MU Climate Summit – A Call to Action
Thursday, 25 February, 2016, White Board Room, Maynooth University Library
The Aim
The aim of this event, over two workshops, is to raise awareness and energise into action as many students as possible in addressing the many environmental challenges facing us and, in particular, to change the way we do everything that impacts on global temperatures. The event will facilitate and encourage students in engaging with Maynooth Green Campus initiative in particular.
The context
The immediate context is the General Election Poll on 26 February. A key background to this event is the personal and political challenges facing us all after the Paris Climate Summit and the event is being organised against the backdrop of Laudato Si’ – On Care of Our Common Home, the radical green encyclical letter of Pope Francis last year.
The Format
The event will include inputs from experts such as Emeritus Prof. John Sweeney (MU Geography Department), Dr. Lorna Gold (Head of Policy & Advocacy at Trocaire, as well as Rev. Dr. Padraig Corkery, Dr. Suzanne Mulligan , Dr. Joe Larragy (Chair of MU green Campus) and Matt O'Boyle (MSU President). At the heart of this event will student led one-hour workshops where will be looking for your views on the issues.
If you would like to sign up for one of these workshops please sign up at: http://goo.gl/forms/oAUYcqkn3N
We would like to acknowledge the work and input by the staff and students of both Maynooth University and St. Patrick's College, Maynooth as well as the following groups:
- Maynooth Green Campus Committee
- Irish Missionary Union (IMU)
- Trócaire
- SUAS Educational Development
- Concern Worldwide
Official Launch of Social Justice Week 2015 / Moment of Solidarity
Calling all students and staff to stop and reflect for one minute in solidarity with people struggling daily against poverty, exclusion and the denial of human rights.
Time & Venue: 12.05 pm in the Iontas Foyer
MU Pride Society Blood Ban Petition Signing
Time & Venue: 10 am - 3 pm in the Arts Block & John Hume
MU Mental Health Society (MHS) Petition to establish a Jigsaw 'hub' in Co. Kildare.
For further information on the Jigsaw Project, visit: https://www.headstrong.ie/
Time & Venue: 10 am - 3 pm in the Arts Block & John Hume & Library
Film Screening: Dreamcatcher
A portrait of Brenda Myers-Powell, a former Chicago prostitute, who helps women and teenage girls break the cycle of sexual abuse and exploitation. Followed by
panel discussion.
Further information: http://guthgafa.com/dreamcatcher/
Hosted by: MU Education Department in association with Guth Gafa International Documentary Film Festival
Time & Venue: 1.30 pm in the Education Lecture Theatre (ELT)
Seminar: “Long Term Unemployment in Europe – The Challenge”
Seminar delivered by Adjunct Professor Hugh Frazer (former Director of Irish Anti-Poverty Network) & Dr. Matthias Borscheid (Northside Partnership)
Hosted by: MU Dept of Applied Social Studies
Time & Venue: 12 noon to 2.00 pm in AX1 (Auxilia Building)
Launch of Chaplaincy Faith & Justice Calendar by Monsignor Hugh Connolly
Time & Venue: Pugin Hall, South Campus, 11.00 am
Documentary Screening: “Drop in the Ocean? Ireland & Climate Change”
How does Climate Change affect Ireland and where do we fit in the global picture? ‘Drop in the Ocean?’ talks to some of Ireland’s leading environmental scientists,
writers and activists to find out. Further information: http://www.trocaire.org/drop
Hosted by: Trocaire
Time & Venue: 11.30 am in An Tobar, Student Services Building
MU Pride Society Blood Ban Petition Signing
Time & Venue: 10 am - 3 pm in the Arts Block & John Hume
MU Mental Health Society (MHS) Petition to establish a Jigsaw 'hub' in Co. Kildare.
For further information on the Jigsaw Project, visit: https://www.headstrong.ie/
Time & Venue: 10 am - 3 pm in the Arts Block & John Hume & Library
TEN – Supporting Community Adaption to the Challenges of Climate Change and Food Security
Hosted by: MU Adult & Community Education Dept
Time & Venue: 1.30 pm in the Phoenix Boardroom
“Climate Justice, the Challenge in Africa”
Lecture delivered by Dr. Conor Murphy
Hosted by: MU Dept of Applied Social Studies
Time & Venue: 3.00 pm in Classhall E (Arts Block)
St John Paul ii Society present a seminar on Laudato Si (the Papal encyclical on climate change)
Time & Venue: Renahan Hall, South Campus, 7:30 pm
Keynote Address by International Justice Mission (Ireland & UK) includes a screening of “The Locust Effect – Why the end of poverty requires the end of violence.”
Followed by an open discussion on the issue.
Light lunch provided at 12.30 pm
Hosted by: MU Chaplaincy / IJM
Time & Venue: 12.00 noon in the Student Union Venue
Free Fair Trade Tea / Coffee Morning
Hosted by: MU Chaplaincy
Time & Venue: From 10.30 am in An Tobar, Student Services Building
MU Pride Society Blood Ban Petition Signing
Time & Venue: 10 am - 3 pm in the Arts Block & John Hume
MU Mental Health Society (MHS) Petition to establish a Jigsaw 'hub' in Co. Kildare.
For further information on the Jigsaw Project, visit: https://www.headstrong.ie/
Time & Venue: 10 am - 3 pm in the Arts Block & John Hume & Library
SUAS Educational Development Society Coffee / Tea Afternoon & Open Meeting
At Suas, our vision is a world where all young people have the opportunity to realise their full potential in life and the capability to create positive change in their society. We are working towards a world where all children have access to education as a right, and have access to a high quality education that gives them the opportunity to learn so that, as literate young people, they can avoid the vicious circle of poverty that has entrapped them and their families for generations. We see education as key to social transformation, and the first and most important step in changing lives.
Hosted by: SUAS Educational Development Society
Time & Venue: 3 pm in An Tobar
Sakharov Prize for Freedomof Thought 2015 Event
This event focuses on the Sahkarov prize which is awarded to individuals who have made an exceptional contribution to the fight for human rights across the globe.
Further Information: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/aboutparliament/en/00f3dd2249/Sakharov-Prize-for-Freedom-of-Thought.html
Hosted by: MU Dept of Law & MU ELSA Society
Time & Venue: 4.00 pm in Phoenix Boardroom
Pastoral Groups Open Day – Make Friends, Make a Difference
Hosted by MU Chaplaincy
Time & Venue: 10.00 am – 3.00 pm in the Arts Block
Documentary Screening: “Anonymous! We are Legion”
WE ARE LEGION: The Story of the Hacktivists, takes us inside the complex culture and history of Anonymous.
Further Information: http://wearelegionthedocumentary.com
Hosted by: MU Anthropology Society
Time & Venue: 6.00 pm in John Hume Lecture Theatre 3
Maynooth Mission Outreach - Lunchtime Discussion
Time & Venue: Renahan Hall, South Campus,1:00 pm
Thursday, 16th October - International Day of Rural Women
Food for Thought – An Interfaith Dialogue
Come join us as we share from the various cultural and religious backgrounds represented on campus.
Hosted by: Chaplaincy
Time & Venue: 12.00 noon in An Tobar, Student Services Building
MU Pride Society Blood Ban Petition Signing
Time & Venue: 10 am - 3 pm in the Arts Block and John Hume
MU Mental Health Society (MHS) Petition to establish a Jigsaw 'hub' in Co. Kildare.
For further information on the Jigsaw Project, visit: https://www.headstrong.ie/
Time & Venue: 10 am - 3 pm in the Arts Block & John Hume & Library
Tree of Remembrance Ceremony
Reflection and prayer for the many people forced to flee their country due to conflict especially focusing on the crisis in the Mediterranean.
Hosted by: Maynooth Social Justice Committee
Time & Venue: 1.30 pm outside the Aula Maxima, South Campus
Seminar: Froebel Teachers In Action:Child-centred approaches to the education of children in the streets of Kolkat
Hosted by: MU Froebel Dept of Primary & Early Childhood Education
Time & Venue: 3.00 pm in Classhall J (Arts Block)
One Hundred Thousand Welcomes?
The humanitarian crisis on Europe's doorstep is unfolding so quickly and with such force that the issue of justice for refugees and migrants has become more urgent than ever. This session is a call to action, taking a hard look at international refugee law in terms of what is happening on the ground and how the EU is living up to its responsibilities in this area. The demand for action has never been greater and the session will look at practical ways in which students can engage and show solidarity.
The session will be chaired by Razieh Nikoomanesh (Migrants Rights Council), Jody Clarke will represent the UNHCR and David Leach will represent GOAL..
Hosted by Kimmage Development Studies Centre and UNIDEV.
Time & Venue: 3pm in Science Lecture Theatre (SLT room) Callan Building (North Campus)
Speaker: ‘The migration continuum: Tracing the production of entrapment and precarity through intra-European migration at the Southeast EU borders’ by Dr. Evropi Chatzipanagiotidou, Queens University Belfast
Hosted by: MU Anthropology Dept
Time & Venue: 4.30 pm in Anthropology Seminar Room (RH 2.20, Rowan House)
Discussion on women's rights, gender inequality and the 8th amendment
Hosted by MU Socialist Party Society
Time & Venue: 6 pm in Meeting rooms 3&4 in the Students' Union Centre
Invisible Children Installation – The Reality of Living in Direct Provision
This Doras Luimni exhibit aims to raise awareness of the poverty and exclusion experienced by asylum seeking children while living in the Direct Provision system.
Further Information: http://dorasluimni.org/advocacyand-campaigns/protection/invisible-children/
Time & Venue: All week in the Iontas Foyer
WoW bags are on sale throughout the week. These bags are made from recycled juice bags by a group of women in the Philippines in an area devastated by a volcano in 1991.
The project is co-ordinated by a Maynooth graduate, Helen Mitchell.
The bags will be on sale throughout the week in the Arts Block and from the Chaplaincy Office.