Moore Institute

Sibéal Conference 2016
2016-11-18 09:00 - 2016-11-19 18:00 UTC
Sibéal Conference 2016 on the theme of ‘Revolutionary Genders’.
To Register and full details see
https://revolutionarygenders.wordpress.com/home/

Infographics and Data Visualisation Workshop
2016-11-23 10:00 - 12:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
To register, please click here.
By Dr Deirdre Flynn (Moore Institute) and David Kelly (Research Technologist, Moore Institute).

History Graduate Research Seminars 2016 - 2017
2016-11-23 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Cathal Smith (NUIG) Irish Americans and American Slavery, 1815 – 1865.
All Welcome.

'Office Hours' Drop-In Service
2016-11-24 14:00 - 15:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
For Postgraduate Research students and academic staff with questions or ideas about:

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

Meet with….

David Kelly, Research Technologist, Moore and Whitaker Institute.
Deirdre Flynn, Impact and Communications, Moore and Whitaker Institute
Martha Shaughnessy, Development Manager, Moore Institute.
Aisling Keane, Library Digital Publishing and Innovation.
Connell Cunningham, Library MarkerSpace
Angela Sice, Development Manager, Whitaker Institute.

Thursdays in November @ 2pm – 3pm in The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building.

Talk by Prof Scott Rettberg (Digital Culture, University of Bergen).
2016-11-25 10:00 - 12:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
‘Histories and Genres of Electronic Literature’

Gender ARC - #Feminism
2016-11-28 16:00 - 19:00 | Seminar Room GO11, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
GenderARC study break: play some games that highlight feminist issues!
We have several leaders, so we will be starting new games every 30-60 minutes between 4 and 7; feel free to drop in anytime and another game will start soon.
Knowledge has a way of sinking into our bodies; we may not even be aware of the way we interpret gender expression and gender roles.
#Feminism Nano-Games are a series of 30min to 60min games designed to help us explore and discuss the way we internalise and act on our embodied knowledge – and to think about the impact of our actions.
Some of the #Feminism games give everyone a role and then we play through a scene together. Some ask us to move together according to specific gendered rules, some ask us to build a woman by committee, some to guess what emotions people are trying to portray in a selfie. It’s amazing what people learn about themselves!
Play / Test is a project of Sarah Hoover, a PhD from Drama, Theatre & Performance, and is supported by the Irish Research Council. For more info: https://playtestgalway.wordpress.com,
s.hoover1@nuigalway.ie
#Feminism is written by feminists from 11 different countries. The October 2016 Play / Test event won the People’s Choice award at Gaelcon

Digital Scholarship Seminar
2016-12-01 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Michael Hunter (Birkbeck College, University of London) ‘The Workdiaries of Robert Boyle: A Digital Edition and its Uses’
Also streamed live at https://www.facebook.com/nuigdss/

IMBAS Conference 2016 'Transformation and Preservation in Late Antiquity and Middle Ages'
2016-12-02 14:30 - 2016-12-04 18:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Please see IMBAS 2016 Programme here.
Imbas accepts papers from all disciplines with a focus on any topic from Late Antiquity until the end of the Middle Ages.
The keynote lecture will be delivered by Dr Elva Johnston (UCD).

Launch of Irish Research Council-funded website - www.ClassicIrishPlays.com
2016-12-05 17:30 - 19:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
This website was created by Dr. David Clare as part of his recently-concluded, IRC-funded postdoctoral research project, “The Hibernicising of the Anglo-Irish Playwright”. That project was based in the Moore Institute at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
www.ClassicIrishPlays.com provides scholars, theatre practitioners, and the general public with invaluable biographical information related to the major Irish playwrights whose work has entered the public domain. It provides links to where the great scripts by these playwrights can be found online, and it features new digital editions of important plays that have never been previously digitised, or that are only available in digital form behind “pay walls”.
The website will be launched by Prof. Patrick Lonergan, Director of NUI Galway’s Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, on Mon., 5 December 2016 at 5.30pm in Room G010 of the Moore Institute (located just inside the Hardiman Research Building). At the event, there will be additional input from Prof. Dan Carey, Director of the Moore Institute; David Kelly, the Moore’s Research Technologist; and, of course, Dr. Clare himself.

Irish-Jewish Literature Exhibition
2016-12-07 18:00 - 20:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
We would be delighted if you could attend the launch of an exhibition in the James Hardiman Library on Irish-Jewish Literature. The exhibition results from an AHRC-funded collaboration between NUI Galway and Ulster University. It will be launched by Mr Stanley Price, author of Somewhere to Hang My Hat: An Irish Jewish Journey and James Joyce and Italo Svevo: The Story of a Friendship.

Book Launch 'He Was Galway - Máirtín Mór McDonogh, 1860 - 1934' by Jackie Uí Chionna
2016-12-08 18:00 - 19:30 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Four Courts Press
cordially invites you to the launch of

He was Galway
Máirtín Mór McDonogh, 1860–1934
Jackie Uí Chionna

at 6 p.m. on Thursday 8 December 2016
in Room G010, The Moore Institute Seminar Room,
The Hardiman Building,
NUI Galway,
Galway

Prof. Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh will officially launch the book.
Refreshments will be provided.

RSVP (acceptance only) Four Courts Press | info@fourcourtspress.ie
To learn more about this book, visit the Four Courts Press website at http://www.fourcourtspress.ie/news/book-launch-he-was-galway/

The School of Political Science and Sociology and the Moore Institute present a workshop ' Why Higher Education still matters: a conversation about what we do everyday' with Les Back (Goldsmiths, University of London) and Kevin Ryan (School of Political Science and Sociology, NUIG)
2016-12-12 14:00 - 16:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Is a university education still relevant? What are the forces that threaten it? Should academics ever be allowed near Twitter? In Academic Diary (Goldsmiths Press 2016), Les Back has chronicled three decades of his academic career, turning his sharp and often satirical eye to the everyday aspects of life on campus and the larger forces that are reshaping it. In this session he will talk to Kevin Ryan about the writing of this book focusing on its key question – why Higher Education still matters. Commenting on topics that range from the impact of commercialization and fee increases to measurement and auditing research, the diary offers a critical analysis of higher education today. At the same time, it is a passionate argument for the life of the mind, the importance of collaborative thinking, and the reasons that scholarship and writing are still vital for making sense of our troubled and divided world. Les will read some excerpts from his diary and have a discussion with Kevin about some of the issues it raises, while also offering an opportunity for the audience to be part of the conversation.

Moore Institute Visiting Fellow Lecture
2017-01-11 09:30 - 12:00 | Room 203,Old Moore Seminar Room, Concourse, NUIG
Dr Trisia Farrelly (Massey University, New Zealand) in collaboration with Dr Frances Fahy and Dr Tom Doyle (NUIG) present
The Interdisciplinary Plastic Waste Project
Planning interdisciplinary plastic waste research for an international project

History Graduate Research Seminar
2017-01-11 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Dr Matthew J.O’Brien (Fransiscan University of Steubenville, Ohio)
‘Before There Was Trump: Irish-American Right-Wing Populism in the Twentieth Century’

Digital Publishing Brownbag Pitch - Enabling a Treasury of Economic Data
2017-01-17 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
On Tuesday, January 17th, we continue our series of lunchtime brown-bag events to focus on Duanaire, A Treasury of Digital Data for Irish Economic History.
Duanaire is the work of Dr Aidan Kane and his team. This innovate project has unearthed a wealth of Irish fiscal history data and made it accessible online in a range of formats.
Dr Kane has assembled a unique infrastructure for the imaginative curation, exploration and sharing of significant tranches of Irish economic history data. Its construction grew from collaboration between Dr Kane and his team with Moore Institute, Digital Technologist David Kelly, and the Library’s Cillian Joy, Digital Library Developer, all of whom will speak at this seminar.
Everyone is welcome to this Brown-bag Pitch and registration is free. To allow us adequately provide for catering, we request that you please register via the link below.
Venue: The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway
Date and Time: Tuesday, 17 January, 2017 at 12:00
Register at: http://tinyurl.com/zx75u65

Seminar: 'Representation of Jews in Contemporary Literature in Irish'
2017-01-18 12:00 - 13:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Dr Rióna Ní Fhrighil ( Gaeilge, OÉ Gaillimh)
‘Representation of Jews in Contemporary Literature in Irish’
the talk will be in English and
Introduction by
Prof Pól Ó Dochartaigh (Registrar and Deputy President, NUIG)

'T.K. Whitaker's Ireland: A Roundtable Discussion'
2017-01-18 13:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
T.K. Whitaker (1916-2017) has been described as ‘the architect of modern Ireland’. But what kind of country did he help to create? This panel discussion will reflect on Whitaker’s life, his influence, and the society that modernisation, Irish-style generated.
Organised by History, School of Humanities and the Moore Institute.

History Graduate Research Seminar
2017-01-18 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Mr Eoghan Moran (Queen Mary, University of London)
‘Storming the Bastille of Financial Feudalism’: Centrist Populism in the French and Spanish Republics, 1930 – 36′.

Huston School of Film and Digital Media Guest Speaker
2017-01-19 14:30 - 16:30 | Huston Main, Huston School of Film and Media
Dearbhla Glynn

Dearbhla Glynn is an award-winning artist, documentary filmmaker and teacher, specializing in explorations of conflict and its effect on women and children. Among her films are Gaza: Post Operation Cast Lead (2010) which offered a personal insight into the day-to-day living conditions faced by the Gaza Strip’s 1.5 million conflict-stricken inhabitants. Her 2013 feature film The Value of Women in The Congo documents the issue of rape and conflict in Eastern Congo and explores the experience of the victims as well as the perspective of the perpetrators behind these appalling crimes. Film maker Kirsten Sheridan described the film as “a brave and delicately handled piece of war reportage. It is hard-hitting, while showing many sides of the story. It avoids sensationalism, while never shying away from the very difficult themes. It is an important, devastating piece of human rights documentary filmmaking”. Both films won Grand Prize at the Irish Council for Civil Liberties Human Rights Film Awards.
In this session at the Huston School of Film & Digital Media, Dearbhla will screen her films and discuss her process including the considerable challenges she has faced as a documentary filmmaker.
Some of Dearbhla’s films can be found here:
https://vimeo.com/dearbhlaglynn

Children's Studies Seminar Series, School of Languages, Literature and Culture
2017-01-19 17:00 - 18:30 | Seminar Room GO11, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature
From Librarianship to Childhood Studies via Liberal Humanism, High Theory, Post-Theory, Metamodernism and Pooh Corner
Professor Peter Hunt (Cardiff University)
Over the past 50 years, children’s literature has become a vibrant and important part of university-level studies worldwide. Approaches to it have been as diverse and lively (and problematic) as the subject-matter, having to deal with multi-media texts, the responses of non-peer audiences, fundamental issues of cultural, historical and literary values and psychological, educational and political influences. This lecture provides an outline of the fascinating and entertaining directions which the criticism of texts for children has taken.

CAMPS Lab
2017-01-20 12:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Dr Peadar Ó Muirceartaigh (Abersythwyth University and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow)
‘Isidorian semiotics and an orthographic crux in Old Irish’

Moore Institute Visiting Fellow Dr Rosemary Power to give a talk
2017-01-24 12:00 - 13:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
‘Norse sources for Ireland: Telling tales and seeking sources’.

Aine Mahon (UCD): 'Bringing Philosophy into schools with the ''Philosophy for Children'' (P4C) method: What it is and how it works'.
2017-01-24 14:00 - 16:30 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building

Information session for CASSCS sfaff on European Research Council's (ERC) current and future calls for funding.
2017-01-25 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
The session will be led by the Director of the Moore Institute Prof Daniel Carey and will have contributions from Prof Nicholas Canny, former member of the ERC Scientific Council and Dr Gary Lupton, Research Office, NUIG.

History Graduate Research Seminar
2017-01-25 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Dr Joe Regan (NUIG)
‘Patrick Finney of Loughrea, Boston bounty broker in Ireland during the American Civil War’

School of Humanities Public Lecture
2017-01-25 17:30 - 19:30 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Valediction: The Conditions of the University
by Prof Rod Stoneman
with an introduction by Prof Timothy Emlyn Jones

Valediction: the Conditions of the University
Boy bitten by a Lizard, about 1594-5, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Oil on Canvas, 66 x 49.5 cm.
An undergraduate in university in England during the 1970s, returning to tertiary education after work in the television and film industries with a university post in Ireland in 2003 – I offer this valedictory talk as a review of changing conditions of engagement: reflections on moments of rupture and continuity in a varied life of commitment, pleasure and “savage indignation”.
As for Caravaggio’s luscious painting – the apprehension of the boy, the lizard’s bite, the realisation of the glass vase – I have never been able to explain to myself the relation between them.

Seminar: Only Natural: John Toland (1670 - 1722) and the Jewish Question
2017-01-26 12:30 - 13:30 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Dr Ian Leask (DCU)
will give a talk
‘ Only Natural: John Toland (1670 – 1722) and the Jewish Question.’

Huston School of Film and Digital Media Guest Speaker
2017-01-26 14:30 - 16:30 | Huston Main, Huston School of Film and Media
Leon Butler

Leon Butler has worked across a broad range of positions in the media industry as a visual narrative designer, filmmaker, and educator. He graduated from Huston’s MA in Digital Media in 2009 and his final project animated film, Ghosts Before Dawn (2009), won the Gold Medal at the National Digital Media Awards. Since setting up his practice in 2010, he has worked with high-profile clients including the Galway International Arts Festival, who commissioned him to produce the iconic Festival Poster in 2011. He has also worked with clients as diverse as Starbucks on their global holiday campaign, Druid Theatre on a promotional film for their iconic productions, and musician Macklemore, who commissioned Leon to document his 2014 visit to Dublin’s O2 for two sold out shows. He has also developed many personal projects in animation, typography, children’s illustration and documentary. His research interest areas include adaptive interactions and experiences using available data in the public sphere and generative typography and in 2015 he completed a residency at the School of Visual Arts in New York in this field. In 2016, Leon received a ‘Certificate of Typographic Excellence’ from the Type Directors Club in New York. The Design and Craft Council of Ireland listed Leon as one of their ‘Future Makers’ for 2016. Leon has recently completed a 12-week residency in Los Angeles with digital agency 72andSunny in their 72u program. In September 2016 he was appointed as a design innovation research fellow on the Techinnovate program at NUI Galway for 2016-17.

EDEN presents: 'Patrols of the Imagination: Studies on John McGahern'.
2017-01-26 17:00 - 18:30 | Seminar Room GO11, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Featuring papers by Dr David Clare (UL), Martin Keaveney and John Singleton (English PhD Candidates, NUIG)

CAMPS Lab
2017-01-27 12:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Dr Rosemary Power (Moore Institute Visiting Fellow)
‘At the ends of Christendom: Medieval Greenland in written sources’
