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MU-led study finds evidence of gladiator-animal combat in Roman period
A groundbreaking MU-led study has uncovered the first physical evidence of human-animal gladiatorial combat in the Roman period.
Date: Wednesday, 23 April 2025
New Approaches to Participatory Action Research in Social Sciences: Focus on Democratic Citizenship Education across Different National Contexts
Professor Beth Rubin from Teachers College, Columbia University one day conference and workshop in Maynooth University with participants from across Europe.
Date: Wednesday, 09 April 2025
Mark Maguire and co-author Setha Low engaged in a live and televised conversation with Alex Vitale (Brooklyn College) to discuss the public safety, policing, and the transformation of the security-industrial sector
To launch their new book Trapped (Stanford University Press, 2024), Mark Maguire and co-author Setha Low engaged in a live and televised conversation with Alex Vitale (Brooklyn College) to discuss the public safety, policing, and the transformation of the security-industrial sector. The was organized by City University New York’s (CUNY) Graduate Centre, Ph.D. Program in Anthropology, the Ph.D. Program in Earth and Environmental Sciences, and the Public Space Research Group.
Date: Wednesday, 02 April 2025
Congratulations to Aygun Ipek at the October Graduations!
Congratulations to Aygun who recently graduated with an MA in Culture Differences & Transnational Processes (Creole)
Date: Wednesday, 06 November 2024
Future of Ageing in Africa at the University of Dar es Salaam
The University of Dar es Salaam and Maynooth University sponsored a workshop today on the Future of Ageing in Africa at the University of Dar es Salaam (organised by Vendelin Simon of USDM and A Jamie Saris of Maynooth University, both Medical Anthropologists).
Date: Wednesday, 12 June 2024
Susan Hunter Postgraduate Scholarship in Material Culture (€2000) - now taking applications for September 2024
Susan Hunter Postgraduate Scholarship in Material Culture
Date: Monday, 25 March 2024
Billionaires, Science Fiction and Tech - Jamie Saris speaking on the Brendan O'Connor Show, RTE Radio 1
Jamie Saris, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Maynooth University talks Brendan through examples of ideas from science fiction that have become reality – whether good or bad
Date: Tuesday, 06 February 2024
Many congratulations to Miriam Teehan who recently got married
Many congratulations to Miriam Teehan, one of our PhD students, who recently got married. Miriam has been a first year tutor in the Department of Anthropology for the past five years and is in the final year of her PhD. On behalf of all in the Department, we would like to wish you a long, happy and healthy life together.
Date: Monday, 18 December 2023
Dr Josefine Wagner (post-doctoral researcher from the University of Innsbruck)
From January through June, the Department of Anthropology (Prof. Hana Cervinkova) and the Department of Education (Prof. Sharon Todd) are co-hosting Dr. Josefine Wagner, a post-doctoral researcher from the Department of Teacher Education and School Research of the University of Innsbruck in Austria. Dr Wagner is an educational anthropologist and a former secondary school teacher. In her research she focuses on inclusive pedagogy, disability studies and the historiography of special needs education. As a past Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow of the European Doctorate in Teacher Education (grant agreement no. 676452), she is an alumni of the University of Lower Silesia in Wroclaw, Poland and the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Her doctoral work, a multi-sited ethnography of inclusive policies and practices in Poland, Austria, and Germany, earned her the 2019 Concha Delgado Gaitan award of the Council on Anthropology and Education of the American Anthropological Association. Josefine is also a former fellow of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC where she worked on the project, “Sonderpädagogik: Eugenic continuities and ruptures in special needs education.”. Dr Wagner is currently completing final revisions on her book manuscript, titled “Schools for Whom? Global Governance, Disability and Education in Central Europe” which is planned for publication in the SUNY press’ special series, Education in Global Perspectives in 2025. While at Maynooth University, she will work on her book and pursue research for her new school ethnographic project, “Learning friendship: A cross-cultural study of social belonging in education.”
Date: Monday, 18 December 2023
Review of book entitled "Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland: when life becomes craft" by Pauline Garvey and Daniel Miller
"This is the best ethnographic monograph on the changing dimensions of Irish society that has been written by anthropologists in the last twenty years. It should serve as a model of engaged, responsive, respectful, and beneficent ethnography, not just for scholars of and in Ireland, but also for a global anthropology that seeks a better public role. Its explicit comparative framework, interlaced with remarkably empathetic appreciation of the project’s participants’ everyday and daily lives, reminds us that anthropologists can contribute often and well to the social sciences and the humanities." Thomas Wilson, Binghamton University, State University of New York, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 1-28. © Royal Anthropological Institute 2023.
Date: Monday, 25 September 2023