Moore Institute

Performance Matters - Irish Theatre Discussion Group
2013-12-03 18:00, 2013-12-17 18:00, 2014-02-04 18:00 (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
For more information please email PerformanceMattersNUIG@gmail.com.

Centre for Irish Studies Doctoral Research Symposium
2013-12-04 11:00
Centre for Irish StudiesDoctoral Research Symposium
Programme
11.00am – 12.30pm Panel 1’Ritual Tears’: Some aspects of the phenomena of tears in ritual and religious funerary practices, with particular reference to narratives from the National Folklore Archives on Erris, Co MayoRita O’DonoghueA methodological approach to literary translation from a minority to a majority languageFionnuala NÌ_ RÌÁinneIdeology and polemic in the journalism of MÌÁirtÌ_n ÌÒ CadhainDÌ_nal ÌÒ BraonÌÁin
12.30pm Lunch
1.30 – 3.00pm Panel 2Some reflections on the development and legacy of Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy (1973-2012)Verena Commins“Acht do bhrÌ_gh go bhfuaras scrÌ_obhtha i sein-leabhraibh iad”: Why medieval Ireland was of such interest for nineteenth-century Irish antiquariansCiaran McDonoghIrish railway networks: Mobility, capitalism, and imperial networks in nineteenth century IrelandThomas Fisher
3.00 – 4.00pm Panel 3The meaning of place for the second generation Irish from BritainSara Hannafin“Whose truth is it?”: Developing a theoretical framework for the study of arctic representation in the nineteenth centuryEavan NÌ_ DochartaighInto the West: The legacy of ‰Û÷the West’ in the visualisation of IrelandJeannine Kraft
ABSTRACTS
Rita O’Donoghue‘Ritual Tears’: some aspects of the phenomena of tears in ritual and religious funerary practices, with particular reference to narratives from the National Folklore Archives on Erris, Co MayoThis presentation explores the phenomenon of weeping, whether as private and public, spontaneous and orchestrated aspects of funerary ritual and custom. It examines the functions of weeping in the expression and management of grief and loss, as well as the widerphenomena of ‰Û÷holy tears’ within ritual and religious practices. Finally, it considers the implications of these phenomena from a gendered standpoint.
Fionnuala NÌ_ RÌÁinneA methodological approach to literary translation from a minority to a majority languageThe aim of this paper is to give an overview of the methodological approaches adopted in an effort to formulate a balanced approach to a multi-genre, period-specific, descriptive research project in the field of translation studies. Questions relating to the production and the process of translation will be discussed including the deciphering of strategies employed by various translators, categorisation of literary translators, and the plurality of perspective with particular reference to the author/translator/reader triangle.
DÌ_nall ÌÒ BraonÌÁinIdeology and polemic in the journalism of MÌÁirtÌ_n ÌÒ CadhainMÌÁirtÌ_n ÌÒ Cadhain (1906-1970) was an acknowledged master of 20th century Irish fiction during his lifetime. He was also an accomplished controversialist and a prolific contributor to a variety of newspapers, journals and magazines on issues relating to Irish identity and the Irish language especially. This short paper will discuss the journalistic output of MÌÁirtÌ_n ÌÒ Cadhain and assess a sample range of texts to demonstrate a feature of ÌÒ Cadhain’s writing which has received limited critical attention to date.
Verena ComminsSome reflections on the development and legacy of Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy (1973-2012)This paper reflects on the dynamics that inform the development and contribute to the on-going legacy of Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy. It gives insights into the transformation of Miltown Malbay, the site of the School in West Clare, into a highly-charged symbolic space in which the transmission, commemoration and performance of Irish traditional music are re-traditionalised at the School, annually. Defining the socio-cultural moment in which the School appeared as a central element to its future articulation, this paper asserts that the School’s animation, which has deliberately eschewed the rigours of the market-place, has prevented the agency of commerce from developing a gate-keeping role, as has occurred in other comparable festival scenarios. It draws on this and other factors which contribute to the construction of an authenticating discourse that permeates the School, facilitating the development of cultural authority. This discourse is built on the master-apprentice dyad which underpins processes of transmission, the annual repetition of ritual commemoration and the performance of place. The production of symbolic space in which the objectification of tradition develops enables the School itself to confer authority onto wider aspects of the Irish music tradition.
Ciaran McDonogh“Acht do bhrÌ_gh go bhfuaras scrÌ_obhtha i sein-leabhraibh iad”: Why medieval Ireland was of such interest for nineteenth-century Irish antiquariansThroughout the history of Irish antiquarian research, the predominant subject of interest to those engaging with studies was medieval Ireland, especially the pre-Conquest period. This paper explores why this period was of such interest for scholars and what it symbolised for them. Amongst the many reasons was that medieval Ireland was far enough in the past and different enough from the present day that it could be interpreted as an ideal Ireland, where the wrongs of nineteenth-century Ireland could be made right and where those who were marginalised through their religion, by benefit of their linguistic skills and hereditary learning, held the upper hand in translating and interpreting this era. It also symbolisedequality and, in bringing together various people in scholarship of this period, removed the sectarian nature of nineteenth-century Irish society. Essentially, medieval Ireland was whatever the scholar wanted it to be and, thus, it fulfilled the role of being the perfect place and time and that is the reason of why it was of such interest.
Thomas FisherIrish railway networks: Mobility, capitalism, and imperial networks in 19th century IrelandThis paper will address some of the key issues that took place in the first half of the nineteenth century with regard to the role that the British government had in the planning and financing of Irish railways during their early stages of railway expansion. This will be done within the wider scope of discussing Ireland’s position within the Union between Britain and Ireland. The Act of Union in 1800 had politically unified Britain and Ireland, though their social and economic standing within the partnership were far from equal. The resulting status of Ireland at this time offers an intriguing perspective in which to assess the establishment of railways in Ireland. Railways were developed in the 1820s as a product, and response to, the Industrial Revolution and then were quickly utilized as a tool for economic improvement and expansion wherever they went. This also extended to social and political improvements to varying degrees depending on the amount of government intervention. This paper will address how the railways were utilized in Ireland in light of the status that was given to Ireland within the nineteenth century, and as a result, to what degree this influenced the lasting impact that they had upon Irish soil.
Sara Hannafin
The meaning of place for the second generation Irish from BritainThis paper is based on ongoing research with a small number of the second generation Irish who grew up in Britain and have migrated to Ireland as adults. Through in-depth interviews and written communication many have described a powerful sense of place in this, their parental home country. The aim of this paper is therefore to explore from where a sense of place evolves for these second generation return migrants and illustrate how it has shaped their lives and sense of selves. For most of us, most of the time, place is unthought of and taken for granted. The act of migration promotes a new level of consciousness about place and therefore migrant stories can be a useful way of exploring the people-place dynamic. There is a growing recognition of the transnational lives lived by migrants and their families (see Levitt and Waters, 2006) however, despite their mobility, the participants of this research also hold an enduring belief in the power of place through the importance of their connection to the parental homeland and the value they put on a sense of rootedness and continuity.
Eavan NÌ_ Dochartaigh
Whose truth is it?”: developing a theoretical framework for the study of arctic representation in the nineteenth century”The question is not ‰Û÷which is true?’ but ‰Û÷whose truth is it?'”(Short, 2005, xxii). The Ph.D. project explores the art and associated travel writing of the Franklin Search Expeditions (1847-59) as a coherent unit of cultural history. The project is intrinsically spatial, seeking to connect original sketches, watercolours, and journal entries to their initial places of creation in the Arctic. Interdisciplinarity is central to the study, which draws on critical theory including post-colonialism, post-structuralism, semiotics, and aesthetics as well as theories of space and place, gender, and reception theory.In this presentation, I will focus on theories of space and place and their particular application to interpretations of the nineteenth-century Arctic. Do images and texts, created by travellers to the Arctic, reflect a negative Classicist view where nature is a dark force harking back to European folktales? Or can we see the positive influence of the Romantic view, which sees the Arctic as a spiritual space? At what point do arctic spaces become familiar places to the travellers? Could the Arctic or the ship become a type of home, a refuge, for some? And to what extent did re-presentations (second- and third-hand images) fuel the wilderness myth of the Arctic and the idea of North as a gendered masculine zone?
Jeannine KraftInto the West: The legacy of ‰Û÷the West’ in the visualisation of IrelandThe visualisation of the Irish landscape in both fine arts and tourist imagery has historically been rooted in the notion of ‰Û÷the West’. The Free State government, in its efforts to define an anti-British construct, embraced and promulgated an idyllic vision of rural Ireland situated in the West. From the Republic’s emergence as an independent state, there were strong political motivations for creating a cultural identity rooted in this historical pre-colonial landscape. The legacy of this construct endures, impacting contemporary cultural production in both the fine and popular visual arts. The landscape of the West has been framed through the lens of the visual arts as embodying and disseminating an ‰Û÷authentic’ cultural construct that, despite the remove of time from its codification, persists within the post-nationalist globalized context of contemporary Ireland and continues to condition the experience of the landscape both internally and externally. Through the lens of landscape imagery, this paper will interrogate how ‰Û÷the West’ has been defined geographically, politically, culturally, linguistically and visually, and the problematic nature of defining this real and imaginary geography of place as artists in both the fine and popular arts continue to mediate the cultural inheritance of the mythic and enduring notion of the West of Ireland.

Finnegans Wake reading group
2013-12-05 13:00
If you like gossiping, poetry, languages, puns, puzzles, jokes, double entendres or even avant-garde tomes, you might like Finnegans Wake. Despite its scurrilous critical reputation, James Joyce’s final workis not as difficult as it would first appear and,when read as part of a group, can be a hugely rewarding experience. It is our hope to read the text episodically, playing close attention to the rhythm and musicality of the piece; we aim to stress the looseness of the text without resort to lucidity.
No prior experience of Joyce is necessary and the meetings will be very informal so everyone is very welcome.
Consider joining our Facebook group to keep abreast of news, dates and any strange Joycean ephemera that we find. ( https://www.facebook.com/groups/359211964211176/ )
For more information please contact siobhanmpurcell@gmail.com

CAMPS Lab: Rosemary Power, Independent Scholar, Adjunct of CAMPS, NUI Galway - 'A Norse view of Brian BÌ_rÌÄå¼'
2013-12-06 12:00
Rosemary Power, Independent Scholar, Adjunct of CAMPS, NUI Galway
‰Û÷A Norse view of Brian BÌ_r̼‰۪

Digital Scholarship Seminar - Lillis ÌÒ Laoire & MicheÌÁl Mac Lochlainn - 'A discussion on the Joe Heaney Archive' - Mark Stansbury 'What's digital about digital humanities?'
2013-12-12 12:00
Digital Scholarship Seminar
The third and final event of the Autumn/Winter series of DSS is a lunchtime seminar featuring presentations from scholars in Classics and Gaeilge:
Mark Stansbury (Classics). ‘What‰۪s digital about digital humanities?’
Lillis ÌÒ Laoire (Gaeilge). ‰Û÷The Joe Heaney Collection: Building the Digital Archive.‰۪
Chair: Sean Ryder (English)
The seminar will be followed by discussion and lunch, provided by the Moore Institute, at 1pm.
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www.nuigalway.ie/digital-seminar
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NUI Galway's THREESIS 2013 Final
2013-12-12 19:30
INVITATION
NUI Galway‰۪s THREESIS 2013 FINAL:
The THREESIS competition will see NUI Galway staff and students present their research to the audience and a panel of judges in accessible language a non-expert can understand, in three minutes or less. Each of the 8 finalists will have only three slides and three minutes to communicate their research area and relevancy. Competitors are judged on how well they convey their subject and their ability to communicate to a general audience.
Each of NUI Galway‰۪s five main priority areas will be represented, with topics ranging from the brain structure of people with Bipolar Disorder, to the transport of pollutants in groundwater. Also on the night, the winner of THREESIS 2012, Dr. RonÌÁn Hennessy of the Ryan Institute‰۪s GIS Centre, will give a short talk based on his winning THREESIS 2012 presentation, ‰ÛÏMaking Time for Old Lines‰۝, in which he will discuss his animated timeline map of Irish railways.
The winner of THREESIS 2013 will receive a prize and award, based on the decision of the judges who will include: Eithne Verling, Director of the Galway City Museum; Professor Lokesh Joshi, Vice-President of Research at NUI Galway, and Johnny Holden, Irish Times Journalist and Editor of NUI Galway‰۪s Research Matters publication.
All are welcome and refreshments will be served on the night. The event is free but we would like you to pleasebook by emailing mooreinstitute@nuigalway.ie
List of Presenters

Arias, Mario
‰ÛÏKnowledge Ready to use!‰۝
Informatics, Physical & Computational

Burke, Lorraine; Nic Gabhainn, Saoirse; Young, Honor
‰ÛÏIrish Teenage Sex: Hype or Horror?‰۝
Social Science & Public Policy

Curry, James
‰ÛÏThe visual imagery of the Irish labour press, 1911-14‰۝
Humanities in Context

Kenny, Joanne
‰ÛÏDo mental skills in psychosis deteriorate over time?‰۝
Biomedical Science & Engineering

Maloney, Maureen
‰ÛÏAccessing the impact of occupational pension scheme structure and communication on individual pension adequacy‰۝
Social Science & Public Policy

McBriarty, Eunan
‰ÛÏAnybody can be a Scientist!‰۝
Biomedical Science & Engineering

O ‰Û÷ Donoghue, Stefani ‰ÛÏInvestigating brain structure in individuals with bi-polar disorder ‰۝
Biomedical Science & Engineering

Vero, Sara
‰ÛÏCalculating time-lag of applied nutrients to groundwater on a site-specific basis‰۝
Environmental, Marine & Energy

CAMPS Lab: Kenneth Coyne, History Department, NUIG - 'The description of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos in Robert The Monk's Historia Iherosolimatana': caricature or reality?
2013-12-13 13:00
Kenneth Coyne, History Department, NUIG
‘The description of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos in Robert The Monk’s Historia Iherosolimatana‘: caricature or reality?

Gender ARC Public Lecture with Senator Katherine Zappone
2013-12-16 16:00
Global Women’s Studies is pleased to host a
Gender ARC Public Lecture with
Senator Katherine Zappone
Moving beyond a politics of shame: marriage equality, gender recognition and the new embrace of humanity
Reception to follow – all welcome
rsvp: Gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie
Senator Katherine Zappone is one of Ireland’s foremost thinkers and legislators on equality issues. She was formerly a Commissioner with the Irish Human Rights Commission (2002-2012) and currently serves on the Oireacthas delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). She is also a member of the Committee on Equality and Non-discrimination of PACE and a member of the Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality. She has published research in national equality frameworks, effective children’s services, equal opportunity in education, theology and spirituality, and human rights. This year her private member’s bill on Gender Recognition spurred the Government into publishing their own proposals on the issue. She was Chief Executive of the National Women’s Council of Ireland, and has taught ethics, practical theology and education in Trinity College Dublin. She holds a PhD from Boston College and an MBA from the Smurfit Business School at UCD. She was recently awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from UCD School of Law. She has co-authored her memoirs with Dr Ann Louise Gilligan, Our Lives Out Loud: In Pursuit of Justice & Equality (Dublin: The O’Brien Press, 2008) which documents their ground-breaking case to have their Canadian marriage recognised in Irish law.
http://www.genderarc.org

Pascale Dettwiller from Flinders University, Australia on community engagement in the Katherine Region of the Northern Territories entitled 'Community Engagement: improving student experience within the communities, how can Universities be innovative?'
2013-12-19 12:30
Pascale Dettwiller from Flinders University, Australia
on community engagement in the Katherine Region of the Northern Territories entitled
‰Û÷Community Engagement: improving student experience within the communities, how can Universities be innovative?’
Pascale will offer a 30 minute presentation on her community engagement work in the Katherine region followed by a group discussion and brainstorm. The purpose of this seminar will be to look at other models of community engagement and to grow our work within the Galway community and nationally through higher education in Ireland.
Further information can be obtained from Lorraine McIlrath (lorraine.mcilrath@nuigalway.ieor (091 495234). To reserve a place please email IrÌ_n NÌ_ ChualÌÁin on irin.nichualain@nuigalway.ie
Further information on the CKI website – http://cki.nuigalway.ie/event/559/-flinders-university-engagement-seminar/

Archaeology Graduate Resesarch Seminar Series - Karen Taylor & Seamus McGinley, Doctoral Students in Geography -The Role of Palaeolimnology in Archaeological Research
2014-01-23 16:00 | The Hardiman Building G011 seminar room, Ireland
The Discipline of Archaeology Invites You to a Seminar by
Karen taylor & Seamus McGinley
Doctoral Students in Geography
The Role of Palaeolimnology in Archaeological Research
Venue: G011, RH side of foyer in the new Arts and Humanities Research Building (beside Hardiman Library)
All Welcome!
Department of Archaeology Research Seminar Series, School of Geography and Archaeology

CAMPS Lab: Professor Ian Woods of the University of Leeds - 'Debating the Fall of Rome from the Ancien R̩gime to the creation of Late Antiquity'.
2014-01-24 12:00
This week’s CAMPS Lab will be delivered by Professor Ian Woods of the University of Leeds.
His title is:’Debating the Fall of Rome from the Ancien R̩gime to the creation of Late Antiquity’
Followed by discussion and light lunch

History Graduate Research Seminar Series - Mark Scannell, 'Irish Catholic recruitment to the British Army, 1691-1815'.
2014-01-29 16:00

CAMPS Lab: MÌÁirÌ_n MacCarron, History, NUIG. 'Bede and Time'.
2014-01-31 12:00
Followed by discussion & light lunch
Everyone welcome ‰ÛÓ FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch

Archaeology Graduate Resesarch Seminar Series: Kate Leonard - Weapons, Warriors and Wetlands
2014-02-04 16:00
Discipline of Archaeology Invites You to a Lecture by
Kate Leonard
Successful Doctoral Candidate in Archaeology
Weapons, Warriors and Wetlands
Of all the categorical identities recognised by archaeologists for Bronze Age Europe, warriors are one of the most discussed. Our current understanding of the Bronze Age warrior has been mainly based on examinations of material culture, in particular the sword.
A sword may simultaneously be, or have the potential to be, a beautiful object, an efficient killing tool, a symbol of power and wealth, an implied or actual threat, a sacrifice, a gift, a reward, a pledge of loyalty and/or an embodiment of the idea of conflict.[1]
In Ireland, Bronze Age swords are most commonly recovered from contexts of deliberate deposition. It is proposed that the repeated visitation of a particular wetland or riverine zone like the river fords at Killaloe and Scarriff in Co. Clare to deposit martial equipment may signify a sense of shared identity by warriors (i.e. this is where our ancestors also deposited their swords). This paper will explore how archaeological evidence for the ritual deposition of swords in Bronze Age Ireland can further our understanding of the social role of the warrior.
All Welcome!
Department of Archaeology Research Seminar Series

[1] Bridgford, S. D. (1997) ‘Mighter than the Pen? (an Edgewise Look at Irish Bronze Age Swords)’ in Carman, J., ed. Material Harm, archaeological studies of war and violence,Glasgow: Cruithne Press, 95-115.

History Graduate Research Seminar Series - Gerard Madden - Bishop Michael Browne of Galway and anti-communism in mid-20th-century Ireland
2014-02-05 16:00

Book Launch: The Cruelty Man Child welfare, the NSPCC and the State in Ireland by Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley (Discipline of History)
2014-02-05 17:00
You are cordially invited to the launch of
The Cruelty Man
Child welfare, the NSPCC and the State in Ireland
by Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley
(Discipline of History)
Refreshments will be served
The Cruelty Man is published by Manchester University Press

CAMPS Lab: Exequiel Monge Allen, Old and Middle Irish, NUIG: 'Humanity, its representation and its redemption in the writings of St Columbanus'
2014-02-07 12:00

Archaeology Graduate Seminar Series; Eugene Costello - Farming the Margins, Transhumance and post-medieval Irish society
2014-02-11 16:00
Discipline of Archaeology Invites You to a Seminar by
Eugene Costello
Doctoral Candidate in Archaeology
Farming the Margins
Transhumance and post-medieval Irish society
Date:Tuesday 11th February 2014
Time:4pm
Venue:G010, RH side of foyer in the new Arts and Humanities
Research Building (beside Hardiman Library)
All Welcome!
Department of Archaeology Research Seminar Series
School of Geography & Archaeology

ECHO seminar: His story: Sandra Mayer (University of Vienna), The (not so) Secret Life of Oscar Wilde: Literary Celebrity Construction and its Afterlives in Contemporary Biofiction and Popular Culture Irina Ruppo Malone (NUI Galway) - Ibsen's Boring Hi
2014-02-11 16:00
echo ecgo ECHOSeminar echo echo
His Story
Sandra Mayer(University of Vienna)
The (not so) Secret Life of Oscar Wilde: Literary
Celebrity Construction and its Afterlives in
Contemporary Biofiction and Popular Culture
Irina Ruppo Malone (NUI Galway)
Ibsen‰۪s Boring Historian: Historiography in
Hedda Gabler
4pm Tuesday 11th February
New Moore Institute venue!
GO11 Seminar Room Hardiman Building
All welcome. Wine served
ECHObrings together researchers of all disciplines to discuss research questions in a friendly environment.
Contact: adrian.paterson@nuigalway.ie or see our website: http://echoforum.wordpress.com

History Graduate Research Seminar Series - Niamh Cullen (UCD) - 'Girls Don't Want To Marry Peasants?': Courtship in rural Italy, 1945-60
2014-02-12 16:00

CAMPS Lab: Marion Deane. Old and Middle Irish, Dublin: 'Buile Suibne: Symptom as desire: an appraisal of Sweeney's madness'
2014-02-14 12:00

History Graduate Research Seminar Series - Enrico Dal Lago 'Purging Nations With Blood': John Brown, Pisacane, and 19th-century guerrilla warfare
2014-02-19 16:00

Book Launch: Enrico Dal Lago - William Lloyd Garrison and Giuseppe Mazzini: Abolition, Democracy, and Radical Reform
2014-02-19 17:00
You are cordially invited to the launch of
William Lloyd Garrisonand Giuseppe Mazzini
Abolition, Democracy and Radical Reform
by Enrico Dal Lago
The Book will be launched by Prof. GearÌ_id ÌÒ Tuathaigh
William Lloyd Garrison and Giuseppe Mazzini
Abolition, Democracy, and Radical Reform
by Enrico Dal Lago
William Lloyd Garrison and Giuseppe Mazzini, two of the foremost radicals of the nineteenth century, lived during a time of profound economic, social, and political transformation in America and Europe. Both born in 1805, but into dissimilar family backgrounds, the American Garrison and Italian Mazzini led entirely different lives‰ÛÓone as a citizen of a democratic republic, the other as an exile proscribed by most European monarchies. Using a comparative analysis, Enrico Dal Lago suggests that Garrison and Mazzini nonetheless represent a connection between the egalitarian ideologies of American abolitionism and Italian democratic nationalism.
Focusing on Garrison‰۪s and Mazzini‰۪s activities and transnational links within their own milieus and in the wider international arena, Dal Lago shows why two nineteenth-century progressives and revolutionaries considered liberation from enslavement and liberation from national oppression as two sides of the same coin. At different points in their lives, both Garrison and Mazzini demonstrated this belief by concurrently supporting the abolition of slavery in the United States and the national revolutions in Italy. The two meetings Garrison and Mazzini had, in 1846 and in 1867, served to reinforce their sense that they somehow worked together toward the achievement of liberty not just in the United States and Italy, but also in the Atlantic and Euro-American world as a whole. In the end, the abolition of American slavery led to Garrison‰۪s consecration, while the new Italian kingdom forced Mazzini into exile. Despite these different outcomes, Garrison and Mazzini both attracted legions of devoted followers who believed these men personified the radical causes of the nations to which they belonged.
Enrico Dal Lago is a lecturer in American history at National University of Ireland, Galway, and the author of Agrarian Elites: American Slaveholders and Southern Italian Landowners, 1815‰ÛÒ1861 and American Slavery, Atlantic Slavery, and Beyond: The U.S. ‰ÛÏPeculiar Institution‰۝ in International Perspective.

CAMPS Lab: Chris Doyle, History, NUIG: 'The Right Hand of Victory: Triumphal symbolism in the Late Roman Empire'
2014-02-21 12:00

Journalism Seminar: Dr Philip Dine, senior lecturer and head of French at NUI Galway, joined by Mr Keith Duggan, chief sports writer with the Irish times
2014-02-26 11:00
In Conversation – Dr. Philip Dine, Author and academic (senior lecturer and head of French at the National University of Ireland, Galway) will talk about his work, including ‘ Body Language: talking about and through sport in ireland, France and beyond’.
Also joining in the conversation, Mr Keith Duggan, chief sports writer, Irish Times and author – ‘cliffs of insanity- a winter of Ireland’s big waves 2012’

History Graduate Research Seminar Series - Anne Dolan (TCD) 'Bearing All Kinds of Witness to War': Violence in revolutionary Ireland, 1919-21
2014-02-26 16:00

Archaeology Graduate Research Seminar Series;Prof. Rolf Loeber and Prof. Magda Stouthamer-Loeber, Pittsburgh Medical Centre, USA. ' Changing Landscapes: Transitions from Gaelic Lordship to Colonial Demesnes'
2014-02-26 17:00
The School of Geography and Archaeology invites you to a lecture by
Prof. Rolf Loeber and Prof. Magda Stouthamer – Loeber
Pittsburg Medical Centre, USA
Changing Landscapes: Transitions from Gaelic Lordship to Colonial Demesnes
All Welcome!
Archaeology Research Seminar Series
School of Geography and Archaeology

Hispanic Research Event: Dr Rebecca Breen - 'Si me permiten hablar...': Performative Testimony in Bolivia Today
2014-02-27 13:00
‘Si me permiten hablar…’: Performative Testimony in Bolivia Today
Dr Rebecca Breen
This talk examines performance art by contemporary women artists from Latin America; it aims to conceptualize and recontextualize the notion of testimonio in relation to visual practice. The paper revisits women‰۪s testimonial narrative writing (or testimonio),which emerged in Latin America during the 1970s and 1980s — specifically, Domitila Barrios de Chungara’s ‘”Si me permiten hablar…”: testimonio de Domitila, una mujer de las minas de Bolivia’ (1978). This genre comprised themes of the subaltern, authorship/agency, and the relationship of personal to collective testimonies. However, the paper focuses on the performative practice of a contemporary artist from Bolivia, Aruma (Sandra deBerduccy), so as to provide a purchase for negotiating testimonio from the point of view of the visual and, particularly, to highlight testimonio‘s gender concerns even to today.
