Maynooth University Arts and Humanities Institute
ToggleIgnite 2018
Using the IGNITE platform, postdoctoral and academic researchers showcased their research in a light-hearted, fun session with individual 5-minute presentations in which slides auto-advance every 15 seconds.
We have included a selection of presenataions from across the Arts & Humanities.
Prof. Maria Pramaggiore (Media Studies)
Dr. Sarah Culhane (Media Studies)
Dr. Bernhard Bauer (Early Irish)
Motherhood Project
The Maynooth University Motherhood Project is an interdisciplinary research group which is housed at the Arts and Humanities Research Institute. It involves academic staff and postgraduate students from the School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, the Department of Media Studies, and the Department of English, as well as a number of researchers from disciplines in the Social Sciences, including Applied Social Studies, Business and Law. The researchers in the MU Motherhood project explore how mothers and mothering are depicted in popular culture, film, literature and the media and consider how these images and narratives impact on women’s ideas about and experience of motherhood. They are particularly interested in images and narratives that depart from the traditional, idealised images of motherhood that we are used to seeing in the cultural arena and that can cause us to question our expectations of mothers and the maternal role, and they use interdisciplinary approaches to explore and analyse these. The MU Motherhood Project has ongoing collaborations with the Mother Anyway Project at Uppsala University (Sweden) and the AFIN Research Group at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain), and they recently applied for H2020 funding to develop their links with the Thinking Motherhood collective at Vilnius University (Lithuania).
The MU Motherhood project is housed in Room 1.11 in the AHI. They can be contacted via telephone at (01) 4747188 or via email at motherhood.project@mu.ie.
Chronologicon Hibernicum Horizon 20/20 Project
ChronHib (Chronologicon Hibernicum – A Probabilistic Chronological Framework for Dating Early Irish Language Developments and Literature) is a research project funded by the European Research Council under the HORIZON 2020 Framework Programme with the aim of creating tools to facilitate the study of language development. The primary aim of the ChronHib project is to refine the methodology for dating Early Medieval Irish linguistic development and to build a chronological framework of linguistic changes that can be used to date literary texts within the Early Irish period (ca. 6th – mid 10th century). The project aims to achieve this through statistical methods for the seriation of linguistic data, and for estimating dates using Bayesian inference.
A further goal of the project is to harness the potential of existing digital resources and to develop new publicly available corpora to help date Old and Middle Irish texts and to gain deeper insights into the development of the phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon of the Irish language.
http://dhprojects.maynoothuniversity.ie/chronhib/
The ChronHib project is housed in rooms 1.14 and 1.15 in the AHI.
Medieval Irish Medicine in its north-western European context (MIMNEC) Laureate Award from the Irish Research Council
Medieval Irish medicine in its north-western European context: a case study of two unpublished texts (MIMNEC), funded by a Laureate Award from the Irish Research Council. MIMNEC aims at making progress in the study of medieval Irish medical writing through a close examination of two texts, one a tract on human anatomy and disease, and the other a compendium of mostly herbal recipes for various ailments. Both texts provide a wealth of lexicographical information for the history of the Gaelic languages, and shed light on medieval Irish networks of learning and intellectual exchange. They also contain other intriguing features, however, such as allusions to early Irish mythological narratives, charms and versified medical recipes, that attest to a complex and dynamic relationship between inherited classical medical learning and medieval Ireland’s diverse and vibrant vernacular literary tradition. The project will take both a cross-disciplinary and a cross-linguistic approach to these and other Irish medical sources: considering, for example, their relationship to other contemporary genres of Irish-language technical or didactic writing, as well as to the extant medical texts of neighbouring regions, such as medieval Wales and Anglo-Saxon England. The MIMNEC project is housed in Room 1.13 in the AHI.