Moore Institute

Hilary Dully, Doctoral Fellow, Huston School of Film and Digital Media - 'Lawyers, medics, balance and missing women: Who's framing who? 30 years of the Abortion Debate on Irish Television.'
2014-03-28 13:00 (Europe/Dublin)
HILARY DULLY, DOCTORAL FELLOW
HUSTON SCHOOL OF FILM AND DIGITAL MEDIA
“Lawyers, medics, balance and missing women: Who’s framing who? 30 years of the Abortion Debate on Irish Television.”
For mor information please contact gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie

Archaeology Graduate Research Seminar Series: Dr Alexandra Sandmark, University of the Highlands and the Islands, Orkney - Norse Assembly Sites in Scotland - Collective Identity and Memory Making in a New Landscape
2014-04-01 16:00
Discipline of Archaeology Invites You to a Seminar by
Dr Alexandra Sandmark, University of the highlands and the Islands, Orkney
Norse Assembly Sites in Scotland ‰ÛÒ Collective Identity and Memory Making in a New Landscape
All Welcome!
Department of Archaeology Research Seminar Series
For more information please contact maggie.ronayne@nuigalway.ie

ECHO seminar: Manly Pursuits, Rebecca Barr - Desire, Disgust, and Indigestion in John Cleland's Memoirs of a Coxcomb, Des Lally - The Fictionalization of Hilton Edwards and MicheÌÁl MacLiammÌ_ir in Paul Smith's Novel Stravaganza!
2014-04-01 17:00
you are jovially invited to an ECHO seminar symposium of chaps, rakes, bachelors, and coxcombs as we probe the mysterious world of male culture and masculinities with two bravely incisive speakers from the College of Arts. We meet at the slightly later time of 5pm on Tuesday 1st April, not without fitting tomfoolery and the usual vintnerish frolics alongside what promises to be penetrating and invigorating social and cultural criticism.
MANLY PURSUITS
REBECCA BARR
Desire, Disgust, and Indigestion in John Cleland‰۪s Memoirs of a Coxcomb
DES LALLY
The Fictionalization of Hilton Edwards and MicheÌÁl MacLiammÌ_ir in Paul Smith‰۪s Novel Stravaganza!
All welcome. Wine comradely served
ECHO brings together researchers of all disciplines to discuss research questions in a cordial environment.
Contact: adrian.paterson@nuigalway.ie or see our website: http://echoforum.wordpress.com

Philosophy Graduate Workshop: Conceptions of Causality and Freedom in the History of Metaphysics
2014-04-02 09:30
Conceptions of Causality and Freedom
in the History of Metaphysics
Graduate Student Workshop in Traditional Metaphysics
National University of Ireland, Galway
The workshop will bring together graduate scholars engaging metaphysical, epistemological and moralissues surrounding freedom and causality in the history of metaphysics broadly understood.Although there is no registration fee, do email d.parashkevova1@nuigalway.ie if you plan to attend.The workshop will take place in THB-G011 Seminar Room in the AHSSRB (new research buildingadjoining the library).
9.30Coffee and Welcome
10.00Desislava Parashkevova (NUI Galway)‰Û÷Self-Causation and Metaphysical Necessity: An Adaptation of Plato‰۪s Theory ofForms‰۪
11.00Michael Lyons (Trinity College Dublin)‰Û÷Pereboom and the Practical Reasons for Accepting Kant‰۪s Transcendental Freedom‰۪
12.00Jonathan Head (Keele)‰Û÷Schopenhauer on Freedom and the Intelligible Character‰۪
1.00Lunch, Moffetts Restaurant
2.30Morganna Lambeth (Northwestern)‰Û÷Event Perception in Kant and Heidegger‰۪
3.30Coffee
4.00Damir Cicic (Central European University)‰Û÷What is Incompatibilism?‰۪
5.00Dinner in Galway City
For more information please contact tsarina.doyle@nuigalway.ie

History Graduate Research Seminar Series: Martin O'Donoghue, 'The legacy of the Irish Parliamentary Party in Free State politics, 1922-26'
2014-04-02 16:00
History Graduate Research Seminar Series
Martin O’Donoghue,
‘The legacy of the Irish Parliamentary Party in Free State politics, 1922-26’

Professor Roger Savage, Department of Ethnomusicology, The Herb Alpert School of Music, University of California and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow - 'Music and Affect'
2014-04-03 14:00
Professor Roger Savage
Department of Ethnomusicology, The Herb Alpert School of Music, University of California and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow
‘Music and Affect’
For more information please contact lillis.olaoire@nuigalway.ie

Lucy McDiarmuid (Marie Frazee-Baldassarre Professor of English, Monclair State, NJ) - 'I'll tell Paddy on you': Women's Interesting Encounters with Men in April 1916'
2014-04-03 16:00

Copyright Reform in Ireland and Reflections on the WIPO Marrakesh Treaty Copyright, Education, and Disability: Past, Present, and Future
2014-04-04 18:00
Copyright Reform in Ireland and Reflections on the WIPO Marrakesh Treaty
Copyright, Education, and Disability: Past, Present, and Future
https://www.nuigalway.ie/cdlp/forthcoming_events.html
A seminar organized jointly by DREAM (https://www.nuigalway.ie/dream/), DISCIT (http://www.discit.edu) and the Centre for Disability Law & Policy (NUI Galway) (https://www.nuigalway.ie/cdlp/)
Main Speaker: Dr. Eoin O‰۪Dell,
Associate Professor of Law, Trinity College & Chair of the Copyright Review Committee of Ireland.
Respondents: Samantha Holman
CEO of the Irish Copyright Licensing Agency
Abigail Rekas
Marie Curie Early Stage Research Fellow
The Centre for Disability Law & Policy is pleased to announce a public seminar on copyright reform in Ireland on 4 April, 2014 at 6pm. The seminar will reflect on the recent Copyright Review Committee report, Modernising Copyright, and the new World Intellectual Property Organisation Marrakesh Treaty, aimed at creating exceptions and limitations to benefit persons who are blind, visually impaired or otherwise print disabled, as well as easing cross-border transfer of accessible format books.
Dr. Eoin O’Dell, one of the authors of the Modernising Copyright, will speak on the experiences of academics, students and persons with disabilities dealing with copyright law and practice. It will begin with an overview of the basic principles of copyright, having regard to existing legislation and precedents (copyright past). It will then look at the important current copyright issues – in particular the problems which copyright law poses for people in education and for people with a disability (copyright present). And it will conclude with how these issues might change for the better, if current reform proposals are implemented and if international treaties are implemented (copyright future).
4 April 2014 Time: 6 ‰ÛÒ 7.30pm Venue: National University of Ireland, Galway
Seminar Room THB-G010, The Hardiman Library
RSVP to Abigail.rekas@nuigalway.ie

IT in the Humanities Eleventh Annual Conference
2014-04-07 09:30
IT in the Humanities Eleventh Annual Conference
IT building, NUI, Galway, Monday, 7th April 2014

9:30Welcome IT125

9:40 ‰ÛÒ 11:10IT125

9:40 ‰ÛÒ 11:10IT204

Roddy Burns: Technology development of free language translation

Evan Flaherty*: Digital camera use in public places ‰ÛÒinvading privacy?

Tomas Malone: The preservation of languages through digitisation

Richard McKinley: Smartphone security: is the cloud the answer?

Aoife Phelan: Social media and television

Eoin Reilly: The impact of the internet on mobile phone operators

Karen Dobson: Human computer interaction and social media websites

Seamus Conroy: Cyber-warfare: Beyond Ethical Boundaries

Thomas Keehan: Online safety and social networking

Alan Forde: Cyberforensics and digital evidence

Jane Holland: Communication overload: nowhere to hide?

Marie Fahey: Wearable technology

Lorraine Togher: The representation of women online

Emer Guinane: Social media for marketing

Thomas Devery: Speech synthesis

Josh Allen: Chess algorithms

COFFEE

11:30 ‰ÛÒ 1:20IT125

11:30 ‰ÛÒ 1:20IT204

Ciaran Foley: Being rural in an information society

Killian Geaney: Technology for the gifted achiever

Leanne ODowd: How internet and gaming affects lives

Daniel Bostrom: Machine Learning

Manus Mc Comhaill: Biometrics

Dominic Burke: Animal conservation techniques

Dominic Falvery: Autonomous cars

Dermot Dunne: Technology and food production

Michael Mc Cormick: 3D printed firearms

Grainne Bhreathnach: The relationship between socialmedia and social anxiety

Eimear Daly: Bitcoin as a digital currency

Brian Conneely: Anonymous internet marketplaces

Nicholas O Fegan: Gamification

Deirdre Walsh: Second life: second personality?

Alan Mulkerrins: IT in diagnostic & intervention for medical imaging

Christopher Kelly: Technology in flood control in Ireland

Barry Quigg: The progression of thecomputing world

Niamh Briscoe: Technology for alternative energy

Brian Murphy: IT in marketing for business organizations

*as gaeilge

For more information please contact pat.byrne@nuigalway.ie

Digital Scholarship Seminar: Dr Niall ÌÒ Dochartaigh (Political Science & Sociology, NUI Galway)-Technologies of Peace, - Dr Ida Federica Pugliese (Moore Institute, NUIG) The (Dis?)advantages of Using Technologies to Enhance Qualitative Research Projects
2014-04-08 12:00
Digital Scholarship Seminar
Dr Niall ÌÒ Dochartaigh
(Political Science & Sociology, NUI Galway)
Technologies of Peace
Dr Ida Federica Pugliese
(Moore Institute, NUI Galway)
The (Dis?)advantages of Using Technologies to Enhance Qualitative Research Projects
Refreshments will be served after the talks
For further information, contact Dr PÌÁdraic Moran (padraic.moran@nuigalway.ie)
or Dr Justin Tonra (justin.tonra@nuigalway.ie).
www.facebook.com/nuigdss
www.nuigalway.ie/digital-seminar
Join the DSS mailing list

ECHO seminar: Peter Kelly - Reduced to Tears: Liquefaction and the permeable body in Ovid's Metamorphoses - Lindsay Ann Reid -Medieval Emotion Scripts and Renaissance Playscripts: "Passioning" like Ariadne in The Two Gentlemen of Verona
2014-04-08 17:00
PASSION PLAY
PETER KELLY
Reduced to Tears: Liquefaction and the permeable body in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
LINDSAY ANN REID
Medieval Emotion Scripts and Renaissance Playscripts: “Passioning” like Ariadne in The Two Gentlemen of Verona
ECHO brings together researchers of all disciplines to discuss research questions in a cordial environment.
Contact: adrian.paterson@nuigalway.ie or see our website: http://echoforum.wordpress.com

CAMPS Lab: Kim LoPrete, Medieval History, NUIG: 'Bertrada of Montfort and the sources: A mirror for historians'
2014-04-11 12:00
Followed by discussion & light lunch
Everyone welcome ‰ÛÓ FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch

Medieval Studies Postgraduate Studies Day
2014-04-14 09:00
Medieval Studies Postgraduate Research Day.
For more information please contact kim.loprete@nuigalway.ie

Juan RamÌ_n Jim̩nez: Reflections at the Centenary of Platero y yo
2014-04-15 09:00
Juan RamÌ_n Jim̩nez:
Reflections at the Centenary of Platero y yo
Chair: Jos̩ Luis PenÌ_n (UCD)
This panel discussion on the Nobel-Prize winning Spanish poet, Juan RamÌ_n Jim̩nez, takes place within the context of the Annual Conference of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland.
It includes a screening of the documentary Los viajes de Juan RamÌ_n Jim̩nez (26 minutes; in Spanish) and is followed by a round table discussion on the occasion of the centenary of the publication of Platero y yo (1914).
All welcome.

Workshop: Computational Stylometry: An Introduction
2014-04-24 10:00
Computational Stylometry: An Introduction
Moore Institute, NUI Galway, 24 April 2014
This one-day workshop led by Dr Francesca Benatti (Open University) is a hands-on introduction to stylometric analysis using Stylo, a tool created for use in the statistical programming language R.
What is Computational Stylometry?Computational stylometry (or stylistics) is the study of how the stylistic features of texts can be measured through computer-aided statistical methods.
How is it used?Regularly used in the field of authorship attribution, Computational Stylometry has potential applications to a wide range of fields and disciplines that examine texts. In addition to authorship attribution, Computational Stylometry may be used to investigate relationships between texts in such areas as gender, genre, and chronology.
For example?J. K. Rowling was recently exposed as the author of the pseudonymous novel, The Cuckoo’s Calling, thanks to the Computational Stylometric work of Patrick Juola. A professor of computer science, Juola also runs a private consulting firm that applies stylometric techniques to disputed documents and in psychological profiling for the legal professions. Similar techniques have aided historical research by verifying the authenticity of letters written during the American Civil War, and sought to reveal how pronouns and other function words reveal personality traits and relationship roles.
What does the workshop involve?It will include an introduction to the history and theory of stylometry, and will focus on the practical application of the Stylo package. Alongside examples of Stylo’s use, participants will complete hands-on practical exercises with the tool. A set of sample texts will be supplied, but participants are free to bring their own texts in plain text or TEI XML format.
What is the schedule for the day?10.00-10.30 Introduction to Stylometry10.30-11.00 Installation of R and Stylo; settings and options11.00-11.30 The stylo function; hands-on practice11.30-12.00 Tea break12.00-13.00 The oppose function; hands-on practice13.00-14.00 Lunch14.00-14.30 Case study: authorship attribution and the Christabel review14.30-15.30 The classify function; hands-on practice15.30-16.00 Open session: practice / discussion / Q and A
I am interested, but am not sure this is for me…Computational stylometry can be either a means or an end. While is it used to identify authors andverify documents, it can also be employed for more exploratory purposes: for identifying patternsand sequences within a text or group of texts. If your work involves analysing texts, this workshopmay be useful to you.
Do I need to be a programmer to learn this?No. This workshop is led by and aimed at scholars in the Arts and Humanities. Some experience withcomputer-aided text-analysis will be a benefit, but nothing other than general digital literary isrequired.
Anything else I should know?Attendance is free. Places are limited on this workshop, however, so you are advised to register yourinterest as soon as possible. Attendees will be required to bring their own laptops: R and Stylo willnot work on mobile devices.
Ok, you’ve sold me. What do I do now?Contact Justin Tonra (justin.tonra@nuigalway.ie) to register your interest in participating. Youshould mention any previous experience you have had with text-mining or text-analysis, anddescribe how the workshop relates to your own work.

Humanities Book Sale
2014-04-24 11:00
EVERY BOOK A FIVER OR LESS
in the
First Great Humanities Book Sale,
GS011
(The Hardiman Research Building) NUI,Galway.
Academic books (all disciplines with lots of history, English & women/gender); fiction; non-fiction; children‰۪s/young adult; some old books. Quality book CDs & DVDs also available.
All proceeds will go toA Night for Kathleen: In February this year, Kathleen Neylan passed away when a fire broke out at her home in Knocknacarra. Kathleen’s family and friends have come together to organize some events and raise some money so that her 16-year-old daughter, now orphaned, can concentrate on rebuilding her life without worrying about ongoing expenses.
See also A Night for Kathleen in Monroe‰۪s, Friday May 23, with Galway bands Stomping Ground and No Stairway (Led Zeppelin Tribute Band).Tickets E10, watch local papers/noticeboards for more details or contact CC below.
Caitriona Clear, History Department. E-mail: caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie.
SPECIAL THANKS TO THE MOORE INSTITUTE AND TO CATHERINE MCCURRY, COLLEGE OF ARTS, AND TO ALL WHO DONATED BOOKS, CDs, DVDs.

Public Lecture: Dr Frank Shovlin, Univeristy of Liverpool and Moore Institute visiting fellow - 'The Invention of Liam O'Flaherty'
2014-04-24 18:00 | Galway City Library, Ireland
For more information please contact fshovlin@liverpool.ac.uk

Pushing Form: Innovation and Interconnection in Contemporary European Performance 25 - 26 April 2014
2014-04-25 09:00
Pushing Form: Innovation and Interconnection in Contemporary European Performance
Keynotes: Sodja Lotker and Milija Gluhovic
How does the present reality of European theatre and performance challenge traditional assumptions? And howspecifically does formal innovation provide the space for critiques of power that may rework the concept of ‰ÛÏEurope‰۝ as realizedthrough performance? How has performance responded to neoliberalism and globalization in the wake of the most recentworld economic crisis, and how does its specifically European context set the terms of this response?
This conference queries what it means to define the field of European performance.
www.conference.ie/conferences/index.asp?conference=245
For registration information please contact
siobhanmogorman@gmail.com, miriamhaughton@hotmail.com, charlotte.mcivor@nuigalway.ie

2014 IAAS Annual Conference: 'Created Equal?' - April 25th and 26th
2014-04-25 10:00
Friday 25 & Saturday 26 April ‰ÛÒ 2014 IAAS Annual Conference: ‰ÛÏCreated Equal?‰۝
For full programme of events and to register for the conference see: www.iaas.ie/iaas-annual-conference/
(Contact: IAASConference@gmail.com)

Dr. Sylvie Lannegrand, French Department NUI Galway- 'Politics and sexuality in Personal Diaries: two case studies'
2014-04-25 13:00
DR. SYLVIE LANNEGRAND, FRENCH
‰ÛÏPolitics and sexuality in Personal Diaries: two case studies‰۝
For more information please contact gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie

Workshop on communicating research using video with Eileen Lauster
2014-05-06 12:00
WORKSHOP ON COMMUNICATING RESEARCH USING VIDEO
With Eileen Lauster
Moore Institute
Tuesday 6 May 2014, 12-1pm
The Moore Institute and the Digital Scholarship Seminar will host a
workshop exploring strategies for disseminating research activity using
video content. The workshop will be lead by Eileen Lauster, Research
Assistant at the Responding to Child to Parent Violence project
(www.rcpv.eu) in the School of Political Science and Sociology and an
experienced film-maker and editor (www.busterdrive.com).
The workshop will introduce how to create video content with graphical,
still image, audio and live action material, and how to edit this
material using YouTube’s built-in tools. It will include both practical
tips and broader communication strategies.
Places are limited, and those interested in participating should e-mail
eileen.lauster@nuigalway.ie. Please include a few lines about your
research project and whether there are particular aspects of video
production that you would like to cover.
Deadline for signing up: FRIDAY 8 APRIL 2014

School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures Research Day
2014-05-07 09:30
School of Languages,Literatures and Cultures
Research Day
Programme
9.30am ‰ÛÒ 10am: reception with tea and coffee & Welcome from Professor PÌ_l ÌÒ Dochartaigh
10 ‰ÛÒ 11 am: Panel 1 (Chair: Clodagh Downey)
Padraic MORAN(Classics): ‰Û÷Historical and international context for translingual reading‰۪
Lesa NÌ_ MHUNGHAILE(Gaeilge):‰Û÷Irish language speakers in the Ottawa Valley: evidence from the 1901 Canadian Census‰۪
Sheila WALSHE (French):‰Û÷Performative Identity and l‰۪Entre-deux in the writings of Thomas IsmaÌÀl Urbain (1812-1884)‰۪
11 ‰ÛÒ 11.30am: Coffee break

11.30 ‰ÛÒ 12.30 pm: Panel 2 (Chair: Tina Pusse)

Michael SHIELDS (German):‰Û÷Splitting and finding the self in collective voices. What happens to the lyric ‰Û÷I‰۪ in late medieval lyric?‰۪
Mark STANSBURY(Classics): ‰Û÷Points of difference: Punctuation in AdomnÌÁn‰۪s Vita Columbae‰۪
Jennifer WOOD (Spanish): ‰Û÷Rafael Alberti‰۪s First LiricografÌ_as‰۪
12.30 ‰ÛÒ 2 pm: Lunch break

2 ‰ÛÒ 3pm: Panel 3 (Chair: Mark Stansbury)

Pilar ALDERETE-DIEZ(Spanish):‰Û÷Time and Space in language teaching & learning at third level‰۪
Cathal KILCLINE (French): ‰Û÷Sport, migration and commemoration in contemporary France‰۪
Anne O‰۪CONNOR, Michele MILAN, Jos̩ BROWNRIGG GLEESON MARTINEZ (Italian):
‰Û÷Translation in 19th century Ireland‰۪
3 ‰ÛÒ 3.30 pm: Coffee break
3.30 ‰ÛÒ 4.30pm: Open discussion (Chair: Sylvie Lannegrand): future research directions, Teaching & Research, access to funding, question of peer-reviewed journals, etc.

Dr. H̩lÌÄå¬ne Lecossois (Universit̩ du Maine) and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow - 'J. M. Synge: The Primitive on the Modern Stage'.
2014-05-07 16:00

AD/BC: Music Archaeology Symposium
2014-05-08 10:00
AD/BC: Music Archaeology Symposium
A fascinating one-day series of talks forming an introduction to the academic background to the concerts and workshops of the 2014 Galway Early Music Festival, May 8-11. Eight international speakers will cover topics as wide-ranging as evidence for music and instruments in classical Rome, prehistoric instruments in Scandinavia, medieval tuning systems, Old Irish vocabulary for musical instruments, and medieval song and dance performance. The Symposium is aimed at a non-specialist academic and public audience. Speakers include Michael Shields, German, NUI Galway, and Jacopo Bisagni, Classics, NUI Galway, as well as a number of international speakers. Organised by Medieval Studies, NUI Galway, and Galway Early Music Festival. In partnership with EMAP (European Music Archaeology Project), support by the Culture Programme of the EU. Details of the Symposium and The Galway Early Music Festival attached. Information on Symposium and Galway Early Music Festival available at: www.galwayearlymusic.com.
http://galwayearlymusic.com/events/colloquium-archaeomusicological-research/
For more information please contact maura.ocroinin@nuigalway.ie

Reading Poetry: Sin̩ad Morrissey '1801' by Adrian Paterson
2014-05-08 18:00

Guerrilla Digitisation: An Introduction to Bookscanning
2014-05-13 11:00
The Moore Institute will host a free one-day workshop, Guerrilla Digitisation: An Introduction to Bookscanning, from 11am-4pm on Monday, May 12.
Led by Meaghan Connell (PhD student, English Department), this workshop is an introduction to the process of digitising texts using only low-cost materials. Digitised texts can be very useful to the humanities researcher; before you can use any kind of computational analysis, you must first create a machine-readable version of your text(s). With machine-readable texts, you can run corpus analyses, create concordances and collocations, and even perform stylometry analyses. If your work involves any computational analysis, or if you want to look into including computational analysis in your work, this workshop may be useful to you.
This workshop is aimed at scholars in the Arts and Humanities, both postgrad students and faculty. This is a hands-on workshop – we will be going through the build of a budget bookscanner and the entire process of scanning, post-processing, and optical character recognition. If you want to build your own budget bookscanner at the workshop, you will need to bring certain materials. Basic computer literacy is a must, but a gentle introduction to the specific software we’ll be using will be provided.
Spaces are limited for this workshop, so you are advised to register your interest by emailing m.connell3@nuigalway.ie as soon as possible.

Reading Poetry: Philip Sidney from Astrophil and Stella by ClÌ_odhna Carney
2014-05-15 18:00

Book Launch: 'Frontier and Border Regions in Early Modern Europe' Edited by Raingard Esser and Steven G Ellis.
2014-05-19 16:30

Professor Carl Wennerlind (Barnard College, Columbia University): 'The Political Economy of Moral Refinement'
2014-05-22 16:00
Carl Wennerlind (Barnard College, Columbia University and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow):
‰Û÷The Political Economy of Moral Refinement‰۪
Followed by a launch at 5.15pm by Prof. Wennerlind of:
Daniel Carey, ed., Money and Political Economy in the Enlightenment (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2014).
Wine will be served.

Book Launch: Daniel Carey, ed., Money and Political Economy in the Enlightenment (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2014).
2014-05-22 17:15
Book launch by Professor Carl Wennerlind(Barnard College, Columbia University and Moore Institute visiting fellow)
of:
Daniel Carey, ed., Money and Political Economy in the Enlightenment (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2014).
Wine will be served.
