Moore Institute

"Office Hours" Drop-in Service
2017-09-28 12:00 - 13:00, 2017-10-26 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
For postgraduate research students and academic staff with questions or ideas about:

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

Meet with staff from the Moore Institute, Whitaker Institute, NUI Galway Library and the Research Office. No appointment is necessary.
Thursday September 28th from 12pm – 1pm in The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building.

EDEN - ‘Academic Networking and the Elevator Pitch’
2017-09-28 17:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Thursday 28 September at 5:00 PM in The Bridge, Room 1001 HRB!
The theme of the evening will be academic networking, with a workshop on crafting your ‘elevator pitch’ and a chance to put them in practice by introducing yourself to your fellow NUIG PhD peers.
Pints and chats to follow at McGinn’s—all are welcome!

Architecture at the Edge (AATE) | 'Placemaking' Symposium and Workshops
2017-09-29 00:00 - 2017-10-01 00:00 | NUI Galway / Various locations in Galway
Celebrating the Power of Architecture to Transform Lives

Architecture at the Edge (AATE) is a weekend celebration of exceptional architecture in the West of Ireland. Featuring a series of talks, tours, workshops and exhibitions, the festival invites people of all ages to explore the built environment of their city and county.
Showcasing some of the West of Ireland’s most outstanding architectural features, this weekend-long festival offers an exciting opportunity to explore some of the hidden architectural gems of Galway and Mayo. Join a team of expert guides as they take you on a tour of homes, buildings and spaces that are typically off limits. Architecture at the Edge will encourage a lively debate on standards of urban design, planning and sustainability through public engagement in a variety of events.
For the full programme and list of events, please check out the website link below.
https://www.architectureattheedge.com/

MY STORY MY WORDS - A symposium on language, migration and culture in Ireland
2017-09-29 09:00 - 18:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
September 29, 2017- Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway
DEVELOPED UNDER THE IRC “NEW FOUNDATIONS” SCHEME
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE IMMIGRANT COUNCIL OF IRELAND

9.00 Welcome
9.30 – Migration, Language and New Media (Chair: Andrea Ciribuco)
– Mary Gilmartin (NUI Maynooth): “Narratives of Belonging”
– Lisa McEntee-Atalianis (Birkbeck): “Tracing the Migrant Voice in Traditional & New
Media”
– Unn Røyneland (Oslo): “Virtually Norwegian: Negotiating Language and Identity
Online”
11.00 – Break
11.15 – Opening spaces for migrant cultures: translation, creative writing,
visual arts (Chair: Anne O’Connor)
– Stefan Nowotny (Goldsmiths): “Tales and Silences: Revisiting the Task of
Translation”
– Marta Golubowska, visual artist: “The second language in visual arts: means to
convey the meanings”
– Ozgecan Kesici-Ayoubi, poet / scholar / translator: Title TBC
12.30 – Lunch
1.30 – Migrating theatre and film (Chair: Charlotte Mc Ivor)
– OT Platform (Bernie O’Reilly, Maud Hendricks, Rula Abu Affar): “OTP, an open
platform in Dublin”
– Kasia Lech (Canterbury Christ Church University / Polish Theatre Ireland): “They
came here and stole our jobs and then they took our language: Polish-Irish-English
hybrid and its theatrical potential”
– Jijo Sebastian, film director: Title TBC
2.30 – Migrating Poetry (Chair: Michaela Schrage-Frueh)
– Anne Mulhall (UCD): Title TBC
– Christodoulos Makris, poet: “Travelling Light: Shedding Poetry’s
National Baggage”
– Nita Mishra, poet /scholar: “’Tom’s Exotic Princess’”
– Nithy Kasa, poet: Title TBC
– Fiona Bolger, poet: presenting “All the Worlds Between”
4.15 – The Immigrant Council of Ireland (presented by Tereza
Buszckowska)
4.45 – Break
5.00 – Ó Briain Memorial Lecture
Patrick Stevenson (Southampton): “Moving Stories: Writing Berlin Lives”
6.00 Reception

Seminar and Book Launch
2017-10-03 16:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Seminar and Book Launch
Prof. Kerby A. Miller (University of Missouri)
Best to Forget? Conflict, Memory, and Memoir-Writing by Irish Emigrants to the United States, c1870-c1950
Kerby A. Miller is Curators’ Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Missouri. His book Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America (1985) was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. His other books include Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan (2003), and Ireland and Irish America: Culture, Class, and Transatlantic Migration (2008), and Catholics and Protestants in Eighteenth-Century Ireland: The Irish Religious Censuses of the 1760s (forthcoming).

Followed by the launch of Breandán Mac Suibhne’s
The End of Anger: The Post-Famine Adjustment in Rural Ireland (Oxford University Press, 2017).

The Yeats Family Sale: NUI Galway, the Irish State, and the Auction
2017-10-04 12:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
The Yeats Family Sale: NUI Galway, the Irish State, and the Auction
Wednesday 4 October 12noon
The Bridge Seminar Room (Hardiman Research Building 1001)
Participants:
Adrian Paterson
Adrian Frazier
Anne Byrne
Barry Houlihan
Marie Boran
The major sale of items associated with W.B. Yeats, Jack B. Yeats, and their family in 224 lots went ahead last Wednesday at Sotheby’s auctioneers in London, selling for a total of £2 million. Adrian Paterson led a campaign to retain the items for the state with a coordinated letter in the Irish Times. Questions were asked in the Dáil and the campaign received coverage around the world.* Nevertheless NUI Galway was successful in securing several items of real importance to the west of Ireland. This pop-up event discusses the fall-out from the controversial sale, the role of the state and its major national institutions, and what NUI Galway managed to secure.
*See for example New York Times 28 Sept:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/27/arts/yeats-auction-sothebys.html
Irish Times 28 Sept: https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/homes-and-property/fine-art-antiques/wb-yeats-s-love-letters-fail-to-sell-in-london-auction-1.3235647

“Worlding Women's Work: The Migrant Female Domestic Worker in May-Lan Tan's ‘Date Night’ (2014)" by Dr Kate Houlden
2017-10-04 13:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
“Worlding Women’s Work: The Migrant Female Domestic Worker in May-Lan Tan’s ‘Date Night’ (2014)”
by Dr Kate Houlden (Anglia Ruskin University)

Date: Wednesday, 4th October 2017
Time: 1:00–2:00pm
Venue: The Bridge Seminar Room, Hardiman Building

ALL WELCOME!

Graduate Research Seminars in History - Daragh Gannon
2017-10-04 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
4 Oct. Daragh Gannon (National Museum of Ireland/ Maynooth University)
Irish Home Rulers in Britain and the Irish Revolution.*

Huston Guest Session: Award-winning Music documentary Cinematographer Frank Shortt
2017-10-05 14:30 | ‘Huston Main’, Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway, Ireland
Huston Guest Session: Award-winning Music documentary Cinematographer Frank Shortt
Thursday October 5th 2.30pm, Huston Main

Frank Shortt has worked in the film industry for almost twenty years, specialising in the music documentary genre and contributing as a cinematographer to award-winning productions including for leading international rock acts Iron Maiden, Motörhead and Rush. Originally from Norway, he completed a bachelor degree in Film & Video production in 2001 at Surrey Institute of Art & Design (now part of UCA UK), working as a camera trainee and extra on the Oscar-winning feature film Gladiator (Ridley Scott) during his time there and specialising in camera and lighting.
In 2003 Frank returned to Norway and collaborated with fellow filmmaker Martin Hawkes; together they set up SAFT Film, a production company producing local, national and Scandinavian productions and industrial videos. In 2004, Frank (as cinematographer) and SAFT collaborated with the Canadian production company Banger Films to shoot the acclaimed documentary Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey (2005). This led to a series of major music documentary productions for some of the biggest rock banks in the world, including Motörhead: The World Is Ours (2011), Rush: Time Machine 2011: Live in Cleveland (2011) and Iron Maiden: Flight 666 (2009). Frank rose to Head of Camera Department/Cinematographer for Bangers Films, producing high end documentaries and films for clients such as Warner Bros, Universal, Netflix, as well as Bangers’ own productions. Among Bangers’ major achievements was a Grammy nomination for Best long form music video in 2011 (for RUSH: Beyond the Lighted Stage (2010)) and winning the Juno awards for music DVD of the year in 2011 (RUSH: Beyond the Lighted Stage) and 2010 (Iron Maiden: Flight 666). During his visit to Huston, Frank will discuss the process of producing music videos and screen extracts from the work he has done to date.

“Martin Luther: Man and Movement” A talk by Dr. Alison Forrestal
2017-10-10 12:00 - 13:30 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
“Martin Luther: Man and Movement”
by Dr.Alison Forrestal – History, School of Humanities
Seminar Room, G010, The Hardiman Building at 12:00pm-1:30pm

Martin Luther: Man and Movement
500 years ago, Martin Luther’s incendiary ideas about faith shook Europe, releasing a politically charged religious movement that could not be contained, and which altered the course of history. In this lecture, Alison Forrestal will introduce this fascinating and controversial figure, examine the ideas that turned him into a hero for some and a villain for others, and place his revolutionary protest in the context of the early sixteenth century. Luther was a man of his time, so why did he become a man for all times?

RTÉ Brainstorm Information Sessions- Featuring Jim Carroll
2017-10-12 10:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
RTÉ Brainstorm is a new online platform for academics and researchers to publish a broad range of articles. NUI Galway, along with several other universities in Ireland, are supporting the initiative to increase the profile of our academic and research output. You will find more information below and also details about information sessions which are taking place across campus on Thursday 12 October.
Brainstorm RTÉ’s website receives 51 million monthly page impressions, with 6.5 million monthly unique visitors. RTÉ Brainstorm will offer our NUI Galway research community the opportunity to contribute to public debate, engage in the news and current affairs of the moment and communicate new thinking. It will allow RTÉ to provide longer form content and analysis to its online readers/users.
The platform will combine opinion, analysis and features. Content will be edited by RTÉ and sit alongside its online journalism and content. As it develops, the intent is for RTÉ Brainstorm to provide readers with informed views and perspectives on a vast range of topics. It’s an unique partnership between RTÉ and Irish third level institutions, namely University College Cork, NUI Galway, University of Limerick, DCU, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ulster University and Maynooth University.
RTÉ Brainstorm is where the academic and research community will contribute to public debate, reflect on what’s happening in the world around us and communicate fresh thinking on a broad range of issues.Combining opinion, analysis and features and edited by RTÉ and sitting alongside our online journalism and content, RTÉ Brainstorm will provide readers with informed views and perspectives on a vast range of topics.

If you’re a member of an academic or research institution in Ireland or elsewhere and wish to contribute to Brainstorm, please complete the form on the link below to be added to our list of potential contributors.
https://www.rte.ie/eile/brainstorm/2017/0725/892829-contribute-to-brainstorm/

"Office Hours" Drop-in Service
2017-10-12 12:00 - 13:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
For postgraduate research students and academic staff with questions or ideas about:

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

Meet with staff from the Moore Institute, Whitaker Institute, NUI Galway Library and the Research Office. No appointment is necessary.
From 12pm – 1pm in The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building.

'The Traveller Woman in Ireland as a Literary Device and as a Whole Human' A talk by Melania Terrazas
2017-10-12 13:00 - 15:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
The Traveller Woman in Ireland as a Literary Device and as a Whole Human
The talk features a work-in-progress session on the figure of the Irish traveller woman by Melania Terrazas of the University of La Rioja, Spain. Dr Terrazas discusses the traveller woman as a literary device and as a whole human in the work of various contemporary Irish fe/male short story writers, playwrights, novelists, poets and filmmakers who either present the figure in their productions and/or are committed to the Traveller Women Movement in Ireland today.
The idea for this talk developed out of the XVI International Conference of the Spanish Association for Irish Studies (AEDEI), “Fe/male Challenges in Irish Studies from the 19th to the 21st Centuries”, organized by Dr Terrazas on 25–27 May 2017 (www.unirioja.es/aedei2017) as part of the research activity developed by the IDENTIT-ART team (Gender and identity in literary and audiovisual English texts), also directed by Dr Terrazas. This conference was the culmination of a three-year competitive research project.

Melania Terrazas is Senior Lecturer in English Studies and International Mobility Programs Coordinator at the University of La Rioja (Spain). She is on the Executive Board of AEDEI (The Spanish Association for Irish Studies) and a founding member of the Centre for Irish Studies BANNA/BOND (EFACIS). She is currently a visiting scholar at Huston School of Film Studies and Digital Media (NUI Galway) and conducting research at the Moore Institute, where she is co-editing a collection on satire theory and practice, and editing a special journal issue on gender issues in contemporary Irish literature and a volume on trauma and identity issues in contemporary Irish culture. Financial support was received from the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport through the “Salvador de Madariaga” mobility programme (code PRX17/00339), and the University of La Rioja through project number APPI17/06.

EDEN: Making the machine work for you: plain text and software for an efficient writing workflow
2017-10-12 17:00 - 18:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Making the machine work for you: plain text and software for an efficient writing workflow
Thursday 12 October 5pm-6:30pm
Room 1001 ‘The Bridge’, Hardiman Research Building
We use computers all the time for writing, but are we getting the best out of these machines? This EDEN session seeks to demystify the “black box” and show how we can use software to make our writing workflow as painless as possible, so that we can spend less time thinking about fonts and margins, finding lost notes, and recovering files, and more time thinking about our actual work.
Join us as we hear from Dr Aidan Kane (Economics) on LaTeX, Edward Kearns (English) on MS Word in comparison, Sarah Hoover (Drama) on Zotero and other referencing software, and Emer McHugh (Drama) on backing up your work on Dropbox, Google Drive, and other platforms.
As usual, all are welcome to continue the conversation in McGinn’s afterwards!

CAMPS Lab
2017-10-13 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Friday 13th October: Maria Hallinan: Social Status in Early Medieval Ireland and the Senchas Már Status Tract: The Evidence Thus Far
Light Lunch Served

Special Event: Methodologies for Research in the Humanities
2017-10-17 12:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Special Event – Methodologies for Research in the Humanities
12 Noon, 17 October, Bridge Seminar Room

This event features descriptions of different methodologies for approaching research across the humanities, with plenty of time of open discussion and questions.
All are welcome, particularly anyone applying for IRC postgraduate funding (the application process requires a statement on methodologies).

'Arts in Action' Special Archives Event featuring Stella McCusker
2017-10-18 13:00 - 14:00 | Bank of Ireland Theatre, NUI Galway
‘Arts in Action’ and the James Hardiman Library, present a special lunchtime event from the archives of the Lyric Theatre, Belfast. Acclaimed television and film actor Stella McCusker will read a selection of stories and poems from Threshold literary journal, published by the Lyric Theatre, Belfast. Edited by the likes of Mary O’Malley, John Montague, Brian Friel and Seamus Heaney, Threshold was first published in 1957 and was an important literary journal for over three decades. The event will also feature music with Special Guest: Uilleann Piper, Padraig Keane.
October 18th, Bank of Ireland Theatre, NUI Galway, 1 – 2pm.

Graduate Research Seminars in History - Mel Farrell
2017-10-18 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
18 Oct. Mel Farrell (UCD)
From Cumann na nGaedheal to Fine Gael: ‘Civil War politics’ and the foundation of the United Ireland Party in September 1933.

Information Session: IRC Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme
2017-10-24 12:30 - 13:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
This information session will be chaired by Prof. Dan Carey, Director of the Moore Institute with contributions from Dr. Marina Ansaldo of the Research Office, NUI Galway.
Details of the scheme can be found here.

Paul Sracic on 'President Trump and the impact of the working class voter: Implications for US Policy'
2017-10-25 15:00 - 16:00 | Siobhan McKenna Theatre, Arts Millenium Building, NUI Galway
President Trump and the impact of the working class voter: Implications for US Policy.
Wednesday, October 25th, 2017 from 3:00pm-4:00pm in the Siobhan McKenna Theatre, Arts Millennium Building

Paul Sracic is a professor and the chair of the Department of Politics and International Relations at Youngstown State University in Ohio who specializes in US politics, working class voters, and trade issues.
In addition to his scholarly work, he has written for the Washington Post, USA Today, Bloomberg, The Atlantic and CNN. Sample articles:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/03/opinions/trump-ford-carrier-jobs-trade-deals-sracic/index.html
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/winning-the-transition/article/2609257
http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/28/opinions/sracic-abe-tpp-address-congress/index.html

Graduate Research Seminars in History - Wayne te Brake
2017-10-25 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
25 Oct Wayne te Brake (Purchase College, SUNY),
Making Religious Peace in Early Modern Europe: An Irish Perspective.

Book Launch: 'The Long War' by John Morrissey
2017-10-25 17:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
The Long War
CENTCOM, Grand Strategy, and Global Security by John Morrissey
Nowhere has the U.S. military established more bases, lost more troops, or spent more money in the last thirty years than in the Middle East and Central Asia. These regions fall under the purview of United States Central Command (CENTCOM); not coincidentally, they include the most energy-rich places on earth. From its inception, CENTCOM was tasked with the military and economic security of this key strategic area, the safeguarding of commercial opportunities therein, and ultimately the policing of a pivotal yet precarious space in the broader global economy. CENTCOM calls this mission its “Long War.” This book tells the story of that long war: a war underpinned by a range of entangled geopolitical and geoeconomic visions and involving the use of the most devastating Western interventionary violence of our time.
Starting with a historical perspective, John Morrissey explores CENTCOM’s Cold War origins and evolution, before addressing key elements of the command’s grand strategy, including its interventionary rationales and use of the law in war. Engaging a wide range of scholarship on neoliberalism, imperialism, geopolitics, and Orientalism, the book then looks in-depth at the military interventions CENTCOM has spearheaded and critically assesses their consequences in terms of human geography.
Recent books on CENTCOM have focused on command structures, intelligence issues, and interpersonal rivalries. In contrast, The Long War asks critical questions about CENTCOM’s leading role in shaping and enacting U.S. foreign policy over the last thirty years. The book positions CENTCOM pivotally in the story of U.S. global ambition over this period by documenting its efforts to oversee a global security strategy defined in military-economic terms and enabled via specific legal-territorial tactics. This is an important new study on the blurring of war and economic aims on a global scale.
John Morrissey is a senior lecturer in geography and associate director of the Moore Institute for Humanities at National University of Ireland, Galway.

Dr Maureen O'Connor- Seminar on the Tim Robinson Archive
2017-10-26 10:00 - 12:30 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
As part of the Moore Institute Visiting Fellowship Seminar Series, we are delighted to invite you to attend the following event based on the Tim Robinson Archive at NUI Galway
Thursday 26 October:

10.00-10.15: ‘Mapping the Future: Unfolding the Archive’, Dr Nessa Cronin, Centre for Irish Studies and Academic Director, Tim Robinson Archive, NUI Galway
10.15-11.30: ‘Ecofeminists and Other Animals: Tim Robinson’s Non-Human Ethics’, Dr Maureen O’Connor (Department of English, UCC). Moore Institute Visiting Fellow, NUI Galway.

BRESAL 2017: Europe and the Social
2017-10-26 14:00 - 2017-10-27 18:00 | O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, NUI Galway
BRESAL 2017: Europe and the Social
Supported by the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance and the School of Humanities Research Incentivisation Scheme
NUI Galway 26-27 October 2017

Europe, as continent, social community, and political union, is in crisis. Societies are fraught with economic instability and cultural tensions, while the refugee crisis has led to humanitarian devastation and renewed vociferous debate about the limits of inclusion and tolerance within European societies. The growth of far-right politics as well as the tone and tenor of its discourse present alarming threats in social, political and cultural realms. For states lying outside the boundaries of the European Union on the continent, perhaps differing concerns animate many of the same tensions. Europe and the world await to see how the UK’s exit from the EU will shift balances of power, prestige and access in European society and beyond.
Artists and scholars, through this symposium, are invited to question the relationship(s) across art, society and the past, present and future(s) of the European project through interdisciplinary enquiry and practice. Panels will explore the historical contexts of European arts practice, scholarship, politics, culture and society, as well as focus on the urgency of the present moment, and anxieties regarding the future.
What is the role of the artist in the contemporary as well as historical moment in reshaping and calling into question the boundaries of “Europeanness” on scales ranging from the individual to the supra-national? What promise does looking towards practice-as-research as methodology and mode of social engagement at this particular juncture hold for European communities? And what warnings?
BRESAL is a forum for artists and scholars who are passionate about the intelligence of art. Based on the West Coast of Ireland, it was founded by the Burren College of Art, the Huston School of Film and Digital Media (NUI Galway) and the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance (UL). Its goal is to provide opportunities for artists-scholars to share their work, support doctoral level arts research, and advocate for recognition and support at a national and international level. The forum takes its name and inspiration from the mythical Celtic island of ‘Bresal’: an island off the West Coast of Ireland known to appear and disappear magically. It is a metaphor for our interest in art’s intelligence: sometimes obvious and sometimes illusive; both measurable and intangible.
Note: There is a free event, but tickets must be reserved in advance. Please reserve tickets at

PROGRAMME

Thursday 26 October
Note: Art exhibitions from UL and the Burren College of Art on display throughout the conference
2.30: Registration
3pm: Opening Comments
Cathal O’Donoghue, Dean of the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies, NUI Galway
Venue: Theatre
3.15 – 4.00: Performance-extract by Emma O’Grady, with post-show discussion
Chair: Marianne Ni Chinneide
Venue: Theatre
4.00 – 4.15: Break
4.15 – 5.00: Film-extract by Uinsionn MacDubhghaill, with post-screening discussion
Chair: Seán Crosson
Venue: Theatre
5.15 – 6.15: Book launch: Migration and Performance in Contemporary Ireland: Towards a New Interculturalism (Palgrave) by Dr Charlotte McIvor
Venue: Studio 1

Friday 27 October
Venue: All panels taking place in the theatre
10.00 – 11.30 Panel 1: Borders, Fragmentation and the Social
Chair: Felix O’Murchadha
Charlotte McIvor (DTP, NUI Galway): “Theatre as Intercultural Dialogue? When Social Policy Meets Performance Practice”
Andrew O’Baoill (English, Journalism, NUI Galway): “Pluralism, fragmentation, and fake news: challenges for journalism and democracy”
Nessa Cronin (Irish Studies, NUI Galway): “Border/Crossings? Collaborative Practices and the Transdisciplinary Research Agenda”
Uinsionn MacDubhghaill (Film, NUI Galway): “Investigating the polysemic social: a practice-based enquiry”
11.30-11.45: Break
11.45 – 1.15 Panel 2: Sound, Space and Circus: Reimagining Europe Through Arts Practice
Chair: Helen Phelan
Alan Dormer (Irish World Academy, UL): ‘Sound and the Social’
Grainne Hassett (SAUL, UL): ‘Building and Breaking Structures. Bearing Witness. (Calais Refugee camp, a city lost)’
Shane Holohan (Irish World Academy, UL): ‘Spanning the Artistic-Technical divide in Circus Arts Education: parallel processes (researcher/pedagogue and participating students/circus artists).’
1.15 – 2.15: Lunch
2.15 – 3.45 Panel 3: State of Uncertainty: Crisis, Dissent and the Visual Imaginary
Chair: Conor McGrady
Gavin Murphy, Centre for Creative Arts and Media, GMIT: ‘The Moonlight of Fantasy: The Russian Revolution Now’
Declan Long, National College of Art and Design: ‘Contemporary Art & Europe’s Refugee Crisis: Recent Stories from Austria & Hungary’
Áine Phillips, Burren College of Art: ‘Future States: Performance as Practice Post Brexit’
3.45 – 4.00: Break
4.00 – 5.30 Roundtable: Research and Industry Policy: Irish/European Perspectives
Chair: Dr Miriam Haughton
Dan Carey, Director of the Moore Institute, NUI Galway
Monica Corcoran, Strategic Development, Arts Council
John Crumlish, CEO, Galway International Arts Festival
Maria Delgado, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London
Patrick Lonergan, Chair, O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, NUI Galway
Lynette Moran, Creative Arts Producer and Festival Director (Live Collision, ANU Productions, CREATE and Lead Producer of CAPP (2014-2020))
5.30 – 6. 00: Reflections and Closing Remarks

Conference Organisers:
Dr Miriam Haughton, Lecturer, O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance. E: miriam.haughton@nuigalway.ie
Zsuzsanna Balázs, IRC Doctoral Scholar, O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance. E: Z.BALAZS2@nuigalway.ie

Huston Guest session: Kevin Toolis: "The Wonders of the Irish Wake and other Adventures in the Screen Trade."
2017-10-26 14:30 | ‘Huston Main’, Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway, Ireland
Huston Guest session: Kevin Toolis: “The Wonders of the Irish Wake and other Adventures in the Screen Trade.”
Thursday October 26, 2.30pm, Huston Main.
The award-winning filmmaker and writer Kevin Toolis will speak in the Huston School of Film & Digital Media on Thursday, 26 October 2017 at 2.30pm.
The event is organised by Aonad Léann na Cumarsáide, Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge in association with the Huston School of Film & Digital Media.

A BAFTA award-winner (for his ethical thriller, Complicit (2013)), Toolis has also been nominated for an Emmy for his documentary ‘Cult of the Suicide Bomber’ (2006), an extraordinary examination of the origins and motivations of the modern-day suicide bomber. His books include Rebel Hearts concerning the IRA and he has contributed as a journalist to the New York Times, the Observer and the Guardian. His drama ‘The Confessions of Gordon Brown’ was staged on the West End in London in 2013. Weidenfeld & Nicolson published his most recent this year My Father’s Wake, a moving meditation on death and a celebration of the traditional Irish way of mourning the dead.

Book Launch: Charlotte McIvor "Migration and Performance in Contemporary Ireland"
2017-10-26 17:15 | O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, NUI galway

Screening of the silent film, Nosferatu, with a score performed live by Con Tempo Quartet
2017-10-26 19:30 | ‘Huston Main’, Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway, Ireland
Galway Music Residency in association with the Huston School of Film & Digital Media present a screening of the silent film, Nosferatu, with a score performed live by Con Tempo Quartet

Thursday October 26, 7.30pm, Huston Main
If you’re looking for something a little different this Halloween, the Galway Music Residency has just the thing! This unique event, in association with NUI Galway, is sure to give you that spooky feeling.
This classic 1922 silent film was the first onscreen interpretation of the story of Dracula and, though banned at the time for copyright infringements, it has gone down in cinematic history as one of the greatest horror films ever made.

While this great classic is being screened next Thursday,26th October, the Galway ConTempo Quartet will perform a very special live score composed in the 1990s to provide a fresh sound-scape for such a timeless piece of film. It was composed by French specialist Baudime Jam in 2002 for the Prima Vista Quartet which has performed it in numerous times internationally. The score has since become part of the repertoire of a number of other renowned string quartets including the Debussy Quartet.
Tickets for this unique event cost €10/€5 and can be purchased at Nosferatu Live or on the door.

Archaeology Seminar 'Arboreal Trends and Patterns in Medieval Settlement Enclosures'
2017-10-31 16:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Postgraduate seminar in Archaeology – All welcome!

Speaker: Peter Casby, PhD student in Archaeology and IRC scholarship holder
Title: Arboreal Trends and Patterns in Medieval Settlement Enclosures
Date and Time: Tuesday 31st October at 4pm
Venue: GO1O

EDEN: Conference Organising Session
2017-11-01 13:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Conference Organising Session
Wednesday November 1st, 1-2pm in the Bridge Room – Lunchtime Seminar

We will be joined by Ciara L. Murphy (O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance), Evan Bourke (English), and Dr Anne Karhio (English). They will be talking us through their experiences of organising conferences at NUI Galway, including how to craft a CFP, the different ways to structure an event, how to choose and be a good chair, and how to create a balanced programme.
