Maynooth University Arts and Humanities Institute
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Semester II - 2024 - 2025
Maynooth University Department of Music Research Seminar Series
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title |
| 12 February 2025 | 4PM |
Bewerunge Room, Logic House, South Campus, Maynooth University |
Dr Adam Behan, Maynooth University |
Irish Rock Music, Liberalism & Masculinity, 1970 - 85 |
| 26 February 2025 | 4PM |
Bewerunge Room, Logic House, South Campus, Maynooth University |
Dr Matthew P. Thomson, University College Dublin |
Control Issues: Music & sexuality in Thirteenth-Century Legal, Doctrinal, and Literary Discourses |
| 12 March 2025 | 4PM |
Bewerunge Room, Logic House, South Campus, Maynooth University |
Dr Anselm McDonnell |
Vocality in Transculturism |
| 02 April 2025 |
4PM |
Bewerunge Room, Logic House, South Campus, Maynooth University |
Dr Stefano Lomardi Vallauri, IULM University, Milan |
TBC |
| 09 April 2025 |
4PM |
Online: contact [email protected] for further information |
Music Employability event, Career Pathways in Music and the Arts |
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| 16 April 2025 |
4PM | Bewerunge Room, Logic House, South Campus, Maynooth University |
Dr Nicole Grimes, Triniy College, Dublin |
Emilie Mayer and the Shaping of Musical Histography |
| 30 April 2025 | 4PM | Bewerunge Room, Logic House, South Campus, Maynooth University | Professor Denise Neary, Royal Irish Academy Of Music, Dublin |
Sacred Sounds: Cathedral music in England in the Eighteenth Century |
| 07 May 2025 | 4PM | Bewerunge Room, Logic House, South Campus, Maynooth University | Postgraduate Conference |
Roinn na Nua-Ghaeilge
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title |
| 13 Feabhra 2025 | 17:00 |
Seomra seimineáir 1.33, Foirgneamh IONTAS |
Síle Ní Mhurchú, UCC |
‘An Grá agus an Ghruaim? Dhá dhéantús a leagtar ar Riocard a Búrc’ |
| 13 Márta 2025 | 17:00 |
Seomra seimineáir 1.33, Foirgneamh IONTAS |
Brian Ó Catháin, Ollscoil Mhá Nuad | ‘Áine (2Neans”) de Paor/ Nancy (Wyse) Power (1889 – 1963) agus Caitlín Ní Maol-Chróin/ Kathleen Mulchrone (1895 -1973): beirt iardhaltaí de chuid Rudolf Thurneysen’ |
| 10 Aibreán 2025 | 17:00 |
Seomra seimineáir 1.33, Foirgneamh IONTAS |
Tracey Ní Mahonaigh, Ollscoil Mhá Nuad | ‘Stáitse ceilte na hathbheochana: Coláiste Pháidraig, Maigh Nuad and drámaíocht na Gaeilge’ |
Department of History
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title |
| 13 February 2025 | 6PM-7:15PM | History Department Boardroom, First Floor, Rhetoric House | Miles Taylor (Centre for British Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin) |
Umbrellas and popular protest in Europe c.1828-1916 |
| 20 February 2025 | 5PM-6PM | History Department Boardroom, First Floor, Rhetoric House | Colmán Ó Clabaigh OSB (Glenstal Abbey) | Let me count the ways I love you: sex and marriage in late medieval Ireland |
| 6PM-7.15pm | Sandrine Tromeur (PhD in History candidate, Maynooth University) |
Irish migrants and their integration into eighteenth-century Frace: the MacCarthy family in La Rochelle, 1715-89 |
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| 27 February 2025 |
5PM-6PM | History Department Boardroom, First Floor, Rhetoric House | Tim Murtagh (Research fellow, Virtual Record Treasury) |
Empire of information: the lost records of Dublin Castle, 1779-1830 |
| 6PM-7.15pm | Mark Doyle (Middle Tennessee State University) | The "Hindoo Doctor" of Derry: race, authenticity, and black lives in nineteenth-century Ireland | ||
| 06 March 2025 | 5PM-6PM | History Department Boardroom, First Floor, Rhetoric House |
Eamon Healy (PhD in History candidate, Maynooth University) | Power and persuasion: constrasting administrative solutions in two Irish Poor Law Unions during the Great Famine |
| 6PM-7.15pm | Anna McKay (School of Histories, Languages and Cultures, University of Liverpool) | 'In the time of their desperate need':Irish convicts in Bermuda during the Great Famine | ||
| 13 March 2025 |
5PM-6PM | History Department Boardroom, First Floor, Rhetoric House | Markus Muller (Department of Bavarian History, Ludwig Maxmilian University of Munich) | How to translate land diets, land estates and landschaft? The necessary complexity and unnecessary difficulty of German constitutional history in late Middle Ages |
| 03 April 2025 |
5PM-6PM | History Department Boardroom, First Floor, Rhetoric House | Margaret Newell (Mary Ball Washington Scholar in History, UCD) | Before the underground railroad: Native Americans and African escaping slavery in Colonial America--and the people who helped them |
| 6PM-7.15pm | Hannes Grandits (Humboldt University of Berlin |
How empires end, or not end: the Eastern crisis and the end of the Ottoman rule in Bosnia 1875-78 |
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| 10 April 2025 | 5PM-6PM | History Department Boardroom, First Floor, Rhetoric House | Andrew Holmes (School of History, Archaeology, Philosophy and Politics, 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 |
| 17 April 2025 | 5PM-6PM | History Department Boardroom, First Floor, Rhetoric House | Diane Urquhart (School of History, Archaeology, Philosophy and Politics, Queen's University Belfast) | Lady Cecil Craig and the reclamation of history |
| 01 May 2025 | 5PM-6PM | History Department Boardroom, First Floor, Rhetoric House | Anthony Farrell (History Department, Maynooth University) | Injury, illness and healthcare for Great War veterans in early Independent Ireland |
Department of Early Irish & Celtic Studies
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title |
| 27 February 2025 | 5PM | Room 2.31, Iontas Building | Dr Viktoriia Krivoshchekova (School of Celtic Studies, DIAS) | ‘Culpability and Liability: Guilty Mind in Early Irish Law’ |
| 03 April 2025 | 5PM | Room 2.31, Iontas Building | Dr Colin Ireland (UCD/Arcadia University) | ‘The "Syncretic Process" in Early Insular Vernacular Literatures’ |
| 01 May 2025 | 5PM | Room 2.31, Iontas Building | Dr Patrick Wadden (Belmont Abbey College) | ‘Building a Framework for Recording Early Irish Carved Stones: Standardisation and Accessibility’ |
All seminars take place at 5pm in Seminar Room 2.31, Iontas Building and are followed by a drinks reception.
For further information please contact Dr Siobhán Barrett ([email protected]) or Dr Nora White ([email protected]). All Welcome.
Department of English
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Event |
| 27 February | 12 pm | ION 1.33 | Edmund Chapman (MU): Migrant Silence and the Language of Refuge: On Multilingual Jewish Refugee Writers. |
Seminar Series |
| 06 March | 12 pm | ION 1.33 | Brenda O’Connell (MU): Neurological Disorder, Samuel Beckett, and Me. | Seminar Series |
| 13 March | 12 pm | ION 1.33 | Alan Waldron (MU): Prithee? Forsooth!: Engaging students as co-creation research partners utilising a theatrical Practice-as-Research framework. | Seminar Series |
| 27 March | 12 pm | ION 1.33 | Nadia Koukaroudi (MU): TBC. | Seminar Series |
| 03 April | 12 pm | ION 1.33 | Sinead Kennedy (MU): Antigone’s Daughters: Feminism, neoliberalism and the state. | Seminar Series |
| 10 April | 12 pm | ION 1.33 | Esther Borges (University of São Paulo): A Matter of In-betweenness: Queer Diaspora in Irish Contemporary Literature. | Seminar Series |
| 08 May | 12 pm | ION 1.33 | James Joyce, Rural Ireland and Modernity: Beyond the Pale (Edinburgh UP) by Niall O Cualeagáin | Book Launch |
| 08 May | 12 pm | ION 1.33 | The Visual Novel: Christine Brooke-Rose, Ann Quin, Brigid Brophy (Edinburgh UP) by Hilary White | Book Launch |
| 13 February 2025 | 14:00 to 15:30 | TSI 118 | Sarah Maria Griffin with Catherine Prasifka | Writers in Conversation |
| 20 February 2025 | 14:00 to 15:30 | TSI 118 | Catherine Prasifka with Oona Frawley | Writers in Conversation |
| 27 February 2025 | 14:00 to 15:30 | TSI 118 | Catherine Gough with Belinda McKeon | Writers in Conversation |
| 6 March 2025 | 14:00 to 15:30 | TSI 118 | John Kelly with Belinda McKeon | Writers in Conversation |
| 13 March 2025 | 14:00 to 15:30 | TSI 118 | Rosemary Hennigan with Catherine Prasifka | Writers in Conversation |
| 27 March 2025 | 14:00 to 15:30 | TSI 118 | Mark O'Conell with Florian Radtke | Writers in Conversation |
| 3 April 2025 | 14:00 to 15:30 | TSI 118 | Gavin McCrea with Belinda McKeon and Oona Frawley | Writers in Conversation |
| 10 April 2025 | 14:00 to 15:30 | TSI 118 | Sara Baume with Gavin McCrea | Writers in Conversation |
| 17 April 2025 | 12:00 | ION 1.33 | Colin Barret with Gavin McCrea | Writers in Conversation |
| 1 May 2025 | 14:00 to 15:30 | TSI 118 | Brian Langan and Edie Hand | Writers in Conversation |
| 8 May 2025 | 14:00 to 15:30 | TSI 118 | Naoise Dolan with Catherine Prasifka | Writers in Conversation |
Department of Ancient Classics
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title |
| 21 February 2025 | 16:00 | Iontas Room 1.33 | Professor Daniel Ogden (University of Exeter) |
‘The end of the Argonautica and the beginning of Alexandria’ |
| 07 March 2025 | 16:00 | Iontas Room 1.33 | Dr Charlie Corrigan (Trinity College Dublin) |
‘Tacitus Annals 4.45 and post-colonial history’ |
| 28 March 2025 | 16:00 | Iontas Room 1.33 | Dr Vaitsa Giannouli (European University Cyprus) |
'Old age and neurocognitive disorders: A journey from the Iliad and Corpus Hippocraticum to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5' |
| 02 May 2025 | 16:00 | Iontas Room 1.33 | Dr Conor Trainor (University College Dublin) |
'Becoming Roman? Aspects of Urbanism in Early Roman Greece' |