Moore Institute

Glossing cultural change: Comparative perspectives on manuscript annotation, c. 600–1200 CE
2018-06-21 08:45 - 2018-06-22 17:30 UTC | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Glossing, the practice of annotating manuscripts between the lines and/or in the margins, was a widespread cultural practice wherever books were being read, studied and taught. As an indication of this, the Network for the Study of Glossing currently has 85 members with research interests in glossed manuscripts written in Arabic, Breton, Chinese, German, Greek, Egyptian, English, French, Hebrew, Hittite, Irish, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Sanskrit, Turkish, and Welsh.
This two-day conference brings together 24 speakers (from 15 countries), working in a variety of fields, to discuss aspects of glossing from a comparative perspective. A particular focus will be on how glosses engage with and reflect the dynamics of contemporary cultural change, rather than acting merely as passive repositories of inherited tradition.
See more information and schedule on the following link: http://www.nuigalway.ie/classics/events/glossing2018/

Symposium to mark launch of Finnish Famine Exhibition, Foyer, James Hardiman Library
2018-06-21 13:00 - 17:00 UTC | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland

New Professors' Inaugural Lecture Series with Professor Niamh Reilly: The social and political thought of Tom Kettle: Recovering a distinctive Irish Thinker
2018-06-21 17:00 UTC | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The social and political thought of Tom Kettle: Recovering a distinctive Irish Thinker
Tom Kettle (1880-1916) is not very well known in Ireland today. Yet, historian Senia Pašeta notes he ‘was associated with almost every major political and cultural development’ during his lifetime. He was a gifted public intellectual, essayist, journalist, nationalist MP (1906-1910) and a soldier killed in the Battle of the Somme in 1916. In the first decade of the 20th century competing visions of future independent Ireland had vied for space, from ‘Irish-Irelander’ to cosmopolitan. Kettle stood for constitutional democracy and a non-sectarian, self-governing Irish nation and cautioned against the insular tendencies of cultural nationalism. After his death, many appreciations lamented the loss of his brilliance — as a thinker and writer, and especially as an orator. Following the 1916 Rising and the turn to separatist nationalism, Kettle was almost forgotten. Recently, he has figured more prominently in public discourse than at any time since his death. In this limited narrative, he is invoked as a conciliatory figure who demonstrates the possibility of combining the identities of ‘British soldier’, ‘Irish patriot’ and ‘European’ and is largely constructed as a precursor to Ireland’s contemporary business-friendly ‘centre-right’. However, there is a larger and more complex story to be told about Tom Kettle. He was a vocal advocate for the rights women and labour and a Catholic intellectual who supported the separation of Church and State. Although his qualities as an activist thinker were widely recognised during his lifetime, Kettle’s extensive writings and speeches have been largely ignored since. This lecture draws on continuing research into the social and political thought of Tom Kettle. It outlines the expansive scope of his thinking and influences, and his ideas about democracy and social justice, Irish nationalism and unionism, national development, religion and religious identity, militarism and internationalism — all of which, it is argued, remain salient today.

Niamh Reilly is Established Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Galway. She has published widely on issues of gender and human rights; feminist political and social theory; religion and gender in the public sphere; transnational women’s movements and the United Nations; and women, peace and security. Her book, Women’s Human Rights: Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalizing Age (Polity Press, 2009) was selected as an “Outstanding Academic Title for 2010” by the American Library Association/CHOICE. She is co-author of Demanding Accountability: The Global Campaign and Vienna Tribunal for Women’s Human Rights (UNIFEM 1994) (with Distinguished Professor Charlotte Bunch, Rutgers University). Niamh has many years’ experience working with United Nations processes and Civil Society Organisations internationally and has served as an independent expert on the Irish government’s Department of Foreign Affairs’ Standing Committee on Human Rights (1997-1999) and its Consultative Group to draft Ireland’s National Action Plan on UN Security Council 1325 (2010-2011). Before joining NUI Galway in 2007, Niamh was a Research Council of the UK Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Transitional Justice Institute, University of Ulster and a postdoctoral fellow in Women’s Studies and Politics at the University of Limerick Ireland. Niamh is co-founder (with Dr. Breda Gray) the NUI Galway-UL research network Gender ARC. Her research interests focus on the theory and practice of gender, human rights and international politics. Her most recent book is an edited collection (with S Scriver) entitled Religion, Gender and the Public Sphere (Routledge 2014). She is editor of The Human Rights of Women (Springer, Major Reference Works, forthcoming 2018). In the context of Ireland’s decade of centenaries (1912-1922), she is currently preparing a book on the political and social thought of Thomas Kettle (1880-1916).

Laser-scanning and Photogrammetry Workshop
2018-07-04 10:00 - 13:00 UTC | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Laser-scanning and Photogrammetry Workshop

Hosted by
Discipline of Archaeology, School of Geography and Archaeology, NUI Galway
Presented by
Gary Devlin Discovery Programme (Centre for Archaeology and Innovation Ireland, Dublin)
Joe Fenwick Discipline of Archaeology (School of Geography and Archaeology, NUI Galway)
Ryan Lash Inishark Archaeological Field Project (University of Notre Dame, USA)
Robert Shaw Discovery Programme (Centre for Archaeology and Innovation Ireland, Dublin)

Open Discussion: Online Culture Wars
2018-07-06 12:00 - 15:00 UTC | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Since Angela Nagle published her book Kill All Normies: The Online Culture Wars from Tumblr and 4chan to the Alt-Right and Trump (2017), in which Nagle investigates how right-wing internet activists have declared war on so-called “Social Justice Warriors”, things have not calmed down. Instead such attacks are slowly and steadily seeping into the mainstream. New coalitions have since been built between Conservatives, Liberitarians, and classic Liberals – who, under normal circumstances, do not have much in common. Now they do, since they are united in their opposition to “Identity Politics” and “Feminism”. On July 14 it is expected that a discussion among culture war protagonists – Sam Harris, Douglas Murray and Jordon Peterson – titled “Winning the War of Ideas” will fill Dublin’s 3Arena.
In the week before this event, Gender ARC at NUI Galway invites everybody interested to come together for a facilitated open discussion on topics including (but not limited to): discourse paradigms presented in these debates, possible responses from the progressive left, communication problems, self-reflection, campus politics, free speech and its limits, theories and strategies, how to negotiate these terrains as a feminist, and many more.
We look forward to addressing a wide number of issues. Hope to see many of you there.

ILLUSTRATED TALK: Maeve Cavanagh MacDowell (1878-1960)
2018-07-14 14:30 - 15:30 UTC | Education Room, Galway City Museum

ILLUSTRATED TALK: Constance de Markievicz (1868-1927) - Modern Irishwomen Lecture Series
2018-08-11 14:30 UTC | Education Room, Galway City Museum

European Health Psychology Conference
2018-08-21 08:00 - 2018-08-25 17:00 UTC | The Bailey Allen Hall
The National University of Ireland Galway is delighted to host the 2018 annual conference of the European Health Psychology from the 21st – 25th of August 2018. The 2018 conference is the 32nd EHPS annual conference. The conference theme is Health Psychology Across the Lifespan: Uniting Research, Practice and Policy. Please find more information on: http://www.ehps2018.net/

The First International Symposium on Teaching and Learning of Spanish as a Foreign Language.
2018-08-24 - 2018-08-25 | Seminar Rooms G010 and G011 Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
The First International Symposium on Teaching and Learning of Spanish as a Foreign Language has been organized by Pilar Alderete and Cristina Garcia in Spanish and all the information and promotional video can be found in http://eleineirinn.wordpress.com/ The event is free and in Spanish but there are a limited number of places available.
Time: 24th August 9:30am – 1pm 25th August: 10:30am – 2pm.

European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE) Seminar of Sustainability in the Agri-Food sector.
2018-08-30 - 2018-08-31 | Seminar Room G010, G011 and Room 1001 “The Bridge” in the Hardiman Research Institute and The Arts Millennium Building
The seminar will be organised jointly between the Teagasc (Agriculture and Food Development Authority, Ireland), National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) and the FLINT consortium.
The objective of this seminar is to progress the knowledge base and expertise in the fields of agricultural and agri-food value chain sustainability by bringing together research in relation to:
· the measurement and monitoring of agricultural sustainability in relation to farm-level economic, environmental and social indicators of sustainability
· behavioural and extension mechanisms to improve sustainability
· methods of realising economic gains from improved sustainability across the value chain such as marketing niches and better value chain efficiency.
Please find out more information on the event page: http://conference.ie/Conferences/index.asp?Conference=552
Registration is in the Arts Millennium Building foyer

ILLUSTRATED TALK: Maud Gonne MacBride (1866-1953) - Modern Irishwomen series.
2018-09-08 14:30 - 15:30 UTC | Education Room, Galway City Museum
Margaret Ward on actress, suffragette and revolutionary Maude Gonne McBride, described by W. B. Yeats as possessing ‘beauty like a tightened bow’. Dr Margaret Ward is a Visiting Research Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast and the author of numerous books, including Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, Suffragette and Sinn Féiner.
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’.

'Some student days from UCG, 1920'
2018-09-11 12:00 - 13:30 UTC | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
A talk entitled ‘Some student days from UCG, 1920‘, organized by the NUI Galway Retired Staff Association, will be presented by Patrick Larkin.
Formerly, President of the Galway Archaeological & Historical Society, Patrick Larkin, is a Galway native and a chartered chemist who graduated from University College Galway with a B.Sc. degree in chemistry, and now with favourite hobbies of photography, boating and archaeology.
‘Some student days from UCG, 1920′
The talk will be illustrated with several photos of the period, which will be a highlight of the presentation. The talk is really your classic love story; it’s about when, where and how Patricks’ parents got together, and the extraordinary context in which this took place. They were both British subjects as undergraduates; he a blacksmith’s son from East Galway (who became Professor of Education at UCG), she a Galway girl. When they graduated, they were both citizens of the Free State. Luckily, the Galway girl (Rita) was a keen photographer, and she left many photos to illustrate the story from that period.

Ag Caint leis an Simné?
2018-09-13 17:00 UTC | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

Feminist/Queer Space for Postgraduate Researchers, NUI Galway
2018-09-19 13:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Room 1003 Floor 1 Hardiman Research Building, Ireland
The Feminist/Queer Space for Postgraduate Researchers meets fortnightly to read and share current feminist/queer research across disciplines. We aim to creative a supportive space for fellow feminist researchers – this might entail peer review on writing, assistance on feminist/queer theory/methodology/readings you might be grappling with, sharing resources on feminist/queer CFP’s, conferences, workshops, etc., and, importantly, creating a space to discuss the frustrations (and joys!) of being a postgraduate feminist/queer researcher.
Our first meeting of the new semester is on Wednesday, September 19th, 1-2pm, HRB 1003. We will be reading ‘Landscape, Memory, and Forgetting: Thinking Through (My Mother’s) Body and Place’ by Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands. Please email c.amrouche1@nuigalway.ie for a copy of the reading. And feel free to attend even if you haven’t had a chance to do the reading!
Please circulate this invitation across disciplines and to MA, PhD, and Post-Doc researchers – especially new colleagues!
Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NUIGFeministResearch/
Any questions/comments please email: c.amrouche1@nuigalway.ie

Welfare Histories Reading Group
2018-09-19 14:00 - 16:00 UTC | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Welfare Histories Reading Group
The Welfare Histories Reading Group provides a forum for staff and postgraduate students to discuss ideas of poverty, development, and ‘improvement’ in a global historical context. Our interests are very diverse, and we would very much welcome the involvement of new members from any discipline. Our next meeting is on 19 September 2018, when we will discuss the relationship between inequality and human rights. Readings are pre-circulated in advance, so if you are interested in coming along, or simply wish for further details, contact Dr Kevin O’Sullivan (kevin.k.osullivan@nuigalway.ie).

Book Launch: Civil War and Agrarian Unrest The Confederate South and Southern Italy by Enrico Dal Lago
2018-09-19 17:30 UTC | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

Centre for Antique, Medieval and Pre-Modern Studies, Research Labs (CAMPS) Research Labs.
2018-09-21 12:00 UTC | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland

Creative Coding Meet-up
2018-09-25 15:00 - 16:00, 2018-10-02 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)

NUI Galway Exhibition on New Face of Italian Publishing
2018-09-26 18:00 - 2018-10-28 20:00 UTC | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
H. E. Paolo Serpi, Ambassador of Italy to Ireland, and Professor Brian Hughes, Dean of International Affair, NUI Galway, will officially open a new exhibition, Cover Revolution! Illustrators and the New Face of Italian Publishing, at NUI Galway on Wednesday, 26 September in G010 seminar room in the Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway.
The exhibition, curated by Melania Gazzotti, will run in the Hardiman Building foyer from 26 September to 28 October.
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.”

EDEN's Academic Speed Dating
2018-09-27 17:00 - 18:30 (Europe/Dublin) | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
September 27th September – EDEN’s Academic Speed Dating
5-6.30pm, The Bridge Room.
Welcome to all new PhDs and welcome back to those returning. EDEN is back with its first session of the year. The theme of the evening will be academic networking, with some academic ‘speed-dating’. This is a chance to introducing yourself to your fellow NUIG PhD peers. And, as always, drinks and chats to follow at McGinn’s—all are welcome!

Symposium: Iphigenia in Ireland
2018-09-28 10:30 - 17:30 (Europe/Dublin) | O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, NUI Galway

Centre for Antique, Medieval & Pre-Modern Studies (CAMPS)
2018-09-28 12:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland

10 Years On: How Ireland Has Changed Since the Financial Crisis
2018-09-28 13:30 - 18:00 UTC | Institute for Lifecourse and Society Building, NUI Galway
In the fateful decade since the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the Bank Guarantee of September 2008, much has happened in Ireland – financial crisis, deep recession, bailout by the ‘Troika’, a protracted period of austerity followed by vigorous economic recovery. But what has really changed over the last ten years? What developments in the financial and political system have taken place and what has been the cultural effect of the crisis? Will we repeat the same mistakes or find ways to avoid them? This major public event convened by the Moore Institute and Whitaker Institute will examine these questions with a high profile group of participants, including keynote speeches by former Central Bank of Ireland governor Patrick Honohan and playwright and author Colin Murphy.
Conference Programme
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Lady Gregory Yeats Autumn Gathering comes to NUI Galway
2018-09-28 16:00 (Europe/Dublin) | James Hardiman Library, Ireland

Information Session for upcoming IRC Postgraduate Scholarships
2018-10-02 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The Moore Institute will host an information session on the upcoming IRC Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme on Tuesday, October 2 at 12 noon in Room G010 Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building.
The session will be facilitated by Prof. Dan Carey, Director of the Moore Institute.
In addition to the information session, the Moore Institute will offer a reading service for applicants the timeline for which is as follows:

Deadline for receipt of near final draft applications, fully copyedited and with full input from supervisors to be submitted by October 12, 2018.

Applications to be returned to applicants by October 22, 2018. This will give the applicants one week to incorporate the feedback received into their final draft, for submission to the IRC on November 1, 2018.

Full details on the scheme is available here.

Gender Arc Research Seminar: "Literary Witnesses to Gender-Based Violence in Revolutionary Ireland"
2018-10-04 13:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Dublin) | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Gender Arc Research Seminar

“Literary Witnesses to Gender-Based Violence in Revolutionary Ireland”

By Síobhra Aiken
1-2 pm, Thursday 4 October
The Hardiman Research Building, R1001 (the Bridge Room)

New Professors' Inaugural Lecture Series: An t-Ollamh Tadhg Ó hIfearnáin
2018-10-04 17:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
An dúchas, an anaithnideacht agus an seachadadh teanga / Nativeness, anonymity and language transmission
An t-Ollamh Tadhg Ó hIfearnáin, Ollamh Bunaithe le Nua-Ghaeilge

Ina léacht, pléifidh an t-Ollamh Ó hIfearnáin trí choincheap atá go mór chun tosaigh i ndíospóireachtaí shochtheangeolaíocht na mionteangacha agus déanfaidh critic orthu i bhfianaise obair allamuigh i gcomhthéacs na Gaeilge. Rinne na glúine de chanúineolaithe, antraipeolaithe agus de bhéaloideasóirí nasc idir an dúchas agus an bharántúlacht. Coincheap idé-eolaíochtúil atá sa bharántúlacht ina samhlaítear teanga mar neach nádúrtha. Is de thoradh na tuisceana sin a labhraítear go meafarach faoi theangacha amhail is gur ainmhithe nó neacha beo iad. Tá fréamhacha an dioscúrsa sin sa rómánsachas agus is é a mhúnlaigh cuid mhaith de bhunsmaointe ceannasacha na sochaí comhaimseartha. De réir na smaointe sin, bíonn ‘fíorchainteoirí’ na dteangacha ‘barántúla’ lonnaithe in áiteanna agus i bpobail faoi leith, dúnta isteach orthu féin, agus a séala sin ar an teanga a labhraíonn siad. Is minice ná a mhalairt a bhíonn na ‘cainteoirí is barántúla’ ina seandaoine tuaithe agus iad ina gcónaí i gceantair iargúlta nó, b’fhéidir, ina mbaill d’íosaicme uirbeach nach mbíonn an deis acu imeacht óna gceantar dúchais. Thar aon rud eile, samhlaítear a gcuid cainte a bheith ceangailte le dúiche faoi leith, agus an chaint sin a bheith coimeádach, gan athrú, mar a bheadh fuinneog ar an gcianaimsir inti; ar an am a raibh máistreacht ag an bpobal ar an teanga ghlan cheart agus meas acu uirthi. Tá an coincheap idé-eolaíochta céanna le brath ar fhormhór na ngluaiseachta athbheochana teanga agus cultúir timpeall na hEorpa. Ba mhian leo, chomh fada agus ab fhéidir, an pobal labhartha a choinneáil slán ó ‘smál’ an ilteangachais agus na teagmhála teanga. Múnlaítear an teanga athbheochana ar an gcineál teanga a shamhlaítear a bheadh ann dá mbeadh pobal mór aonteangach ann arís, gan anáil ná tionchar na teanga móire iasachta uirthi.

Is fíor go bhfuil ceantar dúchais ag gach mórtheanga ach carnann na teangacha sin a gcuid cumhachta agus a n-údarás ón dóigh a samhlaítear iad a bheith anaithnid. Creidtear gurb iad teanga an oird domhanda iad; is iad teangacha na céille agus na réasúnaíochta, an ghnó agus na forbartha, an ardchultúir agus na cumarsáide idirnáisiúnta iad. Is teangacha ar le gach áit agus le gach duine iad ach nach mbaineann le dúchas duine ar bith. Ní hé bun agus barr tograí lucht na hathbheochana cultúr agus teanga ghléghlan na ‘gcainteoirí deireanacha’ réamh-nua-aimseartha a choinneáil beo, mar sin féin. Cé gurb iad an dúchas agus an bharántúlacht a spreag na gluaiseachtaí athbheochana an chéad uair, tá sprioc eile acu. Ba mhian leo na teangacha mionlaithe a fhorbairt agus iad a chur á labhairt ar bhonn níos fairsinge, ó thaobh ceantar agus feidhme de. Caithfidh siad an dóigh a aimsiú leis an teanga a dhéanamh ‘normálta’ – a bheith dúchasach agus anaithnid ag an am céanna. Léiríonn dúshlán an chomhréitigh idir an dúchas agus an anaithnideacht ceisteanna faoi nádúr na teanga agus faoi sheachadadh na teanga i bpobail nach mbeidh aonteangach choíche arís.

In his talk, Professor Ó hIfearnáin will discuss and critique three conceptual elements that are pre-eminent in the contemporary sociolinguistics of minority languages, drawing on fieldwork from the Irish and wider Gaelic context. Nativeness in language and culture has been linked directly to notions of authenticity by generations of dialectologists and anthropologists (including ethnologists and folklorists). Authenticity is itself an ideological construct that tends to see language as a natural object. It has, for instance, given rise to the ways that languages are metaphorically described as living beings in the romantic discourses that have dominated our society. ‘Real’ speakers of ‘authentic’ languages – typically elderly rural peasants in isolated communities or perhaps in the marginalised, urban working class – are seen as locally-orientated, producing language in and of their location and community. Their speech is thus seen as conservative, static, linked to a particular place and a window to somewhere out-of-modern-western time, when the speech and values of the volk were clear and valued. Language revival initiatives in Europe have largely continued this ideological concept, seeking to isolate speakers and communities from ‘contamination’ due to multilingualism and language contact. They largely model the revived or revitalised language on an imagined monolingual existence.

Majority languages may also have their core ideological homelands, but in their modern standardised varieties, their authority and power are essentially based on their anonymity. They are attributed as the languages of world order, reason, commerce and development, high and international culture and communication. They are the languages of everywhere and yet of nowhere in particular. However, the core aims of minoritised language revivalist movements are not simply to preserve the undiluted language and culture of pre-modern times among the ‘last speakers’ but to expand their language beyond its residual communities in both space and function. Despite nativeness and authenticity providing the motivation to undertake the revival enterprise, the ultimate goal is to negotiate a path that values nativeness and yet ‘normalises’ the language; to make it both authentic and anonymous. The balance of nativeness and anonymity has implications for received thinking on the nature of language and for intergenerational language transmission in communities which are never likely to be monolingual again.

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Tá Tadhg Ó hIfearnáin ina Ollamh Bunaithe le Nua-Ghaeilge in Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh. Ba in Ollscoil Luimnigh a bhí sé ag obair ó 1996 go 2017 agus in Ollscoil na Briotáine Uachtaraí ar feadh roinnt blianta roimhe sin, tar éis dó tréimhsí a chaitheamh mar iarchéimí agus léachtóir in Ollscoil Utrecht agus in Ollscoil Uladh, Cúil Raithin. Tá BA (1988) agus PhD (1994) i Léann na Gaeilge aige ó Ollscoil Uladh, Cúil Raithin. Díríonn formhór a chuid taighde agus teagaisc ar cheisteanna teanga agus sochaí ón 17ú haois go dtí an lá inniu, agus go háirithe ar theangeolaíocht agus ar shochtheangeolaíocht chomhaimseartha na Gaeilge agus mionteangacha eile.

Tadhg Ó hIfearnáin is Established Professor of Modern Irish in NUI Galway. He was previously at the University of Limerick from 1996 until 2017. Before then, he taught in the Department of Breton and Celtic at University of Rennes 2 from 1990, after periods as a lecturer and research student in the University of Ulster at Coleraine and Utrecht University. He holds a BA (1988) and PhD (1994) in Irish from the University of Ulster at Coleraine. His research and teaching mostly focuses on questions of language and society, from the 17th century to date, and in particular the contemporary linguistics and sociolinguistics of Irish and other minoritised languages.

Comhdháil ar Litríocht agus Chultúr na Gaeilge 2018
2018-10-05 - 2018-10-06 | Aras na Gaeilge NUIG, Ireland
See more infomraiton on: http://www.comhdhail.com/

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).
