History Research Seminar Series: “Irishwomen in late nineteenth-century Russia: Three transnational lives”
2020-02-05 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Dr. Angela Byrne is Research Associate at Ulster University. She specializes in the histories of migration, travel and exploration, and women’s history. She is author of Geographies of the Romantic North: Science, Antiquarianism, and Travel, 1790–1830 (Palgrave, 2013) and A Scientific, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour: John (Fiott) Lee in Ireland, England and Wales, 1806–07 (Hakluyt Society, 2018). Her paper at the History Research Seminar draws on a monograph she is currently writing on Irish encounters with Russia from 1690 to 1917 and is entitled “Irishwomen in late nineteenth-century Russia: Three transnational lives”.

Book Launch: 'A University in Living Memory' by Jackie Uí Chionna
2020-02-05 17:30 - 19:30 | Ground Floor, Aula Maxima
This book tells the story of University College Galway from 1930 to 1980, through the reminiscences of dozens of people who were there. Interviews were conducted with everyone from College Presidents to grounds staff, from students who began their college lives in the 1930s to the post-free-education student activists of the 1970s.
It is a portrait of a University that changed considerably over time, but retains the affection of those who have been associated with it over many decades.
The book will be launched by Dr Iognaid Ó Muircheartaigh, President Emeritus of NUI Galway with Professor Dan Carey, Director of the Moore Institute for the Humanities and Social Studies at NUI Galway and Professor of English in the School of Humanities and Jackie Uí Chionna, Editor.
Click here to RSVP by Monday, February 3rd

Irish Research Network in Childhood Bilingualism and Multilingualism Symposium
2020-02-06 11:30 - 16:30 | Hardiman Research Building Room G011, Ireland
This symposium is organised by network members Dr. Stanislava Antonijevic and Dr. Cassie Smith-Christmas.
The day will feature a number of talks related to multilingualism in Ireland, with a special focus on children’s multilingual development and language use in the school and the home.
This will be followed by the launch of the Centre for Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism (CALM), with Professor Helen Grech’s talk at 17.00 to mark the launch.
Attached you will find the programme. This event is free but we ask that if you wish to attend the Irish Research Network in Childhood Bilingualism and Multilingualism Symposium, you fill out the short registration form by January 31st, 2020 at the latest.

Launch of Centre for Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism(CALM)
2020-02-06 17:00 - 19:00 | Hardiman Research Building Room G011, Ireland
We are delighted to invite you to the launch of the Centre for Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism (CALM), a new research cluster based in the Moore Institute. CALM will provide a platform for interdisciplinary research in the areas of applied linguistics and multilingualism and will increase awareness of issues related to language learning, language processing and multilingualism within NUI Galway and the wider community.
CALM will be launched by the President Prof. Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh at 5pm on Thursday 6th February in seminar room G011 in the Moore Institute. This will be followed by an inaugural lecture by Prof. Helen Grech of the University of Malta who will speak on her work on speech and language therapy and bilingualism in Malta. The launch of CALM will be preceded by a day-long meeting of the Irish Research Network in Childhood Bilingualism and Multilingualism in the same venue: https://childbilingualismresearch.com/network-meetings/february-2020-meeting/
For further information please contact CALM co-directors Laura McLoughlin (laura.mcloughlin@nuigalway.ie) or John Walsh (john.walsh@nuigalway.ie).
For more information see www.nuigalway.ie/calm

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Values and Identities Seminar: 'Freedom as a Discourse Concept and its Implications for Free Societies'.
2020-02-10 15:00 - 16:00 | Tom Duddy Seminar Room, Philosophy Department Morrisroe House, Distillery Road
Oliver Milne, PhD candidate in Philosophy, NUI, Galway, will present a paper, ‘Freedom as a Discourse Concept and its Implications for Free Societies’, as part of the Values and Identities seminar series.
ALL WELCOME
Abstract: Freedom as a Discourse Concept and its Implications for Free Societies
In this talk, I make the case that the concept ‘freedom’ constantly evolves as part of an ongoing discourse (in Foucault’s sense) centred around the key question of democratic politics: ‘How best can we treat one another as free and equal individuals?’ This fact about the idea of freedom, I claim, is not incidental to it, but is a fundamental consideration for societies that would call themselves ‘free’.
After briefly defending the idea of the ‘key question’ (leaning on Anderson, 1999) I use examples from the history of feminism (Evans and Chamberlain, 2015; Mann and Huffman, 2005) to make plain the ubiquitous causes of the idea’s evolution, including both factors endogenous to the discourse (today’s discursive strategies are built on or react against yesterday’s, and tomorrow’s will do the same with today’s) and exogenous to it (social and technological changes continually force the core question of freedom to be asked in new contexts). Building on those examples, I argue that, regardless of whether the discourse has a theoretical endpoint, we are unlikely to ever be in a position to know that we’ve reached it, mandating an attitude of humility regarding the timeless perfection of our present conceptions of freedom. I also pay particular attention to Jacques Rancière’s characterisation of ‘the political’ as (to put it as crudely as possible) the renegotiation of the franchise by the excluded (Rancière, 2001), arguing that his claim can be read as saying that all the crucial action happens in wrangling over the scope of ‘we’ in the key question. My characterisation of the discourse of freedom, I suggest, is an illuminating extension of his concept of ‘politics’.
From there, I turn to the question of what it means for a society to be free in light of freedom’s evolving, discursive nature. My answer is that a free society is not merely a society that happens to embody present ideas of freedom, but one robustly capable of both sustaining the discourse of freedom and putting its changing products into practice. As a concrete example of this position’s distinctive character, I outline the way it recasts the social role of the academic humanities: they are, on this view, laboratories of freedom, in which new steps in the discourse are devised and assessed. Present attacks on these departments in Hungary, Poland, and elsewhere, I argue, only serve to emphasise how significant this role is.
References
Anderson, E.S., 1999. What is the Point of Equality? Ethics 109, 287–337.
Evans, E., Chamberlain, P., 2015. Critical Waves: Exploring Feminist Identity, Discourse and Praxis in Western Feminism. Social Movement Studies 14, 396–409. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2014.964199
Foucault, M., 1972. The Archaeology of Knowledge, World of Man: A Library of Theory and Research in the Human Sciences. Tavistock Publications Limited, Great Britain.
Mann, S.A., Huffman, D.J., 2005. The Decentering of Second Wave Feminism and the Rise of the Third Wave. Science & Society 69, 56–91.
Rancière, J., 2001. Ten Theses on Politics. Theory & Event 5.
Values & Identities

Retired Staff Association Lecture Series: 'Attitudes to Retirement/extending working life for US and Irish Academics'
2020-02-11 12:00 - 13:00 | Seminar Room G010
by Dr. Áine Ní Léime, Irish Centre for Social Gerentology, NUI Galway.
All welcome.

History Research Seminar Series: “Liberty from Empire? The Irish and the Hispanic Atlantic during the Age of Revolutions”
2020-02-12 16:00 - 18:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
This seminar will be given by José Brownrigg-Gleeson. José is an IRC Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at the Moore Institute and History Dept. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Salamanca (Spain) and previously worked at the University of Notre Dame’s Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies (USA) and at the University of Winchester (UK). He is currently working on a monograph examining the role of Latin America in the development of Irish perceptions of imperialism, decolonization and modernity during the Age of Revolutions (1776–1848). His paper draws on this project and is entitled “Liberty from Empire? The Irish and the Hispanic Atlantic during the Age of Revolutions”.
Book Launch: Prof. Niamh Reilly will launch The Legacy of the Irish Parliamentary Party in Independent Ireland, 1922-1949 (Liverpool University Press, 2019) by Martin O’Donoghue immediately after the seminar.

Martin O’Donoghue is Lecturer in Irish and British History at the University of Northumbria. He graduated with a PhD in History from NUI Galway in 2016 funded by scholarships from the Irish Research Council and the College of Arts. He subsequently held positions at the National Library of Ireland and the University of Limerick. Martin’s research examines the dynamics of political activism in modern Ireland, the relationship with British rule, key developments in the Irish revolution, and the memory of Irish Party leaders in politics and culture. Prof. Niamh Reilly, established professor of Political Science and Sociology at NUI Galway, will launch his book, The Legacy of the Irish Parliamentary Party in Independent Ireland, 1922-1949 (Liverpool University Press, 2019).

Book Launch: Raymond Queneau's Dubliners: Bewildered by Excess of Love by Jim Gosling
2020-02-12 17:00 - 18:00 | Hardiman Research Building Room G011, Ireland
You are cordially invited to the launch of a new book by Jim Gosling, Raymond Queneau’s Dubliners: Bewildered by Excess of Love. The book is a study of two comic-erotic novels by Queneau set in Ireland, drawing on Joycean influences.
Jim is emeritus professor of biochemistry and former Director of Quality at NUI Galway.
Prof. Adrian Frazier will launch the book.
There will be a display of relevant books collected by Jim as he worked on the project and some pertinent items from the Hardiman catalogue, curated by Barry Houlihan.
Refreshments served!

Book Launch: Prof. Niamh Reilly will launch 'The Legacy of the Irish Parliamentary Party in Independent Ireland, 1922-1949' by Martin O'Donoghue
2020-02-12 17:30 - 18:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Martin O’Donoghue is Lecturer in Irish and British History at the University of Northumbria. He graduated with a PhD in History from NUI Galway in 2016 funded by scholarships from the Irish Research Council and the College of Arts. He subsequently held positions at the National Library of Ireland and the University of Limerick. Martin’s research examines the dynamics of political activism in modern Ireland, the relationship with British rule, key developments in the Irish revolution, and the memory of Irish Party leaders in politics and culture. Prof. Niamh Reilly, established professor of Political Science and Sociology at NUI Galway, will launch his book, The Legacy of the Irish Parliamentary Party in Independent Ireland, 1922-1949 (Liverpool University Press, 2019).

Pop Up Event: Irish General Election
2020-02-13 14:00 - 15:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The following panelists will discuss the outcome of this transformative vote.
Panelists:
Dr. Eoin Daly (School of Law)
Prof. Kate Kenny (School of Business)
Prof. Niall Ó Dochartaigh (School of Political Science & Sociology)

CAMPS: Medieval Notions of Æsthetics: Beauty, Truth and Climactic Symmetry in the Moral Fables of Robert Hennyson
2020-02-14 12:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
by Dermot Burns.
More info to follow …

Workshop: Online and digital identity for scholars
2020-02-18 10:00 - 13:00 | The Moore Institute Seminar Room G010 Ground floor The Hardiman Research Building, Ireland
This workshop will explore the ideas of online and digital identity from a scholarly perspective. Participants will learn how tools such as blogging, twitter and a ‘domain of one’s own’ can allow them to professionally connect, share and network online. We will discuss the challenges of developing an ‘authentic online voice’, and explore the benefits of having an active, managed online presence.
Registration
Register to attend the workshop on Eventbrite.
Learning Objectives
At the end of this workshop, participants will:

Understand the potential benefits of having a managed online identity
Have examined and compared a variety of social and online tools
Map their current online presence with the Visitor and Residents mapping approach
Develop a personalised approach to online networking
Have explored case studies of how to enhance their online identity in a higher education context
Workshop facilitators and speakers

Blaneth McSharry has worked as a Learning Technologist at NUI Galway for the past six years, with industry experience in graphic design and marketing. She was the lead developer on the “All Aboard” project and the originator of their popular ‘Metro Map’ approach to developing digital skills and confidence. She has produced extensive multimedia teaching materials, and has initiated and supported several digital badging implementations. She has designed and facilitated workshops and training sessions, and integrated a range of technology solutions into educational contexts. Over the past three years, she has co-ordinated the Digital Champions initiative, a staff-student partnership on campus which aims to increase the digital confidence of staff and students.
Grainne McGrath (to follow)
Are you a Digital Scholar?
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.

The series
26 November 2019 – Web maps, data visualisation, and mapping with Neatline. David Kelly and Cillian Joy. G010, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00
17 December 2019 – Managing digital collections. Objects, metadata, ingestion, and access. Aisling Keane. G010, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00
14 January 2020 – Scanathon. Crowd-sourced digitisation. Aisling Keane. G011, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00
18 February 2020 – Online and digital identity for scholars. Blaneth McSharry & Grainne McGrath. G010, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00
10 March 2020 – Video production for scholars. Eileen Kennedy. G010, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00
14 April 2020 – Working with images in Python for research. Cillian Joy. G010, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00

Seminar: Mobilizing Digital Tools for Academic Research: The State Funding for Social Movements Project
2020-02-18 14:00 - 15:00 | The Moore Institute Seminar Room G010 Ground floor The Hardiman Research Building, Ireland
A seminar by Moore Institute Visiting Fellow, Prof Dominique Clément, University of Alberta

The State Funding for Social Movements research team brings together scholars from universities across Canada in history, political science and sociology. Our team has developed an innovative new database (database.statefunding.ca) and digital archive that lists grants from governments in Canada to non-governmental organizations since 1960. Our project demonstrates, among other things, how digital tools enable small teams of scholars to collect immense amounts of data using modest resources. At the same, it raises important methodological questions around the viability of such projects, the availability of university resources, and the applicability of digital technologies to certain research topics.
Our project has produced a new resource that will benefit policy-makers, community organizations, and researchers. It aims to help the non-profit sector by:

(a) synthesizing and mobilizing best practices for digitizing and processing documents;
(b) creating data dissemination strategies;
(c) providing information on how to obtain data from governments; and
(d) creating websites and open-access databases that are relevant to policy-makers and community organizations.

Policy makers will also benefit from this resource. There is no framework for organizing or sharing data on funding for non-governmental organizations in Canada. Even current data is so poorly organized (and sometimes not digitized) that ministries or cities lack a coherent picture of their own current or past practices. Our online portal will provide a forum to compare data across jurisdictions.
Speaker Bio
Dominique Clément is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta and a member of the Royal Society of Canada (CNSAS). He is an internationally recognized authority and Canada’s leading expert on the history of social movements and human rights. He is the author of Canada’s Rights Revolution, Equality Deferred, Human Rights in Canada and Debating Rights Inflation. Clément has been a Visiting Scholar in Australia, Belgium, China, Ireland and the United Kingdom. His websites, HistoryOfRights.ca and statefunding.ca, serve as research and teaching portals on the study of human rights and social movements.

History Research Seminar Series: 'Milesians and Manifest Destiny: A Borderlands History of American Fenianism (1865-1871)'
2020-02-19 16:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
This seminar will be given by Patrick J. Mahoney, a Fulbright Scholar at the Moore Institute and History Department and a PhD candidate at Drew University (New Jersey). His book ‘From a Land Beyond the Wave’: Connecticut’s Irish Rebels 1798-1916 won the Connecticut League of History Organizations’ Publication Prize (2018). He is currently translating and editing a volume of the 19th-century American frontier writings of Eoin Ó Cathail.

Seminar: The Alchemical Prince: Enlightenment, Freemasonry, and Cultural Nationalism In Eighteenth-Century Naples
2020-02-19 17:00 - 18:00 | Hardiman Research Building Room G011, Ireland
In this paper, Prof. Enrico Dal Lago, NUI Galway will focus on the life and achievements of Raimondo Di Sangro, Prince of San Severo (1710-1771). A high profile member of the court nobility in the eighteenth-century Kingdom of Naples, San Severo was a polymath, with interests that spanned the entire spectrum of human knowledge, from the sciences to the arts and to the ancient civilisations and languages. However, he is best remembered for his unorthodox interest in Alchemy and his affiliation to Freemasonry, of which the San Severo Chapel in Naples is a clear proof, since – I argue – it is really a disguised representation of a Masonic temple. As a result of San Severo’s connection with esoteric thought and practices, his popular image remains that of a magician, famously immortalised by Benedetto Croce. However, I argue that, behind this image lay a profoundly inquisitive mind, representative, together with Pietro Giannone and Giambattista Vico, among others, of the extraordinary period of the Neapolitan Enlightenment. Each in their own field, these prolific and innovative intellectuals, supported by the Bourbon Kings, created the backbone of a distinctive eighteenth-century cultural tradition, which became the foundation of the idea of a Neapolitan nation.
Enrico Dal Lago is Professor of American History at NUI Galway. He has written extensively on comparative slavery, on the United States in the era of the American Civil War, on Italy in the age of Risorgimento, and on the U.S. South and the Italian Mezzogiorno. His research interests focus particularly on nation-building in social, political, and cultural terms and in comparative perspective. His latest publication is Civil War and Agrarian Unrest: The Confederate South and Southern Italy (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

Values and Identities Seminar: Retrospection and Revaluation in Nietzsche: Overcoming our Evolution in the Pursuit of Freedom
2020-02-24 15:00 | Tom Duddy Seminar Room, Philosophy Department Morrisroe House, Distillery Road
Ashling McEvaddy, IRC funded PhD candidate in Philosophy, will present a paper, ‘Retrospection and Revaluation in Nietzsche: Overcoming our Evolution in the Pursuit of Freedom’ as part of the Values and Identities seminar series on Monday 24th February
Time: 3 pm
Venue: Tom Duddy seminar room, Philosophy Building, Morrisroe House, 19 Distillery Road
ALL WELCOME
Abstract: For Nietzsche, in order to qualify as ‘free’ individual, one must be capable of self-regulation and self-creation, of legislating one’s own values. Such freedom is a future possibility, but only if we first overcome our past evolution, and its current presence within us. Nietzsche sees the evolution of man as a ‘herd animal’ as a necessary stage of early human development, but its necessity is of temporal and sociohistorical specificity. Our failure to move beyond this stage prevents further evolution, evolution that is necessary if we are to ever attain the status of a ‘free spirit’ (freigeist). In this paper, I explore how it is that we have remained so entrenched in this herd mentality, and the necessity of undergoing a genealogical study of our evolution to both become aware of the dangers of remaining in this state, and to acquire the means to move beyond it. In order to appreciate Nietzsche’s positive account of evolution, I also look at his negative account – what evolution is not – for his rejection of the prevalent 19th century teleological and moral-foundationalist evolutionary models plays a crucial role, both in the explanation of our stunted development thus far, as well as in the formation of his positive account as grounded in his Will to Power ontology and his understanding of the world as Becoming. This genealogical study is necessary for the possibility of freedom as it is only by means of acknowledging our problematic relationship to the past, and its continued affectivity within us, that we become aware of the fact that we are not actually free at all. This realization in turn awakens us to the necessity of overcoming this arrested state if we are to ever attain genuine freedom.
https://mooreinstitute.ie/research-group/values-identities/

Seminar: 'Serial Encounters: Ulysses and the Little Review' by Dr Clare Hutton (Loughborough University)
2020-02-24 16:00 - 17:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Why and when was Joyce’s Ulysses first deemed controversial and how did Joyce respond? This paper, based on Dr Hutton’s OUP monograph, looks at the circumstances in which Joyce’s work was first serialised in the US, and the nature of the post-serial revisions which Joyce made to the text.
Dr Clare Hutton is Senior Lecturer in English at Loughborough University, and author of Serial Encounters: Ulysses and the Little Review (OUP, 2019) and editor of The Irish Book in English, 1891-2000 (OUP, 2011). She is currently Visiting Fellow at TCD’s Long Room Hub, and is working on a new trade book, Women and the Making of Ulysses.

Launch of MA Sports Journalism and Communication
2020-02-25 13:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
NUI Galway hosts a lunchtime seminar on sports journalism at 1pm on Tuesday 25 February in G010, Moore Institute/Hardiman Research Building to announce the launch of the new MA Sports Journalism and Communication programme from September 2020.
Panel to feature:Keith Duggan
(Chief Sports Writer, The Irish Times)
Máire Treasa Ní Dhubhghaill
(Presenter, Rugbaí Beo , TG4)
Mike Finnerty
(Sky Sports & Mayo News)
Cliona Foley
(Freelance Sports Journalist)
Light refreshments will be provided.
RSVP: journalism@nuigalway.ie
Further information on programme at: https://www.nuigalway.ie/courses/taught-postgraduate-courses/sports-journalism-and-communication.html

History Research Seminar Series: Sons of Legends: The Politics and Implications of Irish Dynastic Frameworks by Neil Gordan
2020-02-26 16:00 - 18:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Neil is the third year of the Medieval Studies PhD programme and is working with Prof. Dáibhí Ó’Cróinín. The recipient of an IRC Postgraduate Scholarship, Neil is writing a thesis entitled “Built to Last: The Construction and the Benefits of Uí Néill Dynastic Identity in Early Medieval Ireland”.

Book Launch: Bede and Time by Maírín MacCarron
2020-02-26 17:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Bede and Time is published in the Routledge series Studies in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland and provides the first integrated analysis of Bede’s thought on time. This approach allows for a greater understanding of Bede’s writings on time, and illuminates the place of time and chronology in his other works, including his creation of Anno Domini-dating as a historical chronology in his most famous work, The Ecclesiastical History of the English People. My book argues that in innovatively combining computus, theology and history, Bede transformed his contemporaries’ understanding of time and chronology.
About the Author:
Máirín MacCarron is Lecturer in Digital Humanities at University College Cork, having previously worked in the Dept of History at the University of Sheffield and held the NUI/Dr Garret FitzGerald postdoctoral fellowship at NUI Galway. She is Co-Investigator of the Leverhulme Trust-funded project, ‘Women, Conflict and Peace: Gendered Networks in Early Medieval Narratives’.

School of Political Science & Sociology Seminar Series: 'The Four Dimensions of Power: Empowerment, Domination and Democracy'
2020-02-27 13:00 - 14:00 | Room 333, Aras Moyola
This seminar is based upon Prof Haugaard’s forthcoming book The Four Dimensions of Power: Empower, Domination and Democracy (MUP – July 2020), which explores the nature and workings of social and political power, through four dimensions, throwing into relief different aspects of power related phenomena. The analysis constitutes a new framework that builds upon contemporary theoretical perspectives of power, including the work of Hannah Arendt, Steven Lukes, Michel Foucault, Amy Allen, Clarissa Hayward, Anthony Giddens, Pierre Bourdieu, Stewart Clegg, James Scott, Gene Sharp, John Searle and Ludwig Wittgenstein. The first dimension of power concerns agency between actors, including analysis of coercion, violence and authority. The second dimension involves structural bias, conflict and resistance, including both revolutionary and non-violent resistance. The third dimension concerns tacit knowledge, uses of truth, and reification. This book moves beyond critique of ideology, developing Foucauldian/Nietzschean theories of power/knowledge without nihilistic relativism by distinguishing different types of truth claim. The fourth dimension concerns the power to create social subjects, drawing both genealogical theory, Norbert Elias on restraint and Orlando Patterson on social death in slavery.
As both a sociologist and political theorist, I distinguish sociological from normative claims. While the four dimensions stem from sociological theory, I will also explore a normative pragmatist power-based political theory of democracy and rights. This has significant implications for critiques of contemporary populism and neo-liberalism.
Mark Haugaard is Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. He is the founder editor of the Journal of Political Power, published by Routledge, and a book series, Social and Political Power, with Manchester University Press. He has published extensively upon power, and his most recent publications includes ‘What is authority?’ Journal of Classical Sociology, 2018(2): 104-132 and (forthcoming) The Four Dimensions of Power, 2020, Manchester University Press

CAMPS: Shady Ladies in Medieval Iceland
2020-02-28 12:00 - 2020-03-06 14:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Rosemary Power speaking on Shady ladies from Ireland to Iceland and this will be followed on 6th March by Francisco Rozano-García speaking on Old English Poetry in Medieval European Perspective: The Exeter Book, the House of Wessex and Carolingian Models.

Values and Identities Seminar: The Changing Virtues of the Hosting Language: Notes on the Philosophy of Translation by Dr. Gerald Cipriani
2020-03-02 15:00 | Tom Duddy Seminar Room, Philosophy Department Morrisroe House, Distillery Road
Dr. Gerald Cipriani will present a paper, ‘The Changing Virtues of the Hosting Language: Notes on the Philosophy of Translation’, as part of the Values and Identities seminar series on Monday 2nd March.
Depending on whether translation leans toward objective rendering or subjective interpretation it will have different truth-functions. This paper reflects on the issues of truth-function at stake on both sides of the ‘hosting’ language (translation) when seeking to understand ‘otherness’ (original language). The paper will draw from particular examples of translation of Chinese thought such as the literal renderings of the Classics in Western languages, Li Zehou’s concept of ‘subjectenity’ (zhutixing 主體性), and sinologist François Jullien’s Western-inverted ‘deconstruction’. The point here is not to establish validity in translation, but to describe what are the cognitive and ethical implications when understanding in translation.
Gerald Cipriani teaches philosophy at NUI, Galway. He is the Editor of Culture and Dialogue (Brill) and Co-Editor of Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology (Routledge). Currently Honorary Professor to the UNESCO Chair at the Russian Research Institute of Cultural and Natural Heritage, Moscow. Previous publications in interpretive philosophy of art, cultural ethics of French personalism and the Kyoto School, and Chinese environmental aesthetics.

History Seminar Series: Orphans, refugees and Scandinavian relief in the Middle East, 1920-1935 by Prof. Inger Marie Okkenhaug
2020-03-04 16:00 - 18:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Inger Marie Okkenhaug is a Professor of History at Volda University College, Norway, and is currently a visiting fellow at the Moore Institute. She specializes in the history of missionary and humanitarian activity in the Middle East. She has published extensively on these topics, most notably, the monograph, “The Quality of Heroic Living, of High Endeavour and Adventure.”Anglican Mission, Women and Education in Palestine, 1888-1948 (2002). Okkenhaug´s latest book, En norsk filantrop”. Bodil Biørn og armenerne, 1905-1934 (2016), deals with Norwegian mission and humanitarian work among the Armenians in the years from 1905 to 1940.

Italian - School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures - 'Heritage Film, Neapolitan Style' by Ruth Glynn, University of Bristol
2020-03-04 17:00 - 18:00 | Hardiman Research Building Room G011, Ireland
This paper explores how recent films addressing Naples – the Manetti Bros’ Ammore e malvita (2017) and Ferzan Özpetek’s Napoli velata (2017) – work to counter the ‘Gomorra-effect’ and rehabilitate the city in cinematic representation. It explores the politics of heritage film, the genre’s relationship with popular culture and Naples’s place in the national imaginary.
Ruth Glynn A graduate of NUIG, Ruth Glynn is Professor of Modern Italian Culture at the University of Bristol. Current research addresses Naples and its place in the national cultural imaginary, from the Allied Occupation of the city to the present. Major publications include Women, Terrorism, and Trauma in Italian Culture (2013).

CAMPS: Old English Poetry in Medieval European Perspective: The Exeter Book, the House of Wessex and Carolingian Models
2020-03-06 12:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
by Francisco Rozano-García.

International Women's Day and RECIRC: Guided Tour of Readers and Reputations: The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550-1700
2020-03-07 11:00 | Foyer the Hardiman Research Building, Ireland
What impact did women writers make in history? When is a female author (not) a female author? Join us as we explore these questions in a guided tour of the ‘Readers & Reputations’ exhibition, to celebrate International Women’s Day, on Saturday 7 March 2020.
The exhibition, sponsored by the Irish Research Council, showcases the work of the RECIRC project on early modern women’s writing, funded by the European Research Council (ERC) – the first literature project in Ireland to be awarded ERC funding. The project’s leader, Prof. Marie-Louise Coolahan, and two researchers, Dr. Felicity Maxwell and Dr. Bronagh McShane, will discuss the ways women gained controversial and exemplary reputations and invite visitors to explore the interactive exhibits.
Tours will meet inside the entrance to the Hardiman Research Building (next to the library), NUI Galway, at 11am and 1pm, Saturday 7 March.
http://www.nuigalway.ie/recircexhibition/

Workshop: Video production for scholars
2020-03-10 10:00 - 13:00 | The Moore Institute Seminar Room G010 Ground floor The Hardiman Research Building, Ireland
The aim of this workshop is to provide participants with the tools and confidence to create video content using the technology already in their pockets – their smart phones. This content can be utilised for anything from conference, event or course promotion, to effective communication of complex research topics. The session will cover basic composition, photography, videography, interview and editing skills. There will be a brief photo and video break during which participants will put what they’ve learned to the test, followed by critique and feedback. We will also touch on basic principles of GDPR and model release consent to ensure participants’ content can be used and disseminated as required.
Registration
Register to attend the workshop on Eventbrite.
Learning Objectives

Learn photo composition
Learn cinematography techniques
Learn video editing skills
Understand the unique challenges of mobile storytelling
Create the correct content for the correct audience
Understand GDPR & model release consent basics for content creators

Workshop facilitator and speaker
Eileen Kennedy is Library Digital Experience Developer at NUI Galway. She manages the library MakerSpace and looks after the library’s online presence. Eileen has a BA in Film Studies and English from Boston College and an MA in Digital Media from NUI Galway.
Are you a Digital Scholar?
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.
The series
26 November 2019 – Web maps, data visualisation, and mapping with Neatline. David Kelly and Cillian Joy. G010, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00
17 December 2019 – Managing digital collections. Objects, metadata, ingestion, and access. Aisling Keane. G010, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00
14 January 2020 – Scanathon. Crowd-sourced digitisation. Aisling Keane. G011, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00
18 February 2020 – Online and digital identity for scholars. Blaneth McSharry & Grainne McGrath. G010, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00
10 March 2020 – Video production for scholars. Eileen Kennedy. G010, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00
14 April 2020 – Working with images in Python for research. Cillian Joy. G010, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00

Retired Staff Association Lecture Series: The Connemara marble and its cross-Atlantic connections: A review of its use as an ornamental building stone during the Gilded Age
2020-03-10 12:00 - 13:00 | Room AMB-G065, Psychology Wing, Arts Millennium Building
by Professor Martin Feely, Earth & Ocean Sciences, NUI Galway

Italian - School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures - Between silence and translation: Italy at the time of the ‘refugee crisis’ by Anne O’Connor & Andrea Ciribuco, NUI Galway
2020-03-11 13:00 - 14:00 | Hardiman Research Building Room G011, Ireland
Between 2013 and 2018, approximately 700,000 individuals have crossed the Mediterranean to seek asylum in Italy. The LINCS project (Language Integration and New Communities in a multicultural Society) explores the role of language and translation in their lives, as they forge links with the Italian society and make sense of the new environment.
Andrea Ciribuco is Postdoctoral Fellow in Italian at NUI Galway, funded by the IRC and Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions. His research focuses on language and cultural identity in migratory contexts. He is the author of The Autobiography of a Language: Emanuel Carnevali’s Italian/American Writing (2019).
Anne O’Connor is Senior Lecturer in Italian in NUI Galway. Her research interests include translation and migration, translation history, and religion and translation.
