Moore Institute

University of Galway History Seminar: A Century of Irish Agriculture: A Policy Driven Sector
2022-10-12 16:00 - 17:30 (Europe/Dublin) | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Professor Cathal O’Donoghue
(University of Galway)
A Century of Irish Agriculture:
A Policy Driven Sector

Abstract
In this paper we have assembled a time-series of agricultural statistics over the past century to describe many of the important trends of what has been an important sector in Ireland over the course of the past century. The paper explores trends in land use trade-offs between tillage and pasture and describes growth in animals numbers, the substitution between different types of animals. Over the century the Irish agricultural sector has moved from a sector with a high subsistence dimension with up to 40% of output consumed on farms to a modern international exporting sector, much less reliant on the traditional trading partner the UK. The paper tracks mechanisation of the sector and the huge reduction in labour and significant restructuring over the century. We emphasise the importance of public policy, not just in relation to price and income supports, but also importantly in relation to trade and production restrictions. The century perspective highlights some recurring trends where export restrictions have seen resilience and recovery after they are eased.
If you have any questions about the seminar, please contact Dr Kevin O’Sullivan kevin.k.osullivan@universityofgalway.ie.

What Are Futures Techniques and How Can You Work With Them?
2022-10-14 11:00 - 13:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
The Creative Futures Research Group invites you to attend a futures techniques workshop with futurist Andrew Curry.
This practical workshop includes an introduction to futures thinking and how it differs from/complements other types of thinking.
After an introduction to futures models, participants will have the opportunity to explore and apply these, working in small groups.
There will be time for reflection and questions at the end of the session.
Andrew Curry has worked as a futurist for twenty years, leading a wide range of projects across the commercial sector, the public sector, and the non-profit sector. He joined SOIF in 2019 from the Futures Practice of Kantar Consulting, where he was until 2018 managing editor of the company’s Future Perspectives thought leadership series, and co-hosted its podcast, The Future of Consumption.
He has worked with clients across the private, public and non-profit sectors. He was also lead author of the Henley Centre’s 2001 report for the Cabinet Office, “Understanding Best Practice in Strategic Futures.” He has published widely on futures subjects, including – with Anthony Hodgson – the first academic paper on the Three Horizons method. Andrew is a member of the Advisory Board of Lancaster University’s Institute of Social Futures and served for five years as Vice Chair of the Association of Professional Futurists.
Registration
Please register for this event here: https://forms.office.com/r/4SeJx61M0z
Contact:
If you have any questions about this event, please contact Dr Orla Lehane orla.lehane@universityofgalway.ie or Dr Maria Roca Lizarazu maria.rocalizarazu@universityofgalway.ie

Sport & Exercise Research Group Seminar: Exercise Physiology in evaluation of fitness and exercise prescription
2022-10-18 12:00 - 14:00 | Online, via Zoom
Exercise Physiology in evaluation of fitness and exercise prescription
Dr. Ananya Gupta, Discipline of Physiology, School of Medicine
Please note that the seminar will be delivered online, via Zoom instead. Please join at: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/91318855652

In this seminar Dr. Ananya Gupta will talk about the benefits of physical activity (PA), the evidence supporting PA and the recommended guidelines for PA in a healthy adult. In addition she will also discuss the importance of exercise physiology and how it can be applied in exercise testing in the evaluation of health, fitness and performance. We will also briefly discuss the basic principles underlying exercise prescription in healthy clients as well as in a clinical setting.
Dr. Ananya Gupta is a lecturer in the Discipline of Physiology. She is the Director of the MSc program in Exercise Physiology and Application in Therapy. She is also the founder and director of the Exercise Physiology Core Facility (EPCF) located in the Human Biology Building which is an integral part of the Discipline of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Galway. The Facility is committed to a tripartite mission in which to advance the knowledge and practice of exercise physiology through supporting and advancing exercise physiology reesearch, providing professional training and mentorship to the next generation of exercise physiologists and to increase awareness about the importance of physical activity and physical fitness in lifelong health amongst the general population.

For further information on the Sport & Exercise Research Group, please visit: https://mooreinstitute.ie/research-group/sport-identity-representation/

Navigating Archival Research - Skills, Tools, and Methods
2022-10-18 14:00 - 15:00 | Library Training Room PC Suite, University of Galway
There are over 400 archive collections in the Library, dating from the 14th century to the present day. Archives of writers, academics, activists, film-makers, musicians, organisations, local landed estates and families.
This session will introduce users to conducting archival research, how to find, search, request, and use manuscript and digital archive collections offered by the Library, how to navigate copyright/citation of archival material, what supports are offered from the Archives team, and how to build your research question and argument.
This a good opportunity to learn about the records of the unique landscape of Connemara and the Aran Islands through the maps and records of cartographer Tim Robinson and archaeologist, Etienne Rynne and discover local family history through landed estate records from the 18th century!
Registration
Registration is required. Please register at: https://universityofgalway.libcal.com/event/3942411#

Date: Tuesday, October 18, 2022
Time:14:00 – 15:00
Time Zone: UK, Ireland, Lisbon Time (change)
Location: Library Training Room PC Suite (Map )
Campus: Galway

University of Galway History Seminar: Ecologies of Typhoid and Geographies of Knowledge in 19th Century Ireland
2022-10-19 16:00 - 17:30 | Online, via Zoom
Dr Emily Webster
(Durham University)
Ecologies of Typhoid and Geographies of Knowledge in 19th Century Ireland

Abstract
In 1880, Charles Cameron, Medical Officer of Health for the City of Dublin, was nearly laughed out of a meeting of the British Medical Association for a paper he read entitled “Typhoid from Oysters.” Despite Cameron’s assertion that he had “no doubt whatever that oysters were very frequently the means of communicating enteric fever,” using his home city of Dublin as a case study, the connection between the two would not be widely accepted by the British medical community until nearly twenty-five years – and several shellfish-borne typhoid outbreaks – later. Cameron’s observation of this trend decades before it was widely accepted in British medical circles was not, I argue, simply a stroke of particular epidemiological genius, but an observation grounded in the unique ecology of typhoid fever in Dublin. Drawing on a combination of public health records, geospatial data, and popular media, this paper will explore parallel epidemics of typhoid fever in Dublin and Belfast at the end of the nineteenth century that, through epidemiological investigation, were traced at least in part to local shellfish populations. It will argue that these epidemics were the result of a confluence of unique factors, including ecological characteristics like topography, rainfall, and river basin ecology; and social and urban environmental characteristics such as housing placement, water systems, sewage systems, class, industry, and local dietary practices. Through this confluence of features, Salmonella enterica typhi found a niche in these major Irish cities.
Registration
This talk will be delivered online, via Zoom. Please register here for the link: https://forms.office.com/r/AqUWfutAzq
The seminar will also be livestreamed in Room 1001, Hardiman Research Building (Bridge Seminar Room).

ITALIANGRAM: Docenti e content creator si incontrano. Webinar per la promozione della lingua e della cultura italiana nell'era dei social
2022-10-19 18:00 - 19:00 | Online, via Zoom
ITALIANGRAM
Docenti e content creator si incontrano:
Webinar per la promozione della lingua e della cultura italiana nell’era dei social
In collaborazione con l’Istituto Italiano di cultura di Dublino
This webinar (in Italian) is organised in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Dublin, as part of the 2022 Settimana della lingua italiana nel mondo (Week of the Italian Language in the World). It is a roundtable bringing together Irish-based teachers of Italian, and social media content creators, to discuss how social media like Instagram or TikTok can be used to promote Italian culture and language.
Registration
To attend this webinar, please register online at: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fnOrg0pjRZ-qrNWmdoSi0g

The School of Political Science and Sociology Research Seminar: ‘BioEconomy and Society’
2022-10-20 13:00 - 14:00 | Cairnes Building, CA110, University of Galway
The School of Political Science and Sociology invite you to a research seminar with:
Dr. phil. Alexander I. Stingl, Mag. Art.
‘BioEconomy and Society’
Cairnes Building, CA110
Thursday 20th of October, 2022
1-2pm
All Welcome!

Bio-Economy Works in Ecosystem Services, Biotechnology, and Global Political Economy: Elaborating a new field for the social sciences and situating my research program.
About:
The Bio-Economy is a recent and extremely powerful policy agenda, which is, however, existing mostly outside of the public consciousness. Originating in the discourse on “ecosystems” but being concretized institutionally and “coined” by European Union bureaucrats, this discursive formation and transnational policy network has problematic historic roots in a regime of exploitation while it affects the current transformation of the Global Political Economy as a whole. Respectively, I continually make the case for understanding the Bio-Economy as an emerging field that deserves more attention in the social sciences. In a 45-minute tour de force, I will sketch the stakes of the Bioeconomy in terms of its effects on ecosystem services, agro- and biotechnology, and the Global Political Economy, while marking important connections to its epistemic origins that it shares with the genealogy of the social sciences. I will, thereby and in conclusion, provide an introduction and overview to my currently ongoing and future research program.

Sport & Exercise Research Group Seminar: Football and Cinema under Francoism - Comparing Visual Motifs to Unveil Historical Symptoms
2022-10-25 12:00 - 14:00 | Virtual Lecture via Blackboard Collaborate
Sport & Exercise Research Group Seminar
Football and Cinema under Francoism – Comparing Visual Motifs to Unveil Historical Symptoms
(Dr Manuel Garin – Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)

Virtual Lecture via Blackboard Collaborate: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/4e5604442fcb44b68f5d5630040e8755
When it comes to the relation of archival materials with historical and political epistemes, the uses of sport, and specifically football, during the Francoist Regime in Spain stands as a key (but still under-researched) topic. Connecting with previous imageries of the silent era, like Bergfilme or Hollywood sport biopics, football movies became a genre of its own during the dictatorship, once labeled by historian J. A. Durán as nationalfootballism (a reappropriation of the historical term nacionalcatolicismo). This audiovisual corpus comprises dozens of fiction films where the biggest football stars of the time, such as Zamora, Kubala or Di Stefano, performed as actors, and vice versa, where the biggest actors of the time (like Fernando Fernán Goméz) performed as footballers or fans. More importantly, these movies created a strong intermedial relationship with other visual works produced during the dictatorship: hundreds of hours of sport-centered footage within the archive of NO-DO (the official newsreels), and thousands of photographs in sport newspapers, film journals, and popular magazines. Not to mention the aural components of radio broadcasting -and soundscapes- in and out of the films.
This talk delves into that critical juncture between football and moving images, which shaped and still shapes the core of Spanish identity/ies (with political, class, and gender trouble), by studying such intermedial links in three complementary ways: as an atlas of politicized bodies (sportsmen but also women and minorities), an archive of visual motifs (gestures, situations, narratives) and a network of places and influences (production companies, football clubs, cities, Francoist institutions, repressed regions or nationalities, etc.). Framed within a new research project funded by the Spanish MICINN, the talk will share its main findings and methodology with our colleagues from NUI Galway, to foster debate within the Research in Sport seminar.
Manuel Garin is Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Studies at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. He has been visiting scholar at different institutions like the Tokyo University of The Arts, the University of Southern California and Columbia University, where he developed the comparative media projects “Gameplaygag: Between Silent Film and New Media” and “A Hundred Busters: Keaton Across The Arts”, financed by public grants. Author of the book El gag visual (Cátedra, 2014), his research on cinema, art history and new media has been published in scientific journals such as Feminist Media Studies, The Sixties, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Communication & Society, EJHR, L’Atalante, EPI, CJCS or Comparative Cinema, and in books from Oxford University Press, MIT Press, Routledge, Amsterdam University Press, Palgrave, De Gruyter, ABC-Clio, Mimesis, Intermedio, Cátedra or Edicions 62. As a cultural critic, he has written for magazines such as La Maleta de Portbou, Contrapicado or Cultura/s – La Vanguardia. Currently, he is the PI of the research project “Football and Visual Culture under Francoism”, financed by Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (PID2020-116277GA-I00) and focused on the relations between sport, class, gender, and national identities in Spanish cinema and audiovisual media.

University of Galway History Seminar: Blood Ties: An Intimate History of Early Twentieth Century American Political Violence
2022-10-26 16:00 - 17:30 | Online, via Zoom
Professor Kevin Boyle
(Northwestern University)
Blood Ties: An Intimate History of Early Twentieth Century American Political Violence

Biography
Kevin Boyle is the William Smith Mason Professor of American History at Northwestern University. He is the author, most recently, of The Shattering: America in the 1960s (W. W. Norton & Co., 2021), a history of that period’s conflicts over race, sex, and war. His previous book, Arc of Justice, won the National Book Award for non-fiction and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is also the author of The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, 1948-1968 and co-author of Muddy Boots and Ragged Aprons. His essays and reviews have appeared in The Washington Post, the New York Times, the Baltimore Sun, the Chicago Tribune, the Detroit Free Press, and other newspapers and magazines.
Registration
This talk will be delivered online, via Zoom. Register here for the link: https://forms.office.com/r/QAxBFe9XFX
The seminar will also be livestreamed in Room 1001, Hardiman Research Building (Bridge Seminar Room).
This talk is part of the University of Galway History Research Seminar series.
For further details, contact Dr Kevin O’Sullivan kevin.k.osullivan@universityofgalway.ie
Image: Jasper Johns, ‘Flags 1’ (1973); Museum of Modern Art, New York

Galway Book Launch – Fierce Love: The Life of Mary O'Malley
2022-10-26 17:00 - 18:00 | online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The Lilliput Press cordially invites you to join us in celebrating the legacy of Mary O’Malley, and the launching of Bernard Adams’ new biography on her life and work.
With special contributions from Professor Lionel Pilkington, Professor Daniel Carey and Conor O’Malley. Archive exhibition from the O’Malley/Lyric Theatre Archive, curated by Dr. Barry Houlihan.
Copies of Fierce Love will be on sale during the event with thanks to Charlie Byrne’s.
Registration
Please register for this event via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/galway-book-launch-fierce-love-the-life-of-mary-omalley-tickets-429097009707

ABOUT THE BOOK
Cork-born theatre pioneer (1918–2006), Mary O’Malley, was the founder and director of Belfast’s Lyric Players Theatre from 1951–81.
In 1947 Mary married Armagh-born doctor Pearse O’Malley and thereafter moved to Northern Ireland. She was elected to Belfast Corporation in May 1952, as an Irish Labour Party councillor for the Smithfield ward and in 1959 she founded Threshold literary magazine.
She started Belfast’s Lyric Players Theatre in the former stables at the back of her Malone Road home. A self-taught and tireless director, she contested cultural populism and indifference in the north during the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s to pioneer the new theatre. As their repertoire grew, O’Malley felt it necessary to provide a permanent theatre for the company, and in 1961 the Lyric Players Theatre became a non-profit association, a base from where her protégés from Liam Neeson, Ciarán Hinds and others bestrode stage and screen in the last half of the twentieth and beyond.
Fierce Love chronicles a resourceful and controversial individual, who swam against the tide of populism and sectarianism to establish an independent academy for actors and artists in a tireless quest for imaginative freedom and excellence. Mary O’Malley’s life was complex, and her legacy enduring.
‘A titan of Northern Ireland’s theatrical scene … I consumed this beautiful book with a few giggles and tears of memories recalled.’ Liam Neeson
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bernard Adams, a Dubliner with Ulster roots, went to school at Portora in Enniskillen and read English at Trinity College, Dublin. He became a journalist, writing early notices of Mary O’Malley’s plays for the Belfast Telegraph in Belfast before working as a BBC television producer in London. He is author of Denis Johnston: A Life (Lilliput, 2002).

Centre for Irish Studies Seminar Series: ‘The Law of the Mother and the Sibling World: Leeanne Quinn’s Queer Ecologies’
2022-10-27 16:00 - 17:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Centre for Irish Studies Seminar Series
‘The Law of the Mother and the Sibling World: Leeanne Quinn’s Queer Ecologies’
Professor Moynagh Sullivan

Moynagh Sullivan is a Professor of English at MU, and the Faculty of Arts, Celtic Studies and Philosophy Associate Dean for Equality, Diversity Inclusion and Interculturalism. A visiting scholar at The Centre for Irish Studies at NUIG in 2022, she has previously been a visiting Professor at the centre for Irish Studies at Boston College, MA, and the Fulbright Fellow in Irish Studies at UC Berkeley, CA. Moynagh’s pioneering intersectional work in Irish Studies has examined patriarchal, racist and classist structures in canons and canon-making, and has introduced previously neglected or understudied women writers to the field, such as Blanaid Salkeld and Carla Lanyon Lanyon. Moynagh’s extensive publications in these areas includes close studies of contemporary poets such as Eavan Boland, Meadbh McGuckian, Rita Ann Higgins and Leeanne Quinn. She is currently working on a monograph on Maternal Imaginaries in contemporary Irish culture.
Paper: ‘The Law of the Mother and the Sibling World: Leeanne Quinn’s Queer Ecologies’
Paper Photograph (credit https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/i-was-thinking-about-how-we-say-things-in-poetry-how-we-depart-from-our-sources-1.4369661)
Paper Abstract:
This paper examines how the work of poet Leeanne Quinn attends to the interdependence of all life, ‘every last cord between us’ (Leeanne Quinn, ‘Acoma’, Before You, Dublin: Dedalus Press, 2012), on this planet and beyond. Born in Drogheda in 1978, Quinn is an award winning and critically acclaimed Munich-based poet. The molecular and cellular granularity of Quinn’s vision, ‘wrapped in particles of winter/light’ (Quinn, Before You, 2012) ) is perceptually entwined with the existential threat of climate emergency, and in this paper, I consider how the interconnectivity of body, planet, and art is expressed in Quinn’s acclaimed first volume Before You (2012), through the holding metaphor of the ‘sibling world’, an emotional ecosystem painstakingly painted in the sister poems, ‘Imprints’ and ‘Mosquitoes’. I explore her writing through psychoanalytical and eco-critical perspectives to advance feminist literary, cultural research that highlights the damaging dominance of the father-son model of inheritance and influence in Irish cultural critique.

Translation and Territory - Seminar series: Development, language maps and the problem of translation
2022-10-27 17:00 - 18:00 | online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Translation and Territory – Seminar series
Development, language maps and the problem of translation
Prof. Federico M. Federici, UCL
How can accurate data about language proficiency and use help development organisations?

This seminar is part of the TRANSLATION AND THE TERRITORY SEMINAR SERIES, AUTUMN 2022. Events organized by the Emily Anderson Centre for Translation Research and Practice funded by the University of Galway’s Researcher Development Scheme.

Open Access Publishing - the Why & How
2022-10-28 11:00 - 12:00 | online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Open Scholarship Café – Part of Open Access Week 2022
In recent years, the rapidly evolving world of scholarly communication has been subjected to several divisive issues, but none as hotly debated as the transition to Open Access publishing. It seems to be a good idea but also a bit daunting and you might have heard about large fees in order to publish Open Access? And how is this useful for you as a researcher and author? If these are the questions you are asking yourself then this Open Scholarship Café (in-person) is for you!
Open Access is an academic publishing model which makes research freely available to read, avoiding subscriptions or paywalls. Open Access comes in many flavours and this session will focus on the Library’s recent Open Access agreements (also called transformative agreements) with a number of publishers that allow you as the author to publish Open Access without cost to you.
No previous knowledge or publishing experience is needed for this session! The University of Galway Open Scholarship Librarian Hardy Schwamm will introduce the rationale and process of these Open Access agreements, and the context in which these agreements have been developed. We will also look briefly at Green Open Access and how you can publish your research using our institutional repository ARAN.
At the end of this session you will:

Understand the need for Open Access publishing
Know how to benefit from the Open Access agreements that are available to you
Be familiar with the options that Green Open Access provides

This In-Person Open Scholarship Café is part of the international Open Access Week which provides the chance to connect the global momentum toward the open sharing of knowledge.
Open Scholarship Cafés are organised by the Library of the University of Galway in partnership with the Open Scholarship Community Galway.
Image used by Chaosheng Zhang.

Related LibGuide: Open Access Publishing by Trish Finnan
Registration
Registration is required. Please register at: https://universityofgalway.libcal.com/event/3926072

CAMPS LABS: Plague, Prayer, and Print in Sixteenth-century Italy
2022-10-28 12:00 - 14:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Plague, Prayer, and Print in Sixteenth-century Italy
Katherine Tycz (Discipline of Italian)
Plague was a constant fear for early modern Italians. When plague broke out in Italy, people turned to a variety of devotional tools and practices for protection from disease and spiritual solace. In this presentation, I will explore the production of printed devotional texts and images that were circulated to help devotees through these difficult times. Ranging from beautiful engravings to cheap devotional pamphlets and flyers, the threat of plague created prophylactic merchandise that would appeal to a range of consumers. Occasionally sanctioned by the Church, but often produced outside of the bounds of ecclesiastical oversight, printed plague protection ranged from the orthodox to the unorthodox and all the blurry areas in between.
Centre for Antique, Medieval & Pre-Modern Studies (CAMPS) website: https://www.universityofgalway.ie/camps/

Teangacha Trilsithe - Braided Languages - Langues Tressées
2022-11-03 18:00 - 19:00 | Charlie Byrne’s bookshop, Galway City
TEANGACHA TRILSITHE / BRAIDED LANGUAGES / LANGUES TRESSÉES
A trilingual poetry reading (English, Irish, and French) of the work of three poets / translators, Kelly Norah Drukker (a poet and scholar from Montréal, Canada and also visiting scholar in the Centre for Irish Studies, University of Galway); Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha (poet and PhD scholar from Roinn na Gaeilge and the Centre for Irish Studies); and Gabrielle Machnik-Kekesi (scholar from Montréal, Canada, completing a PhD at the Centre for Irish Studies).
The event will consist of a trilingual reading of both Kelly and Laoighseach’s work, with Kelly’s work (English, and translated into French by Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné) translated into Irish and read aloud by Laoighseach, and Laoighseach’s work (Irish, and self-translated into English) translated into French by Canadian scholar, Gabrielle Machnik-Kekesi, and read aloud at the event by Kelly.
Kelly is an accomplished poet, with her debut collection, Small Fires (McGill-Queen’s University Press) winning the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry, and the Concordia University First Book Prize. The collection was also a finalist for the Grand Prix du livre de Montréal (2016). Petits feux, a French-language translation by Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, was published by Le lézard amoureux in 2018.
Laoighseach has been published in a variety of literary journals, including Poetry Ireland Review and Comhar. She recently won first place in the Fiach Dubh poetry competition and in the Ballybunion Arts Festival Irish Language poetry competition. Her first collection, Solas Geimhridh, is forthcoming.
Gabrielle has a BA (History) and MA (Individualized Program, Modern Irish History and Gender Studies) from Concordia University and a MISt (Archival Studies) from McGill University. She is a Hardiman Research Scholar at the University of Galway (2021-2025), completing a PhD at the Centre for Irish Studies.
We wish to use this event to show how poetry and literature can cross boundaries, languages, and cultural contexts, as well as highlighting the important role of collaboration and camaraderie in the writing and translation of literature.
The event is free, and all are welcome – from within the university and without!

Book Launch: Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages: Personal and Public Art and Literature of the Franklin Search Expeditions
2022-11-04 17:00 - 18:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Book Launch
Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages:
Personal and Public Art and Literature of the Franklin Search Expeditions
by
Dr Eavan O’Dochartaigh
Speaker: Professor Heidi Hansson, Umeå University, Sweden

Registration:
Please register via Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launch-of-visual-culture-and-arctic-voyages-by-eavan-odochartaigh-tickets-445310885847
Dr Eavan O’Dochartaigh is an SFI-IRC Pathway Programme Awardee at University of Galway (2022-2026) and a former Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow at Umeå University, Sweden (2019-2021). Her book Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages was published by Cambridge University Press (2022). It investigates the nature of the on-board visual culture of the nineteenth-century Arctic, presenting a compelling challenge to the ‘man-versus-nature’ trope that still reverberates in polar imaginaries today. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
If you are interested in joining us for an informal dinner at John Keogh’s Gastropub following the launch, please send me an email for details: eavan.odochartaigh@universityofgalway.ie

Reimagining a World for Tomorrow and an Onto-Epistemological Ethics of Remembering
2022-11-07 16:00 - 18:00 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
The Discipline of Philosophy is delighted to welcome back one of its PhD graduates
Dr. Roisín Lally of Gonzaga University
speaking on:
Reimagining a World for Tomorrow and an Onto-Epistemological Ethics of Remembering

Abstract
Time is behind our reality structuring. Physicist/philosopher Karen Barad urges us to think about time differently. In Meeting the Universe Halfway, she offers us the theoretical tools such that we can return to earlier times and reimagine life differently. To do this requires an ontological shift in perspective which we get with Gilbert Simondon in On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects. Based on the logic of transduction, ontogenesis claims that all states of being including time, space, and matter exist in excess in each potential being. Similarly, Karen Barad’s entangled intra-relations emerges as spacetimematterings. There are no subjects as such, only intra-actions between agents. Agential beings are always already entangled in material practices. Entangled beings make it impossible to differentiate absolutely between human and nonhuman, organic and inorganic, subject and object, nature and culture, fact and value, epistemology and ontology. This paper will excavate Barad’s theory of diffraction in light of Gilbert Simondon’s ontogenesis to offer an onto-epistemological ethics that re-configures how we imagine deep time, both past and future, and take responsibility for the world we have created, and will create in the future.
Rόisín Lally teaches philosophy at Gonzaga University. Drawing on the traditions of phenomenology and metaphysics, she works at the intersection of the philosophy of technology, feminism, and sustainability. She is the author of numerous articles and chapters. She is currently writing a monograph entitled Being, Time, and Technology and co-editing a book with Daniel Bradley entitled Irish Phenomenology.

Sport & Exercise Research Group Seminar: Strength in Numbers: Data and Science in Soccer
2022-11-08 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Sport & Exercise Research Group Seminar
Strength in Numbers: Data and Science in Soccer
(Professor John Newell, Sonraí Health Data Science Research Cluster)

Professor John Newell is Professor of Biostatistics in the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Galway, an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Canterbury, New Zealand and former Head of the Biostatistics Unit of the HRB Clinical Research Facility University of Galway. He is a member of the University of Galway’s Sonraí Health Data Science Research Cluster. Through his role as funded Principal Investigator in the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, his team of researchers help sports scientists in elite sporting organisations make sense of their data in order to improve training response, accelerate recovery and optimise performance. In this talk he will discuss and showcase recent advances in statistical approaches applied to elite sports with a particular emphasis on soccer.

Book Launch/Seoladh Leabhair: Dhá Leagan Déag: Léargais Nua ar an Sean-nós
2022-11-08 17:00 - 18:00 | online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Book Launch/Seoladh Leabhair
Guest speaker/Aoichainteoir: Máirín Nic Con Iomaire
Dhá Leagan Déag: Léargais Nua ar an Sean-nós
In Eagar ag/Edited by: Philip Fogarty, Tiber Falzett, Lillis Ó Laoire
Cur i láthair/Introductory Remarks: Dr Pádraic Moran
Cló Iar-Chonnacht €20
Newly published by Cló Iar-Chonnacht, this book is an international collection of 15 essays by leading scholars about Gaelic song. The majority of papers deal with Ireland while three deal Scotland and Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. Written in Irish and Scottish Gaelic, the papers make a unique and original contribution to Gaelic Song Studies. As might be expected, there is much discussion about concepts of authenticity and the ways in which the Gaelic Revival has moulded and shaped the song tradition from inception to the present day. There are also essays on representations of song in literature and a number of explorations of personal engagement with the tradition and the need for a more innovative approach to Gaelic song to ensure its future vitality. No other collection brings such a variety of perspectives to bear on the topic.
Bailiúchán idirnáisiúnta de chúig aiste dhéag é seo a bhfuil aistí ann le scoláirí aitheanta faoi amhránaíocht na Gaeilge ó Chló Iar-Chonnacht. Pléann formhór na bpáipéar le hÉirinn ach is faoi Alba agus faoi Cheap Breatainn, in Alba Nuadh, Ceanada atá trí cinn acu. Tá na haistí scríofa i nGaeilge agus i nGaeilge na hAlban, agus tugann siad léargas nuálach ar léann na nAmhrán sa Ghaeilge. Mar a bheifí ag súil, pléitear le ceist na barántúlachta agus na slite iná mhúnlaigh an Athbheochan traidisiún na nAmhrán ón tús go dtí an lá inniu. Tá aistí sa leabhar chomh maith a bhaineann le léiriú an tsean-nóis sa litríocht. Cíorann cuid de na páipéir teagmhálacha pearsanta leis an traidisiún agus tá impí ann ar nuáil níos mó i leith na nAmhrán Gaeilge lena mbrí a chinntiú amach anseo. Níl aon leabhar eile ann a chuimsíonn oiread sin tuairimí difriúla faoin ábhar.
Refreshments served
Sóláistí ar fáil

University of Galway History Seminar: An Introduction to the Digital Repository of Ireland for Researchers: From using collections to thinking about digital preservation
2022-11-09 16:00 - 17:30 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
University of Galway History Seminar:
An Introduction to the Digital Repository of Ireland for Researchers: From using collections to thinking about digital preservation
Dr Lisa Marie Griffith (Digital Repository of Ireland)

Abstract
This talk will provide an overview of collections held in the Digital Repository of Ireland that might be of interest to historical researchers and will look at how you can use some of the repository’s technical features to assist with your research. It will also ask ‘what is humanities research data’ and finally it will explore why researchers at every stage need to consider digital preservation principles when creating their own research data.
Biography
Lisa Griffith is the membership manager at the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI). She came to DRI from roles in higher education and cultural heritage, at Dublin City University (DCU) and the National Print Museum. She has a PhD in History and is a coordinator of the Dublin History Research Network. Lisa has a keen interest in book culture that has prompted her to deliver a series of podcasts, workshops, and walking tours as part of national events such as Culture Night and the Dublin Literature Festival. Lisa has also authored and edited four books on various aspects of Dublin history, including her most recent book Dublin: Then and Now (Pavilion Books, 2018), which traces changes in key cityscapes by pairing stunning archival images of Ireland’s capital with contemporary photographs. She sits on the Dublin City Culture Company Advisory Group. Lisa is a SCRUMstudy Agile Master Certified project manager and holds a certificate in Training and Continuing Education from Maynooth University.
She previously worked for five years as programme manager at DRI, as a senior administrator in the Institute of Education, DCU and as a project manager for the Research Support Office also in DCU. She was coordinator of the Culture and Heritage Studies Programme at the National Print Museum where she taught modules on Heritage, Local History, Folklore, and Ethnography and Communications.
Registration
This is a hybrid event. The paper will be delivered, in-person, in Room 1001, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway (Bridge Seminar Room) and streamed simultaneously on Zoom: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/91283727218.
To attend via Zoom, please register at: https://forms.office.com/r/yjfBFFGYD4.
This talk is part of the University of Galway History Research Seminar series.
Image: detail from Digital Repository of Ireland, Digital Archiving in Ireland (2012)

The School of Political Science and Sociology Research Seminar: ‘Exploring testimonial sensibilities and credibility judgments with regards to the Magdalen Laundries and the Mother and Baby Homes’
2022-11-10 13:00 - 14:00 | Cairnes Building, CA110, University of Galway
The School of Political Science and Sociology invite you to a research seminar with:
Prof. Audrey Rousseau
‘Exploring testimonial sensibilities and credibility judgments with regards to the Magdalen Laundries and the Mother and Baby Homes’
Supported by Global Women’s Studies
For decades, women and children, survivors of institutional and state violence, have kept silent with regards of what was considered immoral whether giving birth out of wedlock, being so-called “illegitimate”, or solely not adjusting to gendered societal norms. In 1990s, but more audibly from 2000s, witnesses have bravely started to tell their story publicly, offering a vivid analysis of how oppression have affected their lives but also, in many cases, the lives of their descendants. Today, their claims for recognition and reparation are taken up in the media and the political realms, including the Ryan report, the McAleese report, the Mother and Baby Homes report. Of course, those committees or inquiries are to be acknowledged, but they also need to be questioned notably in how they treated survivors accounts, and the way they often missed opportunities in challenging official historical accounts on violence. Firstly, drawing on observations from my PhD thesis, which aimed at reflecting on the capacity “as a giver of knowledge” involved in the act of remembering in the struggle for recognition of the Irish Magdalen Laundries, 1993-2014, I wish to discuss the defamatory discursive ethos (based on suspicion and blame) that has long stood in the way of women’s experiential narration. Secondly, I will explore the bases of a new comparative discourse analysis challenging the differential logic at work between the Magdalen Laundries and Mother and Baby Homes in the Republic of Ireland (1993-2022). In doing so, I hope to investigate how prejudice based on gender, class, and age, may still be at work in depicting and distributing a capital of sympathy and veracity judgment while listening sensitively to survivors, activists, and their descendants.
About:
Audrey Rousseau is an Associate professor in sociology at the Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO), Canada. She specializes in the study of contemporary memorial processes, including the politics of recognition and redress of historical injustices in relation to colonial and gender-based violence experienced by Indigenous peoples in Canada, as well as the confinement and forced labour of thousands of women in religious institutions in Ireland (18-20th centuries). Aside from two book chapters (University Press of Florida and Manchester University Press), she has mostly published in French-speaking journals such as Études Irlandaises, Études Féministes, and Criminocorpus

Translation and Territory – Seminar series: Frank Wynne in Conversation
2022-11-10 16:00 - 17:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Translation and Territory – Seminar series
Frank Wynne in Conversation
Translator, Writer, International Booker Prize Chair,
Recipient Dublin Literary Award 2022

This seminar is part of the TRANSLATION AND THE TERRITORY SEMINAR SERIES, AUTUMN 2022. Events organized by the Emily Anderson Centre for Translation Research and Practice funded by the University of Galway’s Researcher Development Scheme.

Sport & Exercise Research Group Seminar: Psychology and Performance in Sport
2022-11-15 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Sport & Exercise Research Group Seminar
Psychology and Performance in Sport
Prof. Jane Walsh, School of Psychology, University of Galway
Abstract
In this seminar Prof. Jane Walsh will look at the evidence from Sports Psychology to provide insight into the key characteristics and mental strategies used by top performers in sport. Jane will draw on recent sporting examples to illustrate how characteristics such as mental toughness and emotional stability are key factors in success and provide examples of how strategies such as goal setting and control of effort have to been used by athletes to break world records. Prof. Walsh will provide an answer the question on everyone’s mind….’Can we learn these strategies for peak performance?’ You will have to turn up to find out these answers and more about the key to success in sport (and life!).
Biography
Prof. Jane Walsh is a lecturer in Health Psychology in University of Galway. Her research is underpinned by the theme ‘Health Behaviour for Healthy Ageing’. She is the Director of the mHealth Research Group and recently secured grants in excess of €8 million euro in EU funding to conduct research on how novel technologies can be harnessed to deliver personalised evidence-based interventions to promote healthy ageing. Jane is the Co-Leader of the Health and Wellbeing Cluster in the Whitaker Institute, a member of the Irish Cancer Society Research Advisory Board and an Associate Editor of the Journal Psychology and Health.
Jane has given several keynotes both nationally and internationally on related topics including: The Physical and Psychological Benefits of Exercise and Mindset and Peak Performance in Sport. Jane is a keen triathlete and has won medals in track and field, cross country running, open water swim races and triathlons.
For further information on the Sport & Exercise Research Group, please visit: https://mooreinstitute.ie/research-group/sport-identity-representation/

Translation and Territory - Seminar series: The transboundary nature of crisis translation
2022-11-16 13:00 - 14:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Translation and Territory – Seminar series
The transboundary nature of crisis translation
Prof. Sharon O’Brien, DCU
Going across linguistic, cultural, technological, and political boundaries to provide translation in times of crisis.

This seminar is part of the TRANSLATION AND THE TERRITORY SEMINAR SERIES, AUTUMN 2022. Events organized by the Emily Anderson Centre for Translation Research and Practice funded by the University of Galway’s Researcher Development Scheme.

University of Galway History Research Seminar: ‘Clothing – whether home-made or bought?’: Non-elite clothing acquisition along the western seaboard of Ireland in the late nineteenth century
2022-11-16 16:00 - 17:30 | Online, via Zoom
University of Galway History Research Seminar
‘Clothing – whether home-made or bought?’: Non-elite clothing acquisition along the western seaboard of Ireland in the late nineteenth century
Dr Eliza McKee
(UK National Archives)

Abstract
The consumption of clothing among the lower classes in Ireland has been overlooked in existing historiography. This paper will shed light on the routine clothing consumption practices of the poorer classes along the western seaboard of Ireland. The paper draws on evidence from the Congested Districts Board baseline reports dating from the 1890s. The Congested Districts Board was established to find long-term solutions to rural poverty in the west of Ireland. Eighty-four congested districts were identified, and reports were compiled by inspectors to ascertain the socio-economic condition of the people in the districts and to inform improvement measures. The reports provide an insight into the clothing practices of the lower classes and the acquisition methods they used to obtain dress in the late nineteenth century. One question on the reports asked whether clothing was generally home-made or bought by residents, and other questions explored local industries. The answers reveal information on textile production and material knowledge. The paper will explore what the reports reveal on the county-by-county differences in clothing practice and the commercial and non-commercial acquisition methods utilised, as well as the internal county differences that existed between highland and lowland, rural and urban areas, coastal and inland, mainland or island areas of the counties. It will also explore how the lower classes used clothing supply networks, what the reports reveal about ideas of fashion, the sartorial aspirations of the poorer classes, and the differences that emerge according to age, gender and between everyday clothing and Sunday best dress.
Registration
This talk will be delivered online, via Zoom. Register here for the link: https://forms.office.com/r/cCTk5rr0V7
The seminar will also be livestreamed in Room 1001, Hardiman Research Building (Bridge Seminar Room).
This talk is part of the University of Galway History Research Seminar series.
Image: A child spinning and reeling wool, Donegal Highlands, c. 1890-1900. Robert John Welch (U.M., BELUM.Y.W.04.99.3)

Galway Book Launch: The Presidents' Letters. An Unexpected History of Ireland
2022-11-16 17:00 - 18:00 | online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
GALWAY BOOK LAUNCH AND SAMPLE EXHIBITION
Celebrating the paperback edition of Flor MacCarthy’s bestselling The Presidents’ Letters

Guest Speaker: Teresa Mannion, Senior News Journalist, RTÉ
Music: Niamh Ní Charra
A small exhibition of material from the Mary Robinson archive in the University of Galway, not yet available to the public, curated by archivist Niamh Ní Charra, will be on display for this special event.
Queries to: info@newisland.ie
REGISTRATION
Please register via Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-presidents-letter-paperback-edition-launch-galway-nov-16th-tickets-461718050117

Creative Futures Seminar in association with TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
2022-11-17 10:30 - 14:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
The Creative Futures Research Group in collaboration with the TULCA Festival of Visual Arts invites you to participate in a Creative Futures Seminar.
Drawing together academics and artists, this seminar explores how creative practitioners and thinkers can work together to prepare for future challenges, imagine future possibilities, and reflect on future forms of art-making, thinking, and living. The session draws together scholars from the University of Galway and Queen’s University Belfast, who will engage in discussion of three readings (details below). The seminar will be followed by a public event at 16.00 as part of the TULCA Festival of Visual Art, which will include a special improvised performance from the -ence collaborative project.
We will be discussing the following readings as part of the seminar:

Braun, Rebecca, ‘Literary Futures. How Fiction can Help Policy-Makers’, in: Routledge Handbook of Social Futures, ed. Carlos López Galviz and Emily Spiers (Routledge, 2021), pp. 189-197.
Grosz, Elizabeth, ‘Thinking the New: Of Futures Yet Unthought’, Symplokē6, no. 1/2 (1998): 38–55.
Grosz, Elizabeth, ‘Feminist Futures?’ Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature21, no. 1 (2002): 13–20.

Registration
We invite you to participate in the seminar by signing up via the link provided below. Spaces are limited and will be assigned on a first come first served basis. Registration is essential: https://forms.office.com/r/L13gQKytyU
We will be circulating more details in due course. In the meantime, if you have any questions please contact patrick.lonergan@universityofgalway.ie.

Invitation to participate in discussions/activities relating to Digital Humanities Research
2022-11-17 14:00 - 15:00 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
The Digital Humanities (DH) Research Group at the Moore Institute would like to invite anyone working on a DH-related project, or planning such projects, or who just have an interest in learning more about DH, to a meeting on Thursday 17 November 2–3pm in the Bridge Room (THB-1001, first floor of the Hardiman Research Building).
The purpose of the meeting is to welcome new faces and to organise activities to support the community during this academic year.
Agenda:
1) Welcome new people and projects
2) Starting a new DH seminar series
3) Identifying training needs
4) Identifying other needs in the community
5) AOB
We encourage anyone interested in joining the group to sign up to our new mailing list: send a blank e-mail to dh-galway+subscribe@googlegroups.com. (When you receive a response, send a blank reply to confirm your subscription.)
Enquiries to Pádraic Moran: padraic.moran@universityofgalway.ie
Pádraic Moran (SLLC) & Justin Tonra (SECA)

Book Launch: Irish Women in Religious Orders, 1530-1700 Suppression, Migration and Reintegration
2022-11-17 17:00 - 18:00 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Registration
If you would like to attend this event, please register via Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/book-launch-by-bronagh-ann-mcshane-tickets-433510651027
Dr Bronagh Ann McShane is a historian specialising in the history of women, religion and confessionalisation in early modern Ireland and Europe. Her research has been funded by the Irish Research Council, the National University of Ireland and the Royal Irish Academy. She has published widely in international peer-reviewed journals including, British Catholic History, Archivium Hibernicum and the Journal of Historical Network Research. She is co-editor (with Dr Frances Nolan) of the forthcoming special issue of Irish Historical Studies, ‘A new agenda for women’s and gender history in Ireland’ (Cambridge University Press, Nov. 2022). Her monograph, Irish Women in Religious Orders, 1530-1700: Suppression, Migration and Reintegration (published with Boydell and Brewer in October 2022), is the first comprehensive study of the lives and experiences of Irish women religious in the early modern period. She currently lectures at the Department of History, University of Limerick.
Follow Bronagh Ann McShane on Twitter: @BA_McShane
Contact: bronagh.mcshane@universityofgalway.ie

Decarbonising Research Methods Workshop
2022-11-18 09:00 - 14:00 | online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Event description
This half-day workshop event will bring together researchers and students in an interdisciplinary event that explores the carbon impact of our research methods and undertakings, and whether we can, as researchers and students, work towards decarbonizing our research methods.
From our own context in the University of Galway, our Climate Action and Sustainability Strategy (2021-2025) states that the university aims ‘to embed carbon management into all University operations and processes with a view to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 in line with global efforts to limit warming to 1.5˚C’. The urgency of this goal is underscored by the latest IPCC report which warns that the world has just three years before warming exceeds this 1.5˚C threshold.
As a central part of university operations and processes, research itself should also aim towards net-zero emissions. But how can this be done? During this workshop, researchers will have the opportunity to discuss the carbon management of their own research methodologies and advance ideas about how the research and studies undertaken in our institutes can be decarbonized. There will be options for streaming and online attendance for this event.
This workshop is co-hosted by the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, and the Irish Humanities Alliance.
Light refreshments will be provided on the day.
In order to provide further opportunity for discussion and outreach, a fully online workshop on decarbonizing research will take place at 2pm, 25th of November 2022, on Zoom. This event will provide an online platform to those who cannot attend in person and will also allow dialogue across Irish universities and further afield, as well as developing the conversations started during the in-person event. You do not have to attend both events but would be very welcome to do so.
Please note that places are limited for the in-person workshop, due to the capacity of the room. With this in mind, and in order to provide accurate numbers for catering, we kindly ask you to register for the in-person event using the form below. While you do not have to formally register for the Zoom workshop, you can also indicate your interest for this event on this form.
Registration form
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdsf5sEbl8DIellktzQJt5lfhZJe7HYjPZB11WFZaXjvWT_-w/viewform?usp=sf_link

Further information
Please contact l.nichoistealbha1@nuigalway.ie or a.cahillane1@nuigalway.ie for further information.
Ashley Cahillane
School of English and Creative Arts
Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha
Roinn na Gaeilge agus Roinn an Léinn Éireannaigh
