Moore Institute

Seminar by Visiting Fellow, Dr Kylie Thomas, University of the Free State, South Africa 'Photography, Affect and Transnational History: Tracing Lines Between Cape Town and New York'
2017-03-21 13:00 - 14:00 UTC | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Kylie Thomas is the author of the book Impossible Mourning: HIV/AIDS and Visuality after Apartheid and co-editor of the collection, Photography In and Out of Africa: Iterations with Difference. In early 2017 she will hold a European Holocaust Research Infrastructure Fellowship and will be based at the Netherlands Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam where she will be working on a book on women photographers and resistance to repressive regimes.
Kylie Thomas is a Visiting Fellow at the Moore Institute 2016/17 and an affiliate of the Centre for the Investigation of Transnational Encounters.

Seminar by Visiting Speaker Prof. Michael Rubenstein '“Life Support: Fictions of Energy and Environment”
2017-03-21 14:00 - 16:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Michael Rubenstein is an associate professor of English at Stony Brook University, where he teaches courses on postwar Anglophone literatures, film, Irish modernism, James Joyce, and the Environmental Humanities. His book, Public Works: Infrastructure, Irish Modernism, and the Postcolonial (University of Notre Dame Press, 2010), received the Modernist Studies Association Prize and the American Conference for Irish Studies Robert Rhodes Prize. His current book project is called Life Support: Fictions of Energy and Environment.

Book Launch: Scott A. Davison "Petitionary Prayer - A Philosophical Investigation"
2017-03-21 17:00 - 19:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Book launch of
Scott A. Davidson:
Petitionary Prayer
A Philosophical Investigation
(Oxford University Press, 2017)

Scott Davidson, Professor of Philosophy at Morehead State University, Kentucky, USA, is a former Visiting Research Fellow at the Moore Institute where he completed this book.
The Book will be launched by Prof. Felix Ó Murchadha, Head of School of Humanities.

All Welcome!
Refreshments will be Served.

Conference: Reception, Reputation and Circulation in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800
2017-03-22 - 2017-03-25 | Seminar Rooms G010 & G011, Hardiman Research Building
This international conference will bring together scholars working on the reception of texts, the reputations of authors and individuals, and the circulation of people and things in the early modern world.
Invited Speakers:
Ruth Ahnert (QMUL), Sebastian Ahnert (Cambridge), Robin Buning (Oxford), Marc Caball (UCD), Liesbeth Corens (Cambridge), Gillian Dow (Southampton), Julia Flanders (Northeastern), Juliet Fleming (NYU), Jaime Goodrich (Wayne State), Jerome de Groot (Manchester), Katherine Larson (Toronto), Jason McElligott (Marsh’s Library), Eleanor Rycroft (Bristol), Alex Samson (UCL), Helen Smith (York), Rosalind Smith (Newcastle, Australia), Micheline White (Carleton).
Registration is now open. Attendance is free but advance registration is required. A link to registration and further details are available at http://recirc.nuigalway.ie/conference2017/
The conference dinner (€45) will take place on Friday 24 March in the Meyrick Hotel, Eyre Square, Galway. If you wish to attend the dinner, payment should be made when registering.

RECIRC Conference 2017
2017-03-22 09:00 - 2017-03-25 17:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
‘Reception, Reputation and Circulation in the Early Modern World, 1500 – 1800.’

History Graduate Research Seminar
2017-03-22 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Dr Gerard Moran (NUIG & Independent scholar)
‘Sending out Ireland’s Permanent Deadweight During the Great Famine: The Case of the Cork Workhouse Paupers sent to New Brunswick in 1850’

"President Donald Trump: The First Sixty Days and Beyond" Roundtable Discussion
2017-03-22 17:30 - 18:30 | Emily Anderson Concert Hall (Aula Maxima Upper), NUI Galway
Moderator: Mary Regan (columnist, Sunday Business Post)
Participants:

Prof Alan Ahearne (Director of the Whitaker Institute, NUI Galway, and former special adviser to the Minister for Finance)
Prof Daniel Carey (Director of the Moore Institute, NUI Galway)
Dr Kathleen Cavanaugh (Lecturer, Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway)
Larry Donnelly (Lecturer, School of Law, NUI Galway, and political commentator)
Karlin Lillington (Journalist and Columnist, The Irish Times)

Reception from 5pm
RSVP: http://bit.ly/trumpgalway

Italian Art & Its Icons: The Past in the Present
2017-03-23 16:00 - 18:00 | Siobhan McKenna Theatre, Ireland
4-6pm: “The legacy of the Italian Renaissance” with Finola O’Kane Crimmins (UCD), Paolo Bartoloni (NUIG) and Daniel Carey (NUIG); McKenna Lecture Theatre, Arts Millennium Building.
7-10pm: Italian Art and its icons: The past in the present” with Valentina Zucchi (MUS.E) and Michaele Cutaya (Writer and Editor, Galway); 126 Artist-Run Gallery, St. Bridget’s Place.

The Collaborative Design of Tangible Interactions in Museums
2017-03-27 12:00 - 13:00 | The Moore Institute Seminar Room G010 Ground floor The Hardiman Research Building, Ireland
Interactive technology for cultural heritage has long been a subject of study for Human-Computer Interaction. Findings from a number of studies suggest that, however, technology can sometime distance visitors from heritage holdings rather than enabling people to establish deeper connections to what they see. Furthermore, the introduction of innovative interactive installations in museum is often seen as an interesting novelty but seldom leads to substantive change in how a museum approaches visitor engagement. This talk will discuss work on the EU project “meSch” (Material EncounterS with Digital Cultural Heritage) aimed at creating a do-it-yourself platform for cultural heritage professionals to design interactive tangible computing installations that bridge the gap between digital content and the materiality of museum objects and exhibits. The project has adopted a collaborative design approach throughout, involving cultural heritage professionals, designers, developers and social scientist. The talk will feature key examples of how collaboration unfolded and relevant lessons learned, particularly regarding the shared envisioning of tangible interaction concepts at a variety of heritage sites including archaeology and art museums, hands-on exploration centres and outdoor historical sites.
Registration & details
Luigina will be delivering her talk via video conference from Sheffield. The session will be chaired by Dr Tony Hall from the School of Education, and is being run by CELT and the Digital Cultures Initiative.
Please RSVP to tony.hall@nuigalway.ie and fiona.concannon@nuigalway.ie
Speaker biography
Dr. Luigina Ciolfi is Reader in Communication at Sheffield Hallam University. She holds a Laurea (Univ. of Siena, Italy) and a PhD (Univ. of Limerick, Ireland) in Human-Computer Interaction. Her research focuses on understanding and designing for human situated practices mediated by technology in both work and leisure settings, particularly focusing on participation and collaboration in design. She has worked on numerous international research projects on heritage technologies, nomadic work and interaction in public spaces. She is the author of over 80 peer-reviewed publications, has been an invited speaker in ten countries, and has advised on research policy around digital technologies and cultural heritage for several European countries and funding bodies. Dr. Ciolfi serves in a number of scientific committees for international Human-Computer Interaction conferences, including ACM CHI, ACM CSCW, ACM GROUP, ECSCW, and COOP. She is an Associate Editor for the CSCW Journal and the General Chair of the ECSCW 2017 Conference. She is a member of the EUSSET (The European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies) and of the ACM CSCW Steering Groups. Dr. Ciolfi is a senior member of the ACM. Full information on her work can be found at http://luiginaciolfi.com

Seminar- Featuring Visiting Speakers: Prof. Erin Goss & Dr. Kerry Sinanan
2017-03-27 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Prof. Erin Goss (Clemson University)
‘Listening for William Blake’s Daughters of Albion: Echo, Complicity, Complaint’
and
Dr. Kerry Sinanan (Moore Institute Visiting Fellow)
‘An Irish Slave Dealer in Africa: Nicholas Owen’s Manuscript Journal’

Book Launch: Anne Karhio - ‘Slight Return’: Paul Muldoon’s Poetics of Place
2017-03-27 17:00 - 18:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Anne Karhio:
‘Slight Return’: Paul Muldoon’s Poetics of Place
(Oxford: Peter Lang, 2016)

Launched by Professor Sean Ryder, English, School of Humanities

5-6 pm
Wine served
All welcome!

History Graduate Seminar 'Making the case for Freedom of Worship: FDR, Stalin, and the Roman Catholic Church in the USSR and Beyond' by Prof. David Woolner, UCD
2017-03-28 16:00 - 17:00 | Room AC203 ‘Old’ Moore Institute Seminar Room
Prof. David Woolner is Roosevelt Institute/ Mary Ball Professor of US History, UCD

Prof. Stewart Donovan ‘Colony, Nation and State: Reflections on Identity and Imagined Communities’
2017-03-29 13:00 - 15:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Introduced by Prof. Pól Ó Dochartaigh

Light lunch served!

Prof. Donovan is founder of St. Thomas’s Irish Studies Program and editor of The Nashwaak Review, a literary, arts, historical and cultural magazine. He has published a biography of R. J. MacSween, The Forgotten World (2007), three volumes of poetry and two novels. He has written widely on Canadian, American and Irish Modernism with essays on Louis Dudek, Hugh Kenner and Marshall McLuhan among others. He is now completing a book on film studies entitled North of 49: Cinema and Contemporary Culture: A Canadian Perspective. He is also collaborating with Trevor Sawler on a hypertext project on High Modernism.

Award-winning film director John Carney to speak in the Huston School of Film & Digital Media
2017-03-30 14:30 - 17:00 | Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway
John Carney was born in Dublin and was educated at De La Salle College Churchtown and at Synge Street CBS. He was bassist for Irish rock band The Frames between 1991 and 1993 and also directed some of their music videos. In addition to shooting music videos, Carney also wrote and directed two award-winning short films (Shining Star and Hotel) before making his first feature. With fellow film-maker Tom Hall, Carney wrote and directed November Afternoon, his first feature film, in 1996. Despite a limited release, it was acclaimed as the “Film of the Year” by the Irish Times. John wrote, directed and scored his next project, the hour-long TV film Just In Time, starring Frances Barber and Gerard McSorley. The Irish Times voted it Best TV Film of 1998. Carney’s next film was the edgy drama Park, which premiered at the Dublin Film Festival. Two years later, in 2001, he co-wrote and directed On the Edge. The film starred Cillian Murphy and Stephen Rea and was released through Universal Studios. He was awarded the Silver Hitchcock Award for On the Edge at the 2001 Dinard Festival of British Cinema. Carney returned to TV writing and directing during the same year. He co-wrote and co-directed (with his brother Kieran Carney and Tom Hall) the hugely successful RTÉ TV series Bachelors Walk. The independently produced TV series proved the most successful in Irish television history. The series ran for three seasons. In 2006, Carney directed the feature movie Once. First screened at the Galway Film Fleadh, Once had its official world release at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2007 and won the World Cinema Audience Award in the category Dramatic. A low-budget affair shot for only $160,000, Once was hugely successful, grossing $7 million worldwide in its first 3 months of release. Legendary film-maker Steven Spielberg is quoted as saying, “Once gave me enough inspiration to last the rest of the year.” As writer and director of Once, Carney won the Most Promising Newcomer award in the Evening Standard British Film Awards 2007 and the film went on to win an Academy Award for Best Original Song. It has since been adapted as one of the most successful theatrical musicals of recent years, including award winning runs on Broadway and the West End. Subsequent films directed by Carney have enjoyed considerable critical and commercial success. Begin Again (2013) grossed over $63 million worldwide (it is the most-watched independent film of all time in South Korea) and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for “Lost Stars”. His most recent film, the Irish set coming of age musical Sing Street (2016), was nominated for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy at the 74th Golden Globes in January 2017.

Visiting Speaker Professor John Scattergood (Trinity College Dublin) will speak on 'St Erkenwald and its Literary Relations'
2017-03-30 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland

CAMPS Lab
2017-03-31 12:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Dr Frances McCormack (English, NUIG)
‘From Weeping Trees to Heated Hearts: Towards an Understanding of Compunction in Old English poetry’.

Book Launch- Poland in the Irish Nationalist Imagination, 1772-1922 by Róisín Healy
2017-04-03 16:00 - 18:30 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Dr. Andrew Newby of the University of Helsinki will launch the book.
All are welcome!

Digital Skills Week: Web Analytics & Online Tracking
2017-04-04 13:00 - 14:00 | The Moore Institute Seminar Room G010 Ground floor The Hardiman Research Building, Ireland
As part of the All Aboard 2017 Digital Skills Week, the Moore Institute’s Digital Humanities Manager, David Kelly, will give a talk on an Introduction to Web Analytics & Online Tracking.
This presentation will include using web analytics for business or research projects; types of analytics tools available for digital projects; types of reporting & tracking offered by email marketing services; web analytics & protecting your privacy online.
Registration: You can register to attend on Eventbrite.
You can see the full listing of events happening at NUI Galway and GMIT for Digital Skills Week on the All Aboard Events page.

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 | 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
