Dancing with the Intellectuals: Designing physical education for Irish schools in the second-half of the centenary years, 1966-2016
2017-04-05 13:00 - 15:00 UTC | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Sport & Exercise Research Group, Moore Institute, NUI Galway
Monthly Research Seminar (First Wednesday of each month)
Featuring Dr. Tony Hall (School of Education, NUI Galway)

Physical activity and regular exercise invariably, if not incontrovertibly, form part of a healthy lifestyle; and not only physical wellness but also mental and emotional wellbeing. Research also suggests that – in post-primary education – continuing engagement in physical activity and sport during the pressurised exam years can enhance pupils’ performance in high-stakes examinations.
With the expansion in lifestyle design, with physical fitness at its centre, Ireland is experiencing unprecedented levels of engagement in sport and physical activity, evidenced by the burgeoning growth in bespoke fitness classes and programmes; diet planning and healthy eating; and large-scale sports activities and events. Perhaps now more than ever, the adage applies: ‘mens sana in corpore sano’.
Furthermore, sport represents a crucial part of Irish cultural and historical identity, and for a country of its relative size and population, the Irish economy and GDP. However, while sport and physical activity occupy a highly significant place in Irish society, physical education in Irish schools has lagged behind – marginalised on timetables in favour of more important exam subjects, or underserved by inadequate equipment. In 2013, Ireland was ranked by the EU in the bottom 3 of 36 European countries for physical education provision in schools.
It might be argued that since the mid-1960s, when a different image of Ireland prevailed upon the bicentenary commemorations for The Rising in 1966, (than did in 2016), a predominantly intellectualist frame has strongly influenced education in Ireland, emerging from the seminal educational-philosophical work of R.S. Peters.
With recent changes in the Junior Cycle curriculum, and an emphasis on young people’s wellbeing in the new Junior Cycle Profile of Achievement (JCPA), which includes PE as a core area, and the design of the Senior Cycle PE Framework (2016), the time seems ripe to transform PE in Irish schools. Consistent with similar developments taking place for computer science at Senior Cycle, physical education might finally be able to move beyond the problematic status of ‘subject without a syllabus’.
This talk explores the new curriculum designs for physical education, traced through the history of physical education in Irish schools since the mid-1960s, when R.S. Peters’ salient work first emerged; and in an analysis informed by contemporary debates and themes in education – both in Ireland and internationally – highlights constraints and possibilities of the new PE design for Irish education.

Outside the Walls: Researchers in the Community
2017-04-06 14:30 - 17:00 | Seminar Room GO11, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Marie Mannion – Heritage Officer, Galway County Council:
Galway Community Heritage: Building a Digital Platform
Dr. Gerard Jennngs – Western Family History Association:
Promotion of Genealogy & Family History Research
Prof. Noel Wilkins – Galway Archaeological & Historical
Society: “A very good place to start”: the role of Special
Collections in local research
Dr. Christy Cuniffe – Archaeologist & Heritage Advisor:
Resources for community archaeology & heritage
Followed by panel discussion facilitated by Dr. Nessa
Cronin, Irish Studies, NUI, Galway
Registration at http://tinyurl.com/mtpul5bor email
marie.boran@nuigalway.ie

MA Student Scriptorium Presentations
2017-04-11 14:00 | Room 203, IT Building, NUIG
MA students in Classics and Medieval Studies will be presenting their final palaeography projects at 2 p.m. Tuesday, 11 April, in IT 203. One group will explore the scriptorium of Sankt Gallen in the time of Winithar and the other the scriptorium of Cologne in the time of Hildibald.
All are welcome!

Arts, Humanities & Innovation Speaker Series - The Transition from Humanities Research to Industry
2017-04-13 12:00 - 14:00 | The Moore Institute Seminar Room G010 Ground floor The Hardiman Research Building, Ireland
As part of the Arts, Humanities and Innovation – Connecting with Industry speaker series, Dr Úna Newell, Content Architect at Orreco, will talk about her experience moving from an academic career as a humanities researcher, to working with a sports science company that focuses on improving the performance of pro-athletes. Úna will discuss the types of skills we have as scholars of the humanities and how she applies them in her role at Orreco.
This series of talks is aimed at researchers from the Arts & Humanities, and will be of particular interest to PhD students considering options for future career development.
Úna’s Bio
Dr Úna Newell is a Content Architect at Orreco. She is the domain expert for training Orreco’s IBM Watson cognitive systems and leads the content development for Orreco’s applications and pro sport software solutions. Úna holds a PhD in History from University College Dublin; is a Research Associate of the UCD Humanities Institute and has several peer-reviewed publications.

Found in Translation? France, Ireland and the Legacy of Michel Déon
2017-04-25 09:00 - 13:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
A Public Seminar organised by French, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures,
NUI Galway, the French Embassy in Ireland and Cúirt

Featuring
Sarah Berthaud (Portsmouth) Theoretical and practical Challenges of Franco-Irish Translation
Marie Blom (NUI Galway) Translating Humour: The Case of Roddy Doyle’s Barrytown Trilogy in French
Eamon Maher (Tallaght)
Gavin Bowd (St Andrews) Translating — and Betraying — Michel Houellebecq
Clíona Ní Ríordáin (Paris) Bringing the Horseman Home: On Translating Michel Déon’s Cavalier, passe ton chemin.

Michel Déon (1919–2016) was a novelist and member of the Académie Française
He was, for many years, an associate of the French Department in NUI Galway
He donated over 7,000 books to the James Hardiman Library

Information Session on IRC Laureate Awards Programme
2017-04-26 12:00 - 13:30 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Led by Prof. Daniel Carey, the Moore Institute will host an information event on the IRC Laureate Awards Programme.
The Laureate Awards Programme invites applications at the early and mid-career level (Starting and Consolidator).
Successful applicants will be required to make a follow-on application to the ERC.
APPLICATION DEADLINE IS 29 JUNE, 2017 @ 4PM.
See the following link for further information: http://www.research.ie/scheme/laureate-awards-programme

Talk by Visiting Fellow Hywel Griffiths on 'Historic perceptions of flooding in rural Ireland'
2017-04-26 13:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
All Welcome!
Hywel Griffiths- Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University
Current predictions of the impacts of climate change on environmental and social systems have brought human-environment interactions into sharp relief, and have further highlighted the importance of understanding the historical and cultural contingencies of people’s perceptions of the environment. The value of historical documents such as diaries, newspaper reports, personal correspondence, estate records, church records, tax records, school log-books and creative literature for investigating historical weather has been demonstrated in many settings. Such documents have a dual value in that they can be used to extend and augment limited existing instrumented records of flooding, drought or snowfall, for example, but also can be a window into individual and social and cultural perceptions of historical weather events or the environment more generally. This talk presents preliminary findings from analysis of historical newspapers and the Vice-regal Commission on Arterial Drainage (Ireland) of 1905-6. These sources not only allow a reconstruction of historical floods in rural Ireland, but also provide insights into public perceptions of flooding and its causes (including siltation of river channels and a lack of management), adaptation strategies (particularly in agricultural contexts) and attitudes towards responsibility for management of rivers and drainage in a period of changing land ownership and conflicting water-related interests.

Digital Poet and Fulbright Scholar Jason Nelson and Digital Artist Alinta Krauth
2017-04-26 14:00 - 15:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Digital Poet and Fulbright Scholar Jason Nelson and Digital Artist Alinta Krauth
“The Fulbright Commission of Ireland has granted an Intercountry award for the NUI Galway Moore Institute to host the digital poet Jason Nelson, who will visit Galway on 23-29 April 2017. Nelson is Senior Lecturer at Griffith University, Australia, and is currently holding a Fulbright professorship in Digital Culture at the University of Bergen, Norway. He will be joined by the digital artist Alinta Krauth, also from Griffith University. During their visit, Nelson and Krauth will give a guest seminar at the Moore Institute under the auspices of the Digital Cultures Initiative, and participate in a panel discussion and performance at the Cúirt International Festival of Literature.
For more information, please contact anne.karhio@nuigalway.ie

Symposium: Taking the next step post-PhD/Masters: Career development beyond academia
2017-04-28 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Looking for an opportunity to explore ideas and network for the future? Then join us for an opportunity to meet with representatives from Fidelity, Accenture and others to learn how students can plan for a variety of careers post PhD and Masters.

Draft Programme
Arts, Humanities and Innovation …. connecting with Industry
10:00 Coffee on arrival
10:30 Welcome Remarks
10:45 Fidelity Investments – Ann Roddy, VP for Technology Operations Management
11:15 RealSim– Gavin Duffy, Managing Director
11:45 The Dock, Accenture – Medb Corcoran, Intelligent Enterprise Analytics Lead
12:15 Panel Discussion w/ speakers from Industries 1-3
1:00 Networking lunch
2:00 Cisco – Daniel Quinn, Interaction Design, User Experience Team.
2:30 Prof. James Cunningham, Professor of Strategic Management, University of Northumbria
3:00 Panel Discussion (speakers tbc)
4:00 Closing remarks.

Register to Attend

Further details
This event is part of the Arts, Humanities and Innovation series organised by the Moore Institute. For further details please contact Martha Shaughnessy (Martha.shaughnessy@nuigalway.ie) or David Kelly (david.d.kelly@nuigalway.ie)

Terrance Hayes – Poetry reading and discussion
2017-04-28 13:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Presented by the MA in Writing and the BA with Creative Writing at the Discipline of English in association with the U.S. Embassy’s Creative Minds series and the Cúirt International Festival of Literature
Date & time: Friday 28 April at 1pm
Venue: The Moore Institute, Hardiman Research Building, Room G011
The event will be introduced by Reece Smyth, the Embassy’s Chargé d’Affaires
All welcome!

Terrance Hayes, a MacArthur Foundation Fellow, is one of the most compelling voices in contemporary American poetry. Since his début in 1999 with Muscular Music, he has published four further collections, all published by Penguin. How to Be Drawn (2015) was long-listed for, and Lighthead (2010) won, the National Book Award in Poetry. Wind in a Box (2006) was awarded a Pushcart Prize, and Hip Logic (2002) was winner of the National Poetry Series, a Whiting Writers Award, and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Hayes’ poems have featured in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Fence, The Kenyon Review, The Harvard Review and Poetry. He is Professor of English at University of Pittsburgh.

Sport & Exercise Research Group Seminar 'Sport and homophobia in France: Twenty years of research'
2017-05-03 13:00 - 15:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Sport & Exercise Research Group
Monthly Research Seminar (First Wednesday of each month)

Sport and homophobia in France: Twenty years of research – Featuring Professor Philippe Liotard
From 1997 (Eurogames in Paris) to 2018 (Gay Games in Paris), LGBT’s sport spread in two directions. On the one hand, an associative sports network has developed which prepares people for the Gay Games and organizes everyday sport practice, most of the clubs being linked to the French Gay and Lesbian Sport Federation (FSGL). On the other hand, LGBT’s sport is a tool for fighting homophobia. Firstly, because LGBT’s sport has been created on the shared emotional experience of homophobia, offering a safe environment for athletes. And secondly, the main concern of this talk, because regular international sports events are used to promote a positive image of LGBT people with a collective vigilance emerging in the media since the mid-2000’s.

Professor Philippe Liotard is a lecturer and researcher based at the Université Claude Bernard Lyon – Université Lyon 1 who works in the area of sport and discrimination. He has published a range of books with a specific focus on gender discrimination, including Le sport dans les sixties. Pratiques, valeurs, acteurs (Reims, Éditions et presses universitaires, 2016) and Sport et homosexualités (Montpellier, Editions Quasimodo et Fils, 2008).

All Welcome!

“Journeys” Conference of the Irish Association for Russian, Central and East European Studies
2017-05-04 - 2017-05-06 | Seminar Room G010, G011 and Room 1001 “The Bridge” in the Hardiman Research Institute and The Arts Millennium Building
On the occasion of the centenary of the Russian Revolution, the Moore Institute is delighted to host the annual conference of the Irish Association for Russian, Central and East European Studies. Taking its inspiration from Lenin’s fateful journey to Petrograd one hundred years ago, the theme of this year’s conference is ‘journeys’. Papers deal with journeys into, out of and across the vast region that spans from Prague in central Europe to Vladivostok in eastern Asia. Participants offer perspectives from several different disciplines, including literature, history and politics. The event is funded by the President’s Office, the School of Humanities, the Discipline of History and Fáilte Ireland.
You can check out more details on our website here: http://www.iarcees.org/upcoming.php

Travellers, travellees, and travelling texts
2017-05-04 18:30 - 19:30 | Dillion Theatre, NUI Galway, Ireland
Public Keynote Lecture
by
Prof. Wendy Bracewell
School of Slavonic and East European Studies
University College London

Prof. Wendy Bracewell of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, is to deliver a public lecture entitled ‘Travellers, travellees, and travelling texts: Eastern Europe and the Republic of Letters’ at NUI Galway to mark the beginning of a conference entitled ‘Journeys’, organised by Dr. Róisín Healy on behalf of the Irish Association for Russian, Central and East European Studies. Prof. Bracewell will show that the notion of a deep cultural and political division between eastern and western Europe goes back to the eighteenth century, but that eastern Europeans themselves vigorously rejected the idea that they were in any way different or inferior to western Europeans.

‘Research in Real-Time: Practice in Progress’ Conference
2017-05-05 - 2017-05-06 | The O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance at NUI Galway, Ireland
The ‘Research in Real-Time: Practice in Progress’ conference is a two-day interdisciplinary programme of PaR performances, workshops, interventions, panels, playtests and installations, taking place on the 5th and 6th May at the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance at NUI Galway. Contributors will present their practice (as research) in the now: in the moment. Twenty-five local and international ‘makers and thinkers’ in the fields of film, digital media, traditional arts, music, sound, dance, ethnography, theatre, performance art, larp, and visual arts will present their ongoing practice within the following frameworks:

Temporality; the ‘now’ within the practice research continuum
Slow Practice, and research in real-time
Privileging process
Phenomenological approaches; embodied practice
Improvisation
The ever-present possibility of failure
Collaborative communities; relationship
Mapping and documenting practice research
PaR within the academy
Hybrid practice
Models and methodologies
Real-time aesthetics
Economies of practice

Check out our website to find out more! Click Here

1917: Centenary Reflections- Weekend Conference
2017-05-05 20:00 - 2017-05-06 17:00 | Gleason’s Townhouse Hotel & The Abbey Hotel, Galway, Ireland
Organised by Heritage/Library Services, Roscommon Co. Council; Roscommon Historical & Archaeological Society;
and the Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway

FRIDAY NIGHT: Gleason’s Townhouse Hotel
PANEL 1
8.00: NORTH ROSCOMMON BEGINS: THE 1917 BY-ELECTION
Regina Donlon (Maynooth University): ‘Hurrah for Plunkett’: The 1917 North Roscommon by-election in context
Martin O’Donoghue (NUI Galway): ‘A large percentage of the people of Ireland seem to have lost their bearings’: the AOH and Irish Party decline, 1916-20
Honor Ó Brolcháin (Author): Proclamation, election, abstention: the Roscommon line in the snow

SATURDAY, ALL DAY: The Abbey Hotel
PANEL 2
9.30: WOMEN, FAMILIES & POPULAR POLITICS
Fionnuala Walsh (Trinity College Dublin): Women and everyday life in Ireland in 1917.
Mary McAuliffe (University College Dublin): Beyond 1916; revolutionary women, politics and propaganda, 1917-1918
Jackie Uí Chionna (NUI Galway): ‘Cherishing all of the children of the nation equally?’ The NSPCC and child welfare in Galway, 1916-1923

PANEL 3
11.20: 1917: LOCAL, NATIONAL, AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
Padraig Yeates (SIPTU):
William Partridge, the Workers’ Republic, and 1916: the Ballaghaderreen connection
John Cunningham (NUI Galway): Ireland and the Australian conscription crisis of 1916-17
James Curry (NUI Galway): Jim Larkin’s 1917 American Irish Worker
Pauline Scott (NUI Galway): ‘Dividing loyalties’: changing attitudes to the Parliamentary Party and Sinn Féin on the former Pollok estate in Glinsk-Creggs, 1916-19
1.00 LUNCH
2.00 KEYNOTE LECTURE Marie Coleman (Queen’s University, Belfast): 1917: The realignment of Irish nationalist politics

3.15: NUI GALWAY, ARCHIVAL PROJECT Conor McNamara (NUI Galway)Community, Conflict, and Memory
3.30: PANEL DISCUSSION: 1917 AND THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW IRELAND
Chair: Micheál Ó Fathartaigh (Dublin Business School)
Panellists: John Borgonovo (UCC); Margaret Ward (QUB); Luke Gibbons (Maynooth University).

“Ireland, America and Empire in the Age of Jefferson”
2017-05-09 08:00 - 2017-05-10 12:00 | Seminar Room G010
Programme

Tuesday, May 8, 2017
10:00 am
Session I
Nicholas Canny: “Atlantic Empire and the Peoples of the British Monarchy, 1603-1815”
Alison Games: “Massacres, Memories and Empire: The Amboyna Incident’s Long History”

10:45 am
Session II
Jane Ohlmeyer: “Ireland and the Wider World in the Early Modern Period”
Max Edelson: “Mapping Empire: Geographic Information and the British Imperial State in the Eighteenth Century”

1:45 pm
Session III:
Daniel Carey: “The Scottish Englightenment and the Problems of Slavery: To the New World and Back in the Eighteenth Century”
Robert Ingram: “The Very Long Reformation”

Wednesday, May 9, 2017
9:00 am
Session IV
Rachel Banke: “Satire and Substance: Lord Bute in the Revolutionary Imagination”
Harry Dickinson: “The Irreconcilable Dispute on Sovereignty During the American Revolution”

MA Students Presentations
2017-05-09 10:00 - 12:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Students in MA Medieval Studies will be presenting their dissertation projects for comment and feedback in Room 1001 “The Bridge” on Tuesday, May 9th 10-12pm.
All welcome!

Conference -Other Codes/Cóid Eile - Digital Literatures in Context
2017-05-11 09:00 - 2017-05-12 18:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
The Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies at NUI Galway will host the international conference Other Codes / Cóid Eile – Digital Literatures in Context. The event focuses on the various contexts of the production, dissemination and reception of digital literature in its different forms, as well as the cultural, national, geographical and institutional settings within which digital literary practice takes place. Invited speakers include Sandy Baldwin from the Rochester Institute of Technology (US), María Mencía from Kingston University, London (UK), Jessica Pressman from San Diego State University (US), and Scott Rettberg from the University of Bergen (Norway). The event is the first Galway Digital Cultures Initiative conference and is funded by the Irish Research Council and the European Commission via Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions.

Contact: anne.karhio@nuigalway.ie
Web: https://othercodes.wordpress.com”

Finding Lady Gregory: Teaching, Research and Performance Practice in Global Contexts- A joint talk by Dr Emer O’Toole and Dr Anna Pilz
2017-05-17 14:00 - 15:30 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Finding Lady Gregory: Teaching, Research and Performance Practice in Global Contexts
A joint talk by Moore Visiting Fellows: Dr Emer O’Toole (Concordia) and Dr Anna Pilz (UCC), chaired by Dr Miriam Haughton, O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance

Dr Anna Pilz lectures on Irish and English literature in the School of English at University College Cork. In May 2017, she is Moore Institute Visiting Fellow at NUI Galway to consult the Abbey Digital Theatre Archive. Her research interests include the Irish Literary Revival, Irish literary theatre history (particularly the Abbey Theatre), and women’s writing. She is co-editor of a volume of essays on Irish Women’s Writing, 1878-1922: Advancing the Cause of Liberty (Manchester University Press 2016). She has published articles and book chapters on Irish playwright Lady Gregory and is currently completing two monograph projects, including Lady Gregory’s Drama: The Playwright and Her Audiences.

Dr Emer O’Toole is Assistant Professor of Irish Performance Studies at Concordia University, Montréal. She is a proud graduate of NUI Galway, with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Philosophy. Her doctorate (Royal Holloway University of London, 2012) examined the ethics of intercultural theatre, while her current research addresses the relationship between activism and theatre art in Ireland. She is author of the book Girls Will Be Girls (2015), which makes Judith Butler’s theory of gender performativity accessible to a non-academic audience, and co-editor of the forthcoming volume Ethical Exchanges, which unpacks the ethical dimensions of the theatrical practices of translation, adaptation and dramaturgy. Her scholarly work appears in international publications including Target; the Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance; Literature, Interpretation, Theory (LIT); and alt.theatre. She is also a newspaper columnist, who regularly contributes to The Guardian and The Irish Times.

Modern Languages and the Making of 'Citizens of the World': Recapturing the Values of a Discipline at Odds with Current Political and Educational Contexts' Talk by Marion Krauthaker
2017-05-17 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
By Dr. Marion Krauthaker

In this seminar, Marion will present the early findings of an ongoing pedagogical research project on Modern Foreign Languages. Looking back at the roots of MFL teaching in the UK has enabled me to retrace its original mission and to better pinpoint the disconnections between its founding values, its current perception and the Western educational context. In the UK, the discipline has already been and continues to be greatly affected by recent market-driven and neo-liberal educational policies and I suggest that one of the responses to this worrying situation is to recapture and raise awareness on the mission of the discipline. Looking at MFL curricula in the UK, MFL stands out through its crucial contribution to the education of future citizens; in addition to linguistic skills, MFL does indeed provide students with a variety of skills that may not be on the current educational neoliberal agenda, but are nevertheless fundamental to the development of rounded and reflective citizens and professionals. I will present the key elements that seem to make MFL the ideal locus where students develop an awareness on questions of diversity, equality and inclusion and are equipped with essential critical tools to become ‘citizens of the world’. The presentation will be followed by some time for a collective discussion to develop some of the key points and compare the findings with the Irish context.
All welcome!

#50isEnough: Israeli Civil Society Confronts the Occupation - Talk by Daniel Sokatch
2017-05-18 13:00 - 14:30 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
#50isEnough: Israeli Civil Society Confronts the Occupation
The Occupation is now 50 years old and the current political leadership in Israel seems intent on silencing Israelis who want to see it end. Indeed, the debate over the Occupation – and the damage it is doing to both Palestinian society and Israeli democracy – has been removed from the center of public discourse in Israel. But no problem that is swept under the rug will ever be solved, and Israeli activists are pushing back. We will examine the roots of the conflict and of the Occupation, discuss the impact it has had on both Palestinians and Israelis, and survey some of the strategies Israeli civil society organizations are implementing to challenge the status quo during these challenging times.

Daniel J. Sokatch is the Chief Executive Officer of the New Israel Fund (NIF), the leading organization committed to equality and democracy for all Israelis. Before joining NIF, Sokatch served as the Executive Director of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties. Prior to his tenure at Federation, he served as the founding Executive Director of the California-based Progressive Jewish Alliance (now known as Bend the Arc).
In recognition of his leadership, Sokatch has been named to the Forward newspaper’s “Forward 50,” an annual list of the fifty leading Jewish decision-makers and opinion-shapers, in 2002, 2005 and 2008 and 2010.Daniel has an MA from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, a JD from Boston College Law School, and a BA from Brandeis University. He is married with two daughters and resides in San Francisco.

Bishop Berkeley’s Querist in Context Conference
2017-05-18 13:00 - 2017-05-20 15:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Thursday May 18
13:00 Registration
13:30 Opening of the Conference.
13:45 Bertil Belfrage (Lund University), ‘Berkeley’s Social Philosophy’
14:30 Adam Grzelinski (Nicolaus Copernicus University), ‘The Querist in the light of Berkeley’s early works’
15:15 Coffee break
16:00 Daniel Flage (James Madison University), “The Querist: Social Engineering and Natural Law”
17:00 Reception

Friday May 19
09:00 George Caffentzis (University of Southern Maine), “Exciting the Industry of Mankind: Synopsis and Response to Critics”
09:45 Eoin Magennis (Ulster University), “Bishop Berkeley, The Querist and Patriot Politics in 1730 Ireland”

10:30 Coffee break
10:45 Edward McPhail (Dickinson College) and Salim Rashid (Universiti Utara Malaysia), “Berkeley’s Rules for Sound Banking”
11:30 Lunch
14:00 Patrick Kelly (TCD), “Is there more to Berkeley’s decision to publish the emasculated version of The Querist in 1750 than his prefatory Advertisement implies?”
14:45 Coffee break
15:00 Marta Szymanska-Lewoszewska (Nicolaus Copernicus University), “The Influence of The Querist on Economic Theory in Poland”
16:00 International Berkeley Society Meeting
17:00 Reception

Saturday May 20
09:00 David Hilbert (University of Illinois Chicago), “Money, power, vision and touch: with some remarks on the benevolence of both God and national banks”
09:45 Nancy Kendrick (Wheaton College), “Berkeley and Mandeville on Theodicy and Agency”
10:30 Coffee break
10:45 Marc Hight (Hampden-Sydney College), “From the Querist to Nudge: A Critical Analysis of Forms of Paternalism”
11:30 Lunch
14:00 Kenneth Pearce (TCD), “Berkeley’s Immaterialist Monetary Policy”
14:45 Coffee break
15:00 Dik Van Iten (Iowa State University), “The Ethical Foundations of The Querist”

'A Product of the Slums': The Degenerate Body in Liam O'Flaherty's The Informer- Talk by Laura Lovejoy
2017-05-18 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
“Concepts of degeneration came to constitute one of the foremost expressions of state power as Ireland transitioned to a fully independent state with its own constitution between 1922 and 1937. During the Free State period, the framework of degeneration was profoundly manifest in the state’s framing and treatment of issues of moral and social hygiene, and a social preoccupation with the degeneration of Irish culture came to constitute a key aspect of the specific form biopower took in the Irish postcolonial state. In particular, discourses emerged which centred on the human body as a focal point of national degeneration. This talk considers how Liam O’Flaherty’s novel The Informer (1925), a thriller set in the slums of post-revolutionary Dublin, depicts the Irish body in decline. Situating O’Flaherty’s portrayals of the pathological male and female body in the context of Free State fears of moral, cultural, and biological degeneracy, the talk considers how O’Flaherty’s naturalistic reflection of degenerationist cultural anxieties may distinguish him from modernist contemporaries and successors.”
All Welcome!

EDEN: '2017: Pasts, Presents and Futures'
2017-05-19 - 2017-05-20 | O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, NUI Galway, Ireland
1st EDEN All Island Interdisciplinary Conference
Hosted by English and Drama Exchange Network (EDEN) at NUI Galway
‘2017: Pasts, Presents, and Futures’ at the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance
We’re also delighted to announce that registration for the conference is now OPEN! Click here to head over to register via Eventbrite: registration for speakers and auditors is completely free. We’ve also given you the option to register for the full conference, for Friday only, or for Saturday only.
For more information on the programme and the full event schedule, please see our website at: https://edenconf.wordpress.com/

Feminist Storytelling Working Group
2017-05-24 12:00 - 17:00 | Rehearsal Room 1, O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, NUI Galway, Ireland
PI: Dr Miriam Haughton, O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance
Supported by: School of Humanities Research Incentivisation Scheme, the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, and Gender ARC.
Registration: This is a free event but places are limited. To reserve a place, please email ‘miriam.haughton@nuigalway.ie’ by 5pm Thursday 18 May. Research topics under discussion are accessible online or will be emailed in advance.
This is a half-day workshop intended to reflect on significant moments of feminism and gender equality as they are represented or addressed via diverse modes of storytelling in an interdisciplinary forum. Considering feminism and gender in both Irish and international contexts, this workshops draws from institutional and international expertise to review points of urgency and change in women’s lives from perspectives of history, law, culture, politics, and the arts. The aim of the workshop is to situate the trajectory and legacy of critical thinking on feminist storytelling and narratives in modern contexts. Chairs will introduce topics, which are then open to the floor for discussion, analysis and debate.
Guiding Themes: Feminist Storytelling; Gender, Justice and Equality; Women and Health; Women and Nation; ‘Nasty Women’

Schedule
12pm: Light lunch
12.15–12.30 Dr Miriam Haughton, Workshop Introduction and Research Aims (DTP)
12.30-12.45 Professor Marie-Louise Coolahan, Project Planning: The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550-1700 (English)
12.45–1.30 Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley, Desertion and Divorce (History)
1.30–1.45: Break
1:45–2.30 Dr Lucy-Ann Buckley, Feminist Judgments Project (Law)
2.30-3.15: Professor Niamh Reilly: Women, Nation, Sovereignty: Socio-Political Perspectives (Sociology and Politics)
3.15-3.30: Break
3.30-4.15: Mary McGill, Feminism and the Selfie in Contemporary Culture (Hardiman PhD Scholar, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures)
4.15-5.00: Professor Elaine Aston, Feminism and Storytelling in Theatre and Performance: Reflections, Methodologies and Transnational Perspectives (Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts)

Recommended Reading
Aston, E. (2016) ‘Agitating for Change: Theatre and a Feminist ‘Network of Resistance’,’ Theatre Research International, 41:1, pp. 5-20Bailey, J., Steeves, V., Burkell, J. & Regan, P. (2013) ‘Negotiating With Gender Stereotypes on Social Networking Sites: From “Bicycle Face to Facebook’, Journal of Communication Inquiry, 20(10), pp.1-22
http://www.equalityproject.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/C2-Negotiating-with-Gender-Stereotypes-on-Social-Networking-Sites.pdf
Buckley, SA. (forthcoming, 2018) ‘Desertion and ‘divorce Irish style’ (1937-1997)’ in Marriage and the Irish: a Miscellany, ed. Salvador Ryan
Jones, J. (2016) ‘Those taking selfies with Hillary Clinton aren’t narcissists – but our best hope’, Guardian, Monday, September 26th, 2016.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/26/taking-selfies-hillary-clinton-not-narcissists
Feminist Judgments Project: https://www.kent.ac.uk/law/fjp/about/index.html
Northern/Irish Feminist Judgments Project: http://www.feministjudging.ie
The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550-1700: www.recirc.nuigalway.ie
Yuval-Davis, Nira “Gender and Nation”, Ethnic & Racial Studies. Oct93, Vol. 16 Issue 4, p 621. 12p.

Conference: ‘Translation Meets Book History: Intersections 1700-1900’
2017-05-25 08:00 - 2017-05-26 17:00 | Seminar Rooms G010 & G011, Hardiman Research Building
This two-day international conference aims at exploring and further promoting the complementarity between translation and book history with a particular focus on the international publishing panorama of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Keynote Speaker: Norbert Bachleitner (Universität Wien)
Provisional programme and other information available on the conference website https://intersections2017.wordpress.com/

World Literature and the Short Story in the 21st Century
2017-05-25 12:00 - 13:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
World Literature and the Short Story in the 21st Century
‘Capitalism-in-Crisis and Narrating the World in Rana Dasgupta’s Tokyo Cancelled’
Dr Treasa De Loughry (Maynooth University)

UNESCO Bioethics Ireland, COBRA: Roundtable workshop on exchanging information on participants’ bioethical-related work & on the needs of the bioethics community in Ireland.
2017-05-25 14:00 - 17:00 | AM205
Room AM205, Arts Millennium Building, NUI Galway

14.00-15.30: Outline of roundtable workshop

Maureen O’Sullivan (School of Law) ‘Patents, morality, biotech inventions and a role for participatory democracy’ – short presentation followed by discussion
Su-Ming Khoo (School of Political Science and Sociology) ‘Bioethics, public ethics and collective capabilities’
Oliver Feeney (UNESCO Bioethics Ireland, COBRA) ‘Electronic health records and vulnerable migrants in Europe: the need for developing an ELSI guided response’ – short presentation followed by discussion
General discussion on other topics raised and projects highlighted from participants, discussion of the needs of the bioethical community in Ireland (education, research, public engagement) and future plans of UNESCO Bioethics Ireland.

15.30-16.00: Tea/Coffee/biscuits brought to room while discussion continues.
16.00-16.50: Unesco Bioethics Ireland Steering Committee meeting (SC members plus participants from roundtable workshop welcome)

If you wish to attend, please let me know [contact feeney.oli@gmail.com]

About UNESCO Bioethics Ireland

In 2016, the International Network of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics approved the establishment of its Irish Unit (‘UNESCO Bioethics Ireland’). The core aim of UNESCO Bioethics Ireland is to promote bioethics education, research and public engagement on key bioethical issues in the Irish context. For further information, please visit: unescobioethicsireland.eu

Public Lecture: ‘Evidence-based humanitarian work and research ethics’ by Dr Dónal O'Mathúna (DCU)
2017-05-25 17:00 - 18:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
UNESCO Bioethics Ireland, COBRA in conjunction with the NUI Galway Research Ethics Committee, NUIG
Humanitarian work and disaster responses are increasingly encouraged to be evidence-based. For this and other reasons, more research and other evidence-generation activities are being conducted in disaster and humanitarian settings. This has led to attention to the ethical issues in such research, and how they should be addressed. Questions have been raised about whether current research ethics governance is suitable for such research. Dr Dónal O’Mathúna will discuss these trends and report on initiatives he is involved with that attempt to facilitate appropriate research ethics engagement in disaster and humanitarian research.

About the Speaker
Dónal O’Mathúna, PhD is Senior Lecturer in Ethics, Decision-Making & Evidence, School of Nursing and Human Sciences, Dublin City University.
He is the Director of the Center for Disaster and Humanitarian Ethics, Chair of the Disaster Bioethics COST Action and Convenor for Cochrane Ireland
The public lecture and reception are kindly funded and supported by the NUI Galway Research Office (website).
Attendance is free and no registration is required. However, to gauge numbers, please contact feeney.oli@gmail.com with your interest in attending – many thanks!

Book Launch: “Translation and Language in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: A European Perspective” (Palgrave 2017) by Anne O’Connor
2017-05-25 17:30 - 18:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
You are cordially invited to the book launch of

“Translation and Language in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: A European Perspective” (Palgrave 2017)
by Anne O’Connor, School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures

The book will be launched by Prof. Michael Cronin (DCU)
