Moore Institute

The Battle of Jadotville, 1961.
2019-04-09 17:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
FROM THE PEN OF COMMANDANT PAT QUINLAN, as told by his son, Commandant Leo Quinlan
The Battle of Jadotville is the largest military action carried out by the Irish Army against a Foreign Army since the founding of the State. 155 Irish soldiers fought 3500 adversaries and survived.

Data Conversations Series - Talking Historical Data with Dr Kieran Fitzpatrick (Moore Institute) and Dr Ali Hasnain (Insight Centre)
2019-04-09 12:00 - 13:30 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
Open Scholarship heralds radical changes for research of all kinds. These include the mainstreaming of innovative cross-disciplinary data-reuse, an emphasis on transparency and reproducibility, concerns for preservation and long-term usability of data and the rise of new forms of scholarly communication including data publication and the normalisation of open access publishing. In anticipation of these changes, the library kicks off a series of Data Conversations, informal events where current Data and Data Management issues are discussed. These Conversations are informal events – a mixture of short talks and audience and panel discussions aimed at bringing our researcher community together in a relaxed and friendly environment to talk all things ‘Data’. The Conversations also provide an opportunity for participants to meet researchers from different disciplines and at different career stages, together with the support personnel who can help them with their Research Data Management Plans.

Places are limited and booking is advised. Full details and registration at https://data-conversation-galway.eventbrite.ie

Moore Institute Visiting Fellow seminar and workshop
2019-04-05 12:30 - 17:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
12.30 – 14.00: Seminar by Moore Institute Visiting Fellow – Dr. Mirko Daniel Garasic

Why should we regulate the use of cognitive enhancers?: “Let me tell you why I should tell you that I took Ritalin before this talk”
Abstract: It is now well documented that the use of cognitive enhancers (CE) is not only increasingly common in Western countries, but also gradually accepted as a normal procedure by the media as well. In fact, its implementation is not unusual in various professional contexts and it has its peak in colleges (where the trend has been characterized as “academic doping”). Even when certain restrictions in the legislation of a country are indeed in place (i.e. through prescriptions requirements), they are without doubts easy to overcome. The legitimacy and appropriateness of such restrictions will not be the focus of this presentation. The concern is instead related to the moral and social reasons to publicly acknowledge the use of cognitive enhancers in competitive-selective contexts. These reasons are linked to a more neutral analysis of contemporary Western society: it is a fact that an increasing number of competitive-selective contexts have a substantial number of contenders using CE. Through the use of some examples, the problems related to its use will be analyzed. In particular, focus will be given to the tension between one of the main arguments used by bio-liberals (the use of CE is an eligible procedure that society does not impose on anyone) and the actual implementation of the drugs in competitive, or semi-competitive contexts.
Dr Mirko Daniel Garasic
Research Scholar, UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights, Rome, Italy
Adjunct Professor in Bioethics, LUISS University, Rome, Italy
More info: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mirko_Garasic

14.30 – 17.00: Beyond normality? technologies between assistance and enhancement workshop

14.30 – 14.35: Heike Felzmann: Overview of workshop
14.35 – 14.50: Oliver Feeney: Human Enhancement Technologies: key challenges and opportunities
14.50 – 15.05: Discussion
15.05 – 15.20: Heike Felzmann: ELS issues in wearable robots between assistance and enhancement of motor function – a taxonomy.
15.20 – 15.35: Discussion
15.35 – 15.50: Su-Ming Khoo: Algocracy and the threats to democratic inclusion – interrogating democratic capabilities in transhumanist times
15.50 – 16.05: Discussion
16.10 – 17.00: Launch of B-CAUSE IRC COALESCE project
Su-Ming Khoo, (with wine reception).

Festival de la Francophonie en Irlande-Moroccan Film Screening: Aïda (2015, dir. Driss Mrini)
2019-04-04 17:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The Discipline of French and the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, in association with the Embassy of the Kingdom of Morocco is pleased to announce a special film screening at NUI Galway as part of this global celebration of the French language.
Synopsis
Aïda raconte l’histoire d’une juive marocaine, Aïda Cohen, professeur de musique à Paris, dont le corps est dévoré par une tumeur maligne. Convaincue qu’elle est condamnée à mourir, elle décide de rentrer au Maroc pour retrouver ses souvenirs juvéniles et amoureux qui réanimeront en elle un peu d’espoir et de joie de vivre.
The film tells the story of Aïda Cohen, a Moroccan woman of Jewish heritage and a music teacher in Paris, who is convinced that she is going to die as a result of a malignant tumour. She decides to return to her homeland of Morocco to rediscover her memories of childhood and love, hoping to revive her sense of hope and her joy in life.
All welcome

Irish Studies’ Seminar Series, 2018-19
2019-04-04 16:00 | Centre for Irish Studies
Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence in Contemporary Irish Fiction’-Dr Teresa Caneda, University of Vigo, Spain.

A chairde,
You are invited to attend our forthcoming seminar as part of the Irish Studies’ Seminar Series, Semester 2, 2018-19. We are delighted to welcome Dr Teresa Caneda from the University of Vigo, Spain to NUI Galway this year.
She is the Principal Investigator of the research project “Inconvenient Truths: Cultural Practices of Silence in Contemporary Irish Fiction” funded by Spanish Agency for Research (AEI) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
Dr Vigo will deliver her seminar entitled, ‘Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence in Contemporary Irish Fiction’at 4pm on Thursday 4 April, Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies. Further details are included below.
Beidh fáilte roimh chách!
Le gach dea-ghuí,
Abstract:
In contemporary Ireland many forms of abuse, kept secret for a long time, have recently aroused public opinion on an international scale. In this social context, the theme of silence has been extremely relevant to the Irish literary imagination with the topic of “the unspoken”, both as subject and style, being foregrounded by some of the most representative contemporary writers. Counter-hegemonic narrative impulses articulated through linguistic gaps, displacements, ironies and ambivalences have become essential discursive elements through which Irish artists question and resist social constructions and cultural practices attached to notions of silence. Drawing on the concept that silence is not only a space beyond words but a form of speaking the unspeakable, the talk will reflect on how authors have concentrated on breaking the conspiracy of silence thus denouncing the private and public dysfunctions of a society in which shocking anomalies have long remained buried and unacknowledged.
Biography:
Teresa Caneda is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Vigo (Spain), she has recently been awarded a Scholarship for Senior researchers from the Ministry of Culture and Education and is currently on a research stay as a visiting fellow at UCD School of English, Drama and Film. She is the author of La estética modernista como práctica de resistencia en A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, a re-evaluation of the ideological implications of modernist aesthetics in the context of Joyce’s early fiction (University of Vigo:2002) and the editor of Vigorous Joyce: Atlantic Readings of James Joyce (University of Vigo: 2010). She organized the 19th Conference of the Spanish James Joyce Society and currently sits on the Editorial Board of European Joyce Studies. Her work has appeared in journals such as the James Joyce Quarterly, Papers on Joyce, Interventions, Translation Studies Translation and Literature and Estudios Irlandeses. An important part of her research has concentrated on translation as a form of negotiation between cultures and in relation to socio-political and intellectual frameworks vis-à-vis the concept of cultural mobility with a focus on the role of translation in processes of identity formation across the Atlantic (“Translation as a Revisitation of Joyce’s Irish Modernism” in Irish Modernism and The Global Primitive. McGarrity and Culleton (eds) Palgrave Macmillan, 2009; “Trans/atlantic Mobilities: Translating Narratives of Irish Resistance” in Towards 2016: 1916 in Irish Literature, Culture & Society. Crosson, Seán and W. Huber (eds) Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2015). More recently she has been interested in exploring issues such as transnationalism, foreignness and mobility in relation to Contemporary Irish Fiction. Last year she co-edited, a special issue of the journal Atlantic Studies (2018) on “Atlantic Communities: Translation, Mobility, Hospitality” and contributed with a chapter on Joyce and the aesthetics of silence to the volume James Joyce’s Silences (London: Bloomsbury, 2018). Since January 2018 she is the Principal Investigator of the research project “Inconvenient Truths: Cultural Practices of Silence in Contemporary Irish Fiction” funded by Spanish Agency for Research (AEI) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

When Red Turned Green Yellow: Ireland and Yugoslavia in the Early Cold War
2019-04-04 12:00 - 13:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Talk by Jelena Đureinović Moore Visiting Fellow 2019

This explores the Irish public reception of the establishment of state socialism in Yugoslavia and post-war trials that ensued, placing it in the wider context of anti-communism in Ireland and its religious dimension. The biggest concern in the Irish public regarding communism in Eastern Europe was the treatment of the Catholic Church – its loss of power, the rapid secularisation of society and persecution of clergy. The trials against Croatian Archbishop Stepinac and Cardinal Mindszenty from Hungary represented the most prominent causes for protest and led to the largest display of the intertwinement of the anti-communism and religion in Ireland in 1949, when 150,000 people gathered in the streets of Dublin. When Irish and Yugoslav national teams were supposed to play a friendly football match in 1952, the Football Association of Ireland quietly cancelled it, pressured by Archbishop John Charles McQuaid. The match took place in 1955, surrounded by cancellation attempts, calls for boycott, and accusations against the FAI and without support of government officials or a radio broadcast. These discourses reveal that the Yugoslav football players were not welcome, seen as representatives Josip Broz Tito, the main persecutor of Archbishop Stepinac and the Catholic Church.
The talk is a part of the larger research project that examines Ireland and Yugoslavia in the Cold War. The Cold War stands in the focus as the period when both countries had to define and re-define their state identities and negotiate their sovereignty and position in the global political order. While Ireland negotiated its post-imperial sovereignty after British rule, the Yugoslav foreign policy strived for a unique form of socialist sovereignty outside the bloc. Balancing between the micro, national, and transnational scales, the research contributes to national histories of Ireland and Yugoslavia by observing them through the novel lens of each other that also goes beyond the binary understanding of the Cold War reduced to superpower rivalry.
Jelena Đureinović is an instructor of record in East European History and a Career Development Grant recipient at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture at the University of Giessen in Germany. She submitted her PhD thesis in Modern and Contemporary History in 2018, entitled ‘Glory for the Defeated: Memory of Second World War Collaboration, Resistance, and Retribution in Contemporary Serbia’, and is currently working on turning it into a book that will be published by Routledge in 2020.

Graduate Research Seminars in History, 2019
2019-04-03 16:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Gavan Duffy (NUI Galway)
“It went through the country like fire through dry grass.”:
The impact of the 1918 influenza epidemic on Samoan/New Zealand relations in a national and international context.

NUI Galway Innocence Clinic Hosts Conversation with Guildford Four Member Paddy Armstrong and Journalist Mary-Elaine Tynan
2019-04-02 17:30 - 19:30 | Aras Moyola, Aras Moyola, NUIG, Ireland
Students to highlight their investigations into wrongful convictions
The NUI Galway Innocence Clinic will host an onstage-conversation with Paddy Armstrong, wrongfully convicted as part of the Guildford Four, and journalist Mary-Elaine Tynan in their first ever appearance in the west of Ireland on Tuesday, 2 April, 2019 at the Aras Moyola Large Lecture Theatre. As part of the programme, NUI Galway students, who have been investigating wrongful convictions with the NUI Galway Innocence Clinic, will also highlight their work in a panel discussion moderated by Mary-Elaine Tynan.
Armstrong and Tynan collaborated on Life After Life: A Guildford Four Memoir, which was published two years ago, the book is a nakedly honest and compelling exposure of Armstrong’s experience being wrongfully convicted, its crushing aftermath and the ultimate restoration of his life.
The NUI Galway Innocence Clinic is a fledgling initiative launched in September 2018 with the cooperation of the School of Law, Journalism Programme and Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway under the guidance of Anne Driscoll, a visiting US Fulbright Scholar and award-winning journalist. During the first semester, Driscoll taught students about wrongful convictions, how they happen and why, as well as how to use journalism techniques and skills to investigate wrongful conviction cases. In the second semester, the students have been applying those lessons in an investigation of the Maamtrasna murders case. Myles Joyce, who was wrongfully convicted and hanged in 1882, received the second posthumous presidential pardon in Irish history by President Michael D. Higgins on 4 April, 2018. Students have been looking at the claims of innocence made by four other men who falsely pleaded guilty in the case – Myles’ brothers Martin, Patrick, and Patrick’s son Thomas Joyce, along with John Casey.
Anne Driscoll, US Fulbright Scholar at NUI Galway, said: “We are thrilled that Paddy Armstrong and Mary-Elaine Tynan have agreed to share their story with the students of the NUI Galway Innocence Clinic, the greater NUI Galway community and the public at large. There is an important role for both law and journalism in addressing the injustice of a wrongful conviction and we hope this programme will explore that very idea. This special event is the culmination of a year of extraordinary exploration and learning by the law, journalism and human rights students who have participated in the Innocence Clinic. And as my Fulbright scholarship comes to a conclusion, I want to express how profoundly grateful I am to NUI Galway for having the vision and commitment to offer students this unique and valuable learning opportunity. Having an Innocence Clinic is both good for students and good for society.”
The event is free and open to the public but registration is required at Eventbrite here https://innocenceclinic.eventbrite.ie.
Life After Life: A Guildford Four Memoir will be available for sale and for signing by Paddy Armstrong and Mary-Elaine Tynan beginning at 5pm outside the Aras Moyola Large Lecture Theatre. The programme will begin at 5:30pm followed by a reception afterwards.
For more information visit: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/nui-galway-innocence-clinic-hosts-life-after-life-tickets-59045844711?aff=ebdshpsearchautocomplete
For further information about the NUI Galway Innocence Clinic contact Anne Driscoll, NUI Galway at annemdriscoll@gmail.com or +353 (0) 87 0696613.
For Press contact Gwen O’Sullivan, Press and Information Executive, NUI Galway at gwen.osullivan@nuigalway.ie or 091 495695.
Photo PA_0093.jpg: Paddy Armstrong. Photo: Gill Books
Photo Final Cover.jpg: Life After Life: A Guildford Four Memoir book cover by Paddy Armstrong and Mary-Elaine Tynan. Photo: Gill Books
Notes to Editors
About the Book – Life After Life: A Guildford Four Memoir
“Looking back over the last six, almost seven decades, the images that flash through my mind are hardly believable – sometimes, it feels like I’m remembering someone else’s life. The truth is, I’ve lived three very different lives: the one before prison; the one in prison; and my life since then. It has taken years to make sense of it all, but now I’ve found a voice to speak about it.” Paddy Armstrong
Paddy Armstrong was one of four people falsely convicted of The Guildford Bombing in 1975. He spent fifteen years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Today, as a husband and father, life is wonderfully ordinary, but the memory of his ordeal lives on. Here, for the first time and with unflinching candour, he lays bare the experiences of those years and their aftermath.
Life after Life is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the power of forgiveness. It reminds us of the privilege of freedom, and how the balm of love, family and everyday life can restore us and mend the scars of even the most savage injustice.
“This book captures the sweet soul of Paddy. Beautifully written. For lovers of freedom everywhere.” Jim Sheridan, Film Director
“Paddy Armstrong’s account of his wrongful conviction and imprisonment is as gripping as a work of fiction. It is an extraordinary, terrifying story. I am familiar with just about all the considerable body of memoirs arising from the miscarriages of justice of the 1970s, but I can say without equivocation that this is the best. Beautifully written. If it were a work of fiction, it would be worthy of the Man Booker shortlist.” Chris Mullin, The Observer
“Couldn’t put it down, stunningly written, honest, shocking, harrowing. A horrendous story, populated with some real heroes.” Noel Whelan, Barrister and Irish Times columnist
About the Author
Paddy Armstrong is a native of Belfast, Northern Ireland. In 1975 he was falsely convicted of helping carry out the Guildford and Woolwich bombings, a conviction for which he spent 15 years in prison. Today, he lives in Clontarf, Dublin, with his wife and children.
Mary-Elaine Tynan worked with Paddy for almost two years to produce Life after Life: A Guildford Four Memoir.

Dr Justin Dolan Stover Moore Institute Visiting Fellow
2019-04-02 15:00 - 16:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Digitizing Revolutionary Violence against Irish Environments

Abstract:
The Irish Revolution demonstrates the importance of initiative, ingenuity, and familiarity with various landscapes and peoples as intangible necessities of guerrilla warfare. County-based studies of the Irish Revolution often confine these features to administrative and political boundaries, which fail to convey the truly organic complexity of revolutionary activism, violence, and environmental destruction. Natural features, such as mountains, bogs, and rivers, and spatial considerations, such as transportation routes and proximity to urban centres, very much directed the pace and scale of revolutionary violence and counter-insurgency measures. In many ways, the scope of damage wrought upon built and natural landscapes exceeded human casualties. This paper will help re-conceptualize revolutionary violence in Ireland through digital humanities tools to present a more complex representation of the period.
Bio:
Justin Dolan Stover holds a B.S. in History from Central Michigan University, a M.A. in Twentieth Century Irish History from University College Dublin, and a Ph.D. in History from Trinity College Dublin. His research has explored the social impacts of war and violence in Europe during the First World War and Irish Revolution. Dr Stover’s current work considers the environmental impact of the Irish Revolution, which provides contrasting guerrilla and counter-insurgency examples to larger-scale war damage, displacement, and environmental nationalism in modern Europe.

Dr. Hidetaka Hirota Moore Institute Visiting Fellow
2019-04-02 13:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
The Irish and the Problem of Imported Labor in the United States

CASSCS-Presentation Skills for MA, PhD, and Postdoctoral Researchers
2019-04-02 09:30 - 13:00 | Room 118 Research and Innovation Centre, NUIG
This seminar is part of the ‘Career Development Seminar Series’ organized by The Moore Institute and the Researcher Development Center. See Career Dev Series CASSCS V1 for the full list of seminars.
The aim of this Presentation Skills course is to provide learners with the vocal skills needed to deliver compelling and influential presentations.
The course will provide learners with a strategy for taking the focus off their nerves, giving them tips and tricks to improve their diction, showing them how to speak clearly and use their voice to keep the audience engaged throughout.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
By the end of the course each learner will be able to:
• Have more confidence speaking/presenting to large groups
• Use their voice to keep the audience engaged throughout
• Speak clearly with proper pronunciation of words and phrases
• Understand what good diction and be able to put this into practice

TOPICS COVERED
• Using body language effectively –eye contact; facial expressions; gestures;
• Voice projection – Developing a confident and more interesting voice – Tone; Volume; Pitch;
• Good diction is – tips and trick to help you develop your diction
• Enunciation – speaking clearly, proper pronunciation of sounds and words
• Eliminate common mistakes – speaking too fast, chopping off word endings, forgetting to use pauses, and speaking in a monotone
• Practice session -Each person will be asked to make a 5-minute presentation on a topic of their choice.
Registration is required for this course please see link How to Register

Camps a talk by Amy Livingstone
2019-03-29 12:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Powerful, Shrewd and Pious: Countess Emengarde of Brittany c.1070-1147

English Research Day
2019-03-29 09:30 - 14:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

The Sacred Well: Irish Myth, Play-writing and Process by Adam Wyeth
2019-03-28 17:00 | Hardiman Research Building Room G011, Ireland
With a reading from APARTMENT BLOCK, with actress Paula McGlinchey
In this talk, Adam Wyeth will discuss some of the areas surrounding his writing process as a playwright, which have been inspired from his poetry and studying Irish myth. While his plays do not overtly deal in mythology, Wyeth will reveal how core aspects of Irish myth and Celtic art – seen as an alternative form to the classic – feed into the themes and the shapes of his plays. Arguing for a mythic imagination – which is separate from the fantasy genre in fiction – Wyeth seeks to bring back myth to its true sense, as metaphor. ‘The dungeons,’ he writes, ‘are in homes and the dragons in our hearts.’ Wyeth seeks to create a drama, which like mythology, is not aimed at proving anything but rather at modifying something, at subtly shifting the sense of ourselves, or the world, that we hold. In this sense, his plays do not aim for simplistic clarity or ‘realism’, but rather for the expression and ‘holding’ of ambiguity, mystery and ambivalence. Wyeth will end his talk with a reading from an extract of his play APARTMENT BLOCK with actress, Paula McGlinchey. The play is currently in production for its world premiere Off-Broadway, New York.
Bio
Adam Wyeth lives in Dublin where he is currently an Associate Artist of the Civic Theatre. He is the author of two critically acclaimed poetry collections with Salmon Poetry, Silent Music (2011), which was Highly Commended for the Forward Poetry Prize, and The Art of Dying (2016), an Irish Times Book of the Year. In 2013, Salmon published his essays, The Hidden World of Poetry: Unravelling Celtic Mythology in Contemporary Irish Poetry, which contains poems from Ireland’s leading poets followed by sharp essays that unpack each poem and explore its Celtic mythological references.Wyeth’s plays have been produced in Ireland, Germany and New York. His first play Hang Up, produced by Broken Crow (2013), has been staged at many festivals, including the electric Picnic, the Home Festival, Cork, and the Galway Theatre festival. In 2014, it was adapted into a film and premiered at Cork’s International Film Festival. The play was also staged in 2015 in Berlin as part of ‘An evening of Adam Wyeth’ at Theater forum Kreuzberg. Wyeth’s second play,Lifedeath, was showcased at the Triskel Arts Centre minifestival of new work in December 2013 and was named by the Irish Examiner as the play of the festival. It was presented at University College Cork’s Theatre Festival, 2014, and staged at engage Arts Festival, Bandon, 2014. His play Apartment Block was presented in New York at the Bank Street Theatre Off-Off-Broadway in 2017. A major new Off- Broadway production is currently in development for its world premiere. Wyeth runs online creative writing workshops and editing programmes at adamwyeth.com and Fishpublishing.com.

Art as Activism?Educ-actors: from context to text. Rethinking education on peace, conflict transformation, social justice and global citizenship through the lens of the arts
2019-03-28 16:00 - 18:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
A seminar/workshop with Daniel Fernandez, Visiting Research Fellow, Moore Institute.
Education is at the centre of the ethical, socio-political and environmental crisis we are currently experiencing. As expressed by UNESCO in its Program of Action for the Creation of a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence, the hope of emerging from this global crisis lies in imparting values, attitudes and behaviours through education that reflect and inspire sharing through social interaction and fostering the distinctive faculties of the human species: commitment, reflection, imagination, creativity and facilitating intercultural communication. UNESCO’s vision would seem to be a world at peace. Yet the meaning of peace is often assumed to be settled by those who advance the cause of peace, even if this entails appropriating the narratives of the oppressed, and even though – as argued by Oliver Richmond and J. P. Lederach – many attempts at conflict resolution have ended in co-optation, i.e. attempts to forcibly abolish disharmony in situations where people are raising legitimate issues about social justice, reconciliation, identity, gender, culture, or development among others.
In my practice I approach peace as an agonistic process, and have been developing a methodology based on the exploration of how people effect change through the imbrication of art, protest, dialogue and activism in Mexico (performance and peace education through dance), Egypt (street art in Tahrir Square during the Arab Spring), Catalonia (site-specific art installation), and Colombia (indigenous, gender-based, audiovisual sovereignty). In this seminar/workshop I will screen my short documentary entitled “EDUC-ACTORS: FROM CONTEXT TO TEXT”, filmed in Tahir Square, Egypt with participants of the Arab Spring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKgzZxH841I&t=39s. I also discuss how the learning derived from this fieldwork has been incorporated into a pedagogical programme piloted at the Autonomous University of Madrid and the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and I present feedback from academic and students who participated in the pilot phase of the project.
Daniel Fernández is a Rotary Peace Fellow and holds an MA in Peace and Conflict Resolution from the International University Tokyo, Japan. He also holds a post-graduate Diploma in Integrative Coaching processes. Daniel’s work is at the cutting edge of socially-engaged art, and the concerns at the heart of his practice traverse the arts, humanities and social sciences. He has worked extensively in conflict zones including Palestine, Columbia and the Western Sahara. His work focuses primarily on the importance of Memory and Intercultural Dialogue in diverse locations including Spain, Mexico, Japan, Bolivia, Colombia and Egypt. He is interested in learning from non-western perspectives in dealing with the past and envisioning present and future global coexistence based in processes of decolonization of knowledge and cultural paradigms. He is a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers University, USA. He is currently developing the educational project “Educ-actors: from context to text. Rethinking the education on peace, conflict transformation, social justice and global citizenship through the lens of the Arts”, with the Fundación Cultura de Paz under the mentorship of its president, Dr. Federico Mayor Zaragoza, former General Director of UNESCO. The educational project has been funded by the Catalan Department of Foreign Action and Institutional Relations through its Catalan Agency for Cooperation and Development.

Irish Studies’ Seminar Series - Semester 2, 2018-19
2019-03-28 16:00 | Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies, Distillery Road
Artwork by Desdemona McCannon
Dr Pippa Marland (Moore Institute Visiting Fellow), “‘The world-hungry art of words’: form and content in Tim Robinson’s Stones of Aran”,

A chairde,
You are invited to attend our forthcoming seminar as part of the Irish Studies’ Seminar Series, Semester 2, 2018-19. We are delighted to welcome Dr Pippa Marland from the University of Leeds as an Irish Studies’ Scholar through the Moore Institute Visiting Fellowship Scheme this year. Dr Marland will deliver her seminar entitled, “‘The world-hungry art of words’: form and content in Tim Robinson’s Stones of Aran”, at 4pm on Thursday 28 March, Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies.
This seminar will explores the content and form of Robinson’s Aran writings – looking at what it might mean for the literature of place to be both ‘world-hungry’ and artful – and will draw on research in the James Hardiman Library’s Tim Robinson archive. In particular it will explore the ways in which Robinson orders and condenses material from his extensive Aran notebooks and diaries into the final complex, challenging form of the Aran books.
Beidh fáilte roimh chách!
Le gach dea-ghuí,
Nessa

Dr Nessa Cronin, Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway.
‘The world-hungry art of words’: form and content in Tim Robinson’s Stones of Aran
Small islands, as Robert Macfarlane points out, foster ‘dreams of total knowledge’. This is precisely the effect that Árainn has on the writer Tim Robinson, who, in the Stones of Aran diptych, does indeed set out to describe the island in its totality. It is a demanding task – one that moves the erstwhile visual artist and cartographer into the realm of ‘the world-hungry art of words’.
This is a telling phrase, not least in its deployment of the word ‘art’. Non-fiction, place-based writing is often assumed to forgo artfulness in favour of mimetic representation. The ecocritic Dana Phillips, reacting against the focus of first wave American ecocriticism on this particular genre, argues that it is ‘one of literature’s more pedestrian, least artful aspects’, with the implication that the critic’s time would be better spent on more sophisticated literary forms. Robinson is undoubtedly pedestrian, in the very literal sense that his knowledge of the island is gained, as he states in an interview, through walking the ‘network of tender little fields and bleak rocky shores of Aran’ until ‘I could have printed off a map of them by rolling on a sheet of paper’. However, his writing is also artful: highly-wrought and formally complex, as the tension between his dream of total knowledge and the ways in which the island constantly exceeds that knowledge plays out through the text.
This seminar will focus on the content and form of Robinson’s Aran writings – looking at what it might mean for the literature of place to be both ‘world-hungry’ and artful – and will draw on research in the James Hardiman Library’s Tim Robinson archive. In particular it will explore the ways in which Robinson orders and condenses material from his extensive Aran notebooks and diaries into the final complex, challenging form of the Aran books.

Dr Pippa Marland University of Leeds P.J.Marland@leeds.ac.uk
Dr Pippa Marland is a Research Fellow in the School of English at the University of Leeds, working on the AHRC-funded ‘Land Lines: Modern British Nature Writing’ project. She received her PhD from the University of Worcester in 2016, where she was also a lecturer, with a thesis on ‘The Island Imagination’ – a study of the representation of ‘islandness’ in contemporary non-fiction. A significant section of the thesis was devoted to Tim Robinson’s Aran writings – Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage and Stones of Aran: Labyrinth – and, indeed, Robinson’s concept of the ‘good step’, a motif that runs through both volumes of the Aran diptych, lies at the heart of the research. She is in the process of preparing a book based on her PhD entitled Ecocriticism and the Island: Readings from the British-Irish Archipelago, due to be published in the Rowman and Littlefield series ‘Rethinking the Island’ series in early 2020. She is also working on a co-edited collection for Routledge – Walking, Landscape, and Environment , forthcoming in 2019. She has published widely on ecocriticism, new nature writing, ecopoetry, and archipelagic perspectives, and was recipient of both the EASLCE and the ASLE-UK and Ireland awards for Best Postgraduate Essay in Ecocriticism, for articles on W.G. Sebald and Kathleen Jamie, respectively. During 2019 she will be taking up a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, also at the University of Leeds, studying the representation of farming in modern British nature writing.
While at the Moore Institute as a Visiting Fellow, Dr Marland will be carrying out research on the Tim Robsinon archive in the James Hardiman Library, looking in particular at the way in which Robinson condenses and orders material from his extensive Aran notebooks and diaries into the final, complex and challenging form of the Aran diptych. She will be presenting her findings at a guest seminar for the Irish Studies Spring series at NUI Galway.

'Academia and public history'
2019-03-28 15:00 | Aras Moyola MY125
Talk has been cancelled and will be rescheduled for a later date

Career Development Series – CASSCS-IDP and skills needs analysis workshop
2019-03-28 14:00 - 16:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
IDP and skills needs analysis workshop by Sinead Beacom (RDC)
More Information to follow

Creating Digital Exhibitions with Omeka - Digital Scholars' Workshops
2019-03-28 12:00 - 13:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Creating Digital Exhibitions with Omeka – Cillian Joy, G011, 12-1pm Thursday 28th March
This workshop will introduce and show how to use Omeka to create digital exhibitions. Omeka is designed to be a user-friendly platform for creating online exhibitions. NUI Galway students and staff can use an institutional version of Omeka to create online digital exhibitions highlighting their research or as a companion to a physical exhibition.
Registration
Please register to attend using Eventbrite.

About the Workshop Series
Developing skills with digital technologies can be a challenge for researchers interested in digital and open scholarship.
To help, the Library, in partnership with the Moore Institute, presents a series of informal workshops to share practice-based expertise, know-how, and experience in technologies and methods, that will enhance your experience of newer forms of scholarship.
Events in this semester’s series include:

Planning & Building Digital Projects – David Kelly, G010, 12-1pm Thursday, 31st January
Introduction to Research Data Management and related supports at NUI Galway – Trish Finnan, G010, 12-1pm Wednesday 27th February
Creating Digital Exhibitions with Omeka – Cillian Joy, G011, 12-1pm Thursday 28th March
Archives in the digital age – balancing evolving expectations against the realities of resource allocation and legislation – Aisling Keane, G010, 12-1pm Tuesday, 30th April.

Book Launch
2019-03-27 16:30 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building

Graduate Research Seminars in History, 2019
2019-03-27 16:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Dr Hugh Rowland (An tAcadamh, NUI Galway)
Language debates in Ireland in the 1960s: the Language Freedom Movement reconsidered.

Europe, Italy and Brexit: A Short Story
2019-03-27 15:00 | Hardiman Research Building Room G011, Ireland
Italian
School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures
The Moore Institute
H. E. Mr Paolo Serpi, Ambassador of Italy to Ireland

Dr. Brendan Twomey Moore Institute Visiting Fellow
2019-03-26 13:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Financial Management
in a World without Banks!
The Case of Jonathan Swift
A seminar on inter-personal lending and borrowing in early eighteenth-century Ireland.

French Crime Fiction-Irish Crime Scenes
2019-03-25 17:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

CAMPS Talk By Alexander O'Hara
2019-03-22 12:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
The Politics of Piety: Ritual Communities and Social Cohesion in Merovingian Gaul, 450-750

Graduate Research Seminars in History, 2019
2019-03-20 16:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Jim Reid (NUI Galway)
Munster as a frontier of the Roman Empire in the 5th-6th centuries.

Visualising Maritime Cityscapes: The Representation of Harbours in the Graeco-Roman World
2019-03-20 14:00 | Hardiman Research Building Room G011, Ireland
Dr Federico Ugolini – Visiting Research Fellow
‘Visualising maritime cityscapes’ explains how and why Greek and Romans represented so frequently the sea and the marine infrastructures within their artworks. This paper argues that the available textual and iconographic evidence supports the argument that these representations have a symbolic, rather than literal, meaning and message. It is also noted that the traditional view, that all these media represent the reality of the contemporary cityscapes, is shown to be often unrealistic.

'Hammer and Cycle: Communism's Cycling Counter Culture in Interwar France'
2019-03-20 13:00 - 15:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Martin Hurcombe is Professor of French Studies at the University of Bristol, UK, and a specialist of early twentieth-century French political culture, history and literature. His PhD examined the French combat novel of the First World War, arguing that the experience of combat led to a fundamental shift in the way that a generation of French intellectuals experienced time and space and, consequently, the world around them, exploring the political ramifications of these experiences. It was published in 2004 as Novelists in Conflict: Ideology and the Absurd in the French Combat Novel of the Great War. His second book, France and the Spanish Civil War: Cultural Representations of the War next Door, 1936-1945 (2011), studied the extent to which the war beyond the Pyrenees served a utopian function for both the radical left and right in France, offering forms of social reorganisation and new models with which to oppose the French Third Republic. His interest in utopia as critical tool for examining the present and imagining the future is also evident in his most recent book, co-authored with Matryn Cornick and Angela Kershaw: French Political Travel Writing in the Inter-War Years: Radical Departures. He has also published extensively on twentieth-century French crime fiction and, most recently, on the memory of Nazi collaboration in three French, Norwegian, and Swedish crime novels. With Simon Kemp, he is the co-editor of the only study of the award-winning French crime writer Sébastien Japrisot (Sébastien Japrisot: The Art of Crime, 2009). He is also one of the founding editors of the Journal of War and Culture Studies.

His current project represents something of a departure from his interest in war and culture, however, whilst still combining his fascination with the political, historical, and textual. This new project explores the history of cycling literature in France. The relationship between a range of textual practices and cycling in France is a long and complex one. Moreover, writing about sport, and especially cycling, is a serious business for the French. This project traces the relationship between road cycling, the national and regional press, key authors and journalists (such as Pierre Chany and Antoine Blondin), and the impact of new media on the way that cycling is narrated. It explores ideas of national, regional and political identities as well as issues of class, gender and race. Professor Hurcombe is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Moore Institute.

"Classical/Neoclassical/Classic/Tradition/Reception" A lecture by Prof. Brian Arkins
2019-03-14 15:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The term ‘Classical’ connotes so many things as to be useless. ‘Neoclassical’ is valid for a particular era. ‘Classic’ (minus the suffix -al) may denote various items. ‘Tradition’ and like terms are too passive. Prof. Arkins will discuss these terms.

Transnational Time: Reading Post War Representations of the Italian Presence in East Africa
2019-03-13 17:00 - 18:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Italian School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures Talk
by
Charles Burdett, University of Durham

Working from recent theoretical writing on time and the concept of the spectral, the paper begins by questioning how we can talk about transnational temporalities. The paper then looks at some of the ways in which the Italian colonial and post-colonial presence in Eritrea and Ethiopia, with all its complexities and haunting legacies, has been represented in fiction by Gabriella Ghermandi, Erminia Dell’Oro and Nicky Di Paolo.

Charles Burdett
is a Professor of Italian at the University of Durham. The principal areas of his research are: Italian culture under Fascism; the representation of colonialism; travel writing; theories of inter-cultural contact. An important part of his work concerns the theoretical frame through which we consider transnational contact and the implications for the disciplinary field of Modern Languages of the study of cultural translation in all its forms. He is one of the investigators in the large grant, ‘Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Mobility, Identity and Translation in Modern Italian Cultures’ that is a beacon project for the AHRC’s ‘Translating Cultures’ theme. He is the author of Journeys through Fascism: Italian Travel Writing between the Wars (paperback 2010). His most recent book is Italy, Islam and Islamic World: Representations and Reflections from 9/11 to the Arab Uprisings (2016). He is currently working on a monographic study, The Representation of the Italian Empire and its Afterlife: Utopia, Time, and Memory.
