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

Department of Philosophy

Date	Time	Location	Speaker	Title
29 September 2022	6 PM	JH4	Berkeley Lecture: Peter Lynch (UCD)	‘Levels of Infinity’
27 October 2022	3 PM	Online	Amos Edelheit with Brian Garcia (Assumption University, US)	‘A Philosopher at the Crossroads'
17 November 2022	3 PM	TSI036	Oleksandr Kulyk	‘Chaos in Ukraine: A Philosophical Reflection’

Department of Music

Semester I 2023-24 // Department of Music Research Seminars

Coordinator: Dr Laura Watson

Date	Time	Location	Speaker	Event Title
4 October 2023	4PM	Bewerunge Room, Logic House, South Campus, Maynooth University	Dr Felix Morgenstern (University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz)	Intercultural Transactions: Irish Traditional Music in Germany
18 October 2023	4PM	Bewerunge Room, Logic House, South Campus, Maynooth University	Dr Emily Gale (University of Leithbridge, Alberta)	‘Have I Gone Too Far?’ Sentimentality and the Politics of Excess in Anglo-American Love Songs
25 October 2023	4PM	Bewerunge Room, Logic House, South Campus, Maynooth University	Ariadna Martin Alfaro & José María Curbelo González (Conservatorio Superior de Música de Canarias)	Goyescas: Study of the Artistic Relationship between Music and Painting
15 November 2023	4PM	1.37, Iontas Building, North Campus	Prof. Victor Lazzarini (Maynooth University)	Issues of Ubiquitous Music Archaeology
22 November 2023	4PM	Bewerunge Room, Logic House, South Campus, Maynooth University	Mark Chamber (Sestina Music / University of Birmingham)	The Singer as Celebutante
6 December 2023	4PM	Bewerunge Room, Logic House, South Campus, Maynooth University	Dr Nicolò Palazzetti (La Sapienza University of Rome)	Opera Lovers in the Digital Age: From Music Sociology to Fan Studies

Roinn na Nua-Ghaeilge

Date	Time	Location	Speaker	Title
Déardaoin 19 Deireadh Fómhair 2023	17:00	Seomra seimineáir 1.33, Foirgneamh IONTAS	Philip Mac a’ Ghoill, Ollscoil Mhá Nuad	Beannacht duit, beannacht d'fhearaibh th'oileamhna: dán ar Dháibhíth Óg de Barra (c.1604) ag teacht in aois
Déardaoin 23 Samhain 2023	17:00	Seomra seimineáir, Roinn na Nua-Ghaeilge, Foirgneamh na nEalaíon	Breandán Ó Cróinín, Coláiste Mhuire gan Smál	Athchuairt ar Chath Fionntrágha
Déardaoin 7 Nollaig 2023	17:00	Seomra seimineáir 1.33, Foirgneamh IONTAS	Lára Ní Mhaoláin, Ollscoil Mhá Nuad	An guth baineann i measc na bhfear: Ról na mban in Caithréim Chonghail Chláiringhnigh

Department of History

Date	Time	Location	Speaker	Title
5 October 2023	6PM-7.15pm	R1.33 (Iontas)	Darragh Gannon (UCD & Fulbright Irish Scholar at Georgetown University)	‘A United Kingdom conflict: reframing the Irish Revolution’. The seminar will be followed by the launch of Darragh Gannon’s monograph Conflict, Diaspora, and Empire: Irish nationalism in Britain, 1912-1922 (Cambridge University Press)
12 October 2023	6PM-7.15pm	Online	Oksana Vynnyk (Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at Maynooth University)	‘War disability, welfare and State-building in the Polish Eastern Borderlands (1918-39)’
26 October 2023	6PM-7.15pm	R1.33 (Iontas)	Aidan Enright (Leeds Beckett University)	‘“a symbol of West Britonism in Ireland”: the O’Conor Don and the culture and politics of liberal Catholicism and Catholic unionism, 1860-1906’
9 Nov 2023	6PM-7.15pm	R1.33 (Iontas)	Martin D. Brown (Richmond American University London)	‘The Bondian Cold War: An analysis in [00]7 hashtags’
16 Nov 2023	6PM-7.15pm	R1.33 (Iontas)	Aisling Shalvey (Victims of brain research under National Socialism project)	“‘Protect your Child, Trust the Doctor!’ Paediatrics under National Socialism from research subject to named victim’ The seminar will be followed by the launch of Aisling Shalvey’s monograph Paediatrics in the Reichsuniversität Straßburg: children’s medicine at a Bastion of Nazi ideology (Exeter University Press)
23 Nov 2023	6PM-7.15pm	R1.33 (Iontas)	Catriona Kennedy (University of York)	‘Jonathan Swift and his servants: a history of eighteenth-century Ireland from below stairs’
30 Nov 2023	6.30PM-7.15pm	R1.33 (Iontas)	Róisín Higgins (Maynooth University)	‘“I don’t remember the exact words, but I remember the tone’: writing a history of the sights, sounds and subtleties of the Troubles’
7 Dec 2023	6PM-7.15pm	R1.33 (Iontas)	Tim Murtagh (Beyond 2022 Project)	‘Empire of Information: the lost records of the Irish Chief Secretary’s Office, 1760-1830’

Department of Early Irish & Celtic Studies

Date	Time	Location	Speaker	Title
19 October 2023	5PM	R1.33 Iontas Building	Dr Pádraic Moran	Virgil and Virgil Commentaries in the St Gall Priscian Glosses’
23 November 2023	5PM	R1.33 Iontas Building	Br Colmán Ó Clabaigh OSB	‘The Priest and his Book(s) in Late Medieval Ireland’ (Paul Walsh Memorial Lecture 2023)
14 December 2023	5PM	R1.33 Iontas Building	Dr Kate Colbert	‘Building a Framework for Recording Early Irish Carved Stones: Standardisation and Accessibility’

Department of English

Date	Time	Location	Speaker	Title
23 October 2023	13:30 to 14:30	Iontas 1.33	Paul Fagan	Celibacy in Irish Women’s Writing
26 October 2023	10:15 to 13:00	Iontas 1.33	Panel & Tom Comitta	Climate Stories
1 December 2023	TBD	TBD	Panel	Critical Theory in the Neo-Liberal University

Department of Ancient Classics

Date	Time	Location	Speaker	Title
17 November 2023	16:00	Iontas Room 1.33	Dr Carl O’Brien (Maynooth University)	‘The Selfishness of Platonic Love?’
15 December 2023	16:00	Iontas Room 1.33	‘Pindar and VirDr Nicoletta Bruno (Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Morogil’	‘Ancient Literary Criticism on Archaiologíai, Origines, Antiquitates’
08 March 2024	16:00	Iontas Room 1.33	Prof. Istvan Czachesz (Arctic University of Norway	‘The historical Jesus in Paul's epistles’
22 March 2024	16:00	Iontas Room 1.33	PD Dr Roberto Vinco (University of Heidelberg)	‘Platonic elements in the philosophy of St. Thomas according to the interpretation of Cornelio Fabro’
12 April 2024	16:00	Iontas Room 1.33	PD Dr Max Rohstock (University of Heidelberg)	‘Transformative Experiences in Ancient Metaphysics’

School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Date	Time	Location	Speaker	Title
5 October 2022	1 pm	Room 1.37, Iontas Building & MS Teams (Online)	Professor Christine Hamm, (Professor of Scandinavian Literature, University of Bergen)	“Precarious motherhood in Norway: Maria Navarro Skaranger’s portrait of a young mother in Emily Forever
19 October 2022	1 pm	Room 1.37, Iontas Building & MS Teams (Online)	Dr Aine Larkin (French Studies)	Illness and disability in contemporary French culture’
16 November 2022	1 pm	Room 1.37, Iontas Building & MS Teams (Online)	Dr Inma Gómez Soler (DCU)	‘Fostering student reflection in virtual exchange settings through the analysis of conversation metrics’.
30 November 2022	1 pm	Room 1.37, Iontas Building & MS Teams (Online)	Ms Hongfei Wang (Chinese Studies)	‘Evaluate an Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning Tool for Beginner Learners of Mandarin Chinese in the Irish Post-primary Context’