Moore Institute

Moore Institute Visiting Fellow Lecture
2017-01-11 09:30 - 12:00 UTC | Room 203,Old Moore Seminar Room, Concourse, NUIG
Dr Trisia Farrelly (Massey University, New Zealand) in collaboration with Dr Frances Fahy and Dr Tom Doyle (NUIG) present
The Interdisciplinary Plastic Waste Project
Planning interdisciplinary plastic waste research for an international project

The School of Political Science and Sociology and the Moore Institute present a workshop ' Why Higher Education still matters: a conversation about what we do everyday' with Les Back (Goldsmiths, University of London) and Kevin Ryan (School of Political Science and Sociology, NUIG)
2016-12-12 14:00 - 16:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Is a university education still relevant? What are the forces that threaten it? Should academics ever be allowed near Twitter? In Academic Diary (Goldsmiths Press 2016), Les Back has chronicled three decades of his academic career, turning his sharp and often satirical eye to the everyday aspects of life on campus and the larger forces that are reshaping it. In this session he will talk to Kevin Ryan about the writing of this book focusing on its key question – why Higher Education still matters. Commenting on topics that range from the impact of commercialization and fee increases to measurement and auditing research, the diary offers a critical analysis of higher education today. At the same time, it is a passionate argument for the life of the mind, the importance of collaborative thinking, and the reasons that scholarship and writing are still vital for making sense of our troubled and divided world. Les will read some excerpts from his diary and have a discussion with Kevin about some of the issues it raises, while also offering an opportunity for the audience to be part of the conversation.

Book Launch 'He Was Galway - Máirtín Mór McDonogh, 1860 - 1934' by Jackie Uí Chionna
2016-12-08 18:00 - 19:30 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Four Courts Press
cordially invites you to the launch of

He was Galway
Máirtín Mór McDonogh, 1860–1934
Jackie Uí Chionna

at 6 p.m. on Thursday 8 December 2016
in Room G010, The Moore Institute Seminar Room,
The Hardiman Building,
NUI Galway,
Galway

Prof. Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh will officially launch the book.
Refreshments will be provided.

RSVP (acceptance only) Four Courts Press | info@fourcourtspress.ie
To learn more about this book, visit the Four Courts Press website at http://www.fourcourtspress.ie/news/book-launch-he-was-galway/

Irish-Jewish Literature Exhibition
2016-12-07 18:00 - 20:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
We would be delighted if you could attend the launch of an exhibition in the James Hardiman Library on Irish-Jewish Literature. The exhibition results from an AHRC-funded collaboration between NUI Galway and Ulster University. It will be launched by Mr Stanley Price, author of Somewhere to Hang My Hat: An Irish Jewish Journey and James Joyce and Italo Svevo: The Story of a Friendship.

Launch of Irish Research Council-funded website - www.ClassicIrishPlays.com
2016-12-05 17:30 - 19:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
This website was created by Dr. David Clare as part of his recently-concluded, IRC-funded postdoctoral research project, “The Hibernicising of the Anglo-Irish Playwright”. That project was based in the Moore Institute at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
www.ClassicIrishPlays.com provides scholars, theatre practitioners, and the general public with invaluable biographical information related to the major Irish playwrights whose work has entered the public domain. It provides links to where the great scripts by these playwrights can be found online, and it features new digital editions of important plays that have never been previously digitised, or that are only available in digital form behind “pay walls”.
The website will be launched by Prof. Patrick Lonergan, Director of NUI Galway’s Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, on Mon., 5 December 2016 at 5.30pm in Room G010 of the Moore Institute (located just inside the Hardiman Research Building). At the event, there will be additional input from Prof. Dan Carey, Director of the Moore Institute; David Kelly, the Moore’s Research Technologist; and, of course, Dr. Clare himself.

IMBAS Conference 2016 'Transformation and Preservation in Late Antiquity and Middle Ages'
2016-12-02 14:30 - 2016-12-04 18:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Please see IMBAS 2016 Programme here.
Imbas accepts papers from all disciplines with a focus on any topic from Late Antiquity until the end of the Middle Ages.
The keynote lecture will be delivered by Dr Elva Johnston (UCD).

Digital Scholarship Seminar
2016-12-01 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Michael Hunter (Birkbeck College, University of London) ‘The Workdiaries of Robert Boyle: A Digital Edition and its Uses’
Also streamed live at https://www.facebook.com/nuigdss/

Gender ARC - #Feminism
2016-11-28 16:00 - 19:00 | Seminar Room GO11, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
GenderARC study break: play some games that highlight feminist issues!
We have several leaders, so we will be starting new games every 30-60 minutes between 4 and 7; feel free to drop in anytime and another game will start soon.
Knowledge has a way of sinking into our bodies; we may not even be aware of the way we interpret gender expression and gender roles.
#Feminism Nano-Games are a series of 30min to 60min games designed to help us explore and discuss the way we internalise and act on our embodied knowledge – and to think about the impact of our actions.
Some of the #Feminism games give everyone a role and then we play through a scene together. Some ask us to move together according to specific gendered rules, some ask us to build a woman by committee, some to guess what emotions people are trying to portray in a selfie. It’s amazing what people learn about themselves!
Play / Test is a project of Sarah Hoover, a PhD from Drama, Theatre & Performance, and is supported by the Irish Research Council. For more info: https://playtestgalway.wordpress.com,
s.hoover1@nuigalway.ie
#Feminism is written by feminists from 11 different countries. The October 2016 Play / Test event won the People’s Choice award at Gaelcon

Talk by Prof Scott Rettberg (Digital Culture, University of Bergen).
2016-11-25 10:00 - 12:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
‘Histories and Genres of Electronic Literature’

'Office Hours' Drop-In Service
2016-11-24 14:00 - 15:00, 2016-11-17 14:00 - 15:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
For Postgraduate Research students and academic staff with questions or ideas about:

Using digital technologies to support research
Communicating and promoting their work
Accessing funding to enable their work.

Meet with….

David Kelly, Research Technologist, Moore and Whitaker Institute.
Deirdre Flynn, Impact and Communications, Moore and Whitaker Institute
Martha Shaughnessy, Development Manager, Moore Institute.
Aisling Keane, Library Digital Publishing and Innovation.
Connell Cunningham, Library MarkerSpace
Angela Sice, Development Manager, Whitaker Institute.

Thursdays in November @ 2pm – 3pm in The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building.

History Graduate Research Seminars 2016 - 2017
2016-11-23 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Cathal Smith (NUIG) Irish Americans and American Slavery, 1815 – 1865.
All Welcome.

Infographics and Data Visualisation Workshop
2016-11-23 10:00 - 12:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
To register, please click here.
By Dr Deirdre Flynn (Moore Institute) and David Kelly (Research Technologist, Moore Institute).

Sibéal Conference 2016
2016-11-18 09:00 - 2016-11-19 18:00
Sibéal Conference 2016 on the theme of ‘Revolutionary Genders’.
To Register and full details see
https://revolutionarygenders.wordpress.com/home/

Discipline of Spanish introduces Roberta Bacic lecture on 'Arpilleras: Textile Language of Testimony, Resistance and Memory'
2016-11-17 17:00 - 19:00 | The Moore Institute Seminar Room G010 Ground floor The Hardiman Research Building, Ireland
Arpilleras: Textile Language of Testimony, Resistance and Memory.
Roberta Bacic will introduce the popular art form of ‘arpilleras’, pictures made from scraps of cloth, employed in Chile under Pinochet as a means of documenting human rights abuses by the regime, and bearing witness to censored acts of resistance. Her talk will follow the journey of this art form to sites of conflict around the world, from the Middle East to Northern Ireland, and describes some the ways in which it continues to be used as a form of testimony, protest and reconciliation.

Brief Biography for Roberta Bacic:
Roberta Bacic is a Chilean Human Rights advocate and researcher who since 2007 has curated more than 90 international exhibitions of arpilleras and associated events. Over time, these
exhibitions have expanded from arpilleras from Pinochet’s Chile to include textiles narratives of loss, resistance, protest and healing from around the world. You can access her work
http://cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttextiles/ which holds and documents
her Conflict Textiles collection.
She resides in Northern Ireland.

Infographics and Data Visualisation Workshop
2016-11-16 10:00 - 12:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
To register for this event click here
By Dr. Deirdre Flynn (Moore Institute) and David Kelly (Research Technologist, Moore Institute).

Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour and Class Conference - 'Ireland and the Wobbly World'
2016-11-11 14:00 - 2016-11-12 17:30
IRISH LABOUR RADICALS AND THE INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY
‘One Big Union’ was a motto of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), founded in Chicago in 1905. Reflecting disappointment with the achievements of political Labour, the IWW was ‘syndicalist’ in advocating that working people rely on militant trade unionism (and not politics) to create a fair society. Prominently associated with the IWW’s revolutionary ‘Wobbly’ wing were Cork-born Mother Jones, Tom Glynn of Gurteen, Co. Galway, and James Connolly, an IWW organiser in New York. ‘Big Jim’ Larkin gave a graveside oration for Joe Hill, best-known of the Wobbly martyrs.
This conference will examine the contribution of Irish people to the IWW in America, Australia and South Africa, and consider the influence of the IWW’s syndicalism on bodies like the Irish Transport & General Workers’ Union and the Irish Citizen Army.

IRISH CENTRE FOR THE HISTORIES OF LABOUR AND CLASS
NUI Galway
11-12 November 2016
In association with the 1916-2016: The Promise and Challenge of National Sovereignty conference

FRIDAY, 11 NOVEMBER, Hardiman Building, GO10
Panel 1, 2.00 pm: Chair: Sarah-Anne Buckley, ICHLC
Jim Larkin, Jack Carney and the American Irish Worker (1917), James Curry
Patrick J. Read’s ‘Irishness’ and the creation of the Wobbly mythos, Matthew White
Joe Hill and Ireland, Francis Devine
Panel 2: 3.45: Chair: Prof. Terrence McDonough, ICHLC
The rebel Irish and the IWW: the roots of American syndicalism, Kristin Lawler
Sacco and Vanzetti and the radical Irish world, Niall Whelehan
From socialist to syndicalist, to communist: the political development of William Z. Foster, 1904-1922, Liam Ó Discín
8 pm Function Room, John Keogh’s, Upper Dominick Street
‘Rebel Voices: Galway Wobbly Connections‘. Chair: Catherine Connolly TD
Peter Yorke: A Galway priest and the San Francisco labor movement, Tadhg Foley
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: a Galway rebel girl, Meredith Meagher
The syndicalist trajectories of Tom Glynn and Mary Fitzgerald, John Cunningham

SATURDAY, 12 NOVEMBER, Hardiman Building, GO10
Panel 3, 10.15 am. Chair: Jamie Canavan, NUI Galway
Connolly the Marxist socialist, but what sort? Bolshevik, Menshevik or Industrial Democrat? The ideological impact of the IWW, Manus O’Riordan
Industrial unionism and social democracy: Connolly as vector of organising principles, Gavin Mendel-Gleason
‘We Irish are a working race’: Connolly and Flynn in the United States, Stephen Thornton
Panel 4, 12.00, Chair: Mary Gibbons, Galway Council of Trade Unions
Captain Jack White: syndicalist? Leo Keohane
Syndicalism as a dirty word: press coverage of radical trade unionism in early twentieth century Ireland, Donal Fallon
Patrick Quinlan: nationalist or militant IWW member? Gerry Watts
Keynote address, 2.15 pm: Chair: Tish Gibbons, Siptu
‘Romances and erasures’, David Howell
Panel 5, 3.30 pm Chair: Jackie Uí Chionna, NUI Galway
American reactions to the 1916 Rising, Luke Gibbons
Rebel women and the IWW, Teresa Moriarty
The Irish and the Mooney case: a miscarriage of justice in California, John Borgonovo
Full Conference Programme available on https://ichlc.wordpress.com

Cutlure Within Dialogue East-West - International Conference on Cross-Cultural Philosophy
2016-11-11 09:30 - 17:30 | Hardiman Research Building Room G011, Ireland
International Research Group for Culture and Dialogue
www.irccd.org
Millennium Research Fund
Moore Institute, NUIG
Convener: G. Cipriani
9:30 Dr. Gerald Cipriani (Philosophy, NUI Galway)
“In Dialogue: Eastern and Western Thought”
10:15 Dr. Cosimo Zene (Religions and Philosophies, SOAS, University of London)
“The Risky Choice of Calling It World Philosophies: Beyond the Anglo-European Canon”
11:00 Coffee break
11:15 Prof. Tanehisa Otabe (Institute of Aesthetics, The University of Tokyo)
“An Iroquois in Paris and a Crusoe on a Desert Island: Kant’s Aesthetics and the Process of Civilization”
12:00 Dr. Adam Loughnane (Philosophy, University College Cork)
“Poetic Language in the Philosophy of Ueda Shizuteru and Martin Heidegger”
12:45 Lunch break
14:00 Prof. Anne Cheng (Intellectual History of China, Collège de France, Paris)
“Is the Dialogue of Cultures a Contemporary Myth?”
14:45 Prof. Wangheng Chen (Philosophy, Wuhan University, China)
“On Chinese Aesthetics: Interpretative Encounter between Taoism and Confucianism”
15:30 Tea break
15:45 Dr. Fang-Long Shih (Asian Research Centre, London School of Economics)
“Religion as a Vehicle in the Construction of National Identity: Taiwan and Ireland in Dialogue”
16:30 Dr. Martin Ovens (Wolfson College, University of Oxford)
“Resemblance and Reconstitution: Samkara and Skepsis”
17:15 Closing discussion

The US Election: What Just Happened?
2016-11-10 11:00 - 12:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The US Election: What Just Happened?

A Round Table Discussion

with
Daniel Carey (Moore Institute)
Kathleen Cavanaugh (Human Rights)
Jane Conroy (French)
Enrico Dal Lago (History)
Adrian Frazier (English)
Sean Ryder (English)
Mark Stansbury (Classics)
Ann Torres (Discipline of Marketing, College of BPPL)
and others.

Today!! Thursday, November 10, 11am Room G010 Hardiman Research Building

Launch of 'Earlier Latin Manuscripts Online Database'
2016-11-09 18:00 - 20:00 | Hardiman Research Building Room G011, Ireland
The new digital project will be launched by Prof. Ian Wood (Prof Emeritus of Early Medieval History, University of Leeds) at 6 p.m. Wednesday, 9 November, in G011.
The database provides tools for studying the scripts of the oldest Latin manuscripts. It is available online at elmss.nuigalway.ie

Italian Studies Seminar 'Tasso's epic poem and the crisis of Renaissance Literature' Renzo Bragantini, University of Rome
2016-11-09 17:00 - 18:00
School of Languages, Literatures & Culture, & The Moore Institute
Italian Studies Seminar
By a close reading of some pivotal episodes of Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata, as well as of some passages from his treatises (Discorsi dell’arte poetica; Discorsi del poema eroico), the lecture aims to point out how Tasso distances himself from some central issues of Renaissance literature. From a theoretical point of view, just to make an example, Tasso accepts with many distinctions the theory of imitation as it was carried out in the XVIth century. He also accepts the authority of Aristotle, but nevertheless he tries, as the so-called Lettere poetiche show at length, to escape some of the major Aristotle’s rules. But there is more to the issue, since in his poem Tasso tries to conflate unity and variety, emphasizing the latter. This is probably Tasso’s most important contribution to Renaissance literature. By choosing variety Tasso opts for a poem where love has a central and yet disturbing role, in no way lesser to war episodes. His option leads to a substantial imbalance, which the poet will try to capsize in the Gerusalemme conquistata.
As far as more general issues are concerned, in his poem Tasso seems to be doubtful about the possibility that humans can shape their destiny, and skeptical of human reason – which he often considers as deceitful – blaming love as a mental disarray, which diverts humans from their duties. Some of these stances are to be found also in Ariosto’s Orlando furioso, yet Tasso brings them to a break point. After Tasso’s work, nothing will be the same in late Renaissance literature.
RENZO BRAGANTINI is Full Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Rome, “La Sapienza”. He has taught at the universities of Macerata, Venezia, Potenza, and Udine. He has been appointed Visiting Professor in the following Universities: Yale, University of California Los Angeles, Johns Hopkins University, Universidade de São Paulo, University of Toronto. He is the author of Il governo del comico. Nuovi studî sulla narrativa italiana dal Tre al Cinquecento, Manziana (Roma), Vecchiarelli, 2014; and of, among others, the essays, I classici italiani nei libretti di Da Ponte, in Scrittori in musica. I classici italiani nel melodramma tra Seicento e Novecento, a cura di A. Rostagno e S. Tatti, Roma, Bulzoni, 2016 («Studi [e testi] italiani», XXXVI 2015), pp. 123-35; L’amicizia, la fama, il libro: sulla seconda epistola a Mainardo Cavalcanti, in Boccaccio 1313-2013, a cura di F. Ciabattoni, E. Filosa, K. Olson, Ravenna, Longo, 2015, pp. 107-15.
—
Professor Paolo Bartoloni
Head of Discipline, Italian
Arts Millennium Building
National University of Ireland, Galway
University Road, Galway
Ireland
Tel. +353 (0)91 492392
Fax. +353 (0)91 495501
E-mail: paolo.bartoloni@nuigalway.ie
Recent publications:
Objects in Italian Life and Culture: Fiction, Migration, and Artificiality (Palgrave, 2016)
Sapere di scrivere. Svevo e gli ordigni di La coscienza di Zeno (Edizioni Il Carrubo, 2015)

Ultan Lally: 'Thady O'Farrell, Dominican - the politics of mission and the Nine Years War, 1954 - 1963'
2016-11-09 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
History Graduate Research Seminar presents Ultan Lally ‘Thady O’Farrell, Dominican – the politics of mission and the Nine Years War, 1954 – 1963’.

Book Launch 'Philosophies du Voyage: visiter l'Angleterre aux 17e - 18e siècles' by Gabor Gelleri
2016-11-08 17:30 - 18:30 | The Moore Institute Seminar Room G010 Ground floor The Hardiman Research Building, Ireland
You are cordially invited to the Launch of a new book by former Moore Institute postdoctoral fellow, Gabor Gelleri: Philosophies du voyage: visiter l’Angleterre aux 17e-18e siècles (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2016)
Launched by Prof. Jane Conroy (French)
On Tuesday November 8, 5.30pm,
Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building G010
Refreshments served!

Conference: The Art of Travel 1500-1800: Invention, Tradition, Innovation
2016-11-07 09:00 - 2016-11-08 17:30 | The Moore Institute Seminar Room G010 Ground floor The Hardiman Research Building, Ireland
Moore Institute, National University of Ireland Galway
Organized by Daniel Carey daniel.carey@nuigalway.ie

Monday 7 November
9.00 Registration and welcome (with coffee)
9.30-11.00 Session 1
Edward Chaney (Southampton Solent University), ‘The Origins of the Grand Tour and the discovery of the arts’
Jean Boutier (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales), ‘Inventing the “Grand Tour”: an historiographical success story, between anticipation and nachleben’
11.00-11.30 coffee
11.30-13.00 Session 2:
Gabor Gelleri (Aberystwyth University), ‘Dealing with God, trading with men: functions of travel advice in abbé Pluche’s pedagogical bestseller’
Juliette Morice (Université du Maine, France), ‘Diderot in the apodemic tradition’
13.00-14.30 Lunch
14.30-16.00 Session 3:
Jan Papy (KU Leuven), ‘Renaissance Humanists travelling in Italy: Lipsius on Rome, reading and seeing’
Paola Molino (University of Munich), ‘”Regions are entire walls, stations are single shelves, colonies and appendix will integrate the regions”: travel and cataloguing in Central Europe, 1570-1670′
16.00-16.30 Coffee
16.30-17.15 Session 4:
Marie-Christine Gomez-Géraud (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense), ‘How to be a true pilgrim’
17.15 Launch event and reception
The Ars apodemica online: a database of travel advice 1500-1850
Tuesday 8 November
9.00 coffee
9.30-11.00 Session 5:
Elizabeth Williamson (Folger Shakespeare Library), ‘Traveller, agent, scholar, spy? Reading the information gathering of Elizabethans abroad’
Tünde Móré (University of Debrecen, Hungary), ‘Farewell to Wittenberg – valedictory poems of travel in the 16th century’
11.00-11.30 coffee
11.30-13.00 Session 6:
Katarzyna Bożeńska (University of Warsaw), ‘Peregrinari necesse? Theory of travel in the 17th century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth’
Kristi Viiding (University of Tartu), ‘Ars Apodemica in the 17th century in the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea’
13.00-2.30 Lunch
2.30-4.00 Session 7:
John Gallagher (University of Cambridge), ‘Between theory and reality: language-learning in early modern English educational travel’
Sarah Goldsmith (University of Leicester), ‘Danger, risk-taking and the body: crafting masculinities on the eighteenth-century Grand Tour’
4.00-4.30 Coffee
4.30-5.15 Session 8:
Daniel Carey (NUI Galway), ‘The Ars Apodemica and travel beyond Europe’
5.30 Book launch and reception:
Gabor Gelleri, Philosophies du voyage: visiter l’Angleterre aux 17e-18e siècles. Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2016).

Launch of 'Ars Apodemia Online Database: The Art of Travel 1500 - 1800'
2016-11-07 05:30 - 18:30 | The Moore Institute Seminar Room G010 Ground floor The Hardiman Research Building, Ireland
You are cordially invited to the Launch of the Apodemica Online Database: The Art of Travel 1500-1800 by Prof. Sean Ryder (English/Moore Institute)
On Monday November 7, 5.30pm, Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building G010
This electronic resource provides extensive bibliographical and biographical records on hundreds of contributions to the advice literature on travel that flourished across Europe in the early modern period through the eighteenth century. Advice on moral conduct, the risks and benefits of travel, lessons in ‘policy’, language acquisition and sociability predominated in this widely circulated form (in orations, disputations, letters, and treatises). Among the most famous works were those of Francis Bacon, Sir Philip Sidney, Justus Lipsius, and John Evelyn.
The database was created by Prof. Dan Carey, with Prof. Jane Conroy, Dr. Gabor Gelleri, Dr. Anders Ingram, David Kelly and Niall O’Leary, with support from the Mellon Foundation and the HEA (PRTLI).
The event coincides with an international conference on The Art of Travel 1500-1800: Invention, Tradition, Innovation (November 7-8, Moore Institute).
For the programme see here.
Refreshments served!

CAMPS Labs Presents Erin McKinney 'The Dream Dominatrix: A New Look at Tochmarc Étaíne and Aislinge Óenguso'
2016-11-04 12:00 - 14:00 | The Moore Institute Seminar Room G010 Ground floor The Hardiman Research Building, Ireland
Erin McKinney
The Dream Dominatrix: A New Look at Tochmarc Étaíne and Aislinge Óenguso
Friday, 4th November, 12 noon
(to be followed by a light lunch)
Hardiman Research Building G010
Moore Institute Seminar Room
Fáilte roimh chách

Digital Publishing Brownbag Series - The Tim Robinson Archive, NUI Galway
2016-11-01 12:00 - 14:00 | Hardiman Research Building Room G011, Ireland
Venue: Room G011, Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway.
A lunchtime seminar that takes the listener through the story of Tim Robinson, his archive, and plans to open it up to the community and collaborate digitally, followed by an open floor discussion with members of the audience.
Panelists: Mr Peter Corrigan (James Hardiman Library, NUI Galway), Dr Nessa Cronin (Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway), Ms Aisling Keane (James Hardiman Library, NUI Galway).
Places for this event are limited, and allocated on a first come first served basis. To book a seat please reserve through the link here, and further details available below:
http://nuigarchives.blogspot.ie/2016/10/digital-publishing-brownbag-series-tim.html
On Tuesday 1 November, NUI Galway Library will host a lunchtime event focusing on Digital work underway on the Library’s Archives.
Our 2nd event in the series will focus on the Archive of Fear na Mapaí, Tim Robinson, which resides here at NUI Galway. This archive documents four decades of Robinson’s pioneering work in Irish landscape, which began in 1972 when he visited the Aran Islands with his wife Máiréad. His 1975 one-inch map of the Aran Islands was the first substantial map of the area to be created since the 6 inch Ordnance Survey map a century before, and its composition brought up several complexities that exist in this unique landscape, from place-names, to the geological, archaeological, and botanical features that are all inherent in the landscape. Beyond the publication of the map, he explored these subjects in a deep-mapping project of Aran, that led to the publication of two books, ‘Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage’ in 1986, and later ‘Stones of Aran: Labyrinth’ in 1995. His work brought him to map and consider the Burren and Connemara landscapes with equal emphasis, and in 1987, Tim and Máiréad won the Ford Ireland Conservation Award. They proceeded in the competition as Ireland’s official entry, and won the European Award in Madrid.
One particularly special element of Robinson’s archive is a meticulously accumulated index of the townlands of Connemara and the Aran Islands, which has inspired the Library’s first steps to a Digital Mapping project, focusing on Robinson’s archive, but with applications to future projects. This will be the focus of our inaugural Brownbag Pitch. As the name suggests, lunch will be provided, and we will take you through the story of the archive, the digital project, and plans for the future, before opening up the floor to some discussion about what parts of the project you consider useful, not useful, and if you think this has applications to your own research.
Everyone is welcome to the pitch, and registration is free, but for catering purposes, we would request that you please register, with details of how to do so at the bottom of this page.

Programme:
12:00 Lunch will be available from 12 in Room G011
12:30 Dr Nessa Cronin, Lecturer and Director of the MA in Irish Studies, will introduce the work of Tim Robinson
12:40 Aisling Keane, Digital Archivist at NUI Galway Library, will speak about the archive, its contents, some examples of items of interest, and the work that has taken place on the archive so far
13:00 Dr Nessa Cronin will return to speak about creative engagement with the archive
13:10 Peter Corrigan, Head of Digital Publishing and Innovation at NUI Galway Library will speak about the future of the project
13:25 Discussion and exchange of ideas
14:00 Session Ends
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The Haven Project Conference: Intervening for Human Security
2016-10-29 09:00 - 17:00 | The Moore Institute Seminar Room G010 Ground floor The Hardiman Research Building, Ireland
The Haven Project Conference: Intervening for Human Security
Moore Institute, Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway
Conference Overview
This conference emanates from an Irish Research Council-funded project entitled ‘Haven‘ that centres on advancing the idea of ‘intervening for human security’ in the ongoing Mediterranean humanitarian crisis. It seeks to put at centre stage the notion of ‘human security’ by invoking the idea of a ‘haven’, a place of safety or refuge. A core project concern lies in challenging how Western interventionism has long been guided by military definitions of security, involving repeated and frequently counter-productive mechanisms of military violence. On the contrary, the Haven Project aims to advance research and thinking on an alternative envisioning of intervention, based upon the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)’s concept of ‘human security’ from its Human Development Report from 1994. Attending to the UNDP’s vision prompts thinking about intervention and investing in intervention of a different kind: in humanitarian assistance; in civil society support; in diplomatic initiatives; in rebuilding programmes; in sharing governmental expertise; and in the long-term enabling of security mechanisms that are human-centred. The project is ultimately prompted by a sense of intellectual responsibility to respond constructively to the increasingly precarious geographies evident in our current moment of global geopolitics and its seemingly endless cycles of violent interventionism. Reflecting on the above and more, leading academics, including Prof. Derek Gregory (University of British Columbia) and Dr Alex Jeffrey (Cambridge), will join colleagues at NUI Galway for a one-day symposium on Saturday October 29th in the Moore Institute for Humanities. They will be joined by a range of other contributors from NGO advocate groups, including Galway One World Centre, and also by representatives from Irish Aid and the Irish Naval Services. The aim is to coalesce expertise from across the public sphere on geopolitics, humanitarianism and international development, with a view to offering a critical contribution to a series of vital debates on the Mediterranean Crisis and the West’s response.

Space, Place and Identity - Barry Nevin ' The Films of Jacques Feyder: Framing Family, Class and Colonialism in Interwar France (1919 - 1939).
2016-10-28 13:00 - 14:00 | The Moore Institute Seminar Room G010 Ground floor The Hardiman Research Building, Ireland
Space, Place and Identity – Barry Nevin ‘ The Films of Jacques Feyder: Framing Family, Class and Colonialism in Interwar France (1919 – 1939).

Tudor and Stuart Conference 2016
2016-08-19 10:00
Tudor & Stuart Conference 2016
Online Registration for this year’s conference is now open!
The 6th Annual Tudor & Stuart Ireland Interdisciplinary Conference will be held in the in the Moore Institute, Hardiman Research Building, National University of Ireland, Galway, on 19-20 August 2016. This year’s programme will feature plenary speakers Prof. Mary O’Dowd (Queen’s University Belfast), and Prof. Andrew Hadfield (University of Sussex), as well as a special panel session Shakespeare and Ireland and a session in honour of Professor Steven Ellis. The programme also boasts thirty-six research papers across both days of the conference, a wine reception, and a number of informal occasions to meet and network with speakers and delegates.
Registration
Click here to proceed to online registration and payment options. Online registration will close on Tuesday, 16 August.
The conference registration fee is ‰âÂ30 (or ‰âÂ20 for students, speakers, retired and unwaged delegates). All tea / coffee breaks, lunches, and a wine reception are included in the registration fee.
The conference dinner will be held at Kirby’s Restaurant, Cross Street Lower, at 19:00 on Friday, 19 August. Anyone attending the conference is most welcome to join us for the dinner. The cost of dinner is €35.00, and includes a three course set menu, a glass of wine / draught beer, and tea / coffee with dessert. An area within the pub has been reserved for after dinner for those wishing to socialise with other delegates.
Useful links:
Interactive Map of NUI Galway Campus
Getting to Galway
Accommodation
Queries
Should you have any questions regarding the 2016 conference please do not hesitate to contact the organisers at 2016@tudorstuartireland.com
