Professor Patrick Joyce - "What is the state? Rethinking state history".
2013-03-26 15:00 (Europe/Dublin)
Professor Patrick Joyce, Professor of History, University of Manchester and Professorial Fellow in History, University of Edinburgh
Spring 2013: Moore Fellow, Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Professorial Fellow in History, University of Edinburgh and
Emeritus Professor of History, University of Manchester,
www.patrickjoyce.info
email:patrick.joyce@manchester.ac.uk

Chaucer's Poetry Words, authority and ethics - ClÌ_odhna Carney & Frances McCormack EDITORS
2013-03-26 17:30
FOUR COURTS PRESS ‰ۢ BOOK LAUNCH
You are cordially invited to the launch of
Chaucer‰۪s Poetry
Words, authority and ethicsClÌ_odhna Carney & Frances McCormack
editors
5.30 p.m. on Tuesday 26 March 2013 in the Moore seminar room, NUI Galway, Galway This book will be launched by MÌÁirÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha, Professor of Old and Middle Irish at NUI Galway.
To learn more about this book, see:
http://www.fourcourtspress.ie/product.php?intProductID=1066

Performance Matters - Irish Theatre Discussion Group
2013-03-26 18:00
Performance Matters
Irish Theatre Discussion Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/
We will be discussing Caryl Churchill’s The Skriker (1994).
For more information please contact lisa.fitzgerald@nuigalway.ie or m.nichualain5@nuigalway.ie

A weekly seminar on the Middle Irish Tale Airec menman Iraird maic Coisse
2013-03-27 12:00
A weekly seminar on the Middle Irish Tale
Airec menman Iraird maic Coisse
‘The Stratagem of Irard mac Coisse’
led by Prof. MÌÁirÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha (School of Humanities)
Every Wednesday at 12.00 noon
beginning Wednesday 23 January 2013
in the Moore Institute Seminar Room
The 10th-century Connacht poet Irard mac Coisse is titled ‘prÌ_m̩ices Ìärenn ‘Ireland’s foremost poet’ in his annalistic obituary (‰ÛÊ990). Among his patrons were such leading Irish figures as the king of Tara, Domnall (‰ÛÊ980) ̼a N̩ill, and his queen, Der FÌÁil (‰ÛÊ1010). Poems he wrote in their honour are among his extant works. The most important text attributed to him is the long allegorical tale Airec menman Iraird Coisse. Many scholars have commented on its great significance for understanding Gaelic literary tradition.
In Week 1 and 2, a literary context for this work will be outlined. Thereafter, transcripts of the manuscript witnesses will be compared with the aim of making a critical edition.
For further information, please contact MÌÁirÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha
(mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie / 087-7502095 )
FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch
SeimineÌÁr seachtaini̼il (trÌ_ Bh̩arla) ar an Sc̩al MeÌÁn-Ghaeilge
Airec menman Iraird maic Coisse
(‘Strait̩is Ioraird Mhic Coise’)
faoi sti̼ir an Oll. MÌÁirÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha (Scoil na nDaonnachtaÌ_)
Gach C̩adaoin ag 12.00 nÌ_n

History Graduate Seminar Series: Conor Morrissey - Advanced Protestant Nationalists in Ireland, c. 1900-1923
2013-03-27 16:00
Conor Morrissey
Advanced Protestant Nationalists in Ireland, c. 1900-1923
Contact: daibhi.ocroinin@nuigalway.ie

Community Knowledge Initiative (CKI) Workshop - Doing community-based research: Professor Budd Hall & Professor Darlene Clover
2013-04-11 10:00
Workshop – Doing Community-based Research
Professor Budd Hall & Professor Darlene Clover
Event Details
This day-long workshop will be co-facilitated by Professors Darlene Clover and Budd Hall and will look at the practical issues involved in establishing and sustaining community-university research partnerships. This event should be of interest to university staff and students and those involved in community and voluntary organisations.
Professor Budd Hall is Co-Chair of the UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education and Professor of Community Development in the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria and Secretary of the Global Alliance on Community-Engaged Research, Budd was the founding Director of the University of Victoria Office of Community-based Research and Senior Fellow, Centre for Global Studies. Former Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria, Budd Hall has served as the Chair of the Adult Education Department at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education or the University of Toronto from 1995-2001 and as the Secretary-General of the International Council for Adult Education from 1979-1991. Budd has worked in Nigeria, Tanzania, Venezuela, Brazil, Chile, Germany, Thailand, Yemen, Uganda, England, and the United States. He has done both theoretical and practical work for almost 40 years in various aspects of community-based adult education and learning and participatory research. He has served as President, Chair or Vice-President of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education, International Council for Adult Education, Canadian Network for Democratic Learning, the Canadian Commission for UNESCO and the Coady International Institute Advisory Board. He is a member of the International Adult Education Hall of Fame and was selected for the 2005 Canadian Bureau of International Education Innovation in International Education Award. He is the husband of Dr. Darlene Clover, father of Dana and Shawn Hall, Grandfather of Quincy Pugh Hall and Ashton Edward Hall. He is also a poet.
Darlene E. Clover is Professor in the Faculty of Education, University of Victoria, Canada. Before coming to the university in the early 2000s, she coordinated a global programme on environmental adult education for the International Council for Adult Education (ICAE). Her areas of teaching in the university include community, cultural and ecological leadership, adult, feminist and arts-based education and participatory and arts-based research methods. Darlene has spent many years exploring and promoting the activist work of community-based educator-artists. Her current studies (and activist work) focus on the Human Library project in Victoria and Ottawa and other critical adult education work in libraries, galleries and museums in Canada and the United Kingdom. Her most recent books include The arts and social justice: Recrafting adult education and community cultural leadership (NIACE, 2007) and Lifelong learning, the arts and community cultural development and the contemporary university: International Perspectives (In Press, Manchester University Press).
For further information please contact Ann Lyons.
To book a place please email Mary Bernard on or before Tuesday 9th April
The Community Knowledge Initiative (CKI) fosters community university partnerships that aim to promote the principles and practices of civic engagement and democracy.
Information also available on the CKI website

Professor GÌÄå_nther Lottes, University of Potsdam - 'Medievalism as a European political language'
2013-04-11 16:00
Professor GÌ_nther Lottes, University of Potsdam
‘Medievalism as a European political language’

Community Engaged Research - Experiences of CARL at University College, Cork Dr. Kenneth Burns, CARL (Community-Academic Research Links), University College Cork
2013-04-17 10:00
Community Engaged Research – Experiences of CARL at University College, Cork
Dr. Kenneth Burns, CARL (Community-Academic Research Links), University College Cork
Event 1: Meeting with members of academic staff
Time: 10.00am – 11.30am
Venue: Moore Institute Seminar Room, NUI Galway
Event Details
This meeting will provide an opportunity for members of academic staff to have informal conversations with Dr. Burns on community engaged research with regard to students doing dissertations on topics related to research needs of civil society and third sector organisations. It will include discussion of administrative aspects such as creating and managing research partnerships, the establishment/membership of an Advisory Board, Ethical Approval, issues relating to intellectual property.
To book a place please email Mary Bernard on or before Monday 15th April
Event 2: Lunch-time Seminar
Time: 12.30pm – 2.00pm
Venue: Moore Institute Seminar Room, NUI Galway
Event Details
This lunch-time seminar will provide an overview of CARL at UCC and examine particular aspects of community engaged research, including issues relating to ethics, the selection of students and community partners and the lessons learned about community engaged research in CARL. This event should be of interest to community partners and staff and students of the university.
To book a place please email Mary Bernard on or before Monday 15th April
Dr. Kenneth Burns is a college lecturer and Deputy Director of the Master of Social Work course at University College Cork. He has worked as a social worker and social work team leader in child protection and welfare and continues to support practice in this area. He is also a founding member of Community-Academic Research Links. Through CARL Community-Academic Research Links, he is participating in a European Commission Seventh Framework Programme (EU FP7) project called Public Engagement with Research and Research Engagement with Society (PERARES). His main research and teaching interests are in child protection policy and practice, staff retention, career pathways for newly-qualified social workers, child care proceedings in the District Court, professional supervision and community-based research (Science Shops).

Digital Scholarship Seminar
2013-04-18 12:00
Digital Scholarship Seminar
Research seminar for researchers working in any branch of the arts and humanities who are engaged in the creation and/or exploitation of digital resources in the course of their research.
12-1pm, Thursday 18 April 2013
Adrian Grant (Moore Institute)Historians and new technologies
Alison McNamara (School of Education)An examination of gesture-based devices in the mathematics post-primary classroom in Ireland
Presentations will be followed by informal discussion (1-2pm) over a light lunch.
Contact:
PÌÁdraic Moran (Classics, School of LLC) | padraic.moran@nuigalway.ieJustin Tonra (English, School of Humanities) | justin.tonra@nuigalway.ie
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Prof. Joanna Story, University of Leicester: Alcuin's Epitaph for Pope Hadrian I in Old St Peter's.
2013-04-18 16:00
Prof. Joanna Story
University of Leicester
Alcuin’s Epitaph for Pope Hadrian I in Old St Peter’s
For more information contact mairin.maccarron@nuigalway.ie

Professor Julia O'Connell Davidson, University of Nottingham - Debt, Sex and Slavery: Anti-Trafficking Discourse and Depoliticisation?
2013-04-18 17:00
Gender ARC Public Lecture
Public lecture by Dr. O‰۪Connell Davidson
Debt, Sex and Slavery: Anti-Trafficking Discourse and Depoliticisation?
5.00pm Thursday April 18th
Venue: Alexander Board Room, Quadrangle
Julia O‰۪Connell Davidson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham. Her research and publishing over the past two decades has focused on prostitution, sex tourism, child migration, and trafficking. Between 2001 and 2006, with Professor Bridget Anderson of Oxford University, she coordinated research on ‰ÛÏthe demand side of trafficking‰۝ with a particular focus on the sex and domestic work sectors. She is author of Prostitution, Power and Freedom (Polity, 1998) and Children in the Global Sex Trade (Polity, 2005) and is currently writing a book on Modern Slavery and the Margins of Freedom.
Co-sponsored by the Gender, Discourse and Identity research group of Gender ARC at the Moore Institute and Global Women‰۪s Studies
Supported by the NUI Galway Millennium Conference Fund
For more information contact gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie

Complexity and Collaboration: Professor Eve Mitleton-Kelly, London School of Economics
2013-04-18 19:30
Complexity and Collaboration
Professor Eve Mitleton-Kelly, London School of Economics
Event Details
This public talk will introduce and evaluate a variety of qualitative and quantitative tools and methods which can be used to apply complexity theory to organisational change in different environments. Professor Eve Mitleton-Kelly will discuss how insights from complexity theory can help tackle apparently intractable problems with organisational transformation, and demonstrate the application of complexity theory in practice. This talk will benefit people in education, health, the community & voluntary sector and business, who are dissatisfied with traditional approaches to organisational change and academics who would like to learn more about the application of complexity theory in practice.
No previous knowledge of complexity theory is required to benefit from this inspiring speaker.
Professor Mitleton-Kelly is founder and Director of the Complexity Research Programme at the London School of Economics; Fellow of the Royal Institution; member of the Scientific Advisory Board to the ‰Û÷Next Generation Infrastructures Foundation’, Delft University of Technology; on the Editorial Board of the Journal of ‰Û÷Emergence: Complexity & Organisations’; was Coordinator of Links with Business, Industry and Government of the European Complex Systems Network of Excellence, Exystence (2003-2006); Director of the UK Complexity Society; and Executive Coordinator of SOL-UK (London) (Society for Organisational Learning) 1977-2008. She has developed a theory of complex social systems and an integrated methodology using both qualitative and quantitative tools and methods. The theory is being used for teaching at universities around the world, including three EPSRC-funded short courses at LSE, to train researchers; two courses at Beijing (Jan. 2010 & Apr. 2011) to train senior government officials; and short courses at Schumacher College, Devon, UK.
To book a place please email mary.bernard@nuigalway.ie on or before Tuesday 16th April

CAMPS Lab: Dr. Kimberly LoPrete - 'Historians and Character(s): The Case of Stephen of Blois'
2013-04-19 12:00
Historians and Character(s):
The Case of Stephen of Blois
A presentation and discussion
moderated by Dr Kimberly LoPrete
FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch – Everyone is welcome
For more information contact jacopo.bisagni@nuigalway.ie

Book Launch by Dr Laura Kelly - Irish women in medicine, c.1880s-1920s: origins, education and careers
2013-04-24 18:00
Irish women in medicine, c.1880s-1920s: origins, education and careers
(Manchester University Press, 2013)
by Dr Laura Kelly
Wednesday, 24th of April at 6pm
Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and
Social Studies, NUI Galway
Guest speakers: Dr Caitriona Clear (NUI Galway) and
Professor Gearoid O‰۪Tuathaigh (NUI Galway)
The launch will be followed by a wine reception.
For more information contact laura.kelly@ucd.ie

IQUA (Irish Quaternary Association) Spring Meeting and AGM2013
2013-04-27 09:30
IQUA Spring Meeting 2013
Hosted by the Palaeoenvironmental Reseasrch Unit, School of Geography and Archaeology, the Irish Quaternary Association presents their Spring Meeting, involving a series of short talks and posters on Quarternary-based research.
To be followed by the IQUA Annual General Meeting
ALL WELCOME
ENTRY FREE
Sunday 28th: Optional fieldtrip led by MIchael Gibbons to Ballycaughan Bay ara c. 10:30-3:00pm
For further details see : www.iqua.ie
Programme: IQUA Spring Meeting and AGM 2013
Saturday 27th
9.30 Registration
10.00 Welcome to the 2013 IQUA Spring Meeting and AGM
10.05 Michael Gibbons (Walkwest) Bualadh isteach: the drowned archaeological landscapes of the Burren coast
10.25 Maria Long (Newtownshandrum, Cork) Poulnabrone portal tomb -terrestrial Mollusca
10.45 Keynote talk: Michael O‰۪Connell (NUIG) Palaeoecology: distant places,new perspectives
11.15 ‰ÛÒ 11.35 Coffee/Tea & poster session
11.35 Michael Dempster*, Paul Dunlop, Mark Cooper and Andreas Scheib (UU) Investigating the geochemical relationship between till and soil in Northern Ireland: fieldwork and results
11.55 Benjamin Th̩baudeau and Robin Edwards (TCD) Any luck? Early results on recent vibrocores off the north coast of Ireland
12.15 Michelle McKeown (NUIG) A palaeolimnological assessment of the influence of climate change and human impacts on lakes in Western Ireland
12.35 Stephen Galvin (NUIG) Identifying volcanic signals in Irish temperature observations and tree-ring chronologies
12.55 Thor McVeigh (NUIG) Negotiating the difficulties of synchronizing archaeological and climatic/environmental dating evidence
1.15 ‰ÛÒ 2.15 Lunch
2.15 Sebastian Von Engelbrechten, Fraser Mitchell* and Pete Coxon (TCD) A new Irish interglacial site: Knocknacran, Co Monaghan
2.35 Pete Coxon*, Gareth J. Tye, Adrian P. Palmer, Ian Candy and Mark Hardiman (TCD) Annually-resolved natural climate variability during MIS11. Where the wild-fires are… and Homo heidelbergensis
2.55 Ro Charlton*, Wim Hoek, Mark Macklin, Kim Cohen, Paul Gibson and Dorothy George (NUIM) Lateglacial and Holocenepalaeoenvironmental change recorded in the peat floodplains and palaeochannels of the lower River Suck
3.15 Anthony Beese (Carraigex Ltd., Cork) Investigations of Cork’s origins
3.45 pm Annual General Meeting followed by a wine reception
PostersCarlos Chique (NUIG) Reconstructing historic and prehistoric eutrophication trends in a polluted freshwater lake
Eugene Costello (NUIG) Transhumance in Irish settlement and society, c.1500-1900 A.D.
Christina Connolly Johnston and Kieran Hickey (NUIG) The impacts of hurricanes on Ireland and Western Europe
Seamus McGinley (NUIG) On the trails of the ‰Û÷Invisible People‰۪: new approaches to understanding human settlement and climate change in the Irish Iron Age
Karen Taylor (NUIG) Palaeolimnological impacts of early prehistoric farming at Lough Dargan, County Sligo, Ireland
Sunday 28th
Optional fieldtrip to Ballyvaughan Bay Area led by Michael Gibbons. The fieldtrip will focus on a range of sites, including a group of cairns on Ballyvaughan Bay, a seaweed farm visible in the inter-tidal zone on Aughinish Island (the best preserved example in the country) and a complex of midden sites on Kinvara Bay. The middens stretch over hundreds of metres and are found on both sides of Kinvara Bay. Some contain bone. If the tides are right we will visit Mulrooney Island (a tidal inlet).Depart Galway 10.30 and finish c.15.00.
For more information please contact aaron.potito@nuigalway.ie

Professor Sarah Covington, City University New York - "Broken churches, martyred priests: Religious memorializations of Oliver Cromwell in Ireland, 1650-1800"
2013-04-29 16:00
CAMPS is pleased to host a paper by Professor Sarah Covington, City University New York,
“Broken churches, martyred priests: Religious memorializations of Oliver Cromwellin Ireland, 1650-1800”
All welcome.
For More Information contact: elizabeth.fitzpatrick@nuigalway.ie

Research Day of the School of Languages
2013-05-02 09:00
School of Languages,
Literatures and Cultures
Research Day
PROGRAMME
9am ‰ÛÒ 9.30am: Welcome reception with tea and coffee ‰ÛÒ Welcome from Prof. Lokesh Joshi
9.30 ‰ÛÒ 10.30am: Panel 1 (Chair: John Walsh)
Jason O‰۪Rorke (Classics): ‰Û÷At the school of the grammaticus: literary education in Late Antiquity‰۪Aoife Connolly (French): ‰Û÷Performing the Pied-Noir Family‰۪Tina-Karen Pusse (German): ‰Û÷From Ego to Eco: Transcultural Ecologies‰۪
10.30 ‰ÛÒ 11am: Coffee break
11am ‰ÛÒ 12: Panel 2 (Chair: Jacopo Bisagni)Catherine Emerson (French): ‰Û÷Gegraueert en oic dyveerssche ymagyen: Uses of Code-Switching in Dutch and French‰۪Mark Stansbury (Classics): ‰Û÷Irish Script and Irish Identity at Luxeuil‰۪EilÌ_s NÌ_ Dh̼ill (Gaeilge): ‰Û÷An Sc̩alaÌ_ocht i gCorca Dhuibhne / Storytelling in West Kerry‰۪
12 ‰ÛÒ 2pm: Lunch break
2 ‰ÛÒ 3pm: Panel 3 (Chair: Mel Boland)Barry Nevin (French): ‰Û÷Narrative Spaces in the Films of Jean Renoir‰۪PÌÁdraic Moran(Classics): ‰Û÷Planning for Digital Projects‰۪Laura Incalcaterra McLoughlin (Italian): ‰Û÷Italian in blended learning: Diploma in Italian online‰۪
3 ‰ÛÒ 3.30pm: Coffee break
3.30 ‰ÛÒ 4.30pm: Closing session (Chair: Sylvie Lannegrand)
An open discussion of future research strategies for the School.
For more informatin contact jacopo.bisagni@nuigalway.ie

Digital Day - Professor Dan Schiller, University of Illinois
2013-05-07 13:00
Moore Institute
Huston School of Film & Digital Media
DIGITAL DAYS: Dan Schiller

1.00 on Tuesday 7th May, Main Room Huston School.
Digital Depression: the Crisis of Digital Capitalism
The economic downturn of the early 1970s engendered massive, sustained corporate investment in ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies,) as a many sided attempt to renew profitable growth.Core components of this response included financialisation, the restructuring of the production system, and the recomposition of the communications industry as a leading site of economic dynamism.The vaunted ‰Û÷Information Age‰۪, however, turned out to herald a new and deeper financial-economic crisis – a digital depression with which we continue to live.How may the newly contentious geopolitics of information play out? May we expect the communications sector to reprise its earlier role in renewing growth and profitability?
2.30 on Tuesday 7th May, Main Room Huston School.
Rosa Luxemburg’s Internet?
Both the state and capital have been crucial for the evolving political economy of the Internet. Drawing on the thought of the Polish Marxist Rosa Luxemburg, We should inquire as to how states are supporting commodification projects built around the Internet; how they are contending with one another in this process; and how communication processes are related to the historical reconstitution of the global working class.
Professor Dan Schiller is a historian of information and communications at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The author of half a dozen books and many research articles, he has written extensively on the development and current structure of digital capitalism‰ÛÓthe system of market relationships that is predicated increasingly on networks. His current research focuses on the role of information and communications in today’s financial/economic crisis, and on the history of U.S. telecommunications infrastructures.

What is mission? by Prof Ian Wood University of Leeds
2013-05-07 14:00

Vikings in Pamplona and other stories by Dr Ann Christys
2013-05-07 17:30

Galway Early Music Festival - A Bronze-Age Musician
2013-05-09 16:00
A Bronze-Age Musician
Simon & Maria O’Dwyer of Ancient Music Ireland
Ancient Music Ireland is delighted to present the first ever public viewing of an interpretation of a Late Bronze-Age hoard from West Clare. The original bronze items including parts of a horn, chain, sword, axes, rings and disc pin were recovered from a bog at Boolybrien, Co. Clare in 1930. We will include our interpretation of the items as parts of an outfit worn by a musician in the bronze-age. The presentation will discuss the links between spoken and musical performance and occasion, through the examination of the decorative aspects of the hoard. This event will also include detailed images of the items and practical demonstration using accurate reproductions and tunes composed for and played on bronze-age horns.
This event is part of The Galway Early Music Festival, May 9-12: “Word Play: Which came first, words or music”. A fascinating programme of medieval, renaissance and baroque music. For programme and ticket booking: www.galwayearlymusic.com. Browse the e-brochure HERE.
For more information contact maura.ocroinin@nuigalway.ie

Charlotte Headrick, Oregon State University: Giving her the respect she deserves: Patricia Burke Brogan and Eclipsed
2013-05-13 16:00
Professor Charlotte Headrick, Professor and Director, Theatre Arts, Oregon State University
A production history of the play with a focus on the Irish tours
Giving her the respect she deserves:
Patricia Burke Brogan and Eclipsed
All Welcome

Digital Scholarship Seminar
2013-05-14 12:00
Digital Scholarship Seminar
Research seminar for researchers working in any branch of the arts and humanities who are engaged in the creation and/or exploitation of digital resources in the course of their research.
12-1pm, Tuesday 14 May 2013
Deirdre NÌ_ Chonghaile (Moore Institute)AmhrÌÁin ́rann – Aran Songs: Collaborating to create a digital-friendly music resource
Patricia Prieto Blanco (Huston School)Digital materiality and the constitution of spaces of familial interaction through photography
Presentations will be followed by informal discussion (1-2pm) over a light lunch.
Contact:
PÌÁdraic Moran (Classics, School of LLC) | padraic.moran@nuigalway.ieJustin Tonra (English, School of Humanities) | justin.tonra@nuigalway.ie
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School of Humanities Research Day
2013-05-20 09:30
School of Humanities Research Day
9.30am: Welcome from Dr Edward Herring, Dean of the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies,
9.45 ‰ÛÒ 11.00 am:Panel 1 (Chair: Tsarina Doyle)
Lionel Pilkington (English) ‰ÛÏCapitalism and Irish Theatre‰۝
Sean Crosson (Huston School) ‰ÛÏSport and Film‰۝
Rod Stoneman (Huston) ‰ÛÏThe Politics of the Visual‰۝
11.00 ‰ÛÒ 11.25 am: Coffee break
11.25 – 12.15 Panel 2 (Chair: Mary Harris)
MÌÁirÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha (Old and Middle Irish and Celtic Studies) ‰ÛÏResearch in Medieval Irish: the local and larger context‰۝
Padraig Lenihan (History) ‰ÛÏBellum Civile: A Latin epic poem of the Williamite War (1689‰ÛÒ91)‰۝
12.15 ‰ÛÒ 1.00pm: Research Funding (Chair: Steven Ellis)
Professor Lokesh Joshi, Vice-President for Research
1.00 ‰ÛÒ 2.00pm: Lunch break
2.00 ‰ÛÒ 3.15pm: Panel 3 (Chair: Louis de Paor)
Richard Hull (Philosophy) ‰ÛÏFarewell to ‰Û÷the disabled‰۪? Re-thinking our categorisations‰۝
Enrico Dal Lago (History) ‰ÛÏFighting for Two Souths: Southern Italian Soldiers in the Confederacy‰۝
TomÌÁs Finn (History) ‰ÛÏPublic intellectuals and modern Ireland‰۝
3.15 ‰ÛÒ 3.45pm: Coffee break
3.45 ‰ÛÒ 4.35 pm: Panel 4 (Chair: Marie-Louise Coolahan )
Niall ÌÒ Ciosan (History) ‰ÛÏPopular publishing and reading in the Celtic languages, 1700-1900‰۝
Justin Tonra (English) ‰ÛÏPoetry by the Book, Poetry by Numbers‰۝

English Graduate Research Day
2013-05-23 09:20
English Graduate Research Day 2013 –
all welcome –
come along and enjoy coffee and accumulated fruits of research!
9.20-10.45
Meaghan Connell
‰Û÷The Language of Irish Theatre: Corpus Findings and Analysis‰۪
Mikyung Park
‰Û÷Gregory’s Disavowal: the Making of a Public Persona in Spreading the News (1904)‰۪
Mairead Ni Chroinin
‰Û÷Mobile Computing as Postdramatic Theatre‰۪
10.45 COFFEE BREAK
11.00-12.00
Ciara O Dowd
‰Û÷Subverting the Script: Ria Mooney & Elizabeth Connor on the Abbey Stage‰۪
Des Lally
‰Û÷Actors and Architects: The Relationship of the Gate Theatre with the Architectural Firm of Scott Tallon Walker‰۪
12.00 COFFEE BREAK
12.20-1.20
Siobhan Purcell
‰Û÷Beckett Deformed‰۪
Rosemary Gallagher
‰Û÷Puns, Hijinks, and Slapstick in Catch-22: Not Another Black Humour Reading‰۪
1.20-2.20 LUNCH
2.20-3.45
Anna Gasperini
‰Û÷The Foreign Roots of Local Myths – the Global and the Local in Victorian Sensation Fiction‰۪
Paul Rooney
‰Û÷Deciphering the Codes to The Notting Hill Mystery (1862-63): Hybridity, Periodical Coding, and Readership in Once a Week‰۪
Eavan O Dochartaigh
‰Û÷Image and Text of the Arctic Search Expeditions 1848-59: Methodology, Theory and Questions‰۪
3.45 COFFEE BREAK
4.15-5.35
Kathleen Pacious
‰Û÷And How Does That Make You Feel?” Empathetic Engagement and Ethical Receptivity in George Eliot‰۪s Daniel Deronda‰۪
Ciaran Dowd
‰Û÷‰ÛÏBarren, silent, godless‰۝: the Paratactic World of Cormac McCarthy‰۪
Rebecca Downes
‰Û÷Putrefaction, Purgation, Purification: Death and Denial in Andrew Miller’s Pure‰۪

Workshop - Media, Culture and Empire
2013-05-24 12:00
Workshop – Media, Culture and Empire
24 May 2013 – 12pm-5.30pm
Venue – Room STC.S78, St Clements Building, Clare Market, London School of Economics
12-1pm Simon J. Potter, University of Bristol ‰ÛÒ ‰Û÷Jingoism and the British Press at the fin de si̬cle‰۪
R. S. Coffey, LSE ‰ÛÒ ‰Û÷‰ÛÏThe Paladins of Fleet Street‰۝: The British press, the Colonial Office and the ‰ÛÏBlantyre riot‰۝, 1960‰۪
1pm-2pm Lunch
2pm-3pm Benedict Greening, LSE ‰ÛÒ ‰Û÷The Royal Gazette newspaper and the last hangings on British soil‰۪
James O‰۪Donnell, NUI, Galway ‰ÛÒ ‰Û÷News, Networks and the Nation-State: the decolonisation of Irish news supply?’
3-3.30pm Coffee
3.30-4.30pmFiona Bateman, NUI, Galway ‰ÛÒ ‰Û÷‰ÛÏThis Unfortunate Affair‰۝: Ireland and Biafra 1967-70‰۪
Charlotte Riley, UCL ‰ÛÒ ‰Û÷‰ÛÏNo Longer Isolated‰۝: Broadcasting in the post-war British African Empire‰۪
4.30-5.30pmJoanna Lewis, LSE ‰ÛÒ ‰Û÷Empires of Sentiment, Africa and the ‰ÛÏHeart of the Nation‰۝: Newspaper coverage of the death and funeral of David Livingstone‰۪
Lionel Pilkington, NUI, Galway – ‰Û÷Performing Ireland and the Postcolonial Body‰۪
This is a joint workshop organised by the National University of Ireland, Galway and the London School of Economics. There is no charge to register but if you would like to attend please email Dave Finn (dave.finn@nuigalway.ie), ideally before 20 May.
Directions:
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/mapsAndDirections/campusMap.pdf
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/mapsAndDirections/travellingToLSE.aspx
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/mapsAndDirections/LSElocationMap.pdf

Global Women's Studies Summer Seminar with Caroline Bettinger Lopez, Human Rights Clinic, University of Miami, School of Law
2013-05-24 14:00
Global Women‰۪s Studies Summer Seminar
With
Caroline Bettinger Lopez,
Human Rights Clinic, University of Miami, School of Law
“Bringing human rights home: Strategies to fight domestic violence and other gender-based violations”
Friday May 24 – 2.00-3.30 pm
Moore Institute Seminar Room
Free event – all welcome!
To reserve a place, email: Gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie
Caroline Bettinger-LÌ_pez is an Associate Professor of Clinical Legal Education and Director of the Human Rights Clinic at the University of Miami School of Law. Her scholarship, advocacy, and teaching focus on international human rights law and advocacy including the implementation of human rights norms at the domestic level. Her main regional focus is the US and Latin America, and her principal areas of interest include violence against women, gender and race discrimination, immigrants’ rights, and clinical legal education. Bettinger-LÌ_pez regularly litigates and engages in other forms of advocacy in the Inter-American Human Rights system, federal and state courts and legislative bodies, and the United Nations. Most notably, along with colleagues at the Human Rights Clinic of Columbia Law School and the American Civil Liberties Union, Bettinger-LÌ_pez was a leading member of the legal team that represented Jessica Lenahan (formerly Gonzales) in the landmark case Jessica Gonzales v. United States of America. Gonzales, whose daughters were abducted by her estranged husband in 1999 and killed after the police repeatedly refused to enforce her domestic violence restraining order against him, went before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in March 2007 and again in October 2008, after all domestic avenues of justice were closed to her.

Mission and Frontiers: Perspectives on Early Modern Missionary Catholicism
2013-06-04 00:00
Mission and Frontiers: Perspectives on Early Modern Missionary Catholicism
National University of Ireland, Galway, 4th and 5th June, 2013
When, in 1893, Frederick Turner spoke of a phenomenon that ‰Û÷broke the bonds of custom, offered new experiences, [and] called out new institutions and activities‰۪, he was referring to the American frontier, but his description can be aptly applied to the missionary challenges the Catholic church encountered at the ‰Û÷frontiers‰۪ of mission in the early modern era.These were places and spaces with amorphous cultural and/or politico-geographical boundaries, unsettled or changing ‰Û÷certainties‰۪, and innovations stemming from the shifting realities of contact and diffusion which those involved in mission experienced within and without Europe.This symposium will seek to examine afresh the contours of mission in frontier zones, exploring the character and impact of missionary activity at the boundaries of Catholic culture and geography.
Possible topics for consideration include but arenot limited to:
åáDefining the meaning and applicability of frontier in relation to early modern Catholicism
åáExploring the meanings of ‰Û÷mission church‰۪ and ‰Û÷missionary Catholicism‰۪
åáCompetition and co-operation in the competition for souls
åáCohesion and difference, relating to gender, native ‰Û÷church‰۪, and inter-religion contacts
åáColonial religion and the ‰Û÷process‰۪ of imperial empire-making
åáCentre and periphery ‰ÛÒ authority and autonomy in missionary enterprises
Registration is FREE.If interested in attending the symposium and/or in offering a paper, please contact the event organisers:
Dr Alison Forrestal
Dr Sean Smith
alison.forrestal@nuigalway.ie
s.smith12@nuigalway.ie

Symposium Programme

Tuesday, 4 June 2013
11.00 Welcome and Opening Remarks, Alison Forrestal (NUIG)
11.15-13.00 Session 1
Luke Clossey (Simon Fraser University)
“Comparative Perspectives on Frontier and Mission in Early Modern Islam and Catholicism.”
Sean Smith (NUIG)
“Mortification in a frontier zone: survival versus salvation in Madagascar, 1648-1674.”
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 – Session 2:
Karin Velez (Macalester College)
“With wonderful lamentation”: Soliciting Tears on Jesuit Frontiers in the Italian Marche, Huron and Moxos Missions, 1560-1760.”
Thierry Issartel (Lyc̩e Louis-Barthou, Pau)
“At a corner of the Kingdom…” The Pyr̩n̩es: missions across a religious border in tension (16th and 17th centuries).”
15.30-15.45 Coffee
15.45- 17.15- Session 3
Andrew Redden (University of Liverpool)
“Not So Good Shepherds?: Reluctant Jesuit Martyrs on the c.17th Chilean Frontier.”
Gauvin Bailey (Queen’s University)
“Missionaries and Global Artistic Exchange in Catholic America 1520-1650: Spanish America, Brazil, and Nouvelle-France.”
19.00 Conference Dinner
Wednesday, 5 June 2013
10.00-11.30 – Session 4:
Megan Armstrong (McMaster University)
“Catholic Frontier or Homeland? The Custody of the Holy land as a Site of Missionary Competition, 1600-1700.”
Andrew McCormick (l’Institut national des langues et civilisation orientale) “Pierre-Fran̤ois Viguier, the Congregation of the Mission and the Gallican conquest of the Levant.”
Coffee 11.30-11.45
11.45 – 13.00 – Session 5
John McCafferty (UCD)
“Apostolical Missioner: Nicholas Archbold, Capuchin (d. 1645).”
Margaret Brennan (University of Illinois)
“Seducers come from Hell”? Paul Harris’s Polemic against Regular Missionary Privilege in Post-Tridentine Ireland.”
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.15- Session 6
Felicia Rosu (Leiden University)
“Helping Transylvania: Jesuit missions in late 16th-century Eastern Europe.”
Tadhg O’Hannrachain (UCD)
“Nullum aliud emolumentum quaerere quam salutem animarum”? Catholic Missionary activity in the Turkish Balkans in the early seventeenth century.”
15.15-15.30 Coffee
15.30- 16.30 Session 7
Ronnie Po-chia Hsia (Penn State University)
“Missionary Frontiers: A Comparison of Colonial Latin America and Portuguese Asia in the early modern era.”

Dr. Fred Freeman, Hon. Fellow in English at the University of Edinburgh- The Irish In Scotland : Robert Tannahill
2013-06-06 16:00
LECTURE – THE IRISH IN SCOTLAND : ROBERT TANNAHILL
After releasing THE COMPLETE SONGS OF ROBERT BURNS (12 vols, Linn Records 1996-2003) I turned my attention to a sadly neglected artist: Robert Tannahill of Paisley (1774-1810). Tannahill was a weaver, a song-writer and poet who wrote over 100 songs of a quality comparable to Burns.
This illustrated lecture, drawing musical examples from my COMPLETE SONGS OF ROBERT TANNAHILL, concentrates on a unique collection of songs – with their Irish melodies and subject matter written in defence of the early 19th-century Irish emigrants to Scotland. A total non-sectarian, Tannahill, in his own way, contributed a great deal to changing perceptions of the downtrodden Irish as they settled into their new country; and, at the same time, he left us with a lovely body of Irish song.
Moreover, as an early Romantic artist, he was far ahead of his time. His unique, urban Paisley songs movingly provide a critical insight into both the despair and the dynamism of early industrialisation. And his use of the comic and the grotesque certainly does look forward to Blake with its mixed message in relation to the working classes: figures both corrupted and enervated by urban life and, simultaneously, morally and socially liberated from the constraints of their ‰Û÷betters’.
The McPeake family of Northern Ireland based their famous folk song, ‰Û÷The Wild Mountain Thyme’, directly upon the Paisley poet’s ‰Û÷The Braes o Balquhidder’; and, over the past 200 years, his works have been published in various Irish and Northern Irish editions.
Dr. Fred Freeman, a short biography
Sometime Fellow in English at University of Edinburgh, I am a graduate of Aberdeen and Edinburgh universities (Ph.D. Edinburgh). I have taught Scottish literature at The School of Scottish Studies and in the English Department of Edinburgh; held postdoctoral posts (several times over) at The Advanced Studies Institute, The School of Scottish Studies, the English Department, University of Edinburgh. I had a postdoctoral appointment at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford for two years in the late ‰Û÷80s, concentrating on ethnic minority writers in Scotland.
I am author of a book on the 18th-century Edinburgh poet, Robert Fergusson (EUP 1984) and a children’s book on the Paisley poet, Robert Tannahill (2009); have published over 100 articles on Scottish literature, folk music and history. I am on the official Live Literature Scotland authors’ list for grants.
Over the past decade I have drawn upon my extensive musical background, producing over 42 (internationally acclaimed) CDs – amongst them: “THE COMPLETE SONGS OF ROBERT BURNS” (13 Cds, 12 vols, Linn Records 1996-2003); (for Scottish Borders Region) “BORDERS FIDDLES”, “BORDERS SANGSTERS”, “BORDERS BOXES”, “BORDERS PIPES”; “BORDERS YOUNG PIPERS” (1999-2012); “A’THE BAIRNS O’ ADAM – A TRIBUTE TO HAMISH HENDERSON” (Greentrax 2004); “A’ ADAM’S BAIRNS” National Library of Scotland, 2008); numerous solo CDs – “YONT THE TAY” (Jim Reid) which won BBC’s ‰Û÷Best Singer of the Year 2005′; “THE COMPLETE SONGS OF ROBERT TANNAHILL” – Vols I, II & III (with 2 vols still to come).

Dr Fred Freeman, Hon. Fellow in English at the University of Edinburgh - 'A fiddler and a poet' : Songs of Robert Burns
2013-06-07 11:00
‰Û÷I am a fiddler and a poet’ : Robert Burns as a song-writer
This illustrated talk is designed to introduce a wholly unknown Robert Burns to the general public. For over 200 years Burns has been misrepresented as Scotland’s national ‰Û÷poet’, yet he was primarily a song-writer, composing upwards of 400 songs.
Most of the songs have been lying in abeyance since 1796 though they are of a quality which should easily have established Burns as one of the greatest song-writers of the 18th-century. The presentation considers why this did not happen as it explores the activities of George Thomson, Burns’s second editor, in commissioning Viennese/German composers – Pleyel, Kozeluch, van Weber, Hummel, Haydn, Beethoven, etc. – to recast Burns’s folk composition into an alien classical mould which put paid to it, almost irrevocably. Much of the approach considers Burns’s background as a fiddler and folk musician, quite generally; his innovative use of folk dance/instrumental forms (strathspeys, reels, jigs, slip jigs, hornpipes); his curious method of composition – always from the tune to the words; his seminal theory of ‰Û÷ballad simplicity’ which relates to language, form, rhythm, tonality and more.
The lecture is both informative and entertaining, with numerous musical examples played throughout the presentation – drawn from Freeman’s THE COMPLETE SONGS OF ROBERT BURNS (12 vols, Linn Records 1996-2003).
Biography of Dr Fred Freeman
Sometime Fellow in English at University of Edinburgh, I am a graduate of Aberdeen and Edinburgh universities (Ph.D. Edinburgh). I have taught Scottish literature at The School of Scottish Studies and in the English Department of Edinburgh; held postdoctoral posts (several times over) at The Advanced Studies Institute, The School of Scottish Studies, the English Department, University of Edinburgh. I had a postdoctoral appointment at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford for two years in the late ‰Û÷80s, concentrating on ethnic minority writers in Scotland.
I am author of a book on the 18th-century Edinburgh poet, Robert Fergusson (EUP 1984) and a children’s book on the Paisley poet, Robert Tannahill (2009); have published over 100 articles on Scottish literature, folk music and history. I am on the official Live Literature Scotland authors’ list for grants.
Over the past decade I have drawn upon my extensive musical background, producing over 42 (internationally acclaimed) CDs – amongst them: “THE COMPLETE SONGS OF ROBERT BURNS” (13 Cds, 12 vols, Linn Records 1996-2003); (for Scottish Borders Region) “BORDERS FIDDLES”, “BORDERS SANGSTERS”, “BORDERS BOXES”, “BORDERS PIPES”; “BORDERS YOUNG PIPERS” (1999-2012); “A’THE BAIRNS O’ ADAM – A TRIBUTE TO HAMISH HENDERSON” (Greentrax 2004); “A’ ADAM’S BAIRNS” National Library of Scotland, 2008); numerous solo CDs – “YONT THE TAY” (Jim Reid) which won BBC’s ‰Û÷Best Singer of the Year 2005′; “THE COMPLETE SONGS OF ROBERT TANNAHILL” – Vols I, II & III (with 2 vols still to come).
fwfreeman@talk21.com
