Moore Institute

NUIG Classics book launch De origine scoticae linguae, a new edition by Pádraic Moran of a seventh-century Irish scholarly text on the origins of the Irish language.
2019-05-14 17:00 (Europe/Dublin) | The staff Club, NUIG
To be launched by Prof. Dáibhí Ó Cróinín.
All welcome. (Refreshments will be served.)

De Origine Scoticae Linguae (O’Mulconry’s Glossary): An early Irish linguistic tract, edited with a related glossary, Irsan, Corpus Christianorum, Lexica Latina Medii Aevi 7 (Turnhout, Brepols: 2019)
A new edition of the earliest etymological study of a European vernacular language.
De Origine Scoticae Linguae (also known as O’Mulconry’s Glossary) is a text originating in seventh-century Ireland that provides etymologies for c. 880 Irish words, mostly drawn from Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Its Latin prologue declares its affiliation to the Graeco-Roman linguistic tradition, claiming an origin for the Irish language in the Greek dialects Attic, Doric and Aeolic. The glossary attests to the transmission and reception of the Latin grammatical tradition in Ireland and shines light in particular on the Irish knowledge of Greek and Hebrew. The text also represents a milestone in the history of European linguistics, as the earliest etymological study of a European vernacular language.
The glossary was published once before, by Whitley Stokes in 1898. This new edition provides the first translation and textual commentary, clarifying the sense of difficult entries and discussing sources. The introduction analyses the structure and contents, origins and development, linguistic issues, and relationships to other texts. The text is edited here along with a shorter related glossary of 232 entries, entitled Irsan, which includes shared material and sheds further light on its development.

Cultural Climates - Public Seminar - 'Fostering Art for Sustainability - Time for a New Cultural Policy?'
2019-05-14 16:00 - 18:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Iain Biggs, Flight/Paths: (Her bones…) 2018.
Cultural Climates is a two-part lecture and public forum which explores how research and policy in relation to climate change can be engaged with across the cultural and arts sectors in Ireland today. In particular, it explores how culture and the arts are key to addressing issues associated with the climate emergency, and how the arts and sustainability sectors need to be more integrated in their approach to addressing social, political and environmental challenges in the Age of the Capitalocene. The presentations from Dr Iain Biggs and Dr Cathy Fitzgerald will be followed by a public forum and discussion on what role the arts and cultural sectors can, and need to, play in addressing the issues of ecological crisis in this a time of climate emergency.
Cultural Climates: This public seminar emerges from research, teaching and public engagement events in the areas of Irish Studies, Art, Geography and socially-engaged research developed between Dr Nessa Cronin at NUI Galway and Professor Karen E. Till and Professor Gerry Kearns at Maynooth University since 2012.
Supported by the Centre for Irish Studies, Moore Institute, and the Research Support Scheme, CASSCS, NUI Galway, 2018-19 and the Irish Research Council’s Creative Connections Scheme. In association with the EUGEO International Conference and the Conference of Irish Geographers, NUI Galway, 15-18 May 2019.

GREEN THINKING: HOW 20TH CENTURY BRITISH ENVIRONMENTAL LITERATURE SHAPES THE STORY OF CLIMATE CHANGE
2019-05-14 14:00 - 16:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
The Gender ARC (Gender, Discourse and Identity) at the Moore Institute presents
DR KELLY SULTZBACH, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, LA CROSSE
US Fulbright Scholar through the Fulbright Inter-country Program

This talk considers how the experience of a muddy, apocalyptic war and the metroland octopus of suburban development influenced the pastoral imagination of environmental writing between the wars. It addresses popular literature and nature writing, much of it penned by veterans of the First World War, including Edmund Blunden, J.B. Priestly, and R.C. Sherriff. Their stories raise messy questions about rural nostalgia, preservation and prejudice, as well as the fickleness of human nature when confronted with choices about our own consumerist desires and what is best for a thriving countryside. These stories are less engaged with the progressive posthumanism of contemporary scholarship; instead, they illuminate some of the more contested social struggles of 21st century climate change: What kinds of narratives motivate people to support environmental agendas? Are the reasons most of us love and cherish nature compatible with preserving it? How do we create stories that don’t just speak to fellow activists, but subtly, compellingly, begin to listen to and cultivate wider fields of green public thinking? Using examples from both my published work and new research, this talk will explore the continued relevance of environmental modernism to a 21st century Anthropocene awareness.

Phantom Islands of the North Atlantic
2019-05-13 11:00 | Hardiman Research Building Room G011, Ireland
In this talk award-winning poet and practice-led researcher J. R. Carpenter will present her research on an Island of Demons which appeared on maps off Newfoundland in the early 1500s. This research informs her current research at the Moore Institute on the islands of St Brendan and Hy Brasil.

MSCA Individual Fellowships 2019
2019-05-10 09:30 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Dr. Geraldine Canny, NCP Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, and Dr. Emmett Marron, succesful MSCA Fellow, will give advice and tips for applicants submtting to the upcoming MSCA Individual Fellowship call closing on the 11th of September 2019.
The presentations will start at 9:30am, followed by a Q&A, with the session finishing at 11:00am.
This opportunity is not to be missed if you are preparing or mentoring an applicant planning to submit for funding under the 2019 MSCA call.
Places are limited. Pre-Booking is essential to ensure your place. This event is organised by the Moore Institute & the Research Office.

Gaelic Games on Film: From silent films to Hollywood hurling, horror and the emergence of Irish cinema-by Seán Crosson
2019-05-09 17:30 | Huston Main, Huston School of Film and Media
Introduced by Professor Philip Dine
All welcome

This study provides the first major monograph examination of filmic representations of Gaelic games, charting these representations from the earliest years of the twentieth century, including silent films such as Knocknagow (1918) to more recent productions Michael Collins (1996) and The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006). Among the areas examined are newsreel depictions of Gaelic games; Hollywood’s fascination with hurling in the mid-20th century (including in the work of Oscar-winning director John Ford), which led to a range of productions featuring the sport culminating with the Oscar-nominated short Three Kisses (Paramount, 1955); the importance of the depictions of Gaelic games to the emergence of a distinctive Irish film culture post WWII; and the role of Gaelic games in contemporary cinema.
Seán Crosson is Co-Director of the MA (Sports Journalism and Communication) and Director of Graduate Research and Teaching in the Huston School of Film & Digital Media, National University of Ireland Galway. His previous publications include Sport and Film (Routledge, 2013) and (as co-editor) Sport, Representation and Evolving Identities in Europe (Peter Lang, 2010).

Modernist Studies Ireland Works in Progress
2019-05-09 16:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
Tom Walker, Trinity College Dublin
W.B. Yeats, Scholastic Aestheticism, and Cultural Authority in Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Chris Collins, University of Nottingham
‘The man went queer in his head’: Synge and the cultural politics of mental health, 1871-1909
Refreshments will be served!
[NB UPDATE: change of 2nd speaker & venue]
Join us for exiting talks by two current Moore Institute Visiting Fellows. Part of MSI’s Works in Progress series, these talks come ahead of the inaugural MODERNIST STUDIES IRELAND conference Fri 17 Sat 18 May 2019 in the Hardiman Research Building. Full programme to follow. https://modstudiesireland.wordpress.com/
Dr Tom Walker is Ussher Assistant Professor in Irish Writing at Trinity College Dublin.
Dr Walker’s monograph Louis MacNeice and the Irish Poetry of his Time was published 2015 by Oxford University Press. This drew on extensive archival research on both sides of the Irish Sea and the Atlantic to illuminate MacNeice’s considerable contact with Irish literary networks and with contemporaneous Irish poetry. It was awarded the 2015 Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on Literature by the American Conference for Irish Studies. Other publications include research on the work of John McGahern, the place of the literary within Northern Irish writing, the radio poetry of Richard Murphy, and Irish-British poetic relations at mid-century. He has also recently co-edited a special issue of the journal Modernist Cultures on ‘Collaborative Poetics’.
His current research project is provisionally entitled ‘Yeats and the Writing of Art’. It examines the work of W.B. Yeats through the prism of nineteenth and twentieth-century art writing – encompassing the many textual forms through which art spectatorship and writing were combined during the period, ranging from aesthetic philosophy to art history to exhibition reviews to ekphrastic poems. The project was supported by an Irish Research Council New Horizons Research Project Grant.
Dr Chris Collins is Assistant Professor of Drama at the University of Nottingham.
Dr Collins has published widely on Irish theatre, including two monographs on the work of Irish writer, J.M. Synge (Theatre and Residual Culture [Palgrave: 2016], and J.M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World [Routledge: 2016]). He is currently writing his third book entitled J.M. Synge and The Time of His Life, which considers how Synge’s writings offer an alternative social history of Ireland during the playwright’s lifetime. Synge witnessed and wrote about profound changes to Irish society and culture during his short lifetime: 1871-1909. This was a Victorian age of progress, and everything needed to be clocked: from the time it took the Galway train to travel to Dublin, to those cultures of the empire that had supposedly failed to evolve. Synge had a keen interest in how progress should be measured, and his plays and prose offer unique perspectives on the measurement of time and the modernisation of Irish society. Synge’s fascination with time also had a particular personal appeal. As early as 1899 Synge knew he was dying young. Immediately thereafter he set about travelling Ireland, writing prose, verse and plays about spaces and places that were rapidly changing in front of his eyes. A mixture of biography, social history and critical analysis of his plays and prose, the significance of this project is that it will explore how Synge staged and wrote about linear and non-linear time in the Ireland of his time, both as a reflection on modernisation and as a coping mechanism for the finiteness of time in his personal life.
Chris will be using his time at the Moore Institute to consult the digital archives of Synge’s diaries, journals and notebooks, as well as Abbey Theatre and Druid Theatre digital archives.
NB Dr Antonio Bibbò of the Unversity of Manchester, originally advertised as speaker, has kindly agreed to give a talk later in the academic year. He is currently completing a monograph titled Reception and Perception of Irish Culture in Early Twentieth-Century Italy: Imagining Ireland in Italy. During his time at the Moore Institute, Dr Bibbò intends to investigate understudied aspects of the literary relationship between Italy and Ireland at the beginning of the twentieth century.

The School of Humanities Equality, Diversity and Progression (EDP) Committee - 'Reflecting on past, present and ongoing issues'
2019-05-08 11:00 - 13:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
11.00: Introductory Remarks: Professor Felix Ó Murchadha, Head of the School of Humanities
11.05: Panel One: Precarious Work, Progression and Equality
Chair: Prof Lionel Pilkington
Speakers: Maggie Ronayne (SIPTU), Karen Walsh, Ciara Murphy (PhD representative), Dr Felicity Maxwell (Moore Institute), Eibhlín Seoighthe (SU)
11.55: Tea/Coffee
12.05: Panel Two: Gender, Disability and Minority Groups
Chair: Dr Andrew Ó Baoill
Speakers: Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley, Michelle Mitchell (School of Education), Dr Frances McCormack, Owen Mac an Bhaird (Mincéir Whiden Society)
12.45: Further Issues to be addressed from the floor, Moderator: Dr Fiona Bateman
Closing Remarks: Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley, Chair of the School of Humanities Equality, Diversity and Progression Committee
13.00: Refreshments and light lunch provided by the School of Humanities. The event was organised by the School of Humanities EDP committee.

ALL WELCOME – for further details contact sarahanne.buckley@nuigalway.ie

Public meeting about Galway city Irish Language Plan- Cruinniú poiblí faoi Phlean Gaeilge chathair na Gaillimhe
2019-05-07 19:30 | Seminar Rooms G010 & G011, Hardiman Research Building
A public meeting about the Galway City Irish Language Plan will be held on Tuesday May 7th at 7.30pm in rooms G010 & G011, Hardiman Research Building, National University of Ireland, Galway. The meeting aims to provide another chance to people in Galway to give their opinions about the Irish Language Plan being prepared by NUI Galway on behalf of Galway City Council and Gaillimh le Gaeilge. So that everyone can take part regardless of language background, two meetings will be held simultaneously, one in Irish and the other in English. All are welcome. More information: www.nuigalway.ie/gaeilgebheo

Reáchtálfar cruinniú poiblí faoi Phlean Gaeilge Chathair na Gaillimhe Dé Máirt 7 Bealtaine ag 7.30pm i seomraí G010 & G011, Áras Taighde Uí Argadáin, Ollscoil na hÉireann Gaillimh. Tá sé mar aidhm ag an gcruinniú deis eile a thabhairt do phobal na cathrach a dtuairimí a léiriú faoin bPlean Gaeilge atá á ullmhú ag OÉ Gaillimh ar son Chomhairle Cathrach na Gaillimhe agus Ghaillimh le Gaeilge. Ionas go mbeidh deis ag gach duine páirt a ghlacadh beag beann ar chúlra teanga, beidh dhá chruinniú ar siúl ag an am céanna, ceann i nGaeilge agus ceann i mBéarla. Tá fáilte roimh chách. Tuilleadh eolais: www.nuigalway.ie/gaeilgebheo

The Dark Stuff:Stories from the Peatlands
2019-05-07 16:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

Future Landscapes Workshop: Enhancing Seen & Unseen Landscapes with Mixed Reality
2019-05-07 - 2019-05-31 | Moore Institute, Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway, Galway
UPDATE: Applications for the fee-waiver scholarships available via the Moore Institute and Galway 2020 are now closed

Future Landscapes is an intensive four-week, full-time workshop created in conjunction with the School of Machines, Making and Make-Believe and Galway 2020.
The aim of the workshop is to allow participants to develop the skills to explore the use of immersive technologies, such as Virtual and Augmented Reality, within the context of Landscape, both seen and unseen. This may include, for example, the augmentation of physical landscapes, or creating immersive experiences related to social or political landscapes. Technical experience is not a prerequisite for participating in the course.
Overview
Compelling us all is an interest in creatively exploring vast landscapes in the physical world and of the mind while gaining an understanding of the potentials of augmented-, virtual-, and mixed reality through a myriad of critical, conceptual, and hands-on approaches.
Using technology to imagine unknown realities can inspire new ways of looking at the world. In designing new forms of interactive and tactile experiences, artistic creation and storytelling, what could we add or augment to our surroundings to develop new narratives about landscapes, be them physical, social, or mental, that permeate our lives? What forms of play and togetherness might we be able to create and sustain? Could thoughtful discourse on landscapes and realities empower us into making impactful change?
Course Description
Mixed Reality (MR) refers to a suit of technologies that anchors virtual objects in a space, allowing for the possibility of “real” interaction with those objects. With Augmented Reality (AR), in addition to superimposing images and 3D models over the camera feed, these toolkits offer the opportunity to map physical spaces, understand ambient lighting and track the position of a phone in space. Pokemon Go used these techniques to capture the public interest and brought AR into the mainstream, but it begs the question, what else can we do with this technology? In this class, we’ll explore the spectrum of what these tools have to offer.
These techniques are just a starting point for what may be possible. There is much experimentation to be done by utilising the other capabilities of handheld devices to stream live data, communicate with others, and incorporate information from built in sensors.
Although various types of augmented and virtual reality systems have existed for some time, recent advances in mobile technology platforms provide us more powerful ways of creating and sharing these experiences with a wider audience. So as the technology is advancing, what happens when we bring conceptual ideas and criticality to the fore?
The primary tool of this program will be Unity 3D. We will work with the ARKit and Vuforia libraries. As we engage the potential of these new tools, we will also take a critical perspective discussing the shortcomings and challenges of future technologies.
In this course, you will be introduced to:

Critical and conceptual development of projects *
Creative development with Unity3D *
Scripting in Unity3D to create interactivity *
Introduction to ARKit (iOS) and Vuforia *
Attaching virtual objects to real image markers *
Creating both AR and VR experiences *
Recording and placing sounds inside a virtual AR space *
Designing an AR space that can be shared and explored with multiple people at the same time *
Building mixed reality experiences *
An amazing network and community of like-minded creative beings and potential future collaborators

* No previous experience necessary
Course Outline
Week 1: Introductions, concepts, narratives, play, and critical discourse.
Week 2: Tools and techniques for creating interactive experiences in Unity
Week 3: Advanced tools and techniques for creating interactive experiences in Unity. Adding physicality into our work through props and found artefacts.
Week 4: Preparing talks, presentations, and Mixed Reality experiences for final showcase open to the public
Who is this program for?
This workshop is geared toward anyone involved in creative projects (such as architects, designers, makers, artists, musicians, performers) and members of the arts and humanities research community, that wish to begin incorporating mixed reality experiences into their work or practice.
This course approaches mixed reality from an introductory level. A basic knowledge of programming (in any language/platform) is encouraged, *but not required*.
Application Process
Participation in the course is subject to an application process and interview, which will be conducted by the School of MA.
An online application form for the programme, and details of fees for participation in this 4-week full-time course are available on the course registration page.
NUI Galway Scholarship Opportunities
For staff, students and researchers currently affiliated with the College of Arts at NUI Galway, there are a number of fee-waiver scholarships available. These scholarships are generously funded through a HEA project on “Digital Literacy in Irish Humanities”. You must indicate on the application form if you wish to be considered for one of these scholarships.
A number of fee-waiver scholarships are also available via Galway 2020 for professionals working in the Arts, technology, or research and living in Galway, Ireland. You can indicate on the application form if you wish to be considered for one of these scholarships.
Applications for these fee-waiver scholarships will close on February 28th
Questions
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact David Kelly (david.d.kelly@nuigalway.ie) at the Moore Institute, NUI Galway.

Joint Book Launch for Victoria Brownlee and Lindsay Reid
2019-05-02 17:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
All Welcome

Archives in the Digital Age - Digital Scholars' Workshop Series
2019-04-30 12:00 - 13:00 | The Moore Institute Seminar Room G010 Ground floor The Hardiman Research Building, Ireland
Archives in the Digital Age – balancing evolving expectations against the realities of resource allocation and legislation – Aisling Keane, G010, 12-1pm Tuesday, 30th April.

NUI Galway is rich in archival collections that provide primary source material for subjects that include the Irish language, the landscape of the West of Ireland, theatre and literary collections, political collections relating to Northern Ireland. Increasingly, we make material available digitally, and work with staff / researchers to maximise the value and impact of this investment. This can be through their use in teaching programmes, employing technologies available to us to conduct statistical analysis on their contents, and work with local partners on data visualisation tools. There is a greater expectation on archives and libraries to deliver on services like this.
This talk will give an overview of the landscape of digital archives projects in Ireland at the moment, specifically the types of resources and infrastructure these projects require, legislation such as copyright and data protection that influence these, and the types of organisations that fund these projects.
It will also present the resources and support available at NUI Galway for anyone interested in working with us on these projects.

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.

'Irish Country Furniture 1700-2000:Revising and Recycling'
2019-04-29 16:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
By Claudia Kinmonth Moore Institute Visiting Fellow

Poetry Reading 'Не надо людям с людьми на земле бороться. People on this earth don’t have to fight with each other. - Marina Tsvetaeva: from ‘I know the truth’ (1915)
2019-04-26 15:30 - 17:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
Potluck Eastern European and Slavic Poetry Reading Circle
Facilitated by Emily Tock, MLIS, MALP, Government of Ireland Post-graduate Scholar PhD student in the Discipline of English
As this is a potluck format, attendees are encouraged to bring their own favourite Eastern European and Slavic verse to share in this informal roundtable.
For more info, contact e.tock1@nuigalway.ie

Gizella Dömötör: Detail of Nagybánya, 1915.
https://www.hung-art.hu/frames-e.html?/english/a/anna/index.html

France / Algeria: Gender, Memory, Identity
2019-04-25 16:00 - 17:30 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
This panel discusses the relationship between gender, memory and national identity in cultural texts focusing on Franco-Algerian relations. The three speakers will situate specific literary texts and films within the broader contexts of French colonialism and decolonisation with a view to reflecting on the legacy of France’s colonial empire and on how cultural discourses surrounding l’Algérie française have alternately supported and challenged France’s perception of itself.
Aoife Connolly (TU Dublin): ‘Macho Men? Shifting Perceptions of Settler Identity Post-Algerian Independence’.
Barry Nevin (TU Dublin / Moore Institute Visiting Research Fellow): ‘(Re)Visions of the Outre-mer: Looking at the Male Imperial Gaze in Jacques Feyder’s Cinéma Colonial’.
Cliona Hensey (NUI Galway): ‘Transgenerational transmission and the “mnemonic imagination” in writing by descendants of Harkis’.
Mairéad Ní Bhriain (Mary Immaculate College, UL): ‘L’Affaire Djamila Boupacha: Torture and the assertion of the female voice during the Algerian War’.
Chair: Prof. Philip Dine (French, NUI Galway)

‘The Letters of John McGahern: 1970’
2019-04-25 16:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Professor Frank Shovlin
of the Institute for Irish Studies, Liverpool
‘The Letters of John McGahern: 1970’

‘Researching rural housing: with an artist in residence’.
2019-04-25 15:00 - 16:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
by Dr. Menelaos Gkartzios, Newcastle University, and Dr. Julie Crawshaw, Northumbria University, UK, Moore Visiting Fellows.
Menelaos Gkartzios and Julie Crawshaw present their interdisciplinary collaboration across artistic research, planning and rural studies. We draw on a collaborative art residence programme between Newcastle University and Berwick Visual Arts, an arts organisation in the North East of England, which invited an artist to respond to a highly contentious topic in rural England: housing development. The ambition for the residency was, firstly, to provide new perspectives on rural housing research, and, secondly, to provide a space for engagement between the local community, planners and academics. Through our research, we explore how the resident artist, Sander Van Raemdonck’s, worked towards these ambitions and we offer original insights on how to develop interdisciplinary research with artists.

Dr Menelaos Gkartzios is Senior Lecturer in Planning & Development at Newcastle University’s Centre for Rural Economy in the UK. He has been educated both in Greece and Ireland, and received his PhD in Planning at University College Dublin. His research has focused on mobilities and social change, rural housing, the relationship between art and development, and international comparative research. He has published articles in the Journal of Rural Studies, Sociologia Ruralis, Regional Studies, Geoforum, Population, Space & Place, World Development and Land Use Policy amongst other journals. He has co-edited the first Routledge Companion to Rural Planning and sits on the editorial board of Sociologia Ruralis. Menelaos has been Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo in Japan, where he taught a module on ‘Rural Planning and Development’ and conducted research in relation to art festivals in rural Japan. As part of his engagement practice, he leads a collaborative rural art residency programme with Berwick Visual Arts, and he sits on the board of directors of the Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival in Northumberland, England. He currently leads a research network between Newcastle and Tokyo Universities on contemporary arts practice and rural development, funded by the UK’s Research Councils (ESRC and AHRC). At Moore Institute he will be working with co-Visiting Research Fellow Dr Julie Crawshaw on artistic research and rural sustainability questions. Together they will present aspects of their collaborative trans disciplinary research on ‘doing art in the country’.

Dr Julie Crawshaw is Senior Lecturer in Material Culture in the Arts Department at Northumbria University. She has an interdisciplinary background spanning fine art and international development with an anthropological PhD in Planning and Landscape from Manchester University. Her ethnographic research explores the potential for art and artistic inquiry with particular focus on its contributions across planning practice, feminist and Deweyan pragmatism, and cultural management. Funded by the Swedish Research Council, she is currently Co Investigator of ‘Stretched: Expanding Notions of Artistic Practice through Artist-led Culture’ which is a curatorial-ethnographic project exploring expanded forms of art production. Her publications include articles in Landscape Research, Journal of Rural Studies and the Anthropological Journal of European Cultures, as well as a number of sector research and evaluation reports for arts organisations, arts funding councils and local authority consortia. Before academia she worked in arts management. This professional practice informs her teaching as Programme Leader of MA Creative and Cultural Industries Management which is part of Northumbria’s innovative research and teaching collaboration with BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art through BxNU Institute.

The Counter-Reformation and Stuart Loyalism in the poetry of Adam King
2019-04-24 14:30 - 15:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
By Moore Visiting Fellow David McOmish

This talk will discuss the life and literary works of Adam King, an academic, writer, late-sixteenth century agent of the counter-reformation, and early-seventeenth century Stuart Loyalist. A committed follower of Mary, Queen of Scots in Scotland and the catholic cause across Europe, King returned to Scotland in the late 16th century and became a devoted follower of Mary’s son, King James VI and I. The poet William Drummond of Hawthornden referred to King as the most learned man Scotland ever produced. Upon his return to Edinburgh, King, a former professor of mathematics and philosophy at the Collège de Lisieux, University of Paris (1585-1595), established the ideas and methods of the new sciences at the University of Edinburgh in the lead up to the Enlightenment. A retrospective damnatio memoriae, instigated by Calvinists in Edinburgh from 1645 onwards, mean that King is to this day, remarkably, a largely unknown figure.
This talk will be part of a series on Scots and Irish Latin Literature and Literary culture at the Moore Institute on 24th of April.
Details here: http://cas.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/files/2019/03/programme-SNLS.pdf

SILAS 2019 Comparisons, Conflicts, and Connections: Ireland and Latin America in the Past, Present, and Future
2019-04-23 - 2019-04-26 | Trinity College Dublin

Sport and Society in Global France: Nations, Migrations, Corporations-by Cathal Kilcline
2019-04-17 13:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
Introduced by Professor Philip Dine
All welcome

This book provides new insights into the evolution of the global sporting spectacle over the last thirty years through an analysis of star athletes, emblematic organisations and key locations in French sport, highlighting how sport has influenced (and been implicated in) debates over nationhood, immigration, commemorative practice, and de-industrialisation.
REVIEW
‘This book should become required reading for academics and students of French sports studies wishing to bring themselves up to date with current thinking about developments in French sport, culture and society in the last two decades.’ Geoff Hare, Newcastle University
AUTHOR
Cathal Kilcline teaches French in the west of Ireland. Whilst researching this book, Cathal was supported by the Irish Research Council and the EU Commission (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions) through a CARA Postdoctoral Mobility Fellowship.

“Bridging the care gap: An evaluation of palliative day-care services”.
2019-04-16 13:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
We are delighted that Dr Catherine Anne Field from the Health Promotion Research Centre at NUI Galway will deliver the final lunch-time seminar of the series.

Palliative day care services provide individual, patient centred and holistic care acting on domains including but not restricted to medical models of care. Day-care is traditionally an under researched area; it can also be difficult to evaluate from the patient perspective. This study adopted a mixed methods approach that used patients and staff input to design and deliver a study that evaluated day care services. Researchers found that day-care was of great importance to the patients and their families, particular aspects of the service that were seen to be crucial were the socio-medical model, the wide variety of therapeutic services, provision of transport and the social supportive environment.
Principal Investigators: Dr Catherine Anne Field and Dr Geraldine Mc Darby, Health Promotion Research Centre, NUI Galway
Collaborators: Galway Hospice, Sora Abdul Fatta (NUIG Student Researcher)

Brexit and Ireland's Global Footprint to 2025: Doubling Ireland's Impact
2019-04-12 11:00 - 13:30 | Ground Floor, Aula Maxima
At this symposium the Secretary General of Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade, Niall Burgess and John Concannon, Director General, Global Ireland will discuss Brexit and the Government’s strategy for Global Ireland – Ireland’s Global Footprint to 2025: Doubling Ireland’s Impact.
Organised in association with Moore and Whitaker Institutes, this symposium offers a unique opportunity to learn about Brexit and Irish national policy to increase our presence in the world over the next decade. Participants will have a chance to engage with the policy makers who will deliver the Government’s vision for expanding Ireland’s role in Europe, the United Nations and in the world at large in the coming years.
All welcome!
Please Register Here
Schedule
11.00 am– Registration with Tea/Coffee
11.30 am–
Professor Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh NUI Galway President – Welcome Remarks
John Concannon, Director General, Global Ireland – Introduction to Global Ireland
Niall Burgess, Secretary General, DFAT – Address on Ireland’s strategy for Global Ireland and Brexit

Panel Discussion chaired by Professor Alan Ahearne, Director, Whitaker Institute for Innovation & Societal Change, NUI Galway
Panel Members:
Professor Siobhán Mullally, Director, Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway
Dr Brendan Flynn, School of Political Science & Sociology, NUI Galway
Dr Kevin O’Sullivan, School of Humanities, NUI Galway
Questions & Answers and Closing Remarks moderated by Professor Daniel Carey, Director, Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies.
1.00 pm – Buffet lunch

Geopolitics and Justice Cluster Seminar
2019-04-11 16:00 | B.S. Mac Aodha Seminar Room 113, Discipline of Geography, NUI Galway, Ireland
ASEAN, disaster discourses and the construction of ‘risk’
Prof. Lorraine Elliott
ANU, Canberra, Australia
Abstract
This paper presents some (early) work in progress that examines how disaster discourses in Southeast Asia constitute a particular version of human (in)security and the human ‘insecure’ through the construction of ideas and assumptions about ‘risk’. It begins with a brief overview of the institutional density and interplay of regional disaster governance in the ASEAN context. The presentation then explores how discourses and techniques of disaster governance rely on a scientific model that privileges risk over vulnerability. Such a model informs conceptions of agency that run the risk of disempowering those who are most insecure in disaster contexts.
Bio
Lorraine Elliott is Professor Emerita in International Relations in the Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs at the Australian National University. Her research and publications range across global and regional (Asia Pacific) governance, human security, global environmental politics and earth system governance, the UN system, and cosmopolitan ethics. She is a past Chair of the Board of the Academic Council on the UN System, a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the Earth System Governance project, the international advisory committee for the Platform on Disaster Displacement, the international advisory board for the Varieties of Peace program based at the University of Umeå (Sweden) and the international network of experts of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime. She is currently working on the third edition of her Global Politics of the Environment book, trying hard to finalise a book on the political economy of black trade in transnational environmental crime, and thinking about what her next book – on human security, the ethics of solidarity and techniques of governance – might look like.

RTÉ Brainstorm Media Workshop with Editor, Jim Carroll
2019-04-11 14:00 - 16:30 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
RTÉ Brainstorm Media Workshop with Editor, Jim Carroll
If you’re looking to find a wider audience for your research and expertise, this is for you.
RTÉ Brainstorm has already proven to be a big success for NUI Galway academics and researchers.
Since the project went live in September 2017, over 160 pieces by NUI Galway academics and researchers have been published on the RTÉ Brainstorm website. See link here: https://www.rte.ie/eile/nui-galway/
RTÉ Brainstorm editor Jim Carroll will hold informal workshops on how the site works, what editors like him look for in stories from academics and researchers, how to communicate with the media about your work and how to frame research insights in a way that engages the public.
The workshop will look at ways to unlock the news value of your work and provide some pointers about how to approach writing for the public.
Jim will also be available on the day for one-to-one pitching sessions –please notify Gwen in advance of these requests to allow time.
Hourly morning sessions will take place from 10am-1pm in Room 125 Boardroom, Ground Floor of the Research and Innovation Centre.
Hourly afternoon sessions will take place from 2pm-4.30pm in the Bridge Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building.

Fantastique Changelings: liminality and narrative technique in Irish Changeling Tales
2019-04-11 14:00 | Aras na Gaeilge room 204, NUIG
Presentation By Moore Visiting Fellow Dr Audrey Robitaillié
This talk analyses changeling narratives in Irish folklore, both in English and in Irish, and focuses particularly on the theme of liminality in the Irish changeling tradition. To do so, it centres on folk narratives about humans taken away to the Otherworld by fairies, who leave behind a substitute to replace the stolen person. The liminality of these accounts, expressed through characters and settings, is also studied through its relationship with the narrative technique of the fantastique, used to engage the audience with the story and play with the listeners’ fears.

The Battle of Jadotville, 1961.
2019-04-09 17:00 | 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
