REMEMBERING JOHN DOHERTY TRAVELLER TINSMITH AND FIDDLER Chair: Daniel Carey, Director, Moore Institute Travellers in Time Expanding the Past Breandán Mac Suibhne, University of Galway John Doherty’s Music Floating Bows and Moving Clouds Alun Evans Queen’s University of Belfast Alun Evans is an epidemiologist and the former director of the Centre for... | Read on »
"Translation amid Uncertainty: Online Activist Subtitling of Counter-ISIS Stories" Abstract: In our contemporary world, different moments of uncertainty are created out of conflicts, revolutions or crises, eliminating our conventional sense of territory. Though these moments are full of hardships and sufferings, they carry with them off-line and on-line innovative cultural productions that contest oppressive... | Read on »
University of Galway History Seminar Dr Patrick Walsh (Trinity College Dublin) Bogs and Barracks: Stringy Sovereignty and the Eighteenth-Century Irish State Abstract Beginning in a bog in west Cork this paper is about the fragmented processes of colonial state formation in eighteenth-century Ireland. The story I want to tell is told from the fragmented... | Read on »
BOOK LAUNCH White Cottage, White House Irish American Masculinities in Classical Hollywood Cinema By Tony Tracy Speaker: Dr Conn Holohan Description White Cottage, White House examines how Classical Hollywood cinema developed and deployed Irish American masculinities to negotiate, consolidate, and reinforce hegemonic whiteness in midcentury America. Largely confined to discriminatory stereotypes during the silent era, Irish... | Read on »
Dr Elizabeth Redwine, “Actresses and the Archive" Moore Institute and Drama and Theatre Studies The words of actresses and performers change the way we read and discuss theatre history in Global Irish Studies. Dr. Elizabeth Brewer Redwine will examine how Sara Allgood's Memoirs caused her to reassess authorship and performance both at the Abbey Theatre and in American midcentury... | Read on »
Embedding equality, diversity and inclusion in research in CASSCS – Moore Institute seminar You are reminded that a seminar on equality, diversity and inclusion in research will be hosted by the Moore Institute on Friday 3rd March 2023 from 11.00am to 1.00pm in room G011, Hardiman Research Building. This event is aligned with our strategic... | Read on »
Tionólfar an tríú léacht sa tsraith seo, ar an Aoine, 3 Márta @ 12:30 i.n. i Seomra an Droichid THB-1001, An Chéad Urlár, Institiúid de Móra, Áras Uí Argadáin, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe agus ar Zoom. Ó Dhóchas go hÉadóchas: An Cogadh Cathartha in Éirinn, 1922-1923 An Dr Mary Harris, Iar-léachtóir Sinsearach, Roinn na Staire, Ollscoil... | Read on »
COMHRÁ COIS COIRIBE / CORRIB CONVERSATIONS After Windsor Constitutional Futures of these Islands Fáilte / Welcome Daniel Carey Director, Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies University of Galway Cathaoirleach / Chair Róisín Healy Co-Director, Centre for the Investigation of Transnational Encounters University of Galway Brexit and the Death... | Read on »
Magic Mists and Recent Irish Poetry a lecture by Lucy McDiarmid (Marie Frazee-Baldassarre Professor of English, Montclair State University) Visiting Research Fellow at Trinity Long Room Hub In recent Irish poetry, streets disappear, cats and pigs talk, mummies board trains, ferns create a semiotic system, and a dead man reads Anna Karenina. The rich legacy of the... | Read on »
Tionólfar an ceathrú léacht sa tsraith seo, ar an Aoine, 10 Márta @ 12:30 i.n. i Seomra an Droichid THB-1001, An Chéad Urlár, Institiúid de Móra, Áras Uí Argadáin, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe agus ar Zoom. 'An Chruit agus na Cruitirí sa tseanaimsir in Éirinn: blogh dá scéal' An tOllamh Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha, Roinn na Gaeilge, Ollscoil na... | Read on »
Moore Institute Pop up Event The Irish at the Oscars: a discussion of The Banshees of Inisherin and An Cailín Ciúin with Dr Tony Tracy (Huston School of Film & Digital Media, University of Galway) Seán Breathnach (Léann na Cumarsáide, Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge, University of Galway), award-winning director of Foscadh
Book Launch The Moore Institute, University of Galway cordially invites you to celebrate the launch of: A Conceptual History of Psychology The Mind Through Time by Brian Hughes (London: Bloomsbury) With launch introduction (via Zoom) by Prof Krys Kaniasty Indiana University of Pennsylvania From the cover: A Conceptual History of Psychology charts the... | Read on »
Staff and students are warmly invited to attend the next gathering of the Figuring Ecologies Reading Network (FERN). We meet each month to discuss a literary or creative work on the subject of ecologies. Next Meeting: Wednesday 15 March 2023, Bridge Room, Moore Institute, 13.00-14.00 We will discuss The Poetry of Derek Mahon and Moya... | Read on »
Dr Lisa Godson (National College of Art and Design, Dublin) Irish Architects in Africa: Tropicalism in the Built Environment and its Legacy Abstract This paper focuses on the phenomenon of Irish architects who produced work that was built in different African countries including Kenya, Sierra Leone, Uganda and Nigeria from c.1948-78. It draws in... | Read on »
The School of Political Science and Sociology invite you to a research seminar with: Mary Clancy (Global Women’s Studies Research Cluster) 'Researching the Public Life of Alice Cashel (1878-1958): Themes, Sources and Questions' Abstract: This talk examines the fractured public life of Alice Cashel, a woman known for her political roles in early twentieth... | Read on »
Marilynn Richtarik (Georgia State University) “Getting to Good Friday: Literature and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland” Biography: Dr. Richtarik teaches courses on 20th-century British, Irish, and world literature and modern drama. She was educated at Harvard (where she earned an undergraduate honors degree in American History and Literature) and at Oxford University, which she... | Read on »
"On Collaboration, Mediation and Performance Practices" Dr. Esther Armstrong Programme Director for Performance Design and Technologies Wimbledon College of Arts, University of the Arts London
The UrbanLab is hosting two public Speak Outs later this month that invite citizens to give short presentations on local development issues. The Speak Outs ask how we can make Galway and the wider region a better place. The Galway City Speak Out is on Wednesday, 22 March at 7.30 pm at the Druid Theatre. The... | Read on »
Digital Innovation & Creativity in Arts and Humanities Research Sessions Lightning Talks: Current Directions in Digital Innovation & Creativity in AHSS Research Panel Discussion: "The future of digital innovation & creative technologies in AHSS research at University of Galway" 1:30 Words of welcome Prof. Dan Carey 1:40 Lightning... | Read on »
Join us for the launch of the exhibition Gerald Dawe: Cultural Belongings. The career of the prolific poet, essayist, and memoirist Gerald Dawe has led him from his origins in Belfast to graduate work in Galway and a lecturing post here, and subsequent move to Dublin where he taught at TCD. He is author of... | Read on »
Fráma Eile: An tOileánach / The Islander by Tomás Ó Criomhthain Description: The Fráma Eile roundtable series, organized by PhD students in the Centre for Irish Studies and Roinn na Gaeilge, explores new approaches to framing established texts (in both English and Irish), material objects, and artwork in the Irish Studies canon. The first roundtable... | Read on »
The School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies Spring Lunchtime Lecture Series 2023 Thursday, 2 March Dr Kevin Lynch Can sand dunes survive climate change? Thursday, 9 March Conor Newman The bull with the sun on its forehead Thursday, 16 March Dr Kieran O’Conor Recent research at Moygara Castle, Co. Sligo Thursday, 23 March Dr... | Read on »
The School of Political Science and Sociology invite you to a research seminar with: Michele Crepaz (Queen’s University Belfast) Supported by the Power, Conflict and Ideologies Research Cluster ‘Spoiled for choice: The effects of negative political messaging in multiparty systems with multimember electoral districts’ Abstract: Classical electoral behaviour theories associate the use of negative campaigning... | Read on »
Re-mapping Landscapes One-day symposium celebrating the life and legacy of Tim Robinson Architecture at the Edge presents a one-day symposium on the occasion of the exhibition Interpreting Landscapes; Tim Robinson and the west of Ireland/Rianú Talún: Tim Robinson agus Iarthar na hÉireann (curated by Nessa Cronin and Jane Conroy), which celebrates the immense contribution that Tim... | Read on »
CAMPS Lab Transnational Transformations of English Drama Dr Maria Shmygol (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, Moore Institute, University of Galway) Dr Maria Shmygol (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, Moore Institute, University of Galway) will be presenting on 'Transnational Transformations of English Drama: Tito Andronico (1620) and the Early Modern German Shakespeare Edition Project' This paper examines seventeenth-century German adaptations of English... | Read on »
Creative Futures at the University of Galway and the Futures Thinking Forum invite you to participate in Harnessing the Arts for Futures Thinking and Planning Incorporating new tools and methods for thinking about and planning for different possible futures is increasingly a key feature of work across a variety of sectors in Ireland, including the... | Read on »
Irish writers have long been at the forefront of formal experimentation in English-language fiction. Now, a hundred years after James Joyce and Samuel Beckett shattered expectations of the conventional novel, Irish writers are asking new questions about what fiction is capable of doing. Their works represent remarkable innovations in the representation of subjectivity, identity, and... | Read on »
University of Galway History Seminar Semester 2, 2022-23 Seminars convene at 4.00pm in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, and will be broadcast simultaneously via Zoom, unless otherwise state All are welcome to attend. Presentations will run for approximately 35-40 minutes, followed by time for discussion. For details on how to register for the Zoom link,... | Read on »
Professor Enrico Dal Lago (University of Galway) Empires, Workers, and Saints: 'Progressive Imperialism’, Working Class Radicalism, and the Rise of New Millennial Cults in the 1870s Abstract This paper argues that, by the late 1860s-early 1870s, the previously widespread Euro-American worldview that had combined the cause of nation-building with the cause of progress had... | Read on »
Inbetween Worlds: Fashioning Bodies in the Metaverse Prof. Yvonne Förster (Shanxi University Taiyuan, China and Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany) Yvonne Förster works in philosophy of fashion and technology. She reflects on the influence of digital technology on fashion design and the way bodies/identities are constructed and deconstructed in the interplay of virtual and material dimensions.... | Read on »
'Frankfurt School: Passion, Profanation, Apocalypse' Symposium This one-day symposium will consider the legacy of the Frankfurt School, marking the centenary of the establishment of the Institute for Social Research (Institut für Sozialforschung). The contributors will explore the contemporary relevance of the passions and aspirations of the Frankfurt School scholars. This event is free to attend... | Read on »
