Moore Institute

Book Launch: War and Revolution in the West of Ireland, Galway 1913-1922 by Dr. Conor Mc Namara
2018-04-05 20:00 UTC | Mechanics’ Institute, Middle Street, Galway
An invitation to the launch of Dr. Conor Mc Namara’s (History) new book on the revolution in County Galway: War and Revolution in the West of Ireland, Galway 1913-22 published by Irish Academic Press.
The book will be officially launched by Professor Dan Carey, Moore Institute, NUI Galway.
The book will be available for just 16 euros on the night and refreshments will be served.

Data Protection: Where Do We Stand?
2018-04-09 13:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

Archaeology Seminar: Female religious in medieval Ireland: the other monasticism
2018-04-10 16:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Speaker: Tracy Collins
Tracy is an experienced professional archaeologist, and holds a PhD from University College Cork on research entitled ‘An Archaeology of Female Monasticism in Medieval Ireland’. She is currently an IRC Government of Ireland research fellow at the Dept of Archaeology UCC, writing a monograph based on her phd research.

Gender ARC
2018-04-10 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland

“Caution: Children at School, Perspectives on Learning, Leaders and Learners, Imperatives for Inclusive Schools.”
2018-04-10 17:30 - 19:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
New Professors’ Inaugural Lecture Series at NUI Galway Continues:
Public Lecture by Professor Gerry Mac Ruairc: “Caution: Children at School, Perspectives on Learning, Leaders and Learners, Imperatives for Inclusive Schools.”
Professor Gerry Mac Ruairc, the Established Professor of Education and Head of the School of Education.
The lecture is designed to be of interest to educators and parents. Professor Mac Ruairc will address elements in our current school system with a view to identifying ways in which schools can become more inclusive, nurturing spaces for all learners irrespective of class, gender, ability, culture, sexuality or the intersectional interconnected nature of these social categorisations.
The lecture will also focus on exploring ways in which many of the issues identified can be explored differently, and explore ways that change the learning experience of children and young people in school. Explaining how schools can work with diversity and difference and by problematizing the ways in which exclusionary practices succeed in schools, it is possible to identify a number of ways forward.

Celebration Event for Jacopo Bisagni and Rióna Ní Fhrighil
2018-04-11 13:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
An event celebrating the success of Dr Jacopo Bisagni and Dr Rióna Ní Fhrighil who have both been awarded major research grants by the Irish Research Council under the Laureate Scheme.
Please come along to congratulate them and to find out more about their projects.

Archives and Public History: Witnessing the Past
2018-04-11 13:30 - 17:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Public history and the awareness of shared pasts is becoming ever more prevalent. Recent and ongoing commemorations have brought history and its reassessment into public daily discourse. Current politics and society are being shaped by integration of increasingly open and diverse pasts – from archives of manuscripts and print sources to statues, monuments and oral histories. This seminar looks at how we encounter the past of everyday life through current contemporary experience, and reflect on how we interpret the marginalised histories we meet anew through our archives, libraries, museums and public spaces.
For more information see Eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/seminar-archives-and-public-historywitnessing-the-past-tickets-44262956695?aff=ehomecard

History Seminar - David Kilgannon
2018-04-11 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
David Kilgannon
‘I didn’t cause the problem, but by hell I was going to finish it’:

Ursula Fanning, University College Dublin - Gender in Pirandello: Objects, Subjects, Abjects
2018-04-11 17:00 - 19:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
This paper will explore those representations of gender in Pirandello in which his female characters function as objects of representation, while their male counterparts attain subject positions; here I am particularly interested in Pirandello’s configuration of the maternal abject as well as of the paternal. It then moves to those areas where Pirandello challenges our expectations, especially in his gendering of creativity.
Ursula Fanning is Associate Professor and Head of Italian Studies at the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics in University College Dublin. She is a member of the Boards of Doctoral Studies for Italian and for Comparative Romance Literatures at the Istituto Orientale, Naples, as well as of the editorial board of the Women and Gender in Italy book series, published by Classiques Garnier.

Spring 2018 EDEN Peer Review workshop
2018-04-12 13:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
A chairde,
Back by popular demand!
We are pleased to announce the Spring 2018 EDEN Peer Review workshop.
This is an excellent chance to get feedback on works in progress in any form and at any stage of development. Whether it is a chapter draft, a journal article or a conference paper take the opportunity to run your writing by a warm and supportive audience of your peers!
In particularly we are interested in hearing from those 1st/2nd years phd who are submitting papers for the EDEN – or any other conference – this summer and feel their work would benefit from some additional scrutiny.
The deadline for writing submissions will be Monday 9th April, so you have a little extra time to work on a piece for submission. We are also happy to accept expressions of interest for those that may not have writing but would still like to participate by acting as peer reviewers.
For details on how to submit, please see the attached guidelines. And, as ever, if you have any questions don’t hesitate to contact us directly, or at eden.nuigalway@gmail.com.
Looking forward to reading (and reviewing!) your work.
EDEN Steering Committee

Dara Downey (Visiting Fellow) The Lady’s Maid’s Burden.
2018-04-12 15:00 - 16:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Dara Downey (Visiting Fellow) from the School of English in Trinity College Dublin.
Title: The Lady’s Maid’s Burden: Ethnicity, Race, and Servant Status in the Late Nineteenth-Century Ghost Story
This paper examines a range of uncanny tales by late-nineteenth-century American writers, in which domestic servants and slaves feature to a greater or lesser extent. For the most part, these domestic workers, whether employed or enslaved, tend, I argue, to be depicted in ways that draw their racial or ethnic status (primarily Irish/”Celtic”-American or African-American), thereby sharply distinguishing them from their white, Anglo-Protestant, but generally otherwise “unmarked” employers and owners. This paper discusses some of the uses of such figures in American gothic fiction, particularly in relation to the perceived “superstitious” or supernatural status of non-Protestant belief systems, with which these marginal figures are implicitly aligned.

'Wobblies and Fenians: The Australian connections of the Larkin family, 1916-19, and the Irish revolution'
2018-04-12 16:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The Irish Centre for Histories of Labour and Class welcomes Jimmy Yan (Univ. of Melbourne) to give a talk entitled, ‘Wobblies and Fenians: The Australian connections of the Larkin family, 1916-19, and the Irish revolution’.
All welcome.

Picture shows Peter Larkin, brother of ‘Big Jim’, one of so-called ‘Sydney Twelve’ imprisoned for anti-war activism in 1916.

Centre for Antique, Medieval and Pre-Modern Studies (CAMPS) Research Labs.
2018-04-13 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Charles Doyle: The Presocratics and Christian Heretics in the works of Irenaeus and Tertullian

ADEFFI (Association for French and Francophone Studies in Ireland) Postgraduate Symposium 2018
2018-04-14 10:00 - 17:30 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
This annual event, organised by the Association for French and Francophone Studies in Ireland (ADEFFI), provides a supportive scholarly forum for postgraduates in the areas of French and Francophone Studies to present both work in progress and new research and allows participants to meet peers and established researchers in French and Francophone Studies from Ireland, the UK and beyond. This year’s event will be organised in partnership with the Institute for Modern Languages Research (IMLR). The ADEFFI president, Dr. James Hanrahan, will also present the annual Bourse doctorale (Doctoral Bursary) award, which is sponsored by the Irish branch of AMOPA (Association of the Members of the Order of the Academic Palms), to a participant in recognition of the quality of his or her research project.

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 | 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).
