Moore Institute

'ADAPTATION' by Professor Colin MacCabe (University of Pittsburgh)
2010-05-27 17:00 (Europe/Dublin)
Professor Colin MacCabe (University of Pittsburgh)
‘ADAPTATION’
Lecture in association with the Huston School of Film & Digital Media, and the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities & Social Studies
5pm, Thursday 27th May 2010, Moore Institute Seminar Room (203)
Colin MacCabe is distinguished professor of English and Film at the University of Pittsburgh and professor of English and Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London. MacCabe was educated at St Benedict’s School and the University of Cambridge where he began his academic career. A Board member of Screen magazine in the 1970s, he helped to introduce film theory into English. He was Head of Production at the British Film Institute Production Board before producing film and television independent company, Minerva Pictures. He taught English at the University of Pittsburgh. Since 2002 he has returned to full-time academic work and followed his seminal book on Joyce, with publications on Godard, T.S. Eliot and Neil Jordan’s adaptation of Patrick McCabe’s novel The Butcher Boy.
All welcome. For more information please contact mooreinstitute@nuigalway.ie 091-493906

Culture and Politics in Ireland and the British Empire
2010-05-14 09:00
Culture and Politics in
Ireland and the British Empire
A one-day workshop – part of the Texts, Contexts, Cultures research programme
Supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Moore Institute Seminar Room, NUI, Galway
Friday 14 May 2010, 9.30am – 6pm
9.30am-11am – Session 1 – Chair: Prof. GearÌ_id ÌÒ Tuathaigh (NUI, G)
Dr Philip Ollerenshaw (University of the West of England) – ‰Û÷Politics and Conflict in Northern Ireland, 1935-50′
Ian Kenneally (NUI,G) – ‘Truce to Treaty: Irish journalists and the peace process of 1920-21’
Tea/Coffee
11.15am-1.15pm – Session 2 – Chair: Prof. Nicholas Allen (NUI, G)
John Towler (GMIT) – ‰Û÷Mapping Galway’s mid-Seventeenth-Century Settlement Morphology’
Dr Donal Lowry (Oxford Brookes University) – ‰Û÷Irish Catholics in the British Empire’
Patricia Bergin (NUI,G) – ‰Û÷Education and the Open Competitive Examination System: Irish Civil Servants in India, 1855-1914′
Lunch
2.15pm-3.45pm – Session 3 – Chair: Dr. Mary Harris (NUI, G)
Philip Legg (University of the West of England) – ‰Û÷The Land War in King’s County, 1879-1882′
å_å_å_å_å_å_å_å_å_å_å_James O’Donnell (NUI,G) – ‰Û÷”A brave and valiant nation combating against a power by whose heel she herself has been crushed”: Irish news gathering and editorial comment on the South African War (1899-1902) – a case study of Co. Clare newspapers.’
Tea/Coffee
4-6pm – Session 4 – Chair: Dr Mark McCarthy (GMIT)
Dr Jeff Dann (NUI,G) – ‰Û÷Sport and Hegemony in the British Empire’
Dr Kent Fedorowich (University of the West of England) – ‰Û÷Family Matters? The Dominion High Commissioners in Wartime Britain, 1938-42′
Alan Lyons (NUI,G) – ‰Û÷Foreign Office attitudes towards the Arabs of Palestine’
Further Information: Dr. Simon J. Potter (NUIG) simon.potter@nuigalway.ie

e-Publishing for Postgrads
2010-05-04 10:00
The Moore Institute, in co-ordination with the Vice Dean for Graduate Studies and the Vice Dean for Research of the College of Arts, Social Sciences & Celtic Studies, would like to invite you and your PhD students to a seminar entitled ‰Û÷e-Publishing for Postgrads’.
Postgraduate students often find little guidance in getting their work published which is necessary to establish their reputation and even less guidance in using digital tools to disseminate their work beyond traditional publishers. This seminar will discuss changes taking place in the system of scholarly communication and give advice for creating scholarship that transcends traditional models of print publishing.
he seminar will be given by Kevin Hawkins, Visiting Metadata Manager with the Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO) at the Royal Irish Academy. Kevin is Electronic Publishing Librarian at the University of Michigan.
Places to attend the seminar are limited and must be booked by this coming Friday, April 30. To do so, please email marie.kennedy@nuigalway.ie with ‰Û÷e-Publishing’ in the subject line.
Seminar Details:
Title: ‰Û÷e-Publishing for Postgrads’
Presenter: Kevin Hawkins
Date: Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Time: 10am – 12:30pm
Location: Moore Institute Seminar Room, Room 203

'PLACE THE REAL', an interdisiciplinary workshop
2010-04-30 09:00
‘PLACE THE REAL’
an interdisciplinary workshop

An initiative of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures

30 APRIL 2010, 9:00 – 17:30
Moore Institute Seminar Room

Keynote speaker: Margaret Higonnet, University of Connecticut
Panelists:
Nicholas Allen
Daniel Balderston
Paolo Bartoloni
Paul Crowther
RÌ_isÌ_n Healy
Felix ÌÒ Murchadha
Bill Richardson
Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa
Maria Scott
Further information:
http://www.nuigalway.ie/languages_literatures_cultures/workshop.html
Prof Paolo Bartoloni paolo.bartoloni@nuigalway.ie
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Daniel Balderston (University of Pittsburgh), 'Borges and Ireland'
2010-04-29 16:00
Daniel Balderston (University of Pittsburgh), ‘Borges and Ireland’
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Professor Terry Eagleton, "Postmodernism and the War on Terror"
2010-04-21 13:00
As part of the initiative promoted last year by the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies and enabled by private philanthropy, Terry Eagleton, Adjunct Professor of Cultural Theory in the Moore Institute, will offer a seminar on ‘Atheism, Postmodernism and the War on Terror’ on Wednesday 21st April, at 1.00pm in the Moore Institute seminar room. Professor Eagleton will also be available after the seminar for discussion with the students.

DHO TEI and Irish Digital Resources Workshops at NUIG
2010-04-07 09:30
DHO TEI and Irish Digital Resources Workshops at NUIG
24 March 2010 – The DHO is pleased to offer a three-day series of workshops in collaboration with the Moore Institute, NUI, Galway. These are designed for anyone interested in the future of humanities research. They will greatly benefit scholars working with textual sources, providing you with the opportunity and the skills to think about text in new and useful ways.
‘Text Encoding with the TEI‘ will offer two concurrent workshop strands in text encoding for both beginners and more advanced practitioners. These two-day courses entitled ‰Û÷From Text Encoding to Digital Publishing’ and ‰Û÷TEI for Handwritten Texts’ will run on Wednesday, 7th and Thursday, 8th April.
‰Û÷Using Digital Resources for Research and Teaching in Irish Studies‘, which will take place on Friday, 9th April, will offer two half-day sessions. will offer two half-day sessions. These will explore ways to utilize the wide variety of digital resources now available to the field of Irish Studies. Participants may register for one or both of the sessions.
As Easter is fast approaching, we will close registration for the above workshops on Tuesday, 30th March. These workshops are free and open to all members of HSIS institutions, although places are limited and will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. To register, and for more information on the events, please visit the respective event pages linked above and register as soon as possible.
http://dho.ie/node/685

Professor Isabel Wuensche, 'The Synaesthetic Experience: Wassily Kandinsky, Nikolai Kulbin, Mikhail Matyushin'
2010-03-29 16:00
Professor Isabel Wuensche, (Jacobs University Bremen)
‰Û÷The Synaesthetic Experience: Wassily Kandinsky, Nikolai Kulbin, Mikhail Matyushin’
Visiting Speakers in Art History
History of art and visual culture is not an academic discipline formally present at NUI Galway. However, it explores areas that intersect with many aspects of the Moore Institute’s research work. It also engages with issues with a bearing on possible new areas of teaching and research in the Philosophy Department.
Isabel Wuensche will investigate some influential ideas concerning synaesthesia, that function in the development of abstract art’s early stages.

Margaret Kelleher (NUI Maynooth), 'The Language Question in Nineteenth-Century Ireland'
2010-03-23 16:00
Margaret Kelleher (NUI Maynooth), ‘The Language Question in Nineteenth-Century Ireland’

Catherine Morris (UCD), 'Alice Milligan and the Irish Cultural Revival: Exhibition and Audience'
2010-03-16 16:00
Catherine Morris (UCD), ‘Alice Milligan and the Irish Cultural Revival: Exhibition and Audience’

Dr. Clemena Antonova, 'From Icon to Picture: The Changing Role of Narrative in the Maniera Greca'
2010-03-11 16:00
Dr. Clemena Antonova (Fellow at the Royal Flemish Academy for Science and the Arts, Belgium)
‘From Icon to Picture: The Changing Role of Narrative in the Maniera Greca’
Visiting Speakers in Art History
History of art and visual culture is not an academic discipline formally present at NUI Galway. However, it explores areas that intersect with many aspects of the Moore Institute’s research work. It also engages with issues with a bearing on possible new areas of teaching and research in the Philosophy Department.
Clemena Antonova will analyze the emergence of elements of Renaissance pictorial space from its neo-Byzantine predecessor

Diana Montengro, 'The Broken Facade: Imperial Dominance in Papal Portraiture (1523-1534)'
2010-03-04 10:00
Diana Montengro (Department of Art History and Theory, University of Essex).
‘The Broken Facade: Imperial Dominance in Papal Portraiture (1523-1534)’
Visiting Speakers in Art History
History of art and visual culture is not an academic discipline formally present at NUI Galway. However, it explores areas that intersect with many aspects of the Moore Institute’s research work. It also engages with issues with a bearing on possible new areas of teaching and research in the Philosophy Department.
Diana Montenegro will discuss key developments in a specific idiom of iconography

MÌ_ch̩al Mac Craith (NUIG), 'Tadhg ÌÒ CianÌÁin's travel narrative: a Gaelic view of Counter-Reformation'
2010-03-02 16:00
MÌ_ch̩al Mac Craith (NUIG), ‘Tadhg ÌÒ CianÌÁin’s travel narrative: a Gaelic view of Counter-Reformation’

Gender and the medical profession in Britain and Ireland, c.1800-1950
2010-02-26 09:00
Gender and the medical profession in Britain and Ireland, c.1800-1950
Supported by the Wellcome Trust
The main objective of this meeting is to explore the importance of gender as a mode of investigation within the history of medicine. This workshop will bring together historians of medicine from Ireland and the United Kingdom who are working on themes relating to gender and the medical profession in order to discuss most recent research that is being conducted within the field. Through the discussion of gendered themes relating to the history of medicine, participants will provide useful feedback to each others’ work in addition to focusing on the relevance of gender to modern research in the history of medicine.
The themes of papers that will be given include:
o Gender issues within the history of medical education and medical
students.
o Masculinity and femininity and the medical profession.
o Gender issues with regard to the treatment of patients.
o Masculine and feminine representations of medical missionaries.
o The future of gendered themes within the history of medicine: is
gender a valuable mode of investigation?
Registration for this workshop is essential. If you wish to attend or require further details, please email Laura Kelly at l.kelly15@nuigalway.ie.

Women, Writing, and Language in Early Modern Ireland
2010-02-25 17:15
Women, Writing, and Language in Early Modern Ireland (Oxford, 2010)
by Marie-Louise Coolahan
You are invited to a reception to mark the launch of Women, Writing, and Language in Early Modern Ireland by Dr. Marie-Louise Coolahan in the Moore Institute seminar room, Thursday 25th February at 5.15pm. Professor Daniell Clarke (UCD, School of English) will launch the book.

Susan Schreibman (Digital Humanities Observatory), 'Tools to Think With: Re-Conceiving Humanities Research'
2010-02-23 16:00
Susan Schreibman (Digital Humanities Observatory)

‘Tools to Think With: Re-Conceiving Humanities Research’

Professor Terry Eagleton - 'Post Modernism No 3'
2010-02-19 13:00
Professor Terry Eagleton
‘Post Modernism No 3’ at the Moore Institute seminar room on
Friday 19th Feburary at 1.00pm

Professor Terry Eagleton - 'The Ambiguities of Oscar Wilde'
2010-02-18 18:00 | Siobhan McKenna Theatre, Ireland
Professor Terry Eagleton
Public lecture, on the subject of ‘The Ambiguities of Oscar Wilde’ will take place on Wednesday 18th February at 6 pm in the Siobhan McKenna Theatre
Professor Eagleton will be ready to address questions on the same subject after the formal lecture.

Professor Terry Eagleton - 'Post Modernism No 2'
2010-02-17 13:00
Professor Terry Eagleton
‘Post Modernism No 2’ at the Moore Institute seminar room on
Wednesday 17th Feburary at 1.00pm

Phiroze Vasunia (University of Reading), 'Memories of Conquest: Alexander the Great and Colonial India'
2010-02-16 16:00
Phiroze Vasunia (University of Reading), ‘Memories of Conquest: Alexander the Great and Colonial India’

The Postcolonial Enlightenment
2010-02-09 18:00
The Postcolonial EnlightenmentEighteenth Century Colonialism and Postcolonial TheoryEdited by Daniel Carey and Lynn Festa392 pages, ISBN 978-0-19-922914-7(Oxford, 2009)
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Daniel Carey (NUIG), 'A Scrupulous Travesty? Spivak's Kant'
2010-02-09 16:00
Daniel Carey (NUIG), ‘A Scrupulous Travesty? Spivak’s Kant’
‘Daniel Carey will give a talk on ‘A Scrupulous Travesty? Spivak’s Kant’ in the Moore Institute Seminar Room on Tuesday, 9th February at 4:00pm. This will be followed at 5pm by the launch of his new book by Lionel Pilkington, head of the School of Humanities. The Postcolonial Enlightenment: Eighteenth-century Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory is edited by Daniel Carey and Lynn Festa, and is published by Oxford University Press. All are welcome.

Roisin Healy (NUIG), 'The Challenges of Comparative History: Ireland and Poland in the Long Nineteenth Century'
2010-02-02 16:00
Roisin Healy (NUIG), ‘The Challenges of Comparative History: Ireland and Poland in the Long Nineteenth Century’

Adrian Paterson (NUIG), 'The Curlew and the Abbey: the music of Peter Warlock and W.B.Yeats'
2010-01-26 16:00
Adrian Paterson (NUIG), ‘The Curlew and the Abbey: the music of Peter Warlock and W.B.Yeats’

Maria Scott (NUIG), 'Female freedom-fighters in Stendhal's fiction (and why they embarrass critics)'
2010-01-19 16:00
Maria Scott (NUIG), ‘Female freedom-fighters in Stendhal’s fiction (and why they embarrass critics)’

Professor Michele Hilmes (University of Wisconsin-Madison), 'Trans-Atlantic Connections: The BBC's North American Service, 1940-1961'
2009-12-03 16:00
Professor Michele Hilmes (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
‰Û÷Trans-Atlantic Connections: The BBC’s North American Service, 1940-1961′

Professor Peter Putnis (University of Canberra), 'Celebrating Communication and Mourning its Failures: The Australian Colonial Experience'
2009-12-03 13:00
Professor Peter Putnis (University of Canberra)
‰Û÷Celebrating Communication and Mourning its Failures: The Australian Colonial Experience’

Professor Peter Putnis (University of Canberra), 'Communication and History: Understanding How and Why Australians Went to War in the Sudan in 1885'
2009-12-01 18:00 | Galway City Museum
Professor Peter Putnis (University of Canberra)
‰Û÷Communication and History: Understanding How and Why Australians Went to War in the Sudan in 1885′

Poul Holm (Trinity College Dublin), 'Sea Change: The Urgency of Oceans Past'
2009-12-01 16:00
Poul Holm (Trinity College Dublin), ‘Sea Change: The Urgency of Oceans Past’

Professor Michele Hilmes (University of Wisconsin-Madison), '"Eyes Pointing Different Ways": INTERTEL and Transnational Television Documentary in the 1960s.'
2009-11-30 16:00
Professor Michele Hilmes (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
‰Û÷”Eyes Pointing Different Ways”: INTERTEL and Transnational Television Documentary in the 1960s.’
