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Protection of Civil Liberties and Privacy Regaining Prominence
Issues such as the Snowden revelations and Milly Dowler phone hacking have led to an increased consciousness of privacy issues and civil liberties globally. However, this renewed attention sits against a backdrop where the protection of civil liberties is often seen as pandering to left wing supporters, terrorists and criminals.
Date: Wednesday, 21 May 2014
Is counter-terrorism countering more than terrorism?
BA graduate (2011) Eileen Murphy is now a researcher with the Centre for Irish and European Security
Date: Monday, 19 May 2014
Anthropology Seminar Series, 10th April 2014
Emplacement or Displacement: Bari Returnees in South Sudan Juba, by Ulrike Schultz, Visiting Professor, Department of Anthropology, Maynooth University.
Date: Thursday, 10 April 2014
Anthropology at Kilkenny Campus
Dr. A. Jamie Saris discusses his research on the cultural history of addiction with staff and students in Maynooth University 's Kilkenny campus.
Date: Monday, 31 March 2014
Anthropology Seminar Series, 27th March 2014
Remoteness, Infrastructure and Mobility: Circumpolar Perspectives, by Peter Schweitzer, University of Vienna
Date: Thursday, 27 March 2014
Anthropology Seminar Series, 13th March 2014
Religious Conversion and Nenets Bricolage: Making Modernity in the Russian Arctic by Dr Tatiana Vagramenko, Department of Anthropology, Maynooth University
Date: Thursday, 13 March 2014
Maynooth University Internal Postgraduate Funding 2014-15
Applications open Thursday March 6th 2014
Date: Tuesday, 04 March 2014
Newstalk "Talking History"
James Saris and Steve Coleman talk to Patrick Geoghegan from Newstalk
Date: Thursday, 20 February 2014
AN862 Ethnography Winter School 27th - 31st Jan 2014
The Department of Anthropology is please to host for the second consecutive year a one-week ‘Ethnography Winter School’; the School will be held from 27 to 31 January 2014. The School is conducted as a postgraduate module delivered in a burst-format over several days, and features the collaborative teaching of practicing ethnographers from Ireland and elsewhere. This year guest lecturers include Adam Reed (St. Andrews), Ulrike Schultz (Free University Berlin), and Virginie Vaté (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris).
Date: Tuesday, 21 January 2014
Anthropology features in the Irish Independent
Read Ciarán Walsh on Anthropology in Contemporary Ireland
Date: Monday, 06 January 2014