Book launch of Thomas Fitzpatrick and the Lepracaun Cartoon Monthly 1905-1915 by James Curry and CiarÌÁn Wallace
2015-03-05 17:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
NUI Galway launch of
Thomas Fitzpatrick and the Lepracaun Cartoon Monthly 1905-1915
by James Curry and CiarÌÁn Wallace
Followed by wine reception.
Book Launch! New book examines the life of Irish political cartoonist Thomas Fitzpatrick and the popular Lepracaun Cartoon Monthly publication he founded in 1905
Thomas Fitzpatrick was the grandfather of renowned Irish artist Jim Fitzpatrick
All welcome to attend!

Professor Elizabeth Fitzpatrick: Finn mac Cumaill's Places: Linking Human Settlement with Landscapes of Enriched Natural Resources
2015-03-05 18:00
Professor Elizabeth Fitzpatrick
(School of Geography and Archaeology NUI Galway )
Finn mac Cumaill’s Places: Linking Human Settlement with Landscapes of Enriched Natural Resources
Finn mac Cumaill (Finn McCool) and his fÌ_an or warrior band are central figures in the literature and oral tradition of Gaelic-speaking peoples of Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man. Finn variously means white, bright, lustrous, fair, enlightened and self-revealed. Tales of Finn have enduring appeal. Prof. Elizabeth FitzPatrick’s project with Dr Ronan Hennessy and Dr Paul Naessens, of NUI Galway, An Atlas of Finn mac Cumaill’s Places, proposes that place-names associated with Finn are not just folk indices of the Finn-Cycle of tales but indicate areas of enriched natural resources and physical boundaries in the landscape.
The project has discovered that Finn’s places have distinctive archaeologies, topographies and wildlife ecologies situated in geological transition zones characterised by unconformities, contacts and faults. As landforms, they are epitomised by bareness and are mostly hills, variously called Seefin (‰Û÷Finn’s seat’), Knockfinn (‰Û÷Finn’s Hill’) and Formoyle (‰Û÷very bare place’), but they are also caves, such as Fingal’s Cave on the Isle of Arran, and causeways like the World Heritage Giant’s Causeway on the Co. Antrim coastline. In the past, Finn‰Û÷s places were important boundary points of territories, hunting grounds for red deer and wild pig, and characterised by mineral enrichment.
Finn’s places on the edge of Western Europe may be the most enduring survival of a wider landscape expression of the Celtic place-name vindo-s and its associated phenomena of boundary zones and areas of enriched natural resources. Notably, it is found in Celtic settlements across Europe that became major Roman frontier forts.

Performance Matters - Irish Theatre Discussion Group
2015-03-06 12:00, 2015-03-20 13:00
Performance Matters
Irish Theatre Discussion Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/
For more information please contact lisa.fitzgerald@nuigalway.ie or m.nichualain5@nuigalway.ie
All theatre practitioners, theorists and students are welcome to attend

Centre for Global Women's Studies, NUI Galway, Public Lecture: Professor Cris M. Sullivan
2015-03-09 16:00
The Centre for Global Women’s Studies
is delighted to invite you to a public lecture to mark
International Women’s Day 2015:
A Collaborative, Community-based Study to Define and Measure:
Empowering Practice and “Empowered” Outcomes
Cris M. Sullivan, Ph.D.
Professor, Ecological/Community Psychology
Director, Research Consortium on Gender-based Violence
Michigan State University
Date/Time: Monday 9 March, 4pm
Venue: THB1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway
Refreshments will be served
The goal of empowerment-based programs is to help clients increase their personal, interpersonal, and political power. This talk describes a collaborative partnership with a domestic violence shelter program interested in evaluating how well they were integrating the empowerment model into day-to-day service provision and whether their approach to empowerment-based service delivery was contributing to the intended “empowered outcomes” for the women with whom they work. I will describe how we jointly defined empowerment within this setting, how the empowerment-based practices and intended empowered outcomes were measured, and how the study findings impacted the work of the advocates.
For more information see:
http://www.nuigalway.ie/womens_studies/
http://www.internationalwomensday.com
or email Gillian Browne, gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie

Language Games: A Seminar on Language and Literature
2015-03-10 16:00
‘Language Games’: An AWC Seminar on Language and Literature.
All welcome.
Texts for discssion will be provided at the meeting.
Contact: irina.ruppo@nuigawlay.ie

Archaeology research seminar series: Daisy Spencer, IRC doctoral scholar in Archaeology and Geography at NUI Galway: People, Land-Use and Time. Linking multi-proxy palaeoenvironmental evidence to the Neolithic and Bronze Age archaeological record of the B
2015-03-10 16:00
Archaeology research seminar series:

Daisy Spencer, IRC doctoral scholar in Archaeology and Geography at NUI Galway.
People, Land-Use and Time.
Linking multi-proxy palaeoenvironmental evidence to the Neolithic and Bronze Age archaeological record of the Burren and central Clare, western Ireland.
All welcome!

for more information please contact maggie.ronayne@nuigalway.ie

Bernard Adams, Moore Institute visiting fellow -'Mary O'Malley and the early Lyric Players' Theatre, Belfast'?
2015-03-10 17:00
Bernard Adams
Moore Institute Visiting Fellow
‰Û÷Mary O’Malley and the early Lyric Players’ Theatre, Belfast’?
For more information please contact lionel.pilkington@nuigalway.ie

History Graduate Research Seminar Series: Brian Schoen Statecraft and Secession: The Problem of American Nationhood in an Era of Global Crisis 1860-1.
2015-03-11 16:00
History Graduate Research Seminar Series
Brian Schoen

Statecraft and Secession: The Problem of American Nationhood
in an Era of Global Crisis 1860-1.

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

5th Babel Public Lecture Series: Dr Michele Milan: Translation, Gender and Conflict: Women Translating Conflict in Nineteenth Century Ireland
2015-03-11 18:30 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
5th BABEL PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES

Dr Michele Milan:
Translation, Gender and Conflict: Women Translating Conflict in Nineteenth Century Ireland

Predicated upon the idea of using translation history to raise the visibility of past women’s writings, this presentation will draw attention to the ways in which a number of women translators dealt with situations of conflict in nineteenth-century Ireland. We will be looking at their choice of texts for translation at times preceding or following intense conflict, and how the translated text helped them express a voice in a predominantly male world of publishing.
The Babel Lectures is an initiative of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, NUI Galway, which intends to reinforce the connection with Galway through an annual series of lectures especially designed to promote creative exchange and dialogues between academics and the community.
Entrance is free, and everybody is welcome.
For more information please contact suzanne.gilsenan@nuigalway.ie

Dr John Gibney, Editor, 'Decade of Centenaries' and Moore Institute visiting fellow -'What if the guns had landed? Another version of Casement's Easter Rising'.
2015-03-12 16:00
Dr John Gibney
Editor, ‘Decade of Centenaries’
and Moore Institute visiting fellow
‘What if the guns had landed? Another version of Casement’s Easter Rising’.
All Welcome
For more information please contact mary.harris@nuigalway.ie

CAMPS lab: DÌ_nal ÌÒ CathÌÁin, Nua-Ghaeilge, OÌÄåä, Gaillimh -'The Desmond Geraldines in the 14th Century: Poets and Patrons'
2015-03-13 12:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
DÌ_nal ÌÒ CathÌÁin, Nua-Ghaeilge, OÌä, Gaillimh‘The Desmond Geraldines in the 14th Century: Poets and Patrons’
Followed by discussion & light lunch
Everyone welcome – FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch
For more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie

Gender ARC Lunchtime Seminar Series:Dr. Heike Felzmann, Philosophy, NUI Galway (Title TBC)
2015-03-18 13:00
Gender ARC Lunchtime Seminar Series

Dr. Heike Felzmann, Philosophy, NUI Galway
(Title TBC)

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

History Graduate Research Seminar Series: Gregory Hanlon Military History and the Behavioural Sciences
2015-03-18 16:00
History Graduate Research Seminar Series

Gregory Hanlon
Military History and the Behavioural Sciences
for more information please contact caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie

The Republic of Letters Goes Digital
2015-03-20 09:00
THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS GOES DIGITAL
@NUI GALWAY
20 MARCH 2015
MOORE INSTITUTE SEMINAR ROOM
HARDIMAN RESEARCH BUILDING G010
Contact: idafederica.pugliese@nuigalway.ie
Conference Programme
9.00-9.15
Welcome & Introduction
9.15-10.45
Panel 1. Sixteenth-Century Correspondence Networks
(Chair: Laura Branch)
Christoph Kudella (UCC), The Republic of Letters as Intersecting Ego-Networks. The Example of Erasmus and Bud̩
Paola Molino (UniversitÌ_t Wien), Who, What and Why Go Digital: Some Reflections Based on the Correspondence Networks and Archives of Late Renaissance Librarians
10.45-11.15
Coffee break
11.15-12.45
Panel 2. Metadata and Network Analysis for Early Modern Correspondence (Chair: PÌÁdraic Moran)
Dan Edelstein (Stanford University), Early-Modern Social Network Analysis: The Case of the French Enlightenment?
Charles van den Heuvel (Huygens Institute), Experiences with ePistolarium: Topic Modeling and Network Analysis
12.45-14.00
Lunch
14.00-16.00
Panel 3. Travel Advice, Itineraries and Correspondence Networks in Seventeenth-Century Europe (Chair: Anders Ingram)
Daniel Carey (NUI Galway), Early Modern Travel Theory: A Database of the Ars Apodemica
Joe Moshenska (Cambridge University), Greasy Pouches and Torn Wallets: The Traveling Correspondence of Sir Kenelm Digby in 1628
Per Landgren (University of Oxford), Manuductio de peregrinatione: An Unpublished Travel Instruction by Professor Skytteanus Johannes Schefferus in Uppsala
16.00-16.30
Coffee break
16.30-17.45
Panel 4. The Enlightenment and Digital Humanities (Chair: Daniel Carey)
Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis), Enlightenment in the Era of Digital Humanities. Feedback from CITERE ANR Research Programme
Ida Federica Pugliese (NUI Galway), Questionnaires and Scholarly Networks in the Enlightenment
17.45-18.00
Conclusion

CAMPS lab: Sarah Corrigan, Classics, NUIG - 'Wonders and Visions: Infernal Places in Early Irish Voyage Narratives'
2015-03-20 12:00
Sarah Corrigan, Classics, NUIG
‘Wonders and Visions: Infernal Places in Early Irish Voyage Narratives’
Followed by discussion & light lunch
Everyone welcome – FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch
For more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie

Archaeology Research Seminar Series: Professor Steven Driscoll, Discipline of Archaeology, University of Glasgow: A Tale of Two Constantines: Kings, Saints and Assemblies (A Study of Scottish Nation Building in the Early Middle Ages)
2015-03-24 16:00
Archaeology research seminar series:

Professor Steven Driscoll,
Discipline of Archaeology, University of Glasgow will lecture on:
A Tale of Two Constantines: Kings, Saints and Assemblies (A Study of Scottish Nation Building in the Early Middle Ages)
All welcome!

for more information please contact maggie.ronayne@nuigalway.ie

Language Games: A Seminar on Language and Literature
2015-03-24 16:00
‘Language Games’: An AWC Seminar on Language and Literature.
All welcome.
This week’s seminar will deal with the writings of B. S. Johnston.
Texts for discssion will be provided at the meeting.
Contact: irina.ruppo@nuigawlay.ie

Classical Association of Ireland: relaunch of Galway branch Dr PÌÁdraic Moran (NUI Galway): "The survival of Greek learning in early medieval Ireland"
2015-03-24 18:30
Classical Association of Ireland: relaunch of Galway branch
Dr PÌÁdraic Moran (NUI Galway)
“The survival of Greek learning in early medieval Ireland”
For more information please contact padraic.moran@nuigalway.ie

Contextualizing the biographical outcomes of former Provisional IRA activists: a structure-agency dynamic - Moore Institute visiting fellows - Dr Lorenzo Bosi (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) and Dr Martin McCleery (Queen's University Belfast)
2015-03-25 14:00
Contextualizing the biographical outcomes of former Provisional IRA activists: a structure-agency dynamic
Moore Institute Visiting Fellows
Dr Lorenzo Bosi (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa):
Contextualizing the biographical outcomes of former Provisional IRA activists: a structure-agency dynamic.
Dr Martin McCleery (Queen’s University Belfast):
Randall Collins’s Forward Panic Pathway to Violence and the 1972 Bloody Sunday Killings in Northern Ireland
For more information please contact niall.odochartaigh@nuigalway.ie

History Graduate Research Seminar Series:Liam Chambers. Charles O'Conor and the Politics of Loyalty in Ireland, 1745-1775.
2015-03-25 16:00
History Graduate Research Seminar Series

Liam Chambers.
Charles O’Conor and the Politics of Loyalty in Ireland, 1745-1775.

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

5th Babel Public Lecture Series: Dr Jennifer Wood: Civilisation versus Barbarism: The (Re)Branding of the Falklands / Malvinas
2015-03-25 18:30
5th BABEL PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES
Dr Jennifer Wood:
Civilisation versus Barbarism: The (Re)Branding of the Falklands / Malvinas
An exploration of how the conflicted nation-space of the Falklands / Malvinas has been imagined in the national consciousness of both Britain and Argentina. Starting from the recent Top Gear furore, we will explore how the Islands have become mythologised in Argentina and also how they have been framed to take on a role (post 1982) that they never had in the British national imaginary.
The Babel Lectures is an initiative of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, NUI Galway, which intends to reinforce the connection with Galway through an annual series of lectures especially designed to promote creative exchange and dialogues between academics and the community.
Entrance is free, and everybody is welcome.
For more information please contact suzanne.gilsenan@nuigalway.ie

Seminar: The Art of Fashion in the Short Fiction of Maeve Brennan. Speaker: Dr Ellen McWilliams, University of Exeter and Moore Institute visiting fellow
2015-03-26 16:00
Seminar: The Art of Fashion in the Short Fiction of Maeve Brennan.
Speaker: Dr Ellen McWilliams, University of Exeter.
Everyone welcome to attend.
For more information please contact samantha.williams@nuigalway.ie

Digital Scholarship Seminar: Anthony Mandal (Cardiff University) "Victorian Demons and Electric Imps"
2015-03-26 17:00
Digital Scholarship Seminar:
Anthony Mandal (Cardiff University)
“Victorian Demons and Electric Imps”
For further informatition, contact: Dr PÌÁdraic Moran (padraic.moran@nuigalway.ie),
or Dr Justitin Tonra (justitin.tonra@nuigalway.ie)
www.nuigalway.ie/digital-seminar ‰ۢ www.facebook.com/nuigdss

2015 Margaret Heavey Memorial Lecture Dr Roman Roth (University of Cape Town): "Towns and territories in Roman Italy"
2015-03-26 18:30
2015 Margaret Heavey Memorial Lecture
Dr Roman Roth (University of Cape Town):
“Towns and territories in Roman Italy”
For more information please contact padraic.moran@nuigalway.ie

CAMPS lab: Dr Barbara Hillers, UCD - 'Folklore and Medieval Literature: A Reconsideration'
2015-03-27 12:00
Dr Barbara Hillers, UCD‘Folklore and Medieval Literature: A Reconsideration’
Followed by discussion & light lunch
Everyone welcome – FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch
For more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie

Classics Research Seminar Dr Roman Roth (University of Cape Town): "Regionalism in Republican Italy: a ceramic perspective"
2015-03-27 14:00 | AC213, Ireland
Classics Research Seminar
Dr Roman Roth (University of Cape Town):
“Regionalism in RepublicanItaly: a ceramic perspective”
For more information please contact padraic.moran@nuigalway.ie

6th Annual Environment, Society & Development Symposium, March 30th and 31st
2015-03-30 15:45
6th Annual Environment, Society & Development Symposium
Precarious Geographies: Insecurity, Solidarity and Critical Geopolitics
The Geopolitics and Justice Cluster’s 6th Annual Symposium on Environment, Society and Development takes place March 30-31 this year. The two-day symposium, supported by the Whitaker Institute and part of its Conflict, Humanitarianism and Security Cluster annual events, engages the key theme of ‘precarious geographies’ and the challenge of rendering visible ‘insecure lives’ whose political statuses have been marginalised in global networks of conflict, migration, detention and asylum. The symposium features a joint plenary from Prof. Jennifer Hyndman (York University, Canada) and Prof. Alison Mountz (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada) and paper presentations from Prof. Gerry Kearns (NUI Maynooth), Dr Diana O’Dwyer (Dublin City University) and Dr Karen Till (NUI Maynooth). The symposium also features presentations from Geopolitics and Justice PhD candidates and Masters students on the MA in Environment, Society and Development. There is no fee to attend, and the symposium programme can be found here.
To register, please contact the GJ Cluster Leader, John Morrissey john.morrissey@nuigalway.ie
Note that spaces are limited.

Martin Reilly Lecture Series Deirdre NÌ_ Chonghaile presents Sean̢åÛånÌ_s song in Pennsylvania, 1884̢åÛå1935: the Rev. Daniel J. Murphy Collection
2015-03-31 18:30 | Galway City Library, Ireland
Martin Reilly Lecture Series
Deirdre NÌ_ Chonghaile
presents
Sean̢åÛånÌ_s song in Pennsylvania, 1884̢åÛå1935:
the Rev. Daniel J. Murphy Collection
FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch
Tuilleadh eolais:email: Martinreillylectureseries@gmail.com

Diversity in Initial Teacher Education (DITE) in Ireland: Critical Perspectives on Gender and Sexuality - Dr. Manuela Heinz, Dr. Elaine Keane, and Dr. Kevin Davison, Education, NUI Galway
2015-04-08 13:00
Gender ARC and Global Women’s Studies at NUI Galway are pleased to invite you to a research seminar:
Diversity in Initial Teacher Education (DITE) in Ireland: Critical Perspectives on Gender and Sexuality
Dr. Manuela Heinz, Dr. Elaine Keane, and Dr. Kevin Davison, Education, NUIGalway
Abstract: The homogeneity of the teaching profession is an international phenomenon; teaching bodies are generally from majority group backgrounds, frequently in contrast to student populations. Research in Ireland suggests a similar situation, yet we lack adequate data describing our national context. Diversifying the teaching profession is an international policy concern, and in Ireland, a number of policy recommendations have addressed the matter. Arising from IRC funded researchon Diversity in Initial Teacher Education (DITE), this paper will examine data from an online questionnaire administered with applicants to postgraduate post-primary initial teacher education programmes across Ireland in 2014 (n=746, rr=46.6%). In our presentation we will explore the intersectionality of applicants’ genders/sexualities with their ethnic and social class backgrounds.We will, furthermore, explore relationships between applicants’ gender/sexualities and their experiences of schooling as well as their motivations to become teachers and perceptions of a teaching career. This examination of gender as the most prominent element of diversity in anotherwise homogeneous sample holds the potential for greater insight into the benefits of diversifying teacher education in Ireland.
Dr. Manuela Heinz is a Lecturer and the Director of Teaching Practice in the School of Education at the National University of Ireland Galway. Her research interests include initial and continuous teacher education, school-university partnership, teacher education recruitment and admission policies, career motivations and the diversity profiles of teacher education candidates. Manuela is co-principal investigator of the IRC-funded Diversity in Initial Teacher Education (DITE) project.
Dr. Elaine Keane is a Lecturer in Sociology of Education & Director of the Master of Education programme in the School of Education at NUI Galway. Her research area is widening participation in higher education (with a particular focus on social class), including in initial teacher education. She has published in a range of journals, and in 2013 she authored the Ireland report for a six country study of widening participation effectiveness, funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE). She is Co-Principal Investigator on the IRC-funded Diversity in InitialTeacher Education (DITE) in Ireland national research project.
Dr. Kevin Davison is a Lecturer with the School of Education at NUI Galway with an interest in sociological issues in education including: boys and academic achievement, role models, and innovative approaches to science outreach. He is the author of: Negotiating Masculinities and Bodies in Schools: The Implications of Gender Theory for the Education of Boys (2007: EdwinMellen Press), and co-author of Masculinities and Schooling: International Practices and Perspectives (2007: Althouse Press). He is also the co-author of the report A Review of Science Outreach Strategies, North and South (2008: Centre for Cross Border Studies).
For questions, please contact Gender ARC Seminar and Public Lecture Series coordinator: Emma BrÌ_nnlund at e.brannlund1@nuigalway.ie
