Galway and the creative arts: performance and representation
2020-05-21 19:30 - 20:30 (Europe/Dublin) | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Update: Video and audio recordings of this session are now available

Panellists in this webinar will examine the ways in which Galway has been represented historically in art and literature, and discuss the development of theatre and traditional music in the city since the 1960s. The discussion will be interspersed with live musical performances.
Panellists

Anna Falkenau, musician and ethnomusicologist, Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway
Gerard Hanberry, poet, musician, and creative writing tutor at NUI Galway
Anne Hodge, Curator of Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Ireland
Professor Lionel Pilkington, School of English and Creative Arts, NUI Galway

Each panellist is a key contributor to a forthcoming book, Hardiman and After: the Arts and Culture in Galway, which is edited by John Cunningham and Ciaran McDonough.
The discussion will be moderated by John Cunningham, Director of MA History, and Moore Institute.
Attendance
Register to attend using Zoom at: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Y6OpxLmOSLifHPGOdUzjuw, or view the event live on the Moore Institute’s Facebook page at: https://facebook.com/mooreinstitute/live

G2020/NUIG: Conference: Translating the Neighbourhood: Migration, dialogue and spaces of translation in the 21st century
2020-05-28 - 2020-05-29 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Keynotes:
Prof. Loredana Polezzi (Cardiff) – Prof. Sherry Simon (Concordia)
Urban spaces have always been places of translation (Simon 2012; Meylaerts and Gonne 2014; Cronin and Simon 2014), where encounters between languages and cultures have given birth to both conflict and exchange. In the last few decades, increasingly diverse urban environments have emerged, making coexistence between different communities a key contemporary issue. As a multi-disciplinary event, this conference explores urban spaces (cities and towns) as areas of translation, of dialogue and silence, communication and interaction.
This conference is specifically preoccupied with translation in society and beyond the text: translation as the managing of difference, a tool for inclusion or exclusion within the context of the contemporary urban space. As a multi-disciplinary, multi-media event, the conference intends to explore the different instances where people perform translation on the social stage in response to the many challenges and stimuli of 21st century globalization. Some of these translations are performed by professionals, some by non-professionals; some are intended to impact policy or contribute to a public debate, while others may last the short space of an oral exchange.
The conference “Translating the Neighbourhood: Migration, dialogue and spaces of translation in the 21st century” takes place within the scope of the IRC and MSCA funded project “Language Integration and New Communities in Multicultural Societies”. We welcome papers that explore different instances of translation and dialogue, including but not limited to:
• translation and asylum;
• translation and minorities;
• translation in specific places (shops, cafés, streets, markets);
• translation and education in multilingual settings;
• language biographies of newcomers;
• translation and public performance (e.g. multicultural theatre);
• translingual art in/about the city;
• translation policy in urban spaces;
• formal vs. informal translation and interpreting;
• absent spaces of translation
The conference will take place in Galway – a bilingual city and the 2020 European Capital of Culture. During the first day, speakers will present their research, followed by keynote addresses by Prof. Loredana Polezzi (Cardiff University) and Prof. Sherry Simon (Concordia University). On the second day, practitioners, artists, performers and activists who work in the field will collaboratively conduct workshops and demonstrations of translation in the neighbourhood.
For further information, please contact the organisers Andrea Ciribuco and Anne O’Connor at: andrea.ciribuco@nuigalway.ie and anne.oconnor@nuigalway.ie

Ireland, Borders, and Covid-19 - Covid-19 Response Webinar
2020-05-28 16:00 - 17:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Update: Video and audio recordings of this session are now available.

This panel brings together perspectives from Sociology, Political Science and Public Health to examine debates surrounding boundaries and pandemic-control in Ireland and their relationship to pandemic controls in Britain, Europe and the wider world. It examines the extent, and the limitations, of an all-Ireland approach, the significance of variation within the United Kingdom, and the nature of borders within and around post-pandemic Ireland.
As the Covid-19 pandemic spread rapidly across the world in the early weeks and months of 2020, new kinds of boundaries were established while existing borders took on a new significance: from the self-regulated two-metre boundary that now surrounds every individual, to the local, regional, and inter-state boundaries that are being deployed to control the spread of the virus.
Two distinctively different kinds of boundary are of particular significance in the case of Ireland: the natural boundary of the sea and the island’s contested but porous land border. In common with other islands, Ireland enjoys a natural ‘isolation’ that can be used to help control the spread of disease, offering the possibility of following the path New Zealand has taken to create a zone that is almost free of the virus. Brexit had already pushed the Irish border to the heart of debate on the future UK-EU relationship as it became a line of new international significance. The experience of the coronavirus crisis will further complicate all analysis of the future of Ireland’s borders, not least by underlining the fact that borders are not only lines of division but points of connection too.
Panellists

Dr. Katy Hayward (Queen’s University Belfast)
Prof. Niall Ó Dochartaigh (NUI Galway)
Dr. Gabriel Scally (Bristol)

Chair: Prof Daniel Carey (NUI Galway)
Registration
You can register to join via Zoom at: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AVqWyP_SR-yYcrHSXXiANw. The session will also be broadcast live on our Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/mooreinstitute/live.

Art and Digital Technology in a Time of Crisis - Covid-19 Response webinar
2020-06-03 16:00 - 17:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Update: Video & audio recordings of this session are now available.

The current public health restrictions implemented in many regions around the world, such as social distancing, have led to increased reliance on digital technologies. Creative work is no exception. In this panel, artistic practitioners and scholars discuss how the current crisis informs engagement with digital technology along with the possibilities and limitations of creative practice that arise at this time.
Participants

Dr. Leonie Bradbury (Emerson College)
Prof. Noel Fitzpatrick (TU Dublin/Gradcam)
Dr. Conor McGarrigle (TU Dublin)
Dr. Máiréad Ní Chróinín (NUI Galway)

Chair: Dr EL Putnam (NUI Galway)
Registration
You can register to join via Zoom at: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85711327188?pwd=[REDACTED] The session will also be broadcast live on our Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/mooreinstitute/live.
About the series
This webinar is part of a series developed through the Moore Institute’s COVID-19 Response Group. Video and audio recordings of the previous sessions are available on the group’s webpage.

CASSCS New Professors' Inaugural Lecture Series: Professor AnnMarie Groarke
2020-06-11 14:00 - 15:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
‘What Enhances or Hinders Psychological Adjustment to Chronic Illness for women and men?
A programme of research’
Prof. AnnMarie Groarke
Personal Professor, School of Psychology
Professor AnnMarie Groarke will present key results from her programme of research on psychological adjustment in patients with cancer and arthritis. Given individual variability in response to diagnosis and treatment of illness the focus of this research has been to identify factors that enhance or disrupt adaptation. Specifically, it highlights the importance of stress appraisal and stress management on quality of life. Coping strategies, illness beliefs and psychological protective attributes that are useful and adaptive are also identified.
While diagnosis of serious illness is associated with emotional distress, positive psychological change can also occur in the aftermath of highly stressful events. Some findings on when and why this post-traumatic growth might occur for women with breast cancer will be discussed. The potential impact of prostate cancer and its treatment on men’s sense of manhood and identity is also a focus of interest. Implications for patient care and self-management will be considered.
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AnnMarie Groarke was appointed Personal Professor in School of Psychology in 2019. Her main research interests and publications are in health psychology and focus on psychological adjustment to illness particularly understanding factors that predict variability in adaptation. Over the last number of years she has conducted a programme of collaborative research with colleagues in Psychology and cancer specialists at Galway University Hospital to examine the psychological impact of breast cancer and prostate cancer. Her funded research in cancer has examined patient experiences during biopsy, diagnosis, treatment and post treatment phases. In addition a clinical trial demonstrated the efficacy of a cognitive-behavioural stress management programme for women with breast cancer, was the largest RCT in this area to date in Ireland and one of the first in Europe. She was also involved in setting up postgraduate programmes in health psychology here and NUI Galway is now an internationally renowned centre of excellence in this area. She spent time as a Visiting Scholar (2014 and 2018) at the leading Centre for Psycho-Oncology Research at University of Miami, USA. She served as Head of School of Psychology for eight years (2009- 2017), three yeas as Vice Dean (2003-2006) and is currently Deputy Dean in CASSCS. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Cancer Care West since 2012.
Registration
The lecture will be broadcast live on Zoom. You can register to attend at: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_808oOsxkRp-PX2PqL8NBcw. The event will also be broadcast live on the Moore Institute’s Facebook page at: https://facebook.com/mooreinstitute/live.

Universities and the Covid-19 Crisis: Problems, Prospects and Pathways
2020-06-11 16:30 - 17:30 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Update: Video & audio recordings of this session are now available

Immense challenges face universities as a result of Covid-19, including the move to online education, the financial impact of the crisis, and the implications for internationalisation and recruitment. Universities have also made vital contributions in research and provided repositories of much needed expertise. This panel discussion features four university presidents (representing Bristol, St. Andrews, NUI Galway, and Uppsala) who will discuss their response to the pandemic and assessment of its impact in planning for the future.
Panellists

Prof. Eva Åkesson (Rector, Uppsala University, Sweden)
Prof. Hugh Brady (Vice-Chancellor, University of Bristol, UK)
Prof. Sally Mapstone (Principal and VC, University of St. Andrews, Scotland)
Prof. Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh (President, National University of Ireland, Galway)

Chair: Prof. Daniel Carey (Director, Moore Institute, NUI Galway)
Registration
No registration required. The session will be broadcast live on the NUI Galway Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/nuigalway/live.
About the series
This webinar is part of a series developed through the Moore Institute’s COVID-19 Response Group. Video and audio recordings of the previous sessions are available on the group’s webpage.

Normal People: A View from the West
2020-06-17 16:00 - 17:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Update: Video and audio recordings of this session are now available.

Sally Rooney’s novel Normal People (2018) and its 12-part TV adaptation this year have generated a remarkable response in Ireland, the UK, the US and beyond. This online discussion considers the book, its representation in the series directed by Lenny Abrahamson and Hetti Macdonald, and the cultural phenomenon associated with them.
Panellists

Keith Duggan (Irish Times)
Patrick Lonergan (NUI Galway)
Mehar Luthra (NUI Galway)
Charlotte McIvor (NUI Galway)

Diane Negra (UCD)
Adrian Paterson (NUI Galway)
Maria Tivnan (NUI Galway)
Justin Tonra (NUI Galway)
Tony Tracy (NUI Galway)

Chair: Daniel Carey (NUI Galway)
Registration
The lecture will be broadcast live on Zoom. You can register to attend at: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XVW_4LGXQNeuxBM7ixGZAw. The event will also be broadcast live on the Moore Institute’s Facebook page at: https://facebook.com/mooreinstitute/live.

Philosophy and the Pandemic: reasoning in unreasonable times
2020-06-18 16:00 - 17:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Update: Video and audio recordings of this session are now available.

As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, fundamental philosophical questions have come into sharp focus. In this panel discussion, faculty members from the discipline of philosophy at NUI Galway will discuss a range of issues related to these times of change and uncertainty, including the role and rhetoric of expertise; “states of exception” and governance; the trust invested in decision-makers; the nature of goodwill in a moment of crisis; how we engage in reasoning about uncertainty and catastrophic outcomes; and the nature of nostalgia and how we (mis)remember the past.
Panellists

Lucy Elvis
Heike Felzmann
Felix Ó Murchadha
Nick Tosh

All of NUI Galway.
Chair: Daniel Carey, Moore Institute.
Registration
You can register to join via Zoom at: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rwMBOX_QQCK9ooyGiBOIIg. The session will also be broadcast live on our Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/mooreinstitute/live.
About the series
This webinar is part of a series developed through the Moore Institute’s COVID-19 Response Group. Video and audio recordings of the previous sessions are available on the group’s webpage.

Sport and Covid-19
2020-06-25 16:00 - 17:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Update: Audio and video recordings of this session are now available.

The advent of the Covid-19 crisis has brought unprecedented challenges to all areas of social, cultural, and economic life. As one of the most popular cultural practices, sport has been particularly impacted with the cancellation since mid-March of most sporting events in countries across the world. Sport has nonetheless continued to occupy an important place in people’s lives and in the contemporary media landscape. This webinar brings together a range of speakers engaging with sport from a variety of perspectives, including sports history, sports governance and policy, sports practitioners and representative organisations, sport and the media, and gender and sport, to consider the impact of the pandemic on sport in Ireland and internationally.
Participants

Professor Paul Rouse, UCD, one of the leading experts on the history of Irish sport
Dr Mary O’Connor, CEO of the Federation of Irish Sport, and All-Ireland winning player and All-Star with Cork in camogie and Gaelic football
Dr Niamh Kitching, Mary Immaculate College, whose work focuses on gender equality and sport, including female athletes and coaches
Dr Marcus Free, Mary Immaculate College, who specialises on media and sport
Dr Borja García, Loughborough University, an authority on sports policy and governance and member of the European Commission’s expert group on sport policy

The webinar will be chaired by Dr Seán Crosson of the Huston School of Film and Digital Media at NUI Galway, and leader of the Sport and Exercise Research Group in the Moore Institute.
Registration
You can register to join via Zoom at: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_V16dtmjsRZqClBp51kVmzQ. The session will also be broadcast live on our Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/mooreinstitute/live.
About the series
This webinar is part of a series developed through the Moore Institute’s COVID-19 Response Group. Video and audio recordings of the previous sessions are available on the group’s webpage.

Literature, Narrative, and Covid-19
2020-07-01 14:00 - 15:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
This webinar, arising from NUI Galway’s participation in the new ENLIGHT consortium of European universities, concentrates on literature and narrative in relation to the current crisis. Daniel Carey will be joined by Marysa Demoor, Ghent University (Belgium), Stephen Donovan (Uppsala University, Sweden), and Raili Marling (University of Tartu, Estonia) to discuss in Daniel Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year and The Storm; coverage of epidemics in 19th-century periodicals; and the representation of epidemics as looming but invisible crises in fiction.
For more information, see:
https://enlight-eu.org/index.php/university-about-us/news-events/347-enlight-lecture-literature-narrative-and-covid-19-1-july-2020
To join, please use this link on the day: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/91802407670.

Language in a health crisis: navigating Covid-19 in a multilingual Ireland
2020-07-02 16:00 - 17:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Update: Video and audio recordings of this session are now available.

This webinar addresses key sociolinguistic dimensions of the Covid-19 crisis in Ireland, looking at Irish and immigrant languages. Panellists will explore challenges posed by the crisis for speech and language therapy services and EAL (English as an additional language) provision; the role of the state in providing public health information in languages other than English; and surprising opportunities that have emerged in terms of home language maintenance and language learning.
This event is an initiative of the Centre for Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism (CALM) in the Moore Institute.
Panellists

Stanislava Antonijevic (NUI Galway)
Annie Asgard (Claddagh National School, Galway City)
Cassie Smith-Christmas (NUI Galway)
John Walsh (NUI Galway)

Chair: Laura McLoughlin (NUI Galway)
Attendance
To attend via Zoom, please register using this link: https://tinyurl.com/yd3956tv. The session will also be broadcast live via the Moore Institute’s Facebook page, and you can listen via Flirt FM 101.3 or www.flirtfm.ie.
About the series
This webinar is part of a series developed through the Moore Institute’s COVID-19 Response Group. Video and audio recordings of the previous sessions are available on the group’s webpage.

Webinar - Imagine Ageing: Irish Culture and Society
2020-09-18 14:00 - 15:30 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
This event is part of the pan-European project Gendering Age: Representations of Masculinities and Ageing in Contemporary European Literatures and Cinemas (2019-2022). It brings together six speakers from a variety of backgrounds to consider issues and themes in the representation of ageing masculinities in an Irish context. It marks the first in a planned series of webinars and events at NUI Galway/Moore Institute that will explore cultural constructions of ageing in film and literature.
Participants

Prof. Desmond O’Neill (TCD): Ageing & the Humanities
Dr Heather Ingman (TCD) – Ageing in Irish Literature and Criticism
Dr Michaela Schrage-Früh (NUI Galway) – Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature
Anne Griffin (Writer) – Writing Male Ageing: When All is Said (2019)
Dr Tony Tracy (NUI Galway) – Ageing and Masculinity in Contemporary Irish Film
Dr Maggie O’Neill / Dr Aine Ni Leime (NUI Galway): Perspectives of Older Men in Ireland on Representations of Ageing

Chair: Prof. Dan Carey (Moore Institute, NUI Galway)
Organisers: Dr Tony Tracy and Dr Michaela Schrage-Früh, in association with the Moore Institute, NUI Galway
Register
Register to attend the webinar now at Eventbrite.

Webinar: Áit agus Anam: Remembering Tim and Mairéad Robinson
2020-09-22 14:00 - 15:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Update: Now available to watch online

An interdisciplinary, online conversation celebrating the lives and legacies of Tim and Mairéad Robinson, who passed away earlier this year. Join us for our ‘zoom regatta’ where our guest speakers discuss fieldwork and friendships, old and new, and pay homage to the couple’s extraordinary contribution to the region and world of nature writing. Speakers include poet Moya Cannon, cultural geographer Dr Fidelma Mullane and historian and nature writer Dr David Gange.
We are especially delighted to also have members of the Clifden Arts Festival committee involved, with contributions from Brendan Flynn and Des Lally on their memories of Tim and Mairéad’s connection to Ireland’s longest running community arts festival. Chaired by Dr Nessa Cronin and co-hosted by the Centre for Irish Studies and Moore Institute, NUI Galway and Clifden Community Arts Festival.
Viewing the Session
This session is pre-recorded, and is available to view on the Moore Institute’s website, YouTube channel, Facebook page, and on the Clifden Arts Festival website, on Tuesday, September 22nd from 2pm.

Contributors

Moya Cannon is an Irish poet with six published collections, the most recent being Donegal Taran-tella (Carcanet Press, Manchester, 2019). In her poems, archaeology and geology figure as gateways to an understanding of our relationship with our endangered earth. Music, particularly traditional Irish music, has always been a deep interest and is a constant theme. She has received the Brendan Behan Award and the O’Shaughnessy Award and, in 2011, was Heimbold Professor of Irish Studies at Villanova University P.A.. She has edited Poetry Ireland Review and is a member of Aosdána. Her Collected Poems is due from Carcanet Press in 2021.
Fidelma Mullane is a cultural geographer and curator specializing in the study of vernacular culture. Advising, teaching and publishing as a specialist and advocate, she concentrates on the topic of historic vernacular building traditions, and on the promotion of culturally appropriate contemporary building practices. She recently curated ‘Photographing the 1950s’, an exhibition of selected photographs of Ireland as captured by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Dorothea Lange and Robert Cresswell.
David Gange is a historian and nature writer based at the University of Birmingham. His most recent book, The Frayed Atlantic Edge, which involved kayaking all the Atlantic coastlines of Ireland and the UK was joint winner of The Highland Book Prize and shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing.

Learning from pandemics: a century of experience
2020-10-02 13:00 - 14:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
This webinar explores historical lessons from major episodes of infectious disease during the past century. What can we learn from the flu pandemic of 1918–19, SARS, Ebola, and other crises, in the response to Covid-19?
Panellists

Prof. Svenn-Erik Mamelund (Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway)
Dr. Ida Milne (Carlow College/Trinity College Dublin)
Prof. Grace Mulcahy, MRIA (UCD)
Dr. Michael Ryan (WHO)

Chair: Prof. Daniel Carey, MRIA (NUI Galway)
To join the webinar, please use the Eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/learning-from-pandemics-a-century-of-experience-tickets-122377798289

The US Election: Perspectives and Prospects
2020-11-05 16:00 - 17:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
This online panel discussion will review the outcome of the US election, the major issues that have faced the electorate in 2020, the campaign, and ways forward for the country. The event is a collaboration between the Moore Institute and the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University.
Panellists

Prof. Eileen Gillooly (Director, Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University)
Prof. Stephanie McCurry (Professor of History, Columbia University)
Dr. Charlotte McIvor (Senior Lecturer in Drama, NUI Galway)
Prof. Josef Sorett (Professor of Religion and African American and African Diaspora Studies, Columbia University)

Chair: Prof. Daniel Carey (Director of the Moore Institute, NUI Galway)
To attend, please sign up via: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86841991293

This Writing Life: Creativity & Well-Being in the time of Pandemic
2020-11-12 18:30 - 19:30 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
The Moore Institute at the National University of Ireland Galway invites you to a live online event exploring themes of Life Writing and Well-Being during the Pandemic. The session features poet and writer Doireann Ní Ghríofa, writer and editor Marina Benjamin, and Arts Council Writer in Residence NUIG 2020 Arnold Thomas Fanning. There will be readings from the participating writers as well as opportunities for input from the audience.
The event will be moderated by award-winning writer Mike McCormack of NUI Galway.
This live online event will take place on the Zoom platform, and will be streamed via the Moore Institute’s Facebook page. To attend, please register use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_eMG0J0LDTKCmC2QYDaZK_Q

'Cinema, Migration & Activism' A conversation with Dagmawi Yimer
2020-11-13 15:00 - 16:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Dagmawi Yimer is an Ethiopian-born, Italian-based director and activist documenting the journeys of asylum seekers and migrants.
In conversation with Dr. Andrea Ciribuco (NUI Galway, Italian), Dagmawi Yimer will present his latest work “Waiting” (with English subtitles, 17 min.), discussing the links between documentary and activism, and how to use images as a medium to reflect on the present historical moment.
Join us on Zoom:
https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/93438022386?pwd=[REDACTED]
This project received funding from the Irish Research Council and from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 713279.

Webinar: Q&A with Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn
2020-11-17 11:00 - 12:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Huston School of Film & Digital Media and The Moore Institute at NUI Galway present a Q&A with Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn, directors of IFTA Best Film 2020 “Ordinary Love“.
Registration
The session will take place live on Zoom – please register to attend at: https://tinyurl.com/y55we38l. It will also be broadcast live on the Moore Institute’s Facebook page.

Sport, Film, and National Culture
2020-11-19 16:00 - 17:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
The webinar will mark the launch of landmark new book ‘Sport, Film and National Culture’, edited by NUI Galway academic Dr Seán Crosson.
NUI Galway’s Moore Institute will host a webinar on Sport, Film, and National Culture on Thursday, 19 November, at 4pm to mark the launch of a major new volume on this theme edited by Dr Seán Crosson of the University’s Huston School of Film & Digital Media and leader of the Sport and Exercise Research Group in the Moore Institute.
Sport and film have historically been key components of national cultures and societies. The Irish experience is particularly instructive in this respect, evident in the close and enduring association between Gaelic games and Irish identity, and its popular depiction in cinema. As we approach the centenary of Bloody Sunday, Irish cinema has provided one of the most memorable and unsettling depictions – in Neil Jordan’s Michael Collins (1996) – of the horrific events of that day when British soldiers fired upon players and supporters at a Gaelic football match. This webinar will provide a global focus on this topic, examining the critical role film has played in affirming the relationship between sport and national cultures internationally.
Covering films of all types, from Hollywood blockbusters to regional documentaries and newsreels, Dr Crosson’s new book Sport, Film, and National Culture considers how filmic depictions of sport have configured and informed a wide range of distinctive national cultures, societies and identities. Featuring case studies from eleven national contexts across six continents – including North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania – it reveals the common and contrasting approaches that have emerged within sport cinema in differing national contexts.
The webinar brings together a broad range of contributors to this book, who are leading authorities on sport and film, to explore the intersection of these prominent cultural forces internationally.
Chaired by Dr Crosson, contributors to the webinar will include:
USA

Jesse Schlotterbeck, Associate Professor of Cinema at Denison University, Granville, Ohio
[recorded] Gina Daddario, Lin Rong San Professor of Communication at Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia.
Grant Wiedenfeld, Assistant Professor of Media and Culture in the Department of Mass Communication at Sam Houston State University.

Europe

[recorded] Francesco Buscemi, Lecturer in History of Radio and TV, Catholic University of Milan
Manuel Garin, Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Studies at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
[recorded] Rebeccah Dawson, Assistant Professor of German Studies, University of Kentucky.
Peter Dahlén, Professor, Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen.
Stephen Glynn, Associate Research Fellow at De Montfort University, Leicester

Brazil and Ethiopia

[recorded] Pauline Peixoto Iglesias Vargas, PhD candidate in Physical Education, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil.
Michael W. Thomas, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Ethiopian Screen Worlds, University of London

Attendance
The session will take place on Zoom; register to attend at: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_K9QVeuSYTIOH2SkE3kWfAA. The session will also be streamed live on the Moore Institute’s Facebook page.

Centre for Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism (CALM) Seminar Series: 'Making research meaningful for multilingual parents'
2020-11-19 18:00 - 19:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Dr Mary-Pat O’Malley Keighran, Lecturer in Speech & Language Therapy, NUI Galway
In this webinar, Mary-Pat will talk about ways in which research into multilingual speech and language development and disorders can be made accessible and meaningful to parents faced with persisting myths about raising multilingual children. For more information about Mary-Pat’s work, see www.talknua.com.
Hosted by the Moore Institute. ‌Please register in advance at this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ygXo5hNgRAS5zhFjCzLwxw

Imagine Ageing: Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Culture
2020-11-20 14:00 - 17:30 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
This online workshop, organised in association with the Moore Institute, NUI Galway follows our earlier webinar and is part of the pan-European project Mascage: Representations of Masculinities and Ageing in Contemporary European Literatures and Cinemas (2019-2022).
Its aim is to present and discuss work-in-progress for a planned collection Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Culture.
Attending
If you are interested in attending this workshop or getting involved with the project, please send an email to tony.tracy@nuigalway.ie and michaela.schrage-frueh@nuigalway.ie to receive further information.

Programme Workshop “Imagine Ageing: Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Culture”
Friday, 20th November 2020, 14.00-17.30
14.00-14.15 Welcome and Introduction
Tony Tracy & Michaela Schrage-Früh (NUI Galway)

14.15-15.00 Panel 1: Visual Culture (Chair: Tony Tracy)
Katarzyna Kociołek (University of Warsaw)
Seán Keating’s Ireland – the Land of the Old Men
Méabh Ní Fhuartháin /Verena Commins (NUI Galway)
”The Rights of Man”: Authenticity, Masculinities and Ageing in Irish Traditional Music on Screen
Áine Ní Léime / Maggie O’Neill (NUI Galway)
Changing the Picture: Older Men’s Responses to Media Representations of Ageing

15.00-15.30 Panel 2: Poetry (Chair: Michaela Schrage-Früh)
Heike Hartung (University of Graz)
Poetics at the Limit: Embodiment, Masculinities and Ageing in Samuel Beckett’s Early Poetry Collection Echo’s Bones
Anne Karhio (NUI Galway)
Masculinity, Ageing, and the Point of Poetry in the Writing of Paul Muldoon

15.45-16.15 Panel 3: Drama (Chair: Tony Tracy)

Ciara L. Murphy (NUI Galway)
Father Ireland on Stage: Representations of Social Change and Ageing Masculinities in Crisis
Matthew Sweney (University of Graz)
“Play and lose and have done with losing.” Masculinity and Loss in Samuel Beckett’s Endgame (1957), and Enda Walsh’s The Walworth Farce (2006)

16.15-17.15 Panel 4: Fiction (Chair: Michaela Schrage-Früh)
Loic Wright (UCD)
Fatherhood, Ageing Masculinities, and the Politics of Insecurity in Twentieth-Century Irish Fiction
Brenda O’Connell (Maynooth University)
Fathers and Sons: Shades of Ageing Masculinities in Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones
Cassandra Sian Tully De Lope (Universidad de Extremadura)
Stuck in the Old Times – a Male-character Analysis on Three Irish novels through Corpus Stylistics
Orlaith Darling (TCD)
“The Land’ll be here long after we’re dead and gone”: Ageing Masculinity, Relationships and the Land in Recent Irish Short Fiction

17.15-17.30 Final Discussion

Webinar: Remembering Michael Moran: NUI Galway marks the centenary of a campus tragedy
2020-11-24 19:30 - 20:30 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
On the evening of 24 November 1920, Michael Moran – a prominent republican in the Tuam area – was shot and killed on the campus of University College Galway, allegedly while ‘trying to escape’ from the custody of Auxiliaries. When the shooting took place, Moran was being escorted from the police barracks in Eglinton Street to the temporary barracks of the 17th Lancers (now the O’Donoghue Centre and College Bar area).
To mark the centenary of the tragedy on the campus, NUI Galway is holding a webinar sponsored by the Moore Institute, which will discuss the life and death of Michael Moran. The session will consider the broader political context in which the event occurred, in particular the escalation of the conflict in Ireland during the closing months of 1920.
Panellists

Dr Síobhra Aiken (Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway)
Prof. Linda Connolly (NUI Maynooth)
Dr Jarlath Deignan, author of Troubled Times: War and Rebellion in North Galway, 1913-23
Damian Quinn, military historian

Chair: Dr John Cunningham (Dept of History, NUI Galway)
Registration
To register for this free webinar, please sign up via: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mX2cFunXT62jTKSwQ6Ap_A
The event will also be streamed live on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mooreinstitute/

Art & Environment Book Launch and Webinar
2020-11-25 20:00 - 21:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Earth Writings: Bogs, Forest, Fields, Gardens, edited by Karen E. Till
8pm, Wednesday 25th November 2020
Dublin Art Book Fair,
in association with the Centre for Irish Studies and Moore Institute, NUI Galway.
To register go to: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uayxddBfSwSXjVlwkCSRzg
We live in an earth facing ecological and climate crises, species extinctions, and global pandemics. How can we repair our collapsing environments? Learn from the creative practices of four artists working in Ireland – Monica de Bath, Cathy Fitzgerald, Pauline O’Connell and Seoidín O’Sullivan – who ‘stay with the trouble’ and make ‘kin in lines of inventive connections’ (Haraway, 2016).
Earth Writings: Bogs, Forests, Fields, Gardens includes artwork, exhibition vignettes, and essays with the artists in conversations with scholars Patrick Bresnihan, Nessa Cronin, Gerry Kearns and Karen E. Till.

With introductions by Lucina Russell and Karen E. Till. The multi-media book launches will include images of artists’ works, readings and conversations by the contributors, followed by questions and answers from the public.
The book launches are part of the online Temple Bar Gallery Dublin Art Book Fair 2020, which embraces arts-practice publishing, artist-run culture and participatory events at the intersection of art and contemporary culture. The first launch takes place during GeoWeek 2020, which highlights the importance of geographical knowledge for understanding the world around us to address contemporary social, political and environmental issues.
The second launch will contribute to Creative Rathangan Meithal’s ‘Layers 3’ event and include artist-scholar Christine Mackey as a guest commentator.
A limited number of hard-copy books are available for 8€ (plus postage) through the Temple Bar Dublin Art Book Fair. Earth Writings: Bogs, Forests, Fields, Gardens (2020), edited by Karen E. Till, design by Pure Designs. ISBN 978-0-9547955-3-5, 73 pp., with full colour images. A PDF of the book will also soon be available on EarthWritings.ie. Contact: karen.till@mu.ie
Generously funded by: Creative Ireland Kildare, Kildare County Council Arts Service, the Irish Research Council New Foundations STEAM grant, Maynooth University Department of Geography Research Incentive Fund.

Centre for Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism (CALM) Seminar Series: 'Artificial intelligence approaches to multilinguality'
2020-12-10 18:00 - 19:00 | Online
Dr John McCrae, Lecturer at Data Science Institute and Insight Centre for Data Analytics, NUI Galway
In this webinar, Dr John McCrae will talk about the use of artificial intelligence for issues in multilinguality. The talk will give an overview of AI applications, including machine translation, that are useful for this and a particular focus will be on the application of AI to minority languages and historical linguistics. We will also cover work on the development of computer-assisted language learning systems.

Hosted by the Moore Institute. Please register in advance at this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KmOc_T10SQGIty9ukqyJog

Launch of Sean-Nós Singer in Residence, Centre for Irish Studies, 2021
2020-12-10 19:30 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Seoladh Amhránaí Sean-Nóis Cónaitheach, Ionad Léann na hÉireann, 2021
Saileog Ní Cheannabháin
Déardaoin, 10 Nollaig, 2020 ag 7.30 i.n.

Launch of Sean-Nós Singer in Residence, Centre for Irish Studies, 2021
Saileog Ní Cheannabháin
Thursday, 10 December, 2020 at 7.30pm
Attendance
The launch recording will be available on the Moore Institute’s YouTube channel, or you can watch it below.

Book Launch - Justin Tonra, Write My Name: Authorship in the Poetry of Thomas Moore
2020-12-17 16:00 - 17:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Join us for the launch of Justin Tonra’s book on Thomas Moore (1779–1852), the first monograph devoted to a celebrated poet, best known for Irish Melodies, and the major poet writing in Ireland before Yeats.
Launching the book are:

Prof. Matthew Campbell (York)
Prof. Claire Connolly (Cork)
Prof. Sean Ryder, Head of the School of English & Creative Arts at NUI Galway

To attend please register via: https://bit.ly/WMNLAUNCH

Covid 19 and the new year's challenges: vaccines, variants and critical care
2021-01-14 16:00 - 17:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
The start of 2021 has seen a deepening of the Covid-19 crisis in Ireland, Europe, and around the world. Leading authorities (Mike Ryan, Anne Moore and Alistair Nichol) will discuss major challenges, ranging from vaccines to variants and critical care.
Panellists:

Prof. Anne Moore (University College Cork)
Prof. Alistair Nichol (University College Dublin and St. Vincent’s University Hospital)
Dr. Mike Ryan (World Health Organization)
Chair: Prof. Patricia Kearney (University College Cork

To attend, please register on:

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/covid-19-and-the-new-years-challenges-vaccines-variants-critical-care-tickets-135697004393

Webinar: Q&A with Lenny Abrahamson
2021-02-09 14:00 - 15:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Huston School of Film & Digital Media and The Moore Institute present a Q & A with Lenny Abrahamson, director of Emmy nominated Normal People.
Attendance
The session will take place live on Zoom – please register to attend at: tinyurl.com/4fkuk6av. It will also be broadcast live on the Moore Institute’s Facebook page

Democracy in America
2021-02-16 15:00 - 16:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Leading American commentators will engage in a wide-ranging discussion of the political condition of the US in the aftermath of the Trump presidency and the outset of Joe Biden’s term.
Panellists:

Dan Balz, chief correspondent, The Washington Post
Prof. Stephanie McCurry (Columbia University)
Prof. Monica Miller (Barnard College)

Respondents:

Prof. Eileen Gillooly (Columbia University)
Prof. Lee Morrissey (Clemson University)

Chair: Prof. Daniel Carey (NUI Galway)
To attend please sign up using this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cYnF0HLRQIWBpFDLg8xtiA. The event will also be streamed on the Moore Institute’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/689296505096386.

"Voyagers from the Grave”: A Claddagh Calamity of 1876
2021-02-22 20:00 - 21:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Online lecture, Monday 22 February, 8 pm, by John Cunningham (History, NUI Galway) presented by Galway Archaeological & Historical Society in conjunction with Moore Institute, NUI Galway.
On Monday 13th November 1876, a hooker, the St Patrick, with a crew of four fishermen, set sail from the Claddagh towards Slyne Head. That night a tremendous storm carried the vessel 150 miles out into the Atlantic, where four days later, three survivors were rescued by a passing Swedish vessel and taken to America. Their families and neighbours had already given them all up for dead. The lecture will trace the travails of the crew of the St Patrick – Michael Moran, Patrick Moran, John Moran and Michael Smyth – and consider circumstances in the Claddagh community to which they belonged
To participate live on Zoom (the most inter-active option), please register in advance here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YH3e_mcmS62-CW-CSiGdSA . For a live stream on Facebook, go to the Moore Institute’s page https://www.facebook.com/mooreinstitute/live
