Maynooth University Arts and Humanities Institute
ToggleDepartment of Philosophy
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2022 | 6 PM | JH4 | Berkeley Lecture: Peter Lynch (UCD) | ‘Levels of Infinity’ |
| 27 October 2022 | 3 PM | Online | Amos Edelheit with Brian Garcia (Assumption University, US) | ‘A Philosopher at the Crossroads' |
| 17 November 2022 | 3 PM | TSI036 | Oleksandr Kulyk | ‘Chaos in Ukraine: A Philosophical Reflection’ |
Department of Music
Semester I 2023-24 // Department of Music Research Seminars
Coordinator: Dr Laura Watson
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Event Title |
| 4 October 2023 |
4PM |
Bewerunge Room, Logic House, South Campus, Maynooth University |
Dr Felix Morgenstern (University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz) |
Intercultural Transactions: Irish Traditional Music in Germany |
| 18 October 2023 |
4PM |
Bewerunge Room, Logic House, South Campus, Maynooth University |
Dr Emily Gale (University of Leithbridge, Alberta) |
‘Have I Gone Too Far?’ Sentimentality and the Politics of Excess in Anglo-American Love Songs |
| 25 October 2023 |
4PM |
Bewerunge Room, Logic House, South Campus, Maynooth University |
Ariadna Martin Alfaro & José María Curbelo González (Conservatorio Superior de Música de Canarias) |
Goyescas: Study of the Artistic Relationship between Music and Painting |
| 15 November 2023 |
4PM |
1.37, Iontas Building, North Campus |
Prof. Victor Lazzarini (Maynooth University) |
Issues of Ubiquitous Music Archaeology |
| 22 November 2023 |
4PM |
Bewerunge Room, Logic House, South Campus, Maynooth University |
Mark Chamber (Sestina Music / University of Birmingham) |
The Singer as Celebutante |
| 6 December 2023 |
4PM | Bewerunge Room, Logic House, South Campus, Maynooth University |
Dr Nicolò Palazzetti (La Sapienza University of Rome) |
Opera Lovers in the Digital Age: From Music Sociology to Fan Studies |
Roinn na Nua-Ghaeilge
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title |
| Déardaoin 19 Deireadh Fómhair 2023 |
17:00 |
Seomra seimineáir 1.33, Foirgneamh IONTAS |
Philip Mac a’ Ghoill, Ollscoil Mhá Nuad |
Beannacht duit, beannacht d'fhearaibh th'oileamhna: dán ar Dháibhíth Óg de Barra (c.1604) ag teacht in aois |
| Déardaoin 23 Samhain 2023 |
17:00 |
Seomra seimineáir, Roinn na Nua-Ghaeilge, Foirgneamh na nEalaíon |
Breandán Ó Cróinín, Coláiste Mhuire gan Smál |
Athchuairt ar Chath Fionntrágha |
| Déardaoin 7 Nollaig 2023 |
17:00 |
Seomra seimineáir 1.33, Foirgneamh IONTAS |
Lára Ní Mhaoláin, Ollscoil Mhá Nuad |
An guth baineann i measc na bhfear: Ról na mban in Caithréim Chonghail Chláiringhnigh |
Department of History
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title |
| 8 February 2024 |
6PM-7:15PM | R1.33 (Iontas) | Professor Krassimira Daskalova (Sofia University) |
Beyond totalitarian paradigm: women’s emancipation, feminisms and feminists in the Cold War Eastern Europe |
| 22 February 2024 |
5PM-6PM | R1.33 (Iontas) | Arthur Cagney, Ben Casey, Micheál Ó Corcora | Short introductory presentations by three Year 1 PhD students |
| 6PM-7.15pm | Dr Niamh Wycherley (Maynooth University) |
Boss Brigit: the significance of the woman and her Church of Kildare in the early Middle Ages. |
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| 29 February 2024 |
5PM-6PM | R1.33 (Iontas) | Giovanni Parente (Maynooth University PhD candidate) |
The Naval Service goes to the Mediterranean Sea: Ireland’s humanitarian mission in Pontus, 2015-2016 |
| 6PM-7.15pm | Professor Dominique Reill (University of Miami & Iméra Institute for Advanced Study, Aix-Marseille University) | The Habsburg Mayor of New York: Fiorello LaGuardia | ||
| 7 March 2024 | 5PM-6PM | R1.33 (Iontas) |
Veronica Barry (Maynooth University PhD candidate) | The “easiest” of targets? Women of the neutral states and the Nazi propaganda machine |
| 6PM-7.15pm | Professor Holly Case (Brown University) | On the horizon of retrospective expectation, or, What we have come to expect from the past | ||
| 21 March 2024 |
5PM-6PM | R1.33 (Iontas) | Ronald Connolly (Maynooth University PhD candidate) |
Researching a Midlands land agent: methodology and findings from the Ballindoolin estate archive |
| 6PM-7.15pm | Dr Jay Rozman (University College, Cork) | Irish ‘outrages’ and British politics: Irish agrarian violence and its multiplicity of meanings, 1830-1845 |
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| 11 April 2024 |
5PM-6PM | R1.33 (Iontas) | Tom McGrath (Maynooth University PhD candidate) | ‘Where the Irish are always welcome’: the Irish in South Africa, c. 1919-61 |
| 6PM-7.15pm | Professor Dejan Djokić (Maynooth University), Professor Siniša Malešević (University College Dublin) & Professor Robert Gerwarth (University College Dublin) |
On constructing and writing a national history today: the case of Serbia |
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| 18 April 2024 |
5PM-6PM | R1.33 (Iontas) | Dr Jack Crangle (Maynooth University | ‘I hated being Irish’: exploring identity in Black and mixed race narratives of twentieth-century Ireland |
| 6PM-7.15pm | Professor Chad Carl Bryant (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) | Wartime reading: a Habsburg soldier and his newspaper, 1914-1919 | ||
| 25 April 2024 |
5PM-6PM | R1.33 (Iontas) | Professor Morag Martin (State University of New York Brockport) |
Sisters at the birth: the Catholic Contravention against women religious and obstetrical practice, 1800-1936 |
| 6PM-7.15pm | Professor Pieter Judson (European University Institute) | Who killed the Empire? The collapse of the Habsburg monarchy in 1918 | ||
| 2 May 2024 |
5PM-6PM | R1.33 (Iontas) | Thomas Appleby (Maynooth University PhD candidate) | The influence of Lutheran Pietism on the development of Psychiatry in eighteenth-century Prussia |
| 6PM-7.15pm | Dr Rosie Dias (University of Warwick) |
Imagining India in the metropole: East India House and the visual politics of Empire | ||
| 9 May 2024 |
5PM-6PM | R1.33 (Iontas) | Megan Macauley (Maynooth University PhD candidate) | Experiences of childhood in rural Ireland: a study of birth, life, and death in County Donegal, c. 1850-1950 |
| 6PM-7.15pm | Dr Andrew Holmes (Queen’s University Belfast) | The politics of culture? The Northern Revival, Presbyterian unionists, and the second series of the Ulster Journal of Archaeology, 1894-1911 |
Department of Early Irish & Celtic Studies
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title |
| 19 October 2023 | 5PM | R1.33 Iontas Building | Dr Pádraic Moran | Virgil and Virgil Commentaries in the St Gall Priscian Glosses’ |
| 23 November 2023 | 5PM | R1.33 Iontas Building | Br Colmán Ó Clabaigh OSB | ‘The Priest and his Book(s) in Late Medieval Ireland’ (Paul Walsh Memorial Lecture 2023) |
| 14 December 2023 | 5PM | R1.33 Iontas Building | Dr Kate Colbert | ‘Building a Framework for Recording Early Irish Carved Stones: Standardisation and Accessibility’ |
Department of English
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title |
| 23 October 2023 | 13:30 to 14:30 | Iontas 1.33 | Paul Fagan | Celibacy in Irish Women’s Writing |
| 26 October 2023 | 10:15 to 13:00 | Iontas 1.33 | Panel & Tom Comitta | Climate Stories |
| 1 December 2023 | TBD | TBD | Panel | Critical Theory in the Neo-Liberal University |
Department of Ancient Classics
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 February 2024 | 16:00 | Iontas Room 1.33 | Dr Leah O’Hearn (Maynooth University) | ‘Weak-willed Catullus and the Moral Conflicts of Desire’ |
| 08 March 2024 | 16:00 | Iontas Room 1.33 | Prof. Istvan Czachesz (Arctic University of Norway |
‘The historical Jesus in Paul's epistles’ |
| 22 March 2024 | 16:00 | Iontas Room 1.33 | PD Dr Roberto Vinco (University of Heidelberg) |
‘Platonic elements in the philosophy of St. Thomas according to the interpretation of Cornelio Fabro’ |
| 12 April 2024 | 16:00 | Iontas Room 1.33 | PD Dr Max Rohstock (University of Heidelberg) |
‘Transformative Experiences in Ancient Metaphysics’ |
| 26 April 2024 | 16:00 | Iontas Room 1.33 | Mudith Dharmasiri (Maynooth University) |
‘Rewriting the Narrative of Mime-Actresses: A Feminist Perspective’ |
School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 October 2022 | 1 pm | Room 1.37, Iontas Building & MS Teams (Online) | Professor Christine Hamm, (Professor of Scandinavian Literature, University of Bergen) | “Precarious motherhood in Norway: Maria Navarro Skaranger’s portrait of a young mother in Emily Forever |
| 19 October 2022 | 1 pm | Room 1.37, Iontas Building & MS Teams (Online) | Dr Aine Larkin (French Studies) | Illness and disability in contemporary French culture’ |
| 16 November 2022 | 1 pm | Room 1.37, Iontas Building & MS Teams (Online) | Dr Inma Gómez Soler (DCU) | ‘Fostering student reflection in virtual exchange settings through the analysis of conversation metrics’. |
| 30 November 2022 | 1 pm | Room 1.37, Iontas Building & MS Teams (Online) | Ms Hongfei Wang (Chinese Studies) | ‘Evaluate an Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning Tool for Beginner Learners of Mandarin Chinese in the Irish Post-primary Context’ |