Moore Institute

The Haven Project Conference: Intervening for Human Security
2016-10-29 09:00 - 17:00 UTC | The Moore Institute Seminar Room G010 Ground floor The Hardiman Research Building, Ireland
The Haven Project Conference: Intervening for Human Security
Moore Institute, Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway
Conference Overview
This conference emanates from an Irish Research Council-funded project entitled ‘Haven‘ that centres on advancing the idea of ‘intervening for human security’ in the ongoing Mediterranean humanitarian crisis. It seeks to put at centre stage the notion of ‘human security’ by invoking the idea of a ‘haven’, a place of safety or refuge. A core project concern lies in challenging how Western interventionism has long been guided by military definitions of security, involving repeated and frequently counter-productive mechanisms of military violence. On the contrary, the Haven Project aims to advance research and thinking on an alternative envisioning of intervention, based upon the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)’s concept of ‘human security’ from its Human Development Report from 1994. Attending to the UNDP’s vision prompts thinking about intervention and investing in intervention of a different kind: in humanitarian assistance; in civil society support; in diplomatic initiatives; in rebuilding programmes; in sharing governmental expertise; and in the long-term enabling of security mechanisms that are human-centred. The project is ultimately prompted by a sense of intellectual responsibility to respond constructively to the increasingly precarious geographies evident in our current moment of global geopolitics and its seemingly endless cycles of violent interventionism. Reflecting on the above and more, leading academics, including Prof. Derek Gregory (University of British Columbia) and Dr Alex Jeffrey (Cambridge), will join colleagues at NUI Galway for a one-day symposium on Saturday October 29th in the Moore Institute for Humanities. They will be joined by a range of other contributors from NGO advocate groups, including Galway One World Centre, and also by representatives from Irish Aid and the Irish Naval Services. The aim is to coalesce expertise from across the public sphere on geopolitics, humanitarianism and international development, with a view to offering a critical contribution to a series of vital debates on the Mediterranean Crisis and the West’s response.

Space, Place and Identity - Barry Nevin ' The Films of Jacques Feyder: Framing Family, Class and Colonialism in Interwar France (1919 - 1939).
2016-10-28 13:00 - 14:00 UTC | The Moore Institute Seminar Room G010 Ground floor The Hardiman Research Building, Ireland
Space, Place and Identity – Barry Nevin ‘ The Films of Jacques Feyder: Framing Family, Class and Colonialism in Interwar France (1919 – 1939).

Tudor and Stuart Conference 2016
2016-08-19 10:00 UTC
Tudor & Stuart Conference 2016
Online Registration for this year’s conference is now open!
The 6th Annual Tudor & Stuart Ireland Interdisciplinary Conference will be held in the in the Moore Institute, Hardiman Research Building, National University of Ireland, Galway, on 19-20 August 2016. This year’s programme will feature plenary speakers Prof. Mary O’Dowd (Queen’s University Belfast), and Prof. Andrew Hadfield (University of Sussex), as well as a special panel session Shakespeare and Ireland and a session in honour of Professor Steven Ellis. The programme also boasts thirty-six research papers across both days of the conference, a wine reception, and a number of informal occasions to meet and network with speakers and delegates.
Registration
Click here to proceed to online registration and payment options. Online registration will close on Tuesday, 16 August.
The conference registration fee is ‰âÂ30 (or ‰âÂ20 for students, speakers, retired and unwaged delegates). All tea / coffee breaks, lunches, and a wine reception are included in the registration fee.
The conference dinner will be held at Kirby’s Restaurant, Cross Street Lower, at 19:00 on Friday, 19 August. Anyone attending the conference is most welcome to join us for the dinner. The cost of dinner is €35.00, and includes a three course set menu, a glass of wine / draught beer, and tea / coffee with dessert. An area within the pub has been reserved for after dinner for those wishing to socialise with other delegates.
Useful links:
Interactive Map of NUI Galway Campus
Getting to Galway
Accommodation
Queries
Should you have any questions regarding the 2016 conference please do not hesitate to contact the organisers at 2016@tudorstuartireland.com

English Seminar ' Towards a World Literature Network Seeding Event Series' - Special Topic: Women and World Literature
2016-07-21 14:00 (Europe/Dublin)
Towards a World Literature Network Seeding Event Series
Special Topic: Women and World Literature
21st July 2016 – Seminar Room GO10, Hardiman Research Building.
Recent debates surrounding the definition and scope of world literature have sparked a resurgence of interest in the concept of the disciplinary boundaries of literary studies. This resurgence has been amplified by questions about the dominance of English as the language of globalisation; the demands of the digital age; and the fallout from the global financial crisis. Some of the key questions that have arisen are: How do we define world literature? How is ‰Û÷world literature’ to be taught? What issues surround the dissemination of research in world literature? Our main focus for this event is to pick up and build on conversations from previous seeding events, but we are also keen to start some new ones, particularly with emphasis on the intersection of transnational feminism, women’s studies, gender studies and world literature.
Further enquiries to Zania Koppe at z.koppe1@nuigalway.ie or Sorcha Gunne at sorcha.gunne@nuigalway.ie

6th International Conference on the Science of Computus in the Middle Ages
2016-07-08 09:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Old Moore Institute, Ireland
6th International Conference
on the Science of Computus in the Middle Ages
Old Moore Institute, NUI Galway, 8-10 July 2016
Friday 8 July
16:00-18:00 – Session 1: Liber Nemroth
Barbara Obrist (Geneva) Nemroth‘s cosmology and computus in the 12th century
David Juste (Munich) The lost astrological chapters of the Liber Nemroth and the origin of the text
Philipp Nothaft (Oxford) Chronology and computus in the Liber Nemroth
Isabelle Draelants (Paris) Depingimus demonstrando: dialogue between drawings and text for learning efficiency in Nimrod‘s cosmogony
18:15 – Book-Launch
Saturday 9 July
9:00-10:00 – Session 2: The Calculation of Easter
Marina Smyth (Notre Dame) – Verse mnemonics similar to Nonae Aprilis
Michael Brennan (Dublin) – Mathematicians in the Carolingian age: Asking in an age of answers
10:30-12:30 – Session 3: Bede & his Legacy
Conor O’Brien (Cambridge) The scandal of diversity: The uses of tolerance in the early medieval Easter Controversy
MÌÁirÌ_n MacCarron (Sheffield) Why did Bede include a chronicle in his De temporibus?
Joshua Westgard (Maryland) The transmission of Bede’s scientific works
John J. Contreni (Purdue) A first look at ninth-century glosses on Bede’s De temporum ratione
14:30-16:00 – Session 4: The Computi of 757 & 789
James Palmer (St Andrews) The many lives of a ‰Û÷faulty’ prototype: the computus of 757 and its relatives
Leofranc Holford-Strevens (Oxford) The Computus of 757: text and context
Immo Warntjes (Belfast) The unfinished Fulda Computus of AD 789
16:30-18:00 – Session 5: Manuscripts I
Dimitry Starostin (St Petersburg) Alcuin, Hildebald, and MS. Cologne Dombibliothek 832: Computus and cultural conflicts in time-reckoning among the Carolingian educated elite
Eric RamÌ_rez-Weaver (Princeton / Virginia) Calculated differences: meaning and change in the image cycle of the Libri computi of AD 809
Brigitte Englisch (Paderborn) Mundus pictus: Die bildliche Darstellung astronomischer und geographischer Strukturen in komputistischen Handschriften des 9. Jhs.
Sunday 10 July
9:00-10:30 – Session 6: Manuscripts II
Lisa Chen Obrist (Toronto) Seeing the sources in Book X of Hrabanus Maurus’ De rerum naturis
Wesley Stevens (Manitoba) Questions about the Tabula paschalis of Dionysius Exiguus from its earliest manuscript
Richard Corradini (Vienna) Mastering time: the chronographic collection in Walahfrid Strabo’s handbook
11:00-12:00 – Session 7: Arabic Influences
Fathi Jarray (Tunis) Astronomie et Gnomonique musulmanes et l’Europe m̩di̩val: rapports d’influence ou h̩ritage partag̩?
Michael Schonhardt (Freiburg) … ut fratres surgere faciat ad horma competentem: the transmission and function of Arabic science in Regensburg
13:30-15:00 – Session 8: Late Anglo-Saxon Computistics
Megan McNamee (Michigan) Arithmetic, computus and the ambiguous alphabet c. 1000
Sabine Rauch (Dublin) Number symbolic ideas in Byrhtferth’s diagrams of the Enchiridion
Rebecca Stephenson (Dublin) Visualizing computus: Byrhtferth of Ramsey’s diagrams
15:30-17:00 – Session 9: Later Middle Ages
Sarah Griffin (Oxford) Diagram and dimension: visualising time in a drawing of Opicinus de Canistris (1296 – c.1354)
Christian Etheridge (Odense) The development of computus texts in Sweden and Finland in the Middle Ages
Michal Choptiany (Warsaw) An understudied Cistercian computistical source from Silesia: Conrad of Heinrichau’s Computus novus ecclesiasticus (1340)

War and Revolution Conference ' Place, Identity and Conflict: War and Revolution in the West of Ireland, 1913 - 18'
2016-07-01 09:45 (Europe/Dublin)
Place, Identity & Conflict: The West of Ireland in War & Revolution, 1913-19
This upcoming conference explores War and Revolution in the West of Ireland between 1913 and 1918. The conference runs for two days on Friday and Saturday 1/2 July in the Aula Maxima, NUIG. All talks are free and open to the public.
Identity and a sense of communal resilience lent meaning to chaotic events in Ireland in the decade before the foundation of the state. In the face of social and political upheaval, regional, sectional and ethnic identities offered an opportunity to impose order on social change, making upheaval and loss less threatening, giving meaning to new political realities. The archival resources pertaining to the revolutionary period in Ireland have changed dramatically in the last decade. This public conference explores the contrasting interpretations of war and revolution in the West of Ireland through the conflicting prisms of class, regional identity, religious faith, language, ethnicity and gender.
Conference programme includes talks on contrasting perspectives of the period from the world of the ‰Û÷big house’, the lives of rural women, the Irish in America, the urban poor and a range of competing narratives. The crucial issues of land, recruitment to the military, the emergence of the Irish Volunteers, the irish language, the Easter Rising in Galway and the social history of ordinary peoples’ lives will all be examined.
The conference kicks off at 9.30 am on both days and enquires can be sent to Dr Conor McNamara, conor.mcnamara@nuigalway.ie

UNISCAPE Conference - Landscape Values: Place and Praxis International Conference
2016-06-29 08:00 (Europe/Dublin)
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
WEDNESDAY 29 JUNE 2016
Venue Institute for Lifecourse and Society (ILAS), NUI Galway
11:30 – 13:45 UNISCAPE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Venue: LCI – G006 Seminar Room 5
13:00 REGISTRATION OPENS
Venue: Foyer, ILAS, NUI Galway
14:00 CONFERENCE LAUNCH
Venue: LCI-G018, ILAS, NUI Galway
Conor Newman School of Geography and Archaeology, NUI Galway
Tim Collins Centre for Landscape Studies, NUI Galway
Nessa Cronin Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway
Daniel Carey Moore Institute, NUI Galway
Colin Brown Ryan Institute, NUI Galway
Juan-Manual Palerm UNISCAPE
14:15 KEYNOTE LECTURE I
Venue: LCI-G018, ILAS, NUI Galway
John Feehan School of Agriculture, Food Science, and Veterinary Medicine, U. C. Dublin
Landscape and Belonging – a view from the edge
15:20 – 17:40 PLENARY PANEL I
Venue: LCI-G018, ILAS, NUI Galway
Elvira Petroncelli Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering,
Marialuce Stanganelli U. of Federico II, Naples
Place Values and Change
Kieran Walsh Centre for Social Gerontology, NUI Galway
Place and home across the older adult life course: constructions of exclusion, belonging and adaptation
Dr Neil Hanlon U. of Northern British Columbia
Health care reform, place, and the rhetoric of intimacy
MarÌ_a GarcÌ_a MartÌ_n Landscape Management, U. Freiburg
Participatory mapping of landscape values in a Pan-European perspective
18:00 – 19:30 RECEPTION AND BBQ – Main Campus, NUI Galway.
Venue: College Bar, NUI Galway
Note: Return Shuttle buses will be available from 17.45 for delegates to go to the College Bar, Main Campus, NUI Galway, and will depart from the College Bar from 19.25 to return to ILAS for the IARSMA performance at 20.00.
20.00 IARSMA: FRAGMENTS FROM AN ARCHIVE
Artists in the Archive Project, Tim Robinson Archive, NUI Galway (2015-16)
Venue: LCI-G018, ILAS, NUI Galway
Nessa Cronin Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway
Kieran Hoare and Aisling Keane Archives, James Hardiman Library, NUI Galway
Performance by The Performing Landscapes Collective:
Tim Collins, Musician/Composer/Academic, Centre for Landscape Studies,
NUI Galway
RÌ_onach NÌ_ N̩ill, Choreographer/Dancer, Galway Dancer in Residence
Deirdre O’Mahony, Visual Artist/Academic, Galway-Mayo Institute of
Technology
Special Guests:
Geraldine Cotter (Piano), Eimear Coughlan (Harp), Francis Cunningham (Concertina)
Eimear Howley (Viola), Sharon Howley (Cello), Brian O’Grady (Double Bass), Lillis ÌÒ Laoire (Singer), Anthony Quigney (Concert Flute).
THURSDAY 30 JUNE 2016
08:00 REGISTRATION – Venue: Foyer, ́ras Moyola, NUI Galway
08.30 DEPARTURE FROM ́RAS MOYOLA FOR –
LANDSCAPES IN ACTION: DESIGNATED FIELD EXCURSIONS
THERE IS A ‰âÂ10 SUPPLEMENT FOR EVENING MEAL. THIS IS TO BE PAID AT REGISTRATION.
ROCK BURREN UPLANDS : GORT LOWLANDS
COAST ORANMORE : LEITIR MEALĹIN, SOUTH CONNEMARA
SHORE WESTPORT : NEWPORT : MULRANNY : CLEW BAY
BOG LOUGH BOORA : BALLINASLOE : SHANNON
LANDSCAPES IN ACTION – PANEL SESSIONS
ROCK – BURREN
John Sunderland Photo Artist USA
Imagining Place: a question of representation
Eileen O’Rourke Dept. Geography, U.C. Cork
High Nature Value Farming on the Iveragh Peninsula and its Landscape Implications
Rike Stotten Dept. Sociology, U. Innsbruck
Farmers’ Thinking on Cultural Landscapes in Central Switzerland
COAST – CONNEMARA
Marco Devecchi U. Turin
Claudia Cassatella Turin Polytechnic
Federica Larcher U. Turin
Landscape and food: a mutualistic symbiosis to be valued
C.E. Stancioff, Faculty of Indigenous Heritage, U. Leiden
Locality and landscape change: cultural values and social-ecological resiliency in the Kalinago Territory
Padraig ÌÒ Sabhain Centre for Adult Learning & Professional Development NUI Galway
The Landscape of The Galway Hooker
Ian Mell U. Liverpool
Realising the cultural values of green infrastructure: exploring cultural differences in teaching landscape with international students
Anna Meenan Heritage Council of Ireland
Repairing Old Farm Buildings as a means of conserving the Irish Rural Landscape
SEA – CLEW BAY
Gerd Lupp Landscape Planning & Management, TU MÌ_nchen
Markus Feuerstein Blieskastel
Linda Heuchele Environment & Natural Resources, U. Freiburg
Werner Konold U. Freiburg
Trail use and perception of a diverse mountain farming landscape by hikers in the protected area AllgÌ_uer Hochalpen in the German Alps
Clair McDonald Waterford Institute of Technology
Cultural landscapes and ecological values: a methodology for determining significance on the landscape of the former landed estate at Gurteen
Penny Johnston Dept. Folklore & Ethnology, U.C. Cork
Stories of Place: presenting the local in an-online World
Alison Harvey Heritage Council of Ireland
Community-Led Village Design Toolkit
BOG – BOORA
Emel Baylan U.Yuzunku Yil
ErÌÉåÙat HÌ_seyni
AyÌÉåÙe Demir
Uncovering the cultural landscape values of wetlands
Patrick Devine-WrightU. Exeter
Etienne Bailey U. Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL)
Susana BatelCis-IUL, Lisbon
Varieties of place attachments and community responses to energy infrastructures: a mixed method approach
Th̩r̬se Conway Tralee Institute of Technology
Mary Cawley Geography, NUI Galway
Ecotourism and ecolabels in landscape protection: a critical appraisal of a governance mechanism.
Sophia Meeres Architecture, U.C. Dublin
Infrastructural struggles: the making of modern Arklow, Ireland.
20:00 ARRIVAL OF DELEGATES BACK AT NUI GALWAY
FRIDAY 1 JULY 2016
Venue ́ras Moyola, NUI Galway
9.30-10.50 PARALLEL SESSIONS 1a 1b 1c
SESSION 1a Venue: MY129
Amy Woolvin Centre for Mountain Studies, U. Islands & Highlands
Cultural values, participation and engagement: the potential and
challenges for a ‰Û÷more-than-visual approach.
Maunu Hayrynen U.Turku
Cultural Planning as Landscape Research
Brendan McGrath å_Planner, Co. Clare
Learning through landscape; place-based learning in the Burren
SESSION 1b Venue: MY243
Gabri̩lle Bartelse Environmental Sciences, U. Wageningen
The ‰Û÷genius loci’ concept in contemporary landscape architecture
Neil Galway School of Planning, Architecture & Civil Engineering, Queen’s U. Belfast
Reconsidering Partisan memorial landscapes in un-brotherly and disputed times
Tana Nicolletta Lascu
Marius Solon
Vlad Balostin U. Architecture and Urbanism Bucharest
Chorography approach as Strategy in the Architectural design
SESSION 1c Venue: MY124
Aoife Kavanagh Dept. of Geography, Maynooth U.
Making music and making place: Mapping musical practice and Metaphor
EilÌ_s NÌ_ Dh̼ill Acadamh na nOllscolaÌ_ochta Gaeilge, NUIG
Sounds of the past in west Kerry: Creating, recalling and transmitting cultural values through place-names and associated narratives
Renato Bocchi U. Venezia Dorsoduro
Looking at the landscape as a person
10.50 – 11.10 TEA/COFFEE BREAK
11.10 – 12.50 PARALLEL SESSIONS 2a 2b 2c
SESSION 2a Venue: MY124
Keith Egan
Alexandra Lima RevezProject Lifecourse, NUI Galway
Local moral geographies: reflections from the 3-Cities Project on urban Irish communities as landscapes of enacted/latent values.
Emilio Rodriguez Blanco U. of La Coruna
Plant a chair: Urban landscape and activism
Silvia Loeffler Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Geography, Maynooth University
Glas Journal: A deep mapping of Dun Laoghaire harbour (2014-2016)
SESSION 2b Venue: MY243
Andrew Turk School of Arts, Murdoch U. W. Australia
A Phenomenological Approach to Trans-disciplinary Understanding of
Landscape as Place
Andrew Butler
Camilo Calderon U. Agricultural Science, Uppsala
Towards the development of landscape democracy: a theoretical contribution
Geraldine Robbins Business & Economics, NUI Galway
Local Government Citizen Participation in Ireland: Intentions versus Reality
Liam Scott Heritage Council of Ireland
Shirley Clerkin
The Heritage Officer Programme: heritage expertise and community networking
SESSION 2c Venue: MY129
Simon Read Middlesex U.
Beyond Dreaming
Braha Kunda Interior design Dept, Holon Institute of Technology
The Non-Sense at ‘Non-Place’
Ciara Healy Department of Art, U. Reading
Thin Place: An Alternative Approach to Place-based Curation.
CristÌ_bal Crespo U. La Coruna
Encouraging communities to reconquer urban landscapes: Proposals
for the city of Carbolla
12.50 – 14:00 LUNCH – Venue: Friars Restaurant
14:00 – 14:40 KEYNOTE LECTURE II – Venue: MY243
Teresa Pinto CorreiaICAAM – Instituto de Ci̻ncias AgrÌÁrias e Ambientais Mediterr̢nicas, Universidade de Ìävora
Landscape values under pressure: tensions in the management of extensive silvo-pastoral systems in Southern Iberia
15:00 – 16:20 PARALLEL SESSIONS 3a 3b 3c
SESSION 3a Venue: MY129
Camilo Calderon Urban and Rural Development, Swedish U. Agricultural Science
Martin Westin Swedish International Centre of Education for Sustainable Development – SWEDESD, Uppsala University
Understanding how context influences collaborative approaches to
landscape governance: An analytical framework
Brendan O’Sullivan U.C. Cork
Disciplinary relationships and landscape values: Star vehicles or ensemble pieces
Judith Tucker Leeds U.
Harriet Tarlo Sheffield U.
Place as pause: The value of collaborative, cross-disciplinary practices
SESSION 3b Venue: MY124
Terry O’Regan Landscape Alliance Ireland
Travelling methodologies: From Cork to Prishtina
Hannes Palang Centre for Landscape and Culture, Tallinn U. Estonia
Peeping through the walls
SESSION 3c Venue: MY243
Iain Biggs U. West England
Between creative praxis and place governance: four examples
Andrew Butler Swedish U. Agricultural Sciences
Landscape as a developing discourse: contested landscape identities in an area affected by forest fire
Shauna Diamond,
Christine Fitzgerald
Alexandra Lima RevezProject Lifecourse, NUI Galway
Co-producing place: an evaluation of participatory methodologies in the 3-Cities Project for enhancing community participation
16:20 – 16:40 TEA/COFFEE BREAK
16:40 – 19:00 PLENARY PANEL II – Venue: MY243
Pat Brereton Dublin City U.
Greening a more Sustainable Irish Landscape: A Reading of Postcolonial Irish film.
Neils Debaut Dept. Geography – Ghent U.
Veerle Van Eetvelde Dept. Geography – Ghent U.
Bas Pedroli Wageningen U. / director UNISCAPE
Graham Fairclough McCord Centre for Historic & Cultural Landscapes Newcastle U.
Cherishing heritage through landscape: a future vision
Colm Murray Heritage Council
A conceptual model for the cultural values ascribed to places
Anu Printsmann
Hannes Palang Centre for Landscape and Culture, Tallinn U.
Vegetable garden as a source of identity
19:00 – 19.30 UNISCAPE: Results of People’s Landscapes Video Contest
Venue: MY243
20:00 CONFERENCE RECEPTION AND BOOK LAUNCH
Venue: ́ras Moyola, NUI Galway
GearÌ_id ÌÒ hAllmhurÌÁin, Flowing Tides: History and Memory in an Irish Soundscape (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016)
GearÌ_id ÌÒ hAllmhurÌÁin, School of Canadian Irish Studies, Concordia U. Montreal.
Introduced by M̩abh NÌ_ FhuarthÌÁin, Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway.
Launched by Harry White, MRIA, UC Dublin.
SATURDAY 2 JULY 2016
Venue ́ras Moyola, NUI Galway
9.00-10.20 PARALLEL SESSIONS 4a 4b 4c
SESSION 4a Venue: MY243
Diana Surova U.Ìävora
Teresa Pinto-Correia
Nuno Guiomar
Distinct landscape – distinct well-being? How residents evaluate landscape, environmental and agricultural traits in two contrasting local landscapes of Southern Portugal (Southern Europe)
Akiko Yoshimura Chiba Institute of TechnologyKeijiro Yamada Kanazawa Institute of TechnologyYoshinori lida CTI Engineering Co., Ltd.Hideaki Kawasaki Tokyo Metropolitan GovernmentYuko Nagamura Huis ten BoschNaho Dokyu Urayasu CityTashi Penjor Ministry of Works and SettlementUgeyn M Tenzin
Ministry of Works and Settlement
How to determine essential values of landscape to be preserved in a non-established heritage village: an interdisciplinary challenge in Tron village, Zhemgang, Bhutan
Jane Russell O’Connor Waterford Institute of Technology
A multi-disciplinary approach to landscape assessment for landscape characterization
SESSION 4b Venue: MY129
Karen Till
Gerry Kearns Geography Dept. Maynooth U.
Emplacing ‰Û÷who we are, what we are’: The embodied and historical geographies of Anu’s Production Laundry
GearÌ_id ÌÒ hAllmhurÌÁin School of Canadian Irish Studies, Concordia U.
The Carricks: Irish Famine Dinnseanchas in the New World
SESSION 4c Venue: MY124
Kieran Cunnane
CaoimhÌ_n ÌÒ Maolallaigh Transition Galway
Harald Fredheim Archaeology, U. of York
Sustaining Places in Action: Facilitating Community Involvement in Heritage Stewardship by Co-Creation
Jacques Abelman Amsterdam Academy of Architecture
å_Cultivating the City: Infrastructures of Abundance in Urban Brazil
10.20-10.40 TEA/COFFEE BREAK
10.40-12.20 PARALLEL SESSIONS 5a 5b
SESSION 5a Venue: MY129
Lucia Piani
Andrea Guaran
Enrico Michelutti Human Sciences, U.Udine
Landscape as key element in finding coherence in territorial policies
Sylvia Dovl̩n U. Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala
Landscape values in the decision-making: Implementation of the European Landscape Convention in Sweden
Karen Ray Geography & Planning U.C. Cork
Landscape and Planning: Exploring the Relationship in Decision-Making
Olga Maximova U. Rome La Sapienza
Landscape areas (‰Û÷ambiti’) as a tool for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention: In the case of Italy
SESSION 5b Venue: MY243
CaitrÌ_ona Carlin Ryan Institute, NUI Galway
Mike Gormley Ryan Institute, NUI Galway
David Quinn Applied Ecology Unit, Environmental Science, School of Natural Sciences, NUI Galway
Martin Cormican Ryan Institute, NUI Galway
GreenSpace Values: differences between engineers, planners, conservationists and health promotion officers
Zlata Vuksanovic Macura
Dragana Corovic Faculty of Architecture, U. Belgrade
From Ottoman Gardens to European parks: Transformation of green spaces in Belgrade
Aidan ffrench Landscape Architect
People, Place and Quality of Life – Achieving Green Infrastructure and Sustainable Placemaking: lessons from Ireland
Giulio Senes
Natalia Fumagalli
Cristina Ferrara
Antonia Giornelli
Allessandro Toccolini Agricultural & Environmental Sciences, U. Milan
Healing Gardens for Seniors: quality assessment of 67 nursing homes in Milan (Italy)
12:20 – 14:00 LUNCH – Venue: Friars Restaurant NUI Galway
13:00 SPECIAL VIEWING OF F̍S NA FUISEOIGE (THE LARK’S CALL)
This one-hour documentary explores the deep connection between People and Place. Filmed by Headford-based Counterpoint Films using state-of-the-art aerial cinematography, the film is a stunning visual exploration of the vast diversity of local places in Ireland, expressed in the writings of Ireland’s leading Irish-language poets.
(Winner of Best Cinematography at the San Francisco Earth Day Film Festival)
14:00 – 14.50 KEYNOTE LECTURE III – Venue: MY243
Matthijs Schouten Environmental Sciences, Wageningen U.
Orientation, reorientation and disorientation: landscape and the sense of self.
15:00 – 16:40 PARALLEL SESSIONS 6a 6b 6c
SESSIONs 6a – Venue: MY124
Aurora Carapinha
Paula Sim̵es Landscape, Environment and Planning, Ìävora U.
The landscape of wheat: A Landscape of power
Sharon O’Brien U. of Limerick
Place-thinking Space-thinking
KateÌÉåªina PaÌÉåªÌ_zkovÌÁ Environmental Studies Masaryk U.
Mind the gap: The need for re-conceptualization of the aesthetic dimension in landscape character assessment and planning
SESSION 6b – Venue: MY243
John Manning
Andrew Turk Monash U.
How terrain becomes landscape: Antarctica landscape language case
study
Bernadette Divilly ÌÒmÌ_s ́ite Space & Place Network, Irish Studies, NUI Galway
Walking Wisdom: Contested Spaces and Mobilising Memory in Galway City
Kate Bevan-Baker School of Canadian Irish Studies, Concordia U.
Performativity and place-making: Vernacular Fiddling on Canada’s Prince Edward Island
SESSION 6c – Venue: MY129
Nadja Penko Seidl Dept. Landscape Architecture, U. Ljubljana
The invisible and intangible landscape: Naming, claiming and
managing processes
Ian Doyle Heritage Council of Ireland
Mapping the historic landscape: recent work in Ireland
Mauro Agnoletti Landscape Unit, Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Forestry Policies, Italy
Indicators of the wellbeing of the population connected to the quality of rural
landscape in Italy.
16:40 – 17:00 TEA/COFFEE BREAK
17:00 – 18:20 CLOSING SESSION AND CONCLUDING REMARKS – Venue: MY243
Veerle Van Eetvelde Gent U.
Isabel Loupa Ramos Lisbon U.
Fatima Bernardo Ìävora U.
Valuing landscape identity of local inhabitants through a tourism discourse
Selena Bagnara Milan U. Nova Gorica
Cultural Landscapes: A framework for their holistic management
Juan-Manuel Palerm President, UNISCAPE
Landscape Project as place and Praxis

Moore Institute, SUAS and IDEA host a one day workshop ' Inclusion and Exclusion in Global Citizenship Education'
2016-06-27 10:45 (Europe/Dublin)
The Moore Institute at NUIG, SUAS and IDEA are delighted to invite you to a one-day workshop on Inclusion and Exclusion in Global Citizenship Education. The workshop will be held at the Moore Institute, National University of Ireland Galway, on Monday 27 June, 10:45 am – 3:45 pm.
The aim of the day is to promote dialogue, sharing and collaboration between researchers and practitioners in the area of non-discriminatory Global Citizenship Education, with a particular focus on gender issues, young people, and Southern & postcolonial perspectives. The day will be facilitated by Momodou Sallah, Dalene Swanson and Su Ming Khoo. Artist Eimear McNally will help us to creatively interweave our insights.
Please join us for what promises to be a rich and challenging conversation amongst a diverse group of Global Citizenship Education researchers and practitioners. The event is free but you must register in advance with Susan@ideaonline.ie. We hope to see you on the 27th!
UNIFY-SDG
University-Based Research and Education for Youth Solidarity and Equality toward the SDGs
Inclusion and Exclusion in Global Citizenship Education:
A Dialogue between Researchers and Practitioners
Monday 27 June, Moore Institute hardinamn Buidling THB G10, NUIG, 10:45 – 3:45
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee and registration
11:00 – 11:20 Welcome and introduction to UNIFY-SDG project: Su-ming Khoo, NUIG, Frank Geary, IDEA and Jo Malone, Suas Educational Development, Eimear McNally: knowledge capture
11:20 -11:30 Ice-breaker incorporating participants’ expectations for the day.
11:30 – 12:50 Young people, inclusion and exclusion in global citizenship education: Southern perspectives

In what ways can young people participate more in research and practice on GCE?
How are Southern and post-colonial perspectives reflected in our research and practice of GCE?

12:50 – 1:50 Lunch
1:50 – 3:00 ‰Û÷Gender and its intersection with other types of non-discrimination’. Su-ming Khoo, NUIG, and Dalene Swanson, Moore Institute Visiting Fellow
3:00- 3:45 if running late Closing session:

Visual feedback: Eimear McNally
Plenary discussion: Chair: Jo Malone, Suas: Research and Practice working together to advance non-discriminatory GCE
Action points and closing: Chair Susan Gallwey, IDEA

About our facilitators:
Dr Momodou Sallah is Senior Lecturer at De Montfort University, Leicester. His areas of interest and expertise include cultural competency, global youth work, youth participation, diversity, black young people and young Muslims. In November 2015, Momodou was named the ‰Û÷most innovative teacher in the UK’ in the Times Higher Education Awards.
Dr Dalene Swanson is a senior academic at the University of Stirling. She is interested in critical global citizenship, postcoloniality, indigenous thought, post-foundational methodologies, dance and mathematics education.
Dr Su-ming Khoo teaches and researches at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Her interests include postcolonial development studies, public advocacy and activism, human rights and the ethics of higher education.
Eimear McNally is an illustrator and facilitator working mainly in the area of live graphic recording and visual facilitation. She has many years of experience in Education for Global Citizenship, and she is passionate about bringing creativity and new ways of seeing into our work and our lives.
Twitter: #UNIFY-SDG
UNIFY-SDG is funded by the Irish Research Council New Foundations programme

Moore Institute Visiting Fellow, Dr Dalene Swanson( University of Stirling, Scotland) ' Decolonising Global Citizenship (Education) and ethical, indigenous, onto-epistemological alternatives'.
2016-06-21 14:00 (Europe/Dublin)
Dr Dalene M. Swanson, University of Stirling
Dalene is an educationalist and her research expertise spans (reconceptualist) curriculum perspectives, mathematics education, critical cultural studies, ethical internationalisation, democracy in education, and social and ecological justice. She is interested broadly in critical, ideological and socio-political perspectives in education and society, and mostly writes from poststructural and de/post-colonial perspectives. In particular, she has expertise in critical global citizenship, democratic education, and indigeneity, especially the African onto-epistemology of Ubuntu. Philosophical and social concerns around poverty, marginalisation, (neo)colonialism, as well as her research into “the construction of disadvantage” frame much of her work. Hegemonic tenets within neoliberalism, economic development and globalisation reflect ongoing concerns of global injustice. Dalene also has expertise in critical arts-based and narrative methodologies (especially ‘critical rhizomatic narrative’ methodology she developed), and other creative, post-foundational and counter-hegemonic research and writing methodologies and practices. Dalene also brings arts-based approaches to bear on mathematics education as a decolonising practice.
More information can be found at: http://rms.stir.ac.uk/converis-stirling/person/23287
Decolonising Global Citizenship (Education) and ethical, indigenous, onto-epistemological alternatives
Global citizenship and associated discourses on globalisation often comport with a moral liberal response to new widespread place-based formations of race, class, gender, migratory and ethnic inequality. This often-imported liberalism resides uncomfortably and selectively alongside increasing politically and ideologically invested polarisations, pernicious levels of poverty, global violence and states/frames of war (Butler, 2009), widespread conflict-induced population displacement and mass migration, human and ecological degradation, the rise of new forms of extremist ethnic nationalism, and differentiated capitalist formations geopolitically. It is also associated with a concomitant rise in cosmopolitanism that resides in complex arrangement with a rise in world conservativism and fascism, theo-political and ideological polarisations, along with new fragmentations and integrations as the political terrain shifts in accordance with the economic perturbations of late modernity and global capitalism in crisis. With it comes a seeming resurgence of humanism and humanitarianism, albeit that these are partial and selective. In this sense, global citizenship is contradictory and less than innocent, and can be said to be at least partially caught up in the globalisation project of neoliberal spread and capitalist imperialism (Swanson, 2011).
On the international education front, over the last few decades, global citizenship discourses have been taken up with some intensity in policy documents, vision statements and higher education and schooling curricula documents within Western parliamentary democracies, as well as having increasingly pervaded developing educational contexts. They have also most notably be taken up in internationalisation discourses in higher and further education contexts in an attempt, as public relations strategy, to provide ‰Û÷positive’ moral justification for the new forms of academic neo-colonialism.
On the surface, global citizenship and globalisation discourses are promoted in ways that seem to herald world humanism, reflecting a sense of global interdependence and mutualism. Under a banner of globalisation and economic progressivism, the world embetterment these discourses promise appears uncontestable and lies within the current common-sense doxic order of things that render alternatives improbable and irrational (Bourdieu, 1990). Much globalisation parlance tends to be framed within Western Enlightenment thinking that suggests that the global citizenship reach and outstretched hand to ‰Û÷the other’ is necessarily benevolent or of mutual interest (Swanson, 2010, 2011, 2015b), one which often hides under a banner of neutrality the difference in power relations, the cultural imperialism, the individualistic orientation and self-interestedness, and the latent symbolic violence (Bourdieu & Wacquant, 1992) in such global citizenship overtures. Global citizenship’s institutionalisation as the ‰Û÷great white hope’ of international relations (Brysk, 2002) testifies to its often racialised and privileged framing. Education systems and curricula that celebrate the common sense goodness of global citizenship without challenging its hidden curriculum (Jackson, 1968) create spectres (Derrida, 1994) of what might otherwise have been imaginable, and fall short of and even lie counter to their stated purposes in their nullifying effect. In so doing, they fail to enable a world structured according to a radical hope (Lear, 2006; Swanson, 2015a) of global justice, to development as freedom (Sen, 1999), and to the action-oriented imaginings that bring into the realm of possibility a renewal of the world (Arendt, 1958). This promise of renewal ushers in an imagined world of widened democratic possibilities and alternative wisdoms as expressions of lived experiences for those living on/within the margins and/or living the violent consequences of perforated borders and border epistemologies.
This presentation offers perspectives of counter-hegemonic possibility, of hybrid third fora (Bhabha, 2004), and the inclusion of indigenous wisdom and embodiments, such as Ubuntu onto-epistemology (Ramose, 2002a, 2002b; Swanson, 2007, 2015a, 2015b). It offers a view of surface-to-surface and intersoular (Serres, 2008) ontologies as alternative onto-epistemologies of conscience (Swanson, 2015b). It does so to the end of decolonising global citizenship in order to make possible viable ethical alternatives and deep democratic actions.
References:
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Bhabha, H. K. (2004). The location of culture. Abingdon, MA: Routledge.
Bourdieu, P. (1990). The logic of practice. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Bourdieu, P., & Wacquant, L. J. D. (1992). An invitation to a reflexive sociology. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Brysk, A. (2002). Conclusion: From rights to realities. In A. Brysk (Ed.), Globalization and human rights. Oakland, CA: University of California Press.
Butler, J. (2009). Frames of war: When is this life grievable?: London and New York: Verso.
Derrida, J. (1994). Specters of Marx. London: Routledge.
Jackson, P. W. (1968). Life in classrooms. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
Lear, J. (2006). Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation. Cambridge,
Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
Ramose, M. B. (2002a). “The philosophy of ubuntu and ubuntu as a philosophy.” In African Philosophy Reader, 2nd Edition, edited by Pieter H. Coetzee and Abraham P.J. Roux, (pp. 230- 238). London: Routledge.
Ramose, M. B. (2002b). “The ethics of ubuntu.” In African Philosophy Reader, 2nd edition, edited by Pieter H. Coetzee and Abraham P.J. Roux, (pp. 324-330). London: Routledge.
Sen, A. (1999). Development as freedom. New York, NY: Anchor Books.
Serres, M. (2008). The Five Senses: A philosophy of mingled bodies (I). [Trans. M. Sankey and P. Cowley]. London: Continuum.
Swanson, D.M. (2007). Ubuntu: An African contribution to (re)search for/with a ‰Û÷humble togetherness’. The Journal of Contemporary Issues in Education, 2, Special Edition, 53-67. http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/JCIE/article/viewFile/1028/686
Swanson, D. M. (2010). Value in shadows: A contribution to values education in our times. In T. Lovat (Ed.), Springer handbook on values education and student wellbeing (pp. 137-152). New York, NY: Springer Press.
Swanson, D. M. (2011). Parallaxes and paradoxes of global citizenship: Critical reflections and possibilities of praxis in/through an international online course. In L. Shultz, A. A. Abdi, & G. H. Richardson (Eds.), Global citizenship education in post secondary institutions: Theories, practices, policies (pp. 120-139). New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishers.
Swanson, D. M. (2015a). Frames of Ubuntu: (Re)framing an ethical education. In H. Smits & R. Naqvi (Eds.), Framing peace: Thinking about and enacting curriculum as radical hope. New York, NY: Peter Lang.
Swanson, D.M. (2015b). Ubuntu, Radical Hope, and an Onto-Epistemology of Conscience. Journal of Critical Southern Studies, 3, 96 -118.

Moore Institute Visiting Fellow, Dr Salvatore Scifo 'The origins and development of community radio in Britain under New Labour (1997 - 2007)'.
2016-06-20 11:00 (Europe/Dublin)
Moore Institute Visiting Fellow, Dr Salvatore Scifo presents a talk :
‘ The origins and development of community radio in Britain under New Labour (1997 – 2007)’.
Monday, 20th June @ 11am in The Bridge, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building.

Prof Peter Glazer (University of Berkeley) and Patrick Ball (Musician), Moore Institute Visiting Fellows present ' Musics of a Lost Kingdom: Yeats, Story and Song'.
2016-06-16 16:00 (Europe/Dublin)
Prof. Peter Glazer (Berkeley) and Patrick Ball (musician)
‰Û÷Musics of a Lost Kingdom:
Yeats, Story and Song’
The remarkable, crystalline sound of the wire strung harp (the clÌÊrsach) was at the centre of Irish culture and legend for 700 years, most famously in the playing of Turlough O’Carolan. Yet it was wholly absent from the Celtic Revival. This talk investigates how the clÌÊrsach might help illuminate Yeats’s stories and poetry. Patrick Ball and Peter Glazer will discuss their collaboration to develop a performance piece on this subject, with demonstrations of the harp by Patrick.
4pm Thursday 16 June
Bridge Seminar Room, 1001
Hardiman Research Building

Dr. Justin Carville (IADT and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow) presents a talk 'Primitive Faces and Ungovernable Eyes: Racial Photography, Anthropology and Counter-Visuality in Ireland.
2016-06-16 11:30 UTC
Dr. Justin Carville
(Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art and Design and Moore Institute)
Primitive Faces and Ungovernable Eyes:
Racial Photography, Anthropology, and Counter-Visuality in Ireland
11.30 Thursday 16 June
‘The Bridge’ Seminar Room 1001
Hardiman Research Building

1916 in Global Context: Connections and Comparisons Conference
2016-06-16 09:00 (Europe/Dublin)
1916 IN GLOBAL CONTEXT:
CONNECTIONS AND COMPARISONS
Conference Programme
Thursday 16th June — Friday 17th June 2016
Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway
and
Notre Dame Centre, Kylemore Abbey,
Connemara
Organised by RÌ_isÌ_n Healy, Enrico Dal Lago and GearÌ_id Barry of History, NUI Galway
Thursday 16th June:
G010, Hardiman Building, Moore Institute, NUI Galway
9.00 Registration
9.15 Opening Remarks by Jane Ohlmeyer, Chair of the Irish Research Council, and the conference organisers
9.30-11.20 Panel 1: AFRICA
Chair: RÌ_isÌ_n Healy (NUI Galway)
Jonathan Krause (Oxford University)
The World Set Alight: Rebellion in the French Empire, 1916
Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses (Maynooth University)
Anti-colonial revolts against the Portuguese Republic, 1914-1918
Jonathan Hyslop (Colgate University)
The Boers Were the Beginning of the End? Southern African Connections in the Making and Aftermath of the Easter Rising, c. 1896-1931
Katja Fortenbacher-Nagel (University of Marburg)
“Travelling the Same Painful Road”: Links and References between Ireland and South Africa on their Road to Independence
11.20-11.40 Coffee break
11.40-1.30 Panel 2: AMERICAS
Chair: Enrico Dal Lago (NUI Galway)
David Brundage (University of California Santa Cruz)
The Easter Rising and Anticolonial Nationalism: The View from New York
Cecelia Hartsell (Fordham University)
Reflections on the Great Migration of 1916
Nicola Miller (University College London)
Liberalism Besieged: A Comparison of 1916 in Argentina and Mexico
Charles-Philippe Courtois (College militaire royal de Saint-Jean)
Ireland’s 1916 and Quebec’s Conscription Crisis
1.30-2.15 Lunch at NUI Galway
2.15-3.30 Bus trip to the Notre Dame Centre for Educational Excellence, Kylemore Abbey, Connemara
4.30-6.30 Panel 3: BRITISH EMPIRE AND ASIA
Chair: GearÌ_id Barry (NUI Galway)
Daniel Marc Segesser (University of Bern)
“Rebel Irish and Syndicalists Would Come into Office!”: The Easter Rising, Climatic Conditions, and the 1916 Australian Referendum on Conscription
Sucheta Mahajan (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)
In League with the Irish?: Annie Besant and Home Rule in India
Stephen McQuillan (Trinity College Dublin)
Failed Uprisings and Fraternal Relations: The Indo-Irish Nexus in 1916
Kate O’Malley (Royal Irish Academy)
Ireland, India, and a ‰Û÷Cult Following’ of Easter 1916?
6.30 Bus departs for dinner at Power’s Thatch Bar, Oughterard
9.30 Bus departs Oughterard for Galway
Friday 17th June
G010, Hardiman Building, Moore Institute, NUI Galway
9.10-11.00 Panel 4: MUSLIM WORLD
Chair: Enrico Dal Lago (NUI Galway)
Fatemeh Masjedi (Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin)
Tabriz during colonial Russia (1908-1917)
Michael Provence (University of California San Diego)
The Crisis of Empire and the Ottoman Great War: 1916
Danielle Ross (Utah State University)
National Resistance across Borders: Parallel Depictions of the Easter Rising and the Turkestani Uprising in Russia’s Muslim Newspapers
Erin O’Halloran (University of Oxford)
A Tempest in a British Tea Pot: ‰Û÷The Arab Question’ in Cairo and Delhi
11.00-11.20 Coffee Break
11.20-12.50 Panel 5: EUROPEAN counter-currentS
Chair: RÌ_isÌ_n Healy (NUI Galway)
Geoffrey Bell (independent scholar)
‰Û÷Surely, for the first time England can try and understand?’: the British labour movement and the Easter Rising
Heike Liebau (Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin)
Independence Committees in First World War Germany: common goals, mutual perceptions and collaboration
Padraic Kenney (Indiana University)
National, and thus Revolutionary ? Revolutionary, and thus National? Polish Struggles in Context
12.50-1.30 Lunch
1.30-3.00 Panel 6: PERCEPTIONS AND LEGACIES
Chair: GearÌ_id Barry (NUI Galway)
Andrew Newby (University of Helsinki)
A German Agitation in Ireland: Finnish Perceptions of the 1916 Rising
SeÌÁn Brady (Trinity College Dublin)
An Embarrassing Parody of Garibaldi, a Salutary Lesson, and a Sign of Hope: Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising seen through Italian Eyes
Timothy D. Hoyt (U.S. Naval War College, Newport)
The Easter Rising and the Beginnings of Modern Irregular Warfare
3.00 Closing Remarks
Conference participants and attendees are invited to visit the exhibition, “A University in War and Revolution, 1913-1919: The Galway Experience”, on view in the Hardiman Research Building.
Note: The conference is open to the public, but the organisers would ask those planning to attend to let us know in advance by sending an email to history@nuigalway.ie. There may be a small fee to cover catering costs and the bus journey to Kylemore Abbey.

Prof Alain Dubreucq, Moore Institute Visiting Fellow presents a talk 'The Manuscript Transmission of the Vita Columbani. Prolegomenes to a new edition'.
2016-06-15 12:30 (Europe/Dublin)
Prof Alain Dubreucq, Moore Institute Visiting Fellow presents a talk ‘
“The manuscript transmission of the Vita Columbani. Prolegomenes to a new edition”
Wednesday 15th June @12.30pm.
The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building.

'The Next Eighteenth - Century Ireland Society/ An Cumann ÌÄåäire San OchtÌÄå¼ C̩ad D̩ag' Annual Conference
2016-06-10 09:00 (Europe/Dublin)
The next Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society / An Cumann Ìäire San Ocht̼ C̩ad D̩ag Annual Conference will be held in National University of Ireland Galway, 10-11 June 2016.
Plenaries will be delivered by Prof. Michael Brown (Aberdeen), Prof. Norma Clark (Kingston), and Dr MeidhbhÌ_n NÌ_ Ì_rdail (UCD).
Harvard University Press will also mark the Irish launches of Michael Brown’s The Irish Enlightenment (2016) and Norma Clarke’s Brothers of the Quill: Oliver Goldsmith in Grub Street (2016)at the conference.
The conference is organised by Dr Rebecca Barr (English, Humanities) and Dr Lesa NÌ_ Mhunghaile (Gaeilge, Scoil na dTeangacha, na LitrÌ_ochtaÌ_ & na gCult̼r). The event is generously supported by the Moore Institute, NUI Galway School of Humanities, and the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures.
Conference programme and registration details can be found at the following link: http://www.ecis.ie/annual-conference/

Moore Institute Visiting Fellow Prof Padraic Kenney (Indiana University, USA) ' Farewell to the Transnational: Global History in Theory and Practice'
2016-06-09 16:00 (Europe/Dublin)
Moore Institute Visiting Fellow Prof Padraic Kenney (Indiana University, USA) gives a talk entitled ‘ Farewell to the Transnational: Global History in Theory and Practice’.
9th June @4pm Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building.

Irish Protestant Playwrights Conference
2016-06-01 14:00 (Europe/Dublin)
THE “IRISH PROTESTANT PLAYWRIGHTS” CONFERENCE
1-3 JUNE 2016
Moore Institute, NUI Galway, IRELAND
Featuring:
-Keynote addresses by Prof. SeÌÁn Kennedy (St. Mary’s University, Halifax) and Dr. Emilie Pine (University College Dublin)
-Panel papers and roundtable discussions on the great Irish Protestant playwrights, including (among others) George Farquhar, Oliver Goldsmith, R.B. Sheridan, Elizabeth Griffith, Dion Boucicault, Oscar Wilde, Bernard Shaw, J.M. Synge, Lady Augusta Gregory, W.B. Yeats, SeÌÁn O’Casey, Denis Johnston, Mary Manning, Samuel Beckett, Stewart Parker, and Christina Reid
-Performances of the plays Grania by Lady Gregory and Purgatory by W.B. Yeats
A remarkable number of Ireland’s great playwrights have hailed from Protestant backgrounds, despite the fact that Catholics have always comprised a much greater proportion of the Irish population. There are, of course, two primary reasons for this. First, since conventional plays were not written in the Irish language until the late nineteenth century, Irish Gaelic Catholics were, for a long time, without a dramatic tradition to plug into (by contrast, Irish Protestants often felt a strong cultural tie to the English dramatic tradition). Second, Irish Protestants had, for centuries, much greater access to formal education and to the theatre worlds of Dublin and London than Catholics did, due to the Penal Laws and other repressive, anti-Catholic measures.
While these factors may explain Protestant dominance in Irish drama prior to Catholic Emancipation and the widespread adoption of the English language in the early-to-mid-nineteenth century, it is a curious fact that, since that time, a significant number of Ireland’s great playwrights have continued to come from the island’s relatively small Protestant communities. What is perhaps even more curious is that critics have often failed to spot the degree to which the works by these playwrights betray the influence of the beliefs and social values/anxieties associated with their Protestant backgrounds. Indeed, in Inventing Ireland (1995), Declan Kiberd rightly points out that, while critics of Irish literature have readily recognised the importance of Roman Catholicism to the work of lapsed Catholics like James Joyce, they have frequently ignored or underestimated the importance of the specifically Protestant preoccupations found in works by “lapsed Protestants” like Bernard Shaw, W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge, SeÌÁn O’Casey, and Samuel Beckett.
In the years since Kiberd made that observation, an increasing number of scholars have begun to investigate the ways in which the great Irish Protestant dramatists were shaped by their Protestant upbringings. This conference aims to bring many of these exciting, new scholars together to share and discuss their groundbreaking work. At the conference, their remit will, of course, involve illuminating the Protestant aspects of the classic works they discuss, but they will also demonstrate – by examining a wide variety of writers, including frequently neglected women playwrights – the heterogeneity of Irish Protestantism. (There are, after all, marked cultural and social differences between the various Protestant communities in Ireland; one need only think of the repeatedly rude remarks that Irish Anglicans like Jonathan Swift, Lady Morgan, and Bernard Shaw made about Ulster Scots Presbyterians.) Finally, these scholars will try to understand why Irish Protestants have been so successful at writing plays; is there something about drama and performance that particularly appeals to the Irish Protestant psyche?
To register for this conference – or to obtain more information about it – please write to Dr. David Clare (david.clare@nuigalway.ie) or Dr. Feargal Whelan (feargal.whelan@gmail.com). The conference is free of charge but space is limited, so advance registration is required. For more information, please visit https://protestantplaywrights.wordpress.com.
FINAL PROGRAMME
All events held in Room G010, Moore Institute, Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway (except where indicated).WED., 1 JUNE 2016
2-3.15pm / Registration
3.15pm-3.30pm / Welcome and Opening Remarks
3.30pm-5pm / PANEL ONE: EARLY IRISH DRAMA IChair: Feargal Whelan (UCD)
-James Ward (University of Ulster) – “Remembering Farquhar”-Heather Ladd (University of Lethbridge) – “The Outsider as Cultural Critic: Arthur Murphy’s News From Parnassus“
-David Clare (NUI Galway) – “Reflections on Catholic Ireland in the Plays of Elizabeth Griffith and Maria Edgeworth”5pm-6pm / PLENARY ADDRESS
SeÌÁn Kennedy (St. Mary’s University) – “Beckett and the Specters of Irish Modernism”
6pm-7pm / Wine Reception
7.30pm-8.30pm / PERFORMANCE
Full Production of Lady Gregory’s Grania at the Bank of Ireland Theatre, NUI Galway (Part of the “Waking the Feminists West” Initiative)
Directed by Justine Nakase
Lighting Design by Nelson Barre
Set Design by Chris McCormack
CAST:
GRANIA – Hannah Carleton
FINN – Sam ÌÒ Fearraigh
DIARMUID – Cillian Browne
CHORUS – Sarah Vargo and Grainne O’Reilly
Thurs., 2 JUNE 2016
9am-9.30am / Registration
9.30am-11am / PANEL TWO: EARLY IRISH DRAMA IIChair: Rebecca Barr (NUI Galway)
-David Clare (NUI Galway), Feargal Whelan (University College Dublin), and Des Lally (NUI Galway) – “Oliver Goldsmith’s The Good-Natured Man at the Gate Theatre, Dublin 1974″-Conrad Brunstr̦m (Maynooth University) – “Family Rivals: Thomas, Frances, and Richard Brinsley Sheridan – the co-creation of an eighteenth-century classic”-Deirdre McFeely (Trinity College Dublin) – “Dion Boucicault: a Dublin Huguenot”11am-11.30am / Coffee and Tea Break
11.30am-1pm / PANEL THREE: WILDE AND SHAWChair: David Clare (NUI Galway)
-Graham Price (University of Limerick) – “Wilde and Hegel: Irish Peacock and Protestant Aquinas”-Audrey McNamara (University College Dublin) – “Bernard Shaw: Puritan or The Devil’s Disciple?”-Nelson O’Ceallaigh Ritschel (Massachusetts Maritime Academy) – “Bernard Shaw the Journalist: Saving the Free Press 1914-1916”1pm-2pm / Lunch Break
2pm-3pm / ROUNDTABLE: “Bernard Shaw and His Irish Contemporaries”
Chair: Ian Walsh (NUIG)
Panellists: Audrey McNamara (UCD), Nelson O’Ceallaigh Ritschel (MMA), David Clare (NUIG)
3pm-4.40pm / PANEL FOUR: DIRECTORS OF THE EARLY ABBEYChair: Thomas Conway
-Anna Pilz (University College Cork) – “‰Û÷Dirty James’: Religion and the Politics of Representation in Gregory’s The White Cockade“-Catherine Wilsdon (University College Dublin) – “Synge, Paris, and Progressive Protestantism”-Adrian Paterson (NUI Galway) – “‰Û÷The dry bones of the dead’: Yeats and The Dreaming of the Bones“
-Derek Hand (St. Patrick’s College, Dublin City University) – “The Purgatory of W. B. Yeats”4.40am-5pm / Coffee and Tea Break
5pm-6pm
Rehearsed Reading of W. B. Yeats’s Purgatory
Directed by David Clare
CAST:
OLD MAN – Ian Walsh
BOY – Dylan McCormack
FRI., 3 JUNE 2016
9am-9.30am / Registration
9.30am-11am / PANEL FIVE: “STRAY REVELLERS FROM THE REVIVAL”Chair: Charlotte McIvor (NUI Galway)
-Des Lally (NUI Galway) – “Lord Dunsany: The Wisdom of Bog Watchers” -Ian Walsh (NUI Galway) – “A Vaudeville of Frustration: Jack B. Yeats’s La La Noo“
-SiobhÌÁn Purcell (NUI Galway) – “The Lord hath given and the Lord hath taken away: Disability and Sacrifice in O’Casey’s Plays”11am-11.30am / Coffee and Tea Break
11.30am-1pm / PANEL SIX: EARLY GATE PLAYWRIGHTS
Chair: Des Lally(NUI Galway)-Feargal Whelan (University College Dublin) – “The Boys say ‰Û÷Yes’!: Denis Johnston, The Gate and National Mythmaking in the 1930s”-Ciara Conway (NUI Galway) – “‰Û÷Let’s be Dublin’: The Work of Understudy, Actress and Playwright Mary Manning”-Ruud van den Beuken (Radboud University) – “‰Û÷How can you call it a nation?’: The Ascendancy and the Free State in Christine Longford’s Mr. Jiggins of Jigginstown (1933)”1pm-2pm / Lunch Break
2pm-3pm / ROUNDTABLE: “Samuel Beckett and the ‰Û÷State’ of Ireland (Revisited)”
Chair: Feargal Whelan (UCD)
Panellists: Alan Graham (UCD), Scott Eric Hamilton (UCD), SeÌÁn Kennedy (St. Mary’s), SiobhÌÁn Purcell (NUIG)
3pm-3.20pm / Tea and Coffee Break
3.20pm-5pm / PANEL SEVEN: GODOT AND AFTERChair: ClÌ_odhna Carney (NUI Galway)
-Thomas Conway (NUI Galway) – “‰Û÷I’m a dirty, low church P’: Illuminating the Revisions to Waiting for Godot (1975) by Means of the Beckett/McGreevy Correspondence (1932-35)”
-Barry Houlihan (NUI Galway) – “The Numbers Game: Protestants on Stage at the Abbey and Lyric Theatres in Jack White’s The Last Eleven“-Megan Minogue (Independent Scholar) – “Alternative Ulster: The Musicality of Stewart Parker’s ‰Û÷Working Models of Wholeness'”
-MÌÁria Kurdi (University of P̩cs) – “‰Û÷I really do exist’: the Individual in the Monologue Theatre of Jennifer Johnston”
5pm-6pm / PLENARY ADDRESS
Emilie Pine (University College Dublin) – “Memory Generations: The Work of Remembering in the Plays of Christina Reid”

Discipline of Philosophy, School of Humanities, UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre and the School of Sociology and Politics - Book Launch
2016-05-27 16:00 (Europe/Dublin)
Discipline of Philosophy, School of Humanities, UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre and School of Sociology and Politics are hosting a Book Launch
‘ Philosophy and Political Engagement: Reflection in the public sphere’.
Launched by Prof James Edwin Mahon (CUNY – Lehman).
Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building.

Discipline of French present a workshop ' France-Algeria: Memories and Identitites International Workshop'.
2016-05-27 10:30 (Europe/Dublin)
France-Algeria: Memories and Identities International Workshop
Discipline of French, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
NUI, Galway
27 May 2016
Room: AMB 2070 (Arts Millennium Building)

Dept of History NUIG present Dr Jenny Hillman (University of Chester, UK and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow) 'Multiple hands and multiple voices: Writing Female Lives in the French Counter-Reformation'.
2016-05-25 16:30 (Europe/Dublin)

Seminar on Poetry and Philosophy - Prof William Desmond (KU Leuven, Moore Institute Visiting Fellow) and Prof Felix ÌÒ Murchadha (NUIG)
2016-05-25 14:00 (Europe/Dublin)
Seminar on Poetry and Philosophy
Prof William Desmond (KU Leuven and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow)
‘Poetic porosity and Astonished Prayer: On the Poetics of Sean O’Riordan’
Prof Felix ÌÒ Murhcadha (NUIG)
‘ Gerald Manley Hopkins: Nature and Emotion’.
Seminar Room GO11, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building.

Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance participatory theatre Play/Test ' New Voices in Art. Who would you become if you became suddenly famous?'
2016-05-24 18:00 (Europe/Dublin)

One day Workshop 'Popular Publishing in Europe ( 18th/19th Centuries)'
2016-05-23 11:00 (Europe/Dublin)
One-day Workshop
Seminar Room GO10
Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway

All welcome!

Free event email
alice.colombo@nuigalway.ie to register

11.00 – 11.15
Coffee
11.15 – 11.30
Introduction
11.30 – 12.10
HansJÌ_rgen LÌ_sebrink (UniversitÌ_t des Saarlandes) ‘Patriotic relics and carnavalesque visions –
Political transformations of traditional popular culture
in the public sphere of the French Revolution’
12.10 – 12.50
Antonio Serrano DurÌÁ (Universidad CatÌ_lica de Valencia) ‘Spanish Popular Literature in the
eighteenth century. Production and distribution’
12.50 -14.00
Lunch and networking
14.00 – 14.40
Jeroen Salman (Universiteit Utrecht)’The transnational and intermedial features of a Dutch
mass medium. Demonic narratives in catch penny prints(18th -19thcentury)’
14.40 – 15.20
Niall ÌÒ CiosÌÁin (NUI Galway)
‘InterCeltic print connections, 17901900’
15.20 – 15.40
Coffee
15.40 – 16.20
Alice Colombo (NUI Galway) ‘Translation and the transnationalisation of popular publishing in nineteenthcentury Italy’
16.20 – 17.00
Round table and conclusions

Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance: Conference - '1916 in Irish Theatre/1916 as Irish Theatre.
2016-05-20 09:00 (Europe/Dublin)
9.30: Welcome and introduction
Panel 1: Internatoinalising the Rising

? Patrick Lonergan, “Easter 1916 and Internationalising Irish Theatre’
? Charlotte McIvor, “Rehearsing Revolution as a prelude to 1916: Yeats, Tagore and Peruse and the Staging of Transactional Nationalist Masculinities”
? David Clare: “Anthropological Gays: Casement, Pearse, and 1916”

11.00: Keynote Lecture 1 Paige Reynolds (Holy Cross), “The “Rising” of the American Avant-Garde: The Gate, 1916, and Experimental Theater in Boston”
12.00: Coffee
12.15: Panel 2 The Rising on the Irish Stage

? Ryan K Evans, “An Evolution of the Production History of The Plough and the Stars”
? Christopher McCormack, “”Scenographies of Augusta Gregory’s Plays, Before and After 1916”.

13.15 – Break for Lunch
14.00: Panel 3:
Pearse and Irish Theatre

? Eugene McNulty, “‰Û÷Exceptional Bodies: Pearse’s drama and the search for the Law beyond the law’
? Marianne Kennedy, “Pearse as guerrilla, site-specific performance artist. A master of reception.”
? Barry Houllhan, “Decisions at Easter: Pearse Takes the Stage”

15.15 – Break
15.45: Panel 4: Commemorations

? Ian Walsh, “The Performance of 1916 at the Abbey Theatre in 1966: Walter Macken’s Recall the Years‘
? Maeve Casserly, “‰Û÷Commemoration as Staged Memory: A comparative analysis of commemoration in Ireland marking the 1991, 2006and 2016 anniversaries of the Easter Rising and the Battle of the Somme”
? Akiko Satake, “”The Easter Risingfrom a Wider Perspective: Cries of Casement as his Bones are Brought to Dublin and The Non-Stop Connolly ShowPart 6″

17.00: Keynote Lecture (2) James Moran (Nottingham):”Child’s Play: Looking again at 1916 Onstage”
18:00: Conference Conclusion

Talk hosted by CAMPS and the English Dept NUIG ' An Irish Franciscan's Pocketbook: British Library MS Harley 913 and Colonial Ireland in the Early Fourteenth Century'
2016-05-19 15:00 (Europe/Dublin)
Speaker: Professor John Scattergood (Trinity College, Dublin)
Title: ‘An Irish Franciscan’s Pocketbook: British Library MS Harley 913 and Colonial Ireland in
the Early Fourteenth Century’
Location: Hardiman Research Building, Room 1001 (‘The Bridge’)
Date: Thursday, 19 May, at 3.00pm

Book Launch: 'The British Labour Party & Twentieth Century Ireland: The Cause of Ireland, The Cause of labour'.
2016-05-17 16:00 (Europe/Dublin)
You are cordially invited to the launch of
The British Labour Party & Twentieth-Century Ireland:
The Cause of Ireland, The Cause of labour
Edited by Laurence Marley
The book will be launched by Dr Martin Mansergh,
former Minister of State and Vice-Chair of the Irish Government Expert Group on the Decade of Centenaries

Gender ARC and Global Women's Studies at NUIG Research Seminar
2016-05-11 16:00 (Europe/Dublin)
Gender ARC and Global Women’s Studies at NUI Galway are pleased to invite you to the following research seminar:

Irish Women Screenwriters cast in the shadows – Knocknagow (1918) and Guests of the Nation (1935)
Dr DÌ_Ì_g O’Connell
, Film & Media Studies at the D̼n Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology
Date: Wednesday 11 May 2016
Time: 4.00-5.00 pm
Venue: The Hardiman Research Building, R1001
With Introduction by Dr Miriam Haughton, Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance at NUI Galway
.For questions, please contact Gender ARC Seminar and Public Lecture Series Coordinator: Amie Lajoie, a.lajoie1@nuigalway.ie
Abstract
: This paper explores how Irish women screenwriters are often written out of the historical record, and cast in the shadows of male directors and novelists. In the case of Knocknagow (Ireland 1918) and Guests of the Nation (Ireland 1935), two significant films in the early history of Irish cinema, very little is known about the screenwriters – Mrs. NF Patton (Knocknagow) and Mary Manning (Guests of the Nation). These films could be considered landmark films in early Irish cinema history at the level of narrative theme, historical significance and audience appeal. Both films were written by women but very little historical references are found for either writer. Examining the archive material of both these films, this study traces through the reviews of these films, the place awarded to the screenwriter in the documented history. Is this just a case of the screenwriter being cast to the periphery or is there further marginalisation happening at the level of gender? Drawing on theories around social capital, this paper explores what the barriers are to recognition and record. Is the status of the male author privileged over that of the screenwriter, or is there a gender bias at work, relegating women screenwriters to the margins, on two levels, as screenwriters and as women?
Dr DÌ_Ì_g O’Connell
lectures in Film & Media Studies at the Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. She is the author of New Irish Storytellers: Narrative Strategies in Film (Intellect, 2010) and Documentary in a Changing State (Cork University press, 2012). She has written extensively on Irish Cinema, Television Drama and Screenwriting. She has also been a member of a Writers’ Team for Irish television drama.

Gender ARC and Centre for Global Women's Studies - Book Launch and Public Lecture 'What we preserve from the past and what we ignore: some new perspectives on women in Ireland in the 1950's and 60's' presented by Dr Caitriona Clear (Senior Lecturer in His
2016-05-05 17:00 (Europe/Dublin)
Is mÌ_r ag Gender ARC agus ag Ionad L̩ann Domhanda na mBan in OÌä Gaillimh
cuireadh a thabhairt duit freastal ar Sheoladh Leabhair agus ar L̩acht PhoiblÌ_:
What we preserve from the past and what we ignore: some new
perspectives on women in Ireland in the 1950s and 60s
́ chur i lÌÁthair ag an Dr Caitriona Clear, L̩achtÌ_ir Sinsearach le Stair in OÌä Gaillimh chun ceili̼radh a dh̩anamh ar sheoladh a leabhair nua:
Women’s Voices in Ireland: women’s magazines in the 1950s and 60s
Le r̩amhrÌÁ Ì_n bhfile agus drÌÁmadÌ_ir Mary Coll
DÌÁta: D̩ardaoin, 5 Bealtaine 2016
Am: 5.00pm – 6.30pm
Ionad: ́ras Taighde UÌ_ ArgadÌÁin, Seomra SeimineÌÁir G011

Gender ARC and the Centre for Global Women’s Studies at NUI Galway
are pleased to invite you to the following Book Launch and Public Lecture:
What we preserve from the past and what we ignore: some new
perspectives on women in Ireland in the 1950s and 60s
Presented by Dr Caitriona Clear, Senior Lecturer in History at NUI Galway to mark the launch of her upcoming book:
Women’s Voices in Ireland: women’s magazines in the 1950s and 60s
With an introduction by poet and playwright Mary Coll
Date: Thursday 5 May 2016
Time: 5.00pm – 6.30pm
Venue: The Hardiman Research Building, G011 Seminar Room
Light refreshments – all welcome

Caitriona Clear is a Senior Lecturer in modern Irish and European history at NUI, Galway. Women’s Voices in Ireland: women’s magazines in the 1950s and 60s, (Bloomsbury 2016) is her fourth book, following Social Change and Everyday Life in Ireland 1850-1922 (Manchester University Press 2007), Women of the House: women’s household work in Ireland 1926-1961 (Irish Academic Press 2000) and Nuns in Nineteenth-century Ireland (Gill & Macmillan 1987). She has also published research on homelessness in post-Famine Ireland, Irish women during the First World War, twentieth-century Irish women writers, and clothes and fashion in Ireland. She is a contributor to the forthcoming Cambridge History of Ireland edited by Thomas Bartlett.
Mary Coll is a Limerick poet, playwright and broadcaster. Publications include All Things Considered (Salmon 2002) numerous contributions to RTE Radio One and RTE Lyric FM. She has had stage productions of Excess Baggage (2007) and Anything But Love (2010) at The Belltable Arts Centre, radio plays commissioned by RTE Drama On One, lyrics for the Choral Work ‰Û÷Spirestone’ and two art song cycles in association with the composer Fiona Linnane, a new play Diamond Rocks: Sunset, commissioned by The Lime Tree Theatre, Limerick (2014) and a second collection of poems entitled Silver due for publication in 2016.
For questions about this event, please contact NUI Galway’s Gender ARC Convenor and Co-Director of the Centre for Global Women’s Studies: Dr Niamh Reilly, niamh.reilly@nuigalway.ie

School of Languages, Literature and Culture - School Research Day
2016-05-05 09:00 (Europe/Dublin)

CAMPS Lab - Eugene Costello, Archaeology, NUI Galway 'Ar cuairt bhuailltechuis: the medieval origins of transhumance or ''booleying'' in Ireland'.
2016-04-22 12:00 (Europe/Dublin)
CAMPS Lab – Eugene Costello, Archaeology, NUI Galway ‘Ar cuairt bhuailltechuis: the medieval origins of transhumance or ”booleying” in Ireland’
