Maynooth University Arts and Humanities Institute

Departments in the Faculty hold a Research Seminar Series Each Semester.

Department of Philosophy

Date	Time	Location	Speaker	Title
9 February 2022	4-6PM	Bewerunge Room, Logic House	Prof. Andreas Dorschel (Kunstuniversität Graz)	‘Historicizing Musical Expression
23 February 2022	5-6PM	Zoom	M. Charles Piecyk (PhD Candidate, Maynooth University)	‘The Invention of Man
24 February 2022	4-5PM	Zoom	Prof. Cynthia Nielsen (University of Dallas	‘Banksy, Street Art, and Gadamerian Hermeneutical Aesthetics’
24 March 2022	12-2PM	Zoom	Prof. Stephen G. Lofts (King’s University College, London, Ontario)	‘Dōgen, Heidegger, Nishitani: Historicity and the Problem of Nihilism’
7 April 2022	3-5PM	Physics Hall, South Campus	Prof. Ruth Hagengruber (Universität Paderborn	‘Émilie du Châtelet and Kant: A New Perspective on the History of Philosophy’

Semester I 2021-21 // Department of Music Research Seminars

All seminars will be delivered online via Zoom on Wednesdays at 16:00 (Irish time). Please contact the seminars coordinator Dr Laura Watson for the Zoom access links.

Date	Time	Location	Speaker	Event Title

Semester II 2021-21 // Department of Music Lunchtime Concerts

All concerts will be broadcast via the Department of Music YouTube channel on Thursdays at 1:10 p.m. unless otherwise indicated.

Date	Time	Location	Event Title

Roinn na Nua-Ghaeilge

Date	Time	Location	Speaker	Title
10 Feabhra 2022	5PM	JHL3	Pádhraic Ó Ciardha	‘Thar Sáile: athchuairt ar sheoda dearmadta ó litríocht taistil na Gaeilge 1600-2000'
17 Feabhra 2022	5PM	Zoom	Marianne Ní Chinnéide	'Ó Gharraí go Stáitse: ag Cruthú na Drámaíochta le Chéile'
31 Márta 2022	5PM		Éadaoin Ni Mhuircheartaigh
28 Aibreán 2022	5PM		Róisín Ní Ghairbhí

Department of History

Date	Time	Location	Speaker	Title
3 Feb 2022	6PM	Online	Aisling Shalvey	‘Paediatrics under German Occupation, 1941-1944’
10 Feb 2022	6PM	Online	Lewis Defrates	‘The Newspapers, the Telegraph Wires, the Cables”: Race, Infrastructure and the Global Production of American Culture, 1865-1914’
17 Feb 2022	6PM	Online	Adrienn Sztana-Kovacs	'The roles of foreign university language tutors in cultural diplomacy in Hungary between 1922 and 1944'
10 Mar 2022	6PM	TBD	Sandrine Tromeur	‘The Irish Community of La Rochelle (1603-1789): Migration, Integration, Networks’
	6.30PM	TBD	Hussam Ahmed	‘Hassanein Heikal's al-Ahram: Journalism vs. the University in Nasser’s Egypt’
24 Mar 2022		TBD	Laura Brown	‘True crime and the historian’
7 Apr 2022	6PM	TBD	Helen Doyle	'The Dangerous Lunatic Act and its significance in nineteenth-century Ireland'
	6.30PM	TBD	Michael McDermott	‘The Vicissitude of the Farney Development Company 1919-1927: First Irish Gypsum Plaster Production of the Twentieth Century, at Lisnabo, County Meath’
14 Apr 2022		TBD	Justin Stover Dolan	'Reconsidering "Active Service" during the Irish Revolution'
28 Apr 2022	6PM	TBD	Giovanni Parente	‘The European Union at sea: a historical and geopolitical analysis of EU maritime operations and their impact on maritime governance and security, 2008-2020’
	6.30PM	TBD	Sarah Roddy	'A grateful client of St Gabriel': an introduction to the PARISH church inscriptions project'
5 May 2022		TBD	Doina Anca Cretu	‘Humanitarian Containment: Austria-Hungary and the Origins of Modern Refugee Camps in the Era of the First World War'

Department of Early Irish & Celtic Studies

Date	Time	Location	Speaker	Title
17 February 2022	5PM	Room SE130 School of Education	Dr. Caitlin Ellis (DIAS)	'Rulers and Poets: Orkney, Dublin and their Networks in the Eleventh Century'
10 March 2022	5PM	Room SE130 School of Education	Dr. Immo Warntjes (TCD)	"Pope Vitalian's Letter to King Oswiu of Northumbria and the Beginning of Armagh's Claim of Primacy over the Irish Churches
7 April 2022	5PM	Room SG130 School of Education	Dr. Catherine Swift (MIC Limerick)	'A Dynasty of the Mandarin Class in Thirteenth-Century Ireland and Potential Pre-Norman Precursors'

Department of English

Date	Time	Location	Title

Department of Classics

Date	Time	Location	Speaker	Title	Link
25 March 2022	4PM	MS TEAMS	Prof. Martin Goodman (Oxford)	'Herod and the Roman Revolution'	Please contact Jonathan Davies here for a link to this seminar.
8 April 2022	4PM	MS TEAMS	Dr. Brahm Kleinman (McGill University, Montreal)	‘Accounting for Civil Violence in Sulla’s Wars and Dictatorship’
29 April 2022	4PM	MS TEAMS	Dr. Cosetta Cadau (Maynooth University)	‘Power and Parenthood in Two Late Antique Tales of Abduction: Claudian’s Abduction of Proserpina and Colluthus’ Abduction of Helen’

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