Research Seminar Series | Maynooth University

Department of Philosophy

Event	Date	Speaker
Speaker Series	October 17, 2019	Prof. Yosef Z. Liebersohn (Bar-Ilan University) ‘Who is Crito in Plato’s Crito?’
Workshop	November 12, 2019	Workshop on Ethics and Digitalization featuring Prof. John-Stewart Gordon (Vytautas Magnus University)
Speaker Series	November 14, 2019	Prof. Maeve Cooke (University College Dublin) ‘Ethics in the Anthropocene: A (New) Critical Theory Perspective’
Lecture	November 21, 2019	Prof. Roberto Hofmeister Pich (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande) ‘Toleration and Intolerance: Some Major Aspects of the Philosophy of Black Slavery in Latin American Scholasticism’ - Part of World Philosophy Day
Speaker Series	November 28, 2019	Dr Antonio Scoppotuelo (Università degli Studi di Roma ‘Tor Vergata’) ‘What Moral Order in Society? Reflections on Antonio Genovesi’s Ethics’

Department of Music

Date	Time	Location	Event Title
2 October 2019	4pm	Bewerunge Room, Logic House	Seminar: '"All Along the Road to Roam": Nostalgia and Hierachy in Traveller Song Traditions' - Sandra Joyce (UL)
3 October 2019	1.10pm	St. Mary's Church	Performance: 'The Early Music Songbook' performed by Ensemble Tempro
9 October 2019	4pm	Bewerunge Room, Logic House	Seminar: Postgraduate Research a selection of papers from the postgrad community
10 October 2019	1.10m	Rivertstown Hall	Performance: Mick O'Brien (uileann pipes/whistles) and Martin O'Leary (piano/guitar)
16 October 2019	4pm	Bewerunge Room, Logic House	Seminar: ‘Ancient Texts: Contemporary Music’ - Edmund Hunt (Birmingham City University)
23 October 2019	4pm	Bewerunge Room, Logic House	Seminar: ‘Autographs and the Extramusical: The Manuscripts of William Boyce’ - Estelle Murphy (MU)
13 November 2019	4pm	Bewerunge Room, Logic House	Seminar: ‘The Singer of Ideas: Prophecy, Parrhesia, and Politics in the works of Máire Bhuí Ní Laoire and Máire Ní Dhroma’ - Tríona Ní Shíocháin (UCC)
20 November 2019	4pm	Bewerunge Room, Logic House	Seminar: ‘On the Geography and Cultural Economy of British Drum & Bass Music’ - Alistair Fraser (MU)
27 November 2019	4pm	Bewerunge Room, Logic House	Seminar: ‘Opera in Dublin, 1880-1922: Revivalism and Reception’ - Maria McHale (Conservatory of Music and Drama, TUD)

Roinn na Nua-Ghaeilge

Date	Time	Location	Title
Déardaoin 10 Deireadh Fómhair 2019	5pm	Ionad: Seomra Seimineáir 1.33, IONTAS	Proinsias Ó Drisceoil - Litir Phádraig Phiarais Chúndúin i Leabharlann an Ruiséalaigh
Déardaoin 14 Samhain 2019	5pm	Ionad: Seomra Seimineáir 1.33, IONTAS	Ailbhe Ó Corráin, Ollscoil Uladh - Gaibhneacht iúil ar n-éigse-ne: Filíocht na Scol agus Athbheochan Léann na hEorpa
Déardaoin 12 Nollaig 2019	5pm	Ionad: Seomra Seimineáir 1.33, IONTAS	Síle Denvir, Ollscoil Chathair Bhaile Átha Cliath - 'Tá ceol ag an gcrann is ag na láinnéir': Saol agus Saothar Tom a' tSeoighe
Déardaoin 20 Feabhra 2020	5pm	Ionad: Seomra Seimineáir 2.31, IONTAS	Máire Ní Annracháin, UCD/Ollamh Taca, Ollscoil Mhá Nuad - Cén léamh a dhéantar ar chomhbhá an dúlra i bhfilíocht na linne, linn loiscthe agus díleann?
Déardaoin 5 Márta 2020	5pm	Ionad: Seomra Seimineáir 2.31, IONTAS	Tomás L. Ó Murchú, Coláiste na hOllscoile, Corcaigh - Foirmle, Aeistéitic agus Eachtra – Caoineadh ar Shéamas Mac Coitir a cheap Liam Rua Mac Coitir c. 1720
Déardaoin 30 Aibreán 2020	5pm	Ionad: Seomra Seimineáir 2.31, IONTAS	Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh, Ollscoil Mhá Nuad - Neart Banbha ’ga barúnaibh: dán ar Phádraigín Mac Muiris

Department of English

Date	Time	Location	Title
25 February 2020	2pm	Iontas Room 1.33	Dr Karl O’Hanlon: 'Desmond FitzGerald: Imagist, Rebel, Reactionary'
9 March 2020	2-5.30pm	Iontas Room 1.33	Dr Rita Sakr (with Dr Jeneen Naji and others): ‘Writing/righting refuge: Behrouz Boochani’. Documentary, Q&A, roundtable.
10 March 2020	2-5pm	Iontas Room 1.33	Poet and artist Caroline Bergvall reading, performing and in conversation with Writer-in-Residence Sue Rainsford.
24 March 2020	2pm	SE132	Dr Natalia Cecire (Sussex University): ‘Single Sex: The Queer Poetics of Cell Biology at Bryn Mawr College, 1905’

Department of History

Date	Time	Location	Speaker	Title
17 October 2019	6pm	Iontas Room 1.33	Dr Eric Morier-Genoud (QUB)	Researching the global Catholic Church from the periphery: archives, concepts and transnational connections
24 October 2019	6pm	Iontas Room 1.33	Dr Annie Tindley (Newcastle University)	Modernity and rurality in Scotland: land and people, 1746 to the present – some initial reflections
7 November 2019	6pm	Iontas Room 1.33	Dr Leanne McCormick (UU) & Dr Elaine Farrell (QUB), AHRC-funded Bad Bridget: criminal and deviant Irishwomen in North America, 1838-1918 Project Investigators	Bad Bridget: Irish immigrant women and perceived sexual immorality in North America, 1838-1918
21 November 2019	6pm	Iontas Room 1.33	Dr. Peter Crooks (TCD & Beyond 2022 Project Principal Investigator)	Beyond 2022 Project: Ireland’s virtual record treasury
28 November 2019	6pm	Iontas Room 1.33	Dr. Barry Whelan (DCU)	Irish neutrality on the line – Hitler’s eyes look West
5 December 2019	6pm	Iontas Room 1.33	Inês Fialho Brandão (MU PhD candidate)	Art in transit: the import and export of artworks in Portugal, 1933-45
12 December 2019	6pm	Iontas Room 1.33	Professor Sally Promey (Yale University)	Testimonial aesthetics and material establishment: the public display of religion in the United States
13 February 2020	6pm	Iontas Room 1.33	Dr. Helen Cowey (University of York)	‘The seal and his jacket’: science, politics and conservation in the fur seal fisheries of Alaska, 1850-1914
20 February 2020	6pm	Iontas Room 1.33	Dr. Edward Madigan (Royal Holloway, University of London)	Britannia's Huns: memories of 1914 and the moral climate in Britain during the Irish War of Independence
27 February 2020	6pm	Iontas Room 1.33	Prof. Tim Meagher (Catholic University of America)	Ireland and the Irish American Diaspora: interpretations and Archives
5 March 2020	5pm	Iontas Room 1.33	Dr. Fionnuala Walsh (UCD)	‘My husband’s in Salonika’: the soldier’s wife in wartime Ireland 1914- 1918
5 March 2020	6pm	Iontas Room 1.33	Dr. Sylvie Kleinman (TCD)	'The 1916 prison diary of Madeleine ffrench-Mullen (1880-1944): when silences speak volumes’
12 March 2020	6pm	Iontas Room 1.33	Dr. Hussam R. Ahmed (Department of History, Maynooth University)	Egyptian cultural expansionism in Europe and the Mediterranean (1936-52)
26 March 2020	6pm	Iontas Room 1.33	Prof. Philip A. Homan (Idaho State University)	‘Seeking bronchos to subdue the wily Boers’: the earl of Fingall in the American West during the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902
2 April 2020	5pm	Iontas Room 1.33	Dr. Lili Zach (Department of History, Maynooth University)	The jolliest barrack? The power and limitations of laughter in post- Stalinist Hungary (1956-89)
2 April 2020	6pm	Iontas Room 1.33	Prof. Rok Stergar (University of Ljubljana)	Unintended consequences: the Habsburg Empire, a multinationalising state?
9 April 2020	5pm	Iontas Room 1.33	Prof. Morag Martin (State University of New York – The College at Brockport)	Battling over bodies: obstetrical education for male medical students and midwives in nineteenth-century France
23 April 2020	5pm	Iontas Room 1.33	Gerard O’Keeffe (MU PhD candidate)	Sir Hugh Gough’s media wars, 1843-1849
23 April 2020	6pm	Iontas Room 1.33	Prof. Susan R. Grayzel (Utah State University)	Home and Front: women and the First World War in a global context

Department of Classics

Date	Time	Location	Speaker	Title
23 October 2019	5pm	John Hume Lecture Theatre 3	Prof. George Huxley (Maynooth / TCD)	'Achaeans, Hittites, and the tale of Troy.'
15 November 2019	4pm	John Hume Lecture Theatre 7	Dr. Rebecca Usherwood (TCD)	‘Names for now and for posterity: consular dates and integration at the dawn of Late Antiquity.’
29 November 2019	4pm	John Hume Lecture Theatre 7	Dr. Christopher Farrell (UCD)	‘A fitting end? Invective in the epilogue to Xenophon’s Education of Cyrus.’
13 December 2019	4pm	John Hume Lecture Theatre 7	Dr. Kerry Phelan (Maynooth)	‘What's blood got to do with it? Athenian Citizenship Law and Demosthenes 57'

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