Moore Institute

Seminar on Career Development for Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Researchers
2019-02-05 11:00 - 12:30 (Europe/Dublin) | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
In conjunction with the Sinéad Beacom, Manager of the Researcher Development Centre (RDC), the Moore Institute will host a Career Development event for postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers within the College of Arts, Social Sciences & Celtic Studies.
The purpose of the session will be two-fold: (i) to identify what particular training needs are of interest to postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers with a view to putting some training initiatives in place this semester and (ii) for researchers to have an input into the plans of the RDC as it evolves.
Researcher Development Centre
The Researcher Development Centre (RDC) is a new initiative, supported by the Offices of the VP for Research and Innovation and the Dean of Graduate Studies, for the specific purpose of providing support and continuing professional development opportunities for researchers at NUI Galway.
The RDC mission is to create and foster a culture of continuing professional development (CPD) for researchers; to enable researchers to identify and achieve a range of skills suited to their personal career pathway; to signpost opportunities for researchers both within and beyond academia and to measure the impact of such training/CPD.
The RDC fully supports the EU MISSION ‘to facilitate the development of R1 (postgrad) and R2 (postdoc) researchers to become fully aware of their possible career trajectories and the existing range of career development opportunities open to them, thereby enabling them to make training and occupational choices and to take personal responsibility for the management of their own career’.
The RDC aims to ensure that all researchers will have an Individual Development Plan, mentoring support, a full selection of training and professional development opportunities, career support and to showcase a wide range of career profiles from both academia and beyond academia

The #MeToo Moment
2019-02-04 13:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

Talk By Nike Stam
2019-02-01 12:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Copying Code-Switching: The Problems of Bilingual Texts in Translation

Seminar on Career Development for Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Researchers - PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5.
2019-02-01 12:00 - 13:30 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

Past, Present, Future How best can we live our histories and our futures?
2019-01-31 17:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Passé, Présent, Futur
Comment mieux vivre nos histoires et nos avenirs ?

Past, Present, Future
How best can we live our histories and our futures?

La Nuit des Idées or The Night of Ideas is an annual event coordinated by the Institut Français which takes place this year on Thursday 31st January. Its goal is to celebrate the exchange of ideas between countries, cultures, topics and generations. Speakers from diverse backgrounds will gather in a wide range of cultural or knowledge centres to discuss the theme across five continents, from Dakar to Los Angeles, not to mention Brussels, Buenos Aires, Kathmandu, Marseille, Paris… and Galway! As part of this global event, the Discipline of French at NUI Galway, in collaboration with the French Embassy in Ireland and the Moore Institute, will host an evening of talks and short film screenings to which all are warmly invited. This event will examine ways in which memories of the past can productively inform the present, and on how our current experiences may be enhanced by artistic, scientific and civic engagement with a variety of imagined futures.
Keynote speaker: Professor Grace Neville (University College Cork)
Postgraduate student presentations
Lucas Cantinelli (French, NUIG)
Eilish Kavanagh (Heritage Research Group, GMIT),
Maša Uzelac (French, NUIG).
Short Film Screenings
Le Voyage dans la lune (Georges Méliès, 1902)
La Race (Michaël Le Meur, 2015)
All welcome
For further information, please contact: philip.dine@nuigalway.ie

Modernist Studies Ireland Works in Progress
2019-01-31 17:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
BIOS
Iva Yates is a doctoral candidate at the University of Limerick. Her interdisciplinary PhD project is titled The Golden Comb: A Novel and Critical Analysis. She holds a BA in English from Boston College and a MA in English Literary Studies from the University of York.
Dana Garvin is a PhD candidate at the University of Limerick. Her current research focuses on the visually symbolic intricacies contained within the Yeatses Automatic Script and the mostly unpublished drawings and illustrations imbedded throughout the entirety of the extant pages. She is working towards a complete indexing and system of categorisation for this visually striking material as well as a dissection of the material within the framework of visual rhetorical analysis.
ABSTRACTS
“Female Nations: Cathleen Ní Houlihan and The passion according to Antígona Pérez’s Triadic Structures and Blood Sacrifice”
In 1968, Puerto Rican playwright Luis Rafael Sánchez brought to the stage La pasión según Antígona Pérez (The passion according to Antígona Pérez). The play’s title character, Antígona Pérez, is based on Sophocles’s Antigone and represents Puerto Rico as a nation struggling to be part of Latin America yet trapped in the vise of the United States.
On the other hand, in W. B. Yeats’s play Cathleen Ní Houlihan, the Poor Old Woman represents an Ireland that hopes to break free from British rule yet has been unable to do so. However, at the promise of a rebellion, she transforms from an old woman into a young one; the symbol of a new beginning.
These two plays, written at different times in the twentieth century, both use women to depict the island nations that have been subjected to colonial rule by different empires; the Spanish and then American in the case of Puerto Rico, and the British in the case of Ireland. In both instances, a blood sacrifice is required to achieve freedom but how this is achieved and the result of said sacrifice differs.
This paper examines both plays from a transnational/ postcolonial perspective, and looks into how Ireland’s and Puerto Rico’s parallel histories converge, how the plays use triadic structures for the required blood sacrifice, how they differ in outlook, and how this is portrayed in the texts through the intersection of gender and nationalism.
“Dissecting Mysteries & Exploring Sequences in the Automatic Script”
This presentation examines the visual aspects of George and W. B. Yeats’s automatic script. The automatic script served as the foundational material that would eventually become Yeats’s A Vision. While this research does exist in a state of evolutionary progression, this presentation gives an overview of the script and will highlight some of the key visual elements, drawings, and illustrations that exist throughout the extant pages. The discussion will primarily focus on the overarching patterns within some of the more prominent illustrations and the underlying meanings behind those images. Throughout the presentation, a strong emphasis will be given to George Yeats’s role in the creation of this material and her contribution as not only interpreter but also as artist. This discussion will provide the primary areas of categorisation for the whole of the automatic script illustrations and will highlight the main purposes of said drawings. Additionally, the presentation will include information on some of the unique visual trademarks of some of the key communicators as well as highlight some portions of previously undiscussed, hidden symbolic material that permeates the entirety of the script.

Irish Studies Seminar Series - Semester 2, 2018-19
2019-01-31 16:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Centre for Irish Studies
Down with the Paris Farmer!’
Frank MacDermot and Class Politics in 1930s Roscommon

Dr Tony Varley, (Political Science & Sociology, NUI Galway)
Centre for Irish Studies – 4pm, 31 January 2019

A chairde,
You are invited to attend our first seminar of the Irish Studies Seminar Series for Semester 2, 2018-19.
Dr Tony Varley (Political Science & Sociology, NUI Galway) will deliver his seminar, ‘Down with the Paris Farmer!’ Frank MacDermot and Class Politics in 1930s Roscommon’, based on his ongoing research investigating the history of Frank MacDermot (1886-1975) with a particular focus on Ireland in the 1930s. For further details, please see below.
The seminar will take place at 4pm, Thursday 31 January, at the Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies, Distillery Road.
Beidh fáilte roimh chách!
Le gach dea-ghuí,
Nessa
Dr Nessa Cronin, Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway.
“Frank MacDermot (1886-1975) tends to be remembered today as a maverick in Irish politics: a founder of Fine Gael who quit the party in late 1935; an independent-minded parliamentarian who stood alone in criticising de Valera’s 1937 constitution for its potential to antagonise northern unionists and embed partition further; and someone whose political career ended abruptly in 1942 upon resigning from Seanad Éireann where he had sat since 1938 as one of the Taoiseach’s eleven nominees. The focus of my talk will be on the circumstances in which MacDermot was first elected in Roscommon in 1932, and the manner he held his seat a year later in the snap election of 1933. Another topic to be discussed is the appraisal of MacDermot’s record by some of those leading some new movements of Irish and Roscommon farmers later on in the 1930s.”
Dr Tony Varley, (Political Science & Sociology, NUI Galway)

Planning & Building Digital Projects - Digital Scholars' Workshop Series
2019-01-31 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Dublin) | The Moore Institute Seminar Room G010 Ground floor The Hardiman Research Building, Ireland
Update: The slides from this session are now available for download.

This session will give an introduction to planning a digital research project, and is aimed at those considering the creation of a digital project, either small or large, as part of their research or learning.
Using an existing database project as an example, we will look at the various stages in project design & development, along with tools you can use to support them.
Areas to be covered include ways to:

identify your project requirements,
work with your data,
approach planning the look and feel of the project’s interface,
think about your technology choices, and
evaluate your decisions by testing with users.

We will look at a number of tools that have proved useful over the course of my work on a wide variety of digital projects.
The session will be delivered by David Kelly, Digital Humanities Manager at the Moore Institute.
Registration
Please register to attend using Eventbrite.
About the Workshop Series
Developing skills with digital technologies can be a challenge for researchers interested in digital and open scholarship.
To help, the Library, in partnership with the Moore Institute, presents a series of informal workshops to share practice-based expertise, know-how, and experience in technologies and methods, that will enhance your experience of newer forms of scholarship.
Events in this semester’s series include:

Planning & Building Digital Projects – David Kelly, G010, 12-1pm Thursday, 31st January
Introduction to Research Data Management and related supports at NUI Galway – Trish Finnan, G010, 12-1pm Wednesday 27th February
Creating Digital Exhibitions with Omeka – Cillian Joy, G011, 12-1pm Thursday 28th March
Archives in the digital age – balancing evolving expectations against the realities of resource allocation and legislation – Aisling Keane, G010, 12-1pm Tuesday, 30th April.

Graduate Research Seminars in History, 2019:
2019-01-30 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Dr Mícheál Ó Fathartaigh (Teagasc/Social Sciences Res. Centre, NUIG)
A Quieter Revolution: How Demonstrations Transformed Early Twentieth-Century Rural Ireland after the Land War.

EDEN Event: Léann an Bhéaloidis: Rethinking Folklore and Oral Traditions
2019-01-24 17:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
NUIG has a vibrant and dynamic community of folklore scholars and scholars that utilize folklore sources in their various research disciplines, and indeed, often in bilingual or multilingual environments. This brief, informal evening session aims to bring together researchers who are already working with folklore sources, those who may be considering utilising folklore sources and perspectives in their research, and of course anyone who would like to hear more about the fascinating scholarship taking place on oral traditions here on campus. Our three panellists will speak for ten minutes each on their research, followed by an opportunity for questions and discussion:

Pádraig Ó Mathúna, Drew University & Ionad an Léinn Éireannaigh, OÉG: ‘‘Bhiodh na cruinnighthe agus drill aca san oídhche’: A Fenian history from below
Siobhan Morrissey, English Department, NUIG: “Exploring the links between folklore, children’s literature, and nationalism”
Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha, Irish Research Council Laureate Scholar, Roinn na Gaeilge & Institiúid de Mórdha, OÉG ‘Fairy Changelings: Understanding Domestic Abuse, Infanticide, and Disability’

As usual, drinks and chats to follow in McGinn’s afterwards – all are welcome!
Fáilte roimh chách!

Book Launch
2019-01-24 16:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
You are invited to attend the launch by Professor Emeritus
of Modern Irish (UCC) Alan Titley of the book:

An Chuid Eile Díom Féin: Aistí
le Máirtín Ó Direáin
(Cló Iar-Chonnacht)
Síobhra Aiken (ed)
Fáilte roimh chách!

Graduate Research Seminars in History, 2019:
2019-01-23 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Keith Seán Harrington (Maynooth University)
Language Politics and Territorial Separatism: the origins of the Transnistrian conflict 1989-1990.

Academic Publishing’s Uncertain Future: how will it impact NUI Galway?
2019-01-21 12:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The Library is hosting a seminar titled Academic Publishing’s Uncertain Future: how will it impact NUI Galway? on Monday 21 January at 1200, with details and link to registration (essential) as below:
A number of significant developments have impacted the whole environment of academic publishing, generating lots of debate and sometimes controversy in their wake. This seminar will offer an opportunity to catch up on developments such as:

challenges across Europe in particular to the current commercial publishing system, including robust engagement with the highly profitable publishing company, Elsevier, and cancellation of expensive subscriptions
policy directives aimed at universal open access to funded research publications, notably Plan S, to which Science Foundation Ireland is a signatory
concerns regarding the equitable assessment of research as more institutions sign the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment
a general push towards Open Science, emphasising research sharing, transparency and reproducibility

The first half of the seminar will consist of short presentations by an expert panel, representing a range of perspectives. The second half will be an open forum, enabling full audience participation with the panel to discuss issues of concern.
Panel members are:
Professor Daniel Carey, Director, Moore Institute
John Cox, University Librarian (chair)
Monica Crump, Head of Collections, James Hardiman Library
Professor Lokesh Joshi, Vice-President for Research
Dr Niall Madden, Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Applied Mathematics
Dr Elaine Toomey, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Psychology
NB: Registration is essential if you wish to attend – please register at https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/academic-publishings-uncertain-future-how-will-it-impact-nui-galway-tickets-54750078960

A Wild Mountain Borderland’. The Locus of Gaelic Learned Families in 15th and 16th Century Ireland
2019-01-18 12:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Camps a talk by Professor Liz Fitzpatrick, ‘A Wild Mountain Borderland’. The Locus of Gaelic Learned Families in 15th and 16th Century Ireland.

Graduate Research Seminars in History, 2018-19
2019-01-16 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
Wednesdays 4pm
Dr Kieran Fitzpatrick (NUI Galway Research Fellow, Moore Institute)
The Great War and Great Change?
The professional life of surgeon Peter Johnson Freyer, 1900-1921.
Co-ordinator: Dr Gearóid Barry, History Department (email – gearoid.barry@nuigalway.ie).

Retired Staff Association
2019-01-08 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

Christmas Reception
2018-12-18 15:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Staff and Students of the College of Arts, Social Sciences & Celtic Studies
are invited to a Christmas Drinks Reception at the Moore Institute
on
Tuesday, December 18, 2018 @ 3pm
in the Moore Institute Seminar Room, Room G010
Hardiman Research Building
All welcome!
Please rsvp for catering purposes.

Pop-up lunchtime seminar
2018-12-17 13:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Transitions, 1918-1919:
Marking the December 1918 General Election and post-war demobilization
Chair Mary Harris, panellists Gearóid Barry, John Cunningham, Philip Dine & Cathérine Gagneux.

Image: Hoffmann, Herbert: Kriegsende, Schlange für Entlassungspapiere, Germany, 1918; source: Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-2007-0007, via Wikimedia Commons.

This panel discussion of the importance of the 1918 General Election in Galway and Ireland will also consider the wider processes of military and social demobilization in the uncertain atmosphere of the Armistice period 1918/19. The first exercise of the parliamentary franchise by women in Britain and Ireland and the rise of new political forces make this a period of transformation just as Europe and its overseas empires transitioned to ‘wars after the War’.
This event also marks the opening of the exhibition,

‘A UNIVERSITY IN WAR AND REVOLUTION, 1913-1919: THE GALWAY EXPERIENCE/OLLSCOIL IN AM COMHRAIC, 1913-1919: COGADH AGUS RÉABHLÓID in the exhibition space of the Hardiman Research Building in December 2018.
ALL WELCOME/FÁILTE ROIMH CHÁCH

CIORCAL SCRÍBHNEOIREACHTA
2018-12-13 18:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Dublin) | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
An bhfuil suim agat i scríbhneoireacht na Gaeilge? An bhfuil tú ag iarraidh do shaothar féin a roinnt le daoine, agus aiseolas a fháil, nó d’obair a phlé go neamhfhoirmiúil le daoine eile a bhfuil Gaeilge acu? Nó an bhfuil tú ag iarraidh éisteacht le scríbhneoirí eile ag léamh a saothar amach os ard? Má tá, déan cinnte go dtagann tú chun ár gciorcal scríbhneoireachta, a bheas ar siúl achan Déardaoin ag a 6 i seomra an Droichid in Institúid de Mórdha.

Beidh muid ag súil le fáilte a chur roimh achan duine a bhfuil Gaeilge agus fonn scríbhneoireachta acu!

Bellies, Bowels and Entrails: Book Launch
2018-12-13 18:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland

Inaugural Lecture Series
2018-12-13 17:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Professor Enrico Dal Lago
“The Social Origins of Agrarian Violence in Comparative Perspective: The First Ku Klux Klan in South Carolina and the Early Mafia in Sicily, 1865-1875”
A comparative historical project focusing on the events and transformations that occurred in the United States in the period after the American Civil War and in Italy in the period after national unification can help us understand better the deep economic, social, and political changes experienced by the rural areas of the nineteenth-century Euro-American world.
This is especially true with regard to the U.S. South and southern Italy after 1865 and in relation to issues such as the agrarian elites’ ideologies and practices of power and the labour relations that characterized the agrarian countryside of the two regions – one of which was a former slave society, while the other one was a long-term free labour society. My aim in implementing the methodology of comparative history in this project is to research the specific ways in which the agrarian elites in the U.S. South and southern Italy, despite the temporary loss of power they experienced in the aftermath of the American Civil War and of Italian national unification, managed to maintain a tight grip on the agrarian working classes of the two southern regions – i.e., freed African Americans and free southern Italian peasants – preventing them from moving beyond the social status quo. In this lecture, I compare the Reconstruction U.S. South with post-unification southern Italy by investigating specifically the reasons behind the origin and expansion of violent practices of agrarian vigilantism and criminal activity in the cotton-producing regions of upcountry South Carolina and in the citrus-growing regions of coastal western Sicily. In comparable terms, in both the cases of upcountry South Carolina and coastal western Sicily, those violent practices were tightly related to both a regional agrarian past and the specific historical circumstances of the period between 1865 and 1875. Also in comparable terms, those practices led to the creation of two particular traditions of illegal violent activity – the first Ku Klux Klan and the early Mafia – which, although very different in character, served a similar purpose of controlling the agrarian workforce in areas characterized by the production of highly valuable cash-crops.
For more information please see
http://www.nuigalway.ie/colleges-and-schools/arts-social-sciences-and-celtic-studies/lecture-series/#Enrico

'The Boyne and Aughrim Compared' by Dr. Pádraig Lenihan
2018-12-11 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The Retired Staff Association is pleased to present ”The Boyne and Antrim Compared’ by Dr. Pádraig Lenihan.

Modern Irishwomen series
2018-12-08 14:30 (Europe/Dublin) | Education Room, Galway City Museum
The final talk in the Modern Irishwomen series in the museum will be given by a PhD student from NUIG, Jamie Canavan, on Saturday 8th December, 2:30pm.

https://www.galwaycitymuseum.ie/event/illustrated-talk-eva-goore-booth-1870-1926/

Jamie Canavan on Irish poet and dramatist Eva Gore-Booth (1870-1926). - Modern Irishwomen Lecture Series
2018-12-08 12:30 - 15:30 UTC | Education Room, Galway City Museum
Jamie Canavan on Irish poet and dramatist Eva Gore-Booth (1870-1926), younger sister of Constance Markievicz and a committed suffragist and labour activist.

The European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) is holding its inaugural conference
2018-12-07 - 2018-12-09 | Seminar Room G010, G011 and Room 1001 “The Bridge” in the Hardiman Research Institute and The Arts Millennium Building
The European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) is holding its inaugural conference in the Arts Millennium Building and The Moore Institute at NUI Galway from 7 to 9 December 2018. The general theme of the conference is “Data in Digital Humanities”. Keynote speakers include Elisabeth Burr (University of Leipzig) and Leonid Borodkin (Lomonosov Moscow State University). A roundtable session on the theme of data and digital humanities will be curated by Christof Schöch (University of Trier). Over 130 papers will be presented on issues such as the transformation of data for cultural heritage, use of data analytics in literary studies, natural language processing, data visualisation and modelling, and much more. Local committee chair Sean Ryder says: “We look forward to welcoming European and other international researchers who are working at the cutting edge of digital humanities research and practice. This conference will help us to understand the new roles that data is playing in arts and humanities scholarship and teaching, and its impact in the worlds of cultural heritage and the curation of knowledge.

Further details may be found at the conference website: eadh2018.eadh.org; or by contacting Sean Ryder at eadh.conference.2018@gmail.com

CIORCAL SCRÍBHNEOIREACHTA
2018-12-06 18:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building

Irish Studies’ Seminar Series 2018-19
2018-12-06 16:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies, Distillery Road
“Hear The Band which is more powerful than the Atom Bomb!”
Labour, Aesthetics, and Irish Sit Down Dance Orchestras, 1940 – 1960

Professor Rebecca Miller, IACI-NUI Galway Visiting Fellow in Irish Studies, 2018-19. Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway.

Image: Noel Coade (compère) with unknown band and dancers, Dublin, ca. 1955. (Courtesy of the family of Noel Coade).
From the mid-1920s to the 1960s, audiences on both sides of the border flocked to parish and commercial dance halls to dance to big band jazz, popular music, and other styles as played by Irish “sit down” dance bands and orchestras. Well known touring groups such as the Mick Delahunty Orchestra, the Maurice Mulcahy Band, and the Gay McIntyre Band, as well as smaller, semi-professional dance bands such as the Brideside Serenaders (Tallow) and many others performed from sheet music of American big band jazz standards that were arranged and published in London and then imported to Ireland and Northern Ireland. They also played a range of other music, including Dixieland jazz, popular Irish songs, old time waltzes, and the occasional céilí dance.
Focusing primarily on sit down dance band musicians who were active in the post-World War II years, I argue that these musicians functioned, in part, as laborers whose job it was to keep their audiences dancing. As such, they engaged with their audiences’ fascination with American popular music and culture while at the same time, reflected Irish locality and musical aesthetics.
Using ethnographic interviews and archival sources, I also trace how these musicians, increasingly came to see themselves also as entertainers and artists. It was this changing perception that in part informed the emergence of the showband era of the 1960s/1970s and ultimately Ireland’s popular music industry.
Rebecca Miller is Professor of Music at Hampshire College, in Amherst, Massachusetts, and the 2018-2019 IACI-NUI Galway, Visiting Fellow in Irish Studies. Dr. Miller received a MA from Wesleyan University and the PhD in ethnomusicology from Brown University.
The author of Carriacou String Band Serenade: Performing Identity in the Eastern Caribbean (Wesleyan University Press, 2008), Professor Miller has published articles and chapters on traditional and popular music in both Ireland and in the USA. A recipient of Fulbright and Whiting Fellowships, among others, she is currently completing a book on Irish popular music, specifically Irish dance bands/orchestras and showbands.

"Open Science, Ireland and the Digital Repository of Ireland: where are we at and where are we going?"
2018-12-06 13:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Presentation by Natalie Harrower, Director of Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI)

The NUI Galway Research Data Working Group is delighted to host a presentation by Dr Natalie Harrower, Director of the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI). Natalie’s presentation will describe the work of the DRI in research data management, the report on Turning FAIR Data into Reality of which she is a co-author and recent international and national developments including the Draft National Statement on the Transition to an Open Research Environment issued by the National Open Research Forum.
Booking is essential – please book here

Information and Q&A session with Jim Carroll, Editor of RTÉ Brainstorm
2018-12-05 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
You are invited to attend an information and Q&A session with Jim Carroll, Editor of RTÉ Brainstorm on Wednesday, 5 December from 12pm-1pm in Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building.
Academics and Researchers of all levels are welcome to attend and hear more about how to communicate your work to a wider national audience through RTÉ Brainstorm.
To see NUI Galway article contributions to date, visit: https://www.rte.ie/eile/nui-galway/
For more about RTÉ Brainstorm, visit: https://www.rte.ie/eile/brainstorm/2017/0602/879925-brainstorm-submission/
For further information, contact Gwen O’Sullivan, Press and Information Executive, Press Office, NUI Galway at gwen.osullivan@nuigalway.ie or 091 495695.

Creative Coding Meet-up
2018-12-04 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Dublin) | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
This semester we’re going to run a weekly session for those interested in learning “creative coding”. This approach is a good way for those without any coding experience to develop a foundation in programming. The sessions will use online resources (see below) to guide self-directed learning.

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

What can I expect?

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

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