Sean Moore, Assistant Professor of English travels to Ireland

Professor Sean Moore reconnected this summer with colleagues from around the world in ongoing scholarly working groups and conferences

Sean Moore Associate Professor of English, COLA, travels to Ireland

In October, I travelled to Dublin, Ireland to deliver a talk at the 13th Dublin Symposium on Jonathan Swift at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, where Swift was dean from 1714-1745. This invitation-only gathering, organized by Professor Emeritus Robert Mahony of the Catholic University of America, is the only annual meeting dedicated to Swift Studies in the world. It is rivalled only by the Münster Symposium on Jonathan Swift, which meets every four or five years in Germany and which I attend from time to time. It is made possible by the current Dean of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the Very Reverend Victor Stacey, and the Jonathan Swift Foundation. My personal participation was funded by CIE, the UNH Center for the Humanities, and the UNH English department. This funding also enabled me to spend additional time in Dublin performing archival research on manuscripts at Marsh’s Library, the eighteenth-century library of the Cathedral

Regional asset indicators : tapping the skills surplus in rural America

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An Introduction to the Organization Commonly Known as Doctors Without Borders

Humanitarian organizations, like the humans that operate or benefit from them, are filled with challenges, successes, and failures. As the largest non-governmental organization on the planet today, Doctors Without Borders has its own interesting history that falls short of the glory most people ascribe to it when they hear the westernized version of its French name, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). In researching this organization, the author studied several books, reviewed dozens of articles and web-sites, listened to the full recruitment pitch while watching the concurrent online presentation, and watched the movie “Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders”. The reader has approximately fifty hours of research condensed into about twenty minutes of reading. The final product attempts a neutral presentation of the positive and negative of MSF’s history, a description of their current locations and specific work in those areas, and information on what the prospective candidate (specifically the nursing applicant) needs to consider before engaging in a personal affiliation with the organization. MSF is rooted deeply in its French heritage. It isn’t a place for the glory-seeker, the casual traveler, or the average American. Is it worth the time to pursue? That is up for the reader to determine

A Discussion of Ethical Issues in the Case of Baby Fae

Medical professionals are presented with numerous ethical questions that need answering on an almost daily basis. In this paper, the story of Baby Fae is used as a vehicle to discuss ethical issues. This case highlights the core ethical question regarding the taking of an innocent animal’s life to attempt to save the life of an innocent human. It has been more than twenty-six years since Baby Fae lived and died with a baboon heart keeping her blood flowing and her body alive. Presented in this paper are the facts, simply stated, regarding an historical event that had a profound effect upon medical history. Nurses played a role in it that other nurses can emulate: working professionally in the face of great opposition, retaining patient privacy rights, realizing that we cannot always have a vote about which side of a case we would like to be on, and functioning non-judgmentally as a patient advocate. It can be easy to laud or criticize an historical event; but, we do not live in history – we only hope to learn from it

Improving the Non-Profit, Voluntary and Charitable Sector's Effectiveness in Influencing Decisions of Government.

As a follow-up to a meeting about the sector's role in impacting public policy, government-relations expert Sean Moore was asked to prepare a discussion paper with recommendations about improving the sector's ability to be a "player"

Swift, the Book, and the Irish Financial Revolution

Winner, 2010 Donald Murphy Prize for a Distinguished First Book, American Conference on Irish StudiesRenowned as one of the most brilliant satirists ever, Jonathan Swift has long fascinated Hibernophiles beyond the shores of the Emerald Isle. Sean Moore's examination of Swift's writings and the economics behind the distribution of his work elucidates the humorist's crucial role in developing a renewed sense of nationalism among the Irish during the eighteenth century.Taking Swift's Irish satires, such as A Modest Proposal and the Drapier's Letters, as examples of anticolonial discourse, Moore unpacks the author's carefully considered published words and his deliberate drive to liberate the Dublin publishing industry from England's shadow to argue that the writer was doing nothing less than creating a national print media. He points to the actions of Anglo-Irish colonial subjects at the outset of Britain's financial revolution; inspired by Swift's dream of a sovereign Ireland, these men and women harnessed the printing press to disseminate ideas of cultural autonomy and defend the country's economic rights. Doing so, Moore contends, imbued the island with a sense of Irishness that led to a feeling of independence from England and ultimately gave the Irish a surprising degree of financial autonomy. Applying postcolonial, new economic, and book history approaches to eighteenth-century studies, Swift, the Book, and the Irish Financial Revolution effectively links the era's critiques of empire to the financial and legal motives for decolonization. Scholars of colonialism, postcolonialism, Irish studies, Atlantic studies, Swift, and the history of the book will find Moore's eye-opening arguments original and compelling

A Dichotomy Theorem for Circular Colouring Reconfiguration

The "reconfiguration problem" for circular colourings asks, given two $(p,q)$-colourings $f$ and $g$ of a graph $G$, is it possible to transform $f$ into $g$ by changing the colour of one vertex at a time such that every intermediate mapping is a $(p,q)$-colouring? We show that this problem can be solved in polynomial time for $2\leq p/q <4$ and is PSPACE-complete for $p/q\geq 4$. This generalizes a known dichotomy theorem for reconfiguring classical graph colourings.Comment: 22 pages, 5 figure