MEDIA AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Contributor to Nationwide programme on RTÉ 1 television, Wednesday November 24th 2010 regarding my research on the Gaelic Athletic Association Dr Sean Crosson and its depiction in film and involvement in the production of the DVD GAA Gold: All Ireland Final Highlights: 1948-1959 Contributor to Muide Éire, a documentary series and feature documentary focusing on the history of film in Ireland produced Huston School of Film by Underground Films & Odyssey Media with funding from TG4, the Irish Film Board and the Irish Arts Council. To be broadcast on & Digital Media TG4 from December 2010. Contributor to forthcoming documentary A Boatload of Wild Irishmen, to be broadcast on TG4, on film director Robert Flaherty. Premièred as An tÉireannach Fáin / The Wandering Irishman (2010) at the Galway Film Fleadh, 2010 Contributor to “Culture Shock” show on Newtalk radio, Thursday August 5th, 2010. Contributor to ‘The Last Word’ on Today Fm regarding short films discovered as part of research and featured at Kilkenny Arts Festival 2010, Thursday August 5th, 2010. Contributor to RTÉ 1 Six One and Nine O’Clock main evening News on short films discovered as part of research and featured at the Kilkenny Arts Festival 2010, Monday August 2nd, 2010.

Contributor to Beat 102-103 on short films discovered as part of research and featured at Kilkenny Arts Festival 2010, on Thursday July 29, 2010.and Sunday August 8th 2010. Contributor to Fios Feasa show, Raidió na Life, on New Irish language MA in Film Studies module, Scéalta Scáileáin na Gaeilge, Tuesday, January 12, 2010. Contributor to The Tubridy Show, RTÉ, Radio1, on film in the West of Ireland, Wednesday November 11th, 2009. Contributor to Nuacht TG4 on filmmaker John Huston on Friday October 23rd, 2009. Contributor to ‘The Lake Effect’ programme on WUWM, Milwaukee Public Radio, Wisconsin, USA, on Wednesday August 12th 2009. Contributed to the ‘Off the Ball’ programme on Newstalk Radio, broadcast on Tuesday April 28th 2009. Contributed to the ‘The Right Hook’ programme on Newstalk Radio, broadcast on Friday April 24th 2009. Contributed to the programme entitled ‘The Colour Of Sport’ as part of the ‘Sport Matters’ series on Setanta Sports Ireland, broadcast first on Tuesday April 14 2009. January-March 2009 and November-January 2009/2010, Contributor to 10-part documentary series, “GAA@125 Bliain”, broadcast on TG4. Apart from contributions to TV and radio, my research has also been the subject of articles and/or reviews in , The The Sunday Times, The Sunday Business Post, The Irish Examiner, The Mayo News, The Kilkenny People, The California Chronicle, IrishCentral.com, The Irish World, The Anglo-Celt and local Galway papers, The and The Galway Independent.

Lectures and Visiting Positions 09-Aug-10 ‘“Ireland’s Athletic Assault and Battery”?: Hollywood and Hurling’, Presentation delivered to the Kilkenny Arts Festival 2010. “I know it’s just football, but it’s important to us”: British Sports Cinema and the Football Film, 28-May-10 Institute for English and American Studies, University of Vienna. “Cinema & Ireland: Exploring the Dominant Representations and their Influence”, Department of English and 21-Nov-09 North American Studies, Institute of Arts and Human Sciences, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal. ‘“Shillalah Swing Time”: Researching Gaelic Games and Film’, Department of Media Studies, Mary Immaculate College, 18-Nov-09 University of Limerick. “‘Rural Backwardness or a marked proclivity for violence’?: Representing Ireland in Cinema”, NUI Galway Film Seminar 07-Oct-09 hosted by the NUI London Club, Irish Club, London. Guest Lecturer, Irish Fest Summer School, Milwaukee, USA. As part of the Irish Fest Summer school I taught the short course, ‘“The Given Note”: Traditional Music and Irish Poetry” and also gave a number of lectures on this topic, as well as my current research 10 - 16 Aug- 09 topic on ‘Film and Gaelic games’ during Milwaukee Irish Fest, one of the largest Irish festivals in the world. 15-Jul-09 “The GAA and the Movies”, The 61st UCD International Summer School, University College, . 10 - 14 Mar - 09 Visiting Lecturer, Dalarna University, Sweden. 19-Feb-09 “The Given Note: Irish Literature, Music and Song”, Coole Park Spring Programme. (In Irish) "Gaol ársa agus saibhir: ceol, na hamhráin agus nuafhilíocht na hÉireann", Cumann Merriman, 09-Feb-09 Scoil Gheimhridh 2009: Rachainn go Gaillimh - le filí agus le fonnadóirí.

Conferences and Symposia Co-Convenor, “Representing Sport: Europe, Tradition and Modernity” International Symposium, 02 -03 Jun - 09 Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI, Galway.

Convenor, “Scéalta Scáileáin na Gaeilge: Cíoradh agus Caibidil ar léiriú na Gaeilge sa Scannánaíocht” Symposium. In preparation for the new module, “Scéalta Scáileáin na Gaeilge” offered in the 2009-2010 academic year, I convened this day long symposium, 27-Mar-09 conducted through the medium of Irish, in which papers were presented on aspects of film and television in the Irish language. Co-Convenor, “Representing Sport: Evolving Identities in Europe”, International Symposium, 05 -06 Dec 08 Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI, Galway. Co-Convenor, “Representing Sport: Forms and Issues” International Conference, Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI, 23 - 24 May 08 Galway. Dr Muireann Ó Cinnéide and Fiona Bateman ENGLISH 24 - 26 June -10 Education and Empire - 6th Conference on Colonialism.

Dr Rod Stoneman Huston School of Film and Digital Media Guest lectures on Chávez: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised in 2009: Universita di Roma Tre, John Cabot University in Rome; Tunis Documentary Festival; ‘Ways with Words' literary festival in Totnes, England. Lecture tour in the United States in October 2009 combined academic departments in universities and public venues: Georgetown University, Latin American Studies Dept, Blue Stockings bookstore, Manhattan, City University of New York Graduate Center. Lower Mills Branch Library, Boston, Community Church of Boston / Irish Immigration Network, Eckerd College, St Petersburg, Latin American Studies Department, University of South Florida, University of Tampa Film School, University of Sarasota, School of Theatre, Film and Television, University of California Los Angeles, The Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theatre, Fairfax, Los Angeles, Henry Miller Library, Big Sur, University of the Pacific, Stockton, Artists' Television Access, San Francisco.

Guest Speaker, ‘The Role of Chance in Film', University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 2009. Plenary Speaker, ‘The Theory of Film Practice: 30 Years Later', Theory That Matters, University of Lodz, Poland 2010.

Beyond Borders, MEDIA International training programme, Djerba, Tunisia, June 2010 http://www.beyondborders-training.net/ Guest Speaker, ‘From Casablanca to Avatar’, Colloque Les ‘Cinémas du Magreb’ et leurs publics dans un context arabo- africain: conception, perception, reception, Journées Cinématographiques de Carthage, Tunis, November 2010. ‘Film / Making / Thinking’, Symposium at Huston School, May 2010 Summer School in Cinema, Human Rights and Advocacy, August 2010 http://www.chra.ie/

Dr Felix Ó Murchadha 10 Theses on Violence, Invited lecture, Metaphysical Society, Trinity College Dublin (March 2009) Philosophy Phenomenology and Skepticism invited lecture Manchester Metropolitan University (November 2009) Phenomenology and Skepticism presented at Irish Philosophical Society annual conference (March 2010) Phenomenology and Skepticism presented at the Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy conference (October 2010) Aporia, Doubt and the Phenomenological Epoché invited Lecture Fordham University (New York) (November 2010) Reponse to Tom Kiefer: Facing Life and Death: Heidegger and the philosophical importance of death and birth, Postgraduate Symposium, Fordham University (New York) (November 2010)

Irish Philosophical Society Conference Conferences http://www.nuigalway.ie/philosophy/documents/ips_programme.pdf Dr John Cunningham History 12 Dec -10 Galway Archaeological and Historical Society - ‘Unlikely radicals’: Irish secondary teachers and the ASTI, 1909-2009. Public Lectures 11 Nov - 10 Old Galway Society - Galway in 1824 Womens History Association of Ireland, Liberty Hall, Dublin - “Wreckage to be Cast Adrift?” Women secondary teachers & the 24-Oct-10 ASTI, 1909-1990 28-Sep-09 Irish Labour History Society, Mansion House, Dublin - The Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland: a century of endeavour 04-Sep-09 Riotous Assemblies' Conference, Mary I, Limerick - Recovering the freight of the Julia: conflict on a Conamara island 01-Sep-09 Irish Rural Studies Symposium - Teagasc, Athenry - Herdsmen in 19th century Ireland 24-Aug-09 Galway Civic Trust Heritage Week - The wreck of the Julia, 1973: social conflict and tragedy in Conamara Group for Study of Historical Settlement in Ireland, Annual Conference, Portumna - ‘Servants of some responsibility’: the herdsmen of East Galway 10-May-09 / Roscommon 14-Feb-09 Irish Labour History Society, Irish Socialist Lives Conference - Lord Wallscourt, 1797-1849 Conference In February 2009, under the joint auspices of the School of Humanities (History) and the Irish Labour History Society, organised a two-day conference on labour biography, entitled ‘Irish Socialist Lives’, held at venues in NUI Galway and Galway city. The event attracted capacity attendances from the region, as well as from the island of Ireland and abroad. ‘A century of independent spirit from the ASTI’, Irish Times, 24 April 2009 ‘James M Pringle: trade union pioneer and printer at the Tribune’, essay in centenary supplement of Connacht Tribune, 22 May 2009 Interviewed for TV programme, ‘Who do you think you are?’, broadcast 14 September 2009 ‘We are the gentle angry teachers,’ Union Post (ICTU), November 2009. ‘Teacher Unity,’ ASTIR, vol. 28, no. 1, January 2010. Interviewed for radio programme ‘Inside Education,’ Dublin City FM, broadcast 28 February 2010 ‘Claddagh, 1847-1849’, essay in brochure for Edith Pieperhoff art exhibition, Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith, London, July- August 2010 Prof Steve Ellis Contributed to a TV series on Stair na Criostaiochta early 2009 History Radio broadcast on Henry VIII, September 2010 'Recent trends in the historiography of early modern Ireland', History Seminar and Irish Studies Forum, University of California at Berkeley, USA, March 2009 'Building the state in Tudor Ireland', conference on Korruptionsforschung, Technische Universitaet, Darmstadt, Germany, March 2009 'Region and frontier in the English far north, 1296-1603', the Norwegian Institute, Athens, Greece, April 2009 The transition from late medieval to early modern', Medieval and Early Modern History Seminars, Trinity College Dublin, May 2009 'War and peace in early Tudor Northumberland', North-east England Historical Institute, Newcastle, UK, June 2010 'Region and frontier in the English Pale: Meath 1460-1542', Medieval History SEminar, Trinity College Dublin, October 2010 `Regions and frontiers: the English Pale in Ireland, 1495-1603', Clioh World conference, University of Oulu, Finland, June 2010 `Regional and states in Europe, 1500 to the present: an introduction', ESF Workshop, University of the West of England, Bristol, September 2010 (joint paper with Dr. Raingard Esser, UWE)

Conference Sep -10 ESF Workshop in September 2010 in UWE Bristol, jointly organized with Dr. Raingard Esser Dr Daniel Carey Scientific Instructions for Travellers, 8-9 October 2010, National University of Ireland, Galway. English Europe and India in the Early Modern Period, 3-4 June 2010, Newman House, UCD, and Henry Jones Conference Room, TCD. Conferences Gender and Renaissance Writing, Irish Renaissance Seminar, 8 May 2010, National University of Ireland, Galway. The Art of Travel: Early Modern Theory, Advice, and Critique 9-10 October 2009, Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway Ms Bernadette 2009/10: Co-hosted International Conference at NUI, Galway, on the Future of Journalism. Speakers included Denis O’Brien, of O'Sullivan Independent News and Media, Professor Roy Greenslade, Media Editor of the Guardian and Professor of Journalism at City University, London, as well as Niall O’Dowd of the Irish Voice and Ireland Central. Other participants and speakers included high profile correspondents and journalists and media owners and employers from Ireland’s national and regional press. The event received huge national coverage in both the print and broadcast media. Journalism A 2009/10 Graduate of MA in Journalism has recently won a twelve month Editorial Internship at the Irish Times. Over 60 applicants from all over the island were interviewed for two internships at the Irish Times. The internships were put in place to bring new blood and new ideas into the newspaper, at a time when the print media is experiencing a major fall-off in young readers. Cian Nihill also completed his undergraduate studies at the College of Arts...etc at NUI, Galway. Have given comments to the local media on all of the above along with comments on recent Guest Speakers on the Programme: Dave Marash, high profile US Journalist; Prof John Horgan, Press Ombudsman whose recent Lecture at the Moore Institute attracted an attendance of around 60 students and staff. There were follow-on articles on the Guest Lecture by Susan O’Keefe, who broke the revelations about corruption in the beef industry in Ireland in the 90s. This Lecture also have a large attendance. Dr Róisín Healy Nov - 09 Forum on the Fall of the Berlin Wall, German Department, NUI, Galway - Presentation: “History of the Berlin Wall” History History Teachers’ Association Annual Conference, Sligo - Lecture to Secondary School Teachers: “Resources for the Teaching of Oct - 09 Nazi Germany” Jun-09 Rob Dennis, Beyond the Wall Films, Galway - Interview for documentary, “Beyond the Wall” Feb-09 Flirt FM, student radio station, NUI, Galway - Interview about prospective visit of David Irving to NUI, Galway Jan - Feb 09 Raidió na Gaeltachta, Galway - Interviews about film “Valkyrie” Dr Richard Hull May - 10 Projected disability and parental responsibilities, Royal Institute of Philosophy lecture, Keele University Procurement, storage and transfer of gametes for non-clinical research purposes: legal and ethical issues, Tiss.EU workshop, Dublin City Philosophy University. Jul-10 Re-thinking the category of ‘the disabled’, Joint session of the Mind Association and the Aristotelian Society, Dublin Aug-10 Re-thinking the category of ‘the disabled’, IAB World Congress, Singapore Dr Enrico Dal Lago Slave Systems: Ancient and Modern: International Conference in the Moore Institute, then Centre for the Study of Human Settlement and History Historical Change, National University of Ireland, Galway, 26th-28th November 2004. More than 35 contributors from Canada, USA, Brazil, Cuba, UK, Germany, Ireland, Italy, and Greece participated. Many of the papers presented at the conference have been published in two major edited collections: 1) Enrico Dal Lago and Constantina Katsari, eds., _Slave Systems: Ancient and Modern_ (Cambridge University Press, 2008), and 2) Constantina Katsari and Enrico Dal Lago, eds., _From Captivity to Freedom: Themes in Ancient and Modern Slavery_ (University Press of Leicester, 2008).

An tOllamh Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha Old and Middle Irish & Celtic Studies Conference on the medieval Irish work "Aislinge Meic Conglinne' in the Moore Institute, NUIG 12 - 13 Sept 08 Was one of three contributors (along with Prof John Waddell and Dr Joe Fenwick of the Archaeology Department) to RTÉ Nationwide 20-minute feature on the archaeological and cultural landscape of Ráth Crúachan. Broadcast on 19 May 2009. Short interview by Raidió na Gaeltachta on 11 September 2008 regarding conference at NUIG on topic of medieval Irish work "Aislinge Meic Conglinne". Interviewed on Raidió na Life on topic of medieval Irish work "Aislinge Meic Conglinne" on 12 September 2008

Dr Heike Schmidt Felzmann COBRA Conference 16 - 18 October 2008 Philosophy COBRA Conference 10 - 11 Sept 2009 Dr Nick Tosh and Dr Aileen Fyfe Philosophy Steps Conference Sept 2010 Dr Marie-Louise Invited Lecture - ‘Community v Singularity: Constructions of the Early Modern Female Author’, Humanities Institute of Ireland, UCD. Coolahan October 2010 English ‘Women, Writing and Language in Early Modern Ireland’, Chawton House Library, Hampshire, UK. October 2010 ‘What is an Irish Woman Writer in the Seventeenth Century?’ panel organiser and presenter, IASIL Conference, NUI, Maynooth. July 2010 ‘Ideal Communities and Women's Poetry in Seventeenth-Century Ireland’, Renaissance Society of America annual conference, Venice. April 2010 ‘Royalism and the 1641 Depositions’, Royalist Religion Conference, Manchester University. Sept 2009 ‘Authorial Collaboration, the 1641 Rising, and Women’s Writing of Conflict’, The Twelfth International Conference, Centre for Seventeenth-Century Studies, Durham University. July 2009 Conference Irish Renaissance Seminar, hosted at NUIG, co-organised with Dan Carey Centre for Irish Studies Sean-nós Dancing Workshops with Seosamh Ó Neachtain April, May 2009. Brendan Duddy Public Interview June 2009 Cardinal Cathal Daly Public Interview June 2009 Bernadette McAliskey Public Interview June 2009 TK Whittaker Public Interview June 2009 Celebration of Sean-nós Song and Dance June 2009 Roundtable Discussion on Immigration and Irish Society June 2009 Series of Over the Edge Literary Readings June 2009 Sean-nós Dancing Workshops with Seosamh Ó Neachtain November 2009 Irish Studies Public Lecture: “Making Peace in Secret”, by Dr Niall Ó Dochartaigh November 2010 Sean-nós Singer-in-Residence Launch, Treasa Ní Mhoilláin November 2010 Geographical Society of Ireland Regional Lecture, co-hosted by the Centre for Irish Studies and the Geographical Society of Ireland. November 2010 American Conference for Irish Studies and the Galway Conference of Irish Studies Hosted by the Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Conferences Galway June 2009 Ómós Áite Symposium; Space/Place and Irish Culture and Society, hosted by the Centre for Irish Studies and Folding Landscapes, Roundstone, Co Galway, May 2010 Dr Kim LoPrete Invited Public Lecture: 26-27 March ’10: Keynote address: Phi Alpha Theta Great Lakes Regional Conference (USA History Honor Society & publisher of _The Historian_) held in Kalamazoo, MI "All about Adela: Or, Studying Women of Power in the Middle Ages"

Public Lecture Series hosted by Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Nov 2009: 'Women, Gender & Lordship in France, c. 1050- History 1250' Conference Organised 2 panels of 3 speakers sponsored by the Medieval Academy of America & Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship (as well as providing a formal comment on the papers) devoted to ‘Political Constructions of Gender & Female Lords’, One panel was at the American Historical Association, Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, Jan. ’10; the other at International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May ’10