Moore Institute

Architecture at the Edge (AATE) | 'Placemaking' Symposium and Workshops
2017-09-29 00:00 - 2017-10-01 00:00 UTC | NUI Galway / Various locations in Galway
Celebrating the Power of Architecture to Transform Lives

Architecture at the Edge (AATE) is a weekend celebration of exceptional architecture in the West of Ireland. Featuring a series of talks, tours, workshops and exhibitions, the festival invites people of all ages to explore the built environment of their city and county.
Showcasing some of the West of Ireland’s most outstanding architectural features, this weekend-long festival offers an exciting opportunity to explore some of the hidden architectural gems of Galway and Mayo. Join a team of expert guides as they take you on a tour of homes, buildings and spaces that are typically off limits. Architecture at the Edge will encourage a lively debate on standards of urban design, planning and sustainability through public engagement in a variety of events.
For the full programme and list of events, please check out the website link below.
https://www.architectureattheedge.com/

EDEN - ‘Academic Networking and the Elevator Pitch’
2017-09-28 17:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Thursday 28 September at 5:00 PM in The Bridge, Room 1001 HRB!
The theme of the evening will be academic networking, with a workshop on crafting your ‘elevator pitch’ and a chance to put them in practice by introducing yourself to your fellow NUIG PhD peers.
Pints and chats to follow at McGinn’s—all are welcome!

"Office Hours" Drop-in Service
2017-09-28 12:00 - 13:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
For postgraduate research students and academic staff with questions or ideas about:

Using digital technologies to support research
Communicating and promoting their work
Accessing funding to enable their work.

Meet with staff from the Moore Institute, Whitaker Institute, NUI Galway Library and the Research Office. No appointment is necessary.
Thursday September 28th from 12pm – 1pm in The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building.

Graduate Research Seminars in History - John McCafferty followed by launch of Alison Forrestal’s Vincent de Paul
2017-09-27 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
27 September John McCafferty, UCD.
Nosebleeds, Tears and Italianated Hearts: Thinking about the History of Emotions on the Seventeenth-Century Irish Mission
To be followed at 5pm by launch of Alison Forrestal’s Vincent de Paul, the Lazarist Mission, and French Catholic Reform (Oxford University Press, 2017) by our guest speaker.}

Information Event: IRC Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme
2017-09-26 12:00 - 13:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
See here for full information on the scheme http://research.ie/funding/goipg/?f=postgraduate
The session will be facilitated by Prof. Dan Carey, Director of the Moore Institute.
The Moore Institute will provide a reading service for those who wish to avail of it, the timeline is as follows:
Deadline for receipt of near final draft applications (fully copy edited) – 4 October 2017
Applications to be returned to applicant – 18 October 2017
This will give the applicants two weeks to incorporate the feedback into their applications.

Culture Night
2017-09-22 18:00 - 20:30 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
This year’s culture night takes place on the 22 September. Culture night is an annual all-island public event that celebrates culture, creativity and the arts. The James Hardiman Library is holding an evening of talks and an exhibition to celebrate culture. The focus of the talks is on community development with the focus on materials from the Muintir na Tíre collection as well as volumes from the 19th century printed collections.
The James Hardiman Library’s collections hold a rich source of material on local and community studies. In the archives we have collections from The Abbey Theatre, The Gate Theatre, Professor Kevin Boyle, Brendan Duddy, Ritchie-Pickow, Éamon de Buitléar, Tim Robinson and Druid Theatre company to name but a few. The James Hardiman Library has recently acquired the archive of Muintir na Tíre, a national voluntary organisation dedicated to promoting the process of community development. A series of blogs have been written about the work to date of making the collection accessible for researchers.
The Muintir na Tíre talk will look at Rural Ireland and Landmark two publications of Muintir na Tíre and discuss how they promoted community development before and after the United Nations definition in 1958. These will also be on display in the exhibition. Community development in Galway and the West of Ireland will be discussed as well during the talk. Much earlier attempts at community development in Galway will be addressed in the talk on James Hardiman and his involvement with organisations such as the Royal Galway Institution.
Venue: Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Talks:
18.30: “Muintir na Tíre Periodical literature”. Speaker: Fiona Kearney, Archivist
19.30: “James Hardiman, historian of Galway” Speaker: Marie Boran, Special Collections Librarian
We hope you can come along and join us for the evening

CAMPS Lab
2017-09-22 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Friday 22nd September: Literary Windows: Imitative Series and Clusters from Classical to Early Modern Literature. A round table discussion featuring Michael Clarke, Yiannis Doukas, Peter Kelly, and Lindsay Ann Reid
Light Lunch served

'Animation in Ireland'- With Heather Grace Mills
2017-09-21 14:30 | Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway, Ireland
‘Animation in Ireland’- With Heather Grace Mills

Thursday Sep 21, 2.30pm, Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway

Heather Grace Mills is an Animation Producer and Line Producer working for Telegael in Connemara, in the West of Ireland. A graduate of both GMIT (BA Film & TV Production) and NUIG (MA Film Studies: Theory and Practice), Heather has worked in Animation Production for more than a decade across a range of animation formats including traditional 2D animation, 3D-CGI, stop-motion puppet animation, and sand animation, for both series and feature films. Heather is currently producing, for Telegael, the first stop-motion feature film ever to be made in Ireland, “Captain Morten & The Spider Queen”, a coproduction with Estonia (Nukufilm) and Belgium (Grid Animation) featuring an all-star Irish cast including Brendan Gleeson, Pauline McGlynn, Ciarán Hinds, Tommy Tiernan and Jason Byrne. Heather’s presentation will include clips and behind-the-scenes footage of “Captain Morten” and other projects in development, and the talk will also provide an overview of animation production, touching upon funding, training, international coproduction and distribution.

Öcalan’s Book: “Capitalism: 'The Age of Unmasked Gods and Naked Kings' Manifesto for a Democratic Civilization by Havin Guneser
2017-09-21 13:30 - 14:30 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
ÖCALAN’S BOOK: “CAPITALISM THE AGE OF UNMASKED GODS AND NAKED KINGS. MANIFESTO FOR A DEMOCRATIC CIVILIZATION”
Presentation by Havin Guneser
Journalist and Activist

Thursday 21st of September 2017, 1:30-2:30 pm
The Bridge Room 1001, First Floor Hardiman Research Building (main library), NUIG
Sponsored by the Irish Centre for Human Rights

This presentation will focus upon the Kurdish struggle, the PKK (Kurdistan’s Workers Party) and Abdullah Öcalan, who is the founding political leader of the PKK. Öcalan has been imprisoned since 1999 on Imrali Island, and from prison he has published several books on the Kurdish struggle. As an example, Öcalan’s thought has been the platform upon which the democratic confederalism in Rojava (West Kurdistan/Syrian Kurdistan) has been built.
In this presentation, Havin Guneser, will speak on Öcalan’s most recent book “Capitalism: The Age of Unmasked Gods and Naked Kings”, which is the second book in a new five-volume work called Manifesto for a Democratic Civilization. Together, they present a synthesis of Öcalan’s political thinking. This volume completes his journey through the history of civilizations, preparing the ground for the upcoming volume entitled “The Sociology of Freedom”.
Havin Guneser is an engineer, journalist and a women‘s rights activist. She is one of the spokespersons of the International Initiative “Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan – Peace in Kurdistan” and the translator on Abdullah Öcalan’s books.

All welcome!

Digital Scholarship Seminar - "Laugh and be fat: remapping the literary canon with the Digital Miscellanies Index" A talk by Abigail Williams
2017-09-21 13:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
The opening event of the Autumn 2017 series of Digital Scholarship Seminar takes place on Thursday 21 September at 1pm, and features a talk on digital representations of popular early modern poetry collections by Abigail Williams of the University of Oxford. Prof Williams discusses the Digital Miscellanies Index, a Leverhulme-funded online database which can be used to track the changing fortunes of poems, authors and genres in compilations published across the period 1580-1780. As ever, all are welcome.
1pm | Thursday 21 September 2017 | Moore Institute Room G010 | Facebook event page
Abigail Williams (St Peter’s College, University of Oxford)
Laugh and be fat: remapping the literary canon with the Digital Miscellanies Index.
The Digital Miscellanies Index is a Leverhulme-funded online database of popular early modern poetry collections, which can be used to track the changing fortunes of poems, authors and genres in compilations published across the period 1580-1780. As such, it offers a new data-driven reception history for literature of the era. In my talk I will discuss the evolution of the project over a decade, and the kinds of insights it has generated. The scale and range of the evidence collected in the DMI challenges many longstanding assumptions about authorship, anonymity, and reception. But the project has also involved responding to problems and opportunities unimaginable when it began, and I will also use the talk to consider the changing landscape of digital humanities, and the challenges of creating flexible and sustainable resources.

Abigail Williams is Professor of English Literature & Lord White Tutorial Fellow at St Peter’s College, University of Oxford. Her current research on eighteenth century literature includes focuses on ways in which books are creatively misread, and on the history of reading aloud in the home. Her new monograph, The Social Life of Books, is a study on the latter topic.

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EDEN - Teaching Advice Session
2017-09-19 13:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Tuesday September 19th, 1-2pm in the Bridge Room – Teaching Advice Session
Bring your lunch and yourselves to this lunchtime session on teaching advice, hosted by EDEN. We will be joined by Dr. Miriam Haughton (Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance), Professor Lionel Pilkington (School of English), a representative from CELT (Centre of Excellence for Teaching and Learning), and Dr. Sarah Corrigan (Classics). They will be talking us through various aspects of teaching across disciplines and levels. There will be plenty of time for questions and please feel free to spread the word across disciplines. This is a great chance to give your teaching skills a boost at the start of the semester.

“At School with The Man Who Knew Too Much” A Lecture by Murray Pomerance
2017-09-15 14:00 - 16:00 | ‘Huston Main’, Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway, Ireland
“At School with The Man Who Knew Too Much” A Lecture by Murray Pomerance
Sponsored by the Discipline of English and the Huston School of Film & Digital Media
15 September 2017, from 2-4 pm in Huston Main

Murray Pomerance is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Ryerson University. He is the author of The Man Who Knew Too Much (BFI, 2016), A King of Infinite Space (Oberon, 2017), Moment of Action: Riddles of Cinematic Performance (Rutgers, 2016), Marnie (BFI, 2014), The Economist (Oberon, 2014), The Eyes Have It: Cinema and the Reality Effect (Rutgers, 2013), Alfred Hitchcock’s America (Polity, 2013), Tomorrow (Oberon, 2012), Michelangelo Red Antonioni Blue: Eight Reflections on Cinema (California, 2011), Edith Valmaine (Oberon, 2010), The Horse Who Drank the Sky: Film Experience Beyond Narrative and Theory (Rutgers 2008), Johnny Depp Starts Here (Rutgers 2005), An Eye for Hitchcock (Rutgers 2004), Savage Time (Oberon 2005), and Magia D’Amore (Sun and Moon, 1999). His book Ici Commence Johnny Depp was published by Éditions Capricci in 2010; and Johnny Depp: Betrachtungen zu einem Schauspieler appeared from Reinhard Weber Verlag in 2006.
He has edited or co-edited numerous volumes, including George Cukor: Hollywood Master (Edinburgh, 2015), The Last Laugh: Strange Humors of Cinema (Wayne State, 2013), Hollywood’s Chosen People: The Jewish Experience in American Cinema (Wayne State, 2012), Shining in Shadows: Movie Stars of the 2000s (Rutgers 2011 (Rutgers 2006), From Hobbits to Hollywood: Essays on Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings (Rodopi 2006), American Cinema of the 1950s: Themes and Variations (Rutgers 2005), Where the Boys Are: Cinemas of Masculinity and Youth (Wayne State 2005).

‘Paddy Trench: Galwegian, activist and artist’: ICHLC seminar
2017-09-14 16:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
‘Paddy Trench: Galwegian, activist and artist’:

ICHLC seminar followed by drinks reception to mark donation of significant archival material.
14 September, 4 pm, The Bridge, Hardiman Building, NUI Galway.
The first seminar of the Irish Centre for the Histories of the Labour and Class (Moore Institute) for the 2017-18 academic year takes place next Thursday, 14 September, at 4 pm in The Bridge (Room 1001), Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway. The subject is Paddy Trench, and the speaker is his nephew, Brian Trench (School of Communications, DCU).

Paddy Trench was born in Galway, the son of Wilbraham Trench, Professor of History, English and Mental Science, at QCG. Though the family moved to Dublin while he was still quite young, Paddy always identified as a Galwegian. A talented artist, a poet, and an engaged journalist, he was a prominent figure in bohemian Dublin in the late 1920s. Socially and politically conscious, he was in Spain in the early stages of the Spanish Civil War but chronic ill-health obliged him to leave. Back in Ireland, he was the driving force behind the first Trotskyist movement in the country, while simultaneously active in the Dublin Labour Party. When he died in a Swiss sanatorium in 1948, he was only 43 years of age.
The seminar is followed immediately by a reception to mark the donation to NUI Galway and the ICHLC of significant archival material relating to socialist and kindred movements in Ireland and Scotland. Tom Sherry’s donation is of his father’s collection of Labour, Anarchist, Communist, and Trotskyist periodicals from the late 1930s and 1940s (to some of which Paddy Trench contributed articles). Brian Trench’s donation relates to the Socialist Workers’ Movement in Ireland in the 1970s. Mary Glynn’s donation relates to the Militant Tendency In Ireland in the 1970s and 1980s.

In Conversation with Bob Quinn
2017-09-14 14:30 | ‘Huston Main’, Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway, Ireland
In Conversation with Bob Quinn
‘Huston Main’, Huston School of Film & Digital Media, Thursday September 14th, 2:30pm

James Thurber wrote of himself: ‘Easy to rouse, he is hard to quiet and people usually just go away.’ The same might be said of Bob Quinn. Under the title ‘Cinegael’, and for nearly four decades, in words and images, Bob Quinn has recorded life in the West of Ireland, especially in the Conamara Gaeltacht. He has been called a ‘talented eccentric’ (by Ken Gray, Irish Times) a ‘maverick’ (by corporate RTE & the late Jim Kemmy), and was a key figure in the emergence of a distinctive Irish film culture from the 1970s onwards. He has filmed and photographed from Tatarstan to Morocco, from India to the United States. His work has been exhibited from Galway to Los Angeles, from Moscow to Missouri. Apart from his film work, he has been published by Quartet Books (London & New York), O’Brien Press, (Dublin), Brandon Press, (Kerry), Lilliput Press (Dublin) and Cló Iar-Chonnacht, (Galway).
The film and video company, Cinegael, which with Seosamh Ó Cuaig and Toni Cristofides he founded in 1973, concentrated on the Gaeltacht of Conamara. Quinn still sees this Irish-speaking area in the West of Ireland as the grain of sand which, in the William Morris sense, contains and illuminates the world. Cinegael’s original intention was to reinforce the identity of this threatened linguistic minority: the group soon realised that in modern times man’s destiny is stated in political terms. Inspired by the the National Film Board of Canada’s Challenge for Change programme and using pioneering closed-circuit TV techniques it recorded local events and controversies. It mediated successfully between local opinion and public bodies. Gradually Cinegael began to engage with the larger polity. It evolved into a maker of one-off film documentaries and dramas – including acclaimed films Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoire (1975) Poitín (1977) The Atlantean Trilogy (1981/1984) and Budawanny (1987) – which were all screened on RTE, as well as on BBC, Channel Four, S4C, SBC etc. and which achieved other international recognition. In 1981 Quinn earned the Spirit of the Festival Award at the Celtic Film Festival. In 1984 he won a Jacob’s TV Award. In 2009 he was awarded the ‘Director’s Choice’ award at the Boston Irish Film Festival (BIFF). In 1988 he was the first film maker to be elected a member of Aosdána, the Irish Parliament of Artists. (In the same year he met Colonel Ghadafi.) In 2001 Quinn was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Irish Film Institute and in 2012 he was awarded the Foras Na Gaeilge SDGI Award for Outstanding Work as a Director in the Irish Language.

'The Irish in Latin America' A seminar and exhibition launch
2017-09-13 15:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Speakers:
Dr. Margaret Brehony (NUIG)
The challenges of writing the Irish into Latin American History

Prof. Nuala Finnegan (UCC)
Framing Irishness: Reflections on the Irish in Latin America Exhibition

Prof. Bill Richardson (NUIG)
Borges and Ireland

3:00pm
Wednesday 13th September
Bridge Seminar Room
Hardiman Research Building

Book Launch - 'Re-Place - Irish Theatre Environments' by Lisa FitzGerald
2017-09-07 16:00 - 17:30 | O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, Studio 1, NUI Galway, Ireland
BOOK LAUNCH
Please join us at the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, NUI Galway for the launch of
‘Re-Place – Irish Theatre Environments’ by Lisa FitzGerald (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2017)
The book will be launched by Prof Patrick Lonergan on Thursday 7 September at 16.00 in Studio 1.
All are welcome!

BOOK DESCRIPTION
What role does nature play in the cultural world of the theatre? Is the auditorium not a natural environment, and how can theatre and nature aesthetics co-exist in the productive expression of performance? Re-Place: Irish Theatre Environments proposes a new way of thinking about Irish theatre: one that challenges established boundaries between nature and culture and argues for theatre performances to be seen as conceptual ecological environments. Broadening the scope of theatre environments to encompass radiophonic and digital spaces, Re-Place is a timely interrogation of how we understand performance history. This book examines the work, both as text and in production, of three canonical Irish playwrights, J. M. Synge, Samuel Beckett and Brian Friel, and looks at how theatre documentation can further the idea of a natural performance environment. The questions under consideration extend Irish theatre history into the field of the environmental humanities and draw on new materialist discourse to offer exciting and innovative ways to approach performance.

Lisa FitzGerald is an environmental historian and ecocritic whose research interests include the role of nature in theatre and performance, environmental art practice, eco-digital art, urban ecologies and the relationship between nature and technology. She holds a PhD from the National University of Ireland, Galway and is a fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich. Her forthcoming project, Eco-Digital Art: Nature and New Media Aesthetics, examines the ecological implications of artistic representations of the natural world in digital and new media art and the emergence of ‘new natures’ from within the digital sphere.

https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/79230?rskey=xUAUj3&result=6

Conference – COST Action ‘Citizen's Health through public-private Initiatives: Public health, Market and Ethical perspectives’ (CHIP ME
2017-09-04 - 2017-09-06 | Aula Maxima The Quadrangle NUI Galway, Ireland
COST Action IS1303 (CHIPME) Final Conference, September 4-6 2017 (Aula Maxima, Quadrangle, NUI Galway)
COST Action IS1303 (CHIPME) is a high capacity network formed to monitor, and offer guidance for, developments and emerging initiatives in genetic testing, research and healthcare throughout Europe. With members from 26 COST countries, this community of researchers and stakeholders brings together critical expertise in bioethics, ELSI analysis, genetic science, data sharing, information and communication technology, public-private collaborations and patient centred initiatives (PCI). During our final conference, we will be looking back at the work of the Action as well as looking into emerging developments that will be of interest to our field for the future. Our discussions will be dedicated to the reflection on the Action theme, the impact of recent innovations in the field of genomics and emerging challenges with regard to the following themes:

Challenges of the expanded availability of genomic information
Consent, return of results and new genomic technologies
Public health and Private sector involvement
Data-sharing and ICT developments
Participatory and public engagement in genetics, science and research
New ethical, legal and regulatory challenges: the case of gene editing

SPEAKERS
Our speakers include Professor Pascal Borry (KU Leuven), Dr Deborah Mascalzoni (Uppsala University), Ms Isabelle Budin Ljøsne (University of Oslo), Dr Danya Vears (KU Leuven), Dr Michele Loi (University of Zurich), Ms Heidi Beate Bentzen (University of Oslo), Dr Giovanni De Grandis (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Professor Timo Minssen (University of Copenhagen) Dr Ana Nordberg (University of Copenhagen), Dr Heidi C. Howard (Uppsala University), Professor Klaus Hoeyer (University of Copenhagen), Professor Mikko Rask (University of Helsinki), Ms Brígida Riso (ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon), Dr Lucia Galvagni (Bruno Kessler Foundation) & Dr Oliver Feeney (NUI Galway/Ghent University) and more to be confirmed.

OVERVIEW

MC meeting [CHIPME only]: Sept 4th @2pm
Main Conference starts: Sept 4th @ 3pm
Main Conference ends: Sept 5th @ 3pm
Workshop on future research [CHIPME only]: Sept 5th @ 3.30pm
CHIPME Work Meetings:

Sept 5th (5.00pm-6.30pm)
Sept 6th (9.30am – 12pm)

WHERE
The main venue will be the Aula Maxima, Quadrangle, NUI Galway.
The main conference is open to the public and all are welcome.
For more information, and to register for free, please go to here and check out our website.
For more information, please contact feeney.oli@gmail.com or heike.felzmann@nuigalway.ie

Book Launch - Conor McNamara "The Dublin Lockout, 1913" New Perspectives on Class War & it's Legacy
2017-08-31 20:00 - 22:00 | Galway Mechanics Institute, 6-8 Middle St, Galway, Ireland

7th Annual Tudor & Stuart Ireland Interdisciplinary Conference
2017-08-18 10:00 - 2017-08-19 17:30 | Seminar Rooms G010 & G011, Hardiman Research Building
***Registration for this year’s conference will close on 15 August***
Click here to register
Click here to download the conference programme
The 7th Annual Tudor & Stuart Ireland Interdisciplinary Conference will be held at the Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway, on 18-19 August 2017.
This year’s programme features plenary addresses by Professor Patricia Palmer (Maynooth University) and Professor Chris Maginn (Fordham University), as well as a special panel session, ‘Visualising Early Modern Ireland’.
Registration costs €20 for speakers/students/unwaged and €30 for fully waged.
The conference dinner will take place on Friday, 18 August at 7pm in Kirby’s Restaurant, Cross Street Lower, Galway. The cost of dinner is €35 (3 courses and a glass of wine/beer).
For information about travelling to Galway click here.
For information about accommodation in Galway click here.

Should you have any questions regarding the 2017 conference, please do not hesitate to contact the organisers at 2017@tudorstuartireland.com.
This year’s conference is organised by Evan Bourke (English, NUI Galway), Raina Howe (History, NUI Galway), Ioanna Kyvernitou (English, NUI Galway) and Matt McGinty (History, NUI Galway).

The 7th Tudor & Stuart Ireland Interdisciplinary Conference is generously supported by the College of Arts, Social Sciences & Celtic Studies, NUI Galway, the Moore Institute, NUI Galway, the Discipline of English, NUI Galway, the Discipline of History, NUI Galway and Marsh’s Library.

"Women in History, Politics and Culture" The Path Breaking Women Event
2017-07-21 11:00 - 15:30 | Seminar Room GO11, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
A mini-conference accompanying the exhibition
Path Breaking Women of NUI Galway: 1912-1922 and Beyond
All welcome, places limited. To RSVP and for more information contact: lydia.kelly@nuigalway.ie

Programme
11.00am: Registration – Tea & Coffee
11.30am: Chair – Dr. Sarah-Anne Buckley
Speaker: Dr. Nadia Claire Smith, ‘Mary Donovan O’Sullivan and Síle Ni Cinnéide: Path-breaking women historians’
12.30-1.00pm: Lunch break
1.00-1.15pm: Dr. Louis de Paor, ‘Remembering Caitlin Maude’
1.15–1.45pm: Performance – ‘The poetry of Caitlin Maude’ read by Caitríona Ní Chonaola
1.45–2.00pm: Tea & Coffee
2.00–3.00pm: Chair – Prof. Niamh Reilly
Speaker: Dr. Claire McGing, ‘Parliamentary pioneers: the political careers of Celia Lynch and Maureen O’Carroll’
3.00pm: Closing

Speakers and Chairs
Nadia Clare Smith is the author of A ‘Manly Study’? Irish Women Historians, 1868-1949 and Dorothy Macardle: A Life. She received her PhD in history from Boston College, where she has also taught. A specialist in modern Irish history, her work has been recognized by the Fulbright Commission and the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Sarah-Anne Buckley, is lecturer in history at the National University of Ireland Galway specialising in the history of childhood and youth; and women and gender in Ireland. Author of The Cruelty Man: Child Welfare, the NSPCC and the State in Ireland, 1889-1956 (MUP, 2013), she was recently a co-editor of a special edition of the Journal of Childhood and Youth and Soathar: the Journal of the Irish Labour History Society, of which she is an editor. She is President of the Women’s History Association of Ireland, Chair of the Irish History Student’s Association and co-director of the Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour and Class at NUI Galway.
Louis de Paor is Director of the Centre for Irish Studies at NUI Galway. Leabhar na hathghabhála/Poems of repossession, his bilingual anthology of twentieth-century poetry in Irish with English translations, was an Irish Times Book of the Year in 2016 and has been described by the Sunday Herald in Scotland as ‘one of the most important anthologies of its kind this century’.
Caitríona Ní Chonaola is from Camus, Co. Galway. As well as writing plays, songs and ‘agallaimh beirte’, she acts. While teaching Gaeilge at Memorial University Newfoundland, she won the Story Slam competition at St. John’s Storytelling Festival 2014. Her song, Deartháirín Óg mo Chroí won the Pan Celtic Festival in 2003, was sung by Nora Ghriallais at the prestigious Corn Uí Riada competition: Oireachtas na Gaeilge, and can often be heard on RnaG. Her published works include Incubus by Cló Iar Chonnachta and Scéal na Bó by Breacadh. She teaches Gaeilge at Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge, NUI Galway and regularly does voice overs on TG4 cartoons. She was born in the same Gaeltacht area, went to the same secondary school, performed in the same theatres and her friends would say that she has the same passion for the Irish Language as Caitlín Maude. Although Ní Chonaola never met Maude in person, she has fond memories of being ‘silenced’ by her parents during a Sean Nós song on the radio by her,’shhh, tá Caitlín Maude ag gabháil fhoinn’.
Claire McGing is based at Maynooth University, where she lectures and researches in the Department of Geography and is also the university’s Athena SWAN project o‑ cer. Her main research interests lie in the history and operation of male-gendered organizational cultures, particularly Irish political parties, and the measures that can be taken to promote gender equality in such environments. Her most recent research focuses on the early history of women in Dáil Éireann. She has published a number of articles and book chapters on gender representation in Irish politics, including co-written chapters in the prestigious ‘How Ireland Voted’ series in 2011 and 2016.
Niamh Reilly is Established Professor of Political Science and Sociology at NUI Galway
The Path Breaking Women project, led by Niamh Reilly, was supported by Irish Research Council New Foundations Scheme 2016. It is co-sponsored by the School of Political Science and Sociology, the Centre for Global Women’s Studies, Gender ARC and the Moore Institute at NUI Galway. The Exhibition runs until September 2017 in the library exhibition space at NUI Galway. For
more information see: www.nuigalway.ie/pathbreakingwomen

War & Revolution: Galway Centenary Conversations
2017-07-19 20:00 - 21:30 | Clarin College, Athenry, Ireland
The final event in the War & Revolution: Galway Centenary Conversations, public history lecture series takes place in Clarin College, Athenry on Wednesday 19 July at 8 pm. Conor McNamara and Martin O’Donoghue of the Moore Institute will be among a panel of speakers discussing the geography of revolution in County Galway, 1917-21.
Event is free and all are welcome.

The Power of Listening Workshop
2017-07-05 10:00 - 13:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
All Welcome!

Galway Centenary Conversations -a series of free public history events organised by the Moore Institute in conjunction with the Galway County Council
2017-06-28 20:00 | Station House Theatre, Clifden
Galway Centenary Conversations – a series of free public history events organised by the Moore Institute in conjunction with the Galway County Council takes places in the Station House Theatre, Clifden on Wednesday 28 June, at 8pm. Topics to be examined this week include the aftermath of the 1916 Rebellion; the conscription crisis of 1918 and the 1918 General Election. Speakers include Dr Conor McNamara (Moore Institute); Kathleen Villiers-Tuthill (author) and Micheal Micheal O Fatharthaigh (DBS). Contact Dr Conor McNamara for further details: conor.mcnamara@nuigalway.ie

"Remembering Margaret Heavey" a 'Path Breaking Women' Event
2017-06-28 11:00 - 13:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
As part of the Path Breaking Women Exhibition, you are warmly invited to “Remembering Margaret Heavey”.
With keynote presentation by Dr Pádraic Moran, lecturer in Classics NUI Galway, followed by a roundtable discussion on the many contributions of Margaret Heavey as a classics scholar, educationalist and long-time member of the NUI Galway community.
All welcome!

Dr Ruth Canning on “Trust, Desert, Power and skill to serue”: The Old English and Military Identities in late Elizabethan Ireland
2017-06-27 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Focussing on the martial services and petitions of Patrick Plunkett, Baron of Dunsany, during the Nine Years’ War, this paper will explore how members of Ireland’s Old English Pale community drew on military traditions and personal service as the chief means of articulating political allegiances, grievances, and their rights as crown subjects. It will address the increasing displacement of Old Englishmen from the crown’s military ranks alongside their pleas to be recognised as “the old experienced learned with bloody hands”. It will also highlight their unique status as “Englishmen” living on a distant Tudor frontier and how a constant state of military preparedness shaped individual and collective mentalities. By doing so, this paper aims to explore how an emerging Old English identity was shaped and defined by its military traditions and its martial men.
Moore Institute Visiting Fellow Dr Ruth A. Canning is a Lecturer in History at Liverpool Hope University. Prior to this, she held a Marie Curie International Research Fellowship with School of History, University College Cork, and the School of Canadian Irish Studies at Concordia University, Montreal. A historian of early modern Ireland with a special focus on Ireland’s Nine Years’ War (1594-1603), Ruth’s forthcoming monograph, The Old English in Early Modern Ireland: The Palesmen and the Nine Years’ War, 1594-1603 (Boydell & Brewer, 2018), examines the socio-political impact of war on identity formation amongst Ireland’s minority Old English population.

Humanitarian History: Reflections on Somalia
2017-06-22 - 2017-06-23 | Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway
This workshop brings together practitioners and academics to reflect on humanitarian action in Somalia since the 1990s. What did and didn’t work in the field? What contextual factors shaped the practice of humanitarian aid? What lessons can we draw from that experience for contemporary policy-making?
The workshop is organised by the School of Humanities, NUI Galway, in collaboration with Trócaire, and is funded by the Irish Research Council New Foundations Scheme.
Registration for the event is free, but places are limited. To register, and for details of the programme, go to https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/humanitarian-history-reflections-on-somalia-tickets-34726296287

For further details, contact:
Dr Kevin O’Sullivan (NUI Galway) – kevin.k.osullivan@nuigalway.ie
Réiseal Ní Chéilleachair (Trócaire) – reiseal.nicheilleachair@trocaire.org

Neural Plausibility of Decision Making Models – Panel Discussion
2017-06-21 13:00 - 14:00 | AMB 067, Arts Millennium Building (Psychology)
Neural Plausibility of Decision Making Models – Panel Discussion AMB 067, Arts Millennium Building (Psychology) 1-2pm Wednesday the 21st of June
There is little doubt that complex cognition depends on the brain. However, in order for us to model human behaviour, especially the complexities of decision making, we need to make decisions about how to construct such models and whether they should be more influenced by the limitations of the neural system or by reliably observed cognitive and behavioural patterns. Our panel discussion will introduce focus on the “attractor” model of decision making developed by KongFatt Wong-Lin and colleagues, which has been derived from known neural principles. Dr Wong-Lin will introduce his model and the rationale behind his approach. Dr Maria Dauvermann, a cognitive neuroscientist, and Dr Nick Tosh, a philosopher, will discuss the empirical and conceptual implications of Dr Wong-Lin’s model. The discussion will be moderated by Dr Denis O’Hora.

War & Revolution Road Show: Galway Centenary Conversations
2017-06-20 20:00 - 21:30 | Craughwell Community Hall, Ireland
The Moore Institute, in co-operation with the Galway County Council, presents the second in their six parts series of public history events in Craughwell Community Hall on Tuesday 20 June at 8 pm. This week’s event features three speakers and is free to the public. The panel features: Leona Armstrong (NUIG), ‘The Forgotten Voices of Galway Cumann na mBan’; John Cunningham (NUIG), ‘A rebel from Templemartin’; Tony Varley (NUIG), ‘Tom Kenny and the 1916 Rising’.
For further details contact Conor McNamara, Moore Institute, conor.mcnamara@nuigalway.ie

#HERSTORY SALON: An evening of celebration and reflection
2017-06-20 18:00 - 20:00 | Aula Maxima Lower, NUI Galway, Ireland
GALWAY#HERSTORY SALON
An evening of celebration and reflection- Tuesday 20 June 2017, 6–‐8pm NUI Galway –Aula Maxima Lower
Herstory is a new movement dedicated to ensuring the stories of women from the past, present and future will now be heard and never lost again. Since its foundation by Melanie Lynch in 2015, Herstory has been instrumental in helping to highlight forgotten histories of Irish women through performance, exhibitions and salons. This evening of celebration and reflection will feature contributions from the university’s academic and artistic community. Through short presentations and informal discussion, those gathered will explore women in literature, history, society, dance, theatre, and visual art.
Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha –A snapshot of four female poets in pre–‐tenth–‐century Ireland
Erin McCarthy –RECIRC: The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550–‐1700
Evan Bourke – A case study: Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh
Muireann O’Cinneide – Women Writing War: Ireland 1880–‐1922
Bronagh McShane – The Women’s History Association of Ireland
Carol Ballantine – ‘It’s always her fault’: Stigma and gendered shame
Bernadette Divilly – Ciúnas contemplative dance video and discussion
Sarah O’Toole – What Foremothers? play discussion
Justine Nakase –#WakingtheFeministsWest
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Questions/group discussion
Light refreshments
Art exhibition Erstwhile: works by Dagmar Drabent, Bridget Guest, and Marina Wild (on display throughout the evening)
This is a free event. All are welcome.
Contact: Felicity Maxwell felicity.maxwell@nuigalway.ie / Mary McGill m.mcgill4@nuigalway.ie
www.herstory.ie
@HerstoryIreland
#Herstory
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A joint talk with Dr Vicky Angelaki & Dr Beatriz Kopschitz Bastos
2017-06-20 13:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Irish-Austrian Exchanges on the Stage: Performing the Archive with Dr. Vicky Angelaki
What does it mean to perform the archive? The lived historiography of theatre captures the embodied experience rather than logging decorporealised data. The archive is performed in two ways: first synchronically, as lived history is created through our staging and spectatorial choices and then diachronically, as we collect the traces of this presence and self-performance. The choices that we make in theatrical ‘adoption’, adaptation, appropriation, consumption and ultimately intercultural exchange stand to reveal as much about our personal and collective self- and nationhood as any given country’s own cultural production. Theatrical production is at its most riveting when the lines between ‘us’ and ‘them’ or the prototypical – and problematic – binary of ‘I’ and ‘Other’ become troubled, and blurred.
In this paper I will concentrate on Austro-Irish theatre exchanges, particularly focusing on archives/performance histories of the two capitals, Dublin and Vienna. The paper will ask questions such as: to what extent do the similarities of the two countries (socio-politically; culturally; artistically) broker a fruitful process of exchange? Is this exchange equitable? What do the absences in the archive stand to reveal – equally loudly as the presences – about national performances?
The paper will begin with an overview of key facts and moments in the two countries’ cultural exchanges before concentrating on the seminal contemporary example of Elfriede Jelinek’s (Nobel Prize, 2004) adaptations of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest (Ernst ist das Leben, 2005) and An Ideal Husband (Der ideale Mann, 2011).
Dr Vicky Angelaki is Associate Professor of Theatre at the University of Reading, UK. Her latest monograph, Social and Political Theatre in 21st Century Britain: Staging Crisis (Bloomsbury) was published in 2017. Her research specialisms include modern and contemporary British and European theatre, the crossovers between theatre and science, translation, adaptation, spectatorship and citizenship, as well as performance, critical/cultural theories, philosophy and sociology. She has published extensively in these areas, major publications including The Plays of Martin Crimp: Making Theatre Strange (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), Contemporary British Theatre: Breaking New Ground (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and the special issue of Contemporary Theatre Review titled ‘Dealing with Martin Crimp’ (24.3). She is currently writing Theatre & Environment for Palgrave Macmillan and co-editing The Cambridge Companion to British Playwriting since 1945 (with Prof. Dan Rebellato). Angelaki also co-edits the new series Adaptation in Theatre and Performance (Palgrave Macmillan, launching 2017).

Cia Ludens in Performance: From Memory to Documentary with Dr Beatriz Kopschitz Bastos
Theatrical translation can be regarded as a meeting, and an approximation, of different cultures on stage, and as analytical exercise in learning about oneself, that is to say, the local culture, through the lenses of the other party – the other (foreign) culture. Theatrical translation is, in itself, a work of playwriting, which requires adjustment of the text, and of extra-textual elements in a performance, to local theatrical practices, as well as fine adjustment of rhythms and sounds, in the cross-cultural encounter on stage.
This paper aims to present a capsule description of the work of Cia Ludens, a theatre company based in São Paulo, Brazil, dedicated to the translation and performance of Irish drama and Irish-related material as a way of bridging gaps of space and culture between Ireland and Brazil. The paper focuses on three productions – Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa (Dançando em Lúnassa – 2004); Tom Murphy’s Bailegangaire (Balangangueri: o lugar onde ninguém mais ri – 2011-12); and Domingos Nunez’s The Two Deaths of Roger Casement (As duas mortes de Roger Casement – 2016) – and evaluates the company’s intercultural or cross-cultural practice, including approaches that have varied from playing with memory, to fusing original texts and recurring to documentary theatrical style.
Dr Beatriz Kopschitz Bastos is a faculty member of the Postgraduate Programme in English at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, and producer and dramaturge with Cia Ludens, a theatre company based in São Paulo, dedicated to the production of Irish theatre. She has a PhD in Linguistic and Literary Studies in English from the University of São Paulo and serves as an executive member of IASIL, for which she is also the Chair of the Bibliography Committee. Her publications as co-editor and organizer include: Ilha do Desterro – Contemporary Irish Theatre (Florianópolis: EdUFSC, 2010); Coleção Brian Friel (São Paulo: Hedra, 2013); and The Road to God Knows Where, by Alan Gilsenan (Florianópolis: EdUFSC, 2015), volume 3 of Ireland on Film: Screenplays and Critical Contexts. She is currently working on the organization of a collection of Tom Murphy’s plays translated into Portuguese and on volume 4 of the Ireland on Film series – Maeve, by Pat Murphy.
