Moore Institute

5th Babel Public Lecture Series: Dr Mel Boland: Contact and Conflict Zones: Reading Gesture in the short fiction of Isabel Allende
2015-02-18 18:30 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
5th BABEL PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES
Dr Mel Boland:
Contact and Conflict Zones: Reading Gesture in the short fiction of Isabel Allende
How do we read gesture in literature? This lecture looks at how we read and interpret the description of gestures, using selected short stories from Chilean author Isabel Allende in Spanish and English.
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

History Graduate Research Seminar Series:Eamonn Gardiner, 'Insane at the Time of Commission': Stress, Trauma and Suicide in Temporary Cadets of the Auxiliary Division, 1920-1930.'
2015-02-18 16:00
History Graduate Research Seminar Series

Eamonn Gardiner,
‘Insane at the Time of Commission’: Stress, Trauma and Suicide
in Temporary Cadets of the Auxiliary Division, 1920-1930.’

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

Gender ARC Lunchtime Seminar Series:Dr. Anne Cassidy, Postdoctoral Researcher 'Join-to-Farm' Teagasc/NUI Galway The Agency Paradox: gender(ed) frameworks in Irish Farming Families
2015-02-18 13:00
Gender ARC Lunchtime Seminar Series

Dr. Anne Cassidy, Postdoctoral Researcher ‘Join-to-Farm’ Teagasc/NUI Galway
The Agency Paradox: gender(ed) frameworks in Irish Farming Families

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

Archaeology research seminar series: Raina Howe, doctoral student in History at NUI Galway will speak on The Woodland Tradition of Ireland: Sources and Controversies
2015-02-17 16:00
Archaeology research seminar series:

Raina Howe, doctoral student in History at NUI Galway
on The Woodland Tradition of Ireland: Sources and Controversies.
All welcome!

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

Performing Famine Memory: Irish Theatre and the Great Hunger Symposium - February 12th and 13th 2015
2015-02-12 13:00
Performing Famine Memory:
Irish Theatre and the Great Hunger Symposium
Conference Convener and Contact: Dr. Jason King Jason.king@nuigalway.ie
This symposium examines Irish Theatre and Famine Memory between the periods of the Irish Revival and the rise and fall of Ireland’s Celtic Tiger. It places special emphasis on the performance of Famine remembrance to register moments of national crisis and forced migration in Ireland, both past and present. The symposium brings together leading Irish theatre and famine scholars and theatre practitioners to explore recent productions about the Great Hunger in the era of the Celtic Tiger, such as DruidMurphy’s revival (2012) of Tom Murphy’s Famine (1968), Sonya Kelly’s How to Keep An Alien (2014), Moonfish Theatre’s bilingual English and Irish language adaptation of Joseph O’Connor’s novel Star of the Sea (2014), Jaki McCarrick’s Belfast Girls (2012), Fiona Quinn’s The Voyage of the Orphans (2012), Caroilin Callery and Maggie Gallagher’s “Strokestown – Quebec Connection Youth Arts Project – ‘The Language of Memory and Return’” (2011-2014), Donal O’Kelly’s The Cambria (2005), and Elizabeth Kuti’s The Sugar Wife (2005). Representations of the Great Famine during the Revival in Maud Gonne’s Dawn and early plays staged at the Gate Theatre will also be discussed. The performance of traumatic remembrance of the Famine and pivotal historical events in W.B. Yeats’s The Dreaming of the Bones (1916) will be explored in a keynote address by Professor Chris Morash. Dr. Margu̩rite Corporaal will also deliver a keynote address on the development of international Famine studies and research networks and opportunities for collaboration.
Symposium Schedule Thursday Februrary 12:
1-2pm. Irish Famine Memory and Migration in Contemporary Theatre Productions:
Barry Houlihan (NUIG), Overview of Irish Theatre Archival Resources at NUI Galway.
Dr. Jason King (NUIG): “Performing the Green Pacific: Staging Female Youth Migration in Jaki McCarrick’s Belfast Girls (2012) and Fiona Quinn’s The Voyage of the Orphans (2012)”.
Dr. Charlotte McIvor (NUIG): “Sonya Kelly’s How to Keep An Alien: Gender, Palimpsestic Time and Migration in the Decade of Centenaries”.
2-3pm. Staging Famine Memory: Theatre Practitioner Perspectives
MÌÁir̩ad Ni Chroinin (NUIG and Moonfish Theatre): “Moonfish Theatre’s production of Star of the Sea, based on the novel by Joseph O’Connor”(2014).
Caroilin Callery (Cultural Connections Theatre Group): Strokestown – Quebec Connection Youth Arts Project – ‘The Language of Memory and Return’.
3-3:30pm coffee break
3:30-5pm. DruidMurphy and Early Twentieth-Century Representations of the Great Famine on Stage:
Professor Patrick Lonergan (NUIG): DruidMurphy (2012) and Abbey Productions of Tom Murphy’s Famine.
Dr. Margu̩rite Corporaal (Radboud University Nijmegen): “Starvation in the Shadows: (Un)staging the Famine in Maud Gonne’s Dawn (1904)”.
Ruud Van Den Beuken (Radboud University Nijmegen): “‘My blessing on the pistol and the powder and the ball!’: Prospective Memories of Landlord Murders in the Earl of Longford’s Ascendancy (1935)”.
6pm. Keynote address: Professor Chris Morash (MRIA, Trinity College, Dublin):
“Re-placing Trauma: Yeats’s The Dreaming of the Bones“.
Symposium Schedule Friday February 13 (10am-12pm)
Plenary Workshop: Dr. Margu̩rite Corporaal, “Building Irish Famine Research Networks”.
Deputy Thom Kluk from the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands will introduce keynote speaker Dr. Margu̩rite Corporaal (Radboud University Nijmegen). Dr. Corporaal will discuss her European Research Council funded project Relocated Remembrance: The Great Famine in Irish (Diaspora) Fiction, 1847-1921 (http://www.ru.nl/relocatedremembrance/) and her Dutch Research Council funded International Network of Irish Famine Studies (INIFS) (http://www.ru.nl/irishfaminenetwork/). She will consider the challenges of building international research networks and explore the opportunities and themes for research collaboration.

Grundtvig Project Meeting NUI Galway with European NGOs to examine lifelong learning and recognition for voluntary engagement
2015-02-12 09:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Grundtvig Project Meeting
NUI Galway with European NGOs to examine lifelong learning and recognition for voluntary engagement. Thursday 12th February – Friday 13th February 20159.00-5.00
Followed by evening receptionCelebrating the Learning in VolunteeringThursday the 12th February 2015, 5pmAula Maxima, Quadrgangle, NUI Galway
Short inputs on the evening will come from: GVC, Europass Ireland, Volunteer Ireland and NUI Galway (Centre for Adult Learning and Professional Development).
The event is an opportunity to:Discuss with community groups the benefits to implementing learning and recognition tools for their volunteers Music and refreshments will accompany.
For further information on this L̩argas funded project to recognise volunteer learning: http://cki.nuigalway.ie/news/634/roads-to-recogition/

Roundtable on the Eurocrisis and Book Launch: Social Structure of Accumulation Theory, Volumes 1 and 2, edited by Terrence McDonough, David Kotz, and Michael Reich, Edward Elgar
2015-02-11 17:30 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Roundtable on the Eurocrisis and Book Launch.
The Moore Institute and the Economics Discipline at NUI Galway will be holding a roundtable and book launch on Wednesday, Feb. 11th in seminar room G011 in the Hardiman reserach building.
The book launch of two volumes, Social Structure of Accumulation Theory and Contemporary Capitalism and Its Crises, Social Structure of Accumulation for the 21st Century , both edited by Terrence McDonough, David Kotz, and Michael Reich, will take place at 5:30.
At 6:15, a Round Table will be held on Crisis and Change in the Eurozone: A Finance-Led Recovery? Both events will feature Gary Dymski, Professor and Chair in Applied Economics at the Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds. Prof. Dymski has published numerous books, articles, chapters, and studies on banking, financial fragility, urban development, credit-market discrimination, the Latin American and Asian financial crises, exploitation, housing finance, the subprime lending crisis, financial regulation, the Eurozone crisis, and economic policy. Professor of Finance, James Stewart of Trinity College Dublin will also feature in the Roundtable. In addition, Terrence McDonough, Srinivas Raghavendra, and Eithne Murphy, all from economics at NUI Galway, will contribute.
5:30 Book Launch
Social Structure of Accumulation Theory, Volumes 1 and 2, edited by Terrence McDonough, David Kotz, and Michael Reich, Edward Elgar.
Contemporary Capitalism and Its Crises, Social Structure of Accumulation for the 21st Century, Chinese Translation, edited by Terrence McDonough, Dvid Kotz, and Michael Reich, Cambridge University Press and China Social Sciences Press.
6:15 Crisis and Change in the Eurozone: A Finance-Led Recovery? A Roundtable.
Gary Dymski, Leeds University Business School
James Stewart, Trinity College
Terrence McDonough, NUI Galway
Srinivas Raghavendra, NUI Galway
Eithne Murphy, NUI Galway.
For more information please contact terrence.mcdonough@nuigalway.ie

Centre for Global Women's Studies Project Launch - Social and Economic Costs of Violence Against Women and Girls - Supported by UK Development for International Development
2015-02-11 17:00
Centre for Global Women’s Studies
Project Launch
Social and Economic Costs of Violence Against Women and Girls
Supported by UK Development for International Development
11th February 2015, 5.00pm, Aula Maxima Lower, NUI, Galway, Ireland
For more information please contact gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie

History Graduate Research Seminar Series: Gavan Duffy, Freehold or a 999 year lease? Australia, New Zealand and the fate of the German Pacific, 1914-1920.
2015-02-11 16:00
History Graduate Research Seminar Series

Gavan Duffy,
Freehold or a 999 year lease? Australia, New Zealand
and the fate of the German Pacific, 1914-1920.

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

Archaeology research seminar series: Colette Allen, MLitt student in Archaeology at NUI Galway - Landscapes of the Cailleach: An Introduction to BuÌ_ Places
2015-02-10 16:00
Archaeology research seminar series:

Colette Allen, MLitt student in Archaeology at NUI Galway will give a graduate seminar on:
*Landscapes of the Cailleach: An Introduction to BuÌ_ Places*
All welcome!

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

Language Games: A Seminar on Language and Literature
2015-02-10 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

Performance Matters - Irish Theatre Discussion Group
2015-02-06 12:00
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

Charles Barr - Hitchcock, a Researcher's Tale
2015-02-05 14:30
Charles Barr – Hitchcock, a Researcher’s Tale
Alfred Hitchcock’s films continue to be so widely shown, discussed and analysed that ‰Û÷Hitchcock fatigue’ is understandable – do we really need more books about him? But some parts of his life and work have remained unexplored. A new book, filling some major gaps, will be published in March: Hitchcock, Lost and Found: The Forgotten Films. Co-author Charles Barr tells the story behind it: the motivation, the long research process in Europe and America, the findings, and the way these alter our sense of Hitchcock and of his place in film history.
His main research area continues to be British and Irish cinema history; he was co-writer, with its presenter Stephen Frears, of Channel 4’s centenary history, Typically British (1996). He also has work in progress on the Swedish director Victor Sjostrom and on the Hollywood melodramas of John M.Stahl. Prof Barr taught for many years at the University of East Anglia, helping to develop one of the pioneer centres for Film Studies at undergraduate and postgraduate level, and he has since held Visiting Professor posts in St Louis, Dublin and Galway. He was Adjunct Professor at Huston School of Film and Digital Media 2011-13. Prior to this he was Director of the Program in Film and Media at Washington University in St Louis. For thirty years he was based at the University of East Anglia (1976 to 2006) where he initiated and helped to build one of the UK’s leading centres for Film and TV Studies at undergraduate and graduate level.
Charles Barr is the recipient of a Moore Institute Visiting Research Fellowship.
For more information please contact rod.stoneman@nuigalway.ie

Professor Peadar Kirby, University of Limerick: 'The Latin American New Left: towards a post-neoliberalism?'
2015-02-05 12:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Professor Peadar Kirby, University of Limerick: ‰Û÷The Latin American New Left: towards a post-neoliberalism?’
For more information please contact suzanne.gilsenan@nuigalway.ie

History Graduate Research Seminar Series: Madeline O'Neill, From Carnacon to Cape Town: Colonel Maurice Moore, An Unremembered Envoy, 1921
2015-02-04 16:00
History Graduate Research Seminar Series

Madeline O’Neill,
From Carnacon to Cape Town:
Colonel Maurice Moore, An Unremembered Envoy, 1921
for more information please contact caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie

Special Collections Lunchtime Lectures Series - "Bodies of knowledge : the early days of anatomy in Galway" by Alexander Black, Anatomy, School of Medicine.
2015-02-04 13:00
The Special Collections Lunchtime Lectures Series continues with “Bodies of knowledge : the early days of anatomy in Galway”
by Alexander Black, Anatomy, School of Medicine.
Anatomy was one of the founding departments of Queen’s College Galway in the 1840s. At the time anatomy was seen as a rather distasteful, if necessary, field of study, and had yet to be completely separated from its sibling discipline physiology. Anatomy is a visual and tactile subject, and perhaps relies on images and illustrations more than any other academic discipline. This talk will cover the early days of anatomy in Galway, and will illustrate the importance of anatomy to society, society to anatomy, and medical imaging to medicine. Some anatomy material from the Old Library Collection will be on display during the talk.
All are welcome
For more information please contact olivia.larnder@nuigalway.ie

Dr Niamh Whitfield - Seminar: Early Irish Manuscripts: The Book of Durrow & the Northumbrian Question
2015-02-04 11:00
Dr Niamh Whitfield, currently based in London, will be presenting a series of lectures and seminars on Early Irish Art, 3rd-5th February 2015, in the Moore Institute, at the invitation of the MA in Medieval Studies and CAMPS (Centre for Antique, Medieval & Pre-Modern Studies).
Dr Niamh Whitfield
Seminar: Early Irish Manuscripts: The Book of Durrow & the Northumbrian Question
All interested postgraduates, staff and other researchers are invited to attend, but should contact Dr Kim LoPrete, kim.loprete@nuigalway.ie, in advance in order to ensure that materials are available for everyone.

Dr Niamh Whitfield - Public Lecture: 'Ornament on the Ardagh Chalice: Hidden Meanings?'
2015-02-03 19:00
Dr Niamh Whitfield, currently based in London, will be presenting a series of lectures and seminars on Early Irish Art, 3rd-5th February 2015, in the Moore Institute, at the invitation of the MA in Medieval Studies and CAMPS (Centre for Antique, Medieval & Pre-Modern Studies).
Dr Niamh Whitfield
Public Lecture: ‰Û÷Ornament on the Ardagh Chalice: Hidden Meanings?’
The Ardagh chalice is an Irish version of a two-handled calix ministerialis, from which eucharistic wine was given to the congregation during Mass. It is often assumed that the patterns used to ornament it lack meaning and are purely decorative. This talk will challenge that assumption, and aims to show how the chalice’s liturgical function explains its design and particularly the symbolism of its decoration.
All interested postgraduates, staff and other researchers are invited to attend, but should contact Dr Kim LoPrete, kim.loprete@nuigalway.ie, in advance in order to ensure that materials are available for everyone.

Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour and Class (ICHLC) public lecture - Prof. Helena Sheehan (DCU) - SYRIZA: Storming the Citadel? Greece's new governing party: where it came from; where it's going
2015-02-03 16:00
The Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour and Class (ICHLC) is delighted to host a public lecture by
Prof. Helena Sheehan (Emerita DCU) on
‘SYRIZA: Storming the Citadel? Greece’s new governing party: where it came from; where it’s going’.
Prof. Sheehan will discuss the origins of Greece’s new governing party, its policies and perspectives – and its prospects.
ICHLC/Moore Institute: free lecture; all welcome
For more information please contact john.cunningham@nuigalway.ie

GUIDE (Galway University Integration Through Drama and Education) Symposium
2015-01-31 10:00
GUIDE (Galway University Integration Through Drama and Education) Symposium
Kunle Animashaun (Camino Productions)
Delphine Coudray (Oulala Productions)
Elaine Keane and Manuela Heinz (NUI Galway) Jenny Macdonald (From the Inside Out, Tallaght Community Arts) Chrissie Poulter (Trinity College, Dublin) Fiona Quinn (Friars’ Gate Theatre Company, Limerick) Piaras Mac Ìäinri (NUI Cork)
This symposium brings together leading academics and theatre practitioners who work with migrant students in Ireland to explore best practice in using theatre techniques as tools for transition to and within higher education.
Free admission (Pre-registration required)
Refreshments and lunch will be served.
This symposium is made possible by the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, the Irish Research Council and the Moore Institute
To register for this free event, please visit:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/guide-galway-university-integration-through-drama-and-education-symposium-tickets-14524951521
Provisional Schedule:
10-10:30am. Welcome.
10:30 – 11:45am. Session I. Institutional Contexts for Migrant Students in Higher Education (Seminar Room G010)
Chair: Jason King
Speakers: Elaine Keane (NUI Galway), ‰Û÷Exploring Diversity in Initial Teacher Education (DITE) in Ireland – A National Project’
Piaras Mac Ìäinri (NUI Cork), ‰Û÷Institutional Barriers for Migrant Students to Transition to Third Level Education in Ireland’
Chrissie Poulter (Trinity College Dublin), ‰Û÷In-Visibility: Borrowing from Drama training to fast-track the welcome and soothe the sensitivity … in/to third-level education’
11:45am – 12pm. Coffee, Tea, and Biscuits (G010)
12pm – 1:30pm. Session II. Theatre Practitioner Case Studies (G010)
Chair: Marianne NÌ_ Chinn̩ide
Speakers: Fiona Quinn (Friars’ Gate Theatre Company),
‰Û÷Integration and the ensemble: coming together through collaborative creative processes’
Jenny Macdonald (Tallaght Community Arts), ‰Û÷From the Inside Out: Me Emerging…Using drama and storytelling to express and share the experiences of youth migrants to Ireland’
Kunle Animashaun (Camino Productions), ‰Û÷Fragments: Documenting memories and life experiences verbatim’
Delphine Coudray (Oulala Productions), ‰Û÷Oulala Productions: It Doesn’t Rub Off (2014)’
1:30pm – 2:30pm. Lunch. (GO10)
2:30pm – 4pm. Session III: Breakout workshops (Seminar Rooms G010 and G011, Room 1001, Bank of Ireland Theatre)
Groups will be assigned following the lunch break.
4pm – 4:15pm. Coffee, Tea, and Biscuits (G010)
4:15-5:30pm. Session IV: Roundtable Discussion and Conclusion (G010)
Chair: Charlotte McIvor
For further information, please feel to contact us at charlotte.mcivor@nuigalway and jason.king@nuigalway.ie.

CAMPS lab: An tOllamh RuairÌ_ ÌÒ hUiginn, NUI Maynooth - 'Marriage, Law, and Tochmarc Emire'
2015-01-30 12:00
An tOllamh RuairÌ_ ÌÒ hUiginn, NUI Maynooth
‘Marriage, Law, and Tochmarc Emire’
Followed by discussion & light lunch
Everyone welcome – FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch
For more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie

5th Babel Public Lecture Series: Dr Coralline Dupuy: Victimisation and retaliation in Charles Perrault's fairy tales
2015-01-28 18:30 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
5TH BABEL PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES
Dr Coralline Dupuy:
Victimisation and retaliation in Charles Perrault’s fairy tales
This talk will examine the issue of language and power shift in Charles Perrault’s fairy tales. In particular, what do Perrault’s tales tell the readers about victimization and oppression? What is the link between the use (and abuse) of language and the changes in power status in the tales?
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

Book Launch - The Shadow of Colonialism on Europe's Modern Past
2015-01-28 17:00
You are cordially invited to the launch of
The Shadow of Colonialism on Europe’s Modern Past
Edited by RÌ_isÌ_n Healy and Enrico Dal Lago
The book will be launched by
Prof. Susanne Lachenicht
(Univeristy of Bayreuth)
The book launch will be preceded by Prof. Lachenicht’s lecture on
“Negotiating Asylum in Europe and the Atlantic World in the 17th and 18th Centuries”
For more information please contact enrico.dallago@nuigalway.ie

History Graduate Research Seminar Series:Susanne Lachenicht. Negotiating Asylum in Europe and the Atlantic World in the 17th and 18th centuries.
2015-01-28 16:00
History Graduate Research Seminar Series

Susanne Lachenicht.
Negotiating Asylum in Europe and the Atlantic World in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Followed by Dr Lachenicht’s launch of
RÌ_isÌ_n Healy & Enrico Dal Lago (eds.)
The Shadow of Colonialism on Europe’s Modern Past
(Palgrave Macmillan 2014)
for more information please contact caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie

Gender ARC Lunchtime Seminar Series:Dr. Elaine Keane, Education, NUI Galway 'Some done - A lot more to do': Lessons from Research on Widening Participation in Higher Education & to the Professions
2015-01-28 13:00
Gender ARC Lunchtime Seminar Series

Dr. Elaine Keane, Education, NUI Galway
‰Û÷Some done – A lot more to do’: Lessons from Research on Widening Participation in Higher Education & to the Professions

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

'What translation means to me' - Roundtable discussion
2015-01-27 18:00
‰Û÷What translation means to me’:
A roundtable of translation and interpretation practitioners in Ireland will discuss their work and their philosophy of translation.
The roundtable will include Gabriel Rosenstock – poet and translator; Lorna Shaughnessy – poet, lecturer and Spanish translator; ́ine NÌ_ Sh̼illeabhÌÁin – Head of translation Services DCU; Susan Folan – Interpreter, European Union and Director MA in Consecutive Interpreting, NUI Galway, and Ulrike Fuehrer – Head of Interpreting, Context Translation, Galway
For more information please contact anne.oconnor@nuigalway.ie

Language Games: A Seminar on Language and Literature
2015-01-27 16:00
Language Games
Language Games is a seminar dedicated to all matters relating to language and literature, including linguistics, translation, language instruction, and literary experiments and their reception.
All Welcome
Questions and proposals for workshops can be sent to
irina.ruppo@nuigalway.ie
Organisers:
Irina Ruppo Malone
(English/Academic Writing Centre, James Hardiman Library)
Siobhan Purcell (English)

Moore Institute Visiting Fellow Lecture: Dr Shelley Troupe, NUI Maynooth - "From Druid/Murphy to DruidMurphy"
2015-01-27 13:00
Moore Institute Visiting Fellow Lecture
Dr Shelley Troupe, NUI Maynooth
“From Druid/Murphy to DruidMurphy“
All welcome
For more information contact Shelley.Troupe@nuim.ie

Gender ARC Lunchtime Seminar Series: Dr. Julie Gaucher, PhD in French Literature and Sport History, University of Lyon 1 Writing the Sportswomen: Between Tradition and Modernity
2015-01-22 13:00
Gender ARC Lunchtime Seminar Series
Dr. Julie Gaucher,PhD in French Literature and Sport History, University of Lyon 1
Writing the Sportswomen: Between Tradition and Modernity
This New Character in French Literature from 1920’s to 1950’s
Abstract: Till now, Gender Studies rarely focused on the fictive character of the sportswoman. Though it is an emblematic figure that makes visible the social norms and points out the rules of gendered relations. It also shows the mutations and/or the resistances to modernity. In the first part of the twentieth century, literature was fascinated by this new figure, and tried to understand and surround its identity. Descriptions and narrations hesitated between the respect of a traditional femininity and the construction of new gendered references.

This presentation will study French fictions about sports like poems and novels, including popular literature. We will focus on the first part of the twentieth century, when modernity implicated a new gendered order. On one hand, sportswoman could appear as a symbol of emancipation: this character was in link with the ‰Û÷tomboy’. On the other hand, this figure could be understood as an original translation of the traditional ideal of femininity: sportswomen could represent mothers and wives of exception. Thus this article will aim at showing how, through a series of stylistic, narrative and semiotic processes, the fiction tried to understand one of the new female models. Dr Julie Gaucher’s research falls within an approach of Cultural History, in the intersection of different disciplines: French Literature, History of Sport, Gender and Women History. Her investigations focus on models of gender proposed in Sport Literature. In other words, she tries to define the characteristic and the values of femininities and masculinities in this specific corpus, from 1920’s to 1950’s. Her recent investigations question the representation of the body in graphic novels.
All Welcome
For more information please contact gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie

Inaugural Prof. Turlough Fitzgerald Memorial Lecture
2015-01-22 12:00
Professor Richard Reynolds Deputy Head, Division of Brain Sciences,Wolfson Neuroscience LaboratoriesImperial College London
“Knowledge, gifting and passion: a recipe for success in Neuroscience”
Organised by the Discipline of Anatomy, School of Medicine and the Galway Neuroscience Centre, in remembrance of the outstanding contributions that the late Professor Turlough Fitzgerald made to Neuroscience and Anatomy research and teaching at UCG/NUIG.
Professor Richard Reynolds Bioprofile: Professor Richard Reynolds studied Pharmacology at King’s College London from 1975 to 1981 before embarking on a career in MS research and has now been Professor of Cellular Neuroscience at Imperial College, London, for the last 13 years. He is the Scientific Director of the UK Multiple Sclerosis Tissue Bank and also heads an MS research unit at the Hammersmith Hospital. Professor Reynolds has been carrying out MS related research for the last 30 years and current research in the unit is designed to gain an understanding of the mechanisms involved in both neurodegeneration and repair processes in the brain in MS. This research is dependent on a supply of well characterised human brain tissue that has been collected by the UK MS Tissue Bank because of the desire of the MS community to contribute to the research in a practical way. This work has led him to be involved in teaching both science and medical students about MS and to travel around the British Isles helping people with the illness understand what is happening to them. At home he enjoys cooking, relaxing with his family, playing the guitar and travelling. Richard is married to Jane, has four children, three grandchildren, and lives in Oxfordshire.
Lunch provided after the lecture
For more information contact david.finn@nuigalway.ie
