Moore Institute

Visit of writer Azouz Begag in Ireland
2017-03-10 13:00 - 15:00 UTC | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
As part of The Month of La Francophonie in Ireland, French writer, politician and researcher Azouz Begag will tour the Universities in Ireland : Cork, Limerick or Galway. Seize the occasion to meet him and (re)discover his books and movies!
Azouz Begag was born in 1957 in Lyon. He is a French writer, politician and researcher in economics and sociology at the CNRS. He was the delegate minister for equal opportunities of France in the government of French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin till 5 April 2007. Begag has a doctorate in Economics from Lyon II University. He has combined the functions of researcher in economy at the CNRS and at the Maison des sciences sociales et humaines of Lyon since 1980 and the one of professor at the École Centrale de Lyon. A visiting professor in Spring 2002 at the Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies at Florida State University, Begag was later made a honorary professor. Begag’s academic career, culminating in his place as a researcher at the CNRS, as well as his political career to date, have also centered around the problems of unequal opportunity for those brought up in industrial suburbs and ghettos. In his account in 2007 of his two years as minister, The Sheep in the Bathtub, he describes his research work as that of a sociologist.Begag has written approximately 20 literary books for adults and children, as well as songs and movie scenari.Begag’s best known literary work (he has published many novels often inspired by his childhood) is the autobiographical novel Le Gone du Chaâba, published in 1986.
Free events, open to the public (Online RSVP recommended)
In Dublin : Tuesday, March 7th, 6:30pmat Alliance Française, 1 Kildare streetRSVP here
In Cork:On Wednesday March 8th, 5pmat University College Cork (UCC), RoomL1, Electrical Engineering BuildingRSVP here
In Limerick:On Thursday March 9th, 5pmat Mary Immaculate College, room T1.11RSVP here
In Galway:On Friday March 10th, 1pmat NUIG, Moore InstituteRSVP here

The Abbey Theatre, Dublin Cinemas and the Film Company of Ireland, 1916-1920 by Dr. Veronica Johnson, Moore Institute Visiting Fellow
2017-03-13 12:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
This talk examines the relationship between the Film Company of Ireland and Dublin cinemas in the period 1916-1920. Formed in 1916 and releasing its first films in that same year the Film Company of Ireland is the first important film production company in Ireland. Established by James Mark Sullivan and Henry Fitzgibbon, this production company released its first feature film O’Neil of the Glen in August 1916 to a warm popular and critical response. A great part of its allure and of its respectability was the fact that many of the actors and directors of this film company were also members of the Abbey Theatre. In particular Fred O’Donovan and J. M. Kerrigan, actors at the Abbey went on to be both actors and directors with the Film Company of Ireland. This talk focuses on the role played by the Film Company of Ireland films in attracting a middle-class audience to Dublin cinemas in the years 1916 to 1920. It argues that the contribution of Abbey actors and directors lent a respectability to its films that was harnessed by the cinemas in their promotional drive to attract a middle-class audience.

Bio
Dr. Veronica Johnson has worked as a lecturer in Film. Her previous publications have appeared in Kinema, Studies in European Cinema and The Journal of European Popular Culture. Her research focuses on early Irish cinema and its relationship to the entertainment industry, the cinematic unconscious, film and narrative and the films of Krzysztof Kieślowski.

iBook Launch: Harmful Algal Blooms
2017-03-13 16:00 - 17:30 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
An iBook by Dr. Robin Raine (Marien Scientist, School of Natural Sciences, NUI Galway)
All welcome!
Refreshments will be served.

Talk by Prof Catherine O'Brien 'Travel in Sicily: 101 reasons to visit Sicily'.
2017-03-14 12:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Professor O’Brien is Emeritus Professor of Italian at NUI Galway.
The presentation will encapsulate the history, geography, culture, places, attractions, food and wine of the island that will be backed up with attractive images.

Digital Scholarship Seminar Series - Spring 2017
2017-03-14 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Ronan Crowley (University of Antwerp)
‘Migrate It New: Challenges and Opportunities for Ulysees: A Digital Critical and Synoptic Edition.’

Manhattan’s Irish Waterfront Neighborhoods: From the Famine to the Movie Classic “On the Waterfront” by Dr. Kurt Schlichting, Fairfield University
2017-03-14 16:00 - 17:30 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Dr. Kurt C. Schlichting is E. Gerald Corrigan Chair in the Humanities & Social Sciences & Professor of Sociology & Anthropology
kurt@fairfield.edu

“Translation in the context of the commemorations of 1916 and the Great War” by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Ireland Professor of Poetry
2017-03-14 17:00 - 18:30 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Hosted by the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Eilléan Ní Chuilleanáin was born in Cork City in 1942, educated there and at Oxford before spending her working life as an academic in Trinity College, Dublin. She was a founder member of Cyphers, a literary journal. She has won the Patrick Kavanagh Award, the Irish Times Award for Poetry, the O’Shaughnessy Award of the Irish-American Cultural Institute which called her “among the very best poets of her generation”, and the International Griffin Poetry Prize. Her collections include Acts and Monuments (1972, winner of the 1973 Patrick Kavanagh Award), Site of Ambush (1975), The Second Voyage (1977, 1986), The Rose Geranium (1981), The Magdalene Sermon (1989) which was shortlisted for the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Award, The Brazen Serpent (1994), The Girl Who Married the Reindeer (2001), Selected Poems (2008) and Legend of the Walled-up Wife (translations from the Romanian of Ileana Malancioiu, 2011). The Boys of Bluehill (2015) is her first collection since The Sun-fish which won the 2010 Griffin International Poetry Prize and was also a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin is a Fellow and Professor of English (Emerita) at Trinity College, Dublin and a member of Aosdána. She was recently appointed as the new Professor of Irish Poetry (2016).

Margaret Heavey Memorial Lecture by Prof. Richard Seaford, University of Exeter “Does the inner self exist?” ancient insights from Greece and India
2017-03-14 18:15 - 19:30 | Siobhan McKenna Theatre, Ireland
Richard Seaford is Professor Emeritus of Greek at the University of Exeter. He is an expert on Greek Tragedy and on the Marxist/Structuralist interpretation of early Greek literature and world-view. His publications include Reciprocity and Ritual, Money and the Early Greek Mind, and Cosmology and the Polis. He has also published on the work and thought of George Thomson/Seoirse Mac Tomáis, who was Professor of Greek at University College Galway in the early 1920s and a noted Marxist exponent of Hellenic studies.
All welcome. Reception to follow. This event is generously supported by the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies

'Moving while doing, nomadic artistic perceptions in socio-environmental transitory times' a project by Visiting Fellow Seila Fernández Arconada
2017-03-15 04:30 - 17:30 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
The relationship between human beings and the notion of place is changing constantly; we are always in “natural” transition. Therefore observing, mapping, experiencing and analising the limits between the tangible and intangible while addressing socio-environmental (contemporary) concerns become relevant.
This project has been an experimental form of work – like moving-while-doing – as an attempt to unleash new forms of art research exploring the limits between place-identity, migration, belonging, the notion of home, the visible-invisible, the natural, etc.
This presentation is an artistic conclusion of this project after a month Fellowship at the Moore Institute.
Seila Fernández Arconada is an independent artist-researcher based in Bristol (UK). She is Honorary Research Staff in the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Bristol; recently selected by Gasworks London to direct a project at pARTage (Mauritius). Seila has delivered numerous cross-disciplinary workshops and interventions including Communities Development in Post-Crisis Regions (Ukraine) and exhibited internationally, recently in Imagined Landscapes (RWA, UK), In Between Storage (Latvia) and ENCLAVE Land Art (Spain). Her work focuses in exploring artistic methodology, its boundaries and new social approaches. www.seilafernandezarconada.net

Drama Theatre and Performance PhD Reading Group
2017-03-15 11:00 - 13:00 | Mezzanine, O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance
Chair: Prof. Patrick Lonergan, O’Donoghue Centre of DTP
Text: Walter Benjamin, ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility: Second Version’.

History Graduate Research Seminar
2017-03-15 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Dr Annemarie Brosnan (Mary Immaculate College, UL)
‘The education of freed slaves in the American South’

Arts, Humanities & Innovation – Speaker Series: Designing for good
2017-03-16 12:00 - 14:00 | The Moore Institute Seminar Room G010 Ground floor The Hardiman Research Building, Ireland
As part of the Arts, Humanities and Innovation – Connecting with Industry series, Leon Butler, research fellow on the TechInnovate program at NUI Galway, will talk about design, and how PhD students might user their research skills in industry once they qualify.
This series of talks is aimed at researchers from the Arts & Humanities, and will be of particular interest to PhD students considering options for future career development.
Talk overview
Leon will talk about the importance of research in the design process. Design is no longer limited to visual designers with a flair for creativity but open to all who wish to engage in the process to understand the user and to address how we design for their needs. Human Centred Design focuses on serving rather than selling the product or service, to achieve this you must empathise with the user and define their needs to create a rounded User Experience (UX). These type of UX projects are generally broken in to five planes, most of which are not visible to the end user but provide a conceptual framework for talking about UX problems and the tools we use to solve them. Leon will discuss this conceptual framework for UX projects and present a Human Centred Design approach to solving them.
Leon’s Bio
Leon has worked across a broad range of positions in the media industry as a visual narrative designer, filmmaker, and educator. Since setting up his practice, he has also worked with clients as diverse as Starbucks on their global holiday campaign, Druid Theatre on promotional film for their iconic productions to musician Macklemore, who commissioned Leon to document their 2014 visit to Dublin’s o2 for two sold out shows. He has also developed many personal projects in animation, typography, children’s illustration and documentary. His research interest areas include adaptive interactions and experiences using available data in the public sphere and generative typography and in 2015 he completed a residency at the School of Visual Arts in New York in this field. In 2016, Leon received a ‘Certificate of Typographic Excellence’ from the Type Directors Club in New York. The Design and Craft Council of Ireland listed Leon as one of their ‘Future Makers’ for 2016 and completed a three month residency in Los Angeles with digital agency 72andSunny. Leon is currently a research fellow on the Techinnovate program at NUI Galway.

Children's Studies Seminar- Jane O’Hanlon
2017-03-16 17:00 - 18:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
PLEASE JOIN US FOR:
“The Place of the Arts in Irish Education Revisiting the Benson Report 40 years on”
Jane O’Hanlon (Poetry Ireland)

5.00-6.00 pm, March 16, 2017
GO11, James Hardiman Library, NUI Galway

Seminar by Visiting Fellow, Dr Kylie Thomas, University of the Free State, South Africa 'Photography, Affect and Transnational History: Tracing Lines Between Cape Town and New York'
2017-03-21 13:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Kylie Thomas is the author of the book Impossible Mourning: HIV/AIDS and Visuality after Apartheid and co-editor of the collection, Photography In and Out of Africa: Iterations with Difference. In early 2017 she will hold a European Holocaust Research Infrastructure Fellowship and will be based at the Netherlands Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam where she will be working on a book on women photographers and resistance to repressive regimes.
Kylie Thomas is a Visiting Fellow at the Moore Institute 2016/17 and an affiliate of the Centre for the Investigation of Transnational Encounters.

Seminar by Visiting Speaker Prof. Michael Rubenstein '“Life Support: Fictions of Energy and Environment”
2017-03-21 14:00 - 16:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Michael Rubenstein is an associate professor of English at Stony Brook University, where he teaches courses on postwar Anglophone literatures, film, Irish modernism, James Joyce, and the Environmental Humanities. His book, Public Works: Infrastructure, Irish Modernism, and the Postcolonial (University of Notre Dame Press, 2010), received the Modernist Studies Association Prize and the American Conference for Irish Studies Robert Rhodes Prize. His current book project is called Life Support: Fictions of Energy and Environment.

Book Launch: Scott A. Davison "Petitionary Prayer - A Philosophical Investigation"
2017-03-21 17:00 - 19:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Book launch of
Scott A. Davidson:
Petitionary Prayer
A Philosophical Investigation
(Oxford University Press, 2017)

Scott Davidson, Professor of Philosophy at Morehead State University, Kentucky, USA, is a former Visiting Research Fellow at the Moore Institute where he completed this book.
The Book will be launched by Prof. Felix Ó Murchadha, Head of School of Humanities.

All Welcome!
Refreshments will be Served.

Conference: Reception, Reputation and Circulation in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800
2017-03-22 - 2017-03-25 | Seminar Rooms G010 & G011, Hardiman Research Building
This international conference will bring together scholars working on the reception of texts, the reputations of authors and individuals, and the circulation of people and things in the early modern world.
Invited Speakers:
Ruth Ahnert (QMUL), Sebastian Ahnert (Cambridge), Robin Buning (Oxford), Marc Caball (UCD), Liesbeth Corens (Cambridge), Gillian Dow (Southampton), Julia Flanders (Northeastern), Juliet Fleming (NYU), Jaime Goodrich (Wayne State), Jerome de Groot (Manchester), Katherine Larson (Toronto), Jason McElligott (Marsh’s Library), Eleanor Rycroft (Bristol), Alex Samson (UCL), Helen Smith (York), Rosalind Smith (Newcastle, Australia), Micheline White (Carleton).
Registration is now open. Attendance is free but advance registration is required. A link to registration and further details are available at http://recirc.nuigalway.ie/conference2017/
The conference dinner (€45) will take place on Friday 24 March in the Meyrick Hotel, Eyre Square, Galway. If you wish to attend the dinner, payment should be made when registering.

RECIRC Conference 2017
2017-03-22 09:00 - 2017-03-25 17:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
‘Reception, Reputation and Circulation in the Early Modern World, 1500 – 1800.’

History Graduate Research Seminar
2017-03-22 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Dr Gerard Moran (NUIG & Independent scholar)
‘Sending out Ireland’s Permanent Deadweight During the Great Famine: The Case of the Cork Workhouse Paupers sent to New Brunswick in 1850’

"President Donald Trump: The First Sixty Days and Beyond" Roundtable Discussion
2017-03-22 17:30 - 18:30 | Emily Anderson Concert Hall (Aula Maxima Upper), NUI Galway
Moderator: Mary Regan (columnist, Sunday Business Post)
Participants:

Prof Alan Ahearne (Director of the Whitaker Institute, NUI Galway, and former special adviser to the Minister for Finance)
Prof Daniel Carey (Director of the Moore Institute, NUI Galway)
Dr Kathleen Cavanaugh (Lecturer, Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway)
Larry Donnelly (Lecturer, School of Law, NUI Galway, and political commentator)
Karlin Lillington (Journalist and Columnist, The Irish Times)

Reception from 5pm
RSVP: http://bit.ly/trumpgalway

Italian Art & Its Icons: The Past in the Present
2017-03-23 16:00 - 18:00 | Siobhan McKenna Theatre, Ireland
4-6pm: “The legacy of the Italian Renaissance” with Finola O’Kane Crimmins (UCD), Paolo Bartoloni (NUIG) and Daniel Carey (NUIG); McKenna Lecture Theatre, Arts Millennium Building.
7-10pm: Italian Art and its icons: The past in the present” with Valentina Zucchi (MUS.E) and Michaele Cutaya (Writer and Editor, Galway); 126 Artist-Run Gallery, St. Bridget’s Place.

The Collaborative Design of Tangible Interactions in Museums
2017-03-27 12:00 - 13:00 | The Moore Institute Seminar Room G010 Ground floor The Hardiman Research Building, Ireland
Interactive technology for cultural heritage has long been a subject of study for Human-Computer Interaction. Findings from a number of studies suggest that, however, technology can sometime distance visitors from heritage holdings rather than enabling people to establish deeper connections to what they see. Furthermore, the introduction of innovative interactive installations in museum is often seen as an interesting novelty but seldom leads to substantive change in how a museum approaches visitor engagement. This talk will discuss work on the EU project “meSch” (Material EncounterS with Digital Cultural Heritage) aimed at creating a do-it-yourself platform for cultural heritage professionals to design interactive tangible computing installations that bridge the gap between digital content and the materiality of museum objects and exhibits. The project has adopted a collaborative design approach throughout, involving cultural heritage professionals, designers, developers and social scientist. The talk will feature key examples of how collaboration unfolded and relevant lessons learned, particularly regarding the shared envisioning of tangible interaction concepts at a variety of heritage sites including archaeology and art museums, hands-on exploration centres and outdoor historical sites.
Registration & details
Luigina will be delivering her talk via video conference from Sheffield. The session will be chaired by Dr Tony Hall from the School of Education, and is being run by CELT and the Digital Cultures Initiative.
Please RSVP to tony.hall@nuigalway.ie and fiona.concannon@nuigalway.ie
Speaker biography
Dr. Luigina Ciolfi is Reader in Communication at Sheffield Hallam University. She holds a Laurea (Univ. of Siena, Italy) and a PhD (Univ. of Limerick, Ireland) in Human-Computer Interaction. Her research focuses on understanding and designing for human situated practices mediated by technology in both work and leisure settings, particularly focusing on participation and collaboration in design. She has worked on numerous international research projects on heritage technologies, nomadic work and interaction in public spaces. She is the author of over 80 peer-reviewed publications, has been an invited speaker in ten countries, and has advised on research policy around digital technologies and cultural heritage for several European countries and funding bodies. Dr. Ciolfi serves in a number of scientific committees for international Human-Computer Interaction conferences, including ACM CHI, ACM CSCW, ACM GROUP, ECSCW, and COOP. She is an Associate Editor for the CSCW Journal and the General Chair of the ECSCW 2017 Conference. She is a member of the EUSSET (The European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies) and of the ACM CSCW Steering Groups. Dr. Ciolfi is a senior member of the ACM. Full information on her work can be found at http://luiginaciolfi.com

Seminar- Featuring Visiting Speakers: Prof. Erin Goss & Dr. Kerry Sinanan
2017-03-27 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Prof. Erin Goss (Clemson University)
‘Listening for William Blake’s Daughters of Albion: Echo, Complicity, Complaint’
and
Dr. Kerry Sinanan (Moore Institute Visiting Fellow)
‘An Irish Slave Dealer in Africa: Nicholas Owen’s Manuscript Journal’

Book Launch: Anne Karhio - ‘Slight Return’: Paul Muldoon’s Poetics of Place
2017-03-27 17:00 - 18:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Anne Karhio:
‘Slight Return’: Paul Muldoon’s Poetics of Place
(Oxford: Peter Lang, 2016)

Launched by Professor Sean Ryder, English, School of Humanities

5-6 pm
Wine served
All welcome!

History Graduate Seminar 'Making the case for Freedom of Worship: FDR, Stalin, and the Roman Catholic Church in the USSR and Beyond' by Prof. David Woolner, UCD
2017-03-28 16:00 - 17:00 | Room AC203 ‘Old’ Moore Institute Seminar Room
Prof. David Woolner is Roosevelt Institute/ Mary Ball Professor of US History, UCD

Prof. Stewart Donovan ‘Colony, Nation and State: Reflections on Identity and Imagined Communities’
2017-03-29 13:00 - 15:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Introduced by Prof. Pól Ó Dochartaigh

Light lunch served!

Prof. Donovan is founder of St. Thomas’s Irish Studies Program and editor of The Nashwaak Review, a literary, arts, historical and cultural magazine. He has published a biography of R. J. MacSween, The Forgotten World (2007), three volumes of poetry and two novels. He has written widely on Canadian, American and Irish Modernism with essays on Louis Dudek, Hugh Kenner and Marshall McLuhan among others. He is now completing a book on film studies entitled North of 49: Cinema and Contemporary Culture: A Canadian Perspective. He is also collaborating with Trevor Sawler on a hypertext project on High Modernism.

Award-winning film director John Carney to speak in the Huston School of Film & Digital Media
2017-03-30 14:30 - 17:00 | Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway
John Carney was born in Dublin and was educated at De La Salle College Churchtown and at Synge Street CBS. He was bassist for Irish rock band The Frames between 1991 and 1993 and also directed some of their music videos. In addition to shooting music videos, Carney also wrote and directed two award-winning short films (Shining Star and Hotel) before making his first feature. With fellow film-maker Tom Hall, Carney wrote and directed November Afternoon, his first feature film, in 1996. Despite a limited release, it was acclaimed as the “Film of the Year” by the Irish Times. John wrote, directed and scored his next project, the hour-long TV film Just In Time, starring Frances Barber and Gerard McSorley. The Irish Times voted it Best TV Film of 1998. Carney’s next film was the edgy drama Park, which premiered at the Dublin Film Festival. Two years later, in 2001, he co-wrote and directed On the Edge. The film starred Cillian Murphy and Stephen Rea and was released through Universal Studios. He was awarded the Silver Hitchcock Award for On the Edge at the 2001 Dinard Festival of British Cinema. Carney returned to TV writing and directing during the same year. He co-wrote and co-directed (with his brother Kieran Carney and Tom Hall) the hugely successful RTÉ TV series Bachelors Walk. The independently produced TV series proved the most successful in Irish television history. The series ran for three seasons. In 2006, Carney directed the feature movie Once. First screened at the Galway Film Fleadh, Once had its official world release at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2007 and won the World Cinema Audience Award in the category Dramatic. A low-budget affair shot for only $160,000, Once was hugely successful, grossing $7 million worldwide in its first 3 months of release. Legendary film-maker Steven Spielberg is quoted as saying, “Once gave me enough inspiration to last the rest of the year.” As writer and director of Once, Carney won the Most Promising Newcomer award in the Evening Standard British Film Awards 2007 and the film went on to win an Academy Award for Best Original Song. It has since been adapted as one of the most successful theatrical musicals of recent years, including award winning runs on Broadway and the West End. Subsequent films directed by Carney have enjoyed considerable critical and commercial success. Begin Again (2013) grossed over $63 million worldwide (it is the most-watched independent film of all time in South Korea) and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for “Lost Stars”. His most recent film, the Irish set coming of age musical Sing Street (2016), was nominated for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy at the 74th Golden Globes in January 2017.

Visiting Speaker Professor John Scattergood (Trinity College Dublin) will speak on 'St Erkenwald and its Literary Relations'
2017-03-30 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland

CAMPS Lab
2017-03-31 12:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Dr Frances McCormack (English, NUIG)
‘From Weeping Trees to Heated Hearts: Towards an Understanding of Compunction in Old English poetry’.

Book Launch- Poland in the Irish Nationalist Imagination, 1772-1922 by Róisín Healy
2017-04-03 16:00 - 18:30 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Dr. Andrew Newby of the University of Helsinki will launch the book.
All are welcome!
