Book Launch: The Prehistoric Archaeology of Ireland
2023-09-14 17:30 - 18:30 (Europe/Dublin) | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & streamed live on Zoom
Invitation
Dr Carleton Jones and the Moore Institute
cordially invite you to the launch by Conor Newman of the new edition of
The Prehistoric Archaeology of Ireland
Author: Professor John Waddell

IRC Postgraduate Information Session
2023-09-15 13:00 - 14:30 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & streamed live on Zoom
The Moore Institute will host an information session on the
IRC Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme
on Friday, September 15 @ 1:00pm in Room G010
Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building.
The session will be facilitated by Dr. Lindsay Reid, Vice Dean for Graduate Studies.
Full details on the funding call can be found here.
Closing date for applications is 12 October, 2023 @ 4pm.
We would encourage all interested applicants and potential supervisors to attend.
Should anyone wish to attend online, please contact us directly and we will forward a link.

‘Artificial Intelligence: Ethical Aspects’: an ENLIGHT lecture
2023-09-20 13:00 - 14:00 | online via Zoom
The rapid development of AI and its expanding application areas are not only raising new questions but also awakening more and more uncertainties. In the upcoming lecture, four experts from ENLIGHT universities, including Heike Felzmann, University of Galway, will share their insights from current research on AI and Ethics.
All are welcome to join the lecture. You can register and participate in a Zoom Session or tune in on the ENLIGHT Youtube Channel where the lecture will be broadcasted live.
Presenters:

Heike Felzmann (University of Galway): Engagement with Artificial Agents
Mikael Laaksoharju & Thomas Lennerfors (Uppsala University): “What is the problem to which AI chatbots are the solution? AI ethics through Don Ihde’s embodiment, hermeneutic, alterity, and background relationships”
Nathan Wood (University of Göttingen): Autonomous Weapons and Responsibility for War Crimes

The Fráma Eile roundtable series
2023-09-21 16:00 - 17:30 | Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies, University of Galway or online via Zoom
The Fráma Eile roundtable series, organised by PhD students in the Centre for Irish Studies and Roinn na Gaeilge, explores new approaches to framing established texts (in both English and Irish), material objects, and artwork in the Irish Studies canon.
This roundtable discusses photographs, memory and the archive. This event will be bilingual.
All are welcome, and after presentations, the floor will be open to contributions and comments from all in attendance.
To attend virtually via Zoom: https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/j/98029406829

Launch of the University of Galway’s Centre for Creative Technologies
2023-09-21 17:00 - 20:00 | O’Donoghue Centre Foyer, University of Galway
The University of Galway’s Centre for Creative Technologies will be officially launched by President Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh.
Venue: O’Donoghue Centre Foyer
Date & Time: 5pm on the 21st September
Supported by the University’s Strategic Fund, the Centre fosters research and teaching activities that explore and develop links between creative practice and technology.
Join Digital Artist in Residence James Riordan (Brú Theatre) on the evening, as he chats through what he and his interdisciplinary artist collaborators have been exploring over his two-week residency with the Centre, along with showcasing some of the centre’s new technologies.
Please register your attendance using the following link:
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/launch-of-centre-for-creative-technologies-tickets-718610111187?aff=oddtdtcreator

Book Launch: 'The Censorship of Eighteenth-Century Theatre: Playhouses and Prohibition, 1737–1843'
2023-09-21 18:00 - 19:00 | online via Zoom
You are cordially invited to the online launch of ‘The Censorship of Eighteenth-Century Theatre: Playhouses and Prohibition, 1737–1843′ edited by Prof. David O’Shaughnessy, School of English and Creative Arts, on Thursday, September 21 at 6pm.
Please use the following link to join the event:
https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jM90nh9ASgivATeit3nsQQ
We look forward to seeing you there.

Algeria: Pasts, Presents and Futures
2023-09-22 10:50 - 16:45 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Algeria: Pasts, Presents and Futures

10.50am: Welcome
11am–12pm: Panel 1 – Cinema, memory and trous de mémoire
Dr Aoife Connolly (TU Dublin): ‘Le retour: returning to images of the Algerian war’.
Dr Barry Nevin (TU Dublin): ‘Du non-visible et du non-représentable’: crises of classical narration in Muriel ou le temps d’un retour (Resnais, 1963)’.
12pm–12.15pm: Break
12.15pm–1.15pm: Keynote 1
Dr Patrick Crowley (UCC): ‘Algerian allegories. Aesthetics, anticolonialism and the future of past revolutions’.
1.15pm–2.15pm: Lunch
2.15pm–3.15pm: Panel 2 – Political and literary legacies
Dr Mairéad Ní Bhriain (Mary Immaculate College): ‘Il faut tuer de Gaulle: “Petit-Clamart” and the fight for l’Algérie française’.
Dr Clíona Hensey (University of Limerick): ‘Généalogie d’un territoire: mapping and unearthing Algerian landscapes in Zahia Rahmani’s curatorial and literary œuvre’.
3.15pm–3.30pm: Break
3.30pm–4.45pm: Keynote 2, followed by roundtable discussion
Prof. Philip Dine (University of Galway): ‘Reading and writing “Algeria”: history, remembrance, renewal’.

Attendance is free, but please register with Aoife Connolly (aoife.connolly@tudublin.ie) or Barry Nevin (barry.nevin@tudublin.ie) in advance.

Open Scholarship Café - Open Access Publishing
2023-09-27 12:00 - 13:00 | THB-G011 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
Open Access Publishing – everything you need to know In-Person / Online

Open Scholarship Café – Open Access Publishing
In recent years, the rapidly evolving world of scholarly communication has been subjected to several divisive issues, but none as hotly debated as the transition to Open Access publishing. It seems to be a good idea but also a bit daunting and you might have heard about large fees in order to publish Open Access? And how is this useful for you as a researcher and author? If these are the questions you are asking yourself then this hybrid Open Scholarship Café (in-person & on MS Teams) is for you!
Open Access is an academic publishing model which makes research freely available to read, avoiding subscriptions or paywalls. Open Access comes in many flavours and this session will focus on the Library’s recent Open Access agreements (also called transformative agreements) with a number of publishers that allow you as the author to publish Open Access without cost to you.
No previous knowledge or publishing experience is needed for this session! The University of Galway Open Scholarship Librarian Hardy Schwamm will introduce the rationale and process of these Open Access agreements, and the context in which these agreements have been developed. We will also look briefly at Green Open Access and how you can publish your research using our institutional repository ARAN.
At the end of this session you will:

Understand the need for Open Access publishing
Know how to benefit from the Open Access agreements that are available to you
Be familiar with the options that Green Open Access provides

This hybrid Open Scholarship Café will be for PhD students, early career researchers, researchers who recently joined the University of Galway and everyone who wants to find out more about Open Access.
Open Scholarship Cafés are organised by the Library of the University of Galway in partnership with the Open Scholarship Community Galway.
Image used by Chaosheng Zhang.

Related LibGuide: Open Access Publishing by Trish Finnan
Registration
Registration is required. There are 45 in-person seats available. There are 25 online seats available. Please register at the link below.
https://universityofgalway.libcal.com/calendar/workshopsevents/oaintroduction

Strzelecki Exhibition Launch Symposium
2023-09-27 15:00 - 18:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
Strzelecki Exhibition Launch Symposium
3pm-6pm, Wed., 27 Sept. 2023
Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway

The next event in the University of Galway History Research Seminar series will take place at 3.00pm on Wednesday, 27 September 2023 [note the earlier than usual start time]. This is an in-person event, in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway (ground floor). For those of you not able to attend in person, the talks will also be streamed on Zoom: https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/j/92456821259.
This seminar is organised jointly with the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Dublin and the Centre for the Investigation of Transnational Encounters (CITE) at the Moore Institute, University of Galway. The symposium will be followed at 5.30pm by the launch of the associated exhibition, ‘A Forgotten Polish Hero of the Great Irish Famine: Paul Strzelecki’s Struggle to Save Thousands’, in the foyer of the Hardiman Building. All are welcome!

3:00-3:05 Opening Remarks

3:05-3:35 Dr. Emily Mark-Fitzgerald (UCD) and Prof. Peter Gray (QUB)
Commemorating Paul Strzelecki (1797-1873): Australian Explorer and Irish Humanitarian

3:35-3:55 Dr. Róisín Healy (University of Galway)
Famine on Strzelecki’s Doorstep: Starving Poles in Partitioned Poland

3:55-4:15 Prof. Breandán MacSuibhne (University of Galway)
‘The greatest weapon for taming either the bold or the timid’? The Effects of Hunger in the Great Famine

4:15-4:40 Tea/Coffee

4:40-4:55 Dr. Niall Ó Ciosáin (University of Galway)
Private charity and public relief during the Great Famine

4:55-5:10 Dr. John Cunningham (University of Galway)
Feeding the Children: Pawel Strzelecki, the British Relief Association, and the National Schools

5:10-5:30 Aoife O’Leary McNeice (University of Exeter)
‘To preserve from moral evils and promiscuous assemblages’: female relief workers and the Great Famine

5:30 Exhibition Launch

Handbook of Glossing workshop
2023-09-28 09:15 - 2023-09-29 17:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & streamed live on Zoom
Handbook of Glossing workshop
University of Galway, 28–29 September 2023
Background
The Handbook of Glossing will be a new publication that will document, for the first time, the full extent of the practice of glossing internationally, while providing outlines of new theoretical and conceptual frameworks that can be used by researchers both engaged in individual fields and working comparatively. It will be a multi-authored work, drawing on expertise from specialists in a wide range of fields.
The Handbook of Glossing workshop will be held at the University of Galway over 28–29 September 2023. The workshop will provide the opportunity for 29 contributors from 17 different countries to present early versions of their chapters. Contributors will be encouraged to use their presentations to discuss areas of difficulty, in order to explore solutions in a collaborative environment.
Venue: Hardiman Research Building, room G-010 (ground floor).
If you would like to attend via Zoom, please register online before end of 26 September.
A link will be e-mailed on 27 September.

PROGRAMME
Thursday 28 September 2023
9:15 Welcome
9:30 Session 1
Project overview
Pádraic Moran (University of Galway) & Matthew Zisk (Tohoku University)
Typologies of glossing
Alderik Blom (University of Marburg)
Editing glosses
Susan Boynton (Columbia University) & Evina Steinová (independent)
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Session 2
Modern glossing practices
Aimée Lahaussois (CNRS/Université Paris Diderot)
Latin glossing tradition
Franck Cinato (CNRS/Uni. Paris Diderot) & Mariken Teeuwen (Huygens Institute)
Irish, Welsh, Breton glossing tradition
Bernhard Bauer (University of Graz)
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Session 3
English glossing tradition
Patrizia Lendinara (University of Palermo)
Continental Germanic glossing tradition
Andreas Nievergelt (University of Zürich)
Slavic glossing tradition
Dorota Masłej & Tomasz Mika (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Session 4
Greek glossing tradition
Filippomaria Pontani (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
Coptic glossing tradition
So Miyagawa (University of Kyoto/NINJAL)
Hebrew glossing tradition
Elvira Martín-Contreras (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científica, Madrid)
Friday 29 September 2023
9:30 Session 5
Arabic glossing tradition
Stefanie Brinkmann (Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig)
Sanskrit glossing tradition
Camillo Formigatti (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna)
Dunhuang glossing tradition
Jing Feng (Peking University)
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Session 6
Chinese glossing tradition
Bruce Rusk (University of British Columbia) & Yinzong Wei (Wuhan University)
Korean glossing tradition
Ross King (University of British Columbia)
Vietnamese glossing tradition
Thi Thu Huyen Nguyen (Tohoku University)
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Session 7
Japanese glossing tradition
Teiji Kosukegawa (Toyama University)
Romance glossing tradition
Michelle Troberg (University of Toronto) & John Whitman (Cornell University)
Disciplinary perspectives: law
Carolina Gual Silva (Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro)
15:30 Coffee
16:00 Session 8
Disciplinary perspectives: linguistics
John Whitman (Cornell University)
Disciplinary perspectives: religious studies
Jesse Keskiaho (University of Helsinki)
17:00 Concluding discussion

Poetry and Poetic Form
2023-09-28 14:30 - 18:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway

'On Constellations of Populism’
2023-10-04 13:00 - 14:00 | Room 331, Aras Moyola, University of Galway
‘On Constellations of Populism’
Oliver Simpson (Lancaster University)
One of the consistently slippery and illusive aspects of populism for social and political research is specifying exactly what the term designates. Attempts to define populism as a political ideology often leave one with a definition so broad it seems to apply to all politics, or a definition so narrow it can be undermined with a few empirical examples. To be sure, populism is a highly politicized term, often used by apologists for the status quo who claim populism is an aberration of the “normal” operations of democratic politics. The use of the term populism to conjure up the image of a dangerous and regressive mob presenting an external threat to the internal order ironically mirrors what is generally understood to be the populist framing of politics: to find an external enemy (refugees, immigrants, the poor) to which all social problems can be attributed. In this respect populism can be simultaneously attributed to the exterior and interior of politics today. In this context, rather than trying to resolve the paradoxes, ambiguities and indistinctions of populism as a signifier, I instead focus on and intensify these very inconsistencies and ambiguities as a productive feature for thinking populisms multiple instantiations across a range of historical, intellectual, and literary milieus. I argue populism can be understood as a constellation of concepts which are as follows: perversion, superstition, carnival, spectacle, sovereignty, the masses. My use of the term constellations I take in part from Walter Benjamin’s introduction to The Origin of German Tragic Drama in which he argues that in order to grasp an idea which cannot be directly represented one must explore the concepts that gather themselves around this idea (Benjamin 1995:37). Constellations then have their actual contents, the key concepts and a virtual excess, the idea of populism they animate, mobilise and refract depending on their proximities to one another within a given context. Populism is the virtual idea and the constellations of concepts I develop throughout the thesis are a map through which this idea can be understood and framed in a manner that is not reducible to the deadlock I outlined above characteristic of the contemporary political situation and the meaning of populism within it.
All welcome!

University of Galway History Research Seminar: Ireland in the Ottoman press, 1914-1918
2023-10-04 16:00 - 17:30 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
University of Galway History Research Seminar
Ireland in the Ottoman press, 1914-1918
Dr Merve Doğan Kader
Abstract
In this study the news about Ireland in the Ottoman press between 1914-1918, that is, during the First World War, is analysed. In the first months of 1914, it is seen that the Curragh Incident was reported in detail in the Ottoman newspapers. After the outbreak of the war, the press of the Ottoman state, which was one of the Central Powers, included news about Britain and the Entente states, which were its enemies. Therefore, both the Home Rule Bill and other events in Ireland were reported in the newspapers at the end of 1914 and throughout 1915. It is observed that the most news about Ireland during the war appeared in 1916. The reason for this was the Easter Rising in Ireland. Ottoman newspapers covered every detail about the Easter Rising and supported the Irish in this matter. Throughout 1917 and 1918, the rise of Sinn Fein following the Easter Rising was frequently emphasised and the measures taken by the British on the island were highly criticised.
Speaker Biography
Dr Merve Doğan Kader is a lecturer in History at Biruni University. She completed her PhD at Celal Bayar University in 2021. She has written in Turkish and in English on Irish relations with the Ottoman Empire, including an article (with Seán Patrick Smyth) in History Ireland (2020) on Kemalist support for the Irish War of Independence.
Registration
This is an in-person event, in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway (ground floor). For those of you not able to attend in person, the talk will also be streamed on Zoom: https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/j/92995054484.
To attend via Zoom, please register at: https://forms.office.com/e/T6uHWQeJvu
This talk is part of the University of Galway History Seminar series and organised jointly with the Centre for the Study of Religion at the Moore Institute.
Image: Detail from Ralph Stockman Tarr and Frank Morton McMurry, New Introductory Geography (MacMillan, 1916), p. 152, via Wikimedia Commons: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1916_political_map_of_Europe.jpg

World Crime Fiction and Comparison: Back to the Future
2023-10-05 17:00 - 18:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & streamed live on Zoom
Guest Lecture: Thursday 5th of October at 5 p.m. in THB-G010
World Crime Fiction and Comparison: Back to the Future
Stewart King. Monash University

Abstract
The transnational turn in literary studies has transformed the field of crime fiction, challenging the hegemony of British and American models as the defining features of the genre. The increasing transnationalisation of the field has occurred through studies on discrete national traditions, postcolonial and “international” crime fiction and, most recently, through the application of a world literature framework. While these studies have taught us much about the situated practice of crime fiction worldwide, the circulation and translation of specific texts as well as the historical and ongoing dialogues between writers and texts across national, cultural, linguistic and temporal borders, there are still important questions to be answered, specifically how we engage with, understand and incorporate different crime fiction traditions within a genre that is still largely characterised by British and American works. This article argues that in the shift from national to world literature studies, crime fiction scholarship has to a large extent skipped over comparative literary approaches and that it is precisely these approaches that can help us to more fully comprehend the diverse practice of this global genre.
Bio: Stewart King is an Associate Professor in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University, Australia, and is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities. Originally trained in Spanish and Catalan literary studies, since 2013 he has pioneered the study of crime fiction as world literature. His contributions to crime fiction studies include the monograph, Murder in the Multinational State: Crime Fiction from Spain (Routledge, 2019) and the co-edited collections: Criminal Moves: Modes of Mobility in Crime Fiction (Liverpool UP, 2019), The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction (2020), winner of the 2020 ICFA Book prize, and The Cambridge Companion to World Crime Fiction (2022). He is currently the co-editor of Crime Fiction Studies (Edinburgh UP).

Launch of 'Irish Archives' Journal
2023-10-10 18:00 - 19:00 | The National University of Ireland, Merrion Square, Dublin 2

University of Galway History Research Seminar: Writing Haughey: Ethics and Dilemmas in Political Biography
2023-10-11 16:00 - 17:30 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
University of Galway History Research Seminar
Writing Haughey: Ethics and Dilemmas in Political Biography
Professor Gary Murphy (Dublin City University)
Abstract
On his death in June 2006, Charles Haughey was little mourned. Beyond his circle of family and close friends his death was met largely with indifference by the Irish public. Yet during his political life Haughey rarely engendered public indifference. Instead, he inspired feelings of devotion and hatred amongst his followers and enemies. The roots of his success and failure in politics – his charisma, his intelligence, his ruthlessness, his secrecy – rendered almost impossible any objective evaluation of his life and work. In late 2021 Gary Murphy published a widely acclaimed, if at times criticised, biography, of Haughey. Based on exclusive access to the Haughey archives, held at Dublin City University, and interviews with over a hundred of Haughey’s contemporaries, it offered a major reassessment of one of Ireland’s most significant and controversial politicians. Containing new information on almost every aspect of Haughey’s life, the book provided an encompassing view of a man of prodigious gifts and fatal flaws. In this paper Gary Murphy explores and reassess Haughey’s role at heart of Irish political life for over three and a half decades, his legacy in the intervening years, and examines the difficulties and opportunities of writing authorised biography.
Speaker Biography
Gary Murphy is Professor of Politics in the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University. He has held visiting professorships at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the University of Notre Dame. He has published extensively on modern Irish politics and regularly appears in the print and broadcast media. Among his books are: In Search of the Promised Land; The Politics of Post War Ireland, Electoral Competition in Ireland since 1987: The Politics of Triumph and Despair, and most recently Haughey, the best-selling biography of the former Fianna Fáil leader, and Taoiseach, Charles J. Haughey.
Registration
The next University of Galway History Research Seminar will take place at 4.00pm on Wednesday, 11 October 2022. This is a hybrid event: the seminar will take place, in-person, in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway (ground floor). For those of you not able to attend in person, the talk will also be streamed on Zoom: https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/j/92355128199.
To attend via Zoom, please register at: https://forms.office.com/e/8gnVmsVNzZ.
This talk is part of the University of Galway History Seminar series and organised jointly with the Centre for the Study of Religion at the Moore Institute.
All are welcome!

Flow Art, Space and Wellbeing
2023-10-12 14:00 - 16:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
Flow Art, Space and Wellbeing
Dr Heta Mulari, Tampere University, heta.mulari@tuni.fi
MA Maaria Hartman, Tampere University, maaria.hartman@tuni.fi
Zoom link: https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/j/97532199773?pwd=[REDACTED]
“You learn to see the world as a playground. Instead of everyone trying to guide us to follow certain routes. What if you just break the rules, go all over the place, and do handstands in a weird place?” Luna 24 yo
“Yep, I feel that there’s a will to spread that kind of state of mind, a way of thinking that we’re all equal. And that it’s important to respect life and other people, it is visible there.” Linda 34 yo

How is flow art used to playfully challenge and rethink urban and rural spaces? What kind of communities are built around the artform? And further, how is ‘flow’ linked to creating individual and collective wellbeing?
This presentation will provide an understanding of how Finnish flow art communities occupy and transform different urban and rural spaces with the means of their embodied and collective art. These creative and situational take-overs include, for example, park rehearsals, demonstrations, forest festivals and planned as well as spontaneous performances. Further, flow art is deeply connected to community building and creating wellbeing.
We understand flow art as an embodied, movement-based art discipline, which makes use of several props familiar from circus, such as sticks, fans, hoops, and poi. Flow art is closely intertwined into music, especially rave, psychedelic trance and electronic music in general. Further, the communities shared an understanding of the importance of achieving a state of flow (Csikszentmihalyi 1990), through constant interaction between the prop, movement, music, and one’s own body. They frequently linked ‘flow’ to, not only personal wellbeing but critical potential for wider change, including positive impact on communities and the society (Helne 2021; Vasileva & Honkatukia 2022).
The presentation is based on ethnographic fieldwork in flow art communities including participatory observation and interviews with the flow artists. The participants of the research are young adults and adults, many of whom are active performers in led and fire art groups. In terms of theory, the presentation is located at the intersection of urban studies (Lefebvre 1974/1991; Georgiou 2013; Tani & Pyyry 2017), performance studies and studies connected with art in urban spaces (see, e.g. Meehan et al 2021; Järviluoma et al 2021) and studies on wellbeing in contemporary societies (Helne 2021; Vasileva & Honkatukia 2022).
Dr Heta Mulari is a post-doctoral researcher at the Unit of Social Research, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Finland. She is currently working in the research project Into the Flow (2021-2023), funded by the Kone Foundation, which focuses on flow art in Finland from the perspectives of space, community, and subculture. Mulari’s current research interests include youth and subculture studies, circus studies, urban studies, and feminist ethnography. She is co-editor of Nordic Girlhoods – New Perspectives and Outlooks, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 (with Bodil Formark and Myry Voipio). Her publications also include: ‘Emotional encounters and young feminine choreographies in the Helsinki Metro’, Girlhood Studies, 2020; and ‘“Everyone here is willing to teach each other”: Negotiations over hippie culture and resistance in Helsinki-based flow art community’, Journal of Youth Studies, 2021.
MA Maaria Hartman is a project researcher at the Unit of Social Research, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Finland. She is currently working in the research project Into the Flow (2021-2023), funded by the Kone Foundation, which focuses on flow art in Finland from the perspectives of space, community, and subculture. Hartman’s previous research include, for example, a research on young peoples’ art experiences (‘Young people’s experiences of art visits and cultural participation in the Art testers campaign’, Finnish Youth Research Society, 2020, Sofia Laine & Maaria Hartman). Hartman’s current research interests include feminist ethnography, subcultural art and folklore, alternative sports, ways of resistance and different ways of living youth and adulthood/.

Irish Studies Seminar Series: “We were convinced that we would be cowboys when we grew up”
2023-10-12 16:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies, School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies, 4 Distillery Road, University of Galway & online via Zoom
Irish Studies Seminar Series
Semester 1, 2023-24 (in person and on zoom)
We are delighted to invite you to the first seminar of our Irish Studies Seminar Series for this academic year, and to welcome back Dr Pádraig Fhia Ó Mathúna who will speak on his new IRC postdoctoral research project, at 4pm Thursday 12th October, Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies, School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies, 4 Distillery Road, University of Galway.
The title of Dr Mathúna’s paper is, “We were convinced that we would be cowboys when we grew up”: Consuming the American West in Ireland, 1922-2022, and in this seminar he will explore many of the core themes associated with his wider project, while also discussing source works and relaying some early research findings to date. Please see further details below.
As an update for our Irish Studies community of scholars at home and overseas, all of our Irish Studies Seminars will be run this year as hybrid events. And while we are delighted to welcome you to join us in person here on campus, we are particularly delighted to have those of you who may be unable to travel to Galway to join us in our zoom room on the day. Please find the zoom link for the seminar here: https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/j/96178601570
Seminar Abstract:
The mass consumption and reception of the popular culture of the American West began in Ireland almost simultaneously with its rise in the US during the mid-nineteenth century. These early interests grew exponentially over the course of the twentieth century, bearing major influence on Irish conceptions of race and gender, even as other forms of American mass culture like jazz were shunned as being subversive. American Western shows, literature, music, films, and games were readily absorbed into the Irish mainstream, and in many instances, fused with Irish culture to create radical new transnational forms in both Irish and English. The continued place of the American West within the Irish cultural landscape is evidenced by contemporary Irish western films and literature, the prominence of TG4’s ‘weekly western’, and the unavoidable popularity of Garth Brooks.
Utilising the methodological frameworks of reception theory, this is the first major study to trace the consumption of popular American Western culture in Ireland from the post-independence period to the ever changing, and increasingly multicultural, society of today. Owing to the complexities of Ireland’s colonial past and the continued conflict on the island during the twentieth century, the reception of American Western culture differed significantly from other societies, offering unique perspectives on narratives of violence, masculinities, displacement, and power. More recently, consumption of the “new” or “post-western” has helped shape views on environmental and cultural conservation in the Irish West.
Dr. Pádraig Fhia Ó Mathúna is a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow based at the Centre for Irish Studies, School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies, University of Galway (2023-25). For the past two years, he served as a researcher on the Harvard-based Fionn Folklore Database. A former Fulbright scholar, in 2021 he published a critical volume of the translated works of Irish language writer Eoin Ua Cathail with UNT Press, entitled Recovering an Irish Voice from the American Frontier: The Prose Writings of Eoin Ua Cathail. His next book, The Fenian Empire: Irish Republicanism and American Expansion, 1865-71, is due for release with NYU Press in 2024.

‘The impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on the world order’
2023-10-16 13:00 - 14:00 | Room 331, Aras Moyola, University of Galway
The School of Political Science and Sociology invite you to a research seminar
‘The impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on the world order’
Cristian Nitoiu (Loughborough University London)

Events during the last decade culminating with Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine have underscored the salience of uncertainty in determining the future shape of the world order. This talk will explore the way the war in Ukraine has affected the evolution of the world order. It will claim that it has accelerated the decline of the hegemony of Western liberalism in the world order. Western models of governance and multilateralism are being increasingly contested and rejected throughout the Global South, while ability of the US dollar to act as the main global exchange currency is gradually waning. Furthermore, the war in Ukraine has driven technological innovation, especially in terms of the widespread use of AI and drones. It is likely that governments and corporations throughout the world will employ these innovations to strengthen and improve surveillance. Finally, the talk will reflect on the link between hope and uncertainty or transformation in the world order.
Dr. Cristian Nitoiu is a senior lecturer in Institute for Diplomacy and International Governance, Loughborough University London and vice-director of Center for Foreign Policy and Security Studies.
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Centre for Creative Technologies’ masterclass series "Designing for New Realities"
2023-10-17 12:00 - 14:00 | Studio 3, O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, University of Galway
The next in the Centre for Creative Technologies’ masterclass series will take place on Tuesday 17th October between 12 and 2pm:

Designing for New Realities
The immersive technology sector is experiencing remarkable growth: Companies like Meta and Apple are introducing cutting-edge headsets, venues are creating high fidelity digital experiences, virtual production is transforming film and TV, and the metaverse concept is gaining traction. As this field develops, so do our design methods. How do we design reality itself?
Eoghan Kidney is a creative director with over 20 years experience working across video, film, animation and immersive content. He has worked extensively in AR and VR, with his credits including story and interaction design on the Emmy Nominated “Goliath: Playing With Reality” documentary for the Meta Quest.
Places are limited to 25, so please register your attendance through Eventbrite link:
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University of Galway History Research Seminar: ‘hurry, hurry, over the waves’: Songs, the sea and the (re-)interpretation of nineteenth-century history
2023-10-18 16:00 - 17:30 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
University of Galway History Research Seminar:
‘hurry, hurry, over the waves’:
Songs, the sea and the (re-)interpretation of nineteenth-century history
Dr Richard McMahon (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick)
Dr Niall Whelehan (University of Strathclyde)

Abstract
Bring Your Own Hammer is a project that combines historical sources, music and digital technologies. It brings historians, composers and musicians together to create new and original song cycles. It explores the boundaries of historical interpretation by reflecting upon and offering new and often radical re-interpretations of historical sources relating to nineteenth-century Ireland. A key strand within the project involves the use of sources related to the themes of the sea, sea journeys and migration to and from Ireland in the nineteenth century. This paper will explore the processes of collaboration between historians and composers in creating a select number of tracks from My Grief on the Sea, the first album from the project, which will be released later this year. In creating the album, we asked the composers to focus on the ‘sea’ theme by exploring it from different perspectives and through a different lens depending on the source material. We identified a number of key ways of exploring the theme, namely through ballad/song material from the period, through individual lives, through particular moments or events and by exploring spaces. In the paper, we will reflect on these different approaches and, ultimately, on the similarities and differences that arise from representing experiences of the sea, sea journeys and migration in forms of written and of music history.
Biographies
Dr. Richard Mc Mahon is a Lecturer in History at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick with particular research interests in the history of violence, law and order in nineteenth-century Ireland and among the Irish Diaspora. He is also committed to engaging in forms of creative history.
Dr. Niall Whelehan is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. His research focuses on themes of migration, political violence, and radicalism. His latest book – Changing Land: Diaspora Activism and the Irish Land War – was published with NYU Press.
Registration
This is an in-person event, in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway (ground floor). For those of you not able to attend in person, the talk will also be streamed on Zoom: https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/j/98011931521. To attend via Zoom, please register at: https://forms.office.com/e/5Z0tW9Qz9h
The seminar will be preceded at 3.30pm by a reception kindly sponsored by the Department of History. All are welcome!
This talk is part of the University of Galway History Seminar series.

Seoladh Leabhair - Book Launch Solas Geimhridh
2023-10-19 18:00 - 19:00 | Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Galway City
Bheadh míle fáilte romhat isteach go Siopa Leabhair Charlie Byrne, ag a 6.00in, Déardaoin an 19ú Deireadh Fómhair nuair a sheolfaidh Louis de Paor Solas Geimhridh, cnuasach filíochta nua le Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha.
You would be most welcome at Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, at 6pm, Thursday the 19th of October, when Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha’s first poetry collection, Solas Geimhridh, will be launched by Louis de Paor.

Second International Teacher Diversity Research Symposium
2023-10-20 09:00 - 16:00 | Aula Maxima (Ground Floor), the Quadrangle, University of Galway
You are cordially invited to the second international research symposium on teacher diversity at the University of Galway on Friday, October 20th. The event will feature a keynote address from Dr. Rebecca Wood (University of Glasgow), parallel sessions with research presentations from Ireland’s PATH1 projects and international teacher diversity projects, as well as group discussions with panel response.
Further information is available at the Eventbrite link below, at which you may also register. Registration will remain open until Friday 13th October.
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/2nd-international-teacher-diversity-research-symposium-tickets-691972266677?aff=oddtdtcreator
A more detailed schedule with information about the parallel sessions will be available next week.

Open Scholarship Café: Open Science Practices for Early Career Researchers
2023-10-24 12:00 - 13:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Open Scholarship Café: Open Science Practices for Early Career Researchers – How can they help me?
Open Science (sometimes called Open Research or Open Scholarship) is about making scientific research and data available to people at all levels of society. Many early career researchers (ECRs) might want to make the outputs of their research more openly available, but are unsure of where to start. In addition, ECRs may face additional barriers such as limited access to Open Science training opportunities and resources. The purpose of this seminar is:

To provide ECRs with an introduction to Open Science practices
To demonstrate how ECRs can start embedding open science practices into their research straight away
To showcase the value of engaging with Open Science for professional development.

We will get a brief introduction to Open Science from Hardy Schwamm, Open Scholarship Librarian at University of Galway. Then Rory Coyne, a PhD student in the School of Psychology, will offer some personal reflection on how incorporating Open Science practices into his research has advanced his career progression and development as an ECR. Rory and Hardy are both members of the Open Scholarship Community Galway.
This will be an in-person event in G011 in the Hardiman Building / Moore Institute. You can find the room through the library entrance on your right hand side. We will finish the Open Scholarship Café with a free slice of vegetarian pizza (please let us know if you have other dietary requirements).

Pizza photo by Maksim Goncharenok. The image used in our OS Cafe banner is kindly provided by Professor Chaosheng Zhang.

This event is part of the International Open Access Week 23.-29.2023! The theme of OA Week is Community over Commercialization.
Registration is required. There are 12 seats available.
REGISTRATION

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Sport & Exercise Research Seminar series: Contemporary Cricket - A Mixed Record in a Rapidly Changing Landscape. Cricket, Identity and Belonging: What the Game means in England Wales, Scotland and across Ireland?
2023-10-24 12:00 - 14:00 | Online
Contemporary Cricket – A Mixed Record in a Rapidly Changing Landscape. Cricket, Identity and Belonging: What the Game means in England Wales, Scotland and across Ireland?
Dr Russell Holden
Registration at https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/70dad77c-9557-46f0-b5c5-135c7e20a035@13e3b186-c446-4aab-9c6d-9ab9bb76816c/registration
Sport contributes a dynamic to the life of an individual as it offers something distinctive, be it physical recreation, competition, or social and solitary engagement. It interrelates with many aspects of daily life, most notably emotion, motivation and pleasure not really offered elsewhere. This is where the work of the sport sociologist and historian becomes specially valuable, particularly in redirecting attention from the details of history to what the history and evolution of sport ,and in this instance cricket, actually reveals.
In terms of cricket the key issue is where the sport fits into the social landscape of everyday life within defined geographical identities, as it remains a terrain in which our understanding of major issues in social change and globalisation can be refined, defined and contested. This presentation seeks to comprehend its place, significance and status within contemporary cultural life as well as identifying differing attitudes, level of popularity and distinct nuance across the nations.
Dr. Russell Holden is an established lecturer, writer, researcher and broadcaster specialising in the Sociology of Sport with a particular emphasis on the interconnection between Sport and Politics. He has also written and spoken widely on cricket for domestic and international audiences.
Having been a Senior Lecturer at the University of Wales Institute for over 15 years, in 2009 he launched In The Zone Sport and Politics Consultancy, drawing on his wide expertise and international work experience. offers a unique range of research, editing and mentoring services for academics, teachers, journalists and sport policy-makers, on issues including the links between Sport and Nationalism, Identity, Human Rights, Policy-Making Gender and Peace-Building.
He has subsequently taught at Southampton Solent and the University of Worcester as well as in Germany, Poland and the United States.
Within the past two years he has helped to establish Cricket Research Network with fellow colleagues in academia and journalism and has been one of the Co-Founders of SPRING (Sport and Politics Research International Network Group.
Russell@inthezoneonline.co.uk
@russinthezone

Impact Lecture: “What the future could hold” - postponed – a new date and further detail will be advised shortly.
2023-10-25 12:00 - 13:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & streamed live on Zoom
postponed – a new date and further detail will be advised shortly
CASSCS colleagues are warmly invited to attend a lecture on research impact by Dr Mark Mann (University of Oxford)
LECTURE: “What the future could hold”
All welcome; no registration necessary
For a 40 minute presentation we will present example-driven illustrations of what you could do with innovations and new ideas emerging from SSAH. Mark Mann Limited has a bank of examples from which it can draw upon from a variety of universities to show how the different commercialisation (and broader knowledge exchange) pathways can be used to grow impact from an idea. These examples will be chosen so that they best align with Galway’s research base. Here we will cover all the main modes of transfer used in SSAH through examples and what academics might need to think about with their projects.

Consultancy
Startups and Social Enterprise
Franchises
Services
Partnerships
Policy interventions
Public engagement

The target will be to inspire and broaden the horizons of the attendees by convincing them that they could look at their research in a different way. The key to the session is to not focus on intellectual property but to tell stories that will stick and are relevant to Galway’s academic research. This will then be followed by 20 minutes of questions

School of Political Science and Sociology research seminar: “Moral obligation as a conclusive reason: On Bernard Williams’ critique of the morality system”
2023-10-25 13:00 - 14:00 | AS203, River Room, University of Galway
The School of Political Science and Sociology invite you to a research seminar with
Dr Allyn Fives (Discipline of Politics; Power, Conflict, and Ideologies research cluster)
“Moral obligation as a conclusive reason:
On Bernard Williams’ critique of the morality system”

Bernard Williams’ critique of the morality system, as illustrated in his reading of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, is intended to show both that real moral conflicts can arise, and that a moral obligation is merely one reason among others and can be defeated by the thick concepts of a shared ethical life. I want to advance two lines of argument. First, when Williams argues that a moral obligation can be the locus of moral conflict, a further step is required to explain why one should feel regret for not acting on a defeated reason. Second, Williams presupposes that, when a conflict is resolved, the conclusive reason will be a thick concept, but there is no compelling justification for that assumption.
Please note – the draft paper on which this talk is based is available HERE
Image: ‘At the feet of Athena, Greek warriors draw lots for the armour of Achilles’. Red figure Kylix, ca. 490 BCE. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria. Photo by Eric Lessing / Art Resource, NY.

Impact Workshop: “Be the Magpie” - postponed – a new date and further detail will be advised shortly
2023-10-25 14:00 - 15:30 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & streamed live on Zoom
postponed – a new date and further detail will be advised shortly
CASSCS colleagues are warmly invited to attend a workshop on research impact by Dr Mark Mann (University of Oxford)
WORSKHOP: “Be the Magpie”
Limited to 15 places. Registration required – please email patrick.lonergan@universityofgalway.ie to participate
In order to successfully spot potential transfer projects, staff and academics will be introduced, through examples that they will work on, to look for the following factors:

Solving a problem:

o Does the research output solve a problem for someone or something?

External influence:

O What are the factors that are outside the research group for which a research project might be relevant? This will include
 University priorities
 Funders and other key organisations
 Local and National Government priorities
 International Priorities
We will then look at the key elements that make a successful transfer possible. This will include:

Academic and university reputation
External participants already being worked with
Value created or that could be created in the future; intellectual property types and what to do with them.
The motivation of key people that will be needed to make things happen.

Academics will be invited to pair up with each other or with a research manager (depending on the balance of numbers) to look at their own research in turn to see where they fit in. To do this they will be introduced to a methodology, KT3, which is a framework which will enable to them to work out where the opportunity exists in a systematic way.
The session will be designed with fun at its core, but also aims to provide as much practical knowledge to be taken away and applied as possible. The workshop will last 90 minutes. There will, however, be the option to either extend the workshop for a further 30 minutes, or use those last 30 minutes to answer any further questions anyone may have.
MARK MANN LIMITED
Mark Mann Limited and its sister company Mark Mann OÜ were founded in 2021 to provide strategic innovation services to technology transfer offices, corporations and institutions across the UK and Europe wishing to expand and diversify their impact offering. The clients of these companies have so far include (selected by relevance for this project):

The University of Bristol
The University of York
Swansea University
The University of Surrey
Charles University, Prague
Université Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne
Ploughshare Innovations Limited
Lancaster University
The University of Leicester
University College London
Cardiff University
PraxisAuril

Dr Mark Mann
Its founder, Dr Mark Mann, developed a reputation for being a leader in the field whilst working at the University of Oxford. As well as providing advice to institutions large and small in innovation strategy, he also develops and provides training to technology transfer professionals in the latest techniques in the field, particularly in the fields of humanities, arts, social sciences, software and social enterprise.
He gained his reputation at the University of Oxford where he:

Created 13 spinouts across the breadth of Oxford University’s research portfolio.
Created Oxford’s first spinout in Silicon Valley. The spinout’s already been sold, justifying the approach taken.
Vastly accelerated Oxford’s Humanities and Social Sciences pipeline by developing new template spinout models.
Developed templates for Oxford’s new social venture spinouts.
Developed a new framework for impact measurement.
Created a collaboration of 12 universities, Impact 12, which work together to pool resources and raise social investment together to build social venture infrastructure outside of London.

Chris Fellingham
Chris is the co-founder and Director of the ARC Accelerator, the world’s first accelerator for social science and Humanities researchers. Chris is also the Social Science and Humanities Lead at Oxford University Innovation and prior to this worked as Strategy Manager at edtech startup FutureLearn.

University of Galway History Seminar: ‘How should I raise and care for my child?’ Early child health writing for a general audience in Europe (1850-1914)
2023-10-25 16:00 - 17:30 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
University of Galway History Research Seminar
‘How should I raise and care for my child?’ Early child health writing for a general audience in Europe (1850-1914)
Dr Anna Gasperini (University of Galway)
Abstract
The period between mid-nineteenth and the early twentieth century saw the rise of childcare handbooks written for a general audience in Europe and North America. Still a popular genre after almost two centuries, childcare manuals were usually penned by medical specialists to educate the public, mostly mothers, about how to ensure that a child survived their first years of life. These texts came in a range of formats: from booklets and pamphlets, cheaper or sometimes even distributed for free, containing few key-instructions on child nutrition and management; to expensive, exquisitely decorated hardbacks, covering a broad variety of topics. Sometimes they addressed the reader directly, even simulating a conversation; sometimes they simply consisted of a list of instructions, with little to no acknowledgment of the reader.
Why did such a genre start at this time, and how? What do these texts tell us about cultural and social notions and hierarchies underpinning child health writing in the early days of pediatrics? What do they tell us about how pediatricians started talking about child health to a general audience? This talk addresses these questions based on the preliminary findings of the IRC Starting Laureate project MILC – MedIcal Literature and Communication about Child health (1850-1914). The talk examines a set of key-features of childcare handbooks in Italian, French, and English, identifying transnational elements in the textual and discursive structure of the texts and highlighting the key-role literature played as the chosen medium for early conversations about childhood between pediatricians and the public.
Biography
Dr Anna Gasperini holds an IRC Starting Laureate grant at University of Galway, where she is Principal Investigator of MILC – MedIcal Literature and Communication about Child health (1850-1914), a comparative transnational study of childcare literature targeting the general public. From 2019 to 2021, she was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy, where she developed FED – Feeding, Educating, Dieting: A Transnational Approach to Nutrition Discourses in Children’s Narratives (Britain and Italy, 1850-1900). She is the author of Nineteenth Century Popular Fiction, Medicine, and Anatomy – The Victorian Penny Blood and the 1832 Anatomy Act (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).
Registration
This is an in-person event, in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway (ground floor). For those of you not able to attend in person, the talk will also be streamed on Zoom: https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/j/98396342366.
To attend via Zoom, please register at: https://forms.office.com/e/08f42zgsmu
This talk is part of the University of Galway History Seminar series and organised jointly with the Centre for the Study of Religion at the Moore Institute.

Sibhialtaigh sa Dá Chogadh Domhanda: An mó acu nár tháinig slán?
2023-10-26 12:30 - 13:30 | Seomra an Droichid (1001), Áras Uí Argadáin & ar Zoom
Sibhialtaigh sa Dá Chogadh Domhanda
An mó acu nár tháinig slán?
Cormac Ó Gráda
Coláiste na hOllscoile, Baile Átha Cliath
12.30–13.30, DÉARDAOIN 26 DEIREADH FÓMHAIR 2023
Seomra an Droichid (1001), Áras Uí Argadáin & ar Zoom
Grianghraf: Dresden, 1945, an radharc ón Rathaus agus dealbh Güte [Maitheas / Cineáltas]; Richard Peter (1895–1977) a ghlac é. Ceadúnas: Deutsche Fotothek‎ CC BY-SA 3.0 DE DEED
ACADAMH, OLLSCOIL NA GAILLIMHE

Registration
If you would like to join online, please register at: https://tinyurl.com/cormac-o-grada
