project):

The University of Bristol
The University of York
Swansea University
The University of Surrey
Charles University, Prague
Université Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne
Ploughshare Innovations Limited
Lancaster University
The University of Leicester
University College London
Cardiff University
PraxisAuril

Dr Mark Mann
Its founder, Dr Mark Mann, developed a reputation for being a leader in the field whilst working at the University of Oxford. As well as providing advice to institutions large and small in innovation strategy, he also develops and provides training to technology transfer professionals in the latest techniques in the field, particularly in the fields of humanities, arts, social sciences, software and social enterprise.
He gained his reputation at the University of Oxford where he:

Created 13 spinouts across the breadth of Oxford University’s research portfolio.
Created Oxford’s first spinout in Silicon Valley. The spinout’s already been sold, justifying the approach taken.
Vastly accelerated Oxford’s Humanities and Social Sciences pipeline by developing new template spinout models.
Developed templates for Oxford’s new social venture spinouts.
Developed a new framework for impact measurement.
Created a collaboration of 12 universities, Impact 12, which work together to pool resources and raise social investment together to build social venture infrastructure outside of London.

Chris Fellingham
Chris is the co-founder and Director of the ARC Accelerator, the world’s first accelerator for social science and Humanities researchers. Chris is also the Social Science and Humanities Lead at Oxford University Innovation and prior to this worked as Strategy Manager at edtech startup FutureLearn.

University of Galway History Seminar: ‘How should I raise and care for my child?’ Early child health writing for a general audience in Europe (1850-1914)
2023-10-25 16:00 - 17:30 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
University of Galway History Research Seminar
‘How should I raise and care for my child?’ Early child health writing for a general audience in Europe (1850-1914)
Dr Anna Gasperini (University of Galway)
Abstract
The period between mid-nineteenth and the early twentieth century saw the rise of childcare handbooks written for a general audience in Europe and North America. Still a popular genre after almost two centuries, childcare manuals were usually penned by medical specialists to educate the public, mostly mothers, about how to ensure that a child survived their first years of life. These texts came in a range of formats: from booklets and pamphlets, cheaper or sometimes even distributed for free, containing few key-instructions on child nutrition and management; to expensive, exquisitely decorated hardbacks, covering a broad variety of topics. Sometimes they addressed the reader directly, even simulating a conversation; sometimes they simply consisted of a list of instructions, with little to no acknowledgment of the reader.
Why did such a genre start at this time, and how? What do these texts tell us about cultural and social notions and hierarchies underpinning child health writing in the early days of pediatrics? What do they tell us about how pediatricians started talking about child health to a general audience? This talk addresses these questions based on the preliminary findings of the IRC Starting Laureate project MILC – MedIcal Literature and Communication about Child health (1850-1914). The talk examines a set of key-features of childcare handbooks in Italian, French, and English, identifying transnational elements in the textual and discursive structure of the texts and highlighting the key-role literature played as the chosen medium for early conversations about childhood between pediatricians and the public.
Biography
Dr Anna Gasperini holds an IRC Starting Laureate grant at University of Galway, where she is Principal Investigator of MILC – MedIcal Literature and Communication about Child health (1850-1914), a comparative transnational study of childcare literature targeting the general public. From 2019 to 2021, she was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy, where she developed FED – Feeding, Educating, Dieting: A Transnational Approach to Nutrition Discourses in Children’s Narratives (Britain and Italy, 1850-1900). She is the author of Nineteenth Century Popular Fiction, Medicine, and Anatomy – The Victorian Penny Blood and the 1832 Anatomy Act (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).
Registration
This is an in-person event, in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway (ground floor). For those of you not able to attend in person, the talk will also be streamed on Zoom: https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/j/98396342366.
To attend via Zoom, please register at: https://forms.office.com/e/08f42zgsmu
This talk is part of the University of Galway History Seminar series and organised jointly with the Centre for the Study of Religion at the Moore Institute.

Sibhialtaigh sa Dá Chogadh Domhanda: An mó acu nár tháinig slán?
2023-10-26 12:30 - 13:30 | Seomra an Droichid (1001), Áras Uí Argadáin & ar Zoom
Sibhialtaigh sa Dá Chogadh Domhanda
An mó acu nár tháinig slán?
Cormac Ó Gráda
Coláiste na hOllscoile, Baile Átha Cliath
12.30–13.30, DÉARDAOIN 26 DEIREADH FÓMHAIR 2023
Seomra an Droichid (1001), Áras Uí Argadáin & ar Zoom
Grianghraf: Dresden, 1945, an radharc ón Rathaus agus dealbh Güte [Maitheas / Cineáltas]; Richard Peter (1895–1977) a ghlac é. Ceadúnas: Deutsche Fotothek‎ CC BY-SA 3.0 DE DEED
ACADAMH, OLLSCOIL NA GAILLIMHE

Registration
If you would like to join online, please register at: https://tinyurl.com/cormac-o-grada

Irish Studies Seminar Series: ‘Gender Trouble: Key Issues in the Contemporary Irish Music Industry’
2023-10-26 16:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies, School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies, 4 Distillery Road, University of Galway & online via Zoom
Irish Studies Seminar Series Semester 1, 2023-24 (in person and on zoom)
‘Gender Trouble: Key Issues in the Contemporary Irish Music Industry’
Dr Ann-Marie Hanlon
The seminar will take place in the Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies, School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies, 4 Distillery Road, University of Galway, and on zoom here: https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/j/92432099826?pwd=[REDACTED]
Dr Hanlon’s paper, ‘Gender Trouble: Key Issues in the Contemporary Irish Music Industry’, will explore the research findings from the report Gendered Experiences of the Irish Music Industry, published earlier this year. This research encompassed a national study on gender and music in Ireland, exploring how gender might impact a career as a musician within the contemporary music industry. The report is available on open access via the University of Galway Aran repository: https://doi.org/10.13025/ps89-rw52 and further details on the seminar and Dr Hanlon’s research are available below.
As a reminder to our Irish Studies community at home and abroad, all of our research seminars will be run this year as hybrid events. While we are delighted to welcome you to join us in person here on campus, we are particularly delighted to have those of you who may be unable to travel to Galway to join us in our zoom room on the day.
Seminar Abstract
In February 2023 the report Gendered Experiences of the Irish Music Industry (University of Galway) was published. This research was based on the responses of over 500 musicians and is the first mixed-methods research on this topic to explore the potential impact of gender on musicians’ day-to-day experiences and career trajectory in the Irish context. Respondents comprised men (50%), women (44%), and non-binary musicians (6%). Sexism is a significant issue within the music industry and in all aspects of a musicians’ career, from the early days of learning an instrument, to performing music in professional live settings. While many forms of discrimination that occur on the grounds of gender are common to participants of all genders, the extent to which these issues are experienced can differ considerably between gender groupings. In this seminar, the report’s author will discuss the key issues related to gender raised by this report and reflect upon these findings in light of recent research in related artistic contexts. Findings will be discussed in relation to different gender groupings, highlighting the current gaps in research and the extent to which various issues are experienced by men, women and non-binary musicians. Furthermore, the author will discuss strategies – that adopt a collective feminist approach to activist organizing – currently being explored in regard to how to make this data matter and contribute to systemic change in the music industry in Ireland. The report is free to access via the University of Galway Aran repository: https://doi.org/10.13025/ps89-rw52.
Biography:
Ann-Marie Hanlon is a musicologist with specialisms in cultural theories of music, popular music and French modernism. Her research in popular music focuses on the area of music and social change, and explores the role of music and musicking in social movements related to women’s rights and queer culture in Ireland and the U.S.. Publications include the report Gendered Experiences of the Irish Music Industry (2023) and contributions to the books The Bloomsbury Handbook of Music & Art (Bloomsbury, 2023), Media Narratives in Popular Music (Bloomsbury, 2021), Made in Ireland: Popular Music Studies (Routledge, 2020) and Music, Art and Performance from Liszt to Riot Grrrl (Bloomsbury, 2018). She is a Lecturer of Music at the University of Galway, Ireland.

Book Launch: As it Flows
2023-10-26 18:30 - 19:30 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Book Launch of As it Flows
Join us to celebrate creative work made by primary school students as part of the project ‘When is Water not Water?’, funded by the University of Galway’s College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Celtic Studies Research Development Grant 2023 and led by the Discipline of Philosophy.
The book is the outcome of our project where we used the humanities as a vehicle for climate education connecting young learners with research happening on campus as a source of inspiration for their own creative work.
Organised by Dr Lucy Elvis and PhD candidate Michela Dianetti.

Margaret Cavendish's ‘Ecocritical’ Thinking: A Reading of ‘A Dialogue Between an Oak and a Man Cutting Him Down’
2023-10-27 13:00 - 14:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Margaret Cavendish’s ‘Ecocritical’ Thinking:
A Reading of ‘A Dialogue Between an Oak and a Man Cutting Him Down’
Professor Line Cottegnies (Sorbonne Université)

Abstract:
Margaret Cavendish is now routinely enrolled as an early example of an eco-conscious author, and studied through the lens of ecocritical approaches, but the risk of anachronism is strong. In this paper, I aim to contextualise her apparent concern for the natural world in relation to the literary tradition of prosopopoeias of trees, seventeenth-century politics and her philosophical conception of nature. In particular I look at one of her 1653 dialogues, a long poem of 164 lines entitled “A Dialogue between an Oak and a Man Cutting Him Down”. This poem, which includes the tree’s plea to the feller not to be hacked, has comfortably been read in recent critical studies in an ecocritical perspective. Yet the convention of the tree prosopopoeia, which goes back to the Bible and Ovid, had already been used by Drayton, for instance, in his popular Polyolbion (1619). Placing Cavendish’s approach within this tradition allows us to better understand the articulation between her concern for the natural world, political allegory and her natural philosophy.
Bio:
Line Cottegnies is Professor of early-modern English Literature at Sorbonne Université. She has published a monograph on the poetics and politics of wonder in Caroline poetry and has co-edited several collections of essays, including Women and Curiosity in Early Modern England and France (with Sandrine Parageau, Brill, 2016). She has worked on Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips, Aphra Behn and Mary Astell. Her edition of texts includes 15 plays for the Gallimard Complete Works of Shakespeare (2012-21), 2 Henry IV for The Norton Shakespeare 3 (2016), and (with Marie-Alice Belle) Mary Sidney Herbert’s Antonius and Thomas Kyd’s Cornelia (Robert Garnier in Elizabethan England, MHRA, 2017). She is currently working on an edition of three works by Aphra Behn for Cambridge University Press.

Centre for Creative Technologies’ masterclass series: Miss-communication - Joanna Walsh
2023-10-31 13:00 - 15:00 | Studio 3, O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, University of Galway
Centre for Creative Technologies’ masterclass series
Miss-communication – Joanna Walsh
Joanna Walsh will present her Markievicz-award-winning miss-communication.ie, the first generative text project to be supported by the Irish Arts Council.
Miss-Communication.ie is a work of two halves: an AI chatbot trained on Constance Markievicz’s prison letters and interviews with 20th century Dublin women collected by Máirín Johnston in her 1988 book Dublin Belles, plus a choose-your-own-critical-theory adventure essay investigating language, autonomy, creativity, and gender identity. Joanna Walsh has both programmed the AI and written the essay, but is she the author of either ‘work’?
After a short break, Joanna will lead a workshop using Twine, a simple, free digital narrative tool, to play with the possibilities of digital writing discussed during the first part of the session. This workshop is aimed at everyone who writes–no specialist digital literacy required.
It’s essential that participants bring a laptop, and download the free programme, Twine, from https://twinery.org, before the session. (It is possible to use Twine direct on any web browser but some of the online functions differ and we’ll be working from the downloaded version). They should also bring a short text that they would like to explore, de- and reconstruct. This text can be in any genre, fiction or nonfiction, written by the participant or by someone else. As an optional extra, they can also bring one or more digital images they might like to incorporate.
Places for the masterclass are limited to 25, so please register using Eventbrite here.

University of Galway History Research Seminar: ‘Tangier, Bombay and the political economy of Empire: an Irish model?’
2023-10-31 13:30 - 15:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & streamed live on Zoom
University of Galway History Research Seminar: ‘Tangier, Bombay and the political economy of Empire: an Irish model?’
Professor Steven Pincus (University of Chicago)
This event is in-person only, in Room G010, Hardiman Building. The seminar will take place at 1.30pm – please note the different to usual start time.
This talk is part of the University of Galway History Seminar series.

University of Galway History Research Seminar: 'The Irish Face of British Politics: Agrarian "outrages", Propaganda, and Reform 1830-1845
2023-11-01 16:00 - 17:30 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
University of Galway History Research Seminar: ‘The Irish Face of British Politics: Agrarian “outrages”, Propaganda, and Reform 1830-1845
Dr Jay Roszman (University College Cork)

Abstract
Some of the most compelling histories of nineteenth-century Ireland focus not simply on the ways that Britain shaped Ireland, but on the ways that Ireland shaped Britain and its empire. Implicit in these narratives is an understanding of the uneven relationship between the two islands and the various socio-political cleavages within them. This paper builds on this approach by tracing the way Irish problems – especially so-called ‘outrages’ – shaped the politics of the United Kingdom in somewhat underappreciated ways during a pivotal time of change that historians have labelled ‘the decade of reform.’ On the one hand, the paper traces the expanding surveillance of the British state, which tabulated and categorised agrarian violence so to better understand it. However, the focus on trying to alleviate Irish grievances also became a crucial point of contention, as Conservatives fretted about the ways the structures of the United Kingdom were changing by including Irish Catholics and governing in their interests. Thus, the second half of the paper highlights how at faction within the Conservative Party made use of agrarian violence as a tool of political propaganda, which they used to connect Whig governance, fears of imperial instability, and Catholic treachery. This propaganda became a crucial plank in the party’s political campaign and their return to power in 1841.
Biography
Dr Jay Roszman is lecturer in history at University College Cork. He holds an MA in Irish Studies from Queen’s University Belfast and a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University, where he was supervised by David W. Miller. His dissertation earned the Adele Dalsimer Prize for Distinguished Dissertation from the American Conference of Irish Studies (2015). He moved to Cork in 2018. Jay is the author of Outrage in the Age of Reform: Irish Agrarian Violence, Imperial Insecurity, and British Governing Policy, 1830-1845 (Cambridge University Press, 2022), and co-editor (with Heather Laird) of Dwellings in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Liverpool University Press, 2023).
Registration
This is a hybrid event, in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway (ground floor). For those of you not able to attend in person, the talk will also be streamed on Zoom: https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/j/98971649058.
To attend via Zoom, please register at: https://forms.office.com/e/6QfNfhnchw
This talk is part of the University of Galway History Seminar series.

Micheline’s Three Conditions: How We Fought Gender Inequality at Galway’s University and Won
2023-11-02 17:00 - 18:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & streamed live on Zoom
Please join us for the University of Galway launch of
Micheline’s Three Conditions: How We Fought Gender Inequality at Galway’s University and Won
by Rose Foley and Micheline Sheehy Skeffington
Micheline will give a short talk and both authors will answer questions and sign books.
The book provides a gripping account of the campaign by Micheline to fight gender discrimination in the university after she was repeatedly passed over for promotion. She won her case, and then donated the settlement to help 5 other female members of staff who had similarly not been promoted to take their own case.

“Going North”: Landed Estates in the counties of Cavan, Donegal & Monaghan, 1700-1914
2023-11-06 15:00 - 17:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
“Going North”: Landed Estates in the counties of Cavan, Donegal & Monaghan, 1700-1914
Seminar
Monday 6 November 2023
3-5pm – G010 Seminar Room, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
& on Zoom
Speakers: Ms. Virginia Teehan, CEO, Heritage Council
Dr. Jonathan Cherry (DCU)
Prof. Terence Dooley, (Maynooth University)
Dr. William Roulston (Ulster Historical Foundation)

Marie Boran & Brigid Clesham (Researchers, Irish Landed Estates Project) will present the updated Irish Landed database.

All welcome.

The Irish Landed Estates database has been based at the Moore Institute, University of Galway, since 2005. Since that time our database https://landedestates.ie/) has had over 1 million views and is linked to by all the major research resources such as the National Archives and the National Library of Ireland. As well as data relating to estates in all the counties of Connacht and Munster, data relating to the three Ulster counties of Cavan, Donegal and Monaghan has recently been added.

3pm: Welcome by Dr. Laurence Marley, Discipline of History, University of Galway
3.15pm: Address by Virginia Teehan, CEO, Heritage Council, principal research funder for Ulster Landed Estates addition
Reflections on Ulster Landed Estates
3.30pm. Dr. Jonathan Cherry (DCU). The Maxwell estate, Farnham, County Cavan
3.50pm: Dr. William Roulston. The estates of the Dukes of Abercorn in County Donegal.
4.10 pm: Prof. Terence Dooley (Maynooth University). The Marquis of Bath’s estates in County Monaghan.
4.30. Q&A with the three speakers
4.40. The Irish Landed Estates database: a demonstration with Marie Boran & Brigid Clesham.
4.50. Thanks & Close of Seminar

Registration
If participating online, please use this link to register for the event: https://bitly.ws/YBoZ

ISTR webinar 'Publishing in a Journal'
2023-11-08 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
The Irish Society for Theatre Research (ISTR) webinar on ‘Publishing in a Journal’, 8 November 1-2pm, with Prof Helena Grehan (Murdoch Uni, Performance Research Deputy Editor) in conversation with Dr Shonagh Hill (Queen’s, author of Embodied Mythmaking in Irish Theatre, CUP 2019).
Registration: Get Tickets – ISTR Webinar: Publishing in a Journal – Q and A with Prof. Helena Grehan – Zoom, Wed 8 Nov 2023 13:00 – 14:30 (tickettailor.com)

POSTPONED! University of Galway History Research Seminar: Finding Sophie: Tracing and Returning a Greenlandic Woman through the Archives of Exploration
2023-11-08 16:00 - 17:30 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
POSTPONED!
University of Galway History Research Seminar
Finding Sophie:
‘Tracing and Returning a Greenlandic Woman through the Archives of Exploration’
Dr Eavan O’Dochartaigh (University of Galway)
Abstract
In the mid-nineteenth century, ships of ‘exploration’ made their way along Greenland’s west coast, often stopping to rest, re-supply, and trade at settlements before entering the Northwest Passage. The visits were a welcome respite for ships’ crews before wintering in the High Arctic and the social interaction that often accompanied the stops was a significant part of expedition life, indicating an Arctic that could be warm and sociable in sharp contrast to the ‘sublime’ Arctic that is commonly associated with exploration during the period.
This paper follows the appearance of one Indigenous woman from Qeqertarsuaq (Disko Island), known as Sophie Tabitha (1833-1902), and tracks her influence and agency through English-language textual and visual sources (from 1852 to 1885), including letters, private journals, periodicals, published narratives and documentary images. By attempting to ‘follow’ Sophie through the sources, we learn more about her family circumstances, social relations between Greenlandic women and British crews, and how the balance of power in the contact zone could be destabilised. I also discuss how contacting the museum in Sophie’s birthplace of Qeqertarsuaq is leading to fruitful outreach, knowledge sharing and collaboration.
Biography
Dr Eavan O’Dochartaigh is an Honorary Research Lecturer in the English Department at University of Galway, Ireland. From 2019 to 2021, she was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow at Umeå University, Sweden, under the supervision of Prof. Maria Lindgren Leavenworth. She graduated in 2018 with a PhD in English from University of Galway. She formerly worked as an archaeologist and archaeological illustrator in Ireland, Iceland, and the UK. Her current research project ‘Exploring the Arctic Archive’ at University of Galway is with the mentorship of Prof. Daniel Carey and is funded by Science Foundation Ireland and the Irish Research Council’s Pathway Programme (2022-26). Her first monograph Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages, based on her PhD thesis, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2022 and is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Registration
This is an in-person event, in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway (ground floor). For those of you not able to attend in person, the talk will also be streamed on Zoom: https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/j/98396342366.
To attend via Zoom, please register at:
Registration
This is an in-person event, in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway (ground floor). For those of you not able to attend in person, the talk will also be streamed on Zoom: https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/j/98396342366.
To attend via Zoom, please register at: https://forms.office.com/e/Ezy9tXU45H
This talk is part of the University of Galway History Seminar series.

“Thinking About American Public Opinion: Past and Present”
2023-11-09 16:00 - 17:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & streamed live on Zoom
“Thinking About American Public Opinion: Past and Present”
Professor Susan Herbst, University of Connecticut
American politics and public discourse have changed rapidly since 2015 and the election of President Trump. Political scientists, journalists, and engaged citizens have been surprised by the extraordinary acceleration of partisan polarization, for example. Of the contemporary American political dynamics, which current tendencies – conspiratorial thinking, partisan warfare, crudity and hatred in discourse, and anti-science attitudes – were present already, and which are new? What can we learn about today’s worrisome politics from a look back to the 1930s, the key decade in the development and measurement of public opinion? And is there any way out of our current dilemma, characterized by so much strife and negativity in the United States?
Susan Herbst

Professor and President Emeritus
Political Science

Susan Herbst was appointed as the 15th President of the University of Connecticut on December 20, 2010, by the University’s Board of Trustees. She stepped down as President on July 1, 2019 and returned to the faculty. She teaches at the Stamford campus, where she is University Professor of Political Science and President Emeritus.
Prior to her appointment to the presidency, Herbst served as Executive Vice Chancellor and Chief Academic Officer of the University System of Georgia, where she led 15 university presidents and oversaw the academic missions for all 35 public universities in Georgia. Before coming to Georgia, Herbst was Provost and Executive Vice President at The University at Albany (SUNY), and also served as Officer in Charge (acting president) of the school from 2006 to 2007. She previously served as the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Temple University.
Born in New York City and raised in Peekskill, NY, Herbst received her B.A. in Political Science from Duke University in 1984, and her Ph.D. in Communication Theory and Research from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication in Los Angeles in 1989.
Herbst joined Northwestern University as an assistant professor in 1989 and remained there until 2003. At Northwestern she served in many capacities, including Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Department. Dr. Herbst is a scholar of public opinion, media, and American politics, and is author of five books and many articles in these areas. Along with Lawrence R. Jacobs, Adam J. Berinsky and Frances Lee, she edits the University of Chicago Press Studies in American Politics. Her most recent book, A Troubled Birth: The 1930s and American Public Opinion, was recently published by the University of Chicago Press.
Registration
Please register via Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/thinking-about-american-public-opinion-past-and-present-tickets-749900481527?aff=oddtdtcreator

Centre for Creative Technologies masterclass series: Jumping into the Metaverse
2023-11-13 12:00 - 14:00 | Studio 3, O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, University of Galway
Jumping into the Metaverse, with Professor Sarah Jones
Virtual reality has come a long way since headsets had to be bolted to the ceiling as they were too heavy for a person to support them. In this discussion, Sarah Jones, Professor of Education Innovation at the University of Gloucestershire, will take us on a journey through the metaverse, taking an interdisciplinary approach to our understanding of immersive technology. This session will explore the opportunities of the creative technologies, challenging you to think differently.
Register to attend here.

Live Book Launch: Getting by in Tligolian, by Roppotucha Greenberg
2023-11-13 18:00 - 19:30 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & streamed live on Zoom
You are cordially invited to the launch of Getting by in Tligolian by a Galway-based author Roppotucha Greenberg (known to some of you as Ira Ruppo)
13 November at 6pm
The book will be launched by Dr Dermot Burns (SEMCA, College of Arts)
Below, please find an Eventbrite link with more information about the books and sign-up/ tickets (the event is free but the ‘ticket’ option is there to pay for a copy of the book by card and collect it at the launch).
Please register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/live-book-launch-getting-by-in-tligolian-by-roppotucha-greenberg-tickets-747942093937?aff=odcleoeventsincollection&keep_tld=1
The City-State of Tligol is ruled by dictators, holds monthly public executions and is haunted by a benign, fishing, giant, but by and large the inhabitants are content, and the food is amazing. The perfect place for a city break, just as long as you don’t want to leave. Ever.

Language has its own relationship to time.
When Jennifer falls for Sam at his execution, she doesn’t immediately realise that she can still find and live with him; and the city of Tligol has trains that will take her anywhere, including her own past, and future, and multiple possible variations, just as long as she doesn’t leave the city. Jennifer rides the trains, loops around in time and sets an unplanned series of events in motion. For lovers of The City and The City… and Hotel California!
Join Roppotucha for readings and conversation

Getting by in Tligolian is a clever, beguiling novella that weaves its way through an elusive city, encountering knotty intersections of language and time, life and death. Greenberg captures the outsider’s dislocation, the struggle to communicate, and the aching absence of a loved one who can never be truly known with finely-detailed observations. Like a half-remembered dream, this book lingers in the mind long after the final page has been turned.
J L George, author of The Word
A yearning fable of loss and love and all the bits in between; a miasmic dreamwalk one part Haruki Murakami, one part China Miéville, but, in the end, its own hypnotic, brilliant thing.
Val Nolan, co-author of Spec Fic for Newbies: A Beginners Guide to Writing Subgenres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror.
In Getting by in Tligolian Roppotucha Greenberg creates a lifeline of miracles to string in unforgettable characters and the city-state of Tligol. Interwoven as study notes and lessons, vignettes and short shorts, this beautiful novella is an evocative experience traversing the maze of time and feelings, opening each layer as masterfully as it enfolds another, especially where Greenberg summarizes a relationship, “At what stage did our being together become more like falling apart? At what stage did I know that I needed to leave, but didn’t leave, except that I left? Why did we talk so little?”
Here is a voice that is original, a language that shimmers and a story that is moving and achingly beautiful and a privilege to read. Getting by in Tligolian is not to be missed.
Tara Isabel Zambrano, Author of an upcoming story collection, Ruined a Little When We Are Born Dzanc Books 2024.
Immediate, immersive and highly imaginative, Getting by in Tligolian is a rare literary gem. Poetic and thought-provoking, Greenberg crafts a spellbinding narrative where language and time are interconnected, creating a mesmerizing experience for readers where reflections become real and the boundary between past, present, and future blurs. This novella is a testament to the power of language and storytelling to transport readers to imaginative realms. I haven’t been this captivated by a story of such singularity since reading Clarice Lispector’s Modernist classic, The Hour of the Star.
Adam Wyeth

Roppotucha Greenberg speaks three languages fluently and has tried to learn six more.
Roppotucha has lived in Russia, Israel and now Ireland. Arachne Press has published Roppotucha’s stories in Solstice Shorts Festival anthologies Noon, and Time and Tide.
She has previously published a flash and micro-fiction collection Zglevians on the Move (TwistiT Press, 2019) and three silly-but-wise doodle books for humans, Creatures Give Advice (2019), Creatures Give Advice Again and it’s warmer now (2019) and Creatures Set Forth (2020) and Cooking with Humans (2022).
Roppotucha’s story On Kings and Falling was performed at Noon for Solstice Shorts Festival at Edinburgh and Carlisle on 21st December 2018.
Her story, Listen, Noah’s Wife was read at Time and Tide, Solstice Shorts Festival 2019 at Clydebank, Greenwich, Holyhead and Peterhead.

Centre for Creative Technologies masterclass series: Immersed in Domes – or Learning to Look Up
2023-11-14 12:00 - 14:00 | Studio 3, O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, University of Galway
Immersed in Domes – or Learning to Look Up, with Alan Hook
In this presentation, Senior Lecturer in Ulster University, Alan Hook will survey a new body of practice work that he has been collaborating on with musicians, storytellers, and artists to create immersive experiences for dome projection. The talk will showcase the Psychlorama project, a 4 movement immersive electronic music collaboration, Star Wolf, an immersive story, and Baba Jaga, a real time rendered spatial story for 7-12 year olds. The talk will be full of practical tips, hacks, work arounds and workflow advice to create immersive experiences for domes as well as new insights in immersive story.
Register to attend here.

The School of Political Science and Sociology research seminar: “Negotiating Nollywood: Women, intersectionality and post-feminist sensibilities”
2023-11-14 13:00 - 14:00 | AS203, River Room, University of Galway
The School of Political Science and Sociology research seminar
“Negotiating Nollywood: Women, intersectionality and post-feminist sensibilities”
Oluwatumininu Adebayo and Stacey Scriver
(Global Women’s Studies Research Cluster)
Nollywood, the Nigerian film industry, is the second largest film industry globally based on the number of movies produced each year. Women, via their roles as actresses and more recently as producers and directors, have an opportunity to grow their careers and status within the industry and Nigerian society more generally. However, research has found that women are often relegated to stereotypical roles and are subjected to vitriol by the public in relation to their choices. While several studies have focused on female representation in Nollywood films, few have engaged directly with women in Nollywood to understand their lived experience within the film industry and fewer again have done so from an intersectional perspective. This presentation is based on interviews with female filmmakers, including actresses, directors, and producers, and aim to deepen understanding of the challenges women face in the Nollywood industry. The findings reveal that discrimination, sexual harassment, and stereotypes persist in the industry and are shaped not just by gender, but also by ethnicity and social standing. While some positive changes are occurring in Nollywood, we find that the approaches of women in negotiating the inequalities present, aligning with a post-feminist sensibility, may undermine collective action and the achievement of equality in the industry. This study contributes to a deeper understanding of the intersectionality of gender and other identities in the Nollywood industry and the influence of the post-feminist sensibility on shaping women’s responses to the challenges encountered.
All Welcome!

Open Scholarship Forum: Enabling Research Data Management
2023-11-15 12:00 - 13:30 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Open Scholarship Forum: Enabling Research Data Management
Date: November 15, 2023, 12-13.30, THB-G010, Hardiman Building
We are excited to invite research students, academic and university support staff to our upcoming Open Scholarship Forum, “Enabling Research Data Management” This event will show different perspectives on how we can enable Research Data Management at the University of Galway, and will be followed by a complimentary light lunch.
Keynote: Science Foundation Ireland

Promoting Responsible Data Management: SFI’s Approach
Jenny Clarkin, Grants Compliance Manager, Science Foundation Ireland; Edie Davies, Programme Officer, Research Policy, Science Foundation Ireland
Jenny and Edie will speak about some of the measures SFI implements which aim to strengthen the quality of the outputs arising from SFI grants. The presentation will briefly outline SFI requirements related to Data Management Plans and Data Provenance Reviews which play a key role in supporting SFI’s commitment to fostering a culture of integrity and promoting good research practice.
Lightning Talks

Dave Connolly, Cardiovascular Research Programme Manager, College of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences: From bytes to terabytes, the coal face experience of the evolving research data management challenge.Dave will discuss the evolving rate of data creation and the challenge this presents for researchers and research data practitioners. With advances in automation and the constant push towards higher resolution how do we equip ourselves to maximise the potential of the data we are producing and facilitate beneficial impactful collaboration while also meeting the demands of data governance, accessibility and security.
Sarah Dever, Data Protection Officer: Key Data Protection concepts in research projects.A short presentation on the reasons why data protection impacts research and a brief overview of some key considerations such as Data Protection Impact Assessments, Privacy Notices, Data Protection Agreements.
Leona Ryan, PhD candidate, Psychology and Health, School of Psychology: Ethical Considerations and Best Practices for Safeguarding Sensitive Qualitative Data: Balancing Research Integrity and Participant Privacy.A sharing plan for sensitive qualitative data involves careful consideration of various factors. Firstly, it is crucial to assess the level of sensitivity of the data and determine whether it can be shared at all. If sharing is deemed appropriate, key considerations include the time duration for which the data should be retained, legal requirements and restrictions, and potential future uses for research purposes. It is important to establish clear guidelines for sharing, such as anonymisation techniques and data access controls to protect the privacy and confidentiality of participants. Additionally, obtaining informed consent from participants regarding data sharing is essential to maintain ethical standards. By addressing these considerations, researchers can safeguard sensitive qualitative data effectively.

The talks are followed by a panel discussion with attendees, moderated by Dr Cillian Joy, Head of Digital and Open Research Services, Library.
After the event attendees are invited to a light lunch in the foyer of the Hardiman Building.
Please use the “Register” button at the top of this page or go directly to the registration page at https://universityofgalway.libcal.com/calendar/workshopsevents/osf-data

University of Galway History Research Seminar: Feeding the Mind: Humanitarianism and the Reconstruction of European Intellectual Life after the First World War
2023-11-15 16:00 - 17:30 | online event, livestreamed via Zoom in Room THB-G010, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
University of Galway History Research Seminar
Dr Tomás Irish (Swansea University)
Feeding the Mind: Humanitarianism and the Reconstruction of European Intellectual Life after the First World War
The final University of Galway History Research Seminar of the semester will take place at 4.00pm on Wednesday, 15 November 2023. This is an online event, streamed via Zoom: https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/j/95635528755. Colleagues who are on campus are welcome to join us in Room G010, Hardiman Building, where the seminar will also be livestreamed on the screen. All are welcome!
Abstract
The Great War and the conflicts that followed it in the early 1920s left intellectual life in ruins in many countries. Famine and epidemic were rife in central and eastern Europe by 1919 and the Bolshevik Revolution and Russian Civil War led to a refugee crisis, while hyperinflation gripped countries like Germany and Austria. These events put millions of lives in Europe at risk and led to an unprecedented humanitarian effort to save lives. Humanitarian crises usually bring to mind the suffering of the most vulnerable in society; however, in post-1918 Europe, an unprecedented set of humanitarian initiatives took place that attempted to save the individuals and institutions that comprised European intellectual life, which form the subject of this paper. This version of humanitarianism not only provided food and medical aid to intellectuals at risk of death, but also supplied them with books, laboratory equipment and other materials so that they could continue their creative work, as well as rebuilding institutions like libraries and universities that had been destroyed by the violence of total war. This paper will consider where intellectual relief fits into the wider history of early twentieth century humanitarianism by exploring how and why, in the early 1920s, ‘intellectuals’ were identified as a category that required bespoke assistance.
Speaker Biography
Dr Tomás Irish is an Associate Professor in History at Swansea University. He is the author of two books and numerous articles and book chapters, with a focus on how universities, intellectuals, and knowledge itself have influenced issues of war and peace in the past as well as the ways that past societies have valued knowledge in times of crisis. His third monograph, Feeding the Mind: Humanitarianism and the Reconstruction of European Intellectual Life, 1919-1933, was published by Cambridge University Press in October 2023.
Tomás is currently working on two new projects. The first explores post-First World War reparations and focuses on the restitution of looted or destroyed cultural objects. The second project focuses on the role played by a range of international actors in planning educational reconstruction during the Second World War. Originally from Ireland, Tomás took his BA and PhD degrees at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, and held a postdoctoral research fellowship there between 2012 and 2015. He took up the position of Lecturer in Modern History at Swansea University in September 2015, was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2018 and to Associate Professor in 2022. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Registration
This talk will be delivered online, via Zoom. Register here for the link: https://forms.office.com/e/mtn5tyXk0J
The seminar will also be livestreamed in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building.
This talk is part of the University of Galway History Seminar series.

Irish Studies Seminar Series: "'In a bad place': A Topography of Romantic Entanglements in Recent Irish Novels"
2023-11-16 16:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies, School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies, 4 Distillery Road, University of Galway, and on zoom
Irish Studies Seminar Series
“‘In a bad place’: A Topography of Romantic Entanglements in Recent Irish Novels”
Ms Nathalie Lamprecht (Charles University, Prague)
We are delighted to invite you to the third seminar of our Irish Studies Seminar Series for this academic year. We offer a warm winter welcome to Ms Nathalie Lamprecht who is currently visiting the Centre for Irish Studies as a Visiting Doctoral Scholar from Charles University, Prague, this semester for her seminar at 4pm Thursday 16th November 2023.
Ms Lamprecht’s paper, ‘“In a bad place”: A Topography of Romantic Entanglements in Recent Irish Novels”, is based on her current doctoral research exploring the intersection between ‘emotion’ and ‘space’ in contemporary Irish fiction, supervised by Professor Ondrej Pilney at the Centre for Irish Studies in Charles University, Prague. Nathalie is also currently deputy editor of the student academic journal The Protagonist, and has recently co-organized the conferences Brendan Behan at 100: Legacy and New Directions and Reading Ireland in the 21st Century: The 6th International Postgraduate Conference in Irish Studies.
This seminar will take place in the Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies, School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies, 4 Distillery Road, University of Galway, and on zoom here: https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/j/96586466030?pwd=[REDACTED] Further details are available below.
As a reminder to our Irish Studies community at home and abroad, all of our research seminars will be run this year as hybrid events. While we are delighted to have you join us in person at the Centre on campus, we are particularly delighted to have those of you who may be unable to travel to Galway to join us in our zoom room on the day. Beidh an-fáilte roimh chách thar zoom!
Seminar Abstract:
All interpersonal relationships take place in space. The kind of relationship that perhaps occurs most frequently in recent Irish novels written by women is the unhealthy romantic relationship. Unhealthy relationships can be defined by secrecy, shame, emotional, sexual, or physical abuse and/or a power-imbalance between partners. In short, they fail to contribute to a sense of well-being in at least one of the people involved. In this seminar, the romantic relationships central to Eimear Ryan’s Holding Her Breath and Niamh Campbell’s This Happy, among others, will be discussed, paying particular attention to the spaces that these relationships can or cannot take place in. The relationships in focus will mainly be those between young women and significantly older, married men. It is these relationships, which need to be hidden, to be constrained to certain places, that are only allowed to exist in an intimate topography of secrecy. Using Sara Ahmed’s suggestion that emotions can move us through space, the seminar will address how these relationships and the emotions they produce move women both towards and away from certain places and why. Furthermore, it will be argued that space in these novels reflects the disparities between partners and that emotions influence the way space is experienced and perceived.
Presenter Biography:
Nathalie Lamprecht is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Irish Studies, Charles University, Prague. Her research focuses on the portrayal of young women in recent Irish novels written by women, examining how gender, space, and emotion interact in these narratives. Nathalie holds a BA in English and American Studies from the University of Vienna and an MA in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures with a specialisation in Irish Studies from Charles University. Her MA thesis entitled “Class, Sexuality and Nationalism: Identity Building in the Prose Writings of Brendan Behan” (2021) won the Vilém Mathesius Award presented to the best theses in Anglophone Studies at Charles University’s Faculty of Arts. She is deputy editor of the student academic journal The Protagonist and has recently co-organized the conferences Brendan Behan at 100: Legacy and New Directions and Reading Ireland in the 21st Century: The 6th International Postgraduate Conference in Irish Studies.

Unveiling New Perspectives Through Press Archives, News Photography, and a Decolonial Lens: Disrupting Parisian Fashion
2023-11-20 12:00 - 13:00 | THB-G011 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
Unveiling New Perspectives Through Press Archives, News Photography, and a Decolonial Lens: Disrupting Parisian Fashion
Lecture introduced by Dr. Don Duncan of the Discipline of Journalism & Communication, School of English, Media & Creative Arts
Pierre-Antoine Vettorello’s research sits at the intersection of fashion design, history, museology, and decolonial studies. In his lecture, he will discuss how journalistic articles from French newspaper archives and colonial-era press photography inform his present research into the construction of the colonial ‘other’ through fashion in pre-WWII Paris.
Using newspaper articles, press analysis, and family photos as research material, Vettorello creates detailed replicas of period Senegalese women’s indigenous garments, using indigo dye. By doing so, he examines, interrogates and decentres fashion and decoloniality in the historical context of Senegalese woman wearing their indigenous clothing in Paris in the late 1930s… And how that was framed and represented in the mainstream French press of the day.
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Pierre-Antoine Vettorello is a fashion designer & practice-based researcher at the University of Antwerp and Sint Lucas school of arts, Antwerp. He teaches at Istituto Marangoni, Paris & at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Brussels.

Translation Cafe: Pura López Colomé in translation. Dr. Lorna Shaughnessy
2023-11-21 13:00 - 14:00 | THB-1003 Small Meeting Room, Floor 1, Moore Institute, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Translation Cafe : Pura López Colomé in translation. Dr. Lorna Shaughnessy
Pura López Colomé is one of Mexico’s leading contemporary poets. She is also an essayist and translator. She has published 13 poetry collections to date, many of which have received national and international prizes.
Lorna Shaughnessy is a Lecturer in Spanish in the University of Galway. She has published four translations of collections by Mexican poets Pura López Colomé and María Baranda, and Galician author Manuel Rivas, as well as four collections of her own poetry.
Lorna will bring some translation- in-progress of recent poetry by Pura López Colomé to the Translation Café, where we can discuss some of the challenges it presents, and possible strategies for addressing these. The challenges include translating wordplay and coping with differences between Spanish and English syntax.
Translation Café is a monthly event run by the Emily Anderson Centre for Translation Research and Practice. It functions as a reading group for colleagues interested in the many facets of the art of translation. The format of the group is designed to allow participants share their interests/research/linguistic investigations with other colleagues in an informal manner.

RESISTING: PATRIARCHAL MISTRANSLATION OF SIKH SACRED TEXT
2023-11-22 13:00 - 15:00 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
The Emily Anderson Centre for Translation Research and Practice and The Centre for the Study of Religion invite you to a talk entitled:
RESISTING: PATRIARCHAL MISTRANSLATION OF SIKH SACRED TEXT
How to translate the terse simplicity and beauty of the Sikh sacred text? A daunting task to begin with, its English translations have been weighed down by patriarchal interpretations and Christian theological terms that are hard to shake off. For me the translation task mandates a visceral reading of the text, a sensuous hearing in the original language, and a real tasting of the lyrics in the mouth. Thus, we create possibilities for unexpected equivalents that can rebound the intrinsic sound and sense. In my talk I will share the challenges and adventures of translating this sacrosanct literary body nourishing 26 million or more Sikh men and women worldwide.
About:
Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh holds the Crawford Family Chair and heads the department of Religious Studies at Colby College, USA. She has published extensively in the field of Sikh Studies. This year she published two books: Poems from the Sikh Sacred Tradition (Harvard University, 2023) and Janamsakhi: Early Sikh Art (Roli Publishers, 2023). Dr. Nikky-Guninder has served on the editorial board of several journals including the History of Religions, the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Sikh Formations, and CrossCurrents.

Book Launch: Theatre, Performance and Commemoration: Staging Crisis, Memory and Nationhood
2023-11-22 15:00 - 17:00 | Oude Boteringestraat 34, 9712 GK Groningen, Room 003 & online via Zoom
The theatre section of the ICOG Research Centre for Arts in Society, University of Groningen is delighted to announce the online book launch by Dr Miriam Haughton (University of Galway), Dr Alinne Balduino P. Fernandes (Federal University of Santa Catarina) and Dr Pieter Verstraete (University of Groningen) as part of the SPOT ON series, of their edited volume:
Theatre, Performance and Commemoration: Staging Crisis, Memory and Nationhood
(Bloomsbury/Methuen Drama 2023) ISBN 9781350306769

Hybrid
Wednesday November 22, 2023, 16:00-18:00 (CET)
Oude Boteringestraat 34, 9712 GK Groningen, Room 002
followed by drinks
For online participation, please use this link, password: [REDACTED]
How does the act of performance speak to the concept of commemoration? How and why does commemorative theatre operate as a conceptual, historical and political site from which to interrogate ideas of nationalism and nationhood? This volume explores how theatre and performance create a stage for acts of commemoration, considering crises of hate, nationalism and migration, as well as political, racial and religious bigotry. It features case studies drawn from across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin America.
During the book launch, the editors will first highlight key insights and backgrounds of this volume. Dr Pieter Verstraete will then present his chapter on Turkey’s Kurdish Question in European opera by means of the first Kurdish opera adaptation of Puccini’s Tosca by Theater RAST and Diyarbakir City Theatre, which premiered at ITA in 2019. The chapter explores music theatre’s role in ‘mnemonic socialization’ and the making of ‘inoperative’ communities in culturally heterogeneous audiences. He will question the risk of such critical commemorative music theatre practices of falling into the traps of creating new myths for the sake of propaganda and a memory industry in the wake of crises of nationalism. Finally, there will be room for a Q&A and a celebration of the book with some of its contributors.
Find out more at: SPOT ON-Book Launch Invitation

Launch of Immersive VR film "Lost and Found"
2023-11-22 19:00 - 20:30 | O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, University of Galway
The Centre for Creative Technologies at University of Galway, in collaboration with the Galway Simon Community, is excited to launch Lost & Found on Wednesday November 22nd at 7pm, as part of the Arts in Action programme.
Lost & Found is a co-created, virtual reality film produced in collaboration with clients from the Galway Simon Community. This 360 degree film captures and conveys the experience of homelessness from the perspective of those who have lived it. Co-created by clients of Galway Simon, leading virtual reality filmmakers, and researchers from the University of Galway as part of the Immersive Empathy project, the film was developed through a process of oral history interviews and collaborative workshops and shot over two days in Galway.
You are invited to join us at 7pm on November 22nd in the O’Donoghue Theatre for a discussion with the film’s creators, followed by the opportunity to watch the film on a VR headset.
Places are strictly limited, so please register your attendance via Eventbrite.

The Fráma Eile roundtable series
2023-11-23 16:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies and Zoom
The Fráma Eile roundtable series, organised by PhD students in the Centre for Irish Studies and Roinn na Gaeilge, explores new approaches to framing established texts (in both English and Irish), material objects, and artwork in the Irish Studies canon.
This roundtable discusses the legacy and writings of Edmund Spenser. This event will be bilingual.
All are welcome, and after presentations, the floor will be open to contributions and comments from all in attendance.
To attend virtually via Zoom: https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/j/97710008456

Emergent norms, models and target varieties in Celtic language revitalization Múnlaí, noirm, caighdeáin agus spriocanna in athneartú na dteangacha Ceilteacha
2023-11-27 09:30 - 16:30 | Áras na Gaeilge, University of Galway
Emergent norms, models and target varieties in Celtic language revitalization
Múnlaí, noirm, caighdeáin agus spriocanna in athneartú na dteangacha Ceilteacha
27 November 2023, Áras na Gaeilge, University of Galway
Níl aon táille i gceist ach caithfear clárú roimh an Déardaoin 23 Samhain.
There is no registration fee but please register at the link below by Thursday 23 November.
https://forms.office.com/e/gZ5ZCnek9p

09:30 Registration and welcome

10:00 David Mandić, University of Glasgow
‘LEACAN: Investigating variation in Scottish Gaelic grammar’

10:40 Erin McNulty, University of Glasgow
‘Language ideologies and valued language practices among New Speakers of Manx Gaelic’

11:20 Merryn Davies-Deacon, Queen’s University Belfast
‘Positioning and legitimacy in recent Cornish dictionaries’

12:00 Lunch

13:00 Christopher Lewin, University of Galway
Seminar: ‘The persistence of native speaker models after language “death”: the case of Manx’

14:00 Piotr Szczepankiewicz, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
‘The realisation of post-tonic unstressed vowels in modern Cornish’

14:40 Break

15:00 Tadhg Ó hIfearnáin, University of Galway
‘Perceptual and folk-linguistic research agenda in the Irish speech community’

Pádraig Ó Mianáin, Lexicographical Editor, Foras na Gaeilge
‘Choices from the perspective of the contemporary Irish language lexicographer’

15:40 Erwan Le Pipec, Université de Bretagne Occidentale
‘The Breton of young Breton teachers’

16:20 Discussion

Roinn na Gaeilge: Sraith Seimineár Taighde_ Research Seminar Series
2023-11-27 13:00 - 14:00 | Seomra 204, Áras na Gaeilge
