Moore Institute

Performance Matters - Irish Theatre Discussion Group
2015-02-20 12:00, 2015-03-06 12:00, 2015-03-20 13:00 (Europe/Dublin)
Performance Matters
Irish Theatre Discussion Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/
For more information please contact lisa.fitzgerald@nuigalway.ie or m.nichualain5@nuigalway.ie
All theatre practitioners, theorists and students are welcome to attend

Inishowen singers on tour
2015-02-24 14:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Inishowen singers on tour
http://inishowensinging.ie/
For more information please contact lillis.olaoire@nuigalway.ie

Archaeology research seminar series: Peter Casby, Galway doctoral scholarship student in Archaeology at NUI Galway will speak on Living Trees in Created Environments of Gaelic Ireland (c.700AD - 1600AD)
2015-02-24 16:00
Archaeology research seminar series:

Peter Casby, Galway doctoral scholarship student in Archaeology at NUI Galway
Living Trees in Created Environments of Gaelic Ireland (c.700AD – 1600AD).
All welcome!

for more information please contact maggie.ronayne@nuigalway.ie

Language Games: A Seminar on Language and Literature
2015-02-24 16:00, 2015-03-10 16:00
‘Language Games’: An AWC Seminar on Language and Literature.
All welcome.
Texts for discssion will be provided at the meeting.
Contact: irina.ruppo@nuigawlay.ie

History Graduate Research Seminar Series: Florry O' Driscoll 'Confounding the Garibaldian Liars': The Letters of Albert De La Hoyde of the Battalion of St Patrick, 1860
2015-02-25 16:00
History Graduate Research Seminar Series
Florry O’ Driscoll

‘Confounding the Garibaldian Liars’: The Letters of Albert De La Hoyde
of the Battalion of St Patrick, 1860.
for more information please contact caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie

Public Lecture: Paddy Woodworth -'Writing Restoration: A Global Journey to the Cutting Edge of Conservation Science & Practice'
2015-02-26 19:00
Public talk on writing about the environment at NUI Galway
Author and lecturer Paddy Woodworth is to give a guest talk titled ‰Û÷Writing Restoration: A Global Journey to the Cutting Edge of Conservation Science & Practice’ at NUI Galway on 26 February at 7pm.
The talk, part of the “Doing Writing” series organized by the BA and MA programmes in Creative Writing at NUI Galway, will be based on Woodworth’s most recent book, Our Once and Future Planet: Restoring the World in the Climate Change Century, published by Chicago University Press.
Ten years in the making, Our Once and Future Planet focuses on projects across the world that attempt to reverse damage to the environment and restore healthy and biodiverse ecosystems. The book has received international acclaim for its extensive research and key arguments, and also for the accessibility of its style. Science magazine emphasized that Woodworth “skillfully dissects the arguments surrounding the purpose and direction of ecological restoration”, while also especially commending his “effective use of narrative techniques to enhance his presentation. His descriptions of the people he meets are often charming and revealing”.
Formerly a Visiting Fellow on the International Writing Programme at the University of Iowa, and most recently a visiting lecturer at the University of Chicago, Woodworth has published widely on the arts, travel, Basque and Spanish affairs, and national and international environment issues. He regularly writes on these and related areas for the Irish Times.
Woodworth also works as an editor for scientists who wish to reach a wide public readership, and he is a mentor for creative writers at NUI Galway working on projects related to factual narration and other forms of creative non-fiction.
This public talk will take place on 26 February at NUI Galway in the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies (ground floor, room G010) at 7pm. Booking is not required, but seating may be limited.
For more information please contact john.kenny@nuigalway.ie

CAMPS lab: Christine Neer, Old & Middle Irish, NUIG - 'Grieving Lovers and Gendered Mourning in Old and Middle Irish Tochmarca'.
2015-02-27 12:00
Christine Neer, Old & Middle Irish, NUIG‘Grieving Lovers and Gendered Mourning in Old and Middle Irish Tochmarca‘.
Followed by discussion & light lunch
Everyone welcome – FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch
For more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie

Digital Scholarship Seminar:Marie Boran (James Hardiman Library) The Irish Landed Estates Database: Signpost or Destination? - Niall MacSweeney & Aisling Keane (James Hardiman Library) Challenges of Applying Metadata to Digital Collections
2015-03-03 12:00
Digital Scholarship Seminar
Marie Boran (James Hardiman Library, NUI Galway)The Irish Landed Estates Database: Signpost or Destination?
Niall MacSweeney & Aisling Keane (James Hardiman Library, NUI Galway)Challenges of Applying Metadata to Digital Collections
Presentatitions during the first hour of each seminar are followed by discussion and exchange over a light lunch in the second.
For further informatition, contact: Dr PÌÁdraic Moran (padraic.moran@nuigalway.ie), or Dr Justitin Tonra (justitin.tonra@nuigalway.ie)
www.nuigalway.ie/digital-seminar ‰ۢ www.facebook.com/nuigdss

Archaeology research seminar series: Dr Ruth Carden : Ireland's Ancient Red Deer. All welcome!
2015-03-03 16:00
Archaeology research seminar series:

Dr Ruth Carden, consultant animal osteologist in quaternary and holocene european fauna, wildlife ecologist and Research Associate of the National Museum of Ireland, Natural History Division.
Lecture title: Ireland‘s Ancient Red Deer.
All welcome!

for more information please contact maggie.ronayne@nuigalway.ie

Moore Institute Special Lecture: 'The Analogy Between Finland and Ireland is Almost Perfect.' Nationalism & Separatism on Opposite Sides of Europe, c. 1886-1922 Dr Andrew Newby, Senior Research Fellow at the Department of World Cultures, University
2015-03-03 16:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Moore Institute Special Lecture
“The Analogy Between Finland and Ireland is Almost Perfect.”
Nationalism & Separatism on Opposite Sides of Europe, c. 1886-1922
Dr Andrew Newby, Senior Research Fellow at the Department of World Cultures, University of Helsinki.
For more information please contact john.cunningham@nuigalway.ie

History Graduate Research Seminar Series: Kevin O'Sullivan, Fight Poverty or Feed The World? NGOs in Britain and Ireland and the search for global justice 1968-85
2015-03-04 16:00
History Graduate Research Seminar Series

Kevin O’Sullivan,
Fight Poverty or Feed The World? NGOs in Britain and Ireland and the search for global justice 1968-85.
for more information please contact caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie

Book launch of Thomas Fitzpatrick and the Lepracaun Cartoon Monthly 1905-1915 by James Curry and CiarÌÁn Wallace
2015-03-05 17:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
NUI Galway launch of
Thomas Fitzpatrick and the Lepracaun Cartoon Monthly 1905-1915
by James Curry and CiarÌÁn Wallace
Followed by wine reception.
Book Launch! New book examines the life of Irish political cartoonist Thomas Fitzpatrick and the popular Lepracaun Cartoon Monthly publication he founded in 1905
Thomas Fitzpatrick was the grandfather of renowned Irish artist Jim Fitzpatrick
All welcome to attend!

Professor Elizabeth Fitzpatrick: Finn mac Cumaill's Places: Linking Human Settlement with Landscapes of Enriched Natural Resources
2015-03-05 18:00
Professor Elizabeth Fitzpatrick
(School of Geography and Archaeology NUI Galway )
Finn mac Cumaill’s Places: Linking Human Settlement with Landscapes of Enriched Natural Resources
Finn mac Cumaill (Finn McCool) and his fÌ_an or warrior band are central figures in the literature and oral tradition of Gaelic-speaking peoples of Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man. Finn variously means white, bright, lustrous, fair, enlightened and self-revealed. Tales of Finn have enduring appeal. Prof. Elizabeth FitzPatrick’s project with Dr Ronan Hennessy and Dr Paul Naessens, of NUI Galway, An Atlas of Finn mac Cumaill’s Places, proposes that place-names associated with Finn are not just folk indices of the Finn-Cycle of tales but indicate areas of enriched natural resources and physical boundaries in the landscape.
The project has discovered that Finn’s places have distinctive archaeologies, topographies and wildlife ecologies situated in geological transition zones characterised by unconformities, contacts and faults. As landforms, they are epitomised by bareness and are mostly hills, variously called Seefin (‰Û÷Finn’s seat’), Knockfinn (‰Û÷Finn’s Hill’) and Formoyle (‰Û÷very bare place’), but they are also caves, such as Fingal’s Cave on the Isle of Arran, and causeways like the World Heritage Giant’s Causeway on the Co. Antrim coastline. In the past, Finn‰Û÷s places were important boundary points of territories, hunting grounds for red deer and wild pig, and characterised by mineral enrichment.
Finn’s places on the edge of Western Europe may be the most enduring survival of a wider landscape expression of the Celtic place-name vindo-s and its associated phenomena of boundary zones and areas of enriched natural resources. Notably, it is found in Celtic settlements across Europe that became major Roman frontier forts.

Centre for Global Women's Studies, NUI Galway, Public Lecture: Professor Cris M. Sullivan
2015-03-09 16:00
The Centre for Global Women’s Studies
is delighted to invite you to a public lecture to mark
International Women’s Day 2015:
A Collaborative, Community-based Study to Define and Measure:
Empowering Practice and “Empowered” Outcomes
Cris M. Sullivan, Ph.D.
Professor, Ecological/Community Psychology
Director, Research Consortium on Gender-based Violence
Michigan State University
Date/Time: Monday 9 March, 4pm
Venue: THB1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway
Refreshments will be served
The goal of empowerment-based programs is to help clients increase their personal, interpersonal, and political power. This talk describes a collaborative partnership with a domestic violence shelter program interested in evaluating how well they were integrating the empowerment model into day-to-day service provision and whether their approach to empowerment-based service delivery was contributing to the intended “empowered outcomes” for the women with whom they work. I will describe how we jointly defined empowerment within this setting, how the empowerment-based practices and intended empowered outcomes were measured, and how the study findings impacted the work of the advocates.
For more information see:
http://www.nuigalway.ie/womens_studies/
http://www.internationalwomensday.com
or email Gillian Browne, gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie

Archaeology research seminar series: Daisy Spencer, IRC doctoral scholar in Archaeology and Geography at NUI Galway: People, Land-Use and Time. Linking multi-proxy palaeoenvironmental evidence to the Neolithic and Bronze Age archaeological record of the B
2015-03-10 16:00
Archaeology research seminar series:

Daisy Spencer, IRC doctoral scholar in Archaeology and Geography at NUI Galway.
People, Land-Use and Time.
Linking multi-proxy palaeoenvironmental evidence to the Neolithic and Bronze Age archaeological record of the Burren and central Clare, western Ireland.
All welcome!

for more information please contact maggie.ronayne@nuigalway.ie

Bernard Adams, Moore Institute visiting fellow -'Mary O'Malley and the early Lyric Players' Theatre, Belfast'?
2015-03-10 17:00
Bernard Adams
Moore Institute Visiting Fellow
‰Û÷Mary O’Malley and the early Lyric Players’ Theatre, Belfast’?
For more information please contact lionel.pilkington@nuigalway.ie

History Graduate Research Seminar Series: Brian Schoen Statecraft and Secession: The Problem of American Nationhood in an Era of Global Crisis 1860-1.
2015-03-11 16:00
History Graduate Research Seminar Series
Brian Schoen

Statecraft and Secession: The Problem of American Nationhood
in an Era of Global Crisis 1860-1.

for more information please contact caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie

5th Babel Public Lecture Series: Dr Michele Milan: Translation, Gender and Conflict: Women Translating Conflict in Nineteenth Century Ireland
2015-03-11 18:30 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
5th BABEL PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES

Dr Michele Milan:
Translation, Gender and Conflict: Women Translating Conflict in Nineteenth Century Ireland

Predicated upon the idea of using translation history to raise the visibility of past women’s writings, this presentation will draw attention to the ways in which a number of women translators dealt with situations of conflict in nineteenth-century Ireland. We will be looking at their choice of texts for translation at times preceding or following intense conflict, and how the translated text helped them express a voice in a predominantly male world of publishing.
The Babel Lectures is an initiative of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, NUI Galway, which intends to reinforce the connection with Galway through an annual series of lectures especially designed to promote creative exchange and dialogues between academics and the community.
Entrance is free, and everybody is welcome.
For more information please contact suzanne.gilsenan@nuigalway.ie

Dr John Gibney, Editor, 'Decade of Centenaries' and Moore Institute visiting fellow -'What if the guns had landed? Another version of Casement's Easter Rising'.
2015-03-12 16:00
Dr John Gibney
Editor, ‘Decade of Centenaries’
and Moore Institute visiting fellow
‘What if the guns had landed? Another version of Casement’s Easter Rising’.
All Welcome
For more information please contact mary.harris@nuigalway.ie

CAMPS lab: DÌ_nal ÌÒ CathÌÁin, Nua-Ghaeilge, OÌÄåä, Gaillimh -'The Desmond Geraldines in the 14th Century: Poets and Patrons'
2015-03-13 12:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
DÌ_nal ÌÒ CathÌÁin, Nua-Ghaeilge, OÌä, Gaillimh‘The Desmond Geraldines in the 14th Century: Poets and Patrons’
Followed by discussion & light lunch
Everyone welcome – FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch
For more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie

Gender ARC Lunchtime Seminar Series:Dr. Heike Felzmann, Philosophy, NUI Galway (Title TBC)
2015-03-18 13:00
Gender ARC Lunchtime Seminar Series

Dr. Heike Felzmann, Philosophy, NUI Galway
(Title TBC)

All Welcome
For more information please contact gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie

History Graduate Research Seminar Series: Gregory Hanlon Military History and the Behavioural Sciences
2015-03-18 16:00
History Graduate Research Seminar Series

Gregory Hanlon
Military History and the Behavioural Sciences
for more information please contact caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie

The Republic of Letters Goes Digital
2015-03-20 09:00
THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS GOES DIGITAL
@NUI GALWAY
20 MARCH 2015
MOORE INSTITUTE SEMINAR ROOM
HARDIMAN RESEARCH BUILDING G010
Contact: idafederica.pugliese@nuigalway.ie
Conference Programme
9.00-9.15
Welcome & Introduction
9.15-10.45
Panel 1. Sixteenth-Century Correspondence Networks
(Chair: Laura Branch)
Christoph Kudella (UCC), The Republic of Letters as Intersecting Ego-Networks. The Example of Erasmus and Bud̩
Paola Molino (UniversitÌ_t Wien), Who, What and Why Go Digital: Some Reflections Based on the Correspondence Networks and Archives of Late Renaissance Librarians
10.45-11.15
Coffee break
11.15-12.45
Panel 2. Metadata and Network Analysis for Early Modern Correspondence (Chair: PÌÁdraic Moran)
Dan Edelstein (Stanford University), Early-Modern Social Network Analysis: The Case of the French Enlightenment?
Charles van den Heuvel (Huygens Institute), Experiences with ePistolarium: Topic Modeling and Network Analysis
12.45-14.00
Lunch
14.00-16.00
Panel 3. Travel Advice, Itineraries and Correspondence Networks in Seventeenth-Century Europe (Chair: Anders Ingram)
Daniel Carey (NUI Galway), Early Modern Travel Theory: A Database of the Ars Apodemica
Joe Moshenska (Cambridge University), Greasy Pouches and Torn Wallets: The Traveling Correspondence of Sir Kenelm Digby in 1628
Per Landgren (University of Oxford), Manuductio de peregrinatione: An Unpublished Travel Instruction by Professor Skytteanus Johannes Schefferus in Uppsala
16.00-16.30
Coffee break
16.30-17.45
Panel 4. The Enlightenment and Digital Humanities (Chair: Daniel Carey)
Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis), Enlightenment in the Era of Digital Humanities. Feedback from CITERE ANR Research Programme
Ida Federica Pugliese (NUI Galway), Questionnaires and Scholarly Networks in the Enlightenment
17.45-18.00
Conclusion

CAMPS lab: Sarah Corrigan, Classics, NUIG - 'Wonders and Visions: Infernal Places in Early Irish Voyage Narratives'
2015-03-20 12:00
Sarah Corrigan, Classics, NUIG
‘Wonders and Visions: Infernal Places in Early Irish Voyage Narratives’
Followed by discussion & light lunch
Everyone welcome – FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch
For more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie

Archaeology Research Seminar Series: Professor Steven Driscoll, Discipline of Archaeology, University of Glasgow: A Tale of Two Constantines: Kings, Saints and Assemblies (A Study of Scottish Nation Building in the Early Middle Ages)
2015-03-24 16:00
Archaeology research seminar series:

Professor Steven Driscoll,
Discipline of Archaeology, University of Glasgow will lecture on:
A Tale of Two Constantines: Kings, Saints and Assemblies (A Study of Scottish Nation Building in the Early Middle Ages)
All welcome!

for more information please contact maggie.ronayne@nuigalway.ie

Language Games: A Seminar on Language and Literature
2015-03-24 16:00
‘Language Games’: An AWC Seminar on Language and Literature.
All welcome.
This week’s seminar will deal with the writings of B. S. Johnston.
Texts for discssion will be provided at the meeting.
Contact: irina.ruppo@nuigawlay.ie

Classical Association of Ireland: relaunch of Galway branch Dr PÌÁdraic Moran (NUI Galway): "The survival of Greek learning in early medieval Ireland"
2015-03-24 18:30
Classical Association of Ireland: relaunch of Galway branch
Dr PÌÁdraic Moran (NUI Galway)
“The survival of Greek learning in early medieval Ireland”
For more information please contact padraic.moran@nuigalway.ie
