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    Prof Sean Doyle, Thursday 10 April 2025

    The Department of Biology and  Faculty of Science and Engineering

    Converting Ideas to Reality: The Challenge of Making Micro Impacts

    Prof Jennie Stephens, Wednesday 6 March 2025

    Prof Jennie Stephens, Wednesday 6 March 2025

    The Irish Climate Analysis and Research UnitS (ICARUS) as part of the Department of Geography and  Faculty of Social Science

    Climate Justice: Hope and transformation in a time of despair and disruption.

    Prof Karen Desmond, Tuesday 19 November 2024

    Prof Karen Desmond, Tuesday 19 November 2024

    Department of Music and Faculty of Arts & Humanities

    Prof Karen Desmond, an internationally recognised scholar in medieval musicology, delivered her inaugural lecture at Maynooth University, titled "Medieval Parchment Fragments and Musical Reconstruction: Building New Histories of Music for the Later Middle Ages."  

    Prof Desmond is the Principal Investigator of BROKENSONG: Polyphonic Singing and Communities of Music Writing in Medieval Britain and Ireland, c. 1150 to c. 1350, a five-year European Research Council project supported by a €2 million Consolidator Grant.  

    'Medieval Parchment Fragments and Musical Reconstruction: Building New Histories of Music for the Later Middle Ages.' 

     

     

    Prof. Jan vom Brocke, Friday, October 25, 2024

    Prof. Jan vom Brocke, Friday, October 25, 2024

    Innovation Value Institute (IVI) and Faculty of Social Sciences 

    Professor Jan vom Brocke is recognised worldwide as one of the leading information systems scholars and co-founder of process science. He is the Director of the European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS) and holds the Chair of Information Systems & Business Process Management at the University of Münster in Germany. In 2023 he was appointed an Honorary Distinguished Professor of Process Science at Maynooth University within the Distinguished International Collaborator Program.

    Process Science – Leveraging Digital Trace Data for Service Innovation

    Inaugural Professorial Lectures 2011-2019

    Date   Title
    9 May 2019 Professor Patricia Palmer, Department of English Enter MACMORRIS: Did Ireland have a Renaissance
    9 April 2019 Professor Mary Gilmartin, Department of Geography Placing migration: the challenge of belonging in a precarious world
    9 Oct 2018 Professor Linda Connolly, Social Sciences Institute The centenary of the vote for women in 2018 coincided with a referendum that has repealed the eighth amendment to the Irish Constitution
    14 May 2018 Professor Colin Graham, Department of English Just Auden's Silly Yeats
    10 May 2018 Professor Fionntán de Brún, Department of Modern Irish Ag seachaint 'cith na baoise' – an Ghaeilge, an tAthbheochanachas agus Stair na nIdéanna/
     
    Escaping the 'shower of folly' – the Irish language, Revivalism and the History of Ideas
     
    18 Apr 2018 Professor Philipp Rosemann, Department of Philosophy Leonard Cohen, philosopher
    16 Apr 2018 Professor Jane Gray, Department of Sociology Lineages of class and community: How Irish family practices create social change
    12 Apr 2018 Carl Anders Säfström, Professor of Educational Research Education as the Making of a World in Common Across Difference
    23 Oct 2017 Professor Malcolm MacLachlan, Department of Psychology “I’d like to report a break-in”: Psychology, Inclusion and Technology
    2 Feb 2012 Professor David Stifter, Roinn na Sean-Ghaeilge Magic in Manuscripts: Towards Decoding a Medieval Irish Charm
    10 Nov 2011 Professor Gerry Kearns, Department of Geography People, Past, and Place: The Geographical Imagination of Young Ireland
    22 Sep 2011 Professor Marian Lyons, Department of History Fashioning Irish national identity: the contribution of Irish émigrés in early modern Europe
    6 Apr 2011 Professor Brendan Gleeson, Department of Geography An Urban World at Risk
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