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MEDIA and CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Dr Sean Crosson Contributor To 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 Hurling 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 Irish Times, The Irish Independent 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 Galway Advertiser 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, Dublin. 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
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