Moore Institute

Thomas Kilroy's Memoir - Over The Backyard Wall
2019-02-20 17:15 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Professor Adrian Frazier will launch the book and Tom will read from the piece.
Copies of the book will be available.

Irish Studies’ Seminar Series, Semester 2, 2018-19.
2019-02-21 16:00 | Centre for Irish Studies
Fenianos, Freedmen and ‘French half-breeds’: A Borderlands Approach to American Fenianism, 1865-70”
Patrick Mahony, PhD Scholar Drew University, Irish Studies Visiting Scholar, NUI Galway 2018-19
Seminar Room Centre for Irish Studies
4pm, Thursday 21 February 2019

Image 1: The Battle of Ridgeway – Charge of General O’Neill’s Fenians upon the Canadian troops, causing their rout.
The Sage, Sons & Co. Lithographer (1869) – Library and Archives Canada

A chairde,
You are invited to attend our third seminar of the Irish Studies’ Seminar Series, Semester 2, 2018-19.
We are delighted to welcome back one of our former MA in Irish Studies’ students this semester. Fáilte ar ais chugainn a Phádraig! Mr Patrick Mahony (Drew University) will deliver his paper, ‘Fenianos, Freedmen and ‘French half-breeds’: A Borderlands Approach to American Fenianism, 1865-70’, based on his ongoing doctoral research on Irish-American history. For further details, please see below.
Patrick is a Caspersen Doctoral Fellow at Drew University. His research focuses primarily on the interactions between Irish-American radicals, indigenous peoples, and other ethno-political groups in the U.S. Borderlands and the Caribbean during the mid-nineteenth century. His book, From A Land Beyond the Wave: Connecticut’s Irish Rebels, 1798-1916 (2017), won the Connecticut League of History Organizations’ Publication Prize (2018).
The seminar will take place at 4pm, Thursday 21 February, at the Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies, Distillery Road.
Beidh fáilte roimh chách!

Modernist Studies Ireland’s Works in Progress guest lecture by Dr Tamara Radak on ‘“To Infinity…and Beyond?”: ‘Endgames’ in the Novels of James Joyce and Flann O’Brien’
2019-02-21 17:00 - 19:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
It is our great pleasure to welcome Dr Tamara Radak (University of Vienna), who is currently a Visiting Fellow at NUI Galway’s Moore Institute. Tamara’s lecture is aligned with her doctoral research on the (non)sense of an ending – and, judging from the sparkling poster, we’re in for a galactic treat! The lecture takes as its point of departure a staple of critical literature on modernism: that modernist novels lack closure as a rule. Tamara’s book project, “No Sense of an Ending? Modernist Aporias of Closure”, complicates this idea, arguing that modernist novels do not display a lack of closure so much as an irresolvable yet productive tension, or aporia, between openness and closedness. When taking a closer look at representative examples (in this lecture, the works of James Joyce and Flann O’Brien), the often-neglected complex interplay between closure and what Barbara Herrnstein Smith terms “anti-closure” in modernist novels becomes apparent. Drawing on recent work in new modernist studies by Rebecca Walkowitz and Douglas Mao, Sean Latham and Gayle Rogers and others, the lecture investigates how thinking through modernist “aporias of closure” – a phrase coined by J. Hillis Miller in a more general context – can help us to critically re-investigate modernism as a concept. There will be wine, cheese, and nibbles to keep us sustained on more than art and modernism! For more information on the event, our speaker, and MSI more generally, please see our website at https://modstudiesireland.wordpress.com/ or get in touch at modstudiesireland@gmail.com.

On Producing: Industry, Infrastructure and Cultures of Change
2019-02-25 | O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, NUI galway
This event investigates the role of the producer and the processes of production with a particular emphasis on how change can be facilitated to occur. The primary analysis is directed at producing for theatre and performance, but takes account of the intersections and relationships with the wider creative arts industry. This event is intended to examine producing from multiple perspectives and areas of expertise, including the history of producing, networks and training, hosting and touring, festivals and events, budgets and financial planning, the impact of identity politics at policy and decision-making level, and the development of storytelling content.
SCHEDULE
Morning Workshop 11am – 1pm: A Producer’s Toolkit
Workshop Facilitators: Dr Mairead Ni Chronin, Moonfish Theatre
Jane Daly, Irish Theatre Institute
1:00 -2:00 Break
2-3.30pm: On Producing Working Group 1
Chair: Dr Miriam Haughton
Lucy Kerbel, Director, Tonic Theatre UK
Una NicEoin, Executive Producer, Prime Cut Productions
Anne Clarke, Producer, Landmark Productions
3.30-3.45: Break
3.45 – 5.15: On Producing Working Group 2
Chair: Roisin Stack
Jen Coppinger, Head of Producing, Abbey Theatre
Louise Lowe, Co-Artistic Director, ANU Productions
Craig Flaherty, Cultural Producer, Galway 2020
5.30: Wine Reception and Book launch
Staging Trauma: Bodies in Shadow (Palgrave, 2018) by Miriam Haughton
Introduced by Prof Niamh Reilly (NUI Galway)
For more information on the event email miriam.haughton@nuigalway.ie’

Staging Trauma: Bodies in Shadow
2019-02-25 17:30 | O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, NUI Galway
Staging Trauma: Bodies in Shadow
Dr Miriam Haughton, Drama and Theatre Studies, NUI Galway
Nominated for the TaPRA Early Career Research Prize
Introduced by Louise Lowe (ANU Productions) and Dr Cathy Leeney (UCD)
Book Launch: Monday, 25 February 2019, 5.30pm, Foyer, O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance
Supported by the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies, the Moore Institute, Drama and Theatre Studies at NUI Galway, the Irish Society for Theatre Research, and the Feminist Storytelling Network
Reviews
‘nuanced, pertinent and timely’ Times Higher Education
‘a timely and significant book…Haughton skillfully weaves together scholarly sources, theatrical criticism, and personal reflection to draw the reader into an exploration of the complexities and ethics of staging traumatic experience’ New Theatre Quarterly
‘Haughton offers insight into the dislocated state of exile and its relation to trauma… a valuable provocation for students and scholars in theatre and performance’ Studies in Theatre and Performance

Policing Reform
2019-02-26 12:00 - 13:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
A Discussion with Members and Staff
of the Commission on the Future of Policing In Ireland
Prof. Donncha O’Connell
Helen Ryan
Sinéad Ryan

Book Launch
2019-02-26 17:00 - 19:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Essays by an Irish Rebel-Revolution,Politics and Culture
Translations from Irish of Liam Ó Briains Essays 1934-1968
by Eoin Ó Dochartaigh
Launched by Prof Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh(History), with Dr. John Cunningham (History) and Aodh Ó Coileáin (NUIG/ Taibhdhearc)

Introduction to Research Data Management - Digital Scholars' Workshops
2019-02-27 12:00 - 13:00 | The Moore Institute Seminar Room G010 Ground floor The Hardiman Research Building, Ireland
Introduction to Research Data Management and related supports at NUI Galway – Trish Finnan, G010, 12-1pm Wednesday 27th February
Research data management is an integral part of the research process. Increasingly research data management plans and open access to research data is required by funders. The advantages cited include the potential for verification and re-use of research data, continuity of research as staff/researchers change, data sharing and collaboration, research visibility, impact and citation.
This session will highlight related institutional, national and EU policy, typical research data management activities, the FAIR principles, and supports at NUI Galway.
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.

Graduate Research Seminars in History, 2019
2019-02-27 16:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Prof. Glenda Gilmore (Yale / Mary Ball Washington Visiting Prof, UCD)
The Nazis and Dixie: European Fascism and Southern Racism Compared.
(Followed by book-launch for Drs C. Smith & J. Regan)

Agrarian Reform and Resistance in Age of Globalisation The Euro-American World and Beyond, 1780-1914
2019-02-27 17:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
You are cordially invited to the launch of
Agrarian Reform and Resistance in Age of Globalisation
The Euro-American World and Beyond, 1780-1914
(Routledge, 2019)
Edited by Joe Regan and Cathal Smith
The book will be launched by Prof. Glenda Gilmore

Brexit and the Future of British-Irish Relations
2019-02-28 - 2019-03-01 | The O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance at NUI Galway, Ireland
Update: Audio recordings of the conference sessions are now available

The Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame, the Moore Institute at NUI Galway, and the Mitchell Institute at Queen’s University Belfast present Brexit & the Future of British-Irish Relations.
SCHEDULE
Thursday 28 February
Location: O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance, NUI Galway.
9:30 – 10:00am Registration
10:00 – 11:30am PANEL I: The European Project
Professor Mary Daly (UCD)
Professor Kevin O’Rourke (Oxford)
Professor Dan Carey (NUIG)
11:30 – 12:00pm Coffee Break
12:00 – 1.30pm PANEL 2: Politics & Populism
Dr Steve Aiken (UUP MLA)
Tony Connelly (RTE)
Brendan Flynn (NUIG)
Dr Niall Ó Dochartaigh (NUIG)
1.30 – 3.30pm Lunch
Location: O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance, NUI Galway.
3.30 – 5pm PANEL 3: British-Irish Trade
Professor Alan Ahearne (NUIG)
Professor Kate Kenny (NUIG)
Owen Brennan (Devenish Nutrition)
John McGrane (British Irish Chamber of Commerce)
6pm Q&A with Vice President of the European Parliament Mairéad McGuinness
Location: O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance, NUI Galway.
Friday 1 March
Location: O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance, NUI Galway.
9.30 – 10:00am Coffee
10:00 – 11:30am PANEL 4: Northern Ireland, the border, & the Good Friday Agreement
Professor Ben Tonra (UCD)
Dr Katy Hayward (QUB)
Carlo Trojan (Former Secretary-General EU Commission)
Professor Mary Murphy (UCC)
Professor David Phinnemore (QUB)
11:30 – 12pm Coffee Break
12:00 – 1.30pm PANEL 5: The Future of British-Irish Relations
Professor Jennifer Todd (UCD)
Representative from the British Embassy
Dr Etain Tannam (TCD)
Angela Knight (CBE) (UK Office of Tax Simplification)

To Register please click the following https://www.eventbrite.com/e/brexit-the-future-of-british-irish-relations-tickets-56103113924

Graduate Research Seminars in History, 2019
2019-03-06 16:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Jane O’Brien (NUI Galway)
‘Important or exceptional occurrences’ – An analysis of Managers’ Diaries and other correspondence from the Irish Industrial School system : 1868 – 1920.

Managing your Research Profile, Open Access Publishing, ARAN, and Data Management
2019-03-07 11:00 - 13:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
The session will be broken down into the following,
Open Access publishing and ARAN (30 minutes presentation) – Trish
Managing your Research Profile (30 minutes presentation) – Rosie
Introduction to Research Data Management (30 minutes presentation) – Trish
Questions (15 minutes)

Personal Development Planning(1)
2019-03-07 14:00 - 16:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
This workshop is designed to help researchers plan career strategies that will allow them to take charge of their career. It will provide insight into how you can translate your existing skills to various career pathways and identify any gaps in your skill set.
NB: Bring laptop/Ipad if possible.
To register for event please see: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/individual-development-planning-researchers-tickets-57803939138

Camps a Talk by Sean Murphy
2019-03-08 12:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Occidentalism in the West

EDEN BLOG LAUNCH!
2019-03-08 13:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Come along at lunchtime this Friday to the launch of the revamped bilingual Trácht ar Thráchtais/ Thesis Talk blog for PhD and Post Doc researchers. We are delighted to welcome traditional musicians Dr. Cassie-Smith Christmas, Dr Deirdre Ní Chonghaile, John Singleton and Aisling Ní Churraighín. Bring your lunch or your instrument and enjoy the tunes and chats!
Tá áthas mór orainn Trácht ar Thráchtais/ Thesis Talk, blag dátheangach do thaighdeoirí dochtúireachta agus iardhochtúireachta a sheoladh ag am lóin Dé hAoine, 8ú Márta. Beidh seisiún ceoil againn leis an Dr. Cassie-Smith Christmas, an Dr. Deirdre Ní Chonghaile, John Singleton agus Aisling Ní Churraighín. Tóg leat do lón nó do ghléas agus baint sult as an cheol agus as an chuideachta!
Fáilte roimh chách!

Book launch: The Mouth of the Earth by Manuel Rivas, translated by Lorna Shaughnessy
2019-03-11 13:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
Launch of New Translation Research Group: Crosswinds: Irish and Galician Poetry and Translation https://mooreinstitute.ie/research-group/crosswinds-irish-and-galician-poetry-and-translation/
Both will be launched by Prof Louis de Paor.

‘Little Things Matter: Nanoscience, Electronics and the Brain’ by Dr. Jessamyn Fairfield
2019-03-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

Heritage Ireland 2030,Research and Heritage Workshop NUIG
2019-03-13 12:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
12:45 Welcome (preceded by light lunch from 12:00)

Cathal O’Donoghue, Dean, College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Celtic Studies
Daniel Carey, Director, Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies

13:00 Panel discussion 1: Public participation, well-being and shared stewardship

Gesche Kindermann & Caitriona Carlin: Natural heritages, community, and human health
Maggie Ronayne: Working with communities and their cultural heritages
Claire Nolan: Landscape and well-being
Catherine Morris: Human Rights and Feminism: archive, memory, practice

14:10 coffee break
14:40 Panel discussion 2: Public participation, education, dissemination and access

Sharon Flynn: Open Research and Wikimedia
Rióna Ní Fhrighil: Linguistic landscapes and literary heritage
Geraldine Robbins: Public participation in Irish public sector contexts
Su-ming Khoo: Participation, rights-based approaches, potential conflicts & resolutions

15:20 Panel discussion 3: Heritage resilience

Kevin Lynch: Climate change and heritage resilience
Dorothy Ní Uigín: Language planning
Kieran Walsh: Aging and place

Falling star narratives in Hollywood and British film industries, 1950-2019-By Flavia Soubiran
2019-03-13 14:00 - 15:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Key in the history of cinema, the ageing star is a figure of media obsolescence that carries the memory of a bygone era of filmmaking, awakening in the viewer nostalgia and anxiety, which the film industry continues to capitalize on. Building on her doctoral findings, Flavia’s research aims to analyze the strategies specific to the media of film in cultivating, subverting or reinscribing traditional tropes associated with contemporary ageing female stardom. This lecture will address the performativity of ageing in Hollywood and British film productions, raising issues about gendered socio-cultural constructions (Morganroth Gullette, 2004, 2011) and the masquerade of ageing (Woodward, 2006) in contemporary western society. All through classical Hollywood to the end of the Golden Age, movie stars (Bette Davis, Judy Garland, Rosalind Russell) displayed old age as an artistic act, an award-winning performance and a grandiose masquerade. The star’s ageing process is insistently narrated and staged as a grotesque, spectacular show. This characteristic treatment is questioned in a classical Hollywood reflexive sub-genre: the melodrama of the falling star. American and European directors are now reviving the falling star melodramatic themes in a contemporary context. To illustrate this rising melodramatic trend, this lecture will focus on the following performances by American and British ageing stars: Robin Wright in The Congress (2013), Julianne Moore in Maps to the Stars (2014), Juliette Binoche in Clouds of Sils Maria (2014), Meryl Streep in Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), Annette Bening in Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool (2017), Kate Winslet in Wonder Wheel (2017) and Renée Zellweger in Judy (2019).
You are invited next Wednesday at 2 pm for a 30 min talk and short screening. There will be a period for discussion over tea and cookies !

Graduate Research Seminars in History, 2019
2019-03-13 16:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Dr Cristina Bon (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan).
‘The President Matters’: John Janney and the Virginia Secession Convention
(February-April 1861).

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.

"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.

'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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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
