Moore Institute

Print Culture and the Galway Poor Clares, 1600-1800
2019-05-24 14:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
A talk by Moore Visiting Fellow Jaime Goodrich
Abstract: This talk will offer an introduction to the rare books owned by the Galway Poor Clares, who recently reacquired several dozen volumes lent to the Franciscan House of Studies in Killiney during the 1970s. In addition to providing an overview of the current collection’s scope and history, I will discuss evidence of book circulation and ownership among the Galway nuns. Finally, I will consider the broader significance of this collection for scholars working on early modern print history. As a particularly rich corpus of early modern Franciscan texts, the rare books of the Galway Poor Clares should become a key resource for historians and literary scholars interested in monastic libraries, convent reading practices, and Franciscan spirituality during the 17th century.

‘Sorry, not sorry’ – Apology and denial in communicating armed struggle, with examples from the Provisional IRA
2019-05-24 15:15 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
This talk will be given by Moore Visiting Fellow Dr Sanjin Uležić (Centre on Social Movement Studies (Cosmos), Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence),as part of the ’Violence, Space and the Archives’ conference. Full conference programme and further details available at
https://ghussey3.wixsite.com/violencespacearchive

Odd Man Out History, Fiction and Film
2019-05-25 10:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
10.00 am
Screening Odd Man Out (1947) will take place in The Houston school of Film and Digital Media NUIG
1.00–2.30 pm
Chair Niall Ó Dochartaigh, National University of Ireland, Galway
Romancing ‘the Organisation’
Odd Man Out and Contemporary Discourses on the IRA
John Ó Néill, Treason Felony Blog / Litter Press
‘That may be true, but …’
The Inspiration for Odd Man Out—A Consideration of a Suggestion
Breandán Mac Suibhne, Centenary University, New Jersey
3.00–4.30 pm
Chair Catherine Morris, National University of Ireland, Galway
Out of What?
Carol Reed, Odd Man Out, and post-War Malaise
Ruth Barton, Trinity College, Dublin
‘Which Side I’m Neutral On’
I See a Dark Stranger, Ireland, and post-WW2 British Cinema
Luke Gibbons, National University of Ireland, Maynooth

Riddling Discourse and Construction of Knowledge in Ancient Greek Literature and Early Irish Saga: The Case of Ogam
2019-05-27 12:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
Dr Federica Scicolone (King’s College London) Moore Visiting Fellow 2019
This talk will consider a widespread motif in archaic Greek poetry, the so-called ‘contest of wisdom’ between wise men, usually bards or poets (e.g. Calchas and Mopsus in fr. 278 M-W; the Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi), in relation to the Hellenistic and later practice of ‘riddle’ funerary epigrams, from both literary and inscriptional contexts (AP 7.422 and 429; SGO 09/05/17): here the passer-by is challenged by the deceased to decode the symbols carved on the tombstone, and the resolution of the riddle depends entirely on the passer’s-by insight and sophia. The selected case studies will be compared with few references to Ogam enigmatic inscriptions in early Irish saga (e.g. the Táin, 220ff.; Tochmarc Étaíne §18; Sanas Cormaic §1018) in order to observe that, similarly as in the examined Greek texts, the use of Ogam in literary contexts may serve the purpose of testing the interlocutors (and, through them, the readers) and of initiating them into wisdom by means of riddling discourse.

''Cultural Renaissance and Anti Colonialism in India and Ireland''
2019-05-27 14:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
Talk By Dr Jyoti Atwal Moore Visiting Fellow 2019

Atwal suggests that India and Ireland were both trying to identify symbols to create a national ideal in late nineteenth century. Theatre and music provided a fertile ground for this purpose. Through the Dublin life of James Cousins, W.B Yeats, Lady Gregory and Synge; and through exploration of early years of Abbey Theatre and Irish National Theatre Society, she plans to capture this synergy. The leaders of the Abbey Theatre also embodied vegetarianism and occult. There were regular readings of the Hindu text ‘Bhagawat Gita’ in Dublin circles and promotion of vegetarian restaurants. There has been no study to look at these interactions as potential arenas of forging nationalisms through esoteric universalism and anti-colonial politics.
She shall be focusing on the poet and play writerJames Cousins, who was married to Margaret Elizabeth Cousins (co-founder of the Irish Women’s Franchise League). They both moved to India in 1915 at the invitation of the Theosophist or a humanitarian worker or an anti coloniafl activist in India. Both were fiercelycommitted to voting rights campaign for women and other forms of public service; and most significantly they joined in the Gandhian challenge to colonialism after 1920s. The couple stayed in Dublin from 1902 till 1915 and actively participated in several sessions of occult and planchette writing with Yeats and his group. The politics of women’s voting rights (intertwined with British suffragettes) and anti-colonialism were the two main political agendas of the couple.

A Foucauldian-Feminist Approach to Countering Sexual Violence and Sexual Humiliation by Prof. Dianna Taylor
2019-05-28 14:00 - 16:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Abstract
Humiliation is a definitive but, within the discipline of philosophy, under-theorized harm of sexual violence against women. This talk draws upon the late work of Michel Foucault in order to provide an account of sexual humiliation resulting from sexual violence, as well as to posit ways in which sexual violence and sexual humiliation might be effectively countered. Given that sexual humiliation manifests within the relation of self-to-self, such countering calls for creation of new and subversive modes of self-relation. The talk provides insight into what these alternative, counter-humiliating modes of self-relation might look like by analyzing specific instances of verbal and embodied feminist anti-sexual violence protest.
Speaker Biography
Dianna Taylor is Professor of Philosophy at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. She has co-edited two volumes of essays, Feminism and the Final Foucault (University of Illinois Press, 2004) and Feminist Politics: Identity, Difference, Agency (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007), and is editor of Michel Foucault: Key Concepts (Acumen Publishers, 2010). Her book, Sexual Violence and Humiliation: A Foucauldian-Feminist Perspective, is forthcoming with Routledge.

'The New Mythological Image of Ovidian Myrrha in William Barksted’s Myrrha, The Mother of Adonis: Or, Lustes Prodigies (1607)'
2019-05-28 17:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
This talk will be given by Moore Visiting Fellow Dr Agnès Lafont (University Paul Valery – Montpellier 3, France)
Abstract: William Barksted in Myrrha, The Mother of Adonis: Or, Lustes Prodigie (1607) uses the classical story of Myrrha (Ovid, Metamorphoses 10) in similar and divergent ways to create an erotic epyllion. This early modern adaptation of the Ovidian story offers a case point of the re-reading of the classical tradition of daughter-father incest to see whether there are no enjoyable feelings attached to this destructive erotic pulsion and how the moral reading of the fable can be subverted to titillate an early modern male reader. Barksted clearly knew his Ovid and the stock moralisations inherited from the Ovid Moralisé tradition and he uses them to probe erotic psyche. By tapping into subterraneuous connections, the Myrrha story mirrors and decontracts desire and lust while simultaneously redefining the process of mythopoetics in the early modern genre of erotic narratives.

"Getting it Down and Writing it Up: William Petty and Ireland's Contemporary Ambitions for Clinical Research"
2019-05-30 16:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Talk by Helen Sonner Moore visiting Fellow 2019
William Petty is well known for conducting the Down Survey and for his contributions to the development of statistics, demographics, and economics. However, his methods in the Down Survey can also be seen to have anticipated many of the methodologies used today in the conduct and management of clinical trials. This paper will contextualise contemporary efforts to create global standards for clinical research against William Petty’s methodological innovations in the seventeenth‑century Down Survey – and suggest that recognizing Petty’s connection to the rise of clinical trials raises interesting possibilities at NUIG for a practical response to the call by the Irish Humanities Alliance for ‘intensive engagement’ in developing interdisciplinary research between the sciences and the humanities.

Future Landscapes a mixed Reality showcase
2019-05-31 17:00 - 21:00 | The Cornstore, Middle Street, Galway
The exhibition is the result of the 4 week intensive Future Landscapes workshop created in conjunction with the School of Machines, Making and Make-Believe and Galway 2020.
The aim of the workshop was to allow participants to develop the skills to explore the use of immersive technologies, such as Virtual and Augmented Reality, within the context of Landscape, both seen and unseen. This can include, for example, the augmentation of physical landscapes, and creating immersive experiences related to social and political landscapes.
There are a number of staff participating in the workshop who we know would greatly appreciate your support – we look forward to seeing you there!
This capacity-building project is part-funded through a Higher Education Authority (HEA) project on Digital Literacy in Irish Humanities, and through Galway 2020’s Digital Programme.

2019 Sophia Network Meeting
2019-06-01 - 2019-06-02 | Seminar Rooms G010 and G011 Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
The Sophia Network Meeting will take place in Galway at the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) on the 1st and 2nd of June, and as a bonus, the NUIG invites delegates to a P4C Symposium on the 31st of May. The SOPHIA Network Meeting this year is being co-hosted by Philosophy, NUI Galway Philosophical Dialogue Project – NUI Galway, Little Rainbow Academy Ireland and Curo.
If you would like to join us, please register here
Venue and Location
The 2019 Network meeting will take place in conference rooms at the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG), University Road, Galway, Ireland.

Preliminary Programme
Friday 31st May: P4C Symposium at NUIG – Academic papers over two sessions. Followed by and Evening Open Public Panel: ‘What is Education for? The Role of Philosophy in Contemporary Ireland’.
Saturday 1st June: Day 1 of Sophia network meeting, workshops and papers (Lunch and refreshments provided). Followed by an optional joint dinner for delegates in the evening (booked by hosts, delegates pay their own meals & drinks) at Massimo Gastro Pub, 10 William Street.
Sunday 2nd June: Day 2 of Sophia Network meeting, workshops and papers (lunch and refreshments provided).
To see the timetable below more clearly, or to download and store it, please click on the picture.

Whitaker PhD Forum 2019
2019-06-06 09:30 - 16:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The Whitaker Institute for Innovation and Societal Change on Thursday, 6th June will host its fourth annual PhD Forum in the Hardiman Research Building at NUI Galway.
The Forum is a one-day event for PhD students, which aims to provide students with a day to interact and network with each other, to gain helpful advice about the PhD process, and to celebrate their research.
The event is suited to students at all stages of their PhD studies. Participants will have an opportunity to meet and interact with other PhD students, to gain advice from PhD supervisors and other University colleagues, to share their PhD experiences, and to get suggestions and ideas to support their research.
This is a full day event. In the morning, PhD students will receive coaching in managing their personal PhD experience. An additional session will feature advice on research careers and preparing a development plan. In the afternoon, there will be a session on PhD regulations and the PhD Viva. There will also be a special session on the introduction to research data management.
The day will also include a poster display of PhD research in the Hardiman Foyer.
The draft agenda for the day is available here.
This is a free event and open to all PhD students. Coffee and lunch will be provided. Students attending will also receive a pack with an updated and extremely helpful Viva guide, as well as other resources.
Registration is essential, as places are limited. Please register here by Thursday 30th May to ensure your place on the day.

Spotlight on Research Lecture Series-'Why Consent? Why Multidiscliplinary? Why Now?: Making the Case for the Active Consent Programme’s Multi-Sectoral Plan for 2019-2023'
2019-06-06 13:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Dr Charlotte McIvor (Drama and Theatre Studies), Dr. Pádraig Mac Neela,
Dr Siobhán O’Higgins & Kate Dawson (School of Psychology)

Abstract
This talk theorises the signature approach of the Active Consent programme team comprised of researchers from Psychology, Health Promotion, and Drama and Theatre Studies in relationship to the current policy and educational landscape around sexual health education and assault prevention in Ireland and internationally. Working together since 2014, this team designs evidence-informed tools (based on survey and qualitative data), including workshops and creative arts interventions, which in turn facilitate dialogue regarding consent and sexual health. The team’s embrace of consent as an active, positive educational paradigm – inclusive of all genders, all relationships and all sexualities – is intended to empower young people as active agents in the negotiation of their sexual relationships. Now funded between 2019-2023 by the Lifes2good Foundation with support from the National University of Ireland, Galway, the Active Consent programme has set the objective of unifying third-level, secondary school and sporting organisations’ provision of consent-focused sexual health education. This talk will reflect on the team’s learning since 2014 in partnership with young people, trends in third-level Irish sexual health data that they have observed over this period, and why they believe that a multi-disciplinary approach, which considers interdependent educational and community sectors, is essential for sustainable change in social and personal attitudes towards consent within sexual relationships in a post-#MeToo era. The team will describe the importance of sexual consent as a window on young people’s openness in talking about sensitive topics, and the scope to expand this conversation into mental health and the use of alcohol and drugs.
Dr Pádraig MacNeela leads the SMART Consent project and Active Consent programme. He is a senior lecturer at the School of Psychology, NUI Galway, where he has worked since 2004. He works mainly on youth research, especially in relation to sexual health, mental health, and alcohol use, and on community research projects. He began working on sexual health initiatives following a project with RCNI in 2013 and served on the board of management of Galway Rape Crisis Centre 2014-18. He is co-investigator on the multidisciplinary YOULead doctoral training scheme on youth mental health 2018-2022 and the NUI Galway Resilience Project / Student Information Project – both of which demonstrate the importance of expanding the conversation about sexual health into other areas of well-being in young people’s lives.
Dr Charlotte McIvor is a Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at NUI Galway in the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance. She is the author of the book Migration and Performance in Contemporary Ireland: Towards A New Interculturalism, and multiple articles and edited collections focused on contemporary performance, identity, and interculturalism. Other creative projects on sexual consent include an original devised play 100 Shades of Grey co-created with NUI Galway students and co-direction of Lucy’s House Party (with Mick Ruane) for the Manuela Riedo Foundation’s Manuela Programme secondary school education project on sexual consent.
Dr Siobhán O’Higgins is research fellow on the Active and SMART Consent programme, School of Psychology. A sexologist and sexual health promoter, Siobhán has worked, since 1990, developing and evaluating programmes on sexuality and relationships – for third level students, primary and secondary pupils, parents, prisoners and those with intellectual disabilities. Her PhD in 2011, explored secondary school children’s perceptions on what young people need to know and how they would like to be taught about sexuality and relationships and teachers’ ideas on how to meet those needs. The insights and knowledge gained during her PhD were translated into practice in the WISER programme, presently delivered in over 50 schools in the West of Ireland. She developed the SMART Consent workshop and train the trainer programme with Dr MacNeela to raise awareness and challenge existing worrying social norms about how to be a sexually active young person.
Kate Dawson is currently finishing her PhD research in the School of Psychology on Pornography. Since completing her Masters in Health Promotion she has been delivering workshops in schools as a sexuality and relationship educator on the WISER programme and co-created the website for that intervention.

‘The Party’s Splendor Fell to the Floor’: Suicide and Failure in Bowen and Woolf
2019-06-06 16:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
Talk by Moore Visiting Fellow Bridget English
Bio:
Dr. Bridget English is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She received her PhD in English from Maynooth University in Ireland, where she also lectured. She is a specialist in modern and contemporary Irish literature and culture, with particular research interests in theories of the novel, modernism, and the medical humanities. She is the author of Laying Out the Bones: Death and Dying in the Modern Irish Novel (Syracuse U.P. 2017). Additional publications include book chapters on John McGahern, Anne Enright, and a forthcoming chapter on Irish crime fiction. She is currently working on a book project titled, “Self-Destructive Modernisms: Suicide, Medicine, and Failure in the Modernist Novel.”

Third Galway Conference of Irish Studies 2019 “What is it to dwell?”: Home(s) in Irish Studies
2019-06-07 - 2019-06-08 | G010 and Room 1001,The Bridge Room , The Hardiman Research Building
We are delighted to host the Third Galway Conference of Irish Studies on the theme of home(s) in Irish Studies and extend a warm welcome to the Moore Institute community!
Dr. Sindy Joyce will give our first plenary lecture, ‘Mincéirí Cena: Travellers and Mobile Spaces, Home as a Place, Space and Mobility’, on Friday 7 June at 17.15 in Room G010.
Join us in Charlie Byrne’s on Saturday at 8 June at 18.30 for our second plenary with Melatu Uche Okorie, Oein de Bhairduin & Skein Press.
For our full schedule see: https://gcis2019.wordpress.com.

Summer School In Visual Analytics, 2019
2019-06-10 09:00 - 2019-06-14 17:00 | Insight Centre for Data Analytics, IDA Business Park, Lower Dangan, Galway, Ireland
Organised by the Knowledge Discovery Unit (KDU) at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, the Moore Institute and the Lero Software Research Centre, NUI Galway.
Running from the 10th – 14th of June at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, NUI Galway, Ireland, the KDU Visual Analytics Summer School will provide students, researchers, academics and industry professionals with an opportunity to come together to learn, share experiences and to develop new cross-disciplinary partnerships. Over the course of this 5 day-long summer school participants will:

learn from key researchers in the field,
take part in hands-on sessions to deepen these learnings, and
work together on case-study oriented mini-projects.

The target audiences include postgraduate students and early career researchers in the fields of data analysis, visualisation, digital humanities, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), business and IT. This diverse group of disciplines is important, as it will enable interdisciplinary approaches to both the mini-projects within the workshop, and to future collaborative research projects. We are also keen to include participants drawn from local industry and the civil service, especially those whose role includes data-led decision-making.
Registration & further information
Fees: €250 early bird registration (before May 1st) / €350 regular
Online registration now open at http://vass.datascienceinstitute.ie/registration/
For further information please contact the organisers at vass@insight-centre.org or visit vass.datascienceinstitute.ie

‘Thinking Through the Skin: Touching Northern Irish Short Fiction’
2019-06-12 16:30 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
Talk by Moore Visiting Fellow Caroline Magennis
‘This talk will offer an overview of the depiction of Northern Irish skin in recent short story collections, particularly Bernie McGill’s Sleepwalkers (2013) and
Roisin O’Donnell’s Wild Quiet (2016). Drawing on work by Laura Marks, Abbie Garrington, Virginia Woolf, Sara Ahmed and others, this paper seeks to examine
how we might engage with this new representation of the body and the potential of the haptic to be a mode of both self-knowledge and transmission. In these
short stories, moments of connection through touch are lingered on and memories of touch past are pivotal. White Northern Irish skin is not valorised or
celebrated, but often cast as something fragile and permeable that absorbs the toxic quality of the atmosphere. Scars are everywhere, and language is a fleshy
mechanism involving lips, tongues and teeth. This talk will argue that recent short stories continue to move the Northern Irish body away from its
representational dead end as over-deterministic symbol of the conflict. Rather than just the body in pain, skin is revealed to be a complex medium that yields

Developing Enabling Policies for Digital and Open Teaching and Learning
2019-06-13 10:30 - 15:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
A participatory workshop for all engaged in institutional policy development with respect to digital and open teaching and learning.

This workshop is open to all in Irish higher education, particularly those engaged in institutional policy development with respect to digital and open teaching and learning.
Workshop participants will have the opportunity to review and discuss various digital/open policies and policymaking approaches and consider approaches that are relevant to their own contexts. The workshop will also share policy resources, including the National Forum’s Guide to Developing Enabling Policies for Digital Teaching and Learning. Overall, the focus will be on policymaking approaches that are effective, inclusive and responsive across all aspects: policy elements, core processes and partners, consideration of risks and beneﬁts, policy implementation and review.
The workshop will be facilitated by Dr. Catherine Cronin (Strategic Education Developer, National Forum) and guest speakers will include Dr. Tony Murphy (Head , Quality Enhancement and Innovation in Teaching and Learning, Dublin Business School), Dr. Fiona Chambers (Head, School of Education, University College Cork), Dave Sammon (Professor, Information Systems), and John Cox (University Librarian, National University of Ireland Galway).
To Register please click Here
Workshop programme:
10:30 Arrival and Coffee/tea/fruit/pastries
11:00 Introduction and welcome
11:15 Presentation and discussion: Developing an Open Access policy – John Cox (NUIG)
11:50 Exploration of National Forum guide: Developing enabling policies for digital teaching and learning and related resources – Tony Murphy (DBS) and Catherine Cronin (National Forum)
12:20 Presentation and discussion: Developing a Lecture Recording policy – Tony Murphy (DBS)
13:00 Lunch
13:30 Presentation and discussion: Using design thinking to develop and consolidate university-wide policies – Fiona Chambers and Dave Sammon (UCC)
14:10 Workshop activity: Understanding policy challenges (common and context-specific), marshalling resources and support, charting steps forward, and sharing progress
15:20 Wrap-up and close
This workshop supports the strategic aims of the National Forum in 2019-21 to inform and support the development of national and institutional policies related to teaching and learning in an open digital world. The workshop will build on resources already created by the National Forum, in particular the Guide to Developing Enabling Policies for Digital Teaching and Learning.

Feminist Economics, Irish Finance, and the Commons
2019-06-17 13:30 - 17:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
This workshop, led by Conor McCabe, author of Money (Sireacht): Longings for Another Ireland (2018), will look at writers such as Silvia Federici, Maria Mies, Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Nancy Fraser, and Selma James, and the application of their ideas and analysis to an Irish context in terms of combating the new enclosures of financialisation in housing, health, education, transport and energy. It will explore the institutional economic class interests that exist in Ireland, and alternatives to same in the spheres of paid labour and social reproduction.
Capitalism does not willingly pay for the reproduction of the labour it exploits. Social democracy forced it to somewhat contribute to this reproduction through legislation and general taxation, but from the 1970s onwards these very supports have been under profound attack by capitalism, in particular finance capital. The slashing of corporation and capital taxes is the slashing of capital’s contribution to the social reproduction of human labour. Austerity as the new normal is a continuation of this process – one where ‘class struggle includes struggle over social reproduction: for universal health care and free education, for environmental justice and access to clean energy, and for housing and public transportation.
The need for capitalism to enclose social reproduction for profit-seeking purposes makes the issue one that contains the potential for a genuine counter-attack against it. This workshop will explore this potential in terms of activist strategies and organisation.
Cooperation among movements for societal change is nothing new; but the purpose of that cooperation, and its power, appears to have been forgotten. The way capitalism seeks profit and maintains power has an effect on the shape of our resistance to it. The ideas of social movement unionism and feminist economics serve to shine a light on ways of thinking and organisation that will complement the actions by those who wish to transform capitalism.
Dr. Conor McCabe is a research associate with UCD Equality Studies Centre.. He has written extensively on Irish finance and is involved in activist education, working with political, trade union, and community groups.

NUIG Classics book launch-Amrae Coluimb Chille: a critical edition by Jacopo Bisagni
2019-06-18 14:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Jacopo Bisagni, Amrae Coluimb Chille: a critical edition, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (Early Irish Text Series, vol. I), Dublin 2019. Pp. xvi + 524. €35
https://books.dias.ie/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=9_41&products_id=398
Amrae Coluimb Chille is a complex and fascinating Old Irish text. A unique tour de force of linguistic inventiveness, the Amrae laments the death of Colum Cille and praises equally his monastic perfection and his intellectual achievements, his asceticism and his pastoral leadership, his rejection of the secular world and his descent from a noble lineage.
This book provides the first ever complete critical edition of Amrae Coluimb Chille. The introduction offers a full study of the text’s manuscript transmission, language and style, as well as a discussion of its historical context. The Old Irish text is accompanied by a new English translation and is followed by a detailed commentary, a glossary and several appendices.

IMA 7th World Congress
2019-06-19 - 2019-06-21 | Seminar Room G010, G011 and Room 1001 “The Bridge” in the Hardiman Research Institute
Event Description

Introduction
The 7th World Congress of the International Microsimulation Association will be hosted by the National University of Ireland, Galway from Wednesday, June 19 through Friday, June 21, 2019. We encourage submissions in the fields (broadly defined) of microsimulation, agent based modelling and computational methods.
Plenary Speakers (Proposed):

Herwig Immervoll, OECD
Deborah Schofield, Director of GenIMPACT: Centre for Economic Impacts of Genomic Medicine) at Macquarie University, Sydney
Andreas Peichl, Director of @ifo_Institut’s Center for Macroeconomics & Surveys, Professor of Economics @LMU_Muenchen
Eveline Van Leeuwen, Wageningen University, Netherlands

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Methodology Workshop
2019-06-27 13:30 - 19:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Sibéal Workshop Series & Feminist/Queer Discussion Space NUIG present:
Untangling Methodologies: thinking with feminist and queer methods

Keynote Speaker: Professor Kath Browne, Maynooth University
At this workshop we aim to think through concepts that emerge from feminist and queer research methodologies in order to explore ideas of collaging, layering and mixing practices. Through the imagery of following traces or unraveling the thread (Haraway) that offers the potential to capture the multiple meanings of research sites and provide a more nuanced and careful engagement with method. If methodology is the link between our ontological and epistemological ideas and the method, the doing (Browne and Nash, Queer Methodologies, 2010), then it is no surprise that it becomes a stumbling block when we as researchers are faced with the oftentimes sharp intersection between our ideas and practice. It is not the how of conducting methods, it’s the how of the approach to the methods which we want to explore at this day long workshop.
We invite participants to explore questions around methodologies in the field, the insider/outsider dichotomy, taking notice of ethics and vulnerabilities, storytelling as methodological approach, mixing methods and ideas of power/positions – hoping to gain insights at the intersection between methodology and practice.
This half day workshop invites participants to explore these ideas and others in an inclusive, open setting. We invite paper proposals on methodological approaches which are informed by feminist/queer approaches. We also invite proposals for workshops or practice based presentations.
Please send you proposal to methodologies.NUIG@gmail.com by Friday April 26th 2019.
This event is free of charge but registration is essential, please email us to register. Light refreshments will be provided. We do not have funding for the travel costs of attendees.

Exhibition- Laval Nugent - Warrior and Art Collector
2019-06-27 15:30 - 2019-11-15 00:00 | Foyer the Hardiman Research Building, Ireland
This exhibition developed by the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb and the Embassy of the Republic of Croatia celebrates the life and legacy of Irishman, Count Laval Nugent of Westmeath. Laval Nugent was Irish by birth, a field marshal in the Austrian Army, a negotiator during the Napoleonic Wars, a Croatian national hero and a passionate art collector.
This exhibition is part of a programme of events highlighting the links between the cities of Galway, Ireland and Rijeka, Croatia – both European Capitals of Culture in 2020.

What do we mean when we say we're “adding to the scientific literature”?
2019-07-02 14:00 | Room AMBE 101, Arts Millenium Building, NUIG
Abstract: Every undergrad finds out very fast that one of the most important activities of the faculty is publishing papers. Scientific papers are the coin of the realm in everything from health psychology to high-particle physics. No wonder, considering so much is tied to publication: communicating research results to peers, staking a claim on a discovery or a new approach, building personal or lab prestige, and landing a job or advancing in the tenure track. Supposedly, all the previously listed benefits that flow from publishing are the consequence of social conventions which try to incentivize the core business of scientists i.e. producing reliable knowledge about the world. But where do those conventions come from, why were they established and by whom, and do they serve the intended purpose? In my talk, I
will try to pick apart some of our intuitions about why we publish, and what we hope to achieve with it. My argument will be based on two broad strategies: (1) using historical research on scientific journals and the publishing industry and (2) mobilizing and critically discussing some of the disruptive reform proposals for changing the existing journal/database/search engine systems. The idea is to open up space for a critical and reflexive discussion about what publishing means for scientists and see how to
change it for the better.

Bio: Dr Ivan Flis is a Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in South-Eastern Europe at the University of Rijeka, Croatia. He holds a PhD in history and philosophy of science (Utrecht University, Netherlands) and MA and BA in psychology (University of Zagreb, Croatia). His research focuses on the history of research methods in scientific psychology and the philosophical/historical study of the ongoing Open Science reform movement. He has published on the history of 20th century scientific psychology, the replication crisis in psychology, and digital humanities. By working at the intersection of history & philosophy of science with psychology, Ivan hopes to inform and improve psychological
research by insights from the reflexive humanities disciplines critically studying science. In Galway, he’s a visiting fellow at the Moore Institute, working with Dr Chris Noone on topics related to the Open Science reform movement in psychology.

''Contemporary Indian Aesthetics: Decolonizing, Comparative and Cosmopolitan Perspectives'' by Moore Visiting Fellow Kanchana Mahadevan
2019-07-03 18:00 | Tom Duddy Seminar Room, Philosophy Department Morrisroe House, Distillery Road
ABSTRACT: The Kochi Biennale editions since 2012 or India Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2019 are ample testimonies to the themes of decolonization, comparative aesthetics and cosmopolitanism in contemporary Indian art practice. Ananda Coomaraswamy and K.C. Bhattacharyya conceptualized these themes in the early twentieth century. Their differences notwithstanding, they argued for the necessity of decolonization in situating the Indian art object in a nationalist context,. However, they also endorsed cosmopolitanism through their critical and comparative re-reading of classical Indian aesthetic tradition with reference to its Western counterpart. Their interventions pose several questions: How does one read Coomaraswamy’s and Bhattacharya’s claims for a phenomenology of the Indian art object? Can indigenous art that emerges through an engagement with a foreign tradition be distinct? How does one negotiate conflicting hermeneutics of tradition? Is the identity of ‘Indian’ art related to cosmopolitanism? This paper will engage with these questions, which continue to be relevant to contemporary Indian art practice.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Kanchana Mahadevan Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Mumbai is at present Fellow at the Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway.

Tiomna Nuadh ar Dtighearna agus ar Slanaightheora Josa Criosd
2019-07-12 15:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
John Cox, University Librarian, is pleased to invite you to an event to mark the generous donation to the University of the
Tiomna Nuadh ar Dtighearna agus ar Slanaightheora Josa Criosd
By members of the Ó Dálaigh family,
Athlone, Co. Westmeath.
This was the first translation of the New Testament into Irish and
was created for the Church of Ireland by William Daniel (Uilliam Ó Domhnaill), archbishop of Tuam. Historian, Ruairí Ó hAodha, will speak about the background to the volume.
RSVP (acceptances only): ann.cullinane@nuigalway.ie
T: 091 492540

Glitching the Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Malfunction
2019-07-22 12:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
While the word “glitch” is often still used to connote catastrophic failure, videogamers have come to view glitches opportunistically, as chances to intervene in game texts in ways unforeseen (and often unforeseeable) by their developers.
My presentation draws on a variety of game glitches and the alternate modes of textual navigation they enable to demonstrate how the glitch forces us to rethink even such basic concepts as plot, character, temporality, and point of view, ultimately showing how the resulting “narrative of malfunction” blends and reshapes digital studies, narratology, and queer/disability theory to establish brokenness, error, and failure as baseline states within which narrative “function” is at best temporary and often actively to be avoided. All texts are thus potentially glitched, and much can be learned and accomplished within them by reading for the glitches.

Andrew Ferguson is a visiting assistant professor of digital studies in the Department of English at the University of Maryland. His work—located at the intersection of media-textual studies, cultural theory, and popular culture—may be found in Textual Cultures, Hypermedia Joyce Studies, and Science Fiction Studies among others. His ongoing projects include collections of essays on born-digital horror and “bad” art, a critical biography of the Irish-American science fiction author R.A. Lafferty (soon to appear from the University of Illinois Press), and the manuscript on glitches and narrative theory from which this talk is adapted.

Posthumanist Ecocriticism Postgraduate Summer School
2019-07-23 - 2019-07-24 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
This summer school will investigate methods to communicate complex environmental objects such as climate change, habitation, or the human body as a structurally open spaces inhabited by microscopic life forms in competition or symbiosis with non living objects. In addition, nano processes are being offered as solutions for large-scale geoengineering of the planet for climate mitigation, such as nano-particles to reduce the Earth’s albedo, and the use of nano tech in human enhancement discourses. We will engage with the ideological load of popular narratives, such as right-wing cultures of preparation (i.e. providing a historical perspective of why people build shelters, bunkers and other provisional escape places), religiously motivated discourses of separation or cohabitation with other species (transcorporeality), or the effects of hygiene management on forms of habitation.
Framing environmental objects poses extreme narrative challenges with regard to scale, for example, in the case of large objects such as climate change, its unboundedness, incalculability, and unthinkability, but also, at microscopic level, in the case of thinking the human as a the community of other life forms. In both cases actions are required that exceed the scale in which we are used to operate, at institutional, infrastructural, interpersonal and organisational level.
Part of this ongoing and pressing task is to abstain from imposing worn out labels onto this delicate process of conceiving environmental continuities of texts, beings and ecosystems, which might in an underhanded way continue to inscribe traditional divisions and impositions. Instead, it is calling forth forms of organisation without any precedent.
The recent posthumanist turn in ecocriticism, we believe, must proceed phenomenologically, recognizing the constructedness of divisions within the compound continuum of life on earth, their arbitrariness and the task of this generation as well as future generations to understand the constructedness of these divisions and search for viable alternatives. Constructivisms of all kinds have been and continue to be accompanied by a complementary yearning for authenticity, the real and the material.
In recent years, various strands of theoretical thinking categorised as ecocritical have challenged both the irrefutability and the frustration mentioned above from new perspectives. Taking their cue from innovative literary attempts to imagine, depict and conceptualise the human-nature relationship and the place of human beings in a world under threat, in this summer school we will take issue with the assumed omnipotence of social constructionism. The purpose of this workshop is to ask if there is an alternative to resignation in the face of this perceived inescapability without resorting to a naive insistence on the relevance of ‘the real’. Obviously, an intellectual climate, dominated by suspicion of the very idea of nature outside quotation marks is not conducive to a vigorous engagement with the problem. On the other hand, Timothy Morton in “Ecology without Nature” made a convincing case for why the term “nature” needs to be abolished due to its ideological load as a “respite place” that enables us to tolerate modes of destruction. Acknowledging this, in this workshop we will explore new ways to talk meaningfully about the gap between language and the world.
Some of the areas that will be addressed are:

The world of population and climate crises exceeds the usual operational scales of political action, at the institutional, infrastructural, interpersonal and organisational levels, from the nano to the ‘hyperobject’ (Timothy Morton). Can we use ecocriticism to face the Open, regardless of how and where we live?
What are the sources of ideological inspiration for subcultures that are developing in the face of ecological collapse? What are the cultural and legal-political sources of the belief systems of ‘preppers’ (i.e. people making emergency preparations in the face of climate apocalypse), or of religiously motivated discourses of separation or cohabitation with other species?
The posthuman turn involves ‘rethinking the conceptual frameworks within which we have defined human subjectivity, agency, identity, and self, acknowledging the permeable boundaries of species in the natural-cultural continuum’ (Oppermann 2016, 275).

Programme: Posthumanist Ecocriticism Summerschool 23.-24. July 2019
Day 1: 2pm-4.30pm, Bridge Room Hardiman Building 1001

Community Matters

Ashley Cahillane
Embodying the Water Crisis: Environmental Justice and the Fate of California’s Water in Claire Vaye Watkins’ Gold Fame Citrus

Niamh Donnellan
Dismantling Hegemonic Temporality to Aid Environment Justice

Zania Koppe
Living Differently on the Edges

Roundtable Discussion
Transcorporal Communities: Cohabitation with Other Species on a Warming Planet
(chaired by Tina-Karen Pusse)

Day 2: 10am-1pm, Bridge Room Hardiman Building 1001

Between Utopia and Dystopia: Posthuman Scenarios and Modes of Subjectivity

Daniel Mazurek

Cyberpunk as Postanthropocentric Narrative

Andreas Weidlich
Resurrection from Ruins: Horizon Zero Dawn and the Production of Social Spaces

Simone Klapper
Between Intrusion & Interconnection – The Parasite as a Figure of Interspecific Relational Subjectivity in Contemporary Literature and Film

Maria Quigley
Fungus, Futurity, and the Fall of Humanity in M. R. Carey’s The Girl with all the Gifts

Break
Keynote Presentation: 2pm, Hardiman Building Moore Seminar Room GO10

Heike Schwarz
Disaster Impending Somewhere: EcoGothic, EcoHorror and Posthumanist Ecocriticism.

“Houses of the Nobility and Gentry”: Big Houses of County Galway Heritage Week Photographic Exhibition
2019-08-19 09:00 - 2019-08-24 17:00 | O’Donoghue Center
“Houses of the Nobility and Gentry”: Big Houses of County Galway

Galway Landed Estates from the Archives Heritage Week Seminar
2019-08-24 10:00 - 13:30 | O’Donoghue Theatre
Programme
10AM: Welcome
10.10-11.15: Researchers’ Panel
Olivia Martin: West of Ireland Landed Estates collections as sources for women’s lives
Joe Murphy: The Redington Papers: Insight into a 19th Clarinbridge estate
Ann O’Riordan: Hearnesbrook House & Estate, Killimor
11.15-11.45 Coffee/Tea
11.45-12.30 Landed Estates resources in practice
Geraldine Curtin: Family History in estate archives: the Wilson-Lynch Collection
Martin Curley: The Landed Estates database as an educational tool for primary and second level students
Brigid Clesham: Landed estates collections as evidence for landscape studies, the Plunket estate, Tourmakeady
12.30-13.30 Marie Boran & Brigid Clesham: Landed estates research workshop: Landed Estates database researchers will be on hand to help with queries relating to sourcing material on the history of big houses and landed estates in Ireland.

ADMISSION IS FREE BUT BOOKING ESSENTIAL. See https://www.heritageweek.ie/whats-on/event/galway-estates-from-the-archives for details.

''The New University, Accompaniment, and the Exilic Community''- by Denis O’Hearn
2019-09-04 12:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Recent work by Denis O’Hearn and Andrej Grubacic proposes that “exilic spaces” are a hopeful model for progressive change and, ultimately, for social revolution. Exilic spaces can be defined as those areas of social and economic life in which people attempt to escape from capitalist relations and processes, whether territorially or by attempting to build structures and practices that are autonomous of capitalist accumulation and social control. In this talk, Denis O’Hearn presents a new model for a public university. He discusses how and whether accompaniment, or community engagement, can be the basis for building exilic spaces into the university’s curriculum and practices. He presents real examples from universities in the US and elsewhere.
Denis O’Hearn is a sociologist and community activist who has published widely on the impacts of transnational corporate domination, particularly in Ireland, and also on social movements, prison life, and exilic communities. He has written numerous articles and books, including Inside the Celtic Tiger, The Atlantic Economy, Bobby Sands: Nothing but An Unfinished Song, and Living at the Edges of Capitalism: Adventures in Exile and Mutual Aid. He has won numerous awards, including two Distinguished Book Awards from the American Sociological Association; the Alessandro Tassoni Award, Modena, Italy; and the International Award ‘Citta ‘di Cassino Letterature dal Fronte’. He is now Dean of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at El Paso
