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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Launch of Digital Cultures Initiative (DCI)
2017-01-31 14:00 - 18:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
The DCI aims to bring together NUI Galway staff and students with interests or expertise in digital research and pedagogy in order to share knowledge and experience, develop new projects, and explore connections with creative, cultural and industrial partners in the fields of digital arts, humanities, social and information sciences.
The launch will be an opportunity to learn about the DCI’s aims and planned activities, and to discuss the ways in which the DCI might best serve the needs of the University and broader community. For more information on the DCI please see http://mooreinstitute.ie/dci
A light reception will follow.
Please rsvp using this link.

Sport Research Group Seminar
2017-02-01 13:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Sport and Exercise Research Group, Moore Institute, NUI Galway
Monthly Research Seminar (First Wednesday of each month)

‘A New Ireland Rises’?
Sport and the Remembering of 1916,
Dr Sean Crosson (Huston School of Film and Digital Media, NUI Galway).

History Graduate Research Seminar
2017-02-01 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Dr Darina McCarthy (Maynooth University)
‘Heinrich Bewerunge (1862 – 1923): German cleric, music professor and liturgical reform in Ireland’

Jean Ritchie Memorial Lecture
2017-02-02 13:00 - 14:00 | The Cube, Bailey Allen Hall
Henry Glassie (Professor of Folklore, Indiana University)
‘The Southern Mountain Music of Ola Belle Reed’
1–2pm
Thursday February 2nd
The Cube, Bailey Allen Hall

Henry Glassie will give the Third Annual Jean Ritchie Memorial Lecture on the Southern Mountain Music of Ola Belle Reed (1916-2002), the American folk singer, songwriter and banjo player whose work engaged with Appalachian life and traditions. She was one of the greatest ever performers of Appalachian music.

Huston School of Film and Digital Media Guest Speaker
2017-02-02 14:30 - 16:30 | Huston Main, Huston School of Film and Media
Will Collins

Will Collins is a screenwriter whose credits include the Oscar-nominated SONG OF THE SEA, the acclaimed follow-up feature to Tomm Moore’s, The Secret of Kells; Will received an ANNIE AWARD nomination for his ‘Achievement in Writing for an Animated Feature’. Will also wrote, MY BROTHERS, his award-winning live-action debut feature which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was the opening film of the Galway Film Fleadh 2010. Will won the Pitching Award at the Galway Film Fleadh in 2007 and was nominated for Best Film Script IFTA, 2015 & 2011. Will has also written for television. He has lectured in Screenwriting in NUIG and has worked as a Script Editor. Will graduated from the Huston School’s MA in Screenwriting in 2006.

Archives in Research Seminar
2017-02-02 15:00 - 17:30 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
The Archives service of the James Hardiman Library, NUI Galway are hosting a half-day seminar on the theme of ‘Archives in Research’. The seminar will feature expert speakers in various academic fields who will showcase new research projects which are based on innovative use of archival collections. The seminar will focus on a range of themes, including community and publicly-sourced records of the revolutionary period in the West of Ireland which are being digitised and being made publicly available online. Other areas addressed will be an NUI-funded project centred on creating digital access to historic traditional Irish musical scores, Irish language manuscripts and the research of the context of their collection.
A keynote paper will be delivered by Professor Frank Shovlin, Director of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool. The paper will detail the experiences of Prof. Shovlin’s study of the literary archive of celebrated writer John McGahern and the influence that archive has had on his research.
Completing the day, Dr. John Kenny (Discipline of English, NUI Galway) will launch the new book Touchstones: John McGahern’s Classical Style by Professor Shovlin.
The event is free and all are welcome to attend.
For further information please click on the following link: http://nuigarchives.blogspot.ie/2017/01/archives-in-research-seminar-and-book.html

Book Launch - The Moore Institute and the Hardiman Library
2017-02-02 17:30 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Touchstones
John McGahern’s Classical Style
by Prof Frank Shovlin (Director of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool)
Launch by
Dr John Kenny (English, NUIG)

Further information on the following link:
http://nuigarchives.blogspot.ie/2017/01/archives-in-research-seminar-and-book.html

CAMPS Lab
2017-02-03 12:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Dr Clodagh Downey (Gaeilge, OÉ Gaillimh)
‘Poetic positioning in medieval Irish poetry: the case of dindshenchas (‘the lore of prominent places’)’

Digital Scholarship Seminar Series - Spring 2017
2017-02-08 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Maria Engberg (Malmo University)
Augmented and Mixed Reality Design for Contested and Challenging Histories

History Graduate Research Seminar
2017-02-08 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Mr David Kilgannon (NUIG)
‘A most lamentable series of practices’: Accommodating the Intellectually Disabled in Ireland, 1950 – 67′.

Huston School of Film and Digital Media Guest Speaker
2017-02-09 14:30 - 16:30 | Huston Main, Huston School of Film and Media
Paul Webster

Paul Webster is an award winning director from Navan, Co. Meath. He is a graduate of the MA in Production and Direction at the Huston School of Film & Digital Media (NUIG). Paul was the winner of the Físín Pitching Award at the Dingle International Film Festival 2012 from which his film ‘Stuama’ received its funding. Paul directed the drama which won Best Irish Film at The Cork Underground Film Festival 2013. Paul went on to work in production for Element Pictures and later as script editor and writer on “Fair City”. Let Those Blues In, Paul’s documentary about Irish Blues musician, Paddy Smith, was the winner of Best Short Documentary in association with RTE at The Sky Road Film Festival, Clifden, Co. Galway in October 2015 and it was chosen as the closing short film at The Craic Fest Irish Film Festival in New York, March 2016. Paul received a €35,000 production fund from Science Foundation Ireland and The Galway Film Centre as part of their Science On Screen documentary scheme. Also in 2016, Paul co-directed Borderland, a 26 documentary exploring the refugee crisis along Europe’s Borders which will be screened during this guest session.

CAMPS Lab
2017-02-10 12:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Dr Sarah Corrigan (Classics, NUIG)
‘Through the spirit of anger’: the exegesis of the Red Sea crossing and its emulation in early Irish hagiography’

Special Screening: Meetings with Ivor (2016)
2017-02-13 19:00 - 21:00 | Eye Cinema, Galway
Special Screening: Meetings with Ivor (2016). Mon. Feb 13th Eye Cinema, 7:15 pm.
Followed by Q+A with Director Alan Gilsenan hosted by Dr. Tony Tracy (Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway).
Meetings with Ivor is an 81-minute documentary on the life and work of ground-breaking psychiatrist Ivor Browne. Browne has been a central figure in Irish mental health debates for many decades and his pioneering and often controversial work on behalf of the many who cannot speak for themselves is well-known.

Alan Gilsenan’s highly original film centres on Browne, who in his late-eighties, remains a startlingly refreshing and innovative thinker. The director – well known for his films about the institutions and individuals that have shaped Irish society – takes a unique approach to his subject, having set out to make a film on Browne ‘as radical as the man himself’.

www.meetingswithivor.com

Digital Scholarship Seminar Series - Spring 2017
2017-02-15 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Francesca Benatti (Open University)
‘A Question of Style? Stylometry, Authorship and the Edinburgh Review’
