ISTR webinar 'Publishing in a Journal'
2023-11-08 13:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Dublin) | 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

The School of Political Science and Sociology Research Seminar: Uncivil War: the British Army and the Troubles, 1966-1975
2023-11-29 13:00 - 14:00 | Aras Moyola 331, University of Galway
The School of Political Science and Sociology invites you to a research seminar with
Dr. Huw Bennett
(Cardiff University, supported by Power, Conflict and Ideologies Cluster)
Uncivil War: the British Army and the Troubles, 1966-1975
When Operation Banner was launched in 1969 civil war threatened to break out in Northern Ireland and spread over the Irish Sea. Uncivil War reveals the full story of how the British army acted to save Great Britain from disaster during the most violent phase of the Troubles but, in so doing, condemned the people of Northern Ireland to protracted, grinding conflict. Huw Bennett shows how the army’s ambivalent response to loyalist violence undermined the prospects for peace and heightened Catholic distrust in the state. British strategy consistently underestimated community defence as a reason for people joining or supporting the IRA whilst senior commanders allowed the army to turn in on itself, hardening soldiers to the suffering of ordinary people. By 1975 militarystrategists considered the conflict unresolvable: the army could not convince Catholics or Protestants that it was there to protect them and settled instead for an unending war.
HUW BENNETT
Huw Bennett is a Reader in International Relations at the School of Law and Politics of the Cardiff University. He specializes in strategic studies, the history of war, and intelligence studies, and works on both historical and contemporary issues concerning the use of military power. His research focuses on the experiences of the British Army since 1945, in the contexts of British politics, the Cold War, the end of empire, and the War on Terror.
All Welcome!

Book Launch: GALWAY: MAKING A CAPITAL OF CULTURE
2023-11-30 18:30 - 19:30 | Signify Health, Alcantara Building, Bonham Quay, Galway, H91 AX8R
Orpen Press is pleased to invite you to the launch of
GALWAY: MAKING A CAPITAL OF CULTURE
BY
Patrick Collins
The book will be launched by Patricia Forde, Laureate na nÓg
With a welcome by
President of University of Galway
Professor Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh
RSVP
info@orpenpress.com
WWW.ORPENPRESS.COM

Transnational Access Fellowship Programme (TNA) call for fellowship applications
2023-12-04
Transnational Access Fellowship Programme (TNA) is now opening its fifth round of calls for fellowship applications (closes 4 Dec).
The University of Galway is one of five possible hosts of fellows accepting fellows into the TNA programme.
The CLS INFRA Fellowship Programme provides access to a wide range of data, tools and knowledge. Scholars from literary studies or with an interest in Computational Literary Studies methods are invited to apply for a fellowship grant in one of our infrastructure providers. Successful applicants will not only obtain free-of-charge physical access to the infrastructure, but in the context of the overall project they will become part of the larger CLS community. By responding to one of our calls, applicants may have the opportunity to:

Interact with experts;
Receive advice on ongoing projects;
Learn how to use the ecosystem of data, tools and standards;
Assemble new literary corpora;
Profit from hands-on training and support.
Fellowships grants will cover housing and subsistence costs as well as travel to and from the host institution. The CLS INFRA Fellowships are funded by the European Union under the rules of transnational access.

Calls for fellowship grants are launched twice a year for a total of six calls. Scholars from the European Union and beyond are eligible to apply. CLS INFRA fellowship grants will typically cover travel and subsistence costs. Successful applicants are expected to join the chosen infrastructure for a period of 4 to 12 weeks. However, shorter residencies will be also taken into consideration.
DARIAH ERIC is leading the Transnational Access Fellowship Programme (TNA) and is responsible for the management and oversight of the TNA selection process.
More on the CLS INFRA project: clsinfra.io
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101004984.
Visit clsinfrattna.sciencescall.org to apply.
For examples of other TNA Fellowships, visit the TNA Archive: clsinfra.io/opportunities/tnafellowships/tna-archive
Applications will close at 24.00 4 December.
Contact: Marco Raciti
Email: marco.raciti@dariah.eu

CAMPS Lab: Traditional Child Funerary Rites in Ireland
2023-12-08 12:00 - 14:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
CAMPS Labs
Centre for Antique, Medieval, and Pre-Modern Studies
2023-2024
8 December
Pádraig Ó Héalaí
Traditional Child Funerary Rites in Ireland
19 January
Padráic Moran, Mary Sweeney, and Chiara Corongiu
The Glossam Project
9 February
Kim LoPrete
The Cultivation of Holy Men in the Long 1070s by Thibaud III, Count of Blois,
Chartres, Meaux, and Troyes
8 March
Colleen Curran & Christian Schweizer
Project Reports: BretPal and DICUIL
TBC
Jacopo Bisagni & Andrew Ó Donnghaile
17 May (TBC)
Mike Bintley, Ciaran Arthur, and Frances McCormack
Old English Pedagogy Roundtable

16 Days of Activism with Global Women's Studies
2023-12-08 14:00 - 16:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
The global campaign for the 16 Days of Activism to End Gender-Based Violence runs from the 25th of November until the 10th of December.
To mark the 2023 campaign, and the theme of Unite! Activism to End Violence against Women and Girls, the Centre for Global Women’s Studies is engaging in the following ways:
1. A panel discussion will be held on the 8th of December, 2-4pm, THB-G010, Hardiman Research Building, followed by a reception. Speakers include Robyn Gannon (Aoibhneas Domestic Abuse Support), Kaata Minah (Purposeful, Sierra Leone), Lennita Ruggi (PhD Candidate with a focus on Feminist Activism for Gender Equality at University of Galway) and Lorraine Hayman (PhD Candidate with a focus on Cybersexual Violence).
Discussants:
Sarahjane Grennan, Psychological Support Service Team Manager at Galway Rape Crisis Centre
Prof. Niamh Reilly, School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway

2. The 2023 Volume of Dearcadh: Graduate Journal of Gender, Globalisation and Rights will be formally launched at the event of the 8th December

3. An X campaign to raise awareness about activism on Gender-Based Violence will be running throughout the 16 Days. To get notifications follow us @CGWSuniofgalway
We encourage you all to take part in the 16 Days Campaign with the Centre for Global Women’s Studies.

Background:
The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence is an international civil society led campaign that takes place each year. It commences on 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and ends on 10 December, Human Rights Day, indicating that violence against women is the most pervasive breach of human rights worldwide. It was originated by activists at the inaugural Women’s Global Leadership Institute in 1991. It is used as an organizing strategy by individuals and organizations around the world to call for the prevention and elimination of violence against women and girls (VAWG). (UN Women, 2023).

Book Launch of Czerniewicz, L and Cronin, C Eds. (2023) Higher Education for Good
2023-12-11 14:30 - 15:30 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Please join us on December 11th for the Galway launch of the book Higher Education for Good: Teaching and Learning Futures. This new, open access book is a rich, diverse collection edited by Laura Czerniewicz and Catherine Cronin, and authored by academics and professionals from 17 countries and multiple disciplines, including Su-Ming Khoo (Political Science & Sociology, University of Galway). You can access the book here.
Higher Education for Good offers hopeful new ways of thinking about higher education across a range of contexts, and how to concretise initiatives to deal with local and global challenges. In an unusual and refreshing way, the contributors provide insights about resilience tactics and collective actions across different levels of higher education using an array of styles and formats including essays, poetry, and speculative fiction.
This book launch event at the University of Galway will feature contributions from Catherine Cronin, Su-Ming Khoo, Kate Molloy (Atlantic Technological University) and Duduzile Unathi Ndlovu (University of Galway), as well opportunities for questions and discussion. Refreshments will be available.
Please forward this message to colleagues who also may be interested in attending. We hope to see you!
“This book is an experience, not just something to read. The originality of the book’s contribution lies not only in its engaging formats of images, prose, poetry and more, but in the inspiring and important intellectual contribution made by the chapters individually and collectively.” – Jan McArthur, Head of Educational Research, Lancaster University, UK
“The glimmers of optimism and hope for the future…provided by the authors … may help to change not only universities but the world.” – Caroline Guzmán-Valenzuela, Professor of Higher Education, Universidad de Tarapacá, Chile
“The authors in this stunning new book are not unaware of the power of institutions labouring under the weight of a political economy that reduces academic work to market value. What, then, about the “pockets of freedom” (Raaper, 2019) in universities that can be exploited to do the work of resistance and generate alternatives to teaching, learning, assessment, and the making of curriculum?…This courageous book works with an unspoken proposition, that we cannot wait for the neoliberal university to transform itself.” – Jonathan Jansen, Distinguished Professor of Education, University of Stellenbosch, and President of the Academy of Science of South Africa.
Registration
Please use the Eventbrite link to register for this event: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/galway-book-launch-higher-education-for-good-tickets-759585238897
This event is co-hosted by the Discipline of Sociology, Cillian Joy, Hardy Schwamm and Iain MacLaren in th Library, Open Scholarship Community and CELT, respectively.
This is an open-access publication, which you can access from Open Book Publishers here: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0363

CLASSICS POST-GRADUATE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM
2023-12-12 10:00 - 16:00 | THB-G011 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
CLASSICS POST-GRADUATE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM
12TH DECEMBER 2023, THB G011
10.00 – 10.15 Arrival
10.15 – 10.30 Welcome and Opening: Edward Herring
10.30 – 12.00 PANEL I · LIVES AND CHARACTERISATIONS
Chair: Pádraic Moran
Christian Schweizer: ‘Dicuil and DICUIL’
Honor Faughnan: ‘The Language of Wisdom in the Epistulae Senecae
ad Paulum et Pauli ad Senecam’
Érin McKinney: ‘Brigit for the people? Bilingualism and audience in
Bethu Brigte, the Old Irish Life of St Brigit’
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch Break
13.00 – 14.30 PANEL II · PARATEXTUAL MANUSCRIPT STUDIES
Chair: Jacopo Bisagni
Darcy Ireland: ‘On Sobriety and Drunkenness: Reassessing an Unedited Text
in León, Archivo Capitular MS 22’
Chiara Corongiu: ‘The trigon sign within the Book of Mulling’
Mary Sweeney: ‘‘Dislocated Glosses’ in the Tradition of Priscian’s
Institutiones Grammaticae’
14.30 – 14.45 Coffee Break
14.45 – 15.45 PANEL III · LITERARY INFLUENCE AND ALLUSION
Chair: Grace Attwood
Luke McDermott: ‘Likening Strikes Twice: Intertextuality in a Neo-Assyrian Simile’
Andrew Levie: ‘The supplanting of a Gaelic core with an Ovidian guise: Edmund Spenser’s reappropriation of the Dinnshenchas tradition’
15.45 – 16.00 Closing Remarks: Edward Herrin

Digital humanities outputs in the light of research assessment reform
2023-12-13 13:00 - 14:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & streamed live on Zoom
Digital humanities outputs in the light of research assessment reform
This session includes a presentation and discussion around the recent ALLEA report Recognising Digital Scholarly Outputs in the Humanities, which underscores the transformative impact of digital practices on humanities scholarship. It addresses challenges in digital humanities, focusing on transparency in linking resources to publications, recognising updates as scholarly contributions, reevaluating authorship, fostering digital skills, and adjusting evaluation methods. It also provides recommendations on the assessment of digital outputs like editions, databases, infographics, code, blogs, and podcasts. Each case study includes practical examples and suggested readings.
Dr Maciej Maryl is a visiting CLS INFRA Fellow at University of Galway. He is an assistant professor and founding Director of the Digital Humanities Centre at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He graduated from the University of Warsaw in Polish Philology and Applied Social Sciences and completed doctoral studies at the Graduate School for Social Research (GSSR). He is involved in European research infrastructures for digital humanities as a member of OPERAS Executive Assembly, SSH Open Cluster Governing Board, and co-chair of DARIAH Digital Methods and Practices Observatory WG. His interests include data science applied to cultural data, innovation in scholarly communication and meta-research on digital practices in the humanities.
The session will also be streamed live on Zoom. Please register at this link to attend:
https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_C1z1g-YcSFuYN4PbcVQmhQ

Event recording

Seoladh Leabhair: Ag Cur Chun Fónaimh: Údarás na Gaeltachta ó 1980 i leith
2023-12-14 19:00 - 20:00 | Stiúideo Cuan, an Spidéal
CUIREADH
Seoladh Leabhair
Ba mhór ag Cló Iar-Chonnacht, Údarás na Gaeltachta
agus Ollscoil na Gaillimhe thú a bheith i láthair
nuair a sheolfaidh Alan Esslemont, Ard-Stiúrthóir TG4,
Ag Cur Chun Fónaimh: Údarás na Gaeltachta ó 1980 i leith
in eagar ag Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh agus Breandán Mac Suibhne
Stiúideo Cuan
an Spidéal,
Déardaoin, 14 Nollaig ag 7:00 i.n.

INVITATION
Book Launch
Cló Iar-Chonnacht, Údarás na Gaeltachta, and University of Galway cordially invite you to join us for an event when Alan Esslemont, Director General of TG4, will launch
Ag Cur Chun Fónaimh: Údarás na Gaeltachta ó 1980 i leith
edited by Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh and Breandán Mac Suibhne
in Stiúideo Cuan
an Spidéal
Thursday, 14 December at 7:00 p.m.

The Material for Victory: The Memoirs of Andrew J. Kettle
2023-12-15 16:00 - 17:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
You are warmly invited to the Galway launch of the new, annotated edition of
The Material for Victory: The Memoirs of Andrew J. Kettle
Edited by Niamh Reilly with annotations by Jane O’Brien and Niamh Reilly
With guest speaker
Luke Gibbons, Maynooth University, author of James Joyce and the Irish Revolution, University of Chicago Press, 2023
Introduced by Breandán MacSuibhne
Light refreshments provided
RSVP to materialforvictory@universityofgalway.ie
Luke Gibbons has taught as Professor of Irish Studies at Maynooth University, Ireland, and the University of Notre Dame, USA. Among his recent publications are James Joyce and the Irish Revolution (University of Chicago Press, 2023), and Limits of the Visible: Representing the Irish Great Famine (Quinnipiac University/Cork University Press, 2013).
The Material for Victory is available free to download at: openpress.universityofgalway.ie/materialforvictory/.

University of Galway History Research Seminar: Gendered data in early medieval sources: Reflections from the Gendered Networks and GENCHRON projects
2024-01-10 16:00 - 17:30 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & streamed live on Zoom
Dr Máirín MacCarron (University College Cork)
Gendered data in early medieval sources:
Reflections from the Gendered Networks and GENCHRON projects
Abstract
This paper will introduce and explain the development and analysis of gendered data in two of the presenter’s funded research projects: Women, Conflict and Peace: Gendered Networks in Early Medieval Narratives (funded by the Leverhulme Trust, 2018–2021) and Time for Women? Gender, Chronology and Historiography before AD 900, GENCHRON (Irish Research Council Consolidator Laureate grant, 2022–2026). It will discuss the representation of gender and gender statistics in a selection of sources from late antiquity and the early middle ages – works of history, hagiographies and chronicles – and in modern historiography. This paper will argue that data-driven approaches can allow historians to move past a reductive view of gendered roles and the place of women in medieval society.
Biography
Dr Máirín MacCarron was appointed to the Department of Digital Humanities at UCC in 2019. Prior to this role, she held posts in the Departments of History at the University of Galway and the University of Sheffield. She was awarded the Irish Historical Research Prize 2021 for her book Bede and Time: computus, theology and history in the early medieval world (Routledge: London and New York, 2020). She is Principal Investigator of Time for Women? Gender, Chronology and Historiography before AD 900 (GENCHRON) which runs from 2022–2026, funded by an Irish Research Council Consolidator Laureate Grant. She was Co-Investigator on the research project Women, Conflict and Peace: Gendered Networks in Early Medieval Narratives funded by the Leverhulme Trust and based at the University of Sheffield from 2018–2021; and she was Co-Investigator on the Digital Edgeworth Network funded by the ‘UK-Ireland Collaboration in Digital Humanities Networking Programme’ and jointly based at Cork and Oxford, from 2020–2021.
Registration
To attend via Zoom, please register at: https://forms.office.com/e/FDWKnekvcv
This is a hybrid event. The paper will be delivered in-person, in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway (ground floor) and livestreamed simultaneously on Zoom: https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/j/98639590634.
Seminars are not recorded.
Full Programme
A full programme for this semester’s seminars is available at: University_of_Galway_History_Seminar_2023-24_Semester_02.
This talk is part of the University of Galway History Seminar series.
Image: an image of a woman feeding hens from the apse mosaic of San Clemente in Rome.

Centre for Creative Technologies masterclass series: Neuroscience of Creativity
2024-01-16 12:00 - 13:00 | Studio 3, O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, University of Galway
Creativity is a key skill with increasing relevance for contemporary and future societies. This seminar presents an overview of how the human brain affords us the ability to think creatively. We will: [1] examine the neural basis of the creative process as revealed through neuroimaging methods; [2] explore why people differ in levels of creative ability; and [3] evaluate creativity-enhancing interventions including brain stimulation, pharmacological agents, and behavioural changes. Beyond understanding the production of creative work, we will also consider the recognition of creativity and how it differs to intelligence from a neuroscientific perspective. Finally, we will review experimental evidence from the Cultural Evolution literature that suggests limiting factors to innovation due to how information is transferred intergenerationally and ways we might overcome any such psychological constraints on our creativity capacity.
Speaker Bio: Dr Jane Conway is an SFI-IRC Pathway Fellow and Honorary Research Lecturer in the School of Psychology, University of Galway. She is an experimental psychologist who focuses on higher order cognition in humans, specializing in the role of culture in shaping the mental processes that allow us to represent abstract features of the world. She directs the Scientific Arts Lab, an interdisciplinary group that studies the development of scientific concept literacy through creative practice.
Registration
Please register via Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/neuroscience-of-creativity-tickets-795300604517
