Andy Kellogg: The Early Medieval Royal Assembly Sites at Gamla Uppsala and Magh Adhair.
2018-02-27 17:00 - 19:00 UTC | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Andy Kellogg
The Early Medieval Royal Assembly Sites at Gamla Uppsala and Magh Adhair: A Comparative Study of their Settlement and Landscape Contexts.
The Yngling dynasty in Svealand, Sweden and the Dál Cais dynasty in what is now Co. Clare may have shared a common approach in the way they legitimized their right to be kings. The valorization of a pedigree is a common phenomenon among the royal families of the medieval period and it may have been done by those two dynasties with a common purpose. The re-use of prehistoric monuments as places of royal assembly is a witness of their importance to kings during the early medieval period. This prehistoric archaeology had an importance in the choice of the location for early medieval assembly sites. By looking at the assembly landscape contexts, we can gain a better understanding of the early medieval conception of kingship. Comparing the two dynasties and their assembly sites at Gamla Uppsala and Magh Adhair may lead to the identification of common approaches in the establishment of the two sites and how their landscapes were used.
Royal Inauguration assembly site of Magh Adhair and the royal burial mounds of Gamla Uppsala:

Archives and Special Collections 2017 report and Donation of rare issues of the Connaught Journal.
2018-02-27 17:30 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
The Library is hosting the launch of the Archives and Special Collections 2017 report and Donation of rare issues of the Connaught Journal and it will take place on Tuesday 27th at 17:30 in the Bridge Room, Hardiman Research Building followed by a reception.
To register for the events please use the following links – Archives & Special Collections Event, Jane Burns Lecture

Jane Burns on Understanding Altmetrics to determine where your research is gaining attention.
2018-02-28 10:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The Library is hosting a lecture by Jane Burns on Understanding Altmetrics to determine where your research is gaining attention.
To register for the events please use the following links – Archives & Special Collections Event, Jane Burns Lecture

History Seminar - Dr. Charlotte Chopin (Visiting Fellow).
2018-02-28 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Dr Charlotte Chopin (University of London Institute in Paris)
Settler colonialism and the press in late 19th-century French Algeria.

Italian, School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures
2018-02-28 17:30 - 19:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Italian
School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures
The Moore Institute
Charles Burdett, University of Bristol
Transnational Time: Reading Post War Representations of the Italian Presence in East Africa
Working from recent theoretical writing on time and the concept of the spectral, the paper begins by questioning how we can talk about transnational temporalities. The paper then looks at some of the ways in which the Italian colonial and post-colonial presence in Eritrea and Ethiopia, with all its complexities and haunting legacies, has been represented in fiction by Gabriella Ghermandi, Erminia Dell’Oro and Nicky Di Paolo.
Charles Burdett is Professor of Italian at the University of Bristol. The principal areas of his research are: Italian culture under Fascism; the representation of colonialism; travel writing; theories of inter-cultural contact. An important part of his work concerns the theoretical frame through which we consider transnational contact and the implications for the disciplinary field of Modern Languages of the study of cultural translation in all its forms. He is one of the investigators in the large grant, ‘Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Mobility, Identity and Translation in Modern Italian Cultures’ that is a beacon project for the AHRC’s ‘Translating Cultures’ theme. He is the author of Journeys through Fascism: Italian Travel Writing between the Wars (paperback 2010). His most recent book is Italy, Islam and Islamic World: Representations and Reflections from 9/11 to the Arab Uprisings (2016). He is currently working on a monographic study, The Representation of the Italian Empire and its Afterlife: Utopia, Time, and Memory.

Gender Arc Research Seminar
2018-03-01 11:00 - 12:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Gender Arc Research Seminar
“Understanding, Mapping and Negotiating the Politicisation of Evidence Based Policy Research:
The Case of Research on Lone Parent Labour Market Activation in Ireland”
by Dr Michelle Millar, Dr Rosemary Crosse and Dr John Canavan.
NUI Galway School of Political Science and Sociology and UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre.

Monica Mulrennan (Visiting Fellow) School of Geography
2018-03-01 12:00 - 13:00 | B.S. Mac Aodha Seminar Room 113, Discipline of Geography, NUI Galway, Ireland
Beyond Fishing: the connection of Indigenous Torres Strait Islander (northern Australia) Women to sea space
Monica E. Mulrennan,
Department of Geography, Planning and Environment,
Concordia University, Montreal
Documentation of the knowledge and practices of indigenous fishing societies has tended to focus on the contribution of men while the activities of women have been overlooked or, at best, narrowly described. Focusing on a small island community in eastern Torres Strait (northern Australia), and drawing on interviews, questionnaire surveys and participant observation, this presentation explores the nature and extent of indigenous Torres Strait Islander women’s engagement in fishing activities as well as their related knowledge, practices and motivations. In addition to debunking the myth of their limited participation in commercial fishing, the findings reveal the deeply-felt personal attachments and connections these women have to “solwata”. These are reflected in the extent to which the rhythms of the sea shape and define their daily routines, life histories and understanding of territory. The presentation concludes with a call for greater attention to the connections indigenous women have to sea space and for fisheries management to accommodate and support their increased participation in the formulation and implementation of contemporary fisheries policy.

Transition to Employment - CV Workshop
2018-03-01 13:00 - 14:00 | Careers Seminar Room
Transition to Employment – CV Workshop
Thursday March 1st, 1-2pm, Careers Seminar Room.
Open to students with a disability or mental health challenge. Hints and tips on how to tailor your CV to highlight your strengths. #getjobready

Matthew Noone (Visiting Fellow) Listening to Irish music as Indian raga.
2018-03-06 10:00 - 12:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Listening to Irish music as Indian raga: an arts practice research project
Dr. Matthew Noone (UL) and Dr. Lillis Ó Laoire (NUIG)
This research project focuses on the supposition of Irish-Indian musical connections, most notably the idea of sean-nos singing bearing a strong resemblance to Indian classical music (Ó Ríada, 1962; Feehan, 1982; Quinn, 1987). It is an extension of previous research in exploring Irish traditional music and Orientalist discourse through an Arts Practice and performance based methodology (Noone, 2016). This research will use the collaborative artistic practice of two musicians (Matthew Noone on the North Indian lute called sarode and sean-nos singer Lillis O Laoire) as a case study to explore the veracity of Irish-Indian musical sympathies. A background to the theoretical implications of this research will be presented through an interdisciplinary lens of Irish studies, Orientalist discourse and ethnomusicology. This seminar will also feature performances of re-interpretations of traditional songs written by 18th century Irish poet Tómas Ó Casaide.

EDEN Lunchtime Series - ‘Surviving the Viva’
2018-03-06 13:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
‘Surviving the Viva’
Whether it is looming large or safely in the distance, it’s never too early to start preparing for your viva! Postgraduates at all stages of their career are warmly invited to bring their lunches to Room 1001 to learn about the viva process from invited speakers Dr Charlotte McIvor (Drama, Theatre and Performance), Dr Caitriona Clear (History) and Dr Ciaran McDonough (Irish Studies). They will be discussing the logistics of the viva, top tips for preparing, and how to make the most of the experience.
EDEN: Early Doctoral Exchange Network
Steering Committee 2017/2018: Lorraine Grimes (History), Ed Kearns (English/Digital Arts and Humanities), Ciara L. Murphy (Drama), Justine Nakase (Drama), Aisling Ní Churraighín (Irish Studies), John Singleton (English)

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MA Medieval Studies Events 6th and 7th March.
2018-03-06 14:00 - 2018-03-07 11:00 | NUI Galway / Various locations in Galway
Tues 6th March, 2-4 PM
Visiting Seminar (rsvp required), Dr Niamh Whitfield: ‘Early Irish Metalwork’
Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building.
contact/rsvp: kim.loprete@nuigalway.ie

Wed 7th March, 9-11 AM
Visiting Seminar (rsvp required), Dr Niamh Whitfield: ‘The Book of Durrow & the ‘Northumbrian Problem”
Archaeology Reading Room/Library in Archaeology Department
contact/rsvp: kim.loprete@nuigalway.ie
Contact: Dr Kimberly A. LoPrete – kim.loprete@nuigalway.ie

Archaeology Seminar
2018-03-06 16:00 - 17:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The next postgraduate seminar will be given by Frank J. Hall who is a Galway doctoral research scholar in Archaeology.
Title: The fortified houses and stronghouses of Connacht, c.1580-1650: gentry houses or the continuation of the castle tradition into post-medieval Ireland?
Contact Maggie Ronaynce – maggie.ronayne@nuigalway.ie

Digital Scholarship Seminar 38: Deirdre Ní Chonghaile
2018-03-07 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Duplicates & doppelgängers: Generating digital solutions to cataloguing, accessibility and network-analysis challenges
A NUI Postdoctoral Fellow in Irish/Celtic Studies affiliated with Roinn na Gaeilge and based in the Moore Institute, Deirdre Ní Chonghaile aims to generate discussion of some of her digital humanities research challenges with the Digital Scholarship Seminar. She will highlight three archival collections and three challenges: cataloguing the Irish recordings of Sidney Robertson Cowell (1955-57), dispersed and duplicated across two institutions; designing an open-access digital archive o…f the wax cylinder recordings of Prof. Tomás Ó Máille (1909-1938); and generating a research strategy for the digital re-imagining of the Rev. Murphy collection of song manuscripts and annotated print journal An Gaodhal (1884-1920s), which represents an unprecedented contribution to the network-mapping of sean-nós song practice in pre-literate, print and transatlantic contexts. Together, these challenges present a rare opportunity to investigate how digital functionalities can facilitate our efforts to trace and demonstrate the relationships between oral, literary and performance practices of Irish traditional music.
Dr Deirdre Ní Chonghaile (BA Oxon, MA Oxon, PhD) is NUI Fellow in Irish/Celtic Studies at the Moore Institute in NUI Galway. Previously, she was NEH Keough Fellow at the University of Notre Dame, Alan Lomax Fellow in the Library of Congress, and Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at NUI Galway, where she also worked more recently with the Digital Cultures Initiative. She is currently preparing a book on music-collecting in Ireland and researching a recently uncovered collection of sean-nós song manuscripts created in Pennsylvania, the Rev. Daniel J. Murphy Collection, which constitutes the largest extant manuscript collection of Irish song ever to have been created by independent collectors.
Contact Padraic Moran on padraic.moran@nuigalway.ie

Máirtín Ó Direáin: Fathach File/Reluctant Modernist exhibition
2018-03-07 15:00 - 16:30 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland

Graduate Research Seminars in History 2017-18
2018-03-07 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Graduate Research Seminars in History 2017-18
Andrew Ó Donghaíle
Contracting Peace in Early Medieval Ireland
Contact: Gearóid Barry – gearoid.barry@nuigalway.ie

Gender Arc - International Women's Day and International Women's History Month.
2018-03-07 17:00 - 2018-03-09 17:00 | NUI Galway / Various locations in Galway
7th March
School of Education Research Seminar Series
“Exploring Sexuality and Gender Identity in the Irish Education System”
Speaker: Dr. Aoife Neary, School of Education, University of Limerick
5pm: Wednesday, 7 March 2018
Venue: AM214 Siobhán McKenna Theatre, Arts Millennium Building, NUI Galway.
Biography: Dr Aoife Neary joined UL School of Education 2014. She currently has a funded research partnership with the Transgender Equality Network of Ireland. Drawing on feminist, queer and affect theory, her work explores the politics of gender and sexuality as they are lived, constructed and configured in schools and society. Her recent book entitled LGBT-Q Teachers, Civil Partnership and Same-sex Marriage: The Ambivalences of Legitimacy is published with Routledge. RSVP by 5 March 2018 to caroline.casey@nuigalway.ie, 091 495985

8th March
University Women’s Network – International Women’s Day Lecture – 2018
“Excellence in higher education through gender equality: a personal and professional reflection”
Keynote Address: Máire Geoghegan-Quinn
Date/time: Thursday 8 March/12.30-14.00
Venue: Siobhan McKenna Theatre, Art Millennium Building
During her parliamentary career from 1975 to 1997, Dr. Geoghegan-Quinn became Ireland’s first female cabinet minister since the foundation of the State when she was appointed Minister for the Gaeltacht in 1979. She also served as Minister for Justice, Minister for Tourism, Transport and Communications, Minister for European Affairs, and Minister of State in the Department of Education. As EU Commissioner, she pioneered the development and delivery of Horizon 2020, the world’s largest public research funding programme.Most recently, she chaired the HEA Expert Group who conducted the extensive National Review of Gender Equality in Irish Higher Education Institutions.
9th March
The Irish Centre for Human Rights in association with Gender Arc at NUI Galway
“Abortion Law Reform”
Date time: Friday, March 9th 2018/ 11.00am-2.00pm
Venue: Aula Maxima, NUI Galway
As the mooted date for a referendum on Article 40.3.3 of the Constitution draws closer, this event draws together a number of prominent human rights advocates and academics to consider the challenges and possibilities of abortion law in a post-Eighth Amendment Ireland.
Speakers:
Professor Carol Sanger, Barbara Aronstein Black Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and author of About Abortion: Terminating Pregnancy in the 21st Century
Les Allamby, Chief Commissioner Northern Irish Human Rights Commission
Dr Eilionóir Flynn, Director of the Centre for Disability Law and Policy , NUI Galway
Dr Claire Murray, School of Law, University College Cork
Professor Siobhán Mullally, Director, Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway.
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/about-abortion-the-law-and-politics-of-reform-tickets-43025789294
9th March
The Centre for Global Women’s Studies, School of Political Science and Sociology
Invites you to the 10th Anniversary Celebration of the MA in Gender, Globalisation and Rights, coinciding with International Women’s Day and the 100th anniversary for women’s suffrage in Ireland.
Speakers will include former and current students and staff and will feature a student-produced documentary on the ways in which the MA has helped our students to ‘press for progress’ on gender equality issues.
Date/time: Friday March 9th, 3.00-5.00pm, with a reception (including birthday cake!) to follow
Venue: AM243 lecture theatre, Aras Moyola
All are welcome but please RSVP for catering purposes to m.geoghehan7@nuigalway.ie
Main Contact: genderarc@nuigalway.ie

College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Celtic Studies New Professors’ Inaugural Lecture series
2018-03-08 17:00 - 19:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Dean of College, Professor Cathal O’Donoghue will speak on the subject of “Recognising Diversity and Complexity in Policy Formation”.
Professor O’Donoghue has been from 2016, the Dean of Arts and Social Sciences at NUI Galway and Professor of Public and Social Policy. Prior to this he was since 2005, Head of Teagasc’s (Irelands Agriculture and Food Development Authority) Rural Economy and Development Programme, one of the 4 research programmes of Teagasc. He was a member of the Fund Council of CGIAR, a $1 billion a year International Agri-Food Research organisation from 2014-2016. From 2012-2014, he was CEO of the Irish Government’s Commission for the Economic Development of Rural Areas 2012-2014, Chairman of the Irish Sport Horse Strategy Committee 2013-2015, President of the International Microsimulation Association 2011-2015 and is on the Executive of the UK Agricultural Economics Society.
In his inaugural lecture, Professor O’Donoghue will draw upon the results of his research career to date to describe the methodologies he has developed and conclusions he has drawn for policy analysis and design and to reach out to new collaborators in inter-disciplinary research. His research aims to understand how policy impacts across the population, incorporating the breadth of diversity that exists in different population groups. His field of research is in the area of Micro-Simulation Modelling, where for 25 years , he has developed tools to simulate the impact of public policy on Micro distributions (individuals, Families, Farms). Fundamentally these are tools to understand complexity. Policy formation involves understanding complexity via complexity of policy, complexity of population structure and complexity of behavioural response. In addition, other dimensions that can be considered include spatial and temporal complexity. In this lecture, Professor O’Donoghue will discuss how the development of these tools have been used to consider policy questions such as anti-poverty, environmental, labour market, education, agricultural and rural policy. His work is currently focusing on the interaction between land-use change and demographic both in a contemporary setting and in understanding historical land use drivers of demographic changes.
Contact: Dr. Seán Crosson – Sean.Crosson@nuigalway.ie

Centre for Antique, Medieval and Pre-Modern Studies (CAMPS) Research Labs.
2018-03-09 12:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room GO10 GO11 and Room 1001(The Bridge)., Ireland
Christine Neer: Love is a Battlefield? An Informal Exploration of Gendered Spaces in Medieval Irish Tochmarca (‘Wooing Tales’).
Contact: Catherine Emerson – catherine.emerson@nuigalway.ie

Ruud van den Beuken (Visiting Fellow)
2018-03-14 14:00 - 16:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Let’s Give the Mantle of Harlequin a Brush: Current Research on the Dublin Gate Theatre

Dr Ruud van den Beuken, who is working at the Moore Institute as a visiting research fellow, will discuss current research on the Dublin Gate Theatre, including the establishment of a Gate Theatre Research Network (co-founded by the Dutch Research Council, Charles University Prague and NUIG), the digitisation of the Gate’s archives at the James Hardiman Library, and his book project on cultural memory and national identity formation in drama by original Gate playwrights such as Denis Johnston and Mary Manning.
Ruud van den Beuken is a lecturer in the Department of English Language & Culture at Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands). He was awarded the Irish Society for Theatre Research’s (ISTR) New Scholars’ Prize (2015) for his research on postcolonial mythological plays, and in April 2017, he received his PhD (cum laude) for his thesis on cultural memory and national identity formation at the Dublin Gate Theatre. He is the Assistant Director of the NWO-funded Gate Theatre Research Network and the recipient of the 2017 Education Award for best junior lecturer in the Faculty of Arts at Radboud. He is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the Moore Institute.
Contact: Dr Ruud van den Beuken – ruud.vandenbeuken@ru.nl

Brian Arkins (Professor Emeritus, Classics)
2018-03-14 16:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The Modern Reception of Horace
The talk will discuss the treatment of Horace in Nazi-occupied Crete and during World War I; Pound, Eliot, Housman on Horace; Nietzsche on Horace’s style; Horace’s tags, esp. carpe diem; Irish connections, in Yeats, Joyce, MacNeice, Longley, Boland; Dowson’s splendidly awful poem; and Hopkin’s translations.
All welcome.
Contact: Padraic Moran- padraic.moran@nuigalway.ie

History Seminar - Prof. Vitor Izecksohn
2018-03-14 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Prof. Vitor Izecksohn (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
The US and Brazil in the period of the American Civil War (Final TBC)

1916 In Global Context An Anti-Imperial Moment Book Launch
2018-03-14 17:30 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Contact: Gearóid Barry – gearoid.barry@nuigalway.ie

Digital Scholars Workshop Series
2018-03-15 11:30 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Working With Images:

This event will highlight methods and tools for working with images. Applications include Website content, digital libraries/archives, animations, scholarly publications, and data analysis. Both desktop and command line tools for image editing and processing will be discussed, including Photoshop, Fireworks, Python, and ImageMagick.
About the speaker: Cillian works in the NUI Galway Library on Digital Technology. As part of the Digital Publishing and Innovation team, Cillian focuses on strategy, development, interoperability, and process. Cillian has a primary degree in Experimental Physics and a Masters in Information Systems and Computer Science.
Sponsored by NUI Galway Library and the Moore Institute.
See Eventbrite link: http://bit.ly/2oTRJRu
Contact: Peter Corrigan – peter.corrigan@nuigalway.ie

Working with images - Digital Scholars Workshop Series
2018-03-15 11:30 - 12:30 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
This event will highlight methods and tools for working with images. Applications include Web site content, digital libraries/archives, animations, scholarly publications, and data analysis. Both desktop and command line tools for image editing and processing will be discussed, including Photoshop, Fireworks, Python, and ImageMagick.
Register To Attend »
About the speaker
Cillian Joy works in the NUI Galway Library on Digital Technology. As part of the Digital Publishing and Innovation team, Cillian focuses on strategy, development, interoperability, and process. Cillian has a primary degree in Experimental Physics and a Masters in Information Systems and Computer Science.
Digital Scholars Workshop Series
The Library, in partnership with the Moore Institute, presents a series of informal workshops to share practice-based expertise, know-how and experience in technologies and methods germane to anyone engaged in Digital Scholarship type activity.

Sports and Exercise Research Seminar - Dr Tanguy Philippe (Visiting Fellow)
2018-03-15 13:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
‘Reading’ sport and sports culture: a case study of the codification of wrestling styles during the Celtic and Gaelic revival movements.
Tanguy Philippe is a lecturer in Sport and Education Studies at the University of Western Brittany in Brest (France). He has taught previously at the Universities of Rennes, Evry and Savoie. His current research interests are in the fields of cross-cultural encounters in sport, symbolic and normative relations in combat sports, individual and collective culture in physical education, and the integration of research and teaching. His previous researches focussed on wrestling culture in Brittany and Ireland, in relation to the Celtic revival periods, and sports culture’s long-term diffusion by cultural routes (the Silk Roads and the migrations routes between North-western Europe and North America). His recent publications include the following chapters: ‘Wrestling in 19th to early 20th century Ireland and the ethnic stereotype of the Irish fighter in the USA’ (in Travel in France and Ireland: Tourism, Sport and Culture, Peter Lang, 2017) and ‘From Prize fighting to Pride fighting’ (in Rencontres Bretagne – Ecosse, CRBC, 2017).
Contact: Tanguy Philippe – tphilippe@univ-brest.fr

Dr. Mick Wilson (University of Gothenburg)
2018-03-15 13:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Contact: Dee Quinn – dee.quinn@nuigalway.ie

Flower Press (Poetry Collection) Book Launch
2018-03-15 18:00 - 18:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
‘Flower Press’, the debut poetry collection of MA in Writing (2017-18) student, Alice Kinsella, will be launched in the Moore Institute at 6:30pm on Thursday, March 15th.
Published by Onsalught Press, this short collection of poems can be described as an elegiac apostrophe. In three sections—bud, bloom, and blood—it explores the growth of love in childhood, the loss of innocence, and the fallout of that loss. ‘Flower Press’ does not claim to offer answers, but the consolation of the act of remembering.
Contact: Dearbhla Mooney – dearbhla.mooney@nuigalway.ie

Gender Arc
2018-03-16
CFPs “Critical Feminist Exits, Re-Routings, and Institutional Betrayals in Academia” A Special Issue of Feminist Formations – Full papers NOW due March 16, 2018
While universities often identify diversity as an important concern and goal, the neo-liberalization of academic contexts has in many ways fostered the entrenchment and rearticulation of hegemonic racial and gendered ideologies and practices. As a result, critical scholars often face institutional environments that are hostile and/or unresponsive to their concerns and perspectives, and broadly speaking, to issues critical to women, LGBITQ people, people of color, and other marginalized groups. For the complete CfP and to submit, please visit: https://feministformations.submittable.com/submit/99634/feminist-formations-special-issue-critical-feminist-exits-re-routings-and-ins
Manuscripts must be submitted by March 16, 2018. Inquiries to the co-editors in advance of submission are welcome: Marta Maria Maldonado marta.maldonado@oregonstate.edu <marta.maldonado@oregonstate.edu>and Katja M. Guenther katja@ucr.edu <katja@ucr.edu
Contact: genderarc@nuigalway.ie

Centre for Antique, Medieval and Pre-Modern Studies (CAMPS) Research Labs.
2018-03-16 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Lindsay Ann Reid, ‘The Early Modern Querelle des Femmes and the Judgement of Solomon in Greene’s Vision’.
Contact: Catherine Emerson – catherine.emerson@nuigalway.ie

Gender Arc
2018-03-21 12:00 | Royal Irish Academy, Dawson Street
RIA Ethical, Political, Legal and Philosophical Studies Committee
‘How secular should the state be?’
Cécile Laborde (Oxford)
A lecture and book launch
Cécile Laborde FBA holds the Nuffield Chair in Political Theory at Oxford University. She has published extensively in the areas of republicanism, liberalism and religion, theories of law and the state, and global justice. Her publications include: Pluralist Thought and the State in Britain and France and Critical Republicanism. The Hijab Controversy in Political Philosophy, and, most recently, Liberalism’s Religion (Harvard University Press, 2017), a nuanced discussion of the appropriate status of religion in a liberal state. She argues that dis-aggregating religion into its various dimensions modifies the contrast between religious and non-religious beliefs, practices and identities, and supports a ‘minimal secularism’ that shows more respect for ethical and political pluralism than other approaches entail.
This event is organised by the Academy’s Ethical, Political, Legal and Philosophical Studies Committee, with support from UCD’s School of Politics and International Relations and the UCD Newman Centre.
Free, but registration required: https://www.ria.ie/how-secular-should-state-be
Contact: Gender Arc – genderarc@nuigalway.ie
