Huston Guest Session: Award-winning Music documentary Cinematographer Frank Shortt
2017-10-05 14:30 UTC | ‘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.

"Office Hours" Drop-in Service
2017-10-26 12:00 - 13:00, 2017-11-09 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.
Thursday September 28th from 12pm – 1pm in The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building.

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.

Workshop: Digital media and popular culture in Ireland - November 2 & 3
2017-11-02 14:00 - 16:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
The participants in this workshop are scholars working on various topics related to digital media and Irish popular and public cultures, based in Ireland and France. The purpose of the workshop is to share material and ideas, to discuss individual projects, and to make plans for collaboration in the future. The morning sessions are for current research group members only, however anyone working on a related research topic is welcome to participate in the conversation during the afternoon meetings, 2:00pm–4.30pm on 2 & 3 November.
If you are interested in joining us and sharing ideas on your own research, please contact anne.karhio@nuigalway.ie.

Time and place: Moore Institute seminar room G010, 2–4.30pm, 2–3 November 2017.

‘Theatre and Privatisation in 1980s Ireland’ A Lecture by Lionel Pilkington
2017-11-02 15:00 - 16:00 | Seminar Room GO11, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
‘Ansbacher Bankers Present . . .’ or ‘Theatre and Privatisation in 1980s Ireland.’
**A lecture**
Lionel Pilkington

1980s Ireland is dominated by a range of political and legislative measures whose overall effects severely curtail the claims of labour in relation to capital, restrict, and substantially retract, the state’s responsibilities towards social protection, and halt altogether the state’s incipient and tentative moves (in the mid to late 1970s) towards limited income redistribution ‘downwards.’ Instead, from about 1981 onwards, government policies are marked by an urgent, all-encompassing campaign of privatisation with tax exemption incentives to promote private investment as the starring features of the state’s annual finance acts. Encouraging entrepreneurialism by lowering taxation on profits and undermining collective structures through privatisation forms the groundwork for Ireland’s so-called ‘Celtic Tiger’ economy in the mid 1990s, for the austerity agenda that follows on from the banking bail-out crisis of 2008, and, more generally, for most contemporary understandings of what political economy can make possible. Today, Ireland has become exemplary for global capitalism insofar as its state form demonstrates the apparent ease with which the market can operate as ‘an alternative technology of rule’ (Timothy Mitchell, Carbon Democracy, 11).
This lecture explores how and why–in Ireland in the 1980s–dominant ideas of theatre, theatrical acting and theatre institutions play a central role in achieving Ireland’s seismic and important shift to wholesale privatisation. The lecture also asks: what happens to theatre itself in such a context, and how (if at all) is it possible to think of theatrical performance as outlining an alternative?
Thursday, 2nd November, 15:00-16:00
Moore Institute, NUI Galway. Hardiman Building, Room GO11

CAMPS Lab
2017-11-03 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Friday 3rd November: Marianne Ailes: Tolerating the Religious Other in Crusading Literature (Title TBC)
Light Lunch Served

'Bernard Shaw and the users of celebrity' Public Lecture by Fintan O'Toole
2017-11-07 18:30 | Aula Maxima, Quadrangle Building, NUI Galway
NUI Galway in conjunction with the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) will host a public lecture by Fintan O’Toole entitled ‘Bernard Shaw and the Uses of Celebrity’ to mark the publication of Judging Shaw on Tuesday, 7 November at 6.30pm. The event will take place in the Aula Maxima at the University and will be followed by a panel discussion on “Making Judging Shaw” moderated by Professor Patrick Lonergan, NUI Galway with Ruth Hegarty, RIA, Barry Houlihan, James Hardiman Library and Fintan O’Toole.
Judging Shaw is the fourth book in the Royal Irish Academy’s award-winning ‘Judging’ series and looks at the legacy of George Bernard Shaw (GBS), Nobel prize-winner for literature and internationally renowned playwright, intellectual and commentator.
Also being unveiled is a new exhibition to coincide with the publication of Judging Shaw. Co-curated by Barry Houlihan of NUI Galway, Ruth Hegarty and Jeff Wilson of the Royal Irish Academy and Fintan O’Toole, the exhibition brings a wealth of archival images and stories from Shaw’s remarkable public and private life, drawing on many experiences such as time spent in the West of Ireland at Coole Park, the home of Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory, Shaw’s political and socialist writing, his theatre as staged in London, Dublin and also in Belfast after his death. The legacy of Shaw is considered in the ‘afterlife of GBS’, how his work was staged in contemporary times and how his life was commemorated. Before he died, Shaw noted those around him were ‘going Shaw-mad!’ The exhibition will be open to the public at the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, NUI Galway.
The book, written by Orwell-prize-winning journalist Fintan O’Toole, traces the growth of ‘GBS’, the first great global brand, and discovers how Shaw created this most modern of concepts. Judging Shaw brings together a new insights on the making and invention of GBS, the complex relationships Shaw had with both England and Ireland, through times of revolution and after; reconsiders the ‘dark side of GBS’ as well as his death, commemoration and legacies. The illustrated volume features over one hundred digitised archival documents, sourced from institutions around the world, including NUI Galway’s digital theatre collections at the Hardiman Library, many published for the first time and which visualise the great achievements and also wide range of networks Shaw lived and worked in.
George Bernard Shaw has left a vast legacy of theatrical, fictional, polemical, critical and philosophical writing. The first person to win both a Nobel Prize and an Academy Award, Shaw bridges the Victorian era and the contemporary culture of celebrity. The GBS brand came to be recognised globally as referring to an Irish provocateur with a red beard and startling opinions. He was a master of self-invention, a nobody who captured the zeitgeist and one of the first private individuals to understand fully how to generate—and how to use—global fame.
Speaking in advance of the public lecture, Professor Patrick Lonergan, said: “We are delighted to welcome Fintan O’Toole and the Royal Irish Academy to NUI Galway to explore and celebrate the life and work of George Bernard Shaw. This university is deeply committed to preserving our nation’s theatrical heritage through our work in archives, allowing us to offer courses that give our students a unique behind-the-scenes perspective on Irish theatre. We also are strongly committed to promoting awareness of that heritage through talks, publications, and other activities. This beautifully produced book and the fascinating exhibition that accompanies it will bring huge pleasure to readers and theatre-makers around the world, ensuring that Shaw’s legacies – as a dramatist and a political thinker – will have an impact for generations to come.”
Fintan O’Toole said: “Shaw had an ambivalent relationship with Ireland, but Ireland had a very ambivalent relationship with Shaw. He is by far the most influential, famous Irish person who has ever lived. There is no other Irish person that had the global reach that Shaw had. He is a vast terrain. It is a pleasure to see the book translated into an entirely different medium in the exhibition and one of the things that you see in it is that as well as being a great thinker, a great political activist, great dramatist, as well as that he was one of the world’s great posers.”
Admission is free but places are limited so please register go to www.conference.ie

'The Millionairess' by George Bernard Shaw
2017-11-07 20:00 - 2017-11-11 20:00 | The O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance at NUI Galway, Ireland
The O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies present:
The Millionairess by George Bernard Shaw
Directed by: Aisling Smith
With: Lucy Pollock, Stephen Burke, Rebecca Spelman Barry McNamara, Sean Gandolfini, Narain Viswanathan, Patrick O’Malley, Patrice Mc Conway, and Sabrina Kelleher
Playing at The O’Donoghue Theatre, NUI Galway, at 8pm nightly Wednesday 7th – Saturday 11th Nov, 2017. Tickets: €12/Concession €7, available at socsbox NUIG campus, and at the door

Shaw’s 1936 comedy, The Millionairess, is fast paced and absolutely absurd.
Epifania’s life is falling apart. Yes, she’s still the richest woman in England; but her rotten husband is trying to divorce her for a lowly woman who enjoys taking care of him. On top of that her fancy man is trying to marry her. The only thing she’s really good at is making money, but money doesn’t heal a lonely heart. Will she find a man that can pass her test? Will he want to?
Aisling Smith is a PhD student in the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance, NUI Galway. This intermedia production of Shaw’s classic play is produced as part of her PhD thesis; which focuses on re-imagining the plays of George Bernard Shaw for contemporary audiences through practice as research.

Graduate Research Seminars in History - Lorraine Grimes
2017-11-08 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
8 Nov. Lorraine Grimes (NUIG)
“I will do anything…rather than keep it or return to my own country”: The emigration of Irish unmarried mothers to Liverpool and Birmingham, 1926-48.

Public interview and reception to mark the appointment of film director John Carney as Adjunct Professor in Film
2017-11-09 17:30 | ‘Huston Main’, Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway, Ireland
Invitation
The Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway, cordially invites you to a public interview and reception to mark the appointment of film director John Carney as Adjunct Professor in Film
Thursday, November 9th at 5.30pm, Huston Main.
RSVP before November 6th: hustonfilmschool@nuigalway.ie

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