Wondrous wizardry and a Workshop on Interactive Writing (scholarly, creative and otherwise) by Jason Nelson and Alinta Krauth (Visiting Fellows)
2018-04-16 15:00 UTC | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
“Digital poets/artists/scholars Jason Nelson and Alinta Krauth are presenting a series of workshops for NUI staff, students, and graduates aimed at inspiring you to use interactive digital interfaces to turn your scholarly papers and/or creative writing into interactive outcomes, aimed at publication in interactive journals. Interactive visual interpretation can allow readers a greater insight into your work, and can extend your audience beyond the walls of academia and out into the great Internet beyond! Join us for informal chats about your work and possible collaborations.”

An International seminar organised by the Academic Writing Center
2018-04-17 11:00 - 17:30 | James Hardiman Library, Ireland
This seminar will examine the connection between academic writing and innovation from a variety of perspectives, including the use of the Project Based Learning (PBL) and other innovative methodologies, the switch from assessing to improving student writing, the role of writing centres in academia, the ideology of writing spaces, and new ways to support librarians on the path towards publication. Confirmed Speakers: Tom Deans (University of Connecticut), Steven Engel (University of Michigan) Hellen Fallon (Maynooth University), Adrian Frazier (NUI Galway), Megan Jewel (Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio), Ann Nowak (Touro Law Center) and Laura McLoughlin (NUI Galway).
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/academic-writing-and-innovation-tickets-43974880050 Seminar Updates: http://hardimanlibrary.blogspot.ie/2018/02/academic-writing-and-innovation-seminar.html

Academic Writing and Innovation
2018-04-17 11:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Innovation is seen as a key ingredient for success in academia, but we often taken good academic writing for granted as a crucial skill in this process. We know from the work of Peter Elbow that writing is a creative and imaginative process, irrespective of the subject. Janet Giltrow has argued that ‘style is meaningful’ and impacts the development of ideas. More recently, Helen Sword has drawn attention to ‘stylish academic writing’, arguing that ‘intellectual creativity thrives best in an atmosphere of experimentation rather than conformity’. Yet the precise relationship between academic writing and innovation remains to be explored; to do so means to highlight the crucial importance of writing centres, writing instructors, and pedagogical initiatives to academia at large.
This seminar will examine the connection between academic writing and innovation from a variety of perspectives, including the use of the Project Based Learning (PBL) and other innovative methodologies, the switch from assessing to improving student writing, the role of writing centres in academia, the ideology of writing spaces, and new ways to support librarians on the path towards publication.
See speakers and Registration on the following link:
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/academic-writing-and-innovation-tickets-43974880050

Gender ARC: Understanding, Mapping and Negotiating the Politicisation of Evidence Based Policy Research.
2018-04-17 13:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building

Re-Thinking Surrogate Motherhood and Reproductive Justice.
2018-04-18 14:00 - 16:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland

“People and Wetlands: case studies from Bendimahi (Turkey) and Boora (Ireland)” by Emel Baylan, Visiting Fellow.
2018-04-18 16:00 | Room 202, Archaeology Department, NUI Galway
This paper will examine the contrasting connections that exist between people and landscape in the Bendimahi Delta and the Boora peatlands outside Kilcormac, Co. Offaly, where the development of a sculpture park has been instrumental in not just creating a successful tourist attraction (over 120,000 visitors in 2017) but in re-imagining and reinforcing community values vis-à-vis the landscape. This level of community engagement is not evident in the Bendimahi Delta, where the socio-cultural circumstances are very different.

"Transient Topographies: Space and Interface in Digital Literature and Art"
2018-04-19 - 2018-04-21 | Seminar Rooms GO10 & GO11 Ground Floor Hardiman Research Building, Ireland
19th April Pre-Conference 11am – 3pm in Room 1001, The Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
20th April from 8:30am – 6:30pm in G010 and G011, Hardiman Research Building.
21st April from 9:30am – 6:30pm in G010 and G011., Hardiman Research Building
“Transient Topographies: Space and Interface in Digital Literature and Art” is the second Galway Digital Cultures Initiative conference. The interdisciplinary event focuses on various aspects of the aesthetic topographies of the digital age, and the spaces and interfaces of contemporary media and technological environments. The conference is funded by the Irish Research Council and the European Commission via Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, and the Moore Institute at NUI Galway. Information on individual presentations and guest speakers is available on the conference website at https://transienttopographies.wordpress.com/“

Whitaker Research Day 2018
2018-04-19 09:30 - 15:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
We are delighted to announce details of the Whitaker Institute Research Day 2018. Our Research Day is an opportunity for researchers from across multiple disciplines at NUI Galway to meet and discuss how the multi-perspective research of the Whitaker Institute, on a range of social and economic issues, can promote a more sustainable and inclusive society. We are particularly pleased to welcome Professor Edgar Morgenroth, Professor of Economics at DCU Business School, who will deliver the keynote speech on the day. Professor Morgenroth will highlight how spatial patterns impact on economic performance (national and regional) and how economic forces shape the economic geography. A key aim of this year’s Research Day will be to assist members of the Whitaker Institute and researchers from STEM disciplines to identify cross-disciplinary research opportunities. Relating such research opportunities to the UN Sustainability Goals will be an area for particular discussion on the day, given the latter’s prominence in both the national and EU research agenda. Research output from Whitaker research clusters will also be on display through posters in the foyer throughout the day.
This is a free event.
Please RSVP with eventbrite here
A background on our keynote speaker, Prof Edgar Morgenroth.
Professor Edgar Morgenroth is a Professor of Economics in DCU Business School. He is also an independent member of the National Economic and Social Council (NESC), a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences and a Fellow of the Regional Studies Association having served as its vice chairman and treasurer. He has held positions at the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) for almost twenty years, and has worked at Keele University and the Strategic Investment Board (SIB).Professor Morgenroth holds a PhD in Economics from Keele University in the UK, and Bachelor’s (Economics and Geography) and Masters (Economics and Finance) degrees from Maynooth University. He is also an alumnus of Boston College, having been awarded a Diploma in Urban Economic Development in Boston (MA).

Galway Theatre Festival: Art-making session about Irish politics
2018-04-19 17:00 - 19:00 | O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance
As part of the Galway Theatre Festival production of Two Truths, a project of my PhD Gaming Audiences into Theatre, this focus group will respond to dis-attributed statements made by Irish politicians and political parties by materialising their affective responses onto full-size maps of the body. These maps will become the materials for the theatre production in which players will pick five policies to govern Ireland.
The focus group will not be discussing politics but instead exploring the ways in which affective response can be transferred via visual art. This art will be created using materials like oil pastels and acrylics. Past participants have described it as ‘relaxing’, ‘informative’, and ‘insightful’.
The more diverse opinions and experiences participants in the focus groups bring, the more options players in Two Truths will have. Sarah Hoover encourages everyone to share the project widely and bring a friend!
For more information on the focus group or the Two Truths project:
s.hoover1@nuigalway.ie, 083.164.0751
www.playtestgalway.wordpress.com

Centre for Antique, Medieval and Pre-Modern Studies (CAMPS) Research Labs.
2018-04-20 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building

Welfare Histories Reading Group
2018-04-20 15:00 - 16:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, 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 Friday 20 April, when we will discuss the relationship between the concepts of charity and justice. If you’re interested in coming along, or simply wish for further details, including readings, contact Dr Kevin O’Sullivan (kevin.k.osullivan@nuigalway.ie).

The launch of Liz Quirkes and Colm Keegan's poetry collection.
2018-04-20 18:30 | The Black Gate Cultural Centre, 14 Francis Street, Galway City

Multiphase optimization strategy (MOST) workshop: the Optimization of Behavioral and Biobehavioral Interventions.
2018-04-23 10:00 - 2018-04-24 17:00 | Room G065, School of Psychology, NUI Galway

English Research Day
2018-04-23 14:00 - 18:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

“How to Improve the Visibility and Impact of your Research” by Joe Reilly, Research Impact Librarian, NUI Galway
2018-04-24 14:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Joe Reilly joins NUIG in its newly created Research Impact Librarian. He’ll be helping NUIG scholars understand how to make their work more visible around the world. Joe is a veteran librarian who’s worked in the USA, Middle East, Switzerland and Asia. He is also from a Humanities background, having completed his PhD in Anthropology, focusing on scientific racism and colonialism. He is the author of Teaching the ‘Native’: Behind the Architecture of an Unequal Education System (HSRC Press: 2016).
[This talk will also be streamed live online at http://nuig.dvc.heanet.ie/flex.html?roomdirect.html&key=ATHUEtkFYw ]

Post-Graduate Philosophy Conference
2018-04-25 | Old Moore Institute, Ireland
The event is an International Graduate Conference in Philosophy with Keynote Speaker, Professor. Andrew Haas (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow).
The event will be followed by the launch of Tsarina Doyle’s Nietzsche’s Metaphysics of the Will to Power: The Possibility of Value (Cambridge University Press 2018): https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/nietzsches-metaphysics-of-the-will-to-power/00456388778CD14380989DB824093872
Registration is at 9 am. For further details, contact: Dr. Tsarina Doyle (tsarina.doyle@nuigalway.ie).

Siompóisiam: Understandings of Language and Community.
2018-04-26 10:00 - 17:00 | Aras na Gaeilge NUIG, Ireland
Followed by a Book Launch in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop for Professor Tadhg O hIfearnain and Dr. John Walsh’s new book ‘Meon Folaithe’ as well as Dr. Cassie Smith-Christmas’s own book (edited with Noel P. O Murchadha, Michael Hornsby, and Mairead Moriarty) ‘New Speakers of Minority Languages: Linguistic Ideologies and Practices.’

Dr. Jason Nelson and Alinta Krauth (Visiting Fellows)
2018-04-26 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Come along to see the accumulation of Moore Institute Visiting Fellowships by Dr. Jason Nelson and Alinta Krauth.
Dr. Jason Nelson and Alinta Krauth will be discussing the projects that they have been engaging with over the past three weeks during their stay at NUI, including but not limited to: digital art, digital poetry, art video games, mixed reality, projection mapping, geological and plant-based biofeedback, sound art, projecting glacial movements, interactive scholarship, engagements with place and environment across hemispheres, spaces and interfaces of digital literature and art, hidden projection.

Hilary Bishop, Visiting Fellow (Liverpool John Moores University) talk on ‘Irish Mass Rocks’.
2018-04-26 14:00 - 16:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
‘Sliding Rock’ Mass Rock, Shantalla, Galway City.
We are delighted to invite you to a seminar by Moore Institute Visiting Fellow and Irish Studies Scholar, Dr Hilary Bishop on ‘Irish Mass Rocks’ at NUI Galway next week.
The history of Catholicism is an essential component in the history of modern Ireland. As locations of a distinctively Catholic faith, Mass Rocks are important historical, ritual and counter-cultural sites. Their continued use reflects, and helps reconstruct and legitimise, contemporary Irish identity whilst providing a tangible and experiential connection to Irish heritage and tradition. Based on initial research in counties Cork, Mayo and Galway, this paper will challenge a number of accepted assumptions concerning the nature and location of Mass Rock sites and explore the language, memory and ritual use of Mass Rocks in Ireland.
Biography:
Dr Hilary Bishop studied at the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool and now works at Liverpool John Moores University. She is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and holds a Willard Potts and Don Jordan Emerging Scholar Award from the American Conference for Irish Studies (West) in San Francisco.
To find out more information on Hilary Bishop see the following link http://mooreinstitute.ie/visiting-fellows-scheme/ and her research-dedicated website: www.findamassrock.com.

Book Launch Event hosted by Postdoctoral Researcher Cassie Smith-Christmas.
2018-04-26 18:30 | Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Middle Street, Galway.
There will be a joint book launch of Professor Tadhg O hIfearnain and Dr. John Walsh’s new book ‘Meon Folaithe’ as well as Dr. Cassie Smith-Christmas’s own book (edited with Noel P. O Murchadha, Michael Hornsby, and Mairead Moriarty) ‘New Speakers of Minority Languages: Linguistic Ideologies and Practices.’.
This event is following: “Siompóisiam: Understandings of Language and Community” to find out more information, please click the following link: http://mooreinstitute.ie/event/siompoisiam-understandings-of-language-and-community/

The European Union and The Northern Ireland Peace Process.
2018-04-27 09:00 - 17:00 | O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance
Information: https://eupeacenuig.weebly.com – Twitter EUpeaceNUIG

EDEN All Island Postgraduate Conference
2018-04-27 10:00 - 2018-04-28 18:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
EDEN 2018: Borders and Bodies is an all-island interdisciplinary postgraduate conference with speakers drawn from across the humanities and featuring plenary talks by Prof Dan Rebellato (Royal Holloway, London) and Prof Margaret Kelleher (UCD). This event is free and all are welcome to attend. The full conference schedule and registration links can be found at edenconf.wordpress.com.

Centre for Antique, Medieval and Pre-Modern Studies (CAMPS) Research Labs.
2018-04-27 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Michael Shields: How Frauenlob saw light. A German poet’s look at immateriality, rainbows and Aristotelian physics in 1300.

Theatre as Intercultural Dialogue?: Migration, Interculturalism and Theatre in Europe Today
2018-04-27 14:00 - 16:00 | G001 (Ground Floor), Human Biology Building (HBB)
A panel that will be facilitated by Charlotte McIvor. These companies will be in residence with me at the O’Donoghue for two days prior for an intensive practice-sharing exchange closed to core participants only. Introduced by Professor Anne Scott, Vice-President for Equality & Diversity. This panel gathers practitioners from four of Europe’s leading intercultural theatre companies to discuss the role of performance as an intervening force in ongoing debates about migration, minority representation and cultural diversity in the European Union and beyond.

Tomás Ó Neachtain, this year’s Sean-nós Singer in Residence, hosted by the Centre for Irish Studies
2018-05-01 18:00 - 21:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Tomás Ó Neachtain, this year’s Sean-nós Singer in Residence, hosted by the Centre for Irish Studies.

Seminar: ‘The Ocean Archive: Atlantic History and Heritage by Kayak’ by Moore Institute Visiting Fellow & Irish Studies' Scholar Dr. David Gange
2018-05-02 11:00 - 12:00 | Centre for Irish Studies
We are delighted to invite you to a seminar discussion on Irish and archipelagic coastal heritages by Dr David Gange, University of Birmingham (Moore Institute Visiting Fellow 2017-18 and Irish Studies’ Scholar) entitled, ‘The Ocean Archive: Atlantic History and Heritage by Kayak’. His book, The Frayed Atlantic Edge: A Historian’s Journey from Shetland to the Channel will be published by Harper Collins in 2019.
David will be joined in conversation by Dr Lillis Ó Laoire (Gaeilge, OÉ Gaillimh) and Mr Eoin Warner (Documentary Presenter, Éire Fhiáin: An Chósta Thiar, 2017).
The session will be moderated by Dr Nessa Cronin (Irish Studies, NUI Galway), and will take place at 11am, Wednesday 2 May, Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies, Distillery Road, NUI Galway.

Inaugural Lecture Series - Professor Brian McGuire's
2018-05-03 13:00 - 15:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
“Online therapies for people with chronic health conditions: Prospects and challenges.”
In this talk, Prof. Brian McGuire from School of Psychology will describe the growing use of internet-based psychological therapies to help people with chronic health conditions to cope and adapt to their conditions. He will describe the research carried out in his group to help people with conditions such as chronic muscular pain and chronic headache, chronic fatigue following cancer, multiple sclerosis and other chronic conditions. His talk will describe the potential benefits of these therapies as well some of the challenges in making them more widely available.
Brian McGuire is a Professor of Clinical Psychology. He is a graduate of NUI Galway and has also completed a Masters Degree in Clinical Psychology (Sydney), a Diploma in Criminology (Sydney), a Diploma in Health Science (Clinical Teaching, NUI Galway) and a PhD in clinical psychology (Sydney). He worked initially as a research psychologist in brain injury rehabilitation in London. He then moved to Sydney where he spent the next 10 years lecturing in psychology at several universities and working as a clinical psychologist. His clinical work was initially in the area of learning disability and challenging behaviour, before he moved into private practice where his work focused on medicolegal assessment and the rehabilitation of persons with chronic pain, acquired brain impairment, and those recovering from work and motor accidents. It was in that context that his interest in symptom magnification and malingering developed and he completed his PhD in that area. After leaving Australia, Brian was Consultant Clinical Psychologist in brain injury rehabilitation where he co-ordinated the clinical services of several in-patient rehabilitation units in the north of England. After returning to Ireland, Brian worked with the Galway Association learning disability service. He joined NUI, Galway in 2003 and was the Director of the Doctor of Psychological Science programme in Clinical Psychology until 2014 when he took up his post as HRB Research Leader in Population Health. In addition, he is Director of the Doctor of Psychological Science for Qualified Clinicians and Joint Director of the Centre for Pain Research.

Álvaro Seiça (Visiting Fellow) - Kinetic Poetry: From Screening to Running Interactive Language
2018-05-03 14:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
The third event of the Spring 2018 series of Digital Scholarship Seminar takes place on Thursday 3 May at 2pm, and features a paper on kinetic poetry, a form of poetry that relies on spatiotemporal transitions as expressive literary and visual layers, by Álvaro Seiça, Visiting Moore Institute Fellow from the University of Bergen. The talk presents the rich history of kinetic poetry, by addressing the areas of experimental and digital poetry, as language goes from projected to interactive media.. As ever, all are welcome.
Kinetic Poetry: From Screening to Running Interactive Language
Kinetic poetry is a form of poetry that relies on spatiotemporal transitions as expressive literary and visual layers. Throughout the twentieth-century, kinetic poems have been composed with varied media, such as celluloid film, video, holography, and computers. This unified and untold history of kinetic poetry is presented for the first time in Álvaro Seiça’s PhD study setInterval: Time-Based Readings of Kinetic Poetry (2017). As it is unveiled, the origins of kinetic poetry can be traced back to the Dadaists. When Marcel Duchamp staged rotoreliefs in the 35mm film Anémic Cinéma (1926), he arguably set a precedent for questioning the role of documentary film, textual art in motion, and poetry.
This lecture presents this rich history of kinetic poetry, by addressing the areas of experimental and digital poetry, as language goes from projected to interactive media. The lecture is a screening session, as well as a discussion of modes of kinetic writing. First, it discusses kinetic poetry’s cultural and technological history, by putting forward the argument that digital poetics is deeply influenced by the 1950-80s experimental practices and transmedia approaches, which included film, video, and computers. Second, it presents other timelines of kinetic writing, such as those of animation film and movie titles. Finally, it presents practical methods for reading digital kinetic poems, by elaborating on the notion of “deformance” and the methods of modification. The lecture draws from Seiça’s 2017 PhD study, which goes beyond techno-positivistic discourses on digital poetry by discussing the larger intersections of literature with technology, politics, and society.
Dr Álvaro Seiça is a writer and researcher. He holds a PhD in Digital Culture from the University of Bergen (2018). He published the poetry books Ensinando o Espaço (2017), Ö (2014), permafrost (2012), and the scholarly book Transdução (2017). Seiça has been a PhD Fellow at the University of Bergen (UiB), where he taught courses in electronic literature and digital humanities. He edits the ELMCIP Knowledge Base. His PhD dissertation “setInterval(): Time-Based Readings of Kinetic Poetry” (2017) was hosted by the Electronic Literature Research Group at UiB, and advised by Scott Rettberg and Chris Funkhouser. In 2018, he is starting a 3-year postdoctoral project entitled “The Art of Deleting” at UiB and UCLA, which is funded by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship. @AlvaroSeica / alvaroseica.net
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Irish Renaissance Seminar - Renaissance Prose: New Directions
2018-05-05 01:30 - 17:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

Women, Ageing and Life Narrative.
2018-05-10 - 2018-05-11 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
10th May from 1:15 pm – 7pm
11th May from 9:15am – 3pm
