Maynooth Social Justice Week 2022

Message from the Social Justice Week Committee

A Message from the Social Justice Week Committee

Social Justice Week in Maynooth University is an annual collaborative project between students, staff, as well as other agencies aimed at raising awareness of global and national challenges, promoting social justice and challenging individuals to make a positive difference in the world around them.

The theme of this year’s Week is the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), which encompass a wide array of global issues and inequalities, including poverty, education, health, climate action and strong institutions. As you can see from this programme, the events this year address social justice issues that affect us globally and locally, ranging from the War in Ukraine to the housing crisis. The global pandemic has highlighted and amplified existing inequalities in society and as such, the Social Justice Week Committee 2022 selected the UN SDGs as this year’s theme, given the broad range of issues that it addresses. The events throughout the week reflect on both positive and negative aspects of implementing the UN SDGs, including what they mean while emerging from a global pandemic.

This year, events take place on campus and online. In particular, the Social Justice Week Committee would like to bring your attention to the keynote event, ‘A conversation with Dr Rosaleen McDonagh, author of Unsettled’ (Skein Press, 2021), which is organised by the MU Sexualities and Genders Network and DANCING Project, funded by the European Research Council. This event takes place online at 7pm on Tuesday 22nd March (see registration details below).

This year’s Social Justice Week overlaps with the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on 21st March and this is reflected in Student Race Equality Forum, which takes place at 6pm that day (see the details below).

The Social Justice Week Committee 2022 would like to thank the organisers of all events in the programme. Thanks also to the event contributors and speakers, within the University community and beyond. The Acting Chair of the Social Justice Week Committee would like to thank all of the Committee members for their commitment and work on Social Justice Week 2022.

With best wishes,

Social Justice Week Committee 2022:

Acting Chair: Dr Amina Adanan (School of Law and Criminology)
Secretary and Communications: Ian Russell (Office of Student Engagement)
Sam Blanckensee (Office of the Vice President for Equality & Diversity)
Dr Patrick Bresnihan (Department of Geography)
Dr Jamie Gorman (Department of Applied Social Studies)
Mireia Guardino-Ferran (Maynooth Green Campus)
Dr Rory Hearne (Department of Applied Social Studies)
Dr Catriona O'Toole (Department of Education)
Dr Thomas Strong (Department of Anthropology)
Aoife Titley (Froebel Department of Early Childhood and Primary Education)

Keynote Event: A conversation with Dr Rosaleen McDonagh - Tuesday, 22nd March

The MU Sexualities and Genders Network and European Research Centre Dancing Project are delighted to present:

A conversation with Dr Rosaleen McDonagh, author of Unsettled (Skein Press, 2021)

Overview: You are very welcome to this evening talk with Dr Rosaleen McDonagh, author and playwright, where the author will talk about her recent and acclaimed book 'Unsettled' (Skein Press 2021).

This event will take place on Zoom. You can register for this event at: A Conversation with Rosaleen McDonagh

Monday, 21st March

Time	Details	Venue
10.30 am	The Economics of Inequality for Leaving Cert Students Speaker: Dr Aedín Doris (Department of Economics) Overview: This talk is designed to give the Economics perspective on inequality. Maynooth’s Economics Department has four economists who have published research on inequality, so we were delighted when the topic was introduced into the new Leaving Cert Curriculum, examined for the first-time last year. In this talk, I’ll first explain what we mean by ‘inequality’, the different types of inequality and how they are measured. I’ll consider what policies the government can use to reduce Inequality. I’ll then discuss how Inequality in Ireland compares with other countries, and how it’s been changing over time with Dr. Claire Keane, a senior researcher (and former Maynooth student) at the Economic and Social Research Institute. Finally, I’ll discuss the explanations economists have come up with for why inequality seems to have been increasing in so many countries over recent decades. To register for this event, please email Tracy Travers at tracy.travers@mu.ie. Registration closes: 17th March at 5pm.	Online
6.10 pm	Debate on ‘This House Believes that Human Rights are only inherent to citizens of developed countries’ Overview: This is the annual debate as part of Social Justice Week organised by the MU Free Legal Advice Centres Society and the MU Literary and Debating Society. This debate will be judged by Ciara Finnegan (School of Law and Criminology).	JHL2 (John Hume Building)
6 - 8.30 pm	Student Race Equality Forum Overview: The 21st of March is the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. The Race Equality Student Forum is designed to facilitate conversations on what can be done to break down barriers for ethnic minority students in Maynooth University and to discuss how diversity, inclusion and race equity can be promoted in the University. We would like to welcome any students from minority ethnic backgrounds and staff who would like to take part in a discussion to breakdown barriers to take part.	SE001 (School of Education Building)

Tuesday, 22nd March

Social Justice Week Keynote Event

Time

Details

Venue

7 pm

The MU Sexualities and Genders Network and European Research Centre Dancing Project are delighted to present:

A conversation with Dr Rosaleen McDonagh, author of Unsettled (Skein Press, 2021)

Overview:
You are very welcome to this evening talk with Dr Rosaleen McDonagh, author and playwright, where the author will talk about her recent and acclaimed book 'Unsettled' (Skein Press 2021).

This event will take place on Zoom. You can register for this event at: A conversation with Rosaleen McDonagh

Online

Other Social Justice Week Events taking place on Tuesday, 22nd March

Time	Details	Venue
9 - 10 am	Trauma Informed Leadership in Education; An Action Research Study- Implementing a whole school approach to Trauma Informed Approaches In Inner City Dublin Speakers: Deirdre Forde (Froebel Department of Primary and Early Childhood Education), Eilis Meaghar and Catriona O'Toole (Department of Education) Overview: Education is rightly presented in mainstream discourses as a positive force, leading to a more peaceful and productive world. While education is an empowering force , the systems of education should be critically considered. The national wellbeing policy statement and framework for practice, positions schools, as vital, in promoting children’s wellbeing (DES 2018). In light of this policy, a primary recommendation is that teachers need to be equipped with the knowledge and skills required to support children who may be traumatised or experiencing adversity. Schools and teachers are supporting children with cognitive, social, emotional impairments, behavioural difficulties, impulse control, low self-esteem and emotion dysregulation (Copeland, Keeler, Angold, & Costello, 2007) with little guidance or training in doing so. There is a significant absence of Irish based research in this field, Delaney (2020). One Principal recognised how marginalised communities are at greater risk of experiencing ACEs (Adams, 2010), particularly her own school community and implemented whole school staff training in Trauma Informed Approaches. She is joining MU during social justice week to share her research story. Venue: This event will take place online. Please click here to join this EVENT	Online
10-11 am	Virtual Coffee Morning of the Enable Network for Staff with Disabilities and Chronic Conditions in Maynooth University Speakers: Co-hosted by Sam Blanckensee (Office of the Vice President for Equality & Diversity) and Dr Rebecca Maguire (Department of Psychology; Assisting Living and Learning Institute) Overview: The Enable Network was recently formed to support Maynooth University staff who are living with disabilities and/or chronic health conditions. This network provides staff with the opportunity to meet with other staff members with disabilities and to discuss what it is like to be a person with a disability at Maynooth University. In this virtual coffee morning, we would like to raise the visibility of our network, and in particular to welcome new members to join. We also welcome anyone who has an interest in creating a disability-friendly Maynooth University. This will be an informal session where attendees can share their experiences of living with a disability and chronic illness, including how these experiences have been shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic. This event is open to all. To join this event, please click: Enable Network for Staff Virtual Coffee	Online
10 - 11 am	Workshop on An Augmented Reality app exploring space and satellites to explore and address climate action, sustainable cities and other Sustainable Development Goals. Speaker: With Jonathan Faull (Department of Geography) Overview: In this workshop, we introduce SatelliteSkill5, a free Augmented Reality (AR) app for iOS and Android that introduces space, satellites and Earth observation data to users and see how they can be used to address Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In particular; how satellites work, explore the data, they make and see how they can be used in different applications that help meet SDGs, including – water, health, climate change, security. This app provides an immersive and interactive set of challenges that brings an active approach to learning where users must take charge in solving problems around Ireland in a gamified environment. Augmented Reality provides an excellent tool for teaching and learning about complex space and informational data in a fun, intuitive and interesting way. Once completing the SDG challenges, users unlock free data that you can use in ArcGIS Online to make your own storymaps including real-world data. ArcGIS Online is an accessible and simple way to use the industry standard software for mapping the world for all different purposes, ArcGIS. We welcome all to this exciting workshop to learn more about how satellites and earth observation can address the Sustainable Development Goals Our SFI and ESERO project “5*S – Space, Surveyors and Students: STEM and the Sustainable Development Goals” works to make space and satellite data accessible to people of all ages and skills. Join us to find how can start the conversation! More information at: https://5sdiscover.maynoothuniversity.ie/	Roque Lab, Rhetoric Building (Ground Floor)
11 am - 12.30 pm	Workshop on Storymapping space to address Sustainable Development Goals. Speaker: Dr Sasha Brown (Department of Geography) Overview: This workshop is on how to make your own storymaps turning satellite earth observation data into stories. The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) like ending world hunger, sustainable cities and taking the actions needed to address climate may seem large and unapproachable. In this workshop, you will learn how to explore and communicate directly from spatial data ways to address SDGs in the world, in Ireland and in all kinds of communities. Join us in an introduction to making StoryMaps using ArcGIS Online – ArcGIS is an industry standard software for analysing and communicating spatial data, whether in maps, animations, web stories and more, and storymaps create an exciting, innovative, engaging, and accessible ways to turn the data of our world into stories. This workshop will draw from the 14 Fundamental Geospatial Data Themes that the UN has identified as crucial in assessing and overcoming obstacles to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. You will be given an account at ArcGIS Online and create your own storymaps around a chosen issue in your community or issue of your interest. Storymaps bring together a range of media sources, based around exploring and mapping issues of importance, and allow for exciting and engaging narratives to present data. Our SFI and ESERO project “5*S – Space, Surveyors and Students: STEM and the Sustainable Development Goals” works to make space and satellite data accessible to people of all ages and skills. Join us to find how can start the conversation! More information at: https://5sdiscover.maynoothuniversity.ie/	Physical Geography Lab, Rhetoric Building (Ground Floor)
11 am - 1 pm	Neurodiversity in a Neurotypical World Speaker: Deirdre Forde (Froebel Department of Primary and Early Childhood Education) in conjunction with an Autism Service and self-advocates Overview: With the mobilization of a neurodiverse model of disability, comes the hope of a new public education for children with Special Educational Needs. The Neurodiversity model is a radically different model of practice and an antidote to the medical model. It aims to empower neurodivergent children by accepting and celebrating their differences in thinking, feeling and communicating and not attempting to change them or shape them into meeting ‘neuromajority’ norms. It was founded by Autistic self-advocators. The Neurodiversity movement has the potential to contribute to the field of Special Education in Ireland as it has the propensity to mobilise disability discourse to a diversity discourse. Join us for an interactive session.	SE001 (School of Education Building)
12 noon - 1.30 pm	Different shades of Black: Inequities and barriers Blacks encounter in their Higher Education journey – What can teachers do? Speaker: Lilian Nwanze (Department of Adult and Community Education) Overview: An interactive seminar/workshop open to students and teachers where the barriers Black people face in (Higher) Education will be explored. This seminar will be facilitated by Lilian Nwanze, a Doctoral Student in the Department of Adult and Community Education.	SE235 (School of Education Building)
12 noon	Do Witches Have Human Rights? Speaker: Dr. Thomas Strong Overview: A remarkable shift has occurred in how we talk about witchcraft and sorcery. Whereas these topics have long occasioned critical reflection on belief and reason, or cultural difference and human universals, the new discourse describes witchcraft as a “human rights” problem and focuses on harms associated with it. This shift reflects the influence of a number of actors in both national and international settings, actors working with institutions of global governance to pressure national states to develop coherent legislative and social responses to witchcraft violence.In September 2017, the United Nations Human Rights Commissioner convened its first ever expert workshop on witchcraft and human rights in Geneva. A year later, the UN curated an exhibit of photographs about witchcraft directly outside the The Human Rights and Alliance of Civilisations Room in the Palais des Nations where the expert panel had convened. This week we discuss challenges of advocacy, representation and rights focusing on this small exhibit and its imagery. We highlight the ways in which its representational sensibility symbolises the shift from ‘belief’ to ‘harm’ as the dominant topos shaping the intelligibility of witchcraft as a social phenomenon. When articulated in the context of human rights discourse, “witchcraft” requires not so much understanding, as witnessing. Thus, we consider the ways in which the photographs not only construct ‘victims,’ but also ‘witnesses.’ They depict bodies that ‘testify’ to their own suffering and survival, imagery which provokes a sense of moral responsibility in those who see it. Drawing on fieldwork in highland Papua New Guinea, I also reflect on what the photographs can’t show: witchcraft itself. I describe some of the moral and epistemological challenges of representing and responding to witchcraft phenomena, returning to the aporia contained within this question: Do witches have human rights? If you would like to view this lecture virtually, please email thomas.strong@mu.ie	SLT (Callan Building) and Online
1 - 2 pm	Shifting Perspectives - From North-South to the Global in Global Citizenship Education Speakers: Dr. Eilish Dillon (Department of International Development), Laura Thornton (Froebel Department of Early Childhood and Primary Education), Aoife Titley (Froebel Department of Early Childhood and Primary Education). Overview: This seminar will explore the implications of shifting from a 'North-South' to a 'Global' focus in global citizenship education. How can we do critical education in a way which engages people in Ireland more actively in shaping a better world for everyone? What does it mean to think beyond charity and helping others in the global South to embracing our collective roles, responsibilities and complicities in relation to global inequality and injustice? Can a global focus help us to teach and learn for a more sustainable, inclusive and hopeful future? To register for this event, please see: www.eventbrite.ie/e/shifting-perspectives-from-north-south-to-the-global-in-gce-tickets-272039346007	Online
1-2.30 pm	Precarious working lives: What can be done? Speakers: Miriam Hamilton (Irish Federation of University Teachers) and Dr Jerry O’Neill (School of Education) Overview: Miriam Hamilton from IFUT and Jerry O’Neill from Maynooth University will co-facilitate a session which will explore the experiences of precarious university working lives. Drawing on some narrative fragments of research which Jerry has conducted with his colleague Dr Camilla Fitzsimons, the workshop will seek to explore participants’ shared perspectives on the various impacts of precarity not just on their working lives but also on institutional capacity for sustainable growth. The praxis-orientated workshop will conclude by reflecting upon what can be done to confront this great challenge of contemporary working lives.	CB8 (Callan Building)
1 pm	Catching our breath: a mindful climate justice walk Organised by: Social policy students taking SP310 Climate, Environment & Social Justice, with Dr Jamie Gorman (Department of Applied Social Studies). Overview: Across much of the global North, society is out of balance and had created the unfolding climate and biodiversity crises. So how do we centre ourselves again and begin to act in ways which align to climate and ecological justice? We’ve got to start with catching our breath. Join us for a mindful walk as we visit the campus community garden, hear the poems of Ken Saro Wiwa and connect more deeply to our breath and the natural world in the campus apple orchard. Reconnecting with these resources can help us to clarify what’s truly important – and what needs to change for climate justice and sustainable development to be a reality. Venue: The meeting point for this walk is the green between John Hume and the Arts Building
1 - 2.30 pm	Working To Highlight Housing Injustice: ‘Multi story’ creative engagement for housing change Speakers: Trish Brennan (Department of Applied Social Studies) in conjunction with Housing Action Network (HAN). Overview: HAN is a collective of community workers, researchers, activists and artists concerned with the growing housing crisis in Ireland. Following an 18 month engagement, supported by Create (the national development agency for collaborative arts) which saw artists, activists, community workers and tenants – public and private, engage in a unique collaborative arts process exploring diverse experiences of the housing crisis through visual and performative storytelling. A 10 minute film entitled ‘THE APOLOGY’ has been the outcome of this work and is a hard hitting comment on the homeless/housing situation in Ireland. Performed in monologue form by Paula Kearney a recent graduate of the Department of Applied Social Studies. This event includes a film screening, followed by conversations led by a panel of housing activists. Venue: Training Room D in the Library - follow the signs	Training Room D in the Library
2.30 - 4.30 pm	Working against Poverty: Issues, Strategies & Campaigns: A practitioner-led skills session for community work and youth work students Speakers: Dr Marianne O’Shea (Department of Applied Social Studies) in conjunction with the European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN) Ireland Overview: As ever more communities and young people across the country are struggling to deal with skyrocketing living costs, Paul Ginnell, Director EAPN Ireland will lead an interactive workshop highlighting some of key issues facing those living in persistent poverty in Ireland, strategies to engage with communities and young people on these issues and some ongoing campaigns to address these challenges. EAPN Ireland is a network of anti-poverty groups working to put the eradication of poverty at the top of the EU and Irish agenda through information, training, advocacy and networking. Venue: This event will take place on campus and is scheduled for final year student of the B. Soc. Sci. Community Work & Youth Work. There is limited space for additional attendees to join. Please contact Marianne.oshea@mu.ie to register your interest in attending.	TBC
3 pm	Workshop on Gender-based violence Speaker: Dr Camilla Fitzsimons (School of Education) Overview: This interactive workshop is about the spectrum of gendered-violence, mostly men’s violence against women but also state violence. Participants will be invited to actively participate in a discussion where, together we will contemplate the causes of gender based violence, its consequences, and possible ways of eradication. This workshop explores the limitations of a ‘law and order response’ arguing this can often make things worse rather than better for those a the centre of this phenomenon. It presents a case study of the Dublin 15/Dublin 7 Action against Gender-based Violence Campaign which was launched in 2019. Attendees will be invited to share their own thoughts and experiences as much or as little as they wish. You can come along and just listen or come along and take part in what I hope will be a feminist infused, call to action. Trigger warning: this workshop invites active participation. Venue: This event takes place on Zoom. The meeting link is: Gender-based violence Workshop	Online
4 pm	Removing the Stigma: The journey of a self-advocate with Dyslexia in the Irish Education System Speakers: Deirdre Forde (Froebel Department of Primary and Early Childhood Education) and Caoimhe O' Malley (Dyslexia Association of Ireland) Overview: A Self Advocate with Dyslexia shares her educational experience with honesty and insight. Venue: This event will take place teams. Please click here to join the EVENT.	Online
6 pm	Contemporary Issues in Migration and Human Rights Speaker: Dr Clíodhna Murphy (School of Law and Criminology) This event is organised by MU Free Legal Advice Centre Society.	CB1 (Callan Building)
7-9 pm	Ambition2Action: Transforming innovation and industry Organised by: MU Business Society Speakers: Dr Duncan Casey (Director of Maynooth Works), Ali Sheridan (Sustainability and climate advisor, and PhD candidate) Overview: This fireside like chat event will feature topics on the role of higher education in innovation, how SME’s achieve sustainability and why it matters in the world of business and how we can meet the goals of SDG9 (Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure). This event is open and has no registration requirement	CB8 (Callan Building)

Wednesday, 23rd March

Time	Details	Venue
9-11 am	Gender, Sexuality and Law Speaker: Dr Sinéad Ring (School of Law and Criminology) Venue: Class Hall H in the Arts Building (HH)	Class Hall H (Arts Building)
12 noon	“Whidden with the Country Needjas: Our Method-Dolly” Organised by: This event is organised by Megan Barry, Declan Markey and Aimee Doyle (Maynooth Access Programme outreach team) Overview: The Whidden Workshops; It's Kushti to Rokker brings together Country Needjas (settled people) and Minéir Needjas to tackle and examine issues around access to education for Traveller and Roma students. Our approach to collaboration ensures that the values of Meaningful Participation, Inclusion and Equality are at the core of the work we do. We also want to make our workshops enjoyable experiences for everyone involved. For SJW 2022 we hope to share our learnings and our Method-Dolly with the wider college community. This is a live webinar to explain: (1) The context behind the Whidden Workshops, How it was established and set up, the rationale behind it; why it was established and the values and principles that underpin the implementation and delivery of the workshops. (2) The impacts of the Whidden Workshops on the country neejas – what settled people have learned and taken away from the workshops. (3) The impact of the Whidden Workshops on the Minceir & Roma neejas- what Travellers and Roma have gained and taken away from the workshops. (4) Next level of learning going forward. Venue: This event will take place online. To register for this event, please click here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_v-D3l05pT-6U0cgxxO9_pQ	Online
10 am - 1 pm	Workshop on Introducing Strategic Design in Education as a means of advancing UN Sustainable Development Goals in Higher Education Speakers: Hosted by Maynooth University Innovation Lab (Mi:Lab) *This event is open to MU staff members only. Overview: Mi:Lab will introduce the SDxE approach to tackling HEI challenges and use it to host a group brainstorm focused on reducing HE inequalities. This fast-paced workshop will showcase how the Maynooth University Innovation Lab's (Mi:Lab) recently developed 'Strategic Design in Education' (SDxE) approach to innovation may offer an effective means of addressing complex and even 'wicked' challenges facing Higher Education. Mi:Lab will demonstrate how SDxE and the ARRIVE innovation framework offers an instructive, strategic approach to forging wholesale, strategic change, by encouraging effective cross-disciplinary collaboration, empathy building, creative thinking and experimentation. During the workshop, we will foster a collaborative environment, enabling members of the Maynooth University community to brainstorm and create concepts that might address some of the social inequalities that exist, to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. Venue: Rye Hall. Registration for this event is required. Please follow this link to register: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/293243608527	Rye Hall (Registration Required)
12 noon	Don't Look Up: The role of scientists in the age of climate breakdown Speaker: Dr Ciarán O Carroll (Department of Chemistry) Overview: Humanity and our planet exist at a critical turning point due to climate change. In this talk, Dr. Ciarán O'Carroll, will discuss how the societal tipping point towards a low carbon society built on social justice principles requires the active participation of scientists bringing the discussion to the general public, sharing with them our knowledge of the problem and the solutions for resolving it. To register for this event, please see: Don't Look Up Registration	Online
1 pm	Why we need A Right to Housing in the Constitution Speakers: Dr Rory Hearne, (Department of Applied Social Studies) Aoife Kelly-Desmond, (Managing Solicitor, Mercy Law Resource Centre) To join this event, please see: Why we need A Right to Housing in the Constitution	Online
1-2 pm	Disobedient Youth: Exploring Youth Activism for Climate Justice Speakers: Aidan Farrelly and Dr Jamie Gorman (Department of Applied Social Studies) in conjunction with the National Youth Council of Ireland Future Generations - Climate Justice Project Overview: Today’s disobedient youth are making themselves seen and heard, with millions taking to the streets – and cyberspace – to strike for climate justice. Since 2018, there has been an unprecedented wave of global youth climate activism. What are the demands of young people and how are they making their voices heard? What responsibility do adults have to these youth? Join us for a lively interactive workshop to explore these questions with youth researchers from MU and youth workers from the Future Generations - Climate Justice Project. To register for this event, please email aidan.farrelly@mu.ie	Online
3-5 pm	Launch of the Disciplines Inquiring into Societal Challenges (DISCs) research project Organisers: Dr Bernie Grummell (Department of Adult Education), Dr Morag Monro and Margaret Keane (Centre for Teaching and Learning). Overview: The UCC, DCU and MU DISCs project teams invite you to the launch of Disciplines Inquiring into Societal Challenges. DISCs is an interdisciplinary project funded by the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning. Staff from University College Cork, Dublin City University and Maynooth University will be launching the website resources and CPD guide for teaching social justice in higher education. The event includes an opportunity to participate in workshops sharing experiences of collaborating together to incorporate social justice principles into teaching and learning Venue: This event takes place on Zoom. Please click here to join: https://tinyurl.com/DISCS-23-March. Passcode: 827085	Online

Thursday, 24th March

Time	Details	Venue
10-11.30 am	Discussion panel on The War in Ukraine: Law & Politics Speakers: Prof. Donnacha Ó Beacháin (Dublin City University), Prof. John O’Brennan (Maynooth University) and Prof. Noelle Quenivet (University of the West of England, Bristol) Organised by: This event is organised by Dr Amina Adanan (School of Law and Criminology), who will chair this event. Overview: This event looks at the War in Ukraine through the lens of law and politics. Prof. Donnacha Ó Beacháin is Professor of Politics at the School of Law and Politics at the School of Law and Government in DCU, where he specialises in post-Soviet politics. Prof. John O’Brennan is Jean Monnet Chair in European integration and specialises in EU institutions and politics. Prof. Noelle Quenivet is Professor of International Law in UWE, where she specialises in international humanitarian law (the laws of war). This event is organised by Dr Amina Adanan (School of Law and Criminology), who will chair this event. Join us for a discussion on the law and politics of the war in Ukraine. Join us for a discussion on the law and politics of the war in Ukraine. This event will take place on MS Teams. To register for this event click here: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/discussion-panel-on-the-war-in-ukraine-law-politics-tickets-295086300067	Online
10-11 am	The Sustainable Development Goals in Teaching and Learning Contexts: A trans-Faculty Teaching and Learning Committees’ seminar for Maynooth Social Justice Week 2022 Speakers: Dr Máire Nic an Bhaird (Froebel Department of Primary and Early Childhood Education), Dr Stephen O’Neill (Department of English), Áine Carey (Maynooth University Library) Overview: The three Faculty Teaching and Learning Committees of Maynooth University are delighted to announce a joint, trans-Faculty seminar for Social Justice Week 2022. The Committees will present an overview of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their significance for teaching and learning, an overview of the Committees’ collaborative Inaugural Report on MU Teaching & Learning’s Engagement with Sustainability (November 2021), and the Report’s key findings. Three exemplars of how teaching and learning in different contexts engage with the SDGS will be presented: Dr Máire Nic an Bhaird (Froebel Department of Primary and Early Childhood Education) on ‘The EdBioEc project: Innovative Education for the Bioeconomy’; Dr Stephen O’Neill (Department of English) on the first-year BA module: ‘Cli-Fi: Climate Crisis and the Literary Imagination’; and Áine Carey (Maynooth University Library) on ‘Equity, Inclusion and Lifelong Learning: How MU Library is Supporting SDG Outcomes’. The seminar will then move into a discussion about the Report’s findings; the teaching and learning exemplars; the gaps in MU’s teaching and learning’s current engagement with the SDGs; ways to promote awareness on MU’s teaching and learning’s engagement with the SDGs; and suggestions for MU’s teaching and learning strategic planning. This event will be held in-person in order to support the discursive nature of the event, and it will be recorded (consent for this video-recording is required to attend the seminar). You can register for free for this event via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-sustainable-development-goals-sdgs-in-maynooth-university-teaching-an-tickets-291683863287	SE013 (School of Education)
12 noon - 1 pm	CANCELLED - Unfortuantely this seminar has been cancelled The EU accession to the European Convention on Human Rights Speaker: Prof. Tobias Lock (School of Law and Criminology)	CANCELLED SE131 (School of Education)
1 pm	Do Witches Have Human Rights? Speaker: Dr. Thomas Strong Overview: A remarkable shift has occurred in how we talk about witchcraft and sorcery. Whereas these topics have long occasioned critical reflection on belief and reason, or cultural difference and human universals, the new discourse describes witchcraft as a “human rights” problem and focuses on harms associated with it. This shift reflects the influence of a number of actors in both national and international settings, actors working with institutions of global governance to pressure national states to develop coherent legislative and social responses to witchcraft violence. In September 2017, the United Nations Human Rights Commissioner convened its first ever expert workshop on witchcraft and human rights in Geneva. A year later, the UN curated an exhibit of photographs about witchcraft directly outside the The Human Rights and Alliance of Civilisations Room in the Palais des Nations where the expert panel had convened. This week we discuss challenges of advocacy, representation and rights focusing on this small exhibit and its imagery. We highlight the ways in which its representational sensibility symbolises the shift from ‘belief’ to ‘harm’ as the dominant topos shaping the intelligibility of witchcraft as a social phenomenon. When articulated in the context of human rights discourse, “witchcraft” requires not so much understanding, as witnessing. Thus, we consider the ways in which the photographs not only construct ‘victims,’ but also ‘witnesses.’ They depict bodies that ‘testify’ to their own suffering and survival, imagery which provokes a sense of moral responsibility in those who see it. Drawing on fieldwork in highland Papua New Guinea, I also reflect on what the photographs can’t show: witchcraft itself. I describe some of the moral and epistemological challenges of representing and responding to witchcraft phenomena, returning to the aporia contained within this question: Do witches have human rights? If you would like to view this lecture virtually, please email thomas.strong@mu.ie
3-4.30 pm	Ecofeminism: Climate Change, Gender Equality and Social Justice Speakers: Haley Robinson and Vanessa Conroy (MSoc. in Rights and Social Policy) Overview: This event explores the concept of ecofeminism, a branch of feminism which explores the link between gender oppression and environmental destruction. The gendered effects of climate change have been noted by policymakers in the EU, climate scientists, climate activism groups and academics for some time now - women suffer more at the hands of our changing climate.Coined by French feminist Françoise d'Eaubonne in 1974, ecofeminism asks us to interrogate the oppression of women and the destruction of the environment and ask if there is an important link to be found - and if it is found, how we can use it to end gender inequality and environmental degradation. This talk, part of Maynooth University's Social Justice Week 2022, will introduce the concept of ecofeminism and explore its application in both the Global North and South, its reach in academia, and how it can be applied to create truly just policies concerning how we can reduce our carbon footprint before the 2030 deadline whilst ensuring that existing gender inequalities are eliminated. This session will include a Q&A and the opportunity for attendees to share in resources used during the talk. ?	SE010 (School of Education)
5-6.30 pm	Sustainable Development Goal 4: Achieving inclusive and quality education for all: Research in Progress Session for Doctoral Students in MU and DCU This event is aimed at doctoral students conducting research in the area of quality and inclusive education. Registration is essential, please email Aoife Titley for further details: aoife.titley@mu.ie. About this event:* This event is hosted by Froebel Department of Primary and Early Childhood Education in collaboration with the Institute of Education in DCU.	SE133 (Drame Room on the 1st Floor of the School of Education)

Friday, 25th March

Time	Details	Venue
10 - 11 am	Gender, justice, and climate resilient pathways: Reflections on IPCC AR6 WG2 2022 Report on Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation Speakers: Prof. Conor Murphy (Department of Geography) and panel of students on MSc Climate Change Venue: This event will take place online. To join this event click here: Gender, justice, and climate resilient pathways	Online
10.30 am	Open Access supporting the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals Speaker: Ciarán Quinn (Maynooth University Library) Overview: In this brief talk Ciarán Quinn (Research Support Librarian, MU) will discuss the vital importance of the availability of Open Access research publications to improve access to information and knowledge to enable the fulfilment of the SDG’s to end poverty, improve health and education, reduce inequality, encourage economic growth, and tackle environmental destruction and climate change. Key areas covered will be the development of Open Access, the challenges, the current situation, identifying OA research papers that relate specifically to the SDG’s and the role of MU advocacy for open access. Attendees will benefit from a clearer understanding of the importance of OA as a means of democratising access to information and how this can have a clear demonstratable benefit for the achievement of the SDG’s. To join this event, please see https://nuim.libcal.com/event/3863711	Online
10.30 am - 12 noon	From ESG to SDGs: the practical work of crafting sustainable business strategies Speakers: Dr Jean Cushen (School of Business) and Marian Curry (Business in the Community Ireland and MU Geography Alumnus) Overview: Business in the Community Ireland (BITCI) is a movement for sustainable change supporting businesses to bring about a sustainable, low carbon economy and a more inclusive society. In 2021 BITCI assembled a panel of industry and academic partners with the goal of creating a ‘sustainability maturity model’. This maturity model aims to guide organisations to evaluate the sustainability of their business and also provide a roadmap for change and improvement. The work on this maturity model is ongoing and the efforts to date highlights two complex issues which are perhaps predictable but are by no means straightforward. Firstly, enhancing sustainability requires a commitment, on the part of organisation leaders, to reconsider the organisation’s route to value. Secondly, sustainable business connects the entirety of organisational life from strategy and leadership to operations and daily work practices. The aim of this session is to explore these issues and discuss how they shape the practical work of trying to stimulate a move towards greater business sustainability. In particular, this session will cover the following: The evolution and role of sustainability frameworks from ‘Environmental, Social and Governance’ (ESG) regulations to the ‘Sustainable Development Goals’ (SDGs). We will start by discussing the impacts of ESG reporting regulations and the role of the SDGs in generating change. Starting organisations on their sustainability journey. We will move on to consider how to start the sustainability conversation with businesses and the need to be holistic and impactful on the one hand and accessible and achievable on the other. Draft ‘sustainability maturity model’. We will conclude by presenting an overview of the sustainability maturity model and the dual approach of providing a measurement tool that also serves as a guide for progress. The presentation will be followed by a discussion during which time we welcome all views and perspectives from the circumspect and conservative to the radical and revolutionary. This session should be of interest to academics, students, activists and practitioners who are considering the practical work of moving organisations towards developing sustainable practices and the value of SDGs as roadmap for change. Venue: This event will take place on MS Teams. Register by clicking on this link: "From ESG to SDGS". We hope to see you there.	Online
4.15 - 5 pm	Panel discussion on Protecting Human Rights and Enhancing Social Justice beyond the Pandemic Panellists: - Aislinn Fanning (Queens University Belfast), Risks and Opportunities: The Future of Gender Equality Law in Northern Ireland after ‘Brexit’ - Lea Urzel (MU), Access to Justice for Persons with Disabilities: EU Perspectives Discussant: Federica Carriero (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy) Chair & Moderator: Dr. Alice Panepinto (Queens University Belfast). Venue: This event will take place online. To register for this event please email Rosie Mangan at law@mu.ie. This event is organised by Prof. Delia Ferri (School of Law and Criminology).	Online

ONGOING ACTIVITIES DURING AND AFTER SOCIAL JUSTICE WEEK 2022

Throughout the week, there will be a blog series special highlighting the community-based teaching and learning at Maynooth in partnership with community organisations. The series will underscore the importance of a geographical and justice perspective for SDG 11, ‘Sustainable Cities and Communities’. Entitled ‘Spatial Justice in Dublin 8’, the series will include Illustrated essays from Geography postgraduate students across two academic years/cohorts on this theme, and be introduced by staff who were part of a partnership in 2021 with the community-based arts organisation Common Ground based in Dublin 8. This blog series is organised by Prof. Karen Till (Department of Geography). Blog will be published on the Dept of Geography’s Eye on The World blog (https://maynoothgeography.wordpress.com/) and cross- published on the Social Justice Week website.

Ciarán Quinn (Research Support Librarian) will be tweeting each day of Social Justice Week highlighting scholarly articles available from MU Library databases relating to the theme of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. You can follow Ciarán on Twitter @Ciaran__Quinn and the MU Library on Twitter @library_MU

After Social Justice Week 2022, there will be a photography exhibition entitled 'A Lens on Global Goals' by photographer Paul Mc Cambridge. This exhibition will take place in the School of Education from 25 April-6 May 2022.

Spatial Justice in Dublin 8 Blog Series

Blog No.1: Sustainable Communities and the Publicly-Engaged University: Introduction to the ‘Spatial Justice in Dublin 8’ blog series

Blog No.2: Historical Geographies of Injustice in Dublin 8

Blog No.3: The Urban Palimpsest of New Kilmainham 1911

Blog No.4: Dublin’s Garden Cemeteries: Comparing Iconography, Design, and Community Social Space

Blog No. 5: Inchicore as Battleground: Spatial Conflict and Dublin’s Working Class, 1902-1914

Blog No.6: Jobs for the Boys, a Home for the Family? Multi-Generational Employment at the Inchicore Railway Works in 1911

Blog No.7: Mapping 1911 New Kilmainham Ward/Inchicore: A Representation of Social Granularity in Dublin 8

Blog No.8: A Radical Historical Geography of Inchicore: Capital, Commemoration, and Nationalism

Blog No.9: Activism and Housing In/Justice in Dublin 8

Blog No.10: Soccer and the Making of Place in Inchicore

Blog No.11: Geographies of Violence against Women and creating safe spaces in Inchicore

Blog No. 12: Art in the Face of Urban Trauma - Kate O'Shea's Work with the Family Resource Centre in Dublin 8

Blog No. 13: Art and Spatial Justice in Dublin 8 - A Conversation with Artist Kate O'Shea (part 1)

Blog No. 14: 'Who is it for?' Art, Life, and Politics in Dublin 8 and Beyond - A Conversation with Artist Kate O'Shea (part 2)

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Maynooth Social Justice Week 2022

A Message from the Social Justice Week Committee

A conversation with Dr Rosaleen McDonagh, author of Unsettled (Skein Press, 2021)

The Economics of Inequality for Leaving Cert Students

Debate on ‘This House Believes that Human Rights are only inherent to citizens of developed countries’

Student Race Equality Forum

Social Justice Week Keynote Event

A conversation with Dr Rosaleen McDonagh, author of Unsettled (Skein Press, 2021)

Other Social Justice Week Events taking place on Tuesday, 22nd March

Trauma Informed Leadership in Education; An Action Research Study- Implementing a whole school approach to Trauma Informed Approaches In Inner City Dublin

Virtual Coffee Morning of the Enable Network for Staff with Disabilities and Chronic Conditions in Maynooth University

Workshop on Storymapping space to address Sustainable Development Goals.

Neurodiversity in a Neurotypical World

Different shades of Black: Inequities and barriers Blacks encounter in their Higher Education journey – What can teachers do?

Do Witches Have Human Rights?

Shifting Perspectives - From North-South to the Global in Global Citizenship Education

Precarious working lives: What can be done?

Catching our breath: a mindful climate justice walk

Working To Highlight Housing Injustice: ‘Multi story’ creative engagement for housing change

Working against Poverty: Issues, Strategies & Campaigns: A practitioner-led skills session for community work and youth work students

Workshop on Gender-based violence

Removing the Stigma: The journey of a self-advocate with Dyslexia in the Irish Education System

Contemporary Issues in Migration and Human Rights

Ambition2Action: Transforming innovation and industry

Gender, Sexuality and Law

“Whidden with the Country Needjas: Our Method-Dolly”

Workshop on Introducing Strategic Design in Education as a means of advancing UN Sustainable Development Goals in Higher Education

Don't Look Up: The role of scientists in the age of climate breakdown

Why we need A Right to Housing in the Constitution

Disobedient Youth: Exploring Youth Activism for Climate Justice

Launch of the Disciplines Inquiring into Societal Challenges (DISCs) research project

Discussion panel on The War in Ukraine: Law & Politics

The Sustainable Development Goals in Teaching and Learning Contexts: A trans-Faculty Teaching and Learning Committees’ seminar for Maynooth Social Justice Week 2022

*CANCELLED - Unfortuantely this seminar has been cancelled* The EU accession to the European Convention on Human Rights

Do Witches Have Human Rights?

Ecofeminism: Climate Change, Gender Equality and Social Justice

Sustainable Development Goal 4: Achieving inclusive and quality education for all: Research in Progress Session for Doctoral Students in MU and DCU

Gender, justice, and climate resilient pathways: Reflections on IPCC AR6 WG2 2022 Report on Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation

Open Access supporting the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

From ESG to SDGs: the practical work of crafting sustainable business strategies

Panel discussion on Protecting Human Rights and Enhancing Social Justice beyond the Pandemic

CANCELLED - Unfortuantely this seminar has been cancelled

The EU accession to the European Convention on Human Rights