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 UTC | 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

Introduction to Regular Expressions - Digital Scholars Workshop Series
2018-03-21 12:00 - 13:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Regular expressions are a powerful tool to help you search, clean, transform, or otherwise mutate and repurpose data – from large text corpora, gene sequence datafiles, to bulk econometric data, to scanned, historical printed documents and everything in-between. Traditionally found in specialised editors and programming languages, regular expressions now appear in many user-tools including word-processing applications and spreadsheets.
This session aims to provide sufficient knowledge and tools to set you on the road to acquiring a valuable new skill and handle many data formatting and transformation problems with greatly improved productivity. Anyone who works or plans to work extensively with data – programmers and non-programmers alike, might find this session useful.
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About the speaker
Peter Corrigan heads up the Library’s Digital Publishing Team.
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.

The Archaeology Society - Dr. William Roulston
2018-03-21 13:00 - 14:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The Archaeology Society will be hosting our final lecture of the year this coming Wednesday the 21st of March in room G010 in the Hardiman building. Our speaker will be Dr. William Roulston of the Ulster Historical Foundation and is titled ‘The Scots and Plantation Ulster’. He will be discussing an overview of the Scottish contribution to the Ulster Plantation. A background to the Scottish engagement with Ulster and a review of the documentary materials for studying the settlement of Scots in Ulster will be provided. The talk will also consider the archaeological evidence for the Scots in early seventeenth-century Ulster, focusing on castles/fortified houses, churches and memorials of the dead.

Literature and Translations
2018-03-21 15:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Dr Stéphanie Noirard, Université de Poitiers : Un Enterrement dans l’il(e) : Breton poet Paol Keineg faces the challenge of translating Hugh MacDiarmid
Translating Hugh MacDiarmid means having to handle his political stance on the independence and the renewal of Scottish literature, as well as his poetic and linguistic experiments. While the initiative allows Paol Keineg to get back in touch with his youth and his first discovery of In Memoriam James Joyce in the 1970s, it also contributes to a new phase in his own poetic quest. The American Book Review describes Paol Keineg’s poetry as: “a work that moves from the specific to the universal, a work that would reclaim lost ground, both politically and poetically”, terms that could be attributed to MacDiarmid as well.
The aim of the seminar is to show the two authors worked on similar themes in terms of politics, identity and poetry in order to question the definition of the author-translator. It will analyse whether Paol Keineg, as both poet and translator, only means to transmit a text or whether he uses his translation to develop his own ideas and/or experiment with the language. The figure of the translator will thus be defined as a new mask for or avatar of the author, an ideal mode allowing the author to disappear from his text and a new process of linguistic subversion.
Stéphanie Noirard is a lecturer at the University of Poitiers where she teaches English literature and translation. Her research focuses on Scottish contemporary poetry and she has published articles on the subject as well as on Irish and Breton poetry in various journals, including Etudes Anglaises, Scottish Literary Studies or Civilisations. She has also contributed chapters to Mountains Figured and Disfigured in the English-Speaking World (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010), Brittany/Ireland: What Relations? (Centre de Recherche Bretonne et Celtique, 2015), Taking Liberties: Scottish Literature and Expressions of Freedom (Scottish Literature International, 2016) and Brittany-Scotland: contacts, transfers and dissonances (CRBC-HTCI, Brest 2017). War Poetry, minority languages and cultures, rhythm and voice are among her main interests. She organized a one day international conference on “War in Poetry” in 2016 and is currently translating From the Line, an anthology of Scottish War Poetry and organizing a venue on the transmission of minority languages.

Maire Cross (Visiting Fellow)
2018-03-21 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Contact: Máire Cross – m.f.cross@newcastle.ac.uk

Modern Studies - 'Works in Progress'
2018-03-21 18:00 - 19:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Researchers will present short papers on their current project, with response given from the audience.
Contact: Gabrielle Fletcher – G.FLETCHER1@nuigalway.ie

The 4th Annual Medieval Studies Lecture
2018-03-21 19:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Speaker: CHARLES DOHERTY
‘The High-Kingship of Ireland and international parallels’
Distinguished Irish historian Charles Doherty, who is retired from the School of History and Archives in University College Dublin, has published extensively on many aspects of medieval Irish history, including economic history, hagiography, settlement, the impact of the Vikings on early Ireland, and kingship.
Recent work includes Glendalough: City of God (2011), which he co-edited with Linda Doran and Mary Kelly; Music and the stars: mathematics in medieval Ireland (2013), which he co-edited with Mary Kelly, and Kings and warriors in early north-west Europe (2016) which he co-edited with Jan Erik Rekdal. In 2009-13 he served as President of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, and in 2012-13 he was a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
Contact: Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha – mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie

Nótáí / Notes Music and Ireland
2018-03-23 11:00 - 16:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
A research symposium in Irish music studies.
The symposium Nótáí / Notes Music and Ireland is a preparatory symposium for the upcoming special issue journal publication Nótáí / Notes Music and Ireland ÉIre Ireland, due for publication in January 2019.
Contact: Méabh Ní Fhuartháin – meabh.nifhuarthain@nuigalway.ie

Centre for Antique, Medieval and Pre-Modern Studies (CAMPS) Research Labs.
2018-03-23 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Rosemary Power: Carvings, sculpture and position on Columban and Benedictine Iona

Archaeology Seminar
2018-03-27 16:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Consultant archaeologist Dr Alan Hawkes MIAI will give the next lecture in Archaeology’s research seminar series.
Title: Burnt Mounds and Prehistoric Cooking: Reappraising the Evidence
The widespread distribution of burnt mounds is striking, suggesting that Ireland was the most prominent user of the pyrolithic water-boiling technology in Bronze Age Europe. However, narratives related to these sites have long revolved around function, to the extent that the basic definition of this monument type has been called into question. This paper will examine the use of these sites based on evidence from some 1,000 excavated examples in Ireland and provides new insights into the use of pyrolithic technology for cooking.

Information Session on Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships
2018-03-28 11:00 - 12:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
An information session on the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships will be led by Prof. Dan Carey, Director of the Moore Institute, with contributions from Dr. Cassie Smith Christmas, a recent recipient of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie individual fellowship, and her mentor An tOll. Tadhg Ó hIfearnáin, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. Dr. Gary Lupton, Head of International Programmes with NUIG’s Research Office will also be present to offer advice and answer any questions you may have.
Individual Fellowships support the mobility of researchers within and beyond Europe – as well as helping to attract the best foreign researchers to work in the EU. The grant usually covers two years’ salary, a mobility allowance, research costs and overheads for the host institution. Individual researchers submit proposals for funding in liaison with their planned host organisation. Proposals are judged on their research quality, the researcher’s future career prospects, and the support offered by the host organisation. Fellows can also spend part of the fellowship elsewhere in Europe if this would boost impact, and those restarting their career in Europe benefit from special eligibility conditions.
For full details on the scheme please see here.

Introducing web-based maps for research data visualisation - Digital Scholars Workshop Series
2018-03-29 11:30 - 12:30 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
This hour-long session will introduce some key aspects of visualising your research data using web-based maps. You will have the opportunity to get hands-on and follow along with a demonstration of how to create your own simple web-based map, using an online service.
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About the speaker
David Kelly is Digital Humanities Manager at the Moore Institute. He works on digital projects with researchers from humanities and social sciences, including those involving data visualisation, database development, social annotation, digital edition development and network analysis.
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.

Workshop Content

Slides: Web Maps & Data Visualisation (.pdf)
Sample data for mapping

Book Launch: War and Revolution in the West of Ireland, Galway 1913-1922 by Dr. Conor Mc Namara
2018-04-05 20:00 | Mechanics’ Institute, Middle Street, Galway
An invitation to the launch of Dr. Conor Mc Namara’s (History) new book on the revolution in County Galway: War and Revolution in the West of Ireland, Galway 1913-22 published by Irish Academic Press.
The book will be officially launched by Professor Dan Carey, Moore Institute, NUI Galway.
The book will be available for just 16 euros on the night and refreshments will be served.

Data Protection: Where Do We Stand?
2018-04-09 13:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

Archaeology Seminar: Female religious in medieval Ireland: the other monasticism
2018-04-10 16:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Speaker: Tracy Collins
Tracy is an experienced professional archaeologist, and holds a PhD from University College Cork on research entitled ‘An Archaeology of Female Monasticism in Medieval Ireland’. She is currently an IRC Government of Ireland research fellow at the Dept of Archaeology UCC, writing a monograph based on her phd research.

Gender ARC
2018-04-10 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland

“Caution: Children at School, Perspectives on Learning, Leaders and Learners, Imperatives for Inclusive Schools.”
2018-04-10 17:30 - 19:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
New Professors’ Inaugural Lecture Series at NUI Galway Continues:
Public Lecture by Professor Gerry Mac Ruairc: “Caution: Children at School, Perspectives on Learning, Leaders and Learners, Imperatives for Inclusive Schools.”
Professor Gerry Mac Ruairc, the Established Professor of Education and Head of the School of Education.
The lecture is designed to be of interest to educators and parents. Professor Mac Ruairc will address elements in our current school system with a view to identifying ways in which schools can become more inclusive, nurturing spaces for all learners irrespective of class, gender, ability, culture, sexuality or the intersectional interconnected nature of these social categorisations.
The lecture will also focus on exploring ways in which many of the issues identified can be explored differently, and explore ways that change the learning experience of children and young people in school. Explaining how schools can work with diversity and difference and by problematizing the ways in which exclusionary practices succeed in schools, it is possible to identify a number of ways forward.

Celebration Event for Jacopo Bisagni and Rióna Ní Fhrighil
2018-04-11 13:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
An event celebrating the success of Dr Jacopo Bisagni and Dr Rióna Ní Fhrighil who have both been awarded major research grants by the Irish Research Council under the Laureate Scheme.
Please come along to congratulate them and to find out more about their projects.

Archives and Public History: Witnessing the Past
2018-04-11 13:30 - 17:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Public history and the awareness of shared pasts is becoming ever more prevalent. Recent and ongoing commemorations have brought history and its reassessment into public daily discourse. Current politics and society are being shaped by integration of increasingly open and diverse pasts – from archives of manuscripts and print sources to statues, monuments and oral histories. This seminar looks at how we encounter the past of everyday life through current contemporary experience, and reflect on how we interpret the marginalised histories we meet anew through our archives, libraries, museums and public spaces.
For more information see Eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/seminar-archives-and-public-historywitnessing-the-past-tickets-44262956695?aff=ehomecard

History Seminar - David Kilgannon
2018-04-11 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
David Kilgannon
‘I didn’t cause the problem, but by hell I was going to finish it’:

Ursula Fanning, University College Dublin - Gender in Pirandello: Objects, Subjects, Abjects
2018-04-11 17:00 - 19:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
This paper will explore those representations of gender in Pirandello in which his female characters function as objects of representation, while their male counterparts attain subject positions; here I am particularly interested in Pirandello’s configuration of the maternal abject as well as of the paternal. It then moves to those areas where Pirandello challenges our expectations, especially in his gendering of creativity.
Ursula Fanning is Associate Professor and Head of Italian Studies at the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics in University College Dublin. She is a member of the Boards of Doctoral Studies for Italian and for Comparative Romance Literatures at the Istituto Orientale, Naples, as well as of the editorial board of the Women and Gender in Italy book series, published by Classiques Garnier.

Spring 2018 EDEN Peer Review workshop
2018-04-12 13:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
A chairde,
Back by popular demand!
We are pleased to announce the Spring 2018 EDEN Peer Review workshop.
This is an excellent chance to get feedback on works in progress in any form and at any stage of development. Whether it is a chapter draft, a journal article or a conference paper take the opportunity to run your writing by a warm and supportive audience of your peers!
In particularly we are interested in hearing from those 1st/2nd years phd who are submitting papers for the EDEN – or any other conference – this summer and feel their work would benefit from some additional scrutiny.
The deadline for writing submissions will be Monday 9th April, so you have a little extra time to work on a piece for submission. We are also happy to accept expressions of interest for those that may not have writing but would still like to participate by acting as peer reviewers.
For details on how to submit, please see the attached guidelines. And, as ever, if you have any questions don’t hesitate to contact us directly, or at eden.nuigalway@gmail.com.
Looking forward to reading (and reviewing!) your work.
EDEN Steering Committee

Dara Downey (Visiting Fellow) The Lady’s Maid’s Burden.
2018-04-12 15:00 - 16:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Dara Downey (Visiting Fellow) from the School of English in Trinity College Dublin.
Title: The Lady’s Maid’s Burden: Ethnicity, Race, and Servant Status in the Late Nineteenth-Century Ghost Story
This paper examines a range of uncanny tales by late-nineteenth-century American writers, in which domestic servants and slaves feature to a greater or lesser extent. For the most part, these domestic workers, whether employed or enslaved, tend, I argue, to be depicted in ways that draw their racial or ethnic status (primarily Irish/”Celtic”-American or African-American), thereby sharply distinguishing them from their white, Anglo-Protestant, but generally otherwise “unmarked” employers and owners. This paper discusses some of the uses of such figures in American gothic fiction, particularly in relation to the perceived “superstitious” or supernatural status of non-Protestant belief systems, with which these marginal figures are implicitly aligned.

'Wobblies and Fenians: The Australian connections of the Larkin family, 1916-19, and the Irish revolution'
2018-04-12 16:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The Irish Centre for Histories of Labour and Class welcomes Jimmy Yan (Univ. of Melbourne) to give a talk entitled, ‘Wobblies and Fenians: The Australian connections of the Larkin family, 1916-19, and the Irish revolution’.
All welcome.

Picture shows Peter Larkin, brother of ‘Big Jim’, one of so-called ‘Sydney Twelve’ imprisoned for anti-war activism in 1916.

Centre for Antique, Medieval and Pre-Modern Studies (CAMPS) Research Labs.
2018-04-13 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Charles Doyle: The Presocratics and Christian Heretics in the works of Irenaeus and Tertullian

ADEFFI (Association for French and Francophone Studies in Ireland) Postgraduate Symposium 2018
2018-04-14 10:00 - 17:30 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
This annual event, organised by the Association for French and Francophone Studies in Ireland (ADEFFI), provides a supportive scholarly forum for postgraduates in the areas of French and Francophone Studies to present both work in progress and new research and allows participants to meet peers and established researchers in French and Francophone Studies from Ireland, the UK and beyond. This year’s event will be organised in partnership with the Institute for Modern Languages Research (IMLR). The ADEFFI president, Dr. James Hanrahan, will also present the annual Bourse doctorale (Doctoral Bursary) award, which is sponsored by the Irish branch of AMOPA (Association of the Members of the Order of the Academic Palms), to a participant in recognition of the quality of his or her research project.

Wondrous wizardry and a Workshop on Interactive Writing (scholarly, creative and otherwise) by Jason Nelson and Alinta Krauth (Visiting Fellows)
2018-04-16 15:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
“Digital poets/artists/scholars Jason Nelson and Alinta Krauth are presenting a series of workshops for NUI staff, students, and graduates aimed at inspiring you to use interactive digital interfaces to turn your scholarly papers and/or creative writing into interactive outcomes, aimed at publication in interactive journals. Interactive visual interpretation can allow readers a greater insight into your work, and can extend your audience beyond the walls of academia and out into the great Internet beyond! Join us for informal chats about your work and possible collaborations.”

An International seminar organised by the Academic Writing Center
2018-04-17 11:00 - 17:30 | James Hardiman Library, Ireland
This seminar will examine the connection between academic writing and innovation from a variety of perspectives, including the use of the Project Based Learning (PBL) and other innovative methodologies, the switch from assessing to improving student writing, the role of writing centres in academia, the ideology of writing spaces, and new ways to support librarians on the path towards publication. Confirmed Speakers: Tom Deans (University of Connecticut), Steven Engel (University of Michigan) Hellen Fallon (Maynooth University), Adrian Frazier (NUI Galway), Megan Jewel (Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio), Ann Nowak (Touro Law Center) and Laura McLoughlin (NUI Galway).
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/academic-writing-and-innovation-tickets-43974880050 Seminar Updates: http://hardimanlibrary.blogspot.ie/2018/02/academic-writing-and-innovation-seminar.html
