Moore Institute

ECHO Workshop:Research strategies
2012-11-08 13:00 (Europe/Dublin)
ECHO
Humanities Research Forum
ECHO is a regular humanities research forum taking place on Thursday in the Moore Institute, with Workshops discussing research strategies, and Seminars for research papers of all kinds. Everyone at all levels across the College of Arts is invited, and requests for future events and seminar paper submissions are hugely welcome.
For more information contact: adrian.paterson@nuigalway.ie or charlotte.mcivor@nuigalway.ie or see our website: http://echoforum.wordpress.com

The Doing Writing Series: A Reading and Open Interview by Kevin Barry, author of Dark Lies the Island and City of Bohane
2012-11-07 20:00

Performance Matters - Irish Theatre Discussion Group
2012-11-06 18:00
Performance Matters
Irish Theatre Discussion Group
For more information contact lisa.fitzgerald@nuigalway.ie or m.nichualain5@nuigalway.ie

Beckett Reading Group
2012-11-06 17:00
Beckett Reading Group
All readings will be kept short, as this reading group is meant to inspire not increase the work that everyone is doing. We will be concentrating on his radio and television plays for our first meetings. We hope that considering the implications of these works as texts will lead to stimulating discussion. We hope to foster a dialogue about how these texts are studied as ‰Û÷texts‰۪, rather than or alongside the medium in which they were incepted. Group members are welcome to bring critical pieces into discussion, but there is no pressure to do so. In fact, coming with visceral reactions that form critical inquiry as discussions progress is encouraged. Email Kristin Jones at k.jones1@nuigalway.ie and David Delaney d.delaney2@nuigalway.ie with any questions.
The dates and first few readings are as follows:
Week Two: 6 Nov. All That Fall
Week Three: 20 Nov. ‰Û_but the clouds‰Û_
Week Four: 4 Dec. Nacht und TrÌ_ume
We will reconvene in Semester 2.

ECHO Workshop: How to survive a viva
2012-11-01 13:00

History Graduate Research Seminar Series
2012-10-31 16:00
Kevin O’Sullivan
‘A Global Nervous System’: the rise and rise of European humanitarian NGOs, 1945-85

Performance Matters - Contemporary Irish Theatre discussion group
2012-10-30 18:00, 2012-10-16 18:00

CAMPS Research Lab: 'How and why do letterforms change?' by Mark Stansbury
2012-10-26 12:00

Reading by Amiri Baraka
2012-10-25 17:00
Reading by Amiri Baraka
‰Û÷As part of its Visiting Fellowship Scheme the Moore Institute is please to present a Reading by Amiri Baraka, an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism, on Thursday, October 25 at 5pm in the O‰۪Flaherty Theatre.
The Moore Institute acknowledges the support of the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies, the James Hardiman Library and the Galway Foundation Office for this event.
Enquiries: mooreinstitute@nuigalway.ie Tel: 091 493906′
Biography: Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka was born Everett LeRoi Jones in 1934 in Newark, NJ. After leav-ing Howard University and the Air Force, he moved to the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1957 and co-edited the avant-garde literary magazine Yugen and founded Totem Press, which first published works by Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and others.He published his first volume of poetry, Preface to a Twenty-Volume Suicide Note, in 1961 His Blues People: Negro Music in White America (1963) is still regarded as the seminal work on Afro-American music and culture. He also edited The Moderns: An Anthology of New Writing in America, published in 1963. His reputation as a play-wright was established with the production of Dutchman at Cherry Lane Theatre in New York on March 24, 1964. The controversial play subsequently won an Obie Award for Best Off-Broadway Play and was made into a film. The play was revived by Cherry Lane Theatre in January 2007 and has been reproduced around the world.
In 1965, Jones moved to Harlem where he founded the Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School. BARTS lasted only one year but had a lasting influence on the direction of Afro American Arts. BARTS sent five trucks a day into the Harlem community — art show on one truck, poetry reading from the other, music on another, drama the other – where performances would be given in a changed location each day. Vacant lots, playgrounds, and housing projects pushed art that would be Black as Bessie Smith, mass-based, revolutionary, and taken to the people; reflecting the intensity of the entire Black Liberation Movement.In 1966, when BARTS was dissolved, Baraka returned to Newark, his hometown, and set up with his wife, Amina Baraka – who was a founder of Newark’s “Loft” a local venue of contemporary – The Spirit House and The Spirit House Movers, that brought drama, music and poetry from across the country. During this period, the Barakas founded The Committee for Unified Newark (CFUN) and The Congress of Afrikan People. Both CFUN and The Congress of Afrikan People led the election of Kenneth A. Gibson as the first Black Mayor of a major northeastern city spearheaded by the 1972 Gary (IN) Convention. In 1968, Baraka co-edited Black Fire: Anthology of Afro-American Writing with Larry Neal.Amiri and Amina Baraka edited The Music: Meditations of Jazz & Blues (Morrow) and Confirmation: An Anthology of African-American Women, which won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka was published in 1984. His recent publications are Y’s/Why’s/Wise (3rd World 1992) Funk Lore (Littoral 1993), Eulogies (Marsilio, 1994), Transbluesency (Marsilio 1996), Somebody Blew Up America & Other Poems (Nehesi 2002).Amiri and Amina Baraka founded Kimako’s Blues People, a multimedia arts space, from a small theater in their Newark home. Amiri founded the jazz/poetry ensemble Blue Ark which has played at the Berlin Festival, and throughout the U.S. His Jazz opera Money, with Swiss composer George Gruntz, was performed in part at George Wein’s New York Jazz Festival in the early 90’s. Primitive World, with music by David Murray, was performed at Sweet Basil, the Nuyorican Caf̩ and the Black Drama Festival in Winston Salem, NC. His Bumpy: A Bopera with music by Max Roach was performed in 1991 at Newark Symphony Hall and at San Diego Repertory. Amiri founded the New Arkestra, a big band working to produce a living archive of this music.In the fall of 2002, Baraka, who had been named New Jersey Poet Laureate by then Governor James McGreevey, came under fire from the NJ office of the Anti-Defamation League, the New Jersey Assembly and others after a reading of his controversial poem “Somebody Blew Up America” about the 9/11 attacks. After reading the poem at the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation’s annual poetry festival in Stanhope, NJ, Baraka’s $10,000 stipend was rescinded and the Poet Laureate position eliminated in 2003 by Gov. McGreevey who resigned in disgrace in 2004. In 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Baraka’s case in which he asserted that his First Amendment rights were violated. Baraka bounced back from the melee and remains a figure in demand at international festivals, book fairs and on university campuses. Baraka is the Poet Laureate of the Newark Public Schools appoint-ed by former Superintendent Marion Bolden.Amiri Baraka’s numerous literary honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Rockefeller Foundation Award for Drama, the Langston Hughes Award from The City Col-lege of New York, and a lifetime achievement award from the Before Columbus Foundation. He was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1995. In 1994, he retired as Professor of Africana Studies at the State University of New York in Stony Brook, and in 2002 was named Poet Laureate of New Jersey and Newark Public Schools, In January 2007, his award-winning, one-act play, Dutchman, was revived at the new Cherry Lane Theatre in New York and received critical acclaim and in-ternational attention. His book of short stories, Tales of the Out and the Gone (Akashic Books) was published in late 2007. Home, his book of social essays, was re-released by Akashic Books in early 2009. Digging: The Afro American Soul of American Classical Music (Univ. of California) was also released in 2009. The Before Columbus Foundation recently announced that Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music by Amiri Baraka was selected as a winner of the 31st annual American Book Awards for 2010.

ECHO Seminar: Ireland on Guard:Ali and the Corner Boys - James Curry & Leo Keohane
2012-10-25 16:00

History Graduate Research Seminar Series
2012-10-24 16:00
Teresa Shoosmith
Soil, surveyors, and the joys of Photoshop: the problems of engaging with sources from the Early Modern period

Performance Matters - Contemporary Irish Theatre discussion group
2012-10-23 18:00
Discussion: Mark O’Rowe’s Made in China.
All theatre practitioners, theorists and students are welcome to attend.
If you need a copy of the text email PerformanceMattersNUIG@gmail.com.

Talk: Professor Peter Wells, University of Minnesota
2012-10-22 17:00
Peter Wells
Professor Peter Wells (University of Minnesota) will give a lecture sponsored by CAMPS entitled ‰Û÷Objects, Performances, and Arrangements: Ecological Psychology and the Later Prehistory of Europe‰۪.
Peter is the author of The Barbarians Speak: How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europe (Princeton 1999), Beyond Celts, Germans and Scythians: Archaeology and Identity in Iron Age Europe (Duckworth, 2001) and Creating an Imperial Frontier: Archaeology of the Formation of Rome’s Danube Borderland (forthcoming).

ECHO: Introductory Workshop
2012-10-18 16:00
ECHO Introductory Workshop
Thinking Academic: Career Paths
Our introductory meeting is an open discussion of where to go, and where we are all going in academic life.
All welcome. Wine served.
ECHO brings together researchers of all disciplines to discuss research questions in a friendly environment.
Contact: adrian.paterson@nuigalway.ie or charlotte.mcivor@nuigalway.ie or see our website: http://echoforum.wordpress.com

Disability Group Support Seminar - IT Skills for Learning
2012-10-18 12:00

History Graduate Research Seminar Series
2012-10-17 16:00
Lorna Moloney
‘Making Thomond English’ – an analysis of the violent processes in shiring sixteenth-century County Clare

Beckett Reading Group
2012-10-16 17:00
Beckett Reading Group
The Beckett Reading Group will reconvene for its second year on Tuesday, October 16th from 5-6pm in the Moore Seminar Room. Everyone is very welcome!
All readings will be kept short, as this reading group is meant to inspire not increase the work that everyone is doing. We will be concentrating on his radio and television plays for our first meetings. We hope that considering the implications of these works as texts will lead to stimulating discussion. We hope to foster a dialogue about how these texts are studied as ‰Û÷texts’, rather than or alongside the medium in which they were incepted. Group members are welcome to bring critical pieces into discussion, but there is no pressure to do so. In fact, coming with visceral reactions that form critical inquiry as discussions progress is encouraged. Email Kristin Jones at k.jones1@nuigalway.ie and David Delaney d.delaney2@nuigalway.ie with any questions.
The dates and first few readings are as follows:
Meeting One: 16 Oct. Embers
Week Two: 6 Nov. All That Fall
Week Three: 20 Nov. …but the clouds…
Week Four: 4 Dec. Nacht und TrÌ_ume
We will reconvene in Semester 2.

Gender ARC Public Lecture:Dr. Jessica Taft, Davidson College, North Carolina
2012-10-15 16:00
You are warmly invited to a lecture by
Dr. Jessica Taft
‰Û÷Redefining girlhood: teenage activists and contemporary feminisms’
Date and Time: Monday, 15 October, 4.00pm Venue: Moore Institute, NUIG
All welcome
http://www.genderarc.org/events/event-201210-taft.htm

CKI Seminar: Building a Framework for Evaluation in Community Settings
2012-10-12 12:30
Building a Framework for Evaluation in Community Settings
Seminar organised by the CKI, NUI Galway and Galway City Partnership
Date: Friday 12th October 2012
Time: 12.30pm – 2.30pm – Refreshments available at 12.30 pm and the seminar will start at 1.00pm
Venue: Moore Institute, NUI Galway
Who should attend: The seminar will be of interest to staff and managers of community and voluntary sector organisations, and higher education staff and students.
The seminar is free of charge but we request that you book your place, which you can do by emailing Ann Lyons at ann.lyons@nuigalway.ie Bookings should be made before Tuesday 9th October.
Seminar Details
Carrying out evaluation is an effective way to enhance the work of groups and organisations. In this seminar, Dr. Eylin Palamaro Munsell will talk about the topic of evaluation with particular reference to its place in the work of community and voluntary sector organisations. The seminar will provide an overview of evaluation and address issues such as:

What is evaluation?
Why conduct evaluation?
Who conducts evaluations?
Common Fears and Concerns about evaluation
Things to consider after the evaluation process

Dr. Eylin Palamaro Munsell has wide experience in the area of evaluation. She holds an MA in Clinical Community Psychology and a PhD in Community Health Psychology from the University of North Carolina Charlotte. She is a researcher at University College Dublin’s Geary Institute where she coordinates the evaluation of Preparing for Life, an early childhood intervention. Previous projects include the National Evaluation for Systems of Care and the Sibling Resilience Study, both of which focused on families of children with severe emotional disturbances. She has been privileged to work with children and families from a diverse set of cultural and economic backgrounds across Ireland and the U.S. Her main research interests include child and adolescent resilience, family well-being, sense of community in adverse circumstance, and mixed-methods approaches to programme evaluation.
Links to some relevant sources:
http://ctb.ku.edu/en/default.aspx http://www.cdc.gov/eval/framework/index.htm
http://www.effectiveservices.org/
For further information please contact Ann Lyons. Tel. (091) 492228 Email: ann.lyons@nuigalway.ie

Brian Arkins - Interrogating Terms Such as 'Classical, Tradition and Decorum'
2012-10-11 16:00
Interrogating Terms Such as ” Classical, Tradition and Decorum”
The adjective ‘Classical’ now means so many things as to be useless for serious discourse. The term ‘Tradition’ – what is handed down – is the wrong kind of metaphor to apply to how a writer uses material from the past. It suggests a passive process, but the process is, rather, active. As Eliot said, “mature poets steal”.The concept of ‘Decorum’ – as supposedly found in Milton and in Virgil – cannot be mandatory. The plays of Shakespeare do not do ‘Decorum’.

School of Physics Seminar Programme 2012-13
2012-10-11 13:00
School of Physics Seminar Programme 2012-2013
Minimally invasive optical method for assessment of brain perfusion deficits
Studies on a minimally-invasive technique allowing for assessment of brain perfusion at the bedside will be described. The method is based on time-resolved near infrared spectroscopy combined with monitoring of inflow and washout of indocyanine green (ICG) into the brain after its intravenous administration. Instrumental aspects of the time-resolved optical measurements carried out with sub-nanosecond resolution will be discussed. Techniques of monitoring of circulation of ICG based on measurements of changes in absorption as well as fluorescence of the dye excited in near infrared wavelength region will be presented.
The speaker is Prof. Adam Liebert, head of the Department of Biophysical Measurements and Imaging of the Nalecz Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering in Warsaw, Poland. He received his Ph.D. and D.Sc. in biomedical engineering from the Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His main area of interest is the application of near infrared spectroscopy in tissue oxygenation assessment and development of brain perfusion evaluation methodology based on time-resolved measurement of diffusely reflected light during injection of an optical contrast agent, as well as detection of fluorescence of the exogenous dye circulating in the tissue.

Disability Group Support Seminar -Learning Styles and Study Skills
2012-10-11 12:00

Performance Matters - Contemporary Irish Theatre discussion group
2012-10-09 18:00
This week’s topic: Enda Walsh ‘Disco Pigs’

English Postgraduate Welcome Day
2012-10-04 16:00
English Postgraduate Welcome Day
New PhDs tea from 4pm
Drinks for all new English postgraduates from 6pm
All welcome

Disability Group Support Seminar
2012-10-04 12:00
Contact martha.higgins@nuigalway.ie for further information

History Graduate Research Seminar Series 2012/13 - Ian Kenneally - Westmeath, 1918-1921: the role of the IRA and the response of the Crown forces
2012-10-03 16:00
3 Oct.Ian Kenneally
Westmeath, 1918-1921: the role of the IRA and the response of the Crown forces

Performance Matters - Irish Theatre Discussion Group
2012-10-02 18:00
‘Performance Matters’
Contemporary Irish Theatre Discussion Group
Topic: Marina Carr, By the Bog of Cats

Launch of The Galway American Studies Forum
2012-09-27 17:00
Please join us
for
the official launch
of
The Galway American Studies Forum
on
Thursday, 27th September at 5pm
in the
Moore Institute Seminar Room.
All are welcome. Refreshments will be served.
The Galway American Studies Forum brings together postgraduate researchers and staff to explore the inter-disciplinary nature of the field to its full potential.
At this, our official launch, we hope to increase awareness of the Forum among staff and students of relevant departments. We can meet other scholars who share our interests and discuss our expectations for the Forum.
For more information see gasforum.blogspot.ie

Book Launch by Enrico Dal Lago
2012-09-26 17:30
You are cordially invited to the launch of American Slavery, Atlantic Slavery, and beyond: The U.S. “Peculiar Institution” in International Perspective
by Enrico Dal Lago.
The book will be launched by Prof. Nicholas Canny, in the Seminar Room of the Moore Institute
on Wednesday, 26th September at 5:30 pm
