Moore Institute

Jane Burns on Understanding Altmetrics to determine where your research is gaining attention.
2018-02-28 10:00 UTC | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The Library is hosting a lecture by Jane Burns on Understanding Altmetrics to determine where your research is gaining attention.
To register for the events please use the following links – Archives & Special Collections Event, Jane Burns Lecture

Archives and Special Collections 2017 report and Donation of rare issues of the Connaught Journal.
2018-02-27 17:30 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
The Library is hosting the launch of the Archives and Special Collections 2017 report and Donation of rare issues of the Connaught Journal and it will take place on Tuesday 27th at 17:30 in the Bridge Room, Hardiman Research Building followed by a reception.
To register for the events please use the following links – Archives & Special Collections Event, Jane Burns Lecture

Andy Kellogg: The Early Medieval Royal Assembly Sites at Gamla Uppsala and Magh Adhair.
2018-02-27 17:00 - 19:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Andy Kellogg
The Early Medieval Royal Assembly Sites at Gamla Uppsala and Magh Adhair: A Comparative Study of their Settlement and Landscape Contexts.
The Yngling dynasty in Svealand, Sweden and the Dál Cais dynasty in what is now Co. Clare may have shared a common approach in the way they legitimized their right to be kings. The valorization of a pedigree is a common phenomenon among the royal families of the medieval period and it may have been done by those two dynasties with a common purpose. The re-use of prehistoric monuments as places of royal assembly is a witness of their importance to kings during the early medieval period. This prehistoric archaeology had an importance in the choice of the location for early medieval assembly sites. By looking at the assembly landscape contexts, we can gain a better understanding of the early medieval conception of kingship. Comparing the two dynasties and their assembly sites at Gamla Uppsala and Magh Adhair may lead to the identification of common approaches in the establishment of the two sites and how their landscapes were used.
Royal Inauguration assembly site of Magh Adhair and the royal burial mounds of Gamla Uppsala:

Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine
2018-02-26 18:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine
Alex de Waal
Tufts University & Executive Director, World Peace Foundation
6.30 pm, Monday, 26 February 2018
Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Alex de Waal is Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation. Considered one of the foremost experts on Sudan and the Horn of Africa, his scholarly work and practice has also probed humanitarian crisis and response, human rights, HIV/AIDS and governance in Africa, and conflict and peace-building. He is the author of several influential publications, including The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa (Polity Press, 2015) and Famine Crimes: Politics and the Disaster Relief Industry in Africa (James Curry, 1997). In this lecture, he will discuss his new book, Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine (Wiley, 2018), and why man-made famine and the political decisions that could end it for good must once again become a top priority for the international community.

EDEN ‘Methodologies’ Session
2018-02-22 17:00 - 19:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
We all use different methodologies to get the work done, but what if we’re missing something we’ve never thought of before? Come to our February session on research methodologies and see if you can find something new to put in your research toolkit. Our panel of speakers will outline research methodologies in the areas of: Oral History; Digital Humanities; Practice as Research; and Archives.
Speakers:

Aisling Ní Churraighín from the Irish Department (Oral History);
Ionna Kvernitou from English (Digital Humanities);
Aisling Smith from the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, and
Barry Houlihan, Archivist and English Researcher (Archives)

For more information email eden.nuigalway@gmail.com

Thinking Continental: Writing the Planet One Place at a Time - Book Launch
2018-02-22 16:00 - 18:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Thinking Continental: Writing the Planet One Place at a Time
Edited by Tom Lynch, Susan Naramore Maher, Drucilla Wall, and O. Alan Weltzien.
(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017)
Following an introduction by Dr Louis de Paor, Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway, the volume will be launched by Professor Bríona Nic Dhiarmada, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame.

In response to the growing scale and complexity of environmental threats, this volume collects articles, essays, personal narratives, and poems by more than forty authors in conversation about ‘thinking continental’—connecting local and personal landscapes to universal systems and processes—to articulate the concept of a global or planetary citizenship.
Reckoning with the larger matrix of biome, region, continent, hemisphere, ocean, and planet has become necessary as environmental challenges require the insights not only of scientists but also of poets, humanists, and social scientists. Thinking Continental braids together abstract approaches with strands of narrative and poetry, showing how our imaginations can encompass the planetary while also being true to our own concrete life experiences in the here and now.
You are welcome to join us for the launch of Thinking Continental where writers and scholars such as Nessa Cronin, Susan Millar Dumars, Tom Lynch, Susan Naramore Maher, Joan McBreen, Barry Johnston, Fabiana Dimpflmeier and Drucilla Wall, will read from their contributions to the volume.
http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/university-of-nebraska-press/9780803299580/
For further information contact: Dr Nessa Cronin nessa.cronin@nuigalway.ie

History Seminar - Liam Alex Heffron
2018-02-21 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Liam Alex Heffron
No Revolution – Igniting War in North Mayo, 1917-1923.

LÉACHT UÍ EITHIR
2018-02-21 14:00 - 15:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Aisling Ní Churraighín (Roinn na Gaeilge) and Eoin Byrne (Centre for Irish Studies), the 2017 recipients of Sparánacht Uí Eithir will be presenting on their research. All welcome.
SPARÁNACHT UÍ EITHIR
This bursary was established in 1995 in memory of Breandán Ó hEithir, through donations from his friends. The broadcaster, journalist and writer was a former student of NUI Galway.
The bursary is valued at €1,500 and will be awarded each year to a fulltime PhD student in the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies. The award may be made in Year 1 – 4 of the student’s programme.

I mbliana, beidh Aisling Ní Churraighín (Roinn na Gaeilge) agus Eoin Byrne (Ionad an Léinn Éireannaigh), chomhbhuaiteoirí na Sparánachta (2017), ag tabhairt páipéar ar a gcuid taighde. Fáilte roimh chách.
SPARÁNACHT UÍ EITHIR
Bunaíodh an sparánacht seo i 1995 i gcuimhne ar Bhreandán Ó hEithir, craoltóir, iriseoir, scríbhneoir agus iar-mhac léinn de chuid na hOllscoile le síntiúis óna chairde.
Is fiú €1,500 an sparánacht agus bronnfar í gach bliain ar mhac léinn lánaimseartha dochtúireachta i gColáiste na nDán, na nEolaíochtaí Sóisialta agus an Léinn Cheiltigh atá sa chéad/dara/tríú/ceathrú bliain dá c(h)úrsa.

Smart Study 20th, 21st and 22nd of February.
2018-02-20 17:30 - 2018-02-22 19:00 | Seminar Rooms G010 & G011, Hardiman Research Building
Note Taking & Study Skills
February 20th, 5:30-7:00pm, G011 Library Lobby

Learn practical study skills that make a real difference
Practical note-taking for lectures and study
Organise your study and limit distractions

Troubled by Procrastination
Wednesday Feb 21st , 5:30 – 7:30pm, G010 Library Lobby

Identify how procrastination recruits you into ineffective habits
Develop tools and skills to resist the influence of procrastination
Playful but powerful way to deal with a difficult problem

Transition to Employment – Employer Panel
Facilitator: Career Development Centre
Thursday February 22nd , 1-2pm, GO10 Library Lobby beside soft seating.
Open to students with a disability or mental health challenge. Meet employers who demonstrate inclusion and diversity towards disability and mental health and hear from graduates employed with disability/mental health challenges. #getjobready
Contact: James Mc Cormack james.mccormack@nuigalway.ie

Archaeology Seminar - From the Trowel to the Trenches: Archaeology as Social Activism
2018-02-20 16:00 - 17:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Guest Lecture: Dr Christopher P. Barton, Assistant Professor Department of History, Francis Marion University and Fulbright Visiting Scholar in the School of Geography and Archaeology for 2018.
Title: From the Trowel to the Trenches: Archaeology as Social Activism
Contemporary economic, environmental, political, and social injustices are modern manifestations of past practices; they are legacies of marginalization. It is from the study of the everyday that we can better understand both our past and present circumstances. Archaeology is in a unique position to provide invaluable discourse on both the recent past and its lasting effects today. The core methodologies and data of archaeology–the archaeological, ethnographic, and historical records–situate the field as an interdisciplinary research endeavor armed with a broad methodological and theoretical arsenal to use the craft in support of social activism.

Chris Barton PhD is a visiting US Fulbright Scholar from Francis Marion University in South Carolina. He is interested in the archaeology of Irish racialisation during the Irish Diaspora and Great Famine. Professor Barton’s work focuses on the confluence of race and class as intertwined social structures that were used to marginalize the rural Irish. Additionally, he is in the early stages of developing a community-based archaeological project that focuses on resistance, improvisation, and identity on the Great Blasket Island, County Kerry.

Gender Arc Research Seminar (Irish Women Historians and Life Writing, 1900-1960)
2018-02-20 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
This seminar will be hosted by Nadia Smith who is a current Visiting Fellow who received her PhD in modern Irish history from Boston College.
Nadia Smith will be presenting on “Irish Women Historians and Life Writing, 1900-1960,” as part of her ongoing research on Irish women historians and academics in the NUI in the twentieth century. As a Moore Institute fellow, she is currently examining the archival sources on the lives of women academics at NUI Galway [then UCG], including personal life writing, such as diaries and memoirs, as well as academic texts. Her talk will discuss the women historians’ life writing in relation to diary scholarship and life writing by other educated, middle-class women in Ireland and Britain in the twentieth century, and consider elements such as literary devices and extratextual material in diaries and memoirs that help shape the life-writer’s self-portrait.
Contact information: smithum@bc.edu

Jan Wagner and Matthew Sweeney - Poems
2018-02-19 17:00 - 19:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

Philosophy Seminar Series
2018-02-19 14:00 - 16:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Philosophy Seminar Series.
The format for the afternoon is three twenty minute papers, each followed by ten to fifteen minutes for questions/comments and a brief break for tea/coffee.
The running order is John Roe with “Kant’s Faith – Reasonable or Merely Rational”; Greg Crowley with “Shades of Truth”; and Johnny O’Rourke with “Wittgenstein’s Phenomenology Revisited”. Michael Hardiman has agreed to chair the session and keep us to time and the point. We have also allowed a few minutes at the end for any further comments or queries.
Each of the speakers will provide the audience with a summary of their paper and/or it’s most significant quotes.

Centre for Antique, Medieval and Pre-Modern Studies (CAMPS) Research Labs.
2018-02-16 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Máirín Ní Dhonnachada: Drinking, kingship and lordship in early medieval Ireland: scoping the topic

WHAI Spring Seminar 2018: New Directions in Early Modern Irish Women’s History.
2018-02-16 09:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The seminar is free to attend but advance registration is necessary.
To register via Eventbrite, click here.
To download the seminar programme, click here**
The WHAI is delighted to announce its annual Spring Seminar which will take place at the Moore Institute, NUI Galway on Friday 16 February 2018.
This one-day interdisciplinary symposium will bring together leading and emerging scholars from a variety of disciplines currently engaged in cutting-edge research on the history of early modern Irish women. Keynote lectures will be delivered by Professor Mary O’Dowd (QUB) and Professor Jane Ohlmeyer (TCD). Other confirmed speakers include Sparky Booker (QUB), Felicity Maxwell (NUIG), Frances Nolan (UCD), Clodagh Tait (MIC, UL), Evan Bourke (NUIG) and Jane Maxwell (TCD).
To download the seminar poster, please click here.

WHAI Spring Seminar 2018: New Directions in Early Modern Irish Women’s History
2018-02-16 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building

Lindsay Myers Book Launch
2018-02-15 17:00 - 21:30 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
INVITATION
You are invited to the launch of:
Lindsay Myers
UN FANTASY TUTTO ITALIANO
Le declinazioni del fantastico nella letteratura
italiana per l’Infanzia dall’Unita al XXI secolo
by Prof. Laura Tosi
(Ca’ Foscari,Venice)

History Seminar
2018-02-14 16:00 - 17:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
14 Feb.
Dr Martin O’Donoghue (National Library of Ireland)
Commemoration of Parnell & Davitt in the Irish Free State.

Digital Scholarship Seminar
2018-02-14 14:00 - 16:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
The first event of the Spring 2018 series of Digital Scholarship Seminar takes place on Wednesday 14 February at 2pm, and features a stylometric interrogation of the study of authorship in nineteenth-century periodicals by Francesca Benatti, Research Fellow in Digital Humanities with The Open University. Following on from her talk on the Digital Humanities project, A Question of Style: individual voices and corporate identity in the Edinburgh Review, 1814-1820 at DSS last year, this presentation will reflect on the progress of the project, in the particular areas of corpus creation, methodological evaluation, and analysis of preliminary results. As ever, all are welcome.
Francesca Benatti (Open University)
Authorship, genre and style in the Edinburgh Review and Quarterly Review, 1814-20
This seminar presents an interrogation of the study of authorship in nineteenth-century periodicals through the Digital Humanities project, A Question of Style: individual voices and corporate identity in the Edinburgh Review, 1814-1820, which was funded by a Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Field Development Grant in 2017. Together with my colleague David King, we are working to assess the assumption that early nineteenth-century periodicals succeeded in creating, through a “transauthorial discourse”, a unified corporate voice that hid individual authors behind an impersonal public text (Klancher 1987).
Dr Francesca Benatti is a Research Fellow in Digital Humanities with The Open University specialising in digital literary studies. Her digital research interests include stylometry, text analysis, digital editions and their applications to the study of literature. Her literary research interests are the writings of Irish author Thomas Moore (1789-1852), nineteenth-century periodicals, book history and comic books. She runs the CHASE Arts and Humanities in the Digital Age doctoral training programme and is one of the editors of the Thomas Moore Archive.
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Open Research Data and Critical Data Studies
2018-02-08 13:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Open Research Data and Critical Data Studies: The Building City Dashboards Project.

Goal Setting and Motivation Workshop
2018-02-07 18:00 - 19:30 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building

Archaeology Postgraduate Seminar - Chelsea Ryan
2018-02-07 16:00 - 17:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Chelsea Ryan
1st Year Doctoral Candidate in Archaeology
Conveying Identity Through Place: Understanding Bronze Age People and Society via Nucleated Settlements
Irish Bronze Age (2200-600BC) settlement studies are dominated by research on roundhouse farmsteads and hillforts. This seminar demonstrates that an in-depth study of a third settlement type, nucleated settlements (domestic villages), will enhance our understanding of Bronze Age society. A focus on the concepts of landscape and place as tools for understanding a site’s role will provide a more nuanced comprehension of settlement relationships and further context for individual and community identity as explicitly expressed in the Irish Bronze Age.

Irish Centre for Human Rights
2018-02-05 16:00 - 18:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
The Irish Centre for Human Rights invites you to a public talk on Universal Periodic Review, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identities
By Diana Carolina Prado Mosquera
Diana is the United Nations Programme Officer at ILGA (The International LGBTQI+ Association). Originally from Colombia, Diana holds a master’s in human rights law and spent several years working as International Affairs Adviser to the Colombian government, wherein she was responsible for overseeing the country’s submissions to the second cycle of the Universal Periodic Review. As UN Programme Officer at ILGA, Diana works with states to ensure that the rights of gender- and sexuality-based minorities have a substantive presence in the UPR process.
Discussants for this talk are Aengus Carroll (author of ILGA’s State-Sponsored Homophobia Report), and Sandra Duffy (PhD researcher, Irish Centre for Human Rights; co-author of ILGA’s Trans Legal Mapping Report).

Centre for Antique, Medieval and Pre-Modern Studies (CAMPS) Research Labs.
2018-02-02 12:00 - 14:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
Jessica Cooke: A Reappraisal of the Vita Secunda of Saint Fursa: the Irish Origins of a Continental Saint

'How European was English Prose in 1700'
2018-02-01 16:00 - 18:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

Book Launch 'From Ego to Eco. Mapping Shifts from Anthropocentrism to Ecocentrism' Sabine Müller, Tina-Karen Pusse and Eoin Flannery
2018-02-01 16:00 - 17:30 | Seminar Room GO11, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
You are invited to the launch of
Sabine Müller, Tina-Karen Pusse
From Ego to Eco. Mapping Shifts from Anthropocentrism to Ecocentrism

by Dr Eoin Flannery
(SL, English Literature, UL)

On Thursday, February 1st at 4pm
GO 11, Hardiman Building

Streetwise Istanbul: Seeing 'Other' As Self
2018-01-30 12:30 - 14:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

Modernisms in Conversation
2018-01-25 17:00 - 19:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
NUI Galway has a growing research community working on diverse aspects of modernist fiction, drama, periodical culture, and essays. We are proud to welcome Moore Institute visiting fellow Prof Sara Crangle, who will speak about her work on Mina Loy, and respond to papers by NUI Galway researchers. In this way we will gain a broad insight into the work being conducted on modernism in our university, and create a dialogue in the session between its participants, and between them and the audience.

The papers and speakers will be:
Mina Loy’s Sentimental Contraband – Prof. Sara Crangle (English, University of Sussex)

Modern Drama and the Rise of European Fascism: The Theatre of Gabriele D’Annunzio, Luigi Pirandello and W. B. Yeats – Zsuzsi Balázs (Drama, Theatre and Performance)

Flux in Fixity: Literary Modernism’s Media Theory and Revisionary Technique – Tiana Fischer (English)

Fluffy Ruffles: Debating, reproducing, and fashioning the American New Woman – Gaby Fletcher (English)

F.R. Higgins, Daniel Corkery and ‘Minor’ Literature – Eoghan Ryan (English)

Recovering Yeats’s performance texts: composition in the manuscripts of At the Hawk’s Well – Melinda Szűts (Drama, Theatre and Performance)

As always, all are welcome to continue the conversation in McGinn’s afterwards!

Archaeology Research Seminar on 'The cantred of Tyrmany in Connacht (where the Oscalli dwell)' by Daniel Curley
2018-01-23 16:00 - 17:30 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Title: ‘The cantred of Tyrmany in Connacht (where the Oscalli dwell)’ – Identifying the archaeology of the O’Kelly lordship of Uí Maine, by Daniel Curley

The O’Kelly lordship of Uí Maine is an oft-referenced but poorly understood political and territorial unit. The boundaries of this territory are routinely described as being consistent with south Roscommon and east Galway. However, the lack of research into the medieval O’Kellys has resulted in an uneven account of the areas they inhabited and controlled, where they sited their caputs, and ultimately, how they interacted with the other Gaelic and Anglo-Norman players in high and late medieval Connacht.
The main aim of my research is to explore the formation, character and development of the O’Kelly lordship of Uí Maine from the emergence of the sept to the kingship in c. 1100, to the demise of the O’Kelly fortunes by c.1600. This research will be undertaken through a multidisciplinary approach, embracing the disciplines of archaeology, history and historical geography, in order to understand the archaeological fabric of this lordship.
As the awardee of an IRC Employment-Based Research Scholarship, a key deliverable from the completed research will be the inclusion of a tourism potential study on the resources and possibilities available to garner an economic gain from this cultural heritage, in an area almost exclusively of rural character. As such, a case study comparison will be attempted between the rural heritage tourism model of the mid-Roscommon area, centred on Rathcroghan Visitor Centre, and the similarities, differences, opportunities and threats that may be apparent between that landscape and the Uí Maine cultural landscape for tourism growth and development.
In my first seminar on the subject of my PhD research, I will explain the approach that I have taken to date, as I attempt to reconstruct this lordship. Focus will be given to a brief discussion on, and critique of, the traditionally-cited boundaries of the territory. This will be followed by an account of the present state of scholarship on the subject as well as highlighting the sources I have thus far consulted. I will then discuss my findings so far, as I go about identifying the caputs of this high and late medieval lordship, concluding with an outline of my intentions going forward.

Trump: One Year On A pop-up discussion on the first year of the Trump presidency
2018-01-22 12:00 - 13:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Trump: One Year On A pop-up discussion on the first year of the Trump presidency
12-1pm
Monday 22 January
Moore Institute Seminar Room (G010 Hardiman Research Building)

Participants:
Thamil Ananthavinayagan (Human Rights)
Clíodhna Carney (English)
Kathleen Cavanaugh (Human Rights)
Kathy Powell (Soc & Pol)
Mark Stansbury (Classics)

All welcome!
