Web maps, data visualisation, and mapping with Neatline
2019-11-26 10:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Dublin) | The Moore Institute Seminar Room G010 Ground floor The Hardiman Research Building, Ireland
This session will introduce some key aspects of visualising your research data using web-based maps.
You will have the opportunity to get hands-on and follow along with a demonstration of how to create your own simple web-based map using an online service and an institutional version of Omeka/Neatline. There will also be a short overview of using JavaScript to create maps based on Open Source technology, for publication on the web.
Registration
Please register to attend via Eventbrite
Learning Objectives
After the workshop, participants should:

Know when and why to should use web-based maps for data visualisation;
Understand the conceptual and technological components of a web-based map;
Be able to use an online service to present data on a map of their own

Workshop facilitators and speakers
David Kelly is Digital Humanities Manager for the Moore Institute at NUI Galway. He works with individual researchers and research project teams engaged in DH projects. To date, this has included projects involving database development, text and data visualisation, social annotation, digital edition development and network analysis.
Cillian Joy works in the NUI Galway Library on Digital Publishing and Innovation. His primary focus is the digital library strategy and programme of work to enable digital scholarship. Key areas for Cillian are project management, solutions to deliver new digital initiatives, integration, and interoperability. Cillian has a primary degree in Experimental Physics and a Masters in Information Systems and Computer Science. In the past Cillian worked as a Project Manager, Principal Technical Specialist, and for Web development and hosting companies.

Are you a Digital Scholar?
Developing skills with digital technologies can be a challenge for researchers interested in digital and open scholarship.
To help, the Library, in partnership with the Moore Institute, presents a series of informal workshops to share practice-based expertise, know-how, and experience in technologies and methods, that will enhance your experience of newer forms of scholarship.
The series:

26 November 2019 – Web maps, data visualisation, and mapping with Neatline. David Kelly and Cillian Joy. G010, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00
17 December 2019 – Managing digital collections. Objects, metadata, ingestion, and access. Aisling Keane. G010, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00
14 January 2020 – Scanathon. Crowd-sourced digitisation. Aisling Keane. G011, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00
18 February 2020 – Online and digital identity for scholars. Blaneth McSharry & Grainne McGrath. G010, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00
10 March 2020 – Video production for scholars. Eileen Kennedy. G010, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00
14 April 2020 – Working with images in Python for research. Cillian Joy. G010, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00

Republic of Conscience: Human Rights and Modern Irish Poetry by Dr. Rióna Ní Fhrighil
2019-11-26 13:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room, Irish Centre for Human Rights
The triadic relationship between poetry, human rights and literary translation is at the heart of the research project Republic of Conscience: Human Rights and Modern Irish Poetry upon which this presentation is based. Cognisant that Percy Bysshe Shelley claimed that “poets were the unacknowledged legislators of the world”, this presentation will critically examine the relationship between poetry, human rights, and activism in an interconnected world. What is the role of the poet in times of great crises? To what extent, if at all, have Irish poets engaged critically with the concept of human rights itself? What is the relevance of the national paradigm in an era of global networks where information, capital, goods, and discourse transverse geographical and political borders? This presentation will also include a discussion of the opportunities inherent in, and the challenges posed by, interdisciplinary research of this type.
Dr. Rióna Ní Fhrighil is a lecturer in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the National University of Ireland, Galway. She has published extensively on twentieth-century Irish poetry and literary translation and is the author of Briathra, Béithe agus Banfhilí (2008), a monograph on the poetry of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Eavan Boland. She is co-editor of the peer-reviewed journal LÉANN and of a forthcoming special edition of the international journal Translation Studies titled Translation in Ireland: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Rióna was the principal Irish-language researcher on the AHRC-funded project, The Representation of Jews in Irish Literature. In 2018 she was awarded substantial research funding under the prestigious IRC Laureate Award scheme for her project Republic of Conscience: Human Rights and Modern Irish Poetry. She is also co-director of the interdisciplinary project Aistriú, funded by Galway 2020 as part its European Capital of Culture programme.
All welcome!
Website: www.nuigalway.ie/human_rights/
Twitter:https://twitter.com/IrishCentreHR
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/IrishHumanRights

'“Averred with Solemn Emotion’s Fire”: The Affective Contours of Finnegans Wake' by Dr. Frances McCormack, NUIG
2019-12-02 17:00 - 18:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Modernist Studies Ireland

Works in Progress
To see out this semester’s series of Works in Progress talks, please join us for a fascinating Christmas talk (avec gingerbread & wine) by NUI Galway’s own Frances McCormack. Frances’s paper will shine a light on one of the most critically neglected universals underpinning Joyce’s Finnegans Wake: emotional expression.

Abstract
The emotional turn in literature has much to contribute to Wakean scholarship. Joyce himself creates a rich tableau of affect in the work, depicting human feeling as not only a catalyst for much of the action—both historic and domestic—in the text, but also reiterating its truth value as lying beyond mere human experience. This paper will examine some of the ways in which emotions scholarship can elucidate the Wake, analysing conceptual metaphors and somatovisceral experiences of emotions. It will explore the ways in which the Wake both invites and resists such readings, explain which emotions dominate the text, and explain how that ought to shape our reading of the work as a whole. Concern with the affective contours of the Wake can help to shed light on some of the seemingly more inscrutable passages of the text, providing a point of entry for the reader through experiences that are depicted as ubiquitous. Emotion scholarship therefore functions as a way of mediating—in its negotiation of both sense and sensed—between audience and text.
Biography
Dr Frances McCormack is a lecturer in English at the National University of Ireland, Galway. A medievalist by training, she has published on Old and Middle English literature, Graham Greene, and literary animal studies. She is currently engaged in explorations of emotions in Old English poetry, and is working on a monograph on the nature of compunction in Old English. Her first monograph, Chaucer and the Culture of Dissent, was published in 2007. She was co-editor of Chaucer’s Poetry: Words, Authority, and Ethics, and of Anglo-Saxon Emotions: Reading the Heart in Old English Language, Literature, and Culture. She is a multi-award-winning teacher, and became obsessed with the Wake eight years before she tried to read it.

'Life and Labor in Hannah Arendt's Thought' by Prof. Peg Birmingham (De Paul University)
2019-12-03 16:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Peg Birmingham is a world renowned authority on the work of Hannah Arendt, while her interests also range widely in social and political philosophy, as well as feminist theory. She is the author of Deception, Violence and Law Renewing the Political (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017) Hannah Arendt and Human Rights (Indiana University Press, 2006) and co-editor (with Anna Yeatman) of Aporia of Rights: Explorations in Citizenship in the Era of Human Rights (Bloomsbury, 2014), and co-editor (with Philippe van Haute) of Dissensus Communis: Between Ethics and Politics (Koros 1995).

https://mooreinstitute.ie/research-group/values-identities/

Launch of two books edited by Dr. Deirdre Byrnes, German, NUIG
2019-12-05 17:30 - 18:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
You are warmly invited to the launch by Professor Ian Wallace of the volumes
German Reunification and the Legacy of GDR Literature and Culture

and
Perceptions and Perspectives: Exploring Connections between Ireland and the GDR
Both volumes were edited by Dr. Deirdre Byrnes (NUI Galway), Dr. Jean E. Conacher (UL) and Dr. Gisela Holfter (UL).
The launch will be followed by a reception.
Fáilte roimh chách.

EDEN's Lightning Presentation Session
2019-12-05 17:30 - 19:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
We would like to welcome all current postgraduate students to the final EDEN event of the semester: EDEN’s Lightning Presentation Session on Thursday 5th December in the Bridge Room – 1001 HRB.

The Lightning Presentations session is a chance for you to showcase your research, practice your presentation skills, and apply the tips and hints from gained throughout the year –all in five minutes!

You can present on any aspect of your work in any way you would like–as long as it is five minutes or less! Attendance is open and all are encouraged to join, so this is a great chance to share your research with a wider audience and network with your peers.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us directly or at eden.nuigalway@gmail.com.

The deadline to register to present is Tuesday, December 3rd by 5pm. Please express any technical needs at this time as well.

Below are some additional guidelines for the presentations.

We look forward to seeing all the great work currently being undertaken!

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EDEN Lightning Presentations
Overview:

5 minutes MAX (You will be timed, you will be cut off)
You may present on any aspect of your research in any way that you would like
Panels of 3 presentations will be followed by 10 minutes of Q&A
This is a chance to share your work with a wider audience and to learn about research being conducted in and across disciplines
Attendance is open and staff from all disciplines are welcomed!
At the end of the session we will announce a winner for best presentation!

Tips and Hints

Practice your pitch and time yourself!
Be reasonable—think about how much you can get into 5 minutes and stick to that.
Prioritise—we know your research is a precious, complicated and multi-faceted snowflake, but what are they key points that you need to get across to a general audience?
Be focused—maybe you can’t cover your whole topic in one case study, but you can highlight your methodology or one aspect of your research.
Use any visual aids wisely.

Registration for participation closes at 5 pm on Tuesday 3rd December. Notification for any AV or technical needs must be expressed by this time!
Feel free to invite your supervisor, friends or family!
As per usual, we expect to adjourn to a local hostelry for post presentation pints. All Welcome.

Imagining Ireland's Pasts: agendas, tensions, and challenges in young Ireland circles by Nicholas Canny, Emeritus Professor of History
2019-12-10 12:00 - 13:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Hosted by the Retired Staff Association Lecture Series.
All welcome.

Immersive Empathy Workshop
2019-12-11 09:00 - 2019-12-13 13:00 | Moore Institute, Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway, Galway
Important Update: This workshop has been rescheduled to December 11th – 13th. It was originally scheduled from September 4th – 6th.

Immersive Empathy: Exploring the impact of immersive environments in the context of homelessness and precarious housing
We are interested in exploring the use of Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality immersive experiences with community groups engaged with homelessness or precarious housing in the Western Region. We will focus on the impact of such experiences on empathy levels amongst participants from the general population.
The workshop will challenge participants to work in small, interdisciplinary groups to consider specific projects that address challenges around precarious housing. The involvement of community groups with hands-on understanding of the problem domain will position the lived experiences of those affected by precarious housing at the heart of the research process.
We are seeking expressions of interest to participate from interested parties with backgrounds including human-computer interaction (HCI), computer science, psychology, geography, digital humanities and media studies, as well as VR filmmakers, artists, theatre makers, technologists, and representatives of relevant community groups. Please register your interest by completing this online form.
Background
In Ireland’s West Region, since 2014, an unprecedented increase of 81% in the number of adults identified as homeless has taken place. A steep rise also appears in the number of families affected by the current housing situation, with a jump of 176% in the number of families accessing emergency accommodation over the same period.
The aim of the project is to explore the use of Virtual or Augmented Reality immersive experiences with community groups engaged with homelessness or precarious housing. There will be a focus on considering the impact of such immersive experiences on empathy levels amongst participants from the general population.
Workshop Structure

Domain speakers. There will be contributions from researchers and practitioners in the areas of homelessness, immersive environments, and empathy or attitude evaluation. The objective is to give an overview of each area, and to provoke thought about the interdisciplinary approaches that can be brought to it.
Participant experiences. To help develop understanding between participants, and to identify areas of shared interest, each will make a contribution discussing the challenge domain, and ways to address it, when viewed through the lens of their discipline. This phase will include community organisations to avoid the notion of “imposed” solutions.
Small-Group Collaboration. Participants will work in small groups to identify project ideas, and to develop these into potential projects over the course of the workshop. Outputs from this phase may be project proposals, storyboards, paper- or working prototypes, or implemented pilot projects. Groups will present their work for discussion and feedback at the mid-way point, and at the end of the workshop. This will enable shared learning among all participants, while giving individual groups the opportunity to explore a single project idea more deeply.
Funding Proposal Development. [optional half-day on September, 6th] Participants will have the opportunity to move from a project development mode to thinking about how their project idea may be scaled up to form one or more larger research projects. The objective of this phase is to identify potential partners, funding sources, and structured work packages that will enable project delivery. Staff from NUI Galway’s Research Office will be in attendance to offer participants advice on the development of project proposals.

Initiative Overview
This workshop is funded by the Irish Research Council’s “Creative Connections” interdisciplinary research programme. The consortium responsible for organising the workshop include:
Mark Campbell (Pocket Anatomy); Celine Curtin (Head of Centre for the Creative Arts & Media, GMIT); Gavin Duffy (RealSim); Mairéad Hogan (Lecturer in Information Systems, NUIG); Dr Conn Holohan (Lecturer in Film Studies, NUIG); David Kelly (Digital Humanities Manager, Moore Institute, NUIG); Denise McDonagh (Digital Programme Manager, Galway 2020); Dr Kathy Reilly (Lecturer in Geography, NUIG); Dr Charlotte Silke (Postdoctoral Researcher, UNESCO Child & Family Research Centre, NUIG); Karen Young (Lecturer in IT, NUIG).
Interested in Participating?
We are seeking expressions of interest to participate from interested parties with backgrounds including human-computer interaction (HCI), computer science, psychology, geography, digital humanities and media studies, as well as VR filmmakers, artists, theatre makers, technologists, and representatives of relevant community groups. Please register your interest by completing this online form.
Questions
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact David Kelly (david.d.kelly@nuigalway.ie) at the Moore Institute, NUI Galway.

Digital Scholar Workshop
2020-01-14 10:00 - 13:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Using our recently acquired ScanTent, (developed as part of the READ project, for more information, see https://scantent.eu/en/ ), and our trustee SLR cameras, this event will see participants divided into teams. The event will be a race to see which piece of equipment copes better with rapid digitisation, with lighting, clarity, processing speed, and image quality for the web weighted as the measures of success.
There will also be spot prizes for rapid fire rounds of digitisation, finding a gremlin in the collection of archives you are working on, and more besides!
In the workshop, we will work together to digitise and publish a collection of archives for the web. The output will be a crowd-sourced piece of work that opens up a collection of archives to the wider world for research and consultation.
Learning objectives and output

Preparing archival documents for digitisation
Adjusting position, and assessing lighting requirements for digitisation
Organising and storing images
Output – a collection of archives published and available online

Workshop facilitators and speaker
Aisling Keane is the Digital Archivist at NUI Galway, and works as part of the Library’s Digital Publishing and Innovation Team to manage digital collections and promote digital scholarship. She is a professional archivist with an academic background in the Humanities. Prior to working in NUI Galway, she worked in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and in Met Eireann.
Are you a Digital Scholar?
Developing skills with digital technologies can be a challenge for researchers interested in digital and open scholarship.
To help, the Library, in partnership with the Moore Institute, presents a series of informal workshops to share practice-based expertise, know-how, and experience in technologies and methods, that will enhance your experience of newer forms of scholarship.
The series
26 November 2019 – Web maps, data visualisation, and mapping with Neatline. David Kelly and Cillian Joy. G010, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00
17 December 2019 – Managing digital collections. Objects, metadata, ingestion, and access. Aisling Keane. G010, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00
14 January 2020 – Scanathon. Crowd-sourced digitisation. Aisling Keane. G011, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00
18 February 2020 – Online and digital identity for scholars. Blaneth McSharry & Grainne McGrath. G010, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00
10 March 2020 – Video production for scholars. Eileen Kennedy. G010, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00
14 April 2020 – Working with images in Python for research. Cillian Joy. G010, Hardiman building, 10:00-13:00

Exhibition Launch - 'Readers & Reputations: The Reception & Circulation of Early Modern Women's Writing, 1550-1700' RECIRC
2020-01-16 05:00 - 18:00 | Foyer the Hardiman Research Building, Ireland

CAMPS: Medievalism and Modern Nationalism
2020-01-17 12:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Facilitated by Francisco Rozano-Garcia, Frances McCormack and Jenni Scanlan.
A light lunch will be provided.
All welcome.

History Research Seminar Series: Boycottism” in Ireland and America: Popular action as political thought.
2020-01-22 16:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
This seminar will be given by Dr. Andrew Phemister who is an IRC postdoctoral fellow based in the Moore Institute. Andrew completed a PhD at the University of Edinburgh and works primarily on nineteenth-century political thought, particularly in Ireland, Britain and the U.S. He has previously written on the Land War and is currently working on a project about the development and impact of boycotting.

NUIG/Galway 2020 Open Meeting
2020-01-23 12:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
In support of NUI Galway’s role as Official Legacy Partner of Galway 2020, NUI Galway has set up a Steering Group, chaired by Professor Dan Carey, to co-ordinate the University’s extensive internal programme of activities to mark the European Capital of Culture year. Working across multiple strands, its purpose is to develop a cultural legacy that will have a lasting impact on Galway’s creative arts sector and the university.
To discuss the activities being led by NUI Galway during 2020 and beyond, we would like to invite you to an Open Meeting on Thursday, January 23, 2020 @ 12 noon in Room G010, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building. This meeting is an opportunity to describe the range of activities supported by the university in this context, to meet staff from Galway 2020 with whom we are collaborating, and to raise any questions you may have about how to engage with Galway 2020.
The meeting will include a number of 5 minute presentations from staff within NUI Galway and Galway 2020 with an opportunity for questions and answers at the end. The meeting will also include a presentation from Marilyn Gaughan-Reddan, Head of Programme at Galway 2020, who will update staff on the cultural programme and give an insight into plans for the official launch event on February 8th.
Those interested in attending are asked to register for the event by Tuesday, January 21, 2020.

A light lunch and refreshments will be provided.

History Research Seminar Series: Humanitarian Aid in a Hostile Environment: A comparative exploration of Médecins Sans Frontières and Oxfam’s operations in the post-Khmer Rouge Cambodian crisis'
2020-01-24 08:00 - 17:00
Maria Cullen is in the second year of a PhD under the supervision of Dr. Kevin O’Sullivan. She has been awarded a Galway Doctoral Scholarship and an NUI Travelling Studentship. Her thesis compares French and British NGOs and their work in authoritan regimes in the Global South from decolonisation to the end of the Cold War.
All welcome.

History Research Seminar Series: 'Humanitarian Aid in a Hostile Environment: A comparative exploration of Médecins Sans Frontières and Oxfam’s operations in the post-Khmer Rouge Cambodian crisis'
2020-01-29 16:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Maria Cullen is in the second year of a PhD under the supervision of Dr. Kevin O’Sullivan. She has been awarded a Galway Doctoral Scholarship and an NUI Travelling Studentship. Her thesis compares French and British NGOs and their work in authoritan regimes in the Global South from decolonisation to the end of the Cold War. The paper she is giving on Wednesday is entitled: ‘Humanitarian Aid in a Hostile Environment: A comparative exploration of Médecins Sans Frontières and Oxfam’s operations in the post-Khmer Rouge Cambodian crisis’
All welcome.

CreateHER: Women in the Performing Arts: Amplifying Social Discourse through Theatre
2020-01-30 15:00 - 17:00 | Studio 1, O’Donoghue Centre
Pictured above: The cast of The Kinds of Sex You Might Have In College
Join panelists Dr. Charlotte McIvor, Marianne Ní Chinnéide, Sorcha Keane, and Rachel Parry in conversation about how the performing arts can impact social change.
For more information and to reserve a space, please click here.

CAMPS: Socio-Legal Status of Minorities within the English Lands in Medieval Ireland by Stephen Hewer
2020-01-31 12:00 - 14:00 | Hardiman Research Building Room G011, Ireland
More info to follow …

Launch of Strategy for the Humanities in Ireland - "By Imagination We Live"
2020-01-31 12:30 - 13:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The strategy, prepared by the Irish Humanities Alliance, is based on extensive consultation with academics and researchers at all levels in the country, north and south.
Prof. Pól Ó Dochartaigh (registrar and deputy president) will launch the strategy. The chair, vice-chair and director of the IHA will be attending.
Please join us to celebrate the Humanities and the contribution we make collectively to Irish academic and cultural life.

Launch of 6 Books in Classics - School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.
2020-01-31 16:30 - 17:30 | Hardiman Research Building Room G011, Ireland
This book launch and reception, marking the completion of 6 books within Classics during 2018/19, will include an address by Prof. John Carey (UCC).
The books are:
J., Amrae Coluimb Chille: a Critical Edition (Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2019)
Clarke, M., Achilles Beside Gilgamesh: Mortality and Wisdom in Early Epic Poetry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019)
Herring, E., Patterns in the Production of Apulian Red-Figure Pottery (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018)
Herring, E. & O’Donoghue, E (eds.), The Archaeology of Death. Proceedings of the Seventh Conference of Italian Archaeology (Oxford: Archaeopress Archaeology, 2018)
Moran, P., De Origine Scoticae Linguae (O’Mulconry’s Glossary): An early Irish linguistic tract, edited with a related glossary, Irsan (Turnhout: Brepols, 2019)
Stray, C., Clarke, M., and Katz, J. (eds.), Liddell and Scott: The History, Methodology and Languages of the World’s Leading Lexicon of Ancient Greek (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019)
All welcome!

History Research Seminar Series: “Irishwomen in late nineteenth-century Russia: Three transnational lives”
2020-02-05 16:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Dr. Angela Byrne is Research Associate at Ulster University. She specializes in the histories of migration, travel and exploration, and women’s history. She is author of Geographies of the Romantic North: Science, Antiquarianism, and Travel, 1790–1830 (Palgrave, 2013) and A Scientific, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour: John (Fiott) Lee in Ireland, England and Wales, 1806–07 (Hakluyt Society, 2018). Her paper at the History Research Seminar draws on a monograph she is currently writing on Irish encounters with Russia from 1690 to 1917 and is entitled “Irishwomen in late nineteenth-century Russia: Three transnational lives”.

Book Launch: 'A University in Living Memory' by Jackie Uí Chionna
2020-02-05 17:30 - 19:30 | Ground Floor, Aula Maxima
This book tells the story of University College Galway from 1930 to 1980, through the reminiscences of dozens of people who were there. Interviews were conducted with everyone from College Presidents to grounds staff, from students who began their college lives in the 1930s to the post-free-education student activists of the 1970s.
It is a portrait of a University that changed considerably over time, but retains the affection of those who have been associated with it over many decades.
The book will be launched by Dr Iognaid Ó Muircheartaigh, President Emeritus of NUI Galway with Professor Dan Carey, Director of the Moore Institute for the Humanities and Social Studies at NUI Galway and Professor of English in the School of Humanities and Jackie Uí Chionna, Editor.
Click here to RSVP by Monday, February 3rd

Irish Research Network in Childhood Bilingualism and Multilingualism Symposium
2020-02-06 11:30 - 16:30 | Hardiman Research Building Room G011, Ireland
This symposium is organised by network members Dr. Stanislava Antonijevic and Dr. Cassie Smith-Christmas.
The day will feature a number of talks related to multilingualism in Ireland, with a special focus on children’s multilingual development and language use in the school and the home.
This will be followed by the launch of the Centre for Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism (CALM), with Professor Helen Grech’s talk at 17.00 to mark the launch.
Attached you will find the programme. This event is free but we ask that if you wish to attend the Irish Research Network in Childhood Bilingualism and Multilingualism Symposium, you fill out the short registration form by January 31st, 2020 at the latest.

Launch of Centre for Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism(CALM)
2020-02-06 17:00 - 19:00 | Hardiman Research Building Room G011, Ireland
We are delighted to invite you to the launch of the Centre for Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism (CALM), a new research cluster based in the Moore Institute. CALM will provide a platform for interdisciplinary research in the areas of applied linguistics and multilingualism and will increase awareness of issues related to language learning, language processing and multilingualism within NUI Galway and the wider community.
CALM will be launched by the President Prof. Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh at 5pm on Thursday 6th February in seminar room G011 in the Moore Institute. This will be followed by an inaugural lecture by Prof. Helen Grech of the University of Malta who will speak on her work on speech and language therapy and bilingualism in Malta. The launch of CALM will be preceded by a day-long meeting of the Irish Research Network in Childhood Bilingualism and Multilingualism in the same venue: https://childbilingualismresearch.com/network-meetings/february-2020-meeting/
For further information please contact CALM co-directors Laura McLoughlin (laura.mcloughlin@nuigalway.ie) or John Walsh (john.walsh@nuigalway.ie).
For more information see www.nuigalway.ie/calm

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Values and Identities Seminar: 'Freedom as a Discourse Concept and its Implications for Free Societies'.
2020-02-10 15:00 - 16:00 | Tom Duddy Seminar Room, Philosophy Department Morrisroe House, Distillery Road
Oliver Milne, PhD candidate in Philosophy, NUI, Galway, will present a paper, ‘Freedom as a Discourse Concept and its Implications for Free Societies’, as part of the Values and Identities seminar series.
ALL WELCOME
Abstract: Freedom as a Discourse Concept and its Implications for Free Societies
In this talk, I make the case that the concept ‘freedom’ constantly evolves as part of an ongoing discourse (in Foucault’s sense) centred around the key question of democratic politics: ‘How best can we treat one another as free and equal individuals?’ This fact about the idea of freedom, I claim, is not incidental to it, but is a fundamental consideration for societies that would call themselves ‘free’.
After briefly defending the idea of the ‘key question’ (leaning on Anderson, 1999) I use examples from the history of feminism (Evans and Chamberlain, 2015; Mann and Huffman, 2005) to make plain the ubiquitous causes of the idea’s evolution, including both factors endogenous to the discourse (today’s discursive strategies are built on or react against yesterday’s, and tomorrow’s will do the same with today’s) and exogenous to it (social and technological changes continually force the core question of freedom to be asked in new contexts). Building on those examples, I argue that, regardless of whether the discourse has a theoretical endpoint, we are unlikely to ever be in a position to know that we’ve reached it, mandating an attitude of humility regarding the timeless perfection of our present conceptions of freedom. I also pay particular attention to Jacques Rancière’s characterisation of ‘the political’ as (to put it as crudely as possible) the renegotiation of the franchise by the excluded (Rancière, 2001), arguing that his claim can be read as saying that all the crucial action happens in wrangling over the scope of ‘we’ in the key question. My characterisation of the discourse of freedom, I suggest, is an illuminating extension of his concept of ‘politics’.
From there, I turn to the question of what it means for a society to be free in light of freedom’s evolving, discursive nature. My answer is that a free society is not merely a society that happens to embody present ideas of freedom, but one robustly capable of both sustaining the discourse of freedom and putting its changing products into practice. As a concrete example of this position’s distinctive character, I outline the way it recasts the social role of the academic humanities: they are, on this view, laboratories of freedom, in which new steps in the discourse are devised and assessed. Present attacks on these departments in Hungary, Poland, and elsewhere, I argue, only serve to emphasise how significant this role is.
References
Anderson, E.S., 1999. What is the Point of Equality? Ethics 109, 287–337.
Evans, E., Chamberlain, P., 2015. Critical Waves: Exploring Feminist Identity, Discourse and Praxis in Western Feminism. Social Movement Studies 14, 396–409. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2014.964199
Foucault, M., 1972. The Archaeology of Knowledge, World of Man: A Library of Theory and Research in the Human Sciences. Tavistock Publications Limited, Great Britain.
Mann, S.A., Huffman, D.J., 2005. The Decentering of Second Wave Feminism and the Rise of the Third Wave. Science & Society 69, 56–91.
Rancière, J., 2001. Ten Theses on Politics. Theory & Event 5.
Values & Identities

Retired Staff Association Lecture Series: 'Attitudes to Retirement/extending working life for US and Irish Academics'
2020-02-11 12:00 - 13:00 | Seminar Room G010
by Dr. Áine Ní Léime, Irish Centre for Social Gerentology, NUI Galway.
All welcome.

History Research Seminar Series: “Liberty from Empire? The Irish and the Hispanic Atlantic during the Age of Revolutions”
2020-02-12 16:00 - 18:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
This seminar will be given by José Brownrigg-Gleeson. José is an IRC Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at the Moore Institute and History Dept. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Salamanca (Spain) and previously worked at the University of Notre Dame’s Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies (USA) and at the University of Winchester (UK). He is currently working on a monograph examining the role of Latin America in the development of Irish perceptions of imperialism, decolonization and modernity during the Age of Revolutions (1776–1848). His paper draws on this project and is entitled “Liberty from Empire? The Irish and the Hispanic Atlantic during the Age of Revolutions”.
Book Launch: Prof. Niamh Reilly will launch The Legacy of the Irish Parliamentary Party in Independent Ireland, 1922-1949 (Liverpool University Press, 2019) by Martin O’Donoghue immediately after the seminar.

Martin O’Donoghue is Lecturer in Irish and British History at the University of Northumbria. He graduated with a PhD in History from NUI Galway in 2016 funded by scholarships from the Irish Research Council and the College of Arts. He subsequently held positions at the National Library of Ireland and the University of Limerick. Martin’s research examines the dynamics of political activism in modern Ireland, the relationship with British rule, key developments in the Irish revolution, and the memory of Irish Party leaders in politics and culture. Prof. Niamh Reilly, established professor of Political Science and Sociology at NUI Galway, will launch his book, The Legacy of the Irish Parliamentary Party in Independent Ireland, 1922-1949 (Liverpool University Press, 2019).

Book Launch: Raymond Queneau's Dubliners: Bewildered by Excess of Love by Jim Gosling
2020-02-12 17:00 - 18:00 | Hardiman Research Building Room G011, Ireland
You are cordially invited to the launch of a new book by Jim Gosling, Raymond Queneau’s Dubliners: Bewildered by Excess of Love. The book is a study of two comic-erotic novels by Queneau set in Ireland, drawing on Joycean influences.
Jim is emeritus professor of biochemistry and former Director of Quality at NUI Galway.
Prof. Adrian Frazier will launch the book.
There will be a display of relevant books collected by Jim as he worked on the project and some pertinent items from the Hardiman catalogue, curated by Barry Houlihan.
Refreshments served!

Book Launch: Prof. Niamh Reilly will launch 'The Legacy of the Irish Parliamentary Party in Independent Ireland, 1922-1949' by Martin O'Donoghue
2020-02-12 17:30 - 18:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Martin O’Donoghue is Lecturer in Irish and British History at the University of Northumbria. He graduated with a PhD in History from NUI Galway in 2016 funded by scholarships from the Irish Research Council and the College of Arts. He subsequently held positions at the National Library of Ireland and the University of Limerick. Martin’s research examines the dynamics of political activism in modern Ireland, the relationship with British rule, key developments in the Irish revolution, and the memory of Irish Party leaders in politics and culture. Prof. Niamh Reilly, established professor of Political Science and Sociology at NUI Galway, will launch his book, The Legacy of the Irish Parliamentary Party in Independent Ireland, 1922-1949 (Liverpool University Press, 2019).

Pop Up Event: Irish General Election
2020-02-13 14:00 - 15:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The following panelists will discuss the outcome of this transformative vote.
Panelists:
Dr. Eoin Daly (School of Law)
Prof. Kate Kenny (School of Business)
Prof. Niall Ó Dochartaigh (School of Political Science & Sociology)

CAMPS: Medieval Notions of Æsthetics: Beauty, Truth and Climactic Symmetry in the Moral Fables of Robert Hennyson
2020-02-14 12:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
by Dermot Burns.
More info to follow …
