Moore Institute

"Can Human Rights Defeat Nationalism?" by Lea David.
2018-10-24 14:00 - 16:00 UTC | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The Power, Conflict and Ideologies Research Cluster (School of Political Science & Sociology), and the Irish Centre for Human Rights, are co-hosting a visit by Dr. Lea David, who is currently Marie Curie fellow (2017-2019) in the School of Sociology, UCD.
The focus of this lecture is the way in which collective memory and memorialization processes are understood within the human rights centred ideology and how such understanding affects nationalism. The basic difference between human rights and nationalist understanding and promotion of memorialization processes is that human rights stand for world-wide inclusion of all people into one moral community, whereas nationalism presumes nationally bounded collectives. For the ideology of nationalism, historical memory is perceived in terms of continuity, provides legitimacy for sovereignty, however, human rights as the grand narrative in the world polity, has provided a new definition – that of coming to terms with (one specific version of) the past – by which collectives are supposed to remember, a phenomenon coined here as “memorialization isomorphism”. Memorialization isomorphism refers to the standardized set of norms, promoted through human rights infrastructures in the world polity, through which societies are supposed to deal with the legacies of mass human rights abuses. States, in particular weak and post-conflict states with troubled pasts, are expected to conform to the international human rights norms of facing their criminal past and becoming accountable for past massive human rights abuses.
I ask here how successful memorialization isomorphism is in promoting universalist human rights values and whether memorialization isomorphism is capable of harvesting micro-solidarity in order to become an ideological cement that can overcome nationalism. Since the experience of micro-solidarity is not instinctive but rather a function of an interpretation of symbols and history, I argue that in contexts within which ethnic symbols and collective histories have played immediate roles in conflicts, and were further legitimized and embedded by peace agreements and human rights institutions, it is nationalist apparatus which has become the ultimate factor in the processes of recollecting micro-solidarity. In other words, I argue that at the world polity level, human rights have produced a norm of memorialization isomorphism that does not actually lead to the advancement of human rights values but is instead likely to further promote nationalist ideologies. Finally, I suggest we look at the current reappearance of nationalism world-wide partially as a result of a gradual and accumulative process of standardization of memory – from “duty to remember” as a moral instance onto policy-oriented “proper way to remember” and try to assess the impact such process has on the perception of the “self” and “other”.
Dr. Lea David is currently a Marie Curie fellow (2017-2019) at the School of Sociology at University College Dublin (UCD), where she is finishing her research project on Nationalism, Memory and Human Rights in the Western Balkans and in Israel/Palestine under the supervision of Prof. Siniša Malesević. For this research, she also received a prestigious Israeli Council for Higher Education Fellowship (ות”ת) for outstanding Israeli scholars. In addition, as Senior Researcher for a four-year NSF-funded research on cultural anthropology, she is currently conducting extensive research in Bosnia-Herzegovina on religious competition in a post-conflict landscape. In 2014, while at the Sociology and Anthropology Department of Ben Gurion University, Israel, Dr. David completed her PhD dissertation on the politics of memory and human rights in post-conflict Serbia. In 2014-15, she was awarded a Joint Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Anthropology Department and the Strochlitz Institute for Holocaust Research of Haifa University. In 2015-16, she won both the Fulbright fellowship and the Rabin fellowship, the latter being awarded to the best Fulbright candidate of the year in social sciences. She spent her Fulbright-Rabin fellowship conducting research at the Anthropology Department of the University of Pittsburgh. In 2016-2017, she held the Jonathan Shapira Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Sociology and Anthropology Department of Tel Aviv University. Her book manuscript “The past can’t heal us! Human rights, memory and micro-sociology” is currently under review for several academic publishers.

Modernist Studies Ireland’s: Works in Progress
2018-10-23 18:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Modernist Studies Ireland’s monthly forum for new work in Irish modernist studies—Works in Progress—cordially invites you to its second session of this autumn season, taking place on Tuesday, 23 Oct, from 6-8 pm in G011 (THB), as per usual with nibbles and some wine! The event seeks to shine a light on Lucia Joyce as a collaborator and significantly understudied contributor to much of the compositional work her father James Joyce undertook in the 1930s, and which led to his probably most obscurantist work, Finnegans Wake.
Our two wonderful speakers are NUI Galway alumna Dr Siobhán Purcell and Genevieve Sartor (Trinity College Dublin), who submitted her PhD thesis last month. Siobhán will kick off the session with a talk that stresses the need to recontextualise Lucia’s letterings or lettrines. Her presentation highlights overlooked instances of Lucia Joyce’s contributions—instances which are not at all liminal and silent; once ‘illuminated’, they embody presence and performativity in that they elaborate dynamics of the written text while complicating any straightforward understanding of the most basic textual elements of print culture: semantics, lettering, typeface, and authorship. At once word and image, the lettrines work as additional contextual signifiers that elaborate the polyphonic nature of Finnegans Wake. In re-contextualising Lucia Joyce’s lettrines, Siobhán’s paper suggests that reading Lucia’s contributions to these published editions also troubles our collective cultural memorializing of both James and Lucia Joyce, while giving a glimpse of how to recover the obscured and concealed contributions of women and disabled artists to modernism’s legacy.
Genevieve’s talk, on the other hand, will bring a third figure into the realm: psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. From 1975 to 1976, Lacan delivered a seminar series on James Joyce that claimed that Joyce represents a new future for psychoanalysis. Lacan believed that Joyce could have been psychotic but was able to cure this possible condition by traversing the Oedipal framework through writing Finnegans Wake. Genevieve’s presentation will contextualise Lacan’s convictions before suggesting the possibility of revising Lacan’s late work through an original and biographically-driven argument. While Lacan was presenting his seminar that praised Joyce for having overcome psychosis, the author’s allegedly schizophrenic daughter Lucia was living in Northampton as a resident of Saint Andrew’s, the sanitorium where she remained until her death in 1982. Lacan refrains from mentioning Lucia in any detail—nor did he make the effort to visit her. Similarly, there has been no scholarship on Lucia in relation to Lacan’s work on her father in either literary or Lacanian study. Through a selective look at pre-publication content in Finnegans Wake that shows how Joyce textually represented Lucia’s schizophrenia through time, this talk will show that a focus on her can shape new ways to productively advance Lacan’s work on Joyce and his claims on the future of the clinic.

Creative Coding Meet-up
2018-10-23 15:00 - 16:00, 2018-10-16 15:00 - 16:00, 2018-10-02 15:00 - 16:00, 2018-09-25 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Dublin) | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
This semester we’re going to run a weekly session for those interested in learning “creative coding”. This approach is a good way for those without any coding experience to develop a foundation in programming. The sessions will use online resources (see below) to guide self-directed learning.

Creative coding is a different discipline than programming systems. The goal is to create something expressive instead of something functional. Interaction design, information visualization and generative art are all different types of creative coding – which has become a household term describing artworks articulated as code. (via Awesome Creative Coding )

What can I expect?

This is a peer support group, not an instructor-led workshop / class.
It’s an opportunity to schedule some time each week to develop your coding skills, and to get some help, if you need it.
There are a collection of tutorial videos (bring headphones), online courses and reference material linked to in the “Further Details” section below, for you to work through at your own pace.

If you have no coding experience, and aren’t sure where or how to start, someone will help you.
Come along, meet people who are also learning to code, and get help if you run into any problems. Showing what you’re working on would be great too.
Further details
You can find further details, and learning resources, at: https://github.com/dh-nuigalway/Creative-Coding-Meetup. We are planning on hosting the sessions on Tuesdays from 3pm – 4pm, in the “Bridge Room”, on the first floor of the Hardiman Research Building.
Any questions?: Contact David Kelly (david.d.kelly@nuigalway.ie)

3DCamp Galway: Special Guest Pete McNally: "Creating versatile materials with Photogrammetry"
2018-10-19 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/Dublin) | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Pete McNally is a Dublin based Senior Designer/3D Generalist with Microsoft. He has worked in the Irish Game and TV industries for over 15 years, at companies like Emmy award-winning Havok and twice Oscar nominated Brown Bag Films. Pete blogs about his experiments in 3D Art at www.petemcnally.com and his work has been featured on Sketchfab and 80Level.
Register to attend at 3DCamp’s Meetup page.
About 3DCamp
3DCamp Galway is a group for anyone interested in any aspect of 3D technology (software and hardware), to meet up in an informal setting to discuss your 3D project or to listen and learn about what others are doing.

SSRC Visiting Fellow Lecture titled the ‘Agrarian Fascism Innovation Paradigm in Spain between 1939 -1955’ by Bruno Esperante Paramos
2018-10-19 13:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Room 333, 2nd Floor, Áras Moyola
On 19 October the Social Sciences Research Centre (SSRC) is hosting a talk by Bruno Esperante Paramos titled the ‘Agrarian Fascism Innovation Paradigm in Spain between 1939 -1955’. The talk will consider the main agrarian policies of Francoist Spain in war and peace, focusing especially on policies aimed at motorizing agriculture via the introduction of tractors. All are welcome.
About the Author: Bruno Esperante Paramos is a visiting research fellow at the Trinity Centre for Environmental Humanities. He is about to complete his PhD thesis on innovation and technological change in Galician agriculture (1890-2000) at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Galicia-Spain), where he has also been a member of HISTAGRA Research Group since 2015. His main research interests include: Rural History, Agrarian History, History of Technology, Innovation and Technological Change in agriculture

NUI Galway's 5th Annual Medieval Studies Lecture: "Hidden Sins: Miraculous Mind Reading and the Confessional"
2018-10-17 19:00 (Europe/Dublin) | O hEocha Theatre (Arts Millennium Building 250)
“Hidden Sins: Miraculous Mind Reading and the Confessional”
Barbara Newman,
Professor of English, Religious Studies and Classics
Northwestern University

Shortly after the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 mandated annual confession for all Christians, a new type of miracle began to appear in saints’ Lives. Holy women and a few lay brothers–but curiously, not priests–came to be credited with miraculous mind reading. They could discern hidden, unconfessed sins by telepathy or clairvoyance, a potent form of knowledge that they used for both pastoral care and public shaming. This talk will investigate a group of mind-reading saints from the 13th-century Low Countries, asking how they exercised their charism and what ideological purposes it served.

Professor Newman (Ph.D. Yale), a past president of the Medieval Academy of America, is known for her work on medieval religious culture, comparative literature, and women’s spirituality; see further at https://www.english.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/newman-barbara.html

Among her better known books are God & the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages (2003); Frauenlob’s Song of Songs: A Medieval German Poet & His Masterpiece (2006); Sister of Wisdom: St.. Hildegard’s Theology of the Feminine (1987); Medieval Crossover: Reading the Secular against the Sacred (2013).

She is also a noted translator of Hildegard of Bingen’s collected songs, Thomas of Cantimpré’s saints’ lives, Mechthild of Hackeborn’s visionary writings, and 2 collections of 12th-century love letters.

Prof. Newman has been a Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities at Northwestern. She currently holds the John Evans Chair of Latin Language and Literature and previously held a Charles Deering McCormick Chair of Teaching Excellence (2003-06).

Embassy of Slovak Republic and Embassy of the Czech Republic: 100th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Czechoslovakia
2018-10-17 14:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Dublin) | The River Room, AS203, Arts/Science Building

ILLUSTRATED TALK: Helena Molony (1883-1967) - Modern Irishwomen Lecture Series
2018-10-13 14:30 - 15:30 UTC | Education Room, Galway City Museum
Aimee Plunkett discusses republican, feminist and trade union activist Helena Molony. Aimee Plunkett works for the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and is a former historical tour guide at the GPO Witness History Visitor Centre.
1918 was a landmark year for women in Ireland and Britain, with legislation beginning the process of their inclusion in politics. Famously, in December 1918, Constance de Markievicz became the first women elected to the British House of Commons, only to abstain from taking her seat as a member of Sinn Féin. To mark the centenary of this pivotal year in women’s history, Galway City Museum is hosting a series of monthly lectures – curated by Dr James Curry and supported by the Moore Institute, NUI, Galway – on Markievicz and seven other ‘Modern Irishwomen’.

Breaking the Boundaries of Italian Arts. Introducing Italy’s videoartists by Clodagh Brook, Trinity College Dublin
2018-10-11 18:00 (Europe/Dublin) | The Hardiman Building G011 seminar room, Ireland
Clodagh Brook, Trinity College Dublin
Breaking the Boundaries of Italian Arts. Introducing Italy’s videoartists

This paper explores what motivated Italian writers and artists to shatter the borders and radically question the identity of their artforms in late 20th-century Italy. My case study here introduces some Italian videoartists, situating their questioning of artforms in a longer history that stretches back at least to Italian futurism. The talk presents the work of the AHRC project, Interdisciplinary Italy: Interart/Intermedia 1900-2020 (www.interdisciplinaryitaly.org).

Clodagh Brook is an Associate Professor of Italian at Trinity College Dublin. She was educated at Oxford University (D Phil) and at University College, Dublin (BA and MA) and was Reader at The University of Birmingham from 2000 to 2017. Clodagh leads a large AHRC funded grant, Interdisciplinary Italy 1900-2020: Interart/Intermedia, which explores the relations between arts and media in Italy and will produce 3 books, articles, pedagogical materials and an exhibition. Her publications include a monograph on Eugenio Montale (OUP, 2002), a monograph on Italian cinema (2010), as well as edited books on transmedia (2014) and on oppositional cultures under Berlusconi (2009).

Comhdháil ar Litríocht agus Chultúr na Gaeilge 2018
2018-10-05 - 2018-10-06 | Aras na Gaeilge NUIG, Ireland
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New Professors' Inaugural Lecture Series: An t-Ollamh Tadhg Ó hIfearnáin
2018-10-04 17:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
An dúchas, an anaithnideacht agus an seachadadh teanga / Nativeness, anonymity and language transmission
An t-Ollamh Tadhg Ó hIfearnáin, Ollamh Bunaithe le Nua-Ghaeilge

Ina léacht, pléifidh an t-Ollamh Ó hIfearnáin trí choincheap atá go mór chun tosaigh i ndíospóireachtaí shochtheangeolaíocht na mionteangacha agus déanfaidh critic orthu i bhfianaise obair allamuigh i gcomhthéacs na Gaeilge. Rinne na glúine de chanúineolaithe, antraipeolaithe agus de bhéaloideasóirí nasc idir an dúchas agus an bharántúlacht. Coincheap idé-eolaíochtúil atá sa bharántúlacht ina samhlaítear teanga mar neach nádúrtha. Is de thoradh na tuisceana sin a labhraítear go meafarach faoi theangacha amhail is gur ainmhithe nó neacha beo iad. Tá fréamhacha an dioscúrsa sin sa rómánsachas agus is é a mhúnlaigh cuid mhaith de bhunsmaointe ceannasacha na sochaí comhaimseartha. De réir na smaointe sin, bíonn ‘fíorchainteoirí’ na dteangacha ‘barántúla’ lonnaithe in áiteanna agus i bpobail faoi leith, dúnta isteach orthu féin, agus a séala sin ar an teanga a labhraíonn siad. Is minice ná a mhalairt a bhíonn na ‘cainteoirí is barántúla’ ina seandaoine tuaithe agus iad ina gcónaí i gceantair iargúlta nó, b’fhéidir, ina mbaill d’íosaicme uirbeach nach mbíonn an deis acu imeacht óna gceantar dúchais. Thar aon rud eile, samhlaítear a gcuid cainte a bheith ceangailte le dúiche faoi leith, agus an chaint sin a bheith coimeádach, gan athrú, mar a bheadh fuinneog ar an gcianaimsir inti; ar an am a raibh máistreacht ag an bpobal ar an teanga ghlan cheart agus meas acu uirthi. Tá an coincheap idé-eolaíochta céanna le brath ar fhormhór na ngluaiseachta athbheochana teanga agus cultúir timpeall na hEorpa. Ba mhian leo, chomh fada agus ab fhéidir, an pobal labhartha a choinneáil slán ó ‘smál’ an ilteangachais agus na teagmhála teanga. Múnlaítear an teanga athbheochana ar an gcineál teanga a shamhlaítear a bheadh ann dá mbeadh pobal mór aonteangach ann arís, gan anáil ná tionchar na teanga móire iasachta uirthi.

Is fíor go bhfuil ceantar dúchais ag gach mórtheanga ach carnann na teangacha sin a gcuid cumhachta agus a n-údarás ón dóigh a samhlaítear iad a bheith anaithnid. Creidtear gurb iad teanga an oird domhanda iad; is iad teangacha na céille agus na réasúnaíochta, an ghnó agus na forbartha, an ardchultúir agus na cumarsáide idirnáisiúnta iad. Is teangacha ar le gach áit agus le gach duine iad ach nach mbaineann le dúchas duine ar bith. Ní hé bun agus barr tograí lucht na hathbheochana cultúr agus teanga ghléghlan na ‘gcainteoirí deireanacha’ réamh-nua-aimseartha a choinneáil beo, mar sin féin. Cé gurb iad an dúchas agus an bharántúlacht a spreag na gluaiseachtaí athbheochana an chéad uair, tá sprioc eile acu. Ba mhian leo na teangacha mionlaithe a fhorbairt agus iad a chur á labhairt ar bhonn níos fairsinge, ó thaobh ceantar agus feidhme de. Caithfidh siad an dóigh a aimsiú leis an teanga a dhéanamh ‘normálta’ – a bheith dúchasach agus anaithnid ag an am céanna. Léiríonn dúshlán an chomhréitigh idir an dúchas agus an anaithnideacht ceisteanna faoi nádúr na teanga agus faoi sheachadadh na teanga i bpobail nach mbeidh aonteangach choíche arís.

In his talk, Professor Ó hIfearnáin will discuss and critique three conceptual elements that are pre-eminent in the contemporary sociolinguistics of minority languages, drawing on fieldwork from the Irish and wider Gaelic context. Nativeness in language and culture has been linked directly to notions of authenticity by generations of dialectologists and anthropologists (including ethnologists and folklorists). Authenticity is itself an ideological construct that tends to see language as a natural object. It has, for instance, given rise to the ways that languages are metaphorically described as living beings in the romantic discourses that have dominated our society. ‘Real’ speakers of ‘authentic’ languages – typically elderly rural peasants in isolated communities or perhaps in the marginalised, urban working class – are seen as locally-orientated, producing language in and of their location and community. Their speech is thus seen as conservative, static, linked to a particular place and a window to somewhere out-of-modern-western time, when the speech and values of the volk were clear and valued. Language revival initiatives in Europe have largely continued this ideological concept, seeking to isolate speakers and communities from ‘contamination’ due to multilingualism and language contact. They largely model the revived or revitalised language on an imagined monolingual existence.

Majority languages may also have their core ideological homelands, but in their modern standardised varieties, their authority and power are essentially based on their anonymity. They are attributed as the languages of world order, reason, commerce and development, high and international culture and communication. They are the languages of everywhere and yet of nowhere in particular. However, the core aims of minoritised language revivalist movements are not simply to preserve the undiluted language and culture of pre-modern times among the ‘last speakers’ but to expand their language beyond its residual communities in both space and function. Despite nativeness and authenticity providing the motivation to undertake the revival enterprise, the ultimate goal is to negotiate a path that values nativeness and yet ‘normalises’ the language; to make it both authentic and anonymous. The balance of nativeness and anonymity has implications for received thinking on the nature of language and for intergenerational language transmission in communities which are never likely to be monolingual again.

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Tá Tadhg Ó hIfearnáin ina Ollamh Bunaithe le Nua-Ghaeilge in Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh. Ba in Ollscoil Luimnigh a bhí sé ag obair ó 1996 go 2017 agus in Ollscoil na Briotáine Uachtaraí ar feadh roinnt blianta roimhe sin, tar éis dó tréimhsí a chaitheamh mar iarchéimí agus léachtóir in Ollscoil Utrecht agus in Ollscoil Uladh, Cúil Raithin. Tá BA (1988) agus PhD (1994) i Léann na Gaeilge aige ó Ollscoil Uladh, Cúil Raithin. Díríonn formhór a chuid taighde agus teagaisc ar cheisteanna teanga agus sochaí ón 17ú haois go dtí an lá inniu, agus go háirithe ar theangeolaíocht agus ar shochtheangeolaíocht chomhaimseartha na Gaeilge agus mionteangacha eile.

Tadhg Ó hIfearnáin is Established Professor of Modern Irish in NUI Galway. He was previously at the University of Limerick from 1996 until 2017. Before then, he taught in the Department of Breton and Celtic at University of Rennes 2 from 1990, after periods as a lecturer and research student in the University of Ulster at Coleraine and Utrecht University. He holds a BA (1988) and PhD (1994) in Irish from the University of Ulster at Coleraine. His research and teaching mostly focuses on questions of language and society, from the 17th century to date, and in particular the contemporary linguistics and sociolinguistics of Irish and other minoritised languages.

Gender Arc Research Seminar: "Literary Witnesses to Gender-Based Violence in Revolutionary Ireland"
2018-10-04 13:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Dublin) | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Gender Arc Research Seminar

“Literary Witnesses to Gender-Based Violence in Revolutionary Ireland”

By Síobhra Aiken
1-2 pm, Thursday 4 October
The Hardiman Research Building, R1001 (the Bridge Room)

Information Session for upcoming IRC Postgraduate Scholarships
2018-10-02 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The Moore Institute will host an information session on the upcoming IRC Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme on Tuesday, October 2 at 12 noon in Room G010 Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building.
The session will be facilitated by Prof. Dan Carey, Director of the Moore Institute.
In addition to the information session, the Moore Institute will offer a reading service for applicants the timeline for which is as follows:

Deadline for receipt of near final draft applications, fully copyedited and with full input from supervisors to be submitted by October 12, 2018.

Applications to be returned to applicants by October 22, 2018. This will give the applicants one week to incorporate the feedback received into their final draft, for submission to the IRC on November 1, 2018.

Full details on the scheme is available here.

Lady Gregory Yeats Autumn Gathering comes to NUI Galway
2018-09-28 16:00 (Europe/Dublin) | James Hardiman Library, Ireland

10 Years On: How Ireland Has Changed Since the Financial Crisis
2018-09-28 13:30 - 18:00 UTC | Institute for Lifecourse and Society Building, NUI Galway
In the fateful decade since the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the Bank Guarantee of September 2008, much has happened in Ireland – financial crisis, deep recession, bailout by the ‘Troika’, a protracted period of austerity followed by vigorous economic recovery. But what has really changed over the last ten years? What developments in the financial and political system have taken place and what has been the cultural effect of the crisis? Will we repeat the same mistakes or find ways to avoid them? This major public event convened by the Moore Institute and Whitaker Institute will examine these questions with a high profile group of participants, including keynote speeches by former Central Bank of Ireland governor Patrick Honohan and playwright and author Colin Murphy.
Conference Programme
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Centre for Antique, Medieval & Pre-Modern Studies (CAMPS)
2018-09-28 12:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland

Symposium: Iphigenia in Ireland
2018-09-28 10:30 - 17:30 (Europe/Dublin) | O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, NUI Galway

EDEN's Academic Speed Dating
2018-09-27 17:00 - 18:30 (Europe/Dublin) | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
September 27th September – EDEN’s Academic Speed Dating
5-6.30pm, The Bridge Room.
Welcome to all new PhDs and welcome back to those returning. EDEN is back with its first session of the year. The theme of the evening will be academic networking, with some academic ‘speed-dating’. This is a chance to introducing yourself to your fellow NUIG PhD peers. And, as always, drinks and chats to follow at McGinn’s—all are welcome!

NUI Galway Exhibition on New Face of Italian Publishing
2018-09-26 18:00 - 2018-10-28 20:00 UTC | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
H. E. Paolo Serpi, Ambassador of Italy to Ireland, and Professor Brian Hughes, Dean of International Affair, NUI Galway, will officially open a new exhibition, Cover Revolution! Illustrators and the New Face of Italian Publishing, at NUI Galway on Wednesday, 26 September in G010 seminar room in the Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway.
The exhibition, curated by Melania Gazzotti, will run in the Hardiman Building foyer from 26 September to 28 October.
A revolution is taking place on Italian bookstores shelves, and more and more often illustrators are being asked to use their colour palettes and distinctive marks to update publishers’ visual identities or redefine an author’s image. A handful of publishers, talented art directors, and a group of internationally acclaimed Italian illustrators, known for their original and powerful work, are responsible for this change. The idea to document this propitious moment in Italian illustration came to life after observing this phenomenon, and this exhibition brings to light the work of some of the most loved and respected Italian illustrators: Franco Matticchio, Lorenzo Mattotti, Emiliano Ponzi, Guido Scarabottolo, Gianluigi Toccafondo, and Olimpia Zagnoli.
Professor Paolo Bartoloni, Established Professor and Head of Italian at NUI Galway, said: “This exhibition provides a unique opportunity to observe the synergy between the creative practices of visual artists and those of authors, and the ways in which the written word evokes incredibly powerful and captivating images. The colours in this exhibition are vibrant, and the echoes of various styles, especially surrealism and modernism, uncanny.”

Centre for Antique, Medieval and Pre-Modern Studies, Research Labs (CAMPS) Research Labs.
2018-09-21 12:00 UTC | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland

Book Launch: Civil War and Agrarian Unrest The Confederate South and Southern Italy by Enrico Dal Lago
2018-09-19 17:30 UTC | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

Welfare Histories Reading Group
2018-09-19 14:00 - 16:00 UTC | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Welfare Histories Reading Group
The Welfare Histories Reading Group provides a forum for staff and postgraduate students to discuss ideas of poverty, development, and ‘improvement’ in a global historical context. Our interests are very diverse, and we would very much welcome the involvement of new members from any discipline. Our next meeting is on 19 September 2018, when we will discuss the relationship between inequality and human rights. Readings are pre-circulated in advance, so if you are interested in coming along, or simply wish for further details, contact Dr Kevin O’Sullivan (kevin.k.osullivan@nuigalway.ie).

Feminist/Queer Space for Postgraduate Researchers, NUI Galway
2018-09-19 13:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Room 1003 Floor 1 Hardiman Research Building, Ireland
The Feminist/Queer Space for Postgraduate Researchers meets fortnightly to read and share current feminist/queer research across disciplines. We aim to creative a supportive space for fellow feminist researchers – this might entail peer review on writing, assistance on feminist/queer theory/methodology/readings you might be grappling with, sharing resources on feminist/queer CFP’s, conferences, workshops, etc., and, importantly, creating a space to discuss the frustrations (and joys!) of being a postgraduate feminist/queer researcher.
Our first meeting of the new semester is on Wednesday, September 19th, 1-2pm, HRB 1003. We will be reading ‘Landscape, Memory, and Forgetting: Thinking Through (My Mother’s) Body and Place’ by Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands. Please email c.amrouche1@nuigalway.ie for a copy of the reading. And feel free to attend even if you haven’t had a chance to do the reading!
Please circulate this invitation across disciplines and to MA, PhD, and Post-Doc researchers – especially new colleagues!
Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NUIGFeministResearch/
Any questions/comments please email: c.amrouche1@nuigalway.ie

Ag Caint leis an Simné?
2018-09-13 17:00 UTC | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

'Some student days from UCG, 1920'
2018-09-11 12:00 - 13:30 UTC | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
A talk entitled ‘Some student days from UCG, 1920‘, organized by the NUI Galway Retired Staff Association, will be presented by Patrick Larkin.
Formerly, President of the Galway Archaeological & Historical Society, Patrick Larkin, is a Galway native and a chartered chemist who graduated from University College Galway with a B.Sc. degree in chemistry, and now with favourite hobbies of photography, boating and archaeology.
‘Some student days from UCG, 1920′
The talk will be illustrated with several photos of the period, which will be a highlight of the presentation. The talk is really your classic love story; it’s about when, where and how Patricks’ parents got together, and the extraordinary context in which this took place. They were both British subjects as undergraduates; he a blacksmith’s son from East Galway (who became Professor of Education at UCG), she a Galway girl. When they graduated, they were both citizens of the Free State. Luckily, the Galway girl (Rita) was a keen photographer, and she left many photos to illustrate the story from that period.

ILLUSTRATED TALK: Maud Gonne MacBride (1866-1953) - Modern Irishwomen series.
2018-09-08 14:30 - 15:30 UTC | Education Room, Galway City Museum
Margaret Ward on actress, suffragette and revolutionary Maude Gonne McBride, described by W. B. Yeats as possessing ‘beauty like a tightened bow’. Dr Margaret Ward is a Visiting Research Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast and the author of numerous books, including Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, Suffragette and Sinn Féiner.
1918 was a landmark year for women in Ireland and Britain, with legislation beginning the process of their inclusion in politics. Famously, in December 1918, Constance de Markievicz became the first women elected to the British House of Commons, only to abstain from taking her seat as a member of Sinn Féin. To mark the centenary of this pivotal year in women’s history, Galway City Museum is hosting a series of monthly lectures – curated by Dr James Curry and supported by the Moore Institute, NUI, Galway – on Markievicz and seven other ‘Modern Irishwomen’.

European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE) Seminar of Sustainability in the Agri-Food sector.
2018-08-30 - 2018-08-31 | Seminar Room G010, G011 and Room 1001 “The Bridge” in the Hardiman Research Institute and The Arts Millennium Building
The seminar will be organised jointly between the Teagasc (Agriculture and Food Development Authority, Ireland), National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) and the FLINT consortium.
The objective of this seminar is to progress the knowledge base and expertise in the fields of agricultural and agri-food value chain sustainability by bringing together research in relation to:
· the measurement and monitoring of agricultural sustainability in relation to farm-level economic, environmental and social indicators of sustainability
· behavioural and extension mechanisms to improve sustainability
· methods of realising economic gains from improved sustainability across the value chain such as marketing niches and better value chain efficiency.
Please find out more information on the event page: http://conference.ie/Conferences/index.asp?Conference=552
Registration is in the Arts Millennium Building foyer
