The Centre is home to faculty members, graduate students and associates who conduct research on Europe and Eurasia and publish their work across a variety of academic disciplines. These include Anthropology, History, Geography, School of Law and Criminology, Politics and Sociology. The Centre is committed to enhancing inter-disciplinary knowledge about and public engagement with the cultures, histories, institutions, and politics of Europe and Eurasia and itself is part of a renowned social science and humanities research infrastructure at Maynooth University. Faculty members participate in a wide variety of international networks which help to support and sustain the creation and dissemination of knowledge and strengthen ties across disciplines and national jurisdictions.
Maynooth University Centre for European and Eurasian Studies
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Collaborations & Cooperation's
The Centre and its faculty members have a demonstrated record of success in attracting funding from a wide array of national and international bodies, including:
Irish Research Council
Marie Curie Sklodowska
European Research Council (ERC)
EU Jean Monnet Programme
Department of An Taoiseach
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Turkish Embassy in Ireland
Irish Association for Contemporary European Studies (IACES)
Local Government Management Association (LGMA)
Political Studies Association of Ireland (PSAI)
Research Activities and Events
Amongst the conferences/colloquia hosted by the Centre since its inception in 2007 were:
- Did Lenin and Stalin create Ukraine?, February 2022
- The Ukraine Crisis: Quo Vadis?, February 2022
- Understanding the crisis in Bosnia Herzegovina, December 2021
- Sokol: Nationalism and Pan-Slavism in Modern Europe, May 2021
- Northern Ireland at 100: Pro-Union Voices, April 2021
- The Bulgarian Parliamentary Election , April 2021
- A New Kid on the Illiberal Block? Slovenia under Janša, March 2021
- Rule of law within the EU: the ‘authoritarian equilibrium’ and how the EU should respond’, March 2021
- Launch of "How Britain Ends"with Gavin Esler, March 2021
- Annual Conference of the Irish Association of Russian and Central and Eastern European Studies (IARCEES), Maynooth University, May 2016
- Symposium: The Balkans 20 Years after the Dayton Accords, Maynooth University, November 2015
- Joint organizer, ‘IACES Annual State of the Union Conference’, Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 27 November 2015
- Roundtable on Crimea Crisis, NUI Maynooth, March 2014
- Jean Monnet Workshop on ‘National parliaments in the European Union’, European Parliament Office, Dublin, 6-7 December 2013
- Co-organizer of symposium ‘Ireland and Europe after four decades of EU membership’, University College Cork, 28-9 November 2013
- Symposium on ‘The Arab Spring and its Aftermath’, Hosted by the Centre for the Study of Wider Europe, NUI Maynooth, 7 March 2013
- Co-organizer of conference on the role of Humanities and Social sciences in Irish and European life, Royal Irish Academy, 7 May 2013 http://www.ucd.ie/t4cms/HSS_2013_Programme-final.pdf
- Symposium on ‘Europe’s Fragile Peace: Conflict, violence and transition in the wake of Europe’s World Wars’, Hosted by the Centre for the Study of Wider Europe, NUI Maynooth, 6 March 2013
- Symposium on 2012 US Presidential Election, NUI Maynooth, 5 October 2012
- Co-organization of conference on Innovation, technology and Change, Irish Presidency of the EU 2013, ‘Communicating Europe’ programme of the Department of An Taoiseach, (With Professor Margaret Kelleher and Dr. Michael Geary), 21 June 2012, Maynooth University
- Symposium, Europe in Crisis: present challenges, future trajectories’, NUI Maynooth, 1 March 2012, //www.widereurope.ie/news_events/95/cswe_%5C%27europe_in_crisis%5C%27_symposium.html
- See the Irish Times report on the symposium: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0302/1224312634989.html?via=rel
- Conference on EU-Turkey Relations, ‘The European Union and Turkey: the Accession Negotiations and Beyond’, NUI Maynooth, 18 November 2010; http://www.widereurope.ie
- Postgraduate conference on Central, Eastern, South-eastern Europe, November 2009, http://www.widereurope.ie
- Host, IARCEES Annual conference 2009, ‘1989: Europe Twenty Years On’, hosted by the CSWE NUI Maynooth, April 2009, http://www.iarcees.org/docs/ConferenceProgramme2009.pdf
Distinguished Speakers
Amongst the distinguished speakers the Centre has hosted in recent years are:
- John Bruton, former Taoiseach
- Bertie Ahern, former Taoiseach
- Marian Harkin TD and former ALDE MEP
- Barry Andrews MEP
- Dr Mary C. Murphy, (University College Cork)
- Dr Lisa Claire Whitten, (Queens University Belfast)
- John McGrane, (Director General of the British Irish Chamber of Commerce)
- Prionsias De Rossa, (former S & D MEP)
- Alex White, (Director General of the IIEA)
- Barbara Nolan, (Head of the European Commission Representation, Ireland)
- Dr Dimitar Bechev (Oxford University and The Atlantic Council)
- Judy Dempsey (Carnegie Europe)
- Professor Desmond Dinan, George Mason University, Washington DC
- Professor Volodymyr Dubovyk Odessa I. Mechnikov National University (Ukraine)
- Professor Michael Cronin (Trinity College Dublin)
- Dr. Emmanuelle Schön-Quinlivan (University College Cork)
- Kevin Saudé (University of Limerick)
- Lara Marlowe (French Corespondant - Irish Times)
- Prof Florian Bieber (University of Graz)
- Prof Oto Luthar (Director, Research advisor, Head of UIFS ZRC SAZU)
- Prof Ksenjia Vidmar Horvat (University of Ljublijana)
- Prof Tania Petrovic (Head of Institute of Culture and Memory Studies ZRC SAZU)
- Gavin Esler (Chancellor of the University of Kent)
- Prof. Anna Krasteva (New Bulgarian University)
- Dr. Jasmin Mujanović (Independent Scholar/ author of Hunger and Fury: The Crisis of Democracy in the Balkans, Hurst and Co. 2018)
- Prof Donnacha Ó Beacháin(Dublin City University)
- Prof Neil Robinson (University of Limerick)
- Professor Henry Farrell (Johns Hopkins University)
- Professor Brigid Laffan (European University Institute)
- David O Sullivan (Institute for International and European Affairs)
- Professor Ben Tonra (University College Dublin)
- Professor Cathie Carmichael (University of East Anglia)
- Professor Christopher Clark, (University of Cambridge)
- Professor Antoaneta Dimitrova, (Leiden University)
- Lucinda Creighton TD (Minister for European Affairs)
- Paschal Donohoe TD (Minister for European Affairs)
- Professor Tom Gallagher (Bradford University)
- Dr. Julia Eichenberg (Humboldt University)
- Professor Robert Gerwarth, (University College Dublin)
- Mary Fitzgerald, Foreign Correspondent, The Irish Times)
- Dr. James Ker-Lindsay (London School of Economics and Political Science)
- Professor Alan Kramer (Trinity College Dublin)
- Dr. Neophytos Lozidis (University of Kent)
- Professor Sinisa Malesevic, (University College Dublin)
- Professor Anthony McElligott (University of Limerick)