COTEC & ENOTHE 2016

 

First joint congress of the COTEC & ENOTHE 2016

(Council of Occupational Therapists for European Countries &
European Network of Occupational Therapy in Higher Education)

NUI Galway,

Galway, Ireland
June 2016

The Discipline of Occupational Therapy at NUI Galway is delighted to welcome Occupational Therapists from Europe and from further afield to the first COTEC-ENOTHE joint congress which will be held in NUI Galway in June 2016.

COTEC-ENOTHE2016 will explore a variety of issues in Occupational Therapy. The specific themes will be confirmed nearer the time of the conference but will include aspects of research in Occupational Therapy. Undergraduate and Postgraduate Education in Occupational Therapy and various contemporary issues in Occupational Therapy

NUI Galway’s 260 acre campus will host the event and is an ideal location for conferences. Picturesque grounds, state of the art meeting facilities, excellent accommodation, a choice of restaurants and recreational amenities add to the attractiveness of the venue.

For delegates who wish to combine attendance at the conference with a short holiday in Ireland, a number of pre- and post-event tours will be offered in conjunction with local Tour Companies. Partner programmes will also be offered for the companions of delegates.

The conference will emphasise value for delegates, with subsidised rates for students and participants from developing countries.

The provisional conference outline is as follows:
Day 1 :
Arrival and registration at hotels
Transfer to Welcome Reception

Day 2 :
Morning: Registration
Official Opening – invited dignitary
Plenary session – Keynote speaker(s)
Tea and Coffee break
Parallel sessions
Afternoon: Lunch
Parallel sessions
Evening: Conference Gala Dinner and Céilí,

Day 3 :
Morning: Plenary session – Keynote speakers
Tea and Coffee break
Workshops and Symposia Sessions
Lunch
Afternoon: Workshops & Symposia
Evening: Evening event

Day 4 :
Morning: Keynote speaker
Parallel sessions
Tea / Coffee
Symposia / Workshops
Lunch
Afternoon: Exhibition / site visits
Evening: Reception

Day 5 :
Morning: Final workshops
12 noon: Closing session

The Humanities are good for you

History at Galway

We’ve known it was true all along. But since we’re historians, it’s always good to dig up some evidence to prove it. Last week’s edition of the Times Higher Education magazine distills the findings of a recently published report by the University of Oxford into the careers pursued by its humanities graduates (Humanities Graduates and the British Economy: The Hidden Impact). The results are simple, but striking:

Oxford has tracked the fortunes of around 11,000 alumni who joined the university between 1960 and 1989 and concludes that they have played a growing role in emerging UK industrial sectors, particularly finance and law …

Shearer West, head of humanities at Oxford, said that there was a worrying belief among the public that students should take only vocational subjects at university and that humanities degrees would not lead to high salaries.

“I get very concerned when I see pupils in schools…

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Fishamble: The New Play Company presents

 

Guaranteed! (on an Irish venue tour!) 

A stripped back production of a new play by Colin Murphy, directed by Conall Morrison

A dramatisation based on documentary sources about the bank guarantee

On the night of September 29, 2008, the Taoiseach and Minister for Finance decided to guarantee Ireland’s banks – to the tune of €440 billion. 

Guaranteed! tells the story of that night, and how they got there.

Written by journalist and documentary-maker Colin Murphy, and based on official documents and off-the-record interviews, Guaranteed! reconstructs Ireland’s banking boom and bust – as it was seen from inside the corridors of power.

An ensemble of actors plays a myriad of ministers, bankers and bureaucrats as they wrestle with the unfolding crisis.

You will come away informed, enraged and perhaps a little heart-broken.

We have stripped back our assets for a recession-friendly, bare-bones presentation where we will hold on to our scripts, while you can hold on to your wallets.

‘Tired of waiting for a parliamentary inquiry, the Irish public this week flocked to seeGuaranteed! in search of answers’ Financial Times

‘Excellent cast…remarkable…an outstanding debut’ Sunday Times

‘Cleverly crafted farce makes us laugh til it hurts…deft and deeply intelligent script is a superbly researched and cleverly shaped reconstruction…It is, in the proper sense, a national event, a piece of theatre that performs a real public service…the arts community has the guts to do what the political system has failed to do’ Fintan O’Toole, Culture Shock, Irish Times

‘brilliant…a gripping production…It has dramatic momentum and a nuanced script, which is extremely well researched’  Dan O’Brien, Economics Editor, Irish Times

‘a very important play, a very fine treatment of a complex topic…Colin Murphy has served us all very well…I think people should come and view it. It’s very, very good.” President Michael D Higgins

 ‘I really enjoyed the play…great pace and excitement’ Patrick Honohan, Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland

Fishamble: The New Play Company is funded by the Arts Council and Dublin City Council. Its international touring is supported by Culture Ireland.

Ancient and Medieval History and Culture

A unique course to Ireland
Voice : Dr. Hazel Dodge ( Archaeology)

1025 Advanced Screening Of “Planes”!

Going Serial, Part II: If You Break It, They Will Come

The Postgraduate Hispanic Studies Conference of EIre and the UK 2013

The Postgraduate Hispanic Studies Conference of Ireland and the UK 2013 will take place in the Moore Institute on the 28^th and 29^th of June. The plenary speakers are Professor Bill Richardson, Head of the Spanish Department at NUI Galway, who will give a lecture entitled: “The Path Not Taken: Borges, Labyrinths, and the Location of Translation”; Dr. Chris Harris from the University of Liverpool who will deliver a talk on “Latin American Literature and Feminist Theory: Do Men and Masculinities Matter?”; and Clare Murphy who will speak on ‘Storytelling in South America’.

Dr. Mel Boland of the Spanish Department in NUI, Galway will also be launching his recent publication, Displacement in Isabel Allende’s Fiction, 1982-2000 (Hispanic Studies: Culture and Ideas) during the conference on Friday, 28 June 2013 in The Moore Institute.

For further information about the conference you may refer to the following Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/events/202983149775588/, or alternatively: http://hispanic-conference.com

 

 

Postgraduate Hispanic Studies Conference of Ireland and the UK, 2013 Programme

Day 1: Friday, 28 June, 2013

Time	Event	Location
08.30-09.15	Registration	Moore Institute Seminar Room
9.15-9.30	Conference Opening by Dr. Lillis O Laoire and Dr. Lorna Shaughnessy	Moore Institute Seminar Room
9.30-10.30	Plenary: Prof. Bill Richardson(NUI Galway)   Title: ‘The Path Not Taken: Borges, Labyrinths, and the Location of Translation’	Moore institute Seminar Room   Introduced by Dr. Lorna Shaughnessy
10.30-10.45	Tea/Coffee break	Moore Institute Seminar Room
10.45-11.45	Panel 1: Translations   Owen Harrington Fernández (NUI Galway) Title: ‘Indexing Identity in Translation: Character Idiolect and Sociolect in the Spanish Translation of John Updike’s ‘Rabbit Redux’’   Dr. Patricia Holmes (NUI Galway) Title: ‘César Aira: innovation and experimentation in process and narrative’	Moore Institute Seminar Room   Chair: Begoña Sangrador-Vegas
11.45-12.00	Tea/Coffee break	Moore Institute Seminar Room
12.00.13.30	Panel 2: Spanish Historiography   Mark McKinty (Queens’ University Belfast) Title: ‘Origen y progresos: Nicolás Fernández de Moratín’sCarta histórica as the start of the modern bullfighting debate’   Francis Kelly (University College Cork) Title: ‘Tales of a Knight Errant or Universal Soldier of Golden Age Spain?’   Antonio Rojas (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Title: ‘The Spanish Golden Age, Baroque and Góngora’	Moore Institute Seminar Room   Chair: Ivan Kenny
13.30-15.00	Lunch	An Bhialann
15.00-16.00	Plenary: Clare Muireann Murphy   Title: ‘Storytelling y cuentos; the power of words’	Moore Institute Seminar Room   Chair: Dr. Kate Quinn
16.15-16.30	Tea/ Coffee break	Moore Institute Seminar Room
16.30-17.30	Panel 3: The Arts of Storytelling   Kate Dunn (University of Edinburgh) Title: ‘How can the Poem Testify? Speaking and the Unspeaking in Alicia Partnoy’sVenganza de la manzana’   Diletta Panero (NUI Galway) Title: ‘Generational Storytelling in Chilean Narrative: Isabel Allende and Marta Blanco’	Moore Institute Seminar Room   Chair: Dr. Niamh McNamara
18.00-19.00	Book Launch Dr Mel Boland of NUI Galway will launchDisplacement in Isabel Allende’s Fiction, 1982-2000 (Hispanic Studies: Culture and Ideas) (2013)	Moore Institute Seminar Room   Introduced by Dr. Chris Harris

 

The conference dinner will take place at 20.00 in Viña Mara, 19 Middle St, Galway.

 

 

 

Day 2: Saturday, 29 June, 2013

Time	Event	Location
9.30-10.30	Panel 1: Southern Cone Narratives   Dr. David Conlon (NUI Galway) Title: ‘The Trauma of Nature inZama by Antonio Di Benedetto’   Céire Broderick (NUI Galway) ‘Negotiating the Fragments in Gustavo Frías’ Tres nombres para Catalina: la doña de Campofrío’	Moore Institute Seminar Room   Chair: Jennie Galvin
10.30-10.45	Tea/Coffee break	Moore Institute Seminar Room
10.45-12.15	Panel 2: Analysing Spanish Visual Media   Mirna Vohnsen (University College Dublin) Title: ‘The Metamorphis of the Jewish Character in Argentine Cinema’   Ivan Kenny (NUI Galway) Title: ‘Images of Entropy in The Exterminating Angel by LuisBuñuel’   Ruth Miriam Cereceda Gaton (BISC Queen’s University) Title: ‘Marinero en tierra: análisis de la cultura marinera del norte de España en la obra y la persona del pintor Eduardo Sanz fraile’	Moore Institute Seminar Room   Chair: Diletta Panero
12.15-12.30	Tea/Coffee break	Moore Institute Seminar Room
12.30-13.30	Panel 3: Historical Memory and Contemporary Spain   Imogen Bloomfield (University of Hull) Title: ‘Spain’s (Un)Dead Children: A Haunting Presence in Historical Memory’   Aisling O’Connor (University of Limerick) Title: ‘A postgenerational perspective on Republican women and Spain’s stolen babies: Benjamín Prado’s Mala gente que camina (2006)’	Moore Institute Seminar Room   Chair: Owen Harrington-Fernández
13.30-15.00	Lunch	37 West
15.00-16.00	Plenary: Dr. Chris Harris (University of Liverpool)   Title: ‘Latin American Literature and Feminist Theory: Do Men and Masculinities Matter?’	Moore Institute Seminar Room   Chair: Prof. Bill Richardson
16.00-16.15	Tea/Coffee break	Moore Institute Seminar Room
16.15-17.45	Panel 4: Representations of Violence, Gender Roles and Drug trafficking in Popular Culture in Mexico and the Borderlands   Dr. Niamh McNamara (University College Cork) Title: ‘Drugs, Violence and Ambiguity: Breaking Bad on the U.S. – Mexico border’   Jennie Galvin (NUI Galway) Title: ‘El Movimiento Alterado: narrating a world of gender hierarchies, drugs and violence’   Dr. Yolanda Reyes (University College Dublin) Title: ‘Hypermasculinity, Violence and the re-enacted “Macho” in XXI Century Mexican Cinema’	Moore Institute Seminar Room   Chair: Céire Broderick
17.45-18.30	Round table discussion and conference close	Moore Institute Seminar Room

Patrick Lonergan appointed as first ever Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies.

 

NUI Galway has appointed Professor Patrick Lonergan as its first ever Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies. Professor Lonergan’s appointment strengthens NUI Galway’s reputation as a national hub for the study of theatre. His focus will be on developing new courses, building new research resources, and partnering with theatre companies.

Speaking upon his appointment Professor Lonergan stated that “It is a great honour to have been named NUI Galway’s first Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies. I look forward to working with colleagues in the University and the wider community, as we develop new courses, forge new partnerships with theatre-makers, and make sure that NUI Galway is recognised as a world leading centre for the study of Irish theatre.”

NUI Galway offers a very successful BA in Drama, Theatre and Performance, as well as a Performing Arts degree, and a new part-time MA in Drama and Theatre Studies is currently enrolling for September 2013.

As part of its educational offering, the University this year again partnered with the Galway Arts Festival. One element of the partnership was to offer six NUI Galway students the opportunity to be part of the SELECTED programme. This unique internship with an all-areas backstage pass to the festival gave the students an intensive two-week immersion in festival organisation. The selected students attended shows, liaised with performers and directors, and also had the privileged access to visiting international Festival Directors.

NUI Galway also maintains a partnership with Druid Theatre – which saw the University act as one of the co-producers of the multi-award winning DruidMurphy show last year. That partnership is growing all the time, with members of Druid running workshops for students, in acting, directing, set design and theatre marketing, among other things.

NUI Galway will also be transforming our knowledge of Irish theatre through projects like the digitisation of the archive of the Abbey Theatre. When added to the University’s already extensive theatre archives, this resource will provide access to hundreds of scripts and videos of Irish plays – much of it never seen before.

Speaking about these developments, Professor Lonergan commented: “We have achieved an enormous amount in the area of Drama and Theatre Studies at NUI Galway already. Our aim now is to build on those achievements, so that students and researchers from Ireland and abroad will recognise that NUI Galway is the best place in the world to study Irish drama.”

Patrick Lonergan was born in Dublin in 1974, and graduated from University College Dublin with an MA in 1998. He completed a PhD at NUI Galway in 2004, and has been a member of staff in the Discipline of English since that time.

He has written widely about Irish theatre for publications such as The Irish Times and Irish Theatre Magazine. His first book, Theatre and Globalization: Irish Drama in the Celtic Tiger won the 2008 Theatre Book Prize, a prestigious international award whose previous winners include the Guardian critic Michael Billington, the theatre director Peter Brook, and Columbia University Professor James Shapiro. More recently he has published The Theatre and Films of Martin McDonagh with Bloomsbury in London.

He is also very active in the Irish theatre community. He runs the annual JM Synge Summer School in County Wicklow, is a former Theatre Assessor for the Irish Arts Council, and is a Board Member of Irish Theatre Magazine and Baboró International Arts Festival for Children.

He has won several research awards, and is currently completing a project on Theatre Performance and Globalization, which is being funded by the Irish Research Council. He serves on the boards of several major international journals (including Contemporary Theatre Review and Irish University Review), is a Vice President of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures, and is active in many other international organizations.

MA in American History University College Dublin

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The Idea of America(Semester 1)
Professor Maurice J Bric
America is many things to many people and fixing the “idea” (referring to the mental representation
and conception of America and, more particularly, the United States) in a historical moment of time
can seem problematic. The module aims to introduce students to the formation and development of
ways people have conceived of America. The module consists of a weekly two-hour seminar
structured around both the positive and negative aspects of a particular historical idea of America,
including the United States and Canada. This is not a narrative module and neither is it confined to
purely American ideas – the global perspective is also explored. This module offers a historical
understanding of the key ideas of America, the debates surrounding them and the way they have
developed and changed over time.
The Making of United States Foreign Policy from FDR to GWB (Semester 2)
Dr Sandra Scanlon
is module uses a range of source materials to explore the making of United States foreign policy
from the Roosevelt to the Bush administrations. Students will consider the various inuences on
presidential foreign policymaking, including ideology, public opinion and relationships with allies.
Domestic constraints on presidential policymaking inuenced the grand strategies pursued by
administrations from Franklin Roosevelt’s attempts to overcome Congressional isolationism during
the 1930s to George W. Bush’s eorts to sell the Iraq War to a reluctant public in 2002-3. Case studies
are used to explore the relationship between domestic political considerations and foreign policy, for
example American responses to the Holocaust are examined to determine the extent of their
inuence on President Truman’s decision to recognise Israel in 1948. While the role of lobby groups
and ideological political action committees expanded over this period, the emergence of television
news and the Internet changed the ways in which the public learned of international events; each
altered the context in which the president could create and ‘sell’ his foreign policies.
In addition to these two core courses, students take one option (either in Semester I or in Semester 2)
from the wide variety of courses available in the School. These options include a course from the Mary
Ball Washington Professor of American History. The holder of this chair changes from year to year.
He/she will also be available to students for advice on dissertations.
continued overleafIn addition to the above academic modules, students will also take research training.
is training focuses on those skills required by research students to develop their work and
introduce students to dierent types of methodologies and archives. Of great importance is the
seminar itself which allows students to present their ideas, to structure an argument, and to have
these challenged. In this way, we encourage a variety of skills which can be used in ways other than
research.
e culmination of the programme is a 15,000 word dissertation which is based on original research
and due at the end of July. Each student will be supervised by a member of the School who will meet
with him/her to assess progress and to discuss the project. ere is also an opportunity to present
aspects of their work to their peers.
Who does this MA?
e underlying objective of this MA is not only to provide upper-level students with a sense of how
the United States has evolved but more particularly to allow them to explore in greater detail areas
in which they have a special interest. As such, both the overarching core courses and the more
detailed optional modules allow the student to realise both a particular and a general knowledge of
the United States within the conceptual framework of “how America is perceived”.
In more general terms, this MA will give students a keener and more informed knowledge of politics
and society in the United States and how they impact on the world at large. We receive students
from diverse backgrounds and our students return to many backgrounds. Some of course decide to
pursue further study and we gave such students every encouragement to do so.

Dr Louis de Paor

Dr Louis de Paor, Director Centre for Irish Studies, NUIG

Having graduated with First Class Honours in Irish and Léann Dúchais (Irish and Cognate Studies) at UCC, Louis de Paor completed his doctoral research on narrative technique in the short fiction of Máirtín Ó Cadhain under the supervision of Seán Ó Tuama and was awarded a PhD by the National University of Ireland in 1986 for his thesis, Teicníocht agus aigneolaíocht san insint liteartha; anailís ar mhúnlaí teicníochta agus ar mhúnlaí tuisceana i dteanga na hinste i ngearrscéalta Mháirtín Uí Chadhain. He spent time as a lecturer in Irish at UCC and Thomond College, Limerick, before moving to Australia in 1987, where he worked in local and ethnic radio in Melbourne and taught evening classes in Irish language and literature at Melbourne University and the Melbourne Council for Adult Education. He was Visiting Professor of Celtic Studies at Sydney University in 1993 and Visiting Fellow in 1992. He returned to Ireland in 1996 and worked as proof editor of the Irish language newspaper Foinse before being appointed Director of the Centre for Irish Studies at NUI Galway in 2000.

His published works include a monograph on the work of Máirtín Ó Cadhain, Faoin mblaoisc bheag sin: an aigneolaíocht i scéalta Mháirtín Uí Chadhain (1991) , an anthology of twentieth-century poetry in Irish, Coiscéim na haoise seo (1991) , co-edited with Seán Ó Tuama, a bilingual edition of the selected poems of Máire Mhac an tSaoi, An paróiste míorúilteach/The miraculous parish (2011) and a critical edition of the selected poems of Liam S Gógan, Míorúilt an chleite chaoin (2012).

He was Jefferson Smurfit Distinguished Fellow at the University of St Louis-Missouri in 2002 and received the Charles Fanning medal from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 2009.