W.J.T. Mitchell: Present Tense 2020 – On the Iconology of Time
2021-06-09 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
In an anachronistic gathering of images of time from ancient and modern sources, the lecture attempts to replace the ontology of time with an iconology that may provide some useful tools for keeping our bearings in the midst of our epoch.
Respondents

Jeannine Kraft (Columbus College of Art and Design, Ohio, USA),
Nessa Cronin (Irish Studies, NUI Galway)

Registration
Register for this Zoom Webinar via https://tinyurl.com/uha5fd. The session will also be broadcast live on the Moore Institute’s Facebook Page.
About the Series
Convenor: Paolo Bartoloni (Italian, NUI Galway)
Organising Committee: Paolo Bartoloni, Dan Carey, Nessa Cronin, Adrian Paterson, El Putnam, Elizabeth Tilley
Funding provided by: NUI Galway to celebrate Galway’s designation as European Capital of Culture; College of Arts Research Support Scheme.

Event Recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WFCen3FmbE&t=6s

W.J.T. Mitchell: Art, Community, and Resistance
2021-06-10 16:00 - 17:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
This lecture will survey the role of activist artistic practices in a number of different sites, including demonstrations, murals, exhibitions, archives, and educational facilities.
» Scat/Rap Counterpoint
Respondents

Timothy Stott (Trinity College Dublin),
El Putnam (Huston School of Film and Digital Media, NUI Galway)

Registration
Register for this Zoom Webinar via https://tinyurl.com/3zr7jfhk. The session will also be broadcast live on the Moore Institute’s Facebook Page.
About the Series
Convenor: Paolo Bartoloni (Italian, NUI Galway)
Organising Committee: Paolo Bartoloni, Dan Carey, Nessa Cronin, Adrian Paterson, El Putnam, Elizabeth Tilley
Funding provided by: NUI Galway to celebrate Galway’s designation as European Capital of Culture; College of Arts Research Support Scheme.

Event Recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWrzrDKFjd4&t=229s

CAMPS: 8th International Conference on the Science of Computus in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, 17-19 June 2021
2021-06-17 - 2021-06-19 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
8th International Conference on the Science of Computus in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Galway 17-19 June 2021
Since 2006, the Moore Institute of the National University of Ireland in Galway has hosted, under the direction of Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, a biannual conference on the science of computus in the Middle Ages. Computus – the mathematics required to calculate the date of Easter, and related topics – straddles the fields of mathematics and astronomy, biblical interpretation and cosmology, empirical astronomical observation, and the perennial quest to understand the concepts of time and time-Reckoning.
The core period covered by the Galway Conference stretches from the beginnings of Easter calculations in the third century to the introduction of Arabic and Greek science in the Latin West in the 12th century, but papers on the reckoning of time and its cultural context in the later Middle Ages have also always been welcome. Each conference has had a special theme (e.g., the formation of computus in Late Antiquity; the rise of prognostications in the early Middle Ages; the revolution of computus in the 11th and 12th centuries; computus in the Carolingian Age; computus and the vernacular; etc.).
The upcoming conference will start on 17 June with a special panel addressing the following fundamental conceptual question:
What is early medieval Latin science?
We are very happy to confirm that the following scholars have accepted to present in this panel: Faith Wallis (Montreal), John J. Contreni (Purdue), Philipp Nothaft (Dublin), James T. Palmer (St. Andrews).
18 June and 19 June will be devoted to thematic sessions covering topics of computistical interest from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period. The conference will end on 19 June with a show-case of three websites recently developed as part of the following three projects:
IFCE – The Irish Foundation of Carolingian Europe: the case of calendrical science (funded by the Irish Research Council Laureate Programme)
IRCABRITT – Ireland and Carolingian Brittany: Texts and Transmission (funded by the Irish Research Council Laureate Programme)
Innovating Knowledge – Isidore’s Etymologiae in the Carolingian Period (funded by the Nederlandse Wetenschapelijke Organisatie)
Registration:
This conference will be held digitally through Zoom. A link will be sent to all registered participants a day in advance, for each conference day. Please register here:
https://forms.gle/1CCaed7K1UhCsv5g8
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us at: computusgalway@gmail.com
Programme:
THURSDAY, 17 JUNE:
Session 1: ‘What is early medieval Latin science?’
15:00-15:25: James T. Palmer (St. Andrews)
15:25-15:50: Philipp Nothaft (Dublin)
16:00-16:25: Faith Wallis (Montreal)
16:25-16:50: John J. Contreni (Purdue)
16:50-18:00: Open discussion
18:30: Virtual Pub
FRIDAY, 18 JUNE:
Session 2: Eschatology
9:30-9:55: Tobit Loevenich (Dublin) – Usque ad mediam noctem: an eschatological passage in the Computus Einsidlensis
9:55-10:20: Elisa Ramazzina (Belfast) – Monsters at the end of time
10:20-10:45: Discussion
Session 3: The Carolingian Age
11:15-11:40: Christian Schweizer (Dublin) – Computus, quadrivium, and poetry in Dicuil’s Liber de astronomia
11:40-12:05: Mariken Teeuwen (Amsterdam) – Carolingian readers of Martianus and Boethius: How did they gloss the Ars arithmetica?
12:05-12:30: Discussion
Session 4: 9th and 10th – century Breton connections
14:00-14:25: Paula Harrison (Galway) – Seeing through a manuscript, darkly: illumination through computistical networks as witnessed in Laon Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 422
14:25-14:50: Jacopo Bisagni (Galway) / Immo Warntjes (Dublin) – Abbo of Fleury’s Breton lunar calendar
14:50-15:15: Discussion
Session 5: Later developments
15:45-16:10: Fathi Jarray (Tunis) – The distribution of water with timekeeping in the Islamic oasis: a shared knowledge from the Antiquity to the Modern epoch
16:10-16:35: Leofranc Holford-Strevens (Oxford) – Thomas Lydiat’s proposal for a new calendar
16:35-17:00: Discussion
18:00-19:00: Presentation of latest publications in the field
This session includes a discussion with editors of series that are interested in, or have a track record of, publishing monographs on matters computistical. We hope that this will give a sense of potential publication venues, especially to colleagues at the beginning of their careers.
19:00: Virtual Pub
SATURDAY, 19 JUNE:
Session 6: Late Antiquity
14:00-14:25: Sr. Maria Theotokos Adams, SSVM (Washington, DC) – Computus and exegesis in Eusebius of Caesarea
14:25-14:50: Daniel Mc Carthy (Dublin) – Sulpicius Severus’ construction of his 84-year paschal table
14:50-15:15: Discussion
Session 7: Websites / Databases
15:45-16:45: Presentation of the following websites:
Database of pre-AD 900 computistical manuscripts / texts / objects – Judith ter Horst (Dublin)
A descriptive handlist of Breton manuscripts, c. AD 780–1100 – Jacopo Bisagni (Galway)
Database of early medieval manuscripts of Isidore’s Etymologiae – Evina Steinová (Amsterdam)
16:45-17:15: Discussion

Imagining inclusivity: The role of language in an increasingly diverse Ireland
2021-07-01 10:00 - 13:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
This workshop is designed to facilitate dialogue between academics, policymakers, practitioners, and NGOs in imagining a more inclusive Ireland, and the role that language plays in how we envisage this inclusivity. The event stems from the project ‘Languages, Families, and Society’ (LaFS) at NUI Galway, which uses an ethnographic approach to understand more about the everyday lived experiences families who speak Irish as a home language; Polish as a home language; and Kurdish as a home language, and how these experiences intersect with language policy and support (or lack thereof) at the wider level.
The workshop will consist of five 10-minute presentations, followed by 5 minutes for questions. We will then break out into groups and take part in a targeted discussions about key issues before coming back together as a whole group. Our collective thoughts and recommendations will form the basis of a document to be published on the project’s website. Even if you do not wish to participate in the group discussions, we warmly invite you to attend this workshop.
Presenters
Dr. Cassie Smith-Christmas (Roinn na Gaeilge, NUI Galway) is the research fellow with LaFS. This project builds on her extensive research within the area of ‘Family Language Policy’ which encompasses work with in the Corca Dhuibhne Gaeltacht and the Hebrides of Scotland.
Professor Tadhg Ó hIfearnáin (Roinn na Gaeilge, NUI Galway) is the mentor with LaFS. He is a pioneer of ‘Family Language Policy’ in an Irish language context and has conducted research in Gaeltacht communities, across Ireland and in other minoritised language settings in Europe, as well as advising state and community language planning agencies.
Annie Asgard (Claddagh National School, Galway) is an EAL teacher and Chairperson of English Language Support Teachers’ Association of Ireland (ELSTA). Annie has extensive experience working with EAL learners of different backgrounds in different contexts, ranging from primary schools to refugee camps.
Dr. Lorraine Connaughton-Crean (Institute of Education, Dublin City University) helped design the NCAA Primary Curriculum for Languages (2019). She recently completed her PhD thesis (2020) which explored the linguistic experiences of Polish-speaking families in Ireland.
Dr. Carmen Kealy (UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, NUI Galway) is part of the research team Crisis Coping: Living and Learning through COVID-19 which is a HRB and IRC funded study (collaboration between UCFRC and the School of Education). With a strong research interest in parenting and migration, she completed her PhD thesis (2019) on the experience of Polish parents in Galway.
Registration
Event is free but please register by June 29, 2021: https://forms.office.com/r/QWG4Y66k02.

“This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 794800”.

Learning from Covid-19: How Science Can Help Build Global Resilience Against Future Pandemics (hosted by the British Embassy Dublin in partnership with the Royal Irish Academy)
2021-07-05 16:00 - 17:15 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
British Embassy Glencairn Conversations, in partnership with the Royal Irish Academy.

Ambassador Paul Johnston and RIA President Mary Canning invite you to hear UK and Irish perspectives on applying the lessons from Covid 19 to strengthen our preparedness for future pandemics on 5 July 2021.
G7 leaders, meeting in Cornwall, committed to strengthening our collective defences against future pandemics – including investing in innovation with the aim of making safe and effective vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics available within 100 days of an international public health emergency being declared.
UK and Irish scientists have been at the centre of our national and global responses to Covid-19. This webinar will explore their experience to date, and the role the UK, Irish and global scientific community can play in preventing, detecting and responding to future pandemics.
Professor Adrian Hill will give opening reflections on his work developing vaccines against Covid-19, ebola and malaria, followed by a panel discussion and questions from the virtual audience.
Speakers and panellists:

Professor Adrian Hill – Director of the Jenner Institute, University of Oxford
Professor Mary Horgan, President of the Royal College of Physicians Ireland and consultant of Infectious Diseases
Professor Mark Ferguson, Director General of Science Foundation Ireland and Chief Scientific Adviser to the Government of Ireland.
Dr Chris Lewis, Deputy Chief Scientific Adviser, Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Government
Moderated by Daniel Carey, MRI A Director Moore Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, NUI Galway

Registration:
Learning from Covid-19: How Science Can Help Build Global Resilience Tickets, Mon 5 Jul 2021 at 16:00 | Eventbrite
Further information can be obtained from policy@ria.ie.
The event will be recorded but audience members will not be visible in the recording.
Please read our Privacy and Data Protection Policy details here and our Eventbrite Transparency Statement here in relation to handling of your data for booking this event.

Reimagining Humanitarianism in an Age of Global Solidarity: Interrogating Power Structures in Aid and Multilateral Institutions
2021-07-08 12:00 - 17:30 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
What does it mean to embody a lived approach to global solidarity and equal partnership in humanitarian action and advocacy? This workshop, organised by Dóchas and the School of History & Philosophy at NUI Galway, brings together leading voices from the worlds of professional humanitarianism, diplomacy, activism and academia in conversation on three key areas: human rights, multilateralism and the climate crisis. The workshop is funded by the Irish Research Council (New Foundations grant).
Confirmed speakers include:

Hugo Slim (University of Oxford)
Sonja Hyland (Political Director, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade)
Bulelani Mfaco (MASI – Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland)
Tara Rao (Our Ground Works)
Nishanie Jayamaha (Programme Co-ordinator, Climate and Environment Change and Civil Society Space, International Council of Voluntary Agencies)
Su-Ming Khoo (NUI Galway)
Christopher O’Connell (Dublin City University)
Margot Tudor (University of Exeter)

Register here:
https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUkceitpzsvHdFGTGeAUlcx77zUfVi4Iwmb
Further information:
For further details on the workshop, please go to: https://www.dochas.ie/whats-new/dochas-nuig-global-solidarity-workshop/.
Contact:
Maria Cullen – School of History and Philosophy, NUI Galway – m.cullen10@nuigalway.ie
Vikki Walshe – Project Manager, Dóchas – vikki@dochas.ie

This workshop is funded by the Irish Research Council (New Foundations Grant) and co-organised by Dóchas and the School of History and Philosophy, NUI Galway.

Sport & Exercise Research Group Seminar Series: "Sport and Film: An American Dream?"
2021-09-07 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Sport and Film: An American Dream?
Dr. Seán Crosson (Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway)
In the first lecture of this year’s Sport & Exercise Research Group seminar series, Dr. Seán Crosson will chart the history of sport cinema internationally and examine the important role the genre has played in the United States in popularising and affirming a key ideology in American life, the American Dream.
Dr. Seán Crosson is Senior Lecturer in Film in the Huston School of Film & Digital Media, Leader of the Sport & Exercise Research Group within the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, and Co-Director of the MA Sports Journalism and Communication programme. His main research interest is the representation of sport in film, the subject of his monographs, Sport and Film (Routledge, 2013) and Gaelic Games on Film: From silent films to Hollywood hurling, horror and the emergence of Irish cinema (Cork University Press, 2019).

Society for Folk Life Studies Annual Conference
2021-09-10 - 2021-09-12 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
The Society for Folk Life Studies
Online
Annual Conference
Galway, Republic of Ireland
10-12 September 2021
**Music, dance, song, story and related artefacts**
**Vernacular buildings and interiors**

The conference will be accessed by Zoom
and hosted by The Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway
(Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies | NUI Galway | Ireland)

PROGRAMME
(Please note: Most lectures will be recorded)

FRIDAY, 10 September

09.30 Assemble online and technical briefing
09.45-09.50 Dr Dafydd Roberts (President, Society for Folk Life Studies)

Welcome to the 2021 annual conference

09.50-10.00 Lillis Ó Laoire: Welcome to The Moore Institute and NUI, Galway

10.00-10.45 Lecture 1: John Cunningham

Preserving livestock from “hogs, dogs, bogs and thieves”: The traditions and tribulations of herdsmen in nineteenth-century Connacht.
According to one agriculturalist in the 1890s, herdsmen in counties Galway and Roscommon were ‘distinct from any employed in any of the English districts, being neither shepherds nor bailiffs and yet a compound of both’. Working for landlords and large graziers, they were responsible workers, liable for damage to their employers’ stock, whether caused by ‘hogs, dogs, bogs, or thieves’, in their own phrase. The lecture will discuss the herdsmen’s attachment to their archaic working conditions, their craft identity, and the efforts of their herds’ associations through which they defended their position against both employers and tenants’ movements during the land war.

10.45-11.15 Offline coffee break

11.15-12.00 Lecture 2: Niall Ó Ciosáin

Book subscribers and readers in the Celtic languages in the 18th and 19th centuries.
In the second half of the 18th century, there was an expansion in the reading public of most European languages. The Celtic languages were no exception to this trend, and there was a significant increase in the production of printed texts in Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Irish and Breton. While the production end of these texts has been explored to an extent, very little is known about their readers. Who bought and read books and pamphlets in the Celtic languages? This paper begins to explore this question by way of the lists of subscribers that were occasionally appended to song books and poetic miscellanies, particularly in Welsh and Scottish Gaelic. The lists contain anything between a few dozen and many hundreds of names, often with addresses and occupations included (more so than subscription lists in English). These are analysed in terms of geography and social status to give a picture of the different reading communities in the various languages.

12.00-14.00 Offline lunch break

14.00-14.45 Lecture 3: Ailbhe Nic Giolla Chomhaill

“Sin an áit a raibh an lúcháir/ That was the place of joy:” Craft, creativity and context in the tales of a Co. Donegal female storyteller.
Ireland’s National Folklore Collection (NFC) is home to a large collection of folktales and traditional oral material narrated by Sorcha Chonaill Mhic Grianna (1875-1964), a storyteller from the Gaeltacht townland of Ranafast, Co. Donegal, in the 1930s. The large quantity of folktales in this collection is representative of the richness of women’s oral narrative tradition in Co. Donegal in the first half of the 20th century; it also reflects the remarkable skill of this storyteller, whose vast folklore repertoire also included songs, prayers, Fenian lays, and detailed accounts of historic events and local customs. This paper seeks to bridge the doorway between the archival folktale and the social meanings and understandings held within by analysing Sorcha Chonaill’s telling of international wonder tale ATU 707 The Three Golden Children. Before turning my attention to the folktale itself, I will contextualise the storyteller’s repertoire within the broader context of women’s traditional storytelling in Ireland, followed by the micro-level context of the storyteller’s socialisation in the rural Irish community of Ranafast in the latter half of the 19th century.

14.45-15.15 Offline tea break

15.15-16.00 Lecture 4: Róisín Nic Dhonnchadha

Conamara Man: An English Language Gaeltacht Autobiography.
How can a self-authored personal narrative help to delineate the factors through which folk identities are formed? In this paper, I discuss the curious instance of an English language Gaeltacht autobiography, namely, Conamara Man (1969) by Séamus Mac an Iomaire [Séamus Ridge]. An islander and a fisherman from the Carna area of County Galway, Mac an Iomaire (1891-1967) gained renown for his classic publication, Cladaigh Chonamara [The Shores of Connemara], an encyclopaedic account of shore life and the maritime traditions of south Connemara. Reminiscent of autoethnography, Conamara Man reflects an innate affiliation of person with place and invites us to examine how aspects of folk identity are cultivated by the idea of topophilia. Recognising Mac an Iomaire’s intimate involvement with the sea, I also address in this presentation the relationship between vocation and identity in the context of folk narratives.

16.00 Offline tea break

18.00-19.00 Online pre-prandial drinks (an informal gathering with one’s own drinks)

19.00 Offline supper

SATURDAY, 11 September

09.45 Assemble online and technical briefing

10..00-10.45 Lecture 5: Claudia Kinmonth

Post publication discoveries; readers’ responses to Irish country furniture and furnishings 1700-2000.
Often after publishing a book, new, associated material comes out of the woodwork. Completing a book during the 2020 pandemic, and then publishing it and receiving responses from readers, during lockdown in Ireland, revealed a mass of objects that I was unable to go and scrutinise first-hand. Normally I cannot to give opinions on art or furniture without checking it first-hand, to ensure everything is genuine. Some professionally faked Irish furniture cannot necessarily be recognised from photographs. But lockdown forced me into a situation where I had no choice, I couldn’t enter peoples’ houses, or examine the subtleties of the undersides of chairs, or the backs and surface details of paintings in the normal way.
Taking to Twitter and Instagram to augment publicity in the absence of a launch, produced a mass of poorly photographed images, sometimes of fascinating objects. Correspondence with strangers about how best to photograph a chair produced some amusing results. The range of items that emerged was exciting, especially of rare things which previously had only emerged from museum collections, such as the slightly magical ‘God in a bottle’, the first of which was produced by our local grocer, who had one belonging to her grandmother. Slightly better known were ‘falling tables’, but fresh examples with good stories about their makers arose from Counties Fermanagh, and Wicklow. Súgán chairs were a familiar design, but the first fork-legged one appeared one day on my screen via Instagram. Publishing a 1940s photograph of celebrated author Peig Sayers in her kitchen, gave rise to ceramics identifiable from her dresser, and other surviving items of her furniture, being discovered. Likewise, glass fishing floats arranged as dresser decoration turned out to be recycled to augment gateposts, and intriguing in their own right. Broken glass and pottery were part of external cottage decoration, so photography was easier. This paper takes the opportunity to showcase a scattered range of such ‘new’ historic material, and some new avenues of research, for the first time.

10.45-11.30 Offline coffee break

11.30-12.15 Lecture 6: Verena Commins

Monuments and commemoration: Realising an Irish traditional music heritage through visual culture.
As public symbols, monuments are part of a wider cultural landscape that reflect both perspectives on the past and their contemporary interpretation. This paper tracks the relatively recent (post-1974) monumentalisation of the oral tradition of Irish traditional music practice through the prism of commemoration: the raising of public monuments and statues to Irish traditional artists in civic spaces throughout Ireland. The materiality and physical presence of monuments in public squares and crossroads represents the tradition as visual culture in environments far distant from the intimate context of fireside or public house. In doing so, it extends their associated meanings beyond a listening and performing community of practice of Irish traditional music, providing new access routes to what is a predominately sound and sounded culture. Furthermore, it locates this development in local, national and global contexts, using specific examples to highlight the commemoration and iconisation of selected musicians and places, as well as examining the broader aspects and implications of monument emplacement as both built objects and works of art in their own right.

12.15-14.00 Offline lunch break

14.00-14.45 Lecture 7: Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire

References to food and drink in Traditional Gaelic Song.
Over twenty years ago, I heard Gerry O’Reilly sing ‘The Irish Jubilee’ in Hughes’ Pub as part of the annual Sean-nós Cois Life festival. There were so many food references in this comical song, I knew I would have to learn it. I had been long aware of the food and beverage content of songs within the Gaelic tradition ranging from ‘An Faoitín’ to ‘Ólaim Punch’ not to mention the rich food descriptions in the pre-famine songs of Antaine Ó Raiftearaí (1784-1835). The catalyst for my exploration of food in the Irish song tradition, however, was a statement by Hasia Diner in her book Hungering for America: Italian, Irish and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration (Harvard University Press, 2002) where she argued that only the Irish—unlike the Italians and Jews who are also subjects of her book—did not have a richly developed food culture, and that ‘unlike other peoples, Irish writers of memoirs, poems, stories, political tracts and songs rarely included the details of food in describing daily life’. I instinctively knew this to be false and set about to gather the evidence within the song and poetry to correct this statement.

14.45-15.15 Offline tea break

15.15-16.30 Online excursion: Virtual tour of Galway City Museum, followed by a live Q & A.
Led by Damien Donnellan (Galway City Museum)

16.30-19.30 Offline supper break

19.30 Informal, post-prandial ‘show & tell’, or ‘sing & tell’.
Conference delegates and speakers are invited to gather online to briefly share information about an interesting artefact or publication, sing a song or tell a story.

SUNDAY, 12 September

09.45 Assemble online and technical briefing

10.00-10.45 Presidential Address: Dafydd Roberts:

Power to the People.
This talk has been inspired by the success of the Ynni Ogwen scheme – a collaborative, community-led project in the Ogwen Valley area of Gwynedd, north-west Wales, to capture power from the flow of the river, and use this to generate hydro electricity. A community share offer raised half a million pounds, all of the funding required to build and install the scheme. Its turbine house sits on land owned by the Penrhyn Slate Quarry, and is within screaming distance of the fastest zip wires in Europe! The 500,000KWH generated annually brings with it a range of benefits, including supplying power at reduced prices. It’s also very clear that the scheme has been a catalyst for a still-evolving range of other community-based projects, and that it’s raised confidence in local ability to take on and deliver these.

10.45-11.15 Offline coffee break

11.15-12.30 Annual General Meeting of the Society for Folk Life Studies.

12.30-13.45 Offline lunch break

13.45-15.05 Shorter Papers:

13.45-14.05 Nikita Koptev

Self-collection of folklore by Irish schoolchildren: strategies and outcomes.
The Schools’ Scheme of 1937/8, initiated by the Irish Folklore Commission, was an almost unprecedented experiment. Not only did it contribute to one of the biggest collections of folklore in Europe, but it also arguably boosted the cultural development of children and created a catalyst for the intergenerational transmission of tales. Children from 26 counties collected folk materials on 55 topics indicated in the booklet Irish Folklore and Tradition (1937). While the majority of the texts in the Schools’ Collection of the National Folklore Collection of Ireland were collected from adults, some, arguably, were produced by the children themselves. The fact that the texts in the Schools’ Collection were created in the school context as part of the Composition lessons predetermined several crucial features. Moreover, the way the collection process was organised by the Folklore Commission influenced the outcome as well. This paper will examine prominent features of the texts, strategies employed by children and influential factors that could have changed the outcome of the Schools’ Scheme of 1937/8.

14.05-14.25 Eugene Costello

Upland pastoralism as social practice: commons, gendered labour and landscape.
This paper will outline the social structures and practices associated with traditional livestock herding in upland areas of north-west Europe. It deals particularly with transhumance or ‘booleying’ in the west of Ireland in the period, 1600-1900, but includes comparisons with Scotland, Iceland and Sweden. The main focus will be on the organisation and recognition of grazing rights, the different roles of men and women in herding and, above all, how these social aspects tied back into the physical environment. The paper will also include a short discussion on the medieval origins of the social role of pastoralism.

14.25-14.45 Muireann Ní Cheannabháin

Go n-éirí do chodladh leat/May your sleep be restful: Revealing secrets and repelling threats in Gaelic lullabies.
A clear aim of the lullaby is to put a child to sleep. Less overtly, however, lullabies convey a wide range of themes and emotions that contrast sharply with their soothing melodies. Lullabies belong to genres of song associated with women and family life, -a domestic sphere that gives us clues as to why so few of them are found in Irish folklore collections. This paper will discuss the opportunities that lullabies gave women to express themselves, as well as fulfilling their duty to protect the infant and repel threats, especially the threat of fairy interference. Examining the songs sung by women gives a distinctive insight into the position of women in society, showing, as well, their participation in life’s rituals; from birth to death, and all that lay between them.

14.45-15.05 Ciaran McDonough

“I have lately been annoyed by so many blockheads, I do not know whom to treat civilly”: The Ordnance Survey of Ireland’s folklore informants.
As well as collecting information pertaining to Ireland’s toponomy during the Ordnance Survey of Ireland, the Topographical Department, consisting of some of the finest Irish scholars of the day, were also instructed to make the most of such a large endeavour and to collect folkloric material in addition to names for and remains on the physical landscape. In addition to the official name books and Memoirs, collected by the surveyors (who often were unable to speak Irish fluently, if at all), the Ordnance Survey Letters were written by members of the Topographical Department as they filled in the gaps left by the surveyors. This paper looks at the informants for this folkloric material as it is presented in the Ordnance Survey Letters. Focusing largely on the province of Connacht, I will examine who the informants were and present their contributions, investigating how the situation of Irish in their townlands may have influenced the type of material presented.

15.10-15.15 Concluding remarks

15.15 Online tea, cakes (bring your own!) and farewells

End of conference

REGISTRATION
If you wish to attend this year’s conference, please contact the Conference Secretary (Steph Mastoris steph.mastoris@museumwales.ac.uk) by Friday 3 September.
The cost of attending the whole conference is:

SFLS member: £25
Non-member: £45
Full time student: £12

On receipt of your conference fee you will be sent the codes for joining each part of the conference online.

Please send a cheque, or notification of bank transfer to:
Steph Mastoris
National Waterfront Museum,
Oystermouth Road, Maritime Quarter, Swansea SA1 3RD
(steph.mastoris@museumwales.ac.uk)

Please pay either
by cheque payable to The Society for Folk Life Studies
or
by BACS transfer to the Society’s bank account:
Sort code: 40-35-18 Account number: 11226363
International Bank Account Number: [REDACTED]
Branch Identifier Code: HBUKGB4108N
(Please identify the transfer as ‘Conference 2021 + [your surname]’)
NOTE: The Conference fee does not apply to the Moore Institute students who can join the event for free (please contact Professor Lillis Ó Laoire at lillis.olaoire@oegaillimh.ie for further information).

9/11 – Twenty Years On
2021-09-10 13:00 - 13:45 | Moore Institute Seminar Room G010
9/11 – Twenty Years On
Panel discussion – In-Person! – with
Prof. John Morrissey
Geography, NUI Galway
&
Prof. Brendan O’Leary
Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, Fulbright Visiting Fellow, NUI Galway
1.00-1.45pm Friday 10 September
Moore Institute Seminar Room G010
Please join us for a conversation about the impact of the 9/11 attack on the US and around the world on the 20th anniversary of the events.

Sport & Exercise Research Group Seminar Series: "Sport and Identity: from local pastimes to global games"
2021-09-14 12:00 - 14:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Sport and Identity: from local pastimes to global games
Professor Philip Dine, Discipline of French, NUI Galway.
[ONLINE LECTURE: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/af1fce62e92d4befb6fe95fe8732d90a ]
How does sport shape society? From local origins in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, modern sports were first nationally and then internationally regulated, enabling novel personal interactions and unprecedented cultural exchanges. This sporting internationalization was to culminate in such global mega-events as the Olympic Games and the football World Cup. These most intensely mediatized spectacles today attract television audiences in their billions, as the apex of modern sport’s complex network of tangible and intangible exchanges. Mobilizing enormous resources based on strategic alliances between national sports industries, international governing bodies and transnational media corporations, they are amongst the modern world’s most powerful producers of locally and globally resonant meanings. In terms of its availability, sport has now achieved near-saturation coverage, certainly within the developed world. Yet, paradoxically, sport’s traditional emphasis on the local has, if anything, been reinforced by the challenges of globalization. This seminar seeks to explore sport’s social significance by offering a case study of France, focusing on the contribution of organized games to the historical construction and continuing reconfiguration of a variety of local, national and, increasingly, transnational identities.
Philip Dine is Personal Professor in the Discipline of French at the National University of Ireland Galway. He has published widely on representations of the French empire, particularly decolonization, in fields ranging from children’s literature to professional sport. Further projects have targeted sport and identity-construction in France and the Francophone world.

Research for Public Policy: Discussion Paper Launch
2021-09-15 14:30 - 15:30 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Research for Public Policy: Discussion Paper Launch
Launch of the RIA and IRC Research For Public Policy discussion paper by Minister Simon Harris.

About this event

The Royal Irish Academy and Irish Research Council collaborated in early 2021 to host three webinars to discuss how research could be better connected to public policy. An outline roadmap has now been written to lead progress in this area and the paper will be launched at this event by Minister Simon Harris.
Further speakers will be Professor David Phipps of York University, Vancouver, Professor Jane Ohlmeyer of TCD and IRC, Professor Daniel Carey of NUIG and RIA Secretary for Polite Literature and Antiquities and Mary Doyle, Visiting Fellow in Public Policy at the Long Room Hub in Trinity College and previously Deputy Secretary General in the Department of Education and Skills
Booking is free but essential. Webinar links will be circulated to attendees before the session commences.
About the Series:
Research for Public Policy
The Research for Public Policy seminar series is a joint initiative of the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) and the Irish Research Council (IRC). We aim to ignite important conversations about why evidence-based policy matters and how to harness the diverse expertise of Ireland’s researchers for the common good. We are committed to strengthening and sustaining relationships between researchers, policymakers, and research funders beyond the series, so that together we can build and implement a highly effective national framework for integrating relevant and cutting-edge research into policy development across Government. The time is now. We hope you will join us.
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Registration
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History Research Seminar Series: "Ireland's Helping Hand to Europe, 1945-1950: Combatting Hunger from Normandy to Tirana"
2021-09-15 16:00 - 17:30 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Registration
Register online, via Zoom at https://forms.office.com/r/6TY1NK9PtU. All are welcome.

Pádraic Ó Conaire and the Irish Revolution of 1916 to 1921
2021-09-20 20:00 - 21:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Join us for this lecture by Brendan McGowan of Galway City Museum as part of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society series. The event is a collaboration with the Museum, Galway City Council and the Moore Institute, NUI Galway.
Born in Galway, raised in Connemara, educated at Rockwell and Blackrock, Paddy Conroy – as Pádraic Ó Conaire (1882-1928) was then known – emerged as the most exciting and widely-read Irish-language writer of his generation while working as a civil servant in London. He returned to Ireland in late 1915, starting a new chapter in his life. Ó Conaire obsessive, Brendan McGowan of Galway City Museum, will give an overview of Ó Conaire’s life and literary career prior to his return from London, before turning his attention to his activities from the time of the Easter Rising to the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty.
Registration
To attend this online webinar, please register via:
https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9dhAcgpSRpOniX9rLsK2pg

POSTPONED - Sport & Exercise Research Group Seminar Series: "Lance Armstrong and suiveur reporting in Libération, 1999–2013: A Case Study in Sports Journalism"
2021-09-21 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Dear Colleagues,
Unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances this week’s Research in Sport lecture by Ruadhán Cooke – Lance Armstrong and suiveur reporting in Libération, 1999–2013: A Case Stu​dy in Sports Journalism – has had to be postponed. We hope to reschedule this lecture for a later date, to be confirmed.
Our next lecture will be on Sep. 28th (12pm in The Bridge) when Dr. Eoin Whelan (J.E. Cairnes School of Business & Economics, NUI Galway) will address the topic of ‘How are advances in digital technologies impacting sports and exercise?’ – further details to follow later this week.
Lance Armstrong and suiveur reporting in Libération, 1999–2013: A Case Study in Sports Journalism
Ruadhán Cooke, Discipline of French, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, NUI Galway.
As national institution and site of memory for France for over a century, the Tour de France is a privileged locus for investigating the interactions between sport and cultural meaning. Literary journalism chronicling the race has a long history of representing the multiple meanings and dimensions of physical performance, particularly of heroic champions, in the Tour. During the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries the Tour itself and French culture more widely were destabilised by the ambiguous hero Lance Armstrong, and, in a context of guarded reporting on the facts of doping, literary journalism was able to give a creative account of complex sporting performances. This lecture examines the journalism of Jean-Louis Le Touzet in Libération as an example of suiveur reporting in the tradition of Antoine Blondin, and shows how the freedom of literary journalism allows Le Touzet to accurately reflect academic perspectives on Armstrong, politics, culture and sport.
Ruadhán Cooke teaches French in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. Research interests include the overlaps between sport and literature, sports journalism and the cultural impact of sport.

SECA Seminar Series 2021/22: Methodology from Latin America: Reflections on the Qualitative Process
2021-09-23 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
Dr. Bona will present some reflections on Research Methodology applied to Humanities, mainly Communication, in Latin America. Bringing a perspective from “the South”, the talk will approach the role of the researcher in data gathering and analysis and the importance of self-knowledge; the challenges of researching in a field that is in constant movement and change (the society right now); the concept of “Transmethodology” and some tactics developed from two research groups in Brazil focusing on qualitative investigations: the “research of the research”, the “prior field trip”, and the “field journal”.
Registration
Click on this link on the day to gain access to this talk:
https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/95199666761?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 951 9966 6761
Passcode: [REDACTED]
Please mute your microphone on entering the meeting.
We look forward to seeing you there.

CAMPS: A Tale of Two Witnesses: Contextual Evidence for the Exegetical Compilation in Orléans 182 and Reims 395
2021-09-24 12:00 - 14:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room
Dr. Sarah Corrigan will be appearing in Hardiman G010 next Friday (24th September) at noon and anyone who is on campus is very welcome. But, there’s more… for those of you who are not on campus, we will also be setting up a zoom session, so you can join us from the comfort of wherever you are, and participate in our very first hybrid session. It’ll be like the old days, but hopefully with the best of recent times thrown in.
Sarah Corrigan, PhD, Irish Research Council Laureate Project Fellow, IrCaBriTT Ireland and Carolingian Brittany: Texts and Transmission, Discipline of Classics, National University of Ireland, Galway
Online Registration
To join via Zoom, please click here https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/93875158385?pwd=[REDACTED] or email sarah.corrigan@nuigalway.ie
Find Out More:
Centre for Antique, Medieval & Pre-Modern Studies (CAMPS) http://www.nuigalway.ie/camps/

History Research Seminar Series: "Fugitive Spaces: On the Global History of the Refugee Camp"
2021-09-29 16:00 - 17:30 | Online
Registration
Register online, via Zoom at: https://forms.office.com/r/tcX2pti5je

CALM Seminar Series 2021-2022: "Saibhreas and society: intergenerational language transmission in Irish-speaking, Kurdish-speaking, and Polish-speaking families"
2021-09-30 16:00 - 17:00 | Online
This talk will explore a model developed to give a holistic account of caregivers’ goals for successful intergenerational language transmission, referred to as the ‘saibhreas’ model. This model was developed within an autochthonous minority language context (Irish in Corca Dhuibhne, Co. Kerry with the ’Sustaining Minoritized Languages in Europe’ initiative), but the talk will show the relevance of the model to conceptualising intergenerational transmission of heritage languages, specifically the Polish and Kurdish languages in Ireland through the project Languages, Families, and Society. The talk will outline the various challenges families encounter in reaching their goals for successful intergenerational language transmission and will discuss possible societal interventions that could help mitigate these obstacles.
Speaker: Dr. Cassie Smith-Christmas, NUI Galway. Part of the CALM (Centre for Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism) Seminar Series for 2021-2022.
Registration
To attend this online webinar via Zoom, please register HERE.

The Future of the Humanities: Challenges and Opportunities
2021-10-08 16:00 - 17:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
This autumn the UCD Humanities Institute celebrates its 20th anniversary. We can look back over a successful history. Generations of PhDs and postdoctoral fellows have benefitted from the unique research environment offered by the Humanities Institute . Hundreds of conferences, workshops and Distinguished Guest Lectures have placed the Humanities Institute on the national and international maps, and collaborations with external partners and with the other research institutes in UCD have created a vibrant interdisciplinary network spanning the Humanities, Social Sciences and STEM areas. Our Soundcloud is attracting a growing public audience. So there is much to celebrate.
And yet, in recent years the humanities have come under pressure, nationally and internationally. Celebrating the humanities therefore also means articulating a vision for the 21st century.
We would like to invite you to the following special lecture:
Professor Dan Carey (MRIA, Director of the Moore Institute, NUI Galway)
The Future of the Humanities: Challenges and Opportunities
Daniel Carey is a board member of the Irish Research Council and has served as chair of the Irish Humanities Alliance (2014-16). He has held grants from the Mellon Foundation, the IRC, the AHRC, British Academy, MHRA, and other sources, and has mentored 12 postdoctoral fellows funded by Marie Skłodowska Curie actions, the IRC, and other schemes. His current research is a major international project to edit the work of Richard Hakluyt (www.hakluyt.org) and has published widely on intellectual history, colonialism, and economic thought.
Registration
Register for free on Eventbrite. The Zoom link for this talk will be emailed to all registered participants the day before the event.

Being in the air: An intellectual and aesthetic history of climate
2021-10-19 16:00 - 17:30 | Moore Institute Seminar Room G010
Current conceptualizations of climate and climate change are dominated by the abstract idea of climate as “the average weather.” This scientific understanding needs to be complemented by a cultural concept of climate which has a long tradition from Antiquity to the Enlightenment. In order to understand what it means to “be in the air” culturally, politically, and medically, we need a cultural conception of climate as an environment. This talk by Professor Eva Horn, University of Vienna, provides historical and literary examples of what it might mean to understand the air from the inside, as an element of individual, social, and cultural life.

Political Science and Sociology Research Seminar: "Beyond the Binary: Civic Parties in Post-Agreement Northern Ireland"
2022-03-02 13:00 - 14:00 | Room 306, Aras Moyola
This is an in-person event held in is room 306 in Aras Moyola, NUI Galway.

About this event

This presentation will outline a book currently being developed about civic parties in deeply divided societies, focusing on the case of Northern Ireland after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. The book explores the place of civic parties – those that organize on the basis of issues, allegiances and identity categories other than ethno-national – within a political space structured along binary ethno-national lines. In particular, it addresses the puzzle of how these parties have managed to survive and grow in post-Agreement Northern Ireland in the context of a consociational power-sharing system explicitly designed to accommodate ethno-national groups. The book assesses the opportunities and barriers civic parties encounter in the power-sharing landscape and the strategies they have used to navigate those structures. Through an in-depth examination of the case of Northern Ireland, which is placed in dialogue with evidence from other post-conflict cases, the book aims to elucidate the phenomenon of civic parties in deeply-divided places and their potential to contribute to post-conflict transitions.
Cera Murtagh is Assistant Professor in Irish Politics and Comparative Politics at Villanova University and Visiting Scholar in the School of Political Science and Sociology and the Moore Institute at NUI Galway in 2021-22. Her research concerns conflict and peace and gender politics, focusing particularly on the mobilization of civic political parties and movements in deeply divided societies. Her work has been published in a number of journals including International Political Science Review and Nations and Nationalism. Dr Murtagh previously worked as Research Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast on an Economic and Social Research Council project entitled Exclusion amid Inclusion: Power-Sharing and Non-Dominant Minorities. She holds a PhD and an MSc from the University of Edinburgh and a BA from NUI Galway. She previously worked as a political journalist in Edinburgh and political researcher in the Scottish Parliament.
Registration
To attend, please register via Eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-the-binary-civic-parties-in-post-agreement-northern-ireland-tickets-276925891797

Arts in Action presents: Julie Comparini & Yonit Kosovske Performing the Song Cycle ‘Watershed’
2022-03-02 13:00 - 14:00 | Emily Anderson Concert Hall (Aula Maxima Upper)
Hermit Songs (1953) by Samuel Barber
Watershed (2020) by Ailís Ní Ríain
Watershed is a new song cycle for voice and piano inspired by the natural bodies of water and land in Ireland’s midwest region and along the Atlantic coast. With music by renowned Irish composer Ailís Ní Ríain and text by Ballina-Killaloe resident, poet Jessica Brown, it is a song cycle inextricably rooted in place and in nature. Central to the song-texts – which are taken from Jessica’s superb collection, And Say (Revival Press, Limerick 2019) – are themes informed by the writer’s personal interaction with water and the surrounding landscapes in counties Clare and Tipperary: Holy Island, the hills of Moylussa and Tountinna overlooking Lough Derg, the dunes of Fanore, the Burren cliffs, and the forest paths of the Galtees and the Silvermines.
Musicians Julie Comparini and Yonit Kosovske perform this new work as part of a contemporary Art Song programme titled Lough Derg 1& 2 in which they present two song cycles, new and slightly older: Aislís Ní Ríain’s Watershed (2020) alongside Samuel Barber’s Hermit Songs (1953) composed on texts by medieval monks and poets writing about Lough Derg in Donegal. The Watershed song cycle was made possible through funding received from the Arts Council Music Commissions Award in 2020. The Watershed CD, produced by Now and Then Media, was released in November 2021 and features the song cycle, poetry readings, and field recordings of soundscapes along and near Lough Derg in County Clare.

Julie Comparini, mezzo-soprano | Yonit Kosovske, piano
Registration
Tickets available on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/julie-comparini-yonit-kosovske-tickets-274654708627

History Research Seminar Series: "Peace of Mind: Social Psychiatry, Universal Basic Income and Preventing Mental Illness in the USA"
2022-03-02 16:00 - 17:00 | Online, via Zoom
Professor Matthew Smith (University of Strathclyde)
Peace of Mind: Social Psychiatry, Universal Basic Income and Preventing Mental Illness in the USA
Abstract
Following the Second World War, a new, interdisciplinary and preventive approach to psychiatry gained influence in the US.  Social psychiatry involved teams of social scientists and psychiatrists which explored the environmental causes of mental illness.  Although social psychiatry triggered deinstitutionalisation and the community mental health movement, it is little known or understood today.  By exploring the four most important social psychiatry research projects, this paper argues that not only should social psychiatry feature more in the historiography of twentieth-century mental health and psychiatry, but it also should inform current attempts to prevent mental illness, redirecting us to focus more on addressing systemic factors, such as poverty, inequality and social isolation, through progressive policies, such as Universal Basic Income (UBI).
Speaker Biography
Professor Matthew Smith is Professor in History at the University of Strathclyde and the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare. He is the author of three monographs: An Alternative History of Hyperactivity: Food Additives and the Feingold Diet (Rutgers University Press, 2011); Hyperactive: The Controversial History of ADHD (Reaktion, 2012); and Another Person’s Poison: A History of Food Allergy (Columbia University Press, 2015), which was reviewed in the New York Times and given honourable mention in the Association of American Publishers’ Prose Awards for 2016. He is currently working on a monograph project on the history of social psychiatry in the United States. Funded by an AHRC Early Career Fellowship, this project investigates how American psychiatrists and social scientists viewed the connection between mental illness and social deprivation during the decades that followed the Second World War. This funding has resulted in a special issue of Palgrave Communications (co-edited with Lucas Richert) and two edited volumes, Deinstitutionalisation and After: Post-War Psychiatry in the Western World (2016) and Preventing Mental Illness: Past, Present and Future (2018), both co-edited by Despo Kritsotaki and Vicky Long, and published in the Palgrave series, Mental Health in Historical Perspective. Professor Smith also currently co-leads (with Mike Danton) a Scottish Universities Insight Initiative project called Peace of Mind: Exploring Universal Basic Income’s Potential to Improve Mental Health.
Registration
To attend, please register at: https://forms.office.com/r/mhpkVrqy0s.
This event will take place online, via Zoom: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/98951084778.

The Crisis in Ukraine: history, politics, and prospects
2022-03-04 13:00 - 14:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, HRB
Moore Institute Flash Seminar
The Crisis in Ukraine: history, politics, and prospects
Friday, March 4 @ 1.00pm
THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, HRB, NUI Galway
With:
Dr Brendan Flynn, School of Political Science & Sociology, NUI Galway
Dr Róisín Healy, School of History and Philosophy, NUI Galway
Dr Ekaterina Yahyaoui, Vice-Dean for Research, College of Business, Public Policy and Law and a Lecturer in the Irish Centre for Human Rights, School of Law, NUI Galway

Event Recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytcSTwZ1TbA

The Irish Association for Russian, Central and East European Studies presents a virtual roundtable on the Russian invasion of Ukraine
2022-03-08 17:00 - 18:00 | Online
The Irish Association for Russian, Central and East European Studies and the Moore Institute presents a virtual roundtable on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Roundtable speakers:

Dr Tetyana Lokot, Ukrainian resistance and mobilisation: national and transnational dynamics and decolonial histories, DCU
Maciej Curpyś, Putin’s Historical Propaganda and the reality of Ukrainian Nationalism, NUI Galway
Dr Róisín Healy, Ireland and Ukraine: Historical Parallels, NUI Galway
Dr Aneta Stępień, The failure of anti-Ukrainian propaganda in Poland, NUI Maynooth
Dr Maria Falina, How can they believe it? Thinking behind Putin’s propaganda in Russia, DCU

Chair of the panel: Dr John Paul Newman, NUI Maynooth
Registration
To attend, please register at: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/…/WN_M70V2Pu0SpqbG29SuPG-jw

Event Recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q5bXvkzX1c

Creative Futures Research Group: Work in progress session
2022-03-09 13:00 - 14:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
The Creative Futures research team invites you to attend the second of our series of work-in-progress sessions. These are intended as an informal space in which colleagues can share their latest research and think through how it might connect to Creative Futures themes and methods.
We have scheduled two exciting mini-presentations from colleagues across a range of disciplines with added time for questions and answers. Our presenters on March 9th are:

Dr Maura Farrell (School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies)
Dr John Walsh (School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures)

The work-in-progress sessions are open to anyone with an interest in the areas of Creative Futures.
Registration

If you would like to attend, please register in advance via the following link by 8 March 2022
https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpc–vpj4jGtBGoeATjOn9dtatN2olu5k_
This link is for registration purposes only. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing a separate link for joining the meeting.

History Research Seminar Series: ‘My Father Sold Me’: Listening to the Voices of Enslaved Girls in Republican China
2022-03-09 13:00 - 14:00 | Online, via Zoom
Dr Isabella Jackson (Trinity College Dublin)
‘My Father Sold Me’: Listening to the Voices of Enslaved Girls in Republican China
Abstract
In republican China (1912-1949), it was common practice for poor parents to sell daughters to wealthy families via middlemen for unpaid domestic labour. Being female, poor, cut off from their natal families, and performing menial work, these were some of the lowest status and most vulnerable children in society. Yet the voices of a small number of such girls speak from police records, newspaper reports, oral history records and memoirs, while many more remain voiceless. By examining what they said, we gain new insights into their own understanding of their lives. And by interrogating why some could not speak, we reveal how age dictated who enjoyed personhood under the law and in the public realm.
Speaker Biography
Dr Isabella Jackson is Assistant Professor in Chinese History at Trinity College Dublin. She is Principal Investigator on the project, CHINACHILD: Slave-Girls and the Discovery of Female Childhood in Twentieth-Century China, which is funded by an Irish Research Council Laureate Grant. Together with a team of researchers, she is researching how controversies over keeping unpaid domestic servants (binü婢女 or mui tsai) reflect changing and expanding conceptions of Chinese childhood. Dr Jackson’s previous publications focus on the global and regional networks that shaped the treaty ports, which were opened to foreign traders by force in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including her monograph, Shaping Modern Shanghai: Colonialism in China’s Global City (Cambridge University Press, 2017), and her work on interconnections between China and the British World, especially her research on Sikh policemen who worked in the Settlement. She is also editor (with Robert Bickers) of Treaty Ports in Modern China: Law, Land and Power (Routledge, 2016).
Registration
To attend, please register at: https://forms.office.com/r/4xyESpkWNw
This event will take place online, via Zoom: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/99212470960.

Arts in Action presents: Grandmothers, Goddesses, Gradys & Great Actresses by Up Up Up
2022-03-09 13:00 - 14:00 | The Cube, Bailey Allen Hall
Arts in Action presents:
Grandmothers, Goddesses, Gradys & Great Actresses by Up Up Up
Sound. Sex. Knickers. Candles. Emigration. Revolution. Religion. Madness, Bodies. Hair. Cessair. Brigid. Sinéad. Pegeen. Contour lines. Gaol bars. Stage boards.
Emma O’Grady is a theatre artist; actor, writer and production manager based in Galway. She produces art under the name Up Up Up and collaborates with people to create theatre, film and art inspired by true events, real lives and shared histories. Her first play What Good is Looking Well When You’re Rotten on the Inside? – based on tapes recorded by her grandfather during the last month of his life – was produced to critical acclaim in 2017 and continues to tour. In 2020 she created a documentary web-series Mad, Bad & Dangerous: A Celebration of Difficult Women. She was a participant on Druid FUEL 2021 and recipient of an Arts Council Theatre Bursary 2020, Baboró and Branar Bursary Award 2021 and Abbey Theatre Commemoration Bursary 2021.
Tickets
Tickets available on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/grandmothers-goddesses-gradys-great-actresses-tickets-288446961627

Political Science and Sociology Research Seminars: "More smoke, admittedly, than flame’? Ireland-Wales relations after Brexit"
2022-03-09 13:00 - 14:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, HRB
This is an in-person event in GO10, Hardiman Research Building (Moore Institute).

About this event

This paper is a political-sociological exploration of the forms of connection and rupture, collaboration and conflict that define relationships across the Irish Sea at a time of constitutional and political change on ‘these islands’. The aim is to examine the history and consequences of Ireland-Wales relations, their contemporary tensions and ongoing attempts to renew and recast them. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with those involved in contemporary nationalist politics in Wales and Ireland, the paper will explore, in particular, whether and in what ways the projects of Irish (re)unification and constitutional change in Wales overlap, and with what implications. The paper will thus provide a case study in changing transnationalist politics in post-Brexit, post-Covid Europe.
Jonathan Evershed is the Newman Fellow in Constitutional Futures at the Institute for British-Irish Studies (IBIS) and School of Politics and International Relations (SPIRe), University College Dublin (UCD). His work engages questions of postcolonial identity and constitutionalism in post-Brexit British and Irish politics. He is the author of Ghosts of the Somme: Commemoration and Culture War in Northern Ireland (University of Notre Dame Press, 2018) and co-author (with Mary C. Murphy, UCC) of A Troubled Constitutional Future: Northern Ireland after Brexit (Agenda Publishing, 2022).

Registration
To attend this event, please register via Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/more-smoke-admittedly-than-flame-ireland-wales-relations-after-brexit-tickets-291209705067

Food Pharmacies and Food Addiction: Shifting Food-Drug Interpretations in Allopathic Medicine, Psychology, and Psychiatry
2022-03-09 16:00 - 18:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Presented by Joey Tuminello (Assistant Professor of Philosophy at McNeese State University)
Abstract
In this presentation, Gadamerian philosophical hermeneutics is applied to identify and examine interpretations of the ontological categories of ‘food’ and ‘drugs’ in allopathic medicine, psychology, and psychiatry, unearthing the implicit interpretive modes in these views to draw attention to emerging patterns of interpretation.
Bio:
Prof. Joey Tuminello is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA. Joey’s research interests include the philosophies of food, medicine, animals, and environment through the lenses of hermeneutics, pragmatism, and Jainism.
Registration:
To attend this event online via Zoom, please join here: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/93901994176?pwd=[REDACTED]
