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What Can Europe Learn from Latin America’s Experience of Austerity?
The experiences of Latin America during times of economic crisis should serve as a cautionary tale for European policy makers, warned Eduardo Silva, Professor of Political Science at Tulane University in New Orleans, speaking at the inaugural Maynooth University Visiting Scholar Lecture Series.
Date: Wednesday, 06 May 2015
Dr. John Cullen, Maynooth University School of Business, contributes chapter on Contingency Approaches To Studying Leadership
Dr. John Cullen features in video about the main ideas in his chapter 'Leading Through Contingencies' in 'Leadership: Contemporary Critical Perspectives'.
Date: Wednesday, 06 May 2015
Geography in QS rankings for the 4th Year
The recent international QS rankings of academic research once again places Maynooth Geography in the group of 100-150th ranked Departments in the world.
Date: Wednesday, 06 May 2015
Dr Ryan on the Differences between Civil Partnership and Marriage on Newstalk
Lecturer in Law., Dr Fergus Ryan recently spoke about the differences between civil partnership and marriage on Newstalk's Global Village.
Date: Tuesday, 05 May 2015
Gavin Smith, 'Renewed Proposals for Anthropologists: Conditions of Possibility, Strategic Action and Popular Mobilization'
Anthropology Seminar, Thursday 30 April 2015 4.30pm Anthropology Seminar Room Gavin Smith Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto
Date: Thursday, 30 April 2015
Department of Law LLM Candidate Published in Irish Criminal Law Journal
Student and staff member has article published in the Irish Criminal Law Journal.
Date: Wednesday, 29 April 2015
Maynooth University Academics recognised by Association of American Geographers
The Association of American Geographers (AAG), the largest and most respected organisation of geographers in the world, has recognised two Maynooth University academics, conferring the AAG Media Achievement Award on Professor Rob Kitchin and naming Professor Gerry Kearns as its Distinguished Historical Geographer for 2015.
Date: Wednesday, 29 April 2015
Call for Travellers’ right to be acknowledged as a minority ethnic group in Irish society
The Irish government should act immediately to respect Travellers’ right to be acknowledged as a minority ethnic group in Irish society, said Anastasia Crickley, Head of Applied Social Studies at Maynooth University and Vice President of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) at a recent seminar.
Date: Tuesday, 28 April 2015
Promoting & Progressing the Rights of Persons from Minority Groups
Co-hosted by the Centre for Rights, Recognition & Redistribution, Dept of Applied Social Studies and Dept of Law
Date: Monday, 27 April 2015
Trip to Belfast
40 Maynooth students visited Stormont in Belfast in April.
Date: Monday, 27 April 2015