HISTORY RESEARCH SEMINAR

    The department's research seminar (Thursday evenings during teaching term) attracts distinguished speakers from Ireland and abroad, and provides research students with an opportunity to present their work.

    See below for schedule of lectures in second semester, 2024-25.
     
     
    VENUE: AHI Seminar Room 1.33, First Floor, Iontas Building (unless otherwise stated)
     

    10 October 6-7.15pm   Emily Roche
    (IRC Post-doctoral research fellow, Department of History, Maynooth University)
         		 Structure of survival: architectural experiences of Auschwitz
     
    17 October 5-6.00pm   Ashok Malhotra
                       (Queen’s University Belfast)

    6-7.15pm   Donal Coffey (Department of Law, Maynooth University)

    		 Establishing Imperial Nutritional and Agricultural Scientific Research Institutes in British India, 1918-29

    An Imperial legal service in inter-War London
    24 October Venue:        Room 1.37 Iontas

    6-7.15pm   Georgina Laragy
                       (Trinity College Dublin)

    ‘We had a very touching little service’: burying and remembering suicides in Ireland in the 19th and 20th centuries
    7 November
         		 5-6pm        Jeremy Maxwell
                      (Maynooth University)
         		 Challenges to reform: the United States Marine Corps and the process of integration
     
    14 November 5-6pm        Brian Griffin (formerly Bath Spa University, Adjunct Associate Professor of History, Maynooth University)

    6-7.15pm   Helen Doyle  (PhD candidate, Department of History, Maynooth University)

    		 Playing the ‘Greater Game’: Irish footballers and Irish football fans in the Great War

    The impact of the Criminal Lunatic (Ireland) Act 1838 on committal numbers to Irish district lunatic asylums
    21 November 5-6pm        Maria Todorova (Professor Emerita, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
         		 Race as a category of analysis for the Balkans
    5 December
         		 5-6pm        Johana Klusek
                      (Czech Academy of Sciences)    		 Top Hat for everyone: Czech Anglophilia amid the tumult of the 1940s
    12 December
         		 5-6pm        Thomas Delaney, Brian Fennell, Éadaoin Sheehan  (First Year MU PhD students)

    6-7.15pm   John Plunkett
                       (University of Exeter)

    Venue:      Room 1.37 Iontas

    Short Introductions to thesis topics

    Panoramas, peepshows and the Invention of popular picturegoing, 1800-1850