Irish Studies Seminar Series, in association with the Moore Institute, NUI Galway.

Anna Falkenau (Freyer-Hardiman Scholar, Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway), “‘Hotspots’ for Revival Sessions”: Micro and macro flows in the emergence and development of Galway City into an urban centre of Irish traditional music-making.

Join us for our first Spring Seminar in Irish Studies with NUI Galway doctoral scholar Anna Falkenau who will speak on her current research on the relationship between urban spaces and traditional Irish music-making in Galway. We are delighted to have An tOllamh Lillis Ó Laoire (Gaeilge, OÉ Gaillmh) join us as well in the zoom room afterwards, as a respondent to this session, chaired by Dr Nessa Cronin (Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway). For further information please contact: [email protected]

About the Speaker

A recipient of a Freyer-Hardiman scholarship from NUI Galway, Anna Falkenau is currently conducting doctoral research at the Centre for Irish Studies on local and global flows in the development of Irish traditional music in Galway City between 1961 and 1981. She previously received her Master of Arts in Music from Wesleyan University, Connecticut, USA (2004) and graduated from University College Cork (BMus, 2002). She is a contributor to the forthcoming book Hardiman and after: Galway Culture and Society, 1820-2020 with a core chapter entitled, “‘It was in the Air’: Irish Traditional Music in Galway, 1960-1979,” edited by John Cunningham and Ciaran McDonagh.

Details: https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/webinar-anna-falkenau-hotspots-for-revival-sessions-irish-studies-seminar-series/ . This session took place on 18th March, 2021

In this seminar, Dr Francesca Nicora of NUI Galway will join CALM Co-Director Dr John Walsh to discuss the prosodic features of speech in the context of teaching and learning foreign languages, particularly regarding the role of intonation and its relevance in speech communication. She will also present the overarching conceptual framework underpinning the teaching of foreign language prosody, including current models of intonational analysis, second language theories as well as didactic methods and approaches.

This webinar is hosted by the Moore Institute.

Find more information on CALM (Centre for Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism) at http://www.nuigalway.ie/calm/

The Huston School of Film & Digital Media series on media careers continues next week with a Q&A with director Neasa Hardiman. Neasa is a BAFTA winning film and television director whose credits include Happy Valley, Jessica Jones and Casualty. She has directed series for BBC, Netflix and Amazon as well as feature films such as Sea Fever (2019). Neasa will be discussing her career in film and television and the experience of directing big-budget high-profile television series such as the Marvel series Jessica Jones and Inhumans.

Nessa is in conversation with Conn Holohan, and the session was recorded on 16th March, 2021

Hosted by Moore Institute Director Dan Carey, this webinar explores the topic of Capitals of Culture: how can universities engage in practice-based arts research and teaching? What are the challenges for Capitals of Culture amidst a global pandemic? Is what we want of cities changed forever? What role do culture and the arts play in the development of local, pan-European, and international networks of solidarity?  

Panellists  

Chair: Daniel Carey, Moore Institute  

The webinar also serves as a launch for the University Network of European Capitals of Culture Spring online edition "European Capitals of Culture: The Art of Reimagining" (https://mooreinstitute.ie/uneecc-march-2021/) edited by Patrick Lonergan and Catherine Morris. This online journal takes the place of the conference that would have happened in Galway in 2020.

Three leading commentators on European trade, diplomacy, and Northern Ireland will analyse the Agreement signed by the EU and UK in December. Who came out on top in the negotiations and how will the Agreement affect the future of Ireland – North and South – the UK and EU?

Panellists

Chairs: Prof. Daniel Carey and Prof. Niall Ó Dochartaigh

Sponsored by the Moore Institute in association with the MA in Public Policy at NUI Galway. Further details from: https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/win-lose-or-draw-assessing-the-eu-uk-trade-agreement/